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D.D., LL.D., F.S.A. (Scot.),

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FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. BELONGING TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE
OF DEVONSHIRE, PRESERVED IN LISMORE CASTLE.

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BY the Editor.

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CCCXC. William Perkins to Cork: 1638.

IHIS is No. 80 of vol. xix., and is addressed, "To the Right
Hon'"" the Earle of Corke, his most honored Lo : present
these at Stalling Dorsetshire," and endorsed, " 3° Januarij
1638, from M' Will" Perkins." Fine red wax seal.— G.

Right Honorable, I heare present you with a particuler of a
mannour which Sir Pierce Crosby desired might be sent to your
lordship. Heare is no other newes of the Scotch busines, but
such as when your Lordship leaft London : only y' Marquess is
dayly expected and good lookt for by his returne. y" Earle of
Lindsey on Thursday last was at y' tower, to viewe y" arms
brought out of y' low Countryes, and hee tooke one of y' pikes
and shook it and brake it assunder, and y' armour so poore as a
man may strike through it with a stick. I haue no more to
present to your Honor but my most humble service : I wishinge
you and all yours a happy Christmas, I rest your Lordships
most humble seruant, W. Perkins.

Dec. 24, 1638.

I hearwith present your Lordship with a tre, I think from my
Lord Primate his wife. [Not preserved.— G.]

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CCCXCI. Same to Same : 1638.

This is No. 81 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right HoW^ the
Earle of Corke, my Most honored Lo : present Thes," and endorsed, " 3"
Januarij 1638, from M' Wilham Perkins." — G.

Right Honorable, I heare present your Lordship with a
packett y' I received yesterday from Paris ; and would be glad to
find your Lordship some good from Scotland, but y' we haue
not much more then y' y" Lord Marquis is vpon his way home-
ward, but hindred by a bile on his posteriors so as hee cannot
Ride they say. y' lord feildinge came on Christmas day and
D' Beleancoe [= Balcanquhall] is on his way. his report is y'
they haue dissolued y' assembly and so farr they haue obayed y
Kings Commands ; but before they did it they damd y" seruice
books, y" high Comission, the booke of Cannons and all epis-
copall Jurisdicon so as what yet wilbe ye issue no man knoweth,
but wee hope y' best, from on[e] M"' Knowles a Marchant of
Minehead, a letter to this effect that hee had Contracted with
M' Arthur freeli for his fathers wool}, and payd him 50" in
hand in March last, expectinge to haue received the whole bar-
gayne of woott now at Bartholmewside rent ; whereby hee
should haue been enabled to haue paid me ye [illegible] ; but hee
finds that M'" freeli hath since sould it to another and gotten
Mony for it, so as I shalbe thus baffled by him as formerly I
haue beene. I humbly pray your Lordship to favour me so farr
as to talke with my Lord Barrimore about it, and to be pleased
to aduise me what Course to take with M"" freeli : for I haue
had very ill payment from him for all y' euer my Lord assigned
vpon him. I hope your Lordship wilbe my good lord so farr as
to aduise me v/hat to doo in it yt I may speedely put it into a

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Course of proceeding. So with my Most humble seruice to
your good lordship I humbly take my leaue, who am your
Honors most humble seruant, W. Perkins.

Dec\ 29, 1638.

CCCXCII. Nicholas Rowe to Cork : 1638.

This is No. 82 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right honorable
my very good L ; the Earle of Corke etc. these with respect and speede,
London," and endorsed, "sojanuar: 1638, from M' Rowes sonn that
carryed my Ires from Dublin to the Lord Primate and my Cozen Joshua
Boyle, who hath been euer since within bounds at West""' house." See
Introduction In vol. iii. — G.

Right honourable, my duttiful seruice presented, and these
to lett your honour knowe that since my coming out of London
I am ouer heere at Chester expectinge the winde, which has
been alwayes westerly, once the winde fluttered a little, where-
uppon wee went to sea, but that night wee weare like to be cast
away vppon the coast of Wales and constrained to come backe
againe to Chester water, it greves me that your honors letters
committed vnto my chardge should soe long time lay heere,
wherof I thought fitting to giue your honour notice ; and in-
deed my Right honourable Lord, by this long stay I come short
of moneyes : neither any way to gett heere hands nor acquain-
tance, neither any Irish marchant^ nor gentlemen. Wherefore I
humbly beseech your honor to succour me in this want by
sparing 4 or 5 peeces ; which I shall faithfully see deliuered in
Ireland, where your honour will appointe mee. I lodge at
Chester in the widdow Wailshs at Watergate street, humbly
craueing pardon for my boldnes, thrusting in your honours
wonted courtesie and loue vnto us, beseeching the almightie to

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prosper your honour and his honorable children, I rest. Chester
the 29 of December 1638, your honours most humble and dutti-
full seruant, Nicholas Rowe.

CCCXCIII. William Perkins to Cork: 1638.

This is No. 84 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To my most honorable
Lord The Earle of Corke, present these," and endorsed, " 3° Januari 1638,
from M' William Perkins." — G.

Right Honorable, I receyued some lettres from Paris since
your packett on 25 x''"' from the younge Lords, wherby I vn-
derstand of their good health, and from one of them, a lettre
and bill of exchange, to pay for him 30" to a french Marchant
whose seruant is come ouer, and your bill chardgd on me at 8
dayes sight. When I saw your bill I durst not accept it, vpon
which hee said hee would protest it. I tould him hee should not
doo so, but I would wright to your Lordship about it, and it
might bee your Lordship would take some order about it, and
by the returne of your post hee should haue an answir ; and
vpon this hope he is contented to stay till y* returne of y"
post to know your Lordships pleasure. My humble sute to
your Honour is that yo" bee pleased to pay this one. It is the
first in thir kinde that euer your Lordship payed, and to haue it
vnpayd and your bill protested would bee a most exceedinge
dishonor to a Noble Lord and it would reflect as a dishonor to
your Lordship also : but if your Lordship wilbe pleased to pay
this one I will wright a sharp lettre to my younge Lord and
rattle him for this presumption, in goinge so farr beyound his
boundes : and my good Lord I will ingage myselfe that hee
shall neuer transgresse thus agayne, and take it as things donne
by myselfe without your Lordships comaund. I beseech you

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my Noble Lord graunt me this my one sute ; I too assure your
Lordship they are at a greate chardge and lyue at a high rate,
keepinge a Coach, 8 persons, rich clothes, rich Company of
Many Noble persons & gentry that resort to them, all which
requires a large suport. I humbly pray yow my good Lord
deny me not this my humble sute ; and it shall not repent your
Honor the grantinge of it, for it shalbe an occasion to me to ply
his Lordship with documents and instruction to take heede yt
no such things bee donne hearafter, for that it would bee verye
vnpleasinge to your Lordship that any such things should at any
tyme come to your knowledge. This the first sute that euer I
made to your Lordship in this kinde, I hope it shalbe the last. I
craue your Lordships pardon for my importunity ; I dare not
doo such a thinge with out your Lordships knowledge and vn-
willinge to haue the younge Lord dishonored for so small
matter, nor would I doo it to doo a sonne of your Lordships
hurt, but out of my duty & due respect to your Lordship I pre-
sent it humbly to your Honorable [self] and begg vppon my
knees that you be pleased to doo it, but it shalbe so donne as it
shall not draw on the like whilst their abode is at Paris : I shall
take it as one [of] the greatest fauours that euer your Lordship
was pleased to Conferr vpon me, and as donne to my owne
selfe.

This day beinge at the Court to present New years gifts to
the King, the M'' of the Jewell howse tould me that it was
expected from your Honor that you present the Kinge as other
Lords doo. I demaunded of him if any Earles of Ireland did
it ; hee tould me yes, and assured me that from my Lord of
Corke it was expected, vpon his owne knowledge ; and further
tould me that hee would see your Lordship should haue a bill of
impost for 8 tunne of wine for your howskeepinge. If your

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Lordship please to thinke well of it it will bee acceptable to ye
Kinge, and ye Chardg wilbe borne by the remuneration that his
Majestie bestowes vpon you back againe ; which I leaue to your
Lordships wisdome to giue order at your pleasure.

I humbly pray that with your Lordships answer to these my
propositions your Lordship bee pleased to aduise me some what
about M'' freekes rent of Rathbary, which if your Lordship
healp not I must be forced to make vse of my Lord Deputyes
fauour, or els take some other course with him by lawe, for
hee will abuse me I knowe :

thus presentinge my most humble services to your Honor I
most humbly take my leaue, prayinge the Lord to giue your
Lordship A good new yeare and many ; to his good pleasure
and the Comfort of all that depend vpon you : this is the harty
and humbly prayer of your Honors most obliged and humble
Seruant William Perkins.

Janj°, 1638.

CCCXCIV. Lewis Boyle to his Father : 1638.

This is No. 86 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right Honorable
& my most honored Lord Father, Richard Earle of Cork, Lord high
Thieasurer of Ireland, & one of his Majestyes most honorable Priuy
Councell of ye same. Most humbly present these at Stalbridg," and
endorsed, " 17" January 1638, from my Son Lewes from Paris." — G.

My most Honored Lord Father, Since my Last presented
vnto your Honor from hence, dated ye ii of December 1638,
We haue by the grace of God, still continued in perfect health,
& duly & profitably followed those exercises that we Learn. We
haue waited twice since vpon y" Princes, by whom we were
curteously, & famiarly receiiied. We goc one Sunday to y'

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Lord of LeicesterSj & y' other to y" Lord Scudamors, by both
[of] whom we are still fauorably & most gratiously receiued.
The Lord of Lecester inuited vs particularly to a play Acted in
English in his Lordships howse on Newyeares day, by some
English Inhabitants heere : The Lord Scudamor departs shortly
for England, where he is commaunded to repaire within six
weeks at farthest.

Heere is noe newes but y' taking of Brizac, for which
Te Deum was very Solemnly Sung in Nostra Dames Church ;
The departure of y* King to Lyons, Bourdeaux, & other
townes of Gascony & Lauguedoc, to what end is vnknowne ;
The defeast of i6 Cornetts of Horse & two Regiments of foot
of the Imperialls by y" Generall Banier, The death of y'' Cardi-
nalls Father Confessor; The Marriage of y"" Dutches of
Piloran, y* Cardinalls neisse to y' Earle or Compte de Harcourt.
And lastly the death & Solemn Buriall of y^ right Reuerend
Pare Joseph, Capucin, & y' Cardinalls dearest Fauorite, at
whose buriall y^ Popes Legate, y° Cardinall Bourdeaux, &
many other great personages assisted. There was a kind of
Libell made vpon Pere Joseph Since his death, wherof (as I
remember) the tenor was : That after his death he went, with
out stopping at all in Purgatory, straight to y' gate of Paradize,
where he knock'd soe confidently, that y' Switzer of Heauen,
S' Peter came hastily & ask'd who was there, & being answered.
It is I, Pere Joseph, Capuchin, S' Peter demaunded him, if he
had his Bezace (which js a kind of knap-sack or wallet, where
in they put y^ Almes which they mendicate) & being answered
noe, S' Peter bad himn rudely to return, assuring him, that he
admitted none of his order into Paradize without their Bezaces :
whereupon Pere Joseph very sadly returned, & meeting in his
way two other Capuchins, ask'd them whither they went, &

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being answer'd into Paradize, he ask'd them if they had their
Bezaces, the which hauing shew'd him, he assured them of their
Entrance, & went imediatly to y" Cardinall, who was soe sen-
sible of his eternall disaster, that he went immediatly with him
to y" King, to whom he made request & complaint in y" behalfe
of Pere Joseph : By whom he was merely answered that he
was extream glad therof, & that he would speedily take such
an order, that not only y^ Pere Joseph, but also all his subjects,
should goe bolt-right into Paradize : Car. said his Majesty,
i.e., Les reduirai tous a la Bezace, I will reduce them all to the
Wallett.

Although your Honors Letters are honors which I haue euer
ardently desired, & most pretious & highly esteem'd, yet my
Longing for that happines was neuer (& y' justly) soe eager as
now, infinitely apprehending y" continuance of your Honors
displeasure, & heartily desiring to be certifyed that I am soe
happy as to bee in your Honors esteem what I am in my selfe,
& shall euer continue to be, My Lord Your Honors most obe-
dient Sonn most humble, & most faithfully deuoted poore
Seruant, Lewis Bayle.

Paris ye -^ of January i|f|-.

CCCXCV. William Perkins to Cork. : 1638.

This is No. 9 1 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To y' right Ho. the Earie
of Corlce present," and endorsed, " ly" Januarij 1638, from M' William
Perkins touching the money that S' Robert Parkhurst owes me."— G.

My Lord, The Counsell of Warr satt this day and till thurs-
day be past nothinge wilbe concluded of. tis Thought y" Earle
Marshall will quit the place of General!, and then I beleeue my -?

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Lord of Essex will eyther Commaund in Cheife or the Scotts
haue new counsells such as neuer weare heard of before, and are
farr more insolent then euer ; and Though his Majestie should
graunt what they would haue yet they would haue their charges
payd them, tis heare said that my Lord Deputy hath sent 500
horse into y° North of Ireland to keepe all in peace here, for
feare of y" worst, and y' his Lordship comes ouer shortly : that
his Majestie will goe into Yorkshire in March, so soone as y°
Queene is vp.

I haue spoken with Sir Robert Parkhurst, who is ready to
pay y'^ 234li, and will not deny to pay y' 80'' but first desyers to
haue speech with your Lordship, and if you can make it apeare
to him y' it is due, hee will pay it ; but till I haue order from
your lordship, I dare not medle with any : yet he saith I shall
keep your Note your lordship sent last : which hee will make
good if it be due.

The Cooke y' Drest your Lordships meate, hath sent my
Lord Dungarvan a fyne Spanyell. It will fetch and leape ouer
a staff and many other feats, but what for y" feild I know not.

I shuld haue written to M"^ Barry. But I am so ouertaken
with y° tym y' I must craue your lordships pardon for my short
scriblinge. your lordships [letters] into france I haue sent, and
present you with another from Them : and so with my humble
service take my leaue who am your Lordships most humble ser-
vant to Commaund, W. Perkins.

Jan. 12, 1638, midnight.

CCCXCVI. Same to Same: 1638.

This is No. 94. of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right hon''"^ the
Earle of Cork my Most honored Lo : present these," and endorsed, " 1 6°
Januarij 1638, from M' Will" Perkins."— G.
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Right Honorable, I haue no more to present to your lordship
but what I wrott in my former ; nor shall haue any to purposs
till Thursday next be past ; at which time, God willing, I will
not fayle to present your lordship with all that can be learnd
by any my Noblest freinds I haue. for Sir Robert Parkhurst
hee dysers to speake with your Lordship before hee pay your
80''- If your lordship would be pleasd to wright to him, or to
giue me order what to tell him, I shall obserue your Lordships
order : but it seems the fault was much in M'^ Aldersey in take-
ing Mony of your Lordship and yet leauinge it vpon ye Alder-
mans accoumpt to be payd againe to him. I shuld be glad that
what your Lordship shall wright might preuayle to put an end to
y' old accoumpt. The younge Knight humbly prayes your
Lordship to fauour him so farreas to keepe the land in Conought
from cominge to a plantaco, which may much aduantage him
and (as hee saith) no way [be] preiudiciall to your Lordship ;
which I humbly leaue to your Lordships Noble disposition.
Your Lordships letters into france I haue dispatched last Thurs-
day, we haue a report that 500 men are put into y"= North of
Ireland to be billeted amonge ye Scotts. Sir frances Willoby
and 4 other Captains haue y* Comand of y' part, my Lord
Conway hath a troope of horse raysd on purpose for him and is
vpon present expedico to be gonne, y' King's ship wayting for
him at Neston in Beormarise [= Beaumaris].

I beseech your Lordship to excuse me to my Lord Dungarvan
and M"' Barry, for till thursday I cannot tell whether eyther of
them shall haue any entertaynment to go fight against y^ Scotts
(but as Darby when the fray was in fleet streete) it weare best
for Them to bee with your Lordship at Stalbridge ; for nothinge
to bee had of Them but knocks, and ragged knaues, if they will
not be ruled, as I hope, there will neuer be bloud drawne in this

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quarrell. thus with my most humble seruices to your Honor I
must humbly rest your Honors most humble seruant, William
Perkins.

Jan. 15. 1638.

CCCXCVII. Same to Same.

This is No. 98 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " For the Right hon''''' the
Earle of Corke, his Most hon'' lo : present these," and endorsed, " 24.°
Januarij 1638, from M'' Will™ Perkins." — G.

Right Honble, I can send your lordship no newes y' good is.
her Majestie on Satturday night last brought to bed of a princess ;
but eyther dead borne or dyed imediatly after : yet was by y'
Archbishop Baptised as I heare in these terms, if Thou be alyue
I baptise thee, etc. tis Thought y^ Kinge haston[s] to Yorke,
and tis said y^ Lord Deputy comes ouer; which yet I belieue not.
tis said y' all y' trayne bands shall towards Scotland at y= Coun-
trye's chardge, and such vnwelcome Things wee haue heare. I
am informd this day y' Sir Thomas Edmunds hath a writ of
ease. My Lord Goringe shall be a Privy Counsellor and M'
Henry Gorman, Master of y' Horsse to y= queen ; but of these
I shall tell you more in my next, to-morow night I will pro-
cure letters from Sir Thomas Stafford y' shall giue your Lordship
a true accoumpt of all these court passages. In y^ meane tyme
my humble seruice presented to your Lordship, I rest your
Honors most humble seruant, William Perkins.

Jan. 21. 1638.

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being answer'd into Paradize, he ask'd them if they had their
Bezaces, the which hauing shew'd him, he assured them of their
Entrance, & went imediatly to y' Cardinall, who was soe sen-
sible of his eternall disaster, that he went immediatly with him
to y"^ King, to whom he made request & complaint in y* behalfe
of Pere Joseph : By whom he was merely answered that he
was extream glad therof, & that he vyould speedily take such
an order, that not only y" Pere Joseph, but also all his subjects,
should goe bolt-right into Paradize : Car. said his Majesty,
i.e., Les reduirai tous a la Bezace, I will reduce them all to the
Wallett.

Although your Honors Letters are honors which I haue euer
ardently desired, & most pretious & highly esteem'd, yet my
Longing for that happines was neuer (& y' iustly) soe eager as
now, infinitely apprehending y^ continuance of your Honors
displeasure, & heartily desiring to be certifyed that I am soe
happy as to bee in your Honors esteem what I am in my selfe,
& shall euer continue to be, My Lord Your Honors most obe-
dient Sonn most humble, & most faithfully deuoted poore
Seruant, Lewis Bayle.

Paris ye -^ of January xItI-

CCCXCV. William Perkins to Cork: 1638.

This is No. 91 of vol. xix., and is addressed, "To y" right Ho. the Earle
of Corke present," and endorsed, " 17° Januarij 1638, from M' William
Perkins touching the money that S'' Robert Parkhurst owes me." — G.

My Lord, The Counsell of Warr satt this day and till thurs-
day be past nothinge wilbe concluded of. tis Thought y' Earle
Marshall will quit the place of General!, and then I beleeue my ■

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Lord of Essex will eyther Commaund in Cheife or the Scotts
haue new counsells such as neuer weare heard of before, and are
farr more insolent then euer ; and Though his Majestie should
graunt what they would haue yet they would haue their charges
payd them, tis heare said that my Lord Deputy hath sent 500
horse into y^ North of Ireland to keepe all in peace here, for
feare of y* worst, and y' his Lordship comes ouer shortly : that
his Majestie will goe into Yorkshire in March, so soone as y°
Queene is vp.

I haue spoken with Sir Robert Parkhurst, who is ready to
pay y= 23411, and will not deny to pay y" 80" but first desyers to
haue speech with your Lordship, and if you can make it apeare
to him y' it is due, hee will pay it ; but till I haue order from
your lordship, I dare not medle with any : yet he saith I shall
keep your Note your lordship sent last : which hee will make
good if it be due.

The Cooke y' Drest your Lordships meate, hath sent my
Lord Dungarvan a fyne Spanyell. It will fetch and leape ouer
a staff and many other feats, but what for y' feild I know not.

I shuld haue written to M'' Barry. But I am so ouertaken
with y' tym y' I must craue your lordships pardon for my short
scriblinge. your lordships [letters] into france I haue sent, and
present you with another from Them : and so with my humble
service take my leaue who am your Lordships most humble ser-
vant to Commaund, W. Perkins.

Jan. 12, 1638, midnight.

CCCXCVI. Same to Same : 1638.

This is No. 94 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right hon""'' the
Earle of Cork my Most honored Lo : present these," and endorsed, " i6»
Januarij 163S, from Mf Will" Perkins." — G.
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Right Honorable, I haue no more to present to your lordship
but what I wrott in my former ; nor shall haue any to purposs
till Thursday next be past ; at which time, God willing, I will
not fayle to present your lordship with all that can be learnd
by any my Noblest freinds I haue. for Sir Robert Parkhurst
hee dysers to speake with your Lordship before hee pay your
80". If your lordship would be pleasd to wright to him, or to
giue me order what to tell him, I shall obserue your Lordships
order : but it seems the fault was much in M"^ Aldersey in take-
ing Mony of your Lordship and yet leauinge it vpon ye Alder-
mans accoumpt to be payd againe to him. I shuld be glad that
whatyour Lordship shall wright might preuayle to put an end to
y' old accoumpt. The younge Knight humbly prayes your
Lordship to fauour him so farre as to keepe the land in Conought
from cominge to a plantaco, which may much aduantage him
and (as hee saith) no way [be] preiudiciall to your Lordship;
which I humbly leaue to your Lordships Noble disposition.
Your Lordships letters into france I haue dispatched last Thurs-
day, we haue a report that 500 men are put into y" North of
Ireland to be billeted amonge ye Scotts. Sir frances Willoby
and 4 other Captains haue y" Comand of y' part, my Lord
Conway hath a troope of horse raysd on purpose for him and is
vpon present expedico to be gonne, y' King's ship wayting for
him at Neston in Beormarise [= Beaumaris].

I beseech your Lordship to excuse me to my Lord Dungarvan
and M'" Barry, for till thursday I cannot tell whether eyther of
them shall haue any entertaynment to go fight against y' Scotts
(but as Darby when the fray was in fleet streete) it weare best
for Them to bee with your Lordship at Stalbridge ; for nothinge
to bee had of Them but knocks, and ragged knaues, if they will
not be ruled, as I hope, there will neuer be bloud drawne in this

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quarrell. thus with my most humble seruices to your Honor I
must humbly rest your Honors most humble seruant, William
Perkins.

Jan. 15. 1638.

CCCXCVII. Same to Same.

This is No. 98 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " For the Right hon"'' the
Earle of Corke, his Most hon'' lo : present these," and endorsed, " 24.°
Januarij 1638, from M' Will™ Perkins."— G.

Right Honble, I can send your lordship no newes y' good is.
her Majestic on Satturday night last brought to bed of a princess ;
but eyther dead borne or dyed imediatly after : yet was by y=
Archbishop Baptised as I heare in these terms, if Thou be alyue
I baptise thee, etc. tis Thought y" Kinge haston[s] to Yorke,
and tis said y° Lord Deputy comes ouer; which yet I belieue not.
tis said y' all y' trayne bands shall towards Scotland at y" Coun-
trye's chardge, and such vnwelcome Things wee haue heare. I
am informd this day y' Sir Thomas Edmunds hath a writ of
ease. My Lord Goringe shall be a Privy Counsellor and M''
Henry Gorman, Master of y' Horsse to y' queen ; but of these
I shall tell you more in my next, to-morow night I will pro-
cure letters from Sir Thomas Stafford y' shall giue your Lordship
a true accoumpt of all these court passages. In y^ meane tyme
my humble seruice presented to your Lordship, I rest your
Honors most humble seruant, William Perkins.

Jan. 21. 1638.

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CCCXCVIII. Richard Berington to Cork: 1638.

This is No. 99 of vol. xix., and is addressed, " To the Right honorable
and my singular good Lord, the Earle of Corke, at his howse at Stalbridge
in Dorsetshire these humbly present," and endorsed, "25° Januarij 1638
from my Cozen Richard Barington." — G.

Right honorable and my very good Lord, This is the fifth
letter which I haue made bould to write to your Lordship since
you went from London, and now I beginne to feare least they
neuer came to your handf, because I haue not vnderstoode any
thinge Thereof. I should be sorry if they haue miscarryed ;
for Though I haue been cautious in my writinge of the present
occurrances, yet I knowe not howe they may be interpreted.
Since my last, there is come forth a Declaration printed by
CoiSand, which shews the animositie and bouldnes of the
Couenanters in Scotland, against his Majesty's Proclamation,
the like insolences I haue not heard of subjectf to so gratious a
Kinge. I pray God send a happy end of those troubles : It is
resolued that his Majestie will goe to Yorke, to be there the 5*
of Aprill. it was reported that the Terme should be remooued
thither, but there is no such thinge. I heare that the Queene
accompanies the Kinge thither : howe longe they staie is yet vn-
certaintie. her Majestie was deliuered of a daughter on Sunday
morninge last, which so soone as it was Christened presently de-
parted this life, and was yesternight to be buryed at Westminster
privately, we had both ioye and griefe in one hower ; yet
thanks be to God her Majestie is well, which we all reioyce to
heare. They saie in Courte that M'' Treasurer of the howse-
hould leaues his place ; that M'' Comptroller succedes him ; M''
Vice Chamberlin shalbe Comptroller ; the Lord Goringe Vice-
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the Queene. The Earle of Anckeram keeper of the Privie
purse, hath a Cloude ouer him, and is to loose his place, and the
Lord Marquesse Brother to succeede him, and the report is, that
his Sonne, beinge one of the Scottish Covenanters, hath received
greate SuiSes of money from his father, which he hath supplyed
him with. I am tould that the Lord Deputies cause is put of
till Easter Terme ; for the Lord Esmond hath been a sutor to
haue his Comission renewed to examine newe Witnesses. The
Bishop of Lincolnes cause houldf the 8"" of february : And I
heare the maine charge of the Bill against him is for subornation
of Wittnesses. Baron Denham is dead, and Serieant Plowden
is to haue his place. The last weeke we had an extreame tem-
pest, with Thunder and Lightninge, which hath donne much
harme, and especially to three Churches, two in Surrey neere
London, and one by Grauesend. I beseech your Lordship to
pardon this my bouldnes. And so with myne owne and wiues
humble duties, I rest your Lordships most humble seruant, Ric :
Berington.

S' James : 22° Januar : 1638.

CCCXCIX. Edward Sidenham to Cork: 1638.

This is No. loi of vol. xix., and is endorsed, "25° Januarij 1638, from
M' Edward Sidenham." — G.

My Lord, I haue only at this time opertunitie to tell you that
the Kinge is resolued to goe in parson against the Scots, and
that a cofiiand is to goe to all his Servants, bothe ordynarie and
extryordinarie, must haue horss and armes for himselfe and a
saruant at least to be reddy to wayte on him on this voyage.
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hee may see it, if it may stand with your lordships good likinge ;
and hee will send it ouer to his agent M"' Stafford at Dublin,
for the gentleman who sent the perticuler of the Anaryes \sic\,
he saith hee will most willingly wait on your Lordship next
terme for y" returne of his Mony. and in y* meane tyme prayeth
to haue y" perticuler returned back to him. for your priuate
accounpt and the disbursement of y" Mony, your Honorr left
with me and I received since, I will present it to your Lordship
when my Lord Dungarvan Comes downe ; which I think wilbe
within 2 or 3 dayes. The Kinges Journy houlds at y' prefixed
day for any Thinge yet knowne to y' contrary, the Citty
Common Counsell haue refused to ayde his Majestic with any
Mony towards this warr in regard of the many taxes imposed
vpon them, and the lone of their lande at London Derry. The
Earle of Bullenbrooke, Musgraue, Viscount Say, Viscount Man-
diuiell. Lord Brooke and Lord Montague, with many others
refuse also any ayde or attendance to Yorke. There is report of
a protestacon sett out by y" states of Scotland, expressing their
loyalty and Subiection to his Majestic and theirc good affection
to yc subiectf of England ; that they intend no hurt to any
mans person or estate ; but to mayntaine their religion in
gouernment established by law in Parlamentf and the imuntyes
and priuiledges of the Kingdome, and that their meaninge is so
they desyer to be tryed by a Parlament in England and by them
to be adiudged. Here is no man will bee brought to beleeue
y' there bee any warr, for all this greate shew of preparaco. We
hope all wilbe ended without blowes. Thus, with my humble
seruice to yor lordship and all the Noble Ladyes with you, in
hast I rest your Lordships most humble seruant William
Perkins.

Feb. 19, 1638.

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CCCCII. The Covenanters to the Earl of Essex :

1639.

This is No. 10 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " A Copie of a lettre from
some of the Covenanters of Scotland to the Earle of Essex." — G.

To the right honorable the Earle of Essex theise. Our most
noble [friend] : As in all theise great afFayres, which haue been soe
much noysed abroad, of the libertyes of our Church and State,
our chiefest care hath been to walke warrantably acording to the
lawes that were still in force for effect ; Soe wee are certainely
\worn away] that amongst our selues there are none that can
iustly complayne of what hath past. And for those of our
Countrymen that are now in England, if they be of that num-
ber, as they are all subiects to our gratious Soueraigne, and
worse compatriots to vs, soe of all the worst guests amongst you,
while they endeavor to make the remedyes of their evills, and
the escape of their deserued punishment, the beginning of an in-
curable disease betwixt the two nations, to whome their quarrel!
should in noe way extend. If the informacons and protestacons
made by vs for this end, and the bond of our Covenant sworn
to God and man, hath not cleared all scruples in the mynde of
our gratious Soueraigne hithertill, and of all good subiects with
you ; it is not our fault but rather our ioynt misfortune with
you, that those are too too many amongst you also in great
place and creditt, whose private byas runs quite wyde, and con-
trary to the publique good, and who are those wicked ones,
rysing early, to poyson the publick fountaines, and to sow the
tares of vnhappy Jealousies and discords betwixt you and vs,
before the good seed of our loue and respect to our Neigbour
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this kynde which dayly overtake vs, next to the present vn-
derseved displeasure of our Prince against vs, (which god in his
mercie to both will take of in his owne tyme) there should
nothing befall soe strange & vnexpected to vs, as the drawing of
your forces together vpon the border, which thinke to defend
your selues, or to anoy vs, and soe prepare and gather theyse
clouds, which threaten a sore tempest to both. Wee for our
part wish they may all perish in Shipwreack, who begin first to
dash the one nation against the other. As for you, my lord.
Although your place, person, and quallities [and] the honor &
reputation of your former lyfe ; may giue vs some assurance
that your lordship wilbe wary to begin the quarrell, whereat
only enemyes to us both will reioyce, and catch at the advan-
tage. Yet giue vs leaue to allay those groundles feares that
make you thus sthrengthen your border, or rather [cause us to]
suspect theise pregnant presumptions of a farther proiect in-
tended against this nation by your power, which must needs
make vs bestirr our selues at all hands for our safety. God is
our wittnes, that wee desire noe such quarrell to arise betwixt
vs, as to tast of that bitter fruite, which may set botth our and
your Childrens teeth on edge, but rather hold our selues obliged
in conscience of our dutyes to god, our Prince, and all the
Nation, our bretheren, to try all iust and lawfull meanes, for the
removall of all causes of differences betwixt two Nations, who
are yet linked togeather, and should be still, in the strongest
bonds of affecon, an comon interest, and to be allwayes ready to
offer the greater satisfaccon in this bond, of clearing our loyall
intentions towards our Prince, to all to whome it may concerne.
And namely to your Lordship in regard of your place and
comand, at this tyme, by any meanes whatsoever, should be
thought expedient on both sydes. Thus farr wee thought good

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to represent vnto your Lordship, being ocasionally togeather, see
few of vs as are in this place for our selues, & in the name of
the rest of our number, who togeather with vs will expect your
Lordships answere, and rest your Lordships affectionate ffrends,
Argile : Rothes : Montross : Cassellis : Wems : Dal-
HousiE : Lothian : Lindesay : Sinclare : Balmirino :

BURGHLEY : FFORESTER : LyNDSAY EhBO (?) EgIER (?).

Edinborough 19° April 1639.

CCCCin. The Refused Oath: 1639.

This is No. 10* of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " The Copie of the Military
oath which the Lord Say and the Lord Brookes refused, and the answeres
and reasons why they did refuse to take it." — G,

On the 20* of April, the Peeres that attended the King at
Yorke, were comanded to wayte on y"= King, where when y°
King had gratiously declared his good acceptation of theyr readi-
nesse to serue him, there was produced by y' Lord Generall, the
forme of an oath that he sayed he desyred might be taken by
the noble Armye without exception of any.
The Coppye of the Oath goeth herewith : —
The Lord of y*' Councell had bin made acquaynted with y"
oath in y'' morning, and my Lord G. [hlank'l came first him-
selfe and tooke y' oath, and soe y' rest of y° Lords of y= Coun-
cell. The Peeres were then invited to take the oath likewise,
which they did willinglye, vntill yt came vnto my Lord Say,
who desyred to be excused (for that hauing taken the Oath of
Supremacye and Allegeance vppon seuerall occasions, and was
readye to take them, being Legall Oaths) yf he forbore the take-
ing of any other oath that he held was not Legall. Then the
rest of y^ Lords proceeded all of them in takeing of y' sayde

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ject, without any Equiuocation or mentall Reservation what
soeuer ; from which I hold noe power vppon Earth can absolue
me in any parte.

CCCCIV. The Oath subscribed by the Marquis of
HuNTLY : 1639.

This is No. 14 of vol. xx., and is endorsed by the " Great Earl" — " 15°
May 1639. A coppie of the Lo. Marquis Hamyltons [sic'] oath, w"" the
Coppie of the Kingf war' for enlardglng the Lords Sale, and L. Brook."
— G.

The oath Subscribed by y* Marquess Huntly.

I doe with alt my hart acknowledge y« Confession of faith
sworne and subscribed to in 1580 and 81, and sweare to y"
reformed religion according as it was then profFessed in y^ Church
of Scottland, both in doctrin and discipline, and as touching any
nouacon since introduced either in y° Worship of God or
government of y^ Church (as they have bene by a late Assembly,
indicted by the Kings Majesty and holden att Glasco in
November 1638) declared to be abiured by the aforesaid Con-
fession, and that they ought to be removed out of this Church ;
So I acknowledg and receave y' determinacon of y" said
Assembly therin, promising and swearing by y'^ great name of
y' Lord my God, and vnder y" paines Conteyned in y^ Law y'
I shall with all my power assist and concurr in this cause of
defFendinge religion, y' Lawes and liberties of this Church and
kingdom and y' I shall by all meanes I can, promote y" same,
in testificacon wherof I haue subscribbed to y' premises with
my hand.

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CCCCV. Warrant for Release of Lords Save and
Brook : 1639.

This is on same page with the preceding. — G.

Charles Rex,

Whereas by a late order from vs and our Counsell, y*
Lord Viscount Say and Lord Brook weare Committed y'' one
to y' howse of y* Lord Mayor, y' other to y* howse of y"
Recorder of y° Citty of York, for vttering in our presence some
offensive speeches, preiudiciall to our service and not agreeable
to y' due respect they owe vnto vs as by y° order entred in y°
Councell book doth appear ; Now vpon their second answers
given vnto our said Counsell Whom we sent to demand an
accoumpt of their Intencons therein. Wee are pleased to Com-
maund y' said Lords to returne to their bowses, y* Lord Say in
to Oxfordshire ; and y^ Lord Brooke into Warwick shire, ther
to Continue till wee shall declare our further pleasure, yet soe as
they neither take liberty themselves nor encourage others, to y'
hinderance of our service ; And of this our will and pleasure as
well y' said Lords for what belongeth to them as y'Lord Mayor
and recorder are respectively to take notice. Given vnder our
signe Manuell att our Manor of York y' 25 of Aprill in y" 15
yeare of our Raigne 1639.

CCCCVL Marquis of Hamilton : 1639.

This is No. j2 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " A Coppie of a Jre : Though
these passages be of an ancient date, yet I conceaue it fitt for yo' Lo. view ;
wherby you may playnlie see the great distance betwene these words and
actions." — G.

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ject, without any Equiuocation or mentall Reservation what
soeuer ; from which I hold noe power vppon Earth can absolue
me in any parte.

CCCCIV. The Oath subscribed by the Marquis of
HuNTLY : 1639.

This is No. 14. of vol. xx., and is endorsed by the " Great Earl" — " 15"
May 1639. A coppie of the Lo. Marquis Hamyltons [sic'] oath, w"" the
Coppie of the King^ war' for enlardging the Lords Sale, and L. Brook."
— G.

The oath Subscribed by y' Marquess Huntly.

I doe with att my hart acknowledge y' Confession of faith
sworne and subscribed to in 1580 and 81, and sweare to y"
reformed religion according as it was then profFessed in y' Church
of Scottland, both in doctrin and discipline, and as touching any
nouacon since introduced either in y" Worship of God or
government of y^ Church (as they have bene by a late Assembly,
indicted by the Kings Majesty and holden att Glasco in
November 1638) declared to be abiured by the aforesaid Con-
fession, and that they ought to be removed out of this Church;
So I acknowledg and receave y^ determinacon of y' said
Assembly therin, promising and swearing by y' great name of
y' Lord my God, and vnder y" paines Conteyned in y'^ Law y'
I shall with all my power assist and concurr in this cause of
deffendinge religion, y' Lawes and liberties of this Church and
kingdom and y' I shall by all meanes I can, promote y** same,
in testificacon wherof I haue subscribbed to y^ premises with
my hand.

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CCCCV. Warrant for Release of Lords Save and
Brook : 1639.

This is on same page with the preceding. — G.

Charles Rex,

Whereas by a late order from vs and our Counsell, y"
Lord Viscount Say and Lord Brook weare Committed y' one
to y' howse of y" Lord Mayor, y' other to y^ howse of j'
Recorder of y^ Citty of York, for vttering in our presence some
offensive speeches, preiudiciall to our service and not agreeable
to y' due respect they owe vnto vs as by y' order entred in y"
Councell book doth appear ; Now vpon their second answers
given vnto our said Counsell Whom we sent to deinand an
accoumpt of their Intencons therein. Wee are pleased to Com-
maund y'' said Lords to returne to their howses, y^ Lord Say in
to Oxfordshire ; and y"= Lord Brooke into Warwick shire, ther
to Continue till wee shall declare our further pleasure, yet soe as
they neither take liberty themselves nor encourage others, to y^
hinderance of our service ; And of this our will and pleasure as
well y^ said Lords for what belongeth to them as y" Lord Mayor
and recorder are respectively to take notice. Given vnder our
signe Manuell att our Manor of York y' 25 of Aprill in y' 15
yeare of our Raigne 1639.

CCCCVL Marquis of Hamilton : 1639.

This is No. 22 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " A Coppie of a tre : Though
these passages be of an ancient date, yet I conceaue it fitt for yo' Lo. view ;
wherby you may playnlie see the great distance betwene these words and
actions." — G.

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The Lords of secrete Councell and Sessions Letters to the
Marquis of Hamilton.

Wee of his Majesties Secrett Councell and Sessions, being
Joyntly concerned in this Lamentable estate of Kirke and King-
dome, to consider on some fitt and conveinent way for auerting
the fearful! euills hanging ouer this Country, which to our
greate greife, are too farr aduanced, haue thought it conuenient
to vs in our duties, to acquainte your Lordship with, whoe
represente his Sacred Majestie, as his high Commissioner : That
our Intention is, if your grace wilbe pleased to allow of this our
motion, to appointe some of our number to conferr with your
Grace, concerning this busines, and to aduise with your Grace,
if any faire way yet canbe found out for accomodacon of the
same ; whereof if your Grace shalbe pleased to allow, wee doe
expect to be aduertised by your Grace, of the Time, Manner,
and way of the safe address j wherevnto expecting your Grace's
answer we rest.

Edinburgh, lo"" May 1639.

CCCCVIL The Marquis Answere.

My Lords, I receaued this morninge your Lordships Letter,
and shalbe very willinge to embrace the faire occasions which
might tend to the accomodacon of this vnhappie busines, as one
whoe in all my proceeding^ both before and since my cominge
hither, hath giuen sufficient Testimony thereof: Your Lord-
ships being Councellers and Judges, ought to be all carefull of
what may conduce to his Majesties honnor, as my self, soe I
hope noe Motions will proceede from you that shall tend to the
diminution thereof: And if vpon Monday in the morneinge

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any shall come soe instructed from you, aboord this shipp, I
shall speedily returne by them such an answere as is fitt for me
his Majesties Commissioner to giue. Soe I rest your Lordships
Seruant, Hamilton.

ffrom abord the Rainebow in Leith roade the 10° of May
1639.

CCCCVIII. The Lords Answere to the Marquis
Letter.

The Lordes of secret Councell and Session, thinke it most
expedient that his Majestic should ratifie in Parliament the last
generall assembly and constitution thereof ; which being done,
the Lord^ are confident the Subiect^ will giue his Majestic all
Ciuill obedience and full satisfaccon.

This Last answere from the Lordf to the Marquis was sent
by the Earle of Southeske prime Councellor and my Lord of
[blank']

CCCCIX. Anonymous Letter: 1639.

This is No. 24 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " Extract from a tre from
Newcastle ii"" of May 1639." — G.

Extract of a lettre from Newcastle ii"" of May 1639.
The Kings force of foote when they shalbe altogether, wilbe
nigh 20000 men ; consisting of the following particulars, 6000
prest men, which arc all arrived and armed; 5000 are and
wilbe borrowed of the trained men of Yorkshire ; 5000 are in
the shipps with the Marquess Hamilton, which I conceave at
the Kings coming to Barwick wilbe drawn into our Camp ;

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1500 are to come out of Lancashire with my lord Strange;
1000 are dayly expected out of Ireland with my Lord Barry-
more ; 2000 are in Barwick with the Lord of Lindsey ; 500 at
Carlile with Sir ffrancis Willoughby, sent out of Ireland by my
Lord deputy ; but these two last numbers I conceave wilbe
appropriated to the defence of those places. Our strength of
horse I conceave will be of two thowsand [for] especiall vse in
this border service. For our progress in this warr, the next at
hand wilbe this : on munday come sennight the King will take
the field and march from hence into Barwick in 5 days ; he
will himself march in the army, and lye in his tents in the field
all the way. The Kings troops in pay shall march a day or two
before the King. The troopes of the Court vnder my Lord
Chamberlaine (which I think will be about 600) with the horse
of the Peers (which wilbe about 140 or therabouts) shall attend
the King's person. Of foot wee shalbe neer 9000 ; 6 of the
prest men and two Regiments of Yorkshire. Noe part of the
army shall enter Barwick, but the King will encamp and strongly
intrench within two or three miles of that place ; as I guess
between that and the holy Hand. The horse shalbe quartered
6 or 7 miles on the west, towards wark and Norham, vpon the
avens [= avenues ?] and passadges out of Scotland into England.
Wee shall draw with vs 24 peecs of Artillerie, of alLsorts ; and
this is as much as I can advertise you of the present estate of
the Army.

fibr the strength of the rebells, some of the Scots that come
from thence, say they are able to bring together 40000 well
armed men ; others say not half soe many ; and both affirm
their assertion with equall confidence that what they say vpon
their lives is true. But there is yet litle force visible in any
body ; only there are in seuerall places dispersed vpon the

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Coast to hinder the Marquis landing, tenn or twelve thowsand
men ; and this last night I heard by one that saw them, that,
there were 3000 Scotts together vpon the western border
towards Carlile, to prevent the incursions of the dragoneers,
who are commanded by one Colonell Stafford : he told me
there were but 180 of them armed, the rest had only sword and
Scottish pistolls.

As for the hopes of treaty and accomodacon that way, your
lordship must have that from your Cabbinett frends, but I will
tell your lordship my opinion. That I feare the King hath been
and wilbe abused by them, if he relie on them. My reason
briefly is this, What soever hath been in agitacon, hath not
been the true and reall grounds of their rebellion, but cunning
and plausible pretencons to engage the people, the true aime
and end, was (that which they now are possessed of) which was
to change the government of Church and Commonwealth and
to gett the power of it into their hands.

Now to conceave that to condiscend to all that they ever did,
or yet doe publiquely pretend vnto, should give satisfaccon to
that which they secretly intended, and have attained vnto, I
must confess it stands not with my reason to thinke that will
give any kynd of satisfaccon, it being Causa pro non Causa ;
which is to satisffie in that which they falsly pretend, instead of
that which they would really have and which they have in great
measure attained, but I hope shall not long enioy.

CCCCX. Church of Scotland : 1639.

This is No. 2j of vol. xx., and is endorsed, "The refoimacon of the
churche of Scotland." — G.

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The Confession of Faith, and Reforma[con in] the Kirk
of Scotland, in Doctrine, Worship & Discipline, were regulated
by the word of God, and grounded vpon Scripture, As is
acknowledged by the Harmonic of the Confessions of y' Re-
formed Kirke, and by the testimonie of the best diuines in the
Kirke of England and other Reformed Kirkes,

At that tyme, and to this day, amidst the greatest defection,
and notwithstanding the ambition and vsurpation of Prelates,
noe other ministers and office bearers haue beene acknowledged
or recejued by the authoritie of the Reformed Kirke of Scotland,
butt Pastors, Doctors, Elders, and Deacons : those being war-
ranted by Scripture, and being sufficient for all the necessarie
vses of the Kirk ; yet soe that the Prince and Ciuile Magistrate
had his owne eminent place and Ciuile power, for the conserua-
tion and purgation of Religion.

Noe man here, were he neuer soe wise and pious, aboue
others, or doth he neuer soe much arrogate authoritie vnto him-
selfe, hath the rejnes of Kirk gouernment in his hands, to dis-
pose or doe what seemeth good in his owne Eyes. Butt all
matters are aduised and determined by common consent in the
conuentions and Assemblies of the Kirk. Which Assemblies
were of fower sorts and degrees, commonly designed by the
name of Kirk sessions or Consistories, or Presbyteries, or Classes,
Prouinciall Synodes, and generall, or nationall Assemblyes.

The Kirk Session or Consistorie, doth consist of one Minister
att least, approuen for his learning, life, and skill in gouernment ;
and of Elders, men of best knowledge, and holiest life in the
Parish ; soe manie in number as the proportion of the Congre-
gation doeth require, which are chosen with consent of the
people, and in the presense of the people solemnly admitted to
[worn away'] .... These conueene weekly for ordering such

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matters of y" worship or [worn away'] .... proper for that
Parish : as what dayes of the weeke [worn away] .... bling to
the publick worship or catechising [worn away] .... before and
afternoone, are fittest for the exercises of that [worn away] ....
the Communion shall be giuen ; for censuring of delinquents
[worn away"] .... cursing, prophanationof y"' Lords day, drink-
ing, fornication, vndue [worn away] .... And for delating of
greater offenses, such as Hseresies, Superstition, &c, if any sus-
pect, or if there be any Scandale within thejr bounds, proceed-
ing alsoe with the censure of the Kirk against them, that all
transgressors may be brought to repentance, or separation from
the people of God, according to the ordinances of Christ, and
order of the Kirk. Here alsoe the Deacons who haue the
charge of the poore, are present, to recejue direction in their
dutie.

The Presbyterie, or Classicall meeting, doth consist of parti-
cular Kirks in such a circuit, 12, 16, .20 or soe manie, as by con-
ueniencee of the place can weekelie assemble. Here some one
Elder of each Parish appointed by the particular Kirk Session,
and the whole ministers of those Kirks, doe meete : Where the
Ministers and others to be admitted to ye Ministerie (whome
wee call Expectants) exercise their gifts by course, in interpret-
ing some places of Scripture, appointed them by the Presbyterie :
the exercise or prophesying being ended, the Ministers and
Elders sitt downe with the Moderator, and after prayer and
censure of the Doctrine, they vse the Power of Jurisdiction,
Ordination, Suspension, Depriuation, Visitation of Kirks, tryall
of the processes of Excommunication, deduced by the particular
Elderships, and of direction to the minister of the Parish to
excommunicat if neede be. Here the scandalous faults of
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whatsoeuer qualitie dissobedient to thejr owne Ministers and
Elders, are with great authoritie censured.

Prouinciall Synodes doe consist of the whole Presbyteries
in a shire or Prouince. Soe that the whole kingdome is diuided
in Shires or Prouincies in relation to these Synodes. Here all
the Ministers and one Elder from euerie Parish meete twice in
the yeare, and after preaching and calling vpon the name of
God, by the Moderator of the preceeding Synode, a new Mode-
rator being chosen, they trie thejr Presbyteries by their records,
presented by the Clerks of euerie Presbiterie. What were ob-
scure or difficult for the Presbyteries, or might concerne them
all, in common, is determined and ordered. And if anie difficul-
tie arise, which doth not fall vnder some Kirke constitution, it
is referred to the Nationall Assemblie. All matters are, with
such diligence exped[ited] that each minister may returne to his
charge on the Lords day.

In the Generall or nationall assemblie. The Kings Majestie
in Person, or his Commissoner in his place, vseth to be present ;
which doth conueene once in the yeare, or oftener pro re nata.
Yt doth consist of Ministers and Elders, from each Presbyterie
and Royal Burgh. After solemne humiliation, the first day of
the Assemblie, one of the Ministers is chosen by the voices of
the whole Assemblie, to moderate and preside [in] that Assem-
bly ; the Records of the Synode are perused and tryed ; Acts
and Constitutions for all the Churches are agreed vpon with
common consent of all : mens doubts and scruples concerning
them are satisfyed to the full, if they be proponed an'imo tedifi-
candi, non tentandi. Apellations, Griuances, Petitions, and
Complaints are examined and determined by this supreme and
highest Kirk Judicatiorie : and some Commissioners chosen to
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the Parliament, to the King, the Counsell of the Kingdome, or
Conuention of Estates.

In this authoritie and subordination of Sessions, Presbyteries,
Prouinciall Synodes, and nationall Assemblies, doth consist the
ordour, the beautie, the strength of the Kirk of Scotland ; com-
fortable to the godly both pastors and elders, and " terrible as
an Armie with banners," to Papists, be their [rank] neuer soe
high ; to all hereticks, Schismaticks, hirelings, and all vngodlie
men.

Noe scandalous faiilt of any person escapeth censure ; noe
haeresie or error can sooner be hatched, butt it is presently
crushed by some of these inferior Assemblies ; or if it be keeped
on foote, or take strength it is quite suppressed by the Nationall
Assemblie conueening once in the yeare ; which hath beene a
majne cause why soe feu sects and errors in Doctrine or wor-
ship haue appeared in the Kirke of Scotland for mania yeares ;
and wheresoeuer these assemblies haue place, power and libertie,
the name of Haeresies and Sects, haue not almost beene heard.
In these Assemblies the particular Kirks are not gourned by the
extrinsecall power of any one, or many sett ouer them, as in the
Monarchicall gouernment of Prelates, butt they are ruled and
judged by themselues, and their owne intrinsecall power, each
member by the whole bodye, and in an orderly way ; none of
the whole communion of the faithfull being barrd from the joint
and common gouernment. By these Assemblies the gifts, the
knowledge and zeale of all the members, especiallie of the
Ministers, are stirred vp, quickned, encreased, and strengthned :
an holie Emulation is excited by acquaintance, conference, and
by percejuing the gifts one of another, and the best gifts are
knowen for planting of Kirks and Colledges. Whence it is that
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in themselues and furnished with fresh resolutions for euerie
pastorall dutie for the common benefitt, and edification of all
the Kirks.

CCCCXI. William Perkins to Cork : 1639.

This is No. 27 of vol. xx., and is addressed as before, and endorsed,
" 16 May 1639. (From M' Perkins as touching the billes of exchandge I
sent him, w"" some other advertisementf." — G.

Right Honorable, I haue received your Lordships letter and
haue tendred the bill to M'' Burler, who could not accept it at
fower dayes, but promist to pay it very speedely ; for he hath
not sould such Commodityes as M' Smyth directed to him. I
shall return to your Honor the seuerall dischardges for y^younge
lords, so soune as I cann be master of the Mony ; biit y' poore
man y' should haue had 1 00'' from my Lord K. wilbe miserably
distressed for hauinge no more, for I thinke hee is but a poore
man : and for tym to com I shall punctualy shewe your lord-
ships commands for these younge Gentlemen.

for M" Gibons Mony, I haue done what I can, and will doo
all I can, to hasten that 500", and accordingly keepe it safe for
your Lordship, to be ready at your command, for y' present
affayres of his Majesties expedition your Lordship hath so much
from M'' Crosse ; and all y' I could send so lately written as I
can add little more at present, but y' her Majestic had letters last
night from y^ K. which haue made her sadd. So soone as
possibly I cann, your Lordship shall heare the best I can inform
you of, but y' best is stark naught ; for the Scotts reiect his
Majesties Gracious offer of pardon and will not indure to haue
it proclaymed.

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against Edinborough, and the Scotts haue made greate pre-
paracbn to entertayn him: loooo Men, and y= Marquis his
Mother is in y^ head of y^ troups to recyue him. Many [of]
his sick men hee sent a shore in 2 Scotch vessells to refresh
them ; whom they recyued with much compassion and refresht
them with the best they could. The K. now will heare of
nothing but aduancinge his army towards them. Thus with
my most humble seruice to your Honor, I rest your Lordships
seruant, William Perkins.

May 14, 1639.

What bookes or other thinges comes forth your Lordship
shalbe sure of them.

CCCCXn. Royal Proclamation : 1639.

This is No. 28 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " A coppy of his Ma'''='
proclamation sent me by S'' Tho ; Stafford." Sir Thomas — who also wrote
the note on back of No. 22 — writes on back of this, " This I caused to bee
translated out of the printed proclamation sent to the queene." — G.

Charles by the grace of God, Kinge of England, Scotland,
iFrance and Ireland, Defender of ffaith etc. To all our loveing
subiectf whome it shall, or may concerne, Whereas wee are
thus farr aduanced in our royall person with our Army and the
Attendant^ of our nobillitye and gentryeof this Kingdome, and
intend to bee shortly at our good Towne of Barwick, with pur-
pose to giue our good people of Scotland all iust satisfaccon in
Parlyament assoone as the present disorders and tumultuous
proceeding^ of some there are quieted, and will leaue vs a fayre
way of coming like a gracious Kinge to Scotland [and to de-
clare] our good meaning to them. But findinge some cause of
impediment and that this nacon doth apprehend (that contrary

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to theire professions) there is an intencon to invade this our
Kingdome of England, Wee doe therfore to eleare all doubtf
that may breede scruples in the mindf of our good subiectf of
either Kingdome, reiterate this our iust and reall protestacons.
That if all civill and temporall obedience bee effectually and
truely giuen and shewen vnto vs, Wee doe not intend to invade
them with any hostillity. But if they shall writhout our especiall
authority and commaund rayse any armed Troopes and drawe
Them dow^ne within tenn miles of our Border of England, Wee
shall then interpret that as an invasion of our sayd Kingdome of
England, and in that case wee streightly command the General!
of our Army and our superior Officers of the same respectively,
to proceede against Them as Rebells and Invaders of this our
Kingdome of England and to the vttermost of their power to
sett vpon Them, and destroye Them ; in which they shall doe
a singuler service both to our Honor and safety. Given at our
Court at Newcastle the fourteenth day of May in the 15° yeare
of our Reigne. Imprinted at Newcastle by Robert Barker.

CCCCXIII. Lord Barrymore to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 31 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, "from Lismore 26° Maij
from the lord Barrymore. Received by William Herris 2 Junij at Stalbridge."
— G.

My Most honnord Lord, I haue had mannij Crosses sithence
I tooke mij leaue with your Lordship ; the prime worker of the
gretest is there (by name Sir Perse Crosbij) : by hows [= whose]
vndermining plotes, if god had not byne my guide in discouor-
ing of them, I had byne vndunn. Ossulians [— O'SuUivan's]
Brother bing the chife of those that I relaij vppon^ was priuatly
Draun by Crosbij from me att London ; yet for all this hee

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went and raisd 300 men in my name : when he had dun, hee
flies of from me Just as I was redij to March. I made mij re-
paijre to my Lord President how [= who] I found verij redij
to doe me annij fauor ; and withall writt to my lord Deputy :
the Copij of which Letter I send your Lordship hereinClosed.
I haue not writt nothing but whatt I thancke god I can prou.
I praij your Lordship to be priuat in this busines for I haue not
written a wourd to my wife of itt. I haue 700 men all redij
and by the tenth of Joune, if not before, I shall haue all my men
redij. My Lord I haue byne ofFort a grett sum of monnij for my
westren lands, but I would not harken to them that made offer.
I am in great want of monnyes both to discharge mij deptes
[= debts] att London and in the contrij, and for my building and
my Jurnij, Land I must sell. I had rather your Lordship should
haue them then anij man liuing. I know they are most Con-
uenient for your toune of Bandon. If you be plesed to haue
them, you shall haue them as others ofFor for thim. I praij my
lord to giue me your resolution with all speede. If your Lord-
ship doe not take a speedij Course your were [ = weir ?] of
Lismore will [come] Doune. There is noe Longger tyme but
vntell my lord President returne from Dublin. My lord, I was
sorij to see a coppij of your Lordships Letter which you sent to
M'' Wallij relating of your entertaynment in Eingland. I must
Confes itt griued me much that in a drouncken humer hee
should giue it to mij Lord Bisshope of watrefort ; the Bisshvp
of Derij has a coppie of itt and mannij more of those that Doe
not wish you well. The Coxcome was soe drouncke Coming
from waterfort that hee red itt att Dungaruan to all the Contrij :
mannij of your frendes Durst not writt of it to your lordship.
I had the last tyme, but that then I had not seene the Coppie.
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true. Itt wilbe a warning to your lordship wath [= what] you
writt to him. You will not fiend him the man in ability as you
haue taken him heretofore for. In his Drinckes hee Cares not
whath hee spekes : rather then faijle hee will envent. I thanck
god your Boij Dicke is verij well afther hauing the smale pocke.
If I may doe your lordship annij seruis att Dublin or here, I
shalbe allwayes redij to be your lordships humble seruant & sonn
to Commaund, D. Barrymore.

I came here the last night and god permitting tomorrow I am
to meete all those men I haue redij att Castelions.

CCCCXIV. Sir Thomas Stafford to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 32 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " fFor the Right Honorable,
my Lord, the Earle of Corke these," and is endorsed, "23 May 1639, from
S' Tho : Stafford." The red wax seal is of a cross and Jesus crucified, in
form of an anchor. See Introduction in vol iii. on the latter point. — G.

Most Honored Lord, I presume your Lordship has receaued
a full relation of M"' Gages house, both of the price and the Con-
veniences of it, by M' Christopher, and am of opinion if the rate
they demaunde were reasonable, your Lordship might be in-
differently accommodated. Let it for a rent they will not, and
so wishe your Lordship to purchase it, accordinge [to] the
vallew they put on it (and without your owne view) I cannot.
Even nowe the queene receaued letters from his Majestie, which
assure vs that the Covenanters are so farre from admittinge the
publication of the gratious proclamation I sent your Lordship,
that they haue proclaymed it death to any man that shall read
it : wherevppon the Kinge is resolued to goe on, and this day
9000 foote with the Cannon, are one there march from New-
castle towardf Barwicke ; tomorrow the horse followes ; on
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his Majestic, and are all to encampe within five myles of Bar-
wicke. His Majestie has sent directions for 1 2000 foote, and
2000 horse more, to reenforce his Army, and that with all ex-
pedition, besides 1 000 foote and 500 horse more out of Ireland ;
so that when all these troops shalbe vnited, the Army wilbe
about 40000 horse and foote. I heere nothinge of the arrivall
there, neither of my Lord Dungarvan, nor of my Lord of Barry-
more : if your Lordship doe, I beseech you make me a partici-
pant of their safe accession to the Army. I vnderstand that your
noble neighbour my Lord of Bristoll is on extraordinary good
tearmes with his majestie and Converses much with him j
whereof I am verie glad ; and this is all I haue for the present to
send your lordship : the Almightie Saviour blesse you and all
yours to him that is all your lordships, Tho : Stafford.
20 May, 1639.

CCCCXV. Earl of Barrymore to the Lord Deputy,

1639.

This is No. 38 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, "Lismore 26" Maij 1639.
A Coppy of the Earle of Barrymores lettres to the Lord Deputy. Received
by William Herris, 2° Junij at Stalbridg." — G.

