[428] Fenton to Burghley, Aug. 26, 1595; Mayor of Chester’s letter, June 18, 1597; Sir John Dowdall to Burghley, March 9, 1596, and to Cecil, Jan. 2, 1600; Proclamation by Tyrone, Feb. 2, 1601. The Irish text of the latter, with a contemporary translation, is printed from the Lambeth MSS. in Ulster Arch. Journal, vol. vi. p. 60. Mountjoy to Cecil, Aug. 10, 1602, printed by Moryson.
[429] Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part iii. book iv. chap. ii.; Spenser’s State of Ireland; Derrick’s Image of Ireland, where the description of the more uncivilised natives closely resembles those of Moryson and Spenser. Articles with Tyrone, June 17, 1590, in Carew. A paper dated 1599 by Carew (No. 319) proposes that every soldier should have an Irish mantle, ‘which costeth but 5s., to be his bed in the night and a great comfort to him in sickness and health; for being never so wet, it will with a little shaking and wringing be presently dry.’ Among the properties for a play on the state of Ireland by John Heywood, performed before Edward VI. were ‘three yards of grey kersey for an Irishman’s coat with great and long plyghts, four yards of orange-coloured frisado at 4s. a yard, &c.’—Kempe’s Loseley MSS.
[430] Von Raumer’s Sixteenth Century, letter 60, where De Beaumont, or his translator, writes Clancarty instead of Clanricarde; Manningham’s Diary, Oct. 1602 and April 1603; Chamberlain’s Letters, Oct. 2, 1602; Sir John Davis to Cecil, Dec. 8, 1604.
[431] Spenser; Campion; Bodley’s Voyage to Lecale in the 2nd vol. of the Ulster Arch. Journal, and articles by H. F. Hore in the same journal; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, 40 Eliz. No. 54; Derrick’s Image of Ireland; Smith’s Cork, i. 249; and see above vol. ii. p. 65. The ‘carrows’ were not extinct in Charles II.’s time—see Dineley’s Tour, p. 19.
[432] Bodley’s Visit to Lecale, 1603; Cecil to Carew. Dec. 15, 1600; Sir John Stanhope to Carew, Jan. 26, 1601: both in Carew.
[433] ‘Descriptio Itineris Capitanei Josiæ Bodlei in Lecaliam, 1602-3,’ Ulster Arch. Journal, ii. 73.
[434] The identification of Elizabeth Boyle is due to Mr. Grosart. Bryskett’s description of the party at his house has been reprinted by several of Spenser’s biographers. For topographical matters see a most thorough article by Dr. P. W. Joyce in Fraser’s Magazine for March 1878, p. 315. Dr. Joyce hesitates to identify ‘the stony Aubrion,’ but is it not the Burren in Carlow?
[CHAPTER LIV.]
THE CHURCH.