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INTRODUCTION TO VOLS. I. AND II. 
 
 |S shown in our Introduction to vols. i. and ii. of our 
 First Series (pp. xi, xii), the mass of Correspon- 
 dence and other Manuscripts preserved at Lismore 
 Castle, is very large. Consequently selection not 
 collection was demanded, if anything like reasonable limits 
 were to be observed in printing these " Lismore Papers." Selec- 
 tion has been no easy work, where everything had less or more 
 of interest. Semi-insensibly materials that seemed irresistibly to 
 call for reproduction grew on the Editor's hands. And it has 
 only been by reductions on reductions, and repeated re-reduc- 
 tions reluctantly yet inflexibly made, that it has been possible 
 to represent the Private Correspondence within the present 
 two volumes. Broadly regarded, this instalment gives the 
 Private Correspondence, or such Letters and Documents 
 as belong to the personal and family affairs of the " Great 
 Earl." It will be my strenuous endeavour similarly to embrace 
 in two volumes the Public Correspondence, or such Letters and 
 Documents as refer to affairs of State or national Events. But 
 by the necessities of the case Public are intermixed with the 
 Private Letters, &c. ; and so it will be with the Public^ — Private 
 letters must occasionally be given. A hard and fast line in 
 I. b 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 either Selections would have dislocated related MSS. and con- 
 fused chronology. Nevertheless, these " Lismore Papers " prac- 
 tically classify themselves as Private and Public, The latter are 
 abundant and matterful, especially during the Civil War, and 
 while the Scotch army was in England. Correspondence and 
 Documents of permanent historical weight and importance will 
 shed much fresh light on men, events^ and circumstances of the 
 strangely-mingled period. I intend, also, to fulfil my promise of 
 a fuller Life than hitherto of the " Great Earl." 
 
 And now, before glancing at Notabilia in the present 
 volumes (i. and ii.), I would here redeem my engagement (in 
 Notes and Illustrations of vol. i., p. 257) by furnishing the 
 "Deed of Entail by Gerald, Earl of Desmond, 17* September, 
 1574." Every schoolboy (as Macaulay puts it) knows the his- 
 torical importance of this attempt of the great Rebel to steal a 
 march on the Government by so disposing of his vast Estates 
 that in case of his defeat, or capture, or death, these Estates might 
 not be forfeited and given away from his blood. - It proved 
 futile ; but the problem (like most) has two sides according to 
 our standpoint. My part is simply to furnish the Deed in 
 integrity. It follows thus : — 
 
 Deed of Entail by Gerald, Earl of Desmond. 
 17TH September, 1574. 
 
 Know all men, present and future, that I, Gerald Fitz gerald, 
 Earl of Desmond, and Lord of the liberty of Kerry, have given, 
 granted, and by this my present charter have confirmed to James 
 Butler, Lord Baron of Dunboyn, Sir John Power, Knight, Lord 
 Baron of Curraghmore, and John Fitzgerald, son of Edmond, 
 gentleman, all baronies, manors, messuages, lands, tenements, 
 and all other hereditaments whatever, with all their appurte- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 nances, which I have, or ought to have, in the Counties of Kerry, 
 Limerick, Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, or elsewhere. within 
 the kingdom of Ireland : To have and to hold all the aforesaid 
 baronies, manors, messuages, lands, tenements, and the rest of 
 the premises, with all their appurtenances, to the aforesaid James, 
 Baron ; Sir John Power, Knight, Lord Baron, and John Fitz- 
 gerald, their heirs and assigns for ever. 
 
 And I, truly, the aforesaid Gerald, and my heirs, all and sin- 
 gular the premises in form aforesaid, to the aforesaid James, 
 Lord Baron of Dunboyn, Sir John Power, Knight, Lord Baron 
 of Curraghmore, and John Fitzgerald, their heirs and assigns, by 
 these presents will warrant, acquit, and for ever by these pre- 
 sents defend. And further know ye ... . and in my place 
 have put my beloved in Christ, Maurice Slighan, and Robert 
 , my true and lawful attorney, jointly and seve- 
 rally, to enter and take seizen for me in my place and name 
 
 baronies, manors, 
 messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, with the appur- 
 tenances which I have, or ought to have, in the aforesaid Counties 
 of Kerry, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary, and else- 
 where within the kingdom of Ireland, and after such possession 
 and seizen, so thereof had and taken, then for me, in my place 
 and name, deliver full and peaceable possession and seizen of the 
 premises, baronies, manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and 
 every of them, if need shall be, to the aforesaid James Butler, 
 Lord Baron of Dunboyn, John Power, Lord Baron of Curragh- 
 more, and John Fitzgerald, son of Edmond, and their heirs : 
 To have and to hold, to the said James, John, and John, their 
 heirs and assigns for ever, according to the tenor, force, form, 
 and effect of this my present charter thereof made ; deeming 
 ratified and confirmed all and whatsoever my said- attorneys or 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 bailiffs shall do, or any of them shall do or cause to be done, or 
 procured to be done in the premises. In witness whereof to 
 these presents I have affixed my seal, dated the seventeenth day 
 of September, in the year of our Lord, 1574, and in the i6th 
 year of the reign of Elizabeth. 
 
 Where I have enfeoffed James, Baron of Dunboyn, and 
 Redmond Everett, and their heirs, bearing date the fifteenth of 
 March, in the thirteenth year of the prosperous reign of our 
 Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth (the Queen's Majesty that 
 now is), of the baronies of , otherwise 
 
 Glenogie, Any, and Fydemore, and other manors and heredita- 
 ments, with their appurtenances, within the County of Limerick, 
 as by the same feoffment more at large appeareth. The true 
 meaning and consideration of the 
 
 feoffment is and also of the within written feoffment, is that the 
 several feofees in the several feoffments aforesaid, and their heirs 
 and the survivor of them, and his heirs, do forthwith stand and 
 be seized of all the said baronies, manors, lordships, and all other 
 the hereditaments in the said feoffment, bearing date, ut supra, 
 contained, to the use of me, the said Gerald, Earl of Desmond, 
 and Dame Elynor, my wife, during both our lives, and the sur- 
 vivor of us : the intent also of the above written feoffment is 
 that the same feofees and their heirs and the survivor of them, 
 and his heiis, do forthwith stand and be seized of the residue of 
 all the manors, lordships, messuages, lands, and all hereditaments, 
 with their appurtenances, which I have within this realm of Ire- 
 land in the same feoffment contained, to the use, 
 commodity, profit, and behoof of me, the said Gerald, during 
 my natural life, and after to the use, behoof, and commodity 
 .... of the payment of my debts, and until so much debts as 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I shall owe at the time of my death be fully and wholly satisfied 
 and paid to my creditors, and after, that my said feofees, their 
 heirs and assigns shall receive so much of the profits of my said 
 land as shall amount to the sum of one thousand pounds, to the 
 preferment of every of my daughters that at the time of my 
 death shall not be preferred, and after that my said feofees, their 
 heirs and assigns, shall stand and be seized to the use, commodity, 
 profit, and behoof of my son and heir, James, and the heirs 
 males of his body lawfully begotten ; the remainder to the use 
 of the heirs males of the body of my father, James, late Earl of 
 Desmond ; the remainder to the heirs males of the body of my 
 grandfather, John, late Earl of Desmond ; the remainder to the 
 heirs males of the body of my great-grandfather, Thomas, late 
 Earl of Desmond ; the remainder to my Sir Thomas, 
 
 of Desmond, and the heirs male of his body, and for want of 
 such heirs, the remainder to my said son James, and his heirs, 
 for ever. Seal. 
 
 Signed, 
 
 Gerot Desmon. 
 (Endorsed). 
 
 Present being at the ensealing and delivery hereof, those whose 
 names ensueth : — James Dowdall, Charles Haye, Thomas 
 Hurlye, Denis Rogamme, James Goulde, Denis Art. Deni, 
 Denis Collyna, of Lymerick. 
 
 Present at the delivery, seizen, and possession, at Traly, in the 
 County of Kerry, in the name of all the lands and tenements 
 and other the hereditaments with their appurtenances within 
 that countie: — Andrew Skyddie, William Cogan, Denis 
 Calmye, Chancellor, of Limerick ; John Bruet, Nicolas Roche, 
 Charles Haye. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Present when livery and seizen was taken at Any, in the 
 County of Limerick, in the name of all the lands and tenements, 
 and other the hereditaments, with their appurtenances, within 
 that county : — Richard Butler, mark ; John Gradye, mark ; 
 John Oge McDown Cragh, GillydufF McMahony, Edmond 
 Fowler, mark. 
 
 Present when livery and seizen was taken at Bealadrohid, in 
 the County of Tipperary, in the name of all the lands and tene- 
 ments, and other the hereditaments, with their appurtenances 
 within that county: — fRichard Butler, mark; Charles Haye, 
 Edmond Comyne, Thomas Hurly. 
 
 Present when livery and possession was taken at Carrigrochan, 
 in the County of Cork, in the name of all the lands, tenements, 
 and other the hereditaments, with their appurtenances, within 
 that county : — Richard Power, Mahowne O'Seyn, Davy Oge 
 Karry, Nicholas Roche, Charles Haye. 
 
 Present when livery and possession was taken at Mocollope, 
 in the County of Waterford, in the name of all the lands and 
 tenements, and other the hereditaments, with their appurte- 
 nances, within that county: — John Bynd, John Oge McGragh, 
 Nicholas Roche, W. Morris Fitzgerove, mark ; Charles Haye. 
 
 It must be explained that the first portion of this ' Deed ' is in 
 old canine Latin ; so that our text of it is to be read as a trans- 
 lation. Here is its opening in the original : — " Sciant pntes et 
 futuri qd ego Geraldus fitz gerald comes . . . . ac Dominus 
 Libertatis De Kerry . . . ." The remainder is a careful trans- 
 cript of the ips. verb. Except one worn-away bit of about the 
 size of a sixpence, this Deed is in excellent preservation. It is 
 written on inferior vellum. The seal is thick and bees'-wax 
 like. The signature of Desmond is feeble and poor. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Turning now to the present volumes, it falls to me to guide 
 the reader to certain noticeable things that will reward study, 
 and partially reveal the treasure-trove of these further "Lismore 
 Papers." But as with the " Diary " of the First Series, there are 
 innumerable lesser details that cannot be referred to in a brief 
 Introduction like this. 
 
 (a) Elizabeth Boyle, wife of Edmund Spenser the 
 Poet. 
 
 Were it for no more than the placing beyond the shadow of 
 a doubt who Spenser's ' Elizabeth ' was, these " Lismore 
 Papers" had amply recompensed our toil upon them. Immor- 
 talized as she is in the ' Amoretti,' and the Epithalamium of all 
 epithalamiums, and yet hitherto a mere sunny shadow and 
 object of fantastic guessing and speculation, it is something to 
 have been privileged to give " a local habitation and a name " 
 to one thus imperishably bound up with our supremest poetical 
 literature. This we have done. Following up the entries of 
 the " Diary " (as specifically dealt with in Introduction to vols. 
 i. and ii. of the First Series, pp. xiv-xviii), it is our great good 
 fortune to print for the first time several Letters and Papers of 
 the poet's ' Elizabeth,' and by these to establish that her kind- 
 ness to the Earl of Cork was that of ' cousin,' and by one short 
 note (wherein she intercedes for a brother Alexander, behind in 
 his farm-rent) to trace her family in Herefordshire (like the 
 Earl's). See this Letter in vol. ii., pp. 237-8, and note the 
 Earl's endorsement. Further, these Letters and Papers not only 
 confirm our previous finds, that she was married to Roger 
 Seckerstone as her second husband, and to Captain — afterwards 
 Sir Robert — Tynt, as her third husband ; but that she held her son. 
 Peregrine Spenser, by the Poet, in loving and anxious regard to 
 the end — calling him of her " cheefest joys." (See next note, b.) 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 All this belongs to the Life and Works of Edmund Spenser 
 (and of the " Great Earl ") ; and I shall tell the now completed 
 story in the final volume of my collective edition of his Works 
 (lo vols.), and perhaps in a separate monograph. Meantime 
 the reader of these " Lismore Papers " will find it of rarest 
 interest to turn to the following places — vol. ii., pp. 12-13, 60, 
 237-8. See also on ' Kilcoran,' vol. i., 223, and Introduction 
 to vols. i. and ii. of ist Series, pp. xiv-xv ; vol. ii., pp. 41, 47, 
 102-3. Prefixed to this vol. i. is an exact fac-simile of Lady 
 Tynt's handwriting, which by itself imparts personality and 
 reality to the Poet's ' Elizabeth,' and dissolves for ever the 
 theory of a ' Nagle ' and of " a maiden of low degree," &c. It 
 will be observed that the penmanship is cultured up to the 
 time, though like the Countess of Cork's and many other con- 
 temporary " fair ladies/' her orthography and phrasing were 
 somewhat imperfect. Apart from the Poet's glamour, Elizabeth 
 Boyle must have been a fascinating and remarkable woman. 
 She was young enough on her third marriage to admit of the 
 Earl's devout wish that she might have a virtuous family by 
 Tynt. It is to be lamented that her Will has not yet been 
 recovered. From one of her son's papers she appears to have 
 made some settlement. As stated in next note {b) the Discharge 
 by Peregrine Spenser does not come in until vol. iii. I shall 
 there give a fac-simile of this Discharge, and also there furnish 
 his mother's descent and family, 
 
 {b) Peregrine Spenser, Son of the Poet — vol. ii., 
 pp. 139-140. 
 
 I place this separately, because though associated with his 
 mother (ut supra), it is matter for gratitude that somewhat 
 more is now known of this son of the Poet. This pathetic 
 letter to the Earl of Cork (along with his mother's), gives us 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 glimpses of him in England that are thankworthy. I for one 
 was pleased to observe that Peregrine signed his name in close 
 imitation of his illustrious father, that is, as -' Speser,' with a 
 loop (forming at top e), joining the s and r, instead of the 
 usual e, or Spenser. (See vol. ii., pp. 139-140 — not well repro- 
 duced in the printing.) In one instance it is ' fpfer,' so looped, 
 without the e at all. Chronology, as stated, compels me to 
 postpone Peregrine Spenser's formal receipt and discharge to the 
 Earl of Cork for his mother's ;^50, to vol. iii. 
 
 (c) Queen Elizabeth — Vol. i., pp. 1-3 ; 4-7 ; 9-10. 
 
 (d) Sir Walter Raleigh — Vol. i., pp. 14, 15, 16, 17, 
 77-8 ; vol. ii., pp. 38-49, 49-57, 81, 85, 86, 154, 157. 
 
 Three hitherto unprinted Letters of this foremost Elizabethan 
 Englishman will be found in vol. i., p. 14 ; ii., pp. 85, 86 
 respectively. The last is of rarest interest, as it was written 
 when he was on the point of departure on his memorable and 
 ominous voyage. His broken words are almost prophetic. 
 In addition to these, there are various extremely important 
 Papers on his estates, a,nd especially on Lady Raleigh's persistent 
 worrying of the Earl of Cork over her shadoWy rights. There 
 will be further in succeeding volumes. The whole of these 
 Raleigh documents contribute substantively to his biography 
 and Irish residence. They will all be critically dealt with in 
 the life of the Earl. 
 
 («) Henry Pyne and Raleigh's Estates. 
 
 Not on his own ignoble account, but as a prominent annoyer 
 alike of Raleigh and of the Earl, I note here his Paper on 
 Mogelly (vol. ii., pp. 38-49). For more on him, and damna- 
 tory, the Life of Raleigh by Edwards must be consulted, 
 wherein are these references : " Pine, Henry, becomes a partner 
 with Raleigh in the enterprise for exportation of pipestaves from 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Munster, i., loi ; his defalcations towards his partners, and the 
 lawsuits thence arising, i., I02 ; ii., 493; Raleigh's intervention 
 in a suit between him and Lord Boyle (afterwards Earl of 
 Cork), i., 601." The following short letter from Pyne to the 
 Earl of Cork (No. 77 of vol. vii.), addressed " To the right 
 hono'^able the lord Boyle Barron of Youghall thes w^ith all 
 fpeed," and endorsed, "13 of July 1617 fFrom M'' Pyne about 
 S'' waiter Raleighes and my meeting at Mogealy," is printed 
 here as promised in the place, literatim : — 
 
 " My good Lorde. — My L : Admerall wilbe this night at 
 Mogely wher he much desyreth to see y' L'p, & to that efect 
 hath leaft all his sea busynes. I beseeche y"^ L'p fayle not to 
 visit hym that is at y'' L'ps comande very reddye 
 
 Bightland (?) this 13 July, 1617. Henry Pyne. 
 
 " My 1. desyreth yo' companye to morrow by seaven a'clocke 
 at Lysemore & from thence to dyner at Mogely & so aboard. 
 Wherunto yo"^ L'p must yelde, for he sayeth that his wise sea 
 counceleres [i.e. councillors] sale he must not leas (?) [=lose] thes 
 rayne and wynds." 
 
 Pyne's case will also be sifted and adjudged in the Life of the 
 Earl. Meantime see the " Great Earl's " answer, vol. ii., pp. 
 49-57. See also ii., 252. 
 
 (/) LoDovicK Bryskett — Vol. i., pp. 19-22. 
 
 This poet-friend of Sir Philip Sidney— for whom he com- 
 posed his ' Lament,' which was printed with the Countess of 
 Pembroke's renowned poem— and the friend of Spenser, is 
 interestingly brought before us. The Earl's letter to his widow 
 in behalf of one who sought her in marriage, is a curious glimpse 
 of how these things were managed in " the good old times." 
 See vol. ii., pp. 135-6. Bryskett's is now so much a mere 
 nominis umbra, that one is grateful for these memorials of him. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 (£) Nathaniel Baxter — Vol. i., p. 14. 
 
 The poet of "Ourania" (1606) — long misassigned to Nicholas 
 Breton — is brought before us in pleasant association with Raleigh. 
 See National Biography (edited by Leslie Stephen), s. n.. 
 
 (h) Lord Bacon — Vol. i., 190 ; ii., 72, 127, 168-180, 
 187. 
 
 The important Paper, the narrative of the Trial in Star- 
 Chamber of Suffolk, introduces the great Chancellor to us. The 
 student will do well to study the several occurrences of this 
 illustrious name. His chat in his bedroom is .surely noticeable. 
 What would we not give for one such glimpse of Shakespeare ! 
 (See vol. ii-. 226-27.) 
 
 (/) The Spaniards, 1600 — Vol. i., pp. 29-34. 
 
 This is a vivid and important narrative, and supplies touches 
 not met with elsewhere. It supplements the earlier story of 
 Raleigh as critically told in our Life of Edmund Spenser (vol. i. 
 of Life and Works, as before). 
 
 (/) Mr. Daniell — Vol. i., pp. 39-40. 
 
 I regret to say that search and research in all likely sources 
 have failed to recover aught about this early (presumably) Irish 
 Scholar. Even Christopher Anderson in his great historical 
 work on the Editions and Translations of Holy Scripture has 
 absolutely nil on Irish editions and translations. As with the 
 Irish ' Drama ' and Theatre, it is surely more than time that 
 some competent Irishman supplied the too many desiderata on 
 Ireland's part in our national literature. 
 
 (i) Death of James I., and Accession of Charles I. 
 —Vol. i., pp. 43-73. 
 
 These Documents — now for the first time printed — for the 
 first time reveal the agitated condition of Ireland in relation to 
 the succession of Charles I. Historians have been either ignorant 
 
INTRO DUCT ION. 
 
 of or have ignored those ' troubles.' These Papers have signifi- 
 cant application to the living Present. 
 
 (/) Earl of Devonshire — Vol. i., pp. 76, 93. 
 The nimbus that still encircles this name is formed out of his 
 marriage to Sidney's " Stella." In my Memorial-Introductions 
 before two collective editions of the Poems of Sir Phihp Sidney 
 (Fuller's ' Worthies ' Library, and Chatto and Windus's English 
 Poets) — I have said what I had to say in vindication of " Stella " 
 (and of Sidney). Devonshire's correspondence is so scanty and 
 rare that even the present little gracious Note is thankworthy. 
 As noted in the place (i., 270) it is written from 'Wilton.' 
 
 {m) Seggorson — Vol. i., pp. 84, 86. 
 
 See a and b of these notings. It is much to be wished that 
 more were known of the Seckerstones (or Seggersons). The 
 fact that Spenser's 'Elizabeth' had Roger Seckerstone for 
 husband, and bore him a son Richard, gives deathless interest to 
 his memory. 
 
 (w) The Raleigh Estates — Vol. ii., pp. 38-57. 
 
 The pregnant word '■■wast' (vol. i., p. 86, as noted in 
 p. 273) gives the key to the disputes and litigation wearingly and 
 meanly carried on about these Estates as purchased by the 
 " Great Earl." 
 
 (0) John Rowley — Vol. i., pp. 89-91. 
 
 It is extremely pleasing to mark how gracious were the 
 relations of the " Great Earl " with his tradespeople and humble 
 correspondents. This Rowley gossips away as though he were 
 an equal. All the better for us that it was so. This and 
 kindred letters yield us glimpses of dress matters that ought to 
 enrich new editions of Fairholt and Dillon's "Costume in 
 England" (2 vols., 1885). 
 
 (/>) Pioneers of Irish Trade and Manufactures — 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Vol. i., pp. 94-97, 117-18, 120-3, 125-7, 231-2; vol. ii., 
 pp. 27-8 (Cf. Notes and Illustrations 220, 220-22, 241-2, 
 263-7). 
 
 The potential part the " Great Earl " filled in developing Irish 
 industries remains to be adequately told. Therein Kellett, 
 Whitsone, and others will claim their word of recognition. 
 
 (g) Male and Female Dresses — Vol. i., pp. 105-11, 
 123-25, 253-56 ; ii., pp. 91-92. 
 
 These records of the Cork family purchases of dresses ■wiW be 
 found of considerable value in various ways. Many other 
 similar notices are scattered up and down these volumes. 
 
 (r) Captain Oglethorpe — Vol. i., pp. 176 and 237 ; 
 vol. ii., pp. 4-5. 
 
 As in one or two other cases, I have faile'd to link on this 
 Oglethorpe with the Oglethorpe who filled a not inconspicuous 
 place in the war that ended in American Independence — General 
 James Oglethorpe, the Founder of ' Georgia.' None the less 
 the Letters of this Captain Oglethorpe will be welcome across 
 the Atlantic. I hope later to add a Note from Wright's Life of 
 General Oglethorpe (New York, 1867). 
 
 (s) Sir John Davies — Vol. i., 206, 244-45. 
 
 The statesman-poet is brought before us repeatedly in these 
 " Lismore Papers." The contest on his election as Speaker 
 became historical. See My edition of his " Works " (3 vols.. 
 Fuller Worthies' Library), and " Poems " (2 vols. : Chatto and 
 Windus). 
 
 (t) The White Knight — Vol. i., pp. 10-13. 
 
 (u) Sir Thomas Norreys — Vol. i., pp. 15-17. 
 
 (v) Spenser's 'Jrlo' — Vol. i., pp. 17-19. 
 
 (w) Thomas Wethered, Warden of Youghal — Vol. i., 
 pp. 23-26. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 (x) Hawks and Hawking — Vol. i., pp. 36-37 et frequenter. 
 
 iy) Sir Robert Cecyll, afterwards Earl of Salisbury — 
 Vol. i., pp. 39-40, 41-42, 104-5, "6, 127-28. 
 
 (z) Sir Geoffrey Fenton — Vol. i.,pp. 9-10, 73-753 loo-i, 
 1 16-17. 
 
 {aa) Lord President Carew — Vol. i., pp. 76-79. 
 
 {bb) Sir Richard Weston, pp. 79-80. 
 
 {cc) Lady Boyle, Countess of Cork. — Vol. i., pp. 82-84. 
 
 With reference to her first letter — see facsimile of it, save the 
 postscript. As I write I notice that she spells ' duiblin,' not 
 ' dublin.' 
 
 {dd) Sir James Fullerton — Vol. i., pp. 85-88. 
 
 (^ee) Sir Bernard Grenville — Vol. i., pp. 1-3, 88. 
 
 {ff) Sir Allen Apsley — Vol. !., pp. 91-94 ; ii., pp. 172-74. 
 
 iss) Garret Trant, Sovereign of Dingle — Vol. i., pp. 
 97-98. 
 
 (J}h) The Lord de Courcy — Vol. i., pp. 98-100. 
 
 {ii) James L, pp. 119-20, 167-68, 182-89, 203-7, 215-18. 
 
 {jj) Woods and Pipestaves — Vol. i., pp. 4-7, 1 12-15. 
 
 [kk) Undertakers of Ulster — Vol. i., pp. 141-144. 
 
 (//) Earl of Thomond — Vol. i., pp. 147-8, 148-9, 166-7, 
 229-31, 234. 
 
 {mm) Lord Chief Justice of Ireland — Vol. i., pp. 149- 
 50; ii., 129-133. 
 
 (««) Lord Deputy Chichester — Vol. !., pp. 150-1, 152-3, 
 174-6. 
 
 {00) The Lord Treasurer of Ireland [Ridgeway] — 
 Vol. i., pp. 153-4, 155, 156-7, 160, 209-10, 133-5, 136-7. 
 
 {pp) Francis Annesley — Vol. i., pp. 158-160. 
 
 {qq) Sir William Parsons — Vol. i., pp. 161-164, 233-4, 
 238-9. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 (rr) Sir Humphrey May — Vol. i., pp. 165-6. 
 («) Sir William Fenton — Vol. i., pp. 167-8, 238-40 ; 
 ii., 67-72 (a "weighty letter"). 
 
 (it) Sir WiLLiAiyi Lovelace — Vol. i., pp. 170-1. 
 
 (uu) Sir Lawrence Parsons — Vol. i., pp, 189-195, 207, 
 211-13, 213-14; ii., pp. 76-7, 154, 260-1. 
 
 (vv) Sir Thomas Stafford — Vol. i., pp. 196-199. 
 
 {wiv) Sir Dominick Sarsfielde — Vol. i., pp. 201-2, and, 
 Sir William Sarsfield, ii., pp. 231-33. 
 
 (xx) Lord Roche and Fermoye — Vol. i., pp. 219-220, 
 224-5 ; "-J PP- 31-2. 59-60, 254-5. 
 
 (;';') Clerical Escapades — Vol. i., pp. 221-2. 
 
 (zz) Sir William Vscher — Vol. i., pp. 222-3. 
 
 («««) Sir Toby Caulfield — Vol. i., pp. 226-7, 228-9. 
 
 (bbb) Justice GosNOLD — Vol. i., p. 234; ii., pp. 20-1. 
 
 (ccc) Local Government — Vol. i., pp. 235-6. Cf. ff", 
 i., pp. 97-8. 
 
 {ddd) Bishop John Boyle — Vol. i., pp. 240-1; ii., pp. 
 5-11, 64-66, 99-100, 105-9, 121-4, 142-4, 151-3, 229-31, 
 239-41. 
 
 The long Letters in ii., pp. 1 05-9, will reveal the worse than 
 simoniacal venality of the period. Anything more sordid than 
 the whole transaction it is impossible to conceive. And yet 
 John Boyle thus entered on ' apostolical succession ! ' 
 
 (eee) Sir John Bean — Vol. i., pp. 242-3. 
 
 ij^CO James Quarles — Vol. i., pp. 246-7. Query — son of 
 Francis Quarles the poet ? 
 
 (ggg) Christopher Browne on death of " Hodge " Boyle 
 — Vol. i., pp. 249-52. 
 
 [hhh] Margery Cook on an " erring husband " — Vol. ii., 
 pp. 14-15. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 {Hi) David Barry, Lord Buttevant— Vol. i., pp. i6, 
 etc. 
 
 (jjj) Sir Francis Kingsmill — Vol. ii., pp. 17-18. 
 
 {kkk) Robert Waller — brother of the poet 'Edmund 
 Waller' — Vol. ii., pp. 19, 81-2, 222-29, 247-50. 
 
 (///) Lady Boyle's Borrowings — Vol. ii., pp. 21-2. 
 
 (mmm) Sir James Ley — Vol. ii., pp. 23-4. 
 
 («««) Sir Barnaby Brien — Vol. ii., pp. 25-6. 
 
 {000) Sir John Blenerhassett — Vol. ii., pp. 26-7, 109-1 1 1. 
 
 (/'/'/') Si^ Thomas Somersett — Vol. i., pp. 28-9, 32-3. 
 
 {qqq) The Earl of Ormond — Vol. ii., p. 32. 
 
 {rrr) Giles Herbert — "a pretty quarrel" — Vol. ii., pp. 
 
 33-4. 
 
 (sss) Sir Thomas Button — Vol. ii., pp. 60-2, 97-8. 
 
 itti) Lady Fenton — Vol. ii., p. 74. 
 (uuu) Sir John Fitzedmond — Vol. ii., pp. 82-4, 103. 
 (vvv) Earl of Nottingham — Vol. ii., pp. 93-4. 
 (www) William Taafe — Vol. ii., p. 95. 
 (xxx) Sir Dudley Norton — ^Vol. ii., pp. loo-i. 
 (yyy) Sir Beverley Newcomen — Vol. ii., pp. 101-2. 
 (zzz) Trinity College, Dublin — Vol. ii., pp. 104-5. 
 (aaaa) William Greatreakes, ' Astrologer ' — Vol. ii., p. 
 
 (bbbb) Thomas Wilson — Vol. ii., pp. 114-115. The 
 'Rhetorique' (1553), and 'Logique' (1552), and his transla- 
 tions of some of the classics, and also from the Spanish, still keep 
 the name of this " old English gentleman " quick. He was 
 master of St. Catharine's Hospital, as his quaint title-pages bear. 
 
 (cccc) Popish Books, &c., seized — Vol. ii., pp. 116-117. 
 
 {dddd) Edward Seymour — Vol. ii., pp. 1 17-19. 
 
 {eeee) Sir Laurence Esmonde — Vol. ii., p. 137. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 iffff) Sir John Leake — Vol. ii., pp. 140-2. 
 
 iZggg) Mr. Towze — Raleigh Estates — Vol. ii., pp. 147-8. 
 
 {hhhh) Mrs. Lovell — Vol. ii., pp, 149-150. I am still 
 without light on this lady's astounding piece of news given in 
 the " Diary " (ist Series, s. «.). 
 
 (zVn) William Temple — Vol. ii., pp. 156. 
 
 ijjjj) Lord Deputy St John — Vol. ii.,pp. 157-8, 158-168, 
 
 252-3> 257-8. 
 
 i^kkkk) Sir Thomas Smith — Vol. ii., pp. 160-162. 
 (////) Sir Humphrey Baskerville — Vol. ii., p. 165. 
 (mmmrri) John Chapman's Relation of Proceedings in 
 
 STAP-r.!^ AMBER AGAINST EaRL OF SUFFOLK AND SiR JOHN 
 
 BiNGLYE — Vol. ii., pp. 168-180. This paper will bear com- 
 parison with others used by historians. It tempts keenly to 
 lliscussion of men and opinions. See also ii., pp. 242-44. 
 
 (nnnn) The " Great Earl " to John Harris — Vol. ii., 
 fpp. 1 81-184. See relative Notes at head and close. 
 
 {0000) Irish Ecclesiastical Affairs — Vol. ii., pp. 187- 
 193. Perhaps as historically important a Paper as is furnished 
 by the " Lismore Papers." 
 
 {pppp) Robert Parker, Buckingham's Secretary — 
 Vol. ii., p. 246. 
 
 iqqqq) Sir James Craig — Vol. ii., pp. 250-1. 
 
 [rrrr) Edward Wray — Vol. ii., pp. 253-4. 
 
 {ssss) Hunting a Stag — Vol. ii., pp. 255- . 
 
 {tttt) Countess of Ormond — Vol. ii., pp. 258-9. 
 
 {uuuu) Giles Rawlins and Lady Raleigh — Vol. ii., pp. 
 259-60. 
 
 {vvvv) Sir Thomas Standishe — Vol. ii., pp. 262. 
 
 Besides these leading names and things that inevitably gather 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 themselves under Notabilia, there are details of contemporary 
 life in its lights and shadows, mirth and mournfulness, pathos 
 and whimsicality that can scarcely escape the diligent Reader. 
 I repress a strong impulse to dilate on a good many golden 
 texts (as we parsons phrase it) thus invitingly presented. Per- 
 sonally I can think of no type of reader who will consult these 
 volumes in vain. And yet in historical importance and abiding 
 interest the Public Correspondence to follow will outweigh the 
 Private. 
 
 I have to acknowledge kind and kindly rendered help throughout 
 by the Misses Rowan and Hickson^the former as copyist, though 
 not so heavily as in the first series thus far ; the lattP-t-irL a 
 number of the most matterful Notes and Illustrations, and also 
 for transcripts hereafter to be utilized. Throughout 
 sadly missed my revered and beloved friend the late 
 Hayman of Douglas. Within a very short time of his lamented 
 death he was looking forward hopefully and enthusiastically 
 reading and supplementing my Notes and Illustrations. A more 
 laborious and exact antiquary, or a more lovable and delightful 
 Christian gentleman, it has not been my lot to meet. It will 
 be long before Ireland will fill his place. Alas ! alas ! many 
 patriotic literary-historical plans are buried in his honoured grave. 
 I cannot adequately express my sense of gratitude for having 
 been admitted into the inner circle of his friends, or the cheer it 
 gave me to have one so bright and cultured, so sympathetic and 
 eager to share labour with me as I prosecuted my task of editing 
 these " Lismore Papers." 
 
 Alexander B. Grosart. 
 
 and also 
 I haveJ 
 Canorf 
 imenteci 
 ically to\ 
 
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I. Queen Elizabeth : 1591. 
 
 IHE earlier Papers at Lismore Castle consist of Inquisitions 
 (1396 and 1575) and Conveyances of Lands — mostly copies 
 — and Accounts, of mere antiquarian interest. I simply note 
 the following — "Nov. 2, 1592, Edward Fitzmorris Lea, of 
 Ardgoole, co. Limerick, promises to pay £g to Richard 
 Boyle, Gent., on procuring for him livery of his lands under the Great 
 Seal." Our first noticeable document bears the great name of Queen Eliza- 
 beth ; and it illustrates, in the outset, her renowned Majesty's method of 
 conducting affairs behind the back, so to say, of her councillors. This is 
 No. 8 of vol. i. and is endorsed, " The Coppie of the queens Ires, for the 
 passing of the Abbey of ffermoy & gill abbey to S"' Richard grenfile." 
 March 7*, 1591. This MS. is here printed literatim et punctatim. For 
 Notes and Illustrations on names, &c. that occur in the successive MSS., 
 see end of each vol. — G. 
 
 Right trustie and welbeloved Wee greete yo" well. Where[as] 
 o"' welbeloved servant S"' Richard Greenvile Knight as he in- 
 formeth vs hath compounded w"" the Lord Vicounte Roche 
 lorde of ffermoy for his interest in the Abbay of ffermoy in the 
 County of Corcke for difls [= divers] yeares yet vnexpired : In 
 consideracon of the good service of the same S' Richarde, and 
 other good causes vs speciallie movinge, wee are pleased to graunte 
 vnto him, and to the heires Males of his body an estate aswell of 
 and in the Scite and demeanes of the same Abbay of ffermoy late 
 in the Lorde Roches possession, as alsoe of and in the Scite and 
 
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 demeanes of Gilley Abbay in the same County beinge in his 
 owne possession (vpon both w""" Scites as he saieth) he hath bene 
 att greate chardges in buildinge, after the expiracon of the forifl 
 leases j Reservinge to vs, o"' heires and Successors the yearlie 
 Rente accordinge to the best and greatest Survey, And for 
 the other lande and inheritaunce belonginge to the said Abbaies, 
 as the psonage Impropriate, the Tithinge of town shipps, and 
 the other townes and Villages not pcell of the said demeanes : 
 our meaninge is that they shall passe onely but for tearme of 
 yeares. Therefore in them o' will and pleasure is that the saide 
 S' Richarde Greenvile shall haue an estate graunted vnto him 
 for the tearme of fortie yeares only to comence after the de- 
 terminacon of the forifi leases nowe in beinge, Reservinge to vs 
 o"' heires and successors the Rentf and Services accordinge to 
 the greatest and best Survey, or as by Recorde shalbe due vnto 
 vs w* a Reservacon of one yeares double Rente for and in the 
 name of a fyne att everie one and twentie yeares end ; Where- 
 fore wee will and comaunde yo" that yo° shall cause such graunts 
 to be made to the said S'" Richarde Grenevile of the said two 
 Scites and demeanes. To haue and to houlde to him and to the 
 heires Males of his bodie Reservinge the best Rent^ vpon 
 thexpiracon of the paste tearmes, that eyther by Recorde or 
 Survey shall appeare ; and in like prte yo" shall make a graunte 
 vnto him of the other piSisses belonginge to the said Abbayes, 
 for the tearme of fortie yeares, after thexpiracon of the paste 
 tearmes, Reserving to vs the best Rente and service to be founde 
 by S''vey or any Recorde And further o'' will and pleasure is 
 that yo" o'' Deputy w"" the advice of learned Counsell shall 
 cause Coiiiission to be directed to the Vice psident, and other 
 such psons in the Province of Mounster to heare the Request^ 
 of S" Warham S' Leger, and S'' Richard Grenevile for/ the en- 
 
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 ioyinge of such lande as are comonly called Chargeable landf, 
 and were of the possessions of the late Ear[l]e of Desmonde 
 attainted and to call the pties that make any ptence of tytle to - 
 the same landf before the said Comissioffls to heare their Claymes, 
 and here-vpon to decyde their tytles to the benefitte of the said 
 S"' Warham S' Leger and the said S"' Richard Greenevile as farre 
 fourthe as by lawe and Justice the same ought to be. And yf the 
 pties that make clayme to the chargeable landf shall not be 
 induced to yealde to that, w"*" may be thought Right, then the 
 Coinissioners to be authorised to Impanell a Jury to enquyre of 
 o'' tytle; and accordingly to order the landf to o"" pattentf as 
 shalbe founde due, vpon the saide Verdyte, And further alsoe 
 wee would the saide Comissioners mighte have authority to 
 cause the landf lymitted to S'" Warham S' Leger to be dulie 
 measured, whereby a sufficient graunte t-herof may passe from vs 
 to the said S"" Warham S* Leger, And o"" tres shalbe aswell 
 vnto yo" o'' nowe Deputie of that o"^ Realme of Ireland as vnto 
 o"^ Chauncello'' for the tyme beinge, and to any other o'' Deputy, 
 Chauncello"" or other cheefe Governo" or Governors of that our 
 Realme that hereafter for the tyme shalbe Sufficient warrant and 
 Dischardge on this behalfe. Given vnder o' Signett att o'' 
 Mano"' of Greenewich the Seaventh daye of Marche in the 
 Three and thirtieth yeare of o"' Raigne, &c. 
 
 To o"" right trustie and welfceloved S' William 
 fitz Wiftm Knight Deputy of o"' Realme of Ire- 
 land, and to the Chauncello'' of o"' said Realme 
 nowe beinge, and to the Deputy or other cheefe 
 Governo"' or Governors of the same Realme, 
 Chauncellor o"" keep[er] of o'' greate Seale there 
 that hereafter shalbe, and to any other o"" officers 
 theat;e to whome y' may apptayne. 
 
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 II. O'Callaghan's Lease of his Woods to Sir Thomas 
 NoRREYs of Moyallo: 1593. 
 
 This is No. 9 of vol. i., and is endorsed, " O'Callaghans lease of his woods 
 to S' Thomas Norreyes." This is our first glimpse of activity in ironworks 
 and manufactures in Ireland, and the accompanying fatal cutting down of 
 the woods, furnished by these " Lismore Papers." It will be seen hereafter 
 that the most trivial loans and the like were drawn up in most elaborate 
 legal form and technicalities. The present was an extremely important 
 agreement, and hence its continuous legal phrasing and terminology is 
 reasonable enough. Agreeably to its name of ' Indenture,' this document 
 is indented or vandyked along its upper edge. 
 
 From this MS. onward (except where specially noted) contractions are 
 extended, and needed punctuation introduced. — G. 
 
 This Indenture, made the last of October Anno Domini 1593 
 And in the yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Ladye Eliza- 
 beth, by the grace of God Queene of England, ffrance, and Ire- 
 lande, defender of the fayth, the xxxv"" Betwixt Conogher 
 O Kallaghane aliz O Kalleghane of Pollykalleghan, in the 
 Countye of Corcke gent, of thone party And Sir Thomas Norreys 
 of Moyallo in the Countye of Corcke Knight of thother partie, 
 Witnesseth that the sayd Conogher O Kallaghane hath given, 
 graunted, demised, sette, and to tearme of yeares lette, like as by 
 these p'sentesthe sayde Conogher O Kallaghane doth give,graunte, 
 demise, sette and to tearme lette, unto the said Sir Thomas, all the 
 woodes bellonginge any way to O Kallaghane within Polly- 
 callaghane aforesayde, with there appurtennance : Especially all 
 the woodes of Vxemore, with there appurtennance j Killvil- 
 lidge with their appurtennance, Conteinnige one plough land ; 
 the third parte of all the woodes of Oedrtnycrosye, Conteininge 
 one plough lande, And the woodes of Twoe plough landes of 
 the Skarrowe, with all and Singuler the woodes in Pollykalla- 
 
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 ghane any way bellonginge, apperteininge or due to O Kalla- 
 ghane, within the landes of Pollykellaghane aforesayde, or other- 
 wise, with allowance and Libertye for the sayde Sir Thomas 
 and his assignes to digge mynes in those woodes and landes 
 thereof for his Iron mylles, and to have a sufficeient way for 
 cartes, whiles, horsses, oxen, Gerrans and there dryvers, and 
 for all other Sir Thomas Norreys his carpenters, laborers and 
 worckemen ; To passe and repasse wheresoever, in as lardge 
 and ample manner as thesayde O Kallaghane or any of his 
 anncestors or prediscessors ought to enioye, have, possesse, 
 houlde or occupie the same (exceptinge all way to thesayd 
 O Kallaghane his heires and ascignes, all the hawckes breedinge 
 therein, And all the honnye, Accornes, Grasse pasture and 
 plowinge of any the sayde O Kallaghane his Tennants in all the 
 sayde woodes and the landes thereof or any parte thereof, toge- 
 ther with fireboate, howsboate, plowboate, hedgeboate, timber 
 for milles to thesayde O Kallaghane and his Heires, and for 
 any there Tennants, with reasonable allowance of some trees 
 for such his frendes as he will Lycense, dwellinge in the Coun- 
 trye of Polly Kallaghane) with all and Singuller the sayde 
 woodes, with their appurtenance in generall, and otherwise, 
 (except before excepted) unto thesayde Sir Thomas Norreys his 
 Executors, Administrators and assignes, without impeachment 
 of waste, for xxj yeares, begyninge at Easter next ensueing the 
 date hereof, fully to be completed and ended ; Vppon Condition 
 of the sayd Sir Thomas Norreys Knight, his heires Executors 
 administrators or assignes, or any other for them or him, havinge 
 sufficiente aucthoritie thereunto, within xiiij^° dayes next after 
 the ende and expiracon of Seaven yeares imediatlie next after 
 the date hereof or within xiiij'" dayes next after the expiracon 
 of xiiij'^" yeares ymediatlie next after the date hereof, Signefie at 
 
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 the Castell of Dromynine, that the sayd Sir Thomas, his heires 
 Executors or ascignes will houlde the sayde woodes so hereby 
 demised noe longer ; That then this Lease and the rente re- 
 served, utterly to cease. And that it shalbe lawefuU for thesayde 
 Conoghor, his heires and assignes to reenter and holde the same 
 as in his former estate, any thinge in his lease to the Contrarie 
 notwithstandrng ; The sayd Sir Thomas Norreys his executors 
 and Administrators yieldinge and all waye annsweringe, satis- 
 fienge and paieinge the sayde Conoghor O Kallaghane his 
 heires and ascignes after the rate of Tenn powndes ster. cur- 
 rente, provyded always that the sayd Connoghor O Kallaghane 
 and his heires and all such his Tennants and their Cattell and 
 suche as he or his heires from tyme to tyme shall appointe, shall 
 pasture, inhabitte, dwell, plowe and manure uppon and any the 
 landes aswell arrable as otherwise, within the sayde Sir Thomas 
 Norreyes as aforesayd. And that the sayde Conoghor O Kalla- 
 ghane and his heires or searieant, shall alwaye and yearelye 
 duringe that Tearme, attende and kepe the sayde Landes, And 
 the grasse pasture, proffietts and comodities thereof. And suffer 
 no other person or persons to spoyle waste or consume the 
 same, or to cutte any the Trees (but onlye the sayde Sir 
 Thomas and his Laborers, worckemen. Carpenters and Ser- 
 vantes, to his own use, And for his Iron mylles worckes 
 Byldinges and his other affaires, his Heires, Executors, Ad- 
 ministrators and ascignes) : And also it is further agreede and 
 graunted, that the sayd O Kallaghane, for him, his Heires and 
 ascignes shall allowe thesayde Sir Thomas Norreyes, his Execu- 
 tors Administrators and ascignes, and to his tennants worckmen 
 and laborers suche as doe or shall attende at any tyme hereafter, 
 within the sayde woodes and euerye parte the land thereof for 
 his Iron worckes, and after his owne worckes, duringe thesayde 
 Tearme, to make for them such reasonable houses edifices and 
 
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 bwildinges within the sayde woodes and the landes thereof for 
 their necessarie dwellinges, worckes, and the good profitte 
 or beneficte of the sayde Sir Thomas, his Heires, Executors, 
 Administrators and ascigns, without contradiction of any, With 
 Sufficient pasture and estouer for their cattell and themselues, 
 and especiallye the sayde Sir Thomas his owne Swene and 
 hogges ; Provyded allwayes that the sayde Sir Thomas Norreys, 
 his Heires, Executors, administrators and assignes, and everie 
 his worckmen and laborers, shall allway and yearelye haue 
 speciale care to make noe spoyle of any the Trees where 
 Lykelyhoode of any hawckes might breed any yeare during 
 thesayde yeares and tearme aforesayde : And further, the sayd 
 Conoghor O Kallaghane, for him, his Heires, Executors, Ad- 
 ministrators and ascignes, doth Covennante and graunt by those 
 presentes, to warrant, acquitte and defende, all and singuler the 
 sayde woodes and other the premises (except before excepted) 
 againste all men, dischardged of all dowers, jointers, former Con- 
 veiances, and in-Comberances, to the Sayde Sir Thomas Norreys, 
 his Executors, Administrators, and ascignes, for and duringe the 
 sayd Tearme of Twentye and one yeares. In Wittness whereof, 
 the sayd Sir Thomas to his parte of this Sayde dedde indented, 
 interrcheandgeablie remaininge with the Sayde O Kallaghane, 
 have Subscribed his name and putte his seale. Like as thesayde 
 O Kallaghanehas subscribed his name and putte his seale to thother 
 parte thereof, remainninge with the sayd Sir Thomas, the day and 
 yeare aboue sayde. The sayd O Kallaghane is to haue one 
 hundred of Iron by the yeare after there is greate store made. 
 
 Being present at thinsealinge and deliverie 
 hereof we whose names are underwritten, 
 r Stephen Watty. 
 Tho. Norreys. < P. Tompkines. 
 
 [Seal indented in the paper. — G.J v. Pa. Anthary. 
 
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 III. Henry Deane of Dublin to Boyle : 1594. 
 
 The following memoranda reveal the small borrowings and lendings of 
 this early period of the " Great Earl's" life. They are No. 14 of vol. i. 
 and are endorsed by Boyle " Deanes Receipts of me." The seals are in 
 pulpy paper, fastened on. — G. 
 
 Memorand. that I Henrie Dean of Dublin gent, haue had 
 and receaved in readie money of Richard Boyle gent the some 
 of foure pownds ster. money of England to be defalked and 
 aHonifed him out of suche money as the said Richarde is by his 
 bond obligatorie, bownd to satysfie and paie me, for the receipt 
 wherof this shall be his sufficient acquittaunce and dischardge, as 
 witnesseth my hande and seale this xiiij* of Maye 1594. 
 
 Henry Deane. 
 Present at this sealing 
 and dehverie heerof 
 wyttnes John Rawson 
 He. Cragton. 
 
 Memorand. that I the said Henrie Dean haue alsoe receaved 
 
 in readie money of fFraunces Dapstock gent, by the direction of 
 
 Richard Boyle gent, the some of five pownds sterl. money of 
 
 England, to satysfy the ffees of the pattent or lease of xxi 
 
 yeares, and the overplus to be in part of payment of suche 
 
 money as the said Richard is bownd by his hand to pay me. 
 
 Witnes my hand and seale the vj"" of June 1594. 
 
 Henry Deane. 
 Wytnes John Rawson. 
 
 Memorand. that I Henrie Deane gent, haue receaved of 
 Richard Boyle gent, a hat-bande, with xviij gowlde buttons, 
 euerie button having five pearles, which I am to redeliver him 
 
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 vppon his satisfying me of suche money as he oweth me and is 
 to pay me on Monday next, Provided that Richard Boyle shall 
 not deal, openly nor secretly, with anie person or persons what- 
 soeuer to crosseor hinder a lease that is to be grawnted, nor anie 
 Covenant or bargaine between vs therin, for xxi yeares, for her 
 Majesty to John Rauson and the said Henry Dean, Witnes 
 my hand and seal the vj* of June 1594. 
 
 Henry Deane. 
 
 IV, Queen Elizabeth to Sir Geoffrey Fenton : 1594. 
 
 This second State-document (No, ig of vol. i,) is kindred with the former 
 [ No. I.]. It is given literatim et punctatim. The other royal letter, said to 
 be ' hereinclosed,' does not appear to have been preserved. No doubt it was 
 duly delivered to the Lord Deputy when the occasion arose. It is endorsed, 
 " To O"^ Trusty and well beloued S"' Geoffrey ffenton Knight Secretary of 
 State in Ireland." — G. 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 Trusty and well beloued we greet you well, Hauing Cawse 
 to deliuer our private Directions in Sondry Matters of Impor- 
 tance to be pformed hereafter by our Deputy w* w"'' our meaning 
 is no other shall be acquainted We haue made Choyse of yow 
 (being Secretary for y' Realme and one in whom we do repose 
 trust to receaue all priuatest dispatches) accordingly to receaue 
 this our Ire hereinclosed to be reserued priuatly in yo"' owne 
 Custody, without taking Notyce eyther to the Deputy himself, 
 or any Person Whatsouer of the Receipt of any such Ire ontyll 
 Tyrone shallbe come into our Deputy to make his submission 
 at w'^'' Tyme so soon as he shall be arriued and not before vppon 
 your duty and Allegeance we do comaund yow to deliuer this 
 our Ire vnto y' Deputy wherby he shall perceaue what is our 
 
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 further Pleasure And for obseruing of this our directions in 
 Manner and Forme as here is expressed this shall be your 
 sufficient warrant vnder our owne hand Giuen at our Mannor 
 of Rychmond vnder our Signet & Sig 8* of Jan. 1594. 
 
 V. Information against Edmund Fitzgibbon alias the- 
 White Knight: 1597 (?) 
 
 This is No. 23 of vol i. It is endorsed " informacions against Edmond 
 fitzgibbon als Whit Knight, his son moris fitzgibbon, and others." This 
 * Information ' reveals the troubled social state of Ireland at this date. G. 
 
 To the most honorable the Lord Deputy. 
 Morish, Lord viscount fFermoij, humblie shovv^eth vnto 
 your honor, by w^ay of informacion for her Majesty agenst the 
 persons whose names in a scheduU he delivers to your honor, 
 for comitting & provoking to be comitted diuers morthers. 
 Treasons & fellonies, wherof som feowe are hearafter par- 
 ticularly sett down, with the meanes to proue them, as 
 followeth. 
 
 Certain of the parties who were at the Comitting of this £sf by 
 [being] apreehended and pardoned, will confess and proue this. 
 ffirst, Edmond fitz Gibbon otherwise called white knight, aboot 
 decembre 1596, sent seueral of his men, namelie Edmond M'= 
 Shane M'= guiere & {worn out with damp] whose names shall 
 hearafter appeare vnto one fFz {as before] is house called kilmane- 
 pien [?] in the County of Typyrarie, where they morthered 
 Certain Inglish men & spoiled the Town, carringe the said 
 spoiles to the said Edmonds house & dweling with him for a 
 while after : the names of the men morthered & the quantitie 
 of spoile your Worshippe will hearafter Learne. 
 
 Certain of the said Edmonds plowmen y servants who killed 
 
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 the said kowes, and taned their hides : and by \heing\ aprehended 
 £sf pardoned for the offenc, will confess and proue this. Also 
 aboote that tyme, the said Edmond sent the said M'= shihie to 
 help with Richard fitz Gerald fitz Thomas, David naish, 
 Nicole o cassessey, Thomas M'' gibbon daly & seuvral others 
 his servants & daylie attendants to the Lord Roches Town of 
 graige, in the County of Corck, from whence they tooke in 
 maner of apray at night tyme, the nombre of 39 kov^es, & 
 within one sevenight after they tooke from there 2J kowes, of 
 the said Lord his tenants goods : all which kowes were killed in 
 the said Edmonds house & there flesh salted & there hides 
 Tanned for the said Edmond. 
 
 fames plunkett, Robert plunkett & donogh Kavanagh to be 
 aprehended and examened, will proue this. Also the said Edmond 
 keepeth secrettly in his house greate store of pieces, powder. Lead 
 & morions, which if he had not bene of some Combinacon 
 with the rebels, as already he was & went to Itallie for to 
 raise forreyners agenst her Majesty, he would not now, having 
 openly furnished all the hable men of his Contry with sufficient 
 furniture for warres, keep also such asecrett store & warlike 
 provision in any privie place ; the like being not usuall with any 
 of his calling. 
 
 One of the Companij who was at the comitting of this, so by 
 \being'\ protected and forgiven will proue this : Also the gould 
 smith who made the fuels of the said Chain will vppon his ex- 
 amenacon on being aprehended l^ forgeven, proue this. Also moris 
 fitz Gibbon son to the said Edmond aboote ij yeares past sent 
 the said M'^Shihie with Richard fitz gerald, David Naish & diuers 
 Vothers his servants in the night tyme to certain Inglish gent 
 men dwelling aboote Lismore in the countrie of Waterford 
 where they together with the Traytor morogh oge morthered 
 
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 one Ceuds an English man & some other Englishmen & brought 
 all there goods in maner of spoyle vnto the said morish who 
 keepeth the same privilie, and [out of a] chain that was taken 
 from the said morthered gent, the said Morish caused Juels to 
 be made for a wooman to weare aboote her neck. 
 
 James Plunkett will proue this, isf the Lord Roche will bring 
 diuers others to f roue the same ; Also the Shireff of Typperary who 
 seised the goods, after they were so paid by maris, will give evidence 
 herof. Also in Apriell last, the said moris, sent the said Edmond 
 m*^ shihie & one Teadogh o Kallige, Meole o Cahissh, Donogh 
 o. Dwayn of \illegible'] & David Naish with divers others to the 
 Lord Roches town of Graig, & from there, they tooke by way 
 of stelte, the nombre of 12 kowes, & from another dweling 
 therabouts 10 kowes ; all which keyne, the said Moris gave for 
 a bob tail white horse, a morion, & apice which he bought from 
 several! persons in the County of Typyar[ar]ie. 
 
 Georgd dromer from whom the goods were taken, will proue this 
 being Comanded to declare his knowledge, and not otherwise. Also 
 the said moris sent the said m"^ Shihie & divers Vothers, to the 
 Lord Roches County of Barryarter, where they broke oppen 
 one house in the night & from theire caried away with them in 
 morions, pieces, Lynens, gould ringes & houshold stufF, the 
 value of 30'' ster :, & ij horses price xx'' ster : ; all which they 
 brought vnto the said moris, who caused one of the horses & 
 some of the goodes to be restored Back. 
 
 Seural of the persons who was present and hard [the said 
 Edmond'] declare the {same] will depose and {^give"] evidence 
 hearof. Also the foresaid Edmond fitz Gibbon ats the White 
 Knight, Drew a dager which he wore and in presence of Certaine 
 witnesses, he said the same was sent vnto him by Sir W" 
 Standly, with whome the said moris, son to the said Edmond, 
 
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 contynved in Spayne for agreat while after he rebeled agenst 
 her majesty: which proues that som privie combinacon is 
 betwixt the said Edmond & the rebels or foreyners. 
 
 Also the Lord Roche will oppen many other heynivs & in- 
 tolerable ofFences, Comitted by the said persons before named, 
 to whom also all the rest nominated in the schedull by him de- 
 livered vnto your honor, weare axcessaries, & many others, 
 which vppon ripping of the matter shall appeare, whereby there 
 lands & goods shalbe forfeyted to her majesty, & the comon- 
 welth ridd of such bad members, etc. 
 
 VI. Release of Henry Deane of Dublin, as before. 
 
 This is No. 27 of vol. i. and is endorsed " Henrie Deanes Releas." See 
 No. III. No. 30 similarly is a memorandum of Richard Boyle's indebted- 
 ness to " Richard Lynch of Dublin in 40J., with receipt at foot." — G. 
 
 Be it known vnto all men by these presents that I Henrie 
 Deane of Dublin in consideracon that Richard Boyle hath satis- 
 fyed me in readie money the some of xv'' st. which by two 
 seuerall obligacons he was indebted vnto me in, and of other five 
 pounds that [he] paies vnto me in consideracon of my forbearing 
 the said xv'' and the costs and chardges in Lawe and otherwise 
 that I haue sustened to recover the same, haue and by these pre- 
 sents doe for me my heires, executors, administrators and as- 
 signes, and all and euery of [them] as suruiue, release, quite, 
 laps and forgive vnto the said Richard Boyle, his heires and as- 
 signes, all and all manner of accons aswell Real as personall, 
 sewts, quarrels, stryfFes, debts, dewties, and demaunds whatso- 
 euer heertofore had rysen, grown or depending, or that heer- 
 after maie arise, grow vppon or depend from the beginning of 
 
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 the world vntill the daie of the date of these presents. In wit- 
 nes wherof I the said Henrie Dean haue heerevnto put my hande 
 and seale the vj* daie of October 1597. 
 
 Henry Dean. 
 
 Sealed and deliuered in the presence 
 of vs A. Garland. 
 
 Thomas O. Trott. 
 
 VII. Sir Walter Raleigh to Boyle : 1598 (?). 
 
 This is No. 29* of vol. i. and is of peculiar literary interest, concerning as 
 it does, the poet-friend and tutor of Sir Philip Sidney, Nathaniel Baxter, the 
 sweet singer of " Ourania.'' See Introduction in the present volume, and 
 Notes and Illustrations. All Raleigh's letters are much injured by damp. 
 — G. 
 
 My very good lorde. Whereas Nathaniell baxter hath my con- 
 sente to resigne the Wardenship of youghall, desiring to reside 
 here uppon his parsonige in England, I haue nomynated Mr. 
 Godfery Hering[?], a Master of Artes, and euery waie uery 
 sufficient to be the Warden there, as appeareth by letters written 
 by Sir Robert Cecyll, her Majesty's Principal Secretary, in the 
 course usual there for presentation thereunto. And therefore 
 do praie your lordship, that you will admitt and allow of him 
 in the office and place of Wardenship accordinglie, and so com- 
 mitt you to God. From the courte at greenwych this 15° of 
 June 1598 [?]. 
 
 your very loving frende 
 
 W. Ralegh. 
 
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 VIII. Sir Thomas Norreys : 1598. 
 
 This is No. 31 of vol. i. and is addressed, "To the reverende father in 
 god the Lo : Bishopp of Dowen and Conor gave these; " and endorsed, " S' 
 Thomas Noryes L. p'sident of Moster his ttre concerning Mawle." This 
 is given literatim. — G. 
 
 After my very hyerty Comendacons, Theise are to signify 
 vnto your Lordship that I have [been] vppon conference hadd 
 vpith this bearer Mawle pswaded by you to provide you a con- 
 venyent Lodgying within the CoUedge house of Yoghall And 
 souche other easement and libertye as you shall reasonablye re- 
 quyer. As also to suffer the tythes and proffittes of the said 
 CoUedge or Wardenshipp to be carefully disposed of and solde to 
 there best value, by the directons of the said Mav^le, D. William 
 Parker, Mr. Southers Ellis Servant [to] your Lo. beinge made 
 acquaynted with there desires therin. And the Tenants to haue 
 the forclosinge of there owen Tythes gevynge as much as any 
 others will doe. So that the money and proiEtt thereof be putt 
 vppon the stiff custodye of Sir Walter Raleigh his good ffrend 
 and yours : Mr John ffitz Edmonde suff [era]bly to be kept vntill 
 the said Sir Walter Raleigh his good meaning and release be 
 made knowen vnto your Lordship by his letters : and so that 
 your lordship will geve and noate vnder your hand to the said 
 Mawle that you wilbe pleased to vse the said CoUedge house as 
 Tenant at will and thereby (or sale of the said Tythes in forme 
 or p'fected) not to take any advantage of them at any tyme her- 
 after to preiudice the said Sir Walter Raleigh his terme and in- 
 terest in the lease of the said Wardenship. And then to yelde 
 vnto Sir Walter Raleigh his honorable and kynd resolutions in 
 these thinges. Whereby I doughte not but you shall fynd hym 
 your most willinge frend for your better good. And my self 
 
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 will also be redye to further your desires in the friendlyest sorte I 
 may. Even so I leave your Lordship to the most mighty pro- 
 tection. Moalo the seconde of Julye 1598- 
 
 Your Lordships assured lovinge frende, 
 
 ThO : NORREYS. 
 
 In the meane tyme will 
 studie to surcease of both 
 partes. 
 
 To the Lord Bishop of Down. 
 
 Vin. Same to the Same. 
 
 It is addressed, " To the Reverend father in God the Lo. Buschiope of 
 Downe giue these ; " and is endorsed " The Lo Presydent his last 1"'^ vnto 
 me, presing 'vpon his part for my possession " (the italics erased). — G. 
 
 My Lord I dovte not but you doo consider how that the 
 reasones layed doone in my Lords iusticis warrant tende only to 
 impungue the lease granted by Wethered vnto me ; and in re- 
 specte of the defectes supposed therein, they granted thear sayed 
 Warrante, but now Sir Walter Raulighes consente[?], clayminge 
 by a later intereste from M"^ Barester, semes mutche angered that 
 he schovlde be disposessed vnharde ; the rather for that he hathe 
 now broughte over letters to the llords Justecis very effectuall 
 one his behalfe, in somutche as for aughte I canne decerne, his 
 purpose is not to ealde the posesion if I schovlde grante warrante 
 to that efFecte, vnless he be pulled ovte by violence ; which, if I 
 schovlde atempte myghte breede greate inconvenience, my war- 
 rante not beeinge absolute. The gentellman that cumeth for 
 Sir Walter doothe purpose to repaire with convenient spede to 
 Dubelin, where if it be not to your owne greate troble, I wishe 
 you myghte meete, so as the Cause maye receve a finall ende. 
 
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 In the meane time I will take sutche order as that if it be or- 
 dered with you, the hole proffittes schall be reserved for you ; 
 but I feare the matter will prove very letigeus, and you will finde 
 stronge adversaries if you tooke it withovte Sir Walter Raulighes 
 consent ; which to procur you schall nevar wante my beste 
 furderance [furtherance]. Nether will I be sclooe [= slow] 
 to execute any warrante that the Uords Justices schall thinke 
 meete to grante after the receite of the Uords of the Covncells 
 letters nowe to be sente vnto them. Thus saluteinge you, I 
 commite you to the moste myghty, and reste 
 
 Your lordships asured lovinge frende 
 Thomas Norreys. 
 Moyallo XV* Julij 1598. 
 
 IX. The Property of Boyle in Aherlo : 1598. 
 
 This is No. 33 of vol. i. It is endorsed " My Estate in Aherlo." These 
 were among the earliest of his " broad acres " in Ireland. — G. 
 
 The particuler estates Richard Boyle hath in Aherloe. 
 
 Jet of Parliament. Imprimis. The abbey of galbally ats 
 moure, with thapertenances thervnto, the King being entituled 
 by acte of parliament, graunted the same by letters pattents to 
 John desmond gent & his heires for ever : reserving iiij ds ir, as 
 by the pattent dated xxo fa : a" xxxv* henre viij appeereth. 
 
 iiij*. 
 
 the certayntye £3" manner of conveyance from Apsley must he 
 knowen and assured. John of desmond being therof seised graunted 
 this whole es[tate] therin to capten W" Apsely and his heires for 
 ever by deed perfected dated 9 July 1578 in furechers [future?]. 
 
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 Dungrott 
 
 act of parliament. The manner castle and lands of Dungrott, 
 
 graunted in xxj of the Queen to George Moor and his heires 
 
 for ever, who therof seised, paste the same to Capten W™ Apsely 
 
 and his heires for ever by iFeofment dated the x" May 1578 in 
 
 soe fure. Et supra xx'. 
 
 Kilvehvnne 
 
 j4ct of parliament. The castle town and Landes of Kil- 
 vehunie, being the possessions of Mahown m"^ Morrogh, at- 
 teynted by verdicte and confirmed by acte of parliament, & 
 graunted to Lye of Rathbryde for tearm of Ix yeeres by lettres 
 pattents dated xv Auguste a° Reign Elizabeth xxxvj"' & by him 
 assigned to Richard Boyle xij° Auguste the next following. 
 The patent is to be geaven assurances accordinglye. xvj' vij* «'. 
 
 Balligean. 
 Act of parliament. These conveyances are to be scene : xvj" ij*. 
 The town and 3 quarters of Balligean graunted to the cap[ten] 
 for ever in ffeo fearm by lettres pattents dated 28 Junij Anno 
 Regino Elizabetho xxxix", & thinheritance therof paste to 
 Richard Boyle & his heires for ever by deed dated viij° Augusti 
 
 1598. 
 
 Galbally. 
 
 Attainder per Edicte exemplificate. This requireth [^»] be 
 stronglie [y s']ufficientlie [^assycred by {w^arrants against all 
 former nobles iff villes. The castle town and landes of Galbally 
 Corrowbeg and Duntrjlsag rout 3 ploughlands, and the villadges 
 of Lysnegall, Carrowfheeny, Carrow of Kevaie, Killoges, of 
 Ballynemoeeagh, Ballycranye, Currehees parck, Ballicranye & 
 dromarcky graunted to Georg Sherloch gent and his heires for 
 ever by lettres pattents dated xxv November 1597, And by the 
 
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 said Georg past over to Richard Boyle & his heires for ever by deed 
 dated xvij° May 1598. Rent to the queen iij" xix' ir cheef rent 
 to Brian duff vj" (?) viiij** and to Georg Sherloch & his [heires] 
 they recieve for ever xx" ster. 
 Moneynebolly et Dromket. 
 
 X. Agreement of Lodovick Bryskett and Boyle : 
 1599. 
 
 This is No. 36 of vol. i. and, like No. 29*, is of literary interest from the 
 writer being the poet-friend of Sidney and Spenser, and from the occurrence 
 of the name of Spenser himself as the previous holder of the ofBce. See 
 Introduction to the present volume, and Notes and Illustrations for notices 
 of other papers by and about Bryskett in the " Lismore Papers," though 
 not of sufficient importance to be printed. It is on vellum, and indented as 
 usual at upper edge. — G. 
 
 Articles of agreement indented & concluded vpon the viij* 
 daie of ffebruary 1599 betv^een Lodovick Briskett of Magh 
 [more] in the Countie of Wexford w^ithin the Realme of 
 Ireland esq*^ of thone partie & Richard Boyle of Galbaly in 
 the Countie of Lymericke gent of thother partie as fol- 
 loweth, viz. 
 
 IMPRIMIS whereas the said Lodovick Briskett stanndeth 
 possessed & interested, by force & vertue of her Majestys letters 
 Pattents vnder her highnes broad seale of Ireland, of & in the 
 office of clearck of the Councle in & throughout the Province 
 of Movsmster, within the realme of Ireland, with the keeping of 
 the Privie Signett & Records of the office aforesaid, & all ffees, 
 perquisits, advantages & profitts therevnto incident or belonging : 
 To be holden enioyed & exercised by himselfe or his suficient 
 Deputie or Deputies for & during his good behaviour therein, as 
 by the said letters Pattents more at lardge appeareth. 
 
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 NOW the said Lodovick Briskett, for the consideracons en- 
 sewing, doth for him, his executors & assignes, hereby graunt, 
 sett over & assigne the said office, with all the rights perquisites 
 & appurtenaunces therevnto belonging, with the letters Pattents 
 aforesaid & all his right, title, interest, estate & demaunds, in 
 the premisses, to the said Richard Boyle & his assignes, in as 
 lardg, ample & beneficeall manner, to all intents & purposes as 
 her Majestie hath graunted the premisses to the said Lodovick, 
 by the Letters Pattents aforesaid or otherwise. 
 
 ITEM the said Lodovick Briskett doth covenaunt & graunt 
 to & with the said Richard Boyle, his executors & assignes by 
 these presents, that he the said Lodovick Briskett shall & will 
 vpon tender & request to him made, signe, seale, perfect & de- 
 liver vnto the said Richard Boyle, his executors or assignes, such 
 a further good, sure & sufficient graunt or grauntes, deputation 
 or assignements of the said office of the clearck of the councle of 
 the Province of Mownster & the keeping of the Privie Signett 
 & Records of the said office, & of his letters Pattents aforesaid & 
 of all his right, title, claime, interests & demaunds of, in or to 
 the said office, & of all ffees perquisitts & advantages therevnto 
 incident, appertaining or belonging, in as lardge, ample & bene- 
 ficiall sorte as by the said Lodovick Briskett, by force or vertue 
 of the said letters Pattents or otherwise, hath may or ought to 
 have & enioy the same, & shall also vppon reasonable request to 
 him made, make, perfect & deliver a surrender of the said 
 Pattent & office vnder his hand & Seale in due forme of lawe, & 
 give his best furtherance whereby the said Richard Boyle or his 
 assignes may have the said office by other letters Pattents past & 
 graunted vnto him or his assignes in his or their names, in such 
 sorte as by the said Richard Boyle or his counsell learned in the 
 lawe, shalbe reasonablie devised or advised. 
 
