[273] Earl of Essex to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, March 8, 1574; three weeks later Essex met Tirlogh Luineach, and made a sort of truce. [274] Essex to Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester, March 8. The Earl's expenses were over 10_l._ a day. He had to keep 160 men and eighty horse, and to draw all victuals and forage from England. [275] The Queen to Essex, March 30; Burghley, Sussex, and Leicester to Essex, March 30; and see _Murdin_, p. 775. [276] Letters from Essex of May 13 to the Queen, to the Privy Council, to Burghley, and to Walsingham; to the Lord Deputy and Council, March 6; Waterhouse to Burghley, March 20; B. Gooche to Burghley, Feb. 2 and 18, and April 2; J. Wingfield to Burghley, April 2; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, April 20. [277] Sir Brian MacPhelim to the Queen, May 8; Essex to the Queen, May 13; to the Privy Council, same date; Edward Barkley to Burghley, May 14; B. Gooche to Burghley, May 15. [278] Essex to Burghley, Aug. 28, 1574, in Lodge's _Portraits_ (Walter, Earl of Essex); to Walsingham, March 25; Fitton to Burghley, Feb. 18; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Feb. 22 and 28, and March 2; to the Privy Council Feb. 5; E. Fitzgerald to Burghley, Feb. 13. [279] Essex to the Lords, March 8; the Queen to Fitzwilliam, Jan. 18 and 21, and March 30; Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, March 30; Fitzwilliam to Privy Council, March 24. [280] The Queen to Fitzwilliam, March 30; Fitzwilliam to the Privy Council, April 25; Dowdall to Fitzwilliam, May 2; N. Walshe to Burghley, June 10; Thomas Sackford to Burghley, June; John Symcott to Burghley, June 4; Lord Deputy and Council to Desmond, May 18. [281] 'What Bracton the lawyer termeth to be _illecebra peccandi_, is _spes reniæ_.' [282] Edward Barkley to Walsingham, May 13; H. Ackworth to Burghley, May 20. [283] Herle's Collection of John Corbine's Speeches, May 29; N. Walshe to Burghley, June 10: _Murdin_, p. 242. [284] Fitzwilliam to the Privy Council, June 2; to Burghley, June 10 and 20; Essex to Desmond, June 5 and 10; to Burghley, June 14; to the three Lords and Walsingham, June 17; Fitzwilliam and Essex to same, June 20; Desmond to Essex, June 20. [285] Essex to the Privy Council, July 10. [286] Writing to Fitzwilliam in July (No. 35) the Queen acknowledged that it was hardly fair to ask Desmond to disarm when others did not. [287] Essex to the Privy Council, July 10; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, July 12; Ormonde to Burghley, July 16; Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, Nov. Essex and Kildare accompanied Desmond as far as Clonmel. [288] The Queen and Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, June 15 and 20. [289] The 'Combination,' dated July 18, 1574, is printed in _Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica_, i. 5. The Queen to Fitzwilliam, Aug. 20, in _Carew_.