Tradition relates that her piracies became so notorious, and her power so dangerous, that Grana was proclaimed, and a reward of five hundred pounds offered for her apprehension. Resolving to make her peace with England's Queen, she attended the court of Elizabeth, accompanied with a large retinue, a guard of gallo-glasses bearing partisans, and clad in saffron robes, who attracted great and universal attention. The Queen received her in great state. Grana was arrayed in the costume of her country:--a long Irish mantle covered her head and person; her hair gathered _à la Grecque_, and fastened with a gold bodkin inlaid with jewels; her bosom was bare; and her dress a yellow silk boddice and petticoat. The court were struck with infinite surprise at her singular appearance. However, Grana succeeded in the object of her visit, and having made her peace with Elizabeth, returned to Ireland. The castle belonging to Grana in the island of Clare, which boasts a fine harbour and quay, was so much considered by Oliver Cromwell, that he there erected a fort and barrack, in which he maintained a garrison. Grana endowed a monastery on it, in which she lies interred; her arms and motto, carved on the tomb with those of her husband, are still to be seen. This island still continues an estate in the family who bear the name of O'Malley; and until of late years had been the family burial place. The celebrity of Grana Uile has been the theme of bards for many years. In the year 1753, during the political contests which occurred in the administration of the Duke of Dorset, a very popular song appeared, to an old Irish air, and the burden of the song was Grana Uile. It is too long for insertion in this work. CHAPTER VIII.--VOL. I., p. 195. _Pastry Fortifications._ ----"I have framed a fortification Out of rye paste, which is impregnable;[17] And against that for two long hours together, Two dozen of marrow-bones shall play continually. For fish I'll make you a standing lake of white broth, And pikes come ploughing up the plums before them, Arion-like, on a dolphin, playing Lachrymæ; And brave king herring, with his oil and onion, Crown'd with a lemon peel, his way prepared With his strong guard of pilchers." [_The Bloody Brothers, or Rollo Duke of Normandy_, by BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, vol. VII. act II. scene II. p. 151.] [Footnote 17: At the splendid entertainments of those days the confectioners were very solicitous to present these and similar fopperies on the tables of the great. Furnace the cook says, in MASSINGER'S "_New Way to pay old Debts_," ----"Since our master, noble Allworth, died, Though I crack my brain to find out tempting sauces, And raise _fortifications in the pastry_, Such as might serve for models in the Low Countries; Which, if they had been practised at Breda, Spinola might have thrown his cap at it, and ne'er took it."