[203] Captain Nicholas Mordaunt to Fitzwilliam, May 11, 1589; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Oct. 6; Account of O'Rourke's country by Fenton and Burghley, Feb. 1592 (No. 43). [204] Theobald Dillon to Burghley, Oct. 18, 1589; Edward Whyte to Sir N. White, Oct. 20; the Queen to Fitzwilliam, Nov. 19; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Dec. 19; to the Privy Council, Jan. 27 and March 2 and 24, 1590, with enclosures; Bingham to Burghley, April 7. [205] Fitzwilliam to Burghley, March 24, 1590, with enclosures; Bingham to Burghley, April 23; Camden. Bruce's _Letters_ of Elizabeth and James VI., April 1591. The charges against O'Rourke are detailed in the _Egerton Papers_; O'Sullivan Bere, tom. iii. lib. ii. cap. 1; _Four Masters_, 1590 and 1591. It is stated in O'Donovan's notes to the Annals, and in many other places, that O'Rourke begged to be hanged with a withe, and Bacon's essays are given as an authority; but this is not what Bacon says. His words (No. 39, 'Of Custom and Education') are: 'I remember in the _beginning_ of Queen Elizabeth's time of England, an Irish rebel condemned put up a petition to the _Deputy_ that he might be hanged in a withe and not in a halter, because it had been so used with former rebels.' [206] Relation by Carew, May 28, 1590, and his letters of May 31 and July 26 to Burghley, Raleigh, and Heneage, all in _Carew_. The Master of the Ordnance evidently sympathises with the poor soldiers. See also Loftus to Hatton and Burghley, May 31. [207] Walsingham's opinion and other papers in April 1587; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, March 31 and May 15, 1589; Kildare to Burghley, May 31, 1590; Tyrone's answer to Articles, March 19, 1590. All Fitzwilliam's letters during this period bear out the text; see the _Four Masters_, who say Hugh Gavelagh was greatly lamented, and O'Donovan's notes under 1590. [208] Archbishop Magrath's report to the Queen, May 30, 1592; for Sir Arthur O'Neill see Tirlogh Luineach's petition, July 1, 1587; for the MacShanes see Tyrone's answer to Articles, March 19, 1590, and the opinion of Coke, S.G., Aug. 13, 1592. [209] The O'Donnell tangle may be understood from Archbishop Magrath's report, May 30, 1592, and from the Appendix to O'Donovan's _Four Masters_ See also Fitzwilliam, Loftus, and Fenton to the Privy Council, Dec. 31, 1588. [210] _Four Masters_, 1587; Perrott's _Life_, p. 278; Tyrone to Walsingham, Dec. 10, 1587. [211] _Four Masters_, 1590; Note of pledges in Dublin Castle, Aug. 1588; Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Nov. 29, 1589, and to Sir G. Carew in _Carew_, Jan. 15, 1591. [212] Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Aug. 21, 1591; Sir H. Bagenal to Burghley, Aug. 13; Tyrone to the Privy Council, Oct. 31.