[270] Essex to the Privy Council, sent by Wilsford and Carleton, Jan. 16, 1574. Consultations of Ireland, Nov. 17, 1573, in Murdin, p. 268. ‘Doubts moved by the Queen,’ 1573; S.P., Ireland, vol. xliii. (No. 36).
[271] The Queen to Fitzwilliam, January 18; Fitzwilliam to Walsingham, Feb. 6; Lord Deputy and Council to the Queen, Feb. 10.
[272] ‘Reasons that may move the Queen,’ &c., Feb. 19; Knollys to Burghley, in Devereux, p. 51.
[273] Earl of Essex to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, March 8, 1574; three weeks later Essex met Tirlogh Luineach, and made a sort of truce.
[274] Essex to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, March 8. The Earl’s expenses were over 10l. a day. He had to keep 160 men and eighty horse, and to draw all victuals and forage from England.
[275] The Queen to Essex, March 30; Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester to Essex, March 30; and see Murdin, p. 775.
[276] Letters from Essex of May 13 to the Queen, to the Privy Council, to Burghley, and to Walsingham; to the Lord Deputy and Council, March 6; Waterhouse to Burghley, March 20; B. Gooche to Burghley, Feb. 2 and 18, and April 2; J. Wingfield to Burghley, April 2; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, April 20.
[277] Sir Brian MacPhelim to the Queen, May 8; Essex to the Queen, May 13; to the Privy Council, same date; Edward Barkley to Burghley, May 14; B. Gooche to Burghley, May 15.
[278] Essex to Burghley, Aug. 28, 1574, in Lodge’s Portraits (Walter, Earl of Essex); to Walsingham, March 25; Fitton to Burghley, Feb. 18; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Feb. 22 and 28, and March 2; to the Privy Council Feb. 5; E. Fitzgerald to Burghley, Feb. 13.
[279] Essex to the Lords, March 8; the Queen to Fitzwilliam, Jan. 18 and 21, and March 30; Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, March 30; Fitzwilliam to Privy Council, March 24.