[338] Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. caps. 2 and 14. The Four Masters say St. Leger’s encounter with Maguire was premeditated, but the English account is here to be preferred. Compare O’Sullivan Bere, tom. iii. lib. v. cap. 12. Lady St. Leger had been previously married to Davells and Mackworth, and was thus by violence left a widow for the third time.
[339] The Queen to Mountjoy, March 10, in Carew; Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18, ib.
[340] Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18, in Carew and Pacata Hibernia. See also the Catholic accounts of the Four Masters and of O’Sullivan and Peter Lombard. All the documents are collected in a memoir by the Rev. James Graves, in the Irish Archæological Journal, N.S. vol. iii. pp. 388 sqq. There are two contemporary drawings, one of which is reproduced in Pacata Hibernia and the other in Facsimiles of Irish MSS., part iv. 1. I have endeavoured to harmonise the various accounts.
[341] Ormonde to the Queen, June 16; F. Stafford to Cecil, June 18; Mountjoy to Cecil, July 4—all in Mr. Graves’s memoir cited above. And see his further note in Irish Arch. Journal, N.S. vol. v. p. 333. On Aug. 21, Redmond Keating submitted to Mountjoy, on condition to deliver the Earl’s pledges remaining in his hands; see in Carew under Aug. 26, 1600. The Kellies and Lalors did the same.
[342] Fenton to Cecil, April 12; Carew and Thomond to the Privy Council, April 18; Tyrone to O’More April 22/May 2; to Ormonde April 29/May 9 and May 26/June 6; to Lady Ormonde May 25/June 5; Ormonde to the Queen June 16—all these are in the memoir cited. Elizabeth, Lady Ormonde, was the Earl’s second wife, and daughter of John, second Lord Sheffield. In Eugene Magrath’s Irish panegyric on her husband (circ. 1580) every laudatory epithet is lavished on the ‘amiable, lovely, &c. countess.’ See this curious poem in Irish Arch. Journal (Kilkenny), i. p. 470.
[343] Note of Captain Flower’s journey, April 1; Joshua Aylmer to Cecil, April 21; Sir Henry Power to the Privy Council, April 30; Carew to Cecil, May 2; Florence MacCarthy to Cecil, May 6; Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. cap. 5. Cecil’s letter to Essex, April 1599, St. Leger’s and Power’s to Cecil, Dec. 10, and Lord Barry’s to Cecil, Feb. 12, 1600, are printed in Florence MacCarthy’s Life, chap. 9.
[344] Docwra’s Narration, edited by O’Donovan for the Celtic Society’s Miscellany. The cockle-shell island was probably one of the ‘kitchen-middens’ which are common on the Irish coast.
[345] Docwra’s Narration; Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part ii. lib. i. cap. 2; Four Masters, 1600. Mountjoy left Dublin on May 6, and remained out till the end of the month. See also his letter to Carew of July 1 in Carew. ‘The garrison of Derry,’ say the annalists, ‘were seized with disease on account of the narrowness of the place and the heat of the summer. Great numbers died of this sickness.’
[346] Carew to Cecil, May 6 and Aug. 17; Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. chaps. v. and vi.
[347] Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. ch. vii.; Four Masters. June 18 is the proper date of this capture; the annalists wrongly say that it was in January.