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 ITEM the said Lodovick doth for himselfe his executors & 
 assignes hereby covenant & promise & graunt to & with the 
 said Richard Boyle his executors & assignes by these presents, 
 that he the said Richard Boyle shall & may quietlie & peaceablie 
 haue, hold, possess & enioy the said office & the Letters Pattents 
 aforesaid & the keping of the Privie Signett & Records of the 
 said office, & all fFees, perquisitts & advantages to the said office 
 & officer due, incident, pertayning or belonging, without 
 account or yelding anething thereof, fFreelie dischardged of & 
 from all forfeitures avoidance & incumberances whatsoever had, 
 made, donne, suffered, or hereafter to be made or donn by the 
 said Lodovick Briskett, or by his meanes, suffrance or procure- 
 ment. And that the said Lodovick Briskett, his executors nor 
 assignes, nor any of them, neither shall or will at anie time or 
 times hereafter revooke, adnihilate, make voyd or goe about to 
 destroy his said graunt, assignement or surrender, or anie thing 
 therein conteined, but shall & will vphold & confirme the same. 
 And also shall & will at the proper Costs & chardges of the said 
 Lodovick his executors & assignes, warrant, mainteine & defend, 
 the interest & estate of the said Richard Boyle in the premisses, 
 as well against the heires executors & assignes of Edmond 
 Spenser gent deceased, as also against Nicholas Curtis gent & all 
 other person or persons, that shall may or will pretend anie 
 right, claime or title vnto the premisses, or anie part therof, for 
 or vnder the interest or graunt of the said Lodovick Briskett or 
 the said letters Pattents so to him graunted; which letters 
 Pattents of the said office the said Lodovick Briskett doth here 
 likewise for himself his executors & assignes, promise & 
 Covenannt to deliver or cause to be delivered to the said Richard 
 Boyle or his assignes, vpon demaund made to Richard Hopper 
 of Dubline gent by the said Richard Boyle or his assignes of the 
 
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 said lettres patients, in whose custodie the said lettres Pattents 
 are alleadged now to be remayning. 
 
 IN consideracon whereof the said Richard Boyle doth cove- 
 nant to satisfie & paie vnto the said Lodovick Briskett vppon 
 perfecting of the said graunt and assignement of the said office 
 aforesaid, the some of threescore & tenn pounds sterling & like- 
 wise to satisiie & paie vnto the said Lodovick Briskett or his 
 assignes other thirtie pounds ster at or vpon the xx* dale of 
 October, which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord 1600. 
 
 FFOR the true & faithfull performance of all & singuler the 
 covenannts, graunts, clauses, articles & agrements which in the 
 part & behalfe of the said Richard Boyle his executors & assignes 
 are to be performed, kept & donn, the said Richard Boyle doth 
 hereby bind himselfe his heires, executors & assignes to the said 
 Lodovick Briskettj his executors & assignes, in the some of two 
 hundreth pounds of good & lawfull mony of England. In 
 wittnes to this part of these Indentures remayning with the 
 said Lodovick Briskett, the said Richard Boyle hath put to his 
 hand & scale the daie & yeare first above written. 
 
 R. Boyle. 
 
 Present at thensealing and delyverie hereof by the said Richard 
 Boyle we whose names are vnderwrytten. 
 Henr Boyle 
 Michell Domnicke 
 
 Humfrey alz (?) Kallinge Woodd Servante to M"" 
 Lodovycke Briskett his master. 
 
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 XI. Depositions of the Registrar and Archdeacon 
 OF Cork respecting the Induction of Thomas 
 Wethered to the Wardenship of Youghal : 
 1600 (?). 
 
 . This is No. 48 of vol. i., and is very much damaged by damp, and portions 
 torn and worn out, so as to be largely illegible. — G. 
 
 Depositions taken at Yoghall xxiiij [torn off"] . 
 
 1. Nicholas Jo: Trauers gent. Regester, vnto the bishop 
 [torn] sworn and examined, saith to your first Interlocutore, 
 that he knoweth [the] parties theerin menconed, bo the [illegible], 
 and alsoe he knoweth the said Thomas Wethered, & the said 
 weathered to be wardene for eight [illegible] : he knoweth & 
 duringe his life he never heard to the contrary. 
 
 2. To the 2 he saith that the said Weathred vpon [half line 
 torn] now remayninge in his custodie was thereupon Instituited 
 and admytted by the now bishop'p of Corke, vnder his [torn], and 
 the said weathred comminge to this examinate for [his] institucon, 
 this examined demaunded of the said weathred his [torn] stemed 
 fFees for the same : the said Weathred said he would [pa]ie yt 
 & praid this examynator to goe with him vnto Tharchdeacon 
 about his Induction, & thereupon this examinated went vnto 
 the Archdeacon and [in] the presents [presence ?] of weathred) 
 delyured vnto the archdeacon the said institucons, telling the 
 Archedeacon that the fees of the institucon was not paied, & 
 praieing him not to delyver it out of his hands to the said 
 [weathred] vntill [torn] fFees were paide vnto this examinate [a 
 line gone] : he knoweth not whether the said Archdeacon did 
 in[duct] him by himself or his surrogate or Attorney, for as 
 much as weathred to this examinate his knowledge neur com- 
 
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 playned for want of his insticution ; And besides this examinate 
 often demaunded of the Archdeacon his fFees for the institucon 
 as is aforesaid & the Archdeacon answered that he kept the 
 institution & induction for bothe theire fFees & touchinge Baxter 
 his induction ; whether he weere [ilkgible] or not inducted he 
 knoweth not. 
 
 3. To the 3, he saith that he doeth not now rem[ember] the 
 certeyne time howe longe he remayned Warden, But he 
 knoweth [not to] the contrary but that weathred receyued all 
 the profits asurelie belonging to the wardenshipp, without anie 
 contradiction, in as ample sorte as eney of his predecessors. 
 
 4. [To the] 4 he saith touchinge the Induction, he knoweth 
 not specialie weather yt was sealed or not, but as the present 
 Archdeacon tells him he kept yt for [torn] the fFees, neither 
 dothe he know what is become therof but in the keepinge of the 
 Archdeacon as afore[said], nor in other mens keeping [illegible 
 word] concealement he knoweth not, nor of any consideracon 
 to be given to any for concealing the institucon or induction, 
 But that this examinate hath [heard] that the archdeacon was 
 oiFered by the warden Baxter [torn] Colladger, some considera- 
 con to stand with them in the [illegible] of the coUeadge, but 
 how much the some was & how he agreed therevppon this 
 examinate knoweth not. 
 
 5. To the 5 he cann sale no more than is said before. 
 
 Deposicion of the Archdeacon [illegible]. 
 
 1. Primus Phillip Gould Archdeacon of Corke sworne & 
 examint saith to the first Article that he knoweth Sir Walter 
 Raleigh and [torn] Russell the defender, & he did know the 
 [illegible] Wethred. 
 
 2. To the Second he saith that he did know Thomas 
 
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 Weathred & that he had knowne & did See his presentment to 
 the wardenship of yo[ghall] by lettres patents vndre the broade 
 Seale of Ireland & the bischop his institucon vnder his seale, but 
 he newe that being Archdeacon my induction and my seale 
 [^illegible] [an illegible line, Goold Archdeacon, illegible, 'not 
 be examined further,' illegible.] 
 
 Deposicons of William Greenbank ^illegible']. 
 
 1. To [the said] articles he saith that he did know both the 
 [parties] Sir [Walter Raleigh] Knight & Russell def & also 
 he did know [illegible] of the coUeadge of youghall. 
 
 2. To the [illegible 3 words] saith that [the] said Thomas 
 Weathred was admytted in [illegible] & installed as warden of 
 the Said college & to this [illegible'] the Archdeacon of Corke & 
 John Travers the bisshop his [illegible] were there. But the 
 said deponent himself was then present [illegible] And also was 
 present at the inducting and admitting of Nathaniel Baxter 
 warden of the said Colledge, & that Sir Alexander GofF had a 
 warrant from the Archdeacon of Cork to Admitt the said 
 baxter to be warden aforesaide : So by him was admytted. 
 
 3. To the 3, he saith, that the saide weathred remeyned 
 warden aboute se[ven][or] viij° yeares or thereabouts & that the 
 said weathred [also] enioed [torn] all the perquisites, proffits & 
 reuenewes [illegible] for the said tyme without the contradic- 
 tion of eney, in as lardge & ample manner as eney of his 
 predecessors. 
 
 4. To the fourth, he saith, he neuer did see the Induction 
 Seale, but that he heard the Archdeacon sale before [illegible] 
 Baxter warden, that he kept the institucon & induction for the 
 paiement of the fees, & that he had had others [illegible] 
 before yt he had satisfied the said iFees. 
 
%(, LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 [This sheet appears folded wrongly, as this last page, much 
 torn and defaced, is evidently a list of the queries answered 
 above. Summary is as follows. — G.] 
 
 1 . Do you know the parties ? do you know wethered, 
 Thomas, of waterfForde & Lismore & warden of the college of 
 yoghall in the county Corke, or eney of them ? 
 
 Item. Whether was the said Thomas wea[thered] admytted 
 instituted & inducted to be warden of the CoUeadge, & by 
 whome, & by whose warrant, & wheather were you present at 
 his said induction or howe you knowe the same ? 
 
 2. Whether Nathanell Baxter [^illegible] the mayer of the 
 towne. 
 
 3. Item, how longe time remayned he warden, whether 
 [illegihle] his assignes during all the time took the yssues, re- 
 uenews & proiEts of so [much] of the sayd colleage as apper- 
 teyned to enie of his predecessors. 
 
 4. Item, If he knows of the custodie[rs] Induction, its being 
 concealed or kept back by the Archdeacon Chancellor or any 
 other officer or mynster belonging to the bischop of Corke or 
 by enie other person or persons whatsoever. And for what cause 
 is the same concealed, withdrawn or kept backe, or what reward 
 or other consideracon hath byn offered or geven for such con- 
 cealment, withdrawing or keeping backe, & by whome was the 
 Same so offered or given & by whome. 
 
 5. Item, what other matter or things materiall do yoe knowe 
 concerninge this matter now in variance betweene the said 
 parties & whereof your have byn at this tyme explained. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 27 
 
 XII. Testimony concerning Youghall by William 
 Hill, James Spenser, Etc. 1600. 
 
 This is No. jo of vol. i. The " Great Earl " had life-long worries over 
 his purchase of Youghall. Who the James Spenser was does not appear. 
 His signature is an educated and fine one. The document is endorsed, 
 "September, 1600. Testimony of M"' Hill, W°> Greenbanke, & James 
 Spenser concearninge my brothers grante of the CoUedge." — G. 
 
 The testimony of William Hill of Lymehouse in the Countie 
 of Midd Mariner, William Greenebanke procter of the CoUedge 
 of Youghall, and James Spenser, Witnesses of the graunte made 
 by Walter Borough of Limehouse aforesaide Esquier to William 
 Jones gent, before the right honnorable the Lord President of 
 Mounstre, the 22* of September 1600, concerning their know- 
 ledge of the said graunte, with their testimony they offered to 
 iustifie vppon their corporall oathes to be true. Sir John Dono- 
 dall Knight being present. 
 
 iErste, the said William Hill doeth averr that the said Walter 
 Borough did make a graunte vnto M"' Jones of his signiories and 
 the colledge of youghall with the commodities therof, which 
 the said Walter Borough bought of M'' Thomas Southwell 
 Esquier, wherevnto he is a witness in respect that He had an 
 especiall loue to the said Jones, and for that he thought him a 
 verie fitt and sufficient man to holde the estate therof firme, 
 from suche as might intrude by craftie or fraudelent meanes, 
 into the title or possession of the saide Colledge and signiories ; 
 and that he shoulde enioye it freely till his returne out of Eng- 
 lande, adding that he woulde geue him a better guifte yf God 
 should call him out of this Life. 
 
 W. H. 
 
 Next the saide Greenebanke dooth affirme that he is like- 
 
28 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 wise witnes to the saide graunte, and that he hearde the saide 
 William Jones in his house at the Sealing and delyverie of the 
 said graunte, demaund of M' Borough yf he shoulde happen to 
 die or not returne hether againe into Ireland in person, to 
 whome he woulde geue the lease of the saide coUedge and the 
 signiorie Landes which he bought of M'' Soothwell aforesaide, 
 to whome M' Borough replied, I doe geue it freely to yourselfe 
 brother Jones, and I will geue you if I die, a better guifte. 
 
 William Grenbank. 
 
 Lastely the saide Spenser as annother witnes auoucheth to 
 haue heard the saide speeches confest by Greenbanke, uttered 
 by M'' Borough at the same tyme, beinge in the saide Greene- 
 bankes house, and were spoken at the tyme of the sealinge and 
 delyverie of the saide graunte. And further that M'' Brough 
 saide vnto him the saide Spenser, annother tyme after, that he 
 woulde geue vnto M'' Jones one thousand poundes more when 
 God should take him out of this Life. And that he would not 
 haue M"" Jones delyver the possession thereof to any in his 
 name ; for his meaning was, that he should enioye it to him- 
 selfe for the whole terme of yeeres, vnlesse he himselfe returned 
 to dwell thereon. 
 
 James Spenser. 
 
 I do testifie herby that I herde the parties within named 
 avouch as much before the Lord President, as they haue sett 
 there hands vnto on the other side, which they offered to take 
 their corporall oathes to be true. 
 
 John \blot\ 
 
 de W. Bree. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 XII. Skirmish with the Spaniards, Etc. 1600. 
 
 This historically important narrative is No. 53 of vol. i. It is endorsed, 
 " A treue Relacon of our aproches skermishe and overthrovye we ga:ue the 
 forreigne & domesticall Enemie on the 24* of October 1600." The authen- 
 ticity of this narrative seems unquestionable ; but it is a pity that the name 
 of its writer is not signed or given. Probably it is a double of the report 
 made to the Lord Deputy. — G. 
 
 Tirone, accompanied with o donnell, o Rourcke, Maguire, 
 Mac Mahoniij Randall mac Surly, Redmond Bourke, o Connor 
 Sligoes brothers and Tyrrell, with the choyse force and in efFect 
 aU the Rebells of Ireland being drawn into mounster and ioyned 
 with the Spainards that landed at castell haven ; who brought 
 to Tyrones campe six Ensignes of Spaniards : and the greatest 
 part of the Irishe of Mounster, who, being revolted, were ioyned 
 with them and enterteyned into the kinges paie in seuerall com- 
 panies, and vnder their own Lords resolued to relieve the town of 
 Kinsale ; and to that purpose sate down the xxj* of december, 
 a mile and a halfe from the town, betwene the Englishe Campe 
 and Corcke, and on that syde kepte from the Armie all passidges 
 and meanes for forage j thother syde ouer the ryver of ownybuoy 
 being wholie at their disposition by reason of the gennerall 
 revolt of those parteis, as seemed they were drawen so far by 
 the importunitie of Don John de Lagiula, as we preceaved by 
 some of his lettres intercepted ; wherein he did intymate his 
 own necessitie, their promise to succour him and the facillitie of 
 the enterprise ; our Army being weake in nombers and tyred, 
 as he termed vs, with assurance from himself, that whensoeuer 
 they should aduance to our quarter he would giue the blowe 
 soundly from the town : dureing the ahead of the Rebells in 
 that place we had continuall intelligence of their purpose to giue 
 
30 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 an Alarume from their partie and sallies from the town, but to 
 little other efFecte then to weary our men by keeping them 
 continually in Armes, the wether being extreame tempestuous, 
 cold and wett : on the 23 of December late in the night Capten 
 Taffe enformed the Lorde deputie, that one of the Rebelles 
 that had been sometymes belongeing to him sent him word and 
 confirmed yt by a solempne oathe to the bearer, that the resolu- 
 tion of the Rebells was either that night or between that and 
 the next to enterprise their uttermoste for the reliefe of the 
 town, with some particulars in what sort they intended to giue 
 vppon our campe ; whervppon the Lord deputie gaue order to 
 strengththen the ordinarie guards, to put the rest of the Army 
 in a readines but not into Armes ; that about the falling of the 
 moone the Regiment volant by Sir Henry Power and appoynted 
 onely to aunswere the first occasion without doing any other 
 duties, should draweout beyond the west parte of the Campe, 
 and ther to stand in Armes not farr from the maine guarde of 
 horse : a little before the breake of day Sir Richard Greame, 
 who had the guard of horse that night, sent word to the Lord 
 deputie that the scouts had discouered the Rebells matches in 
 greate nombers ; whervppon the Lord deputie caused the Arme 
 to draw presently into Armes, sent a corporall of the field to cause 
 the like to be done in the Earl of Thomonds quarter, and that 
 from thence they should draw out 300 choyse men between 
 that quarter and the fFort built vppon the west hill, neere a 
 barracado made crosse a high waye to stopp the Enemies sudden 
 passadge in the night ; and himselfe, accompanied with the 
 marshall, aduanced forward towards the Scouts, and haueing 
 ordered those troupes of horsse, sent the marshal to take view of 
 ye enemie, who brought him word that horsse and fFoote of 
 theires were aduanced : where vppon the Lord Deputie with 
 
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 Sir oliuer Lambert ridd to view apeece of ground between that 
 and the town, which had on the back of yt a trench drawen 
 from the Earl of Thomonds quarters to the west fFort : on the 
 ffront a hoggish glynn and passable with horse only at one 
 ffoard, which before he had entrenched ; wherevppon the enemie 
 must haue drawn in grosse to force the passadge, was flankard 
 from the Earls quarter by the cannon, and that which we should 
 haue made goe of greate aduantage for horsse and ffoote both to 
 be imbattelled and to fight : vppon view wherof the Lord 
 deputie sent the marshall word that on that place he was resolued 
 to giue the enemy battell, and sent the Sergeant Maior Sir John 
 Barkely to draw out Sir Henry ffollietts and Sir oliver St John 
 Regiments to that place. O Campo that commaunded all the 
 spainards that came laste out of Spaine, desyered Tyrone that he 
 might imbattell his men and presently goe on to ioyne that way 
 with Don John j for their purpose was at that time by that 
 meanes to haue put into the town all the Spaniards with Tyrrell 
 and 800 of their choise men, and the next night from the town 
 and their Army, to haue forced both our quarters : of the 
 successe whereof they were so confydent that they reckoned vs 
 allready theirs, and were in contention whose prisoner the 
 deputie should be, and whose the presydent, and so of the reste : 
 but Tyrone discoueringe the marshall to be aduanced with all 
 the horsse and Sir Henry Powers Squadron of foote, retyered 
 beyond a foard at the fote of that hill, with purpose as he feyned, 
 till his whole Army were drawn more close : instantly the 
 marshall sent the Lord deputie word by Sir fFrancis hushe, that 
 the enemie retyred in some order ; whervppon the Lord deputie 
 came vpp vnto him, and gaue order that all the foote shoulde 
 foUowe : when we were aduanced to that fibrd (but our foote 
 not wholie come to vs) the enemie drew ofF in iij greate boddies 
 
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 of foote and all their horsse in the Reares : The Lord deputie 
 demaunded of some that vnderstood the Countriq whether beyond 
 that fFoard therwere neare anie good grounde of strength for 
 the enemie to make aduantage of, but being answered that ther 
 was none but a fayre champien, he drew after the enemie and 
 then desyered the Lord Presydent to retorne, as he did, to 
 secure the Campe and to answer the sallies, and with him sent 
 back the Earl of Thomonds horsse. Sir Anthony Cookes and 
 Sir Oliuer Lamberts, and onely tooke with him between 3 and 
 400 horsse and vnder 1200 foote, but being drawen out some 
 mile further, we might perceave the enemie to stand firme 
 vppon a ground of vearie good aduantage for them, haueing A 
 bogg between vs and a deepe foarde to passe, and in all appearance 
 with a resolution to fight : the marshall being aduanced with 
 the horsse men neare vnto the fFoard, sent to the Lord deputie 
 that he perceaued the enemie in some disorder and that if he 
 would giue him leave to chardge he hoped to guie a vearie good 
 accounte for it : the Lord deputie left it to his discreetion to doe 
 as he shoulde fynd present occation owt of the disposition of the 
 enemie : wheruppon the Earl of Clanrickard, that was with 
 the marshall, importuned him exceedingly to fight, and the Lord 
 deputie sent to drawe vpp the foote with all expedicon close 
 together, who marched as fast as it was possible for them to 
 keepe their ordere : the marshall as soone as a wing of the foote 
 of the vandguard was come vpp vnto him, and Sir Henrye 
 Power with his Regiment drawn ouer the fFoard, aduanced with 
 some 1 00 horse, accompanied with the Earl of Clanrickard and 
 Sir Henry Dauers, who commaunded the horsse of the Armie 
 vnder the Marshall, and gaue occation of skermidge on the bogg 
 side with some 100 hargubusheers : the enemie thervppon put 
 out from their battell some of their loose shott and enterteyned 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 33 
 
 the fight, their iij battalions standing firme on thother syde of 
 the bogg : at the fyrst, our loose shott were put vpp close to the 
 horsse, but with a second they bett the enemies loose shott into 
 their battell and withall the marshall with the Earl of Clan- 
 rickard, Sir Richard Greatne, Capten TafFe, and Capten ffleming, 
 with their horsse, offered a chardge on a battell of 1000 foote, 
 and fynding them to stand firme wheeled a little aboute: by 
 this time Sir William Godolphin with the Lord deputies horsse 
 and Capten Mynshall with the Lord Presydents horsse who 
 were appoynted to keepe still agrosse, to annswer all accydents, 
 was come vpp, and Sir John Barkly with two of our 3 bodies of 
 foote ; where vppon the Marshall with the Earl of Clanrickard 
 and the Captens before named, chardged agayne the Reere of 
 the same battell, who presently thervppon fell into disorder and 
 brake, and all the enemies horsse fled : all this while the van- 
 guard of the enemies, in which were Tirrell and the Spaniards 
 stood firme vppon a bogg on the right hand, vnto whome 
 within calliver shott the Lord deputie had drawen vpp our 
 Reere vppon a little hill, and willed them to stand firme till they 
 receaued direction from him, but perseaveing that grosse draw- 
 ing between our men that were following the execution, and 
 thother bodies of foote, he drewe vpp that squadron commaunded 
 by Capten Roe to chardge them in fflancke ; whervppon they 
 instantly drewe off and in a great grosse marched to the topp of 
 the next hill and ther for a little time made a stand : the Reere 
 of the enemies being in the retreite the van went off with fewe 
 slayne, but with the losse of many of their Armes : their battell, 
 being the greatest boddie, was put all to the sworde, and not 
 aboue some 60 escaped : the vanguard, who went last of, were 
 broken vppon the topp of the hill : the Irishe for the most parte 
 quitt the Spaniards ; who making a stand were broke by the 
 
34 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Lord Deputies troupe and most of them killed, O Campo the 
 chiefe commaunder taken prisoner by the Cornett [blank space"] 
 Capten AUforaes and fortie soldiers taken prisoners, by such as 
 followed the execution, which contynued a mile and a halfe and 
 left ther, onely tyred with killing : there were of the Irishe 
 Rebells about 1200 dead bodies lefte in the place, and as we 
 heard from themselues about 800 hurt, wherof many of them 
 dyed that night: they left about 2000 Armes, their powder 
 dromes and 9 Ensignes, which was more than euer they had 
 together before : of our syde onely Sir Richard Greames coronett 
 was killed, Sir Henry Dauers hurt, with a sword slyhtly in the 
 foote, Sir William Godolphin a litle rased on the thighe with a 
 halbert, Capten Crofts the scoulmaster with a shott in the back, 
 and not aboue fine or six common soldiers hurt : many of our 
 horsses were kylled, and more hurt. The Earl of Clanrickard 
 had many faire escapes, being shott thorough his garments, and 
 no man did bloudie his sword more than his Lordship that day, 
 and would not suffer any man to take any of the Irishe prisoners 
 but bid them kyll the Rebells : after the retreite was sounded 
 the Lord Deputie did giue the order of knighthood to the Earl 
 of Clanrickard in the fielde, in the midest of the dead boddies, 
 and returning back drew out the whole Army and gaue God 
 thankes for his victorie with theire prayers : the Enemies Army 
 as Alonso o Campo doth assure vs, was 6000 foote, and fiue 
 hundred horsse : there were some of the Irishrie taken prisoners 
 that offered greate raunsomes but presently vppon their bringing 
 to the Campe they were hanged. 
 
LIS MO RE PAPERS. 35 
 
 XIII. Boyle to Andrew Wylde : 1600 (?). 
 
 This is No. 53*, vol. i. It is addressed "To my verie lovinge frend 
 M' Andrew Wylde." The " Great Earl " was punctilious in attending to 
 his debts, but seems frequently to have been unable to pay ofF-hand com- 
 paratively small sums, as here. No. 54, April 8, 1601, is a fall discharge 
 and acquittance by Wylde, — G. 
 
 M"' Wylde, thextreame hard and vnkynde dealing of Capten 
 fFranckeleyn, hath constreyned me after I haue spent and hin- 
 dered my self aboue xx'' (in tarrying onelie to see you paied your 
 money) to goe awaie and leave you vnsatisfied. Nevertheles 
 though he haue delt soe with me, I will not break my creddyt 
 with you, but for to content you, haue lefte heer with my cozen 
 Henry Boyle, to be delivered vnto you, xxxix papers of Sylck, 
 which will, according M' Champen of London bridg his offer, 
 amount to xxj'' ; which rather then you should be vnfurnished 
 I praie sell awaie to paie your self. But yf yoe do otherwise 
 prouide for you, yf you can save them and bring them along 
 with you to Corcke, I will paie your money with what allow- 
 ance for the chardges, and forbearing therof you will in reason 
 request, & that most thanckfully, fFor thoffice of Searchership of 
 youghaU, I haue yesternight gon thorough therefore : the gent 
 that holds it by pattent wilbe in Irelande, so soon or sooner then 
 your selfe and there his patent is. What I haue don in it is all 
 for you. And in all other matters whatsoeur, wherin I maie 
 stead you, assure yourself of my best and vttermoste furtherance, 
 as efFectuall as any frend you haue, & what I haue that will 
 pleasure you shalbe commaunded. And so praying you to keep 
 my departure secret, and to excuse my not bidding you farewell, 
 with my heartiest commendacons to your self and good M" 
 
36 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Wylde, I betake you to god, whome I pray to send vs many 
 merry meetings : London in post haste this 21"' of May : your 
 loving & moste assured frend to vse R. Boyle. 
 
 XIV. Deed of Dunbeacon Eyrie of Hawks: 1601. 
 
 TJiis is No. 62, vol. i., and is endorsed, " Donell M° ffynen o Mahowns deed 
 of dunbeacon, to Richard Boyle gent." The " Lismore Papers " abound 
 with notices of hawks and hawking. See Introduction to the present vol. 
 and Notes and Illustrations. — G. 
 
 Be it knowne vnto all men by these presents, that I donell m° 
 fFynen o Mahowney of dunbeacon, in yvehaghe [Iveagh ?] in 
 the county of Corck gent, for and in consideracon of the former 
 vndoubted tytle, and interest that Richard Boyle gent, Clarcke 
 of the counsell of Monnster hath in the estate, fFee symple, in 
 the said Castle and Towne of dunbeacon and in the three plough 
 lands therevnto belonging, with the Eyery of ffaulcons thereon 
 breeding, and other the Royalties, members and appurtenances : 
 As also for dyvers other great and especiall causes and considera- 
 cons mee therevnto principally movinge, haue remysed, released 
 and quite claymed, lyke as by those presents I doe, for mee my 
 heires and assignes, and every of them, remyse, release, forgoe, 
 and for ever quite claime, to the said Richard Boyle, being in 
 the full lawful! and peacable possession therof, and to his heires 
 and assignes for ever, all my right, tytle, claime, estate, vse, pos- 
 session and demand, which I the said donell M*^ fiynen o 
 Mahowne my heires or assignes or any other for vs, or in our 
 names, or to our vses, haue, had, or hereafter maie haue or of 
 right ought to haue, of, in, or to, the said Castle and Towne of 
 dunbeacon, and the three plough landes therevnto apperteyning 
 or belonginge, with all the right, Royalties, members, and appur- 
 tenances therevnto incident or belonginge. To haue and to 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 37 
 
 hold the premisses, to the said Richard Boyle, his heires and as- 
 signes for ever, freely, absolutely and without condicon : So as 
 neither I the said donell m° fFynen o Mahowny nor my heires 
 or assignes, nor any of vs, nor any other in our names or to our 
 vses, any further right, tytle, clayme, vse, interest, estate, posses- 
 sion or demaund, maie hereafter haue challen dge or demaund in the 
 aboue named castle, Towne and three plough landes of dunbeacon, 
 with the Royalties or appurtenance. But from all right estate 
 and demaund therein are for ever expulsed, barred and excluded 
 by theise presents. And lastly, I the said donell m'= fFynen o 
 Mahowny doe for mee, my heires and assignes, hereby covenant 
 and promise to warrant to the said Richard Boyle his heires and 
 assignes for ever, against mee the said donell my heires and as- 
 signes, and all other that shall or will pretend any interest right 
 or demaund therein for mee my heires or assignes, or in any 
 vnder our, or any of our rights or estates. In wyttnes whereof 
 I the said donell, haue herevnto put my hand and seale the xix* 
 dayof Julij Ano Dom 1601 et Regni Regine Elizabeth etc. 43°. 
 
 Donell mc * ffynen o Mahownes mark. 
 fFor a more wittenes and testimoney of the premisses, I Patrick 
 Martell, Soveraigne of Kinsale, at the earnest suit and request 
 of both the foresaid parties, haue herevnto put my seale of office 
 the day and yeare aboue written. 
 
 Present when the within named donell m"" fFynen o Mahowne 
 signed sealed and deliuered this release as his deed and seale to 
 the said Richard Boyle, according [to] the tennants and purport 
 hereof, wee whose names are vnder written. 
 
 Patrick Martell, SofFeraing of Kinsale. 
 
 Robert Harpagh, recorder. 
 
 David Roche. James Granntez, 
 
 John Mason. Mathew a Shane roghlaine. 
 
38 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 XV. Boyle to Bruen: 1602. 
 
 This is No. 69 of vol. i., and is endorsed, " my acquittance for x" M"^ 
 Bruen paid Jacob Newman for harry Ellyottes widdoe, which as M' Bruen 
 appointed I repaied Sir Archdecon the xxvj"" of June 1602." No. 68 is 
 a similar letter, asking a John King to give a Thomas Whyte some £y 
 or £% ; also to pay £12 to a M"^ George Goodman, " who is sick and in 
 want of the money." — G. 
 
 Honnest M'' Brewen, I praie make me behowlding vnto you 
 so farr as to deliuer to Jacob Newman servant to Sir Anthonie 
 S' Leger, ten poundes st. which I haue appointed him to deliver 
 to Henry Ellyots widdo, to whome vppon the remayns of a bad 
 bargaine, I ow soe much money ; which I would fayn haue 
 sent word, but the danger of the w^ay bad me mak vse of my 
 frend, which I presume you ar ; and therfor so entreat you to 
 deliuer yt for him, taking his noat acknowledging the same, and 
 vppon notice from you that you haue payd yt, I will vppon sight 
 repay yt, and thankfully acknowledge and endeavor to deserve the 
 kyndnes you shall do me heerin. The M'' Kinseman to whome 
 I will redeliver the money shall wytnes : And so presuming you 
 will not refuse to gratifie me heerin, with remembrance of my 
 best Consideracons I take hasty leave from Corck the 9* of 
 Aprill 1602. 
 
 Your trew loving freind 
 (under my hand) R. Boyle. 
 
 I haue receaued vppon this letter the some of Ten pounds st. 
 
 Jacob Newman. 
 M"^ Boyle I haue receaved this x" of M"' Archedekon and 
 therefore I pray repay it him, and so I will rest 
 
 Your assured very servant 
 
 Edw. Bruen. 
 
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 XVI. Boyle to Sir Robert Cecyll : 1602. 
 
 This is No. 80 of vol. i., and is a draft letter with various erasures in the 
 composition. These I have not deemed it needful to note, as their insertion 
 spoils the sense and sentences. It is endorsed, " To Sir Ro Cecyll 1 7 
 x** 1602, per M"' daniell. Entr'' x." See Introduction to the present vol., 
 and Notes and Illustrations on this interesting letter. — G. 
 
 Right honerable : This bearer M'' Daniell, A worthye 
 preacher of gods word in this Realme, thats long since vnder- 
 taken to translate the New testament into the Irish tong and 
 having now fynished yt, he has Raypaired hether, to Dedicate 
 his Labors to her Sacred majesty as a work worthy so christyan 
 a princes, by whose Soveraigne Authoryte and patronage, he 
 hopeth that god will giue such blessings to the booke, as yt may 
 be a meane to wyn many sowles to the churche of christ ; who 
 for want of knowladge & right vnderstanding in the worde, haue 
 for many hundred yeres wandred in error & supersticions ; out 
 of which hath growne a spirituall famyne & starving of infynet 
 Sowles in this kingdom, besydes so many Lamentable calamities 
 & Confusions in the cyvill government, springing from that 
 Book, as do karrye a fearfull sownde to all posterytyes. He is a 
 naturall borne subiect in this lande, and except hymself there is 
 not any other knowne, who for A generall Linguist and party- 
 cular so in insight in the lerish tungue, was hable to go throwe 
 with this greate worke, having his first instrucions in the vniver- 
 sity of Cambridg, and since by some of our devines heare, hath 
 planted A churche at Caryckfergus, & an other at galwaie in 
 Remote partes in this kingdom ; where he hath Left good im- 
 presions of chrystyanitye ; and soe the tyme of his mynistery 
 there hath brought on those barbarous people in some measure 
 to taste the sweetness of gods word, and distaste their originall 
 
40 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 ydolatry and Supersticons. His manner of Lyfe hath bene 
 without Reproch, And having steade hethervnto [end of line 
 torn away] ambicion to hunt after church \_end of line torn'] bene 
 possted on A meane estate \end of line torn] of Lyving till the 
 Laste yeare that I bestowed [torn] hym A prebend in the 
 church of Stpatrykes [S. Patrick's] falling happely into my 
 gyft ; which is now the only support & mentenance he hath, 
 wherein yt is no small compfort to me that yt Laye in my 
 hands to bestow vppon hym, his chief stay of Lvying : Your 
 honour hath bene alwaies A Serverer of good men of his pro- 
 fession, for which God will not Leave you vnrecompensed ; in 
 which respect I humbly make bolde to Recomend this man to 
 your honerable remembrance, in helping to present hym and 
 this godly work of his to the view of her majesty, to whom nor 
 to any her proyeniters, there hath not beane the Lyke (in my 
 humble opynion) presented before, specially for that yt is a fon- 
 dacon Layd by gods ordennance, to bringe her people of this 
 kingdom, into the waie to know & worship god as they ought, 
 and by tyme, to repurge their harts from the long ouergrown 
 Leprosye in poperye, which hath bene the fatall poyson that 
 still hath carryed them headlong into Rebellions and contempt 
 of her Majesty's sacred gouernment. And so humbly Leaving 
 hym to your honorable wonted favor, I most humbly take 
 Leave : At Dublyn 14 x brs 1602. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 41 
 
 XVII. Same to the Same : Tidings of Tyrone. 
 
 This is No. 80* of vol. i., and is pinned to No. 80, and is also a draft 
 letter. Bad at all times as is Boyle's handwriting, his drafts are doubly bad, 
 being hastily scribbled, and altogether most trying to decipher. — G. 
 
 My duty vsed : your honors packett of the 27 of november 
 was delyvered to me the 14 of this present, late in the night ; 
 and the day foUowinge, after the councell had considered of the 
 generall Letter directed to the Lord Deputy & Councell from 
 your Llordship, I sent all \torn away] his Lordship being then 
 at Athlone, the 16. So \torn] other not of the staff coming of 
 those letters to his Lordships hands : Since my last hear is 
 growne no occasion worthy the advertising, other then that in 
 mounster the Lord president Contyneues A Sharp prosequcion 
 Vpon Tyrrell and the O Sueyllevanes, by which I hear brut in 
 short tyme he will bring those traytors to reason, for that I 
 vnderstand Tyrrell the head of that sept seeketh to shyft him- 
 self from the resydue, seeking to Leave mounster and so Reterne 
 to Leinster, wherein the more to cover his estates he maketh 
 semblance to come to submission. But I hope the Lord Pre- 
 sident, who knoweth hym to the bottom, wilbe wary how to 
 procede with one of his perfydius humor, who many tymes 
 before, vnder such dissembled liberties, hath broken with the 
 states. 
 
 In Leinster, the state of things grow more and more to staby- 
 lyte, for that the O mores and o Connors are in effect worne 
 owt, in such sort as there is no order of other harmes by them, 
 then vppon some weake border, to make nightly stealthes, from 
 which those frontyers haue not bene free even in peaceble 
 tymes : The Cavaneughes and the obrines having bene Lately 
 
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 persued(?), do stand firme, and are not in case to Raise new 
 stirrs, onless they bee [ilkgibk] puffed vpp with some fresh 
 Imaginarie hopes of the coming of Spanyards. 
 
 Owt of Vlster, Litle is written, but much is still expected ; by 
 reason the Archtraytor is come againe into Tyrone, and walketh 
 in the fastnes of glancomkyne and kylloughtoy: Sir Arthur 
 Chichester hath giuen sommons to the garrison to Rise, and 
 having assigned them a Rendezvous, I thinke they are at their 
 worke before now, from [end of 4 lines torn] few daies to heare 
 good newes [torn away] the garrison being devided into [torn 
 away] putt into the fastness by seuerall waies, he [torn] stand 
 long before them, which maketh me hold my former opynion 
 written to your honour, that he will seke to escape owt of the 
 realme, eyther at the wayter of Ban, or some other creke neare 
 Dunluce where the Scott may giue hym a faver in his passage of 
 this : I haue Lately written to Sir Arthure, who I finde to be 
 verye provydent to prevent his escape, for that to take hym, or 
 to Cutt of his head, weare a more Riche and honerable bootye ; 
 and Somethinge I gather by a message Sir Arthure sent me 
 yesternight, that he hath Layde for his headd, which being 
 gotten, will putt end to the warres of Irelande, where, so long 
 as that Rebell Lyveth at Libertye, eyther at hoame or abroade, 
 he will still Remeyne A head of new Revokes, and bee a ground 
 to kepe her Majesty in extraordinary & perpetuall expences of 
 her treasor. God protect your honor : In hast at Dubleyn 17 
 Xbrs 1602. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 43 
 
 XVIII. The Corporation of Cork on the Accession 
 OF James I. and Proclamation there : 1603. 
 
 This is No. 86 of vol. i., and is one of a number of important historical 
 documents that shed fresh light on the state of Ireland, and on the accession 
 of James I. to the throne. See Introduction to the present vol. and Notes 
 and Illustrations on this and succeeding MSS. It is endorsed, " A decla- 
 racon of the proceeding of the Comisioners and Councell of this province 
 with the Maior and Corpor'ans of Corke in the publishing of the proclai- 
 macon for Kinge James the vj* Kinge of Scotland Kinge of England, 
 frdunce and Ireland, &c." This is, if possible, a still worse example of the 
 deplorable handwriting of the " Great Earl," being erased and interlined in 
 the most vexatious manner, and with such flabby sentence-making as to be 
 barely intelligible. Cromwell's most chaotically-reported speeches are sanity 
 itself compared with this narrative. I have done my best to decipher and 
 reproduce the actual wording, disentangled from erasures. — G. 
 
 Sir George Thornton, one of the Comisioners of the gouer- 
 ment of mownster, and the Councell of the same province, re- 
 ceaving the xj* day of Aprill 1603, about 2 in the afternoone, 
 by Capten Robert Morgan, in letters and writen proclamacons 
 from the Lord Deputy and councell for the proclayming of 
 King James the vj*, King of Scotland, by the name of James 
 the first Kinge of England, fraunce and Ireland : Did afore the 
 reading of the said letters and the contents of the. proclamacon, 
 send to Come speedily vnto him, M"' Justice Saxey and M'' 
 Justice Cumerford and instantly for the Maior of Corke, to haue 
 the assistaunce and Countennance of hym and the Corporacon 
 in the performing of that act ; and vpon his Coming vnto them, 
 being accompanied with W" Mead recorder of the cittie and 
 dyvers other of the aldermen therof, they Layde open and 
 shew^ed vnto him asw^el the letters as the tenor of the procla- 
 macon, praying his company, countenance & assistance as in 
 
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 that case was requiset ; wherevnto the Maior answred that he 
 and the Corporacon weare bound vnto and wold stand for the 
 crowne of England, and ymediatly the said Recorder (hardly- 
 admitting the maior to end his Speche, so begon) did offr forth 
 himself, and saie, that in matters of this Nature they must not 
 rashly enter into the execution of busynesses, but first wold 
 repaire to their Towne house, and there (desyring to haue with 
 them a Copie of the letter, and the proclamacon) they wold 
 consider therof, and advise what by them was fittest to be don ; 
 pretending examples for the lyke in preecedent tymes : to which 
 spech M' Justice Saxey taking some dislike, and making answer, 
 that the course which they ment to take was not meete, in 
 regard of the expedience that was to be vsed in this cause, with 
 some particuler reasons to incite the Maior to ioyne with them 
 in the speedy doing, [he] said that he would not do yt or con- 
 sent thervnto before they had thereof advized with their 
 brethern : the saide Recorder, much forgetting himself, alledging 
 they had more to loose [by] neglecting the duties he ought to 
 haue manifested then all that were present were worth ; wher- 
 vnto the Justices replyed that obedience to the cause in question, 
 and to the councell of the province now was onely to be re- 
 quired, and that they were not to dispute or contradict what 
 was required but to yeald therin assistance thervnto : wherevppon 
 the Recorder did violently contradict M"' Justice Saxey, and 
 vsing many discidedly rebellious speches, M' Boyle, the clarke 
 of the councell, openly advise[d] M' Recorder to be veary 
 respective in a matter of such high consequence, telling him he 
 marvauled that he would so vnseasonably breake owt into such 
 passion in that rufeaniely sorte. He replyed, that though he 
 wold not breake forth there weare many that wold be ready to 
 break forth : to which Sir George Thornton tould him yt were 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 45 
 
 good he did expound himself in those his words & lyes. Sir 
 George Thornton and the Councell with him, being vnwilling 
 to haue mutenyes occasioned (which yt well seameth the Towne 
 was willing to imbrew) willed the Maior to go forward with his 
 intencon, and to lett them knowe what they resolued. 
 
 In their consultacon : The maior and the rest of his brothers 
 departed directly to their meeting howse [and] did promise that 
 within half an howr they wold meete with the Councell at the high 
 crosse ; whervppon Sir George Thornton and the said Councell 
 with him, intending the present publishing of the said proclamacon 
 and expecting the Maiors speedyie repaire vnto them, did cause the 
 Dromes to be asembled hither, and waliced forth themselfes vnto 
 the said high cross in the said Cittie of Corke; where staying more 
 then half an howr for the Maior coming to accompany them ; 
 Sir George and the Councell finding slacknes in the Maior, sent 
 Capten flowr vnto him to know his determynacon, and what he 
 had resolued, and withall to let him knowe that they stayde for 
 them ; but Capten flower stayeing somewhat longer, M"^ Boyle 
 was sent to know what they had resolued, and to bring their an- 
 swer ; to whome the Maior said that when they might see the 
 Lord deputy and Councells orrigenall letters, receave a copie of 
 the letter and vnder Sir George Thornton and the Councells 
 hands, and of the proclamacon, they wold consider therof and 
 within half an hour they shold receaue their answer. M"^ Boyle 
 with this returned, and thervpon Sir George and the Councell sent 
 by M'' Boyle the letter, a copie therof, and a proclamacon, and left 
 them with the Maior : by this tyme neare an hour was spent and 
 the Councell walking vp and downe, aftar a whyle longer stay 
 [they] sent againe the said M"^ Boyle, and with him M"^ Walley, 
 to tel the Maior that the half howrs tyme before lymyted, was 
 expyred, and to vnderstand their resoluance what they ment to 
 
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 do therin : who answered that they wold be pardoned vntill they 
 had better considered therof, and within half an hour they wold 
 come vnto them : the answer caused the Councell to remayne 
 still at the place where the publycacon shold haue been made, 
 and after neare 3 qarters of an howrs tyme attending there. Sir 
 George and the Councell thinking yt meete not to stand vpon 
 any further dilatory ansuer, appointted M'' Justice Cumerford, 
 M"' Boyle, Capten Morgan and John Walley to goe vnto the 
 Maior to knowe his determynat resolucon ; who coming vnto 
 the Maior and his brothers in the towne howse (which was so 
 full as way was forced for them) M"^ Justice Cumerford told the 
 Maior that they weare sent by the Councell vnto him to receaue 
 from him the ansuer ; that the Councell might rest satisfied withall, 
 for the performaunce of this buysynes in hand, so needful to be 
 hastned, and because the Maior shold not ansuer so slightly vnto 
 the Councell, as might move any further sending vnto him. M'' 
 [Justice] Comerford did vrge the Maior to a resolut ansuer by that 
 particuler, namely that yt cold not be vnknowne vnto him and 
 some of the wisest that sate by him, how needfuU a thing it was 
 for the setling of the peoples harts to haue expedicon vsed in this 
 service, being a matter agreed vpon (as was apparrannd) in Eng- 
 land, and from there directed vnto Dublin, and So by the Lord 
 Deputy and Councell from thence transmitted hither : And also 
 that yt was a thing that concerned him and the corporacdn to 
 haue expedited, that the towne might be both the better settled, 
 and secured, and lastly that he himself (the Maior) was appointed 
 but as an instrument to ioyne with the Comisioners and Coun- 
 cell in pubHshing of the same ; wherby he wold not asume vnto 
 himself the absolute pouer of doing yt within the corporacon : 
 to which the Maior replyed, that his afFecon to the Government 
 of England was as great as any mans, and that he knowing not 
 
LIS MO RE PAPERS. 4.7 
 
 that England was the place from whence he and that Corpora- 
 con weare originally descended, yt behoved him and the rest, 
 like reasonable creatures, to look backe vnto the proppyety of 
 that, and, to be advised, and not to enter to affect the same, vn- 
 till they had so prepared and made themselues ready to perform 
 yt with solempnyties : whervpon Capten Morgan said that 
 within one howr aftere the Lord Deputy had receaued the know- 
 ledge hereof forth of England, his Lordship caused yt forthwith 
 to be published, and proclaymed, the Maior of Dublin, and 
 dy~vers Llords and gent being asembled and present, not resting 
 for the prov[id]ing of any Solempietie, but excusing yt by reason 
 of the necesety therof, that wold not admitt delay, vntill the 
 coronacon of the said King, when all meete matters belonging 
 thervnto shold be rememberd ; and withall Gapten morgan re- 
 membered vnto the Maior that therle of ormond in his own 
 Sight had don yt at the Carricke, and did not doubt but that yt 
 wold recaue lyke expedecon without any opposition in all other 
 parts of the kingdom : then the Recorder taking vnto him a 
 liberty to speake, said that though yt wold be noated and ob- 
 serued what he spake, and did expect to heare againe of yt, which 
 he wold iustifie in any place wheresoeuer, yet he wold speake 
 what he thought meete herein, and seeing he was placed in the 
 Seate by the Maior vnworthyly, he wold advise the Corporacon 
 what in his opinion was fittest to be don by the Corporacon : 
 he did persuade the Maior that he shold not consent to the pub- 
 lishing of the proclamacon before proclamacon weare made for 
 a meete solempnizing thereof, sayeing further that he and the rest 
 of the Corporacon theare present had more to loose than the 
 rest there ; straight expounding his own meaning, and said that 
 they had the Corporacon to keepe as their peculer chardg : be- 
 sydes that, said he, was their part of the worlde ; and which 
 
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 they wold not loose for a world ; and that knowing now in 
 what condicon all comisioners weare, none had absolutly power 
 to do the same or any other act within the Towne but they, so 
 as he wished the councell not to proceed therein as devided from 
 the Towne, because a respite of some 3 or foure days would 
 breed no great preiudice to the seruice therof, and within that 
 tyme they wold be resolued (and that there was no words in the 
 Lord Deputys and Councells letters requiring any great haste) and 
 [they would be] prepared to make them absolute answer : to 
 which M"^ [Justice] Comerford seeing their Townesmen all 
 drawn into armes, and a guard of them standing around at the 
 door of their Tolsell, asked the Maior & Recorder that yf the 
 Councell did effect the Lord Deputy and Councells said direcons : 
 whether they wold condiscend therevnto ; who said that the 
 power thereof was in themselues, and therefore did not hold yt 
 good yf yt the Councell did yt within the Corporacon without 
 their consent : this speche as was conceaved being somewhat 
 doubtfuU, to be better satisfied of their meaning, M'' Boyle, 
 asking the Maior & Recorder those three questions, viz whether 
 they wold giue interruption to the service in hand and to the 
 publishing of the said proclamacons and proclayming the King, 
 if Sir George [Thornton] should, without their presence or con- 
 sent (which was muche desired) proceed to perform that which 
 both the states of England and Irelande had commaunded them : 
 whether in regard of the solempnety by them spoken of (which 
 he said he could not beleev was the cause of their delay) there 
 might some great matter be drawn into the town within three 
 daies to grace those doings, Corck was not presently stored with : 
 and from whence within that tyme yt should be gotten. And 
 towching the long tyme they took to debate and resolue what 
 they would do in that they had alledged they were a boddy polli- 
 
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 tique and could not err, he also demaunded, whether they did 
 not know and beleeve that the States of England and Ireland, 
 who had decreed & commaunded what should be don (which 
 expedition of tyme was precious & onely obedience in them 
 was required nowe), were not of as sownde Judgment, and freer 
 from errors in their vnderstanding then that corporacon, who 
 had neyther cause, power nor abillety to alter what was by them 
 so iustly and judicially don and decreed. To the first of which 
 proposicions, the Recorder answered that he knew all former 
 Comissioners and power ceased [and] was extinct by her Majestys 
 death, and that none were officers or had power to publish the 
 proclamacon but thofficer of the cytty who held the same to him 
 and his successers, between whome and the former Comissioners 
 they would not be glad to haue contention but for their own 
 parts they would neyther proclayme nor give way to the making 
 of the proclamation till they had 3 or 4 daies consulted & re- 
 solved theron : that to the seconde they had considered therof 
 and resolued amongst themselves before the question was pro- 
 pounded : And as for the laste, experience vppon former changes 
 had taught them what was meet to be don, and they would pro- 
 ceed accordingly, and that they would still be trew to the crown 
 of Englande ; and herewith shewing themselves vnwilling to be 
 further expostulated withall. Justice Comerford and the rest 
 departed the town and whilest all memories were fresh they 
 joynetly with one agreement reported to Sir George Thornton 
 and M"^ Cheef Justice what is before expressed, and corny tted the 
 same to wryting as above declared. 
 
so LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 XIX. Further Narrative of the Corporation of 
 Cork's Refusal to Proclaim James I. : 1603. 
 
 This is No. 87, and is endorsed "12 Aprill 1603. A coppie of the 
 Comissioners letters to the L. Deputy and Councell. 
 
 " With the declaration of the proceedings of the Comissioners w"' the 
 Maior and Corporacon aboute the proclayming of the kinge. 
 
 " Aprill et May 1603. 
 
 " Speciall noates and Lres to the L. Deputy and L. President, aboute the 
 proclayminge, of the Kings Renewinge Comissions and other Complaintes 
 about the Disorders of Corke." This and preceding, and other related 
 papers give facts and details hitherto unknown, or at least unmentioned by 
 historians. This present MS. is a more exact and better worded account of 
 the transactions set forth in No. S6, which — fairly copied out — was doubt- 
 less the ' discourse ' named herein as enclosed. — G. 
 
 It may please your Lordship, Sir Charles Wylmot and our 
 selves, vpon some Misdemenors and contempte don againste the 
 Aucthoritie yor Lordship comitted vnto vs, humbhe offered the 
 true reporte thereof to your Honorable consideracon, of vi^hich 
 we conceive that the interposicion of theis greate causes, have 
 given stay both to the Mesenger and your Lordships answer ; 
 in thexpectacon whereof we contynewe ready to performe your 
 pleasure. Your Lordships and the Councells letters of the viij"" 
 of Aprill, were in Sir Charles Wylmot's absence in Kery, de- 
 liuered vnto vs, with the Proclamacons, the xj* of the same, 
 aboute two of the clock in thafternoone, by handes of Capten 
 Robert Morgan ; which we no sooner received but we ac- 
 quainted the Maior and Cittizens of Corck, shewing him your 
 Lordships letters and the proclamacons, expectinge they wolde 
 haue Joyned with vs in the Solempne and ready publishinge 
 thereof; which they not onelie refused to do but drewe them- 
 selves all into Armes, kepte stronge guardes vpon theire portes. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 51 
 
 withstood thentrance of such soldiers into the cittie as were 
 lodged without the suburbes and absolutelie forbade vs to pub- 
 lishe the Same, with other contemptuous words and Actions 
 able to haue raised dangerous muteny had not our patience, 
 which was put to th'uttermost proofe, given way to theire in- 
 solencies, the particularities whereof th'enclosed discours will 
 trulie relate. Then whilest this greate cause was in this oppo- 
 sicon leaste other corporacons shoulde by theire exsample be 
 induced to imitacon. We loste no tyme but hastened away our 
 Letters the same afternoone we received your pleasures, to Sir 
 Charles Wylmot, advizeing him presently to publishe the pro- 
 clamacon in Kery and to drawe withall the forces there to 
 Lymerick, to secure that cittie. We also before nighte posted 
 away mesengers to the seuerall Maiors, SherifFes and Officers of 
 the seuerall Counties, Citties, and Townes of the province, with 
 the proclamacons and the Coppies of our direccons sent by your 
 Lordship. With Such Warrant as was meete for effecting of 
 your comaund : parte of our Mesengers are this daie retorned, 
 and the proclamacon gladlie received without any stay or im- 
 pediment any where for oughte we can yet learne but within 
 Corck. Who also this day haue made staye of suche Boates as 
 were Laden with Victualls and municons to be carried hence 
 downe to the forte of Halebowlaige, alleadging the peece is 
 within theire firanchizes and was made by the president (who 
 was backed with authoritie) withoute theire consents, and that it 
 is meetest to be in the possession of that Cittie : by which Staye 
 we are forced to Convey victualls and munitions aboute from 
 Kinsale for the Supplie thereof. Vpon which seurall apparant 
 contempts of all obedience and aucthoritie, they neither having 
 nor giving vs any hope that they wold either publishe the 
 proclamacon themselues nor assurance that we should be suf- 
 
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 fered to do it within the Cittie, we called to vs the Lord Roche, 
 and assembling all the gent thereabouts to the nomber of 500 
 persons to a hill neere the Towne, with the best solempnities we 
 could we caused our Souraigne Lorde the Kinge of Scotland to 
 be proclaymed King of England, fFrance, and Ireland, by the 
 name of Kinge James the ffirste, at which all the contrie gave 
 vs greate testymonyes of Joye and gladnes as could be wished ; 
 but there came not one townesman to heare or Applaude the 
 Same : the punishement whereof and the course to be holden 
 therein we humblie praie may be speedy, and in such manner as 
 in your Honorable Conscince shall seeme fytting. But foras- 
 much as her Majesty's death hath given end to all Aucthoritie 
 for the governement of this province, vpon which advantage the 
 Maior and recorder builde the foundacon of all theire proceed- 
 inges. Wee humbly beseeche your Lordship to take Some pre- 
 sent course for establishing of the government and renewing the 
 comissions for the peace and holding of Assizes and Goale de- 
 liuery, that we may not contynewe here inferior to the Maior of 
 Corcke as he nowe vaunteth we are. In thexpectation of your 
 pleasure to be signefied herein we remayne 
 
 Your Lordships humble and faithful servaunts. 
 
 Cork xij° Aprill 1603. 
 
 XX. Further Papers on the Same : 
 
 This is No. 90 of vol. i., and is endorsed, "xix Aprilis 1603. The coppie 
 of the letter to the L. President. Sumery of the rest written to the L. 
 Deputy." This necessarily is very much a repetition of No. 87 ; but as it 
 contains many new points of detail on the doings of the magistrates and 
 others in Cork, it is reproduced in extenso. It is in a worse handwriting 
 than even Boyle's others, and being a draft, is often ungrammatical and 
 formless from interlineations and alterations. — G. 
 
LIS MO RE PAPERS. 53 
 
 It may please your Lordship, vpon our first entrie into this 
 government the authoritie your Lordship was pleased to procure 
 the Lord Deputy to comitt vnto us, was questioned & con- 
 tempned by the Maior of Corcke, whereof we sent notice to 
 your Lordship to Dublin ; but your departure hapeneng before 
 our mesenger came and we fearing your Lordships absence, by 
 other letters sent to the Lord Deputy at that instant, complayned 
 his misdemeanour to the Lord deputie : whom our mesenger 
 attending three weeks, is now retorned without answer ; and 
 therefore wee send your Lordship the coppie of the said letters, 
 that vpon the pervsall of the contents of them your Lordship 
 may provide suche remedy as in your honourable Judgement 
 shalbe meete. [On] xj"" of the moneth of Aprill, about 2 of the 
 clock in the afternoone we receaved letters from the Lord De- 
 puty and Councell delivered vs by Capten Morgan signifieing 
 her Majestys death ; and with them new proclamacons for pro- 
 clayminge the King to be her Majestys lawful heire & successor : 
 whome wee no sooner Received but we acquainted the Maior 
 and Cittizens of Corcke, showeing them the Lord Deputy and 
 Councell's letters, and the same proclamacon : expecting they 
 wold haue Joyned with vs in the solempne and ready publishing 
 thereof, as with our best perswasions we incyted them to doe ; 
 which they not onelie refused but having some taste of yt before 
 vs, they were prepared and drewe themselves all into Armes ; 
 kepte stronge guards vpon theire portes, which withstoode then- 
 trance of such souldars into the Citty as were lodged without in 
 the Suburbes, and absolutely forbade vs to publish the same, with 
 other contemptuous wordes and actions able to haue raysed dan- 
 gerous muteny, had not our patience (which was put to th' 
 uttermost proofe) for want of power, given way to theire inso- 
 lances : the particulars whereof thenclosed discourse will lyke- 
 
54 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 wise trulie relate. Then whilest this greate Cause was subiect to 
 this opposicon, least other corporacons should by theire example 
 be induced to mueteny, wee lost no tyme, but hastened away our 
 letters the same afternoone wee receaved thother, to Sir Charles 
 Willmot, who was then in Kery at the seedg of the Castle of 
 Balhngarry in Courlons Countrey ; advertising him presently to 
 publishe the proclamacons in Kery, and to drawe with all the 
 forces there to Lymericke, to secure that Citty. We also be- 
 fore nighte poasted away messengers to all the Maiprs, SherifFes, 
 and Officers of the seuerall cyttes Townes & Counties of the 
 provence, with the proclamacon and Copies of the direccons 
 sent us by the Lord deputy and Councell, with such warrants as 
 wear meete for effecting his Lordships comaunds in that behalf- 
 All our messengers speedelie returned, and the protlamacons 
 were gladly Receaved and the ffacte performed, without any 
 stay or impediment any where for ought we can learjie but in 
 Corcke. Who also the xiij* daie of this moneth made stay of 
 all such boates as were laden with victualls and municion to be 
 carried hence downe to the fort at Halbowling ; Alledging the 
 place is within theire franchzes and was made by your Lord- 
 ship (who (as they terme it) was backed with authoritie) with- 
 out theire consents or any warrant to theire knowledges and that 
 it is meetest to be in the possession of that citie ; by which 
 stay we were enforced to convey victualls and munition aboute 
 from Kinsale for the supplie thereof: which for the reason en- 
 sewing we after made stay of. Vpon which seurall apparant 
 contempts of all obedience and aucthoritie : ■ they neither having 
 nor giveing vs any hope that they wold eit^ier publishe the pro- 
 clamacon themselves, nor asurance that wej should be suffered to 
 do it within the cittie ; we called to vs /the Lord Roche and 
 assembling all the gentlemen thereabouts tq the nomber of 500 
 
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 persons to a hill neere the towne where the xiij"' of this moneth, 
 with the best solempnitie we cold M' Cheef Justice reading the 
 same, we caused our Souraigne Lord the King of Scotland to be 
 proclaymed King also of England fFrance and Ireland, by the 
 name of King James the ffirste. At which all the contry gave 
 vs greate testymoneyes of Joye and gladnes as cold be wished ; 
 but there came not one townsman to heare or applaude the 
 same. The xiiij"" of this moneth, when they perceaved that 
 the King was proclaymed in all other cytties and Townes they 
 did the lyke with as lyttle chardg or trivmph as might be. And 
 forasmuch as her Majestys death hath given end to all auctho- 
 ritie for the government of this province : vpon which advan- 
 tage the maior and Recorder build the foundation of all theire 
 proceedings : we humblie besought his Lordship to take some 
 present order for establishing of the government, and renewing 
 the comissioners of the peace and holding of assizes and Goale 
 deHuery, that we might not Contynewe inferior to the Maior of 
 Corck as he nowe vaunteth we are : ther being no aucthorety 
 now in force but his. And fynding no redrese in Abuses (by 
 meanes of the interposicon of these great causes) at his Lord- 
 ships handes, we persuaded your Lady [Carew] that we might 
 make vse of M'' walley's travaile to dublin : fearing leaste your 
 Lordships power, by graunting a new aucthorety to vs thence, 
 might be impeached And by them [= Lady Carew and M' 
 Walley] we cold not but further give his Lordship to vnder- 
 stand : And so we also laid open vnto your Lordship, the increas- 
 ing insolency of this Citty of Corke ; which is growne to suche 
 a heighte as they haue not forborne the x"" of this moneth to 
 raze and scrape out the Tenn Comandements written in the 
 Church of the Cathedrall churche thereof and newe washed and 
 painted on all the images that remayned in the same, publishing 
 
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 that the day following they wold go Solempnelie on procession 
 throughout the Cittie and haue masse sunnge openly in the 
 churches : vpon notice wherof we employed M"^ Justice Comer- 
 forde and M"^ Boyle clearck of the Councell to the maior, and 
 they deliuerd to his knowledg and consideracon the manie in- 
 conveniences that theire Contempts & want of due regard to 
 the Kinges Lawes the statutes and supreame aucthoritie wold 
 pull vpon them ; laying nakedlie and feelinglie before his eies 
 the danger of the action, and what construcions they and theire 
 disobedience might be interpreted withall : to thend that either 
 this advise mighte divert them or really take away from them all 
 cuUor of excuse ; which message vpon the present deliuery, 
 made so deepe an impression on the Maior, as he volunturlie 
 tooke a Corporall oathe on the bible that although all the 
 Towne were resolued to haue the massees publiquelie sett vp, 
 and that he was not able to restreyn them from that which they 
 loved better than theire lives, yet thoughe he loved it aswell as 
 any of them, he wold forbeare to come there or be scene with 
 them, praying M"' Boyle to remember it, that when he did other- 
 wise, that he wold call him knave and spytte in his face. All 
 this notwithstandinge, the dale following being Saturday, a Sub- 
 legate from the pope and a nomber of shaven preestes which 
 flock dayly hether, bieing gathered together, they had the Crosse 
 carried like a Standard before them throughout the streets. 
 There waxe lightes and all other supersticious ceremonies, within 
 the former ignorant age, were currant : the Maiors lady being 
 absent, was Supplied with the personal! presence of William 
 Meade the Recorder, who with his brother John Mead (nowe 
 gone to dublin) were the principal! instruments of these con- 
 tempts of aucthoritie and inovacons of Religion : And being 
 attended with 3000 persons at least, and guarded with 200 
 
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 Armed men at the church dore, and 50 weaponed men at cache 
 porta, after procession was ended and the churche (as they call 
 it) sanctified newely, entered the same & hearde masse. The 
 afternoone of the said daie there was a Townesman buried with 
 all papisticall Ceremonies ; whereat M"' Maior forgetfuU of his 
 oathe was present, and goeing with greate pompe the next day 
 to the buriall of a preest, had the Kings Sword and the badges of 
 Office carried before him ; and (which is to be tymelie pre- 
 ventede) the whole towne haue made an association, and on 
 Sonday last receeved the Sacrament to spend theire lyves and 
 estates in defence of this theire profession ; allowing, or rather 
 invyting thenglishe to come to heare publique Sermons ; but to 
 the masse none may be admitted, saving those that are first re- 
 concyled to the Churche of Rome. This vnbrideled Liberty 
 giveth them a Bowldenes to abuse thenghshe and to offer 
 hourelie matter of quarrell, but wee wanting force and auctho- 
 ritie, do patientelie endure all in a longing expectation of remedy 
 either from his Honour or your Lordship. The ffort at Hale- 
 bowling, which comandeth the Harbor, is a greate bridle vpon 
 them, and the matter that is nowe in Secret debate amongset 
 themselues is howe to be possessed of that, by guile or force ; yet 
 we doubt not but our care shall retorne theire hopes ydle. but 
 they will not let vs carry above a weeks victualls at once for so 
 many men as do pbrelie guard the Same, out of the kinges stoar 
 heer. Sir Charles Willmot hath possessed himself of the Castles 
 of Ballingarry and Adort [Ardfert?] in Kery, being the last 
 peeces that were held oute in mounster against his Majesty. 
 Ma*^ Morris was escaped ere the forces came before the Castle : 
 (and was not there when Capten Boyes sat down about the 
 Castle, as was confidently affirmed) nor caniust (?) his brother, 
 with Oliver Hussey, Garrett Roe, Burke and the rest he 
 I. I 
 
58 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 hath lefte presente at Castlemayne. We expected him heere 
 this daie from limericke. But we hold it not meete nor saufe 
 to put both the Comissioners within the Towne at once ; con- 
 ceiving it better to leave Sir Charles Wylmot without the ports 
 with the forces vnder his comaunds, and for me, Sir George 
 Thornton, to remayne within the Cittie, aswell to temporize 
 with the wilfuU humours of the Townesmen as to haue care 
 both to the preservacon and meete preserueing of the Kings 
 Treasure, municon, and victualls : the Burden whereof lieth very 
 heavy vpon vs. Againe our good Lord, thextreamities where- 
 vnto thenglishe are made subiecte is the more intollerable for 
 that the town all generally despite and resiste the newe Standard 
 mony, and will parte with nothing at any rates in efFecte there- 
 fore. fFurthre, your Lordship maie be pleased to vnderstand 
 that [when] fowr of the foot companies, which vppon thend of 
 the Service in Kery came yesterday to Corck, the neerest waie 
 over the mounteyn, the Maior at their Comyng would not Suffer 
 them to be victualled owt of the Kinges stoar, except we wold 
 first give the Maior assurance for their departure owt of the 
 Subberbes and liberties of Corck this day morning ; and except 
 we had condyscended therevnto they would not have permytted 
 any victualls to be brought owt of their portes ; which (notwith- 
 standing we yealded therevnto) their victualling was as a sute by 
 great intercession, obteyned of them. 
 
 We humbly praie your Lordship to let these their contempts 
 of all Supreme aucthorety, by the president of tJieir pvnishment, 
 be made fearfuU, in order aswell to redeem your honour as our 
 reputacons, and that you wilbe pleased to provyde such smarting 
 medecynes as may brydle them & terrefy others from such 
 disobedience, and that with such expedicion, as maie assure those 
 parts of the world that you are alive, and which is more, that 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 59 
 
 you are your self: in expectacon whereof we will continew 
 thexercise of our patience, heer we thought to conclude our 
 letters, but that we may not forget to move your Lordship to 
 procure warrant for the continewance of power, in the payment 
 heer, to issue the 2000" vppon the Comissioners warrant allowed 
 yearly to bear thextraordenaries of this province, the which wee 
 will draw out in the thriftiest fashion that may be : the want 
 wherof, addeth a great maynie [trials] to our weak commaund. 
 And so pouring out our continewall praiers for the continewance 
 & increase of your Lordship's hands, and that the Maior & espe- 
 cially the Recorder of Corck may not be forgotten, we humbly 
 take leav from Corck the xix* of Aprill 1603. 
 
 XXL Points of Law violated by the ' Cittizens ' of 
 Cork : 1 603. 
 
 This is No. 92 (No. 91 being almost identical with No. 90) of vol i. and 
 is endorsed, " M"^ Justice Comerford " faintly. — G. 
 
 Certen poynts wherein the Cittizens of Corcke disobeyed and 
 transgressed the Lawe. i . ffirste, in that they Sodenlye tooke 
 armes, and wilfuUie refused to proclayme the Kings Majesty, 
 King, according to the Right honorable the Lord Deputie's 
 warrant, addressed to the Comissioners and councell of Moun- 
 ster, and to the Maiors and principall officiers of Citties and 
 townes, in that behalf. 
 
 2. iFor that they before the King was proclaymed King, after 
 notice had of the Lord Deputy and Councells direction, made 
 stale of his Majesties Artillery victualls and mvnicon, which 
 were appointed to be sent to halebowling, till twoe peeces that 
 remayned there, for the defence of that fForte, were removed 
 therehence to Corck. 
 
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 3. They made staie of the King's mvnicon and victualls, 
 which were appointed by the comissioners to be sent and de- 
 liuered for the guarding of that fForte, alledging that the cus- 
 todye thereof belonged vnto them : and that it was fortified 
 without their consents. 
 
 4. They carryed armes by day and by night, to the terroure 
 & disturbance of the Kings good Subiects, within that towne, 
 and incurradgement of the inconstant late reclaymed Subiects to 
 revoult. 
 
 5. They hallowed their churches and publickly established 
 the service inhibited by the lawes and statutes of this Realme, 
 contemptuouslye. 
 
 6. They refused to receave the Armye into the Cittye and 
 thratned the Comandar of them, and inhibited them to lodge 
 in the Subvrbes without the gates, as formerly they were 
 accustomed. 
 
 7. They denyed to give victualls or mvnicon to the armye, as 
 yt should seame to force them to breacic and disperce, as by the 
 sequell of ther actions appeareth. 
 
 8. They mvnted the Kings artyllery, and battered with great 
 shott Shandon Castle where the Lady Carewe laie, and the 
 Lord Bushops house, where the comissioners kept and slewe 
 M'' SuclifFe the preacher with a shott. 
 
 9. They tooke the keyes and custodye of the victualls and 
 mvnicon from the Kings officers and restrayned their liberties, 
 and disposed thereof as to them seamed good. 
 