Right Honorable & my most Honored Lord, When I parted
from Castle-Chamber I was owner of a confidence to haue long
ere this time kist your hands & receaud your commands for
England, but such hath beene, & is still, the malignitie of some
Skulkinge enviers of my preferment, or (as I may rather call
them) secrett repiners att ye publique welfare, that (before I
could arriue here) they had sent theire vant curriers to spread
abroad & amaze the country ; which the terror & feare of a
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to tell the people afFrightinge tales of Scotish witchcrafts & in-
chantments ; insoemuch that those whom I expresed freely &
by multitudes to ofFer themselues for the imployment, had
abandoned their drillinges & fledd to the fastness of mountaines,
woods, & boggs ; where they still continew : nor did these de-
structiue caytifes mannage theire work soe couertly, but that I
haue clearly tracked & discouered that Cankerworme Crosby to
be the cheife, if not the sole contriuer of this defection ; and
that I may not seeme to possess your Lordshipp with bare sur-
mises, I beseech your Honor to reflect vppon iEtzwilliams whom
your Lordshipp will find to be an engine meerely by hime & for
his owne ends, sett a goeinge to destract the wellaffected from
theire forwardness in the present bussiness, & purswade them, if
not to follow foraigne Princes, yet att least to stand neutralls
when our owne kinge commands theire service ; to instance in
an other of his agents, one of the Ossuliuans, whom (vppon
much earnestness & importunitie) I had accepted ofF & appointed
to command a company in my regiment, haueinge vnder that
pretence, & in my name amassed together 300 volunteers, is vn-
doubtedly by the same busiebody taken off, & now Houers (as
will appeare) to watch an oportunitie to steale with his retainers
ouer to ffrance ; nay my lord, he hath made his approaches yet
neerer vnto me & attempted to withdraw from me my affec-
tionate kinsman & lieutenant Collonell, which is a sufficient argu-
ment, the man would stopp att nothinge, soe he cann but com-
pass his plotted villany. If your lordshipp in your deepe wisdome
thinke fitt to examine either of them vppon these particulars, &
that they deny : my Lord, I will justifie my allegations, & doubt
not to find out greater matters against them ; yet is not he &
his instruments, the alone disturbers of my success ; for wee
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wander on theire levies, with titles & commissions of theire owne
stampe & coynage, with which they are soe pryded vpp, as some
of them haue Dared to contest for prest men, with my imployed
servants. Of these & many other abuses, my Lord President, to
whom I made my repayre for redress, takeinge notice (besides
his watch fullness sett) ouer the vn warrantable courses of those
counterfetts) was pleased (for advancement of his Majesties de-
signes, & my speedier dispatch on the same) to direct his warrants
to diuers of our prime gentry ; whereby they are authorized to
cause to be prest a certaine number of men out of each Barrony
within this County of Corke, & to bringe them in by, or before
the 10* day of June next ; till which time (if I be not other-
wayes provided [of] your lordshipps directions & commands
(whereof I shall euer be observant) must lye dormant by me ;
for I dare not present vnto your honor the appointment of any
sett day to beginn my March, till I am sure of my numbers
full ; whereof as yet I haue not aboue 700. Thus farr my noble
lord haue I intrencht vppon your patience in this tedious de-
liuery of the incombrances wherewith I am thwarted : to pre-
vent a check which I had well merited from your Lordshipp,
had this sloness proceeded from a voluntarie carlesness, & withall
to induce your lordshipp (as you were pleased to signifie vnto
his Majestic the tediousness & hazard of my sea passage) soe
likewise to acquaint hime & my Lord Generall with these letts
& hindrances I haue mett withall, that through your Lordshipps
high fauour I may stand right in theire good opinions ; lastly
beseechinge your Lordshipp to intimate to my Lord President
my acknoweledgments made to your Honor of his speciall fauours
extended to me ; I humbly take leaue & rest Your Lordshipps
most Humble servant, D. B.
Lismore, 26 Maij 1639.

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CCCCXVI. DUNGARVAN TO CoRK : 1639.

This is No. 42 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " duddoe near Barwick 29
Maij 1639. dongarvon. Rec[eived] at Stalbridge 6° Junij 1639." — G.

My most honored Lord Father, wee are now I prays god
come safely vnto the confines of the kingdome and are quartred
within a mile and a halfe of the Twede, which devides the two
kingdoms. When wee marcht from Newcastle there was some
apprehension of the Scotch interrupting vs, but they are very
quiet and our foote allmost intrenched by the bankes side, shew-
ing great desires of marching forward into Scotland ; but that
resolution is as yet vntaken. The King daily visits the campe,
where his afFability to the soldires has gained their herts ; for
hee dines amongst them, and the other day marcht eight mile
with the foote, distributed his owne dinner amongst the soldiers
and six or seuen wagons of cold meate. He is truly infinitely
carefull in their accommadation, and growes daily expert in
martiall discipline. Vpon the Kings comming to Barwick my
Lord of Holland sent a proclamation into Scotland, prohibiting
the approach of any scotch forces within ten miles of Barwick
or the borders. To this the covenanters made an vncivill
answer, and said that if our forces wold doe the like they were
content, otherwise they wold continue where they were ; where-
vpon my lord of Holland sent them this message, that if he
found them within that compasse hee shold vse them as ennemes
and traytors to the king. This tart reply drew from them an
obedience, and wee cannot learne they haue any forces within
that Circuit. But seeing the Kings strength daily encrease, they
begin now to parly and desir a sort accommodation without the
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they haue [not] descended to particulars, but theare are com-
mands giuen to the army not to hurt any of the Scotch, either
in body or goods, so as our men doe daily goe into Scotland and
converse with the covenanters ; and some of them come to vs
without any stop. The common people protest loyaulty to the
King, and disavow the taking armes against their souarrein ; but
the truth is the great ones doe keepe them in such awe, that
they move at their pleasure, so as there must bee either a generall
peace wherein all offenders willbe comprised or else a most bloody
warre, which god divert. There adresses are to my Lord of
Holland, who is much trusted by the King, and does discharge
the part of a vigilant and stout commander ; for hee omits
nothing of his duty, but dedicates his whole time to the discharge
thereof. During this stop of proceedings, the King daily aug-
ments his army by calling in the adjacent regiments of Yorke-
shire Bishoprick, and Northumberland, and some three troopes
of horse out of thise shires, so as in a short time hee will haue a
very considerable body of men ; and thogh not very well dis-
ciplined, yet I dare afErme from the assurances of knowmg men,
nothing inferior to the Scotch ; who I am assured are raw and
vnexperienced men. Neither are the commonaltie willing to
make any invasion but to keepe within theire owne bounds,
when ours desier aboue all things a sight of their ennemies and
doe promise themselues as good successes as their ancestors had
against them. My Lord Marquesse continues still before Leth,
where hee stops all commerce and their fishing. Yesterday he
sent the regiments of Sir Simon Harcourt and Sir Thomas
Morton to Barwicke, who are now added to our army. My
troops came yesterday to their quarter, and were this day by my
Lord generalls command musterd, and now enter into pay. The
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such that it afFoords noe hay and straw, and for a bed tis rara
avis in terris, but soldiers must accustome themselues to hard-
nesse, and heer wee begin our prentiship ; which will not I hope
proue of seuen yeares. I am so newly come hither that I can-
not fvrther now informe you, but what I haue written is very
true. By euery post I shall giue your lordship the trouble of my
letters and beg your blessing for your lordships most obedient
and dutifull sonn, R. Dungaruan.

from my quarter at Dundow — May — verte fol.

Sir William Brunkard who is muster master general!, and my
very good friend, does desier to know from your lordship the
stipend of the same place in Ireland, and what other advantages
belongs therevnto.

CCCCXVII. William Perkins to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 46 of vol. xx. and is addressed, as before, and endorsed,
"10 Junij 1639, ffrom IW Parkins by Tho : Cross." — G.

Right Honorable, I haue not receyued any Mony from M'^
Buries, nor haue I so much as an assurance for it vpon which I
may depend, although I tould him how much it concerned your
honor of y" younge Lords to haue their ingagements paid. This
day I spake with a Sonne in lawe to M"^ Tho. Littell who was in
Dublin on Sunday 26 May, and came to London on Wednesday
followinge ; who tould me y' the Scotts in y' North of Ireland
conspired to take the Castle of Carickfergus and to haue fortifyed
it, but by y' dilligence of y' Lord Chichester the plott was dis-
couered and 4 or 5 of ye principal! plotters taken and brought to
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bee sent downe there to bee arayned and executed for y'^ more
terror of the rest ; and so all y" troopes of Vlster are Com-
maunded to abide in their seuverall garisons and places of abode,
to preuent future daunger. I was tolde this day y* the Queene
suppinge at y" Countesse of Barkshires on Tuesday last, at supper
had letters from y' Kinge, which tould her that hee would bee
with her very shortly ; which made the Queene very merry all
supper tyme. we heare the Scotts haue disslodged their army
and drawen Themselues towards Edinburough. their Parlament
they haue proroged till July at y' appointment of y' Kinge ;
which savours of some obedience in them, and wee hope the
Lord will make all to bee well yett. The letters M'' Crosse
Caryeth to Captain Chichester, will informe your Lordship more
of those affayres of Ireland. And it maybe of y"' greate troopes
y° greate Earl of Antrim hath raysd : from whence there was a
noyse heere of Thousands, and y' not a fewe, to be raysd by
him and to make his way Through the backside of Scotland, and
so to come vpon Them and kill Them in the backs : but all
this greate Conception of this greate Montayn, hath brought
forth but a Mouse : for hee is not able to rayse a hundred men.
he hath neyther Mony nor Tennanls left to dwell on his land,
tis "said hee is runne in debt 18000" since he went into Ireland :
so much hath hee lost himselfe since hee went over that hee
hath little honor and lesse Mony.

I presented your Lordships letter to Sir Thomas Stafford, who
hath apoynted me to wait on him to Cary a present to my
Lords Grace of Canterbury. So may I perhapps gett a Bishops
blessing, there is a proclamacon lately sett out in y^ North to
y= Scotts, but not yet suffred to come abrode heafe. if Sir
Thomas haue not inclosed it in his letter, I will send it by y'
next messenger y' goes between. So with my most humble

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seruice to your Lordship, I take my leaue, restinge alwayes your
Lordships most humble seruant, William Perkins.

June 1° 1639.

CCCCXVin. DUNGARVAN TO CoRK : 1639.

This is No. 47 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, "14 Junij 1639. from
dongarvan. of the 5"^ of the same." — G.

My most honored Lord Father, The resolutions and designes
of this place are so vncertaine, that I scarce dare adventure to
giue you any accompt of them. I am confident you will con-
clude when you shall haue compared my former with this letter :
for in it I gaue your lordship great hopes of an accommodation,
and truly it was then the generall beleife of the most knowing
heer, that a happy peace wold bee concluded ; but since, our
actions has so farre irritated them that they haue drawne them-
selues into a considerable body of men, and vpon this occasion ;
On Friday night last my Lord of Holland drew twelue hundred
horse together, and about midnight marcht with them into
Scotland, where by the riuer side hee was met by my Lord
Generall and his troope, who marcht to Duns in Scotland there,
as tis said, to surprise my Lord Humes, who was that morning
to Muster the forces of that cuntry ; which they thought wold
bee six hundred at least, heereof his lordship got notice (as they
doe of all our intentions) and so that plot failed. Then they
marcht through all the villages within ten miles of the campe,
where they caused the kings proclamation of grace to bee read,
which was by all the scotch there receiued with great acclama-
tions of joy, and vowes of loyalty to their souuerain, and so re-
turned to the Campe without farther effect. This attempt
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draw some forces to a towne vpon the riuer cald Kelsy, belong-
ing to the Earle of Marre, whose eldest sonne commanded it.
There they entrenched themselues without any opposition from
vs, and had within it three thousand and some hundred of foote,
and two cornets of horse. On Sunday night last it was resolued
by the King and my Lord Generall that wee shold force that
place ; wherevpon about midnight wee were commanded with
all our horse to bee in readinesse at my brother Gorings quarter
(which lay within three miles of the enemy) by nine a clock
next morning. There wee all met, shold haue had three thou-
sand foote, and ten piece of Canon to haue met vs, but the day
was so hot, and the soldiers so weary, that thogh they did what
was possible for men, yet were they not able to get thither till
twelue a clock, so as wee left them to follow, and marcht with
our horse towards the place. When wee came neer a hill by
the towne, wee discried the ennemy vpon the top of it, and
thogh wee had neither foote nor artillery yet was it resolued wee
shold charge them roundly. I must confesse I neuer saw men
goe with more forewardnesse and courage to any action then
our men to the charge, thogh very disadvantageous for vs ;
which the enemy perceiuing retired withall speede to their en-
trenchements, and so left vs the hill, where wee made a stand,
expecting the foote to giue an assault. But in the interim comes
the Kings and my Lord generalls commands to my Lord of
Holland to retire, and withall an advertisement that our foote
were so tired with their march, which that day was ten miles,
that they cold not bee with vs till night. Heerevpon my Lord
commanded to sound a retreat, and as wee were ready to march,
wee percieued the ennemy to quit their trenches and moue to-
wards vs. Then my Lord of Holland and the rest of the com-
manders resolued to charge them, but as wee were advanced wee

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descried a body of men marching towards the towne of at least
six thousand. This gaue a soop to our vndertakings, and made
vs thinke an honorable retreat better then an inevitable losse.
Truly my lord, our preseruation that day was miraculous ; for
had those men arriued, when wee resolued the first onset, wee
had been engaged beyond a retreat, and in all likelihood been
vterly defeated. But it seemes vpon the notice of our designe,
they sent with all expedition for the adjacent forces, who cold
noe sooner come to their assistance, for they marcht very fast,
and till the others had notice of their approach, they stird not
out of their trenches. But wee made our retreat without the
losse of a man, and I beleeue shallbe noe more so precipitate in
our vndertakings, nor goe into Scotland without a more con-
siderable force. My brothers, I praise God, are very well, and
shewed much resolution that day. I haue not yet had the
happinesse to receiue a letter from your lordship : if your Lord-
ship failes of mine, impute it to the miscarriage of them, for I
haue and will weekely giue you an accompt of our proceedings,
and now shall onely beg your blessing for Your Lordships most
obedient and dutifuU Dungarvan.

dudow, 5 June.

CCCCXIX. The Lords of the Covenanters to Lord
Holland : 1639.

This is No. 48 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " To the right honorable
Earle of Holland, Generall of the Cavalliers and others of the English
Nobility and gentlemen aboute his Ma'"!," and endorsed, " Copie of a tre
to the Lord of Holland from [bla/ik} . . . ." — G.

Most Noble Lord, although wee haue bin labouringe this
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some of your lordships, to make knowne to his Majestie and the
whole Kingdome of England, the Loyalty and peaceablenesse of
our intentions and desires, and that we neuer meane to deny
vnto his Majestie (our dread Soueraigne and native Kinge) any
pointe of temporall and ciuill obedience ; yett contrary to our
expectations and hopes, matters to this day growinge worse and
worse, both kingdomes are brought to the dangerous and de-
plorable condition wherein they now stand in the sight of the
world : in this extremity we haue sent to his Majestie our
humble supplications : besides which we knowe noe other meanes
of pacification, and doe most humbly and earnestly intreate that
it may be assisted by your Lordship, that if it be possible, by a
meetinge in some convenient place of some prime and well
affected men to the reformed religion and to our common peace,
meanes may be accommodated in a faire and peaceable way ;
and that soe speedily and with such expedition as that through
further delayes, which we see not how they can be longer in-
dured, our euills become not incurable. We take God and the
world to witnesse that we haue left noe meanes vntryed to give
his Majestie and the whole Kingdome of England, all iust satis-
faction, and that we desiere nothinge but the preservation of our
religion and lawes : of the fearfull consequence shall insue
(which must be very nigh) except these be wisely and speedily
preuented, we trust they shall not be imputed vnto us, who till
this tyme haue bin foUowinge after peace and who doe in euery
duty most ardently desire to shewe our selues his Majesties faith-
full subiects. Dunes the 6° of June 1639. Your Lordships
humble seruants, Rothes, Lindesay, Douglas, James Len-
TioN, Lothian, Homes.

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CCCCXX. Arthur Jones to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 53 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " ffor the right honorable
the Earle of Corclce lord high treasurer of Ireland," and endorsed, "13
Junij 1639. fFrom honnest Arthure Jones."- — G.

My Lord, Hither I came on Saterdaij late, and this day, god
willinge, I shall begine with all expedition to provide for my
iourneij, which I hope I shall not be longe a doinge. I can
meet but with one good horse. I haue alreadie been honored
with my lord of Kildare his companie, and amongste the rest of
his wilde discourses and actiones, he vaunts much of havinge gott
honest peirce Crosbie out of prisson, by havinge been baile for
him, for eight thousand pound : a bold attempt of a lord so much
in debt. His hope is that his master and prince wilbe gracious
to honest braue peirce, who together with himselfe, intends to
offer his prince thousands of Irish, and he saies they shalbe all
Geraldines. This proposition he intends, as he saies, to goe to
the armie and make ; but for all I can heire, he hath not as
much monie as will beere his chardges thither, but he daijlie ex-
pects monie out of Ireland. It is certaine he bailled him, but
some others are ioijned with him ; but I belleeue the danger
hangs principallie ouer my lord of Kildare. The newes that
came from the armie on Saterdaij last to the queene and divers
others here is, that my lord of Holland with 1400 horse, and Sir
Jacob Ashleij with 2500 foote were comanded to march towards
a towne called Littlehow [= Linlithgow] where the foote haue
been entrenchinge and fortifijinge themselues this 10 daijes. My
lord of Holland with 1400 havinge come within a mile and halfe
of the towne, receiued inteligence by the scouts, that there were
a number of men on the top of an hill within halfe a mile of
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the enemie perceavinge the approach of so manij horse cominge
nigh them, retired from the hill to the towne. The troops
when theij had recouered the top of the hill (which was within
halfe a mile of the outmost trenches of the enemie) perceaved
great numbers of men to issue out of the trenches, to the
number of at least, as was most generally conceiued, of 10 or
1 1000 : others conceived much more, but the small number of
the antient souldiers agreed on 9000, as if they had reckoned
them, which were to manie bij more then halfe for our forces to
encounter ; but this vission beinge much vnexpected in that
place, put my lord of Holland to a consultation what course to
take : at last they resolved to send to know, whij theij brooke
their words and protestationes in cominge within ten miles of
the borders of England with any considerable force ; to which
my lord of Roxborough sonne, who hath been a couenanter but
latelie, answered, how chanceth it that my lord of hoUand hath
brooke his promise in cominge so neere vs ? and alleadginge
most passionatelie the first breach to haue proceeded from the
Kings side ; and withall sent him word, if his lordship with his
fine horse and feathers, did not quit the hill, they would endea-
vour to force him. My lord of hoUand beinge much moved
with this peremptorie answer, and sensible of a profession he had
made to put to the sword, whomsoeuer he meet within ten mile
of the borders, was verie forward to haue marched on ; and de-
sirous to know, how farre the foot were short in their march to
the hill, he receiued answere not within fower mile. By this
time it beinge some what late, the leiuetenant and Comissarie
Generall with divers others of qualitie prevailed with my lord to
sound a retreat rather then to make a rash on sett. This is
newes by a verie good hand, and other relations fully agree with
it. The Kinge was highelie moved at this matter when he

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heard it, first because his inteligence assured him yt the 2500
foot and 1400 were suficient to conquer anie force that the
scotch had together as yet ; secondlie, bij reason that the horse
and foot gaue no onset. They say he is mightie resolute to
subdue them. It is true his Majesties honor [is] highelie en-
gadged in regard there is no ouerture of anij kind of submission
as yet, and in regard his forces haue giuen the first retreat. I
belleeue a verie reasonable submission will satisfie the kinge, but
if no kind of one wilbe offered, and the kinge expect to conquer
them, he must haue a farre greater armie then he hath, and
though he can comand thousands of personesof more, yet with-
out their harts ioijne, it is to no purpose. There is but one way
to make the kinge an absolute conqueror, and that is a parlia-
ment ; which though they say, he is much against, ijet neces-
sitie will enforce it. If the kinge be so bent, as to effect this
buisnese with honor to himselfe and his Kingdome, and it is said
here by Diuers, that this wilbe verie speedilie, for the queene is
infinitelie desiruis of it, and hath exprest it totelie. She is now
mightie mellancholie. I heere my lord deputie will raise men
in Ireland, and makes great preparations ; but I am feerefull to
trouble your lordship any further. It is the greatness of my re-
spect hath made me presume so farre. I remaine your lordships
most obedientest sonne Arthur Jones.

London, Munday y'= 10"'.

CCCCXXI. DUNGARVAN TO CoRK : X639.

This is No. 56 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " from my son Dongarvan
ffrom duddoe xj" Junij 1639 by Sir Thomas Stafford's footman, receaved at
Stalbridg the xx"" of the same," — G.

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from my quarter at duddow
this 1 1 of June.
My most honored Lord Father, Since my last vnto your }p,
wee haue had continuall increase of forces, and yet are daily
vpon treaties of peace ; which are now so farre enterteined by the
King that he gaue on Sunday last [30 Junii] permission to any
ten of the Couenanters to come to our campe, and represent to
our commissioners their greuiances. Those chosen for the King
were my Lord Marshall, the Earles of Essex, Holland, Salisbury,
Barkshire, M"' Thresurer of the household, and Secretarie Cooke.
Of theirs, were the Earle of Rothsey, Earle of Dumformelin,
the Lord Lodun, and the sherrifFe of Twedalej This accesse
was graunted them vpon a petetion very humble, sent from the
campe to his Majesty by my Lord Dumfernelin, and a letter to
my Lord of Holland, and the rest of the nobilitie ; the copie
whereof I heer send you. As for that of their petiecon, it is not
to bee compast till the next weeke ; but the contents were very
sutable to those of the letter. This morneng about ten of the
clocke they came to our campe, being guarded thither by three
hundred of their owne horse, who left them a quarter of a mile
short of our trenches. When they arriued there they were re-
ceuied by three of our troopes, who conducted them to our
generalls tent ; where the commissioners expected them, but
they very little, the King ; who presently followed them. As
soone as my lord Rothes perceiued the King, hee advanced to
kisse his hand, but his Majesty turned from him, and sate him
downe in a chaire, and hauing dismist all but the Commissioners,
did first hear the Scotch grieuances, and after argued neer two
howers with my Lord Rothes and the rest of the commissioners ;
the substance whereof is yet to closely bound vp to receuie aire
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from them that generall complaint of neuer hauing an accesse
to his Majesty to represent their grieuances, so tis hop't hee has
now receuied so exact a relation of them without misreport, or
falsehood, that hee may make a judgement of the state of the
businesse and by ballancing their sufferings and disloyalty, resolue
either peace or warre : to the first of which neither side seemes
inclinable, but the next meeting (which willbe on Thursday
next) will ripen things for the one or the other, and then the
Scotch intend to come better provided with commissioners and
arguments, for their owne iustification ; and they say will dis-
course the vnderminings and falsehoods of many yet vnsuspected.
When the King had ended his conference, and was returned,
they went to dinner to my Lord generall, who feasted them
gallantly, and smteously [= sumptuously].

Thogh as I writ before, there is yet nothing of the businesse
discovered, yet their are great hopes of an accomodation generally
conceaved, but they are yet onely guesses at randum, and with-
out certainty. By the next, I shall I hope giue you some
more certaine intelligence. The King did last weeke view my
troope, which is both by his Majesty and the lords thoght in-
ferior to none of the twelue. I assure your tp wee are diligent
in our duty and in a readinesse to serue his Majesty vpon halfe
an howers summons.

Wee had this day certaine newes that Picolomini has defeated
the King of Fraunces army, in the County of Luxembourg ;
has taken the generall, cald Mon^ Trauers [?] prisoner and slain
vpon the place 7000 men. The Cardinal Richelieu is now at
Calais, and has 8000 land men shipt ; for what designe is not yet
knowne, but tis thoght, for some part of Flaunders, and so hopt
by vs, who are now in noe very good posture to receiue a for-
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As my paper my Lord so my discretion ought to make mee con-
clude, which I shall doe when I haue byd your hissing for your
topes most obedient and dutifull sonne, R. Dungaruan.

CCCCXXII. William Perkins to Cork : 1639.

This is No. 57 of vol. xx., and is addressed, "To the Right Hon'''" the
Earle of Corke L" high Thre' of Ireland my most hon'ord L" present
these." The following is an outside postcript ; — " Since the sealinge hearof
I heare the Earle of Barrymore is landed at Workington in Lancashire."
It is endorsed, " 14. Junij 1639. ffrom M"' perckins by my daughter Jones
her boye of the xj* of this moneth." — G.

Right Honorable, I returne your lordship many thanks for y^
300'' assigned me by my Lord Dungaruan and also assure your
Lordship that it is the most necessitous tyme for mony that
euer my eyes beheald. I was in expectation the last tirme to
haue reciyued 15 or 1600'', which I protest to your Lordship I
haue not yett one penny of. Your Lordships freind M"^ Gibbons
of Youghall Recieved of Sir William Fenton, and my Lord of
Kerry 200'' for me in January and 7^ of March last ; and to
this day I cannot get a grote of it. I should haue taken it as an
extraordinary fauour if your Lordship had pleased to haue re-
tained vp that 300'' of my Lord Dungaruans and giuen me your
Honorable leaue to haue made up of this Mony of your Lord-
ships remayninge in my hand till the end of next terme ; for by
that tyme I hope to haue receyued mony to serue your Lord-
ships turne if it bee for your payment to Sir John Jacob : for I
am much cald on for Somme Monyes that I stand ingaged for
for my Lord Dungaruan, and the tymes are so bad that no man
will willingly part with Mony. I payd to a lawyers clarke 5" at
M'' Crosse his Cominge downe, for commission and other
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I had not donne it, consideringe your Lordships former chardge
but that hee tould me your Lordships busines would haue
suffered much had hee not brought them downe with him. For
your Lordships Rich Coach it is very safely lookt to and stands
in a very good howse Couerd with the lether Cap that was
made for it ; and for your Lordships Charyott itt is ready for y'
Noble Earle of Kildare. Hee branches it out as braue as May
bee. I heart [= heard] his Lady sent him ouer 300'' lately,
and that is brauely bestowed and I beleeue gonne ; for some
few dayes since, I was at his lodgings to speake with M'" freeke,
and his Lordship asked me to furnish him with 100''; but for
his apearance hee neuer so much as vouchsafed to haue an At-
turnye to apeare for him. Though my Lord Dungaruan wrott
to him and much importunde him to apear and myselfe sent a
messenger to Walton, 4 myles aboue Hampton Court to pray
his Lordship to come to London : but [he] wrott me word that
hee had taken order to haue the Mony payd. for his garbe that
hee lyues in neuer meryer, for hee singes about the strand as
Merye as Muld Sack ; and that the boyes knowe well ynough,
for they flock about him. This day a gentman who is gent-
man vsher to y" Duke of Yorke, shewd me a payer of pistolls
that the little Mad Lord gaue the Duke not longe agoe, who
makes excellent sport with him : hee and the Prince when he
comes thither, as hee dooth often, shew himself there, for
Matter of Nues, wee haue no more but what I am Confident
your Lordship hath in these inclosed lettres which now I send
yow. Our newes from y'^ Queenes Court is, that the Kings
army and y' Scotts, are in veiwe one of another, and in all like-
lyhood thinges can not longe Continew at this stay but som-
what wilbe donne. We heere they haue 3 armyes of 25 or 30
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other ; that if one misse another thinke to doo the feate. I
shall saue my wrightinge on this subiect for as much as M'
Berrington hath written at large both of badd & good, and wee
hope there will yett bee a peacable end of this busines bycause
they are to hard for y' Kinge to deale with all as y' armyes now
stand ; for they are much before him in nomber and resolution
as it is heare reported. I was this day with Sir Thomas Stafford
to know what acceptance your Lordships guift had with y''
Arch Bishopp, and hee tould me that hee hath watcht his opor-
tunity to wait on him dyuers dayes but cannot gett a fitt tyme
to take him ; hee is so continually taken vp with the Queene
whose secrett Counsellor hee is about y^ Scotch warre ; and so
with the Counsell, to gett Mony for y" King, and thinges goe
so Cross to his desyers as hee is as teachy as any wasp. But I
must say nothinge of that. Yesterday the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen weare sent for to y' Court, about [a] supply for y''
King; for his majestie is in a most exceedinge chardge. I was
tould by one not many dayes agoe that his army and his Nauye
stand him in ten thousand pound a day : which must needes put
y= King to great straits :

I humbly craue pardon of your Lordship that I detyne you
from your more efFectuall lynes from better hands, and beseech
your Lordship to deeme me Your Honours most humble ser-
uant William Perkins.

June II, 1639.

CCCCXXin. Cousin Berrington to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 58 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " To the Right honorable
and my Singular good Lord the Earle of Corke at his house at Stalbridge
in Dorsettshire these humbly present," and endorsed, "1+ Juny 1639.
fFrom my Cozen Berrington of the xi* of this moneth." — G.

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May it please your Lordship, I haue forborne to write vnto
your Lordship, hopinge I should haue had the happines to haue
seene you heere the last Tearme : and besides hauinge written
7 or 8 lettres, & never received but one from your Lordship, I
feared they came not to your hands : I should be sorry that they
had miscarryed, for altho I haue ben carefull of that I haue
written, yet I knowe not what interpretacon maybe made thereof,
especially in those tymes. If your Lordship would please to
honor me so much as either by yourselfe or Secretary to lett me
receive a kw lynes to assure me that my former lettres are safely
come vnto you, I shall then take the more bouldnes to present
vnto your Lordship such of the present occurrances as my poore
intelligence shall afford me. For those troubles in Scottland, I
wish I might write such newes as might be acceptable to your
Lordship. The last weeke saue one, every one that came thence,
brought in his mouth an Oliue branch of Peace, but this last
weeke all that came from the Campe speak of nothinge but the
sword & warr ; & truely I much feare it, as things now stand j
for it was hoped that his Majesties late proclamacon of grace,
would haue wrought better effects then it hath donne. The
Lord Marquesse is in the frith neere Edenborough, with the
fleete ; he hath taken a shipp with Commanders comminge
from Breme in Germany for Scottland, & sent them to the
Kinge, and hath also taken some shipps laden with wynes &
other provision comminge into that Port, which much troubles
the Scotts. He hath noue sent 3000 of the men he carryed
heere to his Majestie ; whose armie, before they came, con-
sisted of 9000' : foote & 2000 horse ; & there is daylie expected
7000 at the least. The Kinge is incamped within 3 myles of
Berwick vppon the riuer of Tweede, & lyes every night in his
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gentlemen of the Priuie Chamber with their seruants, watch
every night about his Tent on horsebacke. Your Lordship I
suppose hath heard of the late proclamacon printed at New
Castle, which Commands expressly that no Scottsman shall pre-
sume to come within 10 : myles of the Kings Campe : yet not-
withstandinge they presumed to approach with some forces to a
little Towne called Kelso, some 8. myles from Berwicke, and
there beganne to fortify themselues ; which his Majestie vnder-
standing sent my Lord of Holland with 1300 : horse & 3000 :
foote to hinder their designes ; who comminge thither (attended
with the Earle of Newport, Colonell Goringe, Colonell Wilmott
& other persons of honor) found them about to intrench them-
selues, beinge 300 : or thereabouts ; who seeinge our forces
comminge ranne awaie. The Earle purposed to haue pursued
them, but was diswaded by Colonell Goringe & S"' Jacob Ashley,
who tould him they feared that their flight was but to drawe our
men into an ambush ; which proued true, for they retired to some
other of their forces, which laye within a little distance, beinge
(as was conceiued) 6000 : or their abouts, who weare incamped
in a vally and v€ry strongely fortifyed ; & had his Lordship come
within their distance it is feared that we had lost all our men.
The Lord Carr came vnto my Lord, desiringe to knowe for
what intent he came in that hostile manner to invade them in
their owne Countrie, which he said was contrary to his Majestys
proclamacon ; and withall tould him, that if he pleased to come
attended with his seruants he should come & go'e with safety, &
be treated with that respect as became them to a person of his
honor & a Councellor of that kingdome, & then they wold
showe him what forces they had, that he might truely informe
the Kinge thereof, because his Majestie was made to beleeue
that their Armie was not considerable : in short, he advised my

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Lord to make a speedy retraite, which he might then doe with
honor & safety, which if he should not doe he might haue cause
to repent it ; & so his Lordship retyred to the Kings camp with
all his horse & foote, without any blowe giuen, which was a very
happy thinge, & for which we haue cause to praise God. I am
tould that there is newes lately come, that the Couenanters beinge
provoked by this arrow, are growen so bould & insolent as that
they are advanced with 23000 : to the other side of the Riuer of
Tweede, & there fortifyed themselues over against the Kings
Campe ; which if it be true, it is like the busines will come to a
pointe very shortly. The Lord of his mercy blesse the Kinge
in his Royall person with all his Armie, & send some good
meanes of pacification to avoide the eiFusion of Christian &
protestant blood. Your Lordship may make vp of this to your
selfe, least if the noble Ladyes your daughters should heare it,
they might be affrighted & troubled thereat. It is said that
there is a greate iSeete of the french & Hollanders who lye on
our Westerne costes expectinge the comming of the Treasure
from Spaine into flanders, & that 5. or 6. of our shipps come
alonge with them to guard them. If they meete it is feared
there wilbe some blowes. Pikolomini hath lately giuen a greate
defeate to the french in Luxemburgh, hath slaine 7000: &
taken 3000 prisoners. The Duke of Saxon hath ioyned his
forces with the Sweedes, & they haue made a bodie of an armie,
consistinge of 4000. The Imperialists are gatheringe their
forces, but not able to make any considerable Armie. for
domesticke newes we haue little. The Scottish gentlemen that
are seruants to the Queene & Prince, weare called before the
Lords on frydaie last, & had an oath tendered vnto them for
their loyalty & faithfullnes to his majestic ; which they tooke
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taken the same oath. There are 1500. Irish expected dayhe to
attend his Majestie from the Earle of Antrim, but I heare not
of any of them that are yet come. The Lord Esmond &
S"' Pierce Crosbie are Committed to the ffleete vppon the
Censure of the Starr Chamber, & are to paye greate fynes &
5000'' damages to my Lord Deputy : as I suppose your lordship
hath heard.

There was a report heere that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland
was dead, but nowe it is Countermanded, & they said, he is
recovered : S"' George RatclifF & S"' Philipp Manneringe weare
both heere lately, but are now gonne backe for Ireland : The
Queene, the Prince & the children are all at Whitehall, &
the Queene mother at S' James. This northerne newes fills
every honest & loyall subiects heart full of griefe, & is the cause
that there is little tradinge in this Cittie, & lesse money stirringe ;
for no man will lend, nor any will paie that they owe : the
Lord amend it. I shall not neede to putt your Lordship in
mynde of my wiues sute vnto you, for you haue pleased to ex-
presse by your lettre that you wilbe myndfull of it. I heare my
Lady Lettice Goringe is nowe with your Lordship : we beseech
you to vouchsafe vs the favor as to present our humble seruice
to her honor : I haue ben too tedious, & so presumed vppon
your Lordships patience, but I hope your noble goodnes will
pardoune : And thus with our most humble duties to your
Lordship : prayinge for your health : I humbly rest Your
Lordships ready at Command, Ric : Bevington.

S' Jones : 11° : Junij : 1639 :

I heare that the Lord Chamberlayn hath gott an ague, & is
gonne to the Lord Georges house of Warke in Northumberland.

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CCCCXXIV. Richard Berington to Cork : 1639.

This is No. 59 of vol. xx., and is addressed " To the Right hono"' my
very good Lord, the Earl of Corke at Stalbridge in Dorsettshire these humbly
present," and endorsed, " xj Junij 1639 (From my Cozen Berrington of the xj""
of this moneth." — G.

My very good Lord, This forenoon e I writt vnto your Lord-
ship and haue dehuered my letter to M'' Perkins, who tould me
but even nov7, that he intended to send it aw^aie to morrowe
morning. I camedowne to Sir Sydney Mountague's Chamber
to the Temple, where I mett with one of the Prince his ser-
uantf, who assured me vppon his creditt, that letters are come
this afternoone to the Queene from his Majestie that bringe
newes that there is nowe greate hopes of peace, and that some
Lordf are to be sent to heare their complaint^ and greevances
according to a peticon lately preferred to his Majestie by the
Covenanters, wherewith his highnes was pleased to giue a gratious
answere, so as there is faire possibilities of a sessation of Armes;
which beinge so ioyfuU and comfortable newes, I haue presumed
to impart to your Lordship, assuringe my selfe that it will be
more acceptable to you then all which I haue written in my
longe letter this morninge ; And thus with my humble duty to
your good Lordship in hast, I rest your Lordships humble ser-
uant, Ric : Berington.

Middle Temple this 11° of June 1639 : in the eveninge.
CCCCXXV. Articles of Peace betweene his Majestie

AND THE LoRof CoVENANTERS.

This is No. 61 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " A coppie of tharticles of his
Majestif peace w"' the Estates." — G.

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The forces of Scotland to be disbanded and dissolued within
eight and fortij bowers after the publication of his Majestie's de-
claration beinge agreed vpon.

His Majestie's Castels, fForts, A munitions of all sorts and royall
honors to be deliuered after the said publication, so soone as his
Majestic can send to receive them.

His Majestie's shippes to depart presentlie after the deliverie of
the Castles, with the first faire wind, and in the meane time no
interruption of trade or fishinge.

His Majestie is graciouslie pleased to cause to be restored all
persons, goods, and shippes deteijned and arrested since the first of
Nouember last past.

There shall be no meetings, treatings, consultations, or con-
ventions of his Majesties Leidges, but such as are warranted by
act of parliament.

All fortifications to desist and no further workinge therein,
and they to be remited to his Majesties pleasure.

To returne to euerie one of his Majesties subiectes their
liberties, lands, houses, goods and meanes whatsoeuer, taken and
deteijned from them by whatsoeuer meanes, since the aforesaid
time.

At the Campe neere Barwicke the i6° of June 1639.

In obedience to his Majesties roijall comand, we shall vpon
Thursday the 20"" of this present June dismise our forces and
imediatlie after deliuer his Majesties Castles, and shall euer after
in all things carie our selues like humble, obedient and Loijall
subiectf.

Signed, bij RoTHEs, James Sexlin [?], Lodan [= Lothian],
Will. Douglas, Alexander Henderson, Archibald John-
son, John Smith.

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CCCCXXVI. The King's Proclamation: 1639.

This is No. 64 of vol. XX., and is endorsed, " Scotch proceedings. His
Majesties declaration. June 17"" 1639." — G.

Wee hauing considered the papers and humble peticons pre-
sented vnto vs by those of our subiects of Scotland, who were
admitted to attend our pleasure in the Campe ; and after a full
hearing of our selfe of all that they could say or alleadge there-
vpon, hauing communicated the same to our Councell of both
kingdomes, vpon mature deliberacon with their vnanimous advice.
Wee haue thought fitt to giue this iust and gracious answer.

That though wee cannot condiscend to ratify and approue
the Acts of the pretended generall Assembly at Glasgou, for
many graue and weighty consideracons, which haue happened
both before and since, much importing the honor and securitie
of that true Monarchicall gouerment lineally discended vpon vs
from so many of our Auncestors ; yet such is our gracious
pleasure, that notwithstanding the many disorders coaiitted of
late, wee are pleased not onely to confirme and make good
whatsoeuer our Commissioner hath granted and promised, in our
name, but also we are further graciously pleased to declare and
assure. That according to the peticonners humble desires, all
matters Ecclesiasticall shalbe determined by the AsseipJalies of
the Kirke, and matters Civill by the Parliament, and other
inferiour judicatories, established by law ; Which Assemblies
accordingly shalbe kept once a yeare, or as shalbe Agreed vpon
at the Generall Assembly.

And for setling the generall distraction of that our auntient
kingdome, our will and pleasure is. That a free generall
Assembly be kept at Edenburgh the sixt day of August next

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ensueing, where we intend (god willing) to be personally present,
and for the legall jndiction whereof, we haue giuen order and
commaund to our Councell ; and thereafter a Parliament to be
held at Edenburgh the twentieth day of August next ensueing
for ratifyeing of what shalbe concluded in the said Assembly, &
setling such other things as may conduce to the peace and good
of our native kingdome ; and therein an Act of obliuion to be
passed.

And wheras we are further desired, that our shipps and forces
by land be recalled, and all persons, goods and shipps restored,
and they made safe from invasion ; Wee are graciously pleased
to declare. That vpon their disarming and disbanding of their
forces, disoluing and dischardging all their pretended Tables
and Conventicles, and restoring vnto vs, all our castles, forts
and Ammunition of all sorts, as likewise our royall honores, and
to euery one of our good subiects their liberties, landes, houses,
goodes and meanes whatsoeuer, taken and detayned from them
since the late pretended generall Assembly ; Wee will presently
thereafter recall our ffleet, and retire our land forces, and cause
restitution to be made to all persons of their shipps and goods de-
tayned and arrested since the aforesaid tyme ; Whereby it may
appeare that our intention of taking vpp of Armes, was no waies
for invading of our natiue kingdome or to innovate the religion
and lawes, but meerely for the maintayning and vindicating of
our royall authoritie.

And since that hereby it doth clearely appeare, that we neither
had nor doe intend any alteracon of religion or lawes, but that
both shalbe maintayned by vs in their full integritie, Wee expect
the performance of that humble and dutifuU obedience which
becometh loyall and dutifuU subiects, and as in their seuerall
peticons they haue often professed.

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And as we haue iust reason to beleeue that to our peaceable
and well affected subiects this wilbe satisfactory, Soe we take
god and the world to witnes, that whatsoeuer calamities shall
ensue by our necessitated suppressing of the insolencies of such
as shall continue in their disobedient courses, is not occasioned
by vs, but by their owne procurement.

Articles agreed vpon.

1 , The forces of Scotland to be disbanded and dissolued
within eight and forty houres after the publication of his Majestys
declaration being agreed vpon.

2. His Majestys Castles, fforts. Ammunitions of all sorts,
and royall Honors to be deliuered after the said publication, so
soone as his Majestie can send to recaue them.

5. That none of the Kings forces vpon the other side of
Tees, shall giue any impediment to such contribucons as are
already allowed for the competency of the Scottish Army, and
shall take no victuall or forrage out of the bounds, except that
which the inhabitants and owners thereof shall bring voluntarily
to them. And that any restraint or detention of victuall, cattle,
and forrage shalbe made by the Scotts, within those bounds for
their better maintenance, shalbe no breach.

6. That noe Recreuts shalbe brought into either Army from
the tyme of the cessation.

7. That the contribution of 850'' a day shalbe onely raysed
out of the Counties of Northumberland, the Bishoprick Towne
of Newcastle, Cumberland and Westmoreland, &c that the not
payment thereof shalbe no breach of the treaty. But the
Counties and Townes fayling shalbe left to the Scotch power
to raise the same, but not to exceed the some agreed vpon,
vnlesse it be for the chardges of driving.

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8. That the Riuer Tees, shalbe the bound of both Armies,
excepting alwaies the Towne and Castle of Storton, and the
village of EggsclifFe : And that the Counties of Northumberland,
and Bishoprick of durrham be the lymitts within which the
Scottish Army is to reside, sauing alwaies libertie for them to
send such convoyes as shalbe necessary for the gathering vpp
onely of the Contribuconn which shalbe paid, by the Counties
of Westmorland & Cumberland.

9. If any persons Committ any private insolencies, it shalbe
no breach of the Treaty, yf vpon complaint made by either
partie, reparacon and punishment be granted.

10. Yf victualls be desired vpon that price which shalbe
agreed vpon and ready money offered for the same, and refused,
it shalbe no breach of the peace to take such victualls, payeing
such price.

11. Noe new fortificacons to be made during this Treaty
against either partie.

12. That the subiects of both kingdomes may in their trade
and commerce freely passe to and fro without any passe at all.
But that it be particularly provided, that no member of either
Army shall passe without a formall passe vnder the hand of the
Generall, or of him that Commaundeth in Chiefe.

By oversight Nos. 3 and 4. are not given. — G/

CCCCXXVII. William Perkins to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 65 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " 20"° Junij 1639 from M'
Perkins, by Sr Thomas StafFords footman." The haste in vi-hich this letter
was written has completely altered Perkins' usually clear handwriting and
made it hard to decipher, or even to get coherence out of it. — G.

My Most honored Lord, I presume y* army are good. I
knew of some to send [by] ; but Sir Thomas Stafford not con-

IV. K

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tentinge himselfe with y'^ ordinarye speede of a post, would not
trust their care, but rather chuse to send this his own seruant
to bringe your Lordship y" good newes of a happy peace. So
with his chardge to perfect his owne and his Ladies most
respective seruice to your Lordship, who are so busy in sur-
veinge this Curious howse, with all thingf befallinge your
Lordship and your retinew as yesterday my eyes weare witnes
of: in much hast for detayninge ye messenger from his Jorney
I humbly rest your Lordships most humble seruant, W. Perkins.

June 1 8. London 12 aclock at White hall in Sir Tho.
StafFords chamber, 1639.

CCCCXXVIIL Sir Thomas Stafford to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 66 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " fFor the Right Honorable
my Lord the Earle of Corke : the po[st] haste. Whitehall this 18 June
1639," and endorsed, " 20 Junij 1639. from S'' Thomas Stafford by his
footman. Date 18° Junij 1639." Again the seal of the anchor crucifixion,
as before, — G.

My most Honored Lord, Yesternight Late her majestic
receaued Letters from the Kinge, dated the 15 of this present,
and brought by M' Percy, which import in the generall, an
agreement betweene his majesties Comissioners and those for
the Covenanters ; and thervppon those for Scotland were brought
to the Kinge and had the honor to kisse his hands. Some few
perticulers I gayn'd for your Lordship, and are shortly, that
there Late assemblie to be held null, the Kinge to appoint a
new one, wherein he will preside in person, and likewise a
parliament to succeed, for the Conformation of what shalbee
resolued on ; the Bishop thence, to haue espiscopall power in
causes ecclesiastical onlie, and that with Limitations ; and a

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present rendition of the forts and castles into his majesties
hands. These are the mayne pointf agitated, and now resolued
on in this happie vnion (for so I hope I may Justly call it) :
when more perticulers come, your Lordship shall haue knowledge,
but this I haue so great a desire to hasten vnto you, which I
presume wilbe wellcome, that I will not mixe it with any thinge
els, but my prayers to god euermore to blesse you and all yours
to me that am your lordship's faithfull Servant, Tho : Stafford.

This enclosed petition premised no Lesse than a happie
conclusion.

CCCCXXIX. Petition of Scottish Subjects to the
King : 1639.

This is No. 67 of vol. xx., and is the enclosure of the preceding letter of
Stafford. It is endorsed, " A Copie of the Lords of ye Covenants peticon
to the King." Cf No. 48, before.— G.

To the Kings most Excellent Majestie, the Supplicacon of
your Majesties subiect^ of Scotland humbly sheweth.

That where[as] y^ former meanes vsed by vs, haue not been
efFectuall for recouering your Majesties fauour, and the peace of
this your Majesties Natiue kingdome ; Wee fall downe againe
at your Majesties feet, Most humbly supplicating that your
Majestie would be graciously pleased to Appoint some kw of
the many worthy Men of your Majesties Kingdome of England,
whoe are well affected to the true Religion and to our Coinon
peace, to heare by some of vs of the same disposicon, our humble
desires, and to make knowen to vs, your Majesties gracious
pleasure, that, as by the providence of God, we are ioyned in
one Island, vnder one King, soe by your Majesties great wisdome
and tender care, all Mistakings may be speedily remedied and

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the two Kingdomes may be kept in peace and happines, vnder
your Majesties long and prosperous raigne : ffor which wee
shall neuer cease to pray as becometh your Majesties most
faithfull Subiectf.

CCCCXXX. Another Petition of the Same: 1639.

This is No. 86* of vol. xx., but it seems to find fitting place here. It is
endorsed, " A Coppy of the lordf of Scotlands peticon to the King." It
is injured by damp." — G.

Most Sacred Soueraigne, Bee gratiously pleased to hearken
vnto the humble supplication of the Subiects of your natiue and
ancient Kingdom, still prostrate at the foote of your Majesties
clemency and Myldnes : shewinge that as there is nothinge soe
grevious vnto vs all and euery one of vs, as your Majesties
heavye displeasure conceaued against vs this time past, which
makes vs in the trueth of our hearts and in all humilitie to
deprecate your Majesties wrath j soe nothinge vnder heauen can
reviue and refresh vs soe much as that the sweett rayse of your
Majesties countenance should in there wonted comfortable
maner, shine vppon vs, and this whole kingdom. In this most
vnhappie, that wee want the comfort of your Majesties personall
presence, and that gratious accesse which the meanest of your
Majesties subiects finde there. Lett vs humbly begge, that
your Majestie may suffer your gratious fauour to triumph over
the seueritie of your indignation : and if it may bee your Majesties
good pleasure to [preside at] the parliament gratiously indicted
by your Majestie for putting [a genjerall determination to all
[worn away so as to make the context indecipherable'] . . . person :

which is the earn [est] Majesties high Commissioners

your Majesties Just content as wee are fully

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assured noe act hath proceeded from your Majesties Justice and
goodnes ; which shall make your name more glorious in the
sight of the wourld, vs more blessed in our selues and more
cheerefuU to continewe in all Loyaltie and obedience. And to
pray more heartilie for your Majestie's long Life and prosperous
raigne, and for the continewance of your princely care ouer vs
to the end of the wourld.

CCCCXXXI. Colonel GoRI^fG to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 69 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " For the righte Hon'''"'
the Earle of Cork," and endorsed, " 27 Junij 1639. ffrom my noble son in
La we CoUonell Goring by my son Lewis."

My Lord, The return of my Noble dear brother will informe
your lordship of the conclusion of this Treaty; what security
it giues to the kingdomes and how little honour it taices from
the King : amongst other relations (if he lay not his justice
aside) he will tell your lordship what small seruice I haue
returned to the honour he did me ; for which I must pay your
lordship and him many excuses, when I haue the honour to see
you at Stalbridge. My brother B [illegible] (whoe tells me soe,
alsoe vows) brought me just now a letter from your lordship,
by which I see the continuance of your lordship's care and
favour to me, both in what concernes my honour and profit, to
which I haue many more acknowledgments in my heart then
can fynd way into my expressions. The contentment which
your lordship's daughter will receave in the accommodation of
this buisnesse does abate the trouble I haue to see this ended
before I would glue some testimonyes to the world of my
affection to the King's seruice and desire to assist my noble
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afFection and seruice I pay your Lordships whole family. It is
I confesse great pitty my brother Dungarvans troope should be
soe fayre and soe scone desolued ; but I fynd soe litle considera-
tion had, both of the charge and care he has giuen to the King's
seruice and of the 200oli it has cost me, that we shall be both
casheered ; and it is well if we get mony enough to carry us to
Stalbridge, where I hope to haue the honour about the midle of
July at farthest to assure your Lordship more how wholly I am
faythfuUy your dutiful sonn and most humble seruant, Gborge

GORINGE.

[In connection with this letter in vol. xix., No. 96, is a long and interesting
one to Colonel Goringe from Lord Cork. I shall reproduce it in Notes and
Illustrations to the present volume in loco. See also full Life of the " Great
Earl" in vol. v. of this 2nd Series. — G.]

CCCCXXXIL William Perkins to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 70 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " for y"> Right Hon""'^ the
Earle of Corke at Stalbridge present these," and endorsed, " 27 Junij 1639,
ffrom M' Perkins that he hath presented from me to my Lo. of Canterburies
grace towardf the reedifying of Paules Churche one hundreth poundf in
golde."— G.

Right Hon'''^ Accordinge to your Lordship's order, I attended
S"' Tho. Stafford to the Arch Bb. with looli, for so Sir Tho.
would haue it, and in a fayre white purse presented it to his
Grace. After y' S'' Tho. had presented your lordship's seruice
to him &c. hee tooke it very respectiuely, and hartely thanked
my lo. of Corke, and turninge it out of the pursse vpon the
Carpett, said, A man may tell Mony after his father, and so
himselfe tould it, and found it to be looli in fayre gould, and
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that I should receive from him an acquittance for so much.
but hee was full of busines for the present, &c. which S' Tho.
tould me he would recyue for me. I haue heare sent your
Lordship some Irs and papers from S'^ Tho. All our newes,
thankes bee to God, houlds very good, and wee hope for better.
I humbly present my seruice to your Lordship, and humbly rest
your Honors Seruant, William Perkins.

CCCCXXXIIL Arthur Jones to Cork : 1639.

This is No. 73 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " London 25 Junij 1639.
ffrom Arthure Jones. Received at Stalbridge the 27"'." — G.

My Lord, I do with much sense of my obligationes to your
Lordship returne my most humble thancks for your Lordships
good aduice, which I shall allwayes endeavour to the vttmost of
my power to follow, and studie in all things, how to deserue
your Lordships approbation of my coursses. Now my Lord to
satlsfie your Lordship wherefore I altered my resolution of
my goinge to the armie, first my Lord, the assurance of peace
which M'^ Jerman and price brought vp, in all likelihood to be
fullie concluded within two or three dayes after each of their
comings hither ; secondlie M'' peircies absolute assurance, and
the kings letter to the queene that the peace was concluded : of
thes confident reports I gaue your Lordship an accompt, as also
that I conceived, it were dishonorable for me to goe downe, the
peace beinge concluded : and that I would stay here one weeke
more to heere the further certaintie of it. Within fower dayes
after this, my Lord of fFalkland came here and divers others,
who all assured [us] that the peace was fullie concluded, and
the armie presentlie to be all dismist. After came my Lord
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was concluded and subscribed by the nobles of both sides on the
1 6"' of this instant, and that the whole armie, horse and foot, is
dismist ; 20 dayes pay beinge given to euerie souldier as I take
it ; but the English generallie much discontented, as you will
shortelie heere. I confese my Lord, had the newes been
doubtfully reported and writen of, I had been much to blame
to alter my resolution, or if the armie should haue continued
for any time after the peace, but it was imediatelie all dismist
after the conclusion of the peace. Now to satisfie your Lord-
ship further, truelie I am of oppinion it had been much to my
dishonor to haue gone, in regard there was such a publique
treatie of peace, and although my resolution were to haue gone
when there was no kind of a treatie of peace and that it was
knowne to some of good qualitie, yet I could not expect or
hope, but on the contrarie suspect and besteere, that the comon
and generall oppinion which alwaijes beares sway in thes casses
and spreads with most beleife, would mak the worst construction
of my cominge ; for men comonlie iudge of things as they
appeare at the present, not troublinge them selues to enquire
the truth and causses of things. It is true my Lord, the kinge
might be satisfied with my reall intention of cominge and some
others of good quallitie, but it is the generall good oppinion that
gaines a man the best esteeme and most afi^ection. To entrust
a mans good name to the tongues of a few were to leaue his
credit to their curtesie, and without an forced opportunitie,
occasion could not be offered to satisfie any considerable number
of the multitude of the reall intention I had in this perticuler
afore the peace was dreamt of. I should be backward to relie
onelie vpon my owne afErmation, and others rellations of my
intention, espetiallie when it is improper for me or my friends
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to speak of it, it were to discover a iealousie either in me or my
freinds, of my honnor. Another time I shall take occasion to
discourse of this with your lordship. Now, I should not haue
been so tedious herein, but I desire to satisfie your lordship in
all things to the best of my power. By this enclosed, which
came from my Lord of Bristow to Captaine Chicester, you will
observe how dutifull and loyall the scots haue been in the con-
clusion, and nothinge comes hither concerninge the peace and
articles, but what may most iustelie conduce to the augmenta-
tion of the kings honor. The scots we must say here haue
come of poorlie ; and so relations that come here do discouer ;
but shortelie your lordship will know the truth, and you will
find that in substance they haue their desires, bishops in title,
but nothinge in power. Much more I heere, but I make no
doubt but my lord of Dungarvan is now with your lordship,
and will giue you ah exact accompt of all things ; for euerie
day here comes hither great store from the armie. The king it
is thought wilbe either here or at some of his houses hard by
before he goes into Scotland. The assembly is to be the sixt of
August ; y' parliament y*^ 20"' : as I remember, Generall Leslie
made a great proposition to the kinge about the regaininge of
the pallatinate, that if he would send his scotch armie which
was proposed against himselfe, and the 3'''* part of the english
armie into Germanie, and be at the chardges onelie till they
land, he would loose his head, if he got not the pallatinate.
This is the last newes out of Ireland, that I haue received,
bearinge date y'= 14"' of this instant that S" John Berlacie is
Cheife Commander of the 1000 foot and 500 horse, in the
North, The rest of the armie is at Dublin, and daylie expect
to be sent into y^ North. My Lord Croomewell hath my lord
of Killconbry [= Kilcoursie] troope. Cornet Billingley my Lord

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Croomewell com panic, Chicester ffortescue his fathers companiej
Captaine peaseley, my Lord Esmonds, on what termes I know
not; together with the provost Martiall place of Leinster which
he hath bought of S" John Bowen ; Captaine Barclay with the
pinace tooke a Scotch barke, goinge with victuall and munition,
from my Lord of Argile to Cantire, and brought her to Knoc-
fergus. My Lord of Barrimore was expected about the 16"" of
this instant at Dublin : I beleeue from what I heere, his lordship's
iourney is staid. My Lady Robert Loftus, my sweet cussen,
died of the small pox the eight of this instant, and was buried
next day. My Lord Conway saies absolutelie my Lord Chancelor
hath submited, but I heere not of it. The kinge, by my Lord
of hollands meanes, before his goinge from yorke, signed an
authoritie for my lord Chancelor to come into England, if he
submited, and to heare the cause him selfe. I heere nothinge
of my Lord of desmonds havinge a troope in Ireland, for all his
letters. Our plantation will shortelie goe on as I heere. I intend
to stay here, till we heere how the king disposeth of himselfe,
till August. My Lord of Kildare is for iFrance, and his 300" is
all gone. I most humblie craue your lordships pardon for
troublinge you with thes tedious linnes : it is the desire I haue
to expresse my respect and dutie makes me so troublesome, who
am most really your lordships Most dutiffuU sonne Arthur
Jones.

S" Thomas Staford is makinge ready his house for your
lordship.

London y' 25* June 1639.

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CCCCXXXIV. Edmund Spenser to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 74. of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " Stalbiidge 25° Junij 1369.
Edmund Spencers relacon of the quarrell between M' Redmonde Roche,
and himself." See Introduction in vol. iii. — G.

Right honorable, A little before Easter last, it was my chance
to be in the company of M"" Redmond Roche, in the Citty of
Corke, in the shopp of one James Meagh ; where that thing
which is comonly (though vniustly) called good fellowship,
wrought such effects in vs, that wee broake the bonds of frend-
ship with an vncevill quarrell ; which quarrell (my Lord) was
thus. Wee in a familiar way began to strugle or wrestle, and I
perceaving he vsed more strength than in a frendly way ought
to be vsed, asked him if he were in earnest or not : he answered
me that he was : vpon which answere, wee both vsed all the
strength wee had, vntill the company parted vs : after which
parting he heaved vp his sticke with an intent (as I imagined) to
haue strooken me ; which I desired him to forbeare, otherwise
that I should vse the vtmost of my power to revenge my self,
thervpon he replyde that I was an vnmannerly churle : vnto
which I told him that he knew I was not, and that (putting his
honor aside) I thought my self as good a gent as himself; after
which answere, and some pausing on either side, wee began to
fynde our errors, and againe were reconciled, not only in words
but with embraces and kisses, and mutuall drinking one to
another ; after which reconcilliacon his occasions calling him
out of town, comanded me to wayte on him as far as the gate ;
which comands I willingly obeyed ; and in the way some dis-
course wee had which I doe not remember ; but as he reports,
was, that he in a frendly manner advizing of me, and telling
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with the better ; which good fortune (as he conceaved) made
me insolent : he alsoe tould me that I had abused him, and that
if the tyme and place had been convenient, that he would haue
beaten me. my answere vnto him was, that I did conceaue my
self to be one, that neither he nor any of his could beate ; to
which answere he gaue me the ly, and I conceaving that to be a
wrong not fitt for a gent to beare, stroolc him with a cudgell on
the head ; vpon which stroake, his brother attempted to have
stabd me with his dagger, had not god preserv'd me, and I, by
leaping back, betaken my self vnto my sworde. After which
passadg, I fynding my error, did desire his frendship with all
the submission I could, and by all the frends I could make : all
which he hath denyed, and hath since procured my Lord Presi-
dent of Mounsters warrant for my attachment. My honorable
Lord, my humble suite and intreaty vnto your lordship is, that
you wilbe pleased to make vse of the interest you haue in him,
and to make a reconciliacon, and what satisfaccon or submission
your lordship in honor will think fitt, I wilbe ready wholy to be
guided by your honor, and for this and all other your lordship's
noble favors will remaine euer your lordship's humble servant,
E. Spenser.

CCCCXXXV. The Scotch Covenanters' Protesta-
tion : 1639.

This is No. 78 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " The coppie of the Scottish
Covenanters there p'testacon." — G.

