[1] Shane Oneil, who had most traitorouslie rebelled against the quéenes maiestie in Ireland, and had doone manie great outrages in the parts of Ulster, was this yeare with his great losse manfullie repel|led from the siege of Dundalke by the garrison ther|of: and afterward through the great valiancie and foresight of sir Henrie Sidneie knight of the order,Shane Oneil discomfited. S [...]tuta regni H [...]berniae. Edm. C [...]pian. and lord deputie of Ireland, he was so discomfited in sundrie conflicts, with the losse of thrée thousand fiue hundred of his men, that now foreséeing his declina|tion to be imminent, he determined to put a collar a|bout his necke, and disguising himselfe, to repaire to the lord deputie, and penitentlie to require his par|don to haue his life. But Neil Mackeuer his secre|tarie, who had incited him to this rebellion, persua|ded him first to trie & treat the freendship of certeine wild Scots, that then laie incamped in Clan Iboie, vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge, and Mac Gilliam Buske, whose father and vncle Shane O|neil had latelie killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scots. Neuerthelesse he well liking this persuasion, went to the said campe the second of Iune, where af|ter a dissembled interteinement, & quaffing of wine, Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death, and ministring quar|relling talke, issued out of the tent, and made a fraie vpon Oneils men, and then gathering togither his Scots in a throng,Shane Oneil mangled and backt in pée|ces. suddenlie entred the tent againe, who there with their slaughter swords hewed in pée|ces Shane Oneil, his secretarie, and all his compa|nie, except a verie few which escaped by flight.