Chapter Xviii
108 . .HISTORY OF LIMERICK. HISTORY OF L~~UEILICU. 109 it, the English were encamped when they stormed the fort. This fleet was the news reached Adare, Achin, the captain of the town,' assembled the induced to come to Ireland to assist the Geraldines, who, it was known soldiers of Kilmalloch, and set out at the head of a sanguinary body of troops, abroad, had been reduced to great extremities for their devotion to Ireland, and slew every man, woman and child he met outside Ballycalhane Castle, and their defence of the Catholic faith and of Catholic interests. The Earl (near Kildimo) which belonged to Purcell, who had assisted the crown from of Ormond mustered an army to oppose the expedition, and did not halt the commencement of the war between the English and the Geraldines to that until they arrived in Kerry ; after a good deal of parleying and diversation, time. On the following day David's people were hanged on the nearest trees ; the Italian Captains, Stephen San Josepho, Hercules Pisano, and the Duke and the heroic soldier himself was sent to Limerick, where he was immediately of Biscay, "came to the Lord Justice as if they would be at peace with put to death. Nicholas, the agent or treasurer of the Geraldines, was slain him;" but the people of the Lord Justice went over to the island, and by the soldiers at Adare in this year, and 'Furlough O'Brien, uncle of the Earl proceeded to kill and destroy the invaderg, so that even of the seven hundred of Thomond, who, after being a year in prison, was hanged in Galway, his Italians not, one escaped, but all were slaughtered as they cried out, miseri- execution being followed two days after by that of William, son of the Earl cordia, misericordia.' TEe Lord Justice also seized upon much gold, wealth, of Clanrickarde, whose sons had rebelled against the authority of the crown.
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