1588. Warders in Leinster-Sir Edward Moore, constable of Phillipston, 12 foot; Thomas Ferman, porter [there]. George Harvye, constable of the fort of Maryborough, 16 (entered by warrant from Sir Henry Sydney, dated 7 July 1578); George Pleasington, porter. "Sir George Carew, Knight, constable of Laghlin Castle, himself at 48., and 20 footmen 8d. le piece per diem, 1581. 128.; entered by warrant from the Lord Graye, dated 8° Septembris 1580, and hath a patent thereof dated 30° Maij anno 25° Elizabeth' Reginæ, granted to him upon her Majesty's letters concerning Patentees, dated 11° Martij, anno regni dictæ Dominæ Reginæ 24°. It is now in the keeping of Raphe Bagnoll, gent', assignee from the said Sir G. Carew." Robert Harepoole, constable of Carloghe, 10 foot. Thomas Masterson, constable of Fernes, 10. Stephen Seagar, constable of Dublin Castle, 10.-Total, 596l. 15s. 8d. Warders in Ulster.-Charles Edgerton, constable of the castle of Knockfergus, 20 foot. Edward Keys, constable of the fort of Blackwater, 24. Christopher Carlell, seneschal of Clandeboye, 20.--Total, 5891. 138. 4d. Warders in Munster.-Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of England, constable of Dungarvan Castle, 3 archers and 15 foot; "entered upon composition between his Lo. and Captain Hungerford, by warrant from Sir John Perrott, dated primo Octobris 1587." Thomas Springe, constable of Castellmaigne, 4 horse, 13 foot. John Bleeke, constable of Limerick Castle, himself and a porter. Edward Barcklie, constable of Askeatinge, 14 foot.-Total, 6077. 198. 4d. Warders in Connaught.-Sir Henry Wallopp, constable of the castle of Athlone, 20 foot; succeeded by Sir Richard Bingham, 1 February 1587-8.-Total, 129l. 18s. 6ğd. Sea Charges.-Captain George Thornton, for The Handmaid (three shipkeepers at 6s. 8d. a month each, one shipwright at 118. 8d. a month, 137. 58. 114d.; their victualling, 241. 88.), “by establishment under the hand of Sir William Druerye." Henry Pensioners.-Sir William Collier, 138. 4d. a day. Captain George Thornton, 88. Francis Lovell, 68. 8d. Hugh O'Donnell (deceased), 6s. 8d. Francis Barcklie, 68. 8d. Sheffeilde, 58. 4d. Gerrott FitzGarrett, 58. 4d. Edmond Birne, 58. 4d. John Barrington, 5s. 4d. Joshua Mynce, 58. 4d. Bryan Fitz Williams, 58. Giles Cornewall, 4s. Francis Stafford, 48. John Cusacke, 48. Hugh Bangor, 48. Teig McGillpatricke, 48. Randoll Brewerton, 48. Mathias O'Cane, 38. 4d. Charles Mountegue, 38. 4d. Shane O'Neale, 38. 4d.; by her Majesty's letters of 26 May 1580, the said Shane O'Neale and three more, his brethren, had 2s. 6d. each a day. Con O'Neale, 38. 4d. Neale O'Neale, 38. 4d. Captain John Parker, first at 38. 4d., afterwards at 4s. Henry O'Doogan, 100 marks a year. William Piers, junior, 40l. a year. John Pryce, 28. 8d. a day. Robert Nangle, 28. 8d.; "discharged, and in his place entered Barnaby Ritche. John Benyon, 28. 8d. Roger Godriche, 28. 8d. James Foster, 2s. 4d. Mat 1588. May 11. Vol. 618, p. 7. May 11. Vol. 618, p. 7. May 21. Vol. 619, p. 5. 653. 654. 655. thew Benyon, 20d. George Harvye, 28. Dermode O'Doolye, 28. Sylvester Coolye, 28. Edward Drinckell, 28. William Sands, deputy clerk of the Cheque, 28. Lewis Laurence, 16d. Thomas Denham, 16d. Walter Newton, 16d. Christopher Barnewell, 16d. Walter Laurence, 12d. Thomas Tayler, 12d. Nicholas Pearne, 12d. John Griffen, 8d. Teig Necarigie, 8d. John Griffen, late one of the warders of Athlone, 8d. George Woolverston, 9d. Richard Ap Brother, at 100s. ster. a year, till 14 February, when he was entered as an almsman.-Total, 1,4557. 19s. 5ąd. Almsmen, at 6d. a day.-Walter Pott, John Meaghe, Richard Everett, William Lyttle, Andrew Armestronge, William Sewell, Hugh Williams, John Moore, Raphe Adale, Dennyce Keatinge, William Dynton, Connor Coffie, William Dennice, Richard Ap Brother.-Total, 597. 98. 6d. Grand total, 21,855l. 148. 4ğd. [Irish], = 16,3917. 158. 