first entire give in the names of all and every the aforesaid Souldiers to the Clearke of the Cheque to bee entred in his booke and from time to time shall certifie the deaths and alterations of the same to the Lord Deputy and Cleark of the Checque in convenient time as the same may reasonably be done having regard to the distance of the place and as other Captaines of the army are bound to doe Item the said Iustice Saxey shall have for his stipend yearely one hundred pounds sterling and the said Iames Gold assistant or second Iustice one hundred markes sterling and the said Clark of the Councel twenty pounds sterling and which stipends and wages shall be payed quarterly by the hands of the Treasurer at warres or Vice-treasurer here of this Realme of Ireland And if the said Iustice or assistant and secondary Iustice shall depart out of the Limits of the Commission aforesaid without the speciall licence of the said Lord President or having leave shall tarry longer out then the time granted then without reasonable cause of excuse the said Lord President shall deduct and defalke out of their said severall entertainments so much as the said wages of so many dayes doth amount unto to the use of her Majestie towards her other charges to be extraordinarily sustained in the execution of their Commission at the discretion of The said Lord President Item for further reputation and honour of the same Office the said Lord President shall have continually attending upon him a Serjeant at Armes who shall beare the Mace of the Queenes Majesties Armes before him in such manner as the Serjeant at Armes doth beare the Mace before the President in Wales which Serjeant may at all times be sent by the said Lord President and Councell for th'apprehending and bringing in of any disobedient person receiving of every such person being of the degree of a Gentleman so commonly knowen and having yearely liuelihood by any meanes of tenne pounds for his arrest ten shillings and for the arrest of every particular person six shillings eight pence and six shillings eight pence for every dayes travell and not aboue Hee shall also haue his dyet in the Household of the said Lord President and towards his maintenance the ordinary wages of one of the thirtie Horsemen And forasmuch as there must bee of necessitie one Officer to whom all offenders and malefactors are to bee committed during the time of their Imprisonment it is thought meet that the said Lord President shall appoint one Porter to haue charge of the Goale who shall haue his dyet in the househould of the said Lord President and bee accounted as one of the twentie Footmen and receiue the wages due for the same and also such other profits upon every prisoner as ensueth viz. for the entry of every prisoner so to him committed having liuelihood of tenne pounds by the yeare three shillings foure pence and twelue pence by the day for his dyet during his abode in prison and for every other person of inferiour condition two shillings for his entry and six pence by the day for his dyet Item the said Lord President and Councell if oportunitie may serue monethly or once every two moneths at the least advertise us the Lo. Deputie and Councell here of the State of the Country within their Commission or oftner if they shall see cause And where the said Lo President and Councell shal haue by their Commission sufficient authoritie to heare and determine by their discretions all manner of complaints within any part of the province of Mounster as well guildeable as franchise yet they shall haue good regard that except great necessitie or other matters of conscience conceived upon the complaint shall moue him they shall not hinder nor impeach the good course and usage of the common Lawes of the Realme but shall to their power further the execution thereof nor shall without evident cause interrupt such Liberties and Franchises as haue lawfull commencement and continuance by the warrants of the Law other wayes then where any speciall complaint shall be made unto them of any manifest wrong or delay of Iustice done or used by the owners Officers or Ministers of the said Franchises or Liberties In which cases the said Lord President and Councell shall examine the said defaults so alledged by way of complaint to be counted in the Franchises and shall send for the Officers against whom complaint shall be made and finding the same to be true they shall not only heare and determine the particular principall causes of the parties complaints but shall also reforme punish according to their discretions the defaults of the said owners and Ministers of the said Liberties and if the matter shall so serue upon due information to be made to us of the abuses of the said Franchises and Liberties so as the same may be done by order according to the lawes tryed and upon just causes the Liberties resumed into the Queenes Majesties hands Item where the said Lo President and Councell shall haue Commission power and authoritie by Letters Patents under the Great Seale of this Realme of Ireland and of Oyer Determiner and Goale deliverie in as large and ample manner as any such Commission or Authoritie is graunted to any Commissioners for that purpose within the Realmes of England or Ireland Wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and charge the said Lord President and Councell that hee and they doe diligently and often severely and justly sit heare and determine by vertue of the same such causes as shall bee brought before them in such severall places as best may agree with the necessitie of the cause and the commoditie of the people Item where also the said Lord President hath full power and authoritie by Letters patents under the great Seale of this realme to execute the Martiall law when necessitie shall require in as large and ample manner as to any other it hath beene accustomed to bee graunted within this realme of Ireland The said Lord President shall haue good regard thereunto that no use be made of the Martiall lawe but when meere necessitie shall require for the exercise thereof is onely to bee allowed where other ordinarie administration of Iustice cannot take place foreseeing alwayes that no person having fiue pound of Freehold or goods to the value of tenne pound shall not bee tried by the order of the Martiall Law but by order of the common Law And yet if necessitie for service and terrour to others shall at any time require the Martiall Lawe to be executed vpon any one person or moe being of greater value in lands or goods then aboue is expressed the President in such speciall causes may use his discretion and thereof and of the causes that mooved him shall make us the Lord Deputie and Councell privie Item
penall Statutes as also of obligations and Recognizances taken made or acknowledged before the said L President and Councell or any of them within the limits of their authorities and Commission for apparance or for the peace or good abearing or by reason of any speciall Statute whatsoever then made or to be made And shall also have authority to cesse reasonable fines for any offences whereof any person shall happen to bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell and such Summes of mony as shall grow or come by reason of any such compositions or Fines they shall cause it to bee entred into a booke subscribed with the hands of the said Lord President and Councell or two of them at the least whereof the Lord President to bee one To the end the Queenes Majestie may be answered of the same accordingly And also upon such compositions made of Fine or Fines set as aforesaid shall have authority to cancell or make voyde all such Obligations and Bonds And also the said Lord President shall cause as much as in him lyeth all Writts or Processes sent or to bee sent to any person or persons inhabiting or being within the precinct of his Commission out of the Kings Bench Chaunceâ—â—e or Exchequer or any other Court of Record diligently to bee observed and effectually to bee obeyed according to the tenor of the same And if hee shall find negligence slacknesse or willfull omission in any Officer or other Minister to whom the delivery or serving of such Processe doth appertaine Hee shall punish the same severely according to the greatnesse and qualitie of the offence And it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one after examination in the causes necessary upon vehement suspition and presumption of any great offence in any partie committed against the Queenes Majestie to put the said partie so suspected to tortures as they thinke convenient and as the cause shall require and also to respitt Iudgement of death upon any person convicted or attainted before him and that Councell for any treason murder or any other felony Or after Iudgement given to stay execution untill such time as hee shall certifie us the Lord Deputie and Councell of his doings and consideration of the same and receiue answere from us thereof Provided alwayes that the same certificate bee made to us the Lo Deputie and Councell within the space of 21 dayes after such thing is done Also if any Inquest within the precinct of their Commission within Liberties or without being sworne and charged upon triall of any fellonie murder or any like offender whatsoever hee bee having good and pregnant evidence for sufficient proofe of the matter whereof the said offendor shall bee accused indicted or arraigned doe utterly acquite such offendor contrary to the said evidence that then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall examine such perjuries as well by deposition of witnesses as by all other kinde of proofes by their discretions and if the said Inquest bee convicted before the said Lord President and Councell or three of them at the least wherof the Lord President to be one the said Lord President and Councell may and shall proceed to the punishment of such offence by fine imprisonment or wearing of papers or standing on the pillorie as by their discretions shall seeme meet Also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell doe earnestly require and straightly charge the said Lord President and Councell that they at all times and in all places where any great assembly shall