 10. They raised and broke downe the Kings fForte, which 
 was erected to defend the Cittie againste foren power, as was 
 well known to that Corporacon. 
 
 11. They assaulted dyvers tymes the Kings armye [and] slue 
 and wounded dyvers of his highnes souldiers. 
 
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 12. They banished all the englyshmen, inhabiting within that 
 Cyttie, that did not ioyne with them, and comitted others to 
 their gaoles. 
 
 13. Their priests and fFriers did teach and preach publickly 
 sedecious doctryne to the people, without controlment. 
 
 14. Dvyers of the said priests and ffryers were in actuall re- 
 bellion, knowen to them, and by them relyeved, without pardon 
 or protection, as we were crediblie enformed. 
 
 15. They wrote Sedicious letters to diuers noblemen and 
 others of the Kings subiects animating and incuradging them to 
 ioyne with them in all their acts, and to the Maior & principall 
 officers of Citties & Townes. 
 
 16. They having receaved dyuers letters from the Lord 
 Deputy to desist from anoying the souldyors, contemptuously 
 disobeyed his Lordships Comaundments and yelded noe obe- 
 dyence to the Kings Comissioners but still persisted in their 
 wilfuU and disloyal owtradges notwithstandinge the Kings 
 Majesties Roy all aucthoryties. 
 
 17. The Maior, Recorder, and others of the Cittizens of 
 Corck being at a sermon in their Cathedrall Church, a priest 
 publicly preached in their heering that the Kings Majesty was 
 noe perfect King till the Pope confirmed him. [Four lines after 
 ' Kings Majesty ' are completely obliterated so as to be quite 
 undecipherable. — G.] 
 
 XXn, Course of Procedure with the City of Cork : 
 
 1603. 
 
 This is No. 93 of vol. i. It is unendorsed, but reveals itself as from the 
 Commissioners of Munster, as before. No. 94 is a simple Order by the 
 Commissioners for the protection of William and James Barrett, signed by 
 Sir George Thornton and Sir Charles Wilmot. — G. 
 
62 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 It may please your Lordship, according to your direcons, 
 which we will every waie endeavour to performe, we tooke the 
 best course we could for Securing of the Towne of Corcke ; 
 holding a convenment for his Majestys Service, and effecting 
 your comaund to take order for the Kings Majesty and haue 
 here such proporcions of victualling & municon as myght 
 supply all other places neere about, before we attempted to put 
 any soulders [= soldiers] (as your Lordship directed) into the 
 same : wherein Sir George Thorntons residence and treating 
 with them so farre prevailed with them, as a greate parte of the 
 victualls are transported henc to Kijisale. Two casts of Powder 
 being laid aboard & victualls laid thereon, the Maior & 
 Recorder after they had enterteyned vs with many ydle excuses 
 were yesterday [illegible]. The drifte to deteyne it being so 
 palpable, as nothing cold be more evident, after all theire delayes 
 were out, they openly made stay therof and vnshipt it ; the 
 Maior alledging that it was the act of the Corporalty, whose 
 wilfuU humours he had no power to restrayne. And yet those 
 that first entered the barke to take the store out, were the 
 Seruants of the citty and the Maiors owne houshold Seruants. 
 And when they had brought the same on Shoare, we directed 
 warrant to the Maior : the Copie whereof and of his answere 
 wee send your Lordship herewith ; who afterwards notwith- 
 standing carried it into the Towne Stoarehouse, the Maior re- 
 fusinge to suffer the clearcke of the municons to retorne it into 
 the Kings Castle againe. And this laste night, a Councell 
 being by themselues without any occasion or CuUor or excuse, 
 raised in the Towne, the preestes came forth crying Arme 
 Arme : vpon which the Maior having all the Town ready 
 before in armes, possesste himself of the Castle within the Citty, 
 wherein all his Majestys powder & municon lay, [and] hath 
 
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 placed a strong guard of Townesmen in the same, appointing 
 one Xtofer Murroghe, who served vnder the League in fFrance, 
 comaunder : the same violently taking the keys therof from 
 Michaell Hughes clearck of thordenance, and Comitting him- 
 self prisoner. So as none from vs can Speake with him, [and] 
 where he yet remayneth ; [and he] hath made searche in Every 
 Englishe mans house within the Towne to fynde oute whether 
 they haue any goundpowder. a priest being forwarde in every 
 theire seurall searches. And they haue placed yesternight strong 
 guardes at every the dores of thenglish, the whole Towne being 
 all night in Armes : Eache English expecting a massacre, accord- 
 ing [to] the Townsmens threatenings. So as is now apparant 
 that no calm or temporizing course can do any good with them. 
 And vpon that our beleef [worn away by a fold-crease] Sir George 
 Thornton Removed oute of the Towne & the greatest part 
 of our army [is] drawn to a head here : thearle of Thomonds 
 company being also sent for hether. We haue also this day 
 made stay of two pynnances at the fForte of halebowlinge, laden 
 with wynes & other commodities belonging to merchants 
 within that towne & haue made knowne to the Maior that yf 
 he will suffer vs to haue the Kinges victualls and municons in 
 stoare there oute of the Citty, as shalbe nedefuU for the Army, 
 we will release the Saide barques with theire ladings & goods 
 without demvnicon & suffer them to enioye the liberty of 
 theire portes. But if they will neither suffer vs to haue access 
 into the Towne, nor to haue any thing oute of the same, we 
 will blocke them vp within theire walles, withoute SufFeringe 
 them to cary any thinges in or oute at the gates. All which we 
 humblie offer to your Lordships knowledge resting ready to 
 attempt whatsoeuer by your Lorship, .... [The MS. ends 
 abruptly. There has evidently been a little more writing on 
 
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 another sheet that has been somehow lost ; or possibly being only 
 a draft, the usual ending was left to be filled up. The following 
 note is scribbled in the margin, " BallyncoUy belonging to W" 
 Kerry."— G.] 
 
 XXIII. Mayor of Cork's Complaint against Sir 
 Charles Wilmot, 
 
 [No. 95 vol. i. illegibly endorsed. — G.] 
 
 This is No. 95 of vol. i. The endorsement is quite illegible. In the 
 light of preceding Papers the present letter is about as fine a specimen of 
 provincial audacity in the guise of injured innocence as could well be 
 conceived. — G. 
 
 My very good lord, May yt please your lordship to be adver- 
 tizde that the 23 of this moneth Sir Charles Wilmote secreatly 
 without advise of the rest of the Councell, Complotted the sur- 
 prisall of this Cittye by possessinge of Skddys Castle within the 
 same, wheat the Kinges munition lay, and with comaund of 
 all the towne, and out of that place to gain accesse for the whole 
 army into the towne to worck his exploite with : which now 
 being made knowne and evident by some examinnacons thereof 
 taken, he (by the prevention hereof) is growne desperate, layde 
 seidge to the Cyttie, kild our men and restraind all reliefe by land 
 from vs and sea 5 which violent courses make vs thinke his pre- 
 tence is not for the King, to whose vse we will to our lives 
 maintaine this Cittie : to further the which according [to] your 
 dutie to his Majestie and particular respecte to this poore 
 towne, we pray you presently advise and [be] sure to assist the 
 remove of the said seidge from this Cyttie, assuring you that I 
 have written to the Lord Deputie and Councell that I prayde 
 your assistance for the Kinges Majestie in resistance of the 
 
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 said knights attempt which we think is endevored and bent to 
 vanishe the Crowne of England, And so requesting your 
 answer I end in haste the last of Aprill 1603. 
 
 your lordships very loving frends 
 
 Tho : Sarffield Maior of Corcke, 
 Jo : Roche BalifFe 
 Phillipe Goald BailiiFe. 
 
 XXIV. Examination of Thomas Wale of Cork: 1603. 
 
 This is No. 96 of vol. i., and is endorsed, "X° Maij 1603, Thexamlacon 
 of Thomas Wale." — G. 
 
 Thexaminacon of Thomas Wale of Corck taken before the 
 Cheef Comissioners of Mounster the x* daie of Maie 1603. 
 
 Being dewly sworne and examined he deposeth and Saieth 
 that yt was agreed and concluded by the corporacon of Corck, 
 the third of this present moneth, that there should be two hun- 
 dreth weaponed men put into armes by the cyttie : this exami- 
 nate having weapons by them offered him which he refused j 
 and that one W™ Terry should be their capten of one hun- 
 dreth, and phillip ffitz Nicholas Goold of thother c*, and that 
 those two companies should be cessed & fed vppon thinhabitants 
 of the cyttie j and every armed man was to haue xij"* per diem, 
 besydes meat and drynck : of which nombre this examinate was 
 one that served vnder Capten phillip goold, and was by him 
 cessed by tickquet with one ffrances martels widdo. But not- 
 withstanding thagreement there was but one hundreth cessed 
 vppon the cytty, of which nombre those persons vnJernamed 
 were in that enterteignment, viz. 
 
 Owen m'^donnogh m^donnell m'^Charty : 
 
 Donnell m'^teag m'donnell gauyagh 
 
 I. K 
 
66 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Teag bwy en Carrei. 
 
 Owen evannae, base son to m*^ Charty more. 
 
 M" Robert, a taylor, owt of the Lord Barries countrey. 
 
 XXV. Apsley's Testimony : 1603. 
 
 This is No. 97 of vol. i., and is endorsed, " Mr. Apseley's testemony." 
 See Introduction on this very extiraordinary narrative. — G. 
 
 The fFowertenth of Aprill they made staye of certen victuells 
 and municon, that was goinge to victuell the forte, and woulde 
 not admytt that the forte shoulde be victuelled more then from 
 vij dayes to vij dayes betweene the saide fowerteenth and xxj*. 
 Sir George Thornton lyeinge in towne, by his perswasion, the 
 Maior SuiFered a Barque called the John of Corke and certen 
 boates to be laden with victuells to goe for Kensale and yoaghall ; 
 but the Maior gave not the leste furtherannce thervnto : for 
 example the said Barque of Welshes carringe not paste twenty 
 tonnes, formerly moughte have byn hired betwixt Corke and 
 youghall for fyve markes all moste, and nowe with much adoe 
 I was glad to Condicon with the Af of the Barque, the said 
 welshe, for xx marks, to paye him in silver : the wynde not 
 servinge for Youghall, he was directed to Kensale ; for which 
 he woulde not take lesse then x" in silvere : notwithstanding 
 they had almoste their owne demanndes yett they did by delayes 
 and devises very palpably, as shall foUowe, make stay of the said 
 victuelles. 
 
 Wherevpon the xxj* of Aprill, Sir George Thornton sente 
 Allen Apsley comissary of victuelles to the maior to deale 
 with him boath for the victuellinge of 50 men in the forte of 
 Halbolinge, and also for sufFeringe victuells to goe out of the 
 
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 Kings stoare, aswell for the present relief of the Souldieres neere 
 the towne as elswheare. The said Apsley goeinge to the Mayor 
 howse and not findinge him theare, in seekinge further mett 
 him with the Recorder and others comynge from the North 
 gate, and ymportuned him for admittinge of the victuelles to 
 the Kinges service as befoare. The Maior answered in some 
 kynde of coUor, our resolute answer is that there should not 
 goe any thinge owt of the gates vntill the Souldiers be removed 
 from the Towne, and that Sir Charles wilmott had abuste his 
 own person, and that he was cros, and they would knowe reason 
 why the Souldiers were in Armes : Sir George Thornton beinge 
 acquainted herewith seemed discontented and wished himself 
 owt of the Towne. And ymediately sent Apsley to Sir 
 Charles willmott to Shandon to wishe him to remove the Soul- 
 diers. Apsley declaringe his message. Sir Charles retorned answer 
 as truly, the reason why the Souldiers were in Armes was they 
 were risinge to goe for Kensale, but vnderstandinge their victuells 
 was not gown before, they therefoare staled that daye, but the 
 nexte morninge, assuredly they would rise and goe for Kensale, 
 soe he woulde suffer victuells to goe after them. Soe comynge 
 herewith from Shandon Castle, the Maior, Recorder and others, 
 with a garde of 100 or 200 men, with match[locks] in Corke, 
 were on the bridge : he had knowledge what Sir Charles said as 
 befoare. The Maior answered in muche coUor, the Comissioners 
 were not men of their wordes, for they promised the Souldiers 
 should remove that daye, and therefore he would not truste them : 
 Moreover he said he was as good a man, and as good a gent as 
 Sir charles willmott, whoe in his particular had abused him, and 
 if the Kinge would but Knighte him, and give him 200 men in 
 paye, and the like idle Comparisons. In conclucon he graunted 
 that victuells should be laden for the forces, and some of his 
 
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 bretherne persuaded him therevnto, amongst which I remember 
 Alderman Terry was the principall. 
 
 The xxiiij*, the Towne mended and clered their portes neere 
 the Keye with Masons labour and others, and made a peec of 
 ordenannce there fitt to be vsed, as alsoe the mountinge of 
 ordnanc at the gates and preparinge that in the markett place : 
 causes of suspicon of some concealed villanye. 
 
 The xxyj"" att ix'* of the clocke in the morninge, Hughe 
 Powell one of the Mynisters of the victuells, wente to the 
 Maior, and entreated him for the Keyes of the water gate : and 
 he bad him goe looke the water bailieffe, for he wisshed him to 
 attend to lett out M'" Hughes, and he shall serve you all : he 
 went to his howse, and three others, and they looked all the 
 tavernes in towne besides, but he would not be found : soe the 
 boates in the Keye loste that tyde. Then neere nighte M"' 
 BlacknoU founde the Water bailiffe and demannded him where 
 he was, iij or iiij""' lookinge [for] him from Nyne of the clocke : 
 he answered, with his frends, makinge mery. I thinke sayeth 
 M'' blacknoll you wer out of the way of purpose ; but will you 
 be there soone ? if please M'' Maior to appointe, so said the 
 baylief. M" Blacknoll went to the Maior, and the waterbailiiFe 
 followed him, and M'' Maior receyved the Keyes from the 
 waterbailifFe and willed the waterbailiiFe to carry boateman to 
 the Capten of the watche, and when the tyde served, the Capten 
 of the watche shoulde come with him and call att his windowe, 
 and himself would give them him. Knohoux Leigh the boate- 
 man, called for the key : the Maior bad him fetche the capten ; 
 he would not be founde : then he tooke the waterbailifFe, and 
 he would not be found. Soe the victuells could not passe. 
 
 The xxvij*, the BailifFe, the Maiors Sergeant, and the Maiors 
 own Servants, with divers others vnladed the John of Bristowe, 
 
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 beinge reddy to goe for Kensale, and tooke out all the municon 
 and pouder in her: nowe the Maior said he was like the 
 Slavishe Ducke of venic and could not rule the multitude. 
 
 The xxviij"' at afore ix of the clocke, beinge att Supper with 
 Sir George Thornton, the Maior sent his Servant for me : att 
 my comynge to him he would have me sweare on a booke to 
 aunswer all his demaundes truely. I refused to sweare or answer 
 him att all, and toulde him he had noe aucthoritye of me : he 
 and the Recorder perswaded me, threatned me, and asked me 
 many frivelous questions towching the victuellinge of Skyddies 
 Castle. I annswered them to as little purpose, and so I lefte him 
 for that nighte. He sent for M" Blacknoll and would haue 
 sworn him in lyk sort, which he refused. 
 
 The xxix*, goeinge ouer the North bridge with Sir Richard 
 Perry, I was by one of the Captens of the watche stayed : his 
 name was Roche : and the Maior beinge in the watche howse on 
 the bridge cam to Sir Richard Perry, and praied him dyne with 
 him. Sir Richard Perry answered he had promysed my lady 
 Carewe, but the Maior required me to kepe my lodginge : that 
 day I dyned with him without biddinge, and after dynner I 
 requested M"' Maior to shewe the cawse why he did comitt 
 me : then he talked of an other matter. I tould him I was in 
 some doute to be murdered amongste the multytude in regard 
 of the Slanderous reporte they had raysed on me, and therefore 
 prayed him to lett me be prisoner, with M' Recorder or the 
 Kinges Attorney his brother : he would not assente vnto it, but 
 bid me thincke of some other, and he woulde consider of yt : 
 then I requested it might not be ill taken yf I stoode on myne 
 owne defence againste the rage of the multytude and defended 
 my howse vntill a man of sorte cam from him : he admytted 
 thereof. 
 
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 The xxx"", the Recorder cam to my howse with some smale 
 garde and desired to speake with me : I went downe to his owne 
 lodginge, that instante, as I conceaved there were Souldiers 
 fetchinge out of cowes from the Marche ; for that I observed 
 one of their prests directinge the townesmen to goe thither : 
 and meetinge the Recorder with me on the bridge, he was in 
 an extreame rage, and very earnest with the Recorder in Irishe : 
 and as one Capten Nugent afterwards tould me, he bad the 
 Recorder take awaye my Armes, yea and with greate vehemency 
 bad take awaye his self also : hereon the Recorder required me 
 to putt of my Rapier. I was very vnwillinge therevnto, but 
 gave them to my boye, and soe the Recorder carried me yme- 
 diately to their common towne gaole of Marshallsie. I wrott 
 to the Maior that vnlesse he could directly chardge me with 
 treason, he had noe power but his will to ymprison me, and if 
 he would I was ready to putt in Suertyes, as good as myself, of 
 his owne nacon body for body, and therefore wished him to sett 
 me att Liberty that I mighte attende the Kinges service and the 
 duty of my place. I had noe answer, within three howers. 
 After M' Walter Coppinger cam vnto me and shortly after he 
 brought M"' Recorder, and M' Coppinger vndertakinge for me 
 body for body, I went from the same towne gaole to his howse 
 and was his prisoner. 
 
 The XXX of Aprill, the Maior sent to the Deputy victuUer, 
 M"' Blacknoll requiringe him to meete him att Skiddies Castle, 
 and bringe the Keyes of Nicholas Gouldes howse with him. 
 Nicholas answered he havinge soe fowle a skanndell on him as 
 a Traitor to theire Towne, he durste not walke the streate, bate 
 sente Hughe Powell with the Keye, and when he cam into 
 Gouldes howse neere Skiddies Castle, there was Lieutennante 
 Morroughe, whoe tould him the Maior had sente for his Master, 
 
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 to thentente to take the victuells in that stoare : then the said 
 Powell said vnto Morrough, Good Sir, (for he durste say noe 
 other), Lett me intreate to have M'' Maiors warrante or comaund- 
 ment from his own mouthe, and you shall have the victuells you 
 require att your good pleasure. Then the said Morrough would 
 have broughte the said Powell to the Maior, but he and the 
 Recorder were busyed looking on a Skirmishe over the wall, soe 
 he could not speake with him : then saith Morrough you see 
 wee canngtt speake with ^M'' Maior, but I have M"' Maiors 
 direcons alreddy to receyve the victuells and therefore muste 
 have it : wherevpon the said Powell delivered him Bisquet xij'= 
 Butter vj firkins and cheese xxj ; whereof there was one Chese 
 the Vict[ueller] desired to have for his owne vse, but by no in- 
 treatye Morroughe woulde addmytt him that favour notwith- 
 standinge a Townesman or two earnestly intreated him. Assoone 
 as this was deliured, the Maior and Recorder cam from the wall 
 and toulde Powell ther will was he shoulde deliuer the victuells 
 vnto the said Morroughe, and the Recorder said the Maior 
 shoulde give his hand for it, which he never did : soe they carried 
 the victuells awaye to Skiddies Castle. 
 
 In the tyme of my beinge in prison from the xxviij* of April! 
 to the X* of May, I observed many of their outragious doeinges, 
 viz. their twice manninge of boates, furnishinge them with the 
 Kinges musketts, deale boarde and Steele targetts, to take the 
 forte of halbolinge ; their preparacon in fortefyenge the towne ; 
 their expedicons in makinge platformes, and mountinge ordi- 
 nannce ; their Armynge themselves from the aige of xij to gg ; 
 their advised forwardnes in puUinge downe the forte ; wherein 
 the Maior himself, the Recorder and Kinges Attorney were 
 spetiall aucthores ; and being debated amonge them, they said 
 yt was neither fellony nor treason. My howse beinge neere the 
 
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 gates I sawe the Recorder and Kinges Attorney goe out of the 
 gates Arme in arme : consideringe their former love, yt was we 
 thoughte very strange : in all Attempts and allarmes the pristes 
 were spetiall directors./ for sallyes and skyrmagis one Phillipp 
 Gould and capten Terrie, which two as it was generally reported 
 should have had the comannd of 3"'' bonnoysses ; and can witnes 
 that I sawe divers of the contrey followe them vpp and downe 
 the streatees : for orderinge of their blynders and fortificaons, 
 one Capten Browne, Livetennte Morrough who comannded 
 Skyddies Castle, were principall, and one fFagan, cheefe church- 
 warden a faxious and buysie fellowe : nexte one Goulde that 
 marryed the Maiors Sister, was spetiall actor : soe was Alderman 
 Gould and others. 
 
 The Maior lefte of his Roabes of peace, hisgowne and white 
 stafFe and betooke him to his truncheon : his proclamacons were 
 for carriage of dunge yt self on payne of death : to cite my 
 aucthors for all I have hard, or make relacon of the particulars 
 of soe much as I have scene in soe shorte tyme, all tendinge to 
 an absolute disobedience, woulde aske a quier of paper. And if 
 the voice of Murrough, fFagan, Capten Tyrry, the Gouldes and 
 Meaghes, had not byn overborne by the better effected, which 
 was spetially M'' waiter Coppinger the Agent, and his vncle 
 John Coppinger Alderman, the Gallwayes, the verdons, the 
 Martells, Alderman Tyrry and others, the Lord Deputy had 
 never come into the Towne but by force of Armes. 
 
 By direction of the Maior my Armes, Capten Cootes, M' 
 Hides and all the Englishe in the towne were taken awaye ; 
 for which they serched all corners in our bowses. 
 
 The nighte before my Lord Deputy cam to Towne, I sent 
 one Nicholas Knighte that is towards me, to goe out of the 
 gates for certen letters that I vnderstoode weare come from 
 
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 dublin for me. Capten Tyry tooke him by the pole and drewe 
 him backe from the gates to the Maior : the Maior rated him 
 Hke adogge, askinge him howe he durste presume to wake 
 [= walk ?] the streetes : the Recorder said he should be Layed 
 where he shoulde be ordered. 
 
 That night also Alderman Coppinger wente to the Maior 
 and toulde him that my Lord Lievtennante mighte have cause 
 to comannde my then attendannce of my place, and wished him 
 sett me att libertie ; tellinge him if I were in but for suspicon 
 of treason I was Bayleable, and offered himself body for body 
 and ij"'" [?] bond of himself and frends : the Maior talked with 
 the Recorder : soe they concluded not to release me : then I 
 assured me they ymprisoned me out of their particuler spleene 
 only. 
 
 Lastly, if I have comytted the leaste disloyalty, I renounce all 
 favour, or don the leaste wronge to any of their nacon or other- 
 wise, I will make them treble amends, and every waye I refuse 
 them all that can touche me with any spott of dishonesty. Then 
 as the beneflitt of a Subiecte and officer of the Kinge, I humbly 
 beseache Justice for those fowle and apparant wronges donn me 
 by ymprisonment, and for skandolisinge me with the odious 
 name of a Traytor. 
 
 XXVL Sir Geoffrey Fenton to Boyle : 1603. 
 
 This is No. 98 of vol. i., and is addressed, " For his Maj'J" afFaires. To 
 the Right won> Sir Richard Boyle Knight at his housse in youghall, GefF. 
 fenton," and endorsed, « 24 Julij 1605. From Sir Geffrey fFenton." — G. 
 
 Sir, I have sent you hereinclosed the names of the Jurye of 
 Corke, together with their seuerall fynes, as they weare lately 
 Reduced and apporcioned by the Lord Deputy and Gouncell, 
 
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 and are so to stand without alteracon. Because the men are 
 well knowne to you not only in their Substance and welth, but 
 also in their disposicion and aptnes to hold their daies of pay- 
 ment according [to] the late taxacion, I praie you call owt so 
 many of the moste conformable and best enhabled in theire 
 meanes, as being caste vpp will make a totall of loo'' ster : 
 english, and sending the same to me with all speede, I will deale 
 with the Lord deputy their porcions of that dett to be assigned 
 to me by waye of concordatum, though in lieveve thereof, I 
 shall surrender my letters patents of my fruteles office of chiefe 
 collector within the shyers of leinster ; which hethervnto hath not 
 beene worth to me one sinvlkin, neyther do I hope for any good 
 by yt heareafter, considering the grudge and opposcions of the 
 contrey. The Judges haue already gott a concordatum for so 
 much of those fynes as will aunswer their ordinary chardges in 
 their seuerall circuits, and I dowt not but they will laye togather 
 in the money with the firste. So as I stand in danger of co- 
 vencion yf I keepe not the lyke tyme and forwardnes with them ; 
 A matter which now resteth in your Industrie and expedicion ; 
 praing you to left me heere from you touching this buisynes 
 with the best speede you can. 
 
 I hope you haue by this, gott into your handes the Lord 
 Ba[rry's] money, which yf you haue, I praye you send yt to me 
 with all possible speede ; together with the arreare of Fyne : 
 And yf you haue no saff waie to send those ij moneyes directlie 
 hether, then I praie you deale with the payment of that pro- 
 vince to connverte yt to me by exchange : A coursse which may 
 ease you, and yet will fytt my turne : I praye you Remember 
 me in this matter, with the like carefullnes, that you wold 
 looke for at my hands vppon like occasion, assuringe you that yf 
 want of wordlie meanes weare of power to bend me to im- 
 
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 pacience and greeff, my present and vrgent lacke of money at 
 this tyme, compared with my many greate occasions to employ 
 yt, wold be enough to make me stowpe to A base sorow and 
 yelding in mynde, for want of this wicked transitory trashe. 
 This maye suffice betweene the father and the Sonne, and I hope 
 I shall not nede after this, to presse you againe in this matter. 
 I cannot be in quiett till I heare of the saff Aryving of your 
 trunckes, for that besydes myne owne interest, which in truth 
 stirreth purturbacion in me ; yet the envie of some others prophe- 
 syeng of the worste, which is brought to me by Reaporte, 
 trobleth me not a litle. And so God bless you and all yours, 
 aswell the flea that lyeth sucking in your bossom, as all the rest 
 of that comvnion from the maijde servante to the man servante : 
 in hast Atdublin 17 Julij 1603. 
 
 your ever assured loving father in lawe, 
 
 Geff, Fenton. 
 
 I haue sent you certeine papers of Questions disputed ij dales 
 past at Acdmoucant [?] in the CoUeadge, where iij went owt 
 maisters, and xj bachelors of arts. I praie you giue them to your 
 Noble Brother W", but chardge hym from me vppon my Hiss- 
 ing that he tear [torn away'] translate the speches written the 
 Arabick \torn away] tongues, but I am content he dewle [torn 
 away] weary. [All after the date is in Fenton's own very bad 
 handwriting : the body of the letter in a clerk's. The bottom 
 of the letter is torn out in centre as above. — G.] 
 
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 XXVII. The Earl of Devonshire: 1603. 
 
 This is No. 102 of vol. i. As having been written by one of the great 
 historic-poetic names of England, this little letter must needs be given. The 
 husband of Sidney's ' Stella ' and immortalized in Daniel's noble poem, the 
 slightest memorial of him is precious. See Introduction and Notes and 
 Illustrations. It is printed literatim. — G. 
 
 To my very louing frende S' Rchard Boyle Knt. 
 
 S'' I vnderstand by M"" WUm Griffiths wife my kinswoman, 
 that her husband hath heretofore receaued many kynde fauors of 
 y" for w'*" I giue y^harty thankes on their behalfe; and because 
 I perceaue it is hkely in the setling of his family in Mounster 
 aswell in regard of neighborhoode, and the reasonable agree- 
 ment of some detts, to haue further vse of the same, I praie you 
 that he may still fynde the continuance thereof in his iust and 
 reasonable occasions. And so I bid y" very hartily farwell, 
 fFrom the Court at Wilton the xxviij"" of November 1603 
 yo'' very loueing frende 
 
 Deuonshire. 
 
 XXVIII. The Lord President [Carew] to Boyle: 1603. 
 
 This is No. 106 of vol. i., and is addressed, " To my verie Lovinge frende 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight at dublyn or els where in Ireland, these," and 
 endorsed, "from the L. president St. James 1603 to my sonne Boyle 
 towching his loss c" in ffee simple." See Introduction and Notes and 
 Illustrations on this letter, especially on the reference to Raleigh. Carew's 
 handwriting is a difficult one, as searchers among the Carew Papers at 
 Lambeth know to their cost." — G. 
 
 I have receved your letters by Capten fyshure [i"] and do give 
 you many thanks for the care and paynes which you have 
 
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 taken in my busines, well allowinge of all that you have done j 
 but henceforthe I muste pray you to tell M"^ Bingley, that he do 
 not make me any more payments in Silver Horn peny, for 
 the money is not currant in England, and to make vse of it I must 
 be Enforced to send it to the mynt, wherein I shall receve great 
 losse ; and for this 1000'' which I have receved, I pray you to 
 tell him that I expecte that he should chandge it into Englishe 
 money for me, or ells to make the losse of the new coyninge 
 of it, for your payment is to be in olid sterlingh money. I do 
 assure you vppon my faythe, besides the share which I receved I 
 had allmost incurred a great losse by recevinge of those horn 
 penys, for it so chanced the very day in the which the 1 000" 
 was paid vnto me by M"^ Watson, I was to pay the like some to 
 a great man in England : I thinkinge of nothinge lesse than Horn 
 penys, willed my man Hoolian as sone as he had receved my 
 money to pay it ouer where it was due : the money would not 
 be receved, and I was Enforced the same day to borrow 1000'' 
 of olid silver to save my credditt, and forfeyture. The money 
 now lies by me and of no vse, which I looke that M' Bingley 
 woulld amend. The tenthe of the money made of my land 
 I pray you to subtracte to your sellfe accordinge [to] my 
 promise, and be not nyce in recevinge of it, My manorshippe 
 see as you think meet ; and as for m*^ Morrice, you must be 
 quicke with his sumoning, which will procure the speediee pay- 
 ment. Few lordes in Ireland never thinke of there promises. 
 Your later letter by Sir Charles willmotts man, dated the 9 of 
 decemb'', I have receved : when Coppinger and you come hether 
 as you promise in febrerarye, will be a fitt tyme to deale in that 
 busines ; in the mean tyme lett it sleepe. 
 
 I have not scene your kinsman M'' Henry Boyle : when he 
 comes I will satisfie your desire. The report of Sir waiter 
 
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 Raleghes conviction is trew, and he rests a Condemned man, 
 but I thinke, and make no doubt, but the Kinge will extend his 
 mercye vnto him as well for his goodes and landes, as for his 
 life. The Kinge hathe had muche sute made vnto him for 
 them, but his Majesty will not bestow them vppon any man, so 
 as now all sutars are discouradged and I am of opinion that my 
 ladie Raleyghe will obteyne them of the Kinge : wherefore rest 
 you in opinion to pay your money vnto him or his vse, for so I 
 beleve it will fall out that he shall have them graunted vnto 
 him. I thanke you for advisinge the comissioners to hold the 
 keeyes of the gates, and to say further, I thinke it was an errour 
 in them to redeliver them to the towne, but by the same order 
 by the which they tooke them from the Mayor : The L[ord] 
 lieutenant wrote long since two letters from himselfe to the 
 Lord Deputie for Sir Charles Willmotts cominge into England, 
 and nowagayne he shall receve letters to the same efFecte : there 
 rests onelye a new commJssion to be made, ether to Sir george 
 Thornton alone or some other to supplye Sir Charles his name; 
 which done he may come away, and I am indifferent in what 
 sort my Lord Deputie will graunt the Comission, althoughe I 
 know the power to rest in my seelfe : if it be to Sir George 
 alone, then he must be vice president and receve all the diet 
 money to his own vse ; yf he have a fellow Commissioner then 
 lett Sir Charles make the Election of his successor, alwayes pro- 
 vided that he choyse one that he knowes dothe wishe me well : 
 for I would have no other to succeed him ; thus havinge as I 
 thinke fully ansuered the poynts of bothe your letters so rest 
 your most assured frend. 
 
 G. Carewe. 
 
 I thanke you for dealinge with Birchanshaw : he is now here. 
 I must boond him to be good vnto me once agayne. Hampton 
 
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 Court this 5* of Ja. 1603. [The following in a clerk's hand 
 is added, and is signed by Carewe.] 
 
 Sir, my Lord of Devonshere and my selfF have thought yt 
 meete to Substytute solye Sir George Thornton Vicepresydent, 
 and to that efFecte we have bothe wryten to the Lord Deputie, 
 that his Lordship would confere that authoretie vpon him. My 
 desyre is (for the preservacon of my Right, haveinge as you 
 knowe power by my letters Patents to in stytute a Vicepresy- 
 dent) that you would be carefull that his Comiscion maye be 
 drawne by the presedent Comiscion, which was drawne by your 
 selfF at my cominge out of Ireland j otherwyse without the lyke 
 Reservacons my Authoritie will be much preiudyced. Yf you 
 haue not the coppye of that Commiscion you maye ether de- 
 maund the sight of yt of the Lord Deputie viito whome I haue 
 sent yt, or haue yt of Sir Charles Wyllmott, whome I haue 
 prayed to sende yt vnto you. I praye you let me intreate you 
 to be carefull hereof lest I might wronge my selfF and my suc- 
 cescors. I haue wrytten vnto my Lord Deputie to the same 
 efFecte whose Lordship I hope will be pleased to satysfye my 
 desyre. 
 
 G. Carewe. 
 
 XXIX. Sir Richard Weston to Boyle : 1603. 
 
 This is No. 118* of vol. i., and is addressed, " To my honoruble frend 
 and loving kinsman Sir Richard Boyle Knight." It is not endorsed. — G. 
 
 Worthy cossyn,deeme me not soe vnthanckfull as to haue vntill 
 this day forgotten by letter to acknoledge the receypt of the 
 hawkes you sent me to'geather [and] howe farr by the many frut- 
 fuU testimonyes of your loue I stand provoked to bring furth my 
 
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 best requitalls : The fFalcon I doutt not will proue an especyall 
 kill partridge, but neuer vpward. The Tassell [= tercel] this 
 last yeare was soe foolish that I could make him doe nothinge, 
 but I am in good hope he will this yeare proue a more docible 
 scholler. Untill I haue meanes by some actual! loue to recount 
 somme part of the frendshipp I haue already receaved, I may 
 with noe modesty be hungry after newe respects, fFor my 
 debters, yf my waterford freinds hadd noe better shift to defraud 
 theare credeters but to admitt themselues to the mercy of the 
 plage, I can neyther admeire theare witts nor payment. But for 
 the gentell Baron of Cahere, that for soe smale a trifell as xx'' 
 will in despite of himself and the world be accounted noe lesse 
 foolish then dishonest, I doe in the faith of a christian and the 
 reputacon of a gentellman protest that att my deliuery of his 
 obligacon I delt singlyly and simplyly with you ; which was that 
 the Bond beinge 80'' for the payment of 40'' I had receaved 
 20'' and noe more : and by the protestacon I haue made theare 
 is iustly and honestly 20'' to be payed by reason of that bond 
 from him to me. And whearin he chardgethe me by thothes 
 of Charles (meete man for sutche a master) in satisfaccon of 
 parte or that whole debt to haue receaved Cowes or Sheepe, that 
 suggestion is like vnto him and them vtterly and wholly false. 
 I heare my Lady Cosyn your wyf is full of a rich Treasure, 
 which I praye God with her were safly and to your comfort she 
 may by his helpinge hand be made a JoyfuU mother of. I 
 answered your letter by a passenger from the seruice, an Irish- 
 [man] but for feare of mischannce or miscarridge I thought ytt 
 safe to write againe by my neyghbour M"' Wharten, who poore 
 man hath hadd a costly taste of some of the Irish faith. The 
 plage hath driven me and the greater part of my family from 
 Litchfeeld to the Horecrosse, whence my self, my wyf and 
 
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 daughter do returne theese letters, more then laden with our 
 best thoughtes and amidst comendacons to your Sellf and my 
 Lady Cosyn your wyf : mye Brother and sister welles are in 
 Chess shire. And soe i rest your very affectionate freind and 
 loving kinsman. 
 
 \^Illegible from damp] Weston. 
 Horecrosse this 
 
 28'^of Junne. 
 XXX. Gordon Strawbridge to Boyle : 1604. 
 
 This is No. 124 of vol. i., and is addressed, "To the righte worshipfiiU 
 mye very good frynde Sir Richard boyle Knyght at M' brownes house 
 agro Me' dwellynge in the ploue lyght owere tochng to the Strand Stares 
 gate in London," and endorsed, "xiiij* octobris 1604 from Gordon 
 Strawbridge." — G. 
 
 wretten frome dublyne the 2 day of October 1604. 
 Sir, I recevede frome your worshiepe a letter beinge dattede 
 the vij daye of September 1604, by the hands of M"' don, the 
 22 daye of the sayd monthe, and one mchellmas daye in the 
 mornynge, I oppenyde the wycked at the backe grett gatte and 
 I lyfte yt oppen all daye and my sollisitor atendynge witheine 
 the bowse lokynge for theare commynge that daye, but as yt 
 [happened] thaye nor anye of thears never came to the howse at 
 all : thearfor I thought yt good to satisfie your worshipe herein ; 
 and as tocchnge your worshipe letter you sent me, I will have 
 care for the effect thearof tell I shall have farther deryctyon 
 frome your worshipe agayne. Sent the bason and eoyere of 
 sillver whiche youve lyfte with me in Keppynee, beinge M' 
 adytores pettoy thinge lyfte in pane [pawn ?] I seinge I colde 
 not receve the money of M" pettoy, whiche was layd for nowe, 
 my lady boyle dyd send vnto me for yt and tocke yt withe her 
 
 I. M 
 
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 to london, bothe the bason and yeoyer vnto your worshipe : for 
 I doe vnderstand you shall receve your money of M"" pettoy in 
 London : and farther I thought good to sartyfye your worshipe 
 of, that one sondaie last M"' Jackymar (?) made averye good 
 serrmont in thchurche, and theare was many peppell attendynge 
 the sermont, merchants of dublyne :, theare are many of them 
 come home to Dublyne and I hope to belonge [= ere it be 
 long] that all wille come home verie shortly. The terme wilbe 
 holldyne this hollyzntyde in dublyne. Theare was but iij thate 
 dyed of the plage this weke and they weare all in the subberbes 
 of dublinge. Fare whett is but at iiij^ vj"* the pecke, make is 
 very good chepe and all other rotts were good cheppe : and so 
 fearfuU to trowbell your worshipe any farther, I beseche god to 
 blysse my good M"^ and my good ladyes and your worshipe in 
 good hellthe and wellfare and to contynve wyt you all in good 
 hellthe, god be praysed : 
 
 your lovinge frynde to my hand 
 
 pore GoRDioN Strawbridge. 
 
 XXXI, Lady Boyle to her Husband : 1609. 
 
 This is No. 129 of vol. i. and is of special interest, as ladies' letters of the 
 family are rare. Another, of equal interest, follows the present. As our 
 facsimile shows (in the present vol.) her handwriting is bold and good, if 
 the spelling be somewhat strange-looking to modem eyes. See Introduction. 
 It is endorsed by Boyle, " 24 Mar. 1604, from Kate." It is addressed, 
 " To my veri louing howsband Sir richard boyle knight giue these in hast." 
 It is printed literatim : there is scarcely any punctuation either in this or 
 next. — G. 
 
 my owne good selfe J knowit will much amace you to see 
 me so forword in writeing for you weare wount to impute my 
 slackemes in writting for agret faute vn to mee : but becase J 
 
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 am not imploded in commonwelth bisness as you are : which 
 J wil axcept for a excuse although J thought that all the 
 bisness in the world would not haue made you to forget your 
 poure scab. J haue written these fu lines as my aturneiese to 
 soliced a answere so knoing that there needes no matter of 
 seremony betune vs I will comprehend all in this owne word 
 that J loue you for which thinge J hope I neede not to make 
 my pen the mesinger of my heart to assure you of it and so J 
 rest and will remaine your euer louing wife. 
 
 Kathern Boyle. 
 From dublin this xviii day of March. 
 
 this letter was of my owne speling and threfore J pray you 
 all the imperfections that are in it rather wink at then loke 
 intoo: my cousen absli [= Apsley] hath sent mee ahogcet of 
 whit wine which wee wil drink for his and your sakes : sir iohn 
 douddol was heare and made great brages that he would complaine 
 of you for sewing for him [andd pray you to remember him for 
 my father hath undertaken to get anything of my lord debetui 
 [= Deputy] that you will spi out for him in mounster] J 
 hope you will besto Ardmour upon him for his good seruis I 
 pray you commend me to all my good frindes in Moun[s]ter. 
 [The portion within brackets is written in the margin, with a 
 reference after ' him.' — G.] 
 
 XXXII. Same to the Same : 1604. 
 
 This is No. 133, and is endorsed by Boyle, "from my wife." It is 
 addressed " To my veri louing husband Sir richahard Boyle knyght giue 
 this." See Introduction. — G. 
 
 my owne good selfe J had onste set pen to my paper to writ 
 you a challinges of vnkindnes for not writing vnto mee : but 
 
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 when J remembred the found[a]tan of your good natrue [= na- 
 ture] from which all kindnes doth floue unto mee J with drew my 
 hand : and doe contenneally pray that my desearves maye neuer 
 be any cause for you to restren your wonted loue to mee, and 
 will by gods help striue as much aganct any thought which 
 may hinder the meres of your loue tourward mee as the 
 strenght of my weake capassiti can attane vnto : it doth much 
 glad mee to heare from you : but J protest theare is nothing in 
 the world that would moore reioys me when [ = than ?] to see 
 you : and thearefore good sweet heart for the time that J as 
 depriued of your company which I hope will be but shart 
 let me heare from you and let mee know sartynly in your next 
 letter when you will come doune and so being in hast J rest 
 from dublin the x of aprel. 
 
 Your assued louing wife. 
 
 Kathrn Boyle. 
 
 I sent to M' Leger for the mony and he broughtt me forti 
 ninpencses but I would not receue them : J pray you commend 
 me to my sister Smeeth and my brother, my ungel iames, M"^ 
 Wally and his wife my cosen Seggorson [Seckerston ?] my 
 brother Willam, my cosen richard boyle and all my frends I 
 pray you remember my cosen Morgel his mony» 
 
 XXXIII. William Floyer : a Statement: 1605. 
 
 This is No. 1 34 of vol. i. and is endorsed, "ii Maij 1605: M' floyers 
 note," The opening word ' Witness ' is expansion of apparently ' Wes ' 
 in larger writing. Seal embossed on the paper after signature. As noted 
 on the next Paper, this is the opening of a protracted litigious correspon- 
 dence, whose interest has long surceased. I select it as a single specimen of 
 the innumerable and scarcely tolerable worries which buyers of Irish land 
 had then to endure. This is printed literatim. — G. 
 
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 Witnes That the yeare before the late Queenes death Sir 
 Richard Boyle knight (i^d affirme and promise vnto one fFree- 
 mond the Irishe gent then beinge in Ireland to pay vnto me 
 William ffloyer the some of one hundred poundes of currant 
 Englishe mony if I the said William ffloyer would be a 
 meanes for him to buy Sir Walter Rawleighes land in Ireland 
 and to procure him the said Sir Richard certayne evidences and 
 wfritinges concerninge the said landes w^hich I the said William 
 ffloyer accomplished accordinge to the said Sir Richarde Boyle 
 his owne desire and tooke an assurance in w^ritinge of the said 
 Sir Richard Boyle for the payment of the said some of one 
 hundred poundes and have his hand to showe for the receipte 
 of the said writinges concerninge the foresaid landes. In w^itness 
 whereof this to be truth, I the said William ffloyer have here- 
 vnto pvt my hand and seale this present eleventh of Maya 
 1605. 
 
 Will : Ffloier. 
 
 Sealed and subscribed in the 
 
 presence of 
 
 the marke of willm ^ Lamketon 
 
 Nicholas Smyth. 
 
 the marke of WILLM "^j^ Lewes. 
 
 XXXIV. Boyle to Sir James Fullerton: 1604. 
 
 This is No. 1 3 5 of vol. i. It is a draft, and is in Boyle's worst possible 
 handwriting, so as scarcely to be deciphered. It is one of many weary 
 letters on a dispute with the above troublesome fellow Floyer, whose state- 
 ment precedes this. He was one of a common type of Anglo-Irishmen at 
 this date, who lay in wait to inform on (alleged) bad titles and to involve 
 bona fide purchasers in litigation. I have over-passed sheafs of such corre- 
 spondence, as they have no permanent interest and no historical value. At 
 
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 top of the present letter is the following : " were by M' King delivered to 
 Randall Clayton the 9° this moneth and cam to my hands the xij* of the 
 same." There is no endorsement. — G. 
 
 Sir, It maie please you to vnderstand that your letters of the 
 XX* of July I receaved : for answer wherof you maie be [sure] 
 that I am exceeding sorry that you were trayned into an action 
 of that nature. And pleased to vnderstand that yf M"" ffloyer 
 had been the man he would seem to be, he would never haue 
 engaged you in his cawse of Molanna, for long before your ex- 
 tended ystat, vppon good consideracon in hand by me given, he 
 past a deed herof to me and my heires for ever, and made deli- 
 very therof to me and thattorney named therin, and hervppon 
 livery and seizen was made to me in due form of Lawe, which 
 livery M' Seckerston procurd me (now in London) was brought 
 over a witnes nevertheless, without any condicon or lymitacon. 
 I was so farr from taking any vnconscionable advantadg, as al- 
 though he had no security but my condiconall promise yet I 
 sent him the remayns of his money at the day and to ye place 
 appointed by Sir Allen Apsley, who not fynding him in London 
 and vnderstanding that he was in the western parte, gave a mes- 
 senger xxs to go purposely vnto him to signefy his readynes to 
 paie the money in my dischardg according [to] the honest expos' er, 
 but M"" ffloyer then presuming on a sownd tytle as also vnder- 
 standing that I had cleered a great arrear wherwith it was 
 chargeable to his majesty, as also that I had inhabited the pos- 
 sessions of Molanna, which were wast when I bargained with 
 him, he took some exceptions to the forme of Sir Aliens express- 
 ing of the some, and would not be entreated to receave the 
 money, notwithstanding that it was left for him at Capten 
 Woods in the fortune for 9 monethes : after which his covetuous 
 desire when I perceaved, I thought it agreable to honest discre- 
 
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 tion [to] strengthen and secure my estate by some other meanes in 
 the best fashion I might (to my great chardges) : I am confydent I 
 haue don, and had so mutch to know or ever he made offer herof 
 vnto you, and that his pretended tytle therto was just worth one 
 pennie, as his own Couricell at my house when here in London, 
 assured him, that by thaduyse of as good lawyers as any ar in 
 England : yet nevertheles not knowing my possession and tytle 
 hervnto being made so cleer, also that the tytles of other of his 
 late lands belonged to that Abbey, to which vppon my councell 
 pressing yt ar fain into the busynes : James Bateman his late lands 
 belonged to that abbey \tllegihle\ and that I haue made me soe 
 kynd an offer as to referr it th' ordre of indifferent frends : I do 
 thankfully accept the same at your hands and wilbe ready to 
 submyt me so as this my submission may be no waies preiudi- 
 ciaU to my tytle or possession till evidences conclude the matters 
 self thervnto, and to satisfy what they in consciens shall lay 
 downe, assuring you as I do nowe in honor, that I would neuer 
 haue given M"' ffloyer any thing but what he should haue com- 
 pelled me vnto by Law, which yf my Councell and poor vnder- 
 standing fayle me not, would haue proved nothing. But let me 
 entreat you seing M"' ffloyer hath drawn you into the purchase 
 of a tytle that he knew to be of no vallydety, that yf you can 
 you will return it on himself and let me trye it owt with him 
 by Law. But yf you be so deeply engaged as you can not retyre, 
 then I wilbe ready to enter into order praying that you would 
 hand from him the bull of the colledge of Youghall, and all 
 such other deeds and wrytinges as may anie wai? concern the 
 lands I purchazed of Sir Walter Raleigh, which by his letters that 
 I will show you he promised to yeald vp vnto me to whome in 
 right they perteign yf I would give him any further contentment 
 for Molanna, which he would haue further released to me when 
 
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 he vnderstood the weaknes of his tytle vppon such tearmes I 
 would haue demaunded. And so resting thanckfull for your 
 former kyndesses and for your offer of peace which I willingly 
 embrace : I humbly tak leav. 
 
 XXXV. Sir Bernard Grenville to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 4 of vol. ii., and is addressed " To y= Ri. Wor. s' Richard 
 Boell knight this ; " and endorsed, "July 1606 from M' Barnard Green- 
 vyle." See Introduction and Notes and Illustrations. — G. 
 
 Sir Richard Boell, I haue ben allreddy behowldinge to you 
 for your keindnes, which showlde cawse mee to desiste from 
 making my selfe more ingadged to you befor I had shewed my 
 Thankefullnes for your former curteseys ; but my sodener com- 
 ming owt of that cuntry then I supposed, hath hether to kepte 
 me from it and my to longe abode in this, inforseth mee anue to 
 make my selfe more behowldinge to you : for I feare mee my 
 inforste stay heere will lose mee my hopes of getting any haukes 
 for my frend or my selfe this seson : wher for I am now in- 
 forsed to make farder triall of your keindnes. my deerest kinsman 
 my cosne Arundell whom I haue hearde you say you know, hath 
 sente his man ouer for hawkes, but beinge a straunger ther and 
 not knowing wher to goe, I am ernestlye to pray you to pro- 
 cure mee a fawlco which this bearer may haue owte of y^ nest, 
 and at my comming, which god willinge shall bee verry speedily, 
 I will make my satisfaction you shall compownd for her. hee 
 desiers no other hauke then faulkoner or tarcell : if you will steed 
 mee herin you shall bynde mee mutch to you and make mee 
 euer remayne your asured louing frend, 
 
 Bar Greynvile 
 from Stern this 11* of Maye 1606. 
 
 I besitch you to recommend my loue 
 
 to your honest kinsman m. Parsons. 
 
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 XXXVI. John Rowley, London, to Boyle: 1606. 
 
 This is No. 8 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To the right W" my verie 
 good freind S" Richard Boyle knight at yughall." The endorsement is 
 worn out by damp, and the letter much damaged throughout. — G. 
 
 In London 20 May 1606. 
 Sir, — I have sent you by my brother in law M' William 
 Gibye, all such things as you desired me to buy for you (except 
 y^ cloke, which sorte one tells me is out of fFashon and nedles 
 here or in Irelande) : all which I have with as great care provided 
 as yf they had bene for my selfe, asuring you that neither for 
 my selfe nor anie other I will not for more then I will speake 
 yt vndergoe the like againe, because they be full of troble, and 
 things for the most parte out of my knowledge, so that I was 
 inforced to trust them who wilbe suer to deceave the wariest : 
 But I am hertely glade they be now done soe be they may give 
 you and my ladie good content : otherwise I shalbe more then 
 sorie : for the Mantells, which are the greatest matter, I had 
 the advise of them who in like make most for all sortes, and 
 according [to] theire dereccons, made theis for length & 
 stredhgt with short laces (which is now deere and scars) as is 
 best in request. I received two lettres from my ladie, thone by 
 your Cossen Boyle and thother by one M'' Nutting. I send 
 them contrarie to my first dereccon, by waye of BristoU ; which 
 I have done wishing them with you in dew tyme. in her last 
 she wrote for a fFann, which I will hertly send her, but now they 
 are not to be gotten at any rate by reason of my L. of Salsburies 
 instalment and other occacons. The some theis thinges amount 
 to is 98. I. 4, which I pray you pay my brother in law within 
 20 dayes according to your apointment, for he shall have great 
 
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 occacon to vse the some ; which my hope is you will not faile 
 him of. I wrot you by M'' Wilsby of my excessive want of 
 money at present, and therfore desired you to be pleased to make 
 me over loo'' in harpes, which he tells me you never spake of 
 to him. yf you had p'formed yt would have come me well to 
 please, but what inforced me to take vpp soe much at vse to buy 
 them, which I pray you make him allowance of sine this date : 
 for I protest before God I doe not knowe wherein I got a 
 farthing by anie of them to my knowledg. and soe to the 
 newes (?) and bill of p[arti]culars I refer you and my selfe to be 
 further comended by you. 
 
 My Brother is a meere stranger in the Countrey and has 
 come to dwell at Castle Haven, which I have bought. If he 
 have occacon to vse you, I pray you be pleased to doe what 
 favor you may and give him some of your good Councell ; 
 which I knowe he will haue ned of, and whatsoeuer you doe for 
 him I shall rest thanckfull as yf it were to my selfe. I am in 
 good hope to draw a good store of Merchantes in to Munster ; 
 which wilbe a meanes to benefitt and inrich the Cuntrey. I 
 would haue had M"' Remonde to haue served theis thinges but 
 I found her soe {illegible'] at first with me and so vnfurnished and ill 
 fitted as vppon the comendacons of your sister, I was served 
 by one M" Cowper of all your thinges ; wherein she makes me 
 beleve she hath served you well. But in the 3 pillow Beres 
 (which I am told ar as manie as doe be vsed) and in the Cuoshen 
 cloth I findeinge such matter, for they be not soe good worke as 
 I would have had, and yet are deere : yet better nor better 
 cuoshens I could not find at this tyme in all the Cittie : neither 
 are such to be had in lesse then 4 monthes. for pillow bere 
 for cradle and sieves none such are to be had as you wrote for, 
 and therefore you must make other shift, for M"= Cockarstine 
 
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 I have written her yt [that] as for the 33'' I doubt not but [it] 
 is payde : for the rest I pray you send my hande and I will make 
 you [right] by your cossen Joshua Boile at his or your pleasure. 
 Wishing my good Ladie a happie and a spedie end of her great 
 busines and you a faire sonne to be a fortunat heire of your long 
 possessions, with my best remembranc to you both and my 
 hertie prayrs for your succes, I take leave and [rest] 
 
 Your loving frend to Comande 
 
 John Rowley. 
 
 XXXVII. Sir Allen Apsley to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 1 1 of vol. ii. It is addressed, " To my most worthye cosen 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight thereat Sir GeiFery fentons house in Dublin," 
 and is endorsed, "a Junij 1606. Sir Allen Apseley's letter: hereof sent 
 him one hundreth pounds ster." At the top of the letter is this note, 
 " pray Turn the leafe." See Introduction and Notes and Illustrations on 
 this Apsley and this oddly piece-meal letter. — G. 
 
 My good Cozen : At your goinge to Dublen aboute some- 
 thinge that concerned me, I wrote to you by a messendger of 
 purpose, but as yt seemeth by his druncken necglegence, I hadd 
 no answer att all, ether for the money, by exchandge whereof I 
 had soe confident a hoape as a kind of assurance of the rest. 
 But since yt could not be then, I will nowe tak your kind ofFer. 
 Cosen I know you wishe M" parsons well, and in trothe soe doe 
 I, But I must euer(?) regaurd my owne occasions and I hoape 
 soe will you, for that in my love I haue ever held you as deere as 
 my selfe. 
 
 ffor the true respectes as in my former letter to you men- 
 cioned, I haue made sutch a profer to M'' parsons as to any els I 
 will not doe the lyke, and in fayth I haue since necglected one 
 that came oute of England, that was exceedinge earnest, and 
 
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 would haue bin mutch moar binnefyciale vnto me. And moare, 
 I faythfully sweare vnto you, that this tearme I was to give a 
 resolucon to an other in Dublen whoe doath as mutch expect 
 my answer, whether he shall haue yt or not for iiixx" as I doe 
 not promise (?) whether hee will haue yt or noe for [erased'] 
 Ixvj" xiiij^ iiij** as I formerly writt you. And therfore I beseech 
 you procure me his direct and vndoubt[ed] answer by this 
 bearer, my boye. 
 
 I trubled you aboute my wardshipp of young gould and hoape 
 to have receaved a sirefacies [sic] against those that deteyn the 
 lands, to haue ben returned this tearme. But nowe they haue 
 missed therof I feare they will gitt the Bennefitt of the next 
 harvest. Your kindness and remembrance heerin I hartely 
 mtreate. 
 
 yf tyme graunt yt yet, I pray denye yt not to particuler our 
 sucess aboute Ahammerten (?) especelly howe my Lord deputie 
 is satisfFyed : for that I moaste longe. And heere I troublee you 
 with an intreaty about M'' Burgatt. I am hoapless from him of 
 aught but delayes. Hee profered me 2 cowes to be deliuered 
 me this monneth. Had I them at this instance I would take 
 them : herafter, my intents beinge otherwise supplyed, by my 
 sowle, I will not. I knowe hee is yours, yett I pray move him 
 in this as from yourself. Hee will not deny his proffer with 
 me. I intreate you humbly commend my best service to Sir 
 GefFery fFenton and his moast good ladie and my best affections 
 to Your Self to whome I wissh asmutch happiness as to 
 
 Your moaste affectionate loving cosen in all you will 
 
 Allen Apseley. 
 
 From Tracton the xx"' of Mayie 1 606. 
 
 I pray write vs some nuse : heer is not anv certaine of my 
 
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 Lord Devonsheres death : my lord Carewe being ad' of The- 
 ordnnanc hear. I would I had a lease of your lyfe. 
 
 Your ladie was well yesterdaie, one came thence hether. 
 
 Worthy Cosen this letter I had sent vnto [I pray turn the 
 Leafe] you as farr as Youghall : but metinge with yours re- 
 turned by your ladie backe vnto me againe and now I send 
 the bearer Morris Silver with a bill of Exchandge for a C.'' 
 ster : which issue [?] you will paie one sight of my bill to any 
 my Lord Carewe will appoint, or yourself : And therfor I pray 
 paye the said C." vnto the said Morrish. I desire my letter may 
 be conveyed with the bill of exchandge. I haue naught els at 
 this instant to Trubl you with. Thanks for your nuse. be 
 blessed in all your own desires. 
 
 Your Cosen in all assurance that affectionatly loveth you 
 
 Allen Apseley. 
 
 Tracton the xxviij"" of May 1606. att the tyme yt came 
 to my hands. 
 
 Sir I think you have herd of the wronges don M""' wally, 
 which I ame mutch sorry to think of: beleeve yt faythfuUy, 
 that shee is moast freely minded and is moast innocent in the 
 ofFenc wherwith shee is so basly slandered (advise M' Wally to 
 bringe some write for James Martell, for slander and foarce in 
 stayinge his wife without actorety [authority ?] and shamfuUy 
 abusing her in slander ; and yf bee regard his own creddit though 
 he care not for or hates his wife, lett him doe yt : for this hee 
 hath no cause in the world to condemn her. 
 
 I pray turn the lefF. 
 
 Secundo die 'Junij 1606. 
 
 Receaved by me Morrys Sylver, servant to Sir Allen Apsely 
 Knight vppon the delivery of the annexed letter, at hands of Sir 
 
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 Richard Boyle Knight, the full iuste some of one hundreth 
 pownds of good and lawful! money within England for and to 
 thvse of my said M"" Sir Allen Apsely, and by his speciall direc- 
 tion : fFor the receipt wherof this shalbe my sufficient acquittance 
 and dischardg : As witness of my hand the day and year first 
 above wrytten. 
 
 Morris * Sylver his mark. 
 Witnesses heervnto 
 
 Ffo. Hsnawe. 
 
 Philyp Domynge. 
 
 Tho. Jarge. 
 
 Sir yf you cann favor me with thother 1" heere or att youhull 
 I will give you an vndated bill into ingland. 
 
 XXXVIII. William Kellett to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 1 3 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To the Right wor" S"^ 
 Richard Boyle att yochall give these in Ireland ; " and endorsed, " M' 
 Kellets accompte with me." — G. 
 
 Right Worshipfull, With desier of your good health and my 
 Lady your bedfellow, with all yours, which god longe continewe, 
 givinge you most harty thankes for all your friendship and 
 kindnesse, yours of the 20* January I have receaved, and per- 
 seave of those moneyes you have disbursed for me since your 
 departure to say v''. xij^ at sondry times to Goodson and his 
 wife and xv' for our halfe yers rent to M"' Thomas, and John 
 Crallop v'' for your owne rente ended at michellmas last for a 
 yere till then and x" to Mayo : all which comes to xx" xvj" till 
 that said 20"" day of January, 1605. And your debt was xx'' 
 paid your man and lent you before you departed, and xvij". vj** 
 for plate sent by Goodson, and xij". xiij\ for silkes to make 
 
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 aparrell and sent by him in July last : all which cometh to forty 
 nyne poundes xiij^ vj"*. out of which you have paid twenty 
 pounds xvj^ : soe there restes due to me the 20* January last, 
 xxviij'^ xvij^ vj''. and I pray and besech your worshipp that 
 both your owne rente when that the times are due and allso all 
 others of whome I hould any Lande theyer rent may be duly 
 paid : for one day I hope to make ytt yelde me somthinge, and 
 the more by your good countenance and favour : vpon which I 
 doe depend, otherwise, I would neuer haue medled therewith. 
 I vnderstand that M"^ Goodson hath let out the land for rente : 
 my order was that ytt should haue bin plowed for the fowerth 
 sheffe and not otherwise ; wherfore for this yeare I will alowe 
 of ytt, but against michelmas or hallentide, I will haue ytt into 
 my owne handes, and send ouer and haue ytt stecked, and a 
 small barke to trade there as att first I certified your worshipp. 
 I would gladly knowe yf I might depend vppon you for xxx or 
 xl tonns of lead yerely from thence, and at what price, and yf 
 you haue good oure [= ore] to make leade, that more might be 
 procured to come and make a triall therof : and allso for pipe 
 staves yf I might depende to have timber of you to make them, 
 or that you will sell them redy made, of which I desier your 
 answere. Sir, you remember you did vnder your owne hande 
 admitt me tennant of Bally hamlet, and for arerages of Ter- 
 coUon and others due to you, I paid you xx'', and allso xxv'' to 
 haue the widowe of Couley clered, and all those wrytinges re- 
 ceaved and allso because of quietnes I gaue you v'' to close one 
 hugh Robertes of all those Lands and leases, and soe I to be in 
 quiet possession of all : which in part I perceaue you have wor- 
 shipfuUy accomplisht for Tercollon, and allso for the wrytinges 
 which I perceaue you haiie in your custodie for me ; only restes 
 that you accordingly and John Goodson with your countenance 
 
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 and favour to close Bally hamlett, seinge of your owne hande 
 you vndertake ytt, and as your worshipp well did knowe acepte 
 you had assured me ytt and your aide and quiet possession, I 
 would neuer haue medled therin. Wherefore my request vnto 
 you accordinge to true plaine and honest dealinge, which I euer 
 found in you [is] that he may quietly delyver vpp the same : for 
 I will not loose ytt yf lawe will give ytt me, and before I enter 
 house by meanes here or there by lawe, I will first crave your 
 furtherance and good will ; which I knowe of your selfe you may 
 and will doe ytt. yf you saye but the worde M"' Roberts dare 
 not once move therin. Soe good Sir Richard, as I have still 
 found you a worshipfull gentleman, soe lett this be done, and yf 
 ytt be for fyve pounds more to give ytt him I will doe ytt att 
 your apoyntment, and let him have this yeres crope till hoUan- 
 tide next : for then, god willinge, I will take all into my owne 
 handes, and stoke ytt and ploughe ytt thorowly, and I hope in 
 god you shall have comfort of your tennant : and I entend to 
 haue a barke or two there before ytt be a yeare and vppon my 
 fayth desirouse only to haue all quiet before I sende. And allso 
 I would gladly knowe yf I sent wevers to make linen cloth, yf 
 they might be in safetie : for at tercollon or yochall I would 
 place them, seinge ther cometh sutch store of yarne thence. I 
 have apoynted John Goodson to attend you about this busines 
 of bally hamlett, and I trust that he will not suffer the woodes 
 eyther to be cutt or hurt in the meane time : for I would not 
 haue my woods cut downe what soeuer, and god willinge this 
 next somer I will have a good barke and ron over to see your 
 worshipp to sterte a trade there ; and before all be settled and 
 quiett, that bally hamlet be allso settled I would not willinge ; 
 and yf in the meanetime eyther your worshipp or my lady would 
 haue eyther silkes or spices or any thing else from hence, advise 
 
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 me and I will provide and send you. yf you please to wryte to 
 Bristoll to M' William Ellis alderman, he will send me your 
 letters, which I ernestly desier : yf Goodson haue nede of forty 
 shillinges or iij" to follow his sute for bally hamlet, I hope you 
 will furnish him, but as before I knowe neyther sewte nor lawe 
 nedes be, for M'' Robertas will doe nothinge without your order. 
 And soe god kepe you. 
 
 Your worship to vse 
 
 William Kellet. 
 London this 3 June 1606. 
 
 for your lead mynes yf it please you writ your mynd and yf 
 you please confer with this bearer M"^ Samuel corman who will 
 enter into more in the busines. 
 
 XXXIX. Gar Trant, Sovereign of Dingle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 15 of vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the Right Wor' S' 
 Richard Boyle knight one of the Counsell of the pVince of Munster this 
 give;" and endorsed, "July 1606 from M' Garret Trant Sovereign of y« 
 Dingle."— G. 
 
 Right Worshipful!, my dutie don, I heve not hetherto slackt 
 this answer vnto your request either [be] for or since, for want 
 of anie respect but being lothe to treble you with a frivolous 
 lettre vntill I were able to satysfie your desire. And in truthe 
 I am bitter sowar that contrarie to my expectacon the same is 
 faild as are all other the like in this contrie : for the excessive 
 wett of the Somer. I beseeche your worship to think that herein 
 and in what other I might, I was redy (as always I meane to be) 
 to further your desiers with my best endevours, though on 
 this the effect followe nott. 
 
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 I cannot but acknowledge the care you haue of this poore 
 towne to deserve more than the same is able to requite, and 
 thanckfuU acknowledgment onely expected : which without 
 deepe vngratefulnes cannott be lacking in vs, in that among 
 your owne many aiFaires, you have nott forgotten to restore to 
 our poore afFaiers their place in the comission which they had 
 before our delaye by these warrs, and which trulie for my 
 part I take as a good augurie that our ruynes shall yett be raised 
 by his Majestic and the State, and the rather by your worshipps 
 fFurtherance, who are better acquainted with the loyaltie of our 
 inclinacon then any Cpuncellor nowe in the kingdome, your 
 good ladye onely excepted. Accept Ryght worshipfull for this 
 your travaile, the humble affection we have jn generall to be 
 singulare in your service and hold vs all as we are for 
 
 Your Worship to our power 
 
 Gar : Trant. 
 Dingle ye xvj of June 1606. 
 
 My fFather hath his best humble comendacon to your 
 worship. 
 
 XL. The Lord de Courcy to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 23 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To the WorshippfuU and 
 me assured good frend S"' Richard Boyle knight at the Coledg in youghill 
 geue; " and endorsed, " julij 1606 from the Lo. Cowrcye." — G. 
 
 Sir Richard Boyle, I comend me vnto youe, and to the ladies 
 your mother and your wife. Hauing no other nouelties to 
 present vnto my Lady, your wife, but a fewe Lobsters : being 
 fiue in nomber : wherin I pray to be escused in regard of the 
 smalenes of the quantyty for that I protest I made all the meanes 
 
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 I chowld to get more when I receaued your lettre ; but here- 
 after if I can light vpon any I wold not be vnmyndfuU to send 
 you som. Touching your money youe lent me at Dublin, I 
 came not home till it was after saint James day : wherin I pray 
 youe to hold [me] escused. And now that I am com I will 
 endeuor me self to send you your money with expedition 
 and many thannckes. if youe wold haue a shod mare of 
 lardge bride [= breed?] I will help you to som, if not I 
 will make money of them and see you satisfied. I hope youe 
 will remember me of tow whelpes of the white biche, in regarde 
 I was disapointed last, they may stand youe in good steed here- 
 after to preserue your thith bamble in this Bawny and when 
 they wilbe seruiceable, youe shall comand them to do youe any 
 seruice. here is one M' Bedloe pretendeth som collour of title 
 of florence m'carty to the oldhed, which youe knowe I had the 
 possession by lettre out of England vpon proufe of me title 
 therto, who hath ben suficiently discouered and debated at lardge 
 in the tyme of the gouerment of Sir Georg Carewe (in Monster), 
 and finding that I was lawefully enterested in the said castle, I 
 was restored to the posesion therof, with a warrant for the 
 contynuance therof from tyme to tyme (and not be way of 
 custodian as the said Bedloe aledged). I amtherfore to entreat 
 youe in regard that youe are acquaynted with [the] state of this 
 cause aswell concerning the close in lettre out of England 
 towching the posesion as in the comision that issued out of 
 the chancery, as also the office thervpon taken who fond that 
 I was lawfuU enterested and therbe accordingly was posesed ; 
 that if ther are any further question be the said Bedloe made, 
 that youe wuld be myndfull to deliuer your knowledge, if 
 occasion should serue youe. Knave florence neuer pretended 
 any other title but onely in the right of James galway as leasee 
 
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 to him and whose estate I haue. So beinge tedious to trouble I 
 take leaue Comitting youe 
 
 Your assured poore frend 
 
 John de Courcy. 
 Dounepatrick xxix"" of July, 1606. 
 
 XLL Sir Geoffrey Fenton to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 17 of vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the R' wo' S' Richard 
 Boyle Itnight at his house at youghall ; " unendorsed, but from Sir Geoff. 
 Fenton. — G. 
 
 Count [sic] Boyle, I haue sent you herewith one of the 
 printed proclamacons for defective titles, which you may laie by 
 you and make vse of yt in your privat as you shall haue 
 occasion. And by waie of advise, I wish you not to make light 
 of yt, though when I first told you of yt, you seamed to saie 
 yt was but a sleight matter : for I can assure you that with 
 sundrye men of this country parte, being of best learning and 
 iudgment, yt is approved for good and to be a sovereigne salve 
 to cure the breaches in men's titles, and to setle their estates 
 against all future vexacions. 
 
