Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E590001-005
The Discovery and Recovery of Ireland with the Author's Apology
Author: Thomas Lee
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Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber and Ruth MurphyProof corrections by Ruth MurphyManuscript transcribed by John McGurk
1. First draft, revised and corrected.
Extent of text: 66,200 words
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Text ID Number: E590001-005
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Sources
Manuscripts- London, British Library, Add. MSS. 33743.
Secondary literature- E. K. Chambers, Sir Henry Lee: An Elizabethan Portrait (Oxford 1936). Chapter 8 relates to his cousin Tom Lee.
- 'Irish costume in two portraits', Irish Sword 3 (1957), 4446. (One portrait is of Thomas Lee).
- James P. Myers, 'Early English Colonial Experiences in Ireland: Captain Thomas Lee and Sir John Davies', Éire-Ireland 23:1 (1988) 821.
- Hiram Morgan, 'Tom Lee: the posing peacemaker', in: Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield & Willy Maley (eds), Representing Ireland: Literature and the origins of conflict, 15341660 (Cambridge 1993) 132165.
- Hiram Morgan, Tyrone's Rebellion: The outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland, Royal Historical Society Studies in History 67 (Woodbridge 1993).
- Hiram Morgan, 'Hugh O'Neill and the Nine Years' War in Tudor Ireland', The Historical Journal 36 (1993) 2137.
- Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass (eds.), Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Cambridge 2000) 5052.
- A. L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England, (University of Wisconsin Press 2003). See chapter 4, Ireland: colonisation and conquest; esp. 130134.
- R. W. Dudley Edwards, Mary O'Dowd, Sources for Modern Irish History 15341641 (Cambridge 2003) 99.
- J. J. N. McGurk, DNB entry on 'Lee, Thomas (1551/21601)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004.
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Profile Description
Created: by Thomas Lee
Date range: 1598-1600.
Use of language
Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.
Revision History
- (2009-09-02)
Beatrix Färber (ed.)
- Header created, file assembled.
- (2008-10-09)
Ruth Murphy (ed.)
- Text proofed (1); structural and content markup applied.
- (2008)
John McGurk (ed.)
- Text transcribed from manuscript; introduction written.