FOOTNOTES:
[111] Sidney to Cecil from Chester, Nov. 24, 1565; from Hylbry, Dec. 3; from Beaumaris, Dec. 17; from Holyhead, Jan. 9; from Dublin, March 3, 1566; to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Jan. 9; the Queen to Knollys, April 18, 1566. ‘I was never so weary of any place,’ Sidney wrote from Hylbry island. He landed near Dublin, Jan. 13, and was sworn in on the 20th.
[112] These are wanting, but the mention of them shows that Shane was faithfully reported, otherwise we might have suspected the magniloquent Stukeley. Sidney to Leicester, March 1, 1566; to Shane, Feb. 24:—‘De poeta seu rithmatore de cujus insolenti jurgio questus es, supplicium congruum sumemus.’ Sidney to Shane O’Neill, Jan. 21, Jan. 30 (sent by Stukeley), Feb. 9. Shane to Sidney, Jan. 26, Feb. 5, Feb. 18 (with enclosure). In the last letter Shane says, ‘Novi vestram suavissimam naturam (a Deo Optimo Maximo vobis datam) non inquinatam neque maculatam ed ad omnia bona promptam.’
[113] Sidney to Leicester, March 1; to Cecil, March 3 and April 17.
[114] Sidney to Cecil, April 17; Cecil to Sidney, June 16; Queen to Sidney, July 5.
[115] Memorial for Sir F. Knollys, April 18, 1566; Cecil to Sidney, May 18; Knollys to Cecil, May 19 and 29.
[116] Sidney to Cecil, June 9, 1566; Queen to Sidney, June 15 and July 8; Instructions for Randolph, July 8; Winchester to Sidney, July 31; Shane O’Neill to Charles IX. and to the Cardinal of Lorraine, April 25. See also in the Foreign Calendar Instructions for H. Killigrew, June 15; Elizabeth to Randolph, May 23, and Randolph to Cecil, same date. Cecil comforted Sidney with frequent letters, and the Lord Treasurer Winchester promised him hearty support.
[117] Randolph to Cecil, Sept. 3, 1566. Sidney to Cecil, Aug. 19, and Loftus to Sussex, Sept. 3 (in Wright’s Queen Elizabeth). Thomas Lancaster to Cecil, Aug. 16.
[118] Shane O’Neill to John of Desmond, Sept. 9. Sidney to the Privy Council, Sept. 9 and 14.
[119] Sidney, Kildare, Bagenal, and Agard to the Queen, Nov. 12.