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1578.

June 30.

Vol. 628, p. 305.

June 30.

Vol. 628, p. 376.

93.

94.

Money "received, defalked, and due to be received," 62,0231. 3s. ląd.; which will not satisfy the charges by 10,211. 168. 11fd.

II. Like Charges from 1st October 1577 to 30th June 1578. Wages, &c., 21,681l. 16s. 1ąd.; extraordinary and necessary charges, 11,516l. 48. 94d. Total, 33,1987. Os. 11d.

Received and already levied, 29,1887. 158. 2ąd.

Received in England, for money formerly paid for old debts, due in Sir William Fitz Williams' time, 2,217l. 118. 74 d., Irish.

Excess of the charges over the receipts, 1,711. 14s. ld., Irish.

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III. "Sum total of the Arrearages, due at the entry of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Sidney, knight, viz., at Mich.,' 17 Eliz.

In the accounts of the revenues, 56,9987. 188. 1ğd.; in the accounts of the Treasurer at War, 34,6167. 12s. 38d. Total, 91,615l. 10s. 5d. "The total of the like arrearages due for two whole years," from Mich. 17 to Mich. 19 Eliz., 5,6097. 138. 104d.

IV. "Sum total of all and singular the clear Rem[ains] of the Debts due for divers years ending at Mich. 1575.” Under the late Lords Deputies, 36,2017. 98. 3ğd.; under the late Earl of Essex, General of Ulster, 1,490l. 168. 4d.: Courts of Records, for fees and annuities, 1,644l. 148. 11d.

V. "Sum total of the Whole Charge, or money due for tBo years and three quarters, ending ultimo Junii 1578.” Wages and entertainments, 27,581l. 98. 8d.; extraordinary charges, 2,550l. 78. 83d.; fees, pensions, and annuities, 702. 158. 3d. Total, 30,834l. 128. 7 d.; whereof paid by Sir Edward Fyton, knight, Treasurer at the Wars, 15,8467. 12s. 6d.

"And yet rem' clear due, viz., to her Majesty's subjects, which is stayed to their uses, 4,970l. 58. 10d.; the particular persons in clear remain to themselves and other their creditors, 10,017. 48. 3d.; [total] 14,988l. 08. 1d., Irish; fac' sterling, 11,241l. 08. 14d.

Pp. 12. Endd.

The EXPENDITURE.

"A note of expenses and receipts for Ireland, in the time of Sir Henry Sydney, viz., two years and three-quarters," ending 30 June 1578.

P. 1.

The GARRISON.

"The Queen's debt to the soldiers," 30th June 1578; 8c., to the chief officers; the Lord President and Council in

1578.

Vol. 628, p. 314 a.

July 18.

Vol. 600, p. 46.

Vol. 616, p. 155 a.

July 24. Vol. 628, p. 152 a.

95.

96.

97.

Munster; the Colonel and Council in Connaught; horsemen ; foot bands; warders in sundry forts and castles; Irishmen ; Pensioners; Ministers of the Ordnance; and impotent soldiers.-Total, 10,3207. 158. 74d. Irish.

Pp. 3. Endorsed.

RECOGNIZANCES.

"Forfeitures of recognizances and other amerciaments in the Queen's time, till anno 20 of her reign, in her Court of Chief Bench, amounted unto 5,4197. 88. Some remitted in respect of service; some, by concordatum, by the L. Deputy and Council; of some there is extracts remaining in the Court."

4 lines.

EARL OF DESMOND.

"The Combination of Garrett, late Earl of Desmond, attainted of high treason."

Whereas Garret, Earl of Desmond, has assembled us, his kinsmen, followers, friends, and servants, after his coming out of Dublin, and made us privy to such articles as by the Lord Deputy and Council were delivered to him the 8th of July 1578, to be performed, and to his answers to the same, which answers we find reasonable; and has declared to us that if he do not yield to the performance of the said articles and put in his pledges, the Lord Deputy will make war against him; we counsel the said Earl to defend himself from the violence of the Lord Deputy, and we will assist the Earl against him. 18 July 1578.

