1580. April 5. Vol. 597, p. 308a. 363. April 7. 364. Vol. 597, p. 309a. April 7. Vol. 597, p. 309a. April 8. Vol. 619, p. 44. 365. 366. (2.) In their journeys of late they have not had 10 days' bread in 20 days' travel, and no certain garrison to remain in. If her Majesty will make the full pay till the last of March, and from henceforth allow the penny by day accustomably given for victualling, every captain will take upon him. the victualling of his whole company; 20 garrons to every 100 for carriage. (3.) They desire licence to transport victuals out of England. PELHAM to SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON. I have possessed her Majesty of all the holds that the Earl of Desmond kept. Desmond and the confederates made no show against Ormond or me, but the unseasonable time of the year has made war sufficiently against us, especially the horsemen. A number of the rebels will starve. Asketten, 5 April 1580. Signed. PELHAM to the LORD KEEPER at Dublin. Mr. Waterhouse repairs thither. I have required him to deliver to you a letter which I have received from the Lords concerning your allowance of your fee for keeping of the seal. Make some friendship at court to prevent this disailowance. Limerick, 7 April 1580. Signed. Contemp. copy. P. 3. WARRANT for the WARDSHIP of MR. DAVELLS' SON. Limerick, under the Privy Signet, 7 April 1580. Contemp. copy. P. 1. SIR NICHOLAS MALBIE (Colonel of Connaught,) to the By your letter of 26 January I perceive that my late service in Munster would have been concealed from her Majesty had you not given her the knowledge thereof. "If I had not given the rebels that day's overthrow (which hath broken the ice of that rebellion), the archtraitor Earl had been this day the strongest rebel that hath been these hundred years." 1580. April 11. 367. Vol. 597, p. 310. My service in Munster could not have been hid, if your Honour and Mr. Secretary Walsingham had not been in some displeasure, which now is repaired. My Lord Justice calls me to these extraordinary services to my great charges. "I was in Thomonde upon the river side always opposite to him." His dispatch now sent will instruct you of Munster proceedings. There is hope that the taking away of the rebel's houses will make a short end of him. My Lord of Ormonde repairs to Kilkenny to provide his necessaries, and about 6 May next a meeting is appointed to make a new onset upon the rebels. In the meantime the garrisons shall not be idle, but victualling I fear will fail them, and money the soldiers do look for. "Your Honour's opinion that dalliance and fair means and temporising is no means to reform this insolent nation is the true touchstone." I would my course for Connaught might be followed, and yet I use as little cruelty as any that ever governed. Severity to a few has corrected many. No province is so generally quiet as Connaught. "I delivered your Honour's good mind to Sir William Stanley, who is most thankful unto your L. for it. He is worthy to be well used. I have won my L. Justice to grant his goodwill to let him be with me in Connaught in lieu of Captain Fisher's band, which is taken from Connaught." He may be employed in that room whensoever it shall please her Majesty to revoke me from thence. He is now coming over; I beseech you let him be returned with all speed. "I do send your Honour a discourse of my late journeys made against a new sprung up rebel in Connaught. I dare not write the suspicion I have how he was moved unto it, but have referred it to Sir William Stanley. But howsoever it was, I paid him well for it, and he is now very meek. I suppressed him when he was able to make a thousand men, and it cost her Majesty nothing at all." Envy there annoys me here, and were it not for you I should be eaten up for my good services. Limerick, 8 April 1580. Signed. Postscript (in his own hand).—I beseech you to excuse that this letter is not under mine own hand, for I was not able to sit it out by reason of a megrym which took me in the head. Pp. 3. Addressed, sealed, and endorsed. PELHAM to the CONSTABLE of CASTLE MANGE. I have caused a supply of men, victuals, and munition to be now brought you by the captain of The Handmaid. Limerick, 11 April 1580. Signed. Postscript.--I send you the men's names that I appoint to remain under you there-John Riche, William Hampton, John Overton, Peter Ildred. Contemp. copy. P. 11. 1580. April 11. 368. Vol. 597, p. 311. LORD JUSTICE PELHAM to the PRIVY COUNCIL in "Sent by Dunie to my Lord Keeper, to be sent." At Asketten I left 400 footmen, namely, Mr. Treasurer's and Sir Peter Carrewe's bands in the castle, and Captains George Carewe and Hollingeworth in the abbey, but no horsemen, on account of the bareness of the soil. Then I repaired to this town, to refresh the rest of the army. On the 8th I sent Sir George Bourcher and Captain Mackeworth to Kilmallocke with 200 footmen, "and Captains Sentleger and Apsleie with two gidons, containing both about 100 horsemen, besides 100 of Sir George's company that was remaining in that town." On the 9th I sent Captains Furrs, Derringe, and Walker with 300 footmen to reside at Adare. Fresh horses will have to be provided. I have sent for 50 of Sir Henry Harrington's horses, and for Captain Thomas Norris to repair to me with his guidon, with whom the wants of Asketten and Adare shall be supplied. "My purpose in placing those garrisons was, because that by the apt situation of the places the soldiers might at all times be gathered together within 12 hours, with three or four days' victuals, and be able to do such service upon the traitors as they shall be driven to forsake their fastness in the great woods upon the river of Maie, and compelled to abandon their chiefest fastness and succours in Kenry