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Norris was in the winter of 1592–93 in England to report on the Munster plantation; he returned to Ireland about May 1593. With the exception of disturbances over the summer by Donogh Mac Carthy, the Earl of Clancare's illegitimate son, the province was peaceful.
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in June 1596, but, in August, he was engaged in repelling an incursion of the MacSheehys and O'Briens into Munster. He hanged ninety of them within ten days, but they proved tenacious. He again in September accompanied Sir John Norris into Connaught.
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on 22 November 1598. His situation deteriorated, but towards the end of December, he managed, though fiercely attacked by William Burke, to relieve Kilmallock. But a second expedition on 27 March 1599 only resulted in the capture of
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The election was not confirmed by Elizabeth, on the ground that his presence was specially required in Munster. Accordingly, Loftus and Gardiner having been appointed lords justices, Norris returned to Munster on 29 November.
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to Limerick on 30 May, when encountered Irish troops under Thomas Burke. In the skirmish, he was wounded by a pike in the neck. The Burkes were routed, and Norris reached Limerick apparently on 4 June. Having revictualled
316:. In December 1585, he was appointed vice-president of Munster during the absence in the Low Countries of his brother John. It was a precarious situation. Under instructions from England, Norris, in March 1587, arrested 594: 309: 246:, in watching the movements of the Earl of Desmond, and on the retirement, of Captain John Zouche in August 1582, on account of ill-health, he became colonel of the forces in 637: 394: 176: 84: 429:, saw him return to Munster, and in June 1597 he had pacified it. On the death of Sir John Norris in that year he succeeded him on 20 September as 421:'s disgrace had temporarily deprived the province of its governor, and he was appointed by his brother provisional president of Connaught, on Sir 224: 652: 627: 562: 333: 479: 258: 348: 202: 657: 542: 397:, whom he attended in his progress through Ulster. In the following year he served under his brother, Sir John Norris, against the 599: 470: 352: 667: 60: 374:, an engineer who had been sent over from England expressly for the purpose, in strengthening the fortifications of Limerick, 261:
as governor of Munster, Norris was able, early in 1583, to pay a brief visit to England. On his return he found employment in
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in the plantation of Munster, Norris obtained a grant of six thousand acres (24 km) in and about
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was over but the air was still full of rumours of invasion, and in 1589–90 Norris was engaged with
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and Bridget Raleigh, by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth, his sole heiress, who married Sir
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died also, and Norris was, on 29 October, elected by the council, as lord justice of Ireland.
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on 4 September. He assisted Sir John Norris as commissioner for the pacification of
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies
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on a well-known occasion in the late 1580s unfolded his project of writing
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to meet the lord-lieutenant, and, returning to Munster, was on his way from
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On 10 August 1594, Norris went to Dublin to meet the new lord-deputy, Sir
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In December 1579, he became, through the death of his eldest brother,
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married her and so united in himself the two main branches of the
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He married Bridget, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill of
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Thomas Norris (disambiguation)
Irish House of Commons
Lord President of Munster

Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
Rycote House
Wytham
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Margery
John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame
Magdalen College, Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
John Norris
Edward Norris
Sydmonton Court
Hampshire
John Jephson
Froyle
Hampshire
William Jephson
Long Parliament
Mallow Castle

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