HOWARD CHARLES; 1ST EARL OF NOTTINGHAM Letter Signed Notting

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BUILDING AN ARMY TO QUELL REBELLION IN IRELAND HOWARD, CHARLES; 1ST EARL OF NOTTINGHAM. Letter Signed, "Nottingham," as Lord Lieutenant General, to the Lord High Treasurer William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, ordering him to pay the Chamberlain of Bristol Thomas Pitt £390 for expenses incurred feeding, equipping, and transporting 700 men from Bristol to Ireland. Countersigned by Thomas Egerton ("Tho.EgertoneC.S."), George Cary ("GHundsdon"), Roger North ("R:North"), William Knollys ("W:Knollys"), and Robert Cecill ("Ro:Cecyll"). With William Cecil's endorsement signature ("Burghley") on address leaf. 1 page, folio, with integral address leaf; closed horizontal tear at middle repaired verso (with moderate staining affecting some text), moderate scattered foxing. "Court at Grenewich" [London], 13 July 1598

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Tyrone's Rebellion was a conflict in Ireland that spanned between 1594 and 1603 in which Gaelic Irish chieftains rose up in opposition to English rule. The Irish defeat was followed by the English colonization of Ulster.