 The treasor is arryved and yet no money come, this mayseame 
 a paradox yet yt is a matter of truthe ; for of xijooo" assigned 
 for Ireland, there is come hether in specie but xivoo" with some 
 odd money, and owt of this poore Remayne, his L[ordship] 
 hath written to me to cause Carvell to make just payment of 
 above xijC'formoney borrowedheare to aunswer his L[ordships] 
 Jorney now, so as you may see how this montaine a 1 200" is 
 wasted awaie to a moUhill, yea nothing Remayning to help the 
 Armie, nor to giue comfort to many pore and needie servants. 
 I praie you hast your mother hoame, and recomend me abun- 
 
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 dantlie to Kate, which is all I haue to saie at this tyme, saue 
 that I will not cease to pray to god to giue her an easie and 
 comfortable delyvrye. 
 
 God bless you all, and sett me ouer here from this greate 
 miserie in money matters and I protest I will neuer be drawne 
 into the Laborinth againe. At dublin 25 Julij 1606. 
 Your assured freind and father in law 
 
 Geff. Fenton. 
 
 XLII. Sir John Fitz Edmond to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. i8 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To my honorable frend S' 
 Richard boyle speed thies;" and endorsed, " July 1606, from S"' Jo. ftz 
 Edmond." — G. 
 
 Sir Richard, I am right sory that the goshawk had a litle im- 
 pediment in her wyng, which came for that shee was drawen out 
 of the eary sooner then behoved for feare of stealing ; which 
 allso made your faulconer not to take charge of her. I sent 
 presently for M"' Fleming, who as you knowe is the skillfullest 
 faulconer in monstre. I hope through his help the hawk shall 
 doo well. I beseche you to advertise my good lord therof. I 
 doo send the berer herof, my man, to putt you in mynd of the 
 matter that your self and I cocluded vpon in Dublin in easter 
 tearme. credit the berer, for he can sufficiently informe you of 
 the same : and so ending for this tyme, wishing hardest come- 
 dacons to my good ladies and your self, I comitt you all to 
 god. from cloyne the xxvj of Julij' 1606. 
 
 Your alwayes assured vnfaynedly 
 
 John fitz Edmond gerald. 
 
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 XLIII. Randall Clayton to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 30 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To the right wors. Sir 
 Richard Boyle K' at his house in the Colledg at Youghall j " and endorsed, 
 "July 1606 from Randall Clayton," — G. 
 
 My dutie and Ser[vice] According [to] your direccons I 
 wayted vpon the Lord Deputie at Monckter, and putt his Grace 
 in mynd of thexaminacon in his Study heere ; who bade mee 
 call on his Grace for them at his coining. Thorow this 
 prom [is] e to goe his Northerne Jorney, It so fell out that his 
 Grace turned over the Fort vnder the Hospitall, and so the 
 direct waie for Drogheda, and came not to the Castle at all : I 
 sent awaie your lettre long since to Sir Lawrence Esmond, but 
 haue not heard any aunswere from him since. The 2 dozing 
 factors Cutt and Rowley have often haunted me since your 
 departure, especially Cutt, who growing into tearmes yll beseem- 
 ing his base self, I told him (for that you comended his fill of a 
 M"') yf he ceased not his Cockney carriage he shall be taught to 
 know the difference between a sonn of his father and one of 
 your rank : Wee haue no occurrentes heere but such as this 
 honest gent can relate vnto you. And therfor for this tyme, I 
 most humbly take leeve, beseeching you to lett my duty be re- 
 tnembered to my honorable good lady and your good great 
 ^tiellyed bedfellow, for and after whose good and happie delyvery 
 /my self and many other heere to-day enquyer and hartely praieith 
 / for. In hast at Dublin 28*'' July 1606. 
 
 Your Worships ever humbly at comaundment 
 
 Rand : Clayton. 
 
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 XLIV. Thomas Fitzgerald to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 31, vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the Right wo' S' 
 Richard Boyle knight theise haste at Lissmore or else where," No endorse- 
 ment. — G. 
 
 It may please your Worship, I haue omitted the oportunitie 
 of this last shippinge of S' James tide for England, onely ex- 
 pectinge when your Wdrship did intend your Jorney that way j 
 your presence there beinge next vnder god my chiefest hope of 
 furtherance, and nowe that my lettres of favor from the Lord 
 Deputie and Consell are increaste into more dayes, beinge of 
 the xxvij* of the last Maye, then happely may well concurr 
 with that haste which a poore sutor might be supposte to haue 
 vsed (savinge that if it were my fortune to haue youre worship 
 here then I doe not doubt (by your frindes) but you woulde 
 salve what may be obiected). I thought therfore goode to 
 desire your worship if ther be any of your greater afFayres hap- 
 pened that might prolonge your intended repayre thither, to 
 advertise me therof by the bearer my Brother, and also to doe 
 me that favor as to vouchsafe your lettres in my favor to your 
 frindes : And where I mocioned at Dublin a bargayne betwixt 
 your and my Cussen John fitz thomas for Ballygeyrie, I have 
 since instructed my selfe in so many intricate tytles that con- 
 cerne the saide land, as nowe I am as contrarie to your agree- 
 ment as I was then earnest to forward the same : I vnderstand 
 of a bargayne in mocion betwixt you and the Lord Walshe for 
 an exchange betwixt Breydon and Balle Roade : ffor that I 
 thought the lands of Leixlip to be a more beneficiall exchange 
 for you then Bredan, considring you may haue the fFee simple 
 of the one and but a morgage of the other, and likewise that it 
 
104 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 will be but a dayly cause of Jelosie betwixt your worship and 
 the Lord Walshe. I thought therfore good (if you see not 
 otherwise to the contrarie) to wish that your agreement might 
 proceede for Leixlip, and the rather for that I haue five and 
 thirtie shillinges paide for xxj yeares yet to com of the next halfe 
 plowland to the same : for vppon your bargeyne for Leixlip yf 
 [it] please you I will passe vnto you also easie condicions as I 
 hope you will not disagree with : and in time I doe not doubt 
 but to gett you better footinge in the same. As fFor any 
 diswadinge you to agree with John fitz Thomas and my per- 
 swacion to agree with my Lord Walshe, I pray you lett 
 me be noe auctor herof but as littell as you may (because you 
 may) fall from the one and proceede in the other of your selfe. 
 And so with my dutifull comendacions to your worship I rest 
 Your Worships allwayes at comaund 
 
 Tho : FITZ Geralde. 
 Illand Hobbock this 28 
 of July 1606. 
 
 XLV. The Earl of Salisbury to Sir Geoffrey 
 Fenton : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 35 of vol. ii., and is addressed, "For his Ma'' speciall seruice 
 To my verie Loving fireind Sir Geffrey Fenton knight his Ma** Socretarie 
 in Ireland. At Dublin. M' Maior of Chester see this pacquett sent away 
 with all expedition. Salisbury. Whitehall arrived at Norwich (?) at tenne 
 in the forenone. hast hast post post for lyfe ; " endorsed, " from therle 
 of Salisbury z g^' 1606 in a packett deliuered to me." Outside are these 
 notings (in part illegible), " Couentrye Haste 5 in the morninge " — " Col- 
 chester viij " — " Lichfielde paste xi " — 3 after none " — " At 
 Namptewiche past at nighte " — land at iij in the aftemone " — 
 " Rec"" at conwey at lo at night bringe " — burne at 11 aclock 
 & past " — " bamit at i of the afternoon " — " Saint Albans halfe anoure " 
 
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 — iij in y" afternone hill at vij at night " — " at Tow- 
 
 cester xi evening "— " paste ii in the night." See Introduction on 
 
 these letters of Salisbury ; also Notes and Illustrations. — G. 
 
 S"' Geffrey Fenton. This packett requireth some hast, and 
 therefore I would be gladd to heare it were arryved, ffor 
 although it be but concerning a particular, yet is it a thing, 
 which his Majestie hearknith after. And so I committ you to 
 God. ffrom the Court at Whitehall the second of November 
 1606. 
 
 your Loving freind 
 
 Salisbury. 
 Forvrarded by the Post barke 
 
 12 November 1606. 
 
 XL VI. Tailor's Bills : 1604-1607. 
 
 This is No. 36 of vol. ii. and is endorsed, " 26 g""'* 1607, M' Dobsons 
 Reckning." See Introduction on this curious detailed account of an Eliza- 
 bethan-Jacobean family's expenditure on dress, &c. — G, 
 
 ffor S'' Richarde Boyle Knighte : 1604. 
 
 Yo"" Wo" bill of parceUs beyginnige y' 27* of 
 December, 1604. 
 
 Til'' Dub let t o/H Sattine ye same Tyme. 
 
 ffor viij yeards of ft sattine to make yo'' Dub- \ 
 
 lett & gaskoine hose, att xiiij vj"* y^ |- v'' xvj' 
 
 yearde . . . . • . ) 
 
 ffor iij ells iij qu*" of wachett Taffita to 
 
 cutt, w""' outtside of yo"" Dublett & }- ij" x= viiij* 
 
 hose att xiij' vj** ell . 
 
 8 — 6 — 8 
 
;<i 
 
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 fFor Canuas & stifeninge .... iij^ 
 
 fFor bumbaste to y" same .... XYJ"* 
 
 fFor one ell iij qu'"^' of tafEta to line y° same "j 
 
 Dublett & faice itt & make Duble Layes J- xxv' j"^ 
 
 att xiiij* iiij'' ell . . . . J 
 
 fFor Cuttinge & Layenge itt in a single "j 
 
 crosse billett ..... J ■' 
 
 ffor one ell halfe of muxxy tafita sarsnett to ■) 
 
 draw outt y^ same Dublett all viij* ell . J •' 
 
 fFor iij Soft H neaples gallowne to y* same "> 
 
 Dublett all ij= vj" Ec[he] . . . j ^'J' 
 
 fFor fine browne Canuas to ye Skearts . jx"^ 
 
 fFor iiij dosson of buttens all vj'' y" dosson . ij* 
 
 fFor silke to y' same Dublett . . . iiij^ vj'* 
 
 fFor makinge y" same Dublett . . . vj^ 
 
 , 3-3-8 
 
 for gaskoine hose of y' same stuffe y' same tyme. 
 
 fFor fine It Gotten to Duble line theme & 1 
 
 make a rowle . . . . .J ^ J J 
 
 fFor heare to y' same hose .... xv"* 
 
 fFor w" fustian to line them & make pocketts v' 
 
 fFor Cuttinge & Jaggine y" same hose . xx** 
 
 fFor ij ells qfl'"'^ of muxxy taffita sarsnett to l 
 
 Draw outt y^ same hose att viij^ ell . ) •' 
 
 fFor lace to lay downe y^ same hose & bindy" \ ...^ 
 
 pockett holls ..... j •' 
 
 fFor rebene to y^ waste & knees . . . viij'' 
 
 fFor silke to y° same hose .... vj"^ 
 
 fFor makinge y^ same hose ... v' 
 
 2 — 1 — 3 
 
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 ijs vj"* 
 
 xij"* 
 
 "J 
 
 My Lady Boyles bodes ofwhitt stitcht taffita y^ 
 2'* of October 1 604, 
 
 fFor one yard qfl'""^ of w" stich taffita to make ) 
 
 them, all viij' j ^"^ 
 
 fFor fine browne Canuas to y° skearts & bodes xx'' 
 
 fFor fustian to lay nextt y° outtside , . xv** 
 
 fFor w" galowne to binde y" same bodes 
 fFor whelbone to y° bodes . 
 fFor silke to y" same bodes . 
 fFor makinge y° same bodes 
 
 I — o — 2 
 
 fFor S' Richarde Boyle Knightte 1604. 
 
 Tif peticoatt of Carnation velvett y' same tyme. 
 
 fFor vij yeardes halfe qfl" of Carnation vel- \ 
 
 vett to make f same petecoatt, all xxiiij^ V viij" xj' 
 
 y' yearde . . . . . . ) 
 
 8— II— o 
 
 fFor fine Bockarum to border itt aboutt to ) ...^ 
 
 worke y' lace to .... J 
 
 fFor iiij yeardes halfe of greene say to line y^ ") .3 ...^ 
 
 same petticoatt, at ij" vj'' y'= yearde . f 
 
 fFor xiij ownces halfe & halfe qu"" of silvar \ 
 
 platt lace, to goe vij tymes aboutt y= |- iiij" vij= ix'' 
 same, att vj' Ec[he] . . . . ) 
 
 fFor viij ownces halfe of sillvar slaughted ) ..,; ^.^, ^^ 
 frenge att vij^ J 
 
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 fFor rebene to y^ top & gallowne as before . viij'' 
 
 fFor ij dosson halfe of greene rebene to make ) --s -d 
 
 pointts to tucke itt, att xij^ J J^ ■ • ' 
 ffor silke to y" same pettecoatt ... vj' 
 
 fFor makinge y' same pettecoatte ... x' 
 
 8 — 19 — 8 
 
 fFor a paier of french bodes ... ix^ vj^ 
 
 o — 9 — 6 
 
 Tcf gowne of II minikine hayste y" 2']''' Ocotober 1604. 
 
 fFor vij yeards halfe of minikine bayste to I . ^ 
 
 make -f same gowne, att vj^ y° yeard . J 
 
 2 — 5 — o 
 
 fFor Canuas & stefFeninge to y' same gowne ij^ viij"* 
 
 fFor iij & qu*"' of gallowne to y° same gowne 
 
 att ij' vj"* ye[ard] . . . .J ^ i i 
 
 fFor whealbone to y" bodes 
 fFor bockorum & whealbone to y' winges 
 fFor basteborde & wier to y^ CoUer 
 fFor ij dosson of reben 
 fFor a paier of beutte[sis] 
 fFor tafita to face y" coller & coug[h]es 
 
 [=cufFs] & sleaue bands ... J ^ 
 
 fFor iij dosson halfe of buttens att v'* y dosson xvij** 
 
 fFor say to border y' same gowne att y' RuiFe x"^ 
 
 fFor silke to y" same gowne ... ij' vj** 
 
 fFor makinge y° same gowne . . . vij' 
 
 I — 16 ■ — 10 
 
 d 
 
 Xlj"* 
 
 viij" 
 iiij* 
 viij' 
 iiij"* 
 
 ;d 
 
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 fFor a paier of vardengall sleaues . 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 iiij^ iiij"* 
 
 fFor a bockorum to wrap itt in . 
 
 . 
 
 • 
 
 x-' 
 
 fFor a hamper to send itt in 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 xvj'' 
 
 0- 
 
 -6- 
 
 -6 
 
 
 fFor S"' Richarde boyle Knighte 1604. 
 
 Toure petticoatt of oxxedge tawny & w"' Cafty [f] 20'* of 
 December 1604. 
 
 fFor viij yeards qfl'' & halfe of oxxedge tawny 
 
 & w"' Cafty to make ye same petecoatt, J- xxxviij' viij"* 
 all iiij' vj** ... 
 
 i_i7_8 
 
 
 fFor buckorum to veatt all aboutte . ; viij"^ 
 
 fFor iij yeardes halfe of greene bayse to line "i ^ .^ 
 
 y° same pettecoatt att iij' y yearde . j •' 
 
 fFor j ownce halfe of silver parchmentt lace to "j . ^ 
 
 y° same petecoatt at vj^ . . .3 
 ffor rebene to tucke y^ same pettecoatt . ij' 
 fFor rebene to y" topp & gallowne to before . viij"* 
 fFor silke to y' same pettecoatt . . . xv"* 
 fFor makinge f same pettecoatt ... v' 
 I — 9 — I 
 
 Boughett for yo"^ Lady ship y"= same tyme ^ 
 
 iij yeardes qfl"^" of StrawcuUer bayste att j- ix' ix"* 
 iij^ y° yearde . . . ■ • / 
 
 fFor bockorum to send the same away in . xij 
 o — 10 — 9 — 
 
 ;d 
 
 Bough tt more 28'" of Aprill 1 605 one paier ) .^3 ^.^ 
 
 of french bodes . . . . . ) 
 
 vj'^ 
 
I.ISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 ffor halfe an ell of heare cuUor tafita 
 fFor backorum to wrap the same in 
 O — i6 — 9- 
 
 vij" 
 iiijd 
 
 To' wo'shipes Cloake of marble CuUor Cloth y^ 2'* of NouemV 
 
 1606. 
 
 fFor iij yeardes qfi'"' of marble Culler cloth to ) ...^ 
 make yo"" Cloake, att xix^ vj"^ y° yeard . j ■' 
 3—3—4 
 
 iFor iij yeardes qfi*' of french rustell bayse to 
 line y' same Cloake, att iiij^ iiij** y° y"* . 
 
 paid for drawinge y" same Cloake 
 
 fFor V ownces qu""' of rustell silke & silver 
 lace to y^ same Cloake att v' ye 
 o[unce] ...... 
 
 fFoor iij dosson of rustell silkes & silver longe 
 buttens & fringes to y" same Cloak att 
 xj^ vj'^ y" dosson 
 
 fFor velvett to make a coller 
 
 fFor stefFeninge to ye Coller 
 
 fFor silke to ye same Cloake 
 
 fFor makinge ye same Cloake 
 
 4 — 15 
 
 iij' iiij"* 
 
 xiij* j"* 
 
 \\\y 
 
 xxvj' nj" 
 
 xxxnij' vj 
 
 vj' ix'* 
 
 iij\ 
 iiij' iiij"* 
 
 Vlj" 
 
 fFor S'^ Richarde Boyle Knight 1606. 
 
 My Lady boyles gowne of It minikine bayse y" same tyme. 
 
 fFor vij yeardes halfe of fine U minikine bayse l . ^ 
 
 to make y"' govime, att vj^ y° yeard . j 
 2 — 5 — o 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 fFor Canuas & StefFening . . . . 
 
 fFor one ell of tafita to garde y° same gowne 
 
 ij yards to yether of euery seame & y' 
 
 winges & skearts 
 fFor whealbone to y* bodes 
 fFor bockorum & whealbone to y° winges 
 fFor fustain to ventt it downe before & line 
 
 y^ seames ..... 
 fFor fine Gotten bumbaste to y^ sleaues 
 fFor Cuttinge & rawlinge ye gardes 
 fFor fine browne Canuas to y" skearts 
 fFor reben to binde y' waste 
 fFor a paire of bentts .... 
 fFor vj dosson of buttens att v"* y° dosson 
 fFor tafita to y* same gowne 
 fFor stichinge silke to stich y" garde & stronge 
 
 silke ..... 
 
 fFor makinge y"" same gowne 
 
 2 — 10 — 6 
 
 ij' viiij'' 
 
 xvij' 
 
 xy" 
 viij'' 
 
 xviij** 
 
 vij" 
 iiij^ vj** 
 
 VJ" 
 
 iiij* 
 ij= vj"* 
 vj^ vj'' 
 
 vij' 
 
 xiij' 
 
 fFor a truncke to send itt in 
 
 Some totall of y"' wo' wholl accountt is y^ ) ....... .., ., 
 
 ■' > liiij" xvij' vj" 
 
 some of . . . . . .J 
 
 Receude of y"" wo''shippe by y^ hand of M'' "j 
 
 Gosson ye x"" of October i6o6 in partt |- xxx" o' o"* 
 of this rekoninge y° some of . . j 
 
 Soe Reste due by yo' worshipe to me Robertt | „^;;;;ii „.,;:s .,:d 
 Dobson the some of . . . . 
 
 xxiiij'' xvij^ vj'' 
 
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 Rec" more of my Ladye y" ig**" of October 
 1607 by y^' hand of M'' Ball in full pay- 
 mente of hir blacke bayse gowne that is V v" iiij' vj'' 
 garded w* tafita & y' trunck that itt 
 was sent in the some of 
 
 Soe that there is Resting due by yo'' wo'' to ) 
 
 Me Robertt Dobson y^ some of . . ) ^ 
 
 ^li 
 
 XL VII. Deeds of Woods to Boyxe : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 42 of vol. ii., and is endorsed, " Irrelagh Callaghan his 
 deeds of the woods of Pallace, and gortroe xl° not leased by speciall name 
 from oCallaghan to Sir Tho Norris." — G. 
 
 Be it known vnto all men by these presents that I, Irelagh 
 oCallaghan of the towne of pallace in the countie Corck gent, 
 for & in consideracon of the some of xP of good and lawfuU 
 money in England, to me well and truely paid by Sir Richard 
 Boyle, knight, at thensealing of these presents, haue and by 
 these presents do for me, my heires, executors and assignes, 
 give, graunt, bargaine and sell vnto the said Sir Richard, his 
 executors and assignes, all such and so many okes and tymber 
 trees, as ar growing or being in or vppon the townes, lands, 
 woods or hamlets of Gartroe, & pallace, with their apperte- 
 nances, or any other my lands or possessions, in the county of 
 Corck, with free libertie, egresse, & Regress, for him and his 
 assignes, and their worckmen, laborers, carriadges, cattle, and 
 drivers, to haue, fell down, cutt, and carry away all, or soe 
 many okes or other tymber trees, as he, or they, shalbe pleased 
 to haue, take, and cutt down in any the said lands, within the 
 space of xj yeares now next ensewing ; the said Sir Richard, 
 his executors or assignes yealding & paying to me or my 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 113 
 
 heires or asignes after the rate of v" ster : for every C* of greate 
 okes or tymber trees, whereof the 40^ paid at thensealing 
 heerof is to be allowed to the said Sir Richard in trees after the 
 Rate aforesaid ; and when those ar wrought then to paie five 
 pounds before hand for another C.*, and that order of payment 
 to be continewed till the woods tearm of xj yeares ar ended. 
 And the said Irrelagh, for the consideracon aforesaid doth 
 heerby for himself his heires and assignes Covenant promise 
 and graunt not to sell, give or dispose, any the said woods or 
 tymber trees, nor to permyt or licens any person or persons to 
 haue or work any the said woods or trees, (except 30 euery 
 year graunted to Thomas Langly) during the said xj yeares. 
 And the said Irelagh doth heerby also give and graunt vnto the 
 said Sir Richard and his assignes all such and so many Ashes, 
 Elmes, birches or such lyke woods or trees growing or being 
 vppon his said lands, as he, or his assignes, or their worckmen, 
 or laborers shall or will vse for their carriadges, or any other vse 
 or thing thervnto belonging, with grazing for their carriadge 
 cattle and all this without payment. And Lastely, the said 
 Irelagh doth for him, his heires and assignes, covenant, promise, 
 and graunt to warrant and defend the premisses with thapper- 
 tenances heerby graunted to the said Sir Richard, his heires and 
 assignes, against all persons during the said tearm. As witnesseth 
 my hand and Seale the xxiij* of November, 1606. 
 
 Irrelagh * o Callaghans mark. 
 
 Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of vs [wax 
 sear\. 
 
 RicHE Brown 
 
 Dermode M'^Carthey ,^ 
 
 Jhon Power. 
 I. Q. 
 
114 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 XL VIII. Lease of Woods to Boyle : 1606. 
 
 This is No. 43 of vol. ii., and is endorsed, " OCallaghans lease of all his 
 woods to me for xj yeares." — G. 
 
 Be it known vnto all men by these presents that I Conogher 
 oCallaghan, alias oCallaghan, in consideracon often pounds of good 
 and lawfull money in England, to me well and treuly paid by Sir 
 Richard Boyle Knight at thensealing of these presents, haue and 
 by these presents doe for me, my heires, executors, and assignes, 
 give, graunt, Bargane, and sell vnto the said Sir Richard, his 
 Executors and assignes, all such oakes & tymber trees, as ar 
 growing, or being in or vppon the townes Lands Hamlets or 
 woody grownds of Dronwar, Killvelledy, Gortnecrosse, Skafrow, 
 Droihcover, Moher, Banteer, fFormoyle, Rathcoman, or any 
 other the woods or grownds of o Callaghan in publecallaghan, 
 or els where in the county of Corck, with free libertie egress 
 and regress for the said Sir Richard, his executors and assignes, 
 and his or their worckmen, laborers, carriadges cattle & drivers, 
 to haue, fell, cutt down, carry awaie all or so many oakes or 
 other tymber trees, as he or they shalbe pleased to haue, take 
 cutt down, and carry away, within the space of xj yeares from 
 Easter 161 5 \sic\ yealding and paying for the said great okes 
 & tymber trees after the Rate of ffive pounds sterling the C.*, 
 except for the first 200, which ar paid for before hand, and 
 when those 200 ar wrought owt then to paie five pounds sterling 
 before for another C."', and still that order of payment Ratable 
 to be kept, till the said woods and tearm ar ended : And the 
 said Conogher for the consideracons aforesaid doth heerby for 
 himself, his heires and assignes, covenant promise & graunt not 
 to sell, give or dispose, any the said woods or tymber trees, or 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 115 
 
 permyt, or sufFer, any other person to worck or vse them to be 
 transported beyonde the Seas during the said tearm of xj yeares. 
 And doth also for the consideracon aforesaid heerby give & 
 graunt vnto the said Sir Richard and his assignes, see many 
 Ash trees, witchelm trees, birch trees or such lyke woods grow- 
 ing or being vppon the premisses as hee or his assignes, or their 
 worckmen, or laborers shall or will please for their carriadges or 
 any other vse or thing therevnto belonging, without paying any 
 thing for the same, together with free grazing for their carriadg 
 and drawght cattle. And Lastely, the said Conogher doth 
 heerby covenant promise and graunt for him his heires and 
 assignes to warrant & defend the said woods, tymber trees and 
 all other the above wrytten premisses, with thapertenances, to 
 the said Sir Richard, his Executors and assignes, against all 
 persons during the said tearme, the heires executors and 
 assignes of Sir Thomas Norreys Knight onely excepted : As 
 witnesseth his hand & seale the xxiij* of November 1&06. 
 Conogher o Callaghan \wax seat]. 
 
 Signed sealed- & delivered in the presence of vs, and 
 when the henes and hawks, if any be, were reserved 
 by the said o Callaghan and not heerby graunted ; 
 and as for the woods of Bannteer, dromcover & 
 Rathcomans, they ar not to be meddled withall till 
 o Callaghans coming vp and producing the wryt- 
 ings made between him harries, king, and others. 
 
 Dermode m*= Cartheye. James Quarles. 
 Andrew Wilde. Irrelagh * o Cal- 
 
 laghans mark. 
 
ii6 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 XLIX. Earl of Salisbury to Fenton : 1607. 
 
 This is No. 7 1 of vol. ii,, and is addressed, " To my very louing frend S' 
 Geffrey Fenton knight his Ma" Secretary for Ireland ; " and endorsed, 
 "from thearle of Salisbury 29 Aug. 1607 w* a packett to the L DepJ." 
 — G. 
 
 S'' I haue receaued your Ire, by which I finde that my Lord 
 Deputie is gone towards the borders and hath left you at Dublin 
 to take care of all those aiFairs that shall occuur in the mean 
 time, which is the cause that I doe now send you those packetts 
 which concerne his Majesties seruice. And for your opinion 
 that it wilbe a better convoye from Holy head then from Chester 
 I concurr with you, and geue you thankes for it. meaning to 
 direct my Ires accordingly. And so I end 
 
 Your assured louing frend, 
 
 Salisbury. 
 Basing the 29. August 1607. 
 
 S"^ Geffrey Fenton. 
 
 L. Sir Geoffrey Fenton to Boyle : 1607. 
 
 This is No. 7 J of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To the R'wor: S' Richard 
 Boyle knight, one of the Councell in the prouince of Mounster & Clerk of 
 the Councell there;" and endorsed, "29 Sept. 1607 S'' Jeff: ffenton 
 k'."— G, 
 
 Sonne Boyle : We are now so full to prouide for the daungers 
 which the tyme doth threaten on all sides, that I cannot write 
 vnto you at length, neither are you to expecte that course of 
 wonted long lettres till more matter appeare in deede which is 
 nowe but in surmise and conceite : I haue had no tyme to write 
 to your two Commissioners seuerallie, but I haue borrowed a 
 
LISMORE PAPERS, 117 
 
 litle leasure to write to the Erie of Thomont and haue sent my 
 lettre vnsealed, to the end that you might reade the contentes, 
 and afterwardes to [poste it] to his lordship and to comunycate 
 the partes to the noble worthie knight his Colleague : for I am 
 drawne to such a straightnes of tyme that even necessitie dryves 
 me to salue two sores with one plaster : I praye you deale dis- 
 cretlie to satisfie them both and excuse me to them both. Touch- 
 inge your particuler, I can giue you asyet no advise for that 
 asyet we can heare nothinge from England, neither are we in case, 
 but rather to suffer the sheame to ronne then to stoppethe current, 
 till we be further enhabled from thence : And so beinge ouer- 
 prest with fresh busynes you must take this short lettre, till by 
 access of further matter, I may be hable to advise you more 
 fuUie, onely I wish you so to carrie your owne Tennents and fol- 
 lowers as they beinge furnished with Armour and weapons, may 
 be hable to stand vpon a firme keepinge, rather to prevent then 
 to fall into the daunger of a sudden strife : Coinend me to good 
 Kate and my Jewell Hodge : In hast at Dublin, 29 7''" 1607. 
 Your verie lovinge father in lawe and assured frend 
 
 GeFF : FENTON. 
 
 LI. John Whitsone to Boyle : 1607. 
 
 This is No. 85 of vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the Right Worship" my 
 verie lovinge ffreinde, S"^ Richarde Boyle knight thes ; " and endorsed, 
 " xxj December 1607 from M'' John Whitson." See Introduction on this 
 enterprising and energetic English capitalist. — G. 
 
 Bristol! the 13 of December 1607. 
 Right Worshipfull, I vnderstande that your selfe and John 
 Hampton haue vndertaken the Iron workes neere Youghall, 
 and that you are in possibilitie to make some quantity yeerly, 
 
ii8 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 and that there is nowe a small quantity sent ouer in John 
 Hamptons shipp (which is not as yett arrived heere) for a triall. 
 I haue thought good to signifie vnto you this much, that if it 
 may stand e with your good likinge, I will deale with you for 
 100, 150, or 200 tons yeerly, with condicon that you shall not 
 sell nor vtter any to any other man, within this river of Seauerne 
 but to my selfe : and your payment shalbee duly made for euery 
 parcell as I shall receaue it : and for the price I will give for it as 
 the quality and goodnes of the Iron shall deserue ; which shalbee 
 as much, or rather more then any man eer shall giue : make mee 
 I pray you soe much beholdinge vnto you, as that by the next 
 I may knowe your lowest price, and vpon what condicons you 
 will sell it, and what quantity you will deliuer yeerly, and with- 
 all that I may haue the refusall therof : which kindnes if it may 
 please you to afforde mee, I muste acknowledge it to bee a great 
 fFauour, without any deserte at all on my parte : but you shall 
 finde mee allwayes redy and willinge to doe you any kinde oiEce 
 that may fall within the compasse of my habilitie : thus crauinge 
 pardon for my boldnes, and withall an answeare of this letter 
 as conueniently as you can doe, with the remembrance of my 
 best wishes and kindeste loue committ you to the protection 
 of the allmightie, and will always reste 
 
 Your very lovinge freinde, 
 
 John Whitsone. 
 
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 LII. King James I : Casy appointed Clerk of 
 MuNSTER : 1607. 
 
 This is No. 95 of vol. ii., and is neither addressed nor endorsed. See 
 Introduction. — G. 
 
 James Rex. 
 
 Right trustye and welbgloued, wee greete you well : 
 Lettinge you weete, that for diuers good consideracons vs mov- 
 inge, wee are pleased, and soe wee comande & authorishe you 
 to graunte by our letters Pattents vnder the greate seale of that 
 our Realme, to James Casy gent, & his sufficient deputy and 
 deputies, duringe his good behavior, the office of clarke of our 
 councell of our province of Mounster, in that our Realme of 
 Irelande : and also the keepinge of our Signett of that our pro- 
 vince, and of all books, bills, records, comissions, precepts, proces, 
 and memorialls of our said councell, togeather with the_ accus- 
 tomed anuytye, or fee of twenty pounds yearly : And alsoe such 
 fees, wages, perquisitf, dietts, authorities, proffittf and prehemi- 
 ninencf to the said office, and signett, belonginge, or in anewise 
 apperteyninge : To possesse, exercise and enioye the said office 
 of clarke of our councell & keepinge of our Signett of that Pro- 
 vince, and all and singular the said fees, allowances, profFetts, & 
 other the premisses to the said James Casy and his sufficient 
 deputy or deputies ymediately and soe soone as the said office 
 shall first and next happen to be voiid by death, surrender, for- 
 feiture or otherwise howsoeur, in as large employ and beneficiall 
 manner as Sir Richard Boyle Knight, or anie other dark of our 
 councell of our said Province heretofore haue had or of right 
 ought to haue had the said office : And theise our letters shalbe 
 aswell vnto you our deputy Justice or cheefe gouernor, chaun- 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 cellor or keeper of the great Seale of that our Realme that here- 
 after for the tyme shalbe, and to all other our officers and 
 ministers to whome yt maye apperteyne, sufficient warrant and 
 dischardge in that behalf. Given vnder our signett at our Pallace 
 of Westminnster the seaventh daye of ffebruery in the fowerth 
 yeare of our Raigne of England fFrance and Ireland and of 
 Scotland the fFortieth. [This is a copy, doubtless made by Casy 
 for Boyle,— G.] 
 
 LI II. Ironwork Accounts to Boyle : 1607. 
 
 This is No. 100 of vol. ii,, and is endorsed, "From Cristmas until the 
 13 Marche 1607." — G. 
 
 A breefe abstract of the state of the accompt of money and 
 Iron R"* and yssued from the lo* day of Januarie last vntill this 
 day in accompt of gtnershipe betwene Sir Richard Boyle of' 
 Lismore Knight and Cuthbert Earth and Tho Ball of London 
 March ants. 
 
 1607 ton. c. q'. Id. 
 
 March 
 le 13. Sowe iron Restinge in Stock at 
 
 Christmas was to the quantitie 
 
 of 93'™ z" oi'' 21'' Caste since 
 
 Cristmas to this present daye : 
 
 64'™ 11'= 3''' note of which sub- 
 
 stract for 24*°° 15"= O^^ 21" of 
 
 Iron {torn, at the] fFordge this 
 
 dale there Resteth in stocke of 
 
 Sowe Iron the quantitie of . 120 11 Oi 21 
 Wrought Iron made since Crist- 
 mas the quantity of . . , 024 15 00 02 
 
LIS MO RE PAPERS. 
 
 Wrought Iron sould was of the some and money- 
 ton, c. q^ Id. 
 Rec"! by M"" Danyell Ball the quan- 
 
 titie of 002 02 oo 17 
 
 Owinge to the accompt of Iron by 
 
 Jn° wise of Cordogin as by his 
 
 bill vnder his hand appeareth for 000 10 00 00 
 M'' Pyne oweth to the accompt of 
 
 Iron for 000 04 00 13 
 
 George Powre oweth for the quan- 
 
 titie of 000 00 03 15 
 
 iUt to the vse of the iFordge & fFur- 
 
 nace ..... 000 03 00 17 
 iflt to Jn° Bond of youghall Smyth 
 
 which is chardged vppon your 
 
 worPP^^ accompt the q' of . . 000 005 00 00 
 
 In all sould and iltt to vses . 003 005 01 06 
 
 Restinge in stocke this daye . 021 09 02 24 
 
 Money R"^"* to the accompt since Cristmas. 
 
 1607 Ld, S, D, 
 
 March 
 
 1 3"" Re-^" by M"' Danyell Ball at 5 seuerall 
 payments from your wor?? as per the 
 accompt apeereth, the some of 95" 
 whereof M"' Bouth takes allowance 
 owte of the same for 9'' formerlie 
 borrowed of him, for as there is 
 I. R 
 
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 Ld. S. D. 
 
 chardged as brought to this accompt 
 
 but the some . . . . . 86 00 00 
 More Rec"* by him to the accompt of 
 
 waiter Collins {^torn out] 
 
 Smyth of a debt due to your worship 
 Rec"* of M"' Bouth to the accompt the 
 
 sum of . 
 Rec"" by him for 2'°° Z" O")' if^ of Iron 
 soulde the some of . . . 
 
 Rec"^ more of Richard Bennett Smyth 
 
 for 2 load of coles .... 
 
 Some is . . . 
 
 Money disbursed this daye is the some 
 
 of 153 08 09 
 
 Money Lent this daye is the some of . 012 01 01 
 
 02 
 
 4 
 
 000 
 
 07 
 
 174 
 
 05 
 
 Restinge in Cash this daye . . 008 05 01 
 
 The seuerall chardges of cast and wrought Iron. 
 
 In pr. for cast Iron there goeth 15 bashes 
 
 to euerie chardge, beinge in measure 
 
 4 bushels & I bash : and 7 chards to 
 
 : I ton, makinge in the whole 30 
 
 bushells which conteyneth in waight 
 
 2 ton lo"" of myne at 10. 8. 6'' per 
 
 ton, amounteth in money to the some 
 
 of 01 06 03 
 
 [torn, chardgeth?] 10 basketts of Cole 
 
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 Ld. S. D. 
 to euerie chardge and 7 chardges to 
 I ton : 30 basketts makinge one load, 
 beinge in all 3 loades of cole at 7/8 
 per load to i ton of Iron . . . 01 01 00 
 paid the fFounder for the Castinge of 
 I ton with the washinge of small 
 myne and cynders . . . . 00 05 04 
 
 02 12 07 
 
 To make i ton of wrought Iron goeth 
 
 30*^ of Cast Iron at a'"* 12' y^ the ton 
 
 amounteth vnto some of . . . 03 18 10 
 To make euerie ton of wrought Iron is 
 
 spent 4 loade of coles at 7/8 per load, 
 
 the some of . . . . . 01 08 00 
 Paid for makinge of i ton with cariadge 
 
 of cole to the heape the some of . 01 00 08 
 
 06 07 06 
 LIV. DoBSON, A Tailor : 1608. 
 
 This is No. iii of vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the Right wo'" Sir 
 Jeffrey iFenton Knight prencipall Secretary to His ma'"'* privey Councell 
 Ireland Dublyn this be," and endorsed, " from Dobson the Taylor 16 Apr'. 
 1608. towchinge my veluet night gowne." See Introduction on this terse 
 and smart letter, and Notes and Illustrations. The ink has browned and 
 faded very much, and it has been difficult to decipher certain words. — G. 
 
 Right worshipfull, I receuied your letter dated on the 26 of 
 January, 1607, together with abill of Exchange to M'' Cutt, 
 
124 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 whereby I receiued thirtye nyne pounds, the other twenty 
 shillings is for exchange as by the bill it doth appeare ; which 
 some of xxxix" I haue made Receiued vpon your accompt, which 
 I haue now sent you. I vnderstand by your letter you haue 
 Recieued your gowne of black wrought velvitt and that you doe 
 mislyke the fashion of the sleeve, but I doe assure you it is the 
 speciall fashion that men of your sorte do weare. As for the skant- 
 ness of it, I know it is as full of stuffe as any gowne you haue 
 or as any are worn, for the price of it I know to be very greate 
 butt you cannot buy the lyke stufFe for eighteen pence an yeard 
 more then you paid for yt. you would haue me make your 
 ladye a gowne of the same stufFe, but I haue not for yt. I hold 
 it not so fitt for her wearing as that I had made yt on. And be- 
 cause you refFerred both stufFe and fashion of triminge to my 
 discretion, I haue done it after such a decent manner & with such 
 goode StufFe as I hope my ladye will lyke well of it. for her 
 petticoat, I thinke she hathe as good an ar[ticle] as I can make 
 her any. And for stript satten, there is none to be had worth 
 wearinge. Therefore I haue made her a petticoate of Pearson 
 [Persian ?] in graine damaske, which is greatly in request here in 
 England, with Ladyes of her Ranck. for my 'ladyes kirtle 
 sleeves and stomacher, perhaps shee may thinke I forgott my 
 self that I did not lace the kirtle in silcke and haue lace at the 
 skirte as well as I did the bodyes and sleeves, butt I did it be- 
 cause she maye weare that kirtle with any other gowne or that 
 gowne with any other kirtle. This gowne, petticoate, kirtle & 
 stomagher, with a hatt for yourself is putt up in a truncke 
 directed to your worshippe & delieuered to M' Cutt. I received 
 a letter from'your worshippe by M"" Laney, together with your 
 redd fFur, the which shalbe safely kept till I here further : whereas 
 you writt that I should helpe M"" Laney to make choyce of a 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 115 
 
 clogh for your liveryes, but I neuer saw him till the clogh [cloak ?] 
 was bought and sent awaye, otherwyse I would haue bene 
 willinge to haue afforded him the best help I could. 
 
 Therefore yf the clog be goode you haue no cause to thanck 
 me, yf badd I hope you will not blame me. I receiued from 
 your worshippe a faire Irishe Nagge, of your guift ; for which 
 amongste your many other favors, I will reste ever ready in 
 any service to my poore power to requite. My wyfe hathe sent 
 my Lady a little fallinge band to weare with her standinge 
 collar vnder her ruffe bannd, only to showe her the ffashion. 
 Thus with my humble dutye remembered to your worshippe 
 and my good Lady, I take my leave. Comittinge you & all hels 
 to gods proteccon ever Restinge 
 
 your worshippes in any service I canne, 
 
 Robert Dobson. 
 
 London this xvj* 
 Aprill, 1608. 
 
 LV. Wright on the Ironworks : 1608. 
 
 This is No. 115 of vol. ii., and is addressed, "To the Right worP" and 
 his verie good M"'. Sir Richard Boyle Knight at Sir JefFerie fFentons house 
 in Dublyn theise," and endorsed, " z2°. May 1608 from M''. Wright 
 touching the yronworcks at Woodwor." — G. 
 
 Right worshippful, since your departure, there ariued Bastian 
 Cornelius whoe formerlie laded plancks here, to lade 9000 
 plancks, amountinge to 45", whereof M'" Pyne had recieued 20" 
 before hand at waterford, soe there rested vnpayed 25", of 
 which I haue Recieued 15'' which is disbursed aboute the 
 works, and I haue Recieued of M'' ffoster 1 0" ; but for the re- 
 maynder of x" from the scipper I cannot receiue it, vntill all his 
 
126 LIS MORE PAPERS. 
 
 planck be downe ; which cannot be as yett because the lyters 
 were beneaped, and there is a nother shipp come from Galla- 
 waye to lade planck, of whome M"^ Pyne hath alsoe recieued 
 12 or 14", with whome he hath contracted to lade him halfe, 
 and to venture thother halfe with him to ilraunce : of which I 
 desire your worshippes pleasure. I have alsoe Recieued of the 
 rents of curriglas 3'' 15''', which I have payd to the Rices, 
 beinge part of there owne rents : M'' Pynes rent, the widdowe 
 Iverne [?] Fowes, being in all x^' x^*", willnot as yett be had, 
 soe as I could not paye the pipe stafe hewers anie more, & that 
 I have payd them was in respect that they certifyed me yt was 
 your pleasure & promise vnto them that I should paye them ix'' 
 which was due vnto them : but I Reciued noe such dirreccon 
 from your worshippe, but to contente them havinge taken vpp 
 there staves, I repaid them 3'' 15^'' I Reciued for rent. Which 
 doth not content them, for that they daylie come to me for 
 money, there wante is soe greate ; and after the hewers and 
 sawyers whoe are 5 week behind, & there is loooo of plancke 
 sawed sence ; for the satisfyinge of whome I purposed yf the 
 remaynder of 10'' behynd to receave of the scipper might be 
 spared me, thereowte to paye the lyter men for caryinge downe 
 the plancks and alsoe to Rice 46''' 8** for my Ladie iFentons 
 pannell bords, & the remaynder to distribut amongst them for 
 there tymber worke, which would give them but litle content, 
 vnleas your worshippe apoynt them the rest : God be praysed 
 for the supplyinge of the worke here, thereis 60'' returned out 
 of England for Iron, by M"^ Blake of Bristoll, beinge the 14"' of 
 this instant Reciued. the 9"" I tooke M'' ChishuUs distresse, 
 and drove them to Lysmore, and the 16* they weare prayssed, 
 but presentlie vppon the distresse taken, masters clyshull made a 
 slaunderous peticon to the Lord president, the Copie whereof I 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 127 
 
 have enclosed j vppon which my Lord endorsed as one the Copie 
 apeareth, but I havinge at that instant sent a messenger to M"' 
 Clayton, procured staye thereof vntill his Lordship weare better 
 satisfyed : vppon w^hose return I rod to Corke and preferred also 
 thother enclosed one your w^orshippes behalfe. vppon w^hich his 
 Lordshippe pleasure was, that whensoeuer Masters chishuU re- 
 turned againe to vrdge for a repluie, that then the peticon one 
 youre behalfe should againe be brought him, which I have lefte 
 with M'' Clayton to that purpose. The furnnace did beginn to 
 blowe the 13"" of this instant, beinge fFrydaye, which God send 
 good successe vnto; but for the remainder of sowe iron nowe 
 Restinge, there is litle or noe barre Iron made thereof, but 
 wrought into stamper heads for tinn mynes. the preseedings 
 herein, with the state of all things here, I will fullie acquaint 
 your worshippe at your returne. In the meane tyme I will be 
 as carefull as it beseemeth me : M'' Bouth comends him to you, 
 willinge me to acquaint you that he was serued with an iniunc- 
 tion this daye, but he could not here it read nor have a coppie 
 thereof: Thus ende ; praying all honor & happiness attend your 
 worshippe & yours, I Rest 
 
 your worships in all faythfuU service, 
 
 Henr. Wright. 
 From the Iron works, 
 this 16"^ of May, 1608, 
 
 LVI. Earl of Salisbury to Fenton : 1608. 
 
 This is No. 128 of vol. ii., and is addressed, " To my very Loving frend 
 S"^ GefFray iFenton knight his MatJ' principall Secretary for Ireland j " and 
 endorsed. " from therle of Salisbury 20"' July 1608 Rec"" 23." — G. 
 
 S'' GefFray iFenton. Seing you are left at Dublin behinde the 
 Lord deputie, I haue thoughte good after the wonted manner. 
 
128 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 to addresse the pacquett vnto you, and withall to take soch 
 notice of your Last lettre as to assure you that as well what you 
 haue now expressed as your conceipte concerning Neill Carbye 
 [or Garvyn ?] as what also you shall at any time imparte tuch- 
 inge his Majesties service, shall be secreted ^nd vsed as you 
 desire. And for Vlster, I concurre with you in opinion that a 
 free passage is prepared to the reducinge and settlinge of that 
 province, and will hope herin, that the Lord Deputye will make 
 so good vse of the example of former times as not to prove ouer 
 facile in granting pardons to soch as hereafter vppon obvious 
 streight grounde of discontent may threaten and disturbe the 
 tranquillitie of that parte and so crosse the Coursses of plantacon 
 his majesty intendeth there. Hee receaveth generall (?) admony- 
 tion concerninge that pointe. But his Majestie hath so good a 
 conceipte of his Judgment and of his disposition to frame all his 
 resolucones to the advancement of the publique service, as hee is 
 'left to soch libertye as yt is fytt he should, beinge so esteemed 
 and trusted as worthilie hee is. And I doubt not but you will 
 vse this power moderatlie and extend yt no further then we ex- 
 pected. Thus I Comytt you to God from the Courte at 
 Theobalds the 20* of July, 1608. 
 
 Your uerie Loving freind, 
 R Salisbury. 
 
 LVn. Ball to Booth of Planks : 1608. 
 
 This is No. 137 of vol. ii., and is addressed "To his welbeloved father 
 in law M' Cuthbert Bowthe, Irelande;" and endorsed, "7 September 1608 
 from M' Ball to M' booth towching planck." — G. 
 
 Laus deo in London y" 7 September, 1608. 
 Loving father, I comend mee vnto yow & I haue for the 
 better furnishing of our workes with myne, becawse I wouldbe 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 129 
 
 sure there should be no want, persuaded certaine of my freinds 
 for to ioyne with mee in the buiing of plankes knees & other 
 timber, for shippinge in Ireland, to be laden at the port of yogall, 
 to be transported for hoUand, where sale shalbe made of them : 
 because the shippes which shall come for the plankes &c. shall 
 touch at dartmouth & there to be laden with iron, myne to be 
 deliuered at yohall at a reasonable rate ; & for that wee can 
 have no more myne brought then wee haue plankes to relade 
 them back againe, yt weere good & necessary that you acquaint 
 Sir Richard Boyle & M'' Peijnes with my plotte and desire to 
 haue the refusall of his plankes at a reasonable rate as they may be 
 afforded, con ferr with Sir Richard and know his lowest rates of 
 each sort & what quantity may be had of him & M"' Peijnes, 
 that accordingly shipping may be provided : I doubte not but Sir 
 Richard wilbe very willinge to lett my freinds haue ye pre- 
 ference before any others, for that yt wilbe for his good as well 
 as myne : fFor my owne parte I doe not enter into this buisines 
 for any great gaine I expect can be had by it, yet I wish that it 
 might be so caried that they may be savers by it, to the end they 
 may continue the course wherby our townes may be serued & 
 want no myne. fFor you know Sir Richard & your self haue 
 contracted with flinch, & sence I haue confermed the same con- 
 tract with him, for 2400 lodes of Coales yearely, & therfore my 
 desire is to be as well famished with myne as coles, for that 
 thone canot be spent to doe vs good without thother, and a better 
 & surer course then this I cannot deuise, for I make account of 
 500 tonnes a yeare from dartmouth if they which Joyne with 
 me may finde some benifitt by the trade. The founder 
 Tho[mas] Hickes can informe you of the goodnesse of the 
 myne at Ashburton which is to be shipt at dartmouth : yf wee 
 can accomplish this, wee shall neede the lesse from bristowe to 
 I. s 
 
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 supply our wantes, for it is very diiEcult to procure shipping out 
 of holland to goe to & fro with mine betweene bristow & yohall. 
 Anthony flinch makes acompt to be at bristow with a reffiner & 
 a hammer man & 8 or lo colliers & 12 or 14 woodcutters, & 
 telles mee he will bringe the workes by gods help to such good 
 perfection that theij shall goe as well & make as good iron as any 
 workes in England ; and for coales he would vndertake there 
 should be no want, willinge mee to be carefuU that there should 
 be myne enough prouided, & then he said wee should not neede 
 to feare but althings should be to our contentment, for he had 
 not doubt of any thinge but the want of myne : wherevppon I 
 prosecuted this plott the more earnestly & for this present I cease, 
 comitting you & vs all to gods protection : your Lovinge Sonne 
 Thomas Ball. [Only the words " your Lovinge Sonne, 
 Thomas Ball," and the address of the letter are in Ball's hand- 
 writing. The rest is a clerkly hand. — G.] 
 
 LVIII. Justice Harris to Boyle : 1609. 
 
 This is No. 2 of vol. iii. It is addressed, " To his worthye Frende Sir 
 Richarde Boyle Knight at Youghall geauve these;" and is endorsed, " 'ultimo 
 Apritis 1609, from M' Justice Harrys." — G. 
 
 worthye Sir, 
 
 Shortely after your departure from Corke, M'' Justice 
 Gosnold by the importunity of M"' Cotterell shewed me your 
 answers for the avoydinge of the lease by him pretended, 
 amongest the which one was that by office, since the attaynder 
 of Sir Walter Ralegh, it was found that Sir Walter was seised in 
 his demesne as of fee since his treason, not fyndinge the lease. 
 Though I can make no doubt but in a busynes so important in 
 
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 your state you would not deny yourself the best aduyse, yeat in 
 my loue to you I thought fitt to intymat some daunger therin, 
 which may yeat be cured & shall not be once muttered by me. 
 the partyes that aduised you to that office faylinge in the mayne 
 tratur (for that Sir waiter had conveyed the same before his 
 treason) but endeueringe therby to intrapp such lessees as had 
 but estates for yeares, haue made the pitt deepe enough for the 
 fee simple to fall in ; for no latter grant from the Kings majesty 
 by any letters referringe to the commission of surrenders will 
 pass you back the inheritance : but yow weare to procure ex- 
 press letters of graunts of the landes that came by that attaynder, 
 & yf your surrender weare after the office yt wilbe an impedi- 
 ment to your petition of right : yf your estate stands vppon much 
 better & the most assured termes I should be most gladd : but 
 yt is not the least dewty of a frende to geaue forewarninge of a 
 daunger, to preuent yt while you haue bothe tyme, wynde & 
 tyde. I ofFer this as your trew frende & doubt not yow will so 
 accept yt : & so I rest 
 
 yours assured 
 Corke 24 Aprilis Edw. Harris. 
 
 1609. 
 
 LIX. Account of Chymnies and Windows at Water- 
 ford : i6og. 
 
 This is No. 10 of vol. iii., and is addressed, "To the Righte worP Sir 
 Richard Boyle Knight at youghall this bill ; " and is endorsed, " ix° Augiiste 
 1609 An accompt touching my chymneis and windoes wrought at Water- 
 ford."— G. 
 
 Right worshippeful Sir, my dutie remembered, for as much as 
 I thought that my worke would have bene in youghell by this 
 tym, & having all thinges redie acording [to] my promise, and 
 
132 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 thought I should have receaved the mony due for the small 
 chemnie pece & the tewllve lightes, and in makinge my com- 
 plaint to IVf Wilde & knowing my nede to pay my workmen 
 haue delivered me the full and Jiust som of five poundes ; & I 
 being soren [sworn ?] to hym vpon a book, to goe thether when 
 so ever the two chemne pices goes, or before if your worshippe 
 doe but send word to place the lightes at Lissmore, I haue great 
 chardge of workemen & in theer debth by [past], for M'' wilde 
 did helpe me ; & I pray your worshippe to send the rest by this 
 bearer, for I am bound to goe thether at your worshippes comaunde 
 & will be the more able to ende the finishmente of the gate; the 
 which payment I will not aske befor it is ther ; for I must look all 
 meanes to kipe my promise with your worshippe & all gentell- 
 men that I have deling with to bestowe theer money in theer 
 owne worke or after the working. Thus taking leave 
 your worshippes workman 
 at comand 
 
 John Walshe 
 Watterford the 15"" day Mason, 
 
 of Julij 1609. 
 
 Money paid John Walshe the Mason of Waterford for my 
 chymnies & windoes. 
 
 first for the chymney in the hall o — . . vij" 
 
 paid for the small chymney for the gallery . o xl^ 
 
 paid for xij stone lights with there watering -j 
 
 tables consisting of 57 hewed stones at >- iiij" xvj' 
 
 viij^ the } 
 
 Soma xiiij'' xvj^ 
 whereof I paid him my self o — . . . vij" 
 
 M"' Wylde paid him for me which I repaid . v" 
 
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 M'' wilde paid Tom harte for freight of the ) s 
 
 2 chymnes . . . . . . J 
 
 There is yet vnpaid to John walshe o — . xxxvj^ 
 
 Dick osbern saieth he paid this 36^ to M"' Wylde to be allowed 
 in his receipt. 
 
 I Thomas hart of yoghuU Sailer do aknoledge to have Re- 
 ceived at the hands of M'' Wilde of wraterforde gentleman the 
 full some of thirty shillings sterling for the vse [of] Sir Richard 
 boill Knight in part paiment of the cariage of his store, witnes 
 me hand 5 of August 1609 
 
 Dannell Solevan. Thomas hart. 
 
 {illegible] grame for my gate & windo. 
 theis furst. 
 
 furst to make a garett wendow acording to the moulding w^hich 
 M"" langries hath deluired,^ to be svtabell to that which mvste be 
 made of tember for the vper gallre. The halle window to be 
 tweU foote Cleare within, besiedes the Moulding. The hieth 
 to be from the wescod of the louer scyett to the vp siede of the 
 neer scyett, tenn foote and a halfe : be twene Everey mven to 
 be Eyeghiten yenches wide and Ever Mveuer to be seaven 
 yenches on way and five yenches the other. The Transoumes 
 to be of the same proporeciones shutabaft to the mowlding ; 
 the transom the vper seile, and the poste to carry the ogee more 
 Lardger then the mvnnyon dooth & to saile over. 
 
 in the second story windoes in the same proporcon, over and 
 above the first, as ther are in the lower story ; And one windoe 
 to be sett over the hall door with a transon of 6 lightes with a 
 Fanne. 
 
 A windo of 4 lights with a transome to be sett over the 
 
134 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 kytchen vppon the retorn, of the proporcon with the other 
 windoes. 
 
 71 windoes of 3 lights cleer stories for the gallery, and two 
 transome windoes of 4 lights for each of the galleries end one : 
 & one other cleer story windoe for the gable end in the returne 
 for the vpper Rom over the kytchen a windoe of 2 lights with 
 a transom for the study. 
 
 Two windoes, one for the Kytchen and another for the 
 Larder. [Rough sketches accompany. — G.] 
 
 LX. Ff. Sherwood to Boyle : 1609. 
 
 This is No. 13 of vol. iii., and is addressed, "To my honorable frinde 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight geiue these; " and is endorsed, "28 July 1609 
 from M' Sherwoode." — G. 
 
 Sir. My Lord viscount hetherto hath forborne to treble you, 
 in hope that vppon this last reconsiliacon betwine the Earle and 
 him, he should haue bin soe bountifully delt with, as he should 
 not neede to troble any frinde of his about money matters : but 
 theis old men are soe close fisted, as it is almost death unto them 
 to parte with money, or diminishe the least iott of there yerely 
 revenewes : for all that my lo. viscount hath gotten since his 
 returning to the Earle, hathe bin the house and towne of Dun- 
 more, which hath not bin this yere worth vnto him Ix" and the 
 house of Nenagh, for which he receaued but xx'" a yere, and 
 more then this (besides countenance and good words) he [is] not 
 like to gett while the old man lyveth : with whome he is now 
 thorouly resolued to remayne : whervnto the advise you wisht 
 me to geiue him at Dublin gaue a good stroke to perswade 
 him, which I did particularly acquante him with, soe that he is 
 now vppon some vrgent occasion to pray your frindshipp to 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 135 
 
 procure him vppon interest some 2 or 300", for which such 
 security either of lands or bonnds shalbe geten, as shalbe to the 
 parties owne contentment that geveth the money. Ffor your 
 kinde offerr to lend him a 100" vppon his owne bill gratis till 
 god shall better his fortune, he doth acknowledg himselfe soe 
 much beholding vnto you for that demonstracon of your loue 
 towards him as while he lyveth it shalbe remembered and re- 
 quited when god makes him able to doe it ; but he wilbe 
 as thanckfull vnto you if vppon good securitie and for conside- 
 racon you can procure him at this instant this 2 or 300" as if 
 two yeres hence you had freely bestowed the same vppon him 
 by reason he hath vndergone a busines from which he cannot 
 now shrincke ; and therefore I beseech you in regard of what 
 hath formerly passed, and the assurannce I haue geven him of 
 your loue towards him and willingnes to pleasure him that at 
 this tyme you will be a meane to furnish him : wherein vppon 
 my faith you shall pleasure him more than the money is much, 
 besides the purchasing of his loue which I doubt not you shall finde 
 firme honorable to yoe. If you come vnto the Sessions at Water- 
 ford he will himself meete you some place neere thereabouts to 
 haue private Conference with you to Determine of the tyme 
 considered and of the assurance to be geveh for the money : if you 
 come not thether vppon annswere of this he will send me purp- 
 pose vnto yoe about the same. And soe remembering my 
 afFeccionate love and service vnto you I take my leave and euer 
 
 remayne 
 
 yours in all true affeccion, 
 
 to be comaunded by you, 
 
 Ff. Sherwood. 
 
 Imstwik, 25 July 1609. 
 
 I beseech you lett me receave some comfortable answere, for 
 
136 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 my poore reputacon resteth on it, and lett me loose it with you 
 if I procure you not security to your owne contentment, and 
 doe assure you you shall make him more beholding to you then 
 3 tymes the money is worthe, and you be no looser by it. 
 
 LXI. Garrott Fitz William to Boyle : 1609. 
 
 This is No. 37 of vol. iii., and is addressed, "To the right worshipful, & 
 his very bountiful! patron Sir Richard Boyle Knight these bee." On the 
 back of the outside leaf are jotted down by Boyle, "The particulars how I 
 paid Peers Power the C" ster I gaue him with my sister Elizabeth," Not 
 calling for reproduction. — G. 
 
 Callinge vnto minde (Right worshipfull) the ovvergreate 
 kindnesses which alwaies you shewed vnto me, I cannot chuse 
 but praise you for your virtues, thanke you for your benefeits, 
 and loue you for your kindnesse, which hath beene soe pourfull 
 as that it freeed me from that cloud of ignorance, which blinded 
 the eies of my vnderstanding and obscured the light of reasone 
 in me, the benefit of which freedome I ascribe vnto you as the 
 sole and onlie procurer of this my present libertie : which if I 
 should indevour to make knowne vnto you, weare to truble 
 you with triflinge toies which are conversante with serious 
 affaires. Wherefore pardone me for omittinge them, as surpass- 
 ing my capassitie, or rather remittinge them as wantinge oppor- 
 tunitie to expresse with my rethoricall penn. A prouerbe noe 
 lesse ancient than true ofFereth it selfe vnto your worshippes 
 fauour, to the intent it might free me from anie conceaued 
 opinion of desperat bouldnes or malepert saucienes, the prouerbe 
 or rather an often vsed saying is this, that Necessitas nulla lege 
 restinguitur, which beinge most true, pardone me if I craue 
 some fewe drops of your accustomed kindnesses to slake and 
 
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 abate the raging heate of my necessities, or if truth might speake 
 her fancie, of my pouertie. Consider therfore my pouerty, 
 which consisteth in Apparrell, bookes, and such like, which are 
 most necessarie and needful! for studients and such as followe 
 learninge ; wherwith if I beenot furnished, I must needs depart 
 the coUedge which is to mee great hinderance andlosse : moreouer 
 the one thinge Right worshipfuU pricked me forward to demand 
 this noe lesse honest then nedfull Request, which is the dailie 
 viewe of all my contrie^men in this coUedge which haue gotten 
 to themselues such livinges, wherewith they are well clothed, 
 apparelled, and furnished with such necessaries as are most con- 
 venient for their vses, which are of mere base parentage and 
 worse education and bringinge vp then myselfe. Thus not 
 douptinge of your good will and my good procured therby, I 
 committ you to god who increase your dignitie with the assu- 
 rance of euerlastinge felecitie, 
 
 yours in all Humble mannor, 
 
 Garrott fitz William. 
 
 LXII. Ball to Boyle: 1609. 
 
 This is No. 75 of vol. iii., and is addressed, "To the Right worshifuU 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight delivere theis at yoghill in Ireland;" and is en- 
 dorsed, "6 Martij 1610 from M"^ Ball touching the proceedings with chis- 
 huUs wife in England." — G. 
 
 Right worshipfull, maij it please you to vnderstand, that we 
 haue bene hawnted with that troublesome speritt M" chishull 
 almost 5 monethes, all which time shee hath bene workeinge 
 accordinge to hir accustomed maner with clamor & slanderows 
 reports ; but in the end all to hir owne disgrace, for shee could 
 not be content to exclaime vppon vs onely but saijed before the 
 
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 Commissieners shee could have noe right in Ireland and theifore 
 shee desired them to end it heire for shee would never retourne 
 to be trijed bij the Lord Deputije and cowncell and to be 
 lawght to scorne of everij bodije ; for which theij reproved hir. 
 And their vppon we tooice iuste occasion to importune a new 
 hearinge of the whole cause from the verij beginninge. At the 
 first theij seemed vnwilling by cause of the tediousnes & that 
 my Lord Deputij had so thorowlij examined & certified it as 
 theij perceived bij his Lordshipps letters written to the Lordes 
 in that behalfe. But we gave them to vnderstand that shee was 
 soe vnreasonabell that notwithstandinge it had pleased his Lord- 
 ship with the rest of the cowncell to take great paines (M"' 
 Boultonn beinge of cowncell with hir, and much time was 
 spent in debate of it) yet Shee would not be satisfied, but still 
 vsed her clamore even before them^ thinkeinge theirbij to obtaine 
 hir vniuste requestes. And theirfore if it would please them 
 but to enter into a hearinge, they should vnderstand that shee 
 did not onelij wronge vs, but cheifelij the State, that had pro- 
 vided for hir with such a compassionate care that their was noe 
 resonabell bodije, but would haue rested satisfied without further 
 complaints or trouble. It pleased them to yeeld vs our request, 
 and appointed a daij, willinge hir & vs to instructe owr cown- 
 cell : for theij would not heare vs but bij cowncell, of purpose 
 to avoide hir clamorous speches. She refewsed to have cown- 
 cell, saijinge the equitije of hir cawse would speake for hir, & 
 that it had bene hard oft enoughe ; which offended them, in 
 soe much theij tould hir shee gave them iust occasion to dis- 
 like hir cause that shee was soe vnwillinge to have it hard ; but 
 willed hir to name what cowncell shee would have; & the 
 cowncell shee named theij appointed to hir gratis. 
 
 The commissioners willed hir that if shee had anij friends 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 139 
 
 shee should bringe them to the hearinge of the cawse that 
 theij might see the indifFerencijs that theij vsed : wheir vppon 
 shee brought twoe knights Sir Henrij Wallop and Sir Roland 
 Litton, whoe weir present, whilest the cause was argued at large 
 bij the cowncell on both sides. And after debated together with 
 them in private by the Commissioners, hir iFreinds did then 
 perseive such vnreasonablenes in hur that theij did never come 
 or speake more in hir behalfe. ffor vppon the openinge of the 
 cause it appeared to the commissionars that hir husband had 
 souldthe castell & Lands three tymes & receaved for it valle- 
 wable consideracon : soe as the commissioners their vppon said 
 the Lord Deputij & cowncell in their order, had delt verij 
 favourablelij with chishuU. And Sir James ffullertonne saide 
 that we had paid deare enoughe for soe much land & he wished 
 that he had sould his land to you that is within three miles of 
 that place any thinge neare the rate quantetij for quantetij : Sir 
 I protest I would not for a hundreth powndes but that the 
 cause had bene hard at large : for now the commissioners are 
 fully satisfied and all things soe apparent, that shee is as well 
 knowne as a bad peice of money & hir clamor not regarded : 
 Soe that I am perswaded shee repents hir selfe of hir com- 
 plaininge ; she hath had such bad successes therin. After the 
 hearinge & arguinge of the cause we desired onely the benefit 
 of the law to help vs to our owne soe longe wrongefullij de- 
 tained. And she still desired the confirmacon of the Lord 
 president's order ; then theij tould hir it appeared his order was 
 noe order but onely conceaved, ,apid if it had bene an order yet 
 it was revocked & referred to t'&e Lord Deputij. Then theij 
 made a Certificate to the Lords, wheirof a copij is sent you, 
 which theij cawsed to be red to vs all before theij signed it. 
 but shee began hir clamor & absolutelij refewsed to goe into 
 
140 LIS MORE PAPERS. 
 
 Irelande againe to have hir cawse decreed their. Then to stop 
 hir mouth bycause shee stoode So much vppon the Lord presi- 
 dent's order, they added a provise except the Lord president 
 certified before a day set downe that his order was bindinge to 
 all parties ; to which effect the Lords writt their letters, a 
 copeij wheirof is sent yow : but his Lordship answered directlij 
 to the contrarij as by a copeij of his letter written to the Lords 
 allso sent yow appeares ; which letter from the Lord Danvers 
 hir selfe fetched owt of the cowntrij, wheirbij all doubts con- 
 serninge that order was cleared & it is manifested vnder his 
 Lordships hand to be noe order : vppon reseipt of which the 
 commissionars gave orders that letters should be written to the 
 Lord Deputy accordinge to their certificate : then shee began to 
 exclaime anew & tould them shee would complaine to the 
 Kinge & bodye of the cowncell. Sir Roger wilbraham bad hir 
 complaine of them whome shee thought did hir any iniustice : 
 but withall to beware how shee complained of them that weir 
 appointed Judges, for theirin she would find noe favor. After 
 that a draught of a letter was made from the Lords, grounded 
 vppon the Commissioners certificate & the Lord Danvers adver- 
 tisement, wheirwith hir self was made acquainted before it was 
 offered to the Lords to be signed : yet shee complained againe 
 at the cowncell tabell & would haue had some new course in 
 the busines : but my Lord Treasurer very -sharpelij tould hir 
 that the letter should be accordinge to the Commissionars certi- 
 ficate & noe otherwise : which much discouraged hir. And soe 
 cravinge pardon for my tediousnes I seace to be any further 
 troublesome and humbly take my leave from London this first 
 of ffebruarij 1610. 
 
 Your worships to commaund 
 
 Thomas Ball. 
 
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 LXIII. Boyle's Draught of Petition to the King on 
 THE Undertakers of Ulster: 1609. 
 
 This is No. 136 of vol. iii., and is endorsed, "My Rough draught of the 
 peticon to his Ma'J for thvndertakers of the Kinshelaghes [jzV]." — G. 
 
 The humble peticon of thvndertakers of thescheated Lands in 
 the County of wexford : 
 To the kings moste excellent Mat^. 
 
