374 1584. March 14. 520. April 4. Vol. 632, p. 57. 521. person with 12 horsemen armed and 24 footmen; and to find good cows or beeves for the sustenance of her Majesty's army for one night whensoever the same shall be there remaining, receiving for the same 12s. Irish each: in consideration of the fee-farm of the entire territory of Iveaghe, alias the country of Magnisses, leading to the province of Ulster. At the end is the following memorandum :-"To note that Cor Mc McDermott of the county of Cork and the heirs of Sir Cor Mc McTeig are to pay yearly for their lands which they hold of his (sic) Majesty a cast of hawks, and to the Lord Deputy for the time being." Abstract. P. 1. GEOFFREY FENTON to the EARL OF LEICESTER Since the death of Sir Nicholas Malbye the Justices have committed to me, by way of custodium, the young Baron of Leitrim, son to the late created Baron, murdered, it is supposed, by his brother the Earl of Clanricard. They have now written to your L. and Mr. Secretary Walsingham to be a mean to her Majesty to bestow upon me his wardship and marriage. His father's living is dangerously entangled, and subject to great traverse and contention in law. If his father's inheritance be recovered, it may bring to my small living some help during the minority. I beseech you to be a mean for her Majesty's letters. Dublin, 14 March 1583. Signed. The Lords Justices have not power to dispose of the wards of noblemen. P. 1. Addressed. Endorsed. "BRIEFS of LETTERS and GRANTS made by QUEEN ELIZABETH." 1583, 5 June.-"A letter from her Majesty unto the Lords Justices of Ireland to pass by letters patents unto Sir Lucas Dillon, Knight, the seneschalship of Kilkenny West, in the county of West Meath, otherways called the Dillons' country, unto him and his heirs males; and a lease in reversion or possession of 70l. of yearly value for the term of 60 years." 1583, 7 August.-Lease to Henry Bronkard, for five years, of the customs, subsidies, [and] "imposts for wines "throughout Ireland, at the usual rent. 1583,* 4 April.-Warrant to Sir Henry Wallop, Treasurer, to pay to Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy, 100%. monthly, for his diet (1,300l. a year), and the wages of his retinue of 50 horsemen and 50 footmen. P. 11. * Mistake for 1584. 1584. May 3. Vol. 632, p. 69. May 7. Vol. 619, p. 1. [June 18.] Vol. 600, p. 83. July. 522. 523. 524. 525. The QUEEN to ADAM LOFTUS, ARCHBISHOP of DUBLIN, and SIR HENRY WALLOPPE, LORDS JUSTICES. Warrant to pass to Henry Broncard, Esq., a lease of the customs and subsidies of wines brought from foreign parts into Ireland, for three years, at a yearly rent of 2,000l. ster. ; with this proviso, that if there should be any breach of the intercourse between England and Ireland and the countries of the King of Spain and the French King, he shall be accomptable only upon his oath. 3 May 1584. Copy. P. 11. GEOFFREY FENTON to the EARL OF LEICESTER. Yesterday I was advertised out of Connaught that in the west parts of that province are arrived of late, in a Spanish bottom, two Romish priests of this country birth, who deliver to the people seditious rumours of a preparation in Spain for force of men and shipping to be sent into Ireland under the conduct of the Viscount Baltinglass, William Nugent, and James Fitz Morice' son, and the same to be ready to take the seas within 30 days." O'Reworke has entertained 500 Scots to revenge his private wrongs upon some of his neighbours. The Lords Justices are advertised that divers septs begin to be insolent, denying her Majesty's rent and other duties, which in the time of Sir Nich. Malbye they paid with good will. The said Spanish ship has given them hope of some present alteration. Speed hither the Lord Deputy [Sir John Perrot]. For my part I cannot fear any peril by foreign confederacy so long as there is no notable faction at home, nor any principal noblemen to countenance it. The Earl of Kildare and the Baron of Delvyn, now remaining there, should not as yet be returned hither. Keep this to yourself, for that private opinions in public causes are oftentimes made hurtful to the parties." Dublin, 7 May 1584. Signed. SURVEY of the REBELS' LANDS. Instructions to Sir Henry Wallop, Sir Valentine Brown, and the rest of the commissioners appointed to survey the lands of such as have rebelled within these four years in Ireland.* Copy. Pp. 3. Endorsed. The QUEEN to LORD DEPUTY PERROT. Before your departure hence we gave you in commandment not to suffer any not resident in that our realm to keep any * Dated "1583" by Carew. The original, in the Public Record Office, is dated 18 June 1584. 1584 Vol. 618, p. 4a. Aug. 19. Vol. 611, p. 223. Aug. 24. Vol. 619, p. 14. 526. 527. castle or fort there by deputy; yet minding to use the service Oatlands, 2. Another copy of the same. The QUEEN to the ARCHBISHOP of DUBLIN, LORD Whereas by our commission dated at St. James's, 4 November 1583, 25 Eliz., we authorized you and [James Dowdall] the Chief Justice of our Bench, now deceased, to hear and determine the accompts of our Vice Treasurer and General Receiver, the Master of the Ordnance, and the ministers of our victuals and works, no further than Michaelmas last, we now by these our letters prolong our former commission till 30 September next. Oatlands, 19 August, 26 Eliz. Addressed to the Lord Chancellor, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, Auditor, and Surveyor. Copy. Pp. 2. SIR NICHOLAS BAGNALL to the EARL OF LEICESTER. "I have purposed to acquaint your Lo. with some particularities of our present estate here, and of the preparation for the service against the number of 3,000 Scots landed here within these 16 days, not much above. McCallen, the chief leader of them, hath uttered his pretence to be for the enlargement of Shane's sons, Henry and his brother, captivated with Tur. Lenoughe; and to advance them, they will war with Turlough]. They