 QUEEN ELIZABETH TO SIR HENRY SIDNEY.* BY THE QUEENE. [March 31, 1567] Right trusty and well-beloved, we grete you well. There are two things come to our memory sithens the writing and closing up of our other letter, whereof we think meet to remember you. The first is, that we think it not for our honour, but rather to th'increase of th'obstinate audacite of Shane O'Neyle, to have you renew any treatie with him. And therfor we wish rather all other good meane wer thought uppon to stay him or rather diminish his wicked rebelliouse attempts. The second is, we find it straunge that Thomas Stukley should be used there in any service in such credit as we perceve he is, considering the generall discredit wherin he remayneth not only in our own realm, but also in other countrees for such matters as he hath ben chardged withall: wherunto also he yet remayneth by bond with sureties aunswerable in our Court of the Admiralti, according as of late upon supplication of his sureties, we wrote to you that he should return home to answer in our said Court. Of these things being newly come to our mynd sithens the depech of our former letter, we thought briefly to make this short letter. Given under our signet, at our Manour of Grenewich, the last day of March, 1567, the eight yere of our reign. * Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland. 
Source: Queen Elizabeth and Her Times. Vol I. Thomas Wright, ed. London: Henry Colburn, 1838. 246-7.  Elizabeth I | Quotes | Life | | Links | Essays | Books | Renaissance Literature
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