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assault from the hill of Castlereagh,' 6 where the said Con, with his two brothers, 1 ? friends, and followers
(for want of more dorgh 18 ), stood beholders of the chase. Then in a week next after this fray, an
office of enquest was held on Con, and those of his said friends and followers, and also on the
servants, and on all that were suspected to be procurers, advisers, or actors therein, and ail whom
the Provost Marshall could seize (were taken), by which office the said Con, with some of his friends,
were found guilty of levying war against the Queen. 1 ? This mischief happened a few months before
her death; and the whole matter being well known to the said Laird, and his brother, and his friends,
soon after the King's accession to the English Crown, early application was made to his Majesty
for a grant of half the said Con's lands, the rest to Con himself, which was readily promised; but
could not, till the second of his reign, by any means be performed, by reason of the obstacles to the
settlement of Ireland aforesaid.
But I must a little go retrograde, to make my report of their affairs better understood. The
Laird having met with his brother, and returned from London (as before mentioned), came home,
(his second son 50 being then about the third year of his age), and industriously minded the affairs
* 6 Hill of Castlereagh. — The site of Castlereagh, — cats-
lean riabhach, "grey-castle," is somewhat over two miles
in a south-eastern direction from the Long Bridge of Bel-
fas.. This castle gave name to one of the nine sub-divi-
sions of the ancient Clannaboy, a name which is now
applied to the whole territory as comprised in the two
modern baronies of Castlereagh. Chancellor Cusacke,
writing on the Sthof May, 1552, to the earl of Northumber-
land, has the following statement in reference to this dis-
trict : — "The same Hugh (O'Neill) hath two castells, one
called Bealefarst, an ould castell, standing uppone a ffourde
that leadeth from Arde to Claneboye, which, being well
repayred, being now broken, would be good defence betwixt
the woodes and Knockfergus. The other, called Castell-
rioughe is fower miles from Bealefarst, and standeth uppone
the playne in the midst of the woodes of the Dufferin. "
Reid, Hist, of the Pres. Church, vol. i., p. 485. Of .the
latter castle, Dr. Reeves remarks: — "It had been occu-
pied successively by Bryan Fagartach O'Neill, his son
Neill, and his grandson Con, when Bryan MacArt O'Neill,
a relative of the earl of Tyrone, seized upon it. In
1601, it was taken by sir Arthur Chichester, and restored
to Con O'Neill, who, in the preceding year, had been
taken, with his retainers, into the Queen's pay. He
held it, however, but a very short time, for a few months
before the Queen's death, on occasion of his indulging in
a grand debauch at Castlereagh with his brothers, his
friends, and his followers, a riot occurred between his ser-
vants and some soldiers, in which one of them received a
mortal wound. This affray was pronounced the fol-
lowing week to be a 'levying war against the Queen;'
Con O'Neill was imprisoned in Carrickfergus, and cir-
cumstances put in that train which eventuated in the entire
transfer of the south Clannaboy estates to other posses-
sors." — Eccl. Antiquities, p. 347.
17 Two brothers. — The two brothers were Hugh Mergagh
O'Neill and Toole O'Neill.
_ ,B More dorgh. — The phrase, " for want of more dorgh,"
simply meant, for want of something else, or something
belter, to do. The word dorgh or dargh is evidently a con-
traction for day's work. In the, county of Antrim, dargh,
pronounced da! ark, is used in the sense of day's work, but
only in turf-cutting time. The tenant farmers in the
parish of Alloa "are subject to a dargh (or day's work)
for every acre, or rod per annum," in addition to the
regular rent. — New Stat Account of Scotland, vol. viii., p.
602. These days are known as dargh-days. A Scottish
proverb affirms that "he never wrought a good dark that
went grumbling to it. " Another common proverb is "tine
needle, tine darg," — said to girls who lose their needles. A
darg of peat-moss means as much as can be converted into
turf in a day. Love-dargh is work done for affection or
good-will instead of payment. Darghing or darghening
is used in Scotland for working by the day. Thus,
" I wish they'd mind how many's willing
To win by industry a shilling —
Are glad to fa' to wark that's killing —
To common darghing. — Galloway Poems, p. 9.
Dargher is used in Scotland, but not in Ulster, for a day
labourer. Thus, in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,
vol. iii., p. 357, we have the following illustration : —
" The croonin kie the byre drew nigh,
The dargher left his thrift."
See Jameson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish
Language.
19 War against the Queen. — The act on which Con's
enemies depended, in his contemplated destruction, was
doubtless the loth Henry VII., c. 13, entitled, An Act
that no person stir any Irishry to make war, and providing
that "whatsoever person or persons fro' this day forward
cause assemble, or insurrection, conspiracies, or in any
wise procure or stirre Irishry or Englishry to make warre
against our sovereign lord the king's authority — that is to
say, his lieutenant, or deputy, or justice, or else, if any
manner person procure or stirre the Irishry to make warre
against the Englishry, be deemed traytour, atteynt of high
treason, in likewise such as assemble an insurrection had
been levied against the king's own person." — Irish
Statutes, vol. i., p. 51.
=0 His second son — Afterwards so well known as sir
James Montgomery of Rosemount, born in the year
1600.
