They took the titles, which tickled their vanity; but they preferred the state of a chieftain with his gallowglasses and with his despotic power over the sept to that of a baron under royal rule, with feudal restraints and obligations.
Nor, though the new settlers might domineer, was their domination likely to be more oppressive and insolent than that of the native chief, with his gallowglasses and his coyne and livery.
Nor was improvement in agriculture or even in advancement of law and order likely to be so fascinating to the native Irish, especially to gallowglasses and kernes, as to Bacon.
They kept in their pay troops of bravos, gallowglasses and kernes.
In any case there were sufficient, as I conceived, of our gallowglasses now upon the walls to beat back the enemy, and I hastened toward the gate.
The spies described the army as an immense host, there being more than three hundred well-armed soldiers, besides a great swarm of the gallowglasses of Sir Murrough O’Flaherty of Aughnanure, who himself had accompanied the Governor.
In the streets was a great throng of gallowglasses and kernes, who had come into the place along with their chieftains.
She claimed the right to keep gallowglassesin Kilkenny, and the Lord Deputy infinitely disliked this practice, which had prevailed for centuries.
There were some gallowglasses with halberts, but the great mass had only bows and arrows.
O'Mulryan forty shillings and sixty gallowglasses for a month, and O'Dwyer eightpence for each ploughland and forty gallowglasses for a month.
He had particularly cautioned him against 'rashly discharging such as have been malefactors as your gallowglasses were, and naturally as their captains were.
The Lord Deputy might employ kerne and gallowglasses where necessary, and the usual private bands were to be continued; but coyne and livery were to be eschewed as much as possible.
He promised to hold his land of the King at a rent of twelvepence for every ploughland, to attend the Lord Deputy with a fixed contingent, and to give free quarters for a limited number of the gallowglasses in the royal service.
He was well received by the inhabitants and by Desmond himself, who had 500 horse and as many gallowglasseswith him.
The Baron of Dungannon took charge of the castle, and 300 gallowglasses were quartered on the county, but Cusack saw plainly that nothing permanent could be done without a resident governor.
He had but two companies of the MacSweeney gallowglassesand thirty horsemen.
Sixty gallowglasses with their axes, and as many Scots, with heavy broadswords drawn, stood ready to guard the chief.
MacBrien Arra agreed to pay sixpence a year for each ploughland, and to furnish sixty gallowglasses for a month.
O'Connor admitted the hiring, but explained that the gallowglasses were not bound to levy war against the King, and that Ormonde knew nothing at all about the matter.
Another day some gallowglasses roasted a hog whole with the hair on, 'and in great kindness did reach a piece of it to one of the Lord President's servants, being a gentleman of good sort, and a justice of the peace in his county.
Desmond described the proceedings in glowing language, but did not recall his gallowglasses from Thomond, whence the Earl continued to beg earnestly for help.
From Mayo came seven men to represent the seven septs of Clandonnells, the hereditary gallowglasses of North-West Connaught, and in effect the tyrants of the country.
He boasted that he would never dispense with the old state of his family, but would have five gallowglasses where he had formerly had one.
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