 Declaring to your sacred Majesty, that all the sea coast 
 from the glynnes in Vlster to your cyttie of waterford in 
 Mounster is for the moste part planted with meer english 
 subiects or such as are of english discent, excepting these 
 marytyme partes of the county of wexford. And that King 
 Richard the second landing at Waterford, travelleng all that 
 tract of ground, seeing how needfull yt was for the securing of 
 the kingdom to be master of the sea coast, which is the inlett 
 from the sea to all the yrish terretories of leynster, viz the 
 Birnes, Tooles, Cavanaghs, o Conners, o Moores ets, those 
 countreis lying indifferently to answer & do service on them 
 all, removed all the yrish from them & granted the same to 
 {blank'] Bellamount & his heires by letters pattents, which was 
 the wisdome of your majestys progenitors to be master of that 
 sea coast ; and now the Lord Deputy fynding your Majesty 
 to haue an vndoubted tytle to those terretories, which were in- 
 truded vppon by such as neyther hold by graunt from the 
 crown, nor by discent at the common law, being vncivill & bar- 
 barows in their manners & babbits, fForreign in their affections, 
 Romish in religion, the most rebellious people of that kingdom, 
 from whome are formed treasons & conspiracies, receaved eyther 
 begining or strength, in his deep foresight and judgment pro- 
 
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 iected a plott of plantacon of those lands to your majesty, 
 therby eternally to break & disapoint their hopes & comby- 
 nacons ; and vppon your majestys graceeous allowance and 
 seurall warrants to proceed in the planting & disposing of the 
 30000 acres to english gent & servitors, he invited your 
 peteceners thervnto, and graunted them letters pattents & con- 
 tracted with them for seurall proporcons, fFor which they paid 
 such iFynes, & ar tyed to your highnes in bonds of 500" a 
 peec to bwyld amongst them in such places of strength & 
 strenghth of the countrey fittest for your servic, & securing the 
 same as your said deputy hath assigned 25 castles and stone 
 howses, to yeald your highnes a perpetuell encrease of Rent of 
 420'' per annum, and to perform such other exact condicons of 
 bwylding & planting, as your peticoners may iustely saie, althogh 
 the former shedding of their blood, & other services don to the 
 crown, meiritted some respect, yet heering (to forward your 
 majestys godly purposes) they haue & shall pay a valluable pur- 
 chaze for the same ; yet vppon these warrants from your 
 majesty, and agreement with your hignes deputy contracted in 
 your sacred name, your peticoners transplanted themselves from 
 their former inhabitacons, sould awaie part of their farmes & 
 stock, therby the better to enhable themselves to perform their 
 bwyldings & plantacon, hoping by intermixture with the natives 
 (who had meet proporcons also alotted amongst them, therby to 
 settle them in a cowrse of lyfe all things considdred better then 
 before) to civilize that vncy vill and Rude part of your kingdom : 
 which begynneth to receav breath and lyff vnder your highnes 
 happy government, notwithstanding some seditiows persons who 
 onely studdy their own private, & to make themselves great, by 
 reteyning the vsurpers of your majestys possessions as their de- 
 pendants ; and therby, with those boddies that by this plantacon 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 143 
 
 may be reduced to do your highnes service, be hable vppon all 
 occations to become by the instigation of Jesuits & preests, 
 made vnlawfull levies of money therby, enhableth themselves to 
 raise powrerfull [forces] in doing ill, haue vnuiste clamors against 
 this princely & iuste worck of your Majesty, & the endevors of 
 your deputy & state there : vppon w^hich their vniuste pretences, 
 your highnes out of a godly zeal to vnderstande the trueth, to 
 your great chardg addressed comissioners of integrety thither to 
 examen their tytle and complaints ; before whome, and the 
 face of the world, they haue acknowledged your majesty's un- 
 dowbted tytle to those territories, being no waies able to make 
 any for themselves, nor to iustefy any of their forged & con- 
 trived grevances. And therfore your Majesty's said dutefuU 
 servants do with all humble earnestnes implore your grace, 
 withall convenient speed to mak perfect your own worck, and 
 to give full and fynall pouer & direction to your Deputy to 
 establish the peaceable possession of your peticoners in those 
 small proporcons of land lately assigned & to be delivered vnto 
 them, according [to] their seurall contracts & pattents ; whereby 
 they maie proceed with alacrety to performe their bwyldings & 
 condicons & become instruments in reducement of that part of 
 the kingdome to civillety & obedienc to your highnes & 
 your lawres ; wherein, vnder reformacon, if after these many 
 impedyments and delaies, any further protraction of tyme should 
 be admytted, it would not onely discouradg your peteconers, 
 and tak awaie the hope of all future plantacon without which 
 that your kingdome will never be reduced to obedienc & per- 
 formance of their duties, but also be a dangerows president to 
 encoradg the natives of vlster by sutes and importuneties to 
 alter and frustrate that great & comendable plantacon established 
 by your majesty in that province, to your perpetuall honner & 
 
144 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 renown, if these men shall once haue any entrance or way made 
 them by the obstinate clamors of these people to ground the 
 least hope to prevaile to frustrate any part of the good endevors 
 of your deputy and other officers in Ireland, in maintenange of 
 your tytles or estates theron grownded, or to drawe into sus- 
 pence or question letters pattents duely passed vnder your 
 highnes great seal, which is the key of your kingdom and the 
 greatest securety that all your good subiects can haue or 
 repose in. 
 
 LXIV. Walter CoLMAN to Samuel Midelmore : 1612. 
 
 This is No. a6 of vol. iv., and is addressed, " To his assured and louing 
 ffrend M'^ Samivell Midelmore at ye signe of the Shipe in S' Clementes lane 
 in London this be delivered;'' and is endorsed, " 7° Augusti 1612 from M'' 
 Walter Colman to M'' Midlemore London." — G. 
 
 Tallowe in Irland this 7"" of August 16 12. 
 Good M'' midelmore, I salute you in all kindnes : wheras I 
 left with you 60'' as I remember perfectly of the monie I had 
 prouided for, to haue peaid Sir Richard Boyles rent, which was 
 not called for before my cuming fFor Irland ; but being heare 
 nowe with the Knight, he dooth acquaint me that he hath 
 earnest occasion to vse monie before Mikelmas in London, 
 therefore I desire you to peai to m' fFenton or anie other he shall 
 send that 60", and a hundred poundes more, which I must in- 
 treate you to take vp for me, vntill I come to london, which I 
 intend godwilling shall be in the begining of mikelmas terme ; 
 at which time I am more like to borowe more then peay in that, 
 considering the busines I haue vndertaken in this kingdome ; 
 yet howesoeuer I will godwilling giue you content, and rest as 
 euer I haue bin accustomed, behowlding to you fFor youre loue 
 
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 and kindnes towardes me : the other 22'' 10' residue of my rentj I 
 will let rest vntill the Knight and I haue reciued fFor I hope other 
 in kindnes, '(considering the good bargaine I haue had of him) 
 or in [what is] due betwixt vs, will be defalcked. Take note 
 vnder his hand that shall reseaue the monie to the vse of Sir 
 Richard, and it shall suffise ; and thus in haste yet hartely I 
 comend me to you and all oure good fFrendes in London, 
 remeaning bothe nowe and alweaies. 
 
 Your assured and louing ffrend 
 
 Walter Colman. 
 
 Wee haue no newes in this kingdome that I heard of, but 
 that the Drithe hath bin so greate that sckarsly anie milles in 
 Ireland haue water to grinde corne, and that the heate of the 
 sommer hath set ye lise a gading so vemently, that had they bin 
 abell to haue handled Irish skeines as fFreiley as theire owne 
 steinges, fFewe men Coold haue escaped with life : but that's no 
 newes you will seay in Irland. 
 
 LXV. Richard Boyle to Sir Richard Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 63 of vol. iv., and is addressed, " To the right worshippful 
 and my most intirely afected kinsman Sir Richarde Boyle Knight attyeohall 
 in Ireland hand this S: P: d ; " and is endorsed, "12° Junij 1613. from M' 
 Richard Boyle towching the mannor of Standishe." — G. 
 
 Right Worshipful, I Being verie glad to haue soe conuenient A 
 Messenger, as this genttell man the Bearer heare of, M'" Mauniell, 
 my good Neighbour, whoe is A verie Onniste gentell man, and 
 of good worthe ; I thoughte good ones more To Sertiefie you 
 of the Purchasse of standish, which is with in fowar ore fyfe 
 myles of gUoster. Some of the growndes Recheeth vnto Seu- 
 
 I. u 
 
146 LIS MORE PAPERS. 
 
 fFarne Side, wheare you made choyce of Such A plase : wee your 
 pore frendes heare in England doo pray to god to howlld you in 
 that good Minde, to prouide and purchisse Sume good meanes 
 [ = demesnes ?] heare in England, which will Mainefaste Sume 
 your Good will to the cuntrie, whare hence your Anse[s]turse 
 came, and An Heuerlasting Continnvance to them of your name, 
 which shall Remaine After you ; and if you continnve in that 
 Mind to haue A conueniente plase heare, I doo not thinke that 
 in England at this present theare may Be had Such A purchish 
 so good and so Resonabell As this may Be had, by resone that 
 my Brother Vaughan, that hathe the chefFest dealeing theare 
 in, woulld not that Any straingur shoulld haue it, But wouUd 
 take Souch a corse for you that it shoulld be to your Owne 
 Hiking : hee hathe wryten vnto you by this Bearer conferming 
 this Bisnes, and prayethe that hee may haue your Resolucioohe, 
 with as convenieent sped as may be : if you mene to dealle for 
 it, hee will take that corse that you may haue A convenieente 
 time for the moste parte of the Mony. Hee couUd find in his 
 harte to make A Jurnie Ouer to you. But hee hath Ben latelye 
 sike and is Sum what Agged, and vnwellthey. If convenieently 
 you coulld com to see it, and to confere with my Brother 
 Vaaghan, wee doout not But you woulld goe through for it, to 
 your good liking and to all our comfortes : this with my Hum- 
 bell Commenddationes to you, my good ladie, and all your 
 Good ofsprengs, and so I humbelllie take my leaue, the tewelfe 
 daye of June 1613. 
 
 yours To Command during Hfe 
 
 Richard Boyle. 
 Mayssmore. 
 
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 LXVI. The Earl of Thomond to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 64 of vol. iv., and is addressed, " To my noble and worthy 
 fFrend Sir Richard Boyle K' in Ireland thes delivered, 1 5 Junij this anno dora 
 1613;" and is endorsed, "15 Junij 161 3. from the Earle of Thomond, 
 18 Julij 1613. from the Earle of Thomond." — G. 
 
 Noble Knight. If in any thinge concernnige you I shold 
 omitt any time as occasion did serve, I wold much condemne 
 my selfe : I took occasion to acquaint his Majesty with your 
 plantacon service & worth, of which he had great likinge ; and 
 to the intent that he might take notice of you, he gaue direction 
 to Sir Humphrry May (vnto whome you are very kindly be- 
 holdinge) to write to my Lord deputy that you may be sent 
 ouer instantly : of which I thought fitt to giue you notice that 
 you might prepare yourself with all speed to com awy. And, 
 seeinge that my lord deputy doth send you of these llords & 
 gentlemen ouer hither by his highnes direction, it is a good 
 occasion for you to com away, with them. And as you com 
 throwe dublyn, I pray to bringe with you twoe clokes of myne, 
 which you shall reccave of my Taylur. stephan wilson : soe 
 comittinge you to God, I rest euer, 
 
 your assurd faithfill frend 
 
 Thomond, 
 
 you are beholdinge to my lord chief Justice and to Sir Oliuer 
 st John, whoe gave me all their noble assistance to sett your 
 worth & carriadge, with many thinges els which I will forbeaer 
 to write vnto yow vntill I see you ; and therefore use noe 
 manner of delay, but com away with all speed. I pray vrdg 
 that the best and chiefest men of Ireland, are sent ouer by my 
 lord deputy to that purpose, which you will well like of when 
 
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 you come hither ; of which number the Kinge wold have Sir 
 daniell oBrien to be one especially. 
 
 London 15° Junij 1613. 
 Sir Richard Boyle. 
 
 LXVII. Earl of Thomond to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 65 of vol. iv., and is addressed, "To my noble and worthy 
 fFrend, Sir Richard Boyle Knight theis deliver at his house in yeoghell 
 in Ireland;" and is endorsed, " xxi" July 161 3 from thearle of Tho- 
 mond." — G. 
 
 Noble Knight. I haue writen to you in my letters to dublyn 
 of all our proceedinges ; & fearinge that the same cannot com to 
 your hands soe soon as I wold wish ; & finding this bearer 
 going thither, whoe promised to make all the haste possible ; I 
 thoght fitt to acquaint you howe much beholdinge you are to 
 the lord chief Justice & to Sir Oliure St John, for acquainting 
 divrs of the Uords with your worth and services & givinge me 
 their best assistance therein. I likewise took occasion, by the 
 taking off ffriar garrott, to acquaint his majesty with your service 
 and plantacon ; whereupon his highness directed Sir Humphrey 
 May, to write vnto the lord deputy to send you on presently by 
 the way of dublyn that he might take notice of you here ; This 
 much I thought fitt to signifie vnto you that you might prepare 
 your self, with all speed, to com away ; for his highness, begins 
 his progress, on the 1 8* of July. And further he is so graciously 
 & religiously bent to the reformacon of that kingdom, by his 
 sword & justice, & to the takinge of accompt of those revolted 
 llords of the parliament ; as by the success thereof, it will prove 
 to the comfort of all his subiects, of that kingdom I hope very 
 shortly. I pray you comend me to all the ladyes. And to Sir 
 
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 Thomas Browne & his good lady ; And I hope he will haue 
 care, of sendinge away my haukes : soe committinge you to 
 god I rest ever 
 
 your very assured faithful] iFrend 
 
 Thomond. 
 
 I hope my lord deputy, will imploy you gracefully hither. 
 Send to Sir Thomas browne, that I haue provided him a braue 
 hatt & feather to weare for his hauke this yeare. I haue taken 
 upon me to counsell my honest servant m" william fenton to 
 deferr any proceedings of business vntill your owne cominge 
 ouer, which I assured him should be very shortly ; and I pray tell 
 my lady ; that I gouern my servant within. London 24° Junij 
 1613. 
 
 LXVIII. The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland to 
 Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 67 of vol. iv., and is addressed, "To my worthy and well 
 esteemed freinde Sir Richard Boyle K' deliver these ; " and is endorsed, 
 "13 Julij 161 3 from the lord cheef Justice of Ireland." — G. 
 
 Worthy Knight, I cannott butt make known unto you the 
 seuerall good offices which the noble Erie of Thomond, your 
 honors frend Sir Oliver St Jhon, and my selfe as occasiones 
 haue served, hav performed to his Majesty, and the Herds of the 
 counsell, one your behalfe, as well touchinge your assidueus in- 
 devors towards the publicke, as your particular cariage other- 
 wise ; both which dou merett as is confessed the specially com- 
 fortinge of one so conformable & studious for the generall good. 
 I have not omitted in my best power to make good the opinions 
 of youe, with his majestys counsell, but som as namly the kings 
 
150 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 attorney and solicitor, whom I know had byn engaged by fees 
 (which many times dou founder mens judgements) of suche as 
 pretended titles to your lands : all which youe must ascribe rather 
 to the favour of god & not the flattery of men ; for We three 
 (except to the prince) are now tried courtiers. Thus much (for 
 your bettre encoragment in your worthy ends) I thought it as 
 a frend to imparte vnto youe. And soe with my kinde remem- 
 brance of love & respects towards you I rest your treu frend 
 
 Jo Denham 
 London vltimo. 
 Junij 1 6 13. 
 
 LXIX. The Lord Deputy [Chichester] to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 70 of vol. iv., and is addressed, " To my verie wortliie frind 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight theisj" and is endorsed, " xirao Julij from the 
 Lord Deputy." — G. 
 
 Sir, The inclosed came vnto me euen now in a packett from 
 the court, which I thinke fitt to hasten vnto you, and the rather 
 for that in a letter of myne from Sir Humphrie maye I find 
 mention made of you in thes words — 
 
 " My lord of Thomond and your Chiefe Justice haue done 
 good offices here for Sir Richard Boyle to the Kinge : if he be 
 wysheng to come heither whilst they are here he hath the Kinges 
 letters, and wylbe wellcome. If your Lordship please to signefie 
 so much vnto him perchaunces he wilbe wylling to accept this 
 oppertunitie." 
 
 Now you knowe as much as I do of that perticular, but your 
 owne letters wyll perhapps tell you more : you shall do well in 
 my opinion,.to mak use of the tyme, and hasten thether. If you 
 
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 take your passadge from thence for your better expedition, and 
 woulde haue anie testimonie from me of your good deservinges 
 in his majesties seruice, and of my wellwyshinge to you and your 
 endeuour, lett me understand what you desire, and my letters 
 shall mete you att london and with John Strowd you shall finde 
 them. I send these purposly unto you before I haue read halfe 
 the letters come unto me by this passadge of the post barke, only 
 by those I haue reade I finde that the lords first and since the 
 Kinge in his owne person hath heard our commissioners and the 
 Recusants Agents : his majestie and the lords do approue of 
 what wee haue done, and the other partie beginne to finde their 
 errors that I hope wyll not excusse them and their follies ; for a 
 greater afFront was neuer offered to a state then their con- 
 temptuous departure from that great assembly in parlyament in 
 manner and forme as they haue done. If you goe that way I 
 praye take ouer a gaushauke for Sir H Maye, and whether you 
 present her in my name or your owne it is all one : he hath 
 written unto me for one, and the Kinges faulconer had taken all 
 I had (which were but a pare) into his keepinge before the 
 receipt of his letters, one without a trayne excepted ; but if you 
 can not fitt him I wyll with a hauk with one I haue in the meue 
 and a good one. If I gett not a faire one \half line illegible from 
 ■worn creasej. These are scribled in haste from your faythfull 
 frend 
 
 Arthur Chichester. 
 II of July 1613. 
 
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 LXX. The Lord Deputy [Chichester] to 
 Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 72 of vol. iv., and is addressed, " To my verie wourthie 
 friend St Richard Boyle Knyght ; " and is endorsed, "18 July 161 3, from 
 the lord deputy."— G. 
 
 Sir, I lately despatched letters unto you which came unto me 
 out of England directed unto you, together with myne owne : 
 they imported your repayre thither, and I sent them by Sir 
 Parr Lane. This evening I received yours, by which I finde 
 the continewance of your loue by the care you had of my 
 brother. I haue none but him livinge, and it woulde greive me 
 (as you rightly coiecture) that he shoulde be at the mercie of 
 pirattf howesoeuer their pretences maye be by him to free them- 
 selves from the danger into which they are plunged. He was 
 comminge ouer (as you were informed) notwithstandinge I dis- 
 suaded him from the adventure, & had put his truncks abord a 
 smale barke of Barnstable, but hearinge of the pirattf being upon 
 the coast, he altered his purpose and the barke fell indeed into 
 the hands of one parkerand other pirattf his consorts lately gone 
 out of Wexford, whose master they putt on shoare, & he is now 
 here with me. I heard not that he was at Padstowe other then 
 your letters do import : Sure I am he had notice of the pirates, 
 and my hope is he might not adventure further this season. 
 I thanke you greatly for your care of him, and I will content 
 the partie whome you haue employed. I praye laye out the 
 monie if he misse of my brother ; and I wywll repaye it here 
 to whom you wywll appoint to receiue it. I haue signed the 
 warrant you sent me, albeit I conceiue you wywll into England 
 your selfe. I thank you for the haukes you reserue for me ; 
 
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 my man shall come for them, and shall go hence tomorrow or 
 the next daye. Captain Newcomen, hath now brought into 
 the harbor the pirate Gunter with the barque he had from 
 Lambart, and I wywll hasten him and another to search for the 
 Wexford pirate, and for Lambartt himselfe, God send me to 
 light on him & I wywll paye him my brothers ransom. And 
 thuse with salutations, I remayne your friend faythfuU 
 
 and assured 
 
 Arthur Chichester. 
 
 at Dublyn the 13 of July att neight. 
 
 I expect no gaushauke from you for Sir Humphrie Maye, 
 seeinge you are so liberall of a whole eayrie. I wywll fitt him 
 other wayes. 
 
 LXXI. The Lord Treasurer of Ireland [Sir Thomas 
 Ridgeway] to the Earl of Northampton : 161 3. 
 
 This is No. 73 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To the Rt Honno"'^ my very 
 singuler good Lord the Earle of Northampton, Lord Priuie Seale, & one of 
 his Ma"^ Most Honnorable Priuie Councell «=. At Court," and is en- 
 dorsed " M' Treasurers letter to my lorde Northampton which I forbare to 
 deliver," — G. 
 
 R* [rest erased by damp]. 
 
 The often repayre thyther of many my good ffrends in thys 
 kingdom (who perceaving your Lordships honnorably vout- 
 chafed fFauor vnto mee, desyre my lynes of recommendacon) 
 makes mee to commytt a great error & omytt as great a duty. 
 
 The error or prvsumptyon In pestering your Lordship with 
 other mens pryuate matters, who I know to be howerly & in- 
 finitely busyed in publyck matters of state. The omissyon of 
 Duty, In not taking vp those tymes rather with thanckfull 
 
 I. 
 
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154 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Acknowledgmentf of my particular obligatyon for your Lord- 
 ships contynewed noble respects to my self: But I cannot auoyd 
 Those. Amongst whom thys worthy Gent Is one. But such 
 a one as hath no sute at all to your Lordship, or to any other. 
 Only vpon the present oportunity of the Erie of Thomonds 
 being ther, & his Lordships late recommendatyon of hymto hys 
 Majesty, Hee is induced to present his Duty to his Majesty ; & 
 desyres to be made knowen vnto your Lordship. This much I 
 can do trewly, & knowingly aver, that he is as good an vnder- 
 taker & planter as any, (nay aboue any of hys Degree or 
 meanes) in this kingdom : hauyng always in redynes for his 
 highnes seruyce aboue 500 armed men of hys owne Tenants 
 (wherof 10 or 12 [are] Captayns). Besydes his Strong Castles 
 buylt by hymself & at hys own sole chardge for ye security of 
 those partf of Munster. The fruyte wherof wyll better appeare 
 yf any future reuolt euer happen. Hee hath also setled many 
 Artifycers of all sortf, to the great comfort & ciuillyzing of ye 
 contry. Nether is he at any tyme or any way backward, but 
 very industryous in aduancying ye Kings seruyce as a counsellor 
 of the Provynce of Munster : These consideracons wyll (I doubt 
 not, & so I humbly desyre) induce your honnor to take 
 notyce of hym accordingly, & somewhat ye sooner at thys my 
 humble motyon, (which wylbe strengthened with ye Lord 
 Deputy's more effectuall recommendacon). 
 
 So with my neuer ceasyng Prayers for your Lordship I 
 humbly & euer Remaine Ready At your Lordships command. 
 
 Th. Ridgeway. 
 
 Dublyn, 
 
 July 24, 1 6 13. 
 
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 LXXII. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland [Sir Thomas 
 Ridgeway] to the Earl of Northampton: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 74 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To the Right honorable my 
 espetiall good lord the Erleof northamptonLo : privie Seale att the Cowrte ;" 
 and is endorsed " My Lord Chancellors letter to my lord of Northampton 
 which I forbare to deliver." — G 
 
 It may please your good Lordship : This beyrer. Sir Richard 
 Boyle, Knighte, having a spetiall occasion to repayre into eng- 
 land, deseyreth my letters of recommendation to accompany 
 him, having emmongest all the vndertakers of the excheated 
 land^ in mounster, wrhich fell to his late majesty by thattainder 
 of desmond, layd the best foundation of a civill plantation of 
 englesh tenannts, whereby he hath enabled his selfe, if occasion 
 of his majesties Seruice should so requiere it, too bringe into the 
 fields, a lytle colonye of 4 or 500 foote & 60 horse, all meere 
 english, which lyve together in as civill & orderly a facion, as 
 in any part of england, (a thing effected by his careful! ende- 
 voures), which to worke such a plantaton, hath preferred the 
 publike good, befor his peculier commodity ; which example if 
 others in that province had followed, or in this new plantation of 
 Ulster, will imitate, his majestif great charg wold soone be 
 abated, & this Kyngdome secured from forayn attempts, these 
 respectf, besydef his other manie good partf of stayednes, 
 wisdome, honestye & good discretion in him, doe enduce mee to 
 recommend him to your Lordships good fevor ; for which boldnes 
 I humbly crave your Lordships pardonn, & so with my prayers 
 doe commend you to godd^" best blessings from St. Sepulchers, 
 this 24 of Julye, 161 3. 
 
 your good lord humbly att command 
 
 Tho. Dublin Canc. 
 
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 LXXIII. The Lord Chancellor [of Ireland] to the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 75 of vol. iv., and is endorsed, " 24° Julij 1613 ffrom the Lo: 
 Canc"^ of Ireland to the Lo : Ar : bishop of Canterbury, in my behalfe. & 
 from M' Annesly to Sir humfrey May." — G. 
 
 My bounden duty remembred to your grace. Such of my 
 freinds as haue occasions, to repaire into England, (takinge 
 notice, of your grat favour toward^ me, for which I rest euer 
 bounden:) doe earnestlie soUicite me for my letters vnto you, 
 (fyndinge at your handf the better respect). I humblie intreat 
 your grace, to vouchsafe me your allowance to continue this 
 course, for dutiful & honest seruitors to his Majestic, with this 
 assurred promise from me, that I will never write vnto you for 
 a dishonest man, & by your favourable regarde, of worthie & 
 faithfuU seruantf to his highnes, your grace shalbe sure, both to 
 gaine, & increase, the loue and honor of good men, (which I 
 heare to my comfort, doth attend & follow you.) This bearer 
 Sir Richard Boyle A gentleman of myne acquaintance, neare 
 30 yeares, is one of the undertakers of his Majesties landf in 
 Mounster, excheated by desmondf revolt & attainder : the Sig- 
 norie, which he doth possesse, was purchased by him from Sir 
 waiter Rawghleigh : in & vpon which he hath setled soe worthie 
 a plantacon of english tenants, as none of his ranke, in that pro- 
 vince, hath done the hke. I am very confident (& therefore 
 doe write it) that if occasion of his Majesties seruice, should re- 
 quire y\ in a very shorte tyme, he is able to raise, of his owne 
 tenants, 4 or 500 foote, & 60 horse at least, which beinge A 
 thinge, brought to passe, by his carefull endeuours, & by the 
 preferment of the publick good, before his private profit, de- 
 
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 serveres great Commendaconn. His buildingf & civill plantaconn, 
 all with English, in A number of Miles, haue reduced that parte 
 of the Country, entierly to English gouerment. If other vnder- 
 takers in that province, & now vppon his Majesties plantacon 
 of the province of Vlster, had holden & may be enduced to 
 follow the like Course, his Majesties chardgef might [be] abated, 
 (& this kingdome well secured against forayne .attempt^,) be- 
 sides in myne owne knowledge, (which point I may not forgett 
 to make knowne to your Grace :) he is in his profession A reli- 
 gious gentleman, hath shewed himselfe a carefuU buylder vp, of 
 the Churches, vppon his landf, & a mainteyner of good 
 preachers, to teach & instruct his tennentf, to whome he hathe 
 beene & is verie bountifuU. If the difFerencef betweene the 
 bishop of waterford & him, for some of the landf in Lismore, 
 (which he purchased with the rest,) might be compassed, it were 
 A good work, wherein I could be contented to take A greate 
 deale of paynes, and I thinke Sir Richard wold be found both 
 tractable, & resonable, in the busines. ffor the foresaid respectf, 
 & his other manie good part^, beinge, both a well stayed, wise, 
 honest, & discreet gentleman, I humblie make bolde to recom- 
 mend him to your graces good favour, & so doe humblie take 
 my leaue, from St Sepulchers this 24* of July 161 3. 
 your graces humblie 
 
 att comanndement 
 
 Tho Dublin Canc. 
 
15? LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 LXXIV. Francis Annesley to Sir Humphrey May : 
 
 1613. 
 
 This is on the second leaf of the same sheet with the preceding. — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, this worthie gentleman. Sir Richard Boyle, 
 beinge nowe to make his repaire into England is accompanied 
 with my Lord deputies efFectuall letters of recommendacon, and 
 I knowe well his Lordship wisheth him all good successe & 
 favour in all his occasions there ; for he hath since my lord 
 deputies knowledge of him merited so well of his Majestie and 
 the Common wealth, as his lordship hath & doth thinke him 
 worthie of all good encouragement, and this is as much as I 
 need to say att this tyme in reguard I knowe he shall finde you 
 favourable vnto him vpon my Lord deputies request ; but the 
 opinion which is conceaued here of the many favours you haue 
 done me, makes my freinds conceve that I haue some interest 
 in you, and therefore they pray me to make them knowne vnto 
 you by my letters ; and this gentleman being one of my prin- 
 cipall freinds, I can do no lesse then tell you what he is, and 
 pray your favor towards him accordinglie : Sir, you may please 
 toremember that att my last beinge att London, when you were 
 sometymes pleased to discourse with me of this kingdome, and 
 fallinge vppon the province of Mounster, I tould you then 
 simply by way of conference, how much this worthie gentleman 
 had deserued in the weall performance of seurall royall english 
 plantations, which he had made vppon his owne landf : I doe 
 now againe ingeniou[s]ly declare to you and I am able to giue 
 good instances for it, that no subiect hath or will within the 
 compasse of 40*^ yeares past & to come, desarue so well as Sir 
 Richard Boyle hath done in his course of building, inclosinge. 
 
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 & plantinge with english, and altogether after the English 
 manner ; in somuch as all his landf are planted with english 
 CoUonies, even in the middest of the Irish Countries, and he 
 hath more & better sorte of English tenannts then any man in 
 Ireland ; and you will fynde by him that he is Capable & 
 understandinge in all poyntf to do his Majestie seruice : he hath 
 atcheiued an extraordinarie good fortune by his owne indeuaors 
 in this kingdome ; for which he is envied by many, as all others 
 are in like sorte whose fortunes are advanced aboue the expec- 
 tacon & good Hkinge of such men who maligne that in others 
 which they wholly indevour for themselues. fFor my owne 
 parte I protest if his estate were six tymes as much as it is, I 
 should thinck him very deseruinge of it, for he imployes the 
 fruite of it altogeather to the strengtheninge & beawtifyeinge of 
 the Common wealth, and if all others who haue aduanced their 
 fortunes in Ireland would do the like, this Kingdome would 
 quickly florish. I am farr from envying anie mans good fortune 
 but I loue it esp'ially in those whoe imploy it best, and I doe 
 exceedingly loue Sir Richard Boyle for soe doinge ; and besides, 
 I haue found him most honest in all his actions, and to me he 
 hath euer beene a very faithfull treue freind ; which you know 
 are strong obligacons of freindshipp. Now Sir I haue made 
 expression of my knowledge of him, I must beseech you seriously 
 to vouchsafe him your best favor & furtherance in all his occa- 
 sions there, wherein he will wholie depend vppon your advice 
 & directions, and I am knowingly assured he will gratefully re- 
 quite any favor you shall do him, for he is able to do it & he 
 wilbe no excuser of it. theis are only to this purpose and go 
 through Mounster where Sir Richard Boyle embarques. I pray 
 excuse me in them & them in me, for they are scrib[l]ed in 
 haste. Sir Oliuer Lambert goes hence within a few dayes : by 
 
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 him you shall heare att large. In the mean tyme, I do con- 
 gratulate your fatherly fruition, do wish you all increase of 
 honor, & will euer remaine 
 
 your Seruant in aflFection 
 
 att all your Comaunds 
 
 FFRA AnNESLEY. 
 
 LXXV. Sir Thomas Ridgeway to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 76 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To my very worthy fFrend 
 S"' Richard Boyle Kt., &c. del.," and is endorsed, " Ffrom Sir Thomas 
 Ridgway." The red wax seal bears a finely-cut likeness of a stork. — G. 
 
 Wourthy Sir : According [to] your reasonable request, I haue 
 hastely scrybled 4 letters, herewythall sent you by your honest 
 agent, viz : To the Lord Privy Seale, the Lord Zouch, Lord 
 Stanhope, Sir Julyus Caesar. And wyll presently delyuer you 
 one for Anthony, To accommodate you with any thing needfuU 
 & withynn hys power and knowledge. As also To attend you 
 to those same priuy Counsellors. God in heaven send you a 
 happy journey : beware of ye Pyrates (in whose handf you would 
 be to good a pawne). I haue followed your own direction In 
 wryting them all with my own hand. The supsercription ex- 
 cepted (as this bearer sawe). I pray commend my seruyce & 
 honest hart to y right noble fFrend y° L. Carew and (as I shold 
 fyrst haue sayd) To y right honourable Erie of Thomond. 
 And so god bless you all & vs all. 
 
 Your assured 
 
 Louving frend 
 
 Chichester House Th. Ridgeway. 
 
 July 24. 1 6 13. 
 
 I would ye'' would send mee presently (but be secrett) a skyl- 
 
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 full groundman or Myner, To help : fFor [one] who talkf much 
 & doth lytle to purpose : And heareafter a good hammerman : I 
 am confident (& now vpon asur'd grounds and way) But It wyll 
 by all probability prove to be as lykely and colorable a favor as 
 most besydes. 
 
 To be redd by others and not to [be] red others. [Ridge- 
 way's handwriting is of the most illegible sort : the postcript I 
 have only been able to guess at, and other words are simply 
 chaos. — G.J 
 
 LXXVI. Sir William Parsons to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 77 of vol. iv. It is neither addressed nor endorsed, and the 
 half of the signature has decayed away. The MS. Calendrer has entered it 
 " William Parsons " = Sir William Parsons, as above. I should have read 
 it W" Barry or Parry. — G. 
 
 Worthie Sir : 
 
 I am Glad such an occasion hath drawen you into 
 England, and doe hope yt shalbe for your good : for my owne 
 part I am there as here. I desire them to do me no wrongfull 
 hurt, and I will neuer aske any thinge of them. I pray you 
 obserue. And beware least he talke of my office for particulars, 
 or obtaine letters concerning me vpon coolerable suggestions : I 
 pray you tell my Lord of Thomond that I haue put his parcells 
 into a pattent, I meane a particuler for a pattent. god send them 
 good passage : If you hear anie thinge of the plantacon of Vlster, 
 I pray you say yt was dispatched with a great deale of paines, 
 and though [I] say yt, dexterity, consideringe the tyme allowed 
 & vastnes of the worke. and yf small errors haue escaped, as I 
 assur you such as are, are but few and smale, yt is no great 
 wonder. I pray you tell Sir James ley, that yf he care for yt, I 
 
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 wold send him a breefF of all the controuersies which Justice 
 sibthorpe and I ended amongst the vndertakers &c. the last 
 sommer, which were aboue 200 : most of them matters of mis- 
 takinge, and onely by priority of cominge taking hold of 
 another man's land and wold not relinquish yt till wee appa- 
 ranntly discouered the wrong. Insomuch as I dare now boldly 
 say there are not foure materiall differences remayning in all the 
 plantacon, and those porteons more than they need to be were 
 they not befalne wilfull opponents : I wold I were with him, I 
 mean Sir James, xxiiij bowers. I pray you remember my seruice 
 to him : 
 
 Where you move a prescripcon from me, how you may pro-- 
 pound in England for your grace, for proffitt, you will not sett 
 for : my little knowledge shall rather darken then lighten you in 
 that behalf: though I confess I wold venture a censure of follie 
 & presumpcon to say anie thinge to you that might come within 
 my imaginacon to conduce to your end ; but I cannot aduise 
 anie thinge not already as prompt to you as my self: onely I 
 hope you will haue respect in anie good \_torn awayl talke of 
 Ireland, (as good yt is best you do talke except you talke of 
 papistf , &c) that do speake all with relacon to the worth & care 
 of \torn away\ deputie, and specially you shall hitt an alFeccon of 
 his lordships yf you be ready to giue reasons to make way & 
 giue grownd for the plantacon of Wexford, you can tell that 
 all the Coast from the Glinns in vlster to waterford in mounster 
 is planted with English, except that Territory, which was the 
 wisedome of our auncestors to be maisters of that coast, and now 
 the lord deputy hath made that usefuU worke perfect : Their 
 Territories nere the inlett from the sea to all the Irish Terri- 
 tories of leinster where birnes, Toles, Cavenaghes of Carlogh, 
 duffin and others in wexford, and so to kingf and queenes 
 
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 Countie Si" and theis Countries Do trewly lye indifFerently to 
 annswere them all who are now by this plantacon eternally 
 broken & disappointed. King Richard the 2, saw this well, 
 when he granted the pattent to bellamont, for he trauelled all 
 that tract, landing at waterford. perhaps you shall find them 
 there to clamor against geting possessions before eviccon by law : 
 first, yt is iust & legall because a seisure being made out of the 
 Chancery vpon the King's title discouered by office & vpon 
 auncient records, the land was then imediately in the king's 
 actuall possession : therevpon an order made in chauncery, vpon 
 due proceeding that pattent^ shold pass & Iniunccons be granted, 
 which was far more then was in Vlster or anie other plantacon 
 heretofore : secondly, yt was of conveinency & necesity for the 
 vndertakers paying a fine & being to build within a few yeres 
 by bond : yf they shold go to an eviccon forme and induce 
 the delaies of law & danger of mispleading, their time might be 
 spent before they cold haue possession : besides their being 
 gavelkind Lands, and so perhaps in one proporcon liverie or lex 
 supposed petty freeholders, he must bring his accon against 
 each of them yf strict rule of law bee obserued : the chardg^ 
 whereof, whether that [the] land be worth, I leave to any 
 aduerse hearer to iudge. 
 
 perhaps you shall hear them vrge and show a surrender 
 accepted from them of all their landf , by Plaine Comissioners, 
 employed for that purpose, before his majesties title was dis- 
 couered. The truthe ys they haue the draught of their generall 
 surrender vnder brisketts hand and Kenneys hand : our late 
 Comissioners entended to haue bin taken from them ; but when 
 they gott yt by a deuise from Tom Kenney very lately yt was 
 made but the couer of an old booke : for assoone as his majesties 
 title was discouered the office and recordf found & his majesties 
 
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 pleasure for plantacon signefied, those former intendment^ were 
 all evicted & new reward of record, neither euer weare to be, 
 least they might say wee toke advantage of there owne act for 
 the Kinge, but all Cancelled & dismembered : whereof my lord 
 long since certefied the Llords themselues so as whatsoeuer they 
 will say in grace or af&rmacon of that peec of parchement, it is 
 colorable & deceptful ; which you may boldly say, and that 
 they gott yt by decept Vnderhand for a nag to Tom Kenney 
 vpon some crafty conceyt which wee yet cannot rake owt. 
 
 It may be you may heare speech of a title for his majestie to 
 the Countie of leytrim, called o Rourkes countrey. It is true I 
 thinke his majestie hath good title : for sir brian o Rurke being 
 attainted in England, the King granted the land to Teig orourke 
 his son, and his heirs males. He married a wife formerly 
 maried to o cahan, in the tower : and by her had one onely son, 
 who is base, and so the land reuerted. It is of the greatest 
 importance to be planted of anie Countie now in Ireland : for 
 yt lyeth as the den of theeues betweene Connoght & vlster and 
 will euer be a gall to vlster, yea & sometyme or other the 
 descenccon of all that side, yf yt be not secured with better in- 
 habitantf : which yf yt so were vsed wold keepe open both the 
 provinces, in spight of theire teethes. And theis beinge the 
 onely things I can remember in the kingdome wheren you 
 are much more insighted then I am or can be; I now and 
 alwaies betake you & yours to almightie god, with my humble 
 salutacons to the good ladies. At Dublin xxv° July 1613, 
 Your loving cosen euer to be comannded. 
 
 W. Par [torn away]. 
 
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 LXXVII. Sir Humphrey May to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 83 of vol. iv., and is addressed "To the honorable knight 
 my very worthy frend Sir Richard Boyle," and endorsed " Vltimo Augusti 
 161 3 From Sir humfrey Maye." The red wax seal bears the impress of a 
 squirrel. — G. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I was by chaunce from court when your servant arriued 
 there with your faire present of hawkes to his Majestye, so that 
 I could not performe that personall curtesye to you which 
 you desired of me, and which if I had bin there, I would haue 
 donne in the best manner, and with as many circumstances to 
 your advantage as I could. But it was no loss vnto you : for 
 my place was supplied by a good frend of mine, sir Thomas 
 mounson, who servinge the kinge in good place, and remem- 
 bringe that he had heard me speake of you as a man of extra- 
 ordinary merit in the kinges seruice, very nobly did that curtesy 
 both to you and me, as to bringe your man to the kinge, with 
 many fauorable wordes of you and tendinge much to your 
 honour, when I came to court, I renewed the former good 
 impressions which heretofore I had made in his Majestye con- 
 cerninge you, which I am perrswaded you will find in your 
 account, when either your desire or occasions shall bringe you 
 thether to kiss his Majestyes hand. The kinge thankes you for 
 your hawkes and doth acknowledge that it was the fairest 
 present in this kind, that ever he receiued from any priuat man 
 "before. I thinke my selfe beholdinge unto you for your 
 remembrannce of me. I cannot returne you any thinge but 
 thankes ; but I am very willinge to giue you other efFectes of the 
 respect I beare you, when your occasions shall require it. For 
 I thinke you to be a very worthy servaunt to the kinge, which 
 
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 if there were no other priuat obligation to bind me is inoughe 
 to make me 
 
 Your trew and assured frend to commaund 
 3* August Salisbu : Humfrey May. 
 
 I pray remember my seruice to my Lady Fenton, and your 
 Lady, and let them knowe that I do not forget the curtysies 
 which heretofore I haue receiued from them. 
 
 Your man discharged with greate care the trust you reposed 
 in him, for there were never hawkes brought from thence 
 better conditioned every way then yours. 
 
 LXXVin. The Earl of Thomond to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 86 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To my noble & worthy frend 
 Sir Richard Boyle knight at Yoghill in Ireland theis," and is endorsed 
 " Vltimo Augusti 1613 from thearle of Thomond." The red wax seal 
 bears the Thomond shield, very fully. — G. 
 
 Noble Knight, I was not at court when your man broght the 
 hawkes, but I assure you they were well broght & thankfully 
 accepted of by the kinge. fFor your bussines, I hope they 
 willbe broght by the assistance of sir Humphrey May (whoe 
 spake many good wordf of you to his majesty) to such a pass 
 as in the next dispach you shall find them performed. I expected 
 your owne cominge hither that you might kiss the kinges hand 
 aud soe depart at your pleasure, but your self knowes what is 
 best for you, yet my induors shall neuer fayle to doe you all the 
 faithfull oiEces yt may be in me. And soe will euer remayne 
 
 Your assured true & 
 
 faithfull iFrend 
 
 saslisbury 7° Augst 1613. Thomond. 
 
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 I pray comend me to the ladyes, & tell them that my 
 servant hodge is well, but it were not amiss to remove him into 
 a better place. I lent yong fitz gerrald xx'', which I pray you 
 to receave of him vpon his landinge there, & to see it conveyd 
 to will greatrakes to catherlogh. I pray remember me to the 
 brave knight Sir Thomas Browne and his good lady, whoe I 
 thinke hath forgotten me ; for he doth not asmuch as write 
 vnto me, nor dispach my man with my haukes vnto me. If 
 you com not yourself, you may send that token which you 
 haue, to sir humphrey maii, & then I doubt but the bussiness 
 will goe forward to good effect and your owne content. 
 
 I haue sent you hereinclosed the] Kinge & queens Jesses [sic'] 
 of theire progress, and I thinke we shall stay at the Bath vj 
 weekes, and his majesty will goe downe to newe forrest : By 
 which after you are dispached at Dublyn, you may cast what 
 time proportionable to this you may meete his highness to kiss 
 his hand. 
 
 LXXIX. Sir William Fenton to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 89 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To my very loving brother 
 in law S"' Richard Boyle knight at'M"' Thomas Balles hows neer the stocks 
 in the powltry in London these d d," and is endorsed " Vltio Aug. 1613 
 from my brother W" fenton." Two green wax shields. — G. 
 
 Brother, The expectation of your comming to court, hath 
 hetherto witheld my writing to you, and wold haue donne 
 longer but that John wattes came to bath to me and showed me 
 a letter of yours, wherein you were desirous to vnderstand of the 
 deliuery of your hawks, which were all safely deliuered thogh 
 not after that fashion you desired : the reason was this, as John 
 came throgh the contry he heard of the Kings being at A@ 
 
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 euer (?), he went thether supposing to find ether Sir humphrey 
 maij or my lord of Thomond there, but they were all at london 
 then : whereupon he went to Sir Humphry maijs brother, who 
 is a groome of the kings priuy chamber, and desired his aduise 
 for theire deli uery: he told him that it was his best cours to 
 present them with all speed ; for the king did know that they 
 were in towne, and wold be much ofFended if they were caried 
 away before he did see them : wherefore and for that it was 
 your pleasure he shold (if it were possible) present them before 
 the kings owne hawks came, (which came within a weeke after) 
 and to auoyd the hazard of cariing them farther, he thoght it 
 best to follow mr maijs aduise ; who entreated Sir Thomas 
 Munson, a frend of sir Humphreys, to present them to the 
 king ; and he did it in so good manner, that he drew the king 
 down into the yard in his pantables to see them, who liked so 
 well of them after he had seen and felt them all seueraly vpon 
 Johns fist, that he swore by his sowle, he neuer saw a finer 
 present of hawks, nor better broght, in his life. Sir humphrey 
 receaued his hawks safe, and my lord had his deliuered very well 
 and receaued them very thankefuUy : he is very desirous to see 
 you, and in my iudgiment you shall do well to come hether 
 before you goe to the kings court, that you may of him and my 
 Lord of Thomond who is heere with the queene, vnderstand 
 how to present your self to the king, and how the king is affected 
 to you. I will troble no farther now till we meete, onely let 
 me heare when you intend to come hether, and where you 
 meane to continue till then, for if you com not shortly I will 
 finde you out : in the meane time I take my leave, euer resting 
 to do you service, from bath this 25* Augustij, 1613, your 
 assured loving brother 
 
 Will, fenton. 
 
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 LXXX. William Kewelling : Rents, etc. : 161 3. 
 
 This is No. 108 of vol. iv. on a single leaf, one side. — G. 
 
 Thes be the rentes that I have receved of M'' thomas dant 
 xxx'' : of M'' James dant xxxviij''. vj^. v** ofe : of M'' thomas 
 Ruscell v"'. 9^ : Receved of John ogellegh for the lands he 
 houlds from gillabey v'' : Receved the money for the tythe 
 come xxvij'' : Receved of Murtove machshee, for lease of the 
 liven in Mosgrey vj'' : I haue receaved of M'' smyth and John 
 gratrickes of the landes that thay do hould ij'\ iij^ & Thay do 
 pay the Kinges rent : I haue receaved of John gratrycks, the 
 rent of the parsoneges of balyno xij''. Thes is all the rentes 
 that I haue receved at Corke. Recevead of M'' water Copengar 
 vij". x^That maketh vp in all 132 — 19' — 5"* oB. 
 
 The Rent of Coney 107" — lo' — o. I haue receyved of M"' 
 pore 77". I haue Receved of M'' Copengar of Curey glasces, 
 rent xix". iiij^. v*. I haue receved of James foster xv''. I haue 
 receved of Cornelives gafney v'". I haue Receved of heve 
 robardes ij". x^ I haue receved of peter tarlfe iiij''. x^. The 
 hoU sum of my Recaytes Is 356 — 3 — 10'' o13. I haue paid 333" 
 so there is in my handes 23". The money that Com from a 
 letreyes is in my ladeyes handes, for she did receve it. The 
 money that Cam from dermon a ding is [in] my ladys hand, for 
 she did receve it. My ladey did receve Captayn smyth rent, and 
 the rent from stronge Caley, and the rent of Carmvekey. All 
 thes moneyes lieth in my ladeyes hand, tell such time as the 
 reste be gadred up. If M"^ pore and dermond woold bring ther 
 money Captayn aderlyes money wovld quickly be made up. If 
 it be paid any^time this mvnth he will recevit. If not then he 
 will receve it aCording to your derexccones. A Corden to 
 
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 your derexciones, I went to water ford, and before the day the 
 money was paid, and I did bring my ladey your bonds A Corden 
 to your derexcion, I paid Ser Jepsun 50^', your bilden at lies- 
 more gothe forward a paces : the massones will shortly make a 
 End of all ther worke at lismore. The attmes house Is Com all 
 to an hayth Redey for the Roufe. John gyneor hath feneshed 
 the stares and the new stodey, and the great wendou. Next to 
 the Church yeard, and Is nov at woorke on the Next Rom to 
 your stodey. 
 
 Ther is no newes to a quaynt you With all. Thus prayen 
 to god to Contenue your helth and a fayer pasege when plees 
 god you do Com I End from youghell the iiij* of Novembar 
 1 61 3. 
 
 Your worships Sarvant 
 
 William Kewelling. 
 
 LXXXI. Sir William Lovelace TO Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 1 10 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To his honorable and most 
 weruthie frend Sir Rycharde Boyle knight att his logginge overeagaynst 
 Salsburie house in the Strande geve this," and is endorsed " so* December 
 16 1 3 from S' W™ Lovelace." The seal is indented on a pasty substance 
 beneath the paper. — G. 
 
 Aftere my hartiest commendacions, Sir, I was bould not 
 longe since to commende a servant vnto yowe, whome of my 
 owne knowlege I could not commend but by others reported a 
 man most fitt for youre forrene causes, beinge well expe- 
 riensed in survayinge of lande : whome I leave to youre good 
 consideratione. But nowe I ame to commende vnto youe this 
 berer, Johne pearce birne, neare me, and my god sonne, whos 
 bringinge vppe I well knowe, knowinge also his parent^ to be of 
 
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 most honest conversatione : he I commende as a man fitt to 
 be about youre persone, beinge well sene aswell in his frenche 
 Tounghe as the Italione, bothe which he speakethe perfettly ; 
 besid^ he hathe bine most conversante with those whoe have bine 
 neare officers about the counsell, as Sir Thomas Smithe, clarke 
 of the Counsellj and others, soe as by reasone of his Industrie and 
 well writinge, he was vntill his deathe of greatt reputacione with 
 him : since he hathe not bine idle but still with one statte man 
 or othere, soe as I dought not but his experience, honestie and 
 fidelitie, for which I will paune my worde and creditt, will give 
 yowe good satisfacione of his sufficiencie, to whome I would 
 prefere yf youre selfe weare my owne fathere. And therfore 
 good Sir Rycharde, yf att my request yowe will accept of him 
 and soe trie him as long as yowe shall please and finde him fitt 
 for yowe, I protest I doe thincke yowe shall have noe cause to 
 repent yowe, but the longgere yowe shall kepe him the bettere 
 yowe will licke him ; for which I will reast exceding & greattly 
 beholdinge vnto yowe, knowinge yowe have and will have need 
 of suche a servant. And soe hopeing shortly to see yowe I end 
 and will evere reast. 
 
 Yours to his poure in all 
 true fedeletie 
 
 WiLLiA Lovelace, 
 
 By conferringe with this birene yowe shall knowe more I 
 came [to] writte. 
 
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 LXXXII. Aldenn to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 1 1 1 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To his Honored friend Sir 
 Richard Boyle knight at London or else where Theis," and is endorsed 
 " xij o Decembr 161 3 From M'' Alden." Two red wax heraldic seals. 
 The enclosures mentioned are not preserved among the Lismore Papers. 
 — G. 
 
 Right Worshipful!, my Loue and service remembred &c. 
 Maye yt please You to be addvized, of the sinister accident 
 befalne me, sithenceyour Departure for Englande ; ymmeadiatly 
 vpon your departure my Lord of Corke sequestred my chantor- 
 shipp, vpon presumption yt was voide by thaccepting the Arch- 
 deaconry of Lismore, without disesen sertion [sic]. When I spake 
 with him, he publiquely (before diuerse in his owne howse at 
 Rosse :) bad me gett means of my Master, naminge you, and 
 teld me you had not ben so heavye vpon M"" Gierke, for my 
 sake, as he would be vpon me, for his sake ; & yet he sayed you 
 made him spend xxv'" : he hath of late (at the Instigacon of 
 Clarke) installed (in my place) M"^ Taylor, & soe suffereth me 
 not to be Chantor any longer ; without I wilbe tryyt by lawes or 
 compownd at his pleasure ; he knowes I am not able to contest 
 with him, (though I suffer neuer soe much wronge, for want of 
 means). Yt is euery Clergye mans cause in his dioces & non 
 questioned but L He called me heritick befoure diuerse Irish 
 in his house at Corke ; & saide he would question me for the 
 busines of the Colledge. He said you wer not at my back nowe 
 to helpe me ; Neyther had you spedd soe well in England as 
 you expected ; but the vice presedent and diuerse others, haue 
 done all they may to perswade him, but nothing will prevaile. I 
 was loth to trouble you, had yt not ben that I haue noe waye in 
 myne owne power to help my selfe : he can vrge none ofFence 
 
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 by me Commytted, yet hath he vtterly vndone me, and not me 
 alone, but many other of my frindf whoe haue engaged them- 
 selues for me : I haue sought by all means to reconcile my self 
 to him, by all submicon, & he refuses ; Clarke doeth soe fare 
 prevayle with him ; more pitty me than can helpe me j but I 
 wish yt were my case to be envied rather. Sir I haue sent you 
 theis proceedings ; wher you may see their dealingf ; I haue 
 sent you likewise enclosed, a peticon which I leaue to your 
 wisdome to considdre of. I am vndone for euer yf you nowe 
 stand not to mee. Yf you can (by any means) gett me a cus- 
 todium of some voide liuinge in the king^ handf (& lett me finde 
 them as I can) to the valleue of xxx" or xl" per annum, in the 
 kingf booke, I will faythfully giue him which doe it, soe much 
 per annum as they are in that vallewe. ; I knowe noe one will, 
 request any thing of the kinge but for gayne, & I will finde 
 curatf (wher of right ther be caws,) wheras nowe ther be none 
 in any of those places, neyther haue the kinge any first iFruitf, 
 in any of those places : my Lord of waterforde upon this denys 
 me my Right in Lismore & yet I am to loose my Chantorshipp 
 for that ; but one mischeefe putt on more. I haue sent you 
 enclosed (likewise) an informacon which vpon my fayth I can 
 proue to be true ; which I leaue to your discreation : Sybson 
 (which they sent ouer against you) sent a letter to my Lord, 
 that you hadd begged the Reuercon of his Bishopprick of Corke 
 & Clone, of the kinge, & he doe as confidently beleeue yt as 
 any thing in this worlde ; which make him almoste madd : they 
 reporte that your Landes is much of yt giuen to Scotts-men ; but 
 that reporte is but his vent : for the loue of god, haue respect 
 now to help me with all convenient speed, or I am not able to 
 stay in the contry, which will be a discredit to my callinge, & 
 an Aduentage to myne enimes. I haue none but my god, and 
 
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 yourself, to craue helpe of. Bis dat qui cito dat ; for the Loue 
 of god lett me heare from you with all expedicon. I would 
 haue come to you, but I am not able for want of means. I 
 haue not six penyworth of Church liuinge that I enioy quietly 
 in the kingdome. I remoued to the Chantorshipp at Carigrou- 
 ghen from Youghall, & all will not please him, soe as I haue lost 
 much by yt. I can write noe more ; teares closeing the cabbynets 
 wherby I should receaue light, but in the middest of grieefFe 
 pray for you and yours, yt our mercifull god may defend you 
 from all your, & his enymies ; to which mercye of god I com- 
 myt you & yours. 
 
 Your assured ready to be 
 commanded 
 
 FF : Aldenne. 
 Carigroughan this 
 14"" of gber 16 13. 
 
 LXXXIII. The Lord Deputy to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 114 of vol. iv., and is addressed "To my verie wourthy 
 friend S' Richard Boyle knight att london," and is endorsed " 3 Januarij 
 1 613 My lord deputies Ires, acknowledgeing the receipt of 400" in p'paym' 
 of the Statute staple entred into for the purchaze of his sons wardship." A 
 small wax seal.— G. 
 
 Sir, I haue receiued some letters from you since you came to 
 london, but they required rather acknowledgment then annswer, 
 which hath made me thus long silent ; and now I can impart no 
 mor by my letters then Francis Annesley can delyuer unto you 
 by word of mouth. The principale matter wee arr to discourse 
 of beinge the retourne of the Commissioners, and what they 
 haue found here. If we haue transgressed, wee are sure to heare 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 175 
 
 of it, for the complaynantf haue not only searched after and 
 ripped up our actions but euen the words wee haue spoaken. I 
 doubt not but they wilbe found vague and malicious wranglers, 
 when their carriadge and ours are discouered : they hoold on the 
 olde bias of this kingdome, for beinge themselues faultie they fall 
 to recrimenation, thinkinge by charginge other men with faulty 
 to excusse their owne. I hope their intollerable and audacious 
 contempt in parlyament wyll not escape deue correction, not- 
 withstandinge sherrifff and soldiarrs transgressions were more 
 then they are ; and yet in their bitter invectiues against us, they 
 coulde not saye that euer they complayned without redresse : 
 your neighbour Sir James Goaghs extrauagant Carriadge and 
 discourses, declare that his braynes are not well in temper : his 
 report^ did affright the ladies att Youghall, but his committment 
 here hath somewhat reuiued them and qualified the heate of 
 those that intartayned an opinion that the free exercise of their 
 Religion woulde accompanie his reportf . I perceiue by your 
 letters that my carriadge in the busnies of the wexford plantation 
 was misinterpreted or not rightly understood ther : the Com- 
 missioners haue noue examined it at full, and I haue declared 
 my carriadge in it from first to last, and by what warrants I 
 dealt therin : if what I haue written be nether reade nor beleeued 
 I can not remoue what is misconceiued upon the clamors of a 
 false and perfidious informer. No great man in England coulde 
 haue byne ignorant of my carriadge in that afFayre if he had 
 reade and remembred what had byne written and sayd therin 
 -longe before these Commissioners came thether, who wyll now 
 impart what they haue found, and if that plantation be dissolued, 
 or altered, I praye God our vlstermen seeke not the like fauoure, 
 who are as wourthie of it and haue better tytles to stand on : in 
 this I haue sayd ennough. 
 
176 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 The ladie Fitzgerralde hath now paide 400'' : M'' Coppingre 
 hath prayd tolleration for the rest untyll the end of the next 
 terme, to which I haue yeelded sore against my wyll, beinge 
 neuer in greater need of monie since I had first occasion to use 
 it. This is all for the present, and so God send you a good 
 retourne unto 
 
 Your louinge and verie assured 
 friend 
 
 Arthure Chichester. 
 Att Dublyn the third of 
 De : 1613. 
 
 LXXXIV. William Kewelling. 
 
 This is No. 116 of vol. iv., and though it has no signature at the close — 
 or the close is not preseiTed — the handwriting and odd spelling enable us to 
 assign it to the Earl's steward Kewelling. — G. 
 
 Right worthy, In Every letter I haue Receved from you, you 
 do blame me for that I do not write to you at large of all your 
 buseynes. I do not know whether leteres did Com to your hand 
 or no, but in three leteres that I haue sent to you I haue writen 
 to you at large houe all thinges hath gone and now by this my 
 leter you shall vnderstand all thinges at large, for your landes 
 of Coney, her is the names of them that haue them ; and the 
 resonn whey they had them in, was in Regard that I Could not 
 geet any that woold geue so mvch for them as thay haue donn ; 
 on other Resonn was that you in your rent for the rentes of 
 Coney and the landes be-longen to it, you a poynted me to Re- 
 ceve of Everey ploue land vj" seven, the to [= two] plou landes 
 that Captayn vgelthorp dothe hould of my ladey : which sum a 
 mounted to clxx" : but thay wovld paye no more but the rent 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 177 
 
 that They had mad bargan for with my ladey honora ; which 
 you shall her[e] see what I haue Receved of them, and for so mvch 
 I haue geuen them an aquytances tell such tim as god shall seend 
 you over : of Captayn vgelthorp for hallfe yeares rent of three 
 ploue landes viiij'' : Of Brien ager eg, for the hallfe yeares rent 
 of killphillpen iiij''. x^ : Of Thomas fFeighe, for the ploue land of 
 killoser iiij''. x^ : Of Conagher dalley for killwancley, being on 
 plouland for hallf yeares rent vj'' : Of Cornelives Credan, for 
 the hallfe yeares rent of the plouland of glan reugh iij" : Of 
 M'^mores ogoe, for the five ploue land that he doth hould for 
 hallfe yeare xvij". x^ : Of John fioes [fitz] Thomas, Sankon, for 
 the hallfe yeares rent of the plouland of the torens viij" : Of 
 Owen oge a gerey, for the to [= two] ploueland, lanney will 
 and boul[d] o'Donell, for the hallfe yeares rent viiij'': Of Moreces 
 fices [fitz] thomas, for the hallfe yeares rent of baley bride ij''. x'': 
 Of John fyces Thomas for the hallfe yeares rent of Class-eganey 
 ij". x' : Of Oellever fyces garat, for the hallfe yeares rent of 
 Cnock leeken iij". x' : Of John fyces garet, for the hallfe yeares 
 rent of Cullenogh iiij" : Of Mores fyces John, my ladeyes 
 received for the hallfe yeares rent of baley logan for grascen iij'' 
 for his fouer shefe. To turlou mackteage as I taket ij''. x= : 
 Of davey mackteage for his hallfe yeares rent of oulld Coney 
 iiij" : Of the tenants of Coney for ther hallfe yeares rent vij" : 
 Of Ouen agerey and of Redmond Carey, for the three plou land 
 of baley nannd the ploue land of baley skurloge and the plou 
 land of baley Cnock viij", and the fouer shefe is worth sum xvj" 
 but is not sold : for the ploue land of Gorte ne Capell no rente 
 but the fouer shefe, worth vj", but not sovld : Of thomas fyces 
 mores for his hallfe yeares rent of aharan and Saren tagard viiij'' 
 for the ploue land that the vices preseadant doth hould, I did 
 demand of him rent, but he toold me he had tovld the screve 
 
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178 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 [ = sheriff ?] his mind and seinces : I haue not seen the screve : 
 Of William horn for his land x" : so the holl rent that I haue 
 receeved is cxij" xv' and the Come Is worth xxij". 
 
 Thus I haue justely and truley sete you donn of your rentes 
 of Coney receved by me. Now you shall vnderstand houe it is 
 lete for this next yeare and to whom : 
 
 The ploue land of aharan and Garantagard is lete to thomas 
 fyces mores for 32'' for this yeare, with to [= two] hoages 
 [hogs ?] The ploue land of foren Is lete to John Agerey for 
 20'' and no dutey. The plouland of baley bridj is let to Moreces 
 fyces thomas for 20'' and a houge. The ploue land of Closse- 
 ganey Is lete to John fyces tomas for xvj" and a houg. The 
 plowland of Cnockstricken Is let for xvj" and a hougu. The 
 ploue land and Castell of Coney is let for this yeare to master 
 winfiUd for xxiiij'' for on yeare. The ploueland of ouU Coney, 
 is let to davey macke teage for xiiij" and a houge. The plou- 
 land of glanreugh is let to Cnokher a Creadan for xiij'' a year 
 and a houge. The to [= two] ploue of langny will and bovll 
 dorell, is let to ouen a gerey, xxviij" and to [= two] houges. 
 The three plou landes of baleno and baley skurloge and baley 
 Cnocka, is let to M'' Edmond Pore for xlij" by the year, but 
 m"^ Carey had the Refucen of it and woold not geve so much. 
 Ther for he had it, but afterward m'' Carey wovld haue had it 
 and then it was to late for wee Cold not breeke ovr word. The 
 thre ploue landes that Captayn vgelthorpe doth hould, doth re- 
 mayn as thay did tell he dothe Com over. The plouland is lete 
 to thomas a feigh for xiiij'' and a houge. The ploue land of 
 Killphillipen is let to brien a gerey for xiiij" a yeare and a houge. 
 The ploue land of the Cullneath Is let to John fycs Gareat for 
 xiij" a yeare. The plou land of baley logan Is let to Tvrlon 
 macke Teage for xiiij" a yeare and a houge. The plou land of 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 179 
 
 killvarelok Is let to Cnoker a daley for xiiij" a year and a houge. 
 The ploue land of Gort-ene Capell is let to Captayn gore for 
 xiij" for this yeare. The ploue land of baley lostey. The plou- 
 land of baley macke simon and the plouland of baley Mvrough 
 aad the ploue land of Radrvm and the ploue land of Gareyeare, 
 thes V ploulandes Is let to mores oge for this yeare for Ixx'' : 
 and five houges. If I had not seet thes lands to him all that 
 parte of that Cuntrey had been waste for this hallfe yeare. Ther 
 for I hope I haue dun well. What bargan the Screve hath mad 
 with the vices preseedant, I do not knou, nether for the ovld 
 rent nor for the nevve. The ploue land of Coren William home 
 
 xxviij'' : so the sum of your rent by the yeare is ccccvj" and 
 
 for the mill 46 barells of oteemell besides the four ploulandes to 
 be desposed by your selfe : all the tenantes ar tayed [tied ?] from 
 spoyllen of the woodes. 
 
 Now that I haue truley serteefied you of the seten of your 
 land at Coney and what Rentes will be du on It, and all so what 
 rentes I haue receved from them, I will now at large serteyfy 
 you as in your laste leter saven on, you willed me, what Is don 
 at ban den breges [= Bandonbridge]. 
 
 Ser, by all the menes that I Covld make. Could I not get in 
 so mvch money by the day as to pay Captayn adderly his 440'' 
 as I am shuer M"" parsonnes hath sertefied you at larges, but 
 Goen to Captayn adderly sum forten or feften dayes before his 
 day, I did in presantes of M"^ parsonnes and mr. Clayton paye 
 him 240" and take his a quytances and his bond of 600'', that 
 on payen him the laste of a parcell next folowen, 200'' more, 
 then that he should procver all such writen as he or Ser thomas 
 huet had on the landes of Covtlfadon and so make over to you 
 all Ther Right and Entres in it, and that he and his wife should 
 passe a fine or any other thing that your larned Counseell should 
 
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 thinke fet for your ashurances, Conserning that buseynes. M"" 
 
 Parsonnes mad the bond and my ladey had Captayn adderlys 
 
 letter to shewe that in regard of his promys to you, he was well 
 
 Contented : sences that tim, I went To banden briges, wher 
 
 Captain adderly did mete me and ther did he Call all the 
 
 teneantes before him and I and father nobes and M' blacknell 
 
 and ther Caseed all the Teneantes to tvrne tenantes to you and 
 
 sete it vnder their handes and his oune hand to it, for a wetness, 
 
 and did deliver the mill to father nobes to your uces, Ever 
 
 seences allhalant day : I delivred to father nobes your leter that 
 
 you sent in Closeed in, mine : I went to banden with it to see 
 
 what he had don with the land. The further of it he hath set 
 
 tell May next, but that was set befor I Cam thether or Elces I 
 
 wold haue him to let it but tell our ladey day : but for the ^y 
 
 aKeres and the C akeres next to the house that is not it [yet ?] 
 
 sete and I willied him to let that no longar then tell our ladey 
 
 day by any menes, for that will be a very fine leven to lay to 
 
 the house : when god send you over, for the mill his ansever is 
 
 that he will not take it at that rent as you did write to him of, 
 
 but he doth hope to make you so mvch of it : There is a peece 
 
 of the weare that is lilke to go to deCay, If it be not mended out 
 
 of hand : and master becher doth say. That hou so Ever he 
 
 shall seet a bout the menden of it, he will indite them : at my 
 
 being ther I had some spech with M"' becher a bout it, desiren 
 
 him That in Regard that you wer in Ingland and that it was 
 
 a thing late ly Com to your hand and that I was not Throughly 
 
 a quaynted with the state of it. That he woold be pleaseed not 
 
 to trobell nor bender the worke men, for that it wovld be no good 
 
 to him to hender you : but I do perceve by him that there is sum 
 
 vnkindnes that he doth take that he did send you a leter a bout 
 
 that buseynes and you did returne him no answer of it, and as 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 I do thinke it was touchen the feseempell of the lands on that 
 side of the water, for I do perceve by him that he will seell the 
 fee of it. If you will dell in it : and as he sayeth he had rather 
 that you should haue it then any other : Ther is on hayes That 
 hath on ploue land of that land in fee farme that you haue the 
 leces of it and by his leces as father nobes doth tell me, he 
 Cannot Cuyt no wood without your leve but he doth Cut and 
 make greate spyll ( = spoil) in the woodes and dothe seell Everey 
 day : I do vnder stand that ser dominick Sarsfeld Is in hand to 
 dell for that or the other sid for the fee farm, for as I hier John 
 grue hath ben ther to see and to in quyer a boute it. 
 
 for your billden at Youghell, your Tares is set in Culares 
 verey fayer ; your stvdey Ended and the next Chambar made 
 verey hansom and set in Culares and the dores in that Entrey 
 betwen my lady fentvnes Chambar and the hall is set in culares : 
 aft the upper partes of the house Is Rou[gh]casted and feneshed, 
 but by the louer gate it is not feneshed. your Tereces in the garden 
 be a Coverin : there is but on to Cover : the vpe parte of your 
 garden next to the wall Is made very hansom and well. Ther 
 is nothing done to the dynen rome at it, seences your going 
 away. The masonnes be stell worken on the allmes house and 
 rovU house but the Rufe Is not yit vp but the walles be heie 
 enufe for the rofe. I do hier that all the rufe is redey and the 
 vper flore. as for your work at liesmore, I Cannot sertefe you 
 for I haue Not ben ther but onces seences Mickelmves but 
 then ther wer maney of the gabell yendes vp. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 LXXXV. King James I. to Boyle : Free School and 
 Almhouses, Youghall, 1613. 
 
 This is No. 127 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To our right trusty and 
 welbeloved the Lord Chichester, o"" Deputy of our Realme of Ireland & to 
 our ChaunceUor or Keeper of the Great Seale or any other Deputy or cheif 
 Governor or Governors, Channcellor or Keeper of the Great Seale of o"^ 
 said Realme that hereafter for the tyme shalbe, and to all other our Officers 
 and Ministers there whome it may concerne." These notings are also on 
 •verso, " Of the 26"^ of Ja : 161 3. From the Kings Ma* in the behalfe of 
 S'' R : Boyle. This of consequence. N" 18. Rd the 17* of februarie. 
 M' in rotulio cane hib°" \jic'\ deciriio nono die fFebruar : 1613. p me 
 Jacobi Delermam (?). M"^^ in officio Auditor general p Ja : ware Audit 
 1613." Though it bears at the end to be " Extracted," the signature of 
 the King is an autograph — very familiar to me. — G. 
 
 James R. 
 