Garret Desmond; Thomas Lixnaw; John of Desmond; John FitzJames; Rorye Mac Sheaghe; Moroughe O'Brien ; Moriertaghe McBrien, of Lonforth; Ja. K. E. F. D. K. B.; Theoball Burke; Donell O'Brien; Richard Burke; John Brown; Daniel McCanna, of Drombraine; James Russell; Richard FitzEdmond; Gerold Ulicke McThomas, of Billuncarrighe; Ulicke Burk; John Fitz William, of Karnedirrye; Teighe O'Heyne, of Chairreyleye.

Copia vera, exta, Matheue Dillon."

P. 1.

II. Another copy of the same, with pedigrees of the Earls of Desmond (p. 155) and McCartys (p. 156). Pp. 3.

THE CESSE.

"The Conference between the Lord Deputy and Council, and the nobility, knights, and gent' of the English Pale assembled at Dublin, the 24th of July 1578." They offer to discharge her Majesty of the victualling, and to take the burthen on themselves. They will provide sound victual for 1,000 soldiers, and yield 9,000 pecks of oats for

1578.

Ibid., p. 155.

Vol. 628, p. 124 a,

Vol. 628, p. 129.

July 26.

Vol. 619, p. 58.

98.

99.

100.

300 horsemen. Storehouses to be provided by her Majesty. They require 3d. sterling a day from every soldier, and payment of the money beforehand. Before the 12th September the Lord Deputy will pay them 1,2201. 98. 44d. for one quarter. They require 12d. for every peck of oats, beforehand; the Deputy offered them 8d. They require that they may lay an equal rate on all the ploughs in the King's County and Queen's County; but from such Irish countries as have already compounded for bonaught, they require but 120. The Lord Deputy will help them, as far as he may with justice, in levying the rate on all lands, as well ancient and new freedoms as others. They shall have allowance for losses by pirates, rebels, and shipwreck, and be discharged from all cesses, except for the Lord Deputy's house and for the carriage of munition. Besides these there are numerous other agreements. Contemp. copy. Pp. 4.

II. "A breviate of a proportion for a 1,000 men serving in Ireland for one year."

Contemp. copy P. 14.

THE CESSE.

"Certain notes set down in articles and agreed upon to be formally drawn in indentures between the Lord Deputy and Council" and the representatives of the several counties. Similar to the preceding. Contemp. copy. Pp. 4.

COMPOSITION for the CESSE

"The victualling being upon the Queen's Matie the last year, now almost expired." Loss to the Queen, 1,0807. ster. "The victualling being now upon the country by their composition now offered." Saved to the Queen, 2071. ster.

II. "The proportion prescribed to and for the victualling of the garrisons in every kind of victuals, as well in the time of Sir Edward Bellingham, late Lord Deputy as also at other times sithence."

III. "A rate of the charges of the captains and officers of 200 horsemen and 500 footmen, by the year; all to have sterling pay for their Irish, and th' English horsemen to be increased 34d. per diem ster.; what their former pay is; and what will be the overplus to make up the ster. rates."

Contemp. copies. Pp. 7.

ROSCOMMON and ATHLONE.

"A plot [by Sir Nicholas Malbie] for the saving charges for the Queen in the repairing of the towns Roscoman and Athlone dated the 26 July 1576."

Her Majesty is desirous to mitigate her charges within this realm; Roscoman and Athlone are chargeable to her in

1578.

August 24. Vol. 619, p. 12.

August 25. Vol. 619, p. 26.

Sept. 30.

Vol. 628, p. 303.

101.

102.

103.

the yearly sum of 500l. sterling. If it may please her Majesty to bestow upon me and my heirs general, in fee farm, those houses with the two abbeys being now in my hands, I will build up the town of Athlone with a wall of lime and stone, and will build a walled town at Roscoman. I also petition for 50 horsemen during my life to be garrisoned at Roscoman. In Malbie's own hand.

