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Irish CorRESPONDENCE, STATE PAPER OFFICE. 
No. 104. (Indorsed) The humble peticon of the Countesse of Desmond to the 
Right honnorable Ur. Secretary Walsingham. 
To the Right honnorable Sr Fraunces Walsyngham Knyght, prin- 
cipall Secretary to the Queens Ma’ Right honorable, Wheras by your 
good meanes her Ma” bestowed on me 1° marckes, who havinge nothinge 
elsse but the same to releve me, in hope I myght bee the better payde 
IT lay in Dublin, w™ being not payde me accordinge her Ma** direccén 
and your hono™ expectaéon, I was enforcede to roune in creditt for w™ 
J owe duble for every thing I hadde. And nowe beinge these xii. 
monethes here in greate mysery, where I have lyved all the while on 
lyke creditt, and havinge sent my Lo: Tresourers lrés to Sr Hy Wolloppe 
in procuringe the payment of suche mony as was due to me, w™ my man 
colde in nowyse receyve, eyther to discharg part of my creditors in that 
country, or healpe my pore children, whose myserable estate being 
reddye to peryshe dothe dayly cry out for relefe, besydes the extreamyty 
I endure here w* my poore famylly. In tender consydera@on wherof, 
IT most humbly beseche your honnor, lyke as I accknowledge you have 
bene the only and furste procurer of my relefe sence my unfortunate fall: 
so nowe to my exceeding comforte vouchsafe the contynewaunce of your 
honno* able favoure, so as by your good meanes I may have the furste 
yeres pencion of my last graunt payd me nowe, to supply my present 
wantes: protesting to your hono™ my creditt is quyght spent. Besydes 
the mysery I knowe, and am ecredybly enformed my children endure in 
Irland, wherin your hono™ shall (as you have alwayes donn) bynd us 
to pray for your hono’, &c. 
Trish CoRRESPONDENCE, State Paper OFFIce. 
No. 104. (Indorsed) M. to the Deputie of Ireland for the Countesss of 
Desmond, Sept. 1588. 
Right trustie and well beloved wee greete you well. Whereas y° 
Countesse of Desmond hath been an humble suter here unto us to relieve 
hir poore estate and miserie, whereunto she is brought by hir late hus- 
band’s rebellion against us. Wee having compassion of hir unhappie 
and miserable estate, whereunto she is fallen, rather by hir said hus- 
band’s disloyaltie, than by anie hir owne offence, are pleased for hir owne 
reliefe to bestowe on hir an yearely pencion of two hundreth pownds 
sterling, to be paid hir quarterly owt of o* Excheg™ of that realme 
during hir . . . . . And therefore theise are to will and comaund 
you o* Deputie to cawse a patent to be made from us and passed under 
o* greate seale of y* realme, of the said annuitie of CC" by yeare, to be 
paid quarterly, as aforesaide, to the said Countesse by the hands of oT 
Thrér, at warres there for the time beeing, ether of such mony as cometh 
to his hands of o* revenewe there, or of such treasure as shalbe assigned 
from us here to him. And in so doing theise o* lrés shalbe sufficient 
warrant and dischardge, as well to you o" Deputie, and to o* chancellor, 
