[280] The Queen to Fitzwilliam, March 30; Fitzwilliam to the Privy Council, April 25; Dowdall to Fitzwilliam, May 2; N. Walshe to Burghley, June 10; Thomas Sackford to Burghley, June; John Symcott to Burghley, June 4; Lord Deputy and Council to Desmond, May 18.
[281] ‘What Bracton the lawyer termeth to be illecebra peccandi, is spes reniæ.’
[282] Edward Barkley to Walsingham, May 13; H. Ackworth to Burghley, May 20.
[283] Herle’s Collection of John Corbine’s Speeches, May 29; N. Walshe to Burghley, June 10: Murdin, p. 242.
[284] Fitzwilliam to the Privy Council, June 2; to Burghley, June 10 and 20; Essex to Desmond, June 5 and 10; to Burghley, June 14; to the three Lords and Walsingham, June 17; Fitzwilliam and Essex to same, June 20; Desmond to Essex, June 20.
[285] Essex to the Privy Council, July 10.
[286] Writing to Fitzwilliam in July (No. 35) the Queen acknowledged that it was hardly fair to ask Desmond to disarm when others did not.
[287] Essex to the Privy Council, July 10; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 12; Ormonde to Burghley, July 16; Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, Nov. Essex and Kildare accompanied Desmond as far as Clonmel.
[288] The Queen and Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, June 15 and 20.
[289] The ‘Combination,’ dated July 18, 1574, is printed in Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, i. 5. The Queen to Fitzwilliam, Aug. 20, in Carew.