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Sidney to the Privy Council, ut supra.
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Ormonde to Burghley, July 16, 1574 and Aug. 3, 1575; Privy Council to Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, July 25, 1575; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Aug. 3.
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Ormonde to Burghley, July 16, 1574, July 24, 1575, and Aug. 23; the Queen to Ormonde, April 12, 1575.
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The Queen to Sir P. Carew, April 12, 1575; Fitzwilliam to Sidney, Dec. 9, 1575; Hooker’s Life of Carew; Carew died, Nov. 27, 1575.
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This tour is described in a letter from Sidney to the Privy Council, Dec. 16, 1575; in the Sidney Papers, written from Waterford.
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Sidney to the Privy Council, April 27.
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All the above from Sidney to the Privy Council, Feb. 27, 1575-6, in the Sidney Papers.
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O’Daly, chap. xix.; Russell; Ormonde to Burghley, March 20, 1575, with enclosures, the originals of which Ormonde sent to the Queen.
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Captain George Thornton’s Declaration, May 25, 1575; Answer of the Seneschal, &c., July 18. Fitzmaurice came to St. Malo in February.
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Sidney to the Privy Council, Feb. 27, 1576, in the Sidney Papers. James Fitzmaurice to the General of the Jesuits, Jan. 31, 1576, in Hogan’s Hibernia Ignatiana.
321
The five families were Barrett or MacPadden, Staunton or MacEvilly, Dexter or MacJordan, Nangle or MacCostello, Prendergast or MacMorris.
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This tour of Sidney’s is detailed in his letter to the Privy Council, April 27, 1576, in the Sidney Papers.
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Sidney to the Queen, April 28, 1576.
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Sidney to Walsingham, April 27; to the Privy Council, June 15.
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Sidney to the Privy Council, June 15, 1576.
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Clanricarde to Ormonde and to Upper Ossory, June 28; Sidney to the Privy Council, July 9; Gerard to Walsingham, June 29; Fitton to Burghley, July 8.
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Sidney to the Privy Council, July 9: Submission of Clanricarde, July 8.
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Maltby to the Queen, Sept. 20; Sidney to the Privy Council, Sept. 20; Sir L. Dillon to Walsingham, Sept. 19; Agard to Walsingham, Sept. 11.
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Drury to Walsingham, Nov. 24.
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The Queen to Essex, 1575, Domestic Series, vol. xlv. p. 82; Essex to the Queen, Aug. 19, 1575; Maltby to Leicester, Nov. 12, 1575, in Carew.
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Essex to the Queen, Sept. 19, and to Burghley, Sept. 20, in Mardin. Devereux, i. 146.
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Lady Essex was at Kenilworth during the princely pleasures of 1575. Sidney to Walsingham, Oct. 20, 1576; to Leicester, Feb. 4, 1577, both in the Sidney Papers; Essex to the Queen, March 30, 1575; to Leicester, Oct. 7, 1574; Leicester to Ashton, May 1575; Waterhouse to Sidney, March 21, 1576, in the Sidney Papers.
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Gerard to the Privy Council, Feb. 8, 1577, in Carew.
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Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, July 7, 1575; Sidney to the Privy Council, May 15, 1577; to the Queen, May 20.
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Sidney to the Privy Council, March 17 and May 15, 1577; to the Queen, May 20, 1577, in Sidney Papers; where he says, ‘Cess is a quantity of victual and a prisage set upon the same necessary for soldiers, … and so much for your Deputy’s house, so far under the value, as it goeth between party and party, as the soldier may live of his wages, and your Highness’s officer of his entertainment, and this to be taxed by your Highness’s Deputy and Council, calling to them the nobility adjoining.’