His reason for exhibiting a want of hospitality so un-Irish was this:--He said his 'home had been pillaged, his lands swept of their cattle, and his vassals shot like wild animals.' The lord deputy, in his notes of the northern tour, written in October, 1585, says:--'I came to Kill-Ultagh, which I found rich and plentiful, after the manner of these countries.

But the captain was proud and insolent; he would not come to me, nor have I apt reason to visit him as I would.

But he shall be paid for this before long; I will not remain in his debt.' The 'apt reason' for carrying out this threat soon occurred.

Tyrone had once more taken the field against the queen; the captain joined his relative; all his property was consequently forfeited, and handed over to Sir Fulke Conway, a Welsh soldier of some celebrity.

Sir Fulke died in 1626, and his brother, who was a favourite of Charles I., succeeded to the estate, to which his royal patron added the lands of Derryvolgie, thus making him lord of nearly 70,000 statute acres of the broad lands of Down and Antrim.