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 2 4 2 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 59. The sudden blaze of insurrection found Sir H. Sidney without money as usual, and with a mere handful of > troops, insufficient for the police duty of the Pale. He was himself heartily in favour of the colonization scheme, and if 'the commotion' assisted in overcoming Eliza- beth's objection to it, he was inclined to be rather glad than sorry that it had broken out. It satisfied him, and lie hoped it would satisfy her, that if a Spanish army came over, and the chiefs were still in possession of their lands and castles, the country could not be held, unless with a larger force than England could afford to keep there. He wrote to Cecil to recommend him to impress this fact strongly upon her, and he himself meanwhile prepared to move down into Munster with as many men as he could collect. The Butlers had hitherto been the immediate re- source in times of sudden danger. The fear now was to my everlasting damnation, I had liefer forsake all the world if it were mine, as I wish all others who pro- fess Christ and His true faith to do : therefore this shall he to require you in the way of charity that ye ought to have towards all them that pro- fess to he Christian men, to abolish out of the city that old heresy newly raised and invented, and all them that be Huguenots, both men and Women, and Grenville's wife and children, and to set up the service after the due form and manner which is used in Rome and throughout all Christendom, and as our forefathers have ever used tofore. Assuring you that if you follow not this our Catholic and wholesome exhortation, I will not nor may not be your friend, and in like manner I wish and re- quire the Chapter and all the Clergy of Cork and of the Bishoprick there- of to frame themselves to honour God as your ancestors have done, and destroy out of the town all the Huguenots Avith the first wind. ' From Marty rstone this I2th of July, 1569, ' Spes nostra Jesu Maria. ' Yours if ye be in good faith, JAMES FITZMAUKICE OF DES- MOND.' JtfSS. Ireland.