ELIZABETHAN PRIVY COUNCIL: A good L.S. by six members of Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council comprisin

ELIZABETHAN PRIVY COUNCIL: A good L.S. by six members of Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Council comprisin

Queen Elizabeth I’s Privy Council authorise a payment
for the cost of sending troops to Ireland during the Nine Years’ War

 

ELIZABETHAN PRIVY COUNCIL: A good L.S. by six members of Queen Elizabeth I’s Privy Council comprising Thomas Egerton (1540-1617) 1^st Viscount Brackley, English nobleman and statesman, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1596-1617, Lord High Chancellor of England 1596-1617 and Lord High Treasurer 1613-14, signed Tho: Egertone C[ustos] S[igilli]; Charles Howard (1536-1624) 1^st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I, commander of the English forces during the battles against the Spanish Armada, signed Notingham; George Carey (1547-1603) 2^nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician who served as Lord Chamberlain 1597-1603, patron of the professional theatre company in London known as known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men (William Shakespeare being one of the writers and performers for the company), signed G Hunsdon; Roger North (1530-1600) 2^nd Baron North, English peer and politician, Treasurer of the Household 1596-1600, signed R: North; William Knollys (1544-1632) 1^st Earl of Banbury, English nobleman, Comptroller of the Household 1596-1600 and Treasurer of the Household 1601-16, signed W. Knollys; and Robert Cecil (1563-1612) 1^st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman who served as Secretary of State of England 1596-1612, Lord Privy Seal 1598-1608 and Lord High Treasurer 1608-12, the principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, signed Ro: Cecyll, one page, folio, Court at Greenwich, 22^nd July 1598, to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of England. The Privy Councillors write to authorise a payment of £390 to the chamberlain of Bristol for the cost of sending 700 troops to Ireland, in part, 'After our right harty commendations to your good lordship, whereas there were 700 men that were leavied in sondry countyes of this realme and directed to the porte of Bristoll to be there imbarqued and transported for the realme of Ireland - wherein order was given to the maior of Bristoll to provide shipping and victualles for their transportation and to see them dyeted duringe their abroad there which he hathe performed accordingly and sent us a note of the particuler charges of the transportation, victualles and dyett of the foresaid souldiers amounting to the somme of 390 li - these shalbe to praye your good lordship according to a privie seale graunted for the defrayinge of those charges to paye or cause to be paide unto Thomas Pitt, chamberlain of the said citty of Bristoll authorised by the maior to receive the same……wherein these togeather with her majesty's privie seale givinge warrant and dyrection to your lordship to paye suche sommes of monye for this service…..' Countersigned at the foot by William Wade, Clerk of the Privy Council. With integral address leaf, further bearing a docket signed ('W. Burghley') by William Cecil (1520-1598) 1^st Baron Burghley, English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign who served as Secretary of State 1550-53, 1558-72 and Lord High Treasurer 1572-98, the text ordering that the payment be made (signed by Burghley just under two weeks before he died). Some extensive overall foxing and staining and a few small areas of paper loss and neat splitting to folds (strengthened and repaired to the verso). G

A minute authorising the present letter was entered in the Acts of the Privy Council under 21^st July 1598 (see Acts of the privy Council of England 28, 1597-1598, pp. 599-600)

The Privy Councillor's letter was signed during the Nine Years' War (also known as Tyrone's Rebellion) 1593-1603 and immediately preceded the defeat of the English Army at the battle of the Yellow Ford in County Armagh on 14^th August 1598.