 | John Curry - Ireland - 1786 - 436 pages
...his protection) he will, if it fo (land with your majefty's pleafure, offer himfelf to the marfhal (who hath been the chiefeft inftrument againft him)...know his valour, and am perfuaded he will perform k ; and what I have Ipoken of him, over and above this, thefe reafons-have led me to it. Being often... | |
 | John Curry - Ireland - 1786 - 432 pages
...cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adverfary to come armed againft againft him naked, to encourage him the rather to...am perfuaded he will perform it ; and what I have ipoken of him, over and above this, thefe reafons have led me to it. Being often his bedfellow, he... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge. " I am bold to say thus much for the earl, because I know his valour, and am persuaded he will perform it; and what... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary to come armed, against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge. I am bold to say thus much for the earl, because I know his valour, and am persuaded he will perform it."* This... | |
 | 1857 - 626 pages
...disloyalty, Hugh dared him to mortal combat, and offered " to allow his adversary to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge." The character drawn of O'Neill by the secretary of Sir Charles Blonnt, his opponent, when compared... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 pages
...disloyalty, Hugh dared him to mortal combat, and offered " to allow his adversary to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge." The character drawn of O'Neill by the secretary of Sir Charles Blount, his opponent, when compared... | |
 | John Mitchel - Tyrone's Rebellion, 1597-1603 - 1868 - 286 pages
...cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary to come armed, against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge. I am bold to say thus much for the earl, because I know his valour, and am persuaded he will perform it."* This... | |
 | George Hill - Great Britain - 1877 - 654 pages
...behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary [Bagenall] to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge." O'Neill offered, in hose and jerkin only, to meet Bagenall armed in mail from head to foot, but the... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge. 2) Thomas Gainsford From The True, Exemplarie and Remarkable History of the Earl of Tirone (1619) :4... | |
 | George Hill - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow his adversary [Bagenall] to come armed against him naked, to encourage him the rather to accept of his challenge." O'Neill offered, in hose and jerkin only, to meet Bagenall armed in mail from head to foot, but the... | |
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... instrument against him ) to prove with his sword that he hath most wrongfully accused him. And because it is no conquest for him to overthrow a man ever held in the world to be of most cowardly behaviour, he will, in defence of his innocency, allow... 