[130] Gregory's _Western Highlands_, chap. viii.; Burton's _History of Scotland_, chap. lxiv. Avoiding the mazes of Celtic nomenclature, I have called the Scottish clansmen Macdonald, as Burton and Gregory do. The Irish branch of the same tribe I have called MacDonnell, as is usual in Ulster. [131] The King to Chichester, October 14, 1614; St. John to Winwood, November 28; Lambert to Somerset, and to the King, February 7, 1615, the latter in _Carew_. Gregory's _Western Highlands_, _ut sup._ [132] The Friar Mullarkey's part is detailed in State Papers, _Ireland_ 1615, Nos. 70-72. For young Con O'Neill see Meehan's _Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel_, and for the Scotch element see Gregory's _Western Highlands_ and Hill's _Macdonnells_, p. 226 _sqq._ See also Chichester to Winwood, November 22, 1615. [133] The evidence of witnesses is in the _Irish Cal._, 1615, April to June, pp. 29-82. Chichester's report is No. 69, Blundell's and Jacob's 89 and 91, Teig O'Lennar's examination, 71. No. 144 shows that torture was used in one case, being headed 'The _voluntary_ confession of Cowconnaght O'Kennan upon the rack ... by virtue of the Lord Deputy's commission.' O'Kennan, whom Lodder MacDonnell calls Maguire's rhymer, was a priest according to O'Sullivan Bere, who wrongly asserts that there was only one witness, whom he calls 'lusor' and 'aleator.' This may have been suggested by the fact that, according to Brian Crossagh (No. 143), a _carrow_, or professional gambler, was mixed up in the plot. O'Sullivan also says that the jury consisted of English and Scotch heretics, who had property in Ulster, and therefore desired the death of native gentlemen.--_Hist. Cath._ IV., iii. 2. [134] The King to Chichester, November 27-29, 1615; instructions to the Lords Justices, December 19; Chichester to Ellesmere, January 12, 1616; Winwood to the Lords Justices, March 1. Both Gardiner (ii. 302) and Spedding (_Life of Bacon_, v. 376) suggest that Chichester was superseded because he was disinclined to be hard on the Recusants, but of this there is no evidence. [135] Chichester to Cranbourne, March 12, 1605; Proclamation against toleration, July 4; Lords of Council (including Bancroft, Ellesmere, and Salisbury) to Chichester, January 24, 1606. [136] Chichester to Northampton, February 7, 1608 (printed in _Ulster Journal of Archæology_, i. 181); to Salisbury, April 15, 1609; to Winwood, June 15 and November 22, 1615; Wotton to Salisbury, July 11 and August 8, 1608; Wotton to James I., April 24 (calendared as No. 902), giving an account of the poisoning project. Examination of Shane O'Donnelly, October 22, 1613. See Mr. Dunlop's article on Tyrone in _Dict. of Nat. Biography_. CHAPTER IX ST. JOHN AND FALKLAND, 1616-1625 [Sidenote: St. John becomes viceroy,] [Sidenote: with an empty treasury,] [Sidenote: but tries to enforce uniformity.]