View source for 1600 - Cecil, Robert - To George Carew

{{AllusionsItemTop|About=The queen fears Desmond may prove a Robin Hood|DatePrefix=29 Aug.&ensp;|Date=|DateSuffix=|AuthorPrefix=|Author=Cecil, Robert|AuthorSuffix=|Title=Letter from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew|PlainTitle=|Poem=|Chronicle=|Proverb1=rebel|Link1=1593 - Atkinson, Anthony - To Robert Cecil|Link2=1596 - Fenton, Geoffrey - To Robert Cecil (1)|Link3=1596 - Fenton, Geoffrey - To Robert Cecil (2)|Link4=1597 - Cecil, Robert - To Thomas Burgh|Link5=1597 - Fenton, Geoffrey - To Robert Cecil (1)|Link6=1597 - Fenton, Geoffrey - To Robert Cecil (2)|Link7=1597 - Norreys, John - To Robert Cecil|Link8=1600 - Carew, George - To Robert Cecil (1)|Link9=1600 - Carew, George - To Robert Cecil (2)|Link10=1602 - Gilbert, Adrian - To Robert Cecil|Link11=Historical persons (links)|HidCat1=Historical persons}}<div class="no-img">
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== Allusion ==
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{{quote|I have not heard from you since Arthur arrived with too news [''sic''] of your good success in Kerry. You have been supplied with all you ask. Desmond is to be sent to you forthwith, unless some advertisement dissuade it. A patent is drawn and ready to be signed for his earldom; you are to deliver it to him if you "see a party likely to come to him." Her Majesty is doubtful "whether he may not prove a <keyword>Robin Hood</keyword> as well as the other, of whose abatement there is hope [p. 435:] by your labour, though this gentleman should never be sent;" and whether by sending and creating him she may not "run the danger of a scorn" if no great matter should follow. Use him as you think good. "Although it seems you could have been content to have only had him as a prisoner, yet my Lords, out of desire to ease your works, have won some better conditions of her Majesty, for he shall go... well accompanied, and some gentleman (not as a jailor, but as his friend) shall bring him to you."<ref>{{:Brewer, John Sherren 1869a}}, pp. 434-35.</ref>}}</onlyinclude>
== Source notes ==
Ellipsis as in printed source. MS ref.: Vol. 604, p. 23, No. 445. Date: Aug. 29. The printed source is a calendar which part quotes, part paraphrases the original letters. IRHB's matter in brackets.

== IRHB comments ==
The cynicism of politics! The writer of this letter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563?-1612)] was Lord High Treasurer May 1598-24 May 1612, Lord Privy Seal 1598-1612, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 8 October 1597-1599, and Secretary of State 5 July 1590-24 May 1612. The recipient, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carew,_1st_Earl_of_Totnes George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (1555-1629)], served under Queen Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster on Jan. 27, 1600. The allusions has not been noted in previous lists or studies.

== Lists ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-11.
* Not included in {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}.

== Sources ==
* {{:Brewer, John Sherren 1869a}}, pp. 434-35.
* [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/80499a67-cfac-4db6-bcfe-01c795051a17 National Archives: Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew] – long passage quoted, perhaps from preceding.
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