[35] _Four Masters_, 1607; James Loach's examination, 1607, No. 493; Davies to Salisbury, September 12; _Meehan_, chap. iv. The latter narrative is mainly founded on an Irish manuscript by Teig O'Keenan written in 1608 and preserved at St. Isidore's, Rome, a specimen of which was printed by O'Donovan in his notes to the _Four Masters_, 1607. [36] _Meehan_, chap. iv.; list of Irish captains in Archduke's army, July 22, 1607; Letters of Sir Thomas Edmondes to the English Government, October 1607 to the following March; Privy Council to Chichester, March 8, 1607-8. 'A most lewd oration' spoken before the Earls at Douai is calendared at January 25, 1608. [37] Statements made by Christopher Lord Howth between June 29 and August 25, 1607, No. 336; Lord Delvin's confession, November 6, 1607; examination of John Dunn, February 14, 1606-7; examination of the Franciscan James Fitzgerald, October 3, 1607; secret information in Wotton's handwriting, 1607, No. 897; Chichester to Devonshire, April 23, 1606, after the latter's death, but before it was known in Ireland. [38] State Papers, _Ireland_, 1607, especially Chichester to Salisbury, May 27, September 8; Discourses with Lord Howth, No. 336; Chichester to the Privy Council, September 7 and 17. [39] Lodge's _Peerage_ (Archdall), i. 237, and the State Papers, _Ireland_, calendared from September 8 to November 27, 1607; Lords of the Council to Chichester, May 11, 1611. [40] Instructions for Sir A. St. Leger, December 21, 1607; Chichester to the Privy Council, June 3, 1608; Warrant for pardon, July 18. [41] Chichester to Salisbury with enclosure, October 2, 1607; Examination of Father Fitzgerald, October 3; Chichester to Salisbury, July 2, 1609, and the answer, August 3; Delvin's Confession, November 6, 1607. The account of Lady Tyrconnel at p. 235 of the _Earls of Kildare_ is very incorrect. A short notice of Mary Stuart O'Donnell is in the _Dict. of National Biography_, xli. 446 _b._ [42] Declaratio super fugam comitum de Tyrone et Tyrconnel, non propter virtutes sed ob rationes status ad honores promotorum--Rymer's _Foedera_, xvi. 664, November 15, 1607. Bacon probably had a hand in this, having received a full account from Davies, which he answered on October 23--Spedding's _Life_, iv. 5. [43] Cal. of State Papers, _Ireland_, 1607, Nos. 501 and 503; James Bathe to Salisbury, January 9, 1607-8. [44] Edmondes to the Duke of Lorraine, January 12, 1607-8; to Salisbury, January 28, February 18 and March 30; Wotton's letters for April and May, 1608; information in Wotton's hand, No. 897, State Papers, _Ireland_; _Meehan_, chap. 7, with the Doge Donato's letter at p. 270; Salisbury to Cornwallis, September 27, 1607, in Winwood's _Memorials_, and Cornwallis to the Privy Council, April 19, 1608, _ib._ [45] Chichester to Northampton, February 7, 1607-8, printed in _Ulster Journal of Archæology_, i. 180, from Cotton MS. Tit. B. x. 189. CHAPTER IV REBELLION OF O'DOGHERTY, 1608