 Right trustie and welbeloued, wee greet you well. 
 Whereas our welbeloued Subiect Sir Richard Boyle knight, 
 hath vppon his owne Land, within our Towne of Yoghall in 
 our Countie of Corke, at his sole charges. Lately erected an 
 Hospitall or house for releefe of the poore, and a free schoole, 
 with Conueinent dwellinge for y* Schoole Master and Vsher of 
 the Schoole, to be kept here : Jn conside^acon whereof and to 
 comfort him in so good and acceptable a worke, at his humble 
 suite, wee are pleased and so doe hereby require and authorize 
 you by our Letters patentf in due forme of Lawe to be madcj 
 to incorporat the said Almes house and free schoole, by what 
 names or titles he shall desier, and to you shalbe thought fitt, 
 and to graunt him or any other person or personnes he shall 
 desier or nominate, a Licence of Mortmaine, to make him and 
 his heires or such other person or persons as he shall nominate 
 to you for that purpose, to haue a Capacitie and to be Lawfully 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 183 
 
 enhabled to haue, receiue and holde to the vse aforesaid any 
 Manners, Landes, tenementes. Rectories, Tyethes or other 
 hereditament^ spirituall and temporall, within that our Realme, 
 which are not holden of us in Capite nor by knights seruice, to 
 the Cleere yearly valew of one hundred Marks Currant money of 
 Ingland, aboue all Charges and reprises, and that the said free 
 schoole may be for euer hereafter appointed and made the free 
 schoole of and for the dioces of Cloyn ; within which diocesse 
 our said towne of youghall is the principall place Incorporated, 
 and haue such sallarie and fee, for the better enhabling and 
 maintenance of the schoole master for the tyme being, as the 
 Statute in that Case warranteth and appointeth. And that in the 
 said Charter of corporacon, you cause to be inserted all such 
 freedomes, liberties, priuiledges & exempcons as in like Cases 
 are vsuall, and to you shalbe thought meete and Conueinent, 
 and to be past and deliuered him without fyne or fees. And 
 whereas wee by our Letters patent^ dated at Dublin the xxiij"" of 
 March in the vij"" yeare of our Raigne of Ingland, ffrance and 
 Ireland, and of Scotland the xliij*, by virtue of our Commission 
 vnder our greate Seale of Ingland, dated at Westminster, the 
 second day of March, in the fourth yeare of our Raigne of 
 Ingland, ffrance and Ireland, and of Scotland the fortieth, haue 
 for the fyne and consideracons in the said patent specified, 
 giuen, graunted, bargained and soulde, or menconed or intended 
 to haue giuen, graunted, bargained and soulde vnto our said 
 Louing subiect Sir Richard Boyle, Knight, his heires and 
 assignes for euer, all that the Barrony, Castle & Manner of 
 Jnchequyn, with the appurtenances, and the late Abbey or 
 dissoulued house of Tracton ats de albo tracta, with all the 
 possessions thereof, spirituall and temporall, in our said Countie 
 of Corke, and diuers other Castles, Mannors, Abbies dissolued 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 religious houses, townes, villages, hamlets. Rectories, tiethes, 
 Rentf, reuercons, seruices. Liberties, aduousons, presentacons, 
 Riuers, fishingf Meares,Land^, tenement^ and hereditament^, in 
 our said Realme of Ireland, and in the said Letters patentf, or 
 by the words in them menconed & expressed, vnder such Rents, 
 tenures, seruices, couenants and reseruacons, as therein are 
 specified and conteined. And whereas our said Subiect hath for 
 the better effecting of his intended plantacon purchased or 
 acquired sundry other Mannors, Castles, Townes, Landes, 
 tenements and hereditament^ in our said Realme, viz from our 
 welbeloued Cosen the Earle of Thomond, the Abbey of 
 Rathbran, with diuers other landes, tenements & hereditament^ 
 in his conueighance fFrom the Lord Bourck, the Castle and 
 Landf of Corneueigh and Bally In, and certaine tenements and 
 gardines in youghall aforesaid, or elsewhere in the countie of 
 Corke, fFrom Sir Richard ifleetwood Barronet, the Mannor or 
 villadge of Killef and Killuecargy contiening foure plough Landf 
 and a halfe, fFrom Sir John Brocket Knight, the Mannor of Kill- 
 molash and Bewley, with the appurtenances in our Countie of 
 Waterford, fFrom Sir Robert Newcomen Knight, the townes 
 and Landes of Tawnagh, fFoorkill and other landes conteined 
 in his conueighance, fFrom Walter St leger Esque, the mannor of 
 Ballyngarry, with the appurtenances, fFrom fFrancis Goston 
 Esquire, the Territories of Clanfynnen and Jneotery, fFrom 
 Captain William Newce, the Towne and Landes of Coolefadda, 
 fFrom Thomas Wakeman, the Castle & landf of Ballin Rea and 
 other hereditaments in his deeds menconed, fFrom Patrick Terry 
 gent, the Towne and landes of Ballyurbyn in our said Countie 
 of Corke, fFrom John Champon, deceased, the Mannor our 
 Signory of Bally m"^ Daniell and other Landes and tenement^ 
 in our countie of Kerrie, whereof the said Sir Richard and his 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 185 
 
 Tennantf are now quietly possessed. And vpon those and 
 other respect^ hath bin an humble suitor vnto vs to haue all the 
 preceding graunted him by our Letters patents in his owne 
 name to him and his heires for euer in fee, and to houlde the 
 same and all other his purchased lands, tenements and heredita- 
 ments in that our Realme as pattentee and immediate Tennant 
 vnto vs; At whose said humble suite, wee of our princely grace 
 and disposicon towards him , and in regarde of his many 
 acceptable seruices done within that our Realme, whereof wee 
 haue taken speciall notice and Likeinge, and for his better abilitie 
 and encouragement to perseuere in our seruice, are graciously 
 pleased to yealde thereunto. And thereupon doe hereby require 
 and authorize you by thaduice of some of our Learned Councell 
 there, that by one or moe graunt or graunts, Confirmacon or 
 Confirmacons, release or releases, or by all or any of them as his 
 Learned Councell shall aduise, you doe passe or Cause to be 
 passed, a good sure and indefeasable estate or estates in fee 
 (without fyne) to be passed by and from vs, our heires and 
 Successors, vnder our greate Seale of that our Realme in due 
 forme of Lawe, to the said Sir Richard Boyle Knight, his 
 heires and assignes for euer, to his & their sole and propper vse, 
 and behoofe of the said Barrony, Castle & Mannor of Jnche- 
 QUYN, with the appurtenances, and of the IVIannor and late 
 Abbeyes of Tracton ats de albo tractu, and of all possessions 
 thereof both spirituall and temporal!, and of all other 
 the Manners, Castles, Abbyes, dissolued relligious houses. Rec- 
 tories, tythes, aduousons, viccaridges, parsonages, presentacons, 
 townes, villages, hamlets, Landes, tenements, rents, reuercons, 
 remainders, seruices. Customs, duties, Riuers, Royall fishinges, 
 Creekes, Hauens, harbours, shoares, sea bancks, Sea Sandes, 
 woods, Courtf, warrens, parkes, wracks of the seas. Liberties, 
 
 I. B B 
 
186 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Royalties, priueledges and hereditament^ whatsoeuer, in our 
 Baid letters patents menconed and conteined : or which beinge 
 therein inserted, he shall desire so to haue assured and conueighed 
 vnto him and his heires, with reseruacon to vs our heires & suc- 
 cessors, of such and the same Rent^, tenures and seruices, as 
 are specified, now paide and reserued vpon such of the premisses 
 as by vertue hereof, he or his heires, shall desire to be assured 
 vnto him, menconed in our before recited Letters patentf, and 
 no other, with such Liberties, priueledges, authorities, fraun- 
 chises, Royallties and immunities, as are Conteined in his former 
 letters patent^, or in any other the Vndertakers pattentes of 
 MouNSTER, past in the same Commission. And this to be 
 done withall favor and expedicon, for such is our princely grace 
 and fauor towards him. And for all those other Mannors, 
 Castles, Abbies, dissolued Religious houses, Rectories, vicca- 
 ridges, tythes, aduousons, presentacons, land^, tenementf, 
 Rentf, reuercons, seruices, and other hereditaments, by him 
 purchased and whereof he and his tenants are now in possession, 
 our will and pleasure is and see wee doe hereby will and 
 authorize you, that either vppon surrender or surrenders or 
 without as his owne Learned Councell shall aduise, that by one 
 or moe graunt or grauntf, confirmacon or release or all or any 
 of them, you doe assure and Conueigh, or Cause to be assured 
 and Conueighed, all the said Castles, Mannors, Abbies, Rectories, 
 tythes, Land^, tenementf, and hereditaments, with the Rentf 
 reuercons and remainders of them, to the said Sir Richard 
 Boyle Knight, his heires and assignes for euer in fee, vnder our 
 broade scale of that Realme in forme afore said, expressing in 
 our said grauntf or assurances, as many of the perticuler names 
 with the continent of euery manner, toivne, village or hamlet 
 as conueniently you may or to you shalbe thought meet, with 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 187 
 
 reseruacon to vs our heires and successors, of such and the same 
 Rentf and tenures as are now paide and reserued out of or 
 vpon such of the premisses as are allreadie in charge in our 
 Auditors office in that our Realme, and for such of the premisses 
 as he purchased of the free holders, which now, are not in 
 charge, neither yeelde vs any Rent at the Receipt of our 
 Exchequer, our pleasure is to haue our Commission Royall 
 reserued where and in such manner as it is now paide, and such 
 tenures as vpon such or other inquisicon to be herevpon taken, 
 shall appeare they are holden by or as to you shalbe thought 
 conuenient, with a- sauing and reseruing to all our Subiectf 
 their and euery of their lawful! rights and title. And our 
 further will and pleasure is, that in our said patents and other 
 assuerances, you incert a grant to the said Sir Richard Boyle, 
 his heires & assignes, of the goods and Chatties of persons 
 atteinted and of all fellons, fugitives and fellons of themselues, 
 and outlawed persones, their goods and Chatles, deodands, 
 waifes and straies hapning or befalling, or which hereafter shall 
 happen or befall, within or vpon the premisses, or any part or 
 parcell thereof, and to giue him and his heires power thereby to 
 Create Mannors and freeholde estates of and in the premisses 
 To be holden of the said Sir Richard Boyle, his heires and 
 assignes, by such Rents & English tenures & seruices as to 
 him the said Sir Richard Boyle or his heires shalbe thought 
 meet, with Libertie allso to haue a parke or park^ & free warren 
 or free warrens as to him shalbe thought iitt. And allso to 
 graunt to him and his heires, such Courts Leetf, courts Barons, 
 ffayres and markets to be erected and yearly and weekely 
 holden and kept respectiuely, within the said mannors, lands, 
 tenements and hereditaments and other the premisses, at such 
 plases and tymes as to you shalbe thought Conuenient, and 
 
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 withall such other and further royalties, Liberties, prehe- 
 mvnences, fraunchises, immunities, proffits, graunt^ and bene- 
 fits, as in such graunt are vsuall, or as to you shalbe thought 
 expedient. And our further expresse will and pleasure is that in 
 our said graunt^ or other assurances, so to be made, there be no 
 mencon made of those our Letters or warrant or Surrender, 
 least that any defect, error or Contrariety might make our 
 Letters patents to be voide or defectiue. And Lastly, our 
 expresse will and pleasure is and so wee doe hereby require 
 and authorize you, to take order, that in our said graunts, or 
 Letters patents so to be made and past to the said Sir Richard 
 Boyle, his heires and assignes, of the premisses, as before is 
 menconed, that there be a perticular and expresse Clause for 
 the Cleare and free exoneracon and discharge aswell of the said 
 Sir Richard Boyle his heires assignes and tennaunts, as of all the 
 Mannors, Castles, Abbies, Relligious houses, Rectories, Tythes, 
 landes, tenements, hereditament^ and premisses, and euery part 
 and parcell thereof of and from all intrusions, alienacons, fynes 
 for alienacons, Rents and arrearadges of rents whatsoeuer, other 
 then the rents and Composicon as before to be reserued and 
 saued to vs, our heires and Successors in our Letters patents so 
 to be graunted of the premisses to the said Sir Richard Boyle, 
 his heires and assignes as aforesaid, and that for the conueighing 
 and securing of the said Sir Richard Boyle, his heires and as- 
 signes (and the great nombers of English Seruitors and wel- 
 deseruing subiects planted in those Lands) of all our right and 
 title in the premisses vnder the Rentf , seruices, tenures and re- 
 seruacons aforesaid, you doe Cause an Act of Parliament in due 
 forme of Lawe to be presently transmitted hether that it may 
 receiue Approbacon here, and be retourned thither for the make- 
 ing good of our letters patents to be past in our high Court of 
 
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 parliament in that Realme as apperteineth. And these our 
 Letters notwithstanding any omission of wordf meete therein to 
 be inserted, which neuerthelesse wee declare as inserted notwith- 
 standing any Lease, estate in fee, or in fee taile generall or 
 speciall formerly made or graunted of the premisses, and not 
 herein menconed or expressed shalbe aswell to you our deputie 
 and Chancellor there now being, as to any our deputie or cheife 
 Gouernor or gouernors, Chauncellors or Keeper of the great 
 Seale of that our Realme which hereafter for the tyme shalbe, 
 and to all other our officers & Ministers there whome it may 
 concerne. Notwithstanding allso (the Articles and Commission 
 for the plantacon of Mounster, or any other inhibicon, Con- 
 trarietie or restrainte to the Contririe) sufficient warrant and 
 discharge in that behalfe. Giuen vnder our Signet at Royston 
 the Sixe and Twentith day of January in the Eleaventh yeare of 
 our Raigne of England fFrance and Ireland and of Scotland the 
 seaven and fFortith. Ex'^ p May. [The seal is indented upon 
 paper on (apparently) bee's wax. — G.J 
 
 LXXXVI. Sir Lawrence Parsons to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 133 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To my honorable frend and 
 Kinseman, Sir Richard Boyle Knight at his lodging right over against 
 Salisbury house in the Strand London." ; and is endorsed " fFrom my Cozen 
 Lawr Pssons."— G. 
 
 Sir, the 3 of this moneth, I wrot vnto you very lardgly by 
 M"^ fishj one of our parliament house : Since which tyme my 
 lady onora hath fully satisfied my Lord deputy, and I haue re- 
 ceaued your 27", whereof 5" goes to my cosin fenton for your 
 interest due at Michilmas, and the rest I haue putt into one of 
 the boxes in your deske, and left the keys of your study sealed 
 
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 in a sheete of paper with John fFenton : who keepes your house 
 very carefully : but I will glue him no more allowance then I 
 wrote of vnto you the last term ; but I leave him to your 
 consideracon : I leave the money there because the Lord deputy 
 thinks you will land here, and I thinke your occassions in 
 England will haue drawen you drie : This day I receaved letters 
 from Xian, wherein I perceaue that my lady Boyle hath a letter 
 from you to this effect, that y' is long since you heard from mee, 
 and therefore you wold not wryte vnto mee ; which is Strang 
 neues to me, considering that I haue written to you within 
 euery fortnight since you went, except in the first Circuit, 
 wherein we parted. And now vpon a suddaine, I can recollect 
 to memory thus many letters : 2 by M"" Ludlowe from Corke ; 
 one (with all Condons matters inclosed) by a merchants man of. 
 Corke ; one a little before Christmas from youghall ; another from 
 thence, a little before twelftide ; one or 2, the last term from 
 Dublin ; one by the way of waterford, and the last by M"^ fishe, 
 with more that I cannot call to minde ; but I hope that clause 
 in your letter, was rather put in, for want of your leasure to 
 write, then for wante of my letters to answere : This morning 
 I receaved a messag from my lady Boyle, desiring me to make 
 all possible hast home, that I might with conveniency of my 
 occasvns, for that she had receaued some letters of weight from 
 you, which she wold not signifi by letter, nor imparte the 
 Contents of them to any one till she spake with me ; where- 
 upon I mean to be gon a day before the terme ends : I will take 
 Cormocks whipp [torn]. Hereinclosed you shall finde some 
 proposicons for the publique weale, being the worck of my last 
 little vacaton at youghall : yf you lyke yt, you may please to 
 imparte yt to Sir francis Bacon, Sir James Ley, Sir James fFuler- 
 ton. Sir Humphry May, or any other, to be made his owne, if 
 
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 he approve yt, so that he that vndertakes yt, will sett it such a 
 way, as yt may finde a succesfuU return hither : I desire to be 
 but the comon soldior for the comon good, and let any other be 
 the captayn, and haue the reputacon of yt, if you thinke any 
 thing in yt, worthie of commending over : I euer intend these 
 things with this Lymittacon, to submitt my self, and them, to 
 your better iudgment, to be passed further, or suppressed : Here- 
 inclosed I send you a Copie of Sir James Goughes recantacon, 
 which was yesterday published in all the Courts, and so must be 
 at the assises in the province : Since my last. Two of your men 
 of wexford, haue confessed the accon, and onely desired stay of 
 thexec'ucvn till the next term, referring themselues formatter of 
 equity to the Consideracvn of the Court ; and M"' Justice Lother 
 (your spetiall frend) winked vpon me to Consent vnto yt. To 
 the third bill, nan est /actS is pleaded, with many oathes, that 
 yt was already paid to Dauies, and the right bill cancelled, and 
 that the bill now extant is Counterfeit ; but we will get speciall 
 bayle of him and deferr the triall till your coming, for we know 
 not what to say to the point in ysue : And so I rest the 8 of 
 february 1613. 
 
 Yours euer at Comand 
 
 - Law. Parsons. 
 Dublin the 8 of february 1613. 
 
 LXXXVII. The Same to the Same: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 1 34 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To the r' wor"" Sir Richard 
 Boyle knight, at his lodging right over against Salisbury house in the Strand 
 London," and is endorsed " from my cozen Laurence Parsons." — G. 
 
 Sir: The last term I wrote vnto you at lardg, both, by M' 
 ffishe, one of our parliament house, And also by one M"' Jen- 
 
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 nings, seruant of M' Treasurer : yesterday I returned from 
 Dublin hither, where I found all things well, saue that my lady 
 B[oyle], getting out of her bed, and resting vpona bedstafF, 
 which brake, thereby fell downe vpon the siluer dishes, and vpon 
 the edge of them cutt her knee, which M" Johnson hath in 
 curing, and hopeth to make shortely whole ; but the remem- 
 brance of the long healing of her former sore legg makes her now 
 to keepe her chamber and observe dyreccons : Shee hath now 
 sent you 150'' by exchange as may more lardgly appere by her 
 owne letters : William llewellin hath acquainted me, that you 
 had bargained with Ed : Walsh for his house and wallf for 70", 
 whereof you paid him 3''. 10' in earnest before your departure. 
 And vpon the third day of this moneth, Teig o Dae in your 
 name tendred him the rest, which he refused, for that Edward 
 Coppinger of this towne offered him a little more, which walsh 
 accepted, and so passed the assurance vnto him. And when 
 Coppinger was made acquainted with your former bargaine, be- 
 fore the payment of his money, he answered, that you had to 
 much already, and so proceeded. And now, Walsh, having 
 gotten the vttermost he can, and fearing that you will require 
 performance of his bargaine at your return, is providing to be 
 gon for france with the first shipping; whereupon (with the 
 aduice of my brother Clayton) I made a peticon in your name 
 to the vice presedent, laying downe the progress of the matter, 
 and praying a speciall warrant, to stay him, till he answere the 
 bill, and put in sue \torn\ de indicate soluendi, which bill my 
 brother Clayton carried hence to Moge \torn] yesterday, and 
 hath promised to return a Warrant speedily which llewellin will 
 see executed : By a letter from my Cosin fenton, I perceaue, 
 that you both haue agreed to lett Sir Robert Jacob haue the 
 house in Dublin vpon the same termes that my brother had it. 
 
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 whereat I marveill for diuers reasons : first, I thinke my brother 
 will take yt vnkindly being yet vnprouided of a house. Secondly, 
 my lord deputy asked me (vpon some report made by Sir Robert 
 Jacob) whither you had let him that house, and when I answered, 
 that I had no letter from you to that effect, his lordship replied, 
 that he thought yt was a fable, and that yourself wold not now 
 wante a house in Dublin, specially, since the Ladyes were to 
 come vp during the parliament tyme : Thirdly, if he pay rents 
 no better then other debts, he that is to receaue the rent of that 
 house, will (perhapps) repent his choice of a tenant : Fourthly, 
 the Knight marshal! wold giue x'' more yerely rent for yt and 
 reserve your chamber therin : But such fooles as I, may mar- 
 veill, when such wise men can render better reasons for their 
 doings then I vnderstand : This day, when this letter was thus 
 far written, M"' Bense arryved with his shipp in the harbor, and 
 hath brought 2 letters from you to lleuUin (but none to my 
 Lady or any body els) : vpon which letters, she hath paied thirtie 
 pounds to Henry Hawton to the vse of M"' whitson of Bristell, 
 and fortie pounds to M'' Bense, being parte of the sayd 150'', 
 that she had promised to exchang vnto you by Blacknolls bill, 
 which you shall receav by this bearer, for the other foureskore 
 pounds, being all the moneys that wee can possibly get together 
 asyet : But whereas you write in one of your letters to William 
 llewellin, that George oliuers letters wold imparte all the parti- 
 culers of those things Contained in your trunkes now sent, we • 
 can heare of no such letters, nor of the keys of the trunks, but 
 we intend to breake them open to morrow, assoone as we can 
 gett them ashore, supposing that the letters are in the trunks, 
 and that you purposely kept the keys, to avoide all danger of 
 openning, or misvsing, by land, or by sea : The Ladies mean to 
 go for dublin before the next term, except they be counter- 
 I. c c 
 
194 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 meannded by you, which thej hope you will not do, but rather 
 meete them there ; from whence no perswacon can keepe my 
 lady fenton, for that She means to see the barn and brewhouse 
 at Rahennj built vp againe, arid to Settle that farm in a Certaine 
 Course, for the dischardg of the lows rent, and some other 
 proffitt ; and if my lady Boyle shold stay behind her a relaps of 
 melancholly wold hardly escape her, which were great pitty. She 
 being now thorowly quitt of it : I dare not let them know (of 
 anj thought, to lett the chief house in dublin, but reason re- 
 quires, that we be all subiect to your direccons and doingf. At 
 mj taking leaue of my Lord Chancellor on Saturday last, he 
 willed me to write vnto you that he had priuat notice from a 
 frend of his at Court, that you had don him many good offices 
 to his majestie, for which you shold find him a thankfull man. 
 And Sir dominick Sarsfeild being present, was inquisitive to 
 know what my lord said vnto mee, which I imparted vnto him, 
 with no loss in Carriage, and hee seemed very glad of your 
 power with the King ; but mj end was, to make him more 
 awefuU than ioyefull : There is a sitting appointed at Corck on 
 the last of this moneth. I am glad to see the Copie of your 
 fauorable letter from the King. I hope God will make you 
 successfull in all your intendments there, both for your Self and 
 the frends that rely on you : I haue considered how to quitt my 
 self of the interest I pay in London and then to disingage mj 
 frends, that haue long stood bownd for me. And finding 
 means of exchang very rare, I haue made bold to vse this 
 oportunity, that, seing that your letters by M"' Bense and 
 Hawton, haue stopped from BlacknoU 70'' of that Som which 
 he was willing to haue receaued & exchanged, Therefore I 
 haue made shift to pay him 61" (as if yt were your money) and 
 take his seurall bills of exchang for the same, to be paid to my 
 
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 Cosin Leigh to your vse. But the true meaning is, that my 
 Cosin shall add Some more vnto yt, and quitt me of that 100" 
 for which I pay interest, according [to] a note that I haue sent 
 him thereabouts more particulerly : I do not forget the 50" that 
 you haue disbursed there for mee. But when I consider of the 
 moneys you haue receaued there, which are answered by repay- 
 ment here, and of the money now exchanged vnto you, and of 
 your neernes of departure thence as we are put in hope, and of 
 the lyke Courtesies you haue don to others there, to be repaid 
 here, I am very hopefull, that you will beare with me, till my 
 next ability of repayment after your return. And I beseech 
 you, take this 61'' vpon your self, if my cosin Leigh shold find 
 any difficulty in M"' Ball's payment to him. My lady Boyle 
 cannot write vnto you as she intended, for her Surgeon tells her, 
 that any stouping will hurt her, but you shall find a bill of 
 exchang for 80" hereinclosed, which is the maine drift of your 
 former letter. And this passage hath brought no new letters, 
 but onely to llewellin ; and perhapps, that may make the legg 
 somewhat sorer than otherwise yt wold bee : Shee Remembreth 
 her loue to you in the kindest sort, and so doeth my lady 
 fenton, who puts many blessings vpon you for removing Hodge 
 to deptford, as she finds an intencon, in Some late letter from 
 my Cosin fenton : My dame and I remember our loues and 
 duties vnto you, and I will not so much mistrust your remem- 
 brance of me, as to mencon mine owne buisnes ; onely I say, 
 that I will performe what you shall vndertake in my behalf, if 
 my bodj & witts, or fortunes, can reach vnto it. [Curiously 
 enough it closes thus abruptly without signature. — G.] 
 
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 LXXXVIII. Cousin Brien to Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 140 of vol. iv., and is addressed "To my noble and worthy 
 Cussen Sir Richard boyle Knight, one of his Majestys Counsell of Ireland 
 these d.d.", and is endorsed " 15 Martij 161 3. from my cozen Brien." 
 -G. 
 
 Noble cussen, I neede not expres my loue or saruice vnto 
 you in any complementall maner, wherfore I will omett sauing 
 the remebrance of my loue to your selfe and mj noble cussen 
 your lady, not doubting butt you will take Such coursse as our 
 busines may be broght to our wishede desires, and that you will 
 certify me of your proceedings there, provising that you ar the 
 onely man wherin I haue all mj confidence. Now I am going 
 to See my brother, with Sir Thomas Browne in companj, and 
 doe mean bj gods grace to be at lymbrick Monday next, where 
 I shall expect your aduice and company for I ame not mj one 
 man without you : if you will apoynt where I shall mete you I 
 shall thinke me selfe hapy In the waie, while I prey remember 
 me to your good mother and the teste of our wellwishers, and 
 soe I remayne not only your Cussen but a 
 
 Seruant at your comands 
 
 Barnabij Brien. 
 Moijwlye the 24th 
 
 of fFebruary 161 3. 
 
 LXXXIX. Sir Thomas Stafford to Boyle : 161 3. 
 
 This is No. 14.1 of vol. iv., and is addressed "To my honnorable frend 
 Sir Richard Boyle knight on of his Majesties Priuie Councell for these," 
 and is endorsed " 20 Martij 161 3 ffrom Sir Thomas Stafford." — G. 
 
 Noble Sir. I haue receaued your letter, wherby I vnder- 
 stand of your safe arriuall there, as likewise of your stay from 
 
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 Cominge hether : for the first I am exceedinge glad, but for the 
 other I cannot but be sorie, as well for want of your Com- 
 panie, as for other matters — (concerninge my owne perticuler) 
 wherin no man Could haue stood me more : but Such hathe 
 beene ever more my avers fortune, and doe now rest satisfied, 
 with your Content of your abode there, Seeinge it may not be 
 otherwise : That diuers opinions hathe beene held here, of your 
 Sudden dispatch & departure, with your imployment & Secrecie, 
 I leaue to this gent to report vnto you, and as we are not all the 
 children of one mother. So our opinnions haue bene deuided ; 
 but if I might aduise you, I Could wishe, that to Such of the 
 Lords of the Councell in whose fauour you Suppose [yourself] 
 to be intrested, to write some kinde of apologie for not takinge 
 leaue of them, which I make no doubt but wilbe verie well 
 taken at your hands ; and such you may verie well doe, haueing 
 so powerfuU authoritie to Justifie you therin. Here hathe 
 bene nothinge done Concerninge Irishe affaires since you went, 
 nor wilbe till the Kings Cominge from Royston ; here is latly 
 ariued the Lord of Deluin, who purposed (3 or 4 dayes after 
 his Cominge to this towne) to haue gone to the Kinge, but was 
 stayed by a Command to the Contrarie from the Lordes : Sir 
 Patrick Barnwell hauinge taken solmene leaue for Ireland, not 
 omittinge his memorable fasion of the deliberatt maner in kis- 
 singe or rather smellinge to his fingers, beinge redie to put foote 
 to the stirroppe, is stayed of his owne accord, to assist the 
 Common Cause ; but the Deputies Cominge is hoped to put 
 some better life in to those affaires, which god grant. The 
 Lord chancelor hath bene verie sicke, but now somwhat a 
 mended : The lord priuie seale likewise both in bodie & 
 mynd, and so contynewes. my good lord of Thomond hathe 
 bene desperatly sicke, of a feaver, a Coold, a stitch in his side & 
 
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 the CoUeck in his gutts, in so much that I protest vnto you we 
 doubted of his recouerie, but now (gods name be praysed) he is 
 past danger, & mendes everie day : Here is Latlie dead as noble 
 & hopefull a yonge gent as this Kingdome had not his like, my 
 lord Harington, whose vntymely Ende is much lamented ; but 
 I will leave this subiect, to lett you vnderstand of the busines 
 now a bruinge in france, where, as you haue heard, that diuers 
 of the princes retirde theme selues to there severall gouernnents, 
 namely the Prince of Condy, the Duke of Longueville, the 
 Duke of Vandosme, the Duke of Nevers, the Duke of Luxem- 
 bourge, & the Duke of BouUon, they are now at Mesiers in 
 Champaine, where, at there arriuall, findinge the lieutenant of 
 the Cittadelle to oppose there entrance, the Duke of Neuers 
 (who is Gouernor of that Prouince) planted the Cannon before 
 it, & did begin a battrie ; vppon which, the Lieutenant rendred 
 the place into his hands : Sence which act, the Queene Regent 
 sent to these Princes to require them to make there repaire to 
 the Court, & there to declare there greevances, promisinge 
 withall to give remedie where it required : they refused to ap- 
 peere, but haue sent her the Cause of there distaste with the 
 gouernnment ; the heades wherof are these, that they would haue 
 the match with spayne cleane broken of; that the Regency 
 duringe the Kings Minoritie should be in the hands of the 
 Prince of Condy, to whome of right it appertaines ; that they 
 would haue an account of the profuse spendinge of the Masse 
 of treasure left by the late Kinge Henry 4"" ; That the Marquis 
 of Ancre, beinge a stranger, should be disspossest of the gouerne- 
 ment, of Amiens, with diuers other frontire townes vnder his 
 Comaund, and given to Natives ; That those of the Religion 
 doe not enioye the pensions, priuelege, & diuers other imunities, 
 granted to them by the late Kinge, & that diuers Noblemen 
 
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 whose birthe & places dothe make them Capable of there assist- 
 ance in matters of Counsell & State, are neclected, & not Calde 
 thervnto ; all which they would haue reformed : what hath 
 bene the Queens answere to these, is not yet Come to my 
 knowledge, but the Generall opinion is, that these sparkes are 
 like to sett all Europe on fier ; which if it happen soe, it will 
 be a good meanes to vent that Kingdome & this, of a nomber 
 of Idle men that haue nothinge to doe, & lese to lyue one. I 
 should haue tould withall that the Queene Regent sent to the 
 Duke of Rohan, the Duke of Suille, & to the Marshall des- 
 digneires to come to the Court, which they haue refused to doe, 
 fearinge (as it is supposed) some fowle dealinge at her hands : 
 well from france 111 make but on leppe more, & that said in too 
 wordes, which is onlie to put you in mynd of a free & noble 
 promise you made me, Concerninge my Mother, protestinge 
 vnto you, that there is not any thing that afflicts me more, then 
 that I am not more fortunate, for her sake, but Supplie my dis- 
 abillitie in this, & assure your self that you can never doe it to 
 a man that is more sencible, or more at your Comaund then 
 your trewly afFectionat 
 
 servant 
 Tho. Stafford. 
 
 Excuse me if I haue not made mention of my Lord in these, 
 for there hath nothinge happened sence you went : when there 
 dothe, you shall know it. 
 
 from whithall the 3 of 
 Marche 161 3. 
 
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 XC. Leche, Secretary to Carew, to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 14.2 of vol. iv., and is addressed "To my ho'''^ fFreind Sir 
 Richard Boyle K' one of his Majesties Priuie Counsel! within the King- 
 dome of Irland," and is endorsed "20 Martij 16:3. from M' Leech ray 
 lord carews secretary." — G. 
 
 Sir, I will not presume to interrupt you in the course of your 
 more weighty afFayres with the reading of many empty lines, 
 conteyning nothing but idle Complements : theese are only to 
 giue you thankes for the svnndry favoures you haue allready 
 vouchsafed to shewe me, & hartely to disire you to admitte me 
 into the number of those whome you accounte to be moste 
 willing to doe you service. Thoughe I make no question you 
 haue many farre more able men that are at your Devotion : 
 yette I dare speake that much for my selfe confidently, that 
 whereinsoever you shallbe pleased to make triall of me the man 
 lines not, that shall vndergoe any busines of yours with more 
 willingnes: which I rather desire to manifeste by perfour- 
 maunce then by bare profession, soe that I proteste vnto you, I 
 will houlde it as an argument of your loue towards me, if you 
 shall please to make triall of me in the dispatch of any your 
 afFayres here. My kind freind M'' fFenton hath done me the 
 favoure to make me knowen to the gentleman, & his wife, 
 where youre Sonne soiourneth, whome I purpose nowe & then 
 to visitte so long as I remayne in, or neere London. Thus 
 wishing you all happines I reste. 
 
 Your readie to doe service, 
 
 Thomas Leche. 
 
 from the Savoye in the 
 
 Stranne this 3"' of March 
 1613. 
 
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 XCI. Sir Richard MorysoNj Vice-President of Munster, 
 TO Boyle : 1613. 
 
 This is No. 146 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To my honorable frend 
 Sir Richard Boyle Knight one of his Mat' Councell of estate for Ireland 
 these," and is endorsed "xiij" Martij 1613. from the vicepresedent." See 
 Introduction on young Harrington herein and before mentioned, — G. 
 
 Sir, hearing you are newlye come home, I will onlye salute 
 you and bid you welcome ; leaving farther to trouble you in 
 the middest of many your weighter buysynesses ; and althoughe 
 I haue no great desier to hearken after Newes, having nothing 
 to doe abroad my selfe ; yet having now lately heard the sad 
 report of the death of the young lord Harrington ; which if it 
 weare true I should be hartely sorrowfull for, in my loue to his 
 vertues being a hopefuU gentleman ; I hartely praye you for 
 my certen satisfacon if you knowe any thing therof, to favor 
 me with the relacon therof; of the circumstance, certen ty, and 
 the manner of it : which being for the present for the same 
 purpose recomending me vnto you, I take leaue and rest 
 " Your faithfuU and assured frend 
 
 Richard Moryson. 
 
 Moystir 14° Martij 161 3. 
 
 Sir Richard Boyle, 
 
 XCII. Sir Dom. Sarsfielde to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 147 of vol. iv., and is addressed " To ye honorable Sir Richard 
 Boyle K' one of his Majesties priuie Counsell of Ireland," and is endorsed 
 " 25. Martij 1614 from Sir Domynick Sarsfeyld." — G, 
 
 Honorable Sir, I writt onely, to congratulate, your welcome, 
 which to me is as deere, as to enny poore frend you haue : 
 
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 complements be expired wheare professions of sinceritie, are 
 giuen. Those I knowe, and acknowledge to be pledged to you 
 vppon nyce and religious bounds ; death shalbe my wish, before a 
 witting defeccon in the other : this, I write to your person not 
 fortune, for, I vnderstand your extent of frendship, to make 
 accompte of ye last, as an accessarie belonging to ye wourth of 
 y° principall. And so hartely saluting you with ye assurance of 
 my Power as you shall dispose, 
 
 your verie aiFeccionate frend 
 
 DoM. Sarsfelde. 
 Corck 7° Martij 1613. 
 
 XCIII. Thomas Kenney to Boyle : 1614. 
 
 This is No. i of vol. v., and is addressed " To the Right worshipfull and 
 his approued good freind Sir Richard Boyle Knight at yoghell in Ireland 
 thes be d.d.", and endorsed "17 Maij 1614 fFrom Thomas Kenney." — G. 
 
 Right worthie Sir. 
 
 It hath pleased god at last to deluer me of the imynent danger 
 wherin I liued euer sithence mij imprisonment, which hath ben 
 this ix monthes, along tyme for noe offence, as it was proued 
 apparrantly at mij tryall; for being twise indited, by twoe 
 seuerall inditures, I was cleared of both : the first by the petty 
 Jurie and the next by the grandiury, notwithstanding Sir Richard 
 Cooper the vice Admerall, vrged soe much as he could against 
 me and threatned the Jury if they woulde not finde me giltie 
 to haue them punished : yet it pleased god so to streinthen 
 them, and they well vnderstanding my Innocensie, that they 
 would not alter what they had done, soe that now I am cleared 
 and acquited by lawe of all suspicion whatsoeuer : only nowe 
 the keeper detainse me for my ffees and other monyes, for my 
 
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 Loging and meate for all this tyme that I haue ben here : wher- 
 fore I shall most humblie intreat your worship to helpe me nowe 
 in this my greate extremety. And sithe I haue escaped the 
 danger of the Lawe, doe not suiFer me nowe to perish in so 
 ville a place as this for want of a little meanse. If your worship 
 faile me I haue noe hope of any other. There is one Carre of 
 this cittie that hath ben with me, and tolde me howe earnest you 
 weare to doe me all the good that might be, for which I pros- 
 terat mij self at your saruice, and doe wish that som occasione 
 myght be minestred wherin I might shew mij readines to doe 
 you seriuce, weare it the loss of my Life. Lickwise M'' Carre 
 tolde me alsoe that in regard he sawe me soe distressed, destitute 
 of meate and naked for want of clothes, that he would vpon 
 your letter derected vnto him furnish me with what nessecaryes 
 I wanted ; whervpon I wrote vp to London aswell conserning 
 that as alsoe to put you in mynde of your fFauorable letters in 
 mybehalf, but your worship was gone before the mesinger gott 
 to Londone. I besech your worship to send your letter nowe 
 by this bearer to the said Carre that he may nowe furnish me 
 out of this miserable place, wherin I am like to starue before I 
 get fourth without your worship help me ; for though I haue 
 written to my iFather yet I knowe he is not soe well furnished 
 at all tymes as to helpe me vpon the sudane, nether can his 
 letters doe any good heer, by reasone here is nobody knose 
 him. I am the more earnest to dispach my self out of this 
 place, lest any trickf should be wroght against me by myne 
 enemise for my stale here till the next secions : they haue ben 
 about it alredy, which by great adoe I haue stoped at this tyme, 
 but doe still Hue in feare that if I continew here they will work 
 it with the vice Admerall whoe is not mij very good freinde. 
 My bouldnes herin is too too vnexcusable but the extremetie of 
 
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 my wants vrgeth me therto. I doe voue that if your worship 
 doe but nowe helpe me I will herafter Hue such a course of Life 
 as that my freinds shall haue cause to reyoyese, and I hope I 
 shall neuer haue cause to truble therin in this kinde ; for by 
 gods help I will nowe be as frugall as hertofore prodigall. Thus 
 with my humble duty to your self, your good Ladie and mij 
 ladie fFenton, expecting your worships speedy answer I humblye 
 take leue, with my praiers for your increase of health and mvch 
 honnor 
 
 yours to be comaunded 
 
 Thomas Kenney. 
 
 from the goale of Lxone [sic apparently] the 
 XXYJ"" of march 1614. 
 
 Ganspey ? Plantif versus Jockey ? defendant. 
 The defendant appered in Michas terme last vpon an exigent, 
 and vpon his apperance gott an imperlance vntill Hillary terme 
 then foUowinge, vpon condicion that his attorney should make 
 answere to the plaintiffs declaration the 4"" day of the said Hil- 
 lary terme, at which time the defendants attorney, suffered an 
 iudgment by non sum Informat, with this proviso, that the plan- 
 tifFs Attorney Should not take out any execucon, but proceede 
 to the outlarie after iudgment, which cannot be returned vntill 
 the begynninge of Trinity terme nexte, which was done of 
 purpose to delay the plaintiff of his execucon, for that the de- 
 fendant meante before the returne of the Exigent (which is not 
 vntill crasUno Trinitatis next), to make some Composicon or 
 agreement with the plaintiff and to withdrawe the writt : per 
 my lord deputies order, we neuer heard of it, for then the 
 exigent chold not haue issued. \In marg'in.\ By consent of the 
 atturneis, a vacat may be entred of the iudgment if the parties 
 
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 be agreed or els a writt of error must be brought, and so a 
 supersedas obtained, or els the suit must be stopped by some 
 comaund from my Lord deputy. 
 
 XCIV. WiLHAM Parsons to Boyle: 1613. 
 
 This is No. 17 of vol. v., and is addressed " To the honble K' Sir Richard 
 Boyle one of his ma"'^ priuie Counsell of Ireland at Youghall," and endorsed 
 " 22 Maij 1 614 ifrom my Cozen William Parsons." — G. 
 
 Sir : Since my last to you the Kinge Convented all before 
 him aswell English as Irish that pertaine to Ireland, into the 
 Counsell chamber, and there in publick hath deluered his 
 definitive iudgment aswell tuching the Complaints of parliament 
 proceedings, as the greevances in Irish gouernement : for the 
 first he hath condemned the complaynantf of tumultuary rude 
 vndutifull and almost rebellious behauior, with many bitter 
 words of Tax & censure : iFor the second, he hath fully acquited 
 & cleared the Lord deputie & state, because nihil probata, and 
 hath given the Lord deputie such words of acquitall as might 
 malce him yonge againe yf nature were not stronger than art : 
 yf I can before this bearer go awaij, I will send you the Kings 
 speech as yt was Collected by vs and exceedinge well approoued 
 by the Kinge, but yt is yet kept in few hands : And I do here- 
 with send the names of the burrowes disalloued by the King for 
 this parliament, because there charters is dated since the sum- 
 mons of parliament. Whereby you see some mischeif don to 
 you & your frends as the case stands, yf the bushops freinds be 
 stronger : I haue made earnest search for M"' wakeman, and at 
 last found his sonn, who told me his father was far of in Yorkeshire, 
 so as I cold not go to him, but I caused him to Send the Con- 
 veyannce ready indorsed to be perfected by him, ten daies since. 
 
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 and do expect yt to retvrne euery day, though I conceaue some 
 dowte of perfeccon by some words of the Son, because of Some 
 difference betweene him & the two in Ireland ; but assoone as I 
 get an answere I Shalbe ready ether to attempt all other waifs 
 of passing yt on here or els lett you know the worst : I told M'' 
 Ball of your keeping Hamptons cause in the chancery, for which 
 he is very thankfull to you : I haue ben some xx tymes to Seeke 
 your Cosin boyle in black friers, but cold neuer yet see him. I 
 thinke he is least in sight, but his wife I haue often spoken 
 with, by whome I find peremptoryly, that no money wilbe had 
 there of them : and of late my yong maister the son is come 
 ouer, who left word for me at the shop there many tymes that 
 he wold come to me, but neuer came, and in the meane tyme 
 Sent me the inclosed letter ; by which you may see no money 
 wilbe had there ; therefore I do thinke to borrow of M' ball so 
 much as will pay your hoste, because my store will not serue, and 
 I thinke yt ill to leaue that as yt is : I haue seuerall tymes 
 asked my Lord of Thomond for your plate, but he aunsuereth 
 me that you are Cosoned and that he hath the gold smithe in 
 prison for your plate but yet Seeth not how to come by yt and 
 some things of his owne, and more I cannot haue of him, M' 
 Annesley saith your busines is remembred, but he thinketh yt 
 will not do, because no others of Ireland will come of to raise 
 the som and take of the emulacon from yours : and for those 
 that you named to me they will not pay the money : The 
 Irish will now be within a day or two dispatched and my Lord 
 deputy I hope within a fortnight : they haue all humbly pro- 
 mised to come to the howss of parliament in Ireland and to 
 allow Sir John dauies Speaker : Suites are here infinite hard to 
 be obtained. The King will not heare of any because the 
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 not how to get money. I pray god open their harts to be 
 bountefuU, els wee shall starue in Ireland. I cannot yet get the 
 speech : I beseech you remember my euer bounden dutie to my old 
 lady and to your most worthie [lady] : from London 7 Maij 16 14. 
 Your affectionate kinseman euer 
 
 W. Parsons. 
 
 Comend me to my brother & Sister I beseech you : I lyke 
 not Sir Jeane [sic, apparently] Berries busines : this is a soure & 
 renegant [unregenerate ?] tyme. 
 
 XCV. Sir Lawrence Parsons to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 23 of vol. v., and is addressed " To my honorable good frend 
 and kinseman Sir Richard Boyle knight, one of his Mat' priuie Councellin 
 Ireland," and endorsed " 17 Maij i6i4fFrom my Cozen Laurence Parsons." 
 — G. 
 
 Sir. I came hither yesternight and addressing my self to my 
 Lord Chancellor, he wished me to aduertise you that the parlia- 
 ment will certainely hold the 4"" of July, and that my Lord 
 deputy wilbe at Chester within these x dayes, and that the Irish 
 Lordes and other natives, are licensed to return hither, his 
 majestij having heard their greivances and complaints at lardg 
 and my lord deputies answeres therevnto : whereupon his highnes 
 deliuered a long and very learned speeche (the natives having 
 first refused to stand to their iustificacons & submitted them- 
 selues) ; which speech the Lord deputij recollected and put in 
 writing and shewed it to his majestij, who approued yt for the 
 nearest CoUeccon that euer was made of anij speech of his : 
 which my Lord deputy hath sent to the llords iustices but re- 
 quired them to imparte yt to none but priuie Councellors, and 
 that without copying till he had obtained leaue of his majestij 
 therevnto, which he intended to attempt. But my Lord 
 
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 Chancellor said he wold giue you a taste of some occurrents out 
 of England, and in performance thereof he sent me this inclosed 
 letter this morning to your lodging where I lye : I heare by 
 others that the Kings speeche had 3 maine points : A sharpe 
 reprehension for their departure from parliaments and offering 
 to laie such vniust aspersions vpon my lord deputy : 2, an 
 applause of my lord deputies integrity & sufficiency in mannaginge 
 the government here : 3, an expression what measure of censure, 
 and of his royall indignacon they had iustly incurred by their 
 seuerall contumacies, but he wold deferr any infliccon of them, 
 till he saw a further triall of their Conformityes in the next 
 sessions of parliament. And so concluded with requiring the 
 oath of alleadgeance at euery one of their hands, which they haue 
 taken, and promised to attend the parliament and do their duties 
 there : Sir Thomas Lake is sworn a priiiie Councellor, Sir Raphe 
 winwood is secretary and Sir Humphry May clerke of the signett : 
 The Earle of Northhampton is well receued : I haue this day 
 moved your wexford biiisines in the comon plees, and they haue 
 but till to morrow to speake in arrest of iudgment and execucon, 
 and for the abaten^|nt of so much as they can well prove was already 
 paied by the plaintiffs direccon : I do and will press hard for the 
 forfeiture of the one bond, the other being but a single bill, and 
 vnles that wilbe granted me, I will take out no writtf of execuson 
 till your coming, consideringe that the parliament must draw you 
 vpp the next term, and little execucon can be done in so' remote a 
 place : in this short vaccacon, I cannot come downe, and .there- 
 fore I stand here ready to make anij prouisions that you direct 
 for your self, or the Ladies : And so I rest 
 
 yours Sir euer at comaund 
 
 Law: Parsons. 
 Dublin the xj* of May 16 14. 
 
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 XCVI. Sir Thomas Ridgeway, Lord Chancellor 
 OF Ireland, to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 27 of vol. v., and is addressed " To my ho : good frend S'" 
 Richard Boyle knight att yowghall d.d. this," and endorsed "17 Maij 
 1 614 from my lord Chancellor." The handwriting of Ridgeway is slovenly 
 and formless and difficult to make out. — G, 
 
 Sir, M'' attorney of Mounster desyred me wryte nowe to ad- 
 vertise you of such neues as are arryved heere, & how soone wee 
 expect ye Lord deputys arry ving. To the first of these, I must 
 not assuer you so fully as I wold, for the Lord deputy hath sent vs 
 a copie of the Kings speche to the llords & Recusent gent but 
 with all hath charged vs, not to give a Copie to any, nor to 
 show it to any, but privie consellors, Therefore till I see you, 
 thus much, in general ability : It is a speech so wise & so Judi- 
 tious every way, convincing the[m] of there Contemptuous 
 Courses, that if Solomen were alyve, & had that subiect to 
 handle, he colde not possibly have exceeded that wee haue re- 
 ceved : besydes the speech is large, omitting noe perticulers [of] 
 offences comytted eyther, & censhering all ; therefore feede 
 your self, with a longing desyre, to see that discourse vpon such 
 a subiect as you never heard the like, & so soone as I see you I 
 will ease you of the longing. To the next, I answere you, that 
 I can not yet serteynly tell you the tyme when his lordship wilbe 
 at the watersyde, but as I concepte & think, it wilbe about 20 
 dayes hence ; but his lordship writs that he him self must 
 fraim his dispach & soUieiting, or els he may tary as longe as 
 therle of Thomond tarys ; but withall such shewes how weary 
 he is of a courtiers liffe, that he longes to be in Ireland, & will 
 hasten his dispatch, & in good fayth wee are as weary of our 
 charg as his lordship of his courtiership. This is as much as I 
 
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 can write in satisfaxtion of your desyer. And so with my right 
 harty comendations to you & your Vfyve, ] comend you all to 
 the Lords keeping & best blessing, from sepulchers the 1 1*" of 
 May 1614. 
 
 your affectionate frend 
 
 Tho, Dublin, Canc. 
 
 XCVII. Sir George Sherlock to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 40 of vol. v., and is addressed "To the Right wo' my very 
 worthy freynd S'. Richard Boyle knight one of his Mat^ piyvyie Counsell in 
 Ireland," and endorsed " 23 Maij 1614 from Sir G. Sherlock." — G. 
 
 Worthie Sir, I am glad of your saufe aryvall with the in- 
 crease of your credyt. I went yesterday purposely from leytrym 
 thether to mocollope, hearing that the vicepresydent and you 
 were ther both, to shew my love & to confere with you : my 
 tenant John fitz Rychard Butler att carryntubbye, informs me 
 of late that besydes the former incrochement that philip mac 
 Conochor hath don vppon the said lands, that of late he hath 
 taken away the whole moore, being, alluayes without doubt in 
 the possessyon of the said land as per [grant ?] thereof; onely 
 presumying vppon his lord & m*^ the lord of dunboyne, & there- 
 fore I think ytt fitt you presently procure proces against him in 
 the name of the said tenant, who tells me, yt is very aparant in 
 the country his manyfest incrochamant ; the partye is a stubborne 
 clannysh churle, therefore I wishe that you would take present 
 order for him : Sir wyshing you all increase of honor as to my 
 assured & unfayned frynd, I euer rest 
 
 your worships euer to vse 
 
 George Sherlock. 
 the aa"'' of May 16 14. 
 
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 XCVIII. Sir Lawrence Parsons to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 42 of vol. v., and is addressed " To my honorable frend & 
 Kinseman, S'' Richard Boyle K', one of his Ma""' priue Councell for 
 Ireland," and endorsed "26 Maij 1614 . , . from my Cozen lawrence 
 parsons." — G. 
 
 Sir, To your former letter I sent a full answere by Monday : 
 To your last, I answere, that the inclosed note is the best 
 satisfaccon I can giue you touchinge Ensigne Crokers buisines, 
 vnles my lord deputies order, which you mencon, were to be 
 shewen, whereofe wee neuer heard of before : For the Copie of 
 the lease you sent, M"' Cheif iustice and M"^ Bolton, are so con- 
 curring and cleere of opinion, that the ndn performance of the 
 promise which is a condicon in law is such an absolute avoidance 
 of the estate, as they wished me to aske no further, nor that 
 you shold make any doute thereof: M' Briter saieth, that Sir 
 John Everard left him Baggotts bond, but he cold receaue no 
 money thereupon, neither can I put yt in sute, because he hath 
 left it at waterford, and without veue thereof, I cannot Certainely 
 declare ; but he promiseth to bring yt next term. And in the 
 mean time I haue bin at his house to demaund yt, but he wold 
 not be scene ; but yt shall cost me another iourney or 2, to gett 
 an answere from his owne mouth : In the last packet out of 
 England 4 dayes past, newes is come, that Sir John Everard is 
 Comitted to the Tower, Sir Christopher Nugent to the fleete. 
 Sir Christopher Plunket to the gatehouse, M"' waddinge to 
 another gaole in Westminster, and some others, whose names 
 are not published, to other goales, but euery man in a seuerall 
 place, and all the native lords, are comaunded to attend de novo: 
 yt is thought this will make my lord deputies return more vncer- 
 taine and tedious, but I heare no lettres to the contrarij, but 
 that he is expected at Chester the .next weeke : Frier Steward, 
 
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 of whom I wrote last^ is sent prisoner to the kinge, being taken 
 here, hj markf aduertised from the king : And there is one Frier 
 Allen taken 3 daies past ; and Comitted close prisoner to the castle, 
 after a long tyme spent by the Councell in his examinacon : I 
 haue receaued your rent of M'' Jones, and if you please to ap- 
 pointe mee to pay my brother Glegg out of yt, I will : Alsoe M"' 
 Croe demands some money of me, which you promised to pay 
 him this term, as he saieth : In the distribucon of your younge 
 horses, I beseech you remember me, for I shall extreamly wante 
 a winter geldin the next yere, vnless you supply me, that neuer 
 yet fayled me in my need ; In my last I wrott vnto you how 
 Talbott had proved 20'' paied to wadding by the appointment 
 of dauies ; since I moved to haue execucon for the residue of 
 the forfeiture, and that to rest till you came, or disproved yt. 
 And M*^ Justice Lother did yeeld therevnto, but the rest wold 
 not, but onely giue execucon for the other 20'' in the Condicon, 
 and damage after x'' per centum, besides costs : I told them, 
 that the whole forfeiture was due by law, if onely a moyety of 
 the som in the condicon were vnpaid at the day, which stands 
 confessed, and the carriag of the cause on their side deserved no 
 fauor, and if mercy were to be shewed, yt was to come from 
 you to whom the forfeiture was legally accrued : whereto one 
 Parris, a sawcy attorney for them, replied, that he wold not put 
 his clients into a Lyons mouthe ; I told him, that speech ill 
 became him to vse of you, and shold not pass with him : he 
 answered, that his Sword was as sharpe as mine, with some 
 other circumstances that I will imparte to you at our meetinge : 
 But perceiving the courts disposicon by reason of the proofes 
 he made, which we know nothing to gainesaie, I haue suffered 
 that iudgment to stande, and I will take forthe no such execucon 
 without your direccon, bicause you so often write, that you 
 
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 expect the whole forfeiture of that bond, and that the rest are 
 single bills : vpon one wherof, we haue taken execucon, for the 
 som therein comprised, and damages after x'' per centum, besides 
 costf, and we haue (as we must) directed yt to the sheriffs of 
 dublin, where the accon was laied, who returning a non est in- 
 ventus, wee shall haue a testatfl into the county of wexford : my 
 labor hath bin as great, as if I gaue you a better account of the 
 buisnies. This inclosed letter to the vice presedent concerneth 
 some buisines from the Uords iustices to him : I pray you send 
 yt away speedely : This halfe sheete was casually tome from the 
 other, but I know you stand not vpon form : And so with my 
 duty to the ladies & yourself I rest 
 
 Yours euer at Comaund 
 Dublin, 22° Maij 1614. Law : Parsons. 
 
 XCIX. Sir Lawrence Parsons to Boyle : 1614. 
 
 This is No. 43 of vol. v., and is addressed, " To my honorable kinseman 
 Sir Richard Boyle knight one of his Majesties priuie Councell in Ireland at 
 youghall," and is endorsed, "28 Maij 1614 iFrom my Cozen Lawrence 
 Parsons."— G. 
 
 Sir, By this inclosed copie, which Sir Thomas Ashe even now 
 gave rne to write out, and send vnto you, you shall see the best 
 tract of Irish occurrents that I haue lately seen written out of 
 England, you shall see your self and me cashired out of the 
 parliament house, not purposely, but casually ; and I can thinke 
 of no means of restitucon, except you can deale with my lord 
 deputy, by letter before hand, that we may be inserted into 
 some of the new eleccons, which must needs be made, aswell to 
 supply the false returnes menconed in this letter, as the death of 
 Sir John Bowrchier, & others, and the absence of some burgese 
 out of the Kingdome, or the imployment of some others, that 
 
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 (perhaps) cannot be spared from their chardg (as our vice- 
 presedent) and such lyke : I aime at a restitucon for no other 
 end, but to do you a faithefuU office touching Lismore, wherein 
 you must bethinke your self to make a strong partie, for you 
 may be sure, that the Bushops will make vse of all advantages, 
 and labour many voices : I haue this daij learned, that the cause 
 of those Knights and burges comittments, whereof I wrote to 
 you this morning by G. Boyles boy, is this, that after they had 
 receaued a gracious farewell from the King, his majestie was 
 aduised, to send for them againe, and to haue them subscribe to 
 an allowance to haue Sir John Daiues their speaker, which they 
 refused to do, contrarij to their former promise. And besides, 
 they peticoned to haue all excomunications of natives vacated, 
 and all fines imposed on them remitted, with many other inso- 
 lent proposicons : whereupon they were comitted, as the cheifF 
 actors ; and all the native Lords are bound in 2000',' apeece, not 
 to departe the kingdome without his majesties licence : but the 
 ysue thereof is yet vnknowen, onely it is reported, that the King 
 is much incensed with their insolency and stubburnnes : when I 
 heare more I will aduertise you. My lord chancellor lookes to 
 heare from you, And if you cold send him iome good tobaccho 
 it wold be very acceptable : I heare nothing of Bluet, but my 
 lord hath promised, that he will pass no order against Thomas 
 fitz Danniell, till I be called to yt ; yet fearing Butlers priuate 
 working, and my lords memorij, having the whole burden of 
 State buisines lying vpon him, I haue caused John Power to 
 make my lords secretarij a watchman in that behalf: And so 
 remembring my duty to the ladies, & your self, I rest 
 yours Sir, euer at comaund 
 
 Laurence Parsons. 
 Dublin the 22"' of Maij 16 14. 
 
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 C. James I. to Sir James Semple : 1614. 
 
 This is No. 66 of vol. v., and is endorsed, " The Coppie of Sir James 
 Sympiles Jre Dated Newested the xv"" day of August in the xij yeare of his 
 Raigne of England ffrance and Ireland, and of Scotland the xlviij""." — G. 
 
 James Rex By the Kinge. 
 
 Right trustie and welbeloued, wee greet you well, whereas 
 by our letters vnder our privie signet, bearenige date in May in 
 the fifte yeare of our Raigne of England, at the humble suite of 
 our servant S"' James Symple, knight, wee did require and 
 authoriz you to make a graunt, by letters patients vnder the 
 great scale of that our Realrne, vnto our welbeloued servants 
 S"' James fFuUerton Knight, James Carroll Esq" now knight, & 
 Eusebius Andrewes Es'"'' and theire heires, beinge persons nomi- 
 nated in trust for the said S'" James Symple, and in consideracon 
 of his longe and faithfull service done vnto vs, of all & euery 
 such Mannors, castles. Lands, Tenements, and hereditaments 
 as in our said letters are menconed, lyinge within the country of 
 Carbre, & the Islands therevnto neere adioyning, in our province 
 of Mounster in that our said Realme, wherevnto wee had anie 
 right tytle or interest by anie waies or meanes, ether in posses- 
 sion revercon or Remainder, And wheras the said S"' James 
 fFuUerton and Eusebius Andrewes are now resident in this our 
 kingdom of England, so as the said graunt cannot bee so con- 
 veniently made vnto them and the said S"' James carroll as wee 
 then intended, wee are now therefore gratiously pleased, and 
 doe hereby require & authoriz you notwithstandinge anie our 
 former letters in that behalf, in consideracon of the service of 
 the said S'"' James Symple, to cause to bee made & passed a 
 graunt or severall g'raunts, by letters pattents in due forme of 
 lawe, by thadvice of some of our learned councel there, from 
 
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 vs, our heires & successors, vnder the great seale of that our said 
 Realme, without fyne, and therein & thereby to graunt release 
 and confirme vnto the said S"" James Symple his heires & as- 
 signes, or to such person or persons, his heires & assignes for ever, 
 as hee the said S'"' James Symple shall nominat or appoynt in 
 wrytinge vnder his hand & seale, All & euery the Mannors, 
 Castles, Townes, Villadges, hamletts, lands. Tenements, rents, 
 Arrerage^ of rents, advowsons, services. Royalties, fishings, 
 wrecks of the sea, waifes, straies, courts perquisits & proffitts of 
 courts, tolles, proffitts, comodeties and heriditaments, whatsoeuer, 
 and of what kynd soeuer, and euery or anie parte or parcell 
 thereof, of or within the said Barrony or country of carbre, or 
 the bounds lymitts or circuits of the same, or the Islands neere 
 therevnto adioyninge, with all such liberties, profitts, comodetis, 
 powres, ymunities, and benefitts in as la[r]dge & ample maner 
 as in our foresaid letters are expressed or menconed, together 
 also with powre in each of our said graunts by vertue of these 
 pattents to bee past, to make & creat and to haue & keepe 
 within the said Mannors, lands, & premisses, or in such Man- 
 nors as you shall thinke fitt newly to create, or other lymitt^ to 
 bee assignes by you there, such courts Leets, or courts in nature of 
 courts baron, fFaires & marketts, with courts of pypouderf tolles & 
 customes, at such tymes & places, as to you shalbe thought fitt : 
 And our expresse will & pleasure is. And so wee doe hereby re- 
 quire and authorise you for the better eff^ectinge of the pre- 
 misses, and setlinge of the said country if needs shall require, to 
 cause to bee accepted to our vse all such surrender or surrenders 
 of & from all & euery such person or persons, bodies politique 
 or corporate, or otherwyse, of all & euery or anie the foresaid 
 Mannors, castles, lands, hereditaments & other the premisses 
 haueinge or pretendinge interest possession or estate therein, as 
 
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 the said S'f James Symple shall nominate or appoynt, vnder his 
 hand wrytinge as aforesaid vnto you : And afterward, without 
 menconinge the said Surrenders or anie of them, or anie speciall 
 tytle of ours to anie the said lands, to make a graunt or severall 
 graunts by letters patients as aforesaid vnto the said S'" James 
 Symple or to the person or severall persons to bee nominated by 
 him, his and there heires & assignes as aforesaid, of all or such 
 parte or parts of the premisses as to you shalbe thought meet, re- 
 servinge to vs, our heires & successors, for & in respect of the 
 premisses, all such tenures, Rennts service & composicons as 
 are now ansewerable or paieable vnto vs for the same, except you 
 shall see cause either to alter anie of the tenures, accordinge to 
 the quallity of the lands that are to bee passed or to increase anie 
 of the rents for our proffitts, wherein by these pattents wee are 
 pleased to giue you full authority & powre. But our pleasure is 
 that the same rents shall not bee reserved as one entire rent, but 
 to bee devyded, and respectiuely apporconed by you, vppon or for 
 each particular mannor, or parcelle of land soe to bee graunted 
 from vs as aforesaid as to you shalbee thought meet, and with a 
 remission or freeinge of all the premisses of and from all formor 
 intrusions, alienacons without lysence, or anie other claime or 
 challendge of vs, our heires or successors, in anie manner of wyse, 
 for or in respect of the premisses, or anie parte or parcell thereof: 
 and whereas wee are informed that certen cheefe Rennts & 
 customes of Beeves and other things are yearely levied vppon 
 the said Territory, by S" John Jepson Knight & some others, 
 which will much interrupt the peaceable settlement of those 
 lands if they bee not by composicon or otherwyse extinguished, 
 wee doe hereby require & authorise you to vse your best endea- 
 voure, by composicon or otherwyse to bee paid & discharged by 
 the inhabitance [sic] of the said lands, whereby they maie from 
 I. F F 
 
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 henceforth, bee freed from all rents and cheeferies, [= chief 
 rents ?] except onely such shalbe reserved vppon them to vs, our 
 heires and successors, as aforesaid ; And these our letters shalbe as 
 well to you our deputy & chancellor of our said realme of Ireland 
 now beinge, or to the deputy chauncellor or keeper of the great 
 seale [of that] Realme that hereafter for the tyme shalbe, and to 
 anie other to whome it maie appertaine, and to euery of them, a 
 suiEcient warrant and dischardge on there behalf: Given vnder 
 our signett at Newsted the fyfteenth daie of August in the 
 tweleveth yeare of our raigne of England, fFrance, & Ireland, 
 and of Scotland the Eight & fForteeth. 
 
 To our Right Trustie & welbeloued the Lord Chichester our 
 deputy of our Realme of Ireland, and to our chauncellor of our 
 said Realme now beinge, and to the deputy or ther cheife gouer- 
 nore or governnors chauncellors or keeper of the great seale of 
 that Realme that hereafter for the tyme shalbe, and to anie 
 other to whom it maie apperteine, and to euery of them. 
 
 Copy p me Jacob Reckman. 
 Eli in offic. major : rotulor. 
 
 CI. Frances Michell to Boyle : 1614. 
 
 This is No. 78 of vol. v., and is addressed, "To my honorable fiend Sir 
 Richard Boyle knight," and is endorsed, "30 Januarij 1614 fFrom m' 
 ffrances Michell." — G. 
 
 Sir, my only sonn is by me brought to spend some time in 
 Ireland to learne to repaire his defects in breedinge. Cast your 
 eye on him, as I would on yours if yours required it here of me : 
 I geive him a competent allowance to support life vnder a low 
 saile : for my desire is he should loose him self, not thinking 
 vppon me or how he may live in time to come here, but how 
 
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 his allowance will hould out there. As two strings to the bowe, 
 I have written to my lord Deputy, to receive him into [his] 
 household, and yet am in a kind of doubt that except my lord 
 shold take him nere him, yf left at large, he may but wast at 
 large, and cut a large cote without cloth : and therefore I am 
 most earnest : My other stringe's your self, with who (if you 
 be not cloyed with others) or that you would cast a seruece eye 
 on him, I conceive it would be much better for his future good 
 to serve your houshold. If you will doe me that grace I will 
 doe you a dubble respect any way that you require me here, as 
 you shall comande, to a double valewe : he is not fitt for the 
 vniversyty, nor fitt for Lawe, nor yet as yet for Court service : 
 his breeding hath bene so vaine, as I am ashamed he should be 
 put here (as I might well) in any eminency, and for want of 
 education shame me. And so I take leave, and rest at 
 your comaundment assured 
 
 Fra. Michell. 
 from my hous this 10* 
 of November 16 14. 
 
 CII. Lord Roche and Fermoye to Boyle: i€i^. 
 
 This is No. 119 of vol. v., and is addressed, "To my ho" & aproued 
 kinde frend S"' Richard Boyel Knight one of the priuie Counsell of lerland 
 theisin haste," and endorsed, " 27 Januarij iSi+iFromtny lord Roche." — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, I haue imploied such as I thought to be of 
 good crediete with Captayne Adderley vnto him for the 
 hundreth pounds I desired aswell to paye Captayne Smyth as to 
 suply my present vrgent occasions In Dublin, & he answered it 
 can not be till the assizes : at which tyme Sir Thomas Roper 
 promiseth to paie him ; & other waies I sought for money as 
 
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 you shall knowe vpon our meeting & could noe waie preuaiel, 
 wherby I can not perfourme with Captayne Smyth as I am 
 bound & doe desire ; & therefore doe praie you hastely to vse 
 some meanes to excuse me of that burden ; & what you shall 
 vndertake, I will Godwilling, see it truely performed, & you 
 shall fynde none so readie & willing to obserue & respect you 
 more iustly then myselfe in what you will haue me doe, as I 
 hoape you found me hetherto : 
 
 I haue written to my lord Deputy to excuse my apperanse 
 the begining of this session of parliament, & yet receiued noe 
 answer, but in regard I here of noe prorogation I knowe I must 
 make a Jorney thether, & doe earnestly desire to see your selfe 
 before my departure aswell to confer with you aboute thenclosed 
 (which you shall returne in your answer) as of diuers other 
 matters of moment concerning vs both, & I would not spare 
 my one Jo'ney alongest, yf it were not that I am not so 
 furnished with ryding as I should or wish to be ; & neverthe- 
 less yf your health will require my Jo''ney alongest, spare me 
 not, for I prefere your welfare & health before my ease & all 
 the horseflesh in the countrey. So with my true loue & best 
 wishes to your selfe, my good ladies, all the Children, my 
 Cousen Fenton & his litle M''% I remaine 
 
 Your euer assured & affectionate frend 
 
 D. DE Roche & fermoye. 
 Castletonne this 25* 
 of Januarij 161 4. 
 
 Post[script] I would not haue you be bould to come abroade 
 till faierer weather cam on, & therefore apointe the tyme of my 
 coining to you. 
 
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 CIII. Cornelius Gaffrye to Boyle : 1614. 
 
 This is No. 122 of vol. v., and is addressed, "To the honorable Sir 
 Richard boyle knight geove this in yoghall," and is endorsed, " 29 Januarij 
 1 6 14 fFrom M'^ Cornelius [GafFrye]." — G. 
 
 honorable Sir, att my last beinge in yoghoU, when you tould 
 me that you would be att Tallogh the next Wednesday, I did 
 forgett to desyre you to take my poore house in your way, 
 wheareby my wyfe might provyde adish of broth for you after 
 Cominge frome the Coulld mountayne, and after your hard fltt 
 of sicknes in the weakest and hardest tyme of all the yeare : 
 Thearefore I thought good if you please to entreate you to 
 take this way, & I wilbe redie to attende you as early as you 
 will, if the weather serue ; for I knowe you shall haue manye 
 bussines to doe after you Come to towne and no leasure to eate 
 nor drinke. Cravinge pardon for this my boulldnes, I Comitt 
 you & yours to the protection of the allmightye god & restinge 
 euer as one that wishes as well to you as to himself, 
 
 Cornelius Gaffrye. 
 
 TircuUin the aS'" 
 
 of Januarie 16 14. 
 
 CIV. Rev. Robert Potter of Tallagh to Boyle : 
 1614. 
 
 This is No. 134 of vol. v., and is addressed, "To the Honorable S"' 
 Richard Boyle Knight, one of his Maties priuy counsell of Ireland these," 
 and is erroneously endorsed, " 30 Januarij 1614 ifrom M' Potter of Tallagh," 
 the actual date being Feb. 3. — G. 
 
 Health in Christ Jesus, Right worshipfull, (first rendering 
 thankes to AUmighty god for the recouery of your health) 
 
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 whearas there was a Complaint Concerning M'' Archdeacon 
 and my self for our continuanc so long in yowghell and 
 especially vppon parte of the sabaeth att my last being there ; 
 I desyer your worship to vnderstand thatt yt was my purpose 
 to haue returned to Tallagh on the Satturday butt that one 
 Coppinger the water baylife stayed me so late with promises of 
 payment of monyes which he ought me, thatt I could not 
 trauell. The next morning very early my horse being redy M*^ 
 Archdeacon vppon intreaty stayd me to bee a wittnesse betwixt 
 him and two others in a bargen agreed vppon ; yt was so longe 
 before the matter was finished as I thought the sermon was 
 ended. I desyer your worships pardon heerin. I haue neuer 
 this seuen yeares committed the lyke nor yf god please will not 
 in seuen more : yt is knowen thatt I preach two sabaeths at 
 Tallagh, the third at Mogely through the yeare, reade prayers 
 att bothe : I am not able to hire a curate. I would haue come 
 to youghell in the begining of the weake, butt that your 
 worship was expected on Weddensday. Thusse desyring your 
 fauorable opinion of me ; praying to god for all happines to 
 you and yours I euer rest 
 
 your worships to be commanded Robert Potter. 
 Tallagh february 3, 1614. 
 
