[215] Four Masters, 1592; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 7. Captain Lee, in Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, vol. i. p. 106, says Willis had with him three hundred of the very rascals and scum of that kingdom, which did rob and spoil that people, ravish their wives and daughters, and make havoc of all.
[216] Four Masters, 1592; Tyrone to Burghley, Aug, 2; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Aug. 8.
[217] Loftus to Burghley, Dec. 27, 1590, and Feb. 4, 1591; Lloyd’s State Worthies. Loftus began the attack by recommending Philip Williams to Burghley, Dec. 18, 1586. Williams’s wife applied to Jones a few days later, and the Archbishop forwarded her letter, Jan. 1, 1587. Fitzwilliam wrote to Burghley in favour of Williams, Sept. 17, 1590; see also Sir R. Bingham to Geo. Bingham, Oct. 29, 1591.
[218] The forged letter is dated June 25, 1585, and calendared Feb. 16, 1590; Commission dated March 20, 1590, from the Privy Council to the Bishops of Meath and Leighlin, Sir L. Dillon, Sir N. White, Sir E. Moore, Sir E. Waterhouse, Walshe, J., and Calthorpe, A. G. Dillon and White to Burghley, June 26 and 28, 1590; Bishop Meredith to Burghley, July 13, 1590. Fitzwilliam’s letters are too numerous to cite; their general tenour bears out the text; many letters as to Trevor, especially Sir R. Bingham to G. Bingham, Oct. 29, 1591. For the priest Roughan see an amusing account in Strype’s Life of Aylmer, and for Perrott’s quarrel with Loftus and Jones see his Annals (Eliz.) book ii. chaps. 3 and 4. For evidence of Roughan’s perjuries see Morrin’s Patent Rolls, 42 Eliz. No. 21.
[219] Lord Campbell’s Chief Justices, i. 247; Howell’s State Trials, vol. i.
[220] Introduction to Swift’s Polite Conversation; Naunton’s Fragmenta Regalia; Howell’s State Trials. There is a curious account of Sir Thomas Perrott’s marriage with Lady Dorothy Devereux in Strype’s Aylmer.
[221] Fitzwilliam and Bagenal to Burghley, July 25, 1592; Mr. Solicitor-General Coke to Burghley, Aug. 13; Four Masters, 1593. By the articles of agreement concluded at Dundalk on June 28, 1593, Tirlogh Luineach was awarded a life-interest in the Strabane district, while the Earl’s supremacy was acknowledged over all Tyrone.
[222] Bingham’s letter of June 28, 1593, is quoted in Brady’s Episcopal Succession, i. 223; O’Sullivan Bere, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 6. There is an original intercepted letter at Hatfield from Primate MacGauran to Captain Eustace, dated Madrid, June 28, 1591, in which the writer says:—‘I hope in God Ireland will soon be free from Englishmen, and notwithstanding that the Catholic King his captains be slow in their affairs, I am certain that the men now purposed to be sent to comfort the same poor island, which is in distress a long time, will not be slow. I ought not to write much unto you touching those causes, for I know that a Spaniard shall be chief governor of them. The Irish regiment is written for.’
[223] O’Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 7; Four Masters, 1593; Shirley’s Monaghan, pp. 97 and 98; the Earl of Tyrone’s grievances, March 14, 1594.
[224] Fenton to Burghley, Feb. 2, 1594; Captain John Dowdall to Fitzwilliam, Feb. 2, 3, and 7; Bingham to Puckering, C.S., Feb. 15; Cornelius Maguire to Fitzwilliam, Feb. 7; O’Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 7, cap. 7.