91d. sterling. "Ex' per William Sands, deputy for the Clerk of the Checque.' "Horsemen, 633; footmen, 924; warders, 225; kearne, 61: shipwrights, 4; pensioners, 45; in all, 1,892." Pp. 32. SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM to SIR HENRY WALLOP. It is her Majesty's pleasure that the wages and entertainments set down in the last accounts as due to Sir Thomas Perrot for the office of the Ordnance shall be held over for the use of Sir George Carew, dating from the death of Jaques Wingfield. You are to assist Carew in this matter, that her Majesty may not be doubly charged, nor he wronged. At the Court, 11 May 1588. Copy. P. 1. The SAME to SIR WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM, LORD DEPUTY. You are to take order that the fees allowed by the late Deputy to Sir Thomas his son, and passed by him in the accounts lately made up, be forborne, by order of her Majesty, as due to Sir George Carew; and if any imprests be delivered touching that office, order is to be taken that she be not double charged, nor Carew injured. At the Court, 11 May 1588. Note in Carew's own hand: "Delib' per G. C." SIR RICHARD BINGHAM to the EARL OF LEICESTER. By your letters we gather such troubles as are imminent. I will attend on you, if my leave may come from thence. If these troubles do hold, I intend to send my wife and some small things that I have to Killingworth (Kenilworth?) Castle. 1588. May 31. Vol. 619, p. 7 656. The Commission sent down into Sligo for the inquiry of Sir Donnell O'Connor Sligo, after his death, proceeded in favour of Donnaghe McCale Oge against the title of her Majesty in those lands. The heir is base born and illegitimate, and the land, especially Sligo itself, by descent and lawful inheritance, is now thrown into the lap of her Majesty. As the haven and castle are of so great importance, lying in the only strait through which the Scots accustom to annoy the province, I hope your Lordship[s] there will not suffer it to be conveyed from her Highness. It may be some will inform thither, I mean such as have received reward, that the taking of this from Donnoghe O'Connor may breed stirs among the Irishry. But the people of this province are dejected and made subject to the sword. Yet I wish the young man should have part or all of his uncle's lands, the castle and town of Sligo only excepted, and hold the same as a free gift in respect of his uncle's loyalty. Stand my good Lord, when mine adversaries here shall repair thither. I enclose a note of certain lands escheated since my time, and how the same are bestowed by the Lord Deputy. No servitor of this province has been remembered with any part thereof. Sir Thomas Lestraung has sent over to your Honours (the Council) to obtain order for the fees which I ought to have allowed here to me during my service in the Low Countries. For so long as he then supplied my room I am willing to deliver him a reasonable portion of my fee. Athlone, 21 May 1588. Signed. P. S., in his own hand.-I thank you for admonishing me to be a good husband. I should not be worthy to live if I should not be a good one to so good a wife. I have for your Lordship a fair brace of dogs. "We hear great bruits of the coming of Spaniards, by French shipping that is come to Galway, who reports that they are put off their own coasts onwards of their way." O'Donel's wife hath caused Hewe MacAcaulye to be murdered. All in reasonable good quiet. Pp. 2. Addressed. The EARL OF TYRONE to the EARL OF LEICESTER. I have been urged many ways to complain of the miseries and wrongs I and my tenants have sustained by the several incursions and spoils committed by Sir Arthur O'Neile and Cormock O'Neile, furthered by the old man Teirlogh Leynogh, their father, and their adherents, wherewith I have not acquainted you. They maintain divers bad men to disquiet these northern parts, yet have they and other my adversaries by my silence taken occasion to bring my name, my duty, and loyalty in question, suggesting that the disquiet hath grown by my means. They are like to do so again upon a late acci 1588. May 31. Vol. 619, p. 8. June 8. Vol. 605, p. 123. June 13. Vol. 605, p. 125. 657. 658. 659. June 15. 