have already preyed in Tireconnell, and in Tyrone somewhat, and won one hold, and so stay as yet feeding upon their booty. Tur., refusing to yield to them, is reverted to these borders; the Baron of Dungannon having rashly and most dangerously made breach with him, slain of his men, taken many of his keriaghtes and followers before he came up, the way to have forced him to join with the Scots." I advertised this to the Lord Deputy, who is now returned from the other provinces. In the mean, with two bands of footmen, 50 horsemen, and a very few of the risings out, I have been at the Blackwater, where I concluded peace betwixt them. Tur. and all his kinsmen dined with me in the Queen's fort there, without word or protection, as the Baron himself cannot deny. He wrote to 1584. August. Vol. 632, p. 69a. 528. her Majesty he would deliver his son, and now I have received him at his hands. He made a goodly exhortation to his son (his words are quoted), and promised to wait upon the Lord Deputy at his repair hither within these 12 days, when our journey to his assistance and banishment of the Scots is purposed. The Baron of Dungannon behaved himself lewdly in this action. Besides the breach with Tur., he refused to yield any obedience to my commission in presence of the Lord of Louth, Sir Hugh Magneisse, and others, wishing me to put my commission in my pocket, and that he would not be commanded by any but by her Majesty and her Deputy. Leycester Castle in the Newry, 14 August 1584. Signed and sealed. Pp. 2. Addressed. Endorsed. INSTRUCTIONS of LORD DEPUTY PERROT and the COUNCIL to MR. EDWARD NORRIS. "Memorials for Mr. Edward Norris touching the present state of Ireland," to be delivered to the Privy Council, August 1584. "Within few days after the arrival of me, the Lord Deputy, in Ireland, the Archbishop of Cashel wrote to Sir Lucas Dillon to impart with me the contents of certain letters written to him from Tyriough Lenoughe, in effect this that he challenged him, the Bishop, to be his follower born, and therefore to be *; and that he should find Ulster his refuge when all other parts failed; and finally that he should credit the messenger." The Archbishop came to me to Dublin, and declared that the messenger was appointed to practise with all the lords and Irish captains of Munster and Connaught, to enter into rebellion when strangers should arrive. The messenger in his journey was apprehended at Athlone, where I and the Council took his examination. He confessed he was of great accompt with O'Neill, and that he was sent to deal with the Earl of Clancarr, the Lord Fitz Morrice, and others, requiring them to join with his master, and assuring them that the King of Spain and the Scots would enter the realm [of England] with great force. He said that he spake with none but FitzMorris, whose answer was that this province would do nothing so long as the new Lord Deputy and the Earl of Ormond did tarry in the land. "He said that his master was promised to be made King of Ireland, and that he accepted of it, and said he would be King, if he died within an hour after. Being demanded of the cause why his master would rebel, considering he had all he required, he said that the realm was carelessly left without force, and no man of war to govern it." 1584. Being demanded whether O'Doneill and the Baron of Dungannon were joined with his master, he said no. He remains in close prison, and Tirloughe Lenough knows not where he is. "In my journey through Connaught I dealt with O'Kelley,* O'Connor Roe, O'Connor Don, O'Connor Sligo, McWilliam Eughter, Moroghe ne Doe O'Flartie, the O'Mayles, the Burkes of Euter Connaught, the Earl of Clanricard, the Lord Brymyghin, McDavie, Mahon McEnaspike, the Earl of Thomond, both the McNemares, the two McMahones, and every other of Connaught and Thomond; all which I pacified and quieted for wrongs past, took their pledges for assurance of their loyalties and for performance of their compositions. And, finally, in Thomond I executed the most notable traitor Donoghe Begge O'Brien, and six of his followers." I united all the gentlemen of accompt to the chief commissioners,† and appointed how the soldiers should be fed in this travail. The captains of the country and the Earl of Clanricard grew to a certainty with all their followers and tenants. "Lastly, the suspected Bishop Malachias Amalone, and a friar (brother to McWilliam Eughter) did openly renounce the Pope, sware to the Supremacy, and the friar gave over his habit presently, and both made public profession of their faith and recantation. I increased the schoolmaster's fee at Galway without her Majesty's charge, and entered into some reformation of matters of religion, which by Parliament shall be better provided for hereafter. "At my coming to Limerick I met there with the Lord President and the Earl of Ormond, before whose coming there repaired unto me into Connaught the Earl of Clancarre, McMorris, O'Swilivan More, the Knight of Kerrie, and certain septs of the galloglas, and after at Limerick the rest of the province, saving such as attended Sir William Stanley, sheriff of the county of Cork, with whom was the Lord Barrie, Lord Roch, and Sir Owen McCartie, thinking to meet me in every (sic) of that county. But because at my being there at Limerick the news of the arrival of Scots and the shipping upon this coast was brought unto me, and daily confirmed, especially by my agent in the North, I was forced to depart, having first taken order that all the protectees and suspected men of the province should attend me to this northern journey, and to follow the Lord President‡ and the Earl of Ormond, who both are appointed to accompany me; having also ordered the county of Cork to be governed by the Justices Walshe and Meath,§ by the sheriff, and by Barrie and Roche; the county "O'Kellers" in MS. † Mistake for Chief Commissioner, i.e. Sir Richard Bingham. |