bee made before them doe perswade the people by all good meanes and wayes to them seeming good and especially by their owne examples in observing all Orders for Divine Service and other things appertaining to Christian Religion and to embrace forlow and devoutly to obserue the Order and Service of the Church established in the Realme by Parliament or otherwayes by lawfull authoritie and earnestly to call upon and admonish all Bishops and Ordinaries within the precinct of their Commission diligently fervently and often to doe the same And if the Lord President and Councell shall finde them negligent and unwilling or unable to doe the same That then they shall advertise the Lord Deputie and Councell thereof and they shall call earnestly upon the Bishops severely to proceed according to the censuring of the church against all notorious Advowterers and such as without lawfull divorce doe leaue their Wiues or whilest that their lawfull Wife liveth doe marry with any other and the Sentence pronounced by the Bishop or Ordinarie upon the offendor The said Lo President and Councell shall endeavour themselues to the uttermost that they conveniently may to cause the same Sentence to bee put in execution according to the Lawes And if they shall finde the Ordinarie slacke or remisse in this duetie and not doing according to his Office they shall punish or cause to bee punished the same Bishop or Ordinary according to their discretions Also the Lord President and Councell shall examine the decay of all parish Churches and through whose defaults the same be decayed and to proceed to the procuring or informing of such as ought to repaire any Church or Churches with all convenient speed according to their discretions And in cases where her Majestie shall bee after due and advised inquisition found by reason of her possessions bound to repaire the same Churches In those cases advertisement shall bee given to us the Lord Deputie c. Or if they shall know of any that shall spoyle rob or deface any Church they shall with all sincerity proceed to the punishment of the Offenders according to the Lawes Statutes and Ordinances of this Realme or according to their discretions They shall assist and defend all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other ecclesiastical Ministers in the ministery of their function and in the quiet possessing of their Landes rents services and hereditaments and shall punish the with-holders intruders and usurpers of the same according to their discretions and the quality of the offence They shall also giue earnest charge for the observation of all Lawes and Statutes or Ordinances made or to be made for the benefit of the Common-wealth and punishment of malefactors and especially the Statute for the Hue and crie for Night-watches and for Weights and Measures to be diligently considered and severely put in execution Also the said Lord President shall haue and retaine one Chaplin or Minister that shall and can preach and reade the Homilies who shall bee allowed his Dyet in the Houshold of the sayd Lord President and shall receiue his entertainment to bee payed out of the Fines growing in that Province to whom the Lo President shall cause due reverence to be given in respect of the Office that he shall haue for the Service of God Also the said Lo Deputie and
Councell will that the sayd Lord President and Councell or two of them at least whereof the Lord President to bee one shall endeavour themselues to execute as well all and all manner Statues of this Realme Proclamâ—tions and to doe and execute all other Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and other Ordinances as to punish the transgressors of the same according to the said Statutes Ordinances and Proclamations And to leavie or cause to be leavied all and all manner of forfeitures contained in the same according to the order limitted by the sayd Lawes And if cause so require shall compound for reasonable causes for all and singular such forfeitureâ— and paines by their discretions Having therein regarde not to diminish the â—ines specially limited by the Lawes without great necessitie of the poverty of the parties to be ioyned with repentance and disposition of amendment in the partie for otherwise it is perâ—llous to giue example in weakening the iust terror of good Lawes Also the Lord President and Councell or two of them wherof the Lord President to be one shall and may assesse and taxe Costs and dammages aswell to the Plaintiffe as to the Defendant and shall awarde Executions for their doings Decrees and Orders And shall punish the Breakers of the same being parties therevnto by their discretions And the said Lord President and Councell shall immediately upon their repaire to some convenient place where they meane to reside within the Limits of their Commission appointing two sufficient men to bee Clearkes oâ— Attornies to that Councell for the making of Bils Answers and Proceses for all manner of Subiects and thâ—râ—n not multiply such Officers leâ—t also they be occasioÌ„ to multiply unnecessary suites and some trusty wise persons to examine witnesses betweene partie and partie which of necessitie would be chosen with good advise foreseeing expresly and charitably that no excessiue fees be by any of them taken of the Subiects but that their fees bee assessed by the Lord President and Councell and the same faire written upon a Table and fixed upon some publike place where the same may be seene and understood of all Suitors and that in the beginning the Fees may appeare and be meane and reasonable So as in no wise the prosecution of releefe by way of Iustice bee not so chargeable as the poore oppressed sort bee thereby discouraged to make their complaints And because it shall bee convenient that a Register bee daily kept for all the doings orders decrees and proceedings which from time to time shall passe by the said Lo. President and Councell The Lord Deputie and Councells pleasure is that the Clarke of the sayd Councell for the time being having reasonable allowance for the same of the parties having an interest thereby shall diligently execute and performe this charge without any further expences then shall bee specially directed unto him by the said Lord President to be sustained by her Majesties Subjects for enteries of Actes and Orders c. Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought it convenient that there shall bee one honest and sufficient man appointed to bee Clarke and receiver of the Fines at the nomination of the sayd Lord President who shall diligently and orderly keepe a Booke of all such Fines as shall bee taxed upon any person the fine to bee alwayes entred by the hand of the Lord President and shall haue full power to send out Processe for any person upon whom any such fine shal be so seased and to receiue all such fines and in every Michaelmasâ— Terme thereof to make a true and perfect account before the Barons and other Officers of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer for the time being to the end we may be assertained what fines haue bin acquired to the Queenes Majestie and how the same haue been imployed Provided alwayes and it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell to imploy of the said Fines reasonable summes for reward of Messengers and repairing the Queenes castles and houses and in building and reedifying Goales within each Countie in the precinct of their Commission where by Lawes of the Realme no other persons are thereto bound and chargeable and also for furnishing of necessary utensils for the houshold as to the said L. President and Councell or to any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall seeme neâ—dfull and convenient In all which the said Lord President shall haue regard to moderate those allowances as of the Fines assessed and levied the Queenes Maiestie may be answered some reasonable yeerely Sommes towards her great chardges in maintaining of this Councell the same being to the Crowne of England a new chardge and any warrantmeÌ„t signed by the said Lord President or any one of the Councell for any such Somme or Soms shall be a sufficient dischardge to the said Clearke our Receiver of the said Fines for the issuing of the said Sommes And the said Clearke or Receiver shall haue full power for the sending out of Processe against any person upon whom any such Fine shall be cessed and to haue his Processe gratis from the Clearke of the Signet and hee to haue his diet in the house of the said Lord President and to bee accounted one of the number of this Horsemen and to receiue the wages and entertainement due for the same Also the said Lord Deputie and Councell haue thought meete there shall be a continuall housholde kept within the precinct and limits of the Commission aforesaid in such place as to the Lord President shall seeme most convenient All servants necessary for which houshold shall be at the Nomination of the said Lord President In which house each Councellor bound to continuall attendance and attending shall bee allowed their diets and the clearke of the Councell and every other Councellor being either sent for or comming for any needfull busines for the Queene or countrey shall be allowed during their aboad there their diet And for the more honourable porte of the said Houshold there shall be allowed unto the said Lord President and Councell after the rate of ten pounds sterling by the weeke to bee imployed upon the Table chardges of the said Household halfe yeerely to bee received at the hands of the Vice-treasurer and generall Receiver of the Queenes Maiesties revenewes of this Realme for payment of which there shall remaine in the hands of the said Vice-treasurer who is also Treasurer for the Warres as Warrant dormant whereby the said Vice-treasurer shall be authorized to pay to the said Lord President one halfe yeeres allowance alwayes before hand towards the making his necessary provision out of the revenew Or if he shall not haue sufficient Treasure then out of any other Treasure the said Lord President shall nominate and appoint one discreete and sufficient man of his servants to bee Steward or clearke of the same Houshold who shall weekely write and summe the chardges thereof and the same also shall
