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Notes of certain events in Irish history, 1601, March-July

TNA, SP 63/208, pt.3, no.89, f.239, calendared under Cal. S.P. Ireland, 1600-1, pp.446-7, July [21] 1601.

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160015 The lord president's journal

[March 20] Sir George Carew, Lord President, commended William McHubbert, by the name of a gentleman, whose father and son himself had been well acquainted withal, and for dutifulness, valour, and service deserved favour; and for that there was no use of his employment in Munster, he sent him to Leinster with his kinsmen and followers, desiring the Earl of Ormond to grace him, and employ him, if occasion required, &c.; which turned to no small hurt, as after shall appear.

1601
[June 22] At Carrickbane, the Lord Deputy with others of the Council hearing, as they termed it, an indisposition in the Earl of Ormond, being Lord Lieutenant of the army, and not to the prejudice of his authority, sent unto the aforesaid Earl a project or disposal of the Queen's forces for that summer's service, very providently as followeth:

  1. To keep at Galway and Athlone, 350 foot.
  2. At the Abbey of Boyle 1,000 foot, 62 horse, which will very much further the plantation at Ballyshannon.
  3. At the Annaly, on Leinster side the Shannon, 800 foot, 62 horse, lying fitly to join with the forces of Leinster either northward or southward, to stop the passage of the Ulster rebels into Leinster.
  4. In Offally, foot companies under the command of the Earl of Kildare, 150; Sir George Bourchier, 100; Sir Edward Herbert, 100; Sir Henry Warren, 100; Captain Carroll, 100; horse company under the command of the Earl of Kildare, 25; Sir Edward Herbert, 12.
  5. In Leix, foot companies under the command of Sir Henry Power, 150; Sir Francis Rush, 150; Sir Thomas Loftus, 100; horse companies under the command of Mr. Marshal16, 20; Captain Pigott, 12.
  6. In Kilkenny, under the command of the Earl of Ormond, 50 horse, 150 foot.
  7. In Westmeath, foot companies under the command of the Lord of Delvin, 150; Sir Francis Shane, 100.
  8. In Kells, foot companies under the command of Captain Roper, 150; horse under the command of the Earl of Kildare, 25; Sir Henry Harrington, 25.
  9. At Liscannon in the Brenny, foot companies under the command of the Lord of Dunsany, 150; Sir Henry Harrington, 100; Sir William Warren, 100; Captain Lawrence Esmonde, 150; horse under the Lord of Dunsany, 50.
  10. At Dundalk, under the command of Captain Freckleton, 100 foot.
  11. 11. At the Moyerie, under the command of Captain Hansard, 100 foot.

The 14th of July, anno 1601, the Lord Deputy took the Blackwater, with the trenches and strength which Tyrrell and Mostian undertook to hold for the rebels; and the same month the Earl of Ormond forewarned him and the Lord President of Munster of the coming of the Spaniards for Ireland. Shortly after the Lords of the Council of England sent forewarnings, dated the 20 of July, to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, the Earl of Ormond, and to the Lord President of Munster, of the preparation of 5 or 6,000 Spaniards at Lisbon for Ireland, and that her Highness would with all expedition send 2,000 men to join with her forces there to receive them, which landed shortly after.