unable to make any sort of defence, and it was said that he fled thirty-five miles in one march at the approach of the troops. Various plots having been laid for his betrayal, the army returned by Raphoe to Sir Cahir's principal castle of Burt on Lough Swilly. The garrison were divided in opinion, some thinking that they held the place for the King of Spain and others for O'Dogherty. They had but one life each, they said, which they owed to God; if they surrendered they would either be treated like dogs by the English or hanged by Sir Cahir, and so they might as well do their duty. One Dowding, or Dowling, a native of Drogheda, and presumably more civilised than the Inishowen men, at last proposed a capitulation, involving a jointure for Lady O'Dogherty and some provision of land for the rest. The answer of the English officers, who thought it 'intolerable strange for a King's army to make jointures for ladies with the cannon,' was to place two pieces of artillery in position. The Irish, whose chief leader was a monk, said they would put Mrs. Montgomery in the breach, but no breach was made, and they all surrendered at discretion after the second shot. Mrs. Montgomery and Captain Brookes' son were, in Ridgeway's quaint language, 'returned to their owners.' Sir Neill Garv O'Donnell and his two brothers, Lady O'Dogherty, her only daughter and her husband's sister, with their female attendants, were taken on board his Majesty's ship _Tramontana_, and Ridgeway went with them to Dublin, partly to avoid weakening Wingfield's force, and partly because he thought the enforced idleness of a voyage would make the ladies talk freely. Lady O'Dogherty fulfilled his expectation by indulging in ferocious invectives 'against Neill Garv for drawing her husband into rebellion.'[49] [Sidenote: O'Dogherty in Tyrone,] [Sidenote: and Armagh,] [Sidenote: but is killed by Irish soldiers.]