LETTER 1593. - Oct. 8. To Sir R. Cecil. From Weymouth. In favour of the bearer, John Woll ridge, pending in of Wards. News of your Honnors fauvor therein,-which he is able himselfe From Weymouth, the 8th of October, 1593. W. RALEGH. [POSTSCRIPT.]-Sir, I have written to my Lord Admirall the newes of Rimonde att large. From whom I pray yow to be acquaynted. This bearer, WULREDGE, -being sent for by my Lord, your father,-was here stayde sumewhat longer to examyne a cawse of the Admiraltye, so as I bescich yow to excuse hyme. Addressed: To the right honorable Sir ROBERT CECILI, Knight, one of her Mardloo Endorsed: most honorable Privie Councell, 8 Oct. 1593. Sir Walter Rawley to my Master, LETTER XL. 1593-1594. Feb. 25. XL. TO SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xxii. fol. 49 (Hatfield). Holograph. THIS gentelman, HENRY THYNNE, without sending for is cum up to aunswere the cumplaynt of the Frenshmen, for [which] my brother was lately called before Hee was an adventurer in that journey, and lost yow. all. For the fishe prize, hee did nothing but by cummission, and hath accompted for the same. LETTER XL. 1593-1594. Feb. 25. Sherborne. In favour of Henry Thynne, whose pro I beseich yow to favour hyme this mich, that hee be not charged with more than hee receved, and [that] he From may have tyme till the next terme to bring in the accompt, which now resteth in other mens hands; and, in the meantyme, no hard dealing be offered hyme. I shall think my sealf mich bound unto yow for any ceedings at favor yow shall afford hyme, and so, being allwayes your servant to be cumanded, I humblie take my leve. W. RALEGH. From Sherburne Castell, this 25 of February [1593-4]. Addressed: To the right honorable Sir Robert CECILL, Knight, one of her Endorsed : 25 Feb. 1593 [legal style]. Sir Walter Raleigh to my Master; in favour of Captain Henry Thynne. sea had been com plained of by the French. PREFA TRY MTE TO XLL The Barrys of Barry's Court. FREFATORY NOTE TO LETTER XLL-THE BARRYS OF IT T was, at all times of life, a characteristic of Ralegh's mind that no illusive pride of "consistency" hindered either his acknowledgment of error, or his advocacy, when dealing with business, of wiser counsels than those which on imperfect knowledge he had himself previously given. We have seen, in the letters with which this volume begins, that at an early stage of his concern with Irish affairs he had counselled severity towards the half-hearted men who were not quite ready either to throw themselves fairly into the rebellion, or to cast their lot with the Queen's decided supporters. Of such men was Lord Barry. Ralegh had himself seized Barry's Court. Perhaps his own personal intercourse with its owner may have helped to convince the half-rebel of the wisdom of becoming a wholly loyal subject. At all events, the very man whom Ralegh had strongly denounced, he now as strongly commends. And there is ample evidence that the commendation was merited. Lord Barry and his family rendered honourable and brilliant service to the Crown in Ireland. The Barrys, of Barry's Court, in the county Cork, have a famous ancestry and a curious family history. The stock, one vigorous branch of which came to its death, or almost to its death, in a recent "Earl of Barrymore" of very unenviable notoriety, was itself an offshoot of a race of Welsh princes, already of a respectable antiquity in the twelfth century. David Fitzjames Barry, Viscount Buttevant (the "Lord Barry" of Ralegh's letter), was lineally descended from an elder brother (Philip de Barri) of Giraldus Cambrensis. Philip Barry's ancestor and the founder of the Irish house, was there fore a grandson of the "Princess Nesta," by her first marriage PREFAwith Gerald de Windsor, Constable of Pembroke.1 TORY XLI. Lord Barry adhered very faithfully to Queen Elizabeth in LETTER the trying times that immediately preceded her death, and also to her successor. Several of his sons died in the field for the same cause; and in succeeding generations many of his and their descendants were equally conspicuous for loyalty Crown and country. The builder of Barry's Court was also-it is more than probable the founder of that house of Dominicans at Cork, part of the ancient possessions of which were, I believe, included (among other forfeited Geraldine lands) in Ralegh's Irish estate, under the grant of 1585. XLI. TO SIR ROBERT CECIL. From the Original. Cecil Papers, vol. xxii. fol. 52 (Hatfield). In the hand of an amanuensis; the subscription and signature in autograph. SIR, THIS honorable gentleman, the Lord BARRY, one that is well affected to her Majesty and her Estate, is in humble suite to her Majesty, and hath entreated my letter to your Honnor that such fine or benefitt as FLORENCE MACCARTY hath by graunt obteined from her Majesty, by reason of his former offence in Ireland (which is well knowen to your Honnor), may be again revoked and remitted. 1 Compare Giraldi Cambrensis Expugnatio Hibernica, edit. Dymock, vol. v. pp. 351 sagg. (Chronicles and Memorials), with Monasticon Hiber n.cum, § Cork. LETTER XLI. 1593-1594. March 4. To Sir R. Cecil. chester. From Dor Affairs of Ireland. LETTER 1593-1594. March 4. Recom mends Lord Barry ; and asserts that Flo rence And if my opinion herein maybe reguarded, I thinke that his1 pardon which her Highnes graunted him hath wrought his true affection, and his entire disposicion to honnor and serve her Maiesty with such unfeined obedience as can be required; and therfore not fitt to be discountenanced by FLORENCE MACCARTY, [he] being a man reconciled to the Pope, daungerous to the MacCarty present State, beloved of such as seeke the ruine of the Realme his native cuntrie, and not worthie to bee relieved by her Maiesties goodnes. He maie for a time dissemble, and in revealing his poverty, by occasion of his imprisonment in the Tower, protest that obedience which he ought to performe: but he is not to be trusted. His alliance and friends in Ireland are great and manie, and he wanteth nothing but mony to execute his practices, whereunto the Pope hath animated him. is not sin cerely reconciled to the English rule. This noble gentleman1 hath, to my knowledg, a long time lived civilly and conformablie to all her Majesties directions and commandments, and hath not deserved theis troubles and discontentments. I praie you so much to favour him by yourself, or by the meanes of my honorable good Lord, your father, that hee maie bee discharged of this demaund; and I will reckon it amongst the rest of your favours. And so I humblie take my leave. From th' assises at Dorchester, the 4th of March, 1593- Addressed: W. RALEGH. To the right honorable Sir ROBERT CECILL, Knight, one of her Endorsed: "4 Mar. 1593. Sir Walter Rauleigh to my Master 1 Lord Barry, the bearer of this Letter. See Letter IV. |