it is and shall bee lawfull for the Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to prosecute and oppresse any rebell or rebells with sword and with fire and for the doing of the same to leavie in warlike manner and array and with the same to march such and so many of the Queenes Subjects as to his discretion shall seeme convenient And if that any Castle Pile or House bee with force kept against them it shall bee lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or two of them whereof the Lord President to be one to bring before any such Castle Pile or House so to bee kept against them any of the Queenes Majesties Ordnance and great artillery remaining within the limits of the Commission And with the same or by some other meanes or Ingine any such Castle Pile or House to batter mine or overthrow as to their discretions shall seeme best Streightly charging and commanding all Archbishops Earles Bishops Vicounts Barons and Baronets Knights Majors Sheriffs Iustices and Ministers of peace and all other Gentlemen and Commons being her Majesties Subjects to helpe aid and assist the said Lord President and Councell in such sort and at such time as by the said Lord President and Councel or two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one they shall bee commanded upon such paines as for the nature and of the defaults shall bee thought meet to the said Lo President and Councell to limit and assesse And it is ordered by us the said Lord Deputy and Councell that if any person complaine to the said Lord President and Councell and that they shall thinke their Complainants worth the hearing that the persons so complained upon shall be sent for by a Letter missive under the Queenes Signet to appeare before the Lord President and Councel at a day and place by them to be appointed there to answer to such things as shall bee laid to their charges and further to be ordered as shall stand with right justice equity and conscience and for lacke of apparance upon such Letters they shall send foorth Letters of alleageance Proclamations or other Processe to bee made directed and awarded by their discretions to the Sheriffe Constable or other Minister whereby the partie complained upon may bee called to come to his answer as appertaineth and if by the obstinacy of the partie complained upon the case so require to sequester his or their lands or goods or either of them by their discretions And furthermore if in case any person or persons having habitation or dwelling or any lands or tenemeÌ„ts by lease or otherwise within the limits of the Commission aforesaid shall by covin fraud or dâ—ceit or otherwise absent himselfe or goe out of the limits of the said Commission That then Letters missive signed with the Queenes Signet shall be delivered at his House Lands or Tenements and the copies of the same shall bee left there so that by most likelyhood the same may come to his knowledge being so sent for And if within a certaine time after limited by their discretion the person or persons so sent for will make default of apparance the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall as well proceede to other Processe as to the hearing and determining of the matter or cause in variance according to the Lawes Statues Ordinances made therein or otherwise at their discretions And if in case any Letters missive be sent and addressed from the Lord President and Councel to any person or persons of what estate or degree soever they be to appeare before them at a day appointed the same Letters being delivered to him or them or otherwise left at his or their house as is above specifyed the said Lord President and Councel or any two of them whereof the Lord President to bee one shall cause him or them so contemning or disobeying to be punished by imprisonment and reasonable fine or shall other wayes proceed according to their discretions In which sayd causes if any of the parties commit any resistance or disobedience either of their appearance or contrary to the Commaundements direction decree or determination made or to be made and decreed by the said Lord President and Councell That then the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lord President to be one shall or may command the Sherife Major Serjeant at Armes Constable Bailife or other Officer or Minister to whom it shall appertaine to attach very person so offending contemning or disobeying and to send him or them to the Lord Deputie in ward together with Certificate of his contempt or disobedience or else by their discretions to cause the parties so attached to bee committed to ward there to remaine in safe custodie until the time that the pleasure of us the Lord Deputie and Councell be knowen in the premisses or that the same person or persons assent fulfill and agree to the determination of the said Lord President and Councell or any two of them whereof the Lo President to be one And the said Lord President and Councell shall haue full power and authoritie by these presents diligently to heare and determine and trie all and all manner of extortions maintenance imbracery and oppressions Conspiracies rescues escapes corruptions falsehoods and all manner evill doings defaults misdemeanours of all Sheriffes Iustices of peace Majors Soveraignes Portriffes Bailiffes Stewards Lieâ—tenants Excheators Coroners Goalers Clarkes and other Officers and Ministers of Iustice and other Deputies as well within all the Counties and Countries within the Province of Mounster as within the supposed Liberties of Typperarij and Kerrij and in all Cities other townes corporate within the limits of their said Commission of what degree soever they be and punish the same according to the quality and quantity of their said offences by their discretions leaving neverthelesse to the Lord and owners of all lawfull Liberties such profits as they lawfully claime And it shall be lawfull for the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the Lord President to bee one to conceave make and cause to be proclaimed in her Highnesse name any thing or matter tending to the better order of her Majesties Subjects within the precincts of their Commission and the repressing of malefactors and misorders after such tenour and forme as they shall thinke convenient and to punish the Offenders then according to their discretions And also wee the said Lord Deputie and Councell have thought meete that the said Lord President and Councell or any three of them whereof the said Lord President to bee one shall and may compound upon reasonable causes by their discretion with any person for all forfeitures growing or comming or that shall grow or come as well by all and singular
hee weekely present to the Lord President and Councell to be considered And because her Maiestie meaneth principally to benefit her Subiects not onely with the fruites of Iustice but with the delivery of them from all unnecessary burdens The Lord President and Councell shall foresee that no manner of extraordinary or excessiue charge bee put and layed upon any person against their Wils and Agreements by finding or sustaining of any Horsman or Footman or Horse-boy or Horse belonging of the said Lord President or any of the said Councell on any belonging to them And in the like manner shall see that the Subiects bee not oppressed with the like by any other contrary to the Lawes of the Realme for such causes provided Item considering the Queenes Maiestie hath title and right to no small quantity of possessions within Mounster aswell of auncient revenew of the Crowne and of other Seigniories devolued to the Crowne And also of the dissolved Monasteries and other Houses of religion the which are not duely answered to her Maiestie as reason would The said Lord President and Councell shall from time to time imploy their Labours by all their good discretions to procure that her Maiesties Officers or Farmors appointed for that purpose may peaceably and fully from time to time possesse and receiue the profits of the same The Oath to bee ministred by the Lord President to such as shall be admitted to bee of the Councell of Mounster being not already sworne of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as well the oath provided in the Statute for swearing of Officers as also this heereunder written viz. You shall sweare to the uttermost of your power will and cunning you shall be true and faithfull to the Queenes Majestie our Soveraigne Lady and to her Heires and Successors You shall not know nor heare any thing that may in any wise be prejudiciall to her Highnes or the Commonwealth peace and quiet of this her Hignesse Realme but you shall with all diligence reveale and disclose the same to her Highnesse or to such other person or persons of her Majesties Privie Councell in Ireland as you shall thinke may and will soonest convey and bring it to her Highnesse knowledge You shall serue her Maiestie truely and faithfully in the roome and place of her Maiesties Councell in Mounster You shall in all things that bee moved treated and debated in any Councell faithfully and truely declare your mind and opinion according to your heart and conscience In no wise forbearing so to doe for any respect of Favour Meade Dreade Displeasure or corruption Yee shall faithfully and unrightly to the best of your power cause Iustice to bee duely and indifferently ministred to the Queenes Maiesties Subiects that shall haue cause to sue for the same according to equity and order of Lawes Finally you shall bee vigilant diligent and circumspect in all your doings and proceedings touching the Queenes Maiestie and her affaires All which points and Articles before expressed with all other Articles signed with the hands of the Lord Deputie and Councell of this Realme and delivered to mee the Lord President of her Highnesse Councell established in these parts You shall faithfully obserue keepe and fulfill to the uttermost of your Power Wit Will and cunning so helpe you God and the contents of this Booke THE NAMES OF THE COVNCELLORS TO BEE ASSISTANT to the Lord President of Mounster as they are directed under the hand of the Lord Deputie The Earle of Ormond The Earle of Kildare The Earle of Thomond The