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1599  Entire from Clement Spelman referring to RAISING MILITIA (Local Troops) to serve in IRELAND addressed To the right wor and his esteemed loving cozen Sir Bassingbourn Gawdye Knight at Harlinge this send.  Transcript is attached and refers to the serious... 

1599  Entire from Clement Spelman referring to RAISING MILITIA (Local Troops) to serve in IRELAND addressed To the right wor and his esteemed loving cozen Sir Bassingbourn Gawdye Knight at Harlinge this send.  Transcript is attached and refers to the serious... 


...rebellion in Ireland under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.  In April 1599, the Earl of Essex, Elizabeth's favourite, was sent to Ireland with the largest force ever sent there; Essex achieved nothing and was replaced by Lord Mountjoy from Narborough near Swaffham.



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