 CV. Sir William Uscher to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 137 of vol. v., and is addressed, " To the right worshipful! my 
 very worthy frend S'' Richard Boyle K' & one of his Mat''* privie Counsell," 
 and endorsed "x" ifebruary 1614 iFrom Sir William vscher." — G. 
 
 Sir, I receaved your letter by this bearer M"' Snowsell, to- 
 gether with your token, which is so good in the infancie as I 
 can not doubt but that it wilbe very good when it cometh to 
 
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 full age. I send you here inclosed your warrants of impost as 
 you desyred. here is no newes but that Sir Richard Cooke & 
 his lady are lately arived, who bathed him selfe in holy well at 
 this now Cominge through wales, which I thinke nether you 
 nor I durst do. I can not court you now with many comple- 
 ments, for I haue bene busie all day & it is now very late, my 
 eyes dull, & this bearer in hast : Lett me intreate you therefore 
 in one worde to remember my hartiest salutations to your selfe, 
 both my lady gossips & my daughter : And so I rest 
 
 yours faithefuUy at command 
 
 William Vscher. 
 
 from Dublin this 
 
 7 of february 1614. 
 
 CVI. Wright to Boyle: 16 14. 
 
 This is No. 141 of vol. v., and is endorsed, " M' wrights Relacon of 
 M' Pynes speaches against me." — G. 
 
 february ii* 1 614. The Cheife enformacon of M'' Pynes 
 where vnto the Lord deputie most excepted : was that Sir 
 Richard Boyle maintayned honora to foUowe the suite against 
 him ; & from tyme to tyme doth supplie her with money, & 
 that for proofe thereof he alleadged at the councell table ; to 
 Sir Richard Boyle himselfe, he knewe when Sir Richard gave 
 her iiij'' at one tyme that he could not denie ; & further afFermed 
 to the Lord deputie & councell that he could prove that Sir 
 Richard had taken a lease of killcoran of Edmund m*^ Shaine, & 
 had also made another lease therof to M'' Ball : which he could 
 proue by good witnesses. 
 
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 CVII. Lord Roche and Fermoye to Boyle: 1614. 
 
 This is No. 159 of vol. v., and is addressed, "To my honorable worthy 
 frend Sir Richard Boyel Knight at his howse in yoghall theis with speed," 
 and is endorsed, "28 fFebruary i6i4fFrom the Lord Roche." — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, my stale in Dublin was longer then I expected, 
 & am thanckfuU to my lord Deputie in all my progres as you 
 shall knowe vpon our meeting, which I desire to be when your 
 leysure may bringe you to the borders of Talloe, for I found by 
 priuat conference, & other ocsecaccons [stcl, that the letters you 
 sheowed me in your studie wer strawngely & diuersly placing 
 vpon you, which did altogither proseede through enuie : which 
 I wish rather to attend you frome such as are malliciouslie bent, 
 then that they should euer haue cause to pitte you : I haue bein 
 allwaies wher occasion was offered semper idem to you, & I finde 
 my competitor to be as farr against you as he durst & farther 
 then he can iustefie : the particulars I omitt to our meetinge. 
 I would put you in mynde of his Majesties Edicts for obseruinge 
 the lent, whose comaunds I would haue to be tender with you 
 & your househould & to obserue it, excepting such as should be 
 sickely, or whose constituson of health may not beare eating 
 fysh : which I wish for your good, & assuring it my selfe it 
 wilbe wel taken, for my Lord Deputie is resolued to hould that 
 course with his househould & in Dublin : the Riuer faiels vs 
 altogither this yeare, wherby I must intreat my frends to re- 
 membre me as they may conveniently : I beseech you remembre 
 my vnfeigned loue & best wishes to both the Ladies, all your 
 Children, my Cousen Fenton & his litle M" : so I remaine 
 your euer assured & affectionate frend 
 
 D. DE Roche & fermoye. 
 Castletonne this last 
 of February 1614. 
 
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 write to me the tyme of your coming to the borders of Talloe, 
 wherby I should not faiel our meeting, or yf you will haue me 
 come to you elswher or thothor alongest I shalbe readie. 
 
 CVIII. Sir Richard Boyle to Morgan Poldein: a loan. 
 
 1615, 
 
 This is No. 4 of vol. vi., and is endorsed, " Mr. Morgan Powlden his 
 acquittance for 200" I paid him to thuse of S"^ Marven Audlay as pt of the 
 500" I did ow S' Thomas Roper for S'^ Charles Wylmotte Sale to me of 
 the fFee simple of the p'sonadge of Dongarvan." — G. 
 
 Be it knowen vnto all men by theise presentes, that I Richard 
 Boyle of Youghall in the County of Corcke knight, do acknow- 
 ledge and confesse my selfe to be duly indebted and oweing vnto 
 Morgan polden of Ribroe Castle in the County of Corcke, ihe 
 some of one hundred poundes sterling currant money of use in 
 England, to be paide to the said Morgan Polden, his executors 
 or assignes at on or before the first day of May next ensuing 
 the date hereof at the new dwelling house of the said S"' Richard 
 Boyle knight : to the which payment well and truly to be made 
 and don I bynde me, my heires executors, administrators and 
 assignes formely by these presentes. In Witnes whereof I 
 haue herewith put my hand and seale this last Day of March 
 1615 in the thirteenth yeare of the Raigne of our souveraigne 
 lord and King James of England, ffraunce, and Scotland, Defender 
 of the Faith, &c. and of Scotland the eighth and fortith. 
 
 R. Boyle. 
 
 Signed sealed and deliuered 
 
 in presence of vs 
 
 Edw. Shouey [or Spouey ?]. 
 Antho. Stoell. 
 
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 Maye the first 1615. 
 Witnesseth that I Morgan Poulden of Ribroe Castell gentle- 
 man Do acknowledge to haue receyued of and at the handf of 
 S" Richard Boyle knight, in fuUe payment of this specialtye, and 
 a C." more which he hath payed by appoyntment to M"' Anthony 
 Stoell ; which 2"" was to be paid from S^ Fraunces Kingsmell 
 vnto the honorable S"^ Maruin Audlye knight: witnes my 
 hande the daye and yeare aboue specified. 
 
 Morgan Polcoein [«V]. 
 Testes 
 James Dirmitie and 
 Henry Roberts. 
 
 CIX. Sir Toby Caulfield to Boyle : 161 5. 
 
 This is No. 1 1 of vol. vi., and is addressed, " To the honorable k' S' 
 Richard Boyle one of his ma" privie councell in Ireland thes," and is en- 
 dorsed as given under the heading of the next letter, which is written on 
 the same sheet. Portions of this MS. are damaged and worn away by 
 damp. — G, 
 
 Honorable Sir, I receaved your letter by Sir Lawrance Es- 
 mond, and 200'' sterling, for which I hartely thanke you, 
 acknoledging it came as seasonably to serve my turne as any 
 money was payed mee in my lyfe, in reaspect of a great outlett 
 I haue lately made of money. But, Sir, I conceate you doe not 
 well remember your engagement to me, which maketh you 
 send a some so much short of what is due from you : for you. 
 Sir John Kinge and Sir Adam Loftus stand bound to me for 
 the payment of eight hundred thirty five pounds sterling the 
 xxij* of May next : whearof your part is two hundred three 
 
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 score and eighteen pounds, six shillings, eight pence sterling : 
 so that you want 78". 6^^. S"* of your due third part ; which I 
 pray you earnestly to take order for my satisfaction at y" day : 
 for my occasions doe wonderfully want money at this tyme. I 
 doe not here mention that you are joyntly bound vnto me, be- 
 cause I hope they will paye theirs at the day. Ihaue acquainted 
 Sir John Kinge with your letter, who hath written vnto you 
 the enclosed letter, I pray let me heare from you by some 
 speedy messengerwhom I will pay for his paynes. Nowe Sir I haue 
 long sithence receaved this enclosed letter from Sir Charles Wyl- 
 mott, which beinge sent open to mee, and fyndinge by perusall 
 that it required no greater hast than might tymely enough be 
 answeared by you at this parlamenr, I reserved it in my hands, 
 vndoubtedly thinkinge wee should have mett here : but hearing 
 you intend no farther iourney at this tyme, I thought good to 
 send it vnto you, and doe pray your present annswere. If you 
 graunt his request accordinge to your owne voluntary offer, you 
 shalbe payed within two monethes here or in England at ten 
 dayes sight and not pass the grant till you be payed or secured 
 to your content. I pray send such an aunsweare as I may send 
 on to him. I beseech you lett mee haue your aunsweare speedely 
 by an express messenger : if otherwise you cannot safely and 
 conteyntedly send it. Nowe, sir, with my best wishes I comend 
 you to god resting 
 
 Your most faythfull friend to doe you service 
 
 Toby Caulfield. 
 Dublyn the 28"" of April 1615. 
 
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 ex. Boyle to Caulfield : 1615. 
 
 As above the following scroll-copy of answer is written on the letter of 
 Caulfeld^, and is endorsed [beginning worn off], " S"' toby Calfeyld Ire in 
 w'^'' he acknowledgeth the receipt of 200" st. that I sent him by S' Law. 
 Esmond and M'. Annesley, and this day I sent him other 78" vj* viij^ by 
 Rich. BlacknoU being my third p' of the 835, vi'^^ S"' John King, S"' Addam 
 loftus & I were bounde to pay him for S"' Charles Wylmottf book, on w'"" 
 I past the Revercon in fFee simple of the p'sonadg of Dongarvan, for w'^'' 1 
 haue made full satisfaction R. Boyle." The enclosures of neither letters 
 have been preserved at Lismore. — G. 
 
 Honored Sir, I receaued your and Sir Charles Wylmottf 
 letters yesterday : thone I haue annsweared which I send you 
 inclosed, hoping you will cause it to bee speedyly conveied vnto 
 him : And to your owne letter this assure you that although I 
 haue not gotten in one penny from Sir Charles his debtors, yet 
 by the 22 of this moneth or neer that day, I will send you my 
 parte of the remayn, beinge as you write lxxviij'\ vj^ viij**, and 
 that paid, I hope to bee out of these grevous bond^, assuring you 
 that no proffit shall euer Drawe mee to engage my selfe and pore 
 estate soe deepely againe : neither was it hope of Comodyty 
 that induced mee here into but my desier to continewe my 
 anncient loue with so noble a gent and freind as Sir Charles 
 Willmott is, and my respect to Sir Humfrey Maies request, 
 furthered by your owne perswasions ledd mee into this hard 
 bargayn ; wherin to my greefs I gather that I was but used to 
 drawe on a purchase for a thirde person. But if it pleased Sir 
 Charles to enter into a meet consideracon of the jorneys I made 
 to Dublin to meet him at his arrivall, to travaile backe into 
 Mounster to advise with Sir John Jepson first, and afterward 
 with M'' Awly to gett him 200" land^ a yeare, to returne to 
 Dublin and Continew there to finishe that busines, to furnishe 
 
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 him with other parcells and particulers, to enter into the purchas 
 of the remayne of his book (for without mee no other that was 
 hable to make soe good and readye payments as wee haue donej 
 and are to doe, would haue bought it entirely) and to engage my 
 self in bondf of 5000", he shall fynd reasons to perswade him 
 that it is not meete that aney straunger to these damages, 
 chardges and endevors is meet to take this morsell out of my 
 mouth : of which I shall tast noe sweetnes, these 40 yeares to 
 come : and whether my Child when hee comes to bee an oulde 
 man (yt beinge spiritualities) shall or noe, god knowes : yt 
 sufficeth that I discouer some affections toward^ mee, but I 
 knewe my selfe and my owne heart ; and wilbe true to my self 
 whosoeuer fayleth mee : Sir Thomas Roper hath soe importuned 
 mee as I haue paid him his 500'' and hould his acquittance, 
 though yt were not due till the last of Nouember, and howso- 
 euer I gett it againe your remainder should without your letter 
 haue been sent you : I will deteign you no longer but doe 
 heartely congratulate with you for your new office, in which 
 employment god send you much joye and benefitt : And if my 
 service bee of any vse for you I pray Comaund mee as one that 
 you ar assuredly interessed in and that ever wilbe readij At your 
 service to be disposed of. 
 
 [R. Boyle.] 
 
 CXI. Earl of Thomond to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 23 of vol. vi., and is addressed, "To my Noble and Worthy- 
 friend S'^ Richard Boyle knight," and endorsed, " primo Maij A tre from 
 my lo: of Thoumon [jiV] to paye xvj" to the Dutchman for Deale boord^ 
 yych xvj" I allowed Ric. BlacknoU for so much of his fathers Rent due at 
 Ester 1 6 14;" and there is this additional memorandum, "xvj" heervppon 
 paid for the Earle of Thomonde to Ric. BlacknoU for 400 of deale boords 
 
230 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 and del3Tiered through my lo : to youghall." The seal (wax) is in excel- 
 lent preservation, but Thomond's writing is faint and difficult and some- 
 what uncertain to decipher. The enclosure is not preserved. — G. 
 
 Noble knighte, I haue herewith sent a letter from M' Trea- 
 surer [of Munster] to Cooke, inhibitinge him to dispose any 
 parte of the revehewes ther to be Collected vntill my Coining 
 hether with such further instructions for the distribucon Thereof 
 as shall apertaigne to my place in that Prouince : in the meane- 
 tyme I shall intreate you to give Cooke notice Thereof by the 
 inclosed letter and withall to giue your best advice and further- 
 ance for the stay and detaininge of the monyes in one groce 
 some together ther vntill I come with my Instructions, which 
 are more fully perfected. My stay I hope will not be longe 
 here nowe then Parliament beinge proroged and the tearmes 
 wyere [wear to ?] an ende. And so expectinge shortly to meete 
 you ther I will for this present Conclude, and euer remaine 
 Your very assured kind friend 
 
 Thomond. 
 
 I pray you remember me to the twoe noble ladies ther ; and 
 if the Dutchman be ther who brought me the Dell boord^, I pray 
 you lickwise to see hyme paide Twenty poundes for me, vntill 
 my Coming thether, or at least soe much as Bruijn the Cus- 
 tomer ther haue disborsed for them. 
 
 Dublin the xviij"' of May 1615. 
 
 CXII. Roger Boyle to Earl of Thomond : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 24 of vol. vi., and is addressed, " To the Right honorable 
 my moste noble Captayne the Earle of Thomonde," and endorsed, " my 
 son Hodges Jre [to] thearle of Thomond." This charming little letter is 
 written in a fine print-like, schoolboy hand. — G. 
 
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 Right honorable. 
 
 I hope your Lordship will not impute it to negligence on 
 me that I haue omitted to salute your honour with my first 
 letters, it not seeming reasonable to committ that tender of my 
 humble seruice to writhing which your Lordship being then so 
 neere I was rather in dutie bounde to performe by my personall 
 attendance upon the same. So hoping in your honors fauorable 
 pardon in prayer to Allmightie God for the continuance of your 
 Lordship's health, I rest desiring to become 
 
 Your Lordships more worthie seruant and soldier 
 
 Roger Boyle. 
 
 If it were not too much presumption to [trouble] your honor 
 with the recomenda[c]ons [of my] humble dutie to my most 
 deare Father, my Mother and Grandmother, I knowe, coming 
 from your Lordship, it would finde much the better acceptance. 
 
 Deptforde 10 May 16 15. 
 
 CXIIL John Whitsone to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 26 of vol. vi., and is addressed, "To the Right noble ray 
 very good freind S"' Richard Boyle Knight these deliver at Youghall," and 
 endorsed, "a Junij 1615 fFrom M"' John Whitson." — G. 
 
 BristoU the 23 Maye 16.15. 
 Good Sir, I sente you about 3 weekes past such necessaryes as 
 you wrote fFor, which I hope are safFely come to your handf . I 
 am now fallen into an idell humor of hawkinge : yfF it please you 
 out of your sympathy to sende mee a cast of marlins, I will at 
 your requeste eyther pay for them or endevour to deserue them. 
 I am lately come from london and this bearer stayeth of goinge 
 
234 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 of fFor my letter : thereffore am fforced abruptly to tacke leaue 
 comendige you to godf mercy and will allways be 
 
 Your lovinge fFrende John Whitsone. 
 
 CXIV, Justice Gosnold to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 28 of vol. vi., and is endorsed, " my accompt w"" M' Justice 
 Gosnold as himselfe delivered yt me 29 May 161 5, but I saie he owes me 
 a yeares rent more." It is written on a single waste leaf, upon which are 
 some illegible and erased memoranda. — G. 
 
 for my house, 6'' 
 
 for my 2 pi. 10'' 
 
 for the 3 pi. 5" 
 
 for the close, 4'' 10' 
 
 — 25" 10' 
 
 defalking 10'', payed by Ca 
 
 Tym, remaining 15'' i6S 
 
 in all 42". 
 
 for March in 16 13, and 
 our Lady in 1614, all 
 vnpayde. 
 
 for Mich. 1614, and our 
 Lady 161 5. 
 
 CXV. Anthony Stawell to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 32 of vol. vi., and is endorsed, "17 Junij 1615 ffrom M'" 
 Stawell touchinge yonge Ruffey." It is a long document in a handwriting 
 close and crabbed and vexatious. After spending far more time than ever 
 ought to be given to any letter, I find myself constrained to summarize its 
 contents — every other word being irritatingly illegible, and all the more 
 that the MS. has a first-look of peculiar neatness and carefulness. — G. 
 
 He finds himself accused of wronging his tenants and neigh- 
 bours. He will pay twopence for every pennyworth of wrong 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 233 
 
 he has done them if he may have a penny for every shilling 
 worth of wrong they have done him. The Complaints are all 
 owing to one Ruffey, whom he and M'' Blacknoll found to haue 
 stolen a cow from M'' Nugent. RufFey is the only hindrance of 
 this Plantation, and endeavoured to disuade one Burbidge from 
 becoming a tenant. He sends a draught of the proposed lease, 
 to shew he was intending no injustice. He is obliged to dis- 
 train upon him for rent. RufFey is a moth in their Common- 
 wealth. He holds 116 acres at 176'' an acre, and a recent survey 
 shews him to occupy 6 acres more. He is not able to work 10 
 acres, much less 120. He [Stawell] can prove all he says. The 
 phrasing is Puritanical — e.g., " It hath pleased almightie god to 
 lay a very great crosse vpon me in that ther are divers Com- 
 plaintf raised vp againste me, both by my tenant^ and neighboures, 
 and that I haue oppressed them and offered them very hard 
 measures." The letter is dated " Iniskeen this 15° June 
 1615." 
 
 CXVI. Sir William Parsons to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 33 of vol. vi., and is addressed, " To the hon'"''' Sir Richard 
 Boyle K' one of his ma"*» privie Councell," and is endorsed, "23 Junij 
 1615 fFrom Sir Addam the younger" — a singular mistake, as it is plainly 
 from Parsons, though written for Loftus. — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, I do now write to you at the mocon of Sir 
 Adam Loftus, whom I find some present necessity presseth, to 
 moue you for the moneyes that you haue Receaued for Lacey 
 and the Shen'shall of Iniskilly. his share of it comith to 1'' 
 sterling : the want whereof keepeth him from paying the Rest 
 of Sir Tobias Calfield and enfold him in awhirlewind of clamor. 
 I beseech you. Sir, send the money vp presently, and also xxxv" 
 
 I. H H 
 
234- LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 sterling due for the purchase and chardges of bookes for Supples 
 land. The grant is vnder scale and I haue a [torn out] in Jo. 
 Supples name. Your other gr[ants] vpon your last letter came 
 too late, but they shall pass with the rest. I cannot stay now to 
 write of your Carbery busines, but at the end of the tearme I 
 will godwilling. In the meane tyme god euer keepe and preserue 
 you and yours. At Dublin xvj" Junij 1615. Your euer to be 
 Comaunded W. Parsons. 
 
 CXVII. Justice Gosnold to Boyle : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 35 of vol. vi., and is addressed, "To my honor, and loving 
 frend S' R. Boyle knight one of his Ma" Privy Councell for Ireland, 
 these," and endorsed, " 20 Junij 1615 fFrom Mr Justice Gosnold." This 
 letter is mutilated, and also injured by damp. — G. 
 
 Honorable freind. Nothing in this world would haue prevailed 
 or haue divorced so well willing a shadow from so well deserving 
 a substance, but this same tyrant necessity. And yet this com- 
 fort preserues me, that this divorce is [only] a separacion for a 
 time, so as we may come together againe without any greater 
 soUemnity, till that is don between M"' Attorney and me, as upon 
 a condicion in lande, if you allow of it. The particulers thereof, 
 I must leave to his friendly relacion, whome I, knowing to be a 
 coinon freind to vs both, haue the rather preferred herein before 
 all others. Mine assumsit shalbe binding (For it is grounded 
 vpon good consideracions), that whatsoeuer meanes which their 
 time, place or persons, shall afForde me to expresse my thank- 
 full love to Sir Richard Boyle, [torn away] shall force him to 
 acknowledg for his truly [torn away] but ritchely 
 
 Your euer faithfull frend at comaundment 
 
 H. Gosnold. 
 
 Limerick, 15 June, 161 5. 
 
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 CXVIII. James Hore to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 37 of vol. vi. It is mutilated and injured by damp. The 
 address is gone, and the endorsement in great part torn away, leaving only 
 this " fFrom the Sovera [igne] Dongarvan, or pur . . . ." See Introduction 
 on this glimpse of local government. — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, my dutie and kindest comendacons vnto your 
 worship (a[lways] remembered) having receaved your letter dated 
 the vj. of June, whereby I do vnderstand that nowe in the 
 absence ofM'' Carye the Constable of the Castleof this Towne, 
 his vice Constable and one Daniell Crosse make complaynte 
 against me of severall matters, my dealing therein, I shall 
 playnly and truly signifie vnto your Worship : not in the 
 nature of any particular cause of myne owne privat, but being 
 muche agaynst my will chosen officer this present tyme in this 
 place, and being soe chosen was likewyse sworne to do all 
 thingf indifferent, and not to doe wrong. I doubt not but 
 your Worship will [not] beleeve what was alleged agaynst me, 
 (for my cariage in this bussines dealing, in the same was both 
 lawfuU and honest) : first for to beare the chargf of our burgesses 
 of Parliament ther is not any revenue growing to supplie pay- 
 ment towardf the said charges, but daylie as the like faulls oute, 
 to impose a tall[a]ge (being a hevie burden vnto the poore in- 
 habitantf, wher[eof] to myne owne knowledge there are at the 
 least [destroyed by damp and fallen out] .... and where I am 
 charged that I g[oe] about [as before destroyed] ancient libertie of 
 the Castle, it was neither in [as before destroyed] neither by miselfe 
 nor by any of my [illegible] ... I am sure those that informe 
 agaynst me cannot saye that I doe any waye pretend to sesse 
 any that dwells within the walls of the Castle, nor any souldior 
 that doth not keepe howse within the Corporacoii and Towne, 
 
236 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 onelie those that are artificers and dwellers amongst us, where 
 according [to] their quantitie and qualitie benefittes by the 
 Towne, as others doth, and more over dwells vppon some of the 
 poore burgesses land that fell of late yers vnto the Castle for the 
 none payment of rent^ and suche other like causes. Allso I am 
 sure your Worship knowes that all the T)emesne land is quite 
 gone from the Castle, and held in fee farme by M"' Carie, by 
 the payment of xx'' vi' per annum. This being a general! 
 charge throughe the whole kingdome, I make noe question that 
 in this respecte they are chargeable aswell as others, which I 
 hope your Worship will consider and allowe of. And wher it is 
 allegeth [= alleged] that I haue comitted the bodies of some of 
 the souldiors, true it is that vppon great abuse and disobedience 
 [worn away at bottom, a name " fFrances Knowells " being 
 legible.] . . . comitted knowels for the space of halfe the 
 houre or [there]aboutes, and notwithstanding that he gave me 
 great occacon [for] comittal, I haue caused the gayle Doore to be 
 put vpp and willed him to departe, he through meere stubornes 
 w[ould] not departe the courte house vntil your letter came. I 
 feare me that my tedious letter will not be soe pleasing vnto your 
 Worship, wherein I craue pardon, assuring your worship vppon 
 my fayth and credit if it were as much as would contayne in ten 
 sheet^ of paper, the miserable oppr[ession] and povertie of this 
 place could hardlie be declared. And now to make an ende, I 
 doe, and so doth all the rest of my bretherin, geve god thankes 
 that the first hearing of this difference is come before your. 
 Worship, and with the remembrance of their dutie and myne 
 owne I humblie take leaue and rest 
 
 Your Worships assured to comaund 
 
 James Hore, Souveraigne of D[ongarvan]. 
 Dongarvan xxviij" Junij 1615. 
 
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 CXIX. Captain John Oglethorpe to Boyle : 161 5. 
 
 This is No. 38 of vol. vi., and is addressed " To his honorable and vei-y 
 deare frende S' Richard Boyle Knight one of his Majesties [Privy] Coun- 
 sejl at his howse in youghall these geue," and endorsed, " ffrom Cap" 
 Oglethorpe." Unfortunately this letter has been grievously worn away and 
 otherwise injured by damp. As ' Oglethorp ' was a name famous in the 
 United States of America during that earlier Civil War that led to the 
 foundation of the great Republic, I am disappointed that only bits and 
 scraps are legible. The main burden of this ill-written and confused letter 
 seems to have been some dispute about cattle and the bounds of lands on the 
 
 part of . Captain Oglethorpe writes, " a fosterer of mine and his 
 
 brother" in whose behalf he intercedes with Boyle, that they may not be 
 " troubled aboute there businesses " of Castlevealnes (?) on occasion of some 
 cattle being there sold at a 'fare' [== fair]. Some meeting had been 
 called for at ' Limbriclce ' = Limerick, which could not well be attended. 
 One complete paragraph I have deciphered. " My wyfe being this day 
 gonn with her fosterer towards waterforde, with a childe of mine whoe is 
 sicke, to a Fryer who cures many diseases, I am the more willinge to haue 
 your fauorable letter for them, fourneshinge her with horses. I am not 
 prouided to repaie unto you my selfe. This amongst other of your fauors 
 donn to me I shall euer I hope be thankfuU vnto you for them : and thus I 
 leaue it to your farther consideration." Scattered words — spared by the 
 damp — inform of a dispute with one named (apparently) Mr. Knagles or 
 Knagher, and the Leahies " aboute my boundes [of Rallyn of saggant (?)]." 
 The close thus runs, so far as I am able to spell it out — " I pray you Sir, lett 
 me haue your direction to them to surcease fro their cauells till, if you 
 please, your selfe shalbe willing to fourther advise vppon it. I knowe vn- 
 les you befrende my cause there is reason to assure ray selfe I shall haue but 
 little frendly dealinge of them, thus leauing you to the protexion of the 
 almightie, I take my leaue this 20"" of June 1615. 
 
 " yours to be comanded 
 
 " John Oglethorpp." 
 
 [Onward Oglethorpe re-appears. — G.] 
 
238 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 CXX. Sir William Fenton to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 45 of vol. vi., and is addressed, " To my very loving brother 
 in law S' Richard Boyle Kni : at Yoghall in Ireland these," and endorsed, 
 " 28 Aug 1615, from my brother William ffenton." It is quite a relief to 
 come upon so plainly written a letter as this and in excellent preserva- 
 tion. — G. 
 
 Brother : I did write to you at lardge by dermon dingle, since 
 when I haue receaued a letter from you, wherby I finde you 
 haue absolutely concluded with Sir Jo : for the arear of rent due 
 vpon Clantarffe : for which I do acknowledge my self much 
 bownd to you, and will willingly stand to your agreement, onely 
 I forbeare to send you a generall acquittance for Sir Jo : till I 
 com my self; which I intend spedely : touching my reuercion, 
 I deliuered my minde at large in my last letter to you. I also 
 made a request to you in it, that you wuld be pleased to write 
 your letter to M"' ball to pay me forty pownd vpon my demand, 
 to furnish me for my iorny. I must now request a second fauor 
 of you, that I may also haue your letter to M'' ball for fifety 
 pounde more, the other 40 being all due to others before it be 
 due to me, so that I shall not haue mony to pay for my horse hire 
 to the waterside : if you pleas to make me so much farther behold- 
 ing to you, you shalbe sure to haue your mony out of the 100" 
 Sir John King is by his bond to pay me the xij* of nouember 
 next : you may perswade your self y' I am so carefuU of my 
 own estate y' if necessity did not enforce me, I wold not breake 
 that 100'', yet I hope you shall see that my frugality shall shortly 
 make that sum intire again : good sir, let me receaue an answer 
 touching this speedely, for if you can not do it, I must needs 
 take vp so much mony at interest, which wilbe very incon- 
 uenient. our Irish buisnnisses haue been 3 or 4 times heard. 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 239 
 
 but nothing determined, onely Talbutt the lawyer is coinitted 
 to the tower, the rest of his adherents soundly taken vp by the 
 king, and my Lord of Th[omond] in good grace with him : 
 for oght I perceaue my Lord of Th[omond] is like to stay here 
 till michaelmas at soonest, and therefore I will prouide my self 
 to go ouer sooner. I haue alredy made my lord acquainted with 
 my purpose, and gotten his leaue to go, with his promise of 
 fauor in any my buisnises there, so that now my onely stay is 
 your letter for this mony ; which once againe I beseech you 
 hasten ouer. I haue litle hope of my sute for the princes ser- 
 uice, his number of seruants being already compleate, so I shall 
 not need to expect that longer: Sir Richard Morison sueth hard 
 to be your president, and (as I was told by on[e] that spake it 
 from himself) hath a strong hope to carry it very shortly ; yet I 
 heare others say the contrary : at my parting with my Lord, if 
 you think fit, I will desire his letter to my Lord deputy, for his 
 sake to do me any fauor lyes in his powr : if not I will forbear, 
 your sonn hodge is very well and very much made of by his 
 vnkle and aunt. I was with him a weeke ago. your enclosed 
 letters I deliuered to Tom Crane and his Master, who vsed me 
 very kindely. M' Farewell was gon for Ireland before your 
 letters came. I have heard nothing of the marchant you write 
 of, but if he come I haue an answer redy for him then. So for 
 this I take my leaue and rest 
 
 Your assured loving brother to comand. 
 
 Will, fenton. 
 
 from London this 20* Julij 161 5. 
 
 We shalbe at Salisbury the 3 of august and ther we stay a 
 fortnight : from thence about the 25. we shalbe at bath, so that 
 if you pleas to write to me within that time, you may know 
 whether to direct your letter. [Both the dating and close of 
 
J40 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 the letter and the endorsement looks like a ' 3,' that is 161 3, not 
 161 5; but it is made up with the 161 5 correspondence among 
 the Lismore Papers. Query — a mistake ? — G.] 
 
 CXXI. Rev. John Boyle, D.D., to Boyle: 1615. 
 
 This is No. 55 of vol. vi., and is addressed, "To the right wor" his very 
 lolling broth"' S"' Richard Boyle at Youghall in the Prouince of Mounster 
 w"" Speede geve these," and endorsed, " 20 October 1615 ffrom my brother 
 John Boyle," Unfortunately, several places are worn away by damp, espe- 
 cially spoiling the opening. — G. 
 
 Salutem in Christos .... I went .... from Lichfield to 
 Deale with your brother fFenton for a life's lease (?) of a fFerme 
 in Staffordshire that hee holdes of the Lord Pag[et] .... Lich- 
 field, and presently Comodious for supply of necessary [things] 
 for my house, at those times that I keepe Residence there : 
 ffarther likely to bee some stayof lyving to my pore boyes here- 
 after, if I might procure it of the Lord, for three lifes, as the 
 Custome of letting here hath vsually been : ffor this I offered to 
 geue what you should iudge and agree to bee meet, and vpon 
 your direccon to see good pay instantly made. Further I wrote 
 to you formerly, since now vpon your perswasion I had taken a 
 new degree, and withall felt daily occasions of new charge, to 
 bee assistant to mee in the vpholding it, till such prouision myght 
 be made for mee, as your kind promise gaue me hope of, and 
 my diuerse new dueties now force mee to importune. I 
 acknowledge with my best thankes, your brotherly kindnes and 
 furtherance in my taking this degree : but yet the great expence 
 besides your allowance, which then went out of myne owne 
 purse, with the daily charges for better apparell, greater hous- 
 
LIS MORE PAPERS. 241 
 
 keeping, attendance of horse and man and at this instant of a 
 light horse chargde vpon mee for his Majesties S[eruice], cast 
 so heauy a burthen on these weake lymnes, as oft my [self am] 
 not able to beare, and without helpe from you must neede sinke 
 vnder. I haue not acquainted you hertofore, how destitute of 
 friends I have al[ways] been ; and that out of infinite toyle 
 ioyned with extreme cost, I haue [managed] those poore fFor- 
 tunes that I haue : those so weake that I am some tyme plunged 
 in debt two hundred markes at the least, and my charge so great, 
 that I am like daily to runne in further then in hast to wade 
 out. You know how my nature hath neuer stoopt to these 
 kindes of soUicitacons so long as my children putt mee to lesse 
 charge and my place was such as I might take more paines ; but 
 now being debarde of the one by my higher degree, and forst 
 to the other by their greater numbers, blame mee not if I com- 
 plaine, and refuse mee not though I implore ayde. You are 
 comonly reported to bee kind to meer strangers ; that kindnes 
 must neede geue assurance, and the very report of it hope at 
 least of some good to your owne brother ; which when it shall 
 come, I shalbe lesse in debt to others, and more to you ; to 
 whome in very deed I desire to ow more then to all the world 
 besides. Salute I pray you from mee and my wife, your worthy 
 ladye, your hopefull Children, all mindfull friends. fFare yee all 
 well in Jesus Christ. 
 
 Your very louing brother John Boyle. 
 
 Stanmore September the xiij* 1615. 
 
 I I 
 
242 LIS MORE PAPERS. 
 
 CXXII. Sir John Bean to Boyle : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 57 of vol. vi., and is addressed " To my ho"'' frend S^ 
 RicHard Boyle knight on[e] of his Ma}^" priuie Councell of Ireland at his 
 house at Youghall," and endorsed, "xxx" October 161 5 ffrom S' John 
 Bell " [j/V]. The handwriting is a vexatious and uncertain one. Some 
 words I have only guessed at. The signature alone is distinct. — G. 
 
 Noble Sir, It pleased my Lord Deputie to. imploy me in his 
 late iourney to inquier of the King^ titles to the Countie of 
 Longford and Leitryme and diuers other Irish countries in the 
 Kings and queens counties, wherin we haue [illegible'] , . . . as 
 in myne oppinion we haue, by such right, entitled his Majestic 
 vnto them : and that with the generall submission and ackno- 
 ledgment of the inhabitantf of the counties of Longford and 
 Leitryme ; but with hope of seruice and respect for their con- 
 tinuance (?) therin. My Lord Deputie is now resolved to send 
 me into England with the report thereof vnto his Majestie, and 
 with the Chart for a plantacon, and I haue hope that the im- 
 ployment may occacion some particular good vnto my self, the 
 rather for that I presume that I shall goe well recomended from 
 him [the Lord Deputie] : but I can not imagine that such are 
 obtaynd at Court & wholly vppon remembrances or for seruices 
 past, and Therfore although by my Lord Deputies help, who is 
 verye nobly kind vnto me, I shalbe infinitely well furnished 
 with monye for my expences, and other knowne occasons. yet 
 I desire to haue some thing ouer for an extraordinary occacon 
 that may better my future supplye now to be aproved if M''. 
 Attorney who is now in England retorne no more, for that the 
 Parliament heer is dissolved as I doubt not but you hear? : and 
 for that out of our auncient acquaintance (as I haue had ex- 
 perience) your fauor toward^ me hath renewal, I haue made 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 143 
 
 bould hereby to pray and intreat you to haue such order and 
 direccon to be sent by me, as that I may receiue 50'' or 1 00'' in 
 London vppon your consent or of your owne monye, assuring 
 you that I will take no more vppon it than I shall haue neces- 
 sarie occacon to vse for my good ; and yf I take but 50'' I will 
 repay it to you agayne here in Trinitie term next : and yf I 
 take 100'' I will repay you thone half in Trinitie term next and 
 thother half in Michaelmas term then next followinge, and geue 
 bonds to the partie of whom I shall receaue the monye to your 
 vse for the repayment Therof accordingly ; and I pray you sup- 
 pose not that I will deale vngratefully with you for so great 
 kindnes by disappointing you at those special tymes, knowing 
 that yf god geue me life and helth, I shalbe well able to perform 
 vnto you. how muche this your favour shall oblidge me vnto 
 you I desire to expresse rather by all the accons of my life, that 
 may haue any relaaccons vnto you, then by verball protestacons. 
 I thinck I shalbe readyie to goe within twelue dayes and Ther- 
 for desire to hear from you within that tyme. yf you send a 
 messenger of purpose he shall not be unrewarded : and so 
 comending my service and letter vnto you and to your good 
 Ladyes, your mother and wife, I rest 
 
 Your assured loving frend to coinand Jo: Bean. 
 
 Dublin 26 September 1 61 5. 
 
 yf you haue any busines in England where I may do you 
 service, I pray comand me, I will not be negligent therin. 
 
Z++ LIS MORE PAPERS. 
 
 CXXIII. Sir John Davies debtor to Boyle : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 60 of vol. vi., and is endorsed simply, " A Noate of the 
 Charge." See Introduction on this memorial of the statesman-poet. Cer- 
 tain of the names of places are uncertain from the odd formation and 
 flourishes of the capitals. — G. 
 
 A Note of such Arreares as are to bee chardged on Sir John 
 Davis or his assignes ending at Mich. 161 5. 
 
 Com. Waterford. fFor the howse of Lope in' 
 
 Lismore at xiS viii''- p. an. \ , ... ^ 
 
 for 5 yeares ending at |' •' ^ 
 
 Mich. 1615. 
 
 ffor the towne of Ros- 
 
 greely at vj^ viij-^. p. ann. ^ 
 
 for 5 yeares ending vt | ^ ^ 
 
 supra. 
 
 ffor Ballinwolly at iij^ 4°.^ 
 
 p. an. for 5 yeares ending |- xvj' viij"* 
 
 vt supra. J 
 
 Com. Corke. ffor Towaghe bally vonny^v 
 
 at Ixii". vj"*. p. an. for 5 I xv" xij" vij'' 
 
 yeares ending vt sup. J 
 
 fforTowragh Donaghmore"\ 
 
 at kx". p. an. for 5 yeares l xvij" x= 
 
 ending vt supra. j 
 
 ffor Towaghebolloge at^ 
 
 xvj^ p. an. for 5 yeares I iiij'' 
 
 endg vt supra. ) 
 
 ffor foure plowlands called "1 
 
 Reanwy at xxj^ vj"". p. an. I v" vij' vj" 
 
 endg vt supra. j 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 24.5 
 
 Com. Limerick. 
 
 Com. Kerry. 
 
 fFor the fishing called the 
 Luggin at viij^ viij**- p. 
 annum endg vt sup. 
 ffor the Castle of Crook- 
 haven at xxij^ p. an. 
 endg vt sup*. 
 fFor seaven ploughlandf " 
 called the Blackans at 
 xlij^ p. an. endg vt 
 supra. 
 
 fFor ix^" ploughlands called ^ 
 Bally m'kinick at xlvj^ p. V 
 an. endg vt sup. ) 
 
 fFor dromore ats Cromore ■) 
 at viij^ p. an. endg vt sup. J 
 IFor Cortincrosse at xvij*. "1 
 p. an. endg vt sup. ) 
 
 fFor Dromiddy at xxxvj^^ 
 iiij"*- p. annum endg vt V' 
 sup\ j 
 
 fFor Kilwoaderry at xv\\ 
 p. annum for 3 yeares endg J- 
 at Mich. 16x5. ; 
 
 fFor Classmore and Balhne- 
 kiWy [damped out] p. annum 
 for 5 yeares endg at Mich. 
 1615. 
 
 fFor a burgage in Traly" 
 called Teragh in Teiges 
 Burgagery at iiij'- p. ann. 
 for 5 yeares endg at Mich.- 
 1615. 
 
 xliij' iiij"* 
 
 viij" 
 
 xl' 
 
 iiijii v' 
 
 «'' iij' iiij"* 
 
 xlv^ 
 
24-6 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 CXXIV. James Quarles to Boyle : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 61 of vol. vi., and is not addressed, but simply endorsed, 
 " prio Octobris 1615 ffrom James quarreles." It is placed with '1615' 
 letters, but the endorsation looks like ' 1625 ; ' but it also looks the same 
 in endorsement of next letter (Hussey's), which is plainly dated within 
 ' 1615.' The writing is fine but the spelling most peculiar. See Introduc- 
 tion on Quarles. — G. 
 
 Worshipefull Sir, Maye it please y" for to haue some pittie 
 vppon your poore seruantwhoes facte issoe bad andvncomendabell 
 yt hee is ashamed of his acte, and by resonn I haue proposed to 
 vndertake a Jorney by resonn of your desplesuer intoo Spayen 
 for to see my Brother, and to leaue this Coors of lief, thewich 
 I neuer Cam in beefoore I Cam to your woorship : and now 
 knowinge yt your Worship is verey much offended with mee 
 for my rudenes, makes mee very bashfull for to Come vnto 
 you : and now hearing you are vpon riding vnto Corke and 
 the shipe gooinge awaye this weeke, I thought good for to trobell 
 y" with thes few lienes : and beeing doutfull of my brotheres 
 beeinge in Spayenn, thewhich I Cannot bee assured of vntell M'' 
 fFentonnes Coining ouer and thearfore wooulde request your 
 Worship for to speeke with M' Boone for my better vsage, both 
 fore and backwoordes if occation be yt hee bee not thear, and 
 likewies I beeinge vnfornished of money for the Jorney, dooth 
 humblie intreate you yf you would helpe my necessitie that I 
 might fornish my sellef with some Cloethes : indeed I wrote 
 ouer by M' ffenton for thirtie poundes,-the which is due vnto 
 mee, but I am doutfull of the bringen of it, and nowe beeing in 
 destress I doe trust much vpon your worship ; and thus hoppinge 
 to haue your woorships loue and fauor at my partting as I 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 247 
 
 haue had seence the tyem of my beeing with you, I hombley 
 rest 
 
 Your Worships obedient Seruant to Commaunde his 
 lief tell death 
 
 James Quarles. 
 
 CXXV. Oliver Hussey to Boyle : 1615. \ 
 
 This is No. 62 pf vol. vi., and is addressed, " To the right woo" his most 
 respected frende S"^ Richard Boyle knight, one of his Ma""^' most honorable 
 privie Councell of Ireland these at [Youghall],'' and endorsed, " 5 October 
 1615 (From M' ollyver hussey," — G. 
 
 " Right Woorshipfull, I haue been for some tyme very 
 desirous to visitt your woorship in pp person, that I might 
 thereby shevi^e my humble thankfulnes for the manifold fauors 
 don from tyme to tyme by your woorship to me self and my 
 children, and chiefly nowe when wee are troubled with extra- 
 ordinary callamities ; but my continuall sicknesses, feeblenes and 
 sundry other crosses kept me firmly, and doe at this instant 
 disable me from going thether. And if my Dayly prayers for 
 your hapie advancement with my childrens future service, 
 might stand your woorship in any steede you should be very 
 sure of them allwaies. I haue of all that euer I inioyed but one 
 plowland called Killanurdane mearing with your landf in 
 Letragh. It is (of my word) out of the best in them borders 
 and let for 5'' per annum. M'' Steephen Rice has a mortgage 
 of 20" vpon it, but suffers my self to enioy it, paying him 40^ 
 per annum. Nowe it is for that I am left, my self and my 
 children, without any goodes by reason of the accidentall killing 
 of Morish hussey his son, and must out of hande pay a great 
 some of money, the said slaughter brought vs to owe. I would 
 
248 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 therfore earnestly intreate your woorship, if conveniently you 
 may spare it, to let me haue for the fee simpl of the said 
 plowlande what surplusadg of money shalbe thought meete 
 vnto them that knowe it besides paieing to M'^ Rice his 20", or 
 to giue me one 20" and to M" Rice his 20" and holde the said 
 land on mortgage for the whole, and I wilbe content to take it 
 my self for the rent aboue mentioned, or that your worrship shall 
 lett it to any other as you please. If your tenantf neighbouring 
 vppon the same doe not enforme your woorship of the con- 
 veniencie of it, for your other landf, I will not desyre your 
 woorship should meddle with it. And sith our necessitie forced 
 me to parte with it, I Thought it my parte to giue your worrship 
 the first ofFer. And euen soe humbly intreating your worrship 
 to beare with my bouldness and tediousnesse, I will take leaue, 
 resting altogether your Woorships allwaies to coinand Oliuer 
 HussEY. Killgolben the first of October 1615. 
 
 CXXVI. Thomas Ball to Boyle : 161 5. 
 
 This is No. 66 of vol. vi., and is addressed, "To the right wo''"' Sir 
 Richard Boyle knight, one of his m»"«8 privey cownsell of Irelande at 
 Youghall," and endorsed, "ffrom M"' Ball signefying the moste sorrowful! 
 newes of the too soon and euer to be Lamented death of my son Hodge 
 Boyle."— G. 
 
 London the 11 of October 1615. 
 Right worshipfull, my dewty remembredd &"" may it please 
 you to vnderstande that the 6 instent I sent, having bene at 
 Debtford with your sonne M' Roger Boyle, whome I fownd 
 to be very dangerously sicke : I writt instantly to my man 
 Richard Blacknoll y' he should acquaint you therwith, which I 
 hope he did accordingly, for that I sent my letter away that 
 daye to bristoll to be sent the first. This morning I sent my 
 
LI SHORE PAPERS. 249 
 
 man to Debtford to know how he did, but before he returned 
 M'' Browne cam to my house and told me that your Sonne was 
 departed outt of this world the last nyght, for which I am 
 hartely sorry and soe are all that did knowe him : for he was a 
 child of a good disposition and no dowbt if it had pleased god to 
 haue lent him life he would have proved an honest and well 
 minded man : but gods will must be fulfilled in all and their is 
 no remedey but pacience. But suerly whilst he lived — M"^ 
 Browne and M''^ Browne shewed them selves to be very honest 
 and feithfuU frends, for greater Care could not be had of a child 
 than was had of him : for he wanted neyther phisicke nor 
 tendance : nor any thing else yt was fitting for a sicke bodey, 
 and they tooke great paynes and watched nyght and day ; but all 
 avayled not, for his tyme was come, and ther is no dowbt but he 
 is with god. And I pray god in his mercye grawnt that wee 
 may be all prepared when our tyme shall come and be as assured 
 of heaven as he is. I am very sorey that I haue no better nor 
 pleasinger newes to writt, yet I cold not omitt but geve your 
 worship notice therof, being very sorry for the hevines of your- 
 selfe and your good Ladies. I humbly take my leaue and rest 
 your worships to comaund Thomas : Ball. 
 
 CXXVII. Christopher Browne to Boyle : 1615. 
 
 This is No. 67 of vol. vi., and is addressed "To the hon''''^ and worthie 
 Knight S' Richard Boyle one of the counsell of state [in] his Ma'" Kyng- 
 dome of Irelande : at youghall in the Countie of Munster Theese," and 
 is endorsed, "2 ffebr. 1615. fFrom my Vnckle brown ofdeptford with the 
 noates of hodges chardg, phisick & ffuneralles." — G. 
 
 Honorable Sir, By my last of the 20* of October, I wrote 
 vnto you (but more at large to my Cousen Fenton) both of 
 the sicknesse and euer to be lamented deathe of my deerely 
 
 I. K K 
 
250 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 beloued cousen and charge, which, as I can at no tyme remem- 
 ber without exceeding greife, when I consider so many to- 
 wardly partes in him, so am I very much afflicted with the 
 Thought of myne owne euell happ and misfortune, that in my 
 howse and under my tuition it should so befall him : and did I 
 not rest in some sorte assured of your good opinion of me in 
 my carriage towards him, it wold add affliction to affliction, 
 though in myn owne conscience I stoode neuer so cleere. For 
 I must vnfaynedly confesse that my loue and earnest affection 
 to serue you hath byn suche euer since my first admittance to 
 your so noble and worthie acquaintance, that it causeth such a 
 tender ialozie of your least vnkyndenesse, as to incurr the same 
 I should accoumpt it amongst the rest of my misfortunes. And 
 God knowes how happie a man I should haue esteemed my 
 selfe if his will had byn that I might have retourned that my 
 hopefull charge to you such a one as his owne naturall disposicon 
 and tractablenesse to all good, did assuredly promise. 
 
 But wee must submitt our selues to the will of God, who 
 though he hath byn pleased to laye this heauie crosse vpon vs 
 in respecte of this worlde, yet if wee tourne our myndes another 
 waie to that happinesse and rest his blessed sowle enioyeth, I 
 knowe you are so well practised to make the right vse thereof, 
 as it cannot but much asswage the extreamitie of that greefe 
 which otherwise might seeme insupportable. 
 
 Sir, though in this so deere and preciouse a charge coinitted 
 to me, I haue byn so vnfortunate as I cannot expecte any the 
 like or inferiour imployment from you, yet were my abillities 
 answerable to my desier and dexteritie to doe you seruice such as 
 I could wish, I wold bouldly intrude my selfe and not cease till 
 by some more successfuU euente I had in parte recouered your 
 former trust and better opinion of me : but I must herein wholly 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 251 
 
 rely vpon your noUe and worthie disposicon, which as I presume 
 it doeth not measure the loue and seruice of your freindes by the 
 successe of theyre endeuours, so doeth it easilie pardon and excuse 
 those ineuitable accidents, which doe happen only by the 
 imediate handes and power of allmightie God : in hope whereof 
 together with the peace of myn owne conscience in the meane 
 tyme I rest sufficiently resolued. 
 
 Although in my last letter to my Cousen Fenton, I wrote of 
 the comfortable presence of D'' Boyle here with vs in that tyme 
 of so greate heauinesse, yet such was his louing and religious 
 care and prayers, both in prayer before and preaching at the 
 funeralls, and his naturall Loue so apparant in the greife which 
 he sustaynedj and indeede all his carriage so full of freindly con- 
 solacon, as I may not omitt to recomende the same to such 
 place in your acceptance as so greate a kyndenesse from such a 
 one doeth iustly deserue, not doubting but you will take such 
 notice Thereof as he shall ere long vnderstand howe Thanke- 
 fully you so conceiue of the same, and Thereby helpe in parte 
 allso to quitt more of that debt wherein I must euer ackno- 
 ledge my selfe bound vnto him. 
 
 1 sent vnto you heretofore by George Onslow, a particular 
 accoumpte of such money as had byn layed out for my late 
 deere charge, and his attendante Will Supple for one whole 
 yere endeing the seauenth of February last : and nowe you shall 
 not only receaue a like particular of all disbursements since the 
 sayed 7° of February vntill the 7° of October, being 8 moneths, 
 but allso a generall reckoning, including as well the expences of 
 the sayed former yere as of these last 8 moneths ; wherein allso 
 hauing charged my selfe with all such somes as at any tyme I 
 haue on that behalfe receaued, I hope the reckoning will appeare 
 playne enough vnto you. 
 
iS2 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 Emongst the many towardly partes of my so deerely beloued 
 charge, his frugallitie may appeare in this, that his sorrowful! 
 Aunte hath yet remayning in a purse in guiftes and tokens sent 
 him (which he called his stocke) aboute the some of 40'. Lett 
 me not seeme so vnaduised as in taking occasion hereby to 
 comende him, to minister freshe cause of griefe vnto you, seemg 
 it carrieth this comforte with it (which I protest I speake vn- 
 faynedly and without all flatterie) that theare can no other of- 
 springe be expected from so worthie a payere : not doubting but 
 God will sende you many such towardly and well disposed sonnes 
 to Hue and enioye the fruits of your vertuous labours : In hope 
 whereof, and in whatsoeuer els he will geue you your hearts 
 desiers, my sorrowfuU wife and my selfe doe recoinende our 
 louing seruice to your selfe and those (I feare me) too ouer- 
 greeued and passionate Ladies, with our kynde comendacons to 
 my cousen Fenton, whose M"'^ is in good health and sayes that 
 she hath receaued a letter from him, not forgetting my cousen 
 Parsons and his bedfellow with the like, I take my Leaue and 
 rest yours euer assured at comande Chr. Browne. 
 
 I vnderstande by Witt : Supple that he hath made meanes to 
 you for his goeng to the Universitie : he is nowe fitt for it if 
 you haue any pourpose to dispose of him. But speciall care 
 must be had to procure him of an honest and discrete Tutor, 
 otherwayes he may soone be taynted with that lewde company 
 and ill example which doeth so much abounde in those places. 
 
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 253 
 
 iiij'' xij' 
 
 CXXVIII. Expenses of a 'Gentle Youth:' 1614-15, 
 
 This is No. 68 of vol. vi., and is reproduced as giving us insight into the 
 ordinary expenditure of a ' gentle youth ' of the period. See Introduc- 
 tion. — G. 
 
 A particular note of what hath beene layd out for M' Roger 
 and my self for A'pell and other necessaries since the vij* 
 of februarie last 1614. 
 
 Impr. for his Ash coullord pinkte Sattyn dub- ' 
 
 lett, with tow ash couUer fringe laces and 
 
 a pickadell of white Sattin xxx% for v 
 
 yardes of ash couUerd Rovato and a paire 
 
 of hose XX', for iiij yeardes of Ash couUer 
 
 popus, for a Cloake xxj' iiij", for iij oz of 
 
 Ash coller fring lace for y' cloake and 
 
 hose vij% To y" Taylor making vp that 
 
 Cloake and hose and for lininge silk and 
 
 other things prouided by him xiiij' vj" 
 for tow paire of stocking^ vj' x"* for a paire of" 
 
 ash couUor silke garters and roses, which 
 
 lace, v' iiij"*, for an ash couUer imbroydered 
 
 gerdle ij' vj"*, for an ash couller TafFata 
 
 hatt band iiij' iiij'' 
 
 for iij falling bands v' Vf, for a TafFata picka- ^ 
 
 dell iij% for iiij paire of gloues iij' : for 
 
 ribband for his hose and shooes xvj"* : for 
 
 V paire of shooes vj' viij"*, for mending 
 
 shooes viij", for an Accidens vj", for a 
 
 XIX' 
 
 booke of french verbs vj** 
 
 Sunia — vj'' 
 
 xxj" ij" 
 
 xiij'' 
 
254 
 
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 for V ells of holland for 2 shirts for mv selfe x\ 
 
 for 2 bands and CufFes v' ij*, for a picka- 
 dell i'f, for a Cutt fustian Dublet and a 
 paire of kersey hose, with one silk lace 
 iijii js jjd . fQj. 2 paire of stockings viij^ iiij**, 
 for 2 paire of shooes iiij' viij**, for shooe 
 stringes and mending my shooes ij vj'' 
 
 for dressing my hatt vij'', for Dyeing a Couller , 
 De Roy hattband of M"" Rogers, blacke 
 for me viij'', for Ribben and for mending 
 my Clothes at seuerall tymes iij' viij** : for 
 a gerdell vij'', for garters and points iij' vj"* : 
 for Ribben for my black Cloake and for 
 Shooe-strings ij^ x"*, for a bote heire [= 
 hire] to London twice viij'' , 
 
 for V yardes and a halfe of black perpetuana at' 
 v' iiij"* the yard xxix' iiij"* for Lininge and 
 other necessaries for y^ same and to y'^ 
 Taylor making vp y* sute and also for 
 making my blacke Cloake of y' Cloth 
 prouided for M'' Rogers hearse xxxiij^ 
 
 )■ iiij" xiij^ x'* 
 
 xj° 
 
 Sui 
 
 nj" X- 
 
 viij''. 
 
 xxiij' vj" 
 
 iij" iij' 
 
 iij° 
 
 A note of Charges for Phisicke and other necessaries During y° 
 tyme of M"' Roger his sickness, and also of his funeralls as 
 may farther appeare by Certaine particular bylls Therof 
 sent hearwfith. 
 
 Impr. to y' Phisition 
 
 To y" Chirurgeon for his Dayly attendanc ") 
 ministering Clysters &c. . . .J 
 
 iijii vj= 
 
 xv° 
 
LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 25S 
 
 To y° Apothecary as may appeare by his bill . 
 
 To y° Apothecary man .... 
 
 for Certaine Cordiall powders of vnicornes\ 
 home, bezar and Certaine Boles prouided 
 for him in his weakness and for Certaine - 
 Comfortable plaisters to his stomacke and 1 
 belly I 
 
 Due to y^ Church for y' buriall, as may appeare ) 
 by particular note Therof . . .J 
 
 For iiij"' yards and halfe of black Cloth, whereofF 
 tow weare bestowed vpon y^ pulpet and 
 detayned as ffees to y" minister, the other 
 tow and a half layd vpon his hearse weare 
 reserude to make me a cloake 
 
 For the Coffin ...... 
 
 For xi'f scutcheons vij in mettle and v plaine . 
 
 For Diners Confected stuffs for y° banquet, ■! 
 as may appeare by a particular not Therof J 
 
 For seuerall sorts of wine, as may also appeare 
 by a particular note therof xxviij^ and for 
 iiij 11 of sugar vj' . 
 
 For .... paire of white gloues geven amongst 
 the young gent and gentle weemen his 
 school- fellowes and sent to D'' Boyle' 
 children ...... 
 
 For bote heire [= hire] and portag of those 
 thingf, and for bote heire also at seuerall 
 tymes During M"' Rogers sickness to and 
 fro London to the Phisition and the 
 
 Apothecary 
 
 Suma xxvj" ij"*. 
 
 nj" 
 
 xxy 
 
 xxxv' vnj° 
 
 iij'' vij' 
 
 xx' 
 
 VJ" 
 
 VIJ" 
 
 xxxnij" 
 
 xxxxix" 
 
 xnij° 
 
256 LISMORE PAPERS. 
 
 An inventory of such apparell as remaine of M'' Rogers. 
 
 Impr. a Bayes gowne faced with red furr. ' 
 It [em] an old Jerking and hose of: It. 
 roy couUerd Kersie without silke and 
 siluer lace : It. an old fustian Dublet, 
 with one silke lace : It. a Taney cloth 
 Cloake with one taney silke and siluer 
 lace ....... 
 
 It. an old hat and a paire of couller de roy 
 garters ...... 
 
 It. a pinkt ash couUor Sattin Dublet and a 
 paire of ash couller nouato hose 
 
 It. an ash couller popus Cloake and a paire of 
 ash coullor silke garters and roses . 
 
 It. another hat with an Ash couller band and 
 an imbrodered girdle .... 
 
 It. 4 shirts, faling bands and CufFs, six . .^v 
 
 It. tow fringed CufFs and CufFs for handker- I 
 cheiues . . . . . .J 
 
 It. towe paire of wusted stocking^ and a swoord 
 with a greene scarfe .... 
 
 It. a purse with xxxx° ..... 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page i. ' earlier Papers' — See our Introduction to vols. i. 
 and ii. of this and Series, for an important historical document, 
 being no less than the Deed of Entail by the ' great' Gerald, 
 Earl of Desmond, dated 17th September, 1574. Having been 
 preserved separately from the volumes of MSS* in Lismore 
 Castle, it was not transmitted to me writh them. But it is too 
 valuable to be left out, and accordingly wrill be found as above. 
 It is now reproduced accurately (Jiterat'ini) for the first time. 
 ' Abbey of ffermoy i^ gill abbey to S' Richard grenfile ' — See 
 vol. ii., 1st Series, pp. i, 341 ; and the same applies throughout 
 to this 2nd Series. <■ Vicounte Roche' — See ist Series, vol. ii., 
 363 ; iv., 260. 
 
 Page 2. ' best and greatest Survey ' — The so-called ' Surveys ' 
 of Ireland up to this date and later, were various and conflict- 
 ing, and led to endless litigation. S' Warham S' Leger ' — See 
 xst Series, ii., 427. 
 
 Page 3. 'Chargeable land^' — Lands charged before 1584 
 with ' customs,' or dues of money rent called Shragh, and rent 
 in cows called Marte, and food and lodging for Desmond's horse 
 and foot soldiers. When he was killed in rebellion in 1584, and 
 his million of acres was granted away to undertakers, the dues 
 were compounded for by a chief rent payable to the Queen 
 
 I. I- ^ 
 
258 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 from each undertaker who had been granted such chargeable 
 lands. But it was found impossible to collect the cows, or to 
 estimate the value of the customs, and some of the undertakers 
 were half ruined by the demands of the Queen for the com- 
 position money. Sir Edward Denny's case is thus represented 
 in the Carew MSS. He obtained the greater part of Desmond's 
 Kerry palatinate, and his chief castle of Tralee. " He hath also 
 the collection of chief rents in his patent, to the sum of ^^300, 
 and also eighty beeves. The country being depopulated, this 
 rent was never answered by him, and we find that the Earl of 
 Desmond never received half so much, and when he received 
 anie it was in warHke manner, upon the country of the Clan- 
 morryes ; the territory of the Lord of Lexnawe, who being 
 enforced thereto by ouer distresses taken upon his lands, hath 
 compounded, for fifty pounds sterling per an. as parcell of the 
 composition of Kerrye." (Carew MSS., vol. 617, p. 164.) 
 James I. reduced the chief rents of Denny and of Sir William 
 Herbert on this account. On the whole subject of the ' lands ' 
 involved in the forfeiture of Desmond and others, and of the 
 'plantations' severally organized in Ireland, the following too 
 little known book will be found to shed much light : — " A 
 Direction for the Plantation in Ulster, contayning in it sixe 
 principall thinges, viz., i. The securing of that wilde countrye 
 to the Crowne of England j 2. The withdrawing of all the 
 charge of the garrison and Men of Warre ; 3. Rewarding of 
 the olde Servitors to their good content ; 4. The meanes how 
 to increase the Revenue to the Crowne ; 5. How to establish 
 Puritie of Religion there ; 6. And how the Undertakers may 
 with securitie be enriched. Imprinted at London by Ed. Aide for 
 J. Bridge. 1 610." (4°.) The author is "Thomas Blenerhasset." 
 Two copies are in British Museum (601, f 11 ; G. 5545). 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 259 
 
 5545)' * Earl of Desmonde ' — See note above, on page i. ' S''' 
 William fitz Willm' — I cannot attempt to trace out the many 
 official and ' legal ' names of these MSS. Specialists must con- 
 sult the accepted authorities, as annotation would unduly extend 
 otherwise. 
 
 Page 4. ' O'Callaghan ' = of Poul O'Callaghan, or Foul ui 
 Callaghan, or it is not impossible that the word Pollycallaghan, 
 may be a corruption of Pobul ui Callaghan = the people or 
 district of the people of O'Callaghan. On ' Poul,' see note in 
 1st Series, vol. i., 275. In addition it must be stated that 
 besides a ' pool ' in a river, this Irish word also means a small, 
 deep lake, and sometimes a deep pit or cavern. The O'Cal- 
 laghans were owners of a territory in the middle portion of 
 Cork county, and have now a representative in the British 
 Peerage. (Fide Burke's " Peerage and Baronetage," under 
 title 'Lismore.') An Inquisition taken at Cork in 1618, finds 
 that the " Lord Cornelius or Conogher O'Callaghan " died at 
 his castle of Clonemyne, co. Cork, on the 31st of May, 161 2. 
 His lands were held from the King by ' knight's service.' ' Sir 
 Thomas Norreyes ' — See ist Series, vol. ii., p. 364, on the more 
 illustrious of the name. ' Moyallo' = Mallow. See ist Series, 
 vol. ii., 356 ; iii., 251. ' woods ofVxemore' — Eheu ! eheu ! had 
 my lamented friend Canon Hayman been spared, he would 
 have worked con amore in tracing out these long-vanished 
 'woods.' As it is, one can only mourn that when the Irish 
 mountains and hills, and ' glens ' were despoiled of their glorious 
 woods, others were not planted. The 'pipe-staves' business 
 was legitimate enough in itself; but it is deplorable that the 
 immense clearances were allowed without provision for the 
 future. Even the Spenser Kilcolman ' woods ' have all disap- 
 peared, until a goodly tree is as rare as Dr. Johnson would have 
 
 I. * 
 
26o NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 it in Scotland in the i8th century. I find on recollation of 
 the very intricate and difficult writing of this Elizabethan docu- 
 ment that ' Vxemore ' should be ' Dromore.' Correct accordingly 
 in the place. There are now three Dromores, all in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Mallow, and all formerly of the O'Callaghan estate. 
 
 Page 5. ' (iigge mynes Iron mylles ' — See full Life of 
 
 the 'Great Earl' for his enterprise in iron-works. ' gerrans' 
 = garrans. See 1st Series, i., 226, 297, ' hawckes' — Many 
 of the Letters in this 2nd Series go to show the (to us) grotesque 
 importance attached to the preservation and gifts of ' hawks.' 
 See p. 7. At Chatsworth Sir Edwin Landseer's glorjous can- 
 vases have imperishably commemorated this fine old English 
 sport, so long (practically) obsolete. ' fireboate' '■ howsboate' 
 ^plowboate, ' hedgeboate ' timber ' — As words these are clear 
 enough, but the nature of the several ' boats ' seems doubtful. 
 * Dromynine ' = Drominane. See ist Series, i., 202, 296. 
 
 Page 6. ' after ' — (1, 2 from bottom) — query ' other ' ? 
 
 Page 7. ' estouer ' — The context seems to suggest pasturage, 
 according to use and wont. ' Swene ' = swine. 
 
 Page 8. ' defalked' — Cf. ist Series, or 'defalcable,' ii., 350 ; 
 ' defalck,' iii., 249 = to be deducted. ' hat-band^ — This giving 
 as security for a small debt of a jewelled ' hat-band ' in 1594 by 
 the after ' Great Earl ' is extremely noticeable, as revealing his 
 original scanty resources. 
 
 Page 9. ' Sir Geoffrey Fenton ' — See full Life of the " Great 
 Earl," as before: also 1st Series, i., 279, 299, et seq. ' priuatest' 
 — A superlative to be noted as still used by the Irish peasantry, 
 hke many other English words obsolete in England. 
 
 Page 10. ' White Knight' — After wavering for some years 
 between submission to the Queen and adherence to his rebel 
 kinsman, the Earl of Desmond, Edmund Fitzgibbon, White 
 Knight, captured the Earl, and surrendered him to the English 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. ^6I 
 
 authorities in Cork. For this service the White Knight ob- 
 tained a confirmatory grant of his estates. His direct male line 
 ended with his grandson, when the estates passed to his heiress 
 granddaughter Margaret neen Gibbon (i.e., the daughter of 
 Gibbon), who married, at the age of eleven, Sir William Fenton, 
 Lord Cork's brother-in-law. But the White Knight's feudal, 
 title could not, of course, pass to a woman or her descendants, 
 and documents published a few years ago in the journals of the 
 Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland prove 
 that it is now the rightful inheritance of the eldest surviving son 
 of the late Maurice Fitzgibbon, Esq., Crobana House, Kilkenny. 
 For a full account of Edmond the White Knight's feud with 
 the Roches, Lords of Fermoy, whom he charged with endea- 
 vouring to deprive him by invidious practices at Court of his 
 lands of Old Castletown, see the same Journal, 1876-80. 
 
 Page ii. 'apray' — It was the Elizabethan-Jacobean, and 
 even Carolian usage to thus write certain words together, e. g., 
 ' will be ' as ' wilbe ' and the like. ' habk ' — So the unlucky 
 'h ' occurs in the- highest and gentlest correspondents. 
 
 Page 1 2. ' Ceuds ' — This is self-evidently a corruption of 
 some name of an Englishman. ' Lord Roche ' — The occurrence 
 of this nobleman's name as a witness is suspicious. He similarly 
 worried Edmund Spenser. See ist Series, s.n. as before, '■bob 
 tail' = cut, or docked, as a ' bob-tail ' wig. ' Sir W^ Standly ' 
 = Stanley, a historical name of the house of Derby — earlier and 
 later given to rebellion. 
 
 Page 14. ' Nathaniel haxter' — See our Introduction to this 
 2nd Series, vols. i. and ii. See the same in this and other 
 Raleigh papers. 
 
 Page 16. ^ ealde^ = yitld. 
 
 Page 17. ' letigeus — \\t\g\o\i%. 'J'/i^r/ff'— Spenser's ' Arlo.' 
 
262 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 19. ' Lodovick Bryskett ' — See our Introduction to this 
 2nd Series, vols. i. and ii. Note at page 21, 11. 21-22, the 
 illustrious name of ' Edmund Spenser' as former holder of the 
 office. It is astonishing to us of this late day how everything 
 wras ' bought and sold ' in the ' grand old days ! ' 
 
 Page 23, ' Thomas Wethered^ — See Canon Hayman's "Me- 
 morials," as before. * examinate '— frequenter ■= person examined 
 or witness. Canon Hayman's matterful little books on ' You- 
 ghall ' and other Irish antiquities will grow more and more 
 valuable. They are now scarce, and no one who cares for out 
 historical-literary memorials should fail to snatch up any one on 
 its chance occurrence. 
 
 Page 28. '■James Spenser'' — This Spenser was in no way 
 related to the poet's family, or descendants. 
 
