[236] The details about Derbyshire are from the _Belvoir MSS._ in the appendix to the 12th report of the Historical MSS. Commission, vol. i. pp. 326-381; Mayor of Barnstaple to Cecil, Aug. 24, 1602; Mayor of Chester, Sept. 14 and Oct. 22 and 24, 1602; Mayor of Bristol to the Privy Council, May 29, 1602. The letters from these mayors are all at Hatfield. On Sept. 18, 1595, Burghley tells his son Robert that he knows how to provide horse for Ireland at the expense of the clergy, and this levy was made; Hugh Bellott, Bishop of Chester, to Burghley, March 13, 1596. Commissary Peter Proby writes to Burghley from Chester on April 10, 1596, that the recruits malingered and threw away arms and clothes rather than sail, and that it might be necessary to send them on board pinioned. There are many details about recruiting for Ireland in Peck's _Desiderata Curiosa_. In 1584 the Queen ordered some recusants, who professed themselves loyal in all but religion, to furnish certain men, or 23_l._ in lieu of each man. If they obeyed cheerfully, she said, she might perhaps 'qualify some part of the extremity that otherwise the law doth lay upon them.' [237] George Manners to his father (John Manners) and to Edward Whittock in _Belvoir Papers_, May 15 and June 27, 1600; Captain Ralph Bostock to Cecil, 1600, MS. _Hatfield_. [238] Sir John Norris to Cecil, April 14, 1595, from Rycott; to Burghley, April 29, and to the Privy Council, May 2, from Bristol; to Cecil, May 3, from on board ship; Russell to Cecil, May 23; Essex to Norris and the latter's answer, Aug. 13; MSS. _Hatfield_, ending with 'your Lordship's as shall be fit for me.' The commission is in _Carew_ (No. 160). [239] Russell's Journal in _Carew_, May 1595; Norris to Cecil, May 8; to Burghley and to Cecil, May 29. [240] Russell to Cecil, May 23, 1595; Bagenal to Burghley, May 29; and Russell's letter of June 27; Report by Lieutenants Tucker and Perkins in _Carew_, June 1. [241] Bingham to Russell, June 6, 1595; O'Sullivan (tom. iii. lib. 3, cap. 3) does not seem to see any inconsistency between what he says of the Irish soldiers being 'prædâ fraudati,' and of the Englishmen who 'vel occisi, vel fugâ salutem petentes devastatæ religiosæ domus Carmelitarum poenas sacrilegii luerunt.--_Four Masters_, 1595. Many English writers confuse this George _Oge_ Bingham, who was Sir Richard's cousin, with the elder George, who was his brother.