I "July. 1639. The protestation of the Scotch Couenanters
made at Edenbourough when the Indiction or Sumons of the
Generall Assembly was there proclaymed.

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Majestyes most humble and duty full subiects, who haue beene
his Majestyes subiects this tyme past, doe in all humylytye
Acknowledge, and with most heartye AfFectyon receaue this
his majestyes most royall & gratious fauour, in Callinge Againe,
A free Assembly and Parlyament, for the finall settlinge of this
kirke & kingdome, in A firme peace soe happyly begun ; which
wee earnestlye desire may bee perfected : desireinge alsoe as
becometh his majestyes good subjects, to joyne in oure most
earnest Endeuors with his most sacred Majestye in this his
kingdome. Against the vsurpacon of those who haue proued
Enemyes to Rellygion, to his Majestyes fauour and our peace
for a longe tyme : And with all fearinge to omytt any thinge
which may impart the violacon of that Oath of God which
tyeth vs, mayntaine the late Assemblye houlden at Glascoe ;
wherein it was founde by the constytucon of this kirke, that the
office of Archbishopp and Bishopp whoe are nowe tyed by his
Majestyes Indicon to Assist the Ensewinge Assembly ; And the
Gournments of the Kirke by them is abjured, And ought to bee
remoued out of the Kirke, and by the publyke Authorytye
thereof, they themselues for theyre high vsurpacons, theyr
ynouations in the woorship of god, and other hayniows crymes,
joyned with theyr obstinacie in stoppinge theyr Eares Against
the voice of the Kirke, and declininge her Authorytye, wee most
solemnly Excomunycate. Therefore Least this forme of
y' indicon shoulde inferre against vs, the least acknowledgments of
that pretented office or goiierment, or any right in theyr parsons
to sitte, or voice in the Assembly of the Kirke, or any deroga-
tyon to the sentence of the kirke pronounced against them, or
to the former protestations made by vs ; or least it should
import the least preiudice, to the full lawfuU and natyonall
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most sure and invyolate did openly declare to oure Comissyoners
that hee would not byd vs disprovve or passe froe, and was
gratyously pleased at oure humble desires to cause deleet such
clauses of his majestyes declaracon, as might importe the
Acknowledgments of Bushopes, or theyr gouernmentes ; wee
therefore in oure owne name and in the name of all whoe
Adhere to the Couenant and generall Assembly at Glascoe, wee
declare before god and man, and protest that wee adhere and
stand oblyged by oure former oathes of protestacons, to mayn-
tayne the late gennerall Assembly at Glascoe, beinge vn-
doubtedly a most lawfuU, full, free and generall assembly, and
that all acts, sentences, and constytucons, censures & proceed-
ings thereof are in themselues and should bee reputed, obserued
and obeyed by all the members of this kirke, as the Acts,
sentences, constytucon, censures and proceedinges of a full and
free gennerall Assembly of this kirke of Scotland and to haue
already executed vnder the Ecclesyasticall paines therein con-
tayned, and conforme thereto in all pointes, and Especyally
those sentences of depryvatyons & Excomunycacons of the
sometymes pretented Bushops and Archbushoppes of this king-
dome ; wee doe protest that wee doe still and sail [= shall]
continvally adhere to oure solemne couenant with god accordinge
to the declaratyons of the Assembly, wherby the office of
Bushops and Archbushops is declared to haue beene abiured ;
wee protest that those pretended Bushops and Archbushops
whoe yett vsurp the tytle and office abiured by this kirke, are
contemners of the Sentence of this kirke, and haue beene
malytyows incendyaryes of his majestye against this kingdome,
by theyr wicked callumnyes, that if they returne to this king-
dome they bee esteemed and vsed as accursed and deliuered
ouer to the divill ; and cut of from Christs body as Ethnikes

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and Publycans and that this present cytacons importe noe acknow-
ledgments of them as members of the Assembly nor any wise
preiudge the lawfull Acts of the sayd free general Assembly ;
wee protest that all Misinformers of his majestye Against his
good subjects & all giuers of Councell against the wealle of the
realme, bee Acusable & censurable at the next Parlyament, ac-
cordinge to oure forme to the Act of Parliament of kinge James
the fourth, therein mentyoned, and that all the subiects of this
kingdome, Entertayners and mantayners of Excomunycate
prelats, bee orderly proceeded Against with Excomunycatyon
conforme to the acte and constytucons of this kirke.

And seeinge the Cession is now Appointed to sett downe,
which tendeth to the preuidice of his majestyes good subiects,
whoe lately haue beene busyed in theyre preparacons for the
defence of theyre Religion and country, that they're nowe
necessaryly retyred to theyre owne dwellinges for setlinge theyre
pryvat AfFayres, that they can not bee timously aduertised to
attend any lawe bussines without greater preiudice then benefitt,
and that the most part of the leges haue soe secured theyre
Euidence that the same can not bee in readines in this shortt
tyme of cession, therefore and in Respecte the downe sittinge of
this Cession cannot bee otherwise legally intimate to them but
vppon 40 dayes, wherof there are onely 20 dayes to come, after
the Appointed time of this meetinge ; wee protest that all
members of the Colledge of Justyce and all his Majestye's leges
are in bona fide not to Attend this Cessions, but that all Acts
sentences decrees interlocutions to be giuen & pronounced
against them if any shalbe in themselues, nul voyde and inefFec-
tuall, sicklike as if the same had neuer beene given, nor pro-
nounced & protested for remedy in lawe against them and
euery one of them :

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Lastlye wee protest that wee may haue libertye to Amplyfye
and enlarge these oure protestacons and reasons thereof. Ther-
vppon the Earle of dalhousie in the name of the noble men,
S'"' William Rosse, in the name of the Barrons, the Provost of
Sterlinge in the name of the Burroes, and m'' Andrewe Ramsye
in the of the mynysters tooke Instrument in the hands of the
notoryes present at the Crosse at Edenborough the first Day of
July 1639.

CCCCXXXVI. Viscount Clandeboy to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 97 of vol. XX., and is addressed, " 2 Augustij 1639. fFrom the
Lo. Viscount Clandeboy by his sonn." — G.

My deare good Lord, JVIy sonn in his Travels having taken
a generall Survey of Italie and France and seen the severall
States and Courts there, is now ambitious to avoid the Censure
of being short in his attendance vpon his Master at hoam, or of
being found a Stranger in England ; and is now therfore of
mynd to wait vpon his Majestic, and as convenience shall
afFoord to see the chief places there. And in this his cours he
purposeth to doe his respects to your Lordship, and from
his Mother and me to be the presenter of our Loves and services
to your Lordship.

A Branch of your Lordship's Letter to S' William Parsons,
my honorable friend the M"^ of the Wards, doth shew me your
Lordship's constancie for the Mater which your Lordship was
pleased to Move when my Sonn was not Much Master of his
owne affections, Nor he nor I much in our owne freedom as
now. In that Mater, my Sonn hath my mynd, to Whom
therein I have concredited much, vnder hope at Last to trust
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busines so specially concerning himself, his Mother and I con-
ceave your Lordship to be so Noble and wis as that your Lord-
ship will haue in your consideration what such an estate with
a sole sonn May deserve in portion and in congruitie afFoord
in Joynture, seing your Lordship hath no More daughters nor I
Children to bestow.

fFor the yong Man, I will speak it confidentlie, that for so
much as his yeares doe give proof of, he is a hater of all vice and
a Lover of Noble partes and of vertuous industries, which do
purchas to him as much reputation and respect as the hope of his
futur fortones [= fortunes], his Treatie with your Lordship in
this busines is vpon far differing experiences, which in your
noblenes and in a Mater of this Nature will Make him expect a
meeting, not so much in the power of your Wisdom as in
opennes and plainnes of affection ; and so depositing the WhoU
Mater into the hand of God, with restoration from my Wiff of
her verie affectionat respects to your Lordship, I accumulat the
sam with the affectionat and humble service of J. Claneboye.

Killteagh.

CCCCXXXVII. Earl of Cork to Lord Ranelagh :

1639.

This is No. 99 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " 23 August! 1639. A Coppy
of my tres to the lord Rannelagh sent by my Sonne in law Arthur Jones
his footman." — G.

My noble Lord and brother, I should long since have given
you many thankf for having permitted my daughter to see me,
after the long absence of three yeares from me, but that at her
first coming she talked of soe speedy a retorne, that I thought
she would haue been the first convenient messenger I could haue

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sent them by ; which made me till now, delay presenting you
with theise my trs : which I doe assure you come from a hart
very sensible of the great favor you did me therein : which I
should haue returned any way you desired, by hastening their
repayre back to you. But before your tyme lymitted by you for
their stay, was expired, it pleased god shee appeared [bigg —
erased^ with Childe. This made me thinke I could shew my
gratitude to you noe way soe well, as in taking care shee should
in such case run her selfe into noe danger, that might hazard the
loss of the blessing I know you desire soe much. And therefore
I vsed all the perswations that could come from a carefull and
affectionate father to win her to stay till she was deliuered. To
all which I constantly receaved this answere from her, that she
did indeed apprehend much danger in crossing the Seas in the
case she was in, but yet she would rather venture herselfe into it
then stay behynd her husband, to whome she sayd you had
absolutely written to come away, either with or without her.
When I sawe that she was immoveable in this resolution I sett
vpon your Son with all the entreatyes and reasons I could thinke
would be powerfuU to make him stay. But I found his desire
of obeying your summons made him vncapable of any reasons
that might worke him from it. At last I told him his wife had
soe freely put her lyfe and safety into his handf that he was
obliged to be very carefull of it. And this particuler, my aiFecon
to her made me vrge earnestly to him. And to my great com-
fort, I found his tenderness of her wrought him to that all my
other perswations had in vayne attempted j which was a resolu-
tion that she should stay till she was delivered and that he would
make a Journey to your Lordship purposely to obteyne your
consent that he might retorne to her againe to comfort her at
her lying downe ; and soe to retorne both togeather to you

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when she had recouered her strength to vndertake that Journey.
Which his yeilding consent being taken vp vpon soe good groundf
as I hope it will not displease your lordship, but that you will
rather reioyce with me to see them soe affectionate one to the
other. But god's hand hath been operative in the affayre : ffor
my daughter seriously voweth vnto me that she did not know
that she had conceaued when she departed Ireland. And for my
satisfaccon therein, hath acknoledged vnto me, that she tooke
phisick of Doctor Higgons a little before her departure ; which
makes me confident of the truth of her assertion : ffor I am
most assured she would not haue adventured her life and her
Child, to the dangerous working and effect^ of phisick, had she
had the least suspition of her conception, it having been both
unnaturall and vnchristian like, of which her religious breeding
and disposicbn could not be guilty. But thus it hapned, that
on the 17° of this month I and my Children, with young M''
Hamleton my Lord Clandeboye's son and Sir Thomas Stafford,
and his Lady, were invited by my noble and kynde neighbor the
Earle of BristoU, to kill a Buck, and dyne with him. And when
wee were ready to take Coach, my [dear] daughters paynes
began to grow vpon her ; which stayed your Son and all of the
Ladyes with her at hoame. And before wee had dyned, I had
newes posted vnto me, that my daughter was deliuered of a boy-
wench, and that the Childe was Christened by the name of
ffrank, before the woemen knew whether it were a boy, or girle;
for feare it should dye before it were made a Christian soule.
But afterwardC they found the Childe to haue both nayles and
hayre. And god be praysed, they both liue and increase in
health and strength, and I hope shall in due tyme be retorned
vnto you, to your great comfort. But my daughter shall neuer
be one of his Majestye's Auditors, since she can keepe her

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reckoninge noe better, but let the Catt eate it, having now serued
me as her sister Digby did, when she was brought a bed at
Oxford in our Journey. And yet thanks be to god the Child
liueth, though she were deliuered of it a month before her tyme,
as I thinke this my daughter was, and much more according [to]
her owne reckoning, for she seriously affirmes vnto me that she
was confident she had X weeks longer to goe then she did, by
her owne account. And this Childe, though borne before her
tyme, sucks well, and the Doctors say there is some hopes it may
grow strong. Now my Lord, When you haue taken all things
I haue written vnto your Judicious consideracon, I beseech you
thinke how vnsafe it wilbe for our daughter, being a greene,
weake and sickly woman, to put her selfe to a Journey and the
adventure of the Seas, after she hath been enfeebled and brought
to death's doore with this imature delivery and child-birth. Your
Son, with my Irs, was vpon poynt of coming ouer to make the
request to your lordship for his speedy returne to his wyfe. But
her vnlooked for trauell fell vpon her before he entended to
begin his Journey. And therefore I must now change suite vnto
you, that they may both live together with me till the Spring ;
for the Doctors are of opinion that she will not be in case with
safety to trauell vntill then, and to divyde them were an vnpar-
donable sin. And for him to retorne and leave her behynde, in
the weake estate she is in, would be such an afflicon vnto her as
she will neuer endure : for if he goe, noe perswations can worke
her to stay behynde.

The house that was the Earle of Totnesses in the Savoy,
being much augmented and encreased, and well furnished with
all vtensils, saving plate and Lynnen, is prepared for me and
myne : thither I with my family intend to remove before Hal-
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Spring. They shalbe both lodged and dyeted in my house and
hardly welcome. And I dare confidently affirme vnto you, that
I observe Arthur to be soe discreet and carefull, that he will
make the best vse of his tyme. And that his winter stay here,
will render him vnto you much improved ; he being more eager
to study serious things then to be carried away with levitye and
youthhke vanityes. Vpon which I conclude that your Lord-
ship and all your iFrendf may iustly expect a great blessing at his
retorne. And that his expence of his tyme in London this
Winter, will much better him in all respectf, now that he hath
giuen ouer imoderate play in Corners. I must conclude with
this suite, that if any thing in the manadging of this affayre,
seeme in your better Judgment to be an error, that you will lay
it to my chardge, and not to your Son's; for his guilt can be noe
otherwyse then a care of the preservation of his wyfe and Childe ;
which if an offence is easily pardoned in the Judgment of soe
wyse a man and soe indulgent a father as your Lordship hath
allwayes exprest yourselfe towards him and his ; the continuance
whereof I in their behalfes craue, togeather with your free and
willing expression that they may Hue with me vntill the Spring,
without that least offence or misconstruccon of their stay j
which otherwayes will make them wavering and doubtful to
offend you, whome they most desire to please. My fiue Sons,
(whome I beseech god to blesse) are all here at hoame with me.
The three eldest, with a hundred horsmen well mounted, armed
and furnished, did without chardg to the King, as my purse
feeles, attend his Majesty in this expedicon into Scotland, and
doe wish that the service had required their longer stay there,
and that his Majesty had not dissolued his Army soe soone : ftbr
it had been a more braue and safe worke to haue giuen them
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vpon capitulations, as this enclosed proclamacon will shew you
to be the present case. My other two Sons with the governor
that brought me safely back the last chardg, are now preparing
to enter vpon their forraine trauells ; wherein I hope god will
guyde and protect them.

If the Connaught plantacon take holde of any of my little
Landf in that Province, I haue written to the Master of the
Ward^, and doe entreat your lordship to ioyne your care and
favor to his, that what shalbe taken from me may be out of that
which I haue in the County of Sligo, and noe part of my land^
which I haue in the County of Mayo, touched vpon, but kept
entyre. In effecting whereof I pray bestow your frendly en-
deavors. And nowe assuring you that I am a stranger to all
the occurrentf of Dublin ; whereof by your Irs you will please to
make me partake, [and] I will exchange newes with you such as I
shall gather at London, when I come to the Spring-head there :
With my affeconate salutations to your selfe, Cap' Chichester
and his bed fellow, my sweet hart fayre M"'' Betty, Sir Edward
Povey, and his Lady, with all other of my ffrends, I wish your
Pattent were sealed and you all encrease of honor and happines.
In which noe man can be more comforted then your most
affecconate ffrend and humble Servant, R. Corke.

Stalbridg 23° Augusti 1639.

CCCCXXXVIII. Sir Thomas Stafford to Cork : 1639.

This is No. 102 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " . . . . Augustij .... from
Sir Thomas StafForde." — G.

My most honored good lord, I haue so many and great
acknowledgments to make vnto your lordship, that I hold it
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Consideration of my sensibleness of them, to your favourable
Construction, then by a lame expression to fall short of your
merrit and my obligation ; yet my lord I may (without vanitie)
say, I haue a hart both good and great enough to revendge
kindnesses, and it is not the least of my afflictions, to be first to
returne shaddowes for substances ; but I dispayre not, that tyme
may enhable me to repay it to you or yours ; whervnto I shall
sooner want Life than will.

Your lordship may please to know, that we arrived heere
without any accident or troble in our Jorneyes ; and truelie our
reception was so full of kindenes that (though it invert the pro-
verbe) I hold it ill policie some tymes to absent the Court, the
better to know what valeu we hold.

The affaires of Scotland are said to be in a posture, little
differing fr5 what they would haue, for in there late assemblie
they haue not onlie Confirmed the acts of Glasco, but in a
more sharpe and severe way agairist the bishopps, so much
abhorringe both the name and Jurisdiction, that they haue Laid
a heavy Curse on themselves, if ever they admitt in that church,
any office or ministeriall function, that simplie depend on the
name or power of Bishope. As for the forme of common
prayer, the Canons, with the highe Comission, and such others
as should haue bene imposed on them, they haue likewise con-
founded. To all which, it is said that the earl of tracqwhare
[= Traquair] (his majesties Comissionere) hath assented, and
to be Confirmed by parliament which now beginns. These
I haue scene wrote fro thence, yet your lordship may be pleased
to forbear to give it a concludinge beleefe vntill you haue it
farther Confirmed.

Its true that the Lord deputie of Irland is to make his speedy
repaire hether, and to [that] end his agent heere told me yester-

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day, that coaches were sent to meet him, and that he beleeved
him Landed. The causes of his Comingeare diverslie reported.
Common fame will haue it, to Justifie his proceedings ag[ainst]
the chancellor, and that his majestic in person will heare it, to
which I haue a verie slend[er] beleefe. Some for the treasurer-
shippe of the kingdome, and the now lord treasurer to be advanst.
Others, that would seeme men knowinge, held him most fitt,
in the so broken and rebellious tymes, to repayre to his northerne
government, as a man both beloved and powerfull there, that if
the scotts should persist in their traiterous courses, and attempt
hostillitie on those parts, he, with the contrie forces, together
with the garrisons in the frontire townes, are held sufficiently
able to repell them, and in the meane tyme, the rule of Irland
to be in the hands of Comissioners, as now it is said to be, in
Dublin and wantsforth [= waterford ?]. Thus haue your
[Lordship] the severall opinions touchinge the Lord deputies
repayre, wherin, by reason of my Late Cominge, I could not
arrive (for the present) to more certenty, which a Little tyme
will better enhable me. Touchinge my lord Goringe, I finde
him Just where I lef/him, that is, to make good his promises in
all things, for the settlement of your children, and so Likewise
for his other engadgments to your Lordship who is now sworne
vicechamberlayne, and a privy Concellor to his Majestie. M''
Germin, m"^ of the horse to the queene, and m"" percy to be m''
of the horse to the prince ; and the vicechamberlayneship to her
majestie not yet disposed of;

for the perticuler, wherin your lordship enioynes secricy, I
cannot returne you such an account as my hart desires ; nor
can I say that we goe Lesse in our hopes, for we finde the same
will and readynes to effect it, and we beleeve that some small
tyme will produce the fruite desir'd.

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His majesties Late Cominge hither on saterday, and going
erlie on munday so straightens busines in point of tyme, that
these cannot be accornpanyed [with] his majesties Lettres to
your lordship, both of his allowance and desires touchinge our
yonge Cupple j where your noble and free carriadge in this
busines hath bene so fully represented, that there majesties are
extreamlie well satisfied with your manner of proceedinge, as
you will finde by there Lettres to your Lordship.

my lord, when I consider how ill Arhethmaticians yonge
Ladies are, Confirm'd by that of my dear Lady Katherine,
makes me agayne wishe that your lordship would hasten your
Comminge hethere, or at Least my Lady of Dongarvans, who
will prooue a good mareschal de Legis, to dispose to everie one
there part of your old Savoyho[use], that if I may haue the
happines to know when you begin your Jorney, I will not
faile to wait on you.

my lord, you are so accustomed and know [too] well how to
oblige, that all such as haue relation vnto you must live and
dye your de[btor] ; amongst which nomber, none more deeplie
engadged then myselfe ; and trulie my lord this your Late
kinde reception you and yours gaue to my dame (though a
stranger to your familie) I doe set such a valew on it, as I shall
resent it, and ever more acknowledge it to the Last breath of
my Life, to whome, as Likewise to your Lordship we present
our most affectionate service, it beinge our greatest ambition, to
revendge in some measure your goodnes ; but thoughe I haue
bene the greatest part of my Life a studiant that way, I feare I
am now too old to Learne new occupations, but my prayers
shalbe evermore to the Almightie, to bless you and all yours to
him that is your lordships to dispose of, Thomas Stafford.

whithall this 26 of August 1639.

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CCCCXXXIX. Charles I, to the Earl of Cork : 1639.

This is No. 106 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " To o'' Right trustie and
Right Welbeloued Cousin the Earle of Corke." The endorsement is quite
obliterated by damp. The ' Charles R ' at the top is autograph : and the
seal is a large and thick one on paste beneath paper, protected most elaborately
by paper coverings cut out daintily. The paper is injured by damp. — G.

Charles R.,

Right trustie and Right welbeloued Cousin, Wee greete
you well. Whereas we vnderstand by the Lady Stafford, servant
to vs, and our deerest Consort the Queene, and one much
valued by vs both, that a marriage hath bene treated and is
farre aduanced betweene a Sonne of yours and her daughter
now a mayd of Honor to our said deerest Consort, and that
aswell in regard of theire yeares as that you purpose to send
your Sonne into forraine part^ the better to enable him for our
service, you hold it fitter that a Contract should onely passe
betweene them for the present. Leaving the Consuination of
the marriage till his Returne, We in our care of the said Lady
Stafford, and of any thing that concernes her selfe and hers,
taking notice of theis proceeding^ , haue thought good to signify
to you, that as We like well your Resolution for his travell, soe
We conceave that a compleate and perfect marriage wilbe most
convenient and honorable for all parties, and that it wilbe the
same to you, since if your intentions in the busines be reall (as
We doubt not but they are) a Contract and a perfect marriage,
are equally obliging to you. Theis reasons, joyned with the
earnest desire of the marriage, haue mooued Vs to interpose
heerin, and to recoiiiend the busynes to your serious considera-
tion, not doubting but you will the rather in respect of our
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which We shall take as a conformation of those good affections
to Vs which you haue lately shewed in the Northerne expedition,
and shall reteyne it in our Princely remembrance for your aduan-
tage as occasion shalbe presented. Given vnder our Signet at
our Pallace of Westminster the fourth day of September in the
fifteenth yeare of our Raigne.

CCCCXL. Lady Stafford to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 109 of vol. xx., and is addressed,," for the erle of cork," and
endorsed, "6° September 1639 (From my Lady Stafford with my answere
endorsed." — G.

My Lorde, I haue geuen the king (and queene) a just
relaicon of your fauor to mee and mine, and found them much
pleased with it, and of the standing by : please, but to speake
truth, your Lordship will heare much that way saied in your
praies by my deeare Mr. and M", that if theare be no
other goodnes in this plase, but faire promeses, I am most
vnhappy ; for my desire to sarue you is beyond my expression ;
which your Lordship may easely beleaue, when you call to
remembrance the noble way you haue obledged mee, wherin for
euer I must study to desarue, by being faithful! to you and
yours ; and if your lordship thinkes it fitt, I beseach you send
my deeare Lis [= Lewis] straight away, for wee long to see
him ; and your lordship must resolue to be gouerned by the
king and queene, for they will have it at Corte, beleeueing that
to be the more honer for your Lordship j and now I haue don,
so you will pardon these lines and beleaue mee to be the
humbelest of your Lordships saruants, Mary Stafford.

Wednesday the iiij of Sebtember.

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CCCCXLI. Earl of Cork to Lady Stafford : 1639.

On the reverse of sheet, the " Great Earl's " answer. — G.

My much honored Lady, I will forbeare all tedious discourse,
& lay all complement asyde, for that my intents to your lady-
ship & yours are reall, without any ceremoniall mixture, and
soe the effects shall speake me : for I hold it the more essentiall
part of an honest man to doe ther promise. I am satisfyed, &
consequently most thankfull for the noble offices you haue
vouchsafed me to his majesty, and his gratious Queene, whose
person I am obliged to honor, and to whose services my hart
is devoted. Neither am I in the least degree suspitious, for
your word is my warrant, and in that, next to the articles
of my Creed, will I beleeue, without having the least relacon
to the report of Standersby ; for your affirmacon needs noe
seconds.

I doe now send this bearer to offer his service vnto you, & to
be comanded and gouerned by you. My faith assures me that
god gaue him me, that I might bestow him vpon you, & soe I
doe with all my hart, and best blessing, desiring you to dispose
of him for your owne honor, & his best advantage, and to
remember that he was borne on the 25* of June, 1623, soe that
he is now but vpon the worst syde of the sixteenth yeare of his age.
And I intend neither to spare care nor chardg, to giue him a
noble breeding in forreigne kingdomes ; and whither an vnripe
marriage may not hinder his corperall grouth, or his proficiency in
learning, or rayse higher thoughts in him, then to be ordered, &
gouerned by a tutor I pray you take into more then an ordi-
nary consideration, fFor I send him vnto you as a silken thrid
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weed, and to be knotted, or vntyed, as god shalbe pleased to
put into your noble hart. Yet in my best vnderstanding, a good
& sure contract is as bynding as a marriage, espetially where all
intencons are reall, as myne are, and ever shalbe ; which are
acompanied with a strong assurance that this childe of myne
will proue religious, honest and iust, though he be modest &
somewhat over bashful! ; but good company, & forreigne
travells, will I doubt not in tyme breed greater confidence in
him.

What he is, is with himselfe & yours ; And therefore I pray
guyde him to the best improvement of himselfe & yours.

I will deteigne you noe longer, for that I purpose very
shortly to doe my selfe the honor, as to gayne the happines of
wayting vpon you, and in the meane tyme, and ever, make it
my suite vnto you to esteeme me as I am your ladyships most
affectionate & humblest of your faithfull servants, R. Corke.

Stalbridg, 19° September, 1639.

CCCCXLII. Petition from Scotland: 1639.

This is No. 120* of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " ffrom the Pet=' of Scot-
land to his Mat"^" Cf. with former relative papers. — G.

Most sacred Souereigne, Being sent heere from the Parliament
of Scotland, humbly to remonstrate that no earthly thing would
be more greevous to them than that their loyaltie should be
called in question, or that any such hard impression should be
given to your Majestic against their proceedings, as trenching
vpon your Majestie's sacred person, and inviolable authority, as
not warranted by the fundamental! lawes and laudable practice of
your Majestie's auncient and native kingdome, or as contrary to
the promises and remonstrancf which were made to your

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Majestic by your humble and faithfull subiects in the trueth of
their hearts, and were in the same sense gratiously accepted by
your Majestie. And seeing your Majestie has out of your
goodnes and iustice kept one eare for vs, and would not giue
place to the suggestions and obloquies of any, till the reasons of
our proceedings and demands were made knowne from our
selves, who are allowed by your Majestif royall warrant to
come heere for that end.

Therefore we humbly craue that your Majestie out of your
fatherly care and tender compassion of your native subiects may
be gratiously pleased to grant vs a full hearing, and to call such
of ye Councell of both kingdomes as are heere ; That before
your Majestie and them, your Majesties subiects may be vin-
dicate from these aspercons and imputations, wherwith wee heare
they are chardged, and that we may cleare, that the desires and
proceedings of the Parliament are so agreeable to the fundamental!
lawes and laudable practise of that kingdome, and to the articles
of pacification, as may meritt approbation at the throne of your
Maiestif iustice and procure yourMajestif royall Coiiiandmentf
for the proceeding of the Parliament : That by the mutuall
imbracement of religion and iustice, the peace of the Kirke
and kingdome (whose distrest estate and condition can hardly
admit delay) may be established, and the loue and cheerefull
obedience of your Majestif subiectf confirmed and encreased.
And least by occasion of the relacon which wee publiquely made
by the Earle of Traquaire before your Majestie and your
Councell any preiudicate thought may be harboured in your
Majestif royall heart, and yf any hard impressions be given
against your subiectf vnheard, the same may be dislodged ; we
humbly craue, that we may haue the relacon in the same
tearmes, and as it was then deliuered vnder his hand : which

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(since it is thought that we may be the more able to give all
respected satisfaction to your Majestif royall and iust Comand-
mentQ we hope will not be refused. And having once the
permission and happines in publique to cleere the loyaltie of
your Majestif subiects, and the lawfulness of their proceeding^
in Parliament, we shall thereafter (least verball expressions be
controverted) be most willing and desirous according to your
Majestif coinandment^ to receaue whatsoeuer exceptions, ob-
iections or informacons are made against any of the particular
vertues, articles, and proceeding^ of the parliament in writt :
And in the same way shall present our answers and humble
desires. And soe humbly craue your Majesti^ gratious answer.

CCCCXLIII. Marcombes to Cork: 1639.

This is No. 121 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " To y" right Honb'^ y'
Earle of Corcke att y" Sauoye these present London,'' and endorsed,
" primo december 1639 ffrom M' Marcombes from paris." — G.

My Lord, it should be both tedious and superfluous to assure
your Lordship so often of ye earnest desire I haue to serue your
Lordship in y" personne of your hopefuU sons, honestly and
carefully ; for I doe verily beleeue that your Lordship is full
persuaded thereof, and y' changing of places doth not change
my good resolution, by M"' Francis and M'' Roberts Letters,
your Lordship shall be certified that, Thanks be to God, they
are in perfect health and not weary att all of their Journey.
I wrotte to your Lordship twice from Rye and once from
Diepe, and I hope that our letters are come into your hands ;
but if by chance they had miscarryed, I shall onely in generall
tell you that we were but one day and one night att sea, and a
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well both y' perill of y= Sea and of y" Donkerks. We mett att
Rohan y' sonns of Sir William Steward and I did perciue that
they were very desirous that we should stay for them, but their
sudden departure from Rye against their promise did not oblige
us to any delay, and besides we had very good companie of
french gentlemen which we would not Loose, because there
was great danger of beeing robbed betweene Rohan and Paris.
We Came to Paris moonday Last y* 4* of this moneth Inglish
style, where M'' Francis and m'' Robert, among other Inglish
gentlemen haue scene m"^ Thomas Kytigry [= Killigrew], and
withall they haue seen the most part of y^ varieties of this
famous Cittie. This day or to morrow we shall vissit my Lord
Embassadour ; for M'' Battier did promise me to send me word
when his Lordship shall be alone, and told me that it should be
more conuenient to differ our visitt till one day or two afore our
going away from this cittie, which shall be, God willing, upon
tusday next y* 12* of y" current : we shall be some twenty of
Compagnie and all well horsed. M"^ Francis att his departure
from London was so much troobled because of your Lordships
anger against him that he could neuer tell us where he put his
sword and y^ kaise of pistoles that your Lordship gaue them, so
that I haue been forced to buy them here a kaise of pistolles
a peece, because of the danger that is now euery where in
France, and because it is so much y'= mode now for euery
gentleman of fashion to ride with a kaise of Pistoles, that they
Laugh att those that haue them not. I bought also a Sword
for m"^ francis and when M'' Robert saw it he did so earnestly
desire me to buy him one, because his was out of fashion, that I
could not refuse him that small request. I shall not writte to
your Lordship till we come to Geneua, but then, God willing,
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made a proclamation against all kind of Gold that is not waight,
and that for euery graine that wants, they shall bate [= abate]
y' value of two pence : and there be an infinit number of
pistoles that are scarce better than halfe one. That will be y"
undoing of many merchants, and I am not well pleased att it,
for not knowing that such an edict should come forth, our
Merchant did pay me in pistoles for y" most part very Light ;
but I haue some friends here that will helpe me in it, yet not
without some Losse for me.

My Lord, I am so much obliged to your Lordship for y"
fauour you haue done me to comitt y' guide [= guiding] and
tuition of your sonns wholy to me, and I am so glad of it that
I want expression for to represent to your Lordship my thanks,
and y* pleasure that I inioy, but assure your selfe that this
fauour of yours worketh so much upon my soule, that if there
was neither religion, nor honour in the worlde, this onely con-
fidence, that your Lordship puts in me will be a sufficient motif,
for to oblidge me to answer by my faithfull seruice and care to
your Lordships expectation and good opinion ; and thereupon I
take my Leaue, humbly kissing your Lordships hands and beeing
foreuer my Lord your Lordships most humble and most obedient
seruant, F. Marcombes.

paris, ye 10* of 9''", ancient style 1639.

We haue beene this after noone with my Lord Embassadour.

CCCCXLIV. Same to Same : 1639.

This is No. 136 of vol xx., and is addressed, " To ye right Honorable
y= Earle of Corke Lord eigh Thieasurer of Ireland London," and endorsed,
"Geneva 7° Januar 1639 ff''°'" ^' Marcombes. Received 28° Januar
1639." — G.

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My Lord, I am soe confident y' my Last letter (which was
my first from Geneua) is come to your Lordships hands y' I
need not writte a Long one for y° present for to informe your
Lordship of all y' passages and circomstances of our peinefull
but (thankes to God) very hapy journey from London to
Geneua ; hauing done that allready att Large enough in y' said.
The subiect of this shall be chiefly for to informe your Lord-
ship of y'' continuation of your hopefull Sons health, and of
their earnest desire to employ their time very well, as much for
j" qualities that concerne their minde as for those y' concerne
their bodies.

I thinke I neede not much Rhetorike for to persuade your
Lordship y' M'' Robert Loues his booke with all his heart ; y^
onely thing y' vexes him now is, that y^ fencing Maister of this
cittie is yet soe sicke y' he can not giue him Lessons till y"
Latter end of this moneth ; and that exercise he is soe desirous
to Learne y' I am almost afraid y' he should haue left a quarell
unperfect in England : but for his danse, his Maister assures me
y' he shall doe admirable well. And as for m' francis, I protest
vnto your Lordship that I did not thinke y' he could frame
himselfe to euery kind of good Learning with soe great a facilitie
and passion as he doth, hauing tasted allready a little drope of y"
Libertinage of y^ Court, but I find him soe disciplinable, and soe
desirous to repare y'' time Lost, y' I make no question but your
Lordship shall receiue a great ioye, and he himselfe abondance
of frut and a great profit and education of his endeauors. For
their Lodging and dyett I leaue that discours to themselfes, but
I most humbly pray your Lordship to beleeue that they are soe
precious vnto me and more than my selfe, for I should be y"
most vnworthy man of y^ worlde if I should not haue care with
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pleased to fauor me soe much as to put soe great a confidence
in me. I haue sent you allready a note of our expences from
London to Geneua, which I beleeue needlesse to send you
again, persuading my selfe y' your Lordship has reciuit allready
and giuen order before this time for the conuying of y* monys
vnto me, and therefore hauing nothing else for this present time
to informe your Lordship withall, I take my leaue, most humbly
kissing your Lordships hands and most humbly desiring your
Lordship to beleeue y' I am and shall be for euer. My Lord,
Your Lordships most humble and most obedient Seruant,
Marcombes.

Geneua 7° January 1640.

I haue made a complet blacke satin sute to M"' Robert ; y"
cloake Lined with plush, and I allow them euery moneth a
peece y" value of very neare two pounds sterlings for their passe
time.

CCCCXLV. Same to Same: 1639.

This is No. 147 of vol. xx., and is addressed, " To y' right Hon'''"= y'' Earle
of Corke Lord eigh Threrof Ireland. London," and endorsed, " Geneva 12
Aprilis 1639 fFrom M'' marcombes, Rec'' by M"' Calandrume 27 Aprilis
1639," — G.

My Lord, we had all written sooner to your Lordship had
we not expected letters euery weeke for an answer to our first,
which we know (by M' Burlamachi Letters) to be come to
your Lordships hands. By y" same way we do heare some
times that your Lordship is in perfect health with all your noble
family, for which we giue most humble thankes to allmighty
God, beseeching him to Continue that blessing a Long time
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hapinesse, thanks be to God, and Grow a pace both, specially
M'' Francis, not onely in heighth but also in thicknesse : for I
may assure your Lordship that both his Leggs and armes are by
a third part bigger now then they were in England ; and besides
y' goodnesse of this aire I thinke that his exercises, specialy
dancing and playing att tennisse, doth contribute much to his
health. M"^ Robert doth not Loue tennisse play so much, but
delights himselfe more to be in priuate with some booke of
history or other, but I perswade him often both to play att
tennisse and to goe about. I neuer saw him handsomer, for
although he growes much, yet he is very fatt and his cheekes
are as red as vermilion. This Leter end of y' winter is mighty
cold and a great quantity of snow is fallen upon y° ground, but
that brings them to such a stomacke that your Lordship should
take a great pleasure to see them feed. ' I doe not giue them
daintys, but I assure your Lordship that they haue allwayes
good bred and Good wine, good beef and mouton, thrice a
weeke good capons and good fish, constantly two dishes of frut
and a Good peece of cheese ; all kind of cleane linnen twice
and thrice a weeke and a Constant lire in their chamber wherein
they haue a good bed for them, and another for their men. If
your Lordship will be pleased to know it from themselfes I am
sure they shall certifie soe much. And as for their Learning, I
will make bould to informe your Lordship of y" order that wee
doe obserue : we speake all and allwayes french, wherein M''
Robert is perfect allready and M"' Francis able to expresse him
selfe in all companies ; besides euery morning I teach them y°
Rhetorike in Latin, and I expound unto them Justin from Latin
into french, and presently after dinner I doe reade unto them
two chapters of y' old Testament with a brief exposition of
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before supper I teach them y^ history of y' Romans in french
out of florus and of Titus Livius, and two sections of y° Cate-
shisme of Caluin with y' most orthodox exposition of the points
that they doe not understand ; and after supper I doe reade
unto them two chapters of y" new Testament, and both morning
and euining we say our prayers together, and twice a weeke we
goe to church. There is My Lord a Compendia of our em-
ployment ; for y" rest, I haue occasion to commend very much
your hopefull sons, for they are very noble, vertuous, discret and
disciplinable. I hope these newes will please your Lordship. I
pray God we may verie shortly [have] as good from your
honor : beseeching your Lordship to beleeue that I am and
shall be for euer. My Lord, Your Lordships most humble, most
fithfuU and most obedient seruant, Marcombes.

Geneue 12°. february 1640.

CCCCXLVL Same to Same : 1639.

This is No. 150 of vol. xx., and is addressed, "To y' right hono'''"= and
my very good Lord y* Earle of Corke high Threer of Ireland these att ye
sauoy London," and endorsed, " Geneva, 15° ffeb 1639 iFrom m'' marcombes.
Rec"" the Savoy 12 martij 1639." — G.

My Lord, your two Long expected and very wellcome letters,
one of y^ 1 8"" and y^ other of y' 29 of January, I receaued here
y° 18* of this moneth, with as much ioy and comfort as your
Lordship may imagine, and not without thanks vnto God for
your good health and prosperity ; most humbly beseeching his
goodnesse to Continue a Long time all his blessings upon your
Lordship. M"' francis and M'^ Robert are in perfect health,
thanks be to God, and I hope they shall expresse by their letters
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expressed ; for M"' Robert was so much ouerioyed that although
(if y* desire that I haue of his amending doth not devine my
cares) I perciue some corroboration in his tongue (specialy when
he speakes french or Latin) yet then for halfe a quarter of an
houre he did stammer and stutter soe much that M'" francis and
I could scarce understand him and scarce forbeare Laughing.
By my Last (which I hope by this time is come to your Lord-
ships hands) I did informe you att Large how your two hopeful!
sons bestow their times and what order and methode I keepe
with them for their studyes and exercises both in priuate & in
publick, and therefore it should be needlesse to reiterat it again ;
onely I shall make bold to protest before God all mighty unto
your Lordship, that y" feare of God, y' honour and respect that
I ow you, y' true Loue I haue for your sons, and y^ great con-
fidence that your Lordship hath in me alone, are such obligations
that y' Least is more then suificient for to encourage me to
dischardg a good Conscience in, for my owne honour and re-
putation ; which God willing I shall per forme punctualy and
acording [to] your Lordships wise and most respected admo-
nitions which I doe oftentimes reede for your sons and my owne
instructions ; and therefore I most humbly pray your Lordship
to beleeu' it and to rest upon that assurance with a true con-
fidence that hereafter, God willing, your Lordship shall reciue
your contentment, your sons y" profit and your honour, of my
care, honesty and fidelity. I doe Approoue very much that
your Lordship should dislike that your sons should Apply them-
selues to any other exercises but to their bookes and studyes, for
first, thej haue not attayned yet as your Lordship obserues very
well the grounde of Learning ; their lyms are not knitt and
strong enough, nor their bodys hable to endure rough exercises j
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as in many other places, yet when they shall come to paris or
some other place, their teachers will make them beleeue that
they haue Lost their time and shall make them beginn againe ;
for it is their custume so to doe to all ; but for their dancing I
hope your Lordship will giue them Leaue to Continue here,
for the dancing Maister is an expert teacher and a very honest
man and one that will Looke very narrowly to their carryage,
and that Maister francis should not stoop but rather goe straight
and upright, as I doe admonish him oftentimes soe to doe. I
am much obliged to your Lordship, and I most humbly thanke
you for it, that for my owne conueniency and acomodation you
haue been pleased to consent that your sons should come to
Geneua, but your Lordship needs not repent of it, for y^ aire is
pure here, the Company of strangers and y^ conueniency of all
Learning is as good as in any other place. They are farr from
puritanisme but very orthodoxe and religious men, and there is
no danger heere, that y' yong gentlemen should haue any con-
uersation either with Jesuits, frayers, preists, or any other
personnes ill affected to their religion, King or State.

The Letters that your lordship was pleased to writte unto us
by Doctor Tirrell we haue not reciued, neither doe we know
what is become of them. I haue reciued ye hundred and fowrty
pounds that I had layd out from y'= time we Left London, till y"
time we came unto Geneua, and that frees all my demand till
that day, soe that now y^ two hundred and fiftey pounds that your
Lordship did deliuer unto me att London must serue till y" first
of June next of this yeare 1640; which mony I haue expended
in part, and I shall allwayes continue to expend for y" credit of
your Lordship and for y" honour & good of your Lordships
children ; but I most humbly beseech your Lordship to grant
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his friend here would scarce accept his bill, alleaging that M"'
Ash, is indebtted unto him allready of Six or Seauen hundred
pounds Sterlinge, and besides this friend of his here is very hard
and would not giue me good current mony, in soe much that I
haue been forced to take another bill of exchange for Lions, of
which I shall not be payd without some Lost [^ loss] nor till y''
beginning of y' next moneth of Aprill. True it is that I shall
be payed, and that I know very well y" merchant of Lions
which is a very able and a very honest man. Yt should be
better therefore if your Lordship would be pleased to keepe in
your owne hands y' 250 pounds Sterling destinated for y'
succeeding halfe yeare namely from y" first of June next
till y' first of December following of this said yeare 1640,
till I should make bold to writte to your Lordship thereof
and apoint y'' man in London to whom your Lordship should
pay it, which I should near doe butt att y° Later end of our
apointed time, namely from six to six moneth, desiring God
Allmighty neuer to blesse me if I haue y* Least intention of y"
worlde to defraude you of a peny or to exceed your Lordships
allowance of a farding, but onely because I shall haue more
benefit for y" exchange, and I shall be sure to reciue what
soeuer mony I shall desire for my best aduantage. I most
humbly beseech you therefore to send me an answer concerning
this circomstance, and if this motion of mine should displease
your Lordship I beseech you to pardone my boldnesse and to
make use of M"^ Chamberlan in that case rather then of M''
Ash ; but if you finde that you can reciue no dammage of my
proposition, keepe y^ mony in your owne hands till y*^ Latter end
of May or the beginning of June next, about which time and
no sooner I shall writte to your Lordship, to whom you must
pay y" two hundred and fourety pounds sterling, for I doe con-

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fesse that your Lordship hath sent me ten pounds sterling more
then I should reciue ; which ouerplus must goe in part of pay-
ment of y" next half yeares allowance beginning y^ first of June
1 640. We haue been all very sad of y" great siknesse of my
Lady Barrymore and extremely glad of her recouery to health,
most humbly thanking God allmighty for it. I most humbly
thank your Lordship for ye honour you haue done me to make
me partaker of ye good newes of ye speedy and easy deliuerance
of my Lady Dongaruan, to whom and to her noble Lord and
her goodly boy I wish all hapinesse and prosperity, as well as to
y' recent marriages of my noble Lord of Kynalmakye & of
my much Esteemed and respected Lord of Broughill, of whose
courage I haue neuer douted. If my Noble and sweet Lady
Mary will giue Leaue to her future husband to come and trauell
together with her Noble brothers, I shall doe him all y* Seruice
that Layeth in my power, beseeching your Lordship to beleeue
that in that and in whatsoeuer your Lordship will do me y"
fauour to Command me, you shall find me ready to obey you
with all y' honesty and zeale that you may expect from him
that is and shall be for euer My Lord your Lordships most
humble and most obedient seruant F. Marcombes.

Geneua 25° february 1639 acording [to] y'' computation of
England.

ps. My wife giueth most humble thanks to your Lordship for
your Noble ftuor of wishing her well, and desireth your Lord-
ship to excuse her if shee makes bold to present in all humility
her most humble Seruice unto your Lordship.

IV.

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CCCCXLVII. Earl of Cork to the Lord Lieutenant
OF Ireland : 1639.

This is No. 158 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, " 16° Martij 1639 A '-•°Py
of my tres to the Lord Lieuetennt of Ireland." — G.

May it please your Lordship, M'' Raylton in the evening of
the 14"' of this moneth, sent me his Majesty's writt of suinons,
to appeare the 16"' of the same moneth at the Parliament now
to be holden in Dublin. And therewith his Majesty's gracious
Irs dispencing with my appearance, in pursuance of your noble
promise, together with a Blanke warrant of Proxie for me to
fill up. All which were enclosed in M'' Secretary Winde-
bankes tres. And the same tyme there were the like in all
respects, deliuered to my two sonnes Kynalmeaky and Broghill,
But in regard they were both vnder age (and your Lordship
departed from Court) I made that addresse to M"" Secretary
Windebanke that I would haue done to your lordship yf you
had been heere, and acquainted him with the minority of both
those my sonnes, who aduised me to moove his Majestic
therein ; which in his presence I did. And when I had humbly
made knowne vnto his Majestie that I had made choyce of the
Earle of Ormond to answer for me in Parliament, and that my
two sonnes who had receaved the writts were both vnder age,
his Majestie was pleased to approue of my choyce of the Earle
of Ormond, and to expresse his pleasure, that in regard my
sonnes were both Minors and not of yeares to grant proxies, that
those writts of suinons should be voide and no further proceed-
ings vpon them. And gaue order to Sir fFrances Windebanke to
signify such his pleasure vnto your Lordship : whereof I pre-
sume to make this intimacon.

I humbly beseech your Lordship to giue me leaue to putt you

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in mynde of the noble professions you vouchsafed vnto me of
your favour in all my iust and honest causes, and to be so in-
dulgent vnto me as that I may fynde the like respect to be given
vnto me as vnto other Noblemen of my quality, whose Connaght
landf are fallen within the Compasse of Plantation, as myne
there are : and the rather for that I purchased them for valuable
consideracons and haue enioyed them this forty yeares. And
in the generall revolt of that Province, maintained my then
besiedged Castle of Bealick, with a strong ward at my owne
Chardge, vntill the Queenes forces vnder the conduct of Cap'
Robert ffowle, provost Marshall of Connaght, were ymployed to
relieue it, and were defeated by the way and he slaine : yet John
ffloyd who was my Constable there, with my ward, defended it
and kill'd sundry of the Rebellf who besiedged it ; which caused
the enemy to begirt it so straitly as they tooke away from them
their water, and planted their forces between them and the
river of Moyne, and thereby compelled them to drinke their
own vrine, and by laying sheetes on the topp of the Castle to
gett the dew to stint their thirst. And in conclusion, when
they were hopeles of all reliefe, they were promised yf they
would yeald vp the Castle, they should goe away without any
dropp of blood to be drawne vpon them. But when the
Rebellf were vpon those tearmes possessed of the Castle, they
tooke my ward and hanged them all except the Constable, in
revenge of their fellow Rebellf, whom they had slaine, and
demolished the Castle. Wherevpon I rebuilt my Castle, which
had the honour to receaue your Lordship one night in your
Connaght progresse ; which I humbly offer as motiues to your
Lordship the better to induce you to continue me therein
during my leases and not to suffer the Lord Lambert, who
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maintenance of it in times of trouble, to procure any alteracon
of the order your Lordship and the Committees made, for my
enioying of 3 parts of it during my lease, and his Lordship by
his voide Patent to haue the rendicon of it : which to haue
done I presume he will attempt. But I hope your Lordship
wilbe so gracious vnto me as yf that I may not have all my Con-
naght landf granted and conformed vnto me by this Coiiiission
of grace, yet at the least your Lordship will daigne to lett me
be tennant of the other fourth part thereof which is to fall to his
Majesty by course of Plantacon, I payeing such increase of rent
for that fourth part as a new planter should doe, otherwise my
tenants and farmers wilbe much disappointed on part of their
seuerall farmes, and I thereby driuen to make them new leases at
proporconable rentf ; which wilbe great vexation to them and
trouble to me, as I formerly made knowne vnto your Lordship
when I mooved you therein at Court. And no man shall with
a more thankfull heart acknowledge this great favour then
myselfe, who will euer be ready to doe your lordship all seruice,
and as I am will euer remayne, my Lord, your Lordships most
humble servant^, R. Corke.

CCCCXLVIII. The Earl of Arundell's proposed
Plantation of Madagascar : 1639.

This is No. 160 of vol. xx., and is endorsed, "The Earle of Arundells
p'posicons tuchinge the plantacon of the Island of Madagastar." — G.

I, Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey, Earle Marshall of
England, havinge by a long and serious Inquisicon, informed
my self of what necessary consequence the Island of Madagastar,
by our Nation inhabited, wilbe to this Kingdome, by the pro-
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Trafique, and knowingewithall what inconveniencie would arrise
to this Kingdorae if it should be planted by others. Have vnder-
taken (with the leaue, favor and assistance of his Majestie) the
plantacon of this Islande, with those adiacent. And being
certainly informed by the relacon of all that haue been there of
the Riches and plentie of those places, doe not doubt but that I
shall fynde many willing adventurers to advance this my enter-
prise, for the good of my Country. And I haue a believing
hope that my creditt with the world will disabuse such as shall
think this a vaine and ayry vndertaking, seconded with this
that I am resolved to goe myself in person and adventure soe
great somes of Money that I should not be apt to hazzard vnless
I had powerfull inducements of honnor and profit, both to my
Country and particuler. And that all may know that this
vndertaking is both valued and seconded by the best and most
knowing of this Kingdome, His Majesty vppon a due con-
sideracbn of the fruitfuU consequence y' may arrise to him and
all of vs, from this action, is gratiously pleased to giue me leaue to
retire from my imediat attendance and to assist me with one of
his best shipps.

Now those gent, or other persons who are desirous to be
adventurers with me in this soe worthie a designe, must be
rece^ued by the twentieth of December to put in such sume or
somes of money into the Mayne stock as he shalbe willing to
adventure, for which he shall haue his full and ratable proporcon
in the profitt^ of the voyage as my self or any of the adventurers
hath for the proporcon of the said stock by him put in. The
accompt whereof shalbe duly kept by a fit person appoynted for
that purposs. And I haue made choyce of Sir Abraham Dawes
to be the Thresurer for this accon, both to receeue and disburse
all money. And he shall giue an aquittance to the adventurers.

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for the receipt thereof. And if those gent, or other persons
shall think fitt both to put their money into the Maine Stock
and likewise to adventure their persons, such adventurers shall
alsooe be considered for the adventure of their persons as for the
proporcon of moneys they put into the stock, and shall haue
honnor, advancement and imployment, according to their quallitie
and the Merritt of their persons. Likewise such gent, and
others who shall not be able to put into the stock any some
whereby he may be admitted a Stock adventurer in the Maine,
yet if he shall pay into the stock Twentie pounds, he shalbe
transported for the same, with all necessaries fitt for him. And
he shalbe a personall adventurer and a freeman, and shall enioy all
such priuledges, imunities, and possessions, in the said Islandf,
in such proporcon as other personall adventurers and freemen
do vsually enioy. And shall haue advancement and imployment
according to the quallitie of his person and merritt as well as a
stock adventurer.

Likewise such gent. Artificers, tradsmen and others who are
not able to put any adventure into the Maine Stock, nor yet to
make themselues freemen, and personall adventurers, by paying
in Twentie pounds as above said, shall yet nevertheless be enter-
tained by me as servantf for fower yeares. After the expiracon
of which tyme they shalbe made freemen and personall adven-
turers and enioy all the benefittf and imunities, advantages and
possessions of freemen in as large and ample manner as any
other adventurer doth, and haue advancement and preferment
according to their merrittf and abilities.

And I doe further giue notice that if any such persons shalbe
either an artificer, freeman or other tradesman or artist, whereby
he may be more vsefuU and serviceable then other ordinary
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otherwise according as he and I shall agree. And that this
vndertaking may appeare to the world to be serious and reall, I
think fitt that I and all adventurers shall oblige our selves
reciprocally by our hands and seales to be answerable and
accomptable for all such moneys as we shall vnderwrite. And
these foUowinge to be the forme of obligacon, vizt. We whose
names are vnderwritten, desirous to become adventurers and
vndertakers of soe greate, soe honorable and soe profitable an
enterprise, doe hereby publish to the world our readines and
desire to contribute our assistance and furtherance to soe worthie
an accon. And to that purpos we doe hereby promise and
bynde our selues, our heires, executors and administrators, each
of vs for himself respectiuely, that we will well and truly pay
into the handf of Sir Abraham Dawes Knight, Thresurer for
this designe at or in his now dwelling howse in Mark lane,
London, all such some or somes of money as any of vs for
himself respectively shall heerin vnderwrite, for the advancement
of the said designe, on or before the Twentieth day of december
next ensuing the date hereof. And in regard the time of the
yeare nowe is at hande, for makeing provicon of Shipping and
providing of all provisions and necessaries for the voyage, the
putting in hand whereof will require great somes of money to
be forthwith expended, which must for the present be disbursed
by me Thomas Earle of Arundell and the said Thresurer, Wee
doe hereby with full consent, promis, agree, covenant and bynde
our selues, each of vs for himself respectively, that if any person
whatsoeuer whose name is heer vnderwritten shall faile in the
payment of the some by him soe vnderwritten, at the tyme and
place aboue said, that then wee hereby bynde our selues each of vs
respectively, our heires, executors and assignes, that the person soe
faleing shall pay or cause to be paid vnto the same Thresurer, duble

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the some soe by him vnderwritten as aforesaid, to be forfeited
nomine pene to the vse of me the said Earle of Arundell, and
the rest of the adventurers that shall performe and pay the some
and somes by them vnderwritten as aboue said. And that it
shalbe lawfull for the said Thresurer by any lawfuU meanes to
recouer and take the same, to the vse aforesaid. And alsoe to
compell and force by suit of Lawe or otherwise (if I the said
Earle of Arundell and the rest of the adventurers, or the more
parte of them shall soe think fitt) the person soe faileinge as
aforesaid, to pay alsoe the whole some soe by him as aforesaid
vndervirritten, notwithstanding he hath paid the forfaiture or
nomine pene. In witnes whereof wee have herevnto subscribed
our handf and set to our seales, within the tyme limited for
payment of our moneyes etc.

The place appoynted for this busines is at my house in Loth-
bury, between the houres of 8 and 1 1 in the forenoone, Tews-
dayes and Fridayes weekly.

CCCCXLIX. Marcombes to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 2 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, " To y" right Hon"' y'
Earle of Corke high Thre'' of Ireland, these att ye Sauoye London," and
endorsed, " Geneva 25 Martij 1640. From M' Marcombes : Rec. at the
Savoy 8 Apr. 1640." — G.

My Lord, we receiued your Lordships Letter of y"^ Kf' of
febr. y' last weeke, namely y' 17"" of this moneth ; wich beeing
y" same in substance with your formers, which I haue receiued
all, and to which I haue answered att Large, y" things beeing
here allwayes in y" same order, I need not be Long for y' pre-
sent : onely I may assure you y' we are all, thanks be to God,
in perfect health, very glad to heare y' same from your Lordship,

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both of him and of all his noble family. I haue all y' satis-
factione of y" worlde of y' two hopefull sons, both for what
concerneth their studys and their respect and Loue towards me ;
which I striue to deserue in some measure by all care and
honesty; and of that I most humbly beseech y' Lordship to be
confident. M'' Kyligry [= Killigrew] is here since Saturdy
Last, which was y' 21* of y'' current ; but I think he will not
Stay long ; which perhaps will be y* better for y' sons : for
allthough his conuersation is very sweet and delectable yet they
haue no need of interruption, specially M"' francis, which was
much abused in his Learning by his former teachers : and all-
though he hath a great desire to redime y' time, yet he cannot
follow his younger brother, and therefore he must haue time,
and auoid y' company of those y' care not for their bookes : for
this is y' onely place and time y' he hath to Learne the things
y' he should haue knowne three yeares agoe : but I may assure
y'' Lordship y' he useth all diligence, yet I doe all with
moderation ; for I must be carefull of his health as well as of
his Learning. y"= next weeke we shall make an end of y'
■Rhetorike and beginne y° Logike. I would I was as able to
teach as M'' Robert is able to conceiue and to Learne. upon y'
Latter end of June, God willing, they shall Leaue this kind of
Learning and apply themselues to their Mathematikes and
history, and specially to their Geography. They shall haue
shortly ther french tongue perfect ; but I shall continue still to
teach them Latin and y' chief points of religion. They con-
tinue their dancing, but they shall not Learne any other bodyly
exercise untill I haue order from your Lordship, for omnia tempus
habent, and he that doth embrace to much doth wring but little.
I doe reede often your Lordships letters to your sons. I pray
God that I may obserue punctualy your Lordships directions

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and good aduises : and thereupon I take my Leaue, most humbly-
kissing your Lordships hands and most humbly desiring your
Lordship to beleeue y' I am and will be for euer. My Lord,
your Lordships most humble and most obedient seruant,
Marcombes.

Geneua 25° Martij 1640.

CCCCL. Same to Same: 1640.

This is No. 7 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, " To y" right Hon'"''' ye
Eaiie of Corke high Threa"- of Ireland. Sauoye, London," and endorsed,
" 16° Aprilis 1640 from M"- Marcombes. Receaved the 9"" of May." — G.

My Lord, by my last I did informe your Lordship that M''
Kyligry [= Killigrew] was here, and now I doe certifie unto
you that he is gone to Basile [= Basle] with a resolution to
crosse y' Alpes. att his departure he left me a fine watch and
some Doublets of rubys and other stones to send ouer to his
sister M" Boyle, which I doe now. And I most humbly be-
seech your Lordship to excuse me if I make bold to direct all
unto you. I haue no other occasion to write. M'' francis and
M"^ Robert are in perfect health, thankes be to God. M'' francis
groueth fatt and M"^ Robert tall and thicke. They made an end
of their Rhetor[ic] y' Last weeke, and now they are at their
Logike, of which they shall make an end, God willing, upon y'
beginning of July ; and M'' francis doth Learne to vault. Out
of all that, and specialy of their Learning and of the methode
y' I keepe about it and of our publicke and priuate exercice I
did informe att Large y"" Lordship afore now. M' francis and
I did reciue y° Sacrament att Ester att fiue of y' clocke in y*
morning, and we went to y^ church att three. M' Robert
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I may assure your Lordship y' he did not abstane for want of
good instruction upon y' matter, we expect letters euery day
from your Lordship. I pray God to send us good newes, and
in y^ meane while I take my Leaue, and most humbly kissing
your Lordships hands, I rest for euer, My Lord, your Lordships
most humble and most obedient seruant, Marcombes.
Geneua y^ 16"" of Aprill 1640.

CCCCLL Edmund Spenser to Sir Percy Smith : 1640.

This is No. 25 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, " To his much honored
fFreind S'' Pearce Smith at Ballinetraie these w" my seruice present," and
endorsed, " zy" Junij 1640 ffrom M' Edmund Spencer to S' Percy Smith."
See Introduction in vol. iii. of this 2nd Series. — G.

S"", excuse the Stay of your man, for it was Late one Sunday
night Last before I receaued your letters for my Lord of Corke
and M' Champs. I haue here enclosed a letter to his honor,
and vntill such tyme as I receaue an answer from him, nothing
shall be done in the prossecution of M"' Meade. I desier you
will write to my Lord for his speedy answer, if I were sole
agent in the businesse I would doe more then now I doe. my
seruise shall be obedient to your Comande and I remaine Prest
to serue you, E. Spenser.

dated this 27"" of June.

