[358] Docwra’s Narration, July 29 to Sept. 16; Four Masters, 1600.
[359] Docwra’s Narration, Sept. 16 to Oct. 3.
[360] Docwra’s Narration, Oct. 3-28; Four Masters, 1600; Journal of Mountjoy’s proceedings, in Carew, vol. v. p. 497. In the Ulster settlement Docwra was granted 2,000 acres about Lifford.
[361] The Four Masters are here to be preferred to Docwra; see also Cecil to Carew in Maclean, Aug. 29, 1600.
[362] Docwra’s Narration, ‘about Christmas’; Four Masters, under Jan. 27, 1601.
[363] Carew to the Privy Council July 18-20 and Aug. 25; Pacata Hibernia, book i. chaps. ix.-xii.
[364] This fight was on Sept. 16. Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xiii.; Mountjoy to Carew, Oct. 8, in Carew; Cecil to Carew, Oct. 15; Carew to the Privy Council, Nov. 2.
[365] Desmond to Cecil, MS. Hatfield. The letter is not dated, but Fenton was in London during July and August 1600. Writing to Carew on July 11, Cecil calls the young man James Fitzgerald, and Desmond in later letters. The patent was ready by Aug. 29, and received the Great Seal on Oct. 1. It is printed in Pacata Hibernia, book i. chap. xiv.
[366] Desmond landed on Oct. 14. Nearly all the letters are collected in Florence MacCarthy’s Life, pp. 485-500, where details as to the Tower life, medicines, &c. may be read, and in Cecil’s letters to Carew (ed. Maclean).
[367] Pacata Hibernia, vol. i. ch. xiv. and the letters in Florence MacCarthy’s Life; Carew to Cecil in Carew, March 22, 1601. ‘I do not at all, or at least very little,’ Desmond wrote to Cecil on Dec. 18, 1600, ‘participate of the Italian proverb, Amor fa molto, argento fa tutto.’