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[230] Russell to Cecil, Aug. 16, 1594, and to the Privy Council, Aug. 17; Ormonde to Burghley, Aug. 19; Russell’s Journal in Carew, June to August.
[231] Submission and answers of Tyrone, Aug. 15 and 17, 1594; informations preferred by Sir Henry Bagenal, Aug. 17; Ormonde to Burghley, Aug. 19; Resolution of Council, Aug. 17, signed by Russell, Loftus, C., Jones, Bishop of Meath, Ormonde, Gardiner, C.J., Napper, C.B., A. St. Leger, M.R., R. Bingham, T. Norris, R. Dillon, G. Bourchier, M.O. The letter of the 19th to the Privy Council has the same signatures with the addition of Secretary Fenton’s. Russell’s additional reasons, some of them after-thoughts perhaps, are in a paper later than Oct. 31. The defeat of Duke and Herbert at Enniskillen may have frightened some of the Council. Captain Thomas Lee, in his declaration already quoted (p. 112), tells the Queen that Tyrone ‘came in upon the credit of your state,’ but this is quite contrary to the evidence.
[232] Summary collection of the state of Ireland by Sir W. Fitzwilliam and the Council, Aug. 1594; order by Lord Deputy Russell and Council, Aug. 13; Russell to Cecil, Aug. 16; Russell’s Journal in Carew, Aug. and Sept. O’Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 11. The Four Masters are somewhat incorrect, for Enniskillen was not taken by Maguire till May 1595; their information fails them for the later months of 1594.
[233] Russell’s Journal in Carew, Sept. to Dec. 1594; the Queen to the Lord Deputy and Council, and a separate letter to Russell, Oct. 31. A paper containing ‘presumptions’ against Tyrone’s loyalty belongs to the latter month of 1594, and the writer, who is evidently well informed, does not specify any actual communication between Tyrone and Spain. O’Sullivan says O’Donnell sent Archbishop O’Hely to Spain immediately after the loss of Enniskillen in February (tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 8), and this is confirmed by Walter Reagh’s examination, April 9, 1595, who said O’Hely had gone to Spain long before.
[234] Russell to Burghley and to the Privy Council, April 8, 1595; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, April 10; Sir H. Harrington to Burghley, April 10; Russell’s Journal in Carew, Jan. 16, 1595, to April 10, on which day Walter Reagh was hanged. Four Masters, 1595; O’Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 9.
[235] Examination of Walter Reagh, April 9, 1595, by which it appears Tyrone was intriguing with Feagh early in March; Russell’s Journal in Carew, April and May; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, April 10.
[236] The details about Derbyshire are from the Belvoir MSS. in the appendix to the 12th report of the Historical MSS. Commission, vol. i. pp. 326-381; Mayor of Barnstaple to Cecil, Aug. 24, 1602; Mayor of Chester, Sept. 14 and Oct. 22 and 24, 1602; Mayor of Bristol to the Privy Council, May 29, 1602. The letters from these mayors are all at Hatfield. On Sept. 18, 1595, Burghley tells his son Robert that he knows how to provide horse for Ireland at the expense of the clergy, and this levy was made; Hugh Bellott, Bishop of Chester, to Burghley, March 13, 1596. Commissary Peter Proby writes to Burghley from Chester on April 10, 1596, that the recruits malingered and threw away arms and clothes rather than sail, and that it might be necessary to send them on board pinioned. There are many details about recruiting for Ireland in Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa. In 1584 the Queen ordered some recusants, who professed themselves loyal in all but religion, to furnish certain men, or 23l. in lieu of each man. If they obeyed cheerfully, she said, she might perhaps ‘qualify some part of the extremity that otherwise the law doth lay upon them.’
[237] George Manners to his father (John Manners) and to Edward Whittock in Belvoir Papers, May 15 and June 27, 1600; Captain Ralph Bostock to Cecil, 1600, MS. Hatfield.
[238] Sir John Norris to Cecil, April 14, 1595, from Rycott; to Burghley, April 29, and to the Privy Council, May 2, from Bristol; to Cecil, May 3, from on board ship; Russell to Cecil, May 23; Essex to Norris and the latter’s answer, Aug. 13; MSS. Hatfield, ending with ‘your Lordship’s as shall be fit for me.’ The commission is in Carew (No. 160).