and Conneloughe, to fly as a last refuge into Kerry, where with more ease they would be dealt withal, if we were able to plant a garrison there." How the proportion sent in The Elizabeth and Bear has been employed shall appear by a schedule herewith closed. Mr. Treasurer only remains with me. He sent relief to the camp in my last journey, and his advice is most sound in all causes. Sir Lucas Dillon and Mr. Waterhouse have been at intolerable pains. "I have appointed the 10th day of May next for all the noblemen and chief gentlemen of this province to assemble at Kilmallocke, whereby to see what they may be drawn to do against the rebels (who for the most part do yet seem cold in this action), and what relief of victuals we may have of them, and what contribution they will yield to ease some part of her Majesty's charge hereafter." Yesterday, by one Harvie, who arrived here in a pinnace called The Marlian, I understood that certain of her Majesty's ships were come to Cork or Kinsall with money. If the sum now brought be only 4,0007., it will be a small relief to The monthly pay far exceeds it, besides extraordinaries, As Mr. Treasurer has received but 20,600l., her Majesty is greatly indebted here. Sufficient money should be sent hither to imprest the soldiers monthly beforehand. Fitton is not come to his accompts. us. Limerick, 11 April 1580. Signed. Mr. 1580. April 13. 369. Vol. 597, p. 313a. April 13. 370. Vol. 597, p. 313a. April 13. Vol. 597, p. 314. April 15. Vol. 597, p. 314a. 371. 372. PELHAM to the CONSTABLE of ADARE. I have granted your request for the protection, which I send you. If any others upon promise to do service shall demand it, you may grant protection to them. Limerick, 13 April 1580. Signed. PELHAM to ORMOND. Since your departure I have considered what great good may come if we forbear not to strike whilst the iron is hot, and therefore I have appointed that the day for our general assembly shall be at Kilmallocke, the 10th of next month. I pray you be with me two days before, to determine whether we shall ourselves go to Kilmallocke, or send for the company to this city. There are three ships upon this coast, which have brought some money with them, and, as I hear, Sir William Winter is Admiral. Limerick, 13 April 1580. Signed. PELHAM to ORMOND. I have received a letter from Sir William O'Carroll, complaining that great wrongs have been done to him by certain of your followers, wherein your brother Edward* was a party. Limerick, 13 April 1580. Signed. Contemp. copy." P. 1. PELHAM to SIR WILLIAM WINTER. By the arrival of your servant Harvie, I had some intelligence of your being upon this coast; by whom I sent a letter, which I hope is come to your hands. Having this day received yours dated at Kinsall the 7th, with another from the Privy Council, I now stand assured of your being there. The Dingle and the mouth of the Shenen are the aptest places for those ships to remain in; for as at the Dingle the landing of foreign aid is expected, so is the Shenen the only mean either for our meeting, or safe convoying of our letters If with safety you may not come to this town (from whence my weakness will not yet suffer me to depart), send with all speed a copy of your instructions. As for my knowledge of foreign advertisements, I have written such as I learned to her Majesty and the Lords; "and such as is brought me by one who was in Spain with Sidere † I suppose is neither hid from their Lls., nor yourself are 1580. April 16. Vol. 597, p. 316a. 373. ignorant of." Mr. Treasurer, by his own letter, has fully delivered his mind for the money by you brought, I have made very hard shift to victual this bearer, Captain Yorke. Limerick, 15 April 1580. Signed. Postscript. Because you may the better write in covert, I send you a cipher herewith closed. Here follows the cipher referred to. PELHAM to the PRIVY COUNCIL. Sent by Dunie to my Lord Keeper, to be convoyed into The garrison in Asketten marched seven miles into the country, chiefly led by Captain Hollingeworth, gathered great store of sheep and some kine, and after they had slain about 25 of such as withstood them, returned back in safety. "Sir George Bourcher, with 200 footmen, and Captain Sentleger, with his band of 50 horses, made a journey to beat the great woods adjoining the river of Maie; and having preyed the same, were set upon, in their return, with 20 shot, 200 footmen, and 20 horsemen of the rebels, which they repulsed, slew about 60 of them, and recovered Kilmalloke with the prey." Captain Walker, going abroad with the ward of Adare, being 300, were in their return encountered within a mile of Adare in most brave manner by the Earl of Desmond with 80 horsemen and 500 footmen marvelously well appointed, who came to the very push of our pikes, but were forced to retire with the loss of about 60 of their company and five chief horses. Lieutenant Philpott was hurt in the head with a galliglas axe, one slain, and three soldiers hurt. Captain Dowdall (who lay with his company at Cashell), accompanied with my Lord of Dunboine, has preyed Arlowe woods, brought from thence above 300 cows and garrons, slain such as resisted, and burned such habitations as they found. Yesterday I received your letters sent by Sir William Winter, with one from himself. I returned answer, and sent Captain Yorke in The Achates to him. The Handmaid is gone down the river to victual Castle Mange. I have received, even now, intelligence from my Lord of Ormond, that Piers Grace, of the county of Kilkenny, an ancient traitor, is now joined with the Burkes of Muskrie into open rebellion, daily committing outrages in those parts. His Lordship will soon suppress those disordered persons. Limerick, 16 April 1580. Signed. Contemp. copy. Pp. 3. |