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Lord Grey, of Wilton, on reaching Dublin in August of that year, obtained information of this gathering, and determined to strike a decisive blow in Wicklow, before proceeding to the South. All the chief captains in the Queen's service the Malbys, Dudleys, Cosbys, Carews, Moors had repaired to meet him at Dublin, and now marched, under his command, into the neighbouring highlands.
Lord Grey, of Wilton, on reaching Dublin in August of that year, obtained information of this gathering, and determined to strike a decisive blow in Wicklow, before proceeding to the South. All the chief captains in the Queen's service the Malbys, Dudleys, Cosbys, Carews, Moors had repaired to meet him at Dublin, and now marched, under his command, into the neighbouring highlands.
The patroon?" "I mean Sir Lupus Varick." "Yes; I know him I know Sir Lupus. We call him the patroon, though he's not of the same litter as the Livingstons, the Cosbys, the Phillipses, Van Rensselaers, and those feudal gentlemen who juggle with the high justice, the middle, and the low and who will juggle no more." "Am I mistaken," said I, "in taking you for a Boston man?"
"The greater honor due them," I retorted. "Honor! Fol-de-rol! Had it been any other patroon but me, he'd turn his manor-house into a court-house, arrest 'em, try 'em, and hang a few for luck! In the old days, I'll warrant you, the Cosbys would have stood no such nonsense no, nor the Livingstons, nor the Van Cortlandts.
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