CCCCLIL Marcombes to Cork : 1640.

This is No. z6 of vol. xxi., and is addressed as No. 2, and endorsed,
"Stalbridge 18° Julij 1640, ffrom Mr Marcombes written from Geneua the
23"" of June 1640." — G.

My Lord, wee must not yet expect an answer to our Letters
of y' 20"" of y' last moneth, since we haue receiued none to soe
many others y' we haue written to your Lordship ; which v/e

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doe find very strange, and for which cause we are mightily-
afflicted ; not soe much because y" time of receiuing our halfe
yeares allowance is past, as because your soe long silence make
us suspect (which God forbeed) of some indisposition in your
Lordship. It is true y' we doe heare here y' you are all there
enuironed with publicke troubles, and perhaps your Lordship is
not altogether free from priuate ones, which may be y^ cause
y' your Lordship hath not time to write vnto us ; which if it
be true, I pray God to deliuer y" Estate from j' first and your
Lordship from both. We are here, thankes be to God All-
mighty, free from all those crosses, and although round about
us all y' rest of y^ wordle \= world] in a manner goeth allto-
gether by y" eares, yet we doe enioy here a good peace ; nothing
hindering us from seruing God, both in priuate and in publick,
from following our exercises duly, and from taking all Laufull
recreation, your Lordships two hopefull Sons by y^ grace of
God, are in perfect health and groweth both apace. M"' francis
is much fater then he was in England, and doth not stoope att
all. M"^ Robert begins to grow me thinks a little thicke ; and
for that cause as much as for his solitary humour, I force him
often time to goe abroad, the last weeke we went into Sauoye
for to see a little Contrey with two other Gentlemen : y' one
English and y^ other french. Wee were two days abroad and
were neuer so merry in our Liues. Now they follow again
their bookes and Studys very close, and although they find more
Thornes in their logike then they did imagine (which will be
y* cause that they shall be att it six weekes or two moneths
longer then I thought) yet for all that they doe disgest it soe
well y' I hope in God I shall receiue credit by and they y'' profit
and vtility : and therefore Lett mee intreate your Lordship I
beseech you to lett them be here till y' next moneth of March,

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that they may haue time to make an end of their Mathematikes,
as well as of their other Studys. I know y* M" francis will
writte to his wife or to some other, to intreate your Lordship
that he might leaue Geneua upon y' Later end of y° next moneth
of October, but as it is impossible that they could haue made an
end of all their Studys in soe short a time, see it shold be a great
pity and a kind of an iniustice to take them away from them
now y' they are in y" way, and since it is now y" onely time for
them to Learne : for when they come to know themselfes a
little better, and to tast a little of y' libertinageof the Companys
bothe of Italy and of Paris, it will be a harder matter for me to
frame them to their bookes again, then now that they are use[d]
to it, and that they may make a good prouision of Learning and
Education for all their Life. In my former Letters I haue
written to your Lordship att Large of your Sons Studys and of
y Methode we doe keepe in it, and I shall not need now to
write any more about it, till we may heare from your Lordship
for to know if you like it well or no ; onely I will assure your
Lordship y' upon y° beginning of y' next moneth of March your
Lordships hopefuU sons shall have made an end of all their Studys,
and then it will be a very fitt time for them to trauell into Italy.
Now I most humbly beseech your Lordship, if you haue not
yet taken any order for y° sending of our mony vnto vs to write
me a word of it ; and yet to keep it still untill I send word to
your Lordship, to whom you may deliuer it ; and in y" meane
time, I doe take here mony from a Marchant vpon my o[w]ne
credit and without any preiudice to your Lordship, which I shall
pay unto him out of that which I shall receiue from you ; for
without mony I must not be, since many things may hapen
that may force us ex improuiso to retire our selves, as God for-
beed, some danger of warres and of pestilence ; yet I most

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humbly beseech your Lordship not to trouble himselfe of any
thing : rather doe me y° fauour to be fully persuaded of my care
and honesty ; and thereupon I take my leaue, Most humb'y
kissing your Lordships hands and most humbly beseeching you
to beleeue that I am and will be for euer. My Lord, your Lord-
ships most humble and most obedient seruant, Marcombes. -

Geneua 23° Junij 1640.

CCCCLIIL William Perkins to Cork. : 1640.

This is No. 4.1 of vol. xxi.,and is addressed, "To the Right Hon''''= the
Earle of Corke my most honored Lord," and endorsed, " 26 August! 1640
fFiom M"' W™ perckins by poste." — G.

Right Hon'''% I received your Lordships letter, and haue
spoken with M'' Raylton on friday last, who tells me that those
acts are not yett sent into Ireland : they stay for perfectinge of
some thinges ; but y' which Concerns your Lordship with y"
rest, shall goe speedely away, and I beleeue by Sir G[eorge]
Radcliff, who goes away on Thursday next. M"' Littell is gone
after my Lord Leuetenant to Newcastle : for my La[dy] Raw-
lieh it is ready, for her ladyship a seruant of hers, was with me
before I receiued y" Mony, as I apoynted him to come for it at
ye tyme, but is not com yett, beeing 16 dayes since, but I will
deliuer it with y' Circumspection and Complement as shall con-
duce to y° end your Lordship mencons, that y" Manner of your
present May be as acceptable as your gould may be profittable,
soe farr as my Courtship will extend, for M'' Weston, I haue
sent your Lordship his letters to me, by which you may see how
your busines is with him ; and for y' 20'', I will not part with a
penny till y" warden of the fleete haue sett him out of his
custody, and dischardg[d] him of all accounts. I know your

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Lordship hath heard of his Majestie's iourney on Thursday last,
and my lord Lieutenante began his on Munday morninge, beeihge
Lieutenant Generall of y" whole Army, his Lordship hath his
litter Caryed by him as well as his coach, the Earl of
Northumberland hath been daungerously sick on Satturday last.
it was generally reported he was dead ; but the last night word
was brought from Sion to his taylor y' dwells neare to me, y' his
Lordship was very well amended for y" tyme. the last weeke
we had dyuers letters of the manner of the cominge in of y"
Scotts. first came the trumpetters, then the Heraulds, then 3 or
400 gentlemen, with white rods in theire hands ; then their
ministers dispercinge their bookes ; after them the Souldiers
marchinge 6 in a ranke, with petitions in theire hands; the Soul-
diers traylinge their pikes, the muskiters with the breech of their
muskett forward vnder their armes, their rests traylinge, and the
Drumms couered with black, beatinge the Mournefull March,
their officers on each side to see y' none of the shuld offer
violence to any ; but I cannot wright this of any Certainty, we
heare y" Gentry and others of y^ County lay heavy accusa-
tions against y' Lord Conway, that condemnd a Gentleman to
dye for refusinge to abate z'^ a day out of y' pay his Majestic
alowed him ; and when the Gentry and others of y* Country
make complaints to him of Rapes, Robberyes, Rauishinges,
Burglaryes and all manner of insulencyes committed upon them
and their people, hee laughs at them and tells them that these
are but y' tricks of Souldyers, and so they must goe away
unsatisfyed or any their greeuances relieved, we haue had
nothing as yett from thence since y'' Kinge came downe into
these parts. I haue sent your Lordship 3 proclamacons pro-
claymed on Satturday last. I suppose in these inclosed from my
Lady Katherin is newes ynough. thus presentinge my most

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humble seruice to your good Lordship, I take my leaue and rest
your Honors most humble Seruant, William Perkins.

August 25. 1640.

M'' Tempest, his Majesties Attorny, went away towards
Ireland yesterday.

CCCCLIV. Petition of the Scots.

This is No. 44. of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " The Coppy of the Scotts
peticon w"" the Kings answers by his Secretary therevnto. A Copy of ye
Rebells petition to me, & the reference to it signed by y' Earle of Lannrick
by my Comand. This was sent thus indorsed, by y' King to y'' Queene,
& writt vpon by y^ Scots, y^ 50"" petition." — G.

To the Kings most excellent Ma''^
The humble Peticon of the Cofnissioners of the Late Par-
liam' and Others of his Ma'" Loyall subiects of the Kingdome
of Scotland.

Humblie shewing, That whereafter our manie sufFrings this
tyme past, extreame necessitie hath constreyned vs for our releefe
& obteyning our humble &' past desires to come into England ;
where according to our intencons formerlie declared, wee haue
on all our purvay Liued vpon our meanes victualls and goods
brought a long with vs, and nether troubling the peace of the
kingdome, nor harmeing anie of your Majesties Subiects, of
whatsoever quallitie, or their persons or goods; But haue Carried
our selues in a peaceable manner till wee were pressed by
strength of Armes to put such force out of the way, as did with-
out anie deserving and as some of them haue at the poynt of
death confessed, against their owne consciences, oppose our peace-
able passage at Newbarne on Tyne ; And haue brought their
owne blood vpon their owne heads against our purpose & desire

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expressed in our Letters sent vnto them At New Castle for pre-
venting the Like & greater inconveniences. And that wee may
without further opposicon come vnto your Majestys presence,
fFor obteyning from your Majestys goodnes, satisfacon! to our
past Demands ; Wee your Majesties most humble and Loyall
Subiects doe still subsist on that submissiue way of peticonning
which w^ee haue kept since the begyning. And from the which
noe provocacon! of your Majesties enimies £5* others, Noe adversi-
ties that wee haue hetherto susteyned, nor prosperous successe
can befall vs, shall be able to divert our myndes ; Most humblie
intreating That your Majestie would in the Depth of your royall
wysdome consider at Last of our pressing greevances, provide
for the repayring of our wrongs & Losses with the Advice and
Consents of the state of the Kingdome of England convened in
Parliament ; setle A firme & durable peace against all Innova-
cons by sea or Land ; That wee may with CheerfuUnes of hart
pay vnto your Majestie as our natiue King, all dutie of obeydience
that can be expected from Loyall Subiects ; And that against
the taany and great evills which at this tyme threaten both the
kingdoms : wherof All your Majestis good & Loueing subiects
tremble to thinke ; And which wee beseech God Allmightie
avert, That your Majestie may bee established in the middest of
vs in religeon & righteousnes. [Seeking] your Majesties gracious
Answere wee humblie desire & ernestly wait for [it].

On the reverse of sheet is written.

Att the Court at yorke the 5"" of September 1640.

His Majestie hath scene and considered this within written
peticon. And is graciously pleased to retorne this Answere by
mee ; That Hee fynds it on such generall termes. That till you
expresse the particulers of your desire, his Majestie Can giue noe

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Direct Answere ; Wherfore his Majestic requires that you sett
downe the particulers of your demaunds with expedicon, Hee
haueing AUway bine readye to heere & redresse the greevances
of his people j And for the more mature dehberacon of theis
great AfFayres, his Majestie hath alreadie giuen out Summons
for the meeting of All the Peers of this kingdome in this Citty
of yorke vppon the 24 of this moneth ; That soe with the Ad-
vice of the Peers, you may receiue such Answere for your peti-
cons As shall most tend to his honor with the peace & welfare
of his Dominions ; In the meanetyme, if peace it bee that you
pretend. He expects, & by theis his Majestie Comands, That
you advance noe further with your Armie to theis partes, which
is the onlie meanes that is Left for the present, to preserve peace
betwixt the two Nations, And to bring theis vnhappie differences
to a Reconsilliacoh ; Which none is more desirous of then his
most Sacred Majestie. Lannrick.

CCCCLV. Henry Smithwicke to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 4.6 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, " To the wright honr''''
Richard Earle of Corke and one of his Majesties priuie councill of England
this present," and endorsed, " Dublin 9 7''™ 1640, from my steward Heniy
Smyth wiclce. Receaued at Stalbridge 8 octobris 1640 by the Carrier." — G.

May it pleays your honnor, Sence I Came to this kingdome I
Could find no newes worth the presenting to your lordships
hands. The Army of 8000 men eare \_— are] to be sent ouer
and Joynd with the English in the North : but some others say
to Reduce the English to the Kings v/ill. here is much discon-
tent among the pepell, and tis thought the next subsedy will
leaue no mony in Ireland. It was Reported before I came,
that your honnor had giuen ouer houskiping, and I haue Justi-

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fied what I may that it tis not soe. your frends eare sory for it,
but Thous that wish you not well rejoyce at it and think you
haue loste as much honnor by so douing as euer you gained by
your noble liuing that way in your table, for they weare
possessed you kept the best house in England, which they inraged
at. Agane it twas Reported that your lordship was Called vpon
by my lady Denbie, abought my lord Kinillmocis dets, and that
you Apoynted her A day, and to preuent her left london by six
of the Clock, the next morning. M'" Edward Spencer with A
faill from his horse, brocke his neck, going to Munster the 28
day of August, not farr from the fox and goose, and was bered
in saint James Church yeard by his grandfather in Dublin.
Captain frances willabe was going to put the bisines in sut Con-
cerning M' mead and the french man that was with your lord-
ship in london, and he tould me of a letter that your honnor
sent to M'^ Spencer. So that I desiered him to let the sut alone tell
he hard from your honnor again, so that I find by him if your
lordship haue to close in the bisines, he willbe willing to leaue it
to your will : for he tells me the french man and he eare bound
in a 1000" A pece, crouse boundes to follow the sut. Ser georg
Rat[c]life landed the last night. So desiering your honnors
pardon for my bouldness, euer praying for your helth and
happynes, and remaine your obedient seruant euer, Henry
Smithwickb.

September 9, .1640.

CCCCLVI. Sir Kenelm Digby to Lord George Digby :

1640.

This is No. 47 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " 15° 7'"'= 1640. The Copy
of S"" Kynelme digbyes lettres to my Lord George digby.'.' — G.

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My good Lord, As long as my Lord your father was at home,
I forbore troubling your Lordship with my lettres, knoweing
well he had better information how things passed heere then I
could giue his Lordshipp ; But now that his being heere may
haue peradventure silenced many of those aduertisements came
dayly to Sherborne, I will make it my taske from tyme to tyme
to giue your Lordshipp knowledge what passeth vpon this stage,
as long as I am a looker on. Yesterday the King sate with his
great Councell (consisting of aboue 70 Lords, and seuerall others
came yesternight) and beganne with addressing his speech to
their Lordshipps to this effect ; That the state and condicon of
his affaires pressing his Majestie very much, he thought fitt to
call them together, to be assisted with their advise, which he
desired them to giue him in two things he should propose vnto
them : The first was, what answer his Majesty should giue to
the petition the Scotch Lords had sent him from Newcastle ;
And the other was to propose vnto him some way how he might
pay his Army, vntill a Parliament could meet, and settle all
things; which his Majestie declared should be on the 3'' of
November at London ; for without some present and effectual
course to raise money, his Army must speedily disband. To
make the Lords vnderstand throughly his first proposition, his
Majestie caused many papers of theirs to be read; And much of
those affaires hauing passed by my Lord of Traquares hands,
that Lord had occasion to speake often, and much to euery par-
ticular; which he did in very good manner, and with much
satisfaccon to all parties. This deduceing along of the whole
storie was somewhat tedious, for it lasted aboue 3 houres ; After
which the King being ready to rise to goe to dinner, my Lord of
Bristow seeing none other of the Lords offered to expresse their
reflections vpon what had hitherto passed, rose vp, and his

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Majestie earnestly and cheerefully called vpon him to speake,
which his Lordship did to this effect : That the particulars vpon
the first head had been soe long, and intricate, that they had
much confounded his memory, carryeing away the two propo-
sicons his Majestie told them he desired their advise in, and were
the cause of his calling them together, and he feared the like
might happen to seuerall others of the lords. Therefore his
Lordship moued that the Clarke might distinctly sett them
downe, and when what he should wryte were read to his Majestie
and approved by him, they might all haue Copies of it, and after
some due consideracon humbly offer their opinions to his
Majestie, who heconceaued did not expect they should presently
[do], to what his Majestie had proposed vnto them. All the
Lords concurred in this motion, and his Majestie liked it ex-
ceeding well, and it was done accordingly. And vpon this
occasion the King renewed his speech vnto them, asking them
whether they liked well that his Majestie should be present at
their debates, or no ; for he left the determining of that wholly
to them, declareing that yf he were present, he would not at all
abridge their freedome of debateing matters, but conceaued that
happily bis being there might conduce much to satisfy any doubt
might arise, in points that none knew so well as himselfe. And
all the while his Majestie spake, he addressed himselfe to my
Lord of Bristow. When his lordship saw no body else offer to
reply, he made due acknowledgement of the King's gracious
proceeding with them, And said. That he conceaued, it would
be more for the Kings seruice, and more agreeable to the Course
of Councells, that when his Majestie had stated the busines to
them he should not trouble himselfe with being present at their
debates, but leaue it to them to prepare by themselues resolucons
of their advises ; In which yf there should be any difference of

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opinions they would (when they had driven the question as farr
as they could) humbly offer all to his Majestie to choose which
he liked best; wherein it was not number of voices that was to
sway with him, (for heere, where they spake but as Councillors,
they had no voices,) but the weight of the reasons which they
must lay downe at his Majesties feet to ballance. But this he
did [speak] not exclusiuely to the King's being present, but rather
to ease of his Majestie of a long and tedious trouble. And when-
soeuer it should please him to honour them with his person,
they should be exceeding gladd of it, and would doubtlessly
vpon occasions be of great availe vnto them j And in particular
he desired, that his Majestie would be pleased to afford it them
in the afternoone, that by his steering, they might settle a course,
how to proceed vpon those two points his Majestie had proposed
vnto them. The King and euery body approued entirely of
what my lord of Bristol! moued. And it was agreed vpon accord-
ingly ; And it being then past noone, the King rose and went
to dinner. Att two of the Clocke his Majestie and the lords
attending him sate againe in Councell ; And his Majestie after
some silence on all hands, addressed himselfe to my lord of
Bristoll, and called vpon them to beginne where in the morning
they had left.

My Lord of Bristoll then proposed (beginning with the first
head single) That some Committee of the Lords should be ap-
pointed by his Majestie to treat with the Scotch Lords, and
heare their grieuances, and vnderstand from them the reason of
their invasion, & other proceedings, & then report it to the rest
of the Lords, that they might advise vpon it. To this my lord
Lieftennat of Ireland replyed That he conceaued it was not for
the Kings honour to treat in such sort with rebells. But that
their Lordshipps might aswell vnderstand their proceedings from

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the Kings mouth, and from other Lords relacons, that were
throughly acquainted with the affaires, and from papers that were
and should be read to them. And vpon this their Lordships ■
might aswell deliuer their opinions. My Lord of BristoU
answered, that although they weere neuer soe much rebells, yet
that ought not to hinder his Majestie from hearing what they
would say either to himselfe, or their treating with such Lords
as they could not except against ; for hitherto their greatest com-
plaint was, that those grieuances they desired to represent vnto
his Majestie, were conveyed vnto him by such condutes, as gaue
them an evill relish in the passadge ; And now in the formes of
treating with them, they are not to be looked vpon as Rebells,
since his Majestie hath not power to punish them as such, (which
yf he had, then noe other course were to be thought of) But
since they were now vpon tearmes to measure length of pikes
with his Majestie and had power to defend their pretences with
their swords, the treaty must at present be as between an Army
at Yorke with any Army at Newcastle, And therefore both for
the necessity that the condition of affaires imposed vpon his
Majestie, and to take away the pretence of their comming with
such a power to the King, as they would not be hindered from
deliuering their peticon to his Majestie himselfe, that he might
rightly vnderstand their grieuances, his Lordship conceaued it
necessary to haue some Lords they could not except against ap-
pointed to treate with them. My Lord of Bristolls motion and
reasons were liked by the King, and applauded by all the Lords ;
and it was accordingly ordered. His Majestie then said, it was
requisite he should acquaint their Lordshipps with another par-
ticular, which had relacon to treating with the Scotch Lords, and
held some proportion with it, which was concerning the prisoners
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whom the Scotts offered to restore, yf a Quarter might be setled
with them, But that his Majestie had respited that matter, vntill
their Lordships should come to advise him in that important
parte; for on the one side he much desired to free them, they
haueing demeaned themselues soe gallantly and worthily, when
diuers others failed of their dutie, and he therefore makeing
great accompt and esteeme of them ; Yet on the other side his
Majestie apprehended. That yf he did redeeme them by selling
a quarter ; his honour would much suffer in it. Withal! his
Majestie said, he had another sort of prisoners of theirs, which
were restrayned for refuseing the oath of Supremacy. My Lord
of Bristoll answered, as before. That now they were to be pro-
ceeded with as an enemy that was able with a powerfull Army
to dispute their pretences with his Majestie, and therefore
quarter ought to be with them, else the warre would become a
barbarous and cruell one. And thisproceeding he made good
with the example of all other Princes in like occasions, as of the
King of Spaine with the Hollanders, of the King of Poland with
the Swedes, of the King of france with the Huguenotes Et^
And soe though my lord Lieftenant pressed many reasons against
it, quarter was agreed vpon to be sittled with them ; And for
the other prisoners, my Lord of Bristoll deliuered his opinion
roundly, That his Majestie could not restraine them for denye-
ing the oath of supremacy, for that their religion permitted them
not to take it, as being contrary to the very grounds of their
doctrine and truth, And therefore yf that should be imposed vpon
Scotch men, it would be a trapp to catch and ensnare, as many
of them as should come into England. It was then ordered
those prisoners should haue libertie. And in conclusion M''
Belles (my lord fakonbridge his yonger sonne) was resolued on
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let them know, the King had appointed i6 of his Peeres to
meete with them at Northallerton as soone as they could come
thither to treate with them of all they desired, and in the meane
tyme to settle quarter with them, and to bring away our prisoners
from them, and to promise them ymediately the like of theirs,
that are in our hands. Lett me add that my Lord of Bristoll
would haue had Scotch Lords to come and treate with ours
heere at Yorke, as being more for the Kings honour and repu-
tacon to haue them come attend him at home, and more for his
seruice, by reason that in the treaty it is likely there may occure
many things concerning which it may be requisite for them to
repaire to the King; which wilbe better and more readily done
when they are attending on his Majestic at Yorke, then when
they must send to him from Northallerton. But my lord Lief-
tenant vrged stiffely. That it was not fitt for them to come
hither, where they might obserue our Army and discouer our
strength, and view our quarters and workes ; which his Lordship
was so vehement in, that my lord of Bristoll would not fall into
a contestation with him ; but thus against the myndes of all the
rest of the Lords, their goeing to Northallerton is resolued vpon,
assoone as M'' Belles bringeth back word, that the Scotch Lords
wilbe there, whose refurne is expected on Sunday.

Thus my lord, I hauegiuen your Lordship as full an accompt,
as I haue been able within the ly mitts of a lettre, of what passed
the first day, in this great Councell, And will I am confident be
the beginning of happines and honour to our afflicted nation.
In which worke the first & gouerning wheele, is your excellent
father, who steereth affaires soe dexterously and securely and
Masterly, that by the Consent of all sides, he is already putt
single to the helme. And what he speakes may rather be
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fFor hitherto nothing hath been dissented from that his Lordship
hath moved. He is one of those Lords that are to goe to
Northallerton, vnto whom the King hath giuen so ample a
Comission and trust, that more cannot be desired of his Majestie ;
for he saith, he will stand to what they shall agree with the
Scots, yf they will come to an Agreement. And yf their Lord-
ships cannot settle matters with them, because of their vnrea-
sonablenes, then vpon their report of what passeth vnto the rest
of the Lords, and afterwards to the Parliament, his Majestie will
follow what they and the rest of the Parliament shall advise
him. Therefore he biddeth the Lords looke to his honour and
the good and the safetie of the kingdome, for he leaueth all
wholly to them. And they on the other side promise they wilbe
carefull to let nothing passe, that shall not agree with those ends.
And yf the Scotts will not accept of such tearmes, as to them
shall appeare faire and reasonable, they will cast how the King
may force them to their duty.

Thus in this happy and hopefull beginning, more hath been
done in one day by meanes of my lord of Bristolls excellent con-
duct, and right stating affaires, and vigorous disposing them,
then could haue been hoped for in a weeke. And yf they goe
on as currantly and successefully, a very kw daies will make an
end of all, that the great Councell is to set vpon. The worke
of this day is to settle a course how the Army shalbe paid, till
the Parliament sitt ; That in the meane tyme to our dishonour
and danger it may not disband. But before I end my lettre, I
must mencon one pointe, I had almost forgotten, which is. That
the King, when he had opened the state of affaires, desired the
Lords to declare their opinions, that his warre against the Scotts
was iustly grounded, and that there ought to be some speedy
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from disbanding. Vpon which there was for a pretty while a
great silence, wherevpon my Lord of Bristol! (the master of the
Jurye) shewing a will to speake, was readily called vpon by the
King, and Lords, and then said. That he conceaued his Majestie
would not expect from them in soe weighty affaires, any sodaine
deliuery of opinions, but that it was fitt they should first well
consider the matters, and debate it throughly amongst them-
selues. To which purpose it was also necessary before they
concluded of any thing, that they should heare what the Scotts
Lords said ; for although they would in their owne beliefes goe
on with an implicite faith of what his Majestie deliuered to
them. Yet since their report and resolucon must be the ground
vpon which the Parliament was to moue afterwards, his Lord-
shipp conceaued it would be more satisfactory to them and more
for the King's service, and for the honour of the busines. That
they should at full heare all that the Scotts Lord should vrge.
And then noe body could haue any scruple in assenting to such
advice, as they should resolue of, nor in beleeuing the grounds
vpon which they did it ; And then they might the more freely
engage themselues in setting things in a way to force the Scotts
to reason yf of their good will, they would not yeald vnto it.
Which discourse of my Lord of Bristolls was well rellished by
the King, and approved of by all the rest of the Lords. And
soe that matter rested vpon those tearmes.

To day in the morning, the King proposed vnto the Lords
consideracon the second head of what he required their advise in,
which was how to compasse money to pay his Army, which he
dehuered vnto them not to be able to subsist many dales longer
without a new supply of money; The particulars of which his
Majestie referred to my Lord Lieftennant to declare, which he
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Lordships the state he found the Army in, and what was neces-
sary to contynue it a foot for 3 moneths, which he concluded
was necessarily required to be two hundred thowsand pounds.
Then my lord Mandevile rose and desired that they might be
informed vpon what tearmes stood the Kings reuenew, and what
moneyes were to come in to him vpon his owne accomptj that
accordingly they might proporcon out how much of this somme
was requisite for them to cast about for, conceauing that the
King who had prudent and wise Councellors about him, would
not engage himselfe in a warre and irritate a poore but power-
full nation, without knowing how to defray the chardges of it
for some time : whereas yet on our side it was scarcely entered
into nor our Army scarsely ready for it. To this (which was
seconded by some others of the Lords) the King very hand-
somely replyed. That the straights they were in required they
should rather looke forwards then backwards, and apply remedies
to future inconveniences, rather then expostulate past mischances
or errours ; yet to satisfy their inquiry in some measure, he did
assure them that the warre was not inconsiderately or improvi-
dently entered into. And that he should not haue been in want
of money, yf the late distractions amongst his subiects (which he
could not suspect, till they happened) had not made seuerall
things (he with reason relyed vpon) to miscarry. And some
particular persons had failed him besides ; which much disor-
dered his affaires, as at more leysure they should be more par-
ticularly acquainted with. My Lord North proposed then, that
to serue the Kings present occasions, all the Counties and
Townes hereabouts, that were deepest and first interessed in the
good successe of his Majesties Armes, should be moved to con-
tribute supplyes of money vnto him. And that the Lords
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And that the Lords should likewise agree of giueing him of
theirs some large number of Subsidies, vntill the Parliament
should meete to doe as much for the generalitie ; and so offered
for his share 8 subsidies. There was much discourse vpon
this head, and others moved other things. At length when the
question had been much vexed, and they were much purplexed
with the difficulties that grew out of euery proposition, My Lord
of Bristoll spoke to this purpose, That all those wayes were not
onely very difficult and peradventure vnfeazable, and yf the
Lords should goe vpon giueing subsidies by themselues (a kinde
of forestalling the Parliament) it might putt jealousies between
the Commons and them ; but though they should take effect,
would not in a manner serue to shooe the horses of the Army.
Therefore the roundest way was to consider, where the chiefe
wealth of the kingdome, and most ready at hand did lye, And
then to thinke of such securitie, as the owners of it might be
induced to lend it at seasonable dayes. He conceaued that the
City of London was the Magazine of money, And that though
formerly when things were in distraction, they would not part
with none, yet now when they should vnderstand what gratious
intentions the King had to his subiects And into what solid
waies he did put his affaires, he doubted not but vpon fitting
securitie, they would be as forward as of late they were backward ;
for he beleeued that these two dales worke had strengthened
his Army by giueing his soldiers good hearts and affections,
more than the addition of 10,000 men would haue done,
and would boy up his creditt more then the lyeing of a great
treasure in his Exchequer would doe ; And yf the discrediting it
had wrought so bad an effect that Pindar and Ricaut, who at
other tymes could haue taken vpp hundreds of Thowsand
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able somme, he was confident that this turning of the streame
would giue his Majestie and those that serued him, as great a
measure of creditt as before he wanted it. And therefore it were
fitt, they all should write to the City of London to acquaint it
with the Kings vrgent needes, and his gratious intentions to them
and the whole Kingdome by a Parliament, and what solid and
reall waies he now resolued to proceed in ; and withall should
propose vnto them such good securitie, as his Majestie could giue
them, and wherein it fell short, they should make it good, as the
whole body of the nobilitie and Peeres of the Kingdome to be
caution for it. And to this purpose speedily dispatch away some
principall members of them to the City, with this lettre of theirs,
and with instructions to expresse all things in a more particular
manner by word of mouth. And he concluded with beseeching
the king, that he would also be pleased to wryte vnto the City
in that behalfe, which would giue weight to what they should
say, and be doubtlessly most welcomely receaued by the Citie.
This discourse of my lord of Bristolls was (beyond my power to
expresse) well taken by the King and all the Lords. And vpon
the instant without any further debate, with one voyce of all
agreed vpon, and a Committee of the Lords named to draw the
lettre, against the afternoone. And the King most seasonably
and happily broke out into most noble and braue expressions of
kindenes to them and to his people, and of honour, in regard of
his owne intendments. Among which, one was, that he would
sell himselfe to his shirt, rather then any particle of what they
had engaged themselues for should remaine vnsatisfyed. Truly
(my Lord) you can scarce imagine, what transports of kindnes
was in euery mans heart, and how wonderfully the Kings pro-
ceeding hath taken them. Among others my Lord of Hertford
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afFeccon to the Kings seruice. And the King was soe tender
of seeming to restraine their freedome of debateing things, by
respect to his person whiles himselfe should be present. That
after he had proposed the busines, and made my Lord Lieften-
nant declare the state of the Army, his Majestie would haue
gone away to leaue them to their owne free consultacon, When
all the Lords ioyned (vpon my Lord Sauills motion) in beseech-
ing him to stay with them, that himselfe might see how cheere-
fuUy & afFectionately they went on with provideing for his
seruice and honour.

In the afternoone the Lords deputed for it, brought in their
lettre, and six were appointed to carry the Kings and it to the
Citie of London. More passed not of note (that I remember in
the haste I wryte with) excepting that they changed the Lords
meeting with the Scotts from Northallerton to Rippon, for more
conveniency of lodging. And the Bishopp of Durrham pro-
duced a strange insolent warrant of Replyes to all SheriiFes and
Bayliftes and officers about him to bring in to his Excellence a
true Inventory of all Bishops and Papists goods within their
neighbourhood and knowledge, vpon great penalties yf they con-
cealed any. And commanded all their tennants to pay their
rents to his Excellency, for which he would giue them dis-
chardge, taking those two sorts of people for enemies to their
Army.

I haue no tyme to say any more to your Lordship of the state
of affaires in our great Councell (which you will prettily well
guesse at by what I haue said, yf you can read it, which I haue
not tyme to doe nor correct it) nor to tell you particularly how
your father (that was borne for the good and honour of this
kingdome) is the oracle of it, and is at euery rubb called vpon
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dictate ; nor to giue you accompt of your sweet brothers excel-
lent conduct, prudence, and courage, that maketh him be in-
finitely esteemed by all men. Nor how besides takeing contri-
bution money the Scotts plunder all in Northumberland, New-
castle and the Bishoprick, for the poste is ready to goe, and
I haue no more tyme then to signe my selfe Your Lordshipps
most humble and most obedient servant, K. D.

Yorke 25 of September 1 640.
CCCCLVII. Lettice Goreing to her Father : 1640.

This is No. 49 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " 30° September 1640, from
my daughter Goring." It is as usual woefully badly written and still more
badly spelled. — G.

My most honred lord and Dearest father, if I had not by
Chance mete with Terence Going spedeley towards your
Lodship, I had in obedanc to your Commande of sending you
what newes I herd from the armey, dispached a Messenger pour-
pously to your lordship, to let you know that I haue this day
receued a packet of letters from M"' Goring, that were writ on
friday, one to my lord of Arundall, one to my lord Collington
and one to Sectarey Winbanck, and one to my selfe, which
waes full of Good Nues and Great hopes of a spedey Conclu-
sion of all things, and the Kings spedey Retorne. the lords and
his Magestey agree so well that hee Concents to all they descier.
a parlament wee shall haue verey spedeley. I haue sent your
lordship the names of the lords that are to Goe Commechenars
to the Scotts, who doo Great Iniouries to the peopell in and
about new Cacell [= New Castle]. This gentellman that came
post from M"' Goring tells me that thay haue taken all there
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Giue the Scotts a inventoray of all the Goods thay haue in there
houses ; and that thay haue taken all there mills in to there
hands and there Corne, and Will not sufFar them to Grind a
Grane for there o[w]ne youce but thay Grind and Bake all the
Corne, and thay must bey Bred of them and pay too penc for a
peney lofe : thay all so take there fate oxen, and for them thay
Giue them halfe a Crone in Money and ticket for the rest ; our
horce hath taken a trope of thers, which waes Commanded by
Sir Archeball Duglous who is now at Yorke prisonar to the
King, and three Score of his tropars ; the Rest Killed by our
Men in the taking them as thay were piligien som places nere
New Casell. I canat exsprece to your lordship how much the
Cittey is Joyed at the nues of a purlament. I hope your lord-
ship will bee spediley heare. my ladye Goringe Commanded me
to tell your lordship shee dessiers it exstremely. I let hear [her]
know your lordships fauar to my lord which shee is verey
sencabell of and exstremely kind to mee. I beeche your lord-
ship make hast to toune which will verey much Joy my lord
your lordships all obedient Daughter L. Goring.

London thee Sunday the 27 of Septebar.

CCCCLVIII. Sir Kenelm Digby to Lord George
DiGBY : 1640.

This is No. 51 of vol, xxi., but is neither addressed nor endorsed, having
doubtless been sent under cover. — G.

My good Lord, By my last voluminous letter (rather booke)
your lordship will haue vnderstood very exactly what passed in
the two first dayes of the meeting of the great Councell of
Peeres. But j am afraid j was so particular in it, as that
minutenesse would rather appeare tedious then punctuall to you ;

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and my labor in writing it, be accounted rather importunity-
then diligence. I will therefore (and because j haue not since
receiued your comand to warrant me from presumption in con-
tinuing you that troble of reading) onely tell your lordship in
bulke that euery day since that letters writing hath bin taken vp
in settling instructions for those lordes that are this day gone to
Rippon to breake with the scotch Coinitties. In which seuerall
thinges of great importance, and of much vse for obseruation,
haue passed : But the summe of all is, that after much debate of
what should be insisted vpon by our Commissioners, the last
yeares Pacification is the rule vnto which our agreement now is
to be squared ; And they haue vnder the great seale full power
to conclude as they shall thinke fitt ; but are limited by priuate
instructions to what they shall thinke fitt. Which they would
haue punctually and expressely sett downe to them ; because
they obserued that some about the King talked very high how
they would neuer yield their consents to any accoinodation that
were not passing honorable on our side ; And on the other side
they saw that our affaires are in euery circumstance vpon such
termes that we must expect if we will haue peace, to swallow
and digest very bitter pilles. So as, if they were sent away with
matters wholy referred to them, they must lay themselues open,
if they concluded, to the obloquie of those that spoke so brauely
and honorably ; or if they broke, to the censure of all those that
should suffer by a warre which we are not in posture to goe
through withall. And to tell your lordship truly and plainly,
this j feare may be some effect of the Kinges great dexterity and
paines in performing with admiration the part of an excellent
moderator; That by much fencing, the great he.irtynesse and
good nature, and cheerfull tendernesse of his Majesties affaires,
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standing vpon their guard, and doing nothing but vpon bargaine,
as expecting nothing againe but vpon the same termes ; att
which game j doubt the Kinges businesse is not well layed att
this present to play : But that if the lordes grow cold, and shutt
vp, and seuere in their thoughts, measuring thinges not in the
scale of affection and goodnature (by which for a while all was
squared) but in that of rigide iudgement and scruples of what
aymes maybe for the future, when the present turne is serued ;
his Majesty (j say) may (j feare) proue the looser. I can not
say that hitherto any great matters of distaste are passed : but
att the least enough hath bin grated vpon to cause suspitions and
iealousies ; And j am sorry to see thinges gotten by wyre drau-
ing, which one may be sure before hand must be granted : and
which if cheerefully granted, would be gently vsed ; whereas
being wrested out of it, maketh it not onely be gripingly held,
but euen that be made a steppe to gaine more. My lord of
Bristol hath bin very actife in managing all that hath bin hitherto
done, and is chosen Prolocutor of the Comission : As he hath
bin very dutifuU, so he hath bin very plaine in stating all thinges
to the King ; And since the state we are in, may be compared
to an vlcered sore, he hath not bin nice in searching it to the
bottome. But withall j am confident, that now when he
treateth with the Scottes, and hereafter when he shall play his
part in the Parliament, his hand will administer nothing but
Balsome and healing medicaments ; And he will then shew
himselfe as stiffe and rigide (vpon the same groundes as now)
for the Kinges greatnesse and authority, as now he is to haue
thinges rightly vnderstood. Our Prisoners are arriued here
from Newcastle, where they haue bin extreme ciuily vsed. I
do not vnderstand by them that the scotch army is so formidable
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will ; and haue money to pay them.) out of the Campagna
quite into the holes (or rather strongholdes) they haue made
themselues att Newcastle and vpon the hill that coiSands it.
Whatsoeuer their lordes are, their comon men are weary of
warre and would faine be att home againe : And when they
came in, had we kept Newcastle but three dayes their army
must haue disbanded ; in so great extremity of want they were.
And euen after our defeate att Newborne, 4000 of their men
ranne home the next day : for the greatest part of their army
had not eaten bread in two dayes before : and then thought
they had victory, yet not knowing whither Newcastle would
hold out or no, and not being able in the instant to haue pro-
uisions brought them from the country, so many ranne away
though they were sure vpon taking to be hanged for it ; and
accordingly seuerall hundreds were hanged ; which seuerity,
settleth a strange obedience in their campe. I am going to
morrow to Northalerton, and will be att Rippon to hearken
what the lordes do there, to bring you word in person the next
weeke how thinges passe. In the meane time, j kisse your lord-
ships handes and rest, your lordships most humble and obedient
seruant Kenelme digby.

Yorkethe i of 8"" 1640.

I beseech your lordship send the enclosed presently to Sir
Tobie Mathew : it was left att my lodging to conuey to him
with speede.

The Scottes plunder and ruine all thinges miserably att New-
castle and in Northumberland and the Bishopricke.

Your lordship will be pleased to lett M"^ Jermyn and M'
Montagne know what j haue written to you.

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CCCCLIX. The Scots demands and the King's
Answers : 1640.

This is No. 52 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " Rippon a 8'"''' 1640.
The scottes demaunds & the Kings answers. Rec. at stalbridge by the poste
9 gi>™ 1640."— G.

The demaunds of the Scottish Lords at Rippon the z""* of
octob : 1 640.

1. How the armye shalbe maintained vntill the treaty be
ended and our peace secured.

2. If it be required a greater number of Courts, a Convoy for
there safe arrivall.

3. A Safe Convoy for all lettres from vs to the parliament
and from them to vs.

4. That for the benefitt of both kingdomes there may be a
free concorce and that the Comon trade of new castle be not
Hindered ; but especially for victualls.

The lords Comissioners sent this to the King : the Kings
answer to them is herevnderwritten.

Right trusty & right welbeloued Cozons and Councellors of
our great Councell now assembled, and right trusty and welbe-
loued Councellors of our said Councell : Wee perceiue by your
lettres of the second of this month, that the Commissioners of
Scotland alleage that they are not warranted to treate but with
the noble men by vs named with the advice of our Peeres ; for
which cause besides the exceptions they are warranted to make
against the Earle of Traquaire, they decline him, and conceiue
that by the warrant granted them in our lettre & Comission
none are to assist att the treaty but the noblemen expressed in
our lettre. This wee haue imparted to such of our great Coun-
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this answer. That the Earl of Traquaire & the rest by vs, vv'ith
the advice of our Peeres appointed to assist you ; were not any
way authorized to treate or conferre with the Comissioners of
Scotland nor to haue any voyce or vote in the debating or con-
cludeing any thing ; but onely to giue you a right vnderstand-
ing of such things, as you could not otherwise be enabled to
treate of or debate ; in regard of your being strangers not onely
to the lawes and Customes of Scotland but altogether vnac-
quainted with these Passage[s] in the assembly & parliament :
without knowledge whereof the matters in difference cannot be
soe well cleered : And therefore by the advice of our Peerers
here assembled, wee hold it very reasonable & most necessary
that the Earle of Traquaire should be present : to whom all
things that will require debate are best knowne, and that you
should presse them to admitt thereof; giueing these and such
other reasons for it as you shall thinke fitt.

Nevertheles because wee are willing that the treaty should
goe forward with as little losse of time as may be ; we haue by
like advice of al our Peeres (to the Intent we may the better
discerne what need there wilbe of such assistants) thought fitt
to giue you these directions. In case they refuse, that then with-
out the assistants you should presse the Comissioners of Scotland
to giue you a particular of all there demaunds vnder there hands :
and especially what they doe expect for there losses which they
pretend they haue susteined, and for maintenance of there
Army dureing the Treaty ; and how they intend or would ad-
vise it should be raised and satisfied vnto them : of which you
are to make report vnto vs. ffor the safe Conducts which they
desire for such others as shalbe sent vnto the treaty from the
Comissioners of the Scottish Parliamente, and for all such as
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the Comissioners vpon all occasions with the freedom of Post-
way for Carrying of there letters to and from Edenbrough ; wee
are gratiously pleased to grant the same dureing the time of the
Treaty. Touching the Trade or fFree Comerce of importing
or exporting of Comodities when the busines is a little further
advanced, wee shall the better resolue what answer to giue
therein as a thing more proper for the Conclusion then the
begining of a treaty, ftbr the Cessation of Armes you haue our
instructions therein already. Howbeit wee and our great
Councell are of opinion that a disbanding of both armies were
much better then a Cessation ; which wee would haue you pro-
pound & endeavor with them ; and soe wee bid you hartily
farewell.

York, 3'* October.

To our right trusty & right welbeloued Coozens and Coun-
cellors of our great Councell : the Earles of Bedford : Essex :
Hartford : Salisbury : Warwick : Holland : Bristoll : Barkshire,
and to our right trusty & welbeloued Councellors the lords
Wharton, Pagett, Kimbolton : Brooke: Powlett: Howard
Savile & dunswood, att Rippon there.

CCCCLX. Endymion Porter to Cork: 1640.

This is No. 53 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " At yorlce ■j^*' Oct. 1640.
fFrom M' Endymion porter of his Matf bedchamber. Rec. at Stalbridge
by the poste 15 Obris 1640." The handwriting is exceptionally large and
distinct." — G.

My much honored Lord, My Lord Brohall [=Broghill]
towlde mee of the honor your Lordship hathe doon mee in send-
ing for the fish which your Lordship was pleased to promise
mee, and assures mee that it is at London ; I humbly be-

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seeche your Lordship to coinaunde that it maye be sent to my
howse, for I esteeme it hugelie, bothe for the goodnes of it, and
as it is a fauor of your Lordships ; and your Lordship hathe been
so punctuall in keeping your word, that you haue taught mee
howe I shall serue you, when I receaue your Lordships cornaundes
and obliged mee to bee ThankefuU to your Lordship for it all
the dayes of my life. Our businesses here prosper not soe
happilie as I could wish them ; for wee haue to doo with a very
insolent cunning nation that haue no end but to make vs there
slaues ; and our particuler mallises one against another, makes
no man looke after the coinmon safetie, soe that a general! ruin is
to bee feared, with theouerthroweof a tottering monarchie. God
allmightie mend all, and send your Lordship as much content as
I wish to my owne harte. My Lord, your Lordships most de-
noted humble seruant, Endymion Porter.

Yorke, the 7° of October, 1640.

CCCCLXL Kynalmeaky to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 58 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " At York 9 Oct. 1640,
from my son Lewis. Rec. at Stalbridg by the poste 15 8bris 1640."
— G.

My most Honored Lord Father, My Last certified your lord-
ship the irremediable cause that stay'd me soe long in London ;
this assures your lordship that (God be praised) I arriued safe at
york ye 29 of y" Last month. Nor could I expedite my iourney
sooner, my horses being pursy, y' wayes Long, & almost vnpas-
sably ill, by reason of y'^ great abundance of Cattle driuen from
these parts into those ; I my [self] hauing mett att Leaste
80000 head of Northern & Scotch Cattle. The extream raines
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30, very early his Majesty went to Hull & came back y" first of
gber_ jyjy hofses Were to weary & I too, for y" performing Soe
Sudden & posting a journey. My Lord Denbigh did me y"'
Honor to stay with me. The night of his Majesties return, my
Lord Denbigh presented me to my Lord Marquis, who reciued
me with uery noble & courteous gesture & words, & imediately
brought me too kiss y" Kings hand : And tould him : Sir, My
Brother heere humbly begs the Honor to kis your hands, & that
you wilbe pleas'd to excuse him for hauing entreated your
Majesties pass, & not hauing made vse of itt : T'was beg'd,
& graunted him, before your Majestyes personall resolution for
these parts ; which when your Majesty tooke, his Duty, his In-
clination, nor his Honor could permitt him to wander abroad &
Leaue your Majesty vnattended in y" feild. Much to this pur-
pose, if not these words my Lord Marquis spoke for & of me
to y** King, who gratiously tooke of his hatt & gaue me his hand
to kisse, assuring me that he was nott att all displeased but
tooke my willing Seruice in good part. I am all day (vnles itt
be when his Majesty goes into y^ feild) at Court, either waiting
on his Majesty, or my good Lord Marquis, to whose kind
respects I am infinitely bound; he allowes me att all howres free
acces to him, when he is a bed : Lends me his horses & is uery
noble to me : I waited often on my Lord Duke at Picquett, till
this sad mischance which he heard but yesterday, & is yett ex-
treamly sad : I haue waited vpon all y^ Lords heere. I carry a
Muskett next my Lord Denbigh, in my Lord Marquis (who
hath a gallant Regiment of 1600 able & expert men for y" Kings
guard att quarters in York, & y° only Regiment there) his owne
company. The King being t'other day in y" feild, viewing my
Lord Marquis his company, & Seeing there my Lord Denbigh,
Little Wilt Murray, & L said there are three Musquetiers that
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I know, & By god (said he) they are three hott shotts. Newes
heere is yett none Certain. The King (when he is neither in
y' feild (where he is constantly euery faire day) nor at Councell,
passes most of his time at Ches with y° Marquis of Winchester :
Some three dayes since y* King long studying how to play a
Bishop, the Marquis of Winchester blurted out : See Sir how
troublesome these Bishops are in jest & earnestly : the King re-
plyed nothing but Look'd uery grum. Some dayes Since y"
Lord Lieutenant gaue comaund to y** Lord Newport, that before
each Regiment, he should cause a Gallowes & a Horse to be sett
vp, which y" said Lord conceiuing as an indignity, complain'd
therof to j' King, who spoke therof to y' Lord Lieutenant,
who aspeas'd y* Lord Newport, with whom he beares faire out-
ward correspondence : But meeting Will Leg tother day in the
feild tould him. Leg thou hast sleighted me, & thou shalt knowe
itt & I will put thee in mind of itt. Viewing also y* Lord
Northumberlands Brigade comaunded by Coronell Aston, he
asproch'd Somewhat neere with his hatt on ; for which y*' Lord
Lieutenant telling him he was Saucy & ill bred, t'other (still
cour'd) tould him he came thither to be taught, & soe retird,
intending to giue vp his cothaund. But y'^ Lord Lieutenant being
informed who itt was, sent that night for him, & spoke & pro-
mis'd soe much to him, that he not only aspeas'd but oblig'd
him, & now they are, or aspeare very intimate. Yesterday in
y' afternoone y^ King walking in y" garden attended only by y'
Lord Duke, y^ Lord Denbigh, & my Selfe ; y' Lord Lieutenant
sent to know when his Majesty would allow him y* Honor of
waiting vpon him to informe him of some busines which con-
cern'd him, his indisposition not permitting him to waite, being
y' cause of y" presumption. The King bid him take his owne
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Denbigh, to expect his coming, and to desire him not to giue
himselfe y'' trouble of coming to y" Garden, but to goe into y°
King's bedchamber, whither he would come to him : The
King waited two long howres in y"^ Garden before my Lord
Lieutenant came. The King went imediately with him, and
there talk'd hand to hand some three howres, vntill Prayers.
My Lord Bristoll getts Small countenance from y' King, and
his good Looks from y" Lord Lieutenant. The Scotch cauili
which prolong'd y" Rippon treaty was this. Besides y* 16
Comissioners Deputed and authorized by y" King, his Majesty
commaunded y° Lord Truckware [ = Tracquair], y" Lord
Morton and y' Lord Marquis his Brother (men more vers'd and
better knowne in y" cunning intricacies of the Scotch affaires) to
assist, communicate with and aduize the lords as occasion should
serue, but were not to Sitt in Councell, or haue votes : The
Scotch heerupon took a nice, vaine and cunningly vnjust excep-
tion, and refus'd to treat vntill y^ King in a perticular manifest
to them explain'd his comission.

The sixt of this month, there return'd from Rippon, y' Lord
Holland, y' Lord Hartford, y'= Lord Bristoll, y" Lord North,
y' Lord Wharton and one more. Most of their discourse with
y^ King was publick and chiefly concerning y' Scotch Com-
missioners, most of which y" King there dichipher'd. Hebron
[sic] he said was a blunt but proud man ; his only quarrell with
me (said y° King) is that I would haue made him a Baron, and
he would needs be a Viscount : The Sheriff of Tinidale is a
plaine downeright man, but hath more depth in him then most
of them, and yett Bygod (said he) he is noe Witch : Dumfer-
milin was there more as an Earle then an agent, and soe of the
rest. The next day the Lord Holland, y" Lord North, and y'
other return'd to Rippon, by whom y' King sent to comaund

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y° Scotch Comissioners to repaire hither, where they are ex-
pected y" 12 or 13 of this month ; for their repaire must first
be authorised by y' Newcastelians and y" Councell of Edin-
borow ; whose allowance y" King must expect for to authorize
his owne Subjects to obey their Soueraine.

The King will not stirr hence this forthnight at Least. The
Scotch gaue my Lord Bristoll a Little Pamph[l]et which y*
King said was y" simplest thing that euer he read, and soe vn-
ciuill that he wondred much they would owne it, and soe
peremptory, that vnles they said to y'- lords (to whom itt was
doubtles intended) We come hither by diuine inspiration, and
Therfore vnles yow will co-operate with vs (that is said y
King, become as arrant Traytors as we, and ranker there are
not, Bygod in y" world) we will cut your throats, they could
goe no higher : All this I heard y^ King say. I will not this
time obey your lordship in giuing you an accoumpt of y* Lord
Barrimore : Only this, he seldome comes to Court or Camp :
Jugles (between his Serjant Major and him) his companys and
officers of their pay, Insomuch that yesternight 200 of his
Regiment Snatcht one of his Colors and came to Court Gate
(in a mutiny) to haue complained imediately to y" King :
failing of that they came into y" towne (my Lord Newport
returning neuertheles their Colors) and meeting James Vsher
rudely vnhors'd him (had not Enis and I come that way on
horseback from other Quarters) would haue torne Ijim to peices.

The Army had been yesterday (but for Sir W. Ashly gene-
rally hated) drawne out of feild into Garrison in y" neighboring
villages. Battles we shall haue speedy, or noe action this yeare.
The King is highly incens'd and determinate against y
Scotch. I am yet noe Parliament man, nor hope to be vnles
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your Lordship procure me a place. Broughill and Trauers are
both well and at Lannsborow, with y'' Lord Clifford : I am heere
and shalbe euer My Lord Your Lordship's obedient Sonn and
faith full Seruant, Kynalmeakye.
York, g. 8. 1641.

I send your lordship ye said pamphlet and some other Scotch
toyes, and a letter from Endimion Porter.

CCCCLXn. Lady Goring to her Father (Cork) :

1640.

This is No. 59 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, "London 13 October 1640.
ffrom my daughter Goring expressing what silver vessels, lynnens and other
thyngf she would have me bring her to furnishe theWardrop wWiall against
my coming thither." The spelling, capitals, &c., are as peculiar as before,
and the pen might have been a piece of sharpened stick. — G.

My most honred lord and Dearest father. My hart waes neuer
so much nor so truly Joyed as it has bin sence the recaite of your
lordship's last lettar, which assuers mee (to my ueray Great Con-
tent) that your Lordship is pleased truly to vndarstand and ax-
sept of my true and hartay desiers to sarue your Lordship in all
thing^ my pouer can reach to, which I Call God to Wittnes I
doo as willingly as Euer I did anay thing in my Life, and if it
were posseabell your lordship could see my hart, you would there
.find it More louing and Dutifull to you then eather my pen or
Words Can exsprece ; for it shall bee my Chife Care and studay
to serue and pleace your lordship in all things, in my last I waes
veray loth, but senc I haue Thought it fit to let your lordship
know, that you haue somboddy about you ueray fallce to you
and veray true to somboddy Ellce : for aboue sixe ouers befor I
receaued your lordships furst lettar of Coming hether, my Sistar
Jones tould mee that your lordship waes resolued to leue with

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mee this Wintar ; and when I protested to hear [= her] that I
knew no such thing, shee did not beleue it but thought I dec-
cembled, for shee sayed shee knew it waes true, and shee tould
it to all hear saruants, befor I receaued your lordship's lettar ;
which waes the Caues I spoke to my Lord Goring of it : for as
sone as hee came in I gesed by his spech that hee had heard of
it. So I tould him, fering hee would take it ell, and truly hee
waes the Most Joyed man in the World, with the Content hee
prommised him selfe the Wintar with your Lordship's Com-
paney ; for hee sayed hee Could not induer to Com to you last
Wintar, there waes such a Croude of ladies and other Company,
yestarday as sone as I receaued your lordship's lettar, I went to
wayte on him, but did not find him nor my lady at home, and
I am Just now com from thenc, but Agane missid him, for hee
waes Gon abrode with the queene, so that I canat by this post
send your lordship an absolut aunceaur for my sistar Maries
Coming hether, till I speke with him, but I am Confident hee
will bee willing, and for my selfe, shee shall bee receaued with all
Wellcom. therforl bee[see]che your lordship doo not thinke it
will bee any truboll to me ; for I shall bee reday to sarue your
Lordship in all thingf, and in all Wayes with owt exsepting
against anay thing. I haue with all Ernestnes solicited Both
my lady Danbey [= Denbigh] and my sistar Kinallmeke about
the Busines your lordship writ of, and found them both ueray
Carfull and willing, and what there auncear is your Lordship will
find in there letters, which I heare send you inclosed, my lord
Goring yestarday befor I receaued your lordship's lettar, sent
mee a packet to send your lordship, which I send all so by this
post, in it I am ueray Confident you will receaue all the true
nues there is, but whether or no hee haue writen about the
money I know not, because I Could not see him to delliuer your

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lordship's Messag ; but against the Next retorne, I will bee suear
to speke With him about it. hee is exstremly kind to mee. hee
has made mee a pressent of seuen the Best Coch horces in Ing-
land. I will be ueray Carfull not to speke anay thing of the
Plate to my sistar Kinallmeke, but this much I can tell your
lordship that tis all reday for you and that shee keeps it to delliuer
you at your Coming up. I haue red the Note your lordship
sent mee and haue sent a Nother of what I shall youes [= use]
of those things : and for plate, we haue but a dossen of Dicches,
wherof I haue but 3 heare ; the rest Mr Goring hath at Yorke:
for none of his things as yet Com Back nor shall tell the Peace
bee Concluded : therfor if your lordship Please I desier you would
Bring with you a Dossen and halfe of the ueray Biggest Disches
you haue, and no littell ones, too dossen of platf, too Baccon
and youers and 3 payer of siluer Candelsticks : for I haue but
one payer, and too voyder. if your lordship had not rather ley
[lye] = in your one [= own] sheets, then anay other, I haue
ueray fine ones, which I shall neuer thinke so well imployed as
to lay in your lordships Bed. Your lordships Chambar heare will
bee ueray quiet, farr from the Cichien [= kitchen] or anay offices
of the houce that may offend it, and noboday lies Either ouer or
vnder it ; but Will Barbar hath a Chambar with a Chimley
cloce by it and Backe stares ueray Conuenant, and your lordship
May bee ueray Confident that I will not haue more Care of my
Life then I will haue to please you. I haue Giuen Brone
[= Brown] Derections to lucke Carfuley for good Stabells for
your lordship, for the expience [= expence] of the houce, I will
aganst your Coming to tone [= town] Cast it vp to a sartintay,
with as much Care as I can possabell, and will with all my hart
ade all my one [= own] allouance to it : for I Call God to
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that I deccier the honor of your Company : for I do not lieke
others deccier to saue by you, for I will spend to the vttar-
most farding, as much as if you were nott heare. More I am
not abell to doo. if I were, God knoes I would doo it ueray
willingly; for as I form urly writ to your lordship, it Grieved
my ueray soule to see you so trubled the Last Wintar. all that
I can say more is that I am suear you shall bee quiet and I will
Giue my selfe holey to Endeuer to pleace your lordship and to
Make your Life Easy and Contented, and that your lordship
shall fuUey injoy heare, if all my indeuers will Proquer it. I
cannat wright aney Nues of sartien, because I haue not seane my
lord Goring ; but thay say in the tone [= town] that the Nues
is veray good, and that the Scoch lords will goe to yorke, there
to speke with the King. S'' Tobey Mathiu, who waes Commited
by my lord Cantarberay is by the Queene relesed with Great
Exspectations of hear [= her] fauour. My sistar Jones hath
now at last taken so Ell a houce for my Brother Dungaruan in
the worst side of Sant Martens Lane, that I cannat but wondar
at it. the best romes lucke vpon the Dunghill of my lord Sals-
brays stabell and the Coche and horces Com vndar the Dining
Rome licke any Enne [= Inn] so that thay will haue a par-
petuall noyes : the stabelle one way and the strete the other
way : besides the romes ar all exstreame littell : but I bes[ee]che
your lordship to take no Notice of it from mee, though I cannat
Chouce but wondar at it. so doth my Good sistar Killdar, who
preccents heare humbell Dutey to your lordship, this is all I
shall now truboll your lordship with aftar I haue beged your
belefe to this truth that I am More then aney Creattuer liuing
My Lord your lordships all obedant Daughter and Most
humbell saruant Goring.
London this 13 of octobar.

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CCCCLXIII. Articles of Peace : 1640.

This is No. 62 of vol. xxi., and is neither addressed nor endorsed. — G.

Articles for the Cessation of armes agreed on the 16* of
October 1640. betwixt the English and Scottish Comissioners.

1. fErst that the Scottish Army lyeing in the Counties of
Northumberland, Bishoprick of durrham and Towne of New-
castle, shall haue for a competent maintenance the some of
850'' per diem, being the some before agreed on by the Counties,
And that the payment thereof shall begin vpon the 16"" of
October, and to contynue for two moneths in case the treaty
shall so long last ; which payment to be made weekely vpon the
ffryday of euery weeke, the first fryday being the 23"" day, to be
for the payment of the weeke past.

2. The dales of the returning of the Army to be numbred
within the dales of the allowed maintenance.

3. That the Scottish Army shall content themselues of the
aforesaid maintenance, and shall neither molest papists, Prelates
nor their adherents, nor any other person of whatsoeuer qualitie
during the tyme of the payment, but shall keepe them free of all
other taxes and plunderings, not onely during their abode but in
their returne. And such securitie as is vsuall shalbe giuen for
the performance of the same.

