Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3)

286

Writing to Fitzwilliam in July (No. 35) the Queen acknowledged that it was hardly fair to ask Desmond to disarm when others did not.

287

Essex to the Privy Council, July 10; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 12; Ormonde to Burghley, July 16; Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, Nov. Essex and Kildare accompanied Desmond as far as Clonmel.

288

The Queen and Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, June 15 and 20.

289

The ‘Combination,’ dated July 18, 1574, is printed in Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, i. 5. The Queen to Fitzwilliam, Aug. 20, in Carew.

290

Fitton to Burghley, July 30; Fitzwilliam and Ormonde to the Queen, Sept. 3; Lord and Lady Desmond to the Queen, Sept. 12. Feoffment, &c., by the Earl of Desmond, Sept. 10, in Carew. The Derrinlaur affair was on Aug. 19; the Four Masters say the Desmondians were executed after capture.

291

Privy Council to Essex, Sept. 19; Essex to Privy Council, Oct. 8; Waterhouse to Burghley, Sept. 23. Plot of the Garrison, &c., Oct. 8; Four Masters, 1575.

292

Essex to Burghley, June 14, 1574; to the Privy Council, Oct. 8.

293

The Privy Council to Essex, Nov. 8; to Fitzwilliam, Nov. 9; the Queen to Essex, Nov. 9; Essex to Burghley, Jan. 12, 1575.

294

Fitzwilliam to the Privy Council, Nov. 17, with enclosures; Waterhouse to Walsingham, Nov. 18; Essex to the Privy Council, with an enclosure, Nov. 24; to Burghley, Dec. 3; Notes on Ireland, by Ormonde, enclosed in his letter to Burghley of Dec. 8; Four Masters, 1574.

295

Fitzwilliam to Burghley, April 26, 1575; to the Privy Council, March 31; Essex to Burghley, March 31 and April 1; to the Queen, March 31; to Burghley and Sussex, April 28; to the Privy Council, April 15; the Queen to Essex and Fitzwilliam, March 15; the Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, March 14; Tirlogh Luineach O’Neill to Fitzwilliam, April 29; Devereux, Earls of Essex, i. 91 and 104.

296

Instructions for Captain Maltby, April 8; the Queen to Essex, April 11.

297

Essex to Walsingham, May 9; to the Privy Council, March 10.

298

Maltby to Burghley, May 14; Essex to the Privy Council, June 1; the Queen to Essex and to Fitzwilliam, May 22; Instructions for Mr. Ashton, same date.

299

Writing to Walsingham on Jan. 12, Waterhouse particularly asked that the adventure should not be abandoned without due notice to Essex. Essex to Walsingham and to the Privy Council, and instructions per Mr. Ashton, all June 1; to the Privy Council, July 5; Waterhouse to Walsingham and to Burghley, June 24; Sidney to the Privy Council, Nov. 16, in the Sidney Papers. Essex told Walsingham that his chief regret was that he should have been betrayed into speaking hardly of Fitzwilliam. This came from anxiety for the Queen’s service.

300

Waterhouse to Walsingham, Jan. 12, 1575; Fitzwilliam to the Queen, June 14; Instructions by Mr. Ashton, June 25; Articles with Tirlogh Luineach, June 27; Essex to the Privy Council, July 5; Maltby to Walsingham, July 5.

301

Fitton to Burghley, Jan. 5; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Jan. 7 and March 13.

302

John Symcott to Burghley, March 10, 1575; also Jan. 13 and May 14; Essex to Burghley, April 10; Fitton to Burghley, Jan. 18; Jenison to Burghley, Feb. 3.

303

Sir P. Carew to Tremayne, Feb. 6, 1574; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 12; to the Privy Council, August 2. Miscellaneous information against the Earl of Kildare, Feb. 9, 10, and 11, 1575. Leicester to Burghley, Feb. 27; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, May 15; Essex to Walsingham, May 9; Ormonde to Burghley, May 16; Fitton to Burghley, May 15 and 18. Short note by Burghley concerning the Earl of Kildare, Dec. 8.

304

Instructions for Mr. Waterhouse by the Earl of Essex, Nov. 1573; Waterhouse to Sidney, Dec. 17, 1573, in the Sidney Papers; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Aug. 3 and Sept. 4, 1575; Sidney’s patent is dated Aug. 5 in the latter year. In a letter printed in Lodge’s Portraits (Walter, Earl of Essex), dated Aug. 28, 1574, Essex tells Burghley that Sidney had been expected ‘these two months, but that the rumour had passed.’

305

Fitton’s accounts to Sept. 30, 1575. The gross Irish revenue was scarce 11,000l. a year; see Auditor Jenyson’s statement in Carew, 1575 (No. 34). Instructions for Lord Deputy Sidney, Aug. 2. H. Sackford to Burghley, Aug. 12; Fitton to Burghley, Aug. 29 and Sept. 27; Sidney to the Queen, to Burghley, and to Walsingham, Sept. 28, and a letter of the same date to the Queen in the Sidney Papers.

306

Essex to the Queen, July 22.

307

Sidney’s Brief Relation, 1583, in Carew. Essex to the Queen, July 31; to Walsingham, same date. There is a tradition that one woman hid in a cave and escaped the massacre; Hill’s MacDonnells, p. 186. Captain Drake’s pay was 42s. a month. The Queen to Essex, Aug. 12, in Carew.

308

F. Lany to Sidney, Sept. 16; Essex to the Queen, July 31; Sidney to the Privy Council, November 15, in the Sidney Papers; Ralph Bagenal to Burghley, Nov. 24.

309

Sidney to the Privy Council, June 15, 1576, in Sidney Papers.

310

Sidney to the Privy Council, Nov. 15, 1575, in the Sidney Papers; Ralph Bagenal to Burghley, Nov. 24.