Elizabeth I: volume 157, January 1591

Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1588-1592. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1885.

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'Elizabeth I: volume 157, January 1591', in Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1588-1592, (London, 1885) pp. 382-384. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/ireland/1588-92/pp382-384 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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January 1591

Vol. CLVII. 1591. January—April.

Jan. 10. Dublin Castle.

1. Lord Deputy and Chancellor Loftus to the Lord Chancellor and Lord Treasurer. Have taken the depositions of divers persons touching Sir John Perrot's causes, in pursuance of the directions brought over by Chichester, together with letters from Burghley, dated the 19th, 20th, and 21st of Oct. 1590, and received the 19th of December last. Autogs. p. 1.

Jan. 10. Dublin Castle.

2. Lord Deputy to Burghley. Her Majesty's gracious pleasure towards Mr. Yorke. Sir Edward Waterhouse slipped away without delivering Sir John Perrot's private letter to him. Perrot's other letters to Sir Lucas Dillon, the Bishop of Leighlin, Sir Nicholas White and Sir Edward Moore. Deputy cannot think that Sir John Perrot was so vain as to imagine he should be able to make the best councillors here ride out at the castle gate upon a cole staff. Good state of the country. Autog. pp. 2.

Jan. 11. Dublin Castle.

3. Lord Deputy to Burghley. Death of the Lord Fitzmaurice, of Kerry, called the Baron of Lixnaw. He died a poor man. The offers and sureties of his son Patrick, now a prisoner in Dublin Castle, left by Perrot in very special charge. Autog. p. 1. Incloses,

3 I. Petition of Patrick FitzMaurice heir of the late Baron of Lixnaw to the Lord Deputy for enlargement. He is the only captain of Munster remaining prisoner in Dublin Castle. Offers his unfeigned loyalty and the bonds of the Earl of Thomond, the Viscount Barrymore, Viscount Roche, Sir Owen McCarthy, of Carbery, Bryen Duffe O'Bryen, of Carrig-o-Gunnell, and others.

Jan 31. Dublin.

4. Lord Chancellor Loftus to Burghley. I have lately received a joint letter from your Lordship, and others, of the Lords reproving me for my last answer sent unto you, both for the generality and doubtfulness thereof, and requiring me in more particular manner to signify to Her Majesty, and your Lordships my knowledge of Sir John Perrott's behaviour towards Her Majesty, and the State in his late government. Upon the review and more advised consideration of your Lordship's private letter, I must and do confess to your good Lordship my mistaking of your meaning, for which I humbly crave your Lordship's pardon, protesting that no other respects in the world stayed me hitherto from informing your Lordship against Sir John Perrott, whose undutiful behaviour I have many times been grieved at, and bemoaned to my dearest friends here, but the remembrance of that known mislike between us, which made me very unwilling to intermeddle in his causes. Nevertheless being now required, and upon my duty to set down in particular my full knowledge of the manner of his undutiful usage of Her Majesty and the State, I have called myself to remembrance, and to the uttermost of my knowledge have endeavoured to satisfy your Lordships by my true declaration and certificate sent herewith, which I do avow before God, and upon the duty I owe to Her Excellent Majesty doth contain a truth in every point. I am secretly advertised to my great grief and discomfort, from some of my friends there, that my late answer, worthily reproved by your good Lordship, hath moved you to be offended with me, and in some sort to alter your honourable opinion of me, which if it should fall out according to the report, I shall wish an end of my wretched days, having under God and Her Majesty principally depended upon your Lordship these many years, but mine assured hope is in your Lordship's wonted favour, that for this mistaking of your Lordship's meaning, which I humbly acknowledge, and am right sorry for, I shall not be rejected from your dependency, which by all good and thankful services during my life I will endeavour to deserve. Wishes for two or three lines for his comfort. Autog. p. 1.

Jan. 31. Dublin.

5. Hugh, Earl of Tirone to Burghley. Death of his Countess. Thanks for the many good turns he has received at Burghley's hands. Autog. p. 1.

Jan.

6. Note of certain concordatums paid out of the last 6,000l. for Ireland. p. 1.