[181] Ormonde to Sidney, April 27; Sidney to Carew, May 28; to the Privy Council, May 4; the Queen to Sidney, May 17.
[182] The session began May 26. Ormonde to Heneage, July 4, 1570; to Cecil, July 24, 1569, and Dec. 7, 1570; to Burghley, June 28, 1572; Sidney to Privy Council, June 24, 1570; Weston to Cecil, June 28. There is a valuable memoir of Sir Edmund Butler by the Rev. James Hughes in the Irish Archæol. Journal, 4th Series, vol. i. Morrin’s Patent Rolls, ii. 640.
[183] Sidney to Cecil, Oct. 17, in the Sidney Papers. Irish Statute Book, Note of Bills, May 1570.
[184] Memorandum of Causes, &c., 1572 (No. 49).
[185] Opinion of her Majesty’s learned counsel against the legality of the monopolies, April 11, 1573, signed by R. Dillon, L. Dillon, J. Dowdall, N. Nugent, J. Plunkett, R. Talbot, and C. Fitzsimon; of whom the first four had been Attorney- or Solicitor-General. Sidney’s Summary Relation in Carew, 1583. The Queen to Sidney, May 29, 1578, in Carew; Mayors of Dublin and Drogheda to the Queen and to Burghley, June 30, 1572; to the Privy Council, Aug.; to Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, Jan. 6, 1573; to the same, March 25; several letters from Gilbert Gerrard, and Middlemore in 1578; Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 18, 1573.
[186] Naunton’s Fragmenta Regalia; Perrott’s Life; Ormonde to Cecil March 5, 1570.
[187] Formular of Instructions, &c., in Sidney Papers, Dec. 14, 1570; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, i. 546.
[188] Treaty with Tirlogh Luineach O’Neill, March 3, 1571; with O’Farrell, Feb. 11; Agnes Campbell (O’Neill) to the Earl of Morton, March 17; O’Donovan’s notes to the Four Masters, 1570 and 1571; Fitzwilliam to Cecil, Feb. 5 and 11, 1571. Perrott landed at Waterford, Feb. 27.
[189] Sidney to the Privy Council, June 24, 1570; Fitton to Cecil, August 27. Four Masters, 1570.
[190] Fitton to Cecil, Feb. 8 and Feb. 19, 1571; to the Lord Deputy, March 9 and 11; Fitzwilliam to the Queen, April 7.