4. That the Inhabitants of the said Counties shall also haue
libertie to returne peaceably to their owne dwellings, and shalbe
refused no courtesies, it being alwaies presupposed, that the
fitting lodging of their Army shalbe allowed.

5. That the Army be furnished with Coales in a regular way,
and not at the pleasure of the souldiers. ,

6. That there be a provision of forrages, at the prices to be

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sett downe in a Table, which must also contayne the particular
prices of all sorts of victualls, and other necessaries for the
Army.

7. That the Sea ports be opened, and that there be free trade
and coinerce, by sea and land, as in tyme of peace, with this
provisoe, that with the victualls noe Armas nor Amunition be
imported into Newcastle nor any Harbor of England, and this
free trade and comerce not to be interrupted but vpon the warning
of three moneths, that there may be a sufficient tyme allowed to
shipps to returne, and for the disposeing of their Comodities.

8. That victualls and other necessaryes for the Army be free
of Custome, and that his majesties Customes of Coals and other
ware be left free to be levyed by his owne officers.

9. That all restraints be remoued and the subiects of both
kingdomes be made free to furnish necessaries for the Army,
and libertie be granted for milning[= milling] brewing, bakeing
and other things of that kinde.

10. That the arreares be compleatly paid to the 16* of October,
and that such rents as are Anticipated, and not yet due, be
allowed in the arreares.

11. That there be a cessation of Armes according to the
particulars to be agreed vpon.

12. That certaine bounds be fixed to both the Armies, ouer
which they shall not passe in any hostile manner ; And that
those bounds be sett downe with certaine cautions for keeping
the lymitts prescribed.

13. As for secureing the some of 850'' per diem aboue speci-
fied, there is a Comittee appointed by the great Councell of
Peeres who haue power to treate with Northumberland, the
Bishoprick of durham, Newcastle, and yf need require with
other adiacent.Counties, that there may be a reall performance
of what is agreed on by vs.

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Not[e], in these Articles, that they shall not reinforce their
Army by new supplyes of men.
Articles to be Agreed on concerning the Cessacon of Armes.

1. That there shalbe a cessacon of Armes both by sea and
land from this present.

2. That all Acts of hostilitie doe thenceforth cease.

3. That both parties shall quietly enioy whatsoeuer they
possesse at this tyme of the cessation during the treaty.

4. That all such persons who Hue in any of his Majesties forts be-
yond the riuer of Tees, shall not exempt their lands which lye in the
Counties of Northumberland & the Bishopricic, from such contri-
bucons as shalbe laid vpon them for the payment of the 850'' a day.

3. His Majesties shipps to depart presently after the deliuery
of the Castle, with y*^ first fayre winde, and in the meane tyme
no interruption of trade or fyshing.

4. His Majestic is graciously pleased to cause to be restored
all persons goods and ships detayned, and arrested, since the first
day of November last past.

5. There shalbe no meetings, treatings, consultacons or con-
vocacbns of his Majesties Lieges, but such as are warranted by
Act of Parliament.

6. All fortificacbns to desist, and no further working therein,
and they to be remitted to his Majesties pleasure.

7. To restore to euery oileof his Majesties good subiects, their
liberties, lands, houses, goods & meanes whatsoeuer taken or de-
tayned from them by whatsoeuer meanes since the aforesaid tyme.

[The numbering, it will be seen, of the clauses, is incorrect. — G.]

CCCCLXIV. Scottish Lords letter to the Lord
Lanerick : 1640.

This forms the latter part of preceding MS. — G.
Right honorable. As nothing in earth is more desired of vs

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then his Majesties fauour, soe doth nothing delight vs more then
that his Majestie beginneth againe to hearken to our humble
desires ; wherein we trust nothing shalbe found but what may-
sort with his Majesties honour, and for the peace of his do-
minions. The particulars we would haue expressed, but that
they are contayned in the conclusion of the late Parliament, and
our printed declaracons, which we sent to your Lordshipp. But
in case the Papers be not by your Lordshipp, we now sumarily
repeate them. That his Majesty would be graciously pleased to
comand that the last Acts of parliament may be published in
his highneses name, as our soueraigne Lord ; Next that the
Castle of Edenburgh and other strengthes of the kingdome of
Scotland, may according to the first foundacon, be furnished &
vsed for our defence and securitie. Thirdly, that our Country-
men in his Majesties dominions of England and Ireland may be
freed from censure for subscribeing the covenant, and be no
more pressed with oathes and subscripcons vnwarranted by our
lawes, and contrary to their nationnall oath and Covenant ap-
proued by his Majestie. ffourthly, that the coinon Incendiaries
who haue been the authors of this combustion in his Majesties
dominions may receaue their iust censure, ffifthly that our
ships and goods with all the damage thereof may be restored,
sixthly, that the wrongs losses and chardges, which all this tyme
they haue sustayned, may be repaired. Seauenthly, that the de-
claracons made against vs [as] Traytors may be recalled. And
in end, by the advise and consent of the Estates of England
convened in Parliament, his Majestie may be pleased to remoue
the Garrisons from the borders, and any impediment may stopp
free Trade. And with their advise to condiscend to all par-
ticulars, may establish a stable and well grounded peace, for
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and vndoeing from yeare to yeare, or as our aduersaries shall
take the aduantage. This royall testimony of his Majesties
Justice and goodnes, we would esteeme to be doubled vpon vs,
were it bestowed speedily vpon vs, and therefore must craue
leaue to regrete that his Majesties pleasure concerning the
meeting of the Peeres the 24* of this instant, will make the
tyme long ere the Parliament be convened ; which is conceaued
to be the onely meanes of setling both nations in a firme peace,
and which we desire may be seriously presented vnto his Majesties
royall thoughts. The more this tyme is abridged, the more
able will wee be to obey his Majesties prohibition of our ad-
vancement with our Army. Our actions and whole com-
portment since the beginning of these comotions, & especially
of late since our comeing into England, are reall declaracons of
our loue and desire of peace. Nothing but invincible necessitie
hath brought vs from our Countrey to this place. No other
thing shall draw vs beyond the lymitts appointed by his Majestie,
which we trust his Majestie will consider of, and wherein we
hope your Lordshipp will labour to be a profitable instrument
for the Kings honour, the good of your Countrey, and of your
Lordshipps humble servants and affectionate frends.

Scottish League at Newcastle 8° September 1640.

Rothes : Mountrose : Cassilis

dunfermeling : lothian : lindesay

Napier :

Home : G Kerr : Thomas Hope

Douglas Gibsone Ducie

Smith Porterfield : Hen Kennedy

RUTHERFURD : WeDDERBURNE.

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CCCCLXV. Sir Thomas Stafford to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 65 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, "at Whitehall 13 S""™ 1640
ffrom Sir Thos Stafford. Rec. at stalbridge 15° octobris 1640." — G.

My Lord, In my last I acquainted your lordship with the
slow proceedinge of our lords with the scotts Comissioners ;
since that, the coinon good of both nations has bene so Little
advanc'd, that in all liklihood, we are now more remote fro a
conclusiue accomodation, then when they first mett ; for their
demands (for the mayntenance of there Army, where now they
are) and repayringe there losses (they pretend to haue sustayned)
are of so vast & exorbitant a nature, as noe man that tenders
the honour both of the kinge and this whole nation, can haue a
thought of yeeldinge to it ; for there proposition of requiringe
4000'' monthlie to wadge there Army, may sufficientlie induce
your lordship to belieue how arrogantly insolent they are in the
residue of there demaunds ; which gives vnto many a Couler-
able suspition, that this there presumptious manner of proceed-
inge, receaues encouradgment fro vs ; neverthelesse this day the
deputies fro the scotts should haue come to yorke to haue
treated with ours, at a nearer distance, and with more conve-
niencie, but the addition of therles of Argile and Rothes (added
to the former) pretendinge danger and a want of saftie to there
persons, (as may appeare vnto your lordship by the reasons
alleadged in this enclosed ; which the queene receaued last
night) hath for this tyme put by there cominge to yorke ; by
which it doth manifestlie appeere the great waight of mallice
and hatred that lyes on that land ; and how impossible it wilbe
for him, to bouy himselfe vppe, vnder so mightie a burthen, is
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he comes to the examination of his action, they will appeere
errours of his Judgment, not his will,

fFor my refusinge the receipt of your lordships monies fro m''
Bankes, I am glad it sutes with your likinge ; since which I
haue not heard fro him ; but for his bills I will safelie keepe them
till your lordship comands the contrary,

Touchinge your lordships directions about my movinge the
busines to my lord of dorsett, I did not omit it out of neglegence
or forgetfullnes, for had I scene the way faire and free for it (as
yet it is not) you should not haue mist a account ; nor shall my
care be wantinge to informe my selfe therin.

I acquainted my dame with your lordships desire to be sum-
moned to this parliament, as others of his majesties privie
councellors are, that are not peeres of this kingdome, who im-
braste it with such care and affection, that before I could in-
forme my selfe (for I receaued your lordships [letter] but yester
night) she presented her humble desires to her majestic, who
most readilie entertaynd it, and that she would write to the
Kinge, for the despatch of it, and told her withall, that she was
confident she would not expect remittance or reward, for serv-
inge your lordship in this particular. My lord I cannot but
repeat agayne (with noe Little treble) how sencible we are, that
these bad tymes will not allow vs the happines to enjoye your
lordship this winter as we intended, but we are confident that
those Just reasons I presented to your lordship will sufficientlie
dispose your lordship to pardon vs, and althoughe I cannot one
the suddayne conceaue how your lordship and your childrene
should be seperated in this towne, free fro inconvenience and
some Little censure, is verie questionable, but when it shall
please the all disposer to giue yours a happie returne into Irland,
and that your lordships occasions calls you to reside heere.

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rather then y" should Lodge vnder anyes roofe but ours, I would
serve yo and be a steward, a cooke, cater or any thinge ; and may
the savoy house be reduste to a heape of ashes, if yo be not as
realie and hartelie welcome there as to those in the world that
loues yo most ; for Betty, I haue comission fro my dame to
wishe that she might be left in good hands in the contrie till the
springe ; if that cannot be done with convenience, then she bids
me tell your lordship that she will vse her best care to enquire
out some fitt place for her to soiourne ; whose mikelmas quarter
is readie to be payd heere to whome your lordship will appoint ;
and so god Almightie ever more blesse you and all yours to me
that am, your lordships to dispose of, Tho : Stafford.

Whithall this 13 of octofe 164.0.

CCCCLXVI. Marcombes to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 69 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, "To y" right Hon'"''' y«
Earle of Coilce Lord high Threer of Ireland and one of his Majesties most
hon"*'' priuy Counseil in England these present London or Stalbridge," and
endorsed, " Geneua 16° Nouember 1640 fFrom M' Marcombes. Rec : at
Court by the poste 15° december 164.0." — G.

My Lord, To your last from Stalbridge of y' 5* of September,
I haue fully answered a great while agoe, and since we haue
reciued no newes from your Lordship ; at which we can not
sufficiently wonder, and had we not expected still from weeke
to weeke to reciue some of your letters, we had not tarryed so
long without writing unto you, and were we not afraid that
your Lordship would make an ill construction of our soe long
silence we should expect still an answer to our former letters for
to haue matter to writt unto you ; for I scarce know what to
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your two sons are still in perfect health, thanks be to God,
making uery good use of their time and Growing much both
in Stature and Learning. M"" francis taketh a great delight in
his Mathematikes and can danse uery well, and I may assure
your Lordship that he doth stoope no more, but hath uery good
grace in what soeuer he doth. They Learne now also to iince,
and 1 shall shortly teach them something in the Italian tongue,
that they should not be alltogether nouices in it when they
come theither. And as for M' Robert, I need not assure your
Lordship that he Learnes uery well, for your Lordship cannot
be but uery well persuaded that he is Capable of all good things;
onely I shall assure your Lordship that there is no Stranger in
france that can spake better french then he. For my part I can
not tell what good satisfaction they reciue of me, but I protest
unto your Lordship that I haue no occasion of y'' wordle
[= world] to compleine of them but I loue them with all my
heart for their ciuill carryadge and good vertues ; and of that all
this towne is witnesse, and of their Contremen one M"' Baker,
M' francis Lysson [Leeson] & M'' Robert Couentery, yonger
son of my Lord Keeper that was, which three are uery ciuill,
and two of them uery Learned Gentlemen ; and therefore I
Most humbly beseech your Lordship to reioice att those uery
good and true newes, for you haue great reason soe to doe.

My Lord, I most humbly pray your Lordship to deliuer to
some of your assured friends in London, y'^ hundred and fiue and
twenty pounds sterlings that your Lordship is pleased to allow
his two Sons for our Expences from y" first of December next
till y' first of March following and then doe me y° fauour to lett
me know to whom you haue deliuered them that I may reciue
them in y^ same manner that I haue reciued the two Last hun-
dred and forety pounds sterling, and soe I most humbly pray

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your Lordship to doe hereafter during all our trauells from
quarter to quarter, asuring your Lordship that I shall neuer
demand a peny and neuer shall send my bills of exchange till
our time is ended. I haue fournished M"' francis and M'' Robert
with three sutes of Clothes a peece and with all kind of good
Linnen; I haue made also my prouision of Corne, wine, wood
and Candles for all this winter ; but I protest unto your Lord-
ship that all things here are deare aboue all measure ; and of
that your Lordship shall iudge by this, I pay for a paire of great
bootes for M"" Robert the ualue of fiue and twenty shelings and
for a paire of shoes for him the value of fiue shelings, for a quar-
teron of wine which is two quarts of London, we pay y" ualue of
a sheling and as much for a pound of Candels. The wood also
is dearer here then in any other place of y"^ wordle [= world]
that I know, to the great greef and Misery of y' poore people ;
and the reason thereof is because they transport all kinds of
Commodities into Germany or into the frenche Conte of Bur-
gondy. We expect with great impatience your Lordships
letters and Comands, and in y' meane time I most humbly kiss
your Lordships hands and take my Leaue, besheeching your
Lordship to beleeue me for euer, my Lord your Lordships Most
humble and most obedient seruant, F. Marcombes.
Geneua y^ 1 6* of g*""" 1 640.

CCCCLXVIL Robert Boyle to his Father : 1640.

Unfortunately two earlier letters have been worn away and mutilated.
No. 56 of vol. xxi. is endorsed, " Geneua 7° October 1640. fFrom my son
Robert." Only a few fragmentary half lines are preserved, indicating that it
was a report of his progress in arithmetic and other lessons. No. 77 is
endorsed, " Geneva 23 dec'' 1640 fFrom my Son Robert : Rec. at Court 6
January 1640 "(= 1641). It, too, is much mutilated. The following is

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all that is intelligible — " My most honored Lord Father, I receiued your
Lordships letter the 15 of thi[s month] it assured me both of your Lordships
health (....".. ther expect or receiue) and also of the prosperous ......

We continue our studies in the Mathematickes ...... very good. M"'

[Marcombes] besides a long quicly followed ...... the fruits of

perfo " Tlie remainder scattered words only. Fortunately several

beautiful specimens of complete letters from Master Robert have been pre-
served. A facsimile of the close of the following letter will be found pre-
fixed to title-page of the present volume. It will be seen how neat and careful
was the young philosopher's handwriting. See Introduction in vol. iii. — G.
The present is No. 85 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, "To the right Hon'"'''
and my most honored father y*^ Earle of Corke London," and is endorsed,
"Geneva zo" Januarij 164.0 (From my sonne Robert. Rec. at Court 3°
fFebr. 1640 by the poste." — G.

My most honored Lord and Father, Hauing so lately pre-
sented my Duty to your Lordship in my Answer to your Lord-
ships last Letters, I have nothing now to acquaint your Lord-
ship withall but onely that I am (God be thanked) in good
health, and that M' Marcombes hath so great a care both of my
Body and Minde, that I owe him the Obligation (next God) not
onely of my health, but also of all that I haue learned since I
left your Lordship. He did me the fauour to shew me the last
letter your Lordship wrote vnto him, dated the 22''"' of Decem-
ber, wherein I read your Lordships will, which I am very ready
in all points to obey. We continue our studyes in the Mathe-
matickes, and are already somewhat aduanced in the Fortification,
wherein I hope and striue to render my selfe a good proficient.
The barrenesse of newes maketh me conclude this Letter, assuring
your Lordship that I shall thinke my Paines wel recompensed if by
them I may in some sort deserue the Title, My Lord Of your
most Obedient Sonne and most humble Seruant, Robert Boyle,

From Geneua the 20"" of January 1641.

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CCCCLXVIII. Bishop of Cloyne to Cork. : 1640.

This is No. 72 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, " To the right hono'"''' and
my uery good Lord Richard, Erie of Corke, Lo. high Treasurer of Ireland
theise, with my humble service," and endorsed, " z+o Nouember 1640 fFrora
the lo. Bpp. of Cloyne. Rec. 8° Decern 164.0 by the poste." — G.

Right honourable and my uery good Lord, I have received a
message from your Lordship by M"^ Hassard of Youghall, that I
had w^ronged your Lordship, but that your Lordship did forgive
mee. I doe not doubt but that I have infirmities many, and
may well stand in need of your Lordship's favour ; but that I
euer Wronged your Lordship, I could not finde by- any thing
that I was conscious to in my selfe, and therefore I enquired of
your Agent M'' Josua Boyle, to Icnowe if hee would informe mee
what y** cause of your displeasure might bee. Hee tould mee
hee could not declare it. Therefore I must say, that L conceive
that your Lordship doth apprehend mee otherwise then you
ought ; for other answer I cannot give to so generall a charge ;
and I hope your Lordship will conceive I haue good reason lo
say what I doe ; for if I should address my selfe to please the
meanest that belonge to your Lordship (as I am sure I haue
done) I knowe not howe I can be suspected to carry my selfe
offensiue to you. That I have been much greeved to finde
many poore Viccars of my diocess spoyled in the poore morsells
that yett remaine vnto them, I cannot deny, and could pray that
your Lordship would helpe to remove this perturbation from mee,
and the misery they dayly endure from them ; for till your Lord-
ship doe it, I must bee disquieted, as I knowe they are. fFor my
owne particular, I have given your Agent a full list of my
desires, which I conceive are not vnreasonable, and with them I
haue made it knowne, howe willingly I would runne in such a
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obtaine noe returne from your Lordship that may answer mine
and my poore Viccars groanes, I must beare my burden with
patience, and comfort my selfe in mourning with them. The
parcells of Youghall which were assigned to mee and put out of
Rentall, by your owne hand, your Lordship hath a tre to pass
them. A considerable part of the Bishopricke remaines in your
Lordships handf besides Coule. [?] Your parliament priviledge,
against your Agentf promise and your own tre, is still pleaded
against mee : so that if god speed mee not by some other way,
the meanes of the Bishopricke will not give mee such provision
as the Ravens provided for Eliah [= Elijah]. Besides the
Chancell of Youghall is ready to fall, if your Lordship please to
build it (as I formerly wrote to you) impose what you please
vpon mee and I will pay it, and if you will not trouble yourself
therewith, I doubt not but in conscience you will contribute
something vnto it. the neglect was never mine, why should
the punishment, I would not trouble your Lordship with
these lines, but to free my selfe from the staine of vncivill
carriage toward your Lordship ; and therefore begging your
pardon, I comend your Lordship to the Grace of God, and shall
euer rest your Lordship's most humble Servant, Geo. Cloyne.

Nov. 24, 1640.

CCCCLXIX. Earl of Cork to Marcombes : 1640.

This is No. 83 of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " 13° Januar 1640. A Copy
of my Jre to M' Marcombes." — G.

Monsieur Marcombes, I haue receaued 3 Ires from my two
sonnes and your selfe, written from Geneua the 23* of De-
cember, which were deliuered me heere at Court with your
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by M' Michaell Castell the 8° of this present moneth. fFor
although I had ten daies after sight for the payment thereof, yet
to make my owne reputation and your Creditt the better there,
I vpon the first demands and tender of your Bill, paid the money
to M'' Castell and tooke in the same with his receipt endorsed.
And he assured me he will now wryte to M"' Deodati Deodati to
furnish you with other 250'' vpon your Bill of exchange to be
chardged here vpon me, to be paid vpon 1 daies sight, and that
you shalbe sure to be supplyed the first of March by his said
Correspondent there, with the said 250'', you giuing him your
Bill of Exchandge and chardgeing me with the payment of it
heere as aforesaid ; wherein M"^ Castell hath promised me to
write soe effectually as I shall not need to feare that you wilbe
disappointed at the tyme ; yet for the more caution you shall
doe well to conferre presently with M'' Deodati at Geneva, and
be assured that he will not disappoint you thereof at the prefixed
day; wherein yf you shall fynde any suspicon or doubt of dis-
appointment, I doe in such case authorise you to take vpp 250''
vpon your Bill of Exchange, chardgeing it vpon me heere, to be
paid the first of March. And god willing it shalbe really paid
that Day. This 125'' now paid vpon your Bill of Exchange is
to maintaine you and my two sonnes from the first of December
last vntill the first of March next. And the 250" I authorise
you to chardge me withall, is to be your exhibition and meanes
of maintenance from the first of March next vntill the first of
June following. But how to haue you furnished in Italy with
250'' euery quarter before hand, I vow I cannot yet apprehend
a certaine course for the same, in regard the places of your
trauell and stay wilbe so vncertain, as I know not how the Bills
I cann procure from London will certainly meet with you. And
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where you are strangers, would be an vnsupportable griefe vnto
me and disappointment to you. I therefore aduise you to try
whether by your owne creditt and your frends you can gett
Ires of creditt to carry along with you, whereby you may re-
ceaue other 250'' the first of June next, and soe at euery three
moneths, and whersoeuer god shall dispose of you, and to charge
the repayment thereof vpon me by your Bills at the beginning
of euery three moneths. And god willing your Bills shall noe
sooner be brought vnto me but I will make present payment,
though yf I haue ten dales respite it wilbe the better ; wherein
I pray you let me with all speed receaue your best aduise,
that I may prouide accordingly ; for seeing I trust you with
my Children, I will authorise and trust you with chargeing me
with 250" euery quarter, promising your Bills shalbe really and
currantly paid. But yf you exceed this my liberall allowance, I
will not be chardged therewith, nor exceed the 1000" a yeare I
allow my sonnes and you. And therefore I coniure you not to
runne in debt, nor to suiFer my Children to want anything that
is fitt for yong Noble men to be furnished withall, for my
honour and reputacon, their owne and yours. After I had
written thus farre on my tre, I sent for M'' Burlemachy vnto
me, with whom I haue had former dealings for 40000''. And
I had neuer disappointment or disagreement with him for one
penny, vntill his late misfortune by trusting the Court : at which
tyme he had a considerable some of money of myne in his
hands, which I neuer called for, till he found his owne tyme.
He tells me that M'" Deodati Deodati at Geneva menconed in
your tres, is his kinsman, and that he will now wryte vnto him
to make me and my performance knowne vnto him. And he
assures me that vpon his tres and the tres of M"' Mich. Castell
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such a setled course by giuing you Bills of exchange or tres of
Creditt, as in what place soeuer you are you shall haue sure
meanes from him either by Bills of exchange or tres of creditt
to be supplyed with 250'' euery quarter of a yeare in such places
and at such tymes as you shall desire to be furnished withall ;
which if he will vndertake in such manner as you may be sure
not to be disappointed, then vpon note thereof from you and
from him to M'' Castell his Correspondent that you haue setled
such a course with him, I will quarterly heere pay in to M'"
Castell 250'' without the least fayle at any precise day. And
therefore I pray you as soone as euer you haue receaued these
my tres, conferre with M'' Deodati and with all speed aduertise
me of your proceedings and conclusion with him, that when
this course is setled, I may be no longer troubled with the care
thereof, but with the payment of the money ; wherein god
willing I will neuer faile. I doe not vnderstand, neither indeed
could you possibly giue me notice of the receipt of my tres of
the 21"' of December, when you writt yours. In those I
entreated you to vse your creditt to take vpp 50" to supply M"'
Couentry withall there, promising vpon his Bill of exchange
directed to his Mother, I would not faile to pay it heere vpon
sight. And therefore I pray you yf it be not already done,
furnish him therewith, and take his Bill of exchange and send it
to me, and god willing, I will not faile to pay the money vpon
sight. I doe very well approue that according [to] your promise,
you will not faile to leaue Geneua the first of March according
to our Computacon. And in the name of god faile not that
day to sett forward, and haue all things in readines for your
iourney against that day. And I doe very well approue that
you should not carry my Children ouer the snowy mountaines
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they should enioy the Company of M"' Couentry, and those
other yong gentlemen named in your tres. But I much feare
that they will speake English soe much one to another as they
will neglect those foraigne languadges they shold gaine in their
trauells, except you can putt a penalty vpon them whersoeuer
they shold speake one word of English. And in such case I
would be glad they shold haue M'" Couentrys company. fFor I
would haue you so dispose of them as they may see all the
Chiefe Cities and Townes betwixt that and fflorence, where
any thing is remarkable, and in euery good City spend some
few daies ; but allsoe aboue all things take heed they surfeit not
with wyne or fruite, nor fall into any other disorder that may
impaire their health. Whenas you write vnto me to procure his
Majestys tres for their better creditt and safety whersoeuer they
shall come, ye may very well remember that I gaue you i o'' to
pay for such a passe when you went from hence. And therfore
doe not thinke it fitt to moue his Majestie further therein. But
god willing, by my next I will send you such tres of re-
comendacons for persons of creditt in Italy as shalbe auailable
for you. In the meane time I pray haue a care of my Children,
that they loose noe tyme from their studies and exercises, and lett
them know that my tyme is soe taken vpp in Parliament and
Counsell table that I cannot now wryte vnto them. But they
shalbe sure to heare from me by the next. And soe praying
you that they loose noe tyme from their studies and exercises,
and that they serue god deuoutly and religiously both publiquely
and priuately and Hue honestly and dually, with my blessing to
them and my best wishes to your selfe and your Bed fellow, I
take a hasty leaue and comit you to the diuine protection of the
Almighty : ffrom my lodgings at Court 13° Januar 1640 Your
moste assured louing frend, R. Corke.

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CCCCLXX. Marcombes to Cork : 1640.

This is No. 86 of vol. xxi., and is addressed, "To y" right hon"^ y«
Earle of Corlce Lord high Thrggr of Ireland and one of his Majesties most
hon"^ priuy Counseil in England. Sauoye London," and endorsed,
" Geneva 20° Januarij 164.0 ffrom M' Marcombes: Rec. at Court by the
poste 3° ffeb'" 1640." — G.

My Lord, to your Last letter of y° zo"' of December Last, I
wrott on answere y* Last weeke with a promise that I made to
your Lordship to send it Larger att this present time, and know-
ing that no beginning can please your Lordship beter then this,
I shall begin by y' assurances that I giue you that your Lord-
ships sonnes are still, thanks be to God, in a perfect health, and
profitt uery well in their studies and exercises, and that they
carry their bodyes streight and upright ; of which I doe assure
your Lordship that I haue great care and especially of M"' francis
whow groweth extremely much. He is Taler allready than my
Lord of Dongarvan. ' M' Robert groweth also uery much but
more in thicknesse then his brother. They can both dance,
fince and play att tenis uery well, and I may assure your Lord-
ship that they take a uery good garbe : for their Nature and
Disposition they are both of them as good and sweet as any in
y' wordle [ = world] and because of that they are uery well be-
loued of all those that haue y* honour to know them ; besides I
may assure your Lordship that they are uery religious, frequent-
ing y^ churches duly and seruing God very deuoutly both
publickly and priuatly. They haue three sutes of Clothes a
peece and they shall haue more when we Come to florence
where I doe Intend to keepe them a Coache, God willing ; and
besides the linnen that they haue my wife is making now for
them all kind of new linnen for their journey, and truly they

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haue well deseru' it, for they apply themselfues very well to
their Studies. If your Lordship could but see the obseruations
of M"' francis upon his Authours of history. Geography, and
Diuinity you should Esteeme him a braue scholer ; the truth is
that he is very sensible of y" Losse of his time past and he doth
striue with all his strength to redeeme it ; he doth apply him-
selfe very much to his Mathematiques and especialy to y' forti-
fication ; and as for M'" Robert, it is beter to say nothing of him
then to commend him to little. Semper idem, we shall Leaue
Geneua, God willing, y"* first day, or at least without any faile
y° first weeke of March next, and then all things will be ready.
I will haue them to take a little purgation (and that is y'' aduice
of an excellent physitian of this towne) before they should
untertake so great a journey, in which I shall allwayes use
moderation and discretion, not urging them to much that they
may haue time to see the Contrey and preserue their health. I
haue often written unto your Lordship that there is three wayes
from hence into Italy by Sweetserland and y* Grisons, by Turin,
and by Marseilles. The first is to peinefull because of y' great
quantity of snow that Couereth y" mountaines ; y'' second is to
Dangerous because of y° armys that are both in piedmont and
upon the state of Milan ; The third is y' Longest indeed but y'
sweetest and without any Danger, and that God willing we
shall take from hence : therefore we shall Goe by the Sauoye to
Grenoble or to Lions, and thenc to Viena, Valence, pont S'
Esprit, Orange, Auignon, Aix, Marseilles, Cannes, Antibe,
Nizza, Monaco, Genua, Via Regia, Luca, piza, florence ; where
if your Lordship will giue us Leaue I doe desire they should
spend the heat of this next Summer to study and gaine the
Italian tongue and to applay themselues still to some other part
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ye Architecture, in which they doe excell there. I haue Charged
a great while a goe your Lordship (acording [to] y" Leaue
you were pleased to geue) with a bill of exchange of one hun-
dred and fiue and twenty pounds sterling for our quarters allow-
ance, to begin the first of this moneth of December Last and to
sustaine us untill y' first of March next, which mony I hope is
payd by this time to one M'' Michel Castel, hauing reciued here
y' value of M'' Diodato Diodati. I paid also y' Last weeke
acording [to] your Lordships order and Comand, fifty pounds
sterlings to M"^ Couentry, hauing reciued here y' mony of y'
said M"" Diodato Diodati, and I sent also y* Last weeke to your
Lordship y" receipt of y° said M'' Couentry with a bill of ex-
change for y' said summe of 50 pound sterling to be paid upon
sight to y' said M' Michel Castel, but if that letter and receipt
should be Lost by chance, yet I most humbly beseech your
Lordship to pay to y' said M'' Michel Castel by my second bill
of exchange, my first not beeing paid, y" said summe of 50
pound sterling ; for I shall take att any time another receipt of
y' said M"' Couentry which is resolued to trauell with us into
Italy. Your Lordship Comands me to write unto you what
course I meane to haue you take with y' supplyeing vs with a
thousand pounds a yeare ; for my part I know no better way
then to doe as we haue done before, and therefore I most
humbly beseech your Lordship to lend me Leaue by the first
oportunity to take here fiue hundred pounds sterlings for our
halfe yeares allowance, namely from the first of March next till
the first of September following ; and I doe desire your Lord-
ship to fournish us with an halfe yeares allowance rather then
with a quarters allowance onely, because first we must be seuen
or eight weekes att Least before we may come to florence ; besides
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we come theither we must furnish us with new apparell, with
coach and horses ; in a word it is not fit to undertake so long a
Journey without a prouision for six moneths ; yet I Leaue all
to your Lordships discretion, but I doe think it is all owne [one]
to you and a great deale beter for us. I Most humbly thank
your Lordship for y^ Liberall allowance you are well pleased to
allow unto your hopeful! Sonns and myselfe, assuring your
Lordship that I will mantayne them and supply them nobly and
keepe both them and myselfe out of debt and within Compasse,
desiring nothing soe much as to obey your Lordships Comands
and preserue myselfe in your fauour. I did desire your Lord-
ship by my former letters to obteine from the King a letter of
fauour in Latin to all kings, princes. Magistrals, &" wherein I
should be named by name and surname, and that you would be
pleased also to get us from his Majesty a speciall Licence to
trauell into Rome, Least your Lordship or your sonnes should
be questioned hereafter ; and of that I most humbly beseech you
still, and that you will be pleased alsoe to assure your selfe that
in all things I shall doe my best to answer to your Lordships ex-
pectation with honesty and true affection ; and thereupon I take
my leaue, most humbly kissing your Lordships hands and being
for euer. My Lord, your Lordships Most humble and most
obedient seruant, Marcombes.

Geneua, 20° January 1641.

CCCCLXXL State Papers : 1640.
This is No. 88* of vol. xxi. See Introduction in vol. iii. — G.

Resolued vppon the Question.

That those lord^ w'^h were petition" to his Ma'''' att yorke :
in theire peticon (the Coppy whereof is now read,) hath done

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nothing but what was legall, just, & expedient, for the good of
the king & kingdome ; and now approued by the whole body of
the Comons.

A Message to bee sent to y"^ lord^, to desire them to bee
pleased to appointe a Com'"" of very few. that in the p''sence of
some of this House, might take such deposicone and examine
such witnesses, as they should Name, vppon such Interr. and
Questions, as shall bee presented vnto them, by order of this
House, Concerning the Earle of straford, and the Interr Testi-
monies & witnesses, to bee kept priuate vntill y" charge bee
made full & perfect ;

cccclxxii. proclalwfation for determining of all
Causes in Ireland: 1640.

This is No. 91* of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, "The coppy of the Pro-
clamacon for determining of all causes betweene party & party in Ireland
by course of law ; The coppyes of the fourth, fifteenth, & eighteenth
Articles in the Lord Straffords answere." As there is a considerable space
at top, it is clear the MS. is complete, though beginning abruptly with
" 4."— G.

4. To the fourth Article he saith, it appeareth not what land
it was whereof the Earle of Corke is supposed to haue been put
out of possession, whether in case of plantacon or the Church :
And it appeareth by the Article it selfe, That he sued at lawe
after an order made at the Councell Board to oust him thereof,
soe as the said Earle of Strafford cannot make a certaine and
direct answer therevnto. But beleeueth when the particular of
the said order shall appeare, that the same was made according
to the legall or ordinary proceedings of the Councell table there ;
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answers, examinacons of witnesses and the like, as in other
ordinary Courts of Equity and Justice is vsed ; and in Cases
concerning British plantacons, the Church, and in causes es-
pecially recoinended from their Soueraignes for the tyme being,
and Appeales from other Courts there : And the said Councell
Board hath tyme out of mynde vsed to punish Contempts
Against the Orders of the said Board, Proclamacons and Acts
of State, by fyne & imprisonment as the Case required. And
the said Earle he doth not remember the particular words
chardged in the said Article supposed to be by him spoken con-
cerning the said Earle of Corke, or whether he spake them or
not, it Appearing by the said Article to be chardged 5 yeares
since. But saith. That yf he the said Earle of Corke did dis-
obey the orders of the said Councell Table, he might well
affirme he would imprison him. And it might likewise be that
vpon iust occasion that he might say, that he would not haue
Lawyers dispute or question the orders of the said deputy and
Councell, and might affirme that orders made in such Cases till
reuersed should bynde. But remembers not the Comparison
with Acts of Parliament. And the said Earle of Strafford doth
deny, that he did euer by his .wordes or speeches arrogate to
himselfe power aboue the fundamental lawes and established
gouernement of that kingdome or ever scorned the said lawes
or established Gouernement. But saith. That he hath been soe
farre from scorning them, that he euer to his best abilitie and
vnderstanding maintayned them and gouerned by them. And
as concerning the suite menconed in the said Articles, to bee in
the Castle Chamber, and supposed to be for the said Earle of
Corkes breach of an order made of the said Councell Table,
Hee the said Earle of Strafford saith, That the same suite was
as he now remembreth concerning certaine lands. Rectories &

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Tyeths belonging to the CoUedge of yoghall to the value of 6
or 700" per Annum, which the said Earle of Corke had en-
deauoured to gaine to himselfe by causing of vnlawfull oathes to
be taken, and diuers other very vndue meanes. And the matter
there proceeded to exaiaton and publicacon of witnesses ; After
which the said Earle vpon his humble suite, and payment to his
Majestic of 15000'' obtayned his Majesties gracious Pardon, And
by his Majesties direcon, vpon his submission to his Majesties
Court, and the earnest desire of the said Earle of Corke, and
vpon the humble acknowledgment of his misdemeanors, the Bill
was taken of[f] the fyle, & proceedings therevppon supprest.
And the said suite was not to his remembrance for breach of
any order made by him the said Earle at the Councell Table.

15. To the fifteenth, the said Earle saith, That he hath not
trayterously, or wickedly deuised or contriued by force of Armes
or in warlike manner to subdue the Subiects of the Realme of
Ireland, or to bring them vnder his Tyrannicall power and will,
as by the said Articles is alleadged, nor hath he in pursueance of
any wicked or trayterous purpose of his owne authority, without
warrant or colour of law, taxed or imposed any moneys vpon
the Towne of Baltamore, Bandonbridge, Tallowe, or other
Townes or places in the said realme, and in the said Article
menconed, to be leauyed vpon the Inhabitants of the said Townes
by Troopes of Souldiers with force and Armes in warlike manner
as by the said Article is supposed, nor did trayterously giue any
such authority to any Serjeant or Serjeants at Armes, Captaines
or Companies, or any other to any trayterous wicked purpose or
intent whatsoeuer to leauy the same, or cause the same to be
leauyed vpon the Inhabitants of these Townes by soldiers, as by
the Article is supposed, but for a cleare manifestacon of the
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saith, That about the yeare 1 626 ^ there was certaine Agents
sent with authoritie forth of the kingdome of Ireland to treate
heere with his Majestic for diuers particulars concerning the
gouernement of the same kingdome, and his Majesties reuenues
there not being sufficient to dischardge the necessary expence of
that Crowne, there was as the said Earle hath heard (for it was
before his coiiieing to bee deputie there) one hundred and twenty
thowsand pounds by the said Agents agreed to be raised, and
paid by that kingdome in three yeares, towards the maintenance
of his Majesties Army there ; which afterwards his Majestic
was graciously pleased to accept of in 6 yeares. After the end
of the said 6 yeares, vpon the returne of those Agents into
Ireland about the said yeare 1 626 ^ It was consulted between
the then lord deputie fFalckland & Councell there and the said
Agents, in what manner the said 20000'' a yeare contribucon
should be taxed, leauyed and answered to his Majestic. At
which tyme, as the said Earle of Strafford hath heard, and verily
beleeueth to be true, it was first agreed with the good likeing of
the said Agents, in what manner the said contribucon should be
laid vpon the whole kingdome, and each seuerall proporcon was
by themselues assessed and sett forth accordingly. But it was
agreed specially and prouided that the same should not be leauyed
by any processe forth of the Exchequor or any other the Courts
at dublin, or that any of that money should euer come in Ac-
compt in the Exchequor, the Countrey fearing that yf any
mencbn thereof vpon Record should appeare, it might be
brought as a president against them in after tymes much to. the
preiudice of the whole kingdome ; wherevpon after long debate
and consideracon had, it was settled in this manner by the con-

^ * 1628 ' : corrected in margin in Lord Cork's handwriting. — G.
' ' 1629 ' : corrected in margin by Lord Cork, — G.
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sent & to the likeing of them all, that the lord deputie (or other
Chiefe Gouernour for the tyme being) should distribute the said
Contribucon equally to euery Captaine of the Army, and appoint
each Captaine, where he was to call for the said proporconable
parte of money ; And in case any person or persons faile to pay
that which was assessed vpon him, that Captaine should by the
souldiers vnder his coiSaund, cause the same to be leavyed by
warrant from the Lord Deputie or other Chiefe Gouernour ;
Which course of leauyeing the said moneyes was accordingly
obserued all the tyme of the said lord fFalklands gouernement,
and all the tyme after when the lord Loftus and Earle of Corke
were Justices, those being full 8 yeares of the 9, and for the
last yeare onely the same course of leauyeing was still obserued
as of course, without any alteracon at all or speciall direccons of
him the said Earle of Strafford or any Complaint made against
that proceeding that euer he heard of before hee the said Earle
of Strafford read the said Articles. And the said Earl of Strafford
saith. That hee the said Earle of Corke in the tymes of his
being one of the lords Justices of that kingdome for some 4
yeares before the said Earle of Strafford arriued there, had soe
carryed the busines that the assessement sett by the Countrey in
the tyme of the said lord ffalkland the last precedent deputy for
the payment of the before menconed 20000'' per Annum con-
tribucon to the Army was altered by leauyeing Baltamore,
Bandonbridge, Tallow, dungaruan, and other Townes of his
owne, formerly assessed by the Countrey, out of the said Assesse-
ment, for the benefitt & ease of the said Earle of Corke himselfe
and tennates. And the said Earle of Strafford afterwards his
comirige thither, fyndeing that assessemet to be soe altered,
caused it to be sett againe in the same manner as the said lord
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moneyes being by the said Earle of Corkes meanes as aforesaid,
vnpaid for all or moste parte of the tyme of his being Justice,
which was neere 4 yeares. And there being an arreare due from
his Majesty to Sir William S* Leger, Knt, lord President of
Mounster, who had a lettre from his Majestie to the said Earle
of StrafFord for payment thereof, and vnderstanding that there
was not money in the Exchequor to make him present payment,
the said Sir William S' Leger desired him the said Earle of
StrafFord for the said Arrearadges forth of the moneyes soe due,
by the said Townes herein before named, affirming that the In-
habitants were willing to pay it ; which the said Earle of Straf-
ford assented vnto condiconally that he the said Sir William St
Leger should be accomptable to his Majestie for the ouerplus,
(yf there were any) And gaue him warrant to receaue the same
accordingly ; but how or in what manner it was leauyed he
knoweth not, but beleeueth it was fairely done, without any
force, in respect the said Earle knowes the lord President to be
a very noble and iust man ; as for that, the said Earle of
StrafFord neuer sent any force to that purpose, nor heard Com-
plaint of it vntiil the exhibiting of this Article. And the said
Earle further saith. That before his tyme of being deputie there
it had been vsed in case of refusall to pay the said Contribucon,
to send souldiers into those parts that refused, till they had paid
their rateable proporcons and likewise for apprehending any for
contempt or otherwise from the Councell Board, to attach
persons of desperate fortunes or Condicons, or such as were like
to make resistance, it hath been vsuall to take soldiers out of the
next Garrisons to assist the Messengers, Serjeants at Armes or
party authorised to apprehend them, in the due execucon thereof:
And likewise in cases where Outlawes and Rebells haue layne
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& burne houses and comitt Burglaries, Murthers, and other
outrages, which are begunne coinonly by 3 or 4, and increase
quickly to a great number, yf they be not prevented, the pre-
sent naeanes of preuencon, being by order of the Councell
Board to lay souldiers vpon their Septs and kindred of the said
Rebells, till the Rebells were brought in, by which meanes they
are that way speedily brought in by their owne kindred, which
otherwise could not be without great difficultie and long tyme,
and vpon such occasions such warrants haue been likewise
awarded in his the said Earle of Straffords tyme by order of the
Councell Board as in the tyme of all his Predecessors hath been,
and still as he conceaueth is necessary to be done, or else there
can be noe obedience expected from such persons, nor safety for
any of this Nation to Hue amongst them. But he is sure that
during his tyme there hath not been any souldiers soe laid vpon
any, but by and with the aduice of the Councell there, and that
in such Cases as aforesaid, and noe other, nor for any priuate
or sinister end or respect whatsoeuer of his owne, as when the
particular cases shalbe menconed he doubteth not but he shall
make euidently appeare; and concerning the Mannor of Castle
Cumber in the Territorie off Ideough he saith, he conceaueth,
that what was done therein, was when the said Earle of Straf-
ford was in England, but hath heard and beleeueth that the
King was entitled by Inquisicon to the Terrytories of Ideough,
whereof as he conceaueth the said Mannor of Castle Cumber
was the parcell, and that the Inquisicon being returned, Judge-
ment and execucbn were had in a legall and due course either
by processe out of Chancery or Exchequer, as the said Earle
hath heard, & conceaueth, and not otherwise : And the said
Earle further saith, that vpon his returne into Ireland, about the
moneth of November in the 12"' yeare of his now Majesties

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raigne, he found the King in the quiett and peaceable possession
of the said Territory, and the same was contracted for or sold,
vnto M"' Wandesford then M' of the Rolls, vpon a valuable rent
reserued to the Crowne, and vpon Couenants as in such Cases
of Plantacon are occasioned ; who hauing also bought other
lands there of the Earle of Ormond to a great value, and
hauing at his great chardge built diuers good houses, and planted
English families there, and some of the Natives burning houses,
coiiiitting Burglaries, murthers and other greeuous outradges
there, and in other places neere adioyning, to the great aifright-
ment of the English in those parts, he, the said M"^ of the Rolles
desired the said Earle of Strafford, that for securitie of his
houses and goods, twelue soldiers with an officer of the Com-
pany next adioyning might be remoued from their then Garrison
to Castle Cumber, being part of his the said M"^ Wandesfords
possessions soe planted, where he would prouide lodging for
them ; which was assented vnto onely for their preservacon as
aforesaid.

And de-^yeth that he hath in warlike manner expelled
Richard Butler in the Article named from the possession of the
said Manner of Castle Cumber, or any other the persons in that
Article named in warlike manner at any tyme, or that he hath
during his gouernement in the said kingdome of Ireland,
subdued any of his Majesties subiects there to his will, or that he
hath thereby or by any the meanes in the said Articles
menconed, or by any other meanes whatsoeuer leauyed warre
within the said kingdome against his Majestie or his liege
people of that kingdome or any of them, or imprisoned or
turned any families or persons out of any their possessions within
the said Territorie of Ideough, as by the said Articles is
alleadged.

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A Proclamacon for the due admistracon of Justice through
the whole kingdome of Ireland, whereby the lord Deputy for
the tyme being is restrayned from dealing in Causes betweene
party and party :

The Kings most excellent Majesty, taking equall care of
that his kingdome of Ireland, and his good, & loving subiects
there, as he doth of this of England, or any other part of his
dominions, by the advice of his privy councell, doth streightly
chardge, & comand That the Deputy & Councell table in
Ireland now and for the tyme being, shall not from henceforth
enterteyne, or take consideracon of any private cause, or causes,
or controversyes betweene party and party, concerning their
private or particular interests ; Nor of any causes, or contro-
verseyes at that board, which are not of such nature as doe
properly concerne matter of State, in the government of that
kingdome ; But that all causes, and controverseyes of that
nature moved, or depending betweene party and party, concern-
ing the private, or particular interests, be proceeded in those
ordinary Courts of Justice of that kingdome respectiuely, to
whose Jurisdiccon the Cognesance of these causes and contro-
verseyes doe properly belong ; And that in those Courts Justice
be from henceforth duly and equally distributed, and adminis-
trated to all his Majestyes Subiects of all degrees and quallityes
without respect of persons ; And this to be duly observed by the
Deputy, and Councell, and all the Judges and Justices, officers,
and Ministers of Justice of that kingdome, as they tender his
Majestyes heavy displeasure, and will answere to the contrary
at their perills, 7° November, 1625.

GOD SAUE THE KING.
Imprinted at Dublin by the Societie of Stationers, Printers to
the Kings most excellent Majesty : Anno dmd 1625.

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On the reverse of this sheet is endorsed, " A Copy of the Earle of
Straffords Answer to the ^t* & is"" Articles." — G.

On another sheet follows —

The Earle of Strafford sayth. That he did never endeauorr to
draw vpon himselfe, any dependance at all of the Papists, either
in England or Ireland ; And touching the restoring of the
fFrieryes, & Masshouses in the Article men66ned, he sayth
that the said Earle of Corke, when he was one of the lords
Justices there, before the said Earle of StrafFords arrivall in that
kingdome, — having seized some houses in Dublin, pretending
them to belong to certaine Jesuites & fFryers, without any
forme of law, or legall proceeding at all, — did dispose of some of
them to the CoUedg there, and others of them (as the said Earle
of Strafford remembers) the said Earle of Corke converted to a
house of Correccbn ; But not long after, the Earle of StrafFords
coming thither, The Countess Dowager of Kildare preferred
her peticon to the Councell board there, setting forth that the
Inheritance of the best of those houses was her Ladyships, and
that she had let it bona fide, to a tenant for Rent, and that if
it had been vsed otherwise then it ought, yet by no Justice
ought she to loose her rent during the terme, and much less the
Inheritance after. And the like course was taken by other the
owners and Inheritors of the residue of those houses. And
after answer, Examacon of wittnesses, publicacon, and full
hearing had in the said causes, there appeared noe ground for
those seizures, nor any colour to keep the rightfuU ownors
from their Inheritance ; who were therevpon restored therevnto.
But the said Earle of Strafford sayth, that he did to the Vtter-
most (soe farr as with Justice he could) endeauor to haue made
good the sayd seizure, but could not. Howbeitt there was no-
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before it was determined, and the possession all the while
continued as it was at the tyme of the bill exhibited ; And for
his the said Earle of StraiFords further Justificacon, he humbly
craues leave to refer himselfe to the said peticons, and other
proceedings therein had. And how the said houses, or any of
them hath, or haue been since vsed or employed, he doth not
know, nor hath heard, and denyeth that he restored any
fFryeryes, or Masshouses in such manner as in, and by the said
Article is chardged.

CCCCLXXIII. Earl of Cork's Answer to Strafford :

1640.

This is No. 92* of vol. xxi., and is endorsed, " Copy of my answer
touching the Earle of Strafford." — G.

The honorable house of Commons in the 4"" Article of ym-
peachment brought against the Earle of Strafford, haue menconed
my name but haue not expressed. That it was concerning the
Impropriate Rectorie of Mortelstowne, and other small Impro-
priacons in the County of Tipporary and Crosse, which by a
paper proceeding at the Councell Table he dispossed me of;
And for that the said Rectory was not specially named in his
chardge, as it was in my examinacon, His Lordshipp hath taken
the libertie, either by mistaking, or out of his old contynued
malice to me, to fall vpon me with the Colledge of Yoghall,
not once menconed in any Interrogatorie, nor in any deposicon
of myne, and saith. That as he now remembreth the same con-
cerneth certaine lands rectories and tyeths belonging to the
Colledge of Yoghall, to the value of 6 or 700'' a yeare, which
I had endeauored to gaine to my selfe by causing of vnlawfuU
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the matter had proceeded to examinacon and publicacon of
witnesses. And that vpon my humble Suite and payment to
his Majestie of 15000" I had obtayned his Majesties gracious
pardon, and that by his Majesties direccon vpon my submission
in his Majesties Court of Castle Chamber, and my earnest
desire, the Bill was taken from the fyle and all proceedings were
stopt : To which transcendent taxes, I beseech you giue me
leaue to answer this truth for my selfe, That his Chardge for
drawing of men to take vnlawfull oathes was no other then I
shall now truly informe you : When in Queen Elizabeths
raigne I had purchased all S'"^ Walter Rawleighes estate in Ire-
land, he was possest of the Colledge of Yoghall by leese (which
is not yet expired) whereby there was reserued to the Warden
for the tyme being 20 merkes a yeare, and to each of the 3
Collegioners I o'' a yeare a peece ; The now Archbishopp of
Tuam, the Bishopp of Corke and Warden of that Colledge,
whom I had presented therevnto, drew in his Brother then
Bishopp of Waterford, M'' dawborne deane of Lismore, and one
John Lancaster Chanter of Lismore, to be CoUedgioners, all
men of turbulent and contentious dispossisons. But neither were
resident, nor did any duetie in the Church of Yoghall, who
combyned together, and threatened me to question my lease,
except I would consent to encrease their stipends. And I to
auoide contention did consent to double all their former yearely
stipends, which proffer hauing satisfyed them, and beeing sub-
scribed by vs all, they vrged y' for the better securitie of the
performance thereof, we might be all sworne to performe that
Agreement ; which mocon proceeded from themselues and not
from me. And for taking this voluntary oath, his Lordshipp
caused an Informacon to be preferred against me in the Castle
Chamber ; and fearing it was not censureable there he vsed

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many strange and indirect meanes to keepe me from hauing the
cause publiquely heard in Court, and to induce me to referre
my selfe onely to him ; which by the importunitie of frends,
contrary to my owne disposition, I did. And he ordered me to
pay his Majestie 15000'', and tooke from me all the lands. Rec-
tories and tyeths belonging to the Colledge worth 6 or 700'' a
yeare. But whereas in his answer he alleadged that the Suite
was stayed at my suite, I protest it is most vntrue, and desire
my witnesses, men of honor & reputacon, may be examined to
disprooue it. he also saith that I had a Pardon. Let it be treason
vnto me, yf euer I had, sued forth or procured any such. He
also in his answer affirmeth. That at my suite the Bill in the
Castle Chamber, and all the proceedings thereof were taken
from the fyle, which he knoweth to be most vntrue; for the
second day of this, present moneth of March, M'^ Carr one of his
Secretaries caused Copies of all the proceedings to be taken
forth, to be sent to his Lordshipp ; and to him (I am confident)
they are come. He also saith. That I made a publique Sub-
mission in Court, which is also most vntrue, as he himselfe
knoweth. But by his power and art he got me to subscribe to
a peticon to his Majestie wherein I was soe suddainely surprized,
as I was not suffered either to peruse it, or haue a Copie thereof.
But except his Lordshipp vrge me to shew the manner how I
was gotten to putt my hand to it, I will now speake noe further
thereof, nor of any thing concerning the Colledge of Yoghall
not menconed in my examinacon.

I doe beleeue there is noe man liuing hath suffered soe much
by his oppressions and iniustice as my selfe, who doe with truth
affirme, that I am the worse by forty thowsand pounds for him
in my personall estate, and 1200'" a yeare in my reuenew; And
all is taken from me by his power, without any Suite in law.

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He hath enforced me to pay 4200'' within this fyue yeares
for subsidies which might haue ransomed me, yf I had been
prisoner with ye Turkes, and was more then himselfe and all the
lords of the Councell in England paid, for the last subsidie in
England.

CCCCLXXIV. Strafford.

This is No. 16 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, "The Epitaph on my Lord
StrafFords Death." Not to interrupt the Robert Boyle letters I place this
at close of them, although the No. 16 shows that it reached the "Great
Earl " between Nos. 12 and 27., It is placed here as following more fitly
Strafford's own paper and its answer. — G.

Heere lyes wise and valient dust.
Huddled up twixt fitt, and Just,
Straford, who was hurried hence
Twixt treason and Convenience.
He past his tyme heere in a mist,
A Papist and a Calvinist ;
The Prince's neerest Joy and greefe.
He had, yet wanted all releefe.
The prope and ruine of the State,
The People's violent Loue and hate,
One in extreames, Lou'd and abhor'd ;
Riddles lye heere, or in a word,
Heere lyes blood, and let it lye
Speechlesse still, and neuer Crye.

1 641.

The opening of vol. xxii. of the MSS. of these " Lismore Papers " recalls
that it covers the commencement of a tempestuous period in our national
history, especially in Ireland. The ' troubles ' in Scotland were sufficiently
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those in Ireland broke out overwhelmingly as in an instant, much as an
earthquake does. The Great Rebellion, as everyone knows, burst forth on
13rd October, 164.1. Massacres followed which have ranked those of Ireland
in infamy with the Sicilian Vespers and the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
On these Massacres the ultimate authority now is the following most
laborious, conscientious, and permanently valuable work — "Ireland in the
Seventeenth Century; or. The Irish Massacres of 1641-2, Their Causes
and Results." Illustrated by Extracts from the unpublished State Papers,
the unpublished MSS. in the Bodleian Library, Lambeth Library, and' the
Library of the Royal Dublin Society relating to the Plantations of 1610-39 >
a Selection from the unpublished Depositions relating to the Massacres,
with facsimiles ; and the Reports of the Trials in the High Court of Justice
in 1651-4, from the unpublished MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin. By
Mary Hickson. With a Preface by J. A. Froude, M.A. 2 vols. 8vo.
1884 (Longmans). I deplore that my admirable friend J. T. Gilbert, Esq.
— whose various weighty contributions to the History of Ireland have been
only scantily acknowledged — has spoken (in my judgment) "unadvisedly,"
like Prendergast, on the " Depositions " and on the facts to which they
relate. Elsewhere I shall have occasion to make full acknowledgment of
indebtedness to Mr. Gilbert's books. All the more must I regret the hasty
and partizan judgment on the " Massacres" of 1641. The Papers of 1641
onward are numerous and important, albeit not furnishing documents or
notices of any special value on the Massacres proper. I have striven to select
such as may be accepted for representatives of the classes to which they
belong. These severally speak for themselves. I deem it expedient in
addition to summarily notice here other Papers for which space could not
be found, in order to supply " missing links." The Irish State and Family
Papers abound with such historical materials.

The agents of the " Great Earl" in 1640-41 had had to report extreme
difficulty in collecting rents and the ' turbulence ' of the tenantry. So that
the portents of coming danger were neither few nor slight.

No. 18, 13th May, 1641, is " Heads debated on by the Lords Com-
mittees upon the propositions of the Committees of both Houses of Ireland,
respecting writs quo 'warranto brought by H. M. Attorney j the setting up
of a Mint in Dublin ; the exaction of billet-money when actual lodging
is proffered for the soldiers," &c. No. 21, 17th May, 1 641, is a com-
plaint by Arlow O'Brien of the " Burgesses of Dungarvan enclosing lands
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they are presently made up again." No. 2a (17th May, 1641), is a gossipy
letter, which amongst other things mentions, " M"'* Tynt with child, and
the old knight is much joyed," It thus appears that Sir Robert Tynt
married a third time — as Spenser's mother, his second wife, had done.
No. 31 (25th June, 1641) is a letter from John Walley, in which he writes
that " notwithstanding the badness of the times he has paid the Earl for
the ,£2000 lent toward the disbanding of the Irish regiments." The Earl
had stated to him that " much of the Spanish money current was cleft," but
he answers, " This coin has been an exceeding great relief in the present
scarcity of money and passes without question." He closes with this
morsel, " The English of Mimster do not affect the Lord President ; he
sides too much with the Irish," and he thanks the Earl " for the occurrences
on the Earl of Strafford's trial, and his end so much desired by all men." A
number of important letters of St. Leger, Lord President of Munster, succeed.
All of his letters in any way noticeable are given in full. Fluster rather
than coolness, and impulse rather than judgment and decision, seem to have
characterized this wielderof "a little brief authority." No. 103 (December,
1 64.1) is a Proclamation by the Lords Justices and Council in reply to a
letter from the Earl of Fingall and others, and " for the satisfaction of all of
the Romish persuasion," declaring that " they never heard Sir Charles Coote
or any other utter at their board any speeches tending to a general mas-
sacre of Roman Catholics." No. 159 (Feb. 26, 164.1) is a letter from
William Eames from Askeaton Castle. It is a brave letter, reminding of
those written in India by Englishmen during the Sepoy mutiny. Has 360
souls in the castle, which is daily threatened, but fears them not. Describes
the rencontre of a foraging party with the enemy. Begs for arms and
ammunition. Sent a salmon to Lady Browne at Castletown, " for they keep
up the fishing in spite of the enemy." Has " a good piece that will kill i a
mile point blank." — G.

CCCCLXXV. Robert Boyle to his Father : 1641.

This is No. 4 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " For my most honored'
Lord and Father the Earle of Corke at the Sauoye at London," and
endorsed, "Geneva 28° Martij 1641 ffrom my sonn Robert. Rec. at Court
21° Aprilis 1 641." — G.

My most honored Lord and Father. Hauing long waited
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Lordship about 13 or 14 dayes since, wherein your Lordship
commanded vs not to stirre from Geneua till we had receiued
some other of your Lordship's letters, which we haue done.
But seeing that your letters do not come, and that it is almost
too late to go into Italy, being very weary with staying so long
at Geneua (from whence we haue not stirred these 1 6 Moneths)
we haue bought horses and are ready to make a Journey to see
the neighbouring Countrey, and to recreate our selues for about
3 weekes, after so long a study, at the end of which time (if it
please God) we will returne to Geneua, and there continue our
Studyes and Exercises as before. We are (thankes be to God)
in very good health, and M' Marcombes continueth the great
care and affection he hath showne vs euer since we left your
Lordship's house. They say that Bauer hath bene beaten in
Germany by the Emperour's Troupes, to the great astonishment
of all the world, who thought that it was almost impossible that
the house of Austria, after so many losses, could make such a
powerfuU effort. I heare no other newes in this Countrey
worthy the writing, wherefore I make an end of this letter with
my dayly prayers to God for your Lordship's long life, health
and happinesse, and with the desire to be esteemed all my life.
My Lord, Your most dutifuU and obedient Son and humblest
Seruant, Robert Boyle.

from Genue the 28 of March 1641.
No. 3 is a similar short letter from Francis Boyle. — G.

CCCCLXXVL Same to Same.

This is No. 12 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "For my most honored
Lord and Father the Earle of Corke at his house at London," and endorsed,
"Geneua 5° Maij 1641 ffrom my sonn Robert: Received zo" Maij 1641."
— G.

