The Munster Planters (Notes)

[1] For the career of Sir Peter Carew see Hooker, or Vowell, in Carew Cal., i, Introduction. This life has been republished by J. Maclean (1857).

[2] A Briefe Description of Ireland (1589) in “Irish Archæological Tracts,” ed. by Aquilla Smith (1841).

[3] History of Ireland, i, 62.

[4] The grant was made in 1586. It is otherwise said to have been of 574,268 acres. As no one was allowed legally to possess more than 12,000 acres two other names were associated with Raleigh’s in the list.

[5] Spenser, View of the State of Ireland (ed. Morley, 1890), p. 146.

[6] Colin Clout’s Come Home Againe.

[7] Spenser’s wife, Elizabeth, is said by a writer in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society (Second Series, i, 131-133) to have been a daughter of Sir Richard Boyle.

[8] The above details are taken from the Kerry Magazine, August and September, 1855; the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society, Second Series, ii, 145 seq. (1896); the Dictionary of National Biography, and references there given. We give a remarkable portrait of the Countess from Knole. The portrait formerly at Muckross has recently been presented to the National Portrait Gallery, London.

[9] There is a copy in the British Museum. (Add. MS. 4793, ff. 21, 22).

[10] Letters of Sir Robert Cecil to Carew, ed. J. Maclean (Camden Society, 1864), p. 146 and note.

[11] Ormonde contended that Crosby was of the family of the MacCossanes, hereditary bards to the O’Mores, but he himself denied this. His mother, however, was one of the O’Mores. He was in possession of property in the O’Mores’ country.