Vice-Co Barry The Lordâ—Audley The Bishop of Corke The Bishop of Limer Sir Nicholas Welsh Iustice Saxey Sir Francis Barkley Sir George Thornton Iustice Golde The Queenes Sergeant The Q. Attorney generall The Q. Solicitor Sir Charles Wilmot Garret Comerford Esquire Hugh Cuffe Esquire Adam Dublin Thom. Midens George Cary. Rich. Wingfield Anth. St leger George Bourcher Geof Fenton â—ra Stafford CHAP. II. The Earle of Tyrone in Mounster and his Actions there The White Knight Tyrones prisoner Florence Mac Carti made Mac Carti More and Donell Mac Carti displaced The Lord Barry spoyled Tyrones letter to the Lord Barry with the Lord Barry's answere Sir Warham Saint leger and Mac Guyre slaine Tyrones returne into Vlster A Little before the landing of the Lord Deputie in Ireland as is said the Arch-traytor Tyrone to unite the Rebels of Mounster and especially to conferre with Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond and Florence Mac Cartie at whose intreatie he made a journey into Mounster Those whom hee found obstinate in rebellion hee incouraged from such as hee held doubtfull hee tooke pledges or detained prisoners of which last sort was the White Knight and his sonne in law Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him And whereas Donell Mac Cartie the Earle of Clancares base sonne had been by the Mac Carties of Desmond advanced to the Stile title and authoritie of Mac Cartie More Him hee displaced and in his roome Florence Mac Cartie was surrogated being a man as hee conceived of farre more use then Donell Such as were or reputed good Subjects these hee prosecuted with sword and fire Amongst others which felt his heavie hand the Lord Barry was one upon whom when hee could not worke his desire to draw him into actuall rebellion by the perswasion of the Provinciall rebells him hee preyed burned and spoyled to make it manifest that hee was sollicited to enter into Rebellion both the Letters of Tyrone and the Lord Barries Answere are heere truly set downe the tenors whereof doe ensue Tyrones Letter to the Lord Barrie MY Lord Barry your impietie to God crueltie to your soule and body tyrannie ingratitude both to your followers and country are inexcusable intolerable You separated your selfe from the unitie of Christs mysticall Bodie the Catholike Church You know the Sword of Extirpation hangeth over your head as well as ours if things fall out other wayes then well you are the cause why all the Nobilitie of the South from the East part to the West you being linked unto each one of them either in affinitie or consanguinitie are not linked together to shake off the cruell yoake of Heresie and Tyrannie with which our Soules and Bodies are opprest All those aforesaid depending of your resolution and relying to your Iudgement in this common cause of our Religion and Countrey you might forsooth with their helpe and the rest that are combyned in this holy Action not onely defend your selfe from the incursion and invasion of the English but also by Gods assistance who miraculously and aboue all expectation gaue good successe to the cause principally undertaken for his glorie exaltation of religion next for the restauration of the ruines and preservation of the Countrey expell them and deliver them and us from most miserable and cruell exaction and subjection enjoy your religion safetie of Wife and children life lands
within lesse then two Moneths namely before the end of February the President had recommended aboue foure thousand by name unto the Lord Deputie for Pardons who had all put in such pledges or other Caution as by the State of the Province was thought convenient which indeed was such and so warily taken as no Governour in former times had ever done the like All which notwithstanding the President could not satisfie himselfe in the safetie of the one and so consequently in the securitie of the other so long as their pledges were remayning in the Cities of Corke and Limerick the places of their custodie not being of sufficient strength the Keepers many times negligent or corrupt in their charge and the Citizens so partiall as they had rather helpe to convey them into the Countrey then to retaine them within the Citie for prevention whereof the President became an humble Suitor to the Lords of the Councell of England that they would be pleased to giue commandement that the Pledges of greatest moment might by an order from them bee commanded to the Castle of Dublin which should not be any thing chargeable to Her Majestie and yet very profitable for the State As also that they would be pleased to giue Commandement to all such Vndertakers as hold land within the Province that they should make their immediate repaire unto their Signiories that thereby the Countrey might bee the better furnished with English upon any occasion As also that Her Majestie might from them receiue their rents in some part of that immeasurable treasure which was expended in these Warres And lastly being fully assured of a Spanish Invasion in all his dispatches for England He evermore put the Lords in mind of it sending unto them the intelligences hee had and for that he would not be taken unprovided hee continually in all his Letters besought supplies of Victuals and Munition And for that in his last dispatch he had intreated a large proportion of Victuals now in this of the sixth of March hee forbare the same requesting onely fiue Laste of powder and foure hundred quarters of Oates The young Earle of Desmond having beene tenderly brought up in England and not well agreeing with the manner and customes of Ireland and also seeing how much he was deceived in his hopes supposing that al his Fathers Followers would haue relied upon him and obeyed his directions whereof finding little or no appearance desired the Lord President to giue him leaue to goe into England whereunto for the reasons afore mentioned the President easily assented for in all the time of his being in Ireland no one Rebell did for his sake submit himselfe to Her Majestie Thomas Oge of Kerry onely excepted who at his request submitted himselfe and rendered Castle-mange whereof he was Constable by Iames fits Thomas his assignement into Her Majesties hands as formerly hath beene declared But it may be truely supposed that wit and necessitie did perswade him to submit and render the Castle as he did for Sir Charles Wilmot had so blockt him up with Garisons as at that present he was in feare of starving and if he had not taken the opportunity offered upon the Earles motion he was in danger to haue lost both his life and it This I write not to upbraid the Earle or to lessen him in any thing for I must confesse he was too good to liue amongst such traitorly Followers and no man living had a more willing desire to serue Her Majestie then himselfe but the truth is that this was all the service which hee did or could doe during his aboad in Mounster from whence he embarqued the two and twentieth of March and landed at Miniade in Somerset-shire and so to the Court of England where after a few Moneths he died The Letters Pattents which Her Majestie had granted for his restoration the President never delivered unto him where in my opinion he did discreetly and according to his directions for they were sent unto him by Her Majestie with caution not to deliver them except he saw sufficient cause so to doe and that his services or services done for his fake should merit the same of both which there was but weake and slender performance In this first Booke the Reader may behold in what a confused estate the Province of Mounster was in when the L. President entred into his government in the first yeare whereof these memorable accidents hapned the unfortunate death of Sir Warham St Ledger the departure of Tyrone out of Mounster The taking of the Earle of Ormond by the rebels The defeat of Florence Mac Cartie the losse and recovery of Cahir castle the submission of the White Knight the recovery of the Iland and castle of Loghgier the bold attempt of Nugent and the effects which followed therof the burning and spoiling of West Clanwilliam Omulrians countrey the taking and escape of Iames fits Thomas the titulary Earle of Desmond the siege and winning of the Castle of the Glinn the freeing of the Province of 2500 Bownoghs Odonnels harrasing of Thomond the encounter betwixt Captaine Roger Harvy and the White Knights sonne the planting of garrisons in Kerry the perpetuall juglings of Flo. Mac Cartie the taking of the Castle of Listoell in Kerry the defeat by the garrison of Kilmallock given to the Sugan Earle the poore and distressed estate he was driven unto the submission of Dermond Mac Owen L. of Dowalla and sundry others the comming into Mounster of the young Earle of Desmond the submission of Flor. Mac Cartie the rendring of Castle Mange the murdring of Dermond O Conner the burning and spoyling of East Clanwilliam and Arlogh the quiet setling of the Province and the restoring the civill government Whosoever with indifferencie will consider how much was done in such short time must acknowledge it to bee beyond expectation and say that God fought for vs and directed our Counsels otherwise it was not to bee hoped for And had not the comming of the Spaniards given new interruptions the worke of Mounster had beene throughly finished The Province fully reduced to a setled peace and in all likelihood so to haue continued The end of the first Booke PACATA HIBERNIA THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE WARRES IN IRELAND Whereby that Countrey was reduced to Subjection and Obedience CHAP. I. Connaght and Vlster men drawen to a head to invade Mounster A Regiment sent by the Lord President into Connaght to assist Sir Iohn Barkley Walter Burke and Teg O Bryen slaine The Lord President with the remainder of the Army come to Limrick The rising out of the Countrey commanded by the Lo. Barry drawne neere to Limericke The Rebels distressed for want of victualls and defeated Donogh Mac Cormocke Cartie slaine Redmond Burkes letter to the Lo. President with the Lord Presidents answer THE prosperous Successes of the last yeere did promise faire hopes that the malice of the Warre was spent and that the Province would within