 Page 29. '■Spaniards' — See our Introduction to this 2nd 
 Series, vols. i. and ii. ; also later, ist Series, ii. 386-7. ' Tirone^ 
 . . . ' a donnelV — Tirone was O'Neil, Lord of Tir-Eoghan, 
 i.e., Owen's territory, comprehending in old times when the 
 O'Neil reigned in Ulster, the whole of the present counties of 
 Tyrone and Londonderry and a great part of Donegal. The 
 O'Donnells' kinsmen of the O'Neils were lords of Donegal, 
 the ancient Tir-Connell. For the lineage of these two great 
 Ulster chiefs and their careers see Carew MSS. at Lambeth ; 
 Rev. C. Meehan's " Flight of the Earls," and Froude's " His- 
 tory of England." '0 Rourcke, Maguire, Mac Mahoun, 
 Connor Sligoe's brother.' — These were petty chieftains in Ulster 
 and Connaught, who followed O'Neil and O'Donnell from 
 the North to aid the Spaniards in Kinsale. Everyone knows 
 that an Irish-descended Mac Mahon has played a prominent 
 if no very glorious part in France in our own day. ' Randall 
 mac Surly ' — He seems to have been Randal Mac Donnell, who 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 263 
 
 finally submitted to James I., and was created Viscount Dunluce 
 and 1st Earl of Antrim. Mac Surly is a corruption of the 
 Gaelic words for ' the son of Charley,' or Charles (Mac 
 Donnell). -Redmond Bourke ' — He was one of the De Burghs, 
 or Bourkes, of Connaught. ' Tyrrell' — He was of Anglo-Irish 
 descent, and fills a large space in Anglo-Irish story. ' ryver of 
 ewnybuoy'= the river of Abhainn Buidhe (anglicized into Owen 
 Biue) which flows past Carrigaline into the harbour of Cork. 
 Dr. Smith, in his "History of Coik," s.n., in 1745, says that 
 " the great Earl of Cork intended to build a town at Carrigaline, 
 which is nearer to the mouth of the harbour than Cork, in order 
 to rival that city in trade." Smith's mythical reason for this 
 is that the citizens had passed a bye-law that no citizen of 
 Cork should sell any lands within its precincts to Lord Cork — 
 an unauthenticated statement. Whether true or false, the 
 Rebellion of 1641 prevented the carrying out of his intention. 
 The now ruined castle of Carrigaline was built by John Lord 
 De Cogan of Belvoir before 131 0. His heiress brought Carri- 
 galine, Carrigrohan, Mallow, Rathcogan (now Rathgogan), and 
 other places in Cork to her husband, Maurice Fitz John Fitz- 
 gerald, ancestor of the Earls of Desmond. There is a tradition 
 that Sir Francis Drake, chased in the Channel by a Spanish ship, 
 took refuge in part of the Owen Biue river, which is still called 
 Drake's Pool. ' Don fohn de Lagiula '= Don Juan de Aquila, 
 commander of the Spanish forces. He landed at Kinsale on 
 23rd Sept., 1601. O'Neil and O'Donnell coming with their 
 followers to assist the invaders, wer« defeated in the presently 
 recorded battle near Kinsale, on 25th Dec, and on the 2nd of 
 Jan. the Spaniards capitulated and delivered up the town to 
 the Lord Deputy Mountjoy, Sir George Carew, and their 
 English and Irish forces. Among the latter was Cormac Mac 
 
264 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Carthy, Lord of Muskerry, and his retainers, who fought 
 stoutly against the Spaniards, and O'Neil's and O'Donnell's 
 army. Our Boyle was sent with the despatches announcing 
 the defeat of the invaders to the English Queen. See our full 
 Memoir (as before) and quotations from the " Remembrances " 
 therein. De Aquila, in the course of his negotiations for the 
 surrender of Kinsale, said that he had found in Mountjoy " a 
 sharp and powerful opponent, yet an honourable enemy," whilst 
 he added, that " in the Irish he found not only weak and bar- 
 barous, but perfidious friends." He was as wrathful with the 
 Irish as the Irish were with him. O'Donnell, Bourke, and 
 others of the Irish, with Father Archer, the Jesuit (who wsa 
 everywhere with the rebels between 1600 and 1602, when 
 Dunboy Castle was blown up), escaped into Spain, where they 
 were honoured and pensioned by the King. Captain Tirell 
 found refuge in the Kerry mountains, as did for a time 
 O'Sullivan Bear. De Aquila went to Cork with Mountjoy 
 and Carew, and left Ireland for Spain in March. The parting 
 civilities between him and Carew are curious. He gave a 
 treatise on fortifications to Sir George as a farewell souvenir, 
 and Sir George gave him in return " a fair, ambling hackney," 
 and a parting shot of wit (as keen in its way as any he dis- 
 charged at the Spaniard's fortifications at Kinsale) by writing 
 the fine-mannered Don the following farewell letter : — " I have 
 received profitt by the Book of Fortification which your lord- 
 ship left me at your departure, and hold it as a relique in 
 memory of you, and as a good scholler, I have put some 
 things in practice, whereof your lordship at your return hither 
 again (which I hope in God will be never), may be a witness, 
 whether I have committed any error in that art or no. My 
 greatest defect hath been the* want of the helpe of so great a 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 265 
 
 master as your lordship is, of whom I am desirous to learne, 
 not onely that art, but in all else concerying military profession ; 
 in the which I do giue your lordship the preheminence. To 
 conclude, I rest in all I may (my dutie reserved to the queene 
 my mistresse) affectionately ready at your lordships service, and 
 so kissing your hands, I beseech God to preserve you with many 
 happy yeares. From Corke the 17* of Sepf, 1602." One 
 likes to come on such stately courtesies, albeit we may suspect, 
 that on Carew's part the lord of Muskerry must have given 
 him access to the famous blarney stone. De Aquila would 
 scarcely perceive the veiled irony of this most celebrated letter. 
 The Spanish leader lost the favour of the King by his defeat 
 and surrender of Kinsale, and was banished from Court. 
 Elizabeth, about the same time, wrote one of her latest, if not 
 her last, letter to Carew as follows: — "My faithfull George, 
 if euer more service of worth were performed in shorter space 
 than you have done, wee are deceived : among many eye- 
 witnesses wee haue received the fruit hereof, and bid you 
 faithfully credit that what so witt, courage or care may doe, 
 wee truely find they haue beene all truely acted in all your 
 charge, and for the same believe, that it shall neither bee 
 unremembered nor unrewarded, and in the meane tyme beleeve 
 my helpe nor prayers shall never' faile. Your sovereign that 
 best regards you. Elizabeth. R." (Fynes Morison's History, 
 s, n.) 'volant' = our '■fiying' squadron. 
 
 Page 32. ^hargubusheers' = carriers of the 'harquebus.' 
 I have met with it in an old English title-page of a treatise 
 on war. 
 
 Page 34. ' Earl of Clanrickard' — See ist Series, ii., 389, 
 422. It is suggestive of the pseudo-glory of war, that the many 
 brave and gallant Englishmen and others whose names occur 
 • I. * 
 
166 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 in this narrative are long since passed into oblivion. One is 
 constantly reminded of this in reading the proud story of our 
 country's wars, earlier and later. Men poured forth their 
 blood like water and received no guerdon. And yet only thus 
 have our present day civil and religious freedoms been won 
 and held. All honour to the anonymous workers and wit- 
 nesses for "this England." The " Peerages" and like authorities 
 will be found to illuminate some of the names here and else- 
 where. Memories of the defeated Spaniard still stir one's blood. 
 
 Page 35. 'papers of sylck ' — This bargaining gives another 
 glimpse of the " Great Earl's" earlier embarrassments. 
 
 Page 37. 'Soferaign' = sovereign = mayor of to-day. 
 
 Page 38. ' Sir Archdeacon ' = dominus, a clerical title. 
 
 Page 39. 'Mr. DanielV — See Introduction to this 2nd 
 Series, vols. i. and ii. The " Great Earl " was always foremost 
 in doing a kindness to a faithful preacher of the gospel, or 
 other good and true man or woman. ' infynet Sowles' = 
 infinite souls. 
 
 Page 41. 'brut'' = bruit, report. ' ohrines' = O'Briens. 
 
 Page 43. ' Proclamation at Cork,' etc. — The Mayor of Cork 
 in 1603 was Thomas Sarsfield, a member of an old Anglo-Irish 
 family devoted to the Roman Catholic Church. William Mead, 
 the Recorder, was of native Irish descent, the name being 
 originally Meagh, but anglicized, like many others, in the course 
 of time. The Terrys, Goulds, Pagans (spelled Fagante in the 
 old records, and said to be English, not • mere Irish '), and 
 Coppingers mentioned as opposing the Proclamation, were all 
 members of old Anglo-Irish families settled in Cork between 
 1319 and 1603. Stephen Coppinger was Mayor of Cork in 
 13 19. His descendants and kinsmen still hold good positions 
 in the country. The Goulds, or Golds, the Galways, Terrys, 
 
NOT£S AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 267 
 
 and Miaghs, or Meades, filled the same ofEce frequently in the 
 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Recorder Mead, after suffering 
 a short imprisonment, was released and retired to Italy, where 
 he died as a pensioner of the King of Spain. He wrote a 
 tractate entitled, " An Advice to the Catholicks of Munster " — 
 a copy of which was given to the Bodleian Library by Arch- 
 bishop Laud. 
 
 Page 51. ' Halebowlaige ' — See ist Series, vol. ii., pp. 405-6. 
 
 Page 54. 'Castle of Ballingarry' : also p. 57, 'and Adort 
 in Kery ' ' and Capten Boyes ' — See note on ' Ballingarry,' in 
 1st Series, iii., 258. But in an ancient Inquisition, it is spelled 
 Ballincaheragh = the dwelling in the place of stone forts. It 
 was formerly a picturesque island, which is now connected by 
 an isthmus with the mainland, and lies off the beautiful north 
 coast of Kerry,' not far from the mouth of the Shannon. 
 Traces of the old castle of the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 centuries remain, covered with smooth thymy turf. It suffered 
 two sharp sieges : one in 1603, and one in 1642-7. A curious 
 and characteristic letter from Captain Boyes, or Bois, giving an 
 account of his blockade of the island-fortress in 1603, is pre- 
 served in H.M. Public Record Office, London. It is written 
 from his camp before Ballingarry to Wilmot, and begins 
 triumphantly : " Nowe is the tyme for mee with your honor's 
 helpe to rayse myselfe ! " He goes on to say that he has 
 blocked up in the island, which he describes truly as "a huge 
 rock in the sea fifty fadoms doun in it, Mac Morris himselfe " 
 (/. ^., Thomas FitzMaurice, i8th Baron of Kerry, direct an- 
 cestor of the Marquis of Lansdowne), " Gerrot Roe Stacke 
 (red Garret Stack), Donell O'Sullivan Mor, Hussey the ScoUar," 
 and a number of other rebels, and he promises that "not one 
 drop of water or one morsel of food shall pass into the be- 
 
268 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 sieged," nor shall " one of them leave it alive." Mac Morris, 
 as the Irish called Lord Kerry, w^as not, however, in Ballingarry, 
 Bois seems to have mistaken for him his brother Gerald, who 
 was there, with a younger son of the Knight of Kerry, called 
 by the Irish Maurice Mac Ruddery (/. e. Maurice, the son of 
 the Knight). " Hussey the Scollar " is described by Sir George 
 Carew as "a school master in Kerry and an incorrigible rebel." 
 He was an impoverished member of the old Kerry family of 
 his name. Thomas, i8th Baron of Kerry, was for a long 
 time in rebellion, but eventually submitted, and had a re-grant 
 of his ancient estates in 1 612. He married the daughter of the 
 third Earl of Thomond, by whom he had a son and heir, who 
 married Honora, daughter of Sir John FitzGerald of Cloyne. 
 The grandson of this marriage was Thomas FitzMaurice, 21st 
 Baron of Kerry, who went to France after the abdication of 
 James II., but returned to Ireland in a few months, and 
 marrying the daughter and heiress, by survival, of Sir William 
 Petty, was created Earl of Kerry in 1722. He was the 
 ancestor of the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Earl of Orkney. 
 The former is the 26th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, by direct 
 descent from Thomas FitzMaurice, first Baron (grandson of 
 Raimond Le Gros, and great nephew of Maurice FitzGerald), 
 who founded in 1253 the Franciscan friary of Ardfert, co. 
 Kerry, now a beautiful ruin in the demesne of W. Talbot 
 Crosbie, D.L. 
 
 Ardort, recte Ardfert Castle, besieged by Sir Charles Wilmot, 
 was one of the seats of Lord Kerry. It had been built in 
 1311 by the third Baron, and was re-edified by the i8th Baron 
 in 1590. The siege by Wilmot in 1603 lasted ten days, when 
 the garrison surrendered, and the warder was hanged. It was 
 again rebuilt in 1637, but was burnt down with the ancient 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 269 
 
 Cathedral near it, in the civil wars of 1641-9. The younger 
 branches of the FitzMaurices forfeited largely in the latter year, 
 and the Dowager, Lady Kerry, with her younger children, was 
 transplanted to Connaught. After 1660, William, 20th Lord 
 Kerry, was restored to the greater portion of his estate (some 
 of it, however, passed to the Olivers, Cootes, Crosbies, and 
 Batons in 1649), and resided, as did his descendants, until the 
 middle of the last century, at Lixnaw Court (not far from 
 Ardfert), which is now a picturesque, ivy-covered ruin, with 
 the tall chimneys and gables of the seventeenth century in 
 tolerable preservation. Of the whole barony of Clanmaurice 
 in North Kerry, which once belonged to his paternal ancestors, 
 the present Marquis of Lansdowne now possesses only two or 
 three iields and a hill, on the summit of which, in a singular- 
 looking tomb, erected by his directions in his Kfe-time for 
 himself alone, Thomas, first Earl of Kerry, is buried. His wife 
 (nee Petty) lies in the little ruined FitzMaurice chapel, the old 
 family burial-place since 1660, at the east end of the ruined 
 Cathedral of Ardfert. 
 
 Page 64. ' Skiddys Castle ' — See. ist Series, ii., 407-8 ; iii., 
 238 ; iv., 260 ; v., 238, 283. In the will of Stephen Skiddy, 
 alias Scudamore, dated 28th May, 1584, he orders that the 
 Master, Wardens, and Commonaltys of Vintners of London 
 should, out of certain rents which he mentions, pay j^24 yearly 
 to ten of the honest poor of Cork. In 1621 Andrew Skiddy 
 was mayor of Cork. The family forfeited largely in Cork 
 and Kerry between 1641 and 1691, and finally went to France 
 and Spain. Their Cork Castle was a Government magazine 
 for powder in the last century. 
 
 Page 65. ' Sarffield ' — Read ' Sarsfield,' as in note supra on 
 page 43- 
 
270 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 67. ' Shandon Castle ' — This castle stood on the north 
 side of Cork city, and is said to have been built by King John. 
 The name in the original Irish is Sean-dun, /. e. old fort. The 
 old castle has long been demolished, but the name survives in 
 the Church of St. Ann's, Shandon, whose ' bells ' are celebrated 
 in Father Prout's wfell-known song. ' caller ' ^= choler. 
 
 Page 68. 'partes ' = gates. 
 
 Page 70. ' At fValter Coppinger ' — See note before on 
 p. 43. One of this Anglo-Irish name is made notorious in a 
 now rare tractate as follows : — " Conspiracie for pretended 
 Reformation : viz. Presbyteriall Discipline. A Treatise dis- 
 covering the late designements and courses held for advance- 
 ment thereof, by William Hacket, E. Coppinger and H. 
 
 Arthington. With .... the life Arraignment and 
 
 Execution of the sayd Hacket j also an Answere to the ca- 
 lumniations of such as affirme they were mad men ..." 
 
 [By R. Cosin.] 1592. 4°. 
 
 Page 72. 'bonnoysses' = ' Bonaght,' was an Irish custom, 
 or due levied by the great Irish lords on their vassals, for the 
 support of their horse-soldiers. The word, corrupted by Eng- 
 lish speakers into ' buonys ' or * bonnoysses,' came afterwards to 
 be applied to Irish soldiers. Thus we find O'Connor Sligo 
 described as leading 1,400 Bonnoysses or Buonys into Munster 
 in 1600-2 (Cal. Irish State Papers freq.). 'blynders' = masked 
 batteries (I suppose). 
 
 Page 73. 'pole ' = poll or head. 
 
 Page 76. ' Deuonshire' — On this nimbus-circled name, see 
 our Introduction to this 2nd Series, vols. i. and ii. Let the date 
 of ' Wilton ' be noted. 
 
 Page 77. ' Silver Horn peny ' = base money, which Eng- 
 land continued to inflict on Ireland. 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 271 
 
 Page 79. ' Sir Richard Weston ' — See ist Series, iv., 244. 
 
 Page 80. ' Tassell' — On ' Hawkes,' see ist Series, i., 281 ; 
 iv., 250, 263. 
 
 Page 83. 'my cousen absli = Jpsley' — The cousinship of 
 the Fentdns and Apsleys is not so clear as is the Boyle connec- 
 tion with both families. Sir Richard Boyle's marriage with Joan 
 Apsley brought him into alliance with a number of the old Irish 
 and Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic forfeiting proprietors of 1580- 
 1 602 ; and this, which to a less able and astute man would have 
 been a disadvantage, he turned to good account. Probably Lady 
 Cork meant cousin by marriage, i. e. through her husband. 
 Captain William Apsley, an officer in the Elizabethan army, 
 serving against the rebel Earl of Desmond, married one of the ten 
 daughters of John Broun, Master of the Preceptory of the 
 Knights Hospitallers, near Awney, in the County Limerick, at 
 the place now called Hospital. He was not a relative of Sir 
 Valentine Browne, from whom the Earls of Kenmare descend, 
 but a member of an old family, probably of Scotch origin, settled 
 in Kerry and Limerick in the twelfth century, and owning 
 castles and estates in both counties. On an old map of Munster 
 dedicated to Cecil, and preserved in the Public Record Office, 
 London, a large tract of land in North Kerry is marked " Crie 
 Brouneh''' the English map-maker's corruption of the Irish 
 words, Crioch Brouneh, i. e., the country of Broun [vide Joyce's 
 " Irish Names of Places," 2nd Series, p. 206). The wife of 
 John Broun, Master of Awney, was the daughter of Dermot 
 O'Ryan of SuUaghode, in Tipperary. In the despatches of the 
 Elizabethan officials during Desmond's rebellion, John Broun, 
 father of Mrs. Apsley, is described as " the wisest of Desmond's 
 counsellors," and his wife as Desmond's foster-mother or nurse, 
 an office held by the wives of the highest chiefs and landowners 
 
27» NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 in his palatinate. John Broun was killed in rebellion with 
 Desmond by Captain Norreys, ancestor of the present Sir Den- 
 ham Jephson Norreys, Bart., of Mallow Castle. Annabella 
 Broun, wife of Captain Apsley, had an only son, Edward Apsley, 
 who drowned himself, when his estate was granted to Francis 
 Mitchel, but portions of it, including the place now called Hos- 
 pital, eventually passed to his sisters, Joan, first wife of Sir 
 • Richard Boyle, and Mary, who married Sir Thomas Browne, 
 ancestor of the Earl of Kenmare, who thus inherits the blood 
 of the old Brouns of Broun's Castle, a stately ruin on the ancient 
 Crioch Brouneh, in North Kerry, through the female line; 
 while his paternal ancestors were the Elizabethan colonists, Sir 
 Valentine and Sir Thomas Browne, of Lincolnshire, before 
 1570. On the death of Captain William Apsley, his widow 
 married Captain Thomas Spring, another brave officer in the 
 Elizabethan army, commended in the despatches of Raleigh. 
 From this marriage descends in the female line Lord Monteagle, 
 and in the male line the Spring family of Kerry, who from 
 generation to generation have given brave officers to the British 
 army. The late Colonel Spring, of Kerry, had three sons, all 
 officers in the army. The youngest. Captain Francis Spring, 
 was killed at the head of the Grenadier company of his regiment, 
 in battle against the mutineers in India. Mrs. Spring [nee 
 Broun) was thus mother-in-law of the Earl of Cork. Her 
 father's adherence to Desmond, whose foster-sister she was, 
 brought some suspicion on her husband, and his brother. Captain 
 Edward Spring, of having aided the unhappy " ingens rebellibus 
 exemplar " with provisions, when, during the last six months of 
 his Hfe, he was a starving fugitive hiding in the mountains and 
 woods of his vast palatinate. Edward Spring was arrested for 
 this offence and confessed himself guilty, suffering a short im- 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 173 
 
 prisonment in consequence, but through the influence of Raleigh 
 he was pardoned. Thomas Spring, whose death Lord Cork 
 notes in his '• Diary," was appointed Warden of Castlemagne 
 in Kerry, and had a grant of lands near that place, which was 
 nearly all forfeited by his grandson, who had become a Romanist, 
 in 1649. This Walter Spring, from the extent of his forfeitures, 
 is still known in traditional and written Kerry history, as Walter 
 of the Losses, or Walter the Unfortunate. Most of his estate 
 passed to Colonel Godfrey, an officer of the Cromwellian army, 
 ancestor of Sir John Godfrey, Bart. 
 
 Page 84. ' my cosen Seggorson ' — This like Apsley above (on 
 p. 83) must have been a cousinship by marriage. See our 
 Introduction to this 2nd Series, vols. i. and ii., on the Seckerstones, 
 in relation to Spenser's widow, the immortal * Elizabeth,' letters 
 from whom it is our privilege to print for the first time, 
 onward, ' my cosen Morgel' — The Morgels held a good position 
 j|n Kerry in the last century. Bridget, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Crosbie, of Ardfert, by Bridget, daughter of — Tynte, Esq., of 
 Cork, married, on or about 1680, Thomas Morgel, Esq., and 
 had issue, whose representatives still hold property in the county 
 Cork. 
 
 Page 85. ' to buy Sir Walter Rawleighes land ' — See note at 
 head of next Letter; also Introduction to vols. i. and ii. of this 
 2nd Series. ' Sir James Fulkrton ' — See ist Series, ii., 420. 
 
 Page 86. ' trayned' = ensnared or entrapped. A ' train ' or 
 'trayne' = a snare. '■ Molanna ' — See ist Series, i., 297 ; iii., 
 267. ' livery and seizen ' = legal terms for entering on posses- 
 sion. ' Seckerston ' — Same as ' Seggorson ' of p. 84. See our 
 Introduction to vols. i. and ii. of this 2nd Series in relation to 
 Spenser. ' Sir Allen Apsley ' — See note on p. 83 in pp. 271-2 of 
 these " Notes and Illustrations." ' wast ' — A vital word in con- 
 
 I. N N 
 
274 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 sidering all Boyle's purchases of lands, answering to our 
 present-day term of ' prairie value.' ' the fortune ' — Qu., an inn 
 so called ? 
 
 Page 87. '■James Bateman ' — A Captain Roland Bateman, 
 who was (probably) a descendant of this James, was an officer 
 in Colonel Sankey's regiment with Cromwell in 1649, ^""^ '^' 
 tained a good estate near Tralee after that year. A study of 
 the Depositions relating to the Rebellion of 1641 shows that 
 many of the Cromwellian grantees were the plundered tenants 
 on the estates of the Boyles, Nugents, Browns, Fitzgeralds, 
 &c. They became the landed proprietors of the Restoration, 
 while their plunderers (actual or alleged) were reduced — as 
 many of them as remained in Ireland — to the condition of 
 tenants-at-will and cottier labourers on their forfeited estates — 
 a terrible retribution on proud and sensitive men, as many of 
 them were, yet it can hardly be called unrighteous. ' indifferent^ 
 = impartial or unprejudiced. ' bulV = bulla, or seal. 
 
 Page 88. ' Sir Bernard Grenville ' — See 1st Series, ii., 341. 
 See note before on p. i, and our Introduction to this 2nd Series, 
 i. and ii. ' Boell ' — Grenville's spelling and others contemporary 
 was very singular, and not in proper names only, 'farder' 
 = farther. ^Jrundell' — See ist Series, ii., 389. ' fawlco'' — 
 See 1st Series, under ' Hawks.' ' steed me'' = stand me in stead, 
 or be helpful. Later it will be found that this very Grenville 
 proved anything but an " asured louing frend " to Boyle. 
 
 Page 89. ' John Rowley ' — See our Introduction to this 2nd 
 Series, i. and ii., on this quaint and chatty purveyor to the 
 " Great Earl " and his lady. ' Mantells ' — Those curious in 
 such things will do well to consult Fairholt's " Costume in 
 England," as edited by Dillon, 2 vols., 1885 (Bell). See ' Glos- 
 sary ' under 'Mantle' and its references, 'ffann ' — See the same 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 275 
 
 under 'Fan' in 'Glossary.' ' £. of Sahburies instalment^ =1 
 Salisbury's • instalment ' on his augmented dignities. 
 
 Page 90. ' harpes ' — Possibly in Irish ' harps,' /. e,, the 
 musical instrument so named ; but query coin having the Irish 
 harp on it ? The context seems to suggest the former. ' vse ' 
 = interest or usury. ' meere ' = entirely. ' pillow Beres ' = 
 pillow coverings of lace-work or bolsters — not in Fairholt 
 (except ' Bearers'), as neither is the following article. ' Cuoshen 
 cloth ' = cushion covering. ' shift ' = do without it and get 
 somethmg else. 
 
 Page 91. ' hande ' = handwriting showing the amount. 
 '■Joshua Boile.' See I st Series, v. 241, 256. 
 
 Page 92. ' M' Burgatt' — A letter from him will be found 
 in vol. ii. of this Series ('John Burgatt'), p. 255. ' sowle' — 
 Note the spelling, as a key to the ' gentle ' as well as ' simple ' 
 pronunciation. ' proffer' ^= oSev. 
 
 Page 93. ' Lord Devonsheres death ' — Sidney's Stella's 
 second husband. He died 3rd April, 1606. ^ one' = on. 
 ' On ' for ' one,' and ' one ' for ' on,' constantly occur and 
 recur. ' write ' = writ. 
 
 Page 94. ' William Kellett' — It is much to be wished that 
 more were known of this and other pioneer encouragers of Irish 
 industries and manufactures. I have tried many sources and 
 correspondents in vain. Kellets were and still are a good family 
 in Cork and Tipperary. In i868 an Admiral Sir Richard Kellet 
 lived in Tipperary. See our Introduction to this 2nd Series, 
 i. and ii., on various pioneers of Irish trade and manufactures. 
 
 Page 95. ' hallentide' = Hallowtide — See p. 96, 1. 14. 
 'stecked' = stocked — See p. 96, 1. 16. ' Bally hamlet' — See ist 
 Series, i., 284. * worship fully ' = our religiously or faithfully. 
 
 Page 96. ' acepte ' = except. See converse in vol. ii., p. 237. 
 
276 NOTES AND ILLUSTRJTIONS. 
 
 Page 97. ' Garret Trant, Sovereign of Dingle ' — The Trants 
 were one of the chief families of West Kerry in early times. 
 They are said to descend from a Danish settler of the eighth or 
 ninth century, and a place on the coast, near Dingle, with the 
 remains of fortifications on it, called Cahir Trantj is traditionally 
 assigned to the first of the name in Kerry. The peasantry say 
 that it was the last ground in Ireland held by the Danish 
 invaders, but this is mythical. In the twelfth and thirteenth 
 centuries' records, calendared by the late Mr. Sweetman, the 
 name is spelt Teraunt. Dingle, called by the Irish annalist's 
 Daingean ni Cuis, i.e., the fortress of O'Cuis, an old Irish 
 chief, was rather an important little seaport before 1641. When 
 Sir William Pelham visited the town in 1580, with his secretary, 
 Nicholas White, whose narrative of the journey is in the Public 
 Record Office, he found the chief merchants' houses rased, 
 which were before " very strong and built castel wyse." This 
 was done, he says, by " Sir John of Desmond and the Knight of 
 Kerries' " rebel followers, whom the merchants cursed, with 
 " Dr. Saunders, as the root of all their calamitie" One of the 
 oldest burgesses told Pelham that the town's real name was 
 Dingle de Cousa, from an old English settler named De Cousa. 
 Later on it was often called Dingle of the Husseys, from the old 
 Anglo-Irish family of that name long settled in the barony. By 
 a Chancery Inquisition taken in Kerry on the loth of August, 
 161 1, and preserved in the Irish Pubhc Record Office, it 
 appears that John Champion, or Champernoun, and George 
 Stone had a grant from Queen Elizabeth of the whole barony 
 of Corcaguiny, the western portion of the rebel Earl of Des- 
 mond's forfeited palatinate of Kerry ; that this barony was 
 divided into two districts, Corcaguiny proper and Litteragh ; 
 that Stone conveyed his interest therein to Champion, who in 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 277 
 
 turn conveyed the whole barony to Sir Richard Boyle, his 
 heirs and assigns for ever. The Inquisition further states that 
 Sir Richard held, before this conveyance was executed, the lands 
 of Ballinacourty, Murreregane, Kinnard, Ballintarmon, and 
 CoumdufFe, in the same barony ; and it gives a long list of his 
 tenants, new colonists, and old Anglo-Irish, Trants, Husseys, 
 Nagles, Pepys, Rices, Bowlers, alias Bowdlers, alias Fullers, 
 Longs, Dashwoods, and Fitzgeralds, &c. The town was held 
 by the Knights of Kerry, under their kinsman and chiefj 
 Desmond, until 1584. After their final submission to the 
 English Government in 1604, the Knights still held it, paying 
 chiefries to Sir Richard Boyle and his descendants until the 
 close of the last century, when Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of 
 Kerry, dying, s.p., bequeathed all his diminished estates, except 
 Ballinruddery, near Listowel, which remained with his uncle (the 
 successor to the title), to his only sister, Mrs. Townshend, of 
 Castle Townshend, in Cork county. Dingle had a considerable 
 trade with France and Spain before 1688, and it continued to 
 return two members to Parliament until the Union. It then 
 sank into comparative insignificance, but of late steamers and 
 railways are beginning to revive its trade, and to enable tourists 
 to recognize the wonderful beauty of its mountains and sea 
 coasts, as well as the interest of the pre-historic ruins, ancient 
 churches, cells, and ruined castles which abound in the district. 
 OiF the extreme west coast beyond Dingle lie the Blasquet, 
 or Ferriters' Islands, which are mentioned in Lord Cork's diary. 
 Interesting notices of those islands will be found in the " His- 
 tory of Kerry," written by C. Smith, LL.D., in 1750, and in 
 Mr. A. M. Sullivan's " New Ireland." In the stormy sound 
 or Strait of the Blasquets, which separates them from the main- 
 land, a great ship of the Spanish Armada, "Our Lady of 
 
278 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 the Rosary," having a Spanish prince and several nobles on 
 board, went dovfn in 1588, one of her crewr only escaping, 
 washed on shore lashed to a plank, and half lifeless. He and 
 several of his countrymen who drifted in a boat from the mouth 
 of Bandon Bay to Tralee Bay, were hung at Tralee by order of 
 Joan, Lady Denny, the daughter of Piers Edgcumbe, of Mount 
 Edgcumbe, ancestor of the earls of his name, who, in her hus- 
 band's absence, was watching over the safety of his town. Half- 
 way down an enormous precipice called Sybil Head, on the main- 
 land, near the Blasquet Sound, is a rock, having at a distance the 
 appearance of the statue of a man with extended arm pointing 
 westward over the expanse of the Atlantic which lies below. 
 The peasantry say that this is " Saint Patrick sending his blessing 
 to America ! " On CoumdufFe, the above-mentioned mountain 
 farm, owned by Lord Cork before 161 r, the last wolf seen in 
 Ireland was killed in or about 171 2, In the middle of the present 
 century the Earl of Cork sold many of his chiefries in Corca- 
 guiny, but the present earl retains the Blasquets and a consider- 
 able portion of the mainland (I believe) in his possession. 
 A curious account of Dingle in the seventeenth century 
 will be found in Cumberland's "Voyage to the Azores," in 
 Hakluyt. 
 
 Page gg. ' me title ' — This Hibernianism for ' my,' it will 
 be seen by the ' Lismore Papers,' occurs in the correspondence 
 of ' gentle ' and cultured, though now found mainly among the 
 'common people.' So 'be' (a little onward) for ' by,' and ' there 
 be ' for ' thereby.' ' Bedloe,' 'Knave Florence' — The old Anglo- 
 Irish name of Bellew is often spelt Bedloe in seventeenth century 
 records. ' Knave Florence ' was probably Florence Mac Carthy 
 Reagh, chief of his sept in Cork, who made a stolen marriage, 
 to the alarm of the English Government and the Munster colo- 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 179 
 
 nists, with his cousin, the daughter and heiress by survival of 
 Mac Carthy Mor, created by Queen Elizabeth Earl of Clancar. 
 The latter, as the direct descendant and representative of Der- 
 mot Mac Carthy, king of South Munster, who did homage to 
 Henry II., claimed to be the owner of all the land between the 
 Blackwater at Youghal and the parish of Dunquin, on the ex- 
 treme west coast of Kerry, which in his letters to Queen 
 Elizabeth and Leicester, after he had accepted the earldom, 
 he still fondly calls " my owne countrye of the Clancar" i.e., the 
 Clann Caura, or clan of Mac Carthy. He entreated to be ap- 
 pointed her sheriff for the whole of this vast territory, great part 
 of which had passed to the English undertakers, and, needless 
 to say, was refused, through a well-founded fear that he would 
 drive them all out, which he actually endeavoured to do a few 
 months later, scornfully casting off his new title, and calling 
 himself Mac Carthy Mor again. His son-in-law Florence was 
 imprisoned on suspicion of rebellion, and died in London, 
 leaving by his wife a son, whose descendants .held Mucross, 
 near Killarney, and other fragments of their estates, until 1770, 
 when the last Mac Carthy Mor, a young officer in the Guards, 
 died, bequeathing by his will all his lands to his maternal grand- 
 father, Mr. Edward Herbert, of Kilcow, county Kerry. The 
 young testator had been born after his father's death, and educated 
 a Protestant, but his paternal relatives being all Roman 
 Catholics, in 1770, were debarred from the succession to the 
 estates by the penal laws. In 1779 the law prohibiting Roman 
 Catholics from holding real estate was repealed, so that had 
 Charles Mac Carthy Mor lived but nine years longer, it is 
 likely that his cousins and namesakes would have had Mucross. 
 Their descendants are at the present day small farmers and trades- 
 men in Kerry. The vicissitudes of this family of Mac Carthy 
 
ago NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Mor surpass in interest any recorded in Sir Bernard Burke's well 
 known-work. (See "Life and Times of Florence Mac Carthy 
 Mor," by Daniel Charles Mac Carthy : Glas.) 
 
 Page i oo. ' So beings tedious to trouble ' — Another Hiber- 
 nianism = so [it] beinge tedious, &c. ' defective titles ' — One 
 of the numerous anonymous and semi-anonymous pamphlets of 
 the period, by which owners of lands in Ireland were con- 
 stantly worried, and by which venal courtiers of a venal king 
 levied black-mail in all ignoblest and unrighteous ways, not a 
 few of the harassed ' undertakers ' conceding hush-money rather 
 than be plunged into endless litigation. The thing is not obso- 
 lete, as witness the disputed titles of gold and silver, and other 
 transatlantic mines, wherein over-trustful shareholders are 
 morally or immorally coerced into paying additional amounts 
 for * titles.' In the present case by '' proclamacon " was doubt- 
 less meant some royal advertisement, which, if it were worth 
 while, might possibly be fished up from the depths of the British 
 Museum anonymous literature. ' treasor ' = treasurer. 
 
 Page 1 01. 'an easie and comfortable delyvrye' — If ever fair 
 lady fulfilled to her husband the Psalmist's beatitude of ' a fruitful 
 vine,' it was ' Kate,' spouse of the ' Great Earl.' She is con- 
 tinuously in need of the prayer here oiFered. ' Sir John Fitz 
 Edmond' — He was head of the Fitzgeralds, long settled at 
 Cloyne, and had been knighted for his services to the English 
 government. He died possessed of immense estates in Cork 
 and Kerry (most forfeited in 1649), and lies buried in a stately 
 sculptured tomb in Cloyne Cathedral, which has lately been re- 
 paired by the Duke of Leinster. For interesting notices of Sir 
 John and his family, see the " Journal of the Royal Historical 
 and Archaeological Association of Ireland" for 1874-6, and the 
 "Reliquary" for 1881-2. ' eary' = eyrie, 'goshawk' — See 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 1st Series, i., 281, 300-1 ; iii., 269. On ' Fitzedmund Gerald,' 
 see 1st Series, ii., 394. 
 
 Page 102. * Randall Clayton ' — See ist Series, ii., 358 ; 
 iii., 249-50 ; V. 237-8. 'According [to]' — It is to be re-noted 
 that throughout the ' Lismore Papers ' our now needed ' to ' 
 is omitted. ' Sir Laurence Esmond' — See Letter from him 
 in vol. ii. of this Series, pp. 137-8. He was a descendant of a 
 family settled for several generations in Wexford, and was 
 active in its 'plantation,' and of Wicklow in 161 4. See 
 "Irish Massacres of 1641," vol. ii., App. pp. 267-322, and 
 Burke's " Extinct Peerage and Baronetage," s. n. ' Cockney car- 
 riage ' — This early use of our ' Cockney ' = Londoner, is to 
 be noted = impudent, presumptuous, arrogant. See Skeat, f . v, 
 ' occurrentes' = occurrences. ^ good great bellyed bedfellow' — One 
 of abundant examples of the plain-spoken speech of our ' gentle ' 
 ancestors. How coarse and low such a phrase would be held 
 to-day ! 
 
 Page 103. ' Thomas Fitzgerald' — Doubtless of the Kildare 
 Fitzgeralds. The places named are unknown, but Leixlip, eight 
 miles from Dublin, is a mere village. In the last century the 
 manor of Castletown, near it, was a favourite summer residence 
 of the Irish Viceroys. Joyce says " Leixlip is wholly a Danish 
 name, old Norse, Lax-hlaup, i.e., salmon-leap. This name, 
 which was probably a translation from the Irish, is derived from 
 a well-known cataract in the LifFey, which is still called the 
 Salmon Leap, a little above the village " (" Irish Names of 
 Places," 1st Series, p. loi). 'Lord Walsbe' — See Burke's 
 "Extinct Peerage." The name is a very old one in Carlow 
 and Kildare. ' Illand Hobbock'—Qu. Island Hubbert? but the 
 name is obsolete. 
 
 Page 104. 'auctor' = author or informer. 
 
 I. 00 
 
28z NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 105. ' his Majestie hearknith after' — It is astonishing 
 how minute was the personal supervision of James I. over men 
 and things. His goggle-eyes v?ere everywhere. His brain 
 might be small, but it was keen. The stages of the journey, 
 and the quaint instructions of ' haste ' outside of this letter, 
 contrast with present-day arrangements. ' Dublett ' = doublet. 
 " A name which appears to have been derived from the gar- 
 ment being made of double stuff padded between. Hence it is 
 termed Diplois, duplex vestis, and duplectus by old writers."' 
 Fairholt, under 'Doublet' as before; and the reader will be re- 
 warded by consulting the 'Glossary' herein, 'sattine^ — "A 
 thick, close-wove silk, mentioned in the thirteenth century. 
 Again see Fairholt, as before, s. v. It is to be noted that at 
 this date, or earlier, the male sex wore the richest and costliest 
 dresses. ' gaskoine hose ' = Gascony. Once more see Fairholt, 
 as before, under.' Gascony coat.' ' wachett' ■=h\ue. See Fair- 
 holt, as before, under ' Taffeta.' 
 
 Page 106. "■ bumbaste' = stuffing as by wadding. The 
 word has passed into ' bombast ' = " great sweUing words of 
 vanity," the soul donning the body's erevirhile fantastic-vain 
 dressing. ' layes ' — layers or folds. ' crosse billett ' — See Fair- 
 holt, under ' Cross Cloth.' • muxxy tafita ' — I suspect • murrey ' 
 was intended = dark red colour. See Fairholt, under ' Taffeta' 
 and 'Sarcenet.' ' neaples galhwne' = Naples Galloon (Fr.) 
 ' TVorsted lace ' — " A jacket edged with blue galloon " is 
 noticed, as worn by a country girl, in D'Urfey's " Wit and 
 Mirth " (temp. Anne). The pattern of the lace was after- 
 wards adopted in richer materials, and worn by the gentry. 
 "A hat edged with silver galloon" is mentioned in Swift's 
 " Memoirs of O. P. Clerk of the Parish " (Fairholt, s. v.). Our 
 entry shows that the gentry wore ' gallowne ' long before 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 283 
 
 Queen Anne, and thus rectifies the statement above. ' buttens ' 
 — Fairholt has an interesting article on ' buttons/ which these 
 entries illustrate. ' rowle ' = roll, 'fustian ' = cotton cloth. 
 See Fairholt, s. v. ' yaggine ' = jagging-edging.' * ribane ' = 
 ribbon. See Fairholt, i., 305, 315, and 'Glossary,' s. v. 
 ' Ribanynges ' is found in Chaucer's " Romaunt of the Rose." 
 
 Page 107. 'bodes' = boddice — "A sort of stay used by 
 women, and laced across the breast " (Fairholt, s. v. See wood- 
 cut, vol. ii., 355; also under ' Stitch." ^yor peticoat' — See 
 Fairholt, s. v. This again qualifies this author. He limits the 
 wearing of 'petticoats' by men to "the close of the 15th 
 century." This is in the i6th, and it occurs far on in 
 the 1 6th. ' Bockarum '■= buckram. See Fairholt, under ' Buck- 
 ram,' with references. ' say '= a woollen cloth. See Fairholt, 
 s.v. 'plait lace'^ plate' — See Fairholt under 'Lace' for 
 a curious quotation from Jasper Mayne : also Mrs. Palliser's 
 " History of Lace." ' slaughter ' = slashed — not found in 
 Fairholt. 
 
 Page 108. 'pointts'= fastenings instead of buttons. — See 
 woodcut and a good note in Fairholt under ' points.' ' rnint- 
 kene^= small, e.g., minikin, a small sort of pin ("Draper's 
 Dictionary," s.v.). 'bayste'= bays, or baize — See Fairholt, 
 s.v. 'winges''-= "projections on the shoulders of a doublet" 
 (Fairholt, s. v.). Queen Elizabeth's portraits show them to 
 perfection. ' basteborde ' = our paste-board. ' beutte\sh'\ '= boots 
 — See full article in Fairholt, s. v. ' sleaue bands ' — See Fairholt 
 under ' Sleeves.' 
 
 Page 109. 'vardengaW — Fairholt, s. v., 'Farthingales,' and 
 all the authorities explain as " the wide gown or petticoat, or 
 rather the under supporters of them." But our entry has 
 ' sleaues ' attached, which shows that more than the ' petticoat ' 
 
i«4- NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 was meant. * oxxedge tawny ' — not in Fairholt. ' Cafty ' = 
 CafFa, " a rich, silk stuff." — See Fairholt, s. v., and * cafFay.' 
 ^veatt' — not in Fairholt, but see p. ill, 1. 7, ^ventt'= open 
 out 'parchment lace '= Guipure lace. — Fairholt, s. v. 
 ' Boughett = budget, or parcel. Or, query, ' Bought,' as 
 below ? 
 
 Page iio. 'heare'=i hare, 'marble culler' — not in. Fair- 
 holt. Query — mixed.? 'rusteir= russet, or reddish brown. 
 
 Page hi. '^12^^^' = border — not in Fairholt. '■rawlinge' 
 = rolling. ' bentts ' — Spelt ' beutts'= boots, as below. ' Gossan ' 
 — Recalls the famous satirist of the name whose quaint books 
 are still quick. 
 
 Page 112. '■ Irrelagh O'Callaghan^ — The Irish name for 
 Mucross Abbey, near Killarney, was often written ' Irrelagh,' 
 which is merely a corruption of Oirbhealach, i.e., the eastern 
 pass or way, pronounced Ervalagh. Ervallagh, or Irrelagh 
 O'Callaghan, was evidently a member of the O'Callaghan tribe, 
 and derived his name from Oirbhealach, as above. He could 
 only have been a small tenant of the O'Callaghan chief, who was 
 himself a sub-chief to Mac Donogh of Duhallow territory, in the 
 north-west of Cork. His name is found in an Inquisition at 
 Mallow in 1594 before Sir Thomas Norreys and others. 
 With reference to the lands and possessions of O'Callaghan 
 full information will be obtained on the time-out-of-mind 
 customs by which they were held, in Eugene O'Curry's 
 " Lectures on the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish," 
 edited by O'SuUivan. Although a place name is here, as else- 
 where, turned into a kind of Christian name, it seems exceptional, 
 though frequent in Scotland conversationally. In the second 
 deed on p. 115 the O'Callaghan affixes his seal in wax, and 
 Irrelagh O'Callaghan's name, or mark, is affixed merely as one 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 285 
 
 of the witnesses to the document sealed by the chief. ' Pallace ' 
 — See I St Series, iv. 239. ' fl^/>^r?^««ffc« '= appurtenances. 
 ' egresse and regress ' = going and coming, entering and return- 
 ing. ' Gartroe ' — A place in the parish of Kilshannick, near 
 Mallow, as is Pallace. 
 
 Page 113. ' wrought '= exhausted — See p. 114, 1. 24. 
 
 Page 114. ^ lands, hamlets, or woody grounds' — The after- 
 names seem to have been of various forms. These have long 
 been altered and such as only my lamented friend Canon 
 Hayman could have traced out. It is of no great moment that 
 we cannot now do so. '■ ■puhlecallaghan'' — See note on p. 
 
 Page 115. ^ witch elm ' — Figures in "Folk Lore." ' henes ' 
 — qu. herons ? 
 
 Page 116. '««««'= son-in-law. 
 
 Page 117. ^Thomont'= Thomond. See ist Series, ii. 
 341, 365-6. ' salue two sores ' — A Puritan phrase found in old 
 title-pages. ' sheame ' — Misprint for ' streame.' ' hable ' = able. 
 Another example of the ' h ' even among gentlemen, including 
 the "Great Earl." ^John FFhitsone'—See "Notes and Illustra- 
 tions " in vol. ii., s. n., for a full note on this Whitsone. Forty 
 years ago the name was found in Kerry amongst the Protestant 
 farmers on or near Lord Cork's lands there. It appears now 
 and again in old parish Registers in Kerry, but never amongst 
 the gentry. 
 
 Page i 18. ' vtter ' = deliver. ' Seauerne' — Severn. ' eer ' 
 = here. 
 
 Page 119. 'Casy' — He was, probably, descendant of a 
 Bishop of Limerick, of the reign of Edward VI., Mary, and 
 Elizabeth. This Bishop Casey was deprived of his see by 
 Mary, but Elizabeth restored him in 1571. Thomas Casey, 
 Esq. (probably son of James, Clerk of the Council), of Rath- 
 
286 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 cannon Castle, co. Limerick, married in 1631 the daughter of 
 Sir John Dowdall, of Kilfinny in the same county and had a 
 daughter, Anne Casey, who married in 1657 Drury Wray, a 
 Cromwellian officer, son of Sir Drury Wray, Bart., of Glent- 
 worth, Lincolnshire. See " History of the Wrays of Glentworth," 
 by Charles Dalton, F.R.H.S. (2 vols. 8vo. 1881). The mother of 
 Anne Casey was sister to the wife of Sir Hardress Waller, and 
 in consideration of the steadfast loyalty of the ancient family of 
 Dowdall, of which they were co-heiresses. Sir Hardress, though 
 a regicide (as well as Drury Wray), was favoured after the 
 Restoration. In the 2nd volume of this 2nd Series a very notice- 
 able letter of Edward Wray will be found pp. 253-4. ^iveet' 
 = wit or know. ' authorishe ' — spelling to be noted as Morrishe 
 for Morris, &c. &c. 
 
 Page 120. "■ Sowe iron'= our pig-iron. The latter only 
 slightly more euphonious. 
 
 Page 121. ' Cordogin' — Probably Cahirduggan, i.e., the 
 stone fort of Duggan, an Irishman — a parish near Doneraile in 
 CO. Cork. ' Bouth ' =: Booth. ' Hit ' = item ? 
 
 Page 123. 'myne' = ore, ut freq. 
 
 Page i 24. ' in graine damaske ' = dyed in the substance. 
 See Fairholt, as before, under ' damask.' ' kirtle ' = loose gown. 
 See Fairholt, s. v. ' stomacher.' ' reddffur,' See Fairholt, under 
 'Fur.' ^ mislyke the fashion of the sleeve.^ It must be repeated 
 that men outdid women in the richness and finical daintiness of 
 their dress-materials. ' Pearson ' = Persian ? 
 
 Page 125. falUnge band' — See Fairholt, s. v., and so under 
 • ruffe band.' ' hels ' = else. — As unhappy a use of ' h ' as that of 
 the luckless Cockney who startled the Welsh by exclaiming on 
 the enormous number of ' hells ' [L's] in Wales — referring to the 
 ' U ' of the successive railway-station names. ' Woodwor ' — There 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 287 
 
 is a place called Woodford in co. Galway, near Portumna, where 
 iron works at various times have been carried on. See Lewis's 
 "Topographical Dictionary," s. n. Iron ore exists in the neigh- 
 bouring mountains. There are other Wood fords in Munster. 
 ' sapper ' = skipper. 
 
 Page 126. 'lyters' = lighters, barges. ' beneaped' = left 
 in ebb tide. 
 
 Page 127. 'one' = on, as before, frequenter. ' repluie' = 
 replevy. 
 
 Page 128. 'Neil Carbye' — Most probably this was Neil 
 Garvy, one of the O'Donnels of Ulster. See Calendar of Irish 
 State Papers, by Prendergast and Russell, 1600-1625. ' Garvy' 
 is the corruption of Irish Garbh, or Garve, i.e., rough. ' ad- 
 monytion ' = advice. 
 
 Page 129. 'knees' — See ist Series, i., 296-7, v. 235, 243. 
 This reference concerning timber enables me to return on an 
 earlier note (p. 260 on page 5). Probably the explanation of 
 • boate,' in combination with ' fire,' ' plow,' &c., is to be found 
 in * to boot,' which it appears is a common Irish phrase for an 
 addition to any gift. It is English as well as Irish, but never in 
 this odd fashion. In a Kerry lease of 1740 the following is 
 found : Colonel Arthur Denny of Tralee Castle leases to such 
 and such persons certain lands, "with liberty of houseboot, 
 plowboot, cartboot, and fire-boot, provided no unreasonable 
 waste be committed in the woods or underwoods growing on 
 said lands, and that they [the lessees] first obtain said Colonel 
 Arthur Denny's his heirs and assigns leave for so doing." 
 From this clause in this lease it is clear that in addition or ' to 
 boot,' with certain lands, the Colonel gave the lessees power to 
 cut wood and underwood (or brushwood) for the purposes of 
 household fuel or fire, plough and cart-making, and house- 
 
zgg NOrES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 building. This seems to answer to the text. 1. 6. remove , 
 after ' iron.' ' Peijines ' = Pyne. 'plotte ' = plan, or proposal. 
 
 Page i 30. ' Justice Harrys ' — See ist Series, 287. ' Justice 
 Gosnold.' See ist Series, ii. 406. "■ avoydinge' = voiding. 
 
 Page 132. ' tewllve' = twelve, 'watering tables^ = 
 gutters. ' 
 
 Page 133. 'wescod' = wainscot, '■mven' .. .'mveuer,' 
 and the like, suggest some connection with muUion (spelled below 
 and anciently 'mvnnyon' = upright division between lights of 
 windows. ' transome ' = a thwart-piece across a double window. 
 ' ogee ' = double curve. ' Dannell Solevan ' = Daniel Sullivan. 
 
 Page 134. ' Ff. Sherwood' — Soldiers of the name appear in 
 the list of Raleigh's and Norrey's troops in Cork and Waterford, 
 and amongst farmers and tradesmen in Cork at the present day. 
 ' Dunmore ' — In Kilkenny, near Ormond's castle. ' Nenagh ' — 
 is a parish and town in Lower Ormond barony in Tipperary, 
 anciently the estate of the Butlers, earls of Ormond. The 
 name is derived from the Irish 'nAenach, i.e., the meeting-place, 
 a place for holding an assembly of the tribes. Modernly the 
 word is applied to a fair. 
 
 Page 136. ' Garrott Fitz William ' — Of the innumerable 
 Fitzgeralds or Powers about Waterford, or Lismore. He was 
 apparently one of those poor students for whom Boyle cared. 
 
 Page i 39. ' Wallop ' and ' Litton ' — I must refer to Burke, s. n. 
 
 Page 140. * Lord Danvers .... wilbraham ' — See 
 Burke, s. n. 
 
 Page 141. ' Kinshelaghes ' — For 'Ulster' in the heading, 
 read ' Leinster.' Wexford from the 7th and 8 th century had 
 been planted or settled by Danish, British, and English settlers. 
 Wexford as a word is from the Danish. In English annals it is 
 called Wersford. The Kinshelas were an old Irish tribe settled 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 289 
 
 in the county. For the carrying out of the Wexford Plantation 
 by James I., sketched in this Paper, see "Irish Massacres of 
 1641," vol. ii., App. pp. 266-75. ' Bellamount' — was the Lord 
 Viscount Beaumont (Sir John Beaumont) to whom Richard II. 
 made a grant of great part of Wexford {Ibid., pp. 270-71); 
 which title James I. revived when he seized the lands and gave 
 them away to new planters who paid him money. 
 
 Page 142. ' owne private' = their own personal interests. 
 
 Page 145. 'defalcked' — See note on p. 8. ' Drithe' = 
 drought. ' Richard Boyle '—See full life of the " Great Earl," 
 as before. ' standish ' — See any history of Gloucestershire, s. n., 
 also full Life. ' Seuffarne ' = Severn. ' vnwellthey ' — a good 
 euphemistic coinage. 
 
 Page 147. ' Sir Humphrry May ' — See ist Series, ii., 421 ; 
 iv., 248. 'Sir daniell oBrien' — See 1st Series, ii., 430. ''Sir 
 oliuer st John ' — See all the Peerage and Baronetage authorities 
 on these historical names. Several letters of St. John onward 
 in vol. ii. 
 
 Page 148. '■ffriar garrott' — One of the many political 
 Jesuit priests who got themselves into trouble as well as the 
 Government. These men it must be conceded had the courage 
 of their opinions. 
 
 Page 149. ' Sir Thomas Browne' — See ist Series, ii., 344. 
 'Sir John Denham' — Ibid., ii., 421; iii., 259. But with 
 reference to the latter note, alas ! it was the father of the poet 
 of " Cooper's Hill," not the poet himself. The Judge died 6th 
 January, 1638. 
 
 Page 150. ' Chichester '— See ist Series, ii., 366. 
 
 Page 152. ' Sir Parr Lane ' — query, a cypher for Sir Lau- 
 rence sParsons. 'piratt' — ^These criminals were abundant at 
 this period and onward, and w^ere recklessly brave. 
 
 I. P P 
 
290 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 153. "■ Newcomen' — See ist Series, iii., 358. ' Ridge- 
 •way ' and * Northampton ' — Historical names to be found in all 
 the Peerage and like books. 
 
 Page 156. '■Archbishop of Canterbury,' 161 3 = George Abbot. 
 
 Page 158. ' ingeniously ' = ingenuously. ' Sir Oliuer Lam- 
 bert.' See 1st Series, ii., 397. ' Annesley ' — See ist Series, under 
 ' Mountmorres,' iii., 240, 249 ; iv., 254-5, '^S^> 258. He died 
 in 1660. See also Lodge and Burke, and lives of Strafford. 
 
 Page 161. 'ffor one ' = in the place of one. ' Sir William 
 Parsons ' — Ancestor of the Earl of Rosse, Lord Justice of Ire- 
 land in 1641 ; with Sir John Borlase active in 'plantation' 
 schemes from 1612 to 1635. See "Irish Massacres," vol. i., 
 pp. 39-42, vol. ii., p. 263 ; other letters showr that the letter- 
 writer was Parsons, and not a Barry or Parry. 
 
 Page 162. ' apparantly' ^stlf-cvideniXY. 'censure'' = judg- 
 ment or condemnation. 
 
 Page 163. ^bellamont' — See note on p. 141. "■ gavelkind' 
 = a peculiar kind of land tenure. ' brisketts ' = Lodovick Bris- 
 kett, the poet-friend of Sidney and Spenser, as before. 
 
 Page 164. '0 H our kes country' — See note on p. 202,1. 10 
 from bottom. 
 
 Page 165. * Sir Thomas Mounson' — A prominent actor and 
 courtier statesman. See Lodge and Burke, s. n. 
 
 Page 166. ' Thomond' — See ist Series, s. n. 
 
 Page 167. ' 7««j '—query, Journals? UheBath'—^o 
 for long Bath was designated, as though there were not another 
 in all Great Britain. ' stocks '—Curious to learn that this ancient 
 instrument of punishment for scolds stood ' in the Poultry '. 
 ' Ameuer ' — query, Axminster .? 
 
 Page 169. 'Rents' — Again, for lack of Canon Hayman, 
 I have found it impossible to locate these many farms and pro- 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. agi 
 
 parties. It is not of first moment to do so ; still, I should 
 gladly have printed his always interesting notes on them. 
 ' Masgrey ' = Muskerry, a barony in the county Cork, deriving 
 its name from an ancient Irish prince, Carberry Muse, and his 
 descendants ; Irish, hence Musc-raidhe, /. e., the race of Muse. 
 Copengar = Coppinger, as before, p. 71. '■Carey glasces' = 
 Curryglass, a place near Mogeely, in east Cork ; recte the w^ord 
 is Ciirraghglass = a green marsh. "■ gratrycks' z=. Greatreaks, 
 as before. 
 
 Page 170. ^ Ser J epsun '= Sir John Jephson. See 1st 
 Series, ii., 351. 'Sir William Lovelace' — See ist Series, ii., 
 420. ' John pearce birne ' — An example of a double Christian 
 name to be noted. 
 
 Page 171. ' Sir Thomas Smithe' — One of the most vene- 
 rable of the great clan of Smith. See Lodge and Burke, and all 
 the authorities. ' state man ' — The tadpole form of our ' states- 
 man.' ' trie ' — Prove. Cf end ; query, ' I canne [not] w^rite ' ? 
 
 Page 172. ' Alden' — One of the obscurer Irish clergy, 
 who seems to have been badly used. Boyle had many such 
 wronged persons to care for. He appears in Cotton, s. n., as 
 Archdeacon of Lismore (161 2). 
 
 Page 175. '■Sir James Goagh' = Gough. A proud Irish 
 name onward to our own times, but query here a clerical ' Sir ' 
 = dominus ? See p. 19 1 onward. 
 
 Page 176. ' Captayn vgelthorp' — Letters of his onward. 
 ' William Kewelling ' — The many quaint names of this other 
 letter of droll-spelling Kewelling, I darenot grapple with. Most 
 were farms which have been altered in their names successively. 
 
 Page 178. ' screve' = sheriff. 
 
 Page 180. 'sences' = since. ' allhalant' = all-hallovpB. 
 • vJeare ' = weir, fishery contrivance. 
 
292 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page i8i. 'Tares ' = terrace. 
 
 Page 182. ' Almshouses ' — Canon Hayman intended to 
 have furnished me with a full account of these charitable endow- 
 ments — one of my losses by his death. See his various admirable 
 little books on ' YoughaL' It is to be hoped they will all be 
 collected and republished. For width and minuteness com- 
 bined with accuracy of research they compare with any. 
 
 Page 183. ' Tracton ' — See ist Series, ii., 356, 401. 
 
 Page 184. ' Mears' = boundaries. See ist Series, i., 278. 
 See full Life of 'Great Earl' as before, for notices of the 
 various landowners from whom he purchased as enumerated 
 herein. 
 
 Page 189. ' Sir Lawrence Parsons ' — See ist Series, i., 292, 
 ^93> "v 387. ' proposicons for the publique weak ' — It is much to 
 be desired that a manuscript that was submitted to Bacon were 
 forthcoming. 
 
 Page 190. ' Bacon ' — See Introduction to vols. i. and ii. of 
 this 2nd Series for other glimpses of Bacon. 
 
 Page 191. ' M'' Justice Lother' — See ist Series, ii., 347-8, 
 426. 
 
 Page 192. ' William llewellin ' — See ist Series, i., 279 ; v., 
 267. '■earnest' — See ist Series, i., 285; ii., 346; iii., 256; 
 v., 248. 
 
 Page 193. ' M' whitson of Bristell' — See full note on this 
 pioneer of trade between Ireland and England in vol. ii, of this 
 2nd Series. 
 
 Page 194. ' Rahennij ' = Rahenny, neur Dublin, 'intend- 
 ments ' = intended plans or purposes — so occurrents for occur- 
 rences, &c. 
 
 Page 195. 'Hodge' = Roger — alas ! he was to die pre- 
 maturely at this same Deptford. 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 293 
 
 Page 196. 'Sir Thomas Browne' — See ist Series, ii., 344. 
 ' lymbrick ' = Limerick. Curiously enough in this (English) 
 town of Blackhurn there is a district which bears the name of 
 ' lymbrick ' — not now inhabited by Irish, whatever it may once 
 have been. ' Sir Thomas Stafford' — See under Mrs. Lovell, ii., 
 363, in I St Series. 
 
 Page 197. ' Lord of Deluin' — See " Extinct Irish Peerage," 
 s. «., ' Delvin ' : ' Sir Patrick Barnwell ! ' — See Burke, s. n. 
 
 Page 198. 'in his gutts' — Another example of the plain 
 and coarse speech of even ' gentle ' folks then. Such a phrase 
 were intolerable to-day. ' my lord Harington ' — See note onward. 
 'a bruinge infrance' — All that follows long historical common- 
 place on names and events. 
 
 Page 199. "-vent ' = dispose of. See Skeat, s. v. ; ' one ' = 
 on, and a few lines lower ' on ' = one, utfreq. 
 
 Page 200. ' where your sonne soiourneth ' = Deptford, as on 
 p. 195. ' Straune ' = Strand. 
 
 Page 201. ^ Sir Richard Moryson ' — See ist Series, ii. 403. 
 "■young lord Harrington ' — Of this promising youth, a literary 
 memorial of still quick interest remains in the following book : — 
 (fl) " Sorrowes Lenitive. Written vpon occasion of the Death 
 of that hopefuU and Noble Young Gentleman, John Lord Har- 
 rington, Barron of Exton, &c. Who died the 27* of Febr. 
 1613. By Abraham lackson." 1614 (a Poem). (^) " The 
 Churches Lamentation for the losse of the Godly. Deliuered 
 in a Sermon at the fvnerals of that truly noble and most hopeful 
 young Gentleman, John Lord Harrington To- 
 gether with a declaration of his Life and Death." [With a 
 frontispiece and woodcut portrait of Harrington.] 1614. ' Sir 
 Dom. Sarsfielde' — See ist Series, ii., 347. 
 
 Page 204. ' imperlance ' = delay. 
 
294 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page 205. ' Sir Wilham ' — By inadvertence sic ; should 
 have been ' William.' * Tax ' = accusation. 
 
 Page 206. ' Sirjohn dauies' — See ist Series, i., 279 j v., 
 267, et freq., also my Lives of him, prefixed to his complete 
 Works in Fuller Worthies' Library, 3 vols., and in " Early 
 English Poets," his Poems, 2 vols. (Chattoand Windus). 
 
 Page 209. 'Solomon'' — An early appearance of the gro- 
 tesquely inappropriate designation of King James L that has 
 become historical. 
 
 Page 211. ^ Sir John Everard'' — See ist Series, ii., 342, 
 
 358. 
 
 ^ Page 213. 'Sir Thomas Jshe' — See 1st Series, iii., 254. 
 
 ' Sir John Bowrchier ' — See ist Series, ii., 352. 
 
 Page 215. 'Sir James Sempk' — See the collected poems, 
 with Lives, by Patterson, of the " Semples of Beltrees." These 
 letters, &c., add a good deal to our scanty knowledge of the 
 circumstances of these noticeable Scottish poets — assuming that 
 this was the Scot. 
 
 Page 217. 'Sir John Jepson ' — See ist Series, ii., 351. 
 
 Page 219. 'Roche and Fermoye' — See ist Series, ii., 363; 
 iv., 260. ' Sir Thomas Roper' — See ist Series, i., 279 ; ii., 343. 
 
 Page 221. 'Cornelius Gaffrye' — He was probably ancestor 
 of Lt. John JefFreyes, owner of Blarney after 1688. 
 
 Page 222. '■Sir William Vscher' — See ist Series, ii., 438. 
 
 Page 223. ' M" Pynes ' — The notorious Henry Pyne, on 
 whom onward in vol. ii., with the Raleigh estates papers. 
 ' killcoran ' — See Introduction to vols. i. and ii. of this 2nd 
 Series on this place, imperishably associated with Spenser's 
 " Elizabeth." 
 
 Page 224. ' Lord Roche and Fermoye ' — Let the (to us) 
 astounding orthography of this nobleman, modify our con- 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 295 
 
 ception of the " fair ladies " of these " Lismore Papers." Think 
 of • ocseCaccons ' for ' occasions,' and ' faiel ' for ' fail ! ' His 
 solicitousness for the observance of Lent by Boyle (a Protestant) 
 is suggestive. 
 
 Page 225. 'Ribroe castle^ — Some misspelling, impossible to 
 correct now. 
 
 Page 226. 'Sir Toby Caulfield '—?>&& ist Series, iii., 236. 
 ' Sir John King ' — Ibid., ii., 342. ' Sir Adam Loftus '—Ibid., 
 ii., 397-8, 414; iii., 235, 249 ; v., 246. 
 
 Page 230. ' Dell ' = deal. 
 
 Page 231. • marlins ^ = merlins. See ist Series, under 
 ' havsrks.' 
 
 Page 233. ' Shen" shall = seneschal. 
 
 Page 235. ^[Dongarvan] Castle' — See ist Series, iii., 262, 
 268. 
 
 Page 237. ' Oglethorpe ' — See Introduction to vols. i. and 
 ii. of this 2nd Series. 
 
 Page 238. ' Clantarffe ' = Clontarf, near Dublin. 
 
 Page 239. ' Talbutt ' — Doubtless this w^as the Sir William 
 Talbot who is mentioned in the Plunkett MSS. preserved in the 
 family archives of Mr. Plunkett Dunne, of Brittas House, 
 Queen's County, as an industrious and clever lawyer, father of 
 Richard Talbot, who was created by James H. Duke of Tyr- 
 connell, and that monarch's last viceroy in Ireland. Sir Robert 
 Talbot was one of the witnesses examined by the Crom- 
 wellian High Court of Justice in 1653, for the defence of 
 Lord Muskerry. See "Irish Massacres," as before, vol. ii., 
 p. 197. 
 
 Page 244. ' Sir John Davies ' — It is interesting to associate 
 the statesman-poet of " Nosce Teipsum " with these places in 
 the country. He seems to have secured his full share of the 
 
296 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 spoils in Ireland. A few only of the places have I been enabled 
 to trace, ' Com. JVaterford. ffor the howse of Lope in Lismore ' 
 — From an old registry of the Spiritualities of the See of Lis- 
 more preserved amongst the Clogher MSS. in Trinity College 
 Library, Dublin, it appears that an hospital or Lazaret for 
 lepers existed at Lismore, and that it received rents from several 
 lands, some of them unknown at the time the registry was com- 
 piled, which must have been later than a.d. 1467. Cf. Canon 
 Hayman's "Guide" and "Memorials" on Youghal. 'Com. 
 Corke. ffor Towaghe hallyoonny ' — This is probably a corruption of 
 Tuath Baile Mhuirni, i.e., the people or the district of the abode 
 of Mhuirni, a woman's name signifying " the beloved." 
 Tuath, pronounced tua, was the old Irish word for populus or 
 people, but later it was applied to the district in which they 
 lived. Towagh Donaghmore is ' the people or the district 
 of the great church' : v. Joyce, p. 292. ' Reanwy' — This 
 was probably Rinny, where Spenser the poet's descendants 
 resided. 
 
 Page 245. ' Crookhaven ' — Lies a little to the north-west of 
 Cape Clear. The ancient castle there is said to have been built 
 by the O'Heas or the O'Meehans. ' Teragh in Teiges Burga- 
 gery ' — This in Tralee seems to be an attempt at the Irish for the 
 hill or rock residence of Tiegue. Teamhair, according to Joyce 
 ("Irish Names of Places," ist Series, p. 271), is a residence, a 
 hill fort or collection of forts commanding a wide prospect, and 
 Teamrach, pronounced Taragh or Towragh, is the genitive 
 form of the word. Tiegue, probably an O'Connor, was owner 
 of a burgage in Tralee, situated, it is likely, on the rising ground 
 to the north-west of the town, called Rock Street, and con- 
 taining one or more of the ancient forts in which the Irish 
 lived. From the upper end of Rock Street, a wide view of 
 
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 297 
 
 the shores of Tralee Bay and the mountains can be obtained 
 even now when streets of tall houses lie near it. Other names 
 even my w^ell-informed helper Miss Mary Hickson cannot now 
 identify. 
 
 Page 246. 'facte ' = act or deed. 
 
 Page 247. « mearing ' = marching or bounding. 
 
 Page 253. 'ash coullerd Rovato' — Not found in Fairholt, 
 as before, '■popus' — One can only guess whether this 'was 
 ' pople,' " fur from the back of the squirrel," which is found in 
 A.D. 1412, or 'poplin,' silk shot with worsted, as in Fairholt, 
 s. V. ' Taffata pickadell ' — A band or rufF. Fairholt's note, s. v., 
 is an extremely valuable one. It is curious to find that ' Picca- 
 dilly ' took its name from the articles having been largely sold 
 there, and first sold in a house near the western extremity of the 
 present street. 
 
 Page 254. '■perpetuana'' — "A woollen fabric deriving its 
 name, like Lasting and Sempiternum, from its supposed durable 
 nature." (Fairholt's ' Glossary,' s. v.) 
 
 Page 255. * vnicornes home ' — A quack compound of a 
 mythical sort, for one can hardly imagine it was obtained from 
 the rhinoceros or hippopotamus horn. The ' unicorn ' is best 
 known from its place as the supporter of the arms of England 
 along with the lion. ' bezar ' ^ bezoar — A stone, and supposed 
 antidote to poison, brought from India by the Portuguese. See 
 1st Series, i., 285 ; iv., 232 ; v., 259. 
 
 Page 256. '■Jerking ' =^ jerkin. * couller de roy ' = purple 
 or crimson. ' nouato ' — Cf ' Rovato,' p. 253. Query = new 
 fashioned i ' wusted' = worsted or worstead — "A woollen cloth 
 which takes its name from being first manufactured at Worstead 
 in Norfolk, about the reign of Henry I." Worsted stockings 
 are mentioned in 1590 as costing 8f. to 9^. a pair, and at this 
 
 I. CLQ. 
 
zgS NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 time the use of silk ones was prohibited save to those of certain 
 degrees. " A base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited hun- 
 dred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave." — Shakespeare's 
 " King Lear." (Fairholt, ' Glossary,' as before, s. v.) 
 
 A. B. G. 
 
 END OF VOL. I. 
 
 CHISWICK W«ESS:-C. WIllTTINGHAt^ ANO CO., TOOKS COURT, CBANCliRY LANE.