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My most honored Lord and Father, We are newly returned
from our Journey mentioned unto your Lp in our last Letters
of the 28 of March, wherein we haue had some pleasure mingled
with some paines. At our comming backe, we saw the 2
Letters that your Lp hath written to M"^ Marcombes of the 1 4
and of the 25 of March, by which yow giue vs leaue to goe into
Italy, and by which your Lordship seems to be angry with my
Brother and I because that lately we haue not written to your
Lp so fully as we should. As for the licence your Lp giues vs
to goe into Italy (most humbly thanking your Lp for it) we
beseech your Lp to consider that being come too late to our
knowledge, and the heat being already very great in Italy, it
would be very dangerous for vs to go thither now : wherefore
we haue resolued (with your Lordship's leaue) to stay this
Summer at Geneua, there to continue our Studyes and Exercices
with more eagernesse than before, striuing Thereby in some
sort to efface my negligence, which I will not excuse, and for
which I most humbly beg your Lordship's pardon, assuring
your Lp that I will neuer fall into -such a fault againe. We
are very wel at M"^ Marcombe's house, who hath a very great
care both of our health and instruction, letting vs want nothing
that is necessary either for our bodyes or mindes. We haue
each of vs a Man to wait on vs, and a Horse to Ride abroad in
those houres which we giue not to our Studyes. I heare no
newes here worthy the sending ouer, wherefore I finish this
Letter with protestation euer to remaine. My Lord, Your Lord-
ship's most affectionate and obedient Sonne and humble Seruant,
Robert Boyle.

From Geneua the 5 of May, 1641.

No. 13 is again a similar short letter from Francis Boyle. No. 14 another
from Marcombes on return from Grenoble. — G.

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CCCCLXXVII. Same to Same: 1641.

This is No. 27 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " For my most honored
Lord and Father the Earle of Corke at London," and endorsed, " Geneva
30° Maij 1641. ffrom my sonn Robert : Received at Co" 15° Junij 1641."
— G.

My most honored Lord and Father, I am too sensible of the
Anger which your Lordship shewed against vs in your Lord-
ship's last Letter to M'' Marcombes, because of our passed neg-
ligence, for to continue in the same Error, and therefore my
Brother and M"' Marcombes writing by the Duke of Lenoxes
Brothers Gouernor, I Thought fit to accompany their Letters
with these few words, to beseech your Lordship to pardon me
my passed faults, to assure your Lordship that we lose not our
time, and to beg that fauor of your Lordship to beeleue that I
shall alwayes remaine. My Lord, Your most obedient Sonne and
humblest Seruant, Robert Boyle.

From Geneua the 30"" of May, 1641.
No. 26 is once more a similar short letter from Francis Boyle. — G.

CCCCLXXVm. Same to Same.

This is No. 34 of vol. xxii., and is addressed as is No. 27, and endorsed,
"Geneva 6° Julij 1641, ffrom my sonn Robert, Rec. at Court by M'
Castell aj" of the same." — G.

My most honored Lord and Father, I desire with passion and
without any question to go into Italy, but I protest vnto your
Lordship that I doe not desire it halfe so much as to heare from
your Lp, for the three Moneths (or Therabouts) that we haue
beene depriued of that sweet communication seeme to me 3
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pleasing commerce may proceede from your priuate and pub-
lique employments. I hope that by your first your Lordship
wil giue vs leaue to goe into Italy in September next, and M''
Marcombes (who presenteth his most humble seruice to your Li*
and who cannot write now by reason of his sore hand) thinkes
that any other besides the former order is needlesse and ex-
pecteth but the confirmation Thereof to undertake our soe much
desired Journey ; which I hope will be prosperous and without
any danger, as M'' Marcombes who knoweth the Countrey and
as many other Gentlemen who came lately from thence assure
vs. Heere we are in perfect health (thankes be to God) and
when we haue performed our Exercises we go take the Ayre
and see our Friends, hauing each of vs a Man and a Horse, and
among other good company we haue here my Lord of Here-
ford's two sonnes, and for our perfect contentment we want
nothing but your Lordship's gratious Letters, which shall neuer
come so soone as doth desire. My Lord, Your Lordship's most
obedient Sonne and humble Seruant, Robert Boyle.

From Geneua the 6° of July, 1641.

No. 33 is yet again a similar short letter from Francis Boyle. No. 39 is
another letter from him, wherein he assures his father that " Mr. Killegrew
untruly reported to Sir Thomas Stafford that M'' Marcombes had left them
ill supplied with clothes and pocket money." No. 56 is a letter from Mar-
combes, in which he reports that his pupils are taking physic " before their
journey." Does not " apprehend any danger, but will go through Switzer-
land and Valletone to Venice, in which places being of the same religion,
they may travel as safely as in England" (Sep. 1, 1641). — G.

CCCCLXXIX. Scottish Commissioners on Peace : 1641.

This is No. 5 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, " Scottish Comissioners paper
for conservinge of Peace betwixt both Kingdomes Primo Aprill 1641."
— G.

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fFor Conserving of Peace betwixt the kingdomes.
As it is expected that in the approaching Pacificacon, de-
claring that the late Commotions, and troubles arisinge from the
Innovation of Religion and Corruption of Church Gouernments,
by the mercy of God and the Kinge his Royal wisdome and
fFatherly care, are turned in a quiett calme, and Comfortable
peace, Least either his Majesties Loue, or the Constant Loyaltie
of his Subiects, in theire intentions and proceedings be hereafter
called in question. And that such things, as haue fallen forth
in these tumultuous tymes, while Lawes were silent, whether pre-
iudiciall to his Majesties honour and authority or to the Lawes
and Liberties of the Church and Kingdome, or to the particular
interests of the Subiect (which to examyne and Censure in a
stricte Course of Justice might proue an hinderance to a perfect
peace) may be buryed in perpetuall obliuion. Soe it is expedient
for makinge the peace and Vnity of his Majesties domynions
the more firme and faithfull. And that his Majisties Counten-
nance against all feares may shine uppon them all the more
Comfortably, that an Acte of Obliuion be made in the parha-
ments of all the three kingdomes, for burying in forgettfuUnes
All Acts of hostillity, whether betweene the Kinge and his
Subiects, or betwixt Subiect and Subiect; The which may be
conceaued to arise vppon the cominge of any English Army
against Scotlande, or the comeing of the Scottish Army against
Englande. Or vppon any Action, attempt, assistance, Councells
or aduice havinge relation therevnto and falling out by the
occasion of the late troubles preceadinge the conclusion of the
Treaty and the retourne of the Scottish Army into Scotland,
that the samen and whatsoeuer hath ensued therevppon, whether
trenchinge vppon the Lawes and liberties of the Church and
Kingdome or vppon his Majesties honour and authorityj in noe

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tyme hereafter may be called in question nor resented as a
wronge Nationall or personall, whatsoeuer be the quallity of the
person, persons, or of whatsoeuer kinde or degree Ciuill or
Criminall the iniuryie supposed to be ; And that noe Mention
be made thereof in tyme coming, neither in Judgment nor out
of Judgement, but that it shalbe held and reputed as though
never any such things had byn thought or wrought. And this
to be extended not onely to all his Majesties Subiects nowe
livinge, but to their heires, Ecxecutors, Successors and others
whome it may Concerne in any tyme to come. And for that
ende that by the tenour of the Statute All Judges officers and
Magistrates whatsoeuer be prohibited and discharged of direct-
ing of warrants for citation processing or executing any Sentence
or Judgmente vppon Record or any way molesting any of his
Majesties Leiges concerning the premisses in all tyme comeing.
Like as that his Majestie for himselfe and his Successors promise
in Verba Principis neuer to come in the contrair of this Statute
and Sanction, nor any thinge therein contayned, but to hould
the same in all points firme and Stable, and shall cause it to be
truely obserued by all his Majesties Leiges, according to the
tenor and intente thereof for now and euer. And that in all
tyme comeing these presents shall haue the full force and
strength of an true and perfit security as if they were extended
in moste ample and legall forme. Providing alwayes that theise
presents and the said Statute shalbe without preiudice of any
processe intended or tp be intended against [chief] persons
against whome publicke Comp[laint] in name of the kingdome
hath byn made ; for [very] pernicious Councelles or Informa-
tion giuen to the Kinge, for sowing sedition, betwixte his
Majestie and his Subiects. Or for such other causes as are
contayned in the Soinones, by which they [are] cited to appear

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and Answeare before the parliamente of any of the Kingdomes
respectiuely ; with reseruation alsoe of the Legall persuits and
processe of the Scots in Ireland, for the. reparation of their
Losses according to Justice, againste such whoe haue illegally
wronged and persecuted them ; since by one of the Articles of
the Treaty they are appoynted to be restored to theer meanes
and estates. It is alsoe to be vnderstood that nothing is meant
hereby to be done in preiudice either of the paymente of the
debts broghten vppon promises or [giuen in sejcurity by the
Scottish Army to any of the Counties, or to any person there ;
The samen being instructed before the remouall of the Scottish
Army or of the Arreares due to the Scottish Army, or to that
brotherly assistance graunted them by the Parliament of
England.

2. That the great blessinge of a Constant and freindly con-
nection of the twoe kingdomes now vnited by allegdance and
Loyall subiecttion to one Souveraine and head, may be [firmely
obserued] & Contynued to [our] posterity ; yt is desired that an
Acte bee paste in Parliamente, that the kingdomes of England
and Ireland shall not denounce or make warr against the King-
dome of Scotland without consente of the Parliamente of
[Engjland. As on the other parte it shalbe enacted there, that
the kingdome of Scotland shall not denounce nor make warr
against the kingdomes of England or Ireland, without Consente
of the Parliaments of Scotland. Noe shipps either of the
kings or tributers [.?] or others, shall stopp the Trade of the
Kingdome or hinder or harme their Neighboure Kingdome
without Consente of Parliament Declaring a Breach of peace.
And if any Neighboures [be] harmed or wronged, the Estates of
the Country by which it is done, to be obliged to pursue, take
and punish the offendours with all rigour. And if any of the

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Kingdomes assist, receaue, and harbour them, Then they are to
be punished as breakers of the peace. And if after Complainte
and Remonstrance to the Comissoners after mentioned, and to
the Parliamente, redresse and reparation be not made, then and
in that case the same to be Counted a breach of the peace, by
the whole kingdome. And in caise any of the Subiects of any of
the kingdomes shall rise in Armes and make warr against any
other of the kingdome and Subiects thereof without consent of
the Parliament of that kingdome whereof they are Subiects, or
vppon which they doe depend, that they shall bee [denounced]
and demained as Traytours to the State whereof they are
Subjects. And that [worn away'] the kingdome in the cases
aforesaid be bound to concurr in repressing of theise that shall
happen to arise in Armes or make warr without consente of
their owne Parliamente. And that a course be nowe taken for
the order by conveeninge and raisinge of the good Subiects for
suppressing of those that rise in Armes against the other king-
dome, as vseth to be done to the case of forraine Ynvasion.
And if either of the kingdomes being required shall refuse to
concurr with the other to that effect ; The kingdome refusinge
shalbe houlden to refound the damnage and Losses which the
Kingdome requiring shall happen to sustayne by that rasing of
Armes or making of warr.

3. Seeing warrs denounced, or made by any of the King-
domes against any forrain Nation doe make both Nations
by reason of theire vnion vnder one head to be lyable to the
inconveniences and hazard of the warr both by Sea and Lande,
[hereby] it is humbly craved that the king and kingdomes of
Englande or Ireland shall not denounce or make warr against
forrayners without consent of the Parliament pf the kingdome
of Scotland. And in like manner, that the kinge and kingdome

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of Scotland shall not denounce or make warr against forrayners
without consente of the parliament of England. And if his
Majestic and any one of the said kingdomes shall doe in the
contrarrie, the kingdome soe doeing shalbe bound to refund the
Losses which the other kingdome shall sustaine thereby.

4. ffor the like reason It is further necessary that noe ally-
ance or Confederacy be made by either Kingdome without
consente of the other, at Least vnless they be taken in the same
allyance and confederaty with the Makers thereof.

5. It is fitt for the greater strength and safety of both King-
domes that they mutually assiste [one] another against all
forraine Invasion, and the particulars and Conditions of this
mutuall concourse are giuen in herewith.

6. That the Peace to be now established may be inviolably
obserued in all tyme to come, Tryall would be taken in the
Trienniall Parliament of any wrongs done [by] either Nation to
others. And Commissioners appointed from both to treate and
Argue thereanent [These] wise Commissoners shall also try
what differences arise betwixte his Majestic and the Subiects
who have been Incendiaries or encroachers vppon the Kings
power, or Liberties or Relegion and Country, that the Samen
may be Recom [ended] to the parliaments. Like as some constant
and select Commissoners would be taken by [wiirn away']
. . . parliaments of both Nations [war/z^wfl))] of the Councell
or others as they shall thinke fittest, whoe in the Intervall be-
twixte Parliaments may haue power ioyntly, to try where any
differences arise, where wronge is done, and to cause redresse
the same if they cann, or otherways to remonstrate the same to
the enseuinge Parliaments.

7. That an Acte be made in the Parliament of England for
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Likewise to be ratified in the Parliaments of Ireland which in
all our Articles we comprehende vnder the name of England.
And after the Treaty is Confirmed in the said English parlia-
ment and all other necessair Conditions performed, The Armyes
on both sides shall at a certaine day to be appointed for that
efFecte remoue and disband, soe that when the Scottish Army
shall remoue from Newcastle, the English Army shall likewise
be disbanded and repaire home to theire severall countries and
places of their residence [worn away] . . . Army to disband
before that tyme that hereafter a quiett and durable peace may
be keeped according to the Articles Obeyd. That this Treaty
and wholle proceedings thereof may be likewise ratified in the
parliament of Scotland and a firme peace established ; It is
desired that his Majesty may be graciously pleased nowe to
declare that the ensueinge Parliamente in Scotland shall haue full
and free power as the Nature of an free Parliamente in that
Kingdome doth of it selfe importe, To ratify and Confirme the
Treaty, and whole Articles thereof. And to receaue Accompte
of all Comissons graunted by them, Examyne the proceedings
and graunt Exoneracons therevppon ; And to treat, deliberate,
conclude and enacte whatsoeuer shalbe found conducible to the
sethng of the good and peace of that kingdome ; And that his
Majesties Comissoners shalbe authorized with full power to
approue whatsoeuer Acts and Statutes which vppon mature
deliberacon shall happen to be accorded vnto by the Estates in
that behalfe. And sitt and contynew without interruption or
prorogation, while all things necessary for that effect bee deter-
mined, enacted and brought to a legall conclusion : vnlesse for
better convenencie of affaires his Majesties Comissoners, with
the speciall aduice and consent of the Estaites, shall thinke fitt
to adiourne the same to any other tyme which shall [worn

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away] derogate from the full and [worn away] of the whole
premisses [worn away] the said Parliamente be dissolued.

Besides theise last particulers, wee doe not Remember any
further demaund, And therefore wee nowe desire and expecte a
tymous Answeare vnto all our propositions aswell vnto that
concerning the vnity of Relegion in his Majest's domynions as
the reste. That the Treaty being concluded wee may in tyme
repaire to the Parliamente, Ad. Blaire.

primo April, 1641.

No. 34. of vol. xxii. is a very full report of Hyde's good speech against
the judges. It seems to me fuller and more quaint than any extant ; but
our waning space forbids our giving it. It is a fiery and richly pathetic
speech. Alas ! that like too many he fell from his original high estate ! — G.

CCCCLXXX. Marcombes to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 36 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To y" right Hon"* y'
Earle of Corke Lo : high Threer of Ireland and one of his Majesties most
hon'"'* priuy Counseil in England these att London," and is endorsed,
" Geneva 14"' July 164.1 ffrom M' Marcombes Rec. at Court the last of the
same by M'' Castell." — G.

My Lord, I could not accompany y^ last weeke your Sons
letters with mine, because of my sore hand, and this day we
haue reciued yours so Late that they haue not time enough to
make an answer, most humbly desiring your Lordship to excuse
them untill y" next weeke ; and I had difFerred alsoe if y' time
we must stay here was not some thing short. My Lord, we
are all very glad to know that your Lordship is in a perfect
health and we thanke God for it, most humbly beseeching him
to graunt you that blessing many yeares. I doe assure you also
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earnest to their bookes and exercises as they be now ; onely
they are very desirous to see the moneth of September for to
beginn their soe long desired Journey into Italy ; for the which
they and I are ready, and if your Lordship is well pleased, we
shall not faile to depart God willing the very first day of y"
said moneth and then y' season will be fitt ; and I hope that we
shall haue very good Company, to y" which we shall be obliged
to acommodate ourselves in some things ; and that is y* reason
that I am not able now to informe you punctually of the time
and places where we shall stay by y" way. Thus much I may
assure your Lordship that the most remarkable and ye Longer
rest wee shall take before we come to florence will be att
venize, and there we shall be but a fortnight, and from thence
to Mantoua Bologna and florence, where we shall stay till we shall
reciue an answer from your Lordship to y^ letters that, God willing,
we shall writte unto you from thence. After that we shall goe to
Rome, where we shall stay but two or three weekes, and from
thence to Naples ; in a word we shall not Leaue Italy
before we haue seene the finest townes and the most rare things
of that Contrey and before your sons can speake as good Italian
as they doe french, which they spake as well as any Stranger
can doe. M"^ francis holds up his head very well and goes
upright, and M"' Robert also, and their dansing which they
continue still, hath done them a great deale of good. M''
Francis is taler now then my Lord Dongaruan, and his armes
and leggs which were so small in England are now bigg and
very strong ; M'' Robert is an Eale, a quarter and halfe high
and some thing more and bigg proportionably. they loue to
rise betimes, and they ride abroad constantly, morning and
euening, and come home still with a very good Stomake. They
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and in priuat also they sarue God very religiously : and I doe
assure your Lordship that they are not enclined to any vice that
I know, and you need not feare that they should runne in debt ;
for I haue exclaimed soe often and soe much against that vice,
that they doe hate it now as much as I. My Lord, for our
bills of exchange, I thinke it is needlesse to alter our first order,
which I doe estime the best of all, namely that as soone as I
shall haue reciued your Lordships Leaue I shall take here for
our three moneths allowance the value of two hundred and
fifty pounds sterling of M'' Diodato Diodati and I shall desire
your Lordship to pay it there to M'' Michel Castell and soe we
shall continue quarterly, and thereupon I doe expect shortly
your resolution.

My Lord, I doe much wonder that M'Kylligry [ = Killigrew]
should haue reported to Sir Thomas Stafford and his Lady that
your sons are not kept and mantayned in their appariel as they
should be, for they can weetnesse the Contrary and M'' Kylligry
hath not seene them since the Last moneth of March was a
yeare, that is seexteen moneth agoe, att vs^hich time indeed they
did weare the same cloathes which they did when they were in
London ; but I doe assure your Lordship that since I haue
made fiue sutes of cloathes to M'' Robert and foure onely to M''
francis because he had more then his brother when he Leaft
England ; and of all that I will no other weetnesse then your
sons themselfes, for I doe assure you that the Last time M"'
Kylligry came to Geneua he saw us not } for we were Gone all-
ready towards Grenoble and Chambery. And as for that he
doth report that they can not comand a crowne in their purse,
he doth me a great wrongue, for I doe assure your Lordship that
since we left London untill the Last moneth of March I gaue
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both, and since (thinking then that we should goe into Italy and
that your Lordship should allow us a thousand pound a yeare) I
haue giuen them after the rate of a hundred pound sterling a
yeare for them both for their Idle expenses ; and soe I doe intend
to continue untill their returne into England; and besides, since
the said Last moneth of March, I haue mantained them a horse
for each of them & one for my selfe ; and I most humbly be-
seech your Lordship to comand to your sons to informe your
Lordship if what I writt unto you is true or no. I know not
why M'' Kylligry should spake such things of me ; sure some
Enemis of mine must haue informed him falcly of me, or per-
haps my boy which att that time I had beatten and turned away
made him those false reports ; unlesse he should thinke that no
body is well apparelled and that nobody hath mony but those
that doe borrow more then they are able to pay. My Lord, I
am infinitly obliged unto your Lordship that you giue no great
credit to thoee discourses, for I doe protest unto your Lordship
that I Esteeme more the honour you haue done me to trust me
with your two Noble sons then any present profit that I could
doe now; for I. know very well that your Lordship is Mighty
and noble to doe me good hereafter if I can deserue it with my
true seruice. I doe not wonder if those that haue great Em-
ployment in the wordle [= world] are y"= obiect of y= Enuie and
hatred of many other men, since those that haue but mediocre
ones are soe much obserued and Syndicated. I most humbly
kisse your Lordships hands and take my Leaue, assuring your selfe
that I am and shall be for euer. My Lord, your Lordships most
humble, most fithfull and most obedient seruant F. Marcombes.

Geneua 14° Julij 164 1.

My Lord, M' Michel Castell hath sent word that he hath

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payd for our letters y'' value of forty shelings, which I beseech
your Lordship to pay him, for I doe pay here for the post of
those letters that we reciue from your Lordship and from M"^
francis his friends.

CCCCLXXXI. Same to Same : 1641.

This is No. 40 of vol. xxii., and is addressed " To y' right Honb'' y"
Earle of Corke Lo : high Threer of Ireland and one of his Ma'y most
hon''''= priuy Counseil in England these. London," and endorsed, " Geneva
20. Julij 1 64.1. fFrom M' Marcombes Rec. at Court 4° Augusti 1641 by
M-- Castell."— G.

My Lord, I wrott y" Last weeke at Large unto your Lordship
and gaue you reason fully of all the things mentioned in your
Last of y^ 24* of June, and I am sure it will be deliuered unto
you by M'' Michel Castel. Those Lines therefore are onely for
to accompany your Sons Letters and for to certifie you again
that we are all ready for to begin our Journey into Italy y' first
of 7*"" next, God willing, hauing for that purpose furnished my
yong Gentlemen with all necessary things, and now Most
humbly beseeching your Lordship to send us speedily your Good
Leaue and blessing, and assuring you, as I hope to be saued,
that I shall haue a special care and Loue still for my Noble
Charge. I dare not be so bould as to begg some newes from
your Lordship of ye affaires of y* Island. We haue been fully
informed of y* Catastrophe of y' last Deputy of Ireland, but we
knowe not who hath been put in his place ; and what is become
of y' Archbushop of Cantarbury and of y" armys both of
England and Scotland. We haue been told of some Coniuration
against y" parliament and I do not know what, of Coronel
Goring, but we haue no particularities thereof. Here, by y°
grace of God, we doe enioyof a profond peace, y' storme hauing

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been driuing another way by y= prouidence of God, of which
onely this poore State depends, beeing otherwayes very weake
and much enueyed. My wife is infinitly obliged unto your
Lordship for y' good opinion you haue of her care towards your
sons and baseech[es] your Lordship to perdon her if she makes
bold to assure you that she is your most obedient seruant, I haue
nothing else to writt for y' present, and therefore I take my
Leaue Most humbly kissing your Lordships hands and beseech-
ing you to beleeue that I am and shallbe for euer. My Lord,
your Lordships Most humble and most obedient seruant Mar-
combes.

Geneua 20 Julij 1641.
CCCCLXXXIL Earl of Cork to Marcombes : 1641.

On the reverse is written the following reply. — G.

M'' Marcombes, your two last lettres, the 1=' of the 14* and
the last of the 20* of July, I haue receaued with one from each
of my two sonnes in this my last pacquett, which M'' Castell
euen now deliuered me ; And I gaue him a warrant for a fatt
Buck neer his house in Essex for his paines. I vnderstand by
these your lettres, that you haue made all preparacohs to begin
your iourney into Italie the first of September, And that my
sonnes and you are both very forward & desirous to begin that
your desired iourney, which I pray you take into a very good
consideracon, before you carry my Children thither ; for wee
haue lately had a popish priest heere hanged drawne and quar-
tered, and a many moe in prison, which I thinke wilbe brought
to the like cloudy end, for that they did not depart the king-
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hath made it high treason for any fFryer, Jesuite or Popish priest
that is a naturall borne subject of our Kings, to stay, or be found
in this Kingdome after the lymited tyme which is now past.
And the Venetian Ambassadorr had his priest (who was an
Englishman borne) apprehended and condemned vpon the same
statute ; And with very much difScultie his Majestie preuailed
with both the houses of Parliament to haue his lyfe saued, and
him pardoned, and putt out of the Kingdome. Wherevpon all
my freinds heere suspecting reuenge, aduise me seriously not to
suffer my sonnes to trauell into Italic, or into any of the Popes .
Territories, least they should be apprehended, and brought into
the Inquisition, which is worse than death. And the Earle of
Hertford who is lately created Marquesse of Hertford, did this
day diswade me very earnestly not to suffer my sonnes to goe
into Italic, least they should fall into danger or trouble. And so
did the Earle of Essex, the Earle of Bristoll, and very many of
my other noble frends heere ; The Lord Marquesse affirming
vnto me that he hath now two sonnes in Geneua, whom he in-
tended should haue trauelled into Italic this soiner, but now
seeing this sharpe persecucon held heere against the Kings
naturall borne subiects that are preists Etc. His lordshipp out
of a tender care of his sonnes hath altered his purpose, and re-
solued that they shall spend this next yeare in ffrance. And I
hauing so many frendly aduices giuen me, not to suffer my
children to trauell into Italie, for feare of the great danger that
may ensue, by hauing them imprisoned or their health en-
dangered in that hott and vnhealthy Clymate, am full of doubts
and irresolucons what to direct you to doe herein. I am not
altogether vnwilling to satisfy their desires in giuing way, (so it
may be without danger to their liberties and health) that by their
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those braue Vniuersities, States, Cities, Churches and other re-
markeable things, whieh travailers (that make good vse of their
tymes) may be enriched & satisfyed withall there : But I had
rather they should loose the benefitt of all the additions they
can gaine in those parts then spend my money to indanger their
libertie and health : And therefore in this doubtfulnes and
anxietie of mynde, I beseech my God, who hath been euer
most gracious vnto me, to direct my thoughts to take hold of
that which may be most for their benefitt and safetie, and for
myne owne satisfaction. In which great affaire, that so neerely
concernes me, and the safetie of my two sonnes, who are dearer
vnto me then my lyfe, as I trust these my Jewells vnto your
care in a strange Countrey, which is an vnspeakeable Con-
fidence, and the highest obligation I can putt vpon you, so I
shalbe contented herein, (Wherein I beseech God to direct you
well, for their safetie & your owne) to Comit the care &
guiding of them next vnto God to your aduise & direcon, who
are neerer the place, and can best discerne, whether it be danger
or no- to trauell thither. And yf by obseruacon & discourse
with others of integritie & iudgement you shalbe fully satisfyed,
that there is no danger for them to goe into Italie, In confidence
that you wilbe carefull both of their healths, hbertie, and gayning
of the Italian tongue, & other learning, I doe hereby subscribe,
& leaue it to your choise, whether you will carry them into
Italie or ffrance, so as their opinions & desires doe concurre with
yours. fFor I am so indulgent a father vnto them, and doe so
much desire to giue them a noble and braue breeding in all
learning, arts & gentleman ....

Ends abruptly here in the middle of the page, the remainder of the letter
not being considered needful to preserve or copy. — G.

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CCCCLXXXIII. Sir William Parsons to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 42 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " To right hon'''^ my
good L. the Erie of Corke L. high Trer. of Ireland, and one of the Us of
his Ma*''=' most hon'''' priuie Counsell," and endorsed, " Dublin 20° Julij
1641. ffrom the Lord Justice Parsons. Rec. at Court 27° Julij 164.1 by
the poste." — G.

Right hon'''' my good Lord, M' Joshua boyle tells me from
tyme to tyme that he hath duely aduertised you of all my Lord
Lambert's proceedings in the Parliament here commencinge
belike, and hath sent you in writing all the proceedings in that
cause, which I apprehend may in some measure trench vpon
your interest in the fee simple which I think you haue in those
Landf . I know you haue also a lease thereof, which I heare
he begins now also to question in the same place, presuming on
his former success as he conceaues, though I think yt will not be
of that force for him as he supposeth. I dowte not being armed
with so special! intelligence you will not be negligent in taking
the best aduice of that place, he carryes yt here with a great
roage, havinge by sidinge with the papist partie gained strength,
which will perhaps put you the more to yt ; but yf all be as
Joshua tells me, that Lord will hardly make that pattent good
by the help of that order of Parliament. Joshua also tells me
that your interest in your howse near the castle is nere expired.
The posicon being as I understand in the Treasuer of S' Patrick^ ,
who as tymes now goe, will perhaps take a reasonable Matter to
grant you a new lease ; which also may happen to come of the
more easily yf you obtain his Majestie's tre in that busines :
which truely is not vnfitt to be moued in respect of the great
chardge you haue bin at in buildinge. It is good you thinke of
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thinge eyther for kinge or Contrey : great diuision there is now
between the papist and protestant and they are in danger to
breake in short tyme. I lett them alone, because I see no great
danger. Wee are now in dayly expectacbh of our new lief-
tenant who shalbe truely welcome to your Lordships humble
servant, W« Parsons.

20 July 1 64 1.

CCCCLXXXIV. Cork to Walley : 1641.

This is No. 51 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed " 16° August 164.1 A coppy
of my lettres to M' Walley." — G.

M"^ Walley, I doe fynde by the abstract of receipts & pay-
ments you send me till the 25"' of June last, that you had
besydes all other debts & arears then receaued of my halfe yeares
rent, (which by your owne casting vp comes to 9188'' 10' 8'',
but being truly summed vp, comes to 9204" 2' 3'' ob.) And
that when you sent away the abstract, you had then payd out
5241'' 10' 2'^, soe as thereby I collect there was then in ready
money in your hands, foure thousand pounds or thereabouts ;
And that since I haue charged you with bills of exchange,
amounting [to] much about three thousand pounds, which I am
confident in reguard of the ready monyes you had of mynethen
in cash, you haue allready currantly satisfyed, or at the least soe
many of them as haue been presented vnto you, and will readily
doe the rest when they shalbe presented vnto you ; Neither can
I doubt but that you haue vsed such diligence since the dispatch
of that abstract, as you haue gotten in most of my rents, &
arrrears ; Vpon which confidence that you wilbe furnished with
monyes to discharge it, I haue now charged you with another
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Viz', M' Colston, M"' Sandy, & M"' Challoner, or to their fFactor
that shall bring you my bills of exchange ; whereof I pray, as
you haue don with all the rest of my bills, make them good
payment acording [to] the dayes lymited therein. And indeed
I did hope I should not haue had ocasion to charge you with
any more bills till I had departed London, from whence, god
willing, this day seauennight, I will set forward. But the
marriage of my daughter Mary vnlooked for, to the Earle of
Warrwicks Son, ocasions me to pay him 5000'' of the 7000''
porcon before I leaue this towne. I haue alsoe purchased from
Sir John Epsley, the Mannor of Marston Bigott in Somerset-
shire, which hath a fayre house, with Orchards, gardens, &
pleasant walks about it, well wooded & watered, and 500'' lands
a yeare, for which I haue already payd him 7500'' and am to
pay him 3830'' more at the yeares end.

I haue alsoe purchased the Mannor of Annery in Devonsheire,
being the ancyent house of the S"' Legers, which is one of the
goodlyest houses in the Westerne parts of England. And I
can put my foot in a boate at yoghill, & Land at my owne
doore.

Yt is very well wooded & watered, with goodly gardens,
orchards, walks, fBshings, Et*^ and is better worth then 300" a
yeare rent, for which I am this very day to pay aboue 5000" to
one M' Arscott, the heire generall of the house of the S"' Legers.
Yt lyes neere vnto Barstable, Biddiford & Torrington, and is
neerer to Yoghill by many Leagues then Mynehead is, and the
fittest place in all England for me, considering how my land
lyes in Ireland, and with what conveniency all things may be
brought from one house to another.

My Lord of Kilmallock being in extreame wante of money
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mortgaged to me the Castle, with foure plows & a halfe, of Dun-
gillane, wherein Daniell M° Shane is his tenant at 120" a yeare ;

I durst not but giue you this acompt of my great disburs-
ments of money, for feare you should thinke that London hath
made me more vn thrift, & that I spend my money in v/ench-
ing, gaming, & Lasciviousnes as my son Kynalmeaky did ; But
I assure you that you will fynde the contrary when god sends
me hoame, and that you see what great things I haue don.

I thanke you hartily for the good councells you haue given
my Son Kynalmeaky, And doe pray you, Sir John Leek, Sir
Percy Smyth, Tom Badnedg, and all my frends there with
whome he most conuerseth, to make every day as ocasion hap-
pens, fresh impressions to good courses in him ; iFor neither you,
nor any of my frends can doe me a greater curtesie, then to
deteigne him from his wylde & debauched. Lascivious expensive
courses, & from borrowing & running in debt, from wenching,
drinking, and all other faults that a prodigall inordinate young
man can haue; which if he take not vp in tyme, wilbe his
ruine, and the breaking of my hart. And soe praying you to
be very carefull to gett in all my rents, debts, & arreares, fFor I
shall come hoame like a spent Salmon, & as weake, & empty as
may be, with my best wishes to you, & all my frends, I Comend
you to the Almighty, fFrom the Savoy 16° Augusti 1641, your
assurid loving frend R. Corke.

CCCCLXXXV. Lady Barrymore to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 53 of vol. xxii. It is neither addressed nor endorsed, having
evidently been placed under cover. — G.

Right hon"'' and my deare father. Your Lordship's letter of
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mounth, and in it as in all your Lordships acctions I see your
continued care of both me and mine, and doe assuer your Lord-
ship that neuer mony came in a more opportune time then this
last hundred did ; for by that meanes I am enabled to goe for-
ward with my building, and shall, God willing, make a full end
of covering my house next weeke, and some three weekes hence
of glasing it ; for which, as for all my other blessings next
vnder God, I humbley returne your Lordship these thanks, and
shall, and doe daley praye to God for the Continuance of your
Lordship's long life and health, and haue not joyed a longe
time on anything so much as at the sartaine nues of your Lord-
ship speedy Coming ouer. I obeyd your Lordships Comands in
deliuering my brother Kinallmeakey safely, thoes papers, after I
had perused them, and sealed them vp safe, and with them I
gaue him the best aduise I could, without taking notes of the
matter ; but when he had read them, hee acquainted me him
selfe with the Contents, as also with the greate wrong the woman
had dunn him, vowing with many bitter vowes, that he never
knew any shuch Creatuer ; and I also examined his foot man,
whoe vowes hee neuer knew any such woman : so that I
beleaue that this is some bagage that hoped to gett some what
out of your Lordship by that slight [= sleight]. I assuer your
Lordship, though I had noe rome for him, which was noe
excuse but realley so, yet I haue a greate Care to inquier how
hee demeanes him selfe, and can not from any body heare butt
that hee Hues very Ciuiley and retyerd, and did so att his being
att Bandon,and eate att the ordinary and laye att your Lordship's
house ; and theare went none with him theather but oneley Par-,
son Shaw, and his one Saruante. I am absoliteley perswaded that
if his Lady would come ouer, that hee weare once setteld in a
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so greate of him as would Counter vaile the trouble hee hath
lately putt your Lordship to. hee doth as yett remaine att the
Parke. My Lord Kildare and my sister are safeley landed j my
brother Dungaruan and my sister are daley expected ; my Lord
Presedent, contrary to expectation, is come home some three
dayes sence ; my Lord Roch went to Dublin as soun as hee
came otier to prefer a bill to the Parliament against him ; butt
that beeing putt of for a time, hee is come homej but I had some
discourse with an vnderstanding Gentleman, who saw the
peticon and protests he neuer sawe a more bitter thinge ; for
hee layes noe lesse than the consealing of murder to his charge.
Your Lordship may remember it was about the man was killed
by Buttevant that Kingsmeale had a hand in. hee was pre-
sentley after maryed to my Lady's Nice M" Ogle, this and
many bad matters more he meanes to proue by very good wit-
nesses att the beginning of the next sitting. Theare is a bill
putt in allready about his taking place of his sonn ; to which he
hath nott as yett putt in any answer, hee is generaley hatted
by most heare, and many hope att your Coming ouer, you will
help to heave him outt ; for I dare saye by watte I have harde,
his hatred is as much to your Lordship as to any one. my
vncle and hee are verey Could to what they weare wont to be,
though they Carey it faierley. the Shutt still Continues betwene
my Lord of Muskerey and my Lady. I shall not faile to
obserue your Lordship's commands in not letting any of the
demeanes of this house. I haue sent my cozen Croowne the
money I owed him and haue payed haulfe the mony that
Kenisstowne the Aphcary stood bound for, for my lord, and
must paye the rest att Allholiowtide. I haue not hard any nues
from my Lord sence I sentt Will Bower to him. all my littell
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the feare of God and in all other qualiteys that I am abell too
get them taught. Ould Garrat Barry the soulder hath binn
with me, and acknowledgeth him selfe much your Lordship's
Saruantt. they are in greate desorder by reason of the Comand
that is come ouer to stop theare raising of men. Jack Barry is
gonn in to Scotchland to meete the King ; but for what desine
I know not as yett. I haue giuen your Lordship a relation of
all the nues of these parts, that is within my knowledge. I
must now with my paper, and prayer to alimighty God for your
safe and speedy passage, Conclude my selfe now and euer my
Lord your obedient daughter and most humble seruant to
Comand FF. Barrymore.

Castelyons the i8 of August 1641.

the littell ones presente thier humble Duty to your Lordship.

CCCCLXXXVL Sir John Leeke to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 54. of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " For the right Ho'''"= the
Earle of Corke Lord high Treasurer of Irland att the Court thes Whithall.
Leave thes att Stalbrige w"> Thomas Murray the housekeeper to be con-
veyed as aboue script," and endorsed, "29 August! 164.1 ffrom S'' John
Leeke."— G.

Right Ho'''", I must this once before your Jorney into Irland,
take from your better, one minute. I haue sent diuers letters
and some to my children, which I finde are not come to ther
handf, which makes me dowght that some to your Lordship
haue Miscarred. Your sonn Kilnalmeaky is still at the Lodge,
and I bless god in as good order as I cann wish, he hath never
bine from me vnless a night or tow at Castelyons, this six
weekes. I protest vppon my reputation, he is a sweet natured
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most temperat in all his wayes. I am most confident itt hath
bine ill Company and very ill Company, that sett a broch his
extravagant and expensive humors ; for I finde noe Inclynation
therto with vs, but will know how he parts with his pence : will
reward nobly yett with discretion. I vow to god and you, I
flatter not, I haue no dowght but you will find my words
truth ; neither doe I feare or dowght him in any thinge, yf
your Lordship bringe ouer his wife with you; which if you shall
not effect I may question whether he will stay many moneths
here, he hath receved latly 3 letters from her ; one last night
by a french Cooke, in all thes, as in this last, he assures me
she Wrights that shee will most certaynly come over with you.
god send you both safe to vs. I honor her famyly with all my
harte, and so doe I all that the blood of Vyllers runn in ther
veynes.

Nothinge here stirringe worth your troble. Only our B B
[=bishop] is come from Dublin and affrights your tenant^ that
denies to pay him rent of the Colledg lands, and hath procured
an order from the Lords Spirituall and temporall, for the re-
ceavinge of all such rents that belonge to him by his Byshop-
prick or commendum. Francis Smith house is one he beginns
att, but I belleue that Colledg Lnad Smith hath the Coppie of
the order to bringe you. The world speakes aloude that he hath
almost wasted him selfe to the Boones with his new honor, and
were he not fully supported by his worthy sonn in Law Michaell
Boyle, hee might shutt vpp doores. Suerly the younge man's
goodnes is suum ; no one particle of tuum in him. the B B.
hath bene this 4 moneths att Dublin, and I haue bene assured
from a good mowth, that all the howse mony at Clayre hath
come from the young man's purse. I thank god all is well att
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gett the owld deere home wee knock them downe to serve such
warrant^ as you have given. This morning I killed a Buck for
Sir Robert Tynt, who by his cheefe servant sent to me for itt,
and I was gladd to see him doe so. your neece is well, my
Lord, and I went a weeke since and dined ther, which the owld
man tooke very kindly. I hope all wilbe well when you meete.
Our new B B of Waterford, hath bene at Lismore and thence
to Ardmore, so to Yoghall, wher I was with him. he seemes
a noble and playne gentillman, and if he dissemble not, doth
possesse much loue and respecte to your Honour. I beleeue all
that tribe in the Pulpett. he hath restored Joshua Boyle to his
office att Waterford. Joshua guids him wholy, and att both
ther Intreaties I haue promised a Buck to the B B att his
returne ; for he is now gone to Donorayle. This night past
my Lord Barrymore lay at Tallow, his hackney Coach beinge
tyred, this day he's rode home, and tomorrow my Lord Kilnal-
maky and I will see him if god pleas by 9 of the clock, this
newes is come to vs since supper, he is growne a very leane
man and is not in good health. God send you well to vs : so
will hartily pray your Lordship very faithful! Seruant, while I
am John Leeke,

the park this 29 of August.

CCCCLXXXVn. The Lord President of Munster to
CoRKE : 1 641.

This is No. 84 of vol, xxii., and is addressed, " for yo' Lop," and en-
dorsed, "7° Nouember 1641. fFrom the Lord President of Moimster by-
Charles Hooker 8° Nouember 164.1. That I would come to doneraile to
consult for the publique peace." — G.

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lay aside all thought of particuler resentmentf and betake my-
self seriously to ioyne heart and hand with your Lordship in an
advised and resolute endeavour for the preservacon of the pub-
lique peace and quiet of the Province, and our ow^ne perticuler
interest^ in it, and in consulting iudicially and vigorously our
defence and safety ; which I may the better doe, by how much
the less those priuate differences did euer trouble mee.

And because the matters whereon wee are to advise are
various and full of particulers, I so concurre with your Lordship
in opinion that a personall meeting and consultation will bee of
absolute necessity for that purpose. To which end I shall desire
your Lordship that you would bee heere on Wednesday at
night; and because Ivnderstand your owne horses are not come
ouer, I shall send my Coach to attend your Lordship at fermoy,
whether I doubt not but my Lord Barrymore will conduct you
with his ; against which tyme I shall write to seuerall others of
the Councell to be present.

And now my Lord, giue mee leaue to tell your Lordship,
that I beleeue theis fears at Dublin are greater then their
daunger, which hath occasioned the sending for of all the foot
Company out of this Prouince; whereby I am left only in a
single capacity of doing what service I may in my owne person,
with such help as I am like to haue of the vndertakers who are
bound to answeare generall horsinge ; all the Army heere
being called away ; which I conceaue can bee little advantage
against the Enemy, who might much easilier be plundred if a
considerable noumber of the horse troopes were sett vpon them,
who questionles in one six weekes might bring them all
vnder.

I haue receaued fower seuerall Proclamacbns this day ; whereof
I was about to haue sent your Lordship one of each sort, but

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that your seruant tells mee he hath brought the same from
Dublin. And thus in expectacon of your Lordship's Company
heere do I take leaue to remayne your Lordship's humble Ser-
vant, W. S'' Leger.

Downmeraile vij* Nov. 1641.

I haue sent your Lordship the inclosed Patent^ yt you may
see the effect of their deserving your Lordship in regard ye
Garrisons are neere you, if your Lordship wold cause them bee
conveyed.

CCCCLXXXVIIL Same to Same : 1641.

This is No. 86 of vol. xxii., and is addressed as before, "For yo" LoP,"
and endorsed, " 10 Nouember 1641. ffrom the Lord President of Mounster
receiued by my owne messenger retorned to me from his Lop. at Lismore
11° November 1641 touching the restraint of selling of Gunpowder and
passing into England and of Peregrine Banasters trayning of the Enghsh
about Bandonbridge." — G.

My good Lord, Your Lordships dated yesterday, I haue this
day receiued, but so late as that my Coach and a squadron of
my Troup, were gone three howers before to attend your lord-
ship at fermoy, and very hartely sorry I am that your Lordships
indisposicon shold be so great, as to hinder your repayre hither ;
to obtaine which if I had had any easier meanes of accommo-
dating your Lordship, I shold haue imployed it ; for indeed (my
lord) if the souidiers bee withdrawne out of the Province, and
other accidentf depriue mee of the Councell and advice of such
as are to ioyne with mee in consulting for the publique safety,
I shall be left in a very straight and narrow Condicon, to pro-
vide against such mischiefes as threaten vs on euery side.

And now I shall endeavour to giue an answeare to the two
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is touching the restraint of Gunpowder to the English, whereby
if any inconvenience haue befallen them, I must conclude it to
bee by their owne default^, for that I neuer denyed any man
(that could giue mee a testimony that hee was thereunto
quallified) a Lycense to buy Powder. And where your Lord-
ship considers it to haue been very preiudiciall to their safety, I
am vnder favor, of the quite contrary opinion, and doe accompt
of that restraint as of one princpall meanes of preuenting much
mischeef. for if those rebellious miscreant^ who are now in
action might haue had liberty to supply and furnish themselues
with powder at their pleasures, more destruccon and desolation
would haue bin drawne on this poor kingdome then your
Lordships Children and myne would euer haue seene repayred.
But to answeare the present Exigent, I haue sent your Lord-
ship a Warrant to the Clerk of the Store, to supply all such as
shall bring Tickettf from your Lordship, with necessary propor-
cons of powder. And for the Towne of Bandonbridge, I had
before the receypt of your Lordship's, sent the Provost, a warrant
for a barrell of powder or less ; and I had giuen Peregrine
Bannaster a warrant for another to bee distributed amongst the
English theraboutf, with intent also to haue giuen him Comis-
sion (as a Captain) to haue trayned and exercised the Inhabi-
tantf of those part^, and to haue made them in a readines so
soone as your Lordship had bin heere, whose hand and approba-
tion I desiered to have had along with it ; but now I shall doe
it with the advice of such other of the Councell as will lend
mee their Assistaunce. And as for the remoueing of the
traynemen and those belonging to the Vndertakers, your lord-
ship may bee confident that I shall take little pleasure, neither
bee very forward to remoue any man from his wife, children
and dwelling, but in case of urgent necessity.

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As to the other mayne particuler of your Letter, which con-
cernes the men levyed by Collonel Barry, I haue allready
written not only to himself to disband, and to seuerall of his
captains, but also to most of the gentlemen on whose tenant^
they were cessed, to remoue them of their land, and I do beleeue
you will not heere much of them heereafter, for Barry hath con-
fidently promised to obserue my direccons.

I haue also written to some of the principall Post townes to
restraine the English from going beyond sea, and to the officers
of the principall Corporacons to keepe vigilant watch and ward ;
and whateuer else may bee done for preseruing their partf in
quiet, I shall not faile to accomplish it as farre as in mee lyeth.

I haue sent your Lordship the Proclamacon I receiued from
Dublin ; but in regard there came but a small quantity of them
to my handf, I shall desire that after perusall theis may bee
returned, being all that I haue left.

The last night I had Letters from the Lordf, which intimate
that the Scottf (being in nomber 5000) haue retaken Newry
(the Castle, which the Rebells still hold but cannot long con-
tinue the holding of it excepted). And that they haue beaten
them out of Dundalk and Dromeskin so as they are gonn
towardes the few'ds, and a party of the Scottf after them. But
of the Kinge's Army the Lords advertise that they haue sent
out but 1000. Arthur Jones told a freind of myne that
o Connor Roe is vpp in Rosscoman and the sept of Crooghlan,
which is all the particulers of my Letters. Only I find by
their Lordships and some others that they haue armed the
Countyes of Killdare, Meath and about Dublin, with the Armes
that were in the store ; wherein I hartely pray they may haue
good success ; but assuredly my vote should indeede haue gone
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formerly wrote, are all called far away. Captain Price's and my
Lord of Baltinglasse's excepted ; and Captain Wiseman's, which
was also sent for, but that, I made bold to stay it, and gaue the
Lords my reasons, it being wonderfull in my apprehension that
three of his Majesties' best fortes in theis part^, should be left
unmanned and vnguarded, and subiect to the surprisall of any
that will but walke in and attempt.

My Lord, the importaunce of a conference with your lord-
ship makes mee propound that if I may any way contribute to
the accomodating of you hitherwardf by easy going horses, or
otherwise, that I may haue notice of it, and it shall bee done,
assuring your lordship of as reale a wellcome as in the tymes of
our greatest frendshipp. In the meane tyme if your Lordship
haue a desire that any of your sonnes or other gentlemen of
quahty, may bee authorized to traine vpp the men in those
partf, I shall desire your lordship to signify it vnto mee, and I
shall send Comissions accordingly. I shall also desire to know
what nombers of horse or foot may bee raysed in these partf,
and how prouided. It remaynes for mee now to pray vnto God
Allmighty for a happy conclusion of these vnhappy disturbances,
and to remayne your lordships affectionate freind and humble
Servant W. S'' Leger.

Downeraile x" Nov. 1 641.

CCCCLXXXIX. Lord President of Munster to
Cork: 1641.

This is No. 889 of vol. xxii., and is addressed " For your lordship,"
and endorsed, "17° November 164.1. ffrom the Lord President of
Mounster, touching the Lord Lievtenants preparacon for his Speedy Coming
over, and the Earle of Ormonds being made lieft' Generall of the Army."
— G.

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My good Lord, By Letters which I receaued the last night,
from the Earle of Ormond, I find that his Majestic hath, by
letters of his owne hand [= writing] made him Leuetenant
Generall of the Army, and that my Lord Leuetenant himself is
comeing ouer speedily with 6000 foot and 2000 horse and
50000" in mony, which will bee a very good supply and such
an one as I could wish wee had but the one half of it for the
present.

I also haue had the pervsall of a Letter (whereof I send you
the enclosed Copy) written from a Parliament man to a freind
of your Lordships, which I like by much worse then all the
rumors and reports which I haue hitherto heard of Howeuer
it will become vs to demeane our sel'ues as watchfull, dilligent
and couragieus men ; and such I hope in the middest of all those
Exigents wee shall approue our selves.

And this is all the noveltyes that my last nights advertise-
ments haue brought mee.

I haue (by the concurrence of your Lordships advice &
Conseil) sent Sir Hardress Waller a Comission to governe the
Castle of Asketon, which will require in theise tymes a man
of more then ordinary parts to mannage it.

I shall bee very glad to heare of my Lord Dungarvans Land-
ing, for the more good men wee haue the better wee shall bee
able to incounter the various accidents that may assault vs.

And thus wishing your Lordship much health I remayne
your Lordships afFecconate frend and Servant, W. St. Leger.

Downeraile, xvj° November 1641.

I send your Lordship a Copy of your Sonne Killdares speech
to his trayned men & of y" Rebells remonstrance : which I haue
receaued vpon this very instant with no addition of newes.

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CCCCXC. Earl of Cork to the Lord President :

1 641.

On the reverse of sheet is written the following reply. — G.

My very good Lord ; Your lettres of yesterdayes I haue re-
ceaued, And doe thanke your Lordshipp for the Copie of the
Remonstrance, and little George Kildares speech. The one is
full of witt, and the other of wickednes. But I hope yf these
Soldiers and money, which your Lordshipp makes mencon of,
arrive in tyme, these Rebells willsoone be brought to confusion,
or reduced to more humble tearmes then by their Remonstrance
they ayme at ; for to xny comfort I wrryte, that notwithstand-
ing all the espyalls that I dayly and secretly send abroad, I can-
not obserue, that the people hereabouts expresse any ill affeccon
to the peace of the Countrey, but they all outwardly seeme to
desire peace and quietnes, & doe pray for it in their Masses ;
yet withall I fynde, that they haue many Conventicles and
meetings, and many of their religious people are in all those
Assemblies, the effects whereof may be dangerous. And yf my
Spyes keep faith with me, they shall not resolue of any thing,
but I shall haue notice of it. And yf it be any thing worthy
your knowledge, I will speedily aduertise you all I can discover ;
yet although nothing outwardly breake out into action, to be in
a readines, I stand vpon my guard, and keep good strong watch
& ward, not onely at Lismore, but haue the like vpheld in all
other parts about me, And am preparing of all the forces both
of horse and foote that my Plantacon will yeald, to be armed
and in a readines to be speedily viewed and Mustered j for vntill
they be so fitted, as they may be very considerable (yf not for-
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haue them trayned in publique view, which I would be glad
[on] my sonn dungarvans arrival heer, whom I speedily expect,
might be at their head, and haue the leading of my tennants.
Your Lordshipp was pleased to offer me your Commission for
the viewing, trayning and mustering of my tenants ; And I
caused M' Walley (who was long Gierke of the Councell) to
draw vpp such a one, which I presented to your lordshipp, all
written with his hand. But it was not returned vnto me, but
another lesse ample was sent vnto me for my two yonger sonnes,
agreeable verbatim with those, which your Lordshipp and the
Councell haue sent vnto diures Justices of the peace, of which
some of them are not able to coiiiand ten men. And yet in
yours of the 14* of this moneth you signify your pleasure, that
I should returne you back the Comision you sent directed to
my selfe, whereas indeed I neuer receaued any such, nor that
which was drawne vpp and written by M"' Walley, which
makes me conceaue there is some mistake in it. But I am well
satisfyed with the Commission you sent my yonger sonnes, till
God shall send my sonn dungarvan to arrive with my horses ;
against which tyme I hope to haue a good partie of armed men
to defend this Countrey. Your Lordshipps direction to the
Mayor of Yoghall and the officers of the porte hath been pur-
sued, and search made in all ships and Barques in the harbour ;
And all they could fynde amongst them, was eight small
Barrells of powder, conteyning by estimacon but 600 weight, of
which they brought ashore onely 5 Barrells, leaving the other
three to the six ships, from whence the 5 Barrells were taken,
for their prouision, they being bound for fFrance and the Hands,
and not for England. And Musquetts and Calyvers there was
none to be spared but such as was for their owne defence, as
the Mayor writes vnto me, who is an humble suitor. That the

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Towne for their guard may detayne at least two barrells thereof.
And yf it may stand with your lordships pleasure to allow
thereof, I haue allotted one Barrell thereof for the furnishing of
my Brother Sir William fFenton and his English tenants, who
he wrytes are much destituted. And so hauing nothing else
worthy your lordshipps trouble, with tender of my service, I take
"leaue and rest your lordships humble servant, R. Corke.

Lismore, 17° November 1641,

CCCCXCI. Ireland — Considerations of the
Rebels : 1641.

This is No. 88* of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, " Certaine Consideracons
w* the Rebells propounded amongst themselves." — G.

The first thing that is to be done. That the Nobilitie should
appoint a tyme and place assoone as possibly may be, for to
conferr and consult of the matters taken in hand : To call also
two out of euery Chiefe City and out of euery County,
specially that are neere, or may soe appeare ; in the which con-
sultacbn, three things chiefly may be discussed.

I. What Covenants, greevances and causes they should pro-
pound to his Majestie for their takeing Armes ; which may
bee their freedome of religion ; Church living[s] restored to
their Ministers ; all offices, as Deputie, Chancellor, Judges, etc.
to be of the Nation it selfe ; free Parliament, without depen-
dency of the Parliament of England, or State ; restitution of all
plantacon land[s] that were uniustly seised upon ; the Judg-
ment whereof to be in the Definition of a Parliament heer j
All forts and castles in the Kingdome to haue garrisons of the
Countrey nation, all which Scotland hath, and coinonly all

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Kingdomes subiect to any Monarch : which being granted all
loyaltie is to be sworne to his Majestic.

2. To consult of a course for the present state of the warre ;
for the quietnes of the Kingdome ; for matters of Judicature
between partie and partie ; for tenantshipp, rents, and proffitts,
selling the baser sort to looke to their busines.

3. To settle a course for the maintenance of the warres and
for meanes to maintayne it, which may be the rents and
proffitts which haue been hitherto in the Protestant Cleargies
hands, leaving the Catholique Cleargy vnto their liues [?] as
hitherto, vntill matters be quieted or peace made : All the
King's revenues and Customes, and also all the rents and
Revenues of all such Protestants as are or shalbe banished out
of the Kingdome ; all which somes will maintayne noe less
then fyve or six thousand men : and yf these should not,
subsidies be leavyed, and certaine rates to be laid vpon victualls
and Merchandize y* come to all peoples hands, and that without
any great greevance or hurt to the seller or buyer : Which
all being done, and carefully gathered, the warres may be
maintayned without any Notable greevance or hurt to the
Countrey.

Lastly, to settle a perfect vnion, and oath thereof, between all
the nobilitie, Comanders and Cities, with a severe punishment
for the breach thereof; and [to] settle a certain number of
soldiers, according [to] the exigence of euery parte of the king-
dome, and that noe more should be leavied that should consume
more meanes then necessitie should require. The aforesaid
granted Councell may consider of these and many other such, as
their wisedome shall think fitt.

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CCCCXCII. The Lord President of Munster,
W. St. Leger to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 98 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To the right ho'"'"'
the Earle of Cork, hast, hast, hast, deliu' this at home at Fermoy. de-
spatched 28 Nov'' at 8 of the cloclc" (faded and not clearly decipherable),
and endorsed, " 28° Novemb. 164.1. ffrom the Lord President to send the
horsemen and munition to meet him at Clonmell. Rec. the same day at
6 a clock in the evening." — G.

My good Lord, I haue this morning receaved Letters by Sir
Richard Everard, who was with mee, which assured mee that
the Leynster Rebelles are come as farre as Walshes Mountaine
toward^ this Province, their designe as I apprehend it is to
surprize my Lady of Ormond or some other persons of prin-
cipal! quality. And therefore I cannot hold it fitt to sit still
any longer, but to incounter them vpon the frontyers of this
Province. To which purpose I intend, God willing, to bee to-
morrow night at Clonnmell ; whither I do desire your Lordship
to send mee as many horsmen as your Lordship hath raysed
about you, and as many footmen (shott) as your Lordship can
cause to bee mounted upon horses. To bee with mee there to-
morrow night. I haue appointed the Mayor of Cork to send
mee a proporcon of Lead and Match to Clonmell by the way
of Tallagh vnder a good guard or Convoy, and I desire your
Lordship to take order that at Tallagh it may bee receued from
the Cork men and sent vnder a sure Convoy to Clonmell.
I haue likewise sent to the Mayor of Yoghall to send mee two
Barrells of that powder which was lately seised, to Clonmell ;
to which purpose the inclosed is, which I desire your Lordship
to speed away with all possible expedecon. So in hast I remayne
your Lordships affectionate frend and seruant, W. S''. Leger.

Downeraile, 28 Nov. 1641.

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CCCCXCIII. The Lord President of Munster,
St. Leger, to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 100 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "For his Matf Speciall
Service. To the right hono'"'^ my very good Lord the Earle of Corke, Lord
high Treasurer of Ireland, these hast hast hast," and endorsed, " Clonmell
i dec. 1 641 ffrom the Lo. president to raise flPorces to oppose the entry of
the Rebels who are come into the Galtyre. Rec. at Lismore 3° dec. 1641."
— G.

My good Lord, Heere I have bin all this day in agitacon
with the gentlemen of this County, where I find in them a
generall indisposicon to attempt or vndertake any thing against
the Rebells, but euery man stands at gaze, and suffers the
Rascales to robb and pillage all the English about them. Those
in the County of Kilkenny, they haue wholy ouer-run, and
heere they haue begun with the Earle of Ormond, and broake
vpp his Park and taken out all his stock of cattle. Yet by
example of y^ leftenante, not one man will stand against them
further then his own house, but will rather suffer mischief to
come to his owne domain then stirr a foot to prevent it. And
how it will be remedied is not in my apprehension, for I haue
no other strength heere but my owne Troup, which I may not
part with from my person. This day I heard also they are
come ouer vnto the Galtyer, and questionles they will bee
speedily amongst your Lordships Tenants. I shall therefore
desire your Lordship to levy what strength you may against
them and to repell them if it bee possible at their entraunce
vpon the Country. And what service I may in my owne
particuler do your Lordship, I shall not faile to performe, re-
mayneing your Lordships affectionate frend and seruant,
W. S'-'. Leger.

Clonmell, 2" Dec'' 1641.

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CCCCXCIV, Same to Same.

This is No. 106 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To the right hono'''^
my very good Lord the Earl of Cork these," and endorsed, " 17° Decern.
1641. ffrom the lo : President touching the securing of Yoghall and Corke
and to lend some moneys for the setting forth of the Swallow." — G.

