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an army of twenty thousand men should have landed 

 at Harwich, in aid of that part, which the said duke 

 had made within the realm, and the said duke 

 having spent and employed one hundred and fifty 

 thousand crowns in that preparation. 



Not contented thus to have consorted and as- 

 sisted her majesty s rehels in England, he procured a 

 rebellion in Ireland ; arming and sending thither in 

 the year 1579 an arch-rebel of that country, James 

 Fitz-Morrice, which before was fled. And truly to 

 speak, the whole course of molestation, which her 

 majesty hath received in that realm by the rising 

 and keeping on of the Irish, hath been nourished 

 and fomented from Spain ; but afterwards most ap 

 parently, in the year 1580, he invaded the same 

 Ireland with Spanish forces, under an Italian colonel, 

 by name San Josepho, being but the forerunners of 

 a greater power ; which by treaty between him and 

 the pope should have followed, but that by the 

 speedy defeat of those former, they were discouraged 

 to pursue the action : which invasion was proved to 

 be done by the king s own orders, both by the letters 

 of secretary Escovedo, and of Guerres to the king ; 

 and also by divers other letters, wherein the parti 

 cular conferences were set down concerning this 

 enterprise between cardinal Riario the pope s legate, 

 and the king s deputy in Spain, touching the general, 

 the number of men, the contribution of money, and 

 the manner of the prosecuting of the action, and by 

 the confession of some of the chiefest of those that 

 were taken prisoners at the fort ; which act being an 



