The garners, the cellars, above all the flocks and herds of the minority, were abandoned to the majority.

Whatever the regular troops spared was devoured by bands of marauders who overran almost every barony in the island.

For the arming was now universal.

No man dared to present himself at mass without some weapon, a pike, a long knife called a skean, or, at the very least, a strong ashen stake, pointed and hardened in the fire.

The very women were exhorted by their spiritual directors to carry skeans.