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assault from the hill of Castlereagh,' 6 where the said Con, with his two brothers, 1 ? friends, and followers
(for want of more dorgh 18 ), stood beholders of the chase. Then in a week next after this fray, an
office of enquest was held on Con, and those of his said friends and followers, and also on the
servants, and on all that were suspected to be procurers, advisers, or actors therein, and ail whom
the Provost Marshall could seize (were taken), by which office the said Con, with some of his friends,
were found guilty of levying war against the Queen. 1 ? This mischief happened a few months before
her death; and the whole matter being well known to the said Laird, and his brother, and his friends,
soon after the King's accession to the English Crown, early application was made to his Majesty
for a grant of half the said Con's lands, the rest to Con himself, which was readily promised; but
could not, till the second of his reign, by any means be performed, by reason of the obstacles to the
settlement of Ireland aforesaid.
But I must a little go retrograde, to make my report of their affairs better understood. The
Laird having met with his brother, and returned from London (as before mentioned), came home,
(his second son 50 being then about the third year of his age), and industriously minded the affairs
* 6 Hill of Castlereagh. — The site of Castlereagh, — cats-
lean riabhach, "grey-castle," is somewhat over two miles
in a south-eastern direction from the Long Bridge of Bel-
fas.. This castle gave name to one of the nine sub-divi-
sions of the ancient Clannaboy, a name which is now
applied to the whole territory as comprised in the two
modern baronies of Castlereagh. Chancellor Cusacke,
writing on the Sthof May, 1552, to the earl of Northumber-
land, has the following statement in reference to this dis-
trict : — "The same Hugh (O'Neill) hath two castells, one
called Bealefarst, an ould castell, standing uppone a ffourde
that leadeth from Arde to Claneboye, which, being well
repayred, being now broken, would be good defence betwixt
the woodes and Knockfergus. The other, called Castell-
rioughe is fower miles from Bealefarst, and standeth uppone
the playne in the midst of the woodes of the Dufferin. "
Reid, Hist, of the Pres. Church, vol. i., p. 485. Of .the
latter castle, Dr. Reeves remarks: — "It had been occu-
pied successively by Bryan Fagartach O'Neill, his son
Neill, and his grandson Con, when Bryan MacArt O'Neill,
a relative of the earl of Tyrone, seized upon it. In
1601, it was taken by sir Arthur Chichester, and restored
to Con O'Neill, who, in the preceding year, had been
taken, with his retainers, into the Queen's pay. He
held it, however, but a very short time, for a few months
before the Queen's death, on occasion of his indulging in
a grand debauch at Castlereagh with his brothers, his
friends, and his followers, a riot occurred between his ser-
vants and some soldiers, in which one of them received a
mortal wound. This affray was pronounced the fol-
lowing week to be a 'levying war against the Queen;'
Con O'Neill was imprisoned in Carrickfergus, and cir-
cumstances put in that train which eventuated in the entire
transfer of the south Clannaboy estates to other posses-
sors." — Eccl. Antiquities, p. 347.
17 Two brothers. — The two brothers were Hugh Mergagh
O'Neill and Toole O'Neill.
_ ,B More dorgh. — The phrase, " for want of more dorgh,"
simply meant, for want of something else, or something
belter, to do. The word dorgh or dargh is evidently a con-
traction for day's work. In the, county of Antrim, dargh,
pronounced da! ark, is used in the sense of day's work, but
only in turf-cutting time. The tenant farmers in the
parish of Alloa "are subject to a dargh (or day's work)
for every acre, or rod per annum," in addition to the
regular rent. — New Stat Account of Scotland, vol. viii., p.
602. These days are known as dargh-days. A Scottish
proverb affirms that "he never wrought a good dark that
went grumbling to it. " Another common proverb is "tine
needle, tine darg," — said to girls who lose their needles. A
darg of peat-moss means as much as can be converted into
turf in a day. Love-dargh is work done for affection or
good-will instead of payment. Darghing or darghening
is used in Scotland for working by the day. Thus,
" I wish they'd mind how many's willing
To win by industry a shilling —
Are glad to fa' to wark that's killing —
To common darghing. — Galloway Poems, p. 9.
Dargher is used in Scotland, but not in Ulster, for a day
labourer. Thus, in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border,
vol. iii., p. 357, we have the following illustration : —
" The croonin kie the byre drew nigh,
The dargher left his thrift."
See Jameson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish
Language.
19 War against the Queen. — The act on which Con's
enemies depended, in his contemplated destruction, was
doubtless the loth Henry VII., c. 13, entitled, An Act
that no person stir any Irishry to make war, and providing
that "whatsoever person or persons fro' this day forward
cause assemble, or insurrection, conspiracies, or in any
wise procure or stirre Irishry or Englishry to make warre
against our sovereign lord the king's authority — that is to
say, his lieutenant, or deputy, or justice, or else, if any
manner person procure or stirre the Irishry to make warre
against the Englishry, be deemed traytour, atteynt of high
treason, in likewise such as assemble an insurrection had
been levied against the king's own person." — Irish
Statutes, vol. i., p. 51.
=0 His second son — Afterwards so well known as sir
James Montgomery of Rosemount, born in the year
1600.
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