P. 1. Endorsed: "Sir Nicholas Malbie's requests."

SIR NICHOLAS BAGENALL to the EARL OF LEICESTER. As the traitor, Rorie Oge, received continual relief of victuals and assistance at Hugh McShane's hands, his father-in-law, I pursued him into his country. In my return homeward I lodged at the house of Viscount Baltinglas one night, when he was from home. I found great want there. The Viscount has since accused me of many and great outrages. The parties have been re-examined and six of them perjured manifestly, for the which one of them was publicly punished on a market day. His chief man has denied the spoils. I restored 73 cows which were proved to be none of the prey taken from Hugh McShane and Caraghe, that known rebel. I have desired the Lord Deputy and Council to make a certificate touching this matter to your Honours.

Dublin, 24 August 1578. Signed.

Pp. 2. Addressed and endorsed.

SIR WILLIAM DRURY to the EARL OF LEICESTER. The bearer is repairing to the Court with certain petitions on behalf of the Earl of Desmond. I have found the Earl attentive to show his loyalty and service upon the bruited foreign invasion by Stucley pretended. He repaired to Lymerick, and brake with the mayor to be in readiness to resist those attempts, and he and his forces would also join with them. He apprehended certain malefactors of the McShies, and one Cormock Downe McCartye, by whose attainder her Majesty is advantaged, and took Granny ny Male prisoner. Lately he came to Dublin of his own accord, to show himself to the Lord Deputy (Sydney) before his departure. The bearer, his secretary, is a right dutiful subject.

Dublin, 25 August 1578. Signed.

P. 1. Addressed and endorsed.

The QUEEN'S REVENUE in IRELAND.

72

Thirty-four abbeys and religious houses with very good lands belonging to them, never surveyed before 1569. abbeys and priories concealed from her Majesty.

Sum of the moneys sent over in Sir William FitzWilliams' government, from 26 March 1571 to 22 September 1575, 168,1737. 58. 4. Losses in victualling, from 1 October 1577 to 30 September 1578, 4,4081. 128. 9d.

1578. [Sept.]

Vol. 628, p. 122a.

Ibid. p. 135.

Vol. 628, p. 123a.

Vol. 628, p. 124.

[Oct.] Vol. 628, p. 116.

104.

105.

106.

107.

QUEEN'S COUNTY.

"The causes why the gent' of the Queen's Com' do not consent to the new cesse, and what have been the chiefest occasion[s] of their impoverishment, exhibited by the agents of the same Com' to the L. Deputy and Council."

II. "A brief declaration of part of the charges that the gent' of the Queen's County have been at, to serve upon their enemies the Moores."

Contemp. copies. Pp. 2.

III. "The particular of the lands as well inhabited as waste in the Queen's County."

Inhabited, 3,066 acres; waste, 18,417 acres.

Contemp. copy. Pp. 3.

WEXFORD.

"Arguments proving the county of Wexford should be discharged of cesse ;" with answers to the same. Contemp. copy. P. 3.

KING'S COUNTY.

"A Note of all the Ploughs in the King's County."

Sum total, 116 ploughs and 21 acres, amounting to 197. 98.

ster.

Paid to Captain Collyer, 191. 118. 3d. ster.

Unpaid-all the ploughs of Sir John Macoghlan's country, and the ploughs of her Majesty's Fort land.

"Copia vera, per me Georgium Snowe, subvic." (undersheriff).

Contemp. copy. P. 1.

VICTUALLING OF THE GARRISON.

"A Note concerning the manner of our Proceedings with the Country, sythen the receipt of the letters from the Lords of the Privy Council."

A copy of the said letters, touching the victualling of the soldier, was delivered to the agents of the country, to whom 1,2207. 98. 5d. was imprested, upon their assurance of sufficiently victualling the soldier, or repaying the imprest, if the composition should not hold. "Because the country could not provide to victual the soldier in this month of October, the captains agreed to take the 1d. per diem, and the imprest of 3d., the half their wages, aforehand to victual the soldier for the same month. In the mean time the agents agreed that four or six out of every county should repair before the Justice and Council, and enter into recognizance," for the receipt of which we, the Lord Chancellor and others of the Privy Council of this realm, whose names are subscribed, in the absence of the Lord Justice, repaired to Drogheda, whither came the Lord of Delvin and others whose names are also subscribed.

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