Ireland under the Tudors. Volume 3 (of 3)

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Sir John Norris to Cecil, April 14, 1595, from Rycott; to Burghley, April 29, and to the Privy Council, May 2, from Bristol; to Cecil, May 3, from on board ship; Russell to Cecil, May 23; Essex to Norris and the latter’s answer, Aug. 13; MSS. Hatfield, ending with ‘your Lordship’s as shall be fit for me.’ The commission is in Carew (No. 160).

239

Russell’s Journal in Carew, May 1595; Norris to Cecil, May 8; to Burghley and to Cecil, May 29.

240

Russell to Cecil, May 23, 1595; Bagenal to Burghley, May 29; and Russell’s letter of June 27; Report by Lieutenants Tucker and Perkins in Carew, June 1.

241

Bingham to Russell, June 6, 1595; O’Sullivan (tom. iii. lib. 3, cap. 3) does not seem to see any inconsistency between what he says of the Irish soldiers being ‘prædâ fraudati,’ and of the Englishmen who ‘vel occisi, vel fugâ salutem petentes devastatæ religiosæ domus Carmelitarum pœnas sacrilegii luerunt. —Four Masters, 1595. Many English writers confuse this George Oge Bingham, who was Sir Richard’s cousin, with the elder George, who was his brother.

242

Journal of the late journey by the Lord Deputy from June 18 to July 17, 1595; Russell’s Journal in Carew, June and July. The Four Masters substantially agree. The proclamation against Tyrone, O’Donnell, O’Rourke, Maguire, MacMahon and others is among the State Papers, ‘imprinted in the cathedral church of the Blessed Trinity, Dublin, by William Kearney, printer to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, 1595’; see also Carew under June 28 (which is probably wrong). O’Donnell, ‘whose father and predecessors have always been loyal,’ is represented as Tyrone’s dupe, and the Queen desires that he should be ‘entertained secretly with hope, for that we have a disposition to save him.’ The English Government had now discovered that Tyrone’s father was a bastard; it used to be the O’Neills who said so. He was proclaimed traitor at Dundalk on June 23, and at Newry on the 26th.

243

Russell to Burghley, July 14, 1595; Norris to Burghley, Aug. 1 and 3, and to Cecil, July 4 and 20 and Aug. 1.

244

Ormonde to Burghley, April 3, 1595, in answer to his letter of March 21, also April 7. Some drafts of the proclamation are as early as April 10.

245

The fight in which Norris was wounded took place on Sept. 4, 1595. O’Sullivan says it was at ‘Pratum Fontis’ or Clontubrid near Monaghan, but that is certainly wrong. Bagenal, who was closely engaged himself, writing to Burghley on Sept. 9, says ‘nine miles from Newry,’ on the direct road from Armagh. See also Captain F. Stafford’s report on Sept. 12. There is a good account dated Sept. 16 in Payne Collier’s Trevelyan Papers, vol. ii. Tyrone’s submission, Aug. 22; Norris to Burghley, Aug. 25, and Sept. 8 and 10; to Russell, Sept. 16; Russell to Burghley, Sept. 14, and to the Privy Council, Sept. 21.

246

Four Masters, 1593 and 1595, with O’Donovan’s notes; Morrin’s Patent Rolls 29 Eliz.; Philip O’Reilly to Russell, Sept. 14, 1595.

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Privy Council to Russell, Sept. 12, 1595; Tyrone and O’Donnell to Philip II, and to Don Carlos, Sept. 27. Piers O’Cullen, the priest, on whom the letters to Spain were found, broke his neck trying to escape from Dublin Castle (Fenton to Burghley, Jan. 12, 1596). Copies of the above are in Carew. Norris’s letters to Burghley on Sept. 8, 10, and 27, and the abstract of his letters sent by Sir Henry, with Burghley’s remarks.

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Papers in Carew, Sept. 27 to Oct. 28, 1595; Burghley to his son Robert, Dec. 2, 1595, and Jan. 2, 1596.

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Four Masters, 1595; Russell’s Journal, Nov. and Dec. Writing to Cecil on Oct. 22, Norris says the overthrow near Belleek was shameful, the Burkes being a ‘mean sort of beggars’ and neither Tyrone nor O’Donnell near. See also O’Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 3, cap. 3 and 4.

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The negotiations are detailed in the Carew papers for January 1596, and in Russell’s Journal; and see Cecil to Russell, March 9.

251

Articles sent from England, Sept. 28, 1595; Articles propounded by the Commissioners, Jan. 28-30, 1596, both in Carew; Cecil to Russell, March 9.