notorious inconvenience aforesaid cannot bee prevented without there bee a due observation of such Lawes of this Realme of England as heretofore haue beene made restrayning the transporting of the monies currant in England into that Realme of Ireland in Specie wherein great disorder hath beene of late yeares committed and thereby great inconveniences ensued Her Majestie doth straightly charge and command all Magistrates and Officers to whom it shall appertaine to see severe execution of such Lawes as doe prohibit the transportation of her Coyne of England into Ireland and namely one Statute made in the nineteenth yeare of the raigne of Her Majesties Grandfather of famous memory King Henry the seventh Her Majesties purpose being by this Proclamation to admonish all her Subjects of both her Realmes and all others trading in her Realme of Ireland that they shall from henceforth forbeare all transportation of monies of England into Ireland for that Her Majestie will cause the former Lawes prohibiting the said transportation of money to be so straightly looked into and executed as the penalties thereof shall fall heavy upon the Offenders against the same without any hope of remission The Copie of certaine Articles contained in the Indentures betweene Her Majestie and Sir George Cary Treasurer of Ireland touching the Exchange established upon the alteration of Monies ITem the said Sir George Cary doth covenant c. That hee shall and will mainetaine for the better exercise of the said Exchange according to her Majesties princely meaning three Officers at the least within the Cities of London Bristoll and Westchester or so many and in such convenient places as hee shall thinke meete discreete persons to be there continually residing by themselues or their sufficient deputies to attend the said Exchange and to performe the same according to the establishment And other officers also in other parts of this her Majesties Realme of England if cause shall require and likewise to place and mainetaine at fower severall port Townes within her Majesties Realme of Ireland viz. Dublin Corke Galway and Carâ—igfergus or at such of them as shall bee found requisit other officers who shall be there continually resident by themselues or their sufficient deputies to attend her Majesties subjects for the exchange of their monies according to the establishment and if cause shall require other officers also or under ministers in other places of the said Realme of Ireland for the ease of her Majesties subjects Item the said Sir George Carie doth covenant c. to discharge and acquite her Majestie of all Fees Allowances and wages needfull for any of the sayd Officers or Vnder-ministers aboue mentioned and them to maintaine entertaine and wage at his owne costs and charges for and in consideration of a summe of two thousand pounds of the Moneys of this new Standerd of Ireland mentioned in another Article of this Indenture to bee by her Majestie allowed unto him for the Fee of himselfe and all other Officers necessarie to bee had and used for and about this Exchange as well in England as in Ireland The sayd allowance of two thousand pound per annum to take beginning and to bee due unto him from the first day of May now next ensuing the date hereof and to continue during the time of the Exchange And the Queenes Majestie our said Soveraigne Lady doth covenant and agree to and with the sayd Sir George Carey that hee as 〈…〉 of her Highnesse sayd Exchange shall haue full power authoritie and libertie to make choyce of all Officers and under officers needfull to bee had and imployed for and about the exercise and maintenance of his Exchange as well within this her Highnesse Realme of England as in Ireland and them and every of them to nominate and place and to them to assigne such Fees and entertainments as hee shall thinke convenient and all and every the sayd Officers to remooue alter or displace as often as to him shall be thought good and others in their places and roomes to substitute without any interruption of her Highnesse in or concerning the same Item our said Soveraigne Lady doth covenant and agree to aâ—d with the sayd Sir George Carey and by these presents doth giue him power and authoritie in and for performance of one breach of her Highnesse Proclamation aboue specified whereby all persons are invited to bring in all manner of sterling Moneys or of any other Standerds or like finenesse or better into her Exchange in Ireland that hee the sayd Sir George Carey shall and may allow to all bringers in of such Money Plate or Bullion aboue the just and true value thereof the â—umme of eighteene pence currant money of England upon every pound weight or sixpence upon every twentie shillings by tale the â—ame to bee taken defaulked and allowed by the sayd Sir George Carey out of such profits as doe arise unto her Highâ—esse upon this Exchange And our Soveraigne Lady doeth covenant and agree to and with the sayd Sir George Carey and by these presents doeth warrant and authorise him that to all her subjects of her Realmes of England and Ireland and to all Strangers Merchants or others being subjects of such Princes or States as are in amitie with her Highnesse which shall bring to any place for the Exchange appoynted within the Realme of Ireland any Moneyes of this new Standerd of Ireland and desire to receiue for the same moneyes currant of England heere within this Realme of England That the sayd Sir George Carey may deliver unto them and every of them here in England moneys currant of this her Realme by tale for tale viâ— twentie shillings sterling for every twentie shillings of her new Coyne detaining only and rebating to her Highnesse use twelue pence sterling upon every twentie shillings so to bee delivered for twentie shillings of her sayd new Coyne and after the same rate for more or lesse in quantitiâ— Item our sayd Soveraigne Lady doeth covenant and agree c. That hee shall and may to all persons which within her Highnesse realme of Ireland shall at any of the places for the Exchange appoynted deliver to him or his Deputies the value of twenty shillings sterling in money plate or bullion and desire to receiue for the same moneys Irish of this new coyne for every value of twenty shillings the summe of one and twenty shillings eight pence Irish by tale and after the same rate for more or lesse in quantitie And our Soveraigne Ladie c. That hee or his Assignes shall or may to all and every persons which at any of the places for the Exchange appoynted heere within this Realme of England shall deliver any Moneys Plate or Bullion of the Standerd of England to the end to receiue for the same within the Realme of Ireland moneyes of the new Coyne of that Realme pay or deliver unto them for the value of euery twenty shillings sterling one and twenty shillings Irish by the tale and
in February last leaving great store of plate and other riches for a pledge behind him And being farther examined concerning Florence Mac Carty hee answered that the said Florence did ever by sight or otherwise acquaint him with what the President wrote unto him and did continually sweare protest and giue all outward assurance never to desist in this action but to persevere therein to the end and that the Spaniards and Rebels of Vlster did build their principall hopes of Mounster upon himselfe and Florence Mac Carty all this was also verified by certaine intelligences which the Lord Barry received from Dermond Mac Awley lately come from the North the effect whereof was thus much When the Spanish Arch-bishop was to returne into Spaine in February last there was a Councell holden in Vlster by Tyrone Odonnell the said Bishop and all the chiefe Traytors of those parts Iohn of Desmond Lixnaw Pierce Lacy Donoghe Mac Cormock and this Dâ—rmond Mac Awley being called thereupon the chiefest matter debated in this consultation was what place of Ireland was the most convenient where the Spanish forces should make their arrivall It was without much difficulty or gainesaying resolved for all respects Mounster was the fittest Province to be invaded then it remayned to consider what place in that Province they should first attempt and concerning this point the Mounster men were required to deliver their opinions Pierce Lacy began and urged certaine reasons why hee thought it most requisit for them first to gaine Limerick and plant there because the Provinces of Connaght and Linster were neere at hand to minister aide to the Spanish Armie and Vlster was not farre distant being also the place most remote from England especially for shipping All the rest being induced by these reasons to subscribe unto his opinion Donoghe Mac Cormock stood up and withstood this Councell saying that Mac Cartie More from whose mouth he said he spake it upon mature deliberation did advise their comming to Corke for the taking of that place would bee of most importance as well for the countenancing of the action where the President most resided as the magazins of victuals and munitions were placed there and also it being a farre better outlet then the River of Limerick the Citie weaker and sooner forced And lastly in landing there they should border upon Barry Roche Cormock Mac Dermond and Mac Carty Reughe all which for feare of their estates were partially affected to the English and by that meanes either constraine them to conjoyne with them in the action or else to make their Countrey and people a prey unto the Army After long disputation the Councell of Florence delivered by Donoghe Mac Cormock was most applauded and so they concluded to land the Spanish Armie in the River of Corke CHAP. VI. Florence Mac Cartie is by the Lord President committed to prison A briefe Collection of Florence Mac Carties treasons and practises with the Rebels not touching any thing formerly related VPON these and many other reasons that shall hereafter be alleaged the President thought that he could not possibly accomplish a service more acceptable to her Majestie nor profitable for the State and more availeable to divert the Spanish preparations then to commit unto prison and safe custody the body of this Florence which was accordingly effected about the beginning of Iune one thousand sixe hundred and one a man so