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PELHAM to the QUEEN.

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PELHAM to the QUEEN.
Date
15 Dec 1579
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I have received your letters of 28 November, wherein your Majesty sheweth several causes of your disliking with me since I entered into this service. The proclamation against Desmond was a necessity. "Neither the Viscount Barrie, Roche, nor any of their quality in Munster would any way shew themselves enemies to this action, till they were sure by that public act that your Majesty would deal thoroughly for his extirpation." As to the pensioners, a few were entertained, until your pleasure might be known, to encourage them to serve; but now they are discharged. As to calling some to the degrees of honour without your knowledge, it is the custom at the taking of your sword.

I renew my former petition to be speedily discharged from this government.

Droghda, 15 December 1579. Signed.

Contemp. copy.

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Lambeth Palace Library
Former department reference
MS 597, p. 145a
Language
English
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3 Pages.
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<p>Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer &amp; W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. II, document 208.</p>
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/9f24bf0e-53df-4239-8fc2-c9af48469b10/

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