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33: 655: 273:, scouring the country as they went, to Dingle. At Dingle they found Admiral Winter, and, with his assistance, Pelham ransacked the coast between Dingle and Cork, while Ormonde harried the interior of the country. The western chiefs one by one submitted to Ormonde. At Cork, there was a great meeting of all the lords and chiefs, and all were received to mercy except 138:. Returning to Le Havre in March, he was wounded during a skirmish with the forces of the Rhinegrave in June. He assisted in the negotiations for the surrender of Le Havre, and was a hostage for the fulfilment of the conditions of surrender. Subsequently, on his return to England, he was employed with Portinari and 215:, reluctant to involve herself in a new and costly campaign; and Pelham, though pleading in justification Drury's intentions and the necessity of the proclamation, asked to be relieved of his office. Yielding to pressure from England, Pelham in January 1580 prepared to go to Munster himself. At 434:, comprising his diary and official correspondence when lord justice of Ireland, is preserved among the Carew Manuscripts at Lambeth. It was compiled by Morgan Colman, and consists of 455 leaves. The title page is elaborately ornamented. Pelham wrote 245:
on 25 March. Two days later he carried the place by assault, and put the garrison to the sword, sparing no one. Terrified by the fate of Carrigafoyle, the garrison at Askeaton surrendered without a blow, and Desmond's last stronghold of
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Pelham still retained the office of lieutenant-general of the ordnance, but he was deeply in debt, and Elizabeth refused either to remit or stall the debts. She made the payment of his arrears a requirement to permit him to serve under
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and his brother Sir John of Desmond, obliged him to go there. His efforts at conciliation proving ineffectual, he caused the earl to be proclaimed a traitor; but, finding himself not sufficiently strong to attack
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A breefe discourse, concerning the force and effect of all manuall weapons of fire and the disability of the long bowe or archery, in respect of others of greater force now in vse
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to inspect the fortifications; but being taken dangerously ill, he returned to Dublin in a wagon. He obtained permission to return to England, and left Ireland early in October.
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to bring the rebellion under control. This was his decision to refuse any "rebel" the right to surrender unless he had killed another suspected rebel of higher rank.
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in company with Leicester, he was wounded by a shot in the stomach; the wound did not prove immediately fatal. He was able to take part in the fight at
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on a diplomatic mission to the Netherlands in the summer of 1578, and in the following summer he was sent to Ireland to organise the defence of the
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Pelham, who insisted on unconditional surrender, was preparing for a fresh inroad into Kerry, when he received information that the new viceroy,
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and his first wife Anne Manners. By her, he had one son, Sir William Pelham, who succeeded him, and married Ann, eldest daughter of
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and so to receive the wound that caused his death. He was entrusted with the task of bringing the recalcitrant citizens of
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with the sword of state to Dublin; but Pelham was offended at the lack of courtesy shown to him by the Deputy's secretary,
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Leicester, who thought highly of his military abilities, created him marshal of the army, so giving great offence to
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A form or maner howe to have the Exersyse of the Harquebuse thorowe England for the better Defence of the same
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by bad weather, and it was not till 7 September that he formally resigned the sword of state to the deputy in
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induced her to accept a mortgage on his property, and in July 1586 he joined Leicester in the Netherlands.
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to heel. He returned to England with the Earl of Leicester in April 1587, and took the waters at
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A true Reporte of the late Discoveries ... of the Newfound Landes: By ... Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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which was called "Mount Pelham." William was commended on that occasion; but, according to
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Sadler State Papers', vol.2 (1809), pp. 351–5 & footnotes
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against possible inroads by the O'Neills. He was knighted by
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Field Marshal Sir William Pelham, Lord Justice of Ireland (
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Pelham married, first, Eleanor (died 1574), daughter of
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and his wife Margaret Bray. His full brothers included
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in 1560. Among the siege works, his pioneers built a
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On 16 January 1581 he was joined in commission with
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She became 269:, they advanced along the valley of the 71:, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of 51:1528 – 1587) was an English soldier and 584:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 498: 196:Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond 130:; and, despatched to the assistance of 763:People of the Second Desmond Rebellion 575:McGurk, J. J. N. (23 September 2004). 460:Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland 348:Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 293:Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton 277:; but Pelham, acting on the advice of 570: 568: 324:George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury 284:He instigated the eponymously-named 117:Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton 7: 360:Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 311:. There was some talk of making him 91:: their eldest half-brother was Sir 128:Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick 119:, the son of the army's commander. 700:Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance 487:Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe 209:Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond 203:, he returned to Dublin by way of 148:lieutenant-general of the ordnance 89:Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer 25: 753:People from Laughton, East Sussex 674:Dictionary of National Biography 653: 514:Dictionary of National Biography 309:St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 194:, and the menacing attitude of 152:Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham 170:to be Lord Justice of Ireland 1: 743:16th-century English soldiers 738:People of Elizabethan Ireland 315:, and he accompanied Grey to 122:He commanded the pioneers at 611:UK public library membership 192:James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald 186:, recently convulsed by the 182:The situation of affairs in 557:Life of Mary Queen of Scots 481:, and she was the widow of 779: 545:. 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Index

Pelham's Pardon

Hieronimo Custodis
Lord Justice of Ireland
Laughton
Sussex
William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys of the Vyne
Basingstoke
Hampshire
Edmund Pelham
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
Nicholas Pelham (1517-60)
pioneers
siege of Leith
sconce
bastions
Humfrey Barwick
Arthur Grey, 14th Lord Grey de Wilton
Le Havre
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
Admiral Coligny
Caen
Jacopo Aconcio
Berwick upon Tweed
lieutenant-general of the ordnance
Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
Francis Walsingham
Pale
Sir William Drury
Privy Council of Ireland

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