My good Lord, I do approve exceeding well of your Lord-
ships resolution to take vpon you the secureing of the Tow^ne
of Yoghall, wrhich I doubt not but your Lordship will performe
with singuler Judgment ; onely I shall advise that a carefull
Court of guard bee kept nigh vnto the South port of the
Towne, by which you may be Master of that entraunce and
have power to lett in the English vpon any suddaine occasion
or AUarum. As for my fortyfing the Citty of Corke and
retireing thither in person, I haue sithence declared that reso-
lucbn, as finding it is a matter of meere impossibility for mee to
Master or ouer-rule that Citty, with all the strength and force
of the Province, which is at Comaund, otherwise then by
strengthening his Majesties fort there ; which I shall indeavour
to doe the best I may ; but haueing not meanes to perfect it
exactly as it ought, I haue determined in case I bee forced vnto
it, to make my retreat vnto that Towne of Yoghall ; which I
shall desire your Lordship to order accordingly. I am very
sorry your Lordship is not pleased to take notice of the pro-
posicon I sent you for supplying the State by way of loane,
with monyes for fitting vpp his Majestie's fortf, but chiefly for
setting forth his shipp the Swallow, which will Conduce as
much as any thing possibly can to our safetyes. for if these
villaynes euer haue a supply of Armes and Municon from
beyond Seas, wee must then giue the kingdome vtterly lost, and
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keepeing shipping vpon the Coast. But I am mutch more
sorry that your Lordship should bee averse to the payment of that
which is allready due to his Majestic for the Subsidy ; which I
protest vnto your Lordship, though it were designed mee for my
particular interteynment yet I would imploy it in the publique
service and for the safety of the present distressed Estate of this
Province. I haue to giue your Lordship many harty thankes
for your noble and Courteous offer of interteyning my wife
and daughter at your House of Stalbridge. But I find such an
aversion in them to goe any further than Bristoll for the sea
side, as that I am content they haue their wills, in hope it may
not bee long before I may haue occasion to recall them. And
thus with my good affections to your Lordship I remayne your
Lordships affectionate frend and seruant, W. S'''. Leger.

Downeraile, 17 Dec'' 1641.

CCCCXCV. Same to Same.

This is No. 107 of vol. xxii., and is addressed as No. 106, and endorsed,
" 17° Decemb. 1641. fFrom the lo. President y' I will haue in readines all
the forces I can to march vpon 4 houres warning. Rec. 20° decern, about
8 in the morning." — G.

My very good Lord, I giue your Lordship many thankes for
your advertisement^, albeit I had notice two days sithence of
the Rebells falling off from Cahill. Of their Mallice toward^
my particular person I haue a great deale of assurance, as I haue
also Confidence of gods mercy to protect mee from it ; which
makes mee sett a very slender value vpon it. Yet such an one
as will not lead mee to security : ffor so soone as I heare of their
approach towardf the Shewre, I will not faile to make head
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County. To which purpose I beseech your Lordship to haue
all the strength both of horse and foot you can possibly in a
constant readines to march vpon 4 houres warning. So I take
leaue to remayne your Lordships affectionate frend and Servant,
W. ST. Leger.

Downeraile, 19 december 1641.

I shall desire if your Lordship possibly can that you would
draw your forces downe to fermoy, where they may bee conve-
niently accomodated and in a speedy readines, assureing your
Lordship that I am well resolued to strike one blow at least for
the defence of this Province, if I can haue but any reasonable
assistance.

No. 131, 2ind Jan., 164.1, is another of same to same. He writes that he
was " misinformed when he wrote that O Sulivan Bere and McCarthy Reagh
were not in rebellion ; and begs to have his letters for England returned."
He concludes, " Lord Musketry has exerted himself to repress the growing
insolence in his own country." Doubts not " the Earl prays with him for
an easterly wind." — G.

CCCCXCVL Marcombes to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 109 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To y« right Honorable
and my very good Lord y" Earle of Corke, Lord high Threasurer of Ire-
land, and one of his Majesties most honorable priuy Counseil in England.
Dublin or elsewhere," and is endorsed, "fflorence 20 : december 1641, ffrom
M" Marcombes. Receiued 19° Martij 1641." — G.

My Lord, my wife sent me your Lordships Letters of y' 21*
of September which I reciued here in Florence y^ 10"' of this
present, with great comfort, for y' assurance it gaue me of your
Lordships health, which I pray God to continue Long vnto
you, assuring your Lordship that your directions &jcommande-
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be punctually effectuated with ye grace of God. They are in
perfect health and make very good use of their time, for I may
assure you y' M'' Robert before we Leaue Italy, which shall be,
God willing, in my next, shall speake and understand y" Italian
Italian Language as well as I, which is not little without vanity ;
& M' francis begins to understand it reasonable well allready ;
and for any danger Concerning our religion, there is none, and
your Lordship may be confident of it, soe y' God willing we
shall continue our Journey towards Rome and Naples, upon y^
later end of February, and then to Geneua, hoping to be in
france in May, for to begin y" tour of that kingdome ; for y'=
performing of which I thinke we shall consume 8 or ten
weekes ; and I doe not beleeue that we may come to paris
before y" first of September next, where according [to] your Lord-
ships first resolution we doe intend to stay six moneth, that
your Lordships sons may not onely see that Court, but alsoe
perfectionat them selfes in their exercises, specialy in their
dansing and riding y** great horses, their beeing y" best Schoole
of Europe for that purpose ; and there is a brief Delineation of
our meaning before we returne into England or Ireland, but of
that I shall informe your Lordship more att Large in time. I
am very much displeased that M'^' Boyle hath been soe obstinat
as to refuse to goe along with your Lordship in Ireland hauing
soe good Company. Shee doth her selfe a great wrong and her
husband alsoe, which shall be very mlich afflicted when he
Comes to understand this ; but I will Conceil it as long as I
can. And if I can not preuent it, I shall giue him at Least y'
best Counceil y' Lyeth in my power And y^ truest that he may
expect from a faithfull friend & seruant. She doth me a great
wrong alsoe in suspecting that I haue detined or opened her
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True it is y' M"' francis hath declared to some body (which did
reueale it presently unto me) that M" Boyle hath desired him
often time by letters to returne into Ingland for some speciall
businesses and that he should stay but a while ; and that I must
confesse I did not approuue, but rather I did disuade him by
strong reasons (but speaking allwayes in ye persone of others as
if I had kgnowne nothinge of y' contents of his letters) neuer
to undertake such a thing, aleaging att last that a wise
Gouuernour is obliged to preuent such a Thing by his autho-
rity when his reasons can not preuaile ; assuring your Selfe, that
I did not giue him see much mony at once as I was used to doe ;
for if I had not looked very narrowly upon him, he had done I
doe not kgnow what ; but now there is no danger till perhaps
we come to Paris ; and Therefore I thinke your Lordship
should doe very well to Comand me in all your Letters to say
unto M'' francis that if euer he should undertake to returne into
England or Ireland without your Lordships special order, and if
he doth not disuade by all his letters his wife to undertake any
Journey out of ye kingdome with whatsoeuer personne of y'
wordle [= world] not excepting her 0[w]ne Brother, M"'
Thomas Kylligry, by whouse conseil she must not be ruled, but
rather if he doth not persuade her to goe into Ireland or else to
stay with her o[w]ne mother, in that case you will disinherit
him and not agknowledge him for your son ; and take my word,
my Lord, that that will much preuaile with him, and he with
his wife ; for as it should be a ridiculous thing that she should
undertake to Come to meet him, soe it should be a great pity
that he should returne home with out those qualities that befeet
a gentleman of his quality ; and y' he could not get in any other
place as well as he shall in Paris ; besides that neither he nor his
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now to undertake so violent an exercise as y' riding of y* great
horse is ; and my Lord Broughill will Justifie y' all y" Esquiers
of Paris are used to say that it should be beter for a yong Gen-
tleman not to haue Learned under another then to haue taken
an ill habitude ; & for M'' Francis I doe assure your Lordship he
had need to aplay himselfe to other things till now, for except
reeding and writting Inglish he was grounded in nothing of y"
wordle [— world] ; and beleeue me, for before God I spake true,
when I say that neuer any gentleman hath donne lease profit
of his time then he had done when he went out of England ;
and besides y' if he had been Longer att Eatton he had Learned
there to drinke with other deboice scholers, as I haue beene in-
formed by M'' Robert, which is y" finest gentleman of y'^ wordle
[ = world] ; he had alsoe thaken an ill habitude (which perhaps
was not little fomented by y' actions and discourses of y^ afore
named Gentleman) to thinke that y' greatest Glory of a Gen-
tleman did consist in expending foolishly his money and in
vanitys, neuer spaking of any other thing but what he should
doe when he should once Commaund his state ; how many
dogs he should keepe ; how many horses; how many fine
bandsj sutes and rubans, and how freely he would play and
keepe Company with good followes, etc., but now my Lord I
beseech your Lordship to Consider what Metamorphosis, in
which after God I kgnowe without vanity that I haue my
share ; for first he is well grownded in his religion, beeing able
to giue reason of his faith, and beeing an enemy mortal of all
Superstitions, and more since we are here then afore, which he
had not beene perhaps soe much if he had keept Long Company
with y' said Caualier, to whom by his discourse all religions are
indiferent ; and then he understands very well y' french Lan-
guage, and shall understand shortly very well y' Italian ; he

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understands very well y° Mathematiques and fortification, is
prety well used in y' kgnowledge of y" fable and of y' history ;
can writt a letter well and with good sense, which he could not
afore ; hath scene y' wordle [= world] and y' vanitys of it, and
by my troth is very temperat and sober, and knows y' difference
very well between a generous noble Gentleman and a foolish
prodigall follow ; which after he hath consumed all his state is
forced afterward to Cosen others, and finaly is y° grief of his
friends and y' scorne of all y' wordle [— world], soe that he
wants nothing now but to -be halfe a yeare att y" Court of
france to returne home a perfect Caualier, which he should not
be if his wife or some other should diuert him from y' good
course he hathe taken. I can not Maruell enogh why M''
Kylligry should spake ill of me ; I am sure when he left Geneua
some two yeares a goe he did professe a great friendship vnto
me, and showed me y" Letter he wrott to his Sister M" Boyle,
in which he did assure her that she was much obliged unto me
for y' care and y" good instructions I doe giue unto her hus-
band ; and although I knew him a Courtier, yet knoweing my
selfe unguilty and in some measure deseruing his Commenda-
tions I must Confesse I had trusted him for better things, and
I can not beleeue him soe dishonest as to esteeme that he hates
me, because he could very well persiue By my answers that I
doe not loue profaine & irreligious discourses, and that I can not
aproue one that speakes ill of his o[wJne mother and of all his
friends and that playes y" foole allwayes through y' streets Like
a Scoole Boy, hauing allwayes his mouthe full of whoores and
such discourses, and braging often of his getting mony from this
or y' other merchant without any good intention to pay ; for
he knows very well that it is my duty and my charge to preuent
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into y' tender mindes of those y' are under my tuition ; yong
men beeing so apt to reciue ill impressions that y" very words
doe corrupt ye good Manners. I know no reason therfore
why he should spake ill of me ; one thing I know that if he
should spake it before my face, I should answer him, and if he
is such as you doe describe him vnto me it is beter to be ill
then well spoken of such a man. Other Inglish Gentlemen
haue seen us at Geneua of beter credit then he, namely y^ Bro-
thers of my Lord Due of Lenox, and y*' two Sons of my Lord
Hardford, which may iustifie if [I] haue done honour or noe to
your sons, and that I am an honest man, thanks be to God.
if I can understand that he comes in this Contry I shall avoide
his Company and goe in another towne, acording [to] your
Lordships comands ; and for that purpose we shall practise uery
Little with English Gentlemen, Least they should giue him
notice where we are ; and in y' meane time, I beseech your
Lordship to suspend your iudgement ; for my part I shall
alwayes continue to haue great care of my charge, in y^ which I
pray God to direct me and helpe me ; I beseech your Lordship
to send his Letters to Geneua, and soe I most humbly kisse your
Lordships hands, taking my Leaue and beeing for euer My
Lord your Lordships most humble and most obedient seruant,
Marcombes.

in florance y' 20"' of I o*""^ acording y** Computation of Ing-
land 1 64 1.

I did not speake unto your Lordship of any mony, for y^
order I haue taken with your Lordship is very good. And if I
would make use of y" credit I haue here and in france with
my wifes kindred I Could Comand very good Summes.

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CCCCXCVII. Lord President of Munster: 1641.

This is No. 112 of vol. xxii., and is addressed as before, "for yo' Lop,"
and endorsed, " 15 Decern. 1 641. fFrom the lo. President to reassemble my
forces ! touching my sonn Kynal. comission for yoghall & Red""' charges
to send out espyalls. Rec. 27." — G.

My good Lord, It is very admirable vnto mee that either I
shold so much mistake my self in writing, or your Lordship in
the construeing of my letters as that I shold happen to merit,
or your Lordship to apprehend any thing that might induce you
to dismiss the Troopes ; for as by my letter yesterday your Lord-
ship may obserue Matters were neuer in a worse Condicon nor
a more absolute necessity imposed vpon vs, of conioyneing our
selues together and putting all our strengthes into the posture
of a vigorous defense. For by all the certainest intelligence I
haue, my Lord Mount Garrett, with his Crew, and Loghmay
with his, doe intend to bee heere some tyme this next weeke ;
whose nombers are so exceeding great as it will bee impossible
to keepe a sufficient force vpon the side of the Sewre to repell
them. And therefore I do once more beseech your Lordship to
lett all your strength, both horse and foot, bee reassembled and
sent vnder the conduct of both or one of your Sonnes to
Killurd, to bee there about tuesday night, and that they may
come in some good measure prouided to attend a while vpon
the Sewre ; for in good faith, my Lord, if your Lordship doe
not stick to mee and that with a very powerfull assistance now
that the whole Kingdome is at the stake, all will bee lost. And
if it please God, wee can but by adhereing one to another for a
while, keepe them off, I doubt not but by God's help, wee shall
haue speedy succoures, though at the present the Enemy bee
exceeding strong and insolent, by reason of his vnresisted Pro-

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gress, through some hauing all the maine force of the Conteyes
of Kilkenny, Castlelogh, Tipperary and the Queene's county,
at Comand, with which they are drawing hitherward.

All that your Sonne Kinallmeaky writes is too true (but my
lord of Muskerry I am most confident of). I haue sent his
lordship a Command to ioyne him with the Mayor of Yoghall
in the Government of that Towne.

I haue also considered of what your lordship writes about
M"" Grayth, and haue sent him all authority to send forth
espyalls ; but I consider his sonne safe enough in Clonmell,
where there are no more prisoners but himself (the Shyre
Goale being in Cashell), and the Towne, as I hope, most loyall ;
but when I see what service the father will or can doe, then I
will deale accordingly with his sonne, and do him all the favor I
can if it bee defended, and so much haue I written vnto him.
Once more I beseech your Lordship thinke of sending a con-
siderable ayd to him that is your Lordships affectionate friend
and seruant, W. S^ Leger.

Downeraile, 25 December, 1641.

I am hopefull that this easterly wind will bring suddaine
newes of my Lord Dungaruans arriuall with some succour,
which God send.

CCCCXCVIIL William Perkins to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 120 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "for y= R. Ho. y' E. of
Corke present these," and endorsed, "4.° Januar. 1641, tfrora M' W™
Perkins. Rec. 21° fFeb"' 164.1." — G.

Right Honourable, I recieved your letters of y" 12 December
y' 31 of y* same: all your Commands I will carefully obserue,

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and returne by your footman ye issue of all that. On Munday
St. John's day 1 000' [= thousands] of pretitices [apprentices]
that had deliuered a petetion to y' Parliament flockt to west-
minster to recieve the answer. On[e] Captain Hide drewe his
sword and sett vpon some of them, but had y" worst. Vpon
that fell out much mischiefe that night ; many wounded on both
sides: Sir R.Wiseman drew his sword & lead on y° Londoners,
& y^ first blowe he stroke cut a Caualiers sword in two. & on
that turned they, often Cryinge out in y" Court of Requests,
• no Bishops, no Bishops.' The bishops forbore the house on
tuesday and on Wednesday his Grace of Yorke garded with a
gard went to y" K[ing] with a protestacon which I haue heare
sent : for which both ye howses voted them all 12 guilty of
high treason, and y" same night weare 10 of them comitted to
y" tower as your Lordship shall find in y° printed paper. The
K[ings] heart startled to see so many of his good seruants
brought into a net by Lincoln. Next day they came armd,
and more hurt donne by troupers that weare disbanded in y°
north and now wantinge imployment weare ready to fall vpon
any to gayne y'^ K[ings] fauour. On Wednesday these prentices
recieved a good answer from y' house, that they should depart
and in convenient tyme they should receyue a good answer.
With this they cryed • come, come away, away,' and peacably
marcht homeward, but passinge by Whitehall, the ambust [am-
bush] of these troupers (James Vsher one) like men of valour
sett vpon the end of them & wounded a matter of 40 of them
very daingerously, and then valiantly returnd to y* Crosse Den,
where was a table of 80 dishes prepared for them many dayes ;
for which those worthy Saints would haue kild their fathers &
betrayed their Countrye. Vpon this tumult there came a letter
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and disordred assembly : requiringe the Citty for a redresse ;
which was indeuoured with all possible Care by y"* Lord Mayor
& Commo Counsel! on 31 December. On munday y' 3"*
January the K[ings] attorney accused 5 of y' howse of comons
and y* Lord Mandiuell, their studyes sealed vp y" same night ;
but forthwith a sargeant at Armes was sent by the howse of
Peeres to put them in possession of their chambers, and assured
y' K[ing] that they would Consider of the matter y* next
morninge. On the 4 January, the comon Counsell assembled
in London, two seuerall Mesages Came from y" howse of
Comos, to let them know the greate feares they had of that
dayes worke, for as much as they had Certayne intelligence
that 500 musketts weare brought to Whitehall, all ye Pentioners
apoynted on horseback with pistolls. Carabines & a mighty
guard at Whithall of y' Midlesex trayne band to guard ye Court,
& all ye Cannineres brought into y" tower the night before,
cannons mounted and great perparaco at y* tower £'•=. and ther-
for desyired y' Lord Mayor and Aldermen with ye Comon
Counsell to aduise and direct for y" safe guardinge of y' Citty ;
which was accordingly donne, drums beat Vp, Captain apoynted
to Call there bands together, and on a sudayne all y^ Citty put
into a posture of defince, and a select committy of 6 aldermen,
12 commoners, to putt all into a speedy way of Difence; order
also taken for y* buyinge vp of all the armes in y' Citty by y^
Companyes, that so we might not be to seeke when we should
haue neede of them ; and with all wee also desyred with one
consent that the Committee resolued on, might direct a petition
to his Majesti to expresse there feares and Jeloucyes they had of
these preparations, and withall to letthis Majesti knowe that the
Citty of London weare ready accordinge to the late protestation
they had taken, to spende their lyues and fortunes to the vtter-

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most dropp of their blouds for y* seruice of his Majesti and his
house of parlament :

This day his Majestic with about 500 men, Pensoniers,
Caualers and his guard, went in a marchall way to Westminster
and into the house of Commons (but sufFred not one of this
guard to enter with him) and there tould them he came on an
vnwelcome busines. Viz' to demand those men that weare
accused of treason; but the howse gaue him not a word, only
the speaker downe on his knees, and tould his Majesti hee was
a member of ye house and durst not discouer any member of
that howse : so the Kinge went a way, sayinge that hee would
haue them to morrowe ; & so was an end of this tusdays worke.
The Lord grant better fory" next day: in much hast I only
take leaue your Honours servant, W. P[erkins].

January 4. 1641.
CCCCXCIX. DoNNOGH Oge o'Grady to Cork: 1641.

This is No. Ill of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To the Right hon'''* my
very good Lord Richard Earle of Corke, Lord high trer of Ireland theis
persent," and endorsed, " 5° Januari 1641 ffrom Donnogh oge o Grady
touching the state of that County." — G.

Right honorable. And my very good Lord, I haue hitherto
defFerd (though heardly I could heeretofore) to acquaint your
honour of the passadges in these parts : soe it is my very good
Lord that the Earle of Thomond with the mutuall consent
and assent of the Countie haue made vpp an Army of four
hundred men & 100 horse, by themselues to be maintained for
six weekes, as well to maintaine them within their one precincts
as to prevent anny strange invasion. They haue expressed
themselues to have soe much more forthcominge in, vppon a

IV. 1 I

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readines vppon occasion. See as my Lord in this Countie they
are still in the same predicament as formerlie they haue bin
faithfull & loyall subiects ;• onely I must acknowledge vnto your
honour that the Cothon sort of people of noe rancke or qualitie
haue quite robbed and preyed all the Inglish Inhabitants within
the Barony of TuUa and partely the Barony of Bunratty which
they daylie suppress and bringe vnder Subiection, as well by
executting som to death with martiall Lawe, as abruptly by
killinge some. My Lord the Earle of Thomond hath bin
pleased to appoint me as Auncient to his Cusin German Cap-
tain Dermott o Bryen ; and your lordshipp shall further vnder-
stand that before euer this Army went about service this Rob-
bery was comitted ; whereuppon or aseneight before, all your
honours tenants betooke themselues to the seuerall houlds of
Tomgreny and SkarrifFe, where they still continue. My Captain
his Garizon is appointed at Skarriffe. Happilly my Cussin Luke
Brady showld hereafter complaine vnto your honour of me that
I showld take a peece from one of his men : true it is that by
vertue of my Lords warrant, the better to inable vs to doe ser-
vice, I seized on apeece from one that I neuer sawe in M"^ Brady
his service ; howebeit I was acquainted with him theis eight
yeares, and when I tooke the peece from him [he] said it was
his owne. My Lord vnlesse it be for this I protest before God I
knowe not wherein I have deserved the least ca[use of] dis-
pleasure from him, or wherevppon he showld ground to be mis-
trustfull of my integritie towards him. Your Lordshipp shall
vnderstand allsoe that M"^ Evens his house was Robbd by John
M'^Nemara and others whoe are well knowen. Captain Teig
M^Nem^ra and me self went thither the second morneni[n]ge,
with the matter of 15 soldiers in our Company (the rest being
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designes, but wee weare glad to intreat them further not to
spoile, they were soe many in number ; which when it was
graunted was noe great courtesie. My honourable Good Lord,
one thing I shall become an humble Suiter vnto your honour
for, that Notwithstandinge any thing to the contrarie you hould
me still in your honours wonted good oppinion vntill the Earle
of Thomond doe certifie to the contrarie, to whom I Reffer
me selfe. My Lord, when M' Willkins left the farme he held
from your Lordshipp, I meane the half plowland of fFossage
which I sould vnto your honour, I interd thereunto, not with
any intent (I protest) but to preserve it for your lordshipp or
him when he list pleaseth to sett himself therein [torn out in the
opening of Seat] .... rave hath alreaddy remooved his [torn']
from the SkarrifFe ; he intends to remoo[ve {torn)] good and all
if your Lordship were pleas[ed to] send directions that I might
be your servant [in] accepting the possession and keeping
thereof to your vse I haue that hope in my Lord of Thomond
that if it showld please your honour to reifer it vnto him he
would prefFer me thereunto, and all other things tendinge vnto
your Lordshipps vse in theise parts as conceaveinge it would be
more aduantagious for your honour. My Lord I intended not
this to incroach vppon your Lordshipps former good likeing of
my Brother, but that in theise troublesom' tymes I (vnder
favour) thinke it not amiss to make vse of vs both to preserve
your Lordshipps estates ; all which I reffer vnto your Lord-
shipps grave consideracon. And humbly take leave this your
honours most humble servant whillest he liueth Donnoghoge
6 Grady.

5* of January 1641.

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D. The Lord President of Munster to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 122 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " for your Lordship," and
endorsed " 5° Januarij 1641. fFrom the lo President touching the Billeting
of Soldiers in yoghall : a Commission of Martiall law for Ensigne Croker,
and to send 3 Barrells of powder to duncannon fort." — G.

My good Lord, of the good service which Captain Henesy
(by your Lordships direccon) hath done, I do approue very well,
and for the Rogues which hee hath taken, my Lord Dungarvan
hath a power of Martyall Law in his Commission for yoghall,
by which he may bee pleased to dispatch them out of the way,
and disburthen the Joale of them. For the feeding of those
men which your Lordship shall draw into the Towne of
Yoghall I do not thinke it fitt to charge the Towne therewith,
which will soone make them weary of their Company and
Driue them too soone peradventure into discontent ; but the
way must bee for your Lordshipp to take vpp Beofs and Corne
vpon Tickett, and deliuer it forth to the Souldier vpon Accompt
of his meanes ; and this is the Course which I pursue heere, and
do find most convenient & Least burthensome. The towne of
yoghall hath much barrelled beofs and other provisions in it,
which your Lordship may haue on Tickett, and for it there will
bee as curraunt payment made as for any thing in the world,
and there will bee fresh beoiF had from the Country adioyneing,
which is the best way that the owners of it can dispose thereof,
both for safety and assurance of payment, for the men them-
selues I shall desire your Lordship to draw in as great a nomber
of foot as possibly you can, but for horse I know they cannot
bee of vse there, and therefore I shall desire your Lordship to
send them vnto mee, or if your Lordship desire to haue them
somwhat neerer you, to lett them lye at Tallagh & fermoy,
where I may haue them vpon a speedy warning.

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I haue written to the Mayor of Yoghall to encourage him in
his good afFeccons & to billett the men which your Lordship or
my lord Dungarvan shall draw in, with lodging, fire & Candle-
light ; which is as much as can [be] expected of the place.

I haue sent such a Comisson for Ensigne Croker as your
Lordship desires, and Sir Richard osberne hath one allready ;
neither haue I bin spareing to issue them to such as I conceiued
would make the right vse of them. I should bee very sorry my
Lord Esmond should bee distressed for Powder, for the place hee
is to maintaine is of singular Consequence ; And therefore I
would do what I may possibly to accomodate him. I vnderstand
from my Lord Dungarvan that there is some powder Landed,
which M"^ Jephson sent mee out of England, and I shall desire
your Lordship to press a Boate and to send three barrells of it
about to Dungannon to my Lord Esmond. But this must bee
done with singuler Care advice & Caution, & therefore I shall
desire your Lordship before it bee sent away that you satisfy
yourself how safely it may bee done, and that a guard of half a
score or a dozen Musquetts bee sent with it, with Charge that
rather then the Enemy should take it, they throw it into the
Sea. I shall desire your Lordship to persevere in your indeavors
for the fortyfying of that Towne, and do approue exceeding well
of what your Lordship is purposed to doe therein. The bad
newes that your lordships writeth from Killkenny & Waterford
doe the more trouble mee because I haue neither power or
meanes to redress the one or the other. But our dependency
must bee on Gods good pleasure, to whom recomending your
lordship I remayne.

Your Lordships affectionate frend and servant, W. S^ Leger.
Downeraile, 5. January, 1641.

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I mervaile that your Lordship takes no notice in your Letters
to mee of the newes which I heare is come to that Towne from
Dublin of Sir Symon HarCourts landing at dublin with 1500
men, and that Sir Phelim o Neale hath bin putt to flight by the
Scotts, and Rorym*^ Gwyre hardly besett by them. I likewise
heard that the Lords of the Pale begin to apologize for their
rising out, & pretend only their owne defence ; before Sir Symon
HartCourts comeing ouer they were 4000 strong in dublin & if
now the state would but send forth some forces to Divert theis
Leynster Rebells I doubt not but by God's assistance to be able
to Cope with the rest,

DL Garrott fitz, Gerald to Broghill : 1641.

This is No. 125 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To the right honorable
my very good Lo: Lewes Baron of Broghill this present," and endorsed,
" 14° Januarij 1641 ffrom M.' Garrett fRtzgerald touching his want of
Munition and his Boate." — G.

Right ho"" and my very good Lord, had not the castle of
Dungarvan bin surprised for want of men and Ammunition,
this side of the country had not bin ouer run as now it is. the
enemy cam home to my doore, robbed and spoyled my servant^
and Depopulated my Landf; which- 1 should haue less bin
troubled with, had I bin supplied (as I expected) of Ammuni-
tion from the Earle your father ; whereby I should haue bin
able to have Defended my selfe for longer time then now is
possible with that small stoor of provision I haue, being but
30 li of powder, little lead, and no match, for 45 handguns and
5 peeces of ordonance, howerly expecting (by messengers) for the
enemyes their approach to my Walls : yet my Loyaltye will
euer be such that I rather perish in Distress (for want of sup-

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plies) then anie way infringe it. I vnderstand the enemye de-
termynes to infest the way from Youghall ferry hither, as well
by Water as Land, so that if I be not very shortlie relieued with
Ammunition I am in very poore case, wherewith I desire your
Lordship speedilie to acquaint the Earle your father, so if it lye
in your Lordships powre, I may haue a timely supplye : fFor my
boates your Lordship writes of, they haue long since (or now
are) on your side, in the Custody of M"^ fooks by Direcon of the
Earle. there is on this side only one lighter, which has sunck
vnder my castle wall, and belongeth to a servant of myne;
which is to be Disposed of as your Lordship shall think fitt.
And in that, or ought els your Lordship shall euer command
him who will Liue and Dye his Majestie's Loyall and faithfuU
Subiect : And your Lordships humble servant to commaund,
Garott fitz Gerald.

Dromanye, 14"' Jan. 1641.

DII. Same to Same.

This is No. 126 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To my honorable good
Lo : the Lo : Baron of BroghiU this present," and is endorsed, "15 Januar.
1 641. ffrom M' ffitzgerald of Dromany touching his Boate and want of
Munition." — G.

My very good Lord, I am Daily menaced by the Enemye,
and tould to my face that they will receiue my accrueing rentf
toward payment of their Armie, and howerly expect to be as-
saulted and besieged ; but am Disanimated with nothing but
the want of Ammunition. If your Lordship please to haue mee
in remembrance in that particuler, no favor from your Lordship
can be more acceptable : the want whereof workf most vpon
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Castle (for that cause) are readie to relinquish mee if not
speedily supplied. And for the boate yf please your Lordship
not otherwise to Dispose of it, 1 will keepe with all security I
possible can, and as therein so in all things your Lordship shall
euercommaundyourhumblest servant, Garrott Fitz Gerald.
Dromany, 15* Jan. 1641,

No. 130, Jan. 19, 1641-2, is a short letter from same to same, wherein
he writes " observing when last in Youghal how scant the supply of wood
was, otfers to sell some from his woods to the amount of ^^200." — G.

DHL Lord President of Munster : 1641.

This is No. 127 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed 16° Januar 1641. ffrom
the Lord President touching the securing of the " Towne of Yoghall. Cap-
tain Croker to haue a company. Broghills troop etc. Received 18° of the
same." — G.

My good Lord, I was hopefull that the shipp which your
Lordship formerly advertised mee to bee designed for Dun-
gannon had bin gone before Thursday last, but now that shee
is gone I wish her good success, for the Citty of Waterford, my
intelligence tells mee that it hath bin attempted or soUicited
rather by young Butler to giue him entraunce, and that they
haue refused him, which makes [me] reasonable confident of
their firme standing.

And now to giue aunsweare to what your Lordship writes
touching the Towne of Yoghall ; It is not expected by mee
That the forces in it should defend it against a forraigne Army
comeing from the Country, for in Case such an one March
against it (which they cannot doe without discouery) then 1 in-
tend to hasten thither my self with all the strength I haue ;
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to preserue a Port open to lett mee in vpon occasion which I
know that strength in it may doe, by placeing a Court of guard
neere vnto the Port, and making sure of some houses neere it ;
which with the help of the small Turretts which are neere &
Guer the gates, would sufficiently secure an Entraunce for mee.
Besides which it will bee an excellent way to awe the Towne If
your Lordship would cause those 2 Peeces which are vpon the
Key, to bee drawne vpp and planted in your Garden on such an
one of the descents as Sergeant major Appleyard shall direct ;
which will Comaund and batter the whole Towne. This I am
certaine, with the 2 Companies & the rest of the English there,
will assure that place within. But to my sending of any part
of that small force I haue gethered together, it will bee impossible,
without making all the rest inconsiderable, and subjecting my
self, and the small remaynder of the kingdome to certaine
Ruyne ; and indeed I am in a Condicon so farre from being
able to spare yor Lordship any my men, as that I must desire
you as you tender the safety & preservacon of that little interest
which his Majestic hath left in this Country and the advance-
ment of his service there in. That your Lordship would send
hither my Lord of Broghill with his Horse Company ; which as
it can bee of no vse or advantage to those parts, So will it bee of
singuler consequence to vs heere.

And that those Passages (on the secureing whereof his Lord-
ships imployment resteth) may bee duly and carefully guarded, I
haue in complyaunce with yor Lordships desires, sent vnto En-
signe Croker to rayse a Company, and engaged my self vnto him
to enter it into his Majesties pay ; wherein I haue adventured
to stretch the Authority intrusted with mee somewhat beyond
its due extent, for a double regard, aswell to correspond with
your Lordships Comaunds of putting Ensigne Croker into im-

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ployment, as to gayne thereby my Lord of Broghills Company
& assistaunce.

I haue sent your Lordship such an acknowledgment and
engagement for your 500'' as I am confident will bee an instru-
ment of repayment of it, and your Lordship may assure your
self that I will supply any defect in it with my most earnest
solicitacon. But I cannot vnfasten the hold I haue of yor
Lordships promise for the other 1000'' : for that without it this
mony is but meerely cast away, and the busines in hand vtterly
frustrated ; and therefore in this pressing exigent yor Lordship
will excuse mee if I bee more then ordinnerily importunante, for
their is a mighty wager at the Stake, and I know not where yor
Lordship can more securely place your enterests then to engage
his Majestie & the States of both kingdomes with them. I
cannot but acknowledge yor Lordships expences and losses to
haue bin great, But I doubt not but yor Lordships providence
out of a plentifull estate hath in the Sommer made provision
for this stormy winter.

I doe much comiserate yor Lordships sufFeringe and the great
paynes your Lordship doth expose your self vnto, and do hardly
wish it were within the Compass of my power to giue your
Lordship such ease and relief as were fitting. But in what I may,
your Lordship shall find me to bee Yor Lordships affectionate
freind And servaunt, W. S' Leger.

Downeraile, xvj"" January, 1641.

DIV. Same to Same.

This is No. 128 of vol. xxii., and is addressed as No. 106, and endorsed,
" 19° Januar. 1641. ffrom the lo. president touching the riseingof 6 SuUy-
vant Beere and at Carty Roogh. Rec. 21°." — G.

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gence that O Sulivan Bere and all his County is in Armes and
that young M*^ Carty Reagh and all his people, are in like defec-
tion, and that hee hath cast forth his mother out of the Castle
of Killbritten ; by which it appeares too evidently that all who
haue not yet declared themselues against his Majestie, will follow
the wicked example of those that haue. This I haue advertized
ouer into England and do beseech your Lordship to hasten away
the inclosed with all the speed that possibly may be, remayneing
your Lordships affectionate frend and seruant, W. S'' Leger.

Downeraile, xix January 1641.

DV. John B. Gerald to Kerry: 1641-2.

This is No. 13+ of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " To the Right Hono'''''^
y' lord Barron of Kierrie & Licksman these be d. d.," and endorsed, "25°
Januarij 1641. The Copy of Mr John fitzgerald tres to the lord of Kerry,
which he sent me inclosed in his owne Ire." — G.

Right honorable, the lord President our Gouernor hath putt
into your hands arms and amunicon for six score men out [of]
his Majestie's house at Corke, partelie for your owne defence,
but principallie for the defence of the Countie, and to keepe the
same in good order and subiection ; and since your receipt
thereof, you haue donn iust nothing butt spent pay and tyme, in
writing and sending forth declaracons of your aucthoritie of
gouernorship, martiall law, and otherwise, thinking by the publi-
cation onelie of your greatness in pay, to keepe disloyall harts in
obedience, when you well know that assumption of power
without action in soe distracted a tyme, produceth rather a con-
tempt thereof, in ill disposed persons, then obedience or con-
formitie thereto : you know the Countie of euerie side of you is
in a moste rebellious disorder, preying and spoyling the Kings
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moanes thereof daylie made vnto you ; to which (for aught I
see) your eares are deafe : for as it may be conceaued your
haueing lawful! aucthoritie as you sett foorth you haue, and armes
to performe and doe seruice and yett doe nothing, you eyther
wincke at theise actions, or you want a hart to performe the
dutie of your assumed gouerment ; for myne owne parte it
graueles my soule to see the king and his people soe abused, and
of my sense thereof and desier to redresse what is past and to
preuent further inconveniences I cannott ( for want of arms) giue
that testimonie which otherwise I would endeauor to giue ;
therfore if your lordship please (for the king and Counties
seruice) to putt those arms and amunicon into my hands which
hitherto (contrarie I beleaue to the Lord Presidents intention)
doe butt gather rust, or serue to garnish thewalles of your house,
my estate, reputation and life, shalbe answerable and account-
able to the King and Countie for the same; and my endeauours
to performe such seruice as my power shall extend vnto ; and
this proceeding for my zealous deuotion and deasiere to serue his
Majestie ; I deseire your answeare imediatlie, remaineing his
Majesties faithfuU subiect Jo. B. Gerrald.

Innishmore 25 of Januarie.

DVI. Sir Richard Osborne to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 136 of vol. xxi!., and is addressed, " To the right hon"'= my
approued good Lord, the Earle of Corke Lord high trer of Ireland and one
of his Ma" most hon'''' prluie Councell of England theis humbly present,"
and endorsed, "26° Januari 164.1. ffrom Sir Richard osborne, that his
Castle was attempted by Thomas fz Morrrish." — G.

Right honb'% I this hower receaued your letter of the 24* of
this instant ; and haue likewise receaued the powder you sent
me, for which I humbly thanke your honour : Vpon Saterday

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night last about midnight, drunken Thomas fz Morrish of
Bally harraghane came hither with 100 or six score men, tohaue
taken the castle prey, and through the absenc of some of my
warders who were then at Cappoquin, and the neglect of some
at whome [= home] leauing a stable doore open, two or three
of the rogues enthed [= entered], with swords drawen, into the
stable, and there wounded sleightly two or three of my souldiers,
but were presently repulsed ; without hors or cow but with some
wounds and hurts of bulletts from the castle as we perceaued by
the Cries they made on their retreat and by blood found in the
waye in seurall places. fFor your, opinion toutching the peece, I
shall submitt my self vnto you and shall hereafter supplicat your
honour therein as occasion shall require ; fFor my beloued gossip
John Hore, I neuer expected better of him : in whose forehead
I saw the now Appeareing carracters writt, and this vniursall
eruption of disloialty was sealed at dublin by the receipt of sacre-
ment by 4, 5 or 6 of each county of this kingdome. I am right
gladd you haue secured Piltowne ; Sir Nicholas Walsh and his
being priue men in this action, and could wish the Like were
donne for Templemichgell, which must be donne by compulsary
meanes and aucthority of state ; & yett I thinke M"^ ffitz Gerrald
will not be ad vers therevnto. The english in dromanna will (I
doubt not) well secure that place, and [being] donne, we haue
the freedom of the riuer ; which is at this tyme most advan-
tagious. Though, Garrott hath bin Most earnestly sollicited by
his vncle M"^ Edward Butler of Clare and others, ther to expell
the english, and to conforme himselfe to the romish religion,
which he hath well and stoutly denied ; beyond my expectacon.
The comfortable newes of Colonell Leslyes approach as farr as
the fort of Lease [= Leix] and the expectacon of the english
supplies (too longe delaied) hath much incouraged mee, being

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penned vpp here, to secure this place ; not dareing to looke
abroade. Daily approaches are threatned to this place, and trans-
mitted hither from Antony Russells cheifly ; but as rediculous I
valewe them : and I beseech your honour lett my Lord of Dun-
garvan and my Lord of Brohill knowej that vpon any Approach
towards dungarvan they may heere haue a salf place of retreate ;
with as meete provisions for horse and man as we cann possibly
make ; haueing bin, as still I am subiected to daily depredacons
by my tenants, neighbors, dependants & servants ; and not by
the garrison souldiers of dungarvan whoe haue protested against
the same. There are now gonn ouer the mountaines towards
Piltowne, as I thinke, some horse & some foote in two com-
panies, which would require some seconding & not to relie too
much vpon Leiutenant Morgans valor, in a matter of that con-
sequence : soe craues pardon your thankfull & most humble
servant Rich : Osberne.

Knockmore 26° Januari 1641.

I am gladd they haue consumed dungarvan of their victualls,
for they are inforced to fest [feast] Abroade in the contry, being
but few left in the towne, who I know cann no longer receiue
them and impute the fault of draweing them thither, to the
Butlers of Rinogonae [= Ringrohane] and to John fz Gerrald
of fFarnane [= farran] j the principall disturbers of theis parts,
and valuable men in this Sacred warr.

DVIL Broghill to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 137 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, " 26 Januar 1641 fFrom
my sonn Broghill." — G.

Lismore 6 a clok this morning : 26 January.
My moste honored Lord, I receiued the honnour of your

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Lordships by Addam Warren, and for ye gentleman your Lord-
ship woulde haue put in y' Troope, I saw him not nor can heere
of him, but when he comes he shall be horst and Inroled accord-
inge to your Lordships direction : I haue this morninge sent
downe a boate from hence to Capoquin to bringe downe stakes
from thence to block vp the ferry of Afane, but I could doe
nothinge, the waters are yet so hygh. Captain Croker has his
company compleate, and now I must marche to Kilworth. I
haue made choice of Robinge Downinge for my Coronet, but
he shall continue heere when I am in y'^ feilde, and when hee is
in ye feilde I will be heere : I haue dispacht a messenger to my
Brother Dungaruan to soUicite my Lord President yf I may
haue my commission to be Captain of this Troope) and from y'
time I muster to be in y' kings pay ; as also to represent vnto
his Lordship the inconuenience of dismembringe Capoquin
bridg, which I went yesterday my selfe to see ; for all the pro-
uision for y^ soldiers they must expect to haue from this side of
y' Riuer, y* other beinge ouer run, till with in a quarter of a
mile of y° towne. Then, twill make all y" townes me[n] Run
away, as many tolde me themselues, for all ther Cattle feede on
Capo : side, in the day and at night they driue them on this :
which if the bridg weare made vnseruicable they could not doe :
Besides if the worst haphened & y' they saw they weare not able
to keep it they may doe it at pleasure. The Ennemy is re-
turned all to Dungaruan and doe much threaton this place, but
I care not for them ; I beleeue they will march within this two
dayes, for they haue no victuals left them : Roches Pledg is safe
in Bakegarran Castle : as for Roger Cary, he will defende his
castle himselfe. [This] I doe not like, for he mooued to haue
aide, which beinge granted, he offers to keepe it himselfe : but if
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for I haue planted one of the Longe Guns vpon the Terras,
which I'me sure will doe y^ feate. I haue now lOO ordenance
bullets in y^ house. An honest stout Soldier of y" Garrson
which was shot and would haue perricht if continued heere, I
sende to Yoghill to haue his Arme cut of: I beseech your Lord-
ship Command he may be well lookt too : Heere is Tom
Downinge whos wife has bin most barberously killed and whos
children he feares are so, continues heere but without [any] of
monny and cloathes, that it pities me to see him. I wish your
Lordship would take som order about him : For Hercules Reev
I haue him alreddy in restraint, but he confesses to haue made
but six Pikes, and for thos that headed them six the smith, I'
haue with me Morte O'Suffane : who is so good a workeman,
that he makes for me Loks for pistols : heere are men of suffi-
ciency offer to be bounde for Hercules forthcomminge, and y'
he shall noe more make Pikes : which I beleeue is sufficient, for
y' poore fellow has been vndon by the Rebels: I sent your
Lordships letter to S"' Richard Osborne. I doe so ply fitzgaret
of Drommana with my assurances of speedy forces Landinge y'
I hope he will continue right : my Lord, Though it much
greiues, I must humbly beg your Lordship to giue order to M"'
Wally to let me haue ten peeces : my occasions are verry vrgent,
for my wife does much neede it, and I protest vnto your Lord-
ship I will trouble you noe more till you are in a better condi-
tion to furnish me. I humbly beg your Lordship not to deny
me this nor your blessinge, which is humbly begd for by. My
Lord, Your most humble, most obedient, and most dutiful! son
and seruant, Broghill.

My wife presents her most humble duty to your Lordship and
giues you a looo thanks for y' care you haue of her.

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DVIII. Cork to Perkins: 1641.

This is No. 138 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, [date torn] " 164.1. The
copy of my lettres to M' W" Perkins touching the 250" I haue ordered
M'' Thornbury to pay him for my two yongest sonns quarters allowance be-
ginning the first of march next." — G.

M"' Perkins, My lettres of the 19"' of November with a bill
of Exchange from M'' Nicholas Bagbeere, and M"' Turner of
yoghall, chardged vpon M' Holditch in Bowlane in London, I
hope you haue receaued, and therewith dischardged M'' Mar-
combes his Bill of Exchange for 250" to M'' Michaell Castell,
which was to be paid the i^' of december or within ten daies
after, for my two sonnes quarters allowance, beginning the I*'
of december last, and ending the i^' of March next ; of your re-
ceipt and performance whereof I long to heare, for I haue not
heard from you since. These letters that I now wryte must
come vnto you by the conveyance of M'" Isaack Thornbury,
Collector of his Majesties Customes at Mynhead, and with
those my lettres he will also wryte vnto you, and either send
you 250'' in ready money, or else such currant Bills for the
payment of that soiiie vnto you, as will furnish you therewith,
& enhable you to dischardg M"^ Marcombes his Bills vnto M'^
Michael Castell for the quarter beginning the first of March
next, & ending the I'' of June 1642; In the due performance
whereof, good M"' Perkins let me entreate you to vse your
vthermost care & endeauors, that M"^ Michael Castell may not
be disappointed, and thereby my creditt endangered ; & my
sonns with their Tutores necessities vnsupplyed ; for I put my
whole trust heerein into your hands. And god knowes with
what difficulty I haue gott those moneyes together to make
good my reputacon, & supply my Childrens occasions. And

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therefore as you loue me, be soe carefull to doe all things so
seasonably and conveniently, as neither they nor I suffer thereby,
for yf it concerned my lyfe I would entrust itt in your hands.
And it much perplexeth me, that I can neither heare of M''
Marcombes, nor my two sonnes, nor where they are, nor how
they doe ; and Therefore yf you haue any intelligence from
them, send it me to yoghall ; whither against my will I am com-
manded from my owne house at Lismore to make good this old
weake Towne, which I much suspect I shall not long doe, ex-
cept some speedy and liberall supplyes of men, money & muni-
tion, be sent to this very place out of England ; for I haue no
more then 200 men of my owne English tenants heere in Garri-
son, & 100 at lismore, & 100 at Cappoquin, and to euery of
them I am inforced to giue Billett, and to pay them by poll
3^* 6'' a weeke a peece in ready money out of my owne purse.
And the necessity of the service and the defence of the County
of Corke (for all other places in the kingdome are in open re-
bellion, and many in that) hath to my great greefe & vn-
speakable discontentment, enforced me to employ those moneys
which I had sealed vpp in baggs, and intended for Sir Thomas
ffotherley, and M'' Gabriell Hyppisley, for the supply of the
lord President, and the forces vnder his coinand, without which
he could not haue subsisted nor this County preserved, as
hitherto (thanks be to God) in some weake manner it is. But
god knowes wee are soe overtopped with multitudes of Rebells,
as wee haue not one man for twenty of theirs. And heer, at
Yoghall, where I coiTiaund, all the Countrey about me, in the
Cou[nty] of Waterford, Lords & others, are in open action and
rebellion. And they dayly take all the English Protestants
Cattle with thousands in a da[y] & carry them away before our
eyes, and wee haue neither force nor po[wer] to resist nor fight

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with them. And (which is most greevous) there [are] 8 or
loooo men vnder thecomand of M' Richard Butler, the one[ly]
Brother of the Earle of ormond, the lord Montgarrett, the lord
of vpp[er] ossory, the lord Bourke, and the lord Baron of Logh-
nay [Lough Neagh ?] within halfe a daies march ready to be-
siedg vs, and wee haue neither shipping to defend the coast, nor
men, nor Munition to defend our sel[ves]. And therefore yf
the next Easterly wynde doe not bring vs store [of] aydes of all
kyndes, the kingdome of necessity must be lost, & all the good
subiects therein ; for the heart of man cannot conceaue, nor the
tongue of man express the miserable & dangerous estate wherein
this kingdom is. No place is secure, noe papist to be trusted, &
they multiply vpon vs like Locusts, & haue receaued the Co-
inunion to kill or banish all the English and Protestants out of
the kingdome, & it would greeue the soul of any Christian to
see the aboundance of men & women that come naked out of
the Countrey hither without respect of sex or persons, soe
wounded & abused as none but infidells, that know not god,
would doe. This rebellion came as suddainely vpon vs as
lightening. Noe man foresaw nor suspected it ; nor had muni-
tion, nor anything provided for it. And our English degene-
rate, & are planett-strucken with fear & terror of the multitude
of their enemies. And noe man in the K[ings] dominions is soe
great a looser by this generall rebellion, as I am, f [or] although
heretofore I did euer desire to conceale my estate, and m[ake]
seem less then it was, yet I pray beleeue this great truth from
me, that the iS* of October when I landed in Ireland, I did not
owe fy[ve] pounds in the Kingdome, and my revenue was about
20000" a yeare ; An[d] yf the rebellion had not broken out soe
suddainely & vniversally, but ha[d] giuen me respite to haue
gotten vpp my halfe yeares rents due at All Hallowtide foUowe-

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ing, or within 40 daies after, I should haue had sufficient to
maintayne my selfe & my Children, & to haue paid all my debts
in England with this halfe yeares rent. But god knowes I haue
gott in very little, little thereof, and no man will part with a
penny : [let] my extremities and wants be what they will, I will
euer be honest & true of my w[ord]. And therefore I pray let
Sir John Hyppisley be paid his 1000", for which you haue
Alderman Halworthy of Bristolls Bond and others & take his
dischardg as I formerly aduised, and put him in mynde to pro-
cure the Act of Parliament for secureing the iForrest land ac-
cording [to] his Covenant and our Agreement, And desire Sir
Thomas ffotherley, and M'' Gabriell Hyppisley to beleeue me to
be A very honest man, & that nothing but these vnexpected ex-
tremities could haue inforced me to disappoint them. But assure
them they shalbe no loosers by me. And withall when I had
their money in a readines, yf our Trade had not broken & Ex-
change fayled, I had sent ouer the money according [to] my
lettres, for I wanted neither care nor desire to doe it. But in
this generall calamity euery man heer must beare and sufFer.
God send me patience, his will must be done. Amongst the
rest of my losses I much feare the yron Chest (wherein are
Bookes and wrytings of great consequence) with the Coach and
Sedans, and your scarlett bedds & furniture are miscarryed ; for
I can haue no notice of their being landed either at Dublin, or
heere ; for gods sake enquire after them, and rectify me what is
become of them, & send me all the newes you can of my
Children.

Cofnend me to my true frend Sir Thomas Stafford & his
noble Lady & desire them to pray for me and pitty me, for god
hath visited me with those wants & extremities, that I could
neither feare nor foresee. But assure them no necessity nor

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affliction shall make me otherwise then an honest man ; Whereof
prayeing him & you to be confident, desireing I may heare
from you as often as I can, and that you will open your mouth,
and cry aloude for succours to come to Yoghall, otherwise heer
wilbe buryed alive. Your true faithfuU and most distressed
frend, R. Corke.

Yoghall, in great haste, 27° Januari, 1641.

DIX. The Lord President of Munster to Cork :

1 641.

This is No. 143 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " for your Lordship,"
and endorsed, " 1° fFebruar 1641. fFrom the Lord President touching my
sonn Broghills Comission the posture of the enemie, and to haue a port
open at Corke for his Lordships retreat." — G.

My good Lord, I am very glad that the Shipp designed for
Duncannon is gone, butt most glad that shee went not vntill
Thursday Last, for the day before & the night following that
day, were of that violent tempestuosnes that if shee had bin out
I should haue dispayred of her doing service, but now I am hope-
full that worke is effected. I do approue very well of the
Course your Lordship hath taken for stopping the pasage arryued
at by Captain fennell ouer that River, and I doubt not but if it
bee rightly pursued it will take such effect, as will prevent fen-
nells designe and entention.

I do likewise approue of your Lordships designe for burning
the houses and Come in your Letter mentioned, & am very
sorry it tooke no better effect, being of opinion that those im-
ployed by yor Lordship do deserue severe punishment for non-
obseruaunce of yor direccons. I am hopefull that the guard
placed at Piltowne by your Lordships appointment, and Captain

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Kingesmills assistance, will bee able to defend & maintaine that
place. I haue written two such Letters as yor Lordship desireth
to M"' fitz Gerald and his Brother, and also to Sergeant major
Appleyard, with a Comission of Martyall Law ; And I doe with
all my hart wish it were as readily in my power to giue my Lord
of BroghiU a Comission for his Troope, which your Lordship
may bee most confident I would doe with all the willingnes and
forwardnes in the world, both in complyaunce with your Lord-
ships desires, as also in manefestation of the good affeccone I
beare the Nobleman, and the great opinion I haue of his merritt
& high desiruinge. And to supply the disability in my self to
make this profession evidence, I will write those efFectuall Letters
both to my Lord Leiutennant and others that will I hope enable
mee to doe both your Lordship & my Lord of BroghiU the ser-
vice desired.

My Lord, I must now giue your Lordship to vnderstand the
Condicon wherein wee are : The Enemy at Cashell is (as I am
certainly informed) neere loooo strong, of which a very con-
siderable part is well Armed ; their horse equall if not exceeding
ours in goodnes & nomber ; M"' Edmond Butler haueing a
Troope of ioo° armed as well as the best of ours. They haue
with them the Lord Mountgarrett, and all the Lords of the
County of Tipperary ; the Leynster & Mounster forces being
ioyned together their way they intend to take through Clangib-
bon ; and I find our foot to bee of so inconsiderable a wretched
Composure & Condicon of men as that I dare not adventure
any thing vpon them. All that wee haue to relye vpon are our
Horse, And how they may steed vs is not to bee resolued vntill
wee haue had a view of the Enemy. But by all probable con-
jecture wee shall bee constrayned to make a retreat by the way
of Corke ; To which purpose I shall desire your Lordship to

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bee careful! that a Port bee kept open for mee, and that your
Lordship would bee very earnest to gett all the provision that
may bee thought on, or compassed into that Towne either by
faire meanes or foule. And therewith (my Lord) I take leaue
to remayne Your Lordships affectionate frend and servaunt, W.
S' Leger,

Downeraile 30° January 1641.

I shall beseech your Lordship to lett the looo" bee safely dis-
posed of vntill this storme bee ouer blowne, for vntill I bee setled
somwhere I cannot send for it.

You may please to promise M'' fitz Gerald some Munition
but not deliuer any yet vntill wee know what vse wee shall
haue ourselues of it.

DX. John Langton to Cork : 1641.

This is No. 144 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, " To my most honnored
Lo. & master Richard, Earle of Corke, Lord high Threser of Ireland & one
of the Lords of his Ma"*^" most hoi^'^ privie Councell of bothe Kingdoms,
these humbly psent," and endorsed, " 5° febbr. 1641. ffrom M' John
Langton touching my sonn Kynalmeaky and the state of those parts."
— G.

Right Ho'''^ The same daye that my Lord of Kinalmekey
came to this towne, which was about the 12* of January last,
John Kirke was going to youghall with a Ire from me and Ires
from others to your lordship, certiiieng at large the state of these
partes in these troublesom tymes ; but hee meeting with my
Lord of Kinalmekey between Corke and Bandon, Retorned
back againe with our tres. And since that I could not haue
any conveyance till nowe I happened vpon this bearer Thomas
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tres I certified your lordship, that I had according to your lord-
ships last direcons, payd to Thomas Moore, seruant to M' Hall-
worthie, besides the former 50oli, the some of 272li, and had
taken vpp your lordship's bills of exchange for the same. I then
alsoe certified your lordship that I had payed M' ffleming and
taken the lands of Kilmackfinnon in Mortgage for 20oli, accord-
ing as your lordship required me. And that noe more Rents
could be gotten in ; for when I distrayned, the tenantf not
hauing money to redeeme theire distresse, nor findeng noe byers
for the Cattle, I was forced to retorne theire Cattle to Them
againe, least I should loase Them by Theeuery ; which then
began much to increase in all these partes, and nowe notwith-
standing all the helpe my lord of Kinalmekey could giue by
sending out of horsemen in the nature of dragoons (which did
much abate the insolencies of the Rebellf ) yet the Rebellf haue
spoyled Innyskeane, Castletowne, Newrestowne, and haue soe
vexed the Cloghnakiltie men with continuall Allarams in the
night and Theftf , that they were glad to forsake that towne and
are come to Bandon. all the Countrey where the English
dwelled are robbed and spoyled, rounde about Bandon, within a
Myle and a halfe of it, and theire howses rifled and theire
Cattell driuen awaye into O Crowlies Countrey and Muskerry.
My Lord of Muskerry sent some of Theire cattell home againe;
for which they payed the driuers money and had the same catle
shortly after stoulen againe ; and this was don twice or thrice,
soe that all the farmers are forced to forsake theire howses and
farmes and are come to Hue in the towne. Many of the Rebells
haue been taken by our horsemen and caused to be hanged by
my Lord of Kinalmekey, and yet seeme to be naught diminished,
but rise vp like hidras heads and assemble together in greate
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places and som tymes shewe Them selues in the daye tyme
by woudf sides in 4 or 5 hundred in a Company, espetially at the
Manshon neere where Donell O Clealiued. The Lord of Mus-
kerry hath hanged some of Muskerry Theeues, and some Kinal-
mekey Theeues hee hath taken and sent to my lord of Kinal-
mekey to be hanged and hath euen this daye also sent the Catle
they stoule with them to Bandon, that the proprietor might
knowe his owne Catle and haue Them againe. The townes-
men of Bandon haue stretched Themselues beyonde theire
habillities to planke all the towers of the towne and haue mounted
some of the Ordnance vpon Them and are Indeuouring to doe
the rest. They haue good hartf and mindes to defende the
towne against the enemie, but theire habillities is soe small that
I feare yf any thing RuineThem theire pouertie wilbe the cause
of it: for multitudes of Robbed people, espetially wiinen and
Children, are come into the towne, soe that euery howse is filled
with them and haue litle or nothing to mainteyne Them. It
were a worke of great Charitie done by the Lord President and
State to presse some shipps or barkes to Transporte all These
poore wimen and Children into England ; for they are vnneces-
sary mouthes and will endainger the places where they are,
espetially this towne, where they abounde ; the poore English of
These parts hauing noe other Refuge. The Journeymen and
seruantf (which is the Cheife strength of the towne) begin to
leaue the towne by litle and litle, being wearied out with con-
tinuall exerciseing, watching and warding, and are not able to
followe theire worke, whereby they should gett theire liueing.
Soe that some of Them goe to Corke and some of Them to
Kinsale, where they are interteyned as souldiers and receiue paye.
yf some cowrse be not taken that they may be listed for souldiers
and receaue some pay also heere (which the Corporacon is no

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waye able to performe) they wilbe dishartened, and soe the towne
wilbe disabled etc. 1 haue urged Moylen Oge Cantey often to
Cleere and satisfie the 881i remayning yet due to Owen m"
Dermody Cartey for the purchase of 5 grieues of Knockauroe ;
but hee can neyther paye it nor give any good securitie for tTie
payment of it or any other of the moneyes receaued by his
father and not accompted for ; but hee hath promised soe soone
as These troublesome tymes are a litle ouer, to Come to your
lordship with such securitie and money as hee can gett. My
lord of Kinalmekey Coining to this towne destitute of money,
comaunded me to paye him all such money as was due vnto his
lordship of his Michaelmas and All Saintf Rentf . I tolde his
lordship that I had payed all by bills of exchange from your
lordship. Then he swore hee must haue money of me and that
your lordship told him that at his Coming hether hee should
haue money of me to supply him out of the Rentf . hee shewed
mee noe tre nor order soe to doe, but I considering that his
lordship could not line without meanes, did Then suppley him
with what money then I had of your lordships in my handf,
which was Twentie pounds ; but since that I haue receaued 30!!
more, which I am redie to paye to my lord of Kinalmekey, who
I knowe will haue neede of it, or to whome else your lordship
shall directe me to paye it. I can assure your lordship that my
lord of Kinalmekey is a very good husband heere and liueth at
the Cheapest handf by keeping howse him selfe : And therefore
your lordship shall doe well to incourage him there in by giveing
waye that I n;ay supply him with some money as his lordship
shall reasonably demaunde and haue occacon to vse from tyme
to tyme, out of such money as I haue or can geather vpp. I am
giuen to vnderstande that there came a tre from your lordship
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nor doe I knowe by whome it was sent, yf there were any.
The tymes are daingerous for travaile espetially for those as are
supposed to carry money, or else I shuld haue been at Lismore
ere this to passe my accompts ; but soe soone as your lordship
shall require me or I may dare to aduenture, I will attende your
lordship there. In the interim humbly craveing pardon for my
boldenes and hartily praying for the Continuance of your lord-
ship's health and strength, I am your Lordship's poore yet faith-
full Seruant John Langton.

Bandon bridge vltimo Januar. 1641.

