LETTER LXXXIII. 1597? had dealt with yow well enough. Again, by your [See former note.] self as him as you ar in whatsoever valuation Mr. Secritory, that he is that you have lost me by shewing person desire hyme. Notwithstandinge, I remayne your good frend. You shall not mesure mee by your own 'good nature;' for I do not labor any man agaynst yow. I may rather bee ashamed to have any man know your ingratitude. I will not defile the neast, nor yet seke3 to feed thos that cannot fly so well without mee. Hurt not your sealf. I shall leve you to your owne courses; and holde this of your's no stranger then the usages of others. It beinge more natural to all men rather to pay wronges then good turnes. And, for the conclusion: of that you say I dare not offer this dealing but [to] your sealf, I answere that I dare do as much as your sealf, and have dared; and will ever be found so. And for your fortunes otherwise, fear not that I will labor to lessen them; as I will not here- Addressed: To my nephew, Sir John Gilbert, Knight. W. RALEGH. LETTER LXXXIII. 1597? 1598. LXXXIV. TO THE LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xlviii. § 101 (Hatfield). Holograph. MY VERY GOOD Lorde, WHERAS it hath bynn thought fitt that Sir NICHOLAS PARKER should be made a Deputy Levetenante in Cornwall, I do for my sealf excedingly well allow of the gentelman, and do farther humblie pray your Lordshipp that Mr. BARNARDE GRENVILE may be also admitted, because in all the north parts of Cornwale ther ar none of the deputes that have any dwellinge. The gentelman is very sufficient, and the rest shall receve great case therby; and her Majesties service the better performed. Thus, with remembrance of my humbell dewty, I rest to be cummanded by your Lordshipp as your sarvante, W. RALEGI. From Derum House, this 16 of January [1597-1598]. Addressed: "To the right honorable my singuler goode Lorde, the Lorde Fadorsed: "Sir Walter Rayligh. 1597." LXXXV. TO SECRETARY SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Domestic Correspondence: Elizabeth. Unarranged * ** In a communication-otherwise interesting-read to the Society of Antiquaries, Mr. Payne Collier has suggested, from the tenor of this letter, that Ralegh was now again present in Ireland on the Queen's service. But the letter itself in the absence of other evidence-affords no sufficient foundation for the hypothesis. There is, indeed, somewhat of a blank in Ralegh's recorded career at this period. But it has to be borne in mind that Ralegh, in 1598, could not have served in Ireland, or have visited Ireland, without attracting much attention; nor without leaving many unmistakeable traces of his presence there. He was still the owner of a vast, though at that time unproductive, estate in Munster. SIR, IT can be no disgrace if it weare knowen that the killinge of a rebel weare practised; for you see that the lives of anoynted Princes are daylye sought, and we have always in Ireland geven head money for the killinge of rebels, who ar evermore proclaymed at a price. So was the Earle of DESMONDE, and so have all rebels been practised agaynst. Notwithstandinge, I have written this enclosed to STAFFORD, who only recommended that knave to me upon his credit. Butt, for 1 Perhaps the Captain, or Colonel, Francis Stafford, whom we meet with as serving in Ireland, and corresponding with Sir Henry Wallop, as early as 1585. (Irish Correspondence : Elizabeth, vol. cxvii. § 54 ) your sealf, you ar not to be touched in the matter. And for me, I am more sorrye for beinge deceaved than for beinge declared in the practise. Your Lordship's, ever to do you service, W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]-He hathe nothinge under my hand butt a passport. Addressed: To the right honorable Sir ROBERT CECIL, Knight, Principall Secretory to Her Maiestie. LETTER LXXXV. 1598. October. LXXXVI. TO SECRETARY SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xix. § 66 (Hatfield). Holograph. SIR, I BESEICH you to signefye Her Majesties pleasure to my Lord Deputye of Irland-because his Lordship is ready to depart-concerning this gentelman, on whom Her Majestye hathe bestowed POORE'S1 companye. Your Honor's to do you service, LETTER LXXXVI. 1598? To Sir R. The W. RALEGH. Addressed To the right honorabell Sir ROBERT CECYLL, Knight, Principall 1590.2 Sir Walter Ralegh to my Master. 1 Probably Captain Anthony Power, who had served in Munster against the Geraldines contemporaneously with Ralegh himself. The endorsement reads as above; and in the MS. Catalogue of the Hatfield MSS. the letter is placed under "1590." The remark is sub Queen's appointment of a Captain to serve in Ireland. 1600. LXXXVII. TO SECKETAKY SIR ROBERT CECIL. vol. l. § 103 Hatfield. In the elaulsignel The work towards which, on this ocasion, Raleh acts Full Censor of the Press was a translation of the wellsno in Lark of Jerome de Franchi Conestadio which hal shi at Genoa, fourteen years before, under the United Rgne di Portogallo alla Ceront de It would have added not a little to the interest of the English translation here spoken of, had Ralegh so mentioned his corrections" as that we could now identify them. The lock was published in the same year with that of Ralegh's present letter, viz. 1600, and was "printed for Editcard Blown." Cecil's interest in the subject was by no means a literary interest. The "warts of Africa" here treated of were those in which Sebastian of Portugal fell, drawing after him the temporary fall of his kingdom. They had therefore a close connection with English politics; and especially with that most troublesome of all sections of the politics of Queen jolted that this is the erot letter addressed to Robert Cecil" which that collection contains. But as Sir Robert became "Principal Secretary only in July 1506, the endorsement must obviously be erroneous. Ralegh too, made lis first reappearance at Court at the end of May 1597. Poss "ly, the letter may belong to that year. It cannot belong to any earlier year than that. And it is much more probable that it was written in 1598. Its pittance of interest lies in the fact that, either in 1597 or in 1508, it presents to us Ralegh-after five years of Court disgrace--as communicating to the Secretary of State Her Majesties pleasure" about a captaincy in Ireland. |