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was resolved upon ; he began to make propositions 

 to her majesty by way of taxation of the former 

 course held in managing the actions of Ireland, 

 especially upon three points ; the first, that the pro 

 portions of forces which had been there maintained 

 and continued by supplies, were not sufficient to 

 bring the prosecutions there to period. The se 

 cond, that the axe had not been put to the root of 

 the tree, in regard there had not been made a main 

 prosecution upon the arch-traitor Tyrone in his 

 own strength, within the province of Ulster. The 

 third, that the prosecutions before time had been 

 intermixed and interrupted with too many tempo 

 rizing treaties, whereby the rebel did ever gather 

 strength and reputation to renew the war with 

 advantage. All which goodly and well-sounding 

 discourses, together with the great vaunts, that he 

 would make the earth tremble before him, tended 

 but to this, that the queen should increase the list 

 of her army, and all proportions of treasure and 

 other furniture, to the end his commandment might 

 be the greater. For that he never intended any 

 such prosecution, may appear by this, that even at 

 the time before his going into Ireland, he did open 

 himself so far in speech to Blunt, his inwardest 

 counsellor, &quot; That he did assure himself that many 

 of the rebels in Ireland would be advised by him :&quot; 

 so far was he from intending any prosecution to 

 wards those in whom he took himself to have in 

 terest. But his ends were two; the one, to get 

 great forces into his hands ; the other, to oblige the 



