[218] The forged letter is dated June 25, 1585, and calendared Feb. 16, 1590; Commission dated March 20, 1590, from the Privy Council to the Bishops of Meath and Leighlin, Sir L. Dillon, Sir N. White, Sir E. Moore, Sir E. Waterhouse, Walshe, J., and Calthorpe, A. G. Dillon and White to Burghley, June 26 and 28, 1590; Bishop Meredith to Burghley, July 13, 1590. Fitzwilliam's letters are too numerous to cite; their general tenour bears out the text; many letters as to Trevor, especially Sir R. Bingham to G. Bingham, Oct. 29, 1591. For the priest Roughan see an amusing account in Strype's _Life of Aylmer_, and for Perrott's quarrel with Loftus and Jones see his _Annals_ (Eliz.) book ii. chaps. 3 and 4. For evidence of Roughan's perjuries see Morrin's _Patent Rolls_, 42 Eliz. No. 21.
[219] Lord Campbell's _Chief Justices_, i. 247; Howell's _State Trials_, vol. i.
[220] Introduction to Swift's _Polite Conversation_; Naunton's _Fragmenta Regalia_; Howell's _State Trials_. There is a curious account of Sir Thomas Perrott's marriage with Lady Dorothy Devereux in Strype's _Aylmer_.
[221] Fitzwilliam and Bagenal to Burghley, July 25, 1592; Mr. Solicitor-General Coke to Burghley, Aug. 13; _Four Masters_, 1593. By the articles of agreement concluded at Dundalk on June 28, 1593, Tirlogh Luineach was awarded a life-interest in the Strabane district, while the Earl's supremacy was acknowledged over all Tyrone.
[222] Bingham's letter of June 28, 1593, is quoted in Brady's _Episcopal Succession_, i. 223; O'Sullivan Bere, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 6. There is an original intercepted letter at Hatfield from Primate MacGauran to Captain Eustace, dated Madrid, June 28, 1591, in which the writer says:--'I hope in God Ireland will soon be free from Englishmen, and notwithstanding that the Catholic King his captains be slow in their affairs, I am certain that the men now purposed to be sent to comfort the same poor island, which is in distress a long time, will not be slow. I ought not to write much unto you touching those causes, for I know that a Spaniard shall be chief governor of them. The Irish regiment is written for.'
[223] O'Sullivan, tom. iii. lib. 2, cap. 7; _Four Masters_, 1593; Shirley's _Monaghan_, pp. 97 and 98; the Earl of Tyrone's grievances, March 14, 1594.