the conflict. Among the prisoners there was one
laden with Withies, who being asked, what he intended
to have done with them? boldly answered, to have hung
up the English Charles; upon which Raleigh ordered
him to be immediately dispatched in that manner, and
the rest of the robbers and murderers to be punished
according to their deserts[3]. The earl of Ormond
departing for England in the spring of the year 1581,
his government of Munster was given to captain Raleigh;
in which he behaved with great vigilance and honour,
he fought the Arch rebel Barry at Clove, whom he charged
with the utmost bravery, and after a hard struggle,
put to flight. In the month of August, 1581,
captain John Gouch being appointed Governour of Munster
by the Lord Deputy, Raleigh attended him in several
journies to settle and compose that country; but the
chief place of their residence was Cork, and after
Gouch had cut off Sir John Desmond, brother to the
earl of Desmond, who was at the head of the rebellion,
he left the government of that city to Raleigh[4],
whose company being not long after disbanded upon
the reduction of that earl, the slaughter of his brother,
and the submission of Barry, he returned to England.
The Lord Deputy Grey having resigned the sword in Ireland
towards the end of August, 1582, the dispute between
him and Raleigh, upon reasons which are variously
assigned by different writers, was brought to a hearing
before the council table in England, where the latter
supported his cause with such abilities as procured
him the good opinion both of her Majesty, and the
Lords of the Council, and this, added to the patronage
of the earl of Leicester, is supposed to be one considerable
occasion of his preferment, though it did not immediately
take place, nor could the hopes of it restrain him
from a second expedition with his brother Sir Humphry
Gilbert to Newfoundland, for which he built a ship
of 200 tons called The Bark Raleigh, and furnished
it compleatly for the voyage, in which he resolved
to attend his brother as his Vice-Admiral. That
fleet departed from Plymouth the 11th of June, 1583,
but after it had been two or three days at sea, a
contagious distemper having seized the whole crew
of Raleigh’s ship, obliged him to return to that
port; however by this accident, he escaped the misfortune
of that expedition; for after Sir Humphry had taken
possession of Newfoundland, in the right of the crown
of England, and assigned lands to every man of his
company, and failed three hundred leagues in the voyage
home with full hopes of the Queen’s assistance
to fit out a fleet next year, he unfortunately perished;
for venturing rashly in a frigate of but ten tons,
he was on the ninth of September that year at midnight
swallowed up in an high sea, another vessel suffered
the same fate, and even the rest returned not without
great hazard and loss[5]: but this ill success
could not divert Raleigh from pursuing a scheme of
such importance to his country as those discoveries