Catalogue description By the LORD DEPUTY and COUNCIL.

At Dublin, 13 August 1594.

Whereas, for relieving of her Majesty's castle of Inniskillen, commission was directed by Sir W. FitzWilliams, late Lord Deputy, and his Council, to Sir Henry Duke and Sir Edward Harbert, who, with 600 footmen and 46 horsemen, going to attempt the same the 7th (?) of this month, being four days before the delivery of the sword to me the now Lord Deputy, "whereby the traitors met withal, and not only by them defeated of their purpose, but likewise received great loss of soldiers, and all the victuals prepared to victual that fort;" we do conclude and resolve that the Lord Deputy and others of this Council shall repair thitherward to relieve the said distressed ward. Though the forces to attend him be but mean, he has not disfurnished any other places of their necessary forces; having given commission to the Earl of Ormond for defence of the borders against Feagh McHughe and Walter Reoghe, with directions to the sheriffs of the several counties of Kilkenny, Wexford, Catherloghe, Kildare, Dublin, and the Queen's County, to be at his commandment with their several forces and holdings for the defence of the said borders. It is agreed that whatsoever be concluded or executed by the Lord Deputy and Council in this journey, or by those other of the Council in the English Pale remaining, shall be as vayliable, perfect, and permanent as if the whole body of the Council had been present. "Direction shall be sent to the Lords of Gormostone and Slanye, L. of Trymlestone and Killene, the sheriff and chief gentlemen of the county of Meath, for a present holding to be kept by the forces of the country upon the borders of the county of Meath, towards the north parts." The like direction to be sent to the Lord of Louth and the sheriff and gentlemen of co. Louth.

Signed at the beginning: W. Russell; at the end: Ad. Dublin., Cane.; Thomas Ormonde; Tho. Midensis; H. Bagnall; Ro. Gardner; Ro. Napper; Antho. St. Leger; Ro. Dillon; Richard Bingham; G. Bowrchier; Tho. Norris; Geff. Fenton.

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Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 140.