252

Russell’s Journal for March 1596, mentions 300 or 400 Scots. Tribes and Customs of Hy Many, p. 149. Norris’s letter of March 20 gives some details, and also Fenton’s to Cecil of same date.

253

The Queen to the Lord Deputy and Council, March 9, 1596; Instructions for the Commissioners, March 11; Burghley to his son Robert, March 30 (in Wright’s Elizabeth); Norris to Cecil, March 23, and Fenton to Cecil, April 10.

254

Captain Thomas Lee to Burghley, April 1, 1596; Cecil to Russell, July 10, ‘Captain Lee doth pretend he could do much, &c.’ Lee went to Tyrone accordingly, but did nothing. His Geraldine neighbours seem to have taken this opportunity of burning a village belonging to him.

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The effect of her Majesty’s pleasure with Tyrone’s answer, April 12, 1596; Fenton to Cecil, April 10, and Norris and Fenton to the Privy Council, April 23; Russell to Burghley, April 27; the Queen to the Lord Deputy and Council, May 25; Russell to the Queen, May 16 and June 30, MSS. Hatfield. Writing to Russell on Nov. 22, 1595, Tyrone promised to levy a fine of 20,000 cows on himself and his allies; the Government had demanded 20,000l. Tyrone’s pardon (see Morrin’s Patent Rolls) is dated May 12, 1596, and he received it a few weeks later. It included the Earl’s relations and all the inhabitants of Tyrone, his astute secretary, Henry Hovenden, being included by name.

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Philip II. to Tyrone, Jan. 22, 1596, N.S.; Norris to Cecil, June 1 (the Spanish letter was produced in Council, May 31); Lord Deputy and Council to Tyrone, June 1; Russell to Burghley, June 2; Tyrone to the Lord Deputy and Council, June 11; O’Donnell to Norris, June 26, and another undated one of the same month. We know from Henry Hovenden’s letter to Tyrone on June 27 (in Carew) that the latter had advised O’Donnell to ‘take hold of Captain Warren’s dealing, &c.’

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Rice ap Hugh to Russell, May 18; John Morgan to Russell, May 21; Information of George Carwill taken at Newry on June 21. Tyrone met the Spaniard at Lifford. Writing to Norris on May 6, Tyrone and O’Donnell say they told the Spanish gentleman that they had been received to their Prince’s favour and would have no foreign aid.

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Four Masters, 1595; Captains Conway and Mostyn to the Privy Council, April 12, 1596; Norris to Cecil, April 23 and 25; Bingham to Burghley, April 22. Norris says that Russell, though really hostile to Bingham, tried to prevent inquiries, in order to keep him (Norris) out of Connaught and leave the government there to a tool of his own.

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Norris to Burghley, May 4 (with enclosure), and May 16, 1596; Russell to Burghley, May 16 and June 9; Bingham to Burghley, May 18 and June 11. Bingham came to Dublin on May 8.

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Translation of Irish letter signed O’Neill (not Tyrone), O’Donnell, O’Rourke, and Theobald Burke (MacWilliam), July 6, 1596; Chief Justice Saxey’s advertisements, January 1597, in Carew; Russell’s Journal, 1596; Joshua Aylmer to Sir J. Norris, April 26, 1596; William Cosby to Russell, May 19, 1596, and an interesting note in O’Donovan’s Four Masters; see also ‘Report concerning O’Donnell’s purposes’ to Russell by Gillaboy O’Flanagan (long prisoner with O’Donnell) May 12; ‘Words spoken by MacDonnell’ (chief of Tyrone’s gallowglasses) to Baron Elliott, June 15; Edmond and Edward Nugent to Russell, June 20; and ‘Occurrents in Wexford,’ June 26. As to Spanish and papal designs on Ireland about this time see Birch’s Memoirs, ii. 153, 177, 180.

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Burghley to his son Robert, Oct. 31, 1596, in Wright’s Elizabeth; Orders for the soldiers, April 18, 1596; Declaration of the state of the Pale, June 1597, and Chief Justice Saxey’s declaration already quoted, all in Carew. The Four Masters absurdly say that Norris had 20,000 men with him in Connaught this year.

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Four Masters, 1597. For the Enfield head see the examination of John Dewrance before Richard Chandler, J.P. for Middlesex, Sept. 21, 1597, MS. Hatfield; Russell’s Journal, and the letters in Carew for August, September, and December, 1596. Feagh was killed May 8, 1597; see also his own letter to Burghley, April 25, 1596.