[239] Russell’s Journal in Carew, May 1595; Norris to Cecil, May 8; to Burghley and to Cecil, May 29.
[240] Russell to Cecil, May 23, 1595; Bagenal to Burghley, May 29; and Russell’s letter of June 27; Report by Lieutenants Tucker and Perkins in Carew, June 1.
[241] Bingham to Russell, June 6, 1595; O’Sullivan (tom. iii. lib. 3, cap. 3) does not seem to see any inconsistency between what he says of the Irish soldiers being ‘prædâ fraudati,’ and of the Englishmen who ‘vel occisi, vel fugâ salutem petentes devastatæ religiosæ domus Carmelitarum pœnas sacrilegii luerunt.—Four Masters, 1595. Many English writers confuse this George Oge Bingham, who was Sir Richard’s cousin, with the elder George, who was his brother.
[242] Journal of the late journey by the Lord Deputy from June 18 to July 17, 1595; Russell’s Journal in Carew, June and July. The Four Masters substantially agree. The proclamation against Tyrone, O’Donnell, O’Rourke, Maguire, MacMahon and others is among the State Papers, ‘imprinted in the cathedral church of the Blessed Trinity, Dublin, by William Kearney, printer to the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, 1595’; see also Carew under June 28 (which is probably wrong). O’Donnell, ‘whose father and predecessors have always been loyal,’ is represented as Tyrone’s dupe, and the Queen desires that he should be ‘entertained secretly with hope, for that we have a disposition to save him.’ The English Government had now discovered that Tyrone’s father was a bastard; it used to be the O’Neills who said so. He was proclaimed traitor at Dundalk on June 23, and at Newry on the 26th.
[243] Russell to Burghley, July 14, 1595; Norris to Burghley, Aug. 1 and 3, and to Cecil, July 4 and 20 and Aug. 1.
[244] Ormonde to Burghley, April 3, 1595, in answer to his letter of March 21, also April 7. Some drafts of the proclamation are as early as April 10.
[245] The fight in which Norris was wounded took place on Sept. 4, 1595. O’Sullivan says it was at ‘Pratum Fontis’ or Clontubrid near Monaghan, but that is certainly wrong. Bagenal, who was closely engaged himself, writing to Burghley on Sept. 9, says ‘nine miles from Newry,’ on the direct road from Armagh. See also Captain F. Stafford’s report on Sept. 12. There is a good account dated Sept. 16 in Payne Collier’s Trevelyan Papers, vol. ii. Tyrone’s submission, Aug. 22; Norris to Burghley, Aug. 25, and Sept. 8 and 10; to Russell, Sept. 16; Russell to Burghley, Sept. 14, and to the Privy Council, Sept. 21.
[246] Four Masters, 1593 and 1595, with O’Donovan’s notes; Morrin’s Patent Rolls 29 Eliz.; Philip O’Reilly to Russell, Sept. 14, 1595.
[247] Privy Council to Russell, Sept. 12, 1595; Tyrone and O’Donnell to Philip II, and to Don Carlos, Sept. 27. Piers O’Cullen, the priest, on whom the letters to Spain were found, broke his neck trying to escape from Dublin Castle (Fenton to Burghley, Jan. 12, 1596). Copies of the above are in Carew. Norris’s letters to Burghley on Sept. 8, 10, and 27, and the abstract of his letters sent by Sir Henry, with Burghley’s remarks.
[248] Papers in Carew, Sept. 27 to Oct. 28, 1595; Burghley to his son Robert, Dec. 2, 1595, and Jan. 2, 1596.