Ireland under the Tudors. Volume 3 (of 3)

The Queen to the Lords Justices, &c. Nov. 6; Tyrone to Warren, Dec. 25; to the King of Spain, Dec. 31; to Lord Barry and others, Feb. 1600, in Carew. On Feb. 13, 1600, the Vicar Apostolic Hogan told Lord Barry he had ‘received an excommunication from the Pope against all those that doth not join in this Catholic action.’ James Archer, S.J., in a letter of Aug. 10, 1598, printed in Hibernia Ignatiana, p. 39, informs Aquaviva of ‘frequentes Catholicorum victorias, unde fit ut hæretici ex multis locis migrare cogantur.’ For Henry Fitzimon, S.J., the priest of whose imprisonment Tyrone complained, see his Life by Rev. E. Hogan, S.J., p. 209. ‘I never went to Tyrone,’ Warren wrote to Cecil, on Dec. 24, 1599, ‘but I was forced to bribe his Friars and Jesuits.’

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Mountjoy to the Queen, printed in Goodman’s James I. (ed. Brewer) ii. 23; Letters of Rowland Whyte to Sir Robert Sidney, Oct. 31, 1599, to Jan. 12, 1600, in Sidney Papers.

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Rowland Whyte to Sir R. Sidney, Nov. 29, 1599, to Feb. 9, 1600, in Sidney Papers; Fynes Moryson, book ii. chap. i.

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Letters in Carew, Dec. 31, 1599, and Feb. 13, 23, and 26, 1600; Tyrone to Barry with the answer, in Pacata Hibernia, Feb, 26, 1600; Four Masters, 1599 and 1600.

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Docwra’s Narration; Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. cap. 1.

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Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. caps. 2 and 14. The Four Masters say St. Leger’s encounter with Maguire was premeditated, but the English account is here to be preferred. Compare O’Sullivan Bere, tom. iii. lib. v. cap. 12. Lady St. Leger had been previously married to Davells and Mackworth, and was thus by violence left a widow for the third time.

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The Queen to Mountjoy, March 10, in Carew; Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18, ib.

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Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18, in Carew and Pacata Hibernia. See also the Catholic accounts of the Four Masters and of O’Sullivan and Peter Lombard. All the documents are collected in a memoir by the Rev. James Graves, in the Irish Archæological Journal, N.S. vol. iii. pp. 388 sqq. There are two contemporary drawings, one of which is reproduced in Pacata Hibernia and the other in Facsimiles of Irish MSS., part iv. 1. I have endeavoured to harmonise the various accounts.

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Ormonde to the Queen, June 16; F. Stafford to Cecil, June 18; Mountjoy to Cecil, July 4 – all in Mr. Graves’s memoir cited above. And see his further note in Irish Arch. Journal, N.S. vol. v. p. 333. On Aug. 21, Redmond Keating submitted to Mountjoy, on condition to deliver the Earl’s pledges remaining in his hands; see in Carew under Aug. 26, 1600. The Kellies and Lalors did the same.

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Fenton to Cecil, April 12; Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18; Tyrone to O’More April 22/May 2; to Ormonde April 29/May 9 and May 26/June 6; to Lady Ormonde May 25/June 5; Ormonde to the Queen June 16 – all these are in the memoir cited. Elizabeth, Lady Ormonde, was the Earl’s second wife, and daughter of John, second Lord Sheffield. In Eugene Magrath’s Irish panegyric on her husband (circ. 1580) every laudatory epithet is lavished on the ‘amiable, lovely, &c. countess.’ See this curious poem in Irish Arch. Journal (Kilkenny), i. p. 470.

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Note of Captain Flower’s journey, April 1; Joshua Aylmer to Cecil, April 21; Sir Henry Power to the Privy Council, April 30; Carew to Cecil, May 2; Florence MacCarthy to Cecil, May 6; Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. cap. 5. Cecil’s letter to Essex, April 1599, St. Leger’s and Power’s to Cecil, Dec. 10, and Lord Barry’s to Cecil, Feb. 12, 1600, are printed in Florence MacCarthy’s Life, chap. 9.

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Docwra’s Narration, edited by O’Donovan for the Celtic Society’s Miscellany. The cockle-shell island was probably one of the ‘kitchen-middens’ which are common on the Irish coast.

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Docwra’s Narration; Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part ii. lib. i. cap. 2; Four Masters, 1600. Mountjoy left Dublin on May 6, and remained out till the end of the month. See also his letter to Carew of July 1 in Carew. ‘The garrison of Derry,’ say the annalists, ‘were seized with disease on account of the narrowness of the place and the heat of the summer. Great numbers died of this sickness.’

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Carew to Cecil, May 6 and Aug. 17; Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. chaps. v. and vi.

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Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. ch. vii.; Four Masters. June 18 is the proper date of this capture; the annalists wrongly say that it was in January.

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This raid was at midsummer. —Four Masters and Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. ch. viii.

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Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. cap. 18. The date of the murder was Oct. 24.

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Declaration of Sir Charles Danvers in the correspondence of James VI. with Cecil (Camden Society). The evidence of Cuffe, Blount, and Southampton in the same collection bears this out. Southampton saw James’s answer to Mountjoy’s first letter. It contained nothing but compliments, allowing of his reservations, and referring him for the matter to the bearer (Lee), who delivered unto him that the King would think of it, and put himself in readiness to take any good occasion.’ There is a letter to Essex at Hatfield dated from the Court at Nonsuch, Aug. 18, 1599, in which Thomas Wenman warns the Earl that he had been slandered to the King of Scots as being opposed to his succession, that James would work all craft for his destruction, and that he should be careful who he had about him.

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Declaration of Danvers ut sup.; Henry Cuffe to the Council, ib., and his Examination, March 2, 1601 (printed by Spedding); Confession of Southampton, ut sup.

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Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part ii. book i. cap. 2; Four Masters, 1600.

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Mountjoy to Carew, Aug. 12, in Carew; Moryson, ut sup.; Four Masters, 1600. This raid was during the last days of July and the first of August.

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Moryson, ut sup.; Journal, 11-26, under latter date in Carew; Mountjoy to Carew, Sept. 4, ib.

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The dates are Dublin, Sept. 14; Faughard, Sept. 20; Newry, Oct. 21. Moryson, ut sup.; Lord Deputy and Council to Carew, Oct. 8, in Carew; Mountjoy to Carew same date (No. 478); Four Masters, 1600.

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Nov. 2-13. The Four Masters add nothing to Moryson’s account.

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Docwra’s Narration, June 1 to July 29; Four Masters, 1600; Cecil to Carew, Sept. 28, in Maclean’s Letters of Sir R. Cecil.

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