pernitious and dangerous to the State which had sundry wayes broken his severall protections upon his apprehension which was in Corke the President tooke present order that search should bee made in the Pallace his chiefe house in Desmond and other places of his aboad for all such Letters and writings as could therein bee found whereby was discovered such a Sea of rebellious and traiterous practises as her Majestie and her hoâ—ourable Councell being acquainted therewith thought good that hee should be sent into England with the Arch-traytortitulary Earle of Desmond Iames fits Thomas The conduction of these two firebrands of Mounster upon the fourteenth of August 1601. was committed to the charge of Sir Anthony Cooke who brought them to the Tower of London where they yet remaine But for as much as this Florence hath sithence his commitment insisted upon his Iustification complayning of hard measure offered him by her Majestie and her Officers I am therefore constrained though much against my will for satisfaction of all indifferent men Welwillers and confutation of all malitious Cavillers to lay open briefely as I may his whole cariage and conversation since his late landing within this kingdome forbearing to insist upon such poynts as haue already bin touched in this relation Thou maiest bee pleased therefore to understand gentle Reader that the rebels of Mounster being growne to such an exceeding strength as you haue heard and amongst these Donnell Mac Cartie Florence his base brother in Law one of the chiefe her Majestie thought good to diminish their forces with sparing as much blood and expending as little treasure as conveniently might bee and therefore knowing that Florence Mac Cartie was better beloved in the Countrey then Donnell having made many solemne vowes and taken many voluntary oathes for his continued loyaltie was dispatched into Ireland in the moneth of May 1599. and to the end hee might bee the more encouraged and better enabled to doe her Highnesse service it pleased her Majestie to direct her favourable Letters to Robert Earle of Essex then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland authorising him to giue order for Letters Patents to bee made containing an effectuall graunt to the said Florence Mac Cartie and Ellen his wife and to the Heires males of their bodies lawfully begotten of all the Countrey of Desmond and such other Lands whereof hee had any estate of inheritance but withall authorising the said Lord Lieutenant and Councell to stay those Letters Pattents in the Hamper or deliver them according as they should see cause in the proofe they should make of the behaviour of the said Florence Now that yee may see in what dutifull manner hee requiâ—ed this trust in what gratefull manner this kindnesse and in what religious manner these oathes I will recite a part of the examination of Iohn Anias taken before Sir Nicholas Welsh and Iustice Comerford which may explaine the same the thirteenth of October 1600. He saith that in May last Florence Mac Cartie sent one Maur. More to him wishing him to repaire to his Lodging at Corke and that Florence was desirous to be acquainted with him whereupon hee came to Florence and in Florence his Chamber hee the said Florence and none other but they two being present said that he understood that this Examinate was an Enginer and one that had skill in devising and erecting of Fortifications and that he would willingly imploy him in the like Anias demanding of Florence what or where hee would haue his Workes raysed Hee answered at Dunkerran wherein hee might upon any
occasion of extremitie defend himselfe and Iames fits Thomas against the English and also wherein hee might giue succour to such Spanyards as should come to their ayde c. Whereby the indifferent Reader may perceiue with what prepared hatred and prepensed malice this Gallant was affected even in this first scene of his devillish Tragedie that there might bee no indecorum his subsequent proceedings were in all poynts correspondent to these timely beginnings For having now left Corke and gotten footing in his supposed Countrey of Desmond hee wrote severall Letters to the Gentlemen neere adjoyning namely the O Sulevan Mac Finnin the two Odonoghs and others to assemble at a time and place appoynted to create him Mac Cartie More and whosoever he was that refused to come he persecuted as his mortall enemie and hereof Owen Osulexan eldest sonne to Sir Owen Osulevan deceased had wofull experience for upon his absence from his meeting hee caused the Bonoghs which hee had now entertained to prey and rob the said Owen and some of his Tenants taking one Iohn Oge prisoner and when the sayd Owen made suite unto him for release of the prisoner hee answered that hee would keepe him as his Pledge to be true to him as Mac Cartie More to follow his war and keepe his peace But when hee found that this course would not establish and secure unto him that Dignitie and high Title after which hee so greedily gaped then hee solicited Tyrone by frequent Letters and importunate Messengers to come for Mounster pretending many furtherances that thereby should arise to the Catholique cause but desiring the same chiefly to his owne end that hee might bee by him and the Romish Clergie saluted Mac Cartie More and therefore Tirone comming into the Province about the first day of March Florence posted with all speed to his Campe and the fourth of the same hee combined with him and was sworne upon a Masse Booke to bee true to Tirone and prosecute all hostilitie and cruell warre against the English Ex examinatione Owen Osulevan And to the intent it may appeare that this was no fained or counterfeit Narration of Owen Osulevan you shall in part perceiue by his owne Letters written to Donogh Moyle Mac Cartie upon this occasion This Donogh whether growne weary of the warrs or for some other cause I know not determined to continue himselfe and his followers in subjection and for the same cause had submitted himselfe to Sir Warham St ledger and Sir Henry Power Commissioners appointed for the government of that Province untill the comming of Sir George Carew to be President Florence Mac Cartie either to advance the Catholike cause or else desirous that all his neighbours should run with him to the like excesse of ryot joyning with Owen Mac Eggan a Popish Priest and most infamous rebell and Odonevan sent Letters to the said Donogh Mac Cartie as followeth The Letter COusen Donogh wee haue us commended to your selfe and to your brother Florence I haue I assure you taken the paines to come hither to Tyrone not so much for any danger of my owne as to sauâ— the Countrey of Carbery from danger and destruction which if it bee once destroyed your living in my opinion will growe very scarce These two Gentlemen your Brother Odonevan and Owen Mac Eggan are verie carefull with mee of your good Therefore if ever you will bee ruled by us or tender the wealth of your selfe and your Countrey wee are heereby earnestly to request you to come and meete us to morrowe at Cloâ—dghe and so requesting you not to fayle heereof in any wise to Gods keeping I commit you Oneales Campe at Iniscare Martij 2. 1599. subscribed Your very loving Friends Florence Mac Cartie Owen Mac Eggan Donnell Odonevan Tyrone finding that Florence was not onely forward in his owne person but also a fartherer of others making new Proselites the children of perdition aswell as himselfe by the consent of all the Popish Bishops Fryers and Iesuits and all the Irish Nobilitie there assembled created him Mac Cartie More vsing in this creation all the Rites and Ceremonies accustomed amongst the ancient Irish. Tyrone having left the Province in the latter end of March this new Mac Cartie More did so well remember his vowes made to Tyrone although hee quite forgot those that hee formerly made to her Majestie as in the very next Moneth namely in Aprill 1600. he vsed all his policie power and industrie to defeate the Queenes forces under the command of Captaine Flower but because I have formerly touched his proceedings therein I will not trouble the Reader againe with vaine tautologies and needlesse repetitions In the Moneth of May immediatly following by the importunate mediation of the Earle of Thomond and Iohn fits Edmonds hee came to the President at Corke but he had no sooner left the Towne but hee sent present word to the Arch-rebell Iames fits Thomas aswell of his particular proceedings with the President as of all such intelligence as hee could possible understand to giue impediment to the service all which may appeare by a Letter remised from the said Iames unto him the true Copie whereof here ensueth Iames fits Thomas his Letter unto him MY good Lord and Cosen your Letters of the eighteenth of May I received the fiue and twentieth of the same wherein you relate the manner of your proceedings with the President at Corke and also of his determination towards the West of my Countrey I thanke God I prevented that which hee expected here for all the good pledges of the Countrey are committed to Castlemange for their constant behaviour in this our action the President with his force is come to Limerick and intended presently to draw towards Askeiton where I purpose with my Armie to resist him I pray you the better to further the service and the more to coole the bloody desire of our Enemy let mee intreate you to put in effect the meaning of my last Letters by drawing your forces to joyne with mee here which being done I doubt not under God to performe service that shall redound to the generall quiet of our Countrey and so referring the due consideration hereof to your Lordships carefull vsage I commit you to the most Mighty From the Campe at Adare this first of Iune 1600. Your very loving Cosen Iames Desmond In the foresaid Moneth the said Florence sent Teg Oholloghan and Donoghe Offaly to Owen Osulevan vsing many strong Motiues and forcible perswasions to him that hee should joyne with them in action against her Majestie assuring him that all the Osulevans would presently shew themselues publikely for the Catholike cause if they might perceiue that hee would partake with them and afterwards Iames fits Thomas being taken Prisoner by Dermond O Conner towards the latter end of this said Moneth Florence came in person to his rescue unto Castle Lyshin Also Owen Osulevan being with Florence Mac Cartie
