[348] This raid was at midsummer.—Four Masters and Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. ch. viii.
[349] Pacata Hibernia, lib. i. cap. 18. The date of the murder was Oct. 24.
[350] Declaration of Sir Charles Danvers in the correspondence of James VI. with Cecil (Camden Society). The evidence of Cuffe, Blount, and Southampton in the same collection bears this out. Southampton saw James’s answer to Mountjoy’s first letter. It contained nothing but compliments, allowing of his reservations, and referring him for the matter to the bearer (Lee), who delivered unto him that the King would think of it, and put himself in readiness to take any good occasion.’ There is a letter to Essex at Hatfield dated from the Court at Nonsuch, Aug. 18, 1599, in which Thomas Wenman warns the Earl that he had been slandered to the King of Scots as being opposed to his succession, that James would work all craft for his destruction, and that he should be careful who he had about him.
[351] Declaration of Danvers ut sup.; Henry Cuffe to the Council, ib., and his Examination, March 2, 1601 (printed by Spedding); Confession of Southampton, ut sup.
[352] Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part ii. book i. cap. 2; Four Masters, 1600.
[353] Mountjoy to Carew, Aug. 12, in Carew; Moryson, ut sup.; Four Masters, 1600. This raid was during the last days of July and the first of August.
[354] Moryson, ut sup.; Journal, 11-26, under latter date in Carew; Mountjoy to Carew, Sept. 4, ib.
[355] The dates are Dublin, Sept. 14; Faughard, Sept. 20; Newry, Oct. 21. Moryson, ut sup.; Lord Deputy and Council to Carew, Oct. 8, in Carew; Mountjoy to Carew same date (No. 478); Four Masters, 1600.
[356] Nov. 2-13. The Four Masters add nothing to Moryson’s account.
[357] Docwra’s Narration, June 1 to July 29; Four Masters, 1600; Cecil to Carew, Sept. 28, in Maclean’s Letters of Sir R. Cecil.