I am almost vndon by these warrs, for my whole estate is out
in debt^ and some of Them y' are indebted (I am informed) are
eyther vndon by the Rebelf or else out in Rebellion, as namely
Dermod Cartey alias Clark : hee oweth me xxll.

DXI. Lady Kildare to Cork: 1641.

This is No. 14.6 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, "8°fFebruary 1641. fFrom
my daughter Kildare. Received 23" fFebruary 1641." — G.

Right Honorable, and my Dearest lord and father, affter the
presenting of my humble duty to your Lordship, sense these
troublesom times, I and my fiue poore children are come into
Ingland and my Sister Loftus and her three children, and apon
friday last I came to London to see if I cud procur a comand for
my lord : for wee haue nothing in the world to liue on. Apon
friday last was mounth, they tooke our house at Maynouth, but
before they tooke the house they wear in the towne of May-
nouth a fortnight, and sent many times to my Lord to desiar
him to come and liue amongst them, and they wood put him in
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from him. I must needs say they use[d] my Lord with all the
ciuillytie in the world and when we wod send to Maynouth for
prouision they wod let our saruants pass vp and downe when
they wod sufer noe others, and wod say if his prouision wear all
gould nobody sud tutch it. The last time they sent to my Lord
to come downe they sent him word if he wod haue any prouision
for him selfe come vp, if he wod send them but a note what he
wod haue they wod send it him, and my Lord sent them word
that S'"' Charles Coote sud send them an answer ; and the next
day they tooke our house. Before I came ouer I sent all the
writtings into the Castle of Dublin, for if Ireland be safe they
will be safe. I wod desiar your Lordship to send me word what
you haue dun with the writtings a bout my joynter. I shall
desiar your Lordship to haue pitte apon me and my fiue children,
and if the rents of my Cousen peirsey Smith artd M"^ perry be
paid or other of them, that you wod let me haue it during these
troublesom times to keep me and my poor children ; and pray
my lord writte a letter to my lord parsons and send the letter to
me and I will send it him and giue him order to send me ouer
the three gilt boles [= bowls] that he has of your Lordships that
you paid the 40' to redieme for us, and if please god we gitt our
owne you shall haue the 40' truly paid you ; if not your Lord-
ship wear better let me haue them then the rebells. Pray my
lord doe this for me and what other releefe you please to bestoe
apon me and my poore children ; for we are like to suffer very
much shortly. Sence I came ouer there has bin a letter or two
written, that my lord is very ill, and tis thought he will neuer
recourer, for he was very ill before I came a way. pray keep
it to your selfe. Your Lordship musst think what a miserable
state I am in if it sud please god to call my lord away now, that
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Counsell me what to doe. God direct me : and pray haue pitte
on OS, and let me hear from your lordship with what speed you
may. I humble desiar your Lordship to present my loue to all
my brothers and sisters ; humbly crauing your Lordships bless-
ing and pardon for troubling you so much, I take leaue to be euer
your Lordships most afFectionant and obedient daughter Kil-

DARE.

from the Strang in London this 8 of feberary 1641.

Sence I ritte my letter my Cousen booth hath bine heare to
see mee and he doth asure me that all monster is out but the
County of Corke, which is a very great greefe to me to heere.
my Sister Loftus and I doe make it our humble sutte to you
that if my Sister dungaruant doe not intend to Hue at Stalbridg
that your Lordship will be pleased to giue order to tome mury
that if my Sister Loftus and I desiar to liue there that we may
haue the use of the house and garden, and if there be any land
belonging to the house that we may haue it, paying for the land
as any other shall. I shall desiar your lordship to send as speedy
an answere as you may that we may know how to prouide for
our selfe.

DXn. DUNGARVAN TO CoRK : 1 64 1.

This is No. 147 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed, " 8° fFebruary 1641 fFrom
my sonn dungarvan touching the posture of the lord President & the Re-
bells. Received 10° (February."- — G.

My most honored Lord Father, I haue little time and lesse
paper to write to your Lordship in, yet shall I adventure to giue
you a breife accompt of our condition heer. My Lord President
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resolution of meeting them, and for that end stayd at the riuer
Suir foure dayes in open field, where they resolued to passe, but
seing vs in the way they turned aside, and posess themselues of
Kilmallock ; which with much willingnesse did open the gates
to my Lord Montgarret. There they continued till yesterday
in the Euening after wee returned. For the most part of the
day with our horse wee stood in sight of the towne and provoked
them, but they stird not till Euening, when they encamped at
Ballyra [?] This morning early wee marcht out againe, and
thogh the day was as bitter as euer I saw any, yet wee stand at
Mountaine foote till Euening, without hauing any encounter ;
onely wee had one alarum, occasioned by the advancing of two
hundred of the ennemyes horse vpon our out guardes, who
retired not, but goeing to meete them, occasioned their retreat.
What may happen to night wee know not, but expect howrely
alarms, and I hope are in readinesse to receiue them. Vpon
some .propositions broght from my Lord Mountgarret by M''
Burget, my Lord graunted a safe conduct, to whom my Lord
shold send ; wherevpon hee has this night sent hither one
Walsh a Lawyer, with whom my Lord is in strictt conference ;
the particulars whereof I shall tomorrow know, and by the next
send your Lordship ; and in the meane time begging your Lord-
ships blessing I remaine your Lordships most obedient and duti-

full SOnn DUNGARVAN.

Donneraile 8. February.

I beseech your Lordship let good and strict watch bee kept at
Yoghall, least a surprise may bee thoght on.

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DXIII. Royal Proclamation.

This printed set of broadsheets is No. 14.8 of vol. xxii., and is endorsed,
"8 fFeb. 1641. the Proclamation for the pursueing of S' Phelim O'Neale,
S' Lau. Magenis, with fyre & sword & propounding rewards to such as shall
bring their heads." At the top is the royal arms of England and Scotland,
with the motto below, " Dieu et mon droit." — G.

fl By the Lords lustices and Councell.

W. Parsons. Io. Borlase.

It is well known to all men, but more particularly to his
Majesties Subjects of this Kingdome, who have all gathered
plentifull and comfortable fruits of his Majesties blessed Govern-
ment, how abundantly carefull his Majestic hath been in the
whole course of his Gouernment, of the peace and safetie of this
his Kingdome, and how graciously he hath laboured to derive
to all his Subjects therein, all those benefits and comforts, which
from a most Gracious King, could be conferred on his Subjects,
to make them a happy people, whereof he hath given many
great testimonies. And as at all times he endeavoured to give
them due contentment and satisfaction, so even then whilst the
Rebells now in Armes were conspiring mischiefe against Him,
and his Crowne and Kingdome, he was then exercising Acts of
Grace and Benignitie towards them, granting to his Subjects
here the fulnes of their owne desires in all things, so farre as
with Honour or Justice he possibly could, and particularly when
the Committees of both Houses of Parliament here this last
Summer attended his Majestie in England, at which time
(amongst many other things graciously assented to by Him) he
was content even with apparant losse and disadvantage to him-
selfe to depart with sundrie his Rights of very great value, which
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goodnesse to this people, and his Princely care of their prosperitie
and preservation shall (to the unspeakable joy and comfort of all
his good Subjects) render him glorious to all Posteritie, so the
wicked ingratitude and treacherous disloyaltie of those Rebells
shall render them for ever infamous to all ages, and utterly inex-
cuseable even in the judgement of those, who for any respect
either formerly wished well to their persons, or now pittie them
in their transgressions. And although the said persons now in
Rebellion were in no degree provoked by any just cause of pub-
lique griefe received from his Majestic, or his Ministers, to under-
take such desperate wickednes, neither can justly assigne any
severitie or rigour in the execution of those laws which are in
force in this Kingdome against Papists, nor indeed any cause at
all, other then the unnaturall hatred, which those persons in
Rebellion doe beare to the Brittish and Protestants, whom they
desire and publiquely professe to root out from amongst them.
The more strange, in that very many of themselves are descended
of English ; whence is the originall and foundation of all their
estates, and those great benefits which they have hitherto en-
joyed, and whence their Predecessors, and others then well
affected in this Kingdome, have been at all times since the
Conquest cherrished, releeved, countenanced, and supported,
against the antient enemies of the Kings people of England ;
many of the Irish also having received their estates and liveli-
hood from the unexampled bountie and goodnes of the Kings of
England. Yet such is their inbred ingratitude and disloyalty,
as they conspired to massacre Us the Lords Justices and Coun-
cell, and all the Brittish and Protestants universally throughout
this Kingdome, and to seize into their hands, not onely his
Maiesties Castle of Dublin, the principall fort in this kingdome,
but also all other the Fortifications thereof, though (by the in-

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finite goodnes and mercie of God) those wicked and divellish
Conspiracies were brought to light, and some of the Principall
Conspirators imprisoned in his Majesties Castle of Dublin, by
Us, by his Majesties authoritie, so as those wicked and damnable
plots are disappointed in the chiefe parts thereof, his Majesties said
Castle of Dublin, and Cittie of Dublin being preserved, and put
into such a condition of strength, as if any of them, or their
Adherents shall presume to make any attempt thereupon, they
shall (God willing) receive that correction, shame, confusion
and destruction, which is due to their treacherous and detestable
disloyaltie. And in pursuit of their bloudie intentions, they
assembled themselves in Armes in hostile manner, with banners
displayed, surprised divers of his Majesties Forts and Garrisons,
possessed themselves thereof, robbed and spoyled many thousands
of his Majesties good Subjects, Brittish and Protestants, of all
their goods, dispossessed them of their houses and lands, mur-
dered many of them upon the place, stripped naked many others
of them, and so exposed them to nakednes, cold and famine, as
they thereof dyed, imprisoned many others, some of them per-
sons of eminent qualitie, laid siege to divers of his Majesties
Forts and Townes yet in his Majesties hands, and committed
many other barbarous cruelties and execrable inhumanities, upon
the persons and estates of the Brittish and Protestants, men,
women, and children, in all parts of the Kingdome, without
regard of qualitie, age, or sex. And to cover their wickednes
in those cruell Acts, so to deceive the world, and to make way
(if they could) to the effecting of their mischievous ends, they
adde yet to their wickednes a further degree of impiety, pretend-
ing outwardly, that what they doe, is for the maintenance and
advancement of the King's Prerogative, whereas it appeares
manifestly, that their aimes and purposes inwardly are (if it were

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possible for them so to doe) to wrest from him his Royall
Crowne and Scepter, and his just Soveraigntie over this King-
dome and Nation, and to deprive him, and his lawfull Ministers
of all authoritie and powder here, and to place it on such persons
as they think fit, which can no way stand with his Majesties
just Prerogative ; nor can any equall minded man be seduced to
beleeve that they can wish well to his Royall person, or any
thing that is his, who in their actions have expressed such un-
heard of hatred, malice, and scorne of the Brittish Nation, as
they have done. And such is their madnesse as they consider
not, that his Sacred Majestie disdaines to have his name or
power so boldly traduced by such wicked malefactors, Rebells
having never in any age been esteemed fit supporters of the
Kings Prerogative, much lesse these, who (under countenance
thereof) labor to deface and shake off his Government, and
extirp his most loyall and faithfull Subjects of his other King-
domes and here, whose preservation (above all earthly things) is
and alwayes hath been his Majesties Principall studie and en-
deavor, which even -these Traytors themselves have abundantly
found, with comfort, if they could have been sensible of it. And
whereas divers Lords and Gentlemen of the English Pale pre-
ferred Petition unto Us, in the behalfe of themselves, and the
rest of the Pale, and other the old English of this Kingdome,
shewing that whereas a late Conspiracie of Treason was dis-
covered, of ill-affected persons of the old Irish, and that there-
upon Proclamation was published by Us, wherein (among other
things) it was declared, that the said Conspiracie was perpetrated
by Irish Papists, without distinction of any, and they doubting
that by those generall words of Irish Papists, they might seeme
to be involved, though they declared themselves confident, that
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leaged they were none of the old Irish, nor of their Faction or
Confederacie, but (as they then pretended) altogether averse and
opposite to all their designes, and all others of like condition.
We therefore to give them full satisfaction (having indeed at
that time great confidence in their loyaltie) did by Proclamation
dated the 29. of October 1641. declare and publish, that by the
words Irish Papists, We intended only such of the old meere
Irish in the Province of Ulster, as were then Actors in that
Treason, and others, who adhered to them, and that We did
not any way intend or meane thereby any of the old English of
the Pale, nor of any other parts of this Kingdome, then esteemed
good Subjects, We being then (as We conceived) well assured
of their fidelities to the Crowne, and having experience of the
good affections and services of their Ancestors, in former times
of danger and Rebellion. And indeed so beleeving were We in
their faithfulnes and loyaltie to the Crown, as We then also
represented it into England for their advantage, and thereupon
in the Order of the Lords and Commons in the Parliament in
England concerning Ireland, his Majesties loyall Subjects of
English Bloud, though of the Romish Religion, being ancient
Inhabitants within severall Counties and parts of this Realme
are mentioned, as those who have alwayes in former Rebellions
given testimony of their fidelity to the Crowne of England.
And in further testimony of the good affiance We had in their
loyaltie. We issued Armes to the severall Counties of the Eng-
lish Pale, the better to enable them to discharge their duties, in
defending those parts, and his Majesties good Subjects therein,
against the Rebells, upon deep Professions of loyaltie made by
them, and their seeming detestation of the loathsomnes of the
crimes, and bloudie guilts of the Rebells, which they for their
parts professed (with many oathes and protestations) to abhorre.

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and promised to oppose and resist them, with all their power.
And We issued Armes also to many Noblemen and Gentlemen
of the Pale, and elsewhere, of the Romish Religion, for the de-
fence of their houses, against the Rebells. Yet much contrary
to the expectation of all equall minded men, and in deceit of the
trust reposed in them by this State, and directly contrary as to
their loyaltie and dutie to his Majestie, so to the great profes-
sions which they had so lately before made at this Councell
Board, many of those as well whole Counties, as particular per-
sons entrusted with those Armes, revolted to the Rebells, carried
his Majesties Armes with them, and so the Armes which were
trusted into their hands, for the protection of his Majesties good
Subjects, they converted to the annoyance and destruction (as
much as in them lay) of those good Subjects they were trusted
to protect, and of this State and Government, and have not
only not resisted the Rebells, but have also joyned with them,
and they and the Rebells assembled in Armes in hostile manner,
with banners displayed, against his Majestie, in besieging some
of his Townes, taking into their possession by force or fraud
many of his Majesties Burroughs, walled and unwalled, and in
committing murders, spoyles, robberies, and many detestable
cruelties on his Majesties good Subjects. And although those
of the Pale, pretended that they were not able to assemble or
arme any strength against the Rebells, yet lately they found
meanes to assemble, and arme great multitudes to assist the
Rebells against his Majesties forces, and against his Maiesties
Government, and this State : And aswell the persons who were
the first Actors in this Rebellion, as also many others in the
English Pale, and severall other parts of the Kingdome, forgett-
ing those duties which (by the Lawes of God and man) are
due from them to his Sacred Majestie, are so ungrateful! to his

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Majestic for the great and abundant benefits and favours from
Him, and his Royall Father, and Predecessors derived to them,
so insensible of the happines wrhich they (with all others in this
Kingdome) enjoyed by his blessed Government, and so improvi-
dent to themselves and their posterity, as they have presumed
most unnaturally to conspire, raise, and act those abhominable
Treasons and Rebellion against his Majestie, as is herein for-
merly mentioned : And forasmuch as those Rebells, and particu-
larly Sir Con Magenis of Newcastle in the Countie of Downe
Knight, Patrick mac Cartan of Loghnelan in the said Countie,
Art oge mac Glasny Magenis of Ilanderry in the said County,
Ever mac Phelim Magenis of Castlewelan in the said County,
Rory mac Brian oge Magenis late of Edenteecullagh in the said
County, Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely of Ballinecarrig
in the Countie of Cavan, Phillip mac Mulmorry 6 Rely of Lis-
more in the said Countie, Mulmorry mac Edmond 6 Rely of
Cavet in the said County, Hugh Boy mac Shane 6 Rely of
Kilmore in the said County, Owen mac Shane mac Phillip 6
Rely of the same, Rory Magwyre of Hassets-towne in the
County of Fermanagh, brother to the Lord Magwyre, Donogh
bane Magwyre of Carrow in the said County, Uncle to the said
Lord Magwyre, Brian mac Cowconnaght Magwyre of Tempoe,
in the said County, Sir Phelim 6 Neale of Kinard in the County
of Tyrone, Knight, Tirlagh Roe 6 Neale, brother to the said
Sir Phelim, Tirlagh Groome 6 Quin of Donoghmore in the
said Countie, Cormock mac Owin oge 6 Hagan of Mullinecor in
the said County, Patrick Modder 6 Donelly of Crosskanena in
the said County, Art mac Tirlagh mac Henry 6 Neale of
Devernagh in the County of Armagh, Tirlagh mac Henry mac
Tirlagh 6 Neale of the Fues in the said County, Hugh oge 6
Neale of Aghadamph in the said County, Donogh oge 6 Mur-

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chie of Cashell in the said County, CoUo mac Brian mac Ma-
howne of Balloghie in the County of Monaghan, Neale mac
Kena of the Trough in the said County, Coolo mac Ever mac
Mahowne of [blani] in the said County, Art Roe mac Patricic
mac Art Moyle mac Mahowne of Fanahah in the said County,
Captain Hugh mac Phelim Birne late of Ballinecor in the
County of Wicklo, Shane mac Brien mac Phelim Birne late
of Carrigocroe in the said County, Luke alias Feagh 6 Toole of
Castlekeven in the said County, Luke alias Feagh mac Redmond
Birne of Kilcloghran in the said County, Redmond mac Feagh
Birne late of Kilvane in the said County, Phelim mac Redmond
Birne late of the same in the said County, Dermot mac Dowlin
Cavenagh of Ballidony in the Countie of Wexford, Lewis alias
Lisagh mac Owny Dempsie of Rahynne in the Kings Countie,
Art 6 Molloy of Rathlyan in the said County, Hubert Fox of
Kilcoursie in the said Countie, Owen 6 Molloy of Clonekeene
in the said Countie, Florence mac Shane Fitz-Patrick of Castle-
towne in the Queenes County, Barnabie Dempsie of Knockar-
degur in the said Countie, Daniel Doine of Tenehinche in the
said County, Barnabie Fitz-Patrick of Raghdowny in the said
County, lames mac Fergus mac Donell of Taghnekillie in the
said County, Francis mac Faghny 6 Farrall of the Mote in the
County of Longford, William Farrall of Ballintobber in the
said County, lames mac Conell Farrall of Tenelecke in the
said Countie, Oliver Boy Fitz-Gerrald of [blanil in the said
County, Pierse Fitz-Gerrald of Ballysonan in the County of
Kildare, Maurice Eustace of Castle-Martin in the said County,
Nicholas Sutton of Tipper in the said County, Roger alias Rory
6 More of Ballynah in the said County, William Fitz-Gerrald
of Blackball in the said County, Robert Preston, brother to the
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County of Meath, brother to the Lo. Baron of Slane, Patrick
Cusacke of Gerrards-towne in the said County, Edward Beragh
of Moynaltie in the said County, Gerrald Leins of the Knock
in the said County, Luke Netervill of Corballies in the County
of Dubhn, son to the Lo. Viscount Netervill, George Kinge of
Clontarfe in the said County, Richard Barnewall of Lespopell in
the said County, Colonell Richard Plunkett late of Dunsoghlie
in the said County, Mathew Talbot late of Kilgobban in the
said County, lohn Stanley of Malletts-towne alias Marletts-
towne in the County of Lowth, lohn Bellew of Willets-towne
in the said County, Christopher Barnewall of Rathaskett alias
Rathasker in the said County, and Oliver Cashell of Dundalk in
the said County : Instead of that dutie and loyaltie, which his
Majesties good and gracious Government might justly have
wrought in them, have returned nothing but those fruits of
Treason and Rebellion, to the disturbance of the publique Peace,
and happines of this Kingdome, and to the destruction (asmuch
as in them lay) of this State and Government, and of the per-
sons and estates of many thousands of his Majesties good and
faithfuU Subjects therein, whereby they have shewed themselves
to be most ungrateful!, detestable, vile and unnaturall Traytors
and Rebells : We therefore according to the custome of this
Councell Board in cases of this nature (though no former Rebel-
lion can paralell this for acts of crueltie and horrid crimes) doe
by this present Proclamation in his Majesties name, and by his
Majesties Authoritie, declare, publish and proclaime them, the
said Sir Con Magenis, Patrick mac Cartan, Art oge mac Glasny
Magenis, Ever mac Phelim Magenis, Rory mac Brien oge
Magenis, Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely, Phillip mac
Mulmorry 6 Rely, Mulmorry mac Edmond 6 Rely, Hugh Boy
mac Shane 6 Rely, Owen mac Shane mac Phillip 6 Rely, Rory

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Magwire, Donogh Bane Magwire, Brian mac Cowcannaght
Magwire, Sir Phelim 6 Neale, Tirlagh Roe 6 Neale, Tirlagh
Groome 6 Quin, Cormock mac Owin 6 Hagan, Patrick Mod-
der 6 Donnelly, Art mac Tirlagh mac Henry 6 Neale, Tirlagh
mac Henry mac Tirlagh 6 Neale, Hugh oge 6 Neale, Donnogh
oge 6 Murchie, Collo mac Brien mac Mahowne, Neale mac
Kena, Coolo mac Ever mac Mahowne, Art Roe mac Patrick
mac Art Moile mac Mahowne, Captain Hugh mac Phelim
Birne, Shane mac Brien mac Phelim Birne, Luke alias Feogh 6
Toole, Luke alias Feogh mac Redmond Birne, Redmond mac
Feogh Birne, Phelim mac Redmond Birne, Dermott mac Dow-
lin Cavenaghj Lewis alias Lisagh mac Owny Dempsie, Art 6
Molloy, Hubert Fox, Owen 6 Molloy, Florence mac Shane
Fitz-Patrick, Barnabie Dempsie, Daniel Doine, Barnabie Fitz-
Patrick, lames mac Fergus mac Donell, Francis mac Faghny 6
Farrall, William Farrall, lames mac Conell Farrall, Oliver Boy
Fitz-Gerrald, Pierse Fitz-Gerrald, Maurice Eustace, Nicholas
Sutton, Roger alias Rory 6 More, William Fitz-Gerrald, Robert
Preston, lames Fleming, Patrick Cusacke, Edward Betagh,
Gerrald Leins, Luke Netervill, George Kinge, Richard Barne-
wall, Colonell Richard Plunket, Mathew Talbot, lohn Stanley,
lohn Bellew, Christopher Barnewall and Oliver Cashell, and
every of them, and all their and every of their partakers, aiders,
maintainers, comforters, confederates, complices and associats,
apparant notorious, ungratefull, wicked, vile and unnaturall
Traytors and Rebells, against our most gracious Soveraigne Lord
Charles by the Grace of God King of England, Scotland, France
and Ireland defender of the Faith, &c. his Royall Crowne and
dignitie of this Realme, and malicious oppugners of his Majesties
Royall Soveraigntie, Preheminences and Prerogatives, willing
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good and loving Subjects, to pursue and plague with fire and
sword, apprehend, destroy and kill, by all the wayes and meanes
they may, all the said persons, their partakers, aiders, maintainers,
comforters, confederates, complices and associats, as apparant
notorious, ungratefull, wicked, vile, detestable and unnaturall
Traytors and Rebells. And We doe hereby make known to all
men, as well good Subjects as all others, that whosoever he or
they be that shall betwixt this and the five and twentieth day of
March next, kill and bring, or cause to be killed and brought
unto Us, the Lords Justices, or other chiefe Governour or Gover-
nors of this Kingdome for the time being, the Head of the said
Sir Philem 6 Neale, or of the said Sir Con Magenis, or of the said
Rory Magwire, or of the said Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6
Rely, or of the said Collo mac Brien mac Mahon, who were of
the Principall Conspirators, and have been the first and principall
Actors in this present Rebellione, or they shall have by way of
reward, for every of the said last named persons, so by him to be
killed, and his or their head or heads brought to Us, the Lords
Justices, or other chiefe Governour or Governors of this King-
dome, as aforesaid, as followeth : viz. for the head of the said Sir
Philem 6 Neale, One thousand pounds, for the head of the said
Sir Con Magenis, six hundred pounds, for the head of the said
Rory Magwire, six hundred pounds, for the head of the said
Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely, six hundred pounds, for
the head of the said Collo mac Brian mac Mahon, six hundred
pounds, and Pardon for all his or their Offences, that shall kill,
and so bring in, or cause to be killed, and so brought in, the said
head or heads. And whosoever shall within the said time, by
any meanes stay, or kill, as aforesaid, the said Sir Philem 6 Neale,
Sir Con Magenis, Rory Magwire, Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane
6 Rely, and Collo mac Brian mac Mahowne, or any of them,
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though such person or persons, so slaying or killing the said
Traytors, or any of them, bring not, or cause not to be brought
to Us, the Lords Justices, or other chief Governour or Gover-
nors of this Kingdome, the head or heads of the said Traytor
or Traytors : Yet being justly proved, shall forthwith upon
proofe so made, receive the revi^ard, viz. for the said Sir Philem
6 Neale eight hundred pounds, for the said Sir Con Magenis
foure hundred pounds, for the said Rory Magwire foure hun-
dred pounds, for the said Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely
foure hundred pounds, and for the said Collo mac Brien mac
Mahovsrne foure hundred pounds, and Pardon for all his or their
Offences, that shall so kill the said last mentioned persons, or
any of them. And for asmuch as the other Rebells above
named, have most trayterously combined in the wicked and
abominable Councells of the said five other persons last above
named, and have been Partakers with them in this their most
bloudie designe, for the Extirpation of the Brittish and Protes-
tants, and depriving his Majestie of the Soveraignty of this His
Kingdome of Ireland, many of which Rebells stand indicted of
High Treason. We doe therefore make known and declare to
all men, aswell his Majesties loving Subjects, as all others ; That
whosoever under the degree of a Knight, other then the said
Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely, & Collo mac Brian mac
Mahowne, and other then the said Luke Toole, and other then
the children and grand-children of the late trayterously descended
Traytor, Feagh mac Hugh Birne, and other then the said Rory
alias Roger 6 More (We not holding it fit that the most malig-
nant Conspirators should obtain Pardon for so high and hainous
offences, & the causelesse destruction of so many thousands of
Innocents, upon the onely service of cutting off persons of no
greater consideration) shall betwixt this and the five and twen-

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tieth day of March next, kill and bring, or cause to be killed and
brought in to Us, the Lords Justices, or other cheife Governour
or Governors of this Kingdome, as aforesaid, the head or heads
of the said Patrick mac Cartan, Art oge mac Glasny Magenis,
Ever mac Phelim Magenis, Rory mac Brian oge Magenis,
Philhp mac Mulmorry 6 Rely, Mulmorry mac Edmond 6 Rely,
Hugh Boy mac Shane 6 Rely, Owen mac Shane mac Phillip 6
Rely, Donogh Bane Magwire, Brian mac Cowcannaght Mag-
wire, Tirlagh Roe 6 Neale, Tirlagh Groome 6 Quin, Cormock
mac Owin oge 6 Hagan, Patrick Modder 6 Donelly, Art mac
Tirlagh mac Henry 6 Neale, Tirlagh mac Henry mac Tirlagh
6 Neale, Hugh oge 6 Neale, Donogh oge 6 Murchie, Neale
mac Kena, Coolo mac Ever mac Mahowne, Art Roe mac Pat-
rick mac Art Moyle mac Mahowne, Captain Hugh mac Phelim
Birne, Shane mac Brien mac Phelim Birne, Luke alias Feagh 6
Toole, Luke alias Feagh mac Redmond Birne, Redmond mac
Feagh Birne, Phelim mac Redmond Birne, Dermot mac Dowlin
Cavenagh, Lewis alias Lisagh mac Owny Dempsie, Art 6 Mol-
loy, Hubert Fox, Owen 6 Molloy, Florence mac Shane Fitz-
Patrick, Barnabie Dempsie, Daniel Doine, Barnabie Fitz-Patrick,
lames mac Fergus mac Donell, Francis mac Faghny 6 Farrall,
WiUiam Farrall, lames mac Conell Farrall, Oliver Boy Fiz-
Gerrald, Pierse Fitz-Gerrald, Maurice Eustace, Nicholas Sutton,
Roger alias Rory 6 More, William Fitz-Gerrald, Robert Preston,
lames Fleming, Patrick Cusacke, Edward Betagh, Gerrald Leins,
Luke Netervill, George Kinge, Richard Barnewall, Colonell
Richard Plunkett, Mathew Talbot, lohn Stanley, lohn Bellew,
Christopher Barnewall, and Oliver Cashell, or any of them, he
shall have by way of reward for every of the said last mentioned
persons, so by him to be killed, and his or their head or heads
brought to Us, the Lords Justices, or other chiefe Governour or

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Governors of this Kingdome, as aforesaid, foure hundred pounds,
and pardon for all his or their Offences, that shall bring in, or
cause to be brought in, the said head or heads, and whosoever
under the degree of a Knight, as aforesaid, other then the said
Phillip mac Hugh mac Shane 6 Rely, Collo mac Brien mac
Mahowne, Luke Toole, and the children and grand-children of
Feagh mac Hugh aforesaid, and the said Rory alias Roger 6
More, shall by any meanes, within the said time, slay or kill the
said Tray tors, viz. Patrick mac Cartan, Art oge mac Glasny
Magenis, Ever mac Phelim Magenis, Rory mac Brien oge
Magenis, Phillip mac Mulmorry 6 Rely, Mulmorry mac Edmond
6 Rely, Hugh Boy mac Shane 6 Rely, Owen mac Shane mac
Phillip 6 Rely, Donogh Bane Magwyre, Brian mac Cowcon-
naght Magwyre, Tirlagh Roe 6 Neale, Tirlagh Groome 6 Quin,
Cormock mac Owen oge 6 Hagan, Patrick Modder 6 Donnelly,
Art mac Tirlagh mac Henry 6 Neale, Tirlagh mac Henry mac
Tirlagh 6 Neale, Hugh oge 6 Neale, Donogh oge 6 Murchie,
Neale mac Kena, Collo mac Ever mac Mahowne, Art Roe mac
Patrick mac Art Moyle mac Mahowne, Captain Hugh mac
Phelim Birne, Shane mac Brien mac Phelim Birne, Luke alias
Feagh 6 Toole, Luke alias Feagh mac Redmond Birne, Red-
mond mac Feagh Birne, Phelim mac Redmond Birne, Dermot
mac Dowlin Cavenagh, Lewis alias Lisagh mac Owny Dempsie,
Art 6 Molloy, Hubert Fox, Owen 6 Molloy, Florence mac
Shane Fitz-Patrick, Barnaby Dempsie, Daniel Doine, Barnaby
Fitz- Patrick, lames mac Fergus mac Donell, Francis mac Faghny
6 Farrall, William Farrall, lames mac Conell Farrall, Oliver Boy
Fitz-Gerrald, Pierse Fitz-Gerrald, Maurice Eustace, Nicholas
Sutton, Roger alias Rory 6 More, William Fitz-Gerrald, Robert
Preston, lames Fleming, Patrick Cusacke, Edward Betagh, Ger-
rald Leins, Luke Netervill, George Kinge, Richard Barnewall,

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Colonell Richard Plunket, Mathew Talbot, lohn Stanley, lohn
Bellew, Christopher Barnewall, and Oliver Cashell, or any of
them, though such person or persons, so slaying or killing the
said Traytors, or any of them, bring not, or cause not to be
brought to Us, the Lords Justices, or other chief Governour or
Governors of this Kingdome, as aforesaid, the head or heads of
the said Tray tor or Traytors, yet being justly proved, shall forth-
with upon proofe so made, receive the reward of Three hundred
pounds, for every of the said last named persons so killed and
proved, and shall have Pardon for all his or their Offences, that
shall so slay or kill the said Traytors, or any of them.

Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin the 8. day of Feb-
ruary. 1 64 1.

Ormond Ossory. R. Dillon. Cha. Lambart.

Ad. Loftus. I. Temple. Cha. Coote.

Tho. Rotherham. Fra. Willoughby. Rob. Meredith.

God save the King.
DXIV. Phillip McCragh to Cap. Croker : 1641.

This is No. 152 of vol. xxii., and and is addressed, "To his WorfuU
and louinge Neigbour Hugh Crokker, Esq"', these be," and endorsed, " 10
fFebruary 1641. A lettre from Phillipp m" Cragh to Captain Croker report-
ing that the Earle of Ormond is taken prisoner." The writing is abomi-
nably illegible and the phrasing formless. — G.

Woorthey Neighbour, True it is that off two eauills y° leaste
is to be chosen, as you wrytt vnto me, yeet it is no easie matter
to put one downe (as divers of my betters would) but not soe
easie to be put upp (Especiallie nowe in me owlde age) and ther
professiiig me noe harme : Soe I Joine with them, which I will
not doe till I see the last man born, but one Landlord, who is

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moste wrongd off all syds and such treats [threats] and burn-
ninge & robbinge there is and such extorcions, as I am nowe (in
a maRer a day after the marckett) making upp whate men I can
to defend me self the best I can, and to Joine with aiiie releefe
that might com soone to quaile these exstorcious forces ; which
if it can not tyimelie I must sinck or Joine with the rest off the
County, which are all upp except me Landlord and Phill Powe[r],
and I hope if I be off necessitie driuen for the safetie off me lyfe
and goods (hauing (god blesse them) a howse full off younge
children) I hope me Noble frends will holde me excused (for
necessitie has noe lawe) and vppon the first suplie I shalbe one as
reddie to serue at coiSand, for neuer withoute the helpe off som
off the Irish, seruice coulde not be well effected in this land (as
you well know). Verte folio, two gentlemen off the Lord off
Montgarrets troope weare deadlie wounded at the seige of the
Castle off cnockardne, [?] and caried in litters to the County off
Killkenye, where one off them for certaine dyed : thei reporte that
a greate ouertrowe was given by the Irish aboute Dublin, in
which thei reporte the Noble Earle off ormond to haue beene
taken prisoner : the armies treathned to haue beane apointed to
com to whitechurch Wednesday last, haue diffected theire cominge
then, but when thei com, or whither thei com att all I knowe not.
Remember me duetie to my Noble Lord y^ Earle off Corcke, and
I longe to here soiii comfort from hem ; Soe hopeinge that he,
and you and all Judicious men will Judge better off matters
Intricatt (nay rather perillus) then your raginge soninlawe whoe
can not houlde his townge but with the assistance off manie off
his Concerts provoakes manie, nay Incesses divers to be woorse
then otherwise thei woulde be ; which me thingks you shooulde
doe well, to disuade hem from, till he weare able to effect it with
deeds, & not in malicious envious woords (not a whitt avayling

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&) but rather enccuringe manie well disposed men; and soe
with a tedious letter (though in greate haste (as y° bearer
knoweth) Comittinge you to god, rests yoor woorships lovinge
frend Pehill Makrbagh.

Curragh sre steadie 10° february 1641.

DXV. The Lord President of Munster to Cork :

1641.

This is No. 153 of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "To the right hon'''^ my
very good Lord the Earle of Corke," and endorsed, " 10° ffebruar 1641.
ffrom the lo. President signifyeing the greate exigents to which he is reduced,
and to send the money to Corlce by a safe Convoy." — G.

My good Lord, I shall not need to write much vnto your lord-
ship, theis two Noblemen comeing towardf you in person, who
will relate vnto you the deplorable condicon wee are in ; which
I can only condole with your lordship, and hope that now wee are
reduced to the worst of Exigentf it will please God to releue vs
with succor, and to advaunce vs out of the depth of misery to
the heigth of Comfort in his goode tyme. It remaynes only
for mee to desire your lordship that you would bee pleased to
send that money for which wee haue giuen bond, vnto the Citty
of Cork, vnder a safe Convoy of part of my Lord Barrymore's
troope, and my Lord of Broghall's deducting only fowre score
pound^ to bee devided betwixt the two foot Companyes, which
I now send your lordship for the guard of that Towne ; Re-
mayneing your Lordships affectionate freind and servant W. S^
Leger.

Downeraile x° febr. 1641.

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DXVI. Earl of Warwick to Cork: 1641.

This Is No. 154.* of vol. xxii., and is addressed, "for my noble brother
the Earle of Corke at Yoghall, in Ireland," and endorsed, " 1 9° Martij 1 641.
ifrom the Earle of Warwick." — G.

Noble Brother, I am suer my son Charles will giue you a
trew intelligence of what hath past hear by the base usadge of
M'' Banks, who you intrusted to pay him the rest of the looo''
you left with Banks for him : I will only tell you he put him to
sue for his mony with a great expence to Charles and now to
difer him he brings a writt of error. It hath made Charles lerne
law to meet with a cosning knaue, and now Charles tells me
Banks is going ouer to lerland. If he comes to you, I prey take
heed of him for eury on[e] hear giues him bankerout as well as
periured. The windes hanging at west keeps our horse and foot
still at Chester that should come to your healpe. Hear is a braue
proposition made by some of the Citty of London that 2000 of
this towne will lay downe 500'' a man and will undertake to pay
the 15000 foot and the 2000 houle [whole] English and the
ioooo Scotts, and their 700 horse, and send loooo English more
to dispetch your war all this socuer, if they may haue out of the
rebells lands 1000 acers of land for eury 200'' in Vlster, and in
Mounster for eury 400'' 1000 acers out of the rebells lands ; and
will plant it all with Protestant tenants. This I hope will sone
rid of the rebells, for men haue written loooo'' a man, and to
morrow it wilbe proposed to the houses. Wee haue past an
ordinance of parlement for 35000'' in victuell for lerland, that is
5000" for London Derry, 5000" for Yohall, loooo" for Dublin
and 15000'' for Knockfergus, and merchants haue undertaken
to doe it who are to bee paid by the Lord Maior of London
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ConoWay goes away towards you to morrow and Sir Jhon Clat-
worthy and my lord Leftenant hastens towards you as fast as he
can ; Wee haue intercepted both from Spaine and France Irish
comanders and Preests that wear coming to you. This day his
majestic past by Comission a bill to cast the Bishops out of our
bowse and an other bill to presse men for lerland. The Queen
is gone towards the sea side to goe in to Holland to carry ouer
the Princes Mary, but it is beleeued yett she will not goe, This
day the house of Comons intercepted [a] Letter of the lord
George Digby to Sir Lewis Diues [?] and to the Queen, which
I beleeue will ruine him. God almighty keep you and all in that
kingdome, and send the winds to turne, that our healps may
come seasnebly to you, The Scotts are hastned away to you and
the treaty finished ; and so with my Loue to you I rest your
affectionate brother to serue you, Warwick.

IV. P P

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page i. 'Sir Pierce Crosby' — See also pp. 34, 38, 48, fg.
By the kindness of Miss A. M. Rowan (daughter of the late
Ven. Archdeacon Rowan), a considerable number of MS. papers
relative to the Crosbies, have been placed at my disposal. They
ought certainly in some form or other to be utilized, opening
up as they do a sub-chapter in the many high-handed doings of
StraflFord. As, however, only one outstanding name of this
family chances to occur in these " Lismore Papers," and that
only incidentally, I cannot — besides waning space — avail myself
of very much. From one pedigree Crosbie MS., I glean this on
the present Crosbie : " Sir Peirce Crosbie, Bart., was colonel of
an Irish regiment at the Siege of Rochelle under the Duke of
Buckingham, and also served under the great Adolphus, King of
Sweden, in his German wars, and landed with that monarch at
Stralsund in Pomerania. Upon his return from Rochelle in
July, 1629, Charles I^' directed the Lords of the Council in
England, to write in his behalf to the Lord Viscount Falkland,
then Lord Deputy of Ireland, that Sir Peirce's regiment which
he brought over with him should be put upon the Establishment.
[This letter will be found in extenso in Rushworth, s.n.\ This
Sir Peirce Crosbie had the misfortune among other loyal sub-

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jects, to incur the resentment of the Earl of Strafford, for
opposing in Parliament the violent measures of that nobleman ;
to avoid [the effects of] which he was obliged to quit the king-
dom. An account of the Earl's charge against him may be seen
in Lord Strafford's Letters. A second Prosecution which the
Earl commenced against him in the Court of Star-chamber in
England, with Sir Peirce's Defence and Condemnation, may be
found at large in Rushworth's ' Collections.' After this Trial,
he was confined in the Fleet Prison ; whence he escaped and
went ' beyond seas.' There he continued until the time of the
Earl of Strafford's trial in 1640, when he became in his turn an
Evidence against him. It then appeared that Sir Peirce Crosbie
had been sequestrated from the Council Table in Ireland, for
his voting against a Bill in the House of Commons, which had
been sent in by the Lord Deputy. The Journals of the House
of Commons in Ireland confirm this fact, and take notice that
he was imprisoned in the castle of Dublin for the space of
eighteen days ; and this on the bare suspicion of a libel. But
nothing then appearing against him, he was discharged upon bail.
Sir Peirce charged the Earl of Strafford with saying in the hearing
of both Houses of Parliament, that Ireland was a conquered king-
dom and that the conquerors should give the law. Sir Peirce
dying without issue left the whole of his estate to his cousin-
germans, Sir Walter and Col. David Crosbie, sons to John, Bishop
Crosbie." The after-story of the family is fully told, but with
it there is no concern here. Thomas, son of the above David,
married for second wife, Bridget, daughter of Tynte — for ever
lustrous from the marriage of Spenser's "Elizabeth "to Sir Robert
Tynt. Amongst these Crosbie MSS. further is a pathetic
"humble petticon of Morice Fitz Gerrald of Gallerus " to our
" Great Earl." The " poore and miserable " petitioner seeks

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permission to sell certain " small lands " held by him from the
Earl, and without which sale he must "beg from doore to
doore." It is satisfactory to know that Lord Cork gave his " free
consent." Another document is the " Articles Concluded be-
tween the R' H. Lord Broghill and Col. David Crosbie upon
the surrender of the Forte of Kinsale unto the Lord Broghill by
the Colonel, 16*'' November 1649." Though anticipative and
beyond the final dates of these " Lismore Papers," it seems
expedient to preserve these Articles as follows : —

" The said Lord Broghill for the several considerations him
thereunto moving, and especially for and in consideration of the
surrender of the said Forte (to the use of the Parliament of
England) and that the said Colonel hath been a great sufferer
by the Rebellion of Ireland, and a Reliever of the distressed
English, hath, and by these presents doth promise and undertake
that he, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assignes, shall
haue, hould and enjoy, all the lands which he had and enjoyed
before the dates Hereof, or of right ought to haue possessed
or enjoyed as his inheritance, or by way of Mortgage, lease or
otherwise, in as free and ample a Manner as any Protestant shall
enjoy and possess his estate in the Province of Munster. That
the serving under the Marquis of Ormond and Lord of Inche-
quin when they had a cessation with the Irish or concluded a
peace with them, shall be no bar or hinderance to his enjoying
and possessing of his Estates as aforesaid, nor Exclude nor hinder
him of any Employment either Martial or Civil, as if he had
never acted for or with Either of them. For further assurance
and satisfaction, the said Lord of Broghill hath and doth under-
take and promise that the Lord General Cromwell, Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, shall confirm these Articles, when it shall be
decided by the said Col. Crosby, his heirs and assignes. In

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witnes whereof the said Lord Broghill hath hereunto subscribed
his hand, the day and yeer before said. Broghill."

Page i. 'the Marquess' — Qy. Hamilton of Scotland or
Buckingham ? see p. 2. ' Lindsey ' — See " Lives of the Lind-
says," by the Earl Crawford and Balcarras, 3 vols. ' tooke one of
f pikes,' &c. — How History repeats itself! Our present-day
bayonets have been condemned by the hundred.

Page 2. ' Beleancoe ' = Balcanquhall — a once notorious
rather than famous political divine, of slippery character. See
Stephen's " National Biography," s.n.

Page 3. ' Nicholas Rowe ' — One would gladly have found
this to have been the dramatic poet, author of " Jane Shore "
and other still quick plays; but he came later (b. 1673, ^- ^7^^)-
As the name is rare, this was probably an ancestor. ' lay heere '
— A vulgarism not to be accepted even from Lord Byron's use
of it in the great shipwreck scene of " Childe Harold."

Page 6. ^famiarly ' = familiarly.

Page 7. ' a Play Acted in English ' — " Drat the boy " that
he did not tell what the Play was ; but the " Great Earl " had
no great love of theatricals. ' defeast ' = defeat. ' Switzer of
Heauen ' — The allusion is to the famous mercenary guard of
Swiss soldiers. ' Bezace ' — See context for its nature.

Page 8. 'bolt-right^ — bolt upright, still used. ' Bayle ' —
An annoying printers' error for ' Boyle.' ' Sir Robert Park-
hurst ' — Long forgotten, but evidently, though impecunious, a
man of honour.

Page 12. ' Couenanters' — Note to be taken of this afterwards
historic name given to the Scots.

Page 13. ' Anckeram' = Ancram, or Ancrum — a long paled
name. ' Bishop of Lincolnes cause ' — The stormy prelate, Wil-
liams, a capable but shifty man. ' Baron Denham ' — See the

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 295

" Peerages," s.n. — this line (apparently) extinct. ' Plowden' —
The celebrated Jurist (b. 1517, d. 1585) was father of this
somewhat less known, yet very able, lawyer, 'parson ' = per-
son — these spellings bewray ' the pronunciation. ' voyage ' =
journey — used interchangeably for land and sea.

Page 14. ' Sir Hary Vaine ' — The Vane of history.
' Sucklin ' = Sir John Suckling, the poet of the " Wedding."
' Hamberton ' = Hamilton.

Page 15. 'atone' = make it up to — to be noted philologi-
cally-theologically.

Page 16. ' lone ' — Qy. loss ? Or it may have been a mort-
gage was meant — i.e., loan on.

Page i 7. ' Earl of Essex ' — Destined to go for the kingdom
against the King, and for law as opposed to 'divine right.' ' the
two nations ' — Shrewd Scotchmen saw from the beginning how
necessary it was that the ' two nations ' of England and Scotland
should be one in all essentials, as for many a generation they
have happily been. But it is to be noted that the result has been
attained by no sacrifice on the part of the smaller nationality of
its own laws, customs, usages, or peculiar characteristics or traits.
It is infinitely to be desired that the same fusion, without con-
fusion, had been attained in respect of Ireland. For myself
I hold it sheer nonsense to imagine that in everything Ireland
ought to be governed as England and Scotland, and whilst it is
offensive, or may be turned to offence, to have an Irish land law,
Irish coercion law, &c. &c., yet it is surely possible to have
legislation for the United Kingdom wherein the exceptional
elements should spring out of mere exceptional circumstances
and traditional usage. It lies on the surface that continuous force
as a remedy is an outstanding condemnation of the stronger
power that resorts to it ; and an infamy that things are still done

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in Ireland (as for a century in Scotland after the Union) that
dare not be attempted in England. As a Scot, it must be per-
mitted me to be proud that Sandy has always held his own
against John Bull, from Bannockburn onward. ^hithertiW =
hitherto.

Page 18. '■ vnderseved ' = undeserved. ' namely ' — This
use to be noted.

Page 19. 'occasionally^ = on occasion. ^ my lord Say' —
The table-tomb of his " fair lady " is still to be seen in Con-
necticut, looking forth on the Atlantic — a pathetic story.

Page 20. ' Earle of BristoW — See ist Series, ii., 400-1.

Page 21. '■Conjurations' = oaths.

Page 22. ' Marquis of Hunt ly ' — See Scottish Peerages, s.n.

Page 27. ' The reformacon of the churche of Scotland' — See
Froude's " Short Studies " — " Influence of the Reformation on
Scotch Character."

Page 29. ' delating ' — qu. debating. See last line of this
page. But there is such a word as = summoning or calling.
'deacons' — Long obsolete in the Church of Scotland.

Page 34. ' Barrymore ' — See 1st Series, index in vol. v., s.n.

Page 36. 'Sir Thomas Stafford' — Ibid.

Page 37. ' vant curriers' = avant couriers. 'press' =
forced enlistment.

Page 39. ' letts ' — The common use of ' letts ' along with
' hindrances,' shows that it must have had a shade of different
meaning from the latter. I have not found the thing dealt with
in the authorities.

Page 40. ' Tivede ' = Tweed — the glory of the Land of
Scott. ' lord of Holland' — See ist Series, ii., 421.

Page 42. 'Sir William Brunkard' — A once prominent
name — long gone into oblivion.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 297

Page 43. ' Earl of Antrim ' — See Burke, s. n. ' backside ' —
doubtless by Portpatrick.

Page 44. ' Duns ' — Curiously enough, this old spelling has
recently been revived, and the somew^hat suggestive name of
' Dunse ' = dunce, abolished in the place. ' Duns Scotus ' is
oddly associated with this interesting little border town.

Page 45. ' Kelsy' = Kelso. See p. 57.

Page 46. ' soop ' = sop ? or qu. stop ?

Page 48. ' Arthur Jones' — On Joneses,see ist Series, Index,
vol. v., s. n. ' lord of Kildare ' — Frequently occurs in these
" Lismore Papers." ' Littlehead' = Linlithgow. But seeDun-
garvan's letter, p. 45. This must have been a distinct though
strangely similar misadventure.

Page 51. ' duddow' — Not recognizable.

Page 53. ' Sir John Jacob ' — Unknown to Editor.

Page 55. 'Arch Bishopp' = Laud. See also pp. 70-1.
' teachy ' = tetchy, now touchy or irritable. ' Juny ' = Junij ,

Page 59. 'censure' = judgment, utfreq.

Page 63. ' Tables ' = Council Tables.

Page 70. Letter of the " Great Earl " to Goringe. I find
this letter will be better utilized in the full ' Life ' of the " Great
Earl" (in this vol. v.). Therefore instead of giving it here (as
stated in p. 70) the reader is referred to the ' Life.'

Page 73. ' General Leslie ' — A name of lustre in the proud
story of Scotland. Cromwell found him foemen worthy of his
steel. ' Sir John Berlacie ' — Borlasse ?

Page 75. ^ good fellowship ' = drinking together.

Page 83. ' boy-wench ' — A happy coinage explained by the
queer incident in the context.

Page 84. ' Totness' — See ist Series, ii., 421.

Page 88. ' Germin ' = Jermyn.

IV. CLQ.

zg? NOTES AND ILLUSrRATIOtJS.

Page 89. 'resent' = feel sensibly (in a good sense).

Page 94. ' Vindicate ' — Scotch speakers and writers affected
this lopping off of ' d.' So ' pVeiudicate ' below.

Page 96. ' Dmkerks ' = Dunkirkers, semi-piratical vessels.
' Kyligry ' — Later, a mal-influence. He is known as ' King's
Jester," died 1682. See pp. 113, 114, 193, 202, 203, 233,

235-
Page 102. 'hable' — Even this scholarlyand cultured French-
man fell in with the unhappy ' h ' usage.

Page 107. ' Bealick ' — See ist Series, ii., 357, 397.

Page 109. 'Sir Abraham Dawes ' (1639).

Page 114. 'Doublets of ruhys'' = the buttons whereof
were rubies — which are still (like garnets) largely sold in
Geneva.

Page 115. 'Sir Percy Smith' — See ist Series, iv., 239,
240.

Page 119. 'Conway'' — See Index to 1st Series in vol.
v., s.n.

Page 120. 'purvay'' = purview.

Page 122. ' pepeW = people.

Page 123. ' Edward Spencer'' — A slip for 'Edmund.' See
pp. 75, 76, 115. Curiously enough, even the poet is not in-
frequently named ' Edward.' ' S'lr Kenelm Digby ' — A rernark-
able Englishman, whose " Memoirs " by himself were not pub-
lished until 1827 by Sir Harris Nicolas. He died nth June,
1665. The letters of his in these " Lismore Papers " are more
matterful and graphic than any of his before printed. ' George '
Digby — a noticeable man — was son of the Earl of Bristol. He
died in 1676.

Page 124. '■ Bristow'' = Bristol. This was John, youngest
son of Sir George Digby, Knt. He was born in 1580. He

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 299

was knighted in 1605 ; sent ambassador to Spain in 161 1 and
1614 and 1617 commenced to treat on the famous 'Spanish
Match.' On his return from Spain in 16 18 he was created
Baron Digby of Sherburne. In 1620 he was sent Ambassador
to the Archduke Albert and Emperor Ferdinand, and again to
Spain in the same capacity in 1 622 : after which he was created
Earl of Bristol. Quarrelling with Buckingham, he was com-
mitted to the Tower in 1624, but released after a short imprison-
ment, when he retired to his country seat until the beginning of
the Civil War. As the letters show, he was one of the Com-
missioners appointed to treat with the Scots. Falling under the
suspicion of the Long Parliament, he was again sent to the Tower.
Released in a few days, he rejoined the King at York, and served
at Edgehill. After 1648 he retired to France, and died in Paris
in 1652, where, according to Lodge, s.n., he was buried in a
cabbage-garden which Sir Richard Browne had lately purchased
near the city to form a burial-ground for Protestants. He
married Beatrix, daughter of Charles Walcott, of Walcott in
Shropshire, and widow of Sir John Dive of Bronham, by
whom she was mother of Sir Lewis Diye (or Dives), commander
of a troop for the King at Worcester, where he was wounded.
(Clarendon, s. n.) Sir Lewis Dive was thus step-brother
(maternally) of the second Earl of Bristol, who died a Roman
Catholic in 1676. These " Lismore Papers " show Bristol very
favourably. He must have had considerable decision of character,
and ready resource, and inestimable tact. His answers to the
King reveal marvellous dexterity of fence equally toward Charles
and Strafford — the latter bouncing in with characteristic im-
petuosity and despotism, and eke pliant, and plausible and
courteous toward "his Majesty." I suppose his conceit and
theory of " Divine right " blinded Charles I, to the fact of how.

300 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

very small a man he was beside not a few of his subjects, e.g.,
one Oliver Cromwell.

Page 134. ^intendments' = intentions.

Page 135. 'rubb' = obstacle.

Page 136. ^ Commecheners ' ^ comm.\ss\oners — one of many
of fair Lady Lattice's astonishing spellings.

Page 137. ' Doglous' — What a transmogrification of the
grand name of ' Douglas ' !

Page 139. ' nice ' = scrupulous or hesitating.

Page 140. ' Sir Tobie Matthew ' — Son of the Archbishop
of the same name. He accompanied Charles to Spain. He
published a life of St. Theresa in 1623. He became a Papist.
Died 13th October, 1655.

Page 143. ' Porter''— An English Worthy, whose memory
— as before noted — is to be revived in our own day by an
adequate Life. Davies' verse is his main glory.

Page 144. 'pursy' = short-breathed.

Page 146. 'grum' = grim or glum = gloomy. ' CoroneW
— colonel ; also ' coronet ' = cornet. See Davies' Supple-
mentary English Glossary, s.v.

Page 147. ' yetts,' &c. — Sic. : but possibly for ' from ' we
should read ' for.' ' Hebron ' — Not known or guessable.

Page 158. '■wadge'' =^ pay the wages.

Page 161. '■fince' = fence.

Page 164. ' Bishop of Cloyne isf Cork ' (1640).

Page 166. ' Deodati, Deodati' — A ray of light rests on the
name from Milton, not likely ever to pale.

Page 171. ' Sweetzerland ' = Switzerland.

Page 183. "some houses in Dublin' — See "Diary" in 1st
Series, on the suppression of these houses.

Page 185. ' M' dawborne ' = Robert Daborne, a minor

NOTES AND ILLUSTRjriONS. 301

dramatist, author of " A Christian turn'd Turke, or the Tragi-
call Liues and Deaths of the two famous Pyrates, Ward and
Dansiker . . . . 1612;" and "The Poor Man's Comfort, a
Tragi-comedy," 1655 : also in association with others. A
Sermon by him was published at Waterford, in 1618, on
Zechariah ii. 7. ' John Lancaster^ — See Index to ist Series in
vol v., s.n.

Page 187. ' M" Tynt with child' — This must have been
young Mrs. Tynt, Lord Cork's niece (Katharine Boyle, p. 133),
who married Sir Robert's son just before they left Stalbridge.
Had it been a 3rd wife she would have been named ' Lady
Tynt.' Correct accordingly. The joy was of the grandfather.
Note before CCCCLXXI V. for ' of them ' read ' I place this
before them.'

Page 189. ^ Sir Charles Coote' — See ist Series, ii., 422-3.
Page 196. 'broghten ' = brought.

Page 204. '/ Catastrophe ' = beheading of Strafford. ' Jrch-
bushop of Cantarbury = Laud, around whom clouds were now
gathering, and the same end with " ye Deputy of Ireland," not
to say, of unhappy Charles himself.
Page 205. '■ otherwayes'' = otherwise.

Page 208. 'Lord Lambert' — The eminent Parliamentary
general. He opposed Cromwell's receiving the title of king,
and resigned office when he was named ' Lord Protector '
(1657). He was restored to the command of the army in 1658.
He became of the Council of State 13th May, 1659. His troops
mutinied Oct. 1659. He was imprisoned in the Tower, but
escaped and rekindled the Civil War. He was defeated and
taken prisoner 21st April, 1660. He was convicted and sen-
tenced to death, but pardoned June, 1660. He lived on to
1694. He does not come out very pleasantly in these letters.

302 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page 210. ' Jnarye' — See ist Series, v. 276.

Page 213. 'iVw' =niece.

Page 214. ^ tyred' = wheels repaired, i.e., the iron tyre of
the wheel tightened.

Page 215. Lnad' = Lznd.

Page 216. Bishop of Waterford'' (1641).

Page 217. '■horsinge ' = supplying horses.

Page 219. ' Exigent ' := exigency.

Page 220. ' Crooghlan ' = qu. Caughlan ?

Page 221. Baltinglasse. — See ist Series, ii., 259-60.

Page 222. ' noveltyes' = news. ' Sir Hardress Waller ' — A
prominent actor in the "Civil War." See Carlyleand Sanford.
' remonthe ' ■=. reply.

Page 224. '■ ffrance and the Hands ' = the Channel Islands.
This year, a.d. 1887, direct shipping from Jersey to Cork is
again started.

Page 225. 'garrisons of the Countrey nation '= natives of
Ireland.

Page 226. ' Protestant Cleargie ' — Even thus early the eccle-
siastical revenues were sought to be appropriated.

Page 227. ' Sir Richard Guerard' — See ist Series, ii.

405-
Page 228. • Galtyer ' = the Galtees, Tipperary mountains.

Ringing, as this note is written, with ' Michelstown ' massacres

— of which the end is not yet.
Page 230. ' Cahill ' = Cashel ?
Page 234. ' deboice ' = debauched.
Page 237. "■ admirable' = vfonAtri\i\ — A word that has

quite shifted its meaning.

Page 242. ' Tulla ' = Tallow. ' Moulds ' = safe places.

' me self — Curiously to us, ' my ' is erased and ' me ' substituted.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 303

Page 246. ^ Sir Phellm O'Neals 'See Miss Hickson's
"Ireland in 17th Century," as before. ' Garrat Fitz Gerald'
— Once a great name in Ireland.

Page 247. ' Disanimated' — depressed, discouraged.

Page 251. ' Lickoran ' = Lixnaw ?

Page 252. ' Sir Richard Osborne' — See ist Series, iii., 257.

Page 253. ' Colonel Leslye '—Bishop Leslie's family. They
got large grants in North Kerry, and are now represented by
Robert Leslie, Esq., Tarbert House, Kerry. See Burke, s.n.,
cum grano sails.

Page 256. ' Downinge' — See ist Series, ii., 428. "■ Morte
Suffane ' = Sullivan.

Page 259. "■ planett-stricken ' = panic-stricken.

Page 264. ' nor findeing noe byers = any. ' theire hawses
rified and their cattel driuen awaye ' — The condition of Mus-
kerry is to be noted as historically important.

Page 269. ' Strang = Strand. — One marvels how this spell-
ing came about. "

Page 277. ' bane ' = ha.wn = white or fair. — See also p.
283.

Page 279. ^ Baron of Slane' — I have not attempted to trace
out the many ' rebel ' names enumerated in this Proclamation,
seeing that it were an endless and unrewarding labour. Smith's
'Kerry' and the Peerages, ^.j'., Burke and Lodge, furnish a
good deal of illustration, which those anxious to have light on
now long-forgotten names, must consult. Accidentally I find
that Baron Slane disputed precedence. The matter was decided
in England in favour of Lord Kerry. This was in 1615. In
1624 Lord Slane revived the dispute at the instigation of the
Lords of the Pale ; but the Lord Deputy and Council decided
in Lord Kerry's favour. ' ^//f«^^«« ' = Kil gobban = bin =

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bet — Probably a corruption of the Irish word gobbeth = mason.
Kil = church or hill of the mason.

Page 283. 'Ever' = Ivor = Scotch as the Magennisses were
Scotch — could scarcely be meant for Even = Irish.

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