Ireland under the Tudors. Volume 3 (of 3)

Docwra’s Narration, July 29 to Sept. 16; Four Masters, 1600.

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Docwra’s Narration, Sept. 16 to Oct. 3.

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Docwra’s Narration, Oct. 3-28; Four Masters, 1600; Journal of Mountjoy’s proceedings, in Carew, vol. v. p. 497. In the Ulster settlement Docwra was granted 2,000 acres about Lifford.

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The Four Masters are here to be preferred to Docwra; see also Cecil to Carew in Maclean, Aug. 29, 1600.

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Docwra’s Narration, ‘about Christmas’; Four Masters, under Jan. 27, 1601.

363

Carew to the Privy Council July 18-20 and Aug. 25; Pacata Hibernia, book i. chaps. ix. – xii.

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This fight was on Sept. 16. Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xiii.; Mountjoy to Carew, Oct. 8, in Carew; Cecil to Carew, Oct. 15; Carew to the Privy Council, Nov. 2.

365

Desmond to Cecil, MS. Hatfield. The letter is not dated, but Fenton was in London during July and August 1600. Writing to Carew on July 11, Cecil calls the young man James Fitzgerald, and Desmond in later letters. The patent was ready by Aug. 29, and received the Great Seal on Oct. 1. It is printed in Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xiv.

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Desmond landed on Oct. 14. Nearly all the letters are collected in Florence MacCarthy’s Life, pp. 485-500, where details as to the Tower life, medicines, &c. may be read, and in Cecil’s letters to Carew (ed. Maclean).

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Pacata Hibernia, vol. i. ch. xiv. and the letters in Florence MacCarthy’s Life; Carew to Cecil in Carew, March 22, 1601. ‘I do not at all, or at least very little,’ Desmond wrote to Cecil on Dec. 18, 1600, ‘participate of the Italian proverb, Amor fa molto, argento fa tutto.’

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Fenton to Cecil, April 20, 1598. William Power, writing from Cork to Cecil, Jan. 17, 1602, says ‘you were a father to the unfortunate young Earl, as himself often told me.’ – Carew to the Privy Council, Dec. 20, 1600, and March 6, 1601; Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xviii.; Desmond Pedigree in Irish Arch. Journal, 3rd series, vol. i.; Desmond to Cecil, Aug. 31, 1601. Among the 1602 papers at Hatfield, there are petitions from two of the Desmond ladies asking Cecil for part of the allowance meant ‘for our poor brother, that we might end the rest of our unfortunate days without being troublesome.’

369

The Queen to Mountjoy, Dec. 3, 1600, copy in Carew. There are other letters of the time from Elizabeth to the Lord Deputy beginning ‘Mistress kitchenmaid.’

370

Moryson, part ii. book i. chap. ii. On Jan. 1, 1601, Mountjoy dates a letter to Carew (in Carew) ‘from the camp among the rocks and the woods in these devils’ country.’

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Moryson, Jan. 29 to Feb. 25, part ii. book ii. chap. ii.; Mountjoy to Carew, March 11, in Carew.

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Essex was arrested Feb. 8 and executed Feb. 25. Mountjoy heard the news on the 22nd and March 2 respectively. Moryson, book i. ch. ii.

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Nottingham to Mountjoy, May 31, 1601, enclosing Lady Rich’s letter. Notwithstanding the Lord Admiral’s playful allusion to 30 years, Mountjoy was 38 and Penelope 40. The letters are printed in Goodman’s James I. ii. 14-20.

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Moryson ut sup.; Mountjoy to Carew, April 10, 1601, in Carew; Edmund MacGauran, titular Archbishop of Armagh, to Captain Eustace June 18/28, 1591, MS. Hatfield; Matthew de Oviedo, ‘Spanish Archbishop of Dublin,’ to James Fitzthomas, Jan. 3/13, 1601-2, in Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xix.

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Pacata Hibernia, book ii. chap. iii. White Knight to Carew, May 29, 1601. Many of the letters &c. on this subject are collected in Irish Arch. Journal, 3rd series, vol. i. pp. 544-559. O’Daly wrongly states that the Queen’s Earl stayed on in Ireland after his rival: he returned to England two months before his capture. From State papers calendared under June and July, 1608, it appears that John Fitzthomas was then called Earl of Desmond in Spain.

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May 22 to Aug. 29, 1601; Moryson, part ii. book ii. chap. i.

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Information of Thomas Walker (taken in England), Oct. 3, 1601, MS. Hatfield; Walker to Mountjoy, Aug. 22; Mountjoy to Cecil, Aug. 23. Walker maintained that he never thought of killing Tyrone until he found himself in Ireland.

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The proclamation is in Morrin’s Patent Rolls, 1601, of which several original printed copies are extant, bearing date May 20, 1601. The whole story may be read in Carew, 1601-3, and in the first vol. of Russell and Prendergast’s Calendar. See also Camden and Moryson. In Feb. 1603 Mountjoy wrote: ‘the alteration of the coin, and taking away of the exchange, in such measure as it was first promised, hath bred a general grievance unto men of all qualities, and so many incommodities to all sorts, that it is beyond the judgment of any that I can hear to prevent a confusion in this estate by the continuance thereof.’

Moryson says the pretence was that the rebels would be impoverished, whereas the Queen’s servants were the real sufferers – ‘we served in discomfort and came home beggars, so that only the treasurers and paymasters had cause to bless the authors of this invention.’

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Carew to the Privy Council, Aug. 6, 1601; Cecil to Carew, Sept. 5 – both in Carew. ‘For Desmond (James Fitzthomas),’ says Cecil, ‘I find him more discreet than I have heard of him, and for Florence the same which I ever expected, which is a malicious, vain fool.’ —Pacata Hibernia, lib. ii. cap. 6.

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Journal in Carew, No. 198; Pacata Hibernia, cap. 10; Carew to the Privy Council, Sept. 14.

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Pacata Hibernia, caps. 9, 10, and 11. The Spanish ships are described as fifty, forty-five, and thirty-five. The latter number probably came to Kinsale with Don Juan. Storms and accidents account for the rest. Small vessels had been purposely chosen, with a view to the Irish harbours.

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Pacata Hibernia, caps. 10 and 11; Warrants in Carew, Sept. 28.