President would bee able to make his peace with the Lord Deputie but so slow and negligent was the Presidents Messenger which afterwards was excused by sicknesse as the Lord Deputie had received Sir Francis Barklies refusall before hee had knowledge of the Presidents Letters whereupon hee stormed at the President and dispatched presently his Letters to the Lords of the Councell complayning of the President not sparing to tell them that rather then hee would undergoe so great an indignity by any man that served underneath him hee would quit his government And at the same time it fell out so crossely that another accident did no lesse moue the Deputie to bee enraged then the former for of the two thousand supplyes which were to come into Mounster the President to giue contentment to many worthy men that without charge had followed him in the former services had obtayned from the Lords in England that sixe hundred of them should bee bestowed upon such as he should make choice of to bee their Captaines this added to that aforementioned did so much increase his Lordships indignation to the President whereunto many ill disposed to increase the flame gaue fuell as his Lordship wrote this ensuing Letter to the President The Lord Deputies Letter to the Lord President MY Lord as I haue hitherto borne you as much affection and as truely as ever I did professe it unto you and I protest rejoyced in all your good successes as mine owne so must you giue mee leaue since I presume I haue so just cause to challenge you of unkindnesse and wrong in writing into England that in preferring your Followers Sir Henry Dockwray hath had more power from me then your selfe and consequently to sollicit the Queene to haue the nomination of some Captaines in this kingdome for the first I could haue wished you would haue beene better advised because upon mine honour hee never without my speciall warrant did apâ—oint but one who I after displaced and I doe not remember that ever since our comming over I haue denyed any thing which you haue recommended unto me with the marke of your owne desire to obtaine it and in your Province I haue not given any place as I thinke but at your instance For the other I thinke it is the first example that ever any under an other Generall desired or obtained the like suiâ—e And although I will not speake injuriously of your deserts nor immodestly of mine owne yet this disgrace cannot make me beleeue that I haue deserved worse then any that haue beene Generals before me But since it is the Queenes pleasure I must endure it and you choose a fit time to obtaine that or anything else against me Yet I will concurre with you in the service as long as it shall please her Majestie to employ us here but afterward I doubt not but to giue you satisfaction that I am not worthy of this wrong The Councell and my selfe upon occasion of extraordinary consequence sent for some of the Companies of Mounster out of Connaght when wee heard you were to be supplyed with two thousand out of England but wee received from them a flat deniall to come and the copie of your Letter to warrant them therein If you haue any authority from the Queene to countermand mine you may very well justifie it but it is more then you haue vowed to me to haue when I before my comming over protested unto you that if you had I would rather serue the Queene in prison then here My Lord these are great disgraces to me and so conceived and I thinke justly by all that know it which is and will be very shortly all Ireland My allegeance and owne honour are now engaged with all my burthens to goe on in this worke otherwayes no feare should make mee suffer thus much and what I doe it is onely loue doth moue me unto it For I know you are deare to one whom I am bound to respect with extraordinary affection And so my Lord I wish you well and will omit nothing while I am in this kingdome to giue you the best contentment I can and continue as Your assured Friend Mountioye In this meane time before these stormes came to the Presidents knowledge for yet hee had not received the Lord Deputies sharpe Letter hoping that the time of the Spaniards comming would admit Sir Francis his Regiment some longer absence sent him word to march to Ballishenan or elsewhere as it pleased the Deputie and withall by his Letters he acquainted his Lordship of his directions and beseeched his Lordship to haue a care of Mounster which hee was no way able his places of Garison guarded with his small forces remayning to confront Terrill and the Vlster aides then ready to enter into it much lesse to defend the Cities of Corke Limerick and Waterâ—ord against the Spaniards whose arrival hee daily expected After this second dispatch to the Lord Deputie the President received his Lordships thundering Letters but when the Lord Deputie by his answer saw how much hee was mistaken and had well considered upon what good ground the Presidents instructions were given to Sir Francis Barkley and also that he had retrenched the same before hee knew that his Lordship had sent for them And that although hee had gotten the favour to bestow sixe of the Companies that came out of England hee knew that they could stand no longer then hee pleased and so left them to be disposed of at his will he not onely blamed himselfe but wrote a satisfactory kindly unto him which to shew the good nature of that Noble-man I thinke I should doe him wrong if I did not relate it A satisfactory Letter from the Lord Deputie to the Lord President MY Lord if my Letter did expresse some more then ordinary passion I will now desire you if you haue any opinion of my judgement or honesty to beleeue mee that at that time I had so much reason to bee so moved as I presume when I next speake with you I shall induce you to confesse that my expostulation did neither proceed from undervaluing you or overvaluing my selfe private respect to my owne ends vanity in desire of preheminences nor lightnesse or evill nature in quitting slightly so worthy a friend and if I can farther perswade you by the effect it tooke with me I protest the miserable tragedie of those I held here my dearest friends the unkindnesse I tooke by their shewing themselues my most mortall enemies the danger that I knew they brought my fortune into nor any thing which hath beene much that hath hapned to me since my comming into this kingdome did ever so much moue me as this and the circumstances that did accompany it the which being unfit to be trusted either to paper or at the least to this passage I will reserue for my owne defence till I speake with you or may send a more safe and assured Messenger unto you and so leaue my case
best Commanders amongst the Irish rebels By meanes whereof he had now the command of foureteene hundred men in his owne Bonaght and besides that might strike a great stroke with the other being by Tyrone at his departure out of Mounster ordained chiefe Commander of them all This man did the President make choise to deale withall for these reasons First because hee knew that the said Dermond being a meere Mercenary and serving in Mounster onely for pay might be induced by large Summes of monie to serue the Queene aswell as the rebels Secondly hee had a very fit Instrument whereby the more easily to worke him to his will namely his Wife who being brought up some part of her time amongst the English had not only learned the language but stood reasonably well affected to the English governement and likely it was that shee would use all her industry to advance the service in hope that if it succeeded well it would proue a good step or Ladder to procure the liberty of her Brother Iames Fits Gerald Sonne and Heire to Gerald Earle of Desmond slaine now Prisoner in the Tower and to raise his fortunes Lastly it was publikely knowen that the Sugan Earle would never doe service upon the Bownoghs except he might haue both the title and possessions of the Earle of Desmond confirmed unto him which her Maiestie would never condiscend unto Vpon these grounds in very secret manner hee provided and sent a fit agent to sound the inclination of the Lady Margaret for so was Dermonds Wife named and finding her fit to bee wrought upon the Conditions should be propounded viz. That if her husband would take Desmond Prisoner and deliver him into the hands of the President he should incontinently receiue one thousand pound sterling and that he should haue a Company of men in pay from the Queene and other conditions of satisfaction to her selfe and her Brother The Messenger was â—o sooner sent about these important affaires but that another occasion offered it selfe unto the President of no lesse moment then the former to aduance the service for immediately hereupon one Iohn Nugent sometimes servant to Sir Thomas Norris late President of Mounster pretending some wrongs and iniuries to be offered unto him by the State ioyned with the Rebels and became to his power the most malitious and bloody Traitor in all these parts At last having as it should seeme spit his poyson and spent his Venome sought to Sir Warham Saint Leger and Sir Henry Power the Commissioners to be received into protection who more for feare of the hurt that hee might doe then hope of the good that hee would doe granted the same untill the Lord Presidents pleasure who was now ready to depart from Dublin towards Mounster were further knowen At this time therefore Nugent came to make his submission to the President and to desire pardon for his faults committed Answer was made that for so much as his crimes and offences had beene extraordinary hee could not hope to bee reconciled unto the State except hee would deserue it by extraordinary service which saith the President if you shall performe you may deserue not onely Pardon for your faults committed heretofore but also some store of Crownes to releeue your wants hereafter Hee presently promised not to bee wanting in any thing that lay in the power of one man to accomplish and in private made offer to the President that if he might bee well recompenced hee would ruine within a short