660. Vol. 605, p. 127. July 8. Vol. 605, p. 131. dent happened betwixt the said Tierlogh, Sir Arthur, and me. I beseech that some of the Council here may be appointed to examine the grounds of our controversies. 661. Dublin, the last of May 1588. Signed: Hughe Tirone. The EARL OF TYRONE to the QUEEN. Mine endeavours to serve your Highness faithfully shall continue, to the falsifying of the late reports bruited by mine adversaries at Court. Try out the ground of those reports by examination before some of the Council here, and in the meantime let the defences used of my part with necessary forces against my bordering neighbours and their adherents, who daily seek my life (as in a late accident betwixt Tirlaghe Lynnaghe, Sir Arthur, his son, and me, I found), be considered as necessarily used for my safeguard, and not to the end I may become great among the Irishry. I omit any larger discourse of my griefs in particular. Dublin, the last of May 1588. Copy, enclosed in the preceding. P. 1. SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM to SIR GEORGE CAREW. From the Court at Greenwich, 8 June 1588. Signed. THOMAS EARL OF ORMOND to SIR GEORGE CAREW. I moved you, on St. Patrick's Day last, to confer the clerkship of the Ordnance at Waterford on Richard Grant, to which you agreed, and now pray you to fulfil your promise. From the Court at Greenwich, 13 June 1588. Signed. THOMAS EARL OF ORMOND to SIR GEORGE CAREW. From the Court at Greenwich, 15 June 1588. Signed. SIR GEORGE CAREW, MASTER of the ORDNANCE. Warrant by Sir William Fitz William, Lord Deputy, to the Clerk of the Check, commanding him to cancel the patents, 1588. July 18. Vol. 618, p. 12. 662. July [18.] 663. Vol. 618, p. 14. July 18. Vol. 618, p. 8. 664. together with the enrolments, for the Mastership of the Ordnance, granted to Sir Thomas Perrot, now bestowed on Sir George Carew, in as ample a manner and at the same wages as enjoyed by his predecessors. Dublin, 8 July 1588. Examined by William Sandes, deputy to the Clerk of the Check. Memorandum, that the other warrants remain in the hands of Sir Thomas Perrot. Fail not to cancel them. P. 1. Headed and endorsed by Carew. SIR GEORGE CAREW to the LORD TREASURER (Burleigh). I have thought it my duty to advertise you of the condition in which I found the office of the Ordnance, although it be not as yet thoroughly surveyed. I propose to send you a book of serviceable and unserviceable munitions, hoping the abuses will be redressed by your means. The munitions in store are so cankered with rust and so rotten, as to be of little or no use. The smaller portion of it may be repaired. I wish it were returned by sea to the Tower [of London], for here it will never be issued, but consume to nothing. That which is serviceable will soon be in the same state as the rest, as there is no allowance made for keeping it. I think it very desirable, to save cost, that the garrison here should be compelled to furnish themselves out of the storehouse. This is now seldom done, because the rates are so high that, powder, lead, and match excepted, there is little issued, and the remainder is kept till it is worth nothing. The gunners and armourers are ignorant and inefficient. I beg to have a warrant to impress four gunners and two armourers to serve here in Ireland, displacing six inefficient men. Dublin, 18 July 1588. "Per Woodward," in Carew's own hand. Copy. Pp. 2. SIR GEORGE CAREW to MR. SECRETARY [WALSINGHAM]. On the state of the ammunition in Ireland. To the same effect as his letter to the Lord Treasurer. Then he continues:— I received your letters by Aurelio Sappa, who has informed you that I was desirous of his company in Ireland. I never spake to him by my knowledge but once in my life, and then only as a stranger, and I do not remember that Ireland was ever mentioned. But he knows the interest you have in me, and if any reasonable entertainment can be had either in my house or abroad, he shall not want it. This [18] July 1588. Copy. Pp. 2. SIR GEORGE CAREW to SIR THOMAS HENEAGE Being in a place where I cannot express by service the unfeigned goodwill I bear to you, I pray you to accept from time |
