Chap. LXHI. during the Reign os Sixteen Elizabeth,

373

1 599 -

The Fleetcounter-manded-Essex madeLord Depu-ty °f

land :

Is sent overwith a pow-erful Army:

Rymer'sFoedera,Tom.XVI.p. z66.

Affs contra-ry to his In-structions :

" mand, after they had lain three" Weeks, or a Month, in th q Downs.

As for the Earl of Efex, he having,upon his Submission, been re-admittedinto Favour, was made Lord Deputy ofIreland , where the Earl of Tir-oen hadgained great Advantages over the En-glish , had caused the whole Province ofMunjler to revolt, and had brought ahmolt the whole Kingdom into the sameDisposition, by his Assurances of thepowerful Assistance they might expectfrom the Pope and the Spaniards. Aboutthe latter End of March, the Earl setSail for that Kingdom with an Army ofTwenty Thousand Foot and thirteenHundred Horse, which were afterwardsaugmented to two Thousand, the mostformidable Army the Engliflo ever hadin that Island. His Commission wasvery extensive, even to the Power ofcontinuing or ending the War as heshould think fit: But it was particularlyinserted in it, that, laying aside all otherAffairs, he should apply himself whol-ly to pursue and ruin Tir-oen, the chiefof the Rebels. This he himself had

first proposed in Council: And yet, no 1599-sooner was he in Ireland than he acted Makes adirectly contrary to his Instructions. He Ti r s c sf lt , b .spent the whole Summer,and wasted his ^

Army in trifling Expeditions, and then,having first had a private Conferencewith the Rebel, unadvisedly concludeda disadvantageous Truce with him, andreturned to England ,without the Queen’sPermission, to justify his Conduct. Th q Returns ..andQueen received him with some seeming i s c ° m f ltteiiMarks of Favour: But soon after com- Jj 'mitted him to Custody.

Tir-oen, hearing Effex was arrest- Prepressesed, broke the Truce, and did great the Rebels,Mischief to the English Inhabitants inIreland ; And improving the Disordersthe Earl had occasioned in the Irish Af-fairs, the next Spring he reduced thewhole Province of XJlJler to his Obedi-ence, and flattered himself with theHopes of soon becoming Master of thewhole Kingdom. But the Lord Mont - D * ^

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joy, who was appointed Lieutenant in to,.-the Room of Ejjex , quickly put a Stopto this Progress.

CHAP. LXITI.

Sir Richard Levison’r Expedition to the Islands, &c. withsome other Eran-

saShons of the Tear, x 600.

1600. A S this Expedition is likewise but "Sir William /-% slightly touched by our other "Monsoirif 2 . Historians, I shall, as in the "

Ms^in Bibl foregoing Chapter, only give my Rea- "Cotton. ders a short Account of it, from Sir IVil- "Ham Monson, in his own Words. "

Ships. Commanders. "

Slips and Repulse. Sir Richard Levison. “

CZT Warfpight. Captain Throughton. "

Vanguard. Captain Sommers. "

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Whether any private Ships attend- "ed these of the Queen’s I do not find. "Hopes of " The last Year, as the Reader has "fW in " heard, put all Men in Expectation "° a ’ n - “ of War, which yet came to nothing} "

" This Summer gave us great Hopes" of Peace; But with the like Effect ; "" For by Consent of the Queen, the" King of Spain, and the Archduke, "“ their Commissioners met at Boulogne, "* f in Pi car dp, to treat of a Peace, a "

Place chosen indifferently, the King 1 sioo.of France being in League andFriendship with them all. Whethertheir Meeting was but a Show, asbeing out of Hopes to effect a Peace,or that their Separating after theymet, was upon advised and justGrounds, I know not: But methinksthe Occasion was but very slenderthat parted them. There grew a Dif-ference of Precedency, betwixt theCrowns of England and Spain, whichwas ever due to England, and so thathappy Business was made frustate,which once more, I fay, if it hadbeen really intended might easilyhave been accommodated.

" The Queen suspecting the Eventhereof before their Meeting, and therather because the Spaniards enter-tained Her with the like Treaty in1588. at the same instant his Navyappeared upon her Coast to invade

" Her,