space either the Sugan Earle or Iohn Fits Thomas his Brother And indeed very likely hee was both to attempt and performe as much as he spake To attempt because hee was so valiant and daring as that he did not feare any thing and to execute because by reason of his many outrages before committed the chiefe Rebels did repose great confidence in him The President having contrived a plot for Iames Fits Thomas as is before shewed gaue him in charge to undertake Iohn his Brother But because the matter might be caried without any suspition upon the next morrow the Councell being set and a great concourse of people assembled Nugent renueth his suite for the continuance of his protection But the President rehearsing in publike audience a Catalogue of his mischievous outrages lately committed told the Councell that having farther enquired and better considered of Man and Matter for his part hee thought it an action of very ill example to receiue unto mercy such a notorious Malefactor the Councell were all of the same opinion who reviling him with many biting and bitter speeches and assuring him that if it were not for a religious regard that was holden of the Queenes word hee should pay a deare price for his former misdemeanor and so with publike disgrace was he dismissed their presence The promised submission of the white Knight the jealousie which the rebels conceived of Florence Mac Carty by his comming to the President and the Presidents Iourney being now blazed through the Province it caused Pierce Lacy who all the time of the Warres untill now had kept a ward in the Castle of the Brough three miles from Kilmallocke despayring to hold the same against her Majesties Forces And knowing it was a convenient place for a Garrison pluckt downe some part of the Castle burnt the rest and by the light thereof ran into the Woods Redmond Burke also with fiue hundred Bonoghs about this time which was in the beginning of May withdrew out of Connillogh and kept himselfe for a little time about the borders of Ownhy where being pressed with want of Victuals he intended to leaue the Province The Sugan Earle Pierce Lacy and some other hearing of this sudden departure dispatched Messengers unto him with earnest entreaties and large promises for increasing his Bonnoght if hee would returne but to no purpose The cause of this his unexpected departure was a trafficke betweene him and the President who did uphold him in certaine faint hopes about the obtaining of the Barronie of Lettrim which he claimed as his inheritance For this is most true that not long before this time one Richard Burke Vncle to the said Redmond wrote unto the President that his Nephew would be very glad of his Lordships favour that he would withdraw both himselfe and his Bownoghs out of Mounster so that hee would not send any Forces to molest him in Connaght Whereunto was answered that it became nor a Governour no not a private Subject to make any such agreement with a man in his condition And farther that hee might assure himselfe that by strong hand he could never invest himselfe in the Barrony of Lettrim nor be in secure possession of his Fathers Lands But if he would reclaime himselfe and doe service to her Majestie the President would use the best friends that hee had either in England or Ireland that his cause might bee respected with all favour according to the equity thereof Not
long after the receit of this Letter hee left the Countie of Limericke severed himselfe from the Mounster Rebells and setled in Ormond and Tirrell stayed not long behinde inwardly doubting some practise upon himselfe but publikely pretending the cause of his departure for a mislike betweene him and Dermond O Conner The President had given foorth ever since his first comming to Corke that his Armie should bee on foot in the way to Limerick by the sixth of May his intention not being to rise untill the twentieth the bruit thereof caused the Rebells greatest strength to assemble together who by the day assigned had united their Forces in the great Wood called Kilmore betweene Moyallo and Kilmallock neere the place of Ballihawre through the which the Armie was to march There they continued the space of tenne dayes attending continually and hearkening daily for the Presidents comming but finding that hee stirred not in all this time imagining that he durst not take the field at all they dispersed their Companies and departed every one into his owne Countrey Heereupon some thought that the President had altered his determination for going to Limerick and intended to begin the prosecution in some other place others supposed that hee would not venture out of Corke untill hee had received new Supplies which were daily expected out of England But both the one and other were besides the marke for by this stay which from the beginning he determined hee saw divers commodious opportunities might accrue unto him as that heereby hee should receiue certaine advertisement of the strength of the enemy that was to confront him and also that it was impossible for them any long time to hold together for divers wants which of necessitie must accompany such an undisciplined and disordered multitude by meanes whereof they would bee constrained to breake with their owne weight wherein he nothing failed of his expectation for within a few dayes following they were all divided into so many places and those so farre distant that they could not speedily be reassembled Vpon the sixteenth of May the President was advertised by Sir Richard Percie who was Governour at 〈◊〉 that by his Horsemen in Kinalmekagh whom he had sent to forrage that Country ten of the Bownoghs were slaine and a farre greater slaughter had beene made of them if Florence Mac Cartie had not had some intelligence out of Kinsale of his intention who gaue the Bownoghs warning of their comming whereupon they fled and dispersed themselues Vpon the seventeenth of May Iames fits Thomas the usurping Earle of Desmond wrote a Letter to Florence Mac Cartie praying the ayde of his Forces the Copie whereof is here inserted A Letter from Iames fits Thomas to Florence Mac Cartie AFter my very heartie Commendations Having received Intelgence of your happie escape out of Corke it was very joyfull to mee and many other your Cosens and adherents heere the fruit of your conference with the President and the rest I hope shall purchase ripe experience and harvest of further knowledge to cut off the cruell yoke of bloody enemies who daily studie to worke our perpetuall destruction and exile I am given to understand that they pretend a journey towards the Countie of Limerick I am gathering the best force and rising out of these parts to resist their wicked desires Redmond Burke is bordering on the Confines of Ormond expecting to heare from me if occasion of important service should require I haue the other day received his Letters signifying his constant service to be ready whensoever I shall send to him what news you haue with your best advice in all causes tending to our generall Service I expect to heare and if the President doe rise out as it is thought I pray you good Cosen slacke not time with your best Force Provision of victuals to prosecute him freshly in the Reareward as you respect me the exaltation of the Catholike faith and the ease of our countrey I looke no excuse at your hands which I pray to lay apart wherein you shall further the service and bind me with all my Forces to second you at your need I haue retained Dermond Oconner in Kerry two hundred Souldiers this quarter besides the Clanshihies and other Bonoghs with the rising out of my country so as I think I shall make up sixteen or seventeene hundred strong well appointed together with the Force of Redmond Burke Thus for lacke of farther Novelties I commit you to the blessed guiding of God From Crome the seventeenth of May 1600. I am credibly informed that fiue Spanish ships are landed in the North with Treasure Munition and great Ordinance with a competent number of three thousand Souldiers Pioners and religious persons I expect every day advertisement in writing and the comming up of Captaine Terrell with the Munition sent me by Oneyle I appointed your Cosen Maurice Oge Fits Maurice Gerald to haue the charge of Kierrycorrie I pray you afford him your lawfull favour Your most assured Cosen Iames Desmond The same day Captaine Gawen Harvy who then had in her Majesties pay a man of Warre wherein for the payment of the Armie there was three thousand pound in monie Munition Victuals and Souldiers apparrell set saile with direction for the River of Shenan to meete the Lord President at Limericke The President the twentie one of May left Corke and with his Armie incamped that night within three miles of Moyallo The twentie two they lodged within fiue miles of Kilmallocke the twentie three the Armie came within a mile of Kilmallocke where the white Knight according to his former promises made his humble submission unto the President whereby the Faggot began to unloose which combined the Rebellion in Mounster but let us a little looke backeward CHAP. VI. Cahir Castle surprized by Iames Galdie Butler A letter from Iames Galdie Butler to the Lord President The rendring of the Castle of Loghguyrre Nugents attempt upon Iohn fits Thomas â—lanwilliam spâ—yled and burnt by the Armie THe President being at Yoghall in his journey to Corke sent Sir Iohn Dowâ—all an ancient Captaine in Ireland to Cahir Castle as well to see the same provided of a sufficient Ward out of Captaine George Blunts Companie as to take order for the furnishing of them with Victuall Munition and other warlike Provision there hee left the eighth or ninth of May a Sergeant with nine and twenty Souldiers and all necessary Provision for two moneths who notwithstanding upon the three and twentieth of the same were surprized by Iames Galdie alias Butler brother to the Lord of Cahir and as it was suspected by many pregnant presumptions not without the consent and working of the Lord himselfe which in after times proved to be true The carelesse securitie of the Warders together with the treachery of an Irish-man who was placed sentinell upon the top of the Castle were the causes of this Surprize Iames Galdie had no