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127:. 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
204:, 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
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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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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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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
208:, where he was detained till about the middle of February for want of victuals, he determined, in consequence of rumours of a Spanish invasion, to entrust the government of the counties of Cork and Waterford to
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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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