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A Calendar of Manuscript Material relating to Ireland, 1580–1602 (Author: Richard Combus )

Document 6

Sir Geoffrey Fenton to Cecil, Dublin, 11 June 1598.

The last truce expired the 7th of this monneth, and within ii daies after, Tyrone made this devesion of his forces; one parte he sent before the Blackwater, which now he holdeth envyroned, swearing by his barbarous hand, that he will not departe till he carry the forte; another parte he thrust into the Brenny, and at this pule assalteth the castle of the Cavan then promising not to leave the place so long as he can gett a cow out of the English Pale to feed his companies.