Cotton MS Titus B X/2

Letter book of Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland and courtier (1529-1586). Containing copies of letters sent 1575-78. With other papers relating to Ireland.

f. 222r Letter from Arthur Chichester to the Lord Deputy. Dublin, May 21 1613.

ff. 224-226v List of the Lords of Parliament in Ireland, as they were marshalled in May 1613. Two copies.

ff. 227r-228v Letter from Doctor T. Ryves to Sir Daniel Dunn. On the choice of Sir John Davies as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. May 29 1613.

ff. 229r-230v Letter from Arthur Chichester to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. On public affairs in Ireland, complaints of detraction. Dublin, August 14 1613.

ff. 231r-234v Letter to Lieutenant Stratford from an unknown sender. With a report of Matthew Mullineux a pilot, the seizure of the East India ship the Peppercorn, at Waterford, and the loss of the Hector, taken by the Portuguese. Cork, 15 October 1613.

ff. 235r-236v Letter from Sir Richard Moryson, vice-president of Munster, to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. On three East India ships in Cork. Cork, 17 October 1613. With wax seal.

ff. 237r-238v Letter from Sir Richard Moryson, vice-president of Munster, to the Lord Deputy and commissioners. Cork, 11 October 1613.

ff. 239r-241v Letter from Robert Walsh, mayor of Waterford, to Sir Richard Moryson, vice-president of Munster. Reporting the imprisonment of a sailor from the ship Peppercorn. Waterford, 13 October 1613. With wax seal.

ff. 241r-242v Examination of Shane McPhelonmy O’Donelly. Concerning a priest preaching sedition. Taken before Sir Toby Caulfield. 22 October 1619.

ff. 243r-246v Two letters from Charles Cornwaleys to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. On parliamentary affairs. Dublin, 22 October and 4 November 1613.

ff. 247r-249v Letter from Arthur Chichester to the Privy Council. Concerning fortifications at Waterford, Limerick, and other locations. Dublin, 15 November 1613. With wax seal.

ff. 250r-251v Letter from the Irish Council to the English Privy Council. Reporting a strange speech by Sir James Goghe. Dublin, 24 November 1613.

ff. 252r-255v Two letters from Arthur Chichester to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. On public affairs, Goghe’s speech, his own repair to England. Dublin, 6 and 21 February 1613-14. With wax seal.

f. 256r-256v Deposition of Ownhy O’Mulryan, before Sir Dominic Sarffild. Concerning the King of Spain and the Pope. Cork, March 3 1613.

ff. 257r-258r Letter from Arthur Chichester to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. On the death of the Lord Viscount Butler. Dublin, 31 December 1613.

ff. 259r-260v Letter from King James I to Arthur Chichester. Concerning the distribution and plantation of lands in Wexford. Bever Castle, 6 August 1615.

ff. 261r-264v ‘A Discourse of the present estate of Irelande’. 1614.

ff. 265r-266v Letters from the Lords Commissioners for the office of Earl Marshal of England, to the Lords Justices of Ireland. Concerning the precendency of Lord Kerry before Lord Slane. January 1615.

ff. 267r-270r Proposal for the transplantation of England’s poor into Ireland. 1619.

ff. 271r-282v A consultation for the defence of Ireland, by appointment of King James I. December 19 1623.

f. 283r The order of precedence of certain officers and noblemen in Ireland.

ff. 285r-288r A remembrance and a project for the northern plantations in Ireland. Signed by Hugh Wirrall.

ff. 289r-290v Titles or heads of acts to be propounded in the next Irish Parliament. 1612.

ff. 292r-294v Notes on the Act of Parliament 2 Eliz. Concerning going to church, or advice given to the Catholics of Munster, by William Mede, recorder of Cork. 1611.

ff. 295r-296v Certain acts to be prepared for the next Irish Parliament.

ff. 297r-298v Petition of certain Lords of Parliament in Ireland to the Lord Deputy. Complaining of abuses in the returns to Parliament.

ff. 299r-300v Petition of the recusant members of the Lower House in Ireland, to Arthur Chichester. Desiring copies of the commission for holding of the Parliament, warrant for erecting of new boroughs, and returns.

f. 301r-301v A discourse on Irish rebellion against England. Latin.

ff. 302r-307v Arguments that the Island of Raughlin is a parcel of the kingdom of Ireland, rather than Scotland. Two copies, somewhat different.

ff. 308r-309v Proofs that the Island of Raughlin is part of Ireland.

ff. 310r-355v Defence of a military officer in Ireland, employed in an expedition against Tyrone and O’Donnell. 1600.

f. 356r-356v Proposal sent to the Lord Deputy and Council in Ireland, for raising a benevolence.

ff. 357r-358v Declaration of some Irish peers, that they will not come to Parliament until certain abuses in the Commons are redressed. May 1613.

ff. 359r-360v Letter from certain recusant lords in Ireland to Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy. Desiring that agents be sent to England to solicit redress from King James I, respecting the abuses in the Commons. May 1613.

ff. 361r-379v Speeches in the Star Chamber, concerning the affairs of Ireland.

ff. 380r-381v Reasons whereby King James I and the lords may be moved to permit that Poyning’s act may be in part dispensed with in the next Parliament.

f. 382r Petition sent by Sir Arthur Chichester to King James I. Remonstrating against the withholding of a considerable part of his appointments.

ff. 383r-384v A summary discourse, proving that the lands of Dessie and Desmond belonged to the crown of England. 1612.

ff. 385r-392r Notes of ancient records and rolls for the Lord of Kiery.

ff. 393r-397v Pedigrees of the barons of Kiery and Slane.

ff. 398r-399v ‘The Case of the landes of the Knishelaghs and Moroghes in the Countie of Wexford’. 1611.

ff. 400r-401v Letter to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, from an unknown sender. Containing some proposals concerning Ireland.

ff. 402r-409r Notes and observations on the deducing and planting of colonies, related to Ireland.

ff. 410r-411v Sir Thomas Ridgeway: vindication of himself, having been in a public office.

ff. 412r-413v William Camden: notes on the appropriation of the Isle of Raughlin into Ireland.

f. 414r-414v Notes of grants made by Ulick Burke, 5th Earl of Clanricarde.

ff. 415r-416v Preamble of a patent by James I, possibly for creating the order of baronets.