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was revealed in October 1605. Though no Irish were involved in the plot, he oversaw a widespread persecution of Catholics, and he ordered the execution of two bishops. He led the campaign by royal officials, acting on the complaints of the "servitors" (tenants) to undermine the authority of Tyrone
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In 1604, an Act of Oblivion declared that all "offences against the Crown" committed before the King's accession were to be "pardoned, remitted, and utterly extinguished". O'Neill returned to Ulster and appeared to have become a model subject of the Crown. Mountjoy, now a
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to make peace. The war was costing three quarters of the Exchequer's annual revenue, and the aged Queen had been obliged to maintain an army of 20,000 men for several years past.
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three days earlier, but he kept that information from the other parties until 5 April. Delaying the news had no legal effect, because of the principle of the
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O'Neill and his party were obliged to obtain permission to leave the kingdom, and since they had not done so, their lands and titles became forfeit.
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Some of the loyal Gaelic lords were upset with the restoration of lands to the rebel leaders, and that was one factor that drove one of them, Sir
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On 2 June 1603 Mountjoy left Ireland in company with Hugh O'Neill and the new lord of Tír Conaill, Rory O'Donnell, to see King James in
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The Earl of Tyrone swore to be loyal to the Crown and not to seek further assistance from foreign power. In return, he received a
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remained a champion of the terms of the Treaty and it seems he had become quite taken with his former adversary. The elderly
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On 30 March, Tyrone submitted to the Crown. The pardon and the terms were considered to be very generous at the time:
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and Tyrconnell and to erode their economic base. When Hugh O'Neill and other rebel chieftains left Ireland in the
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was never more than 12,000 strong Horrified by the cost of the war, Elizabeth now dropped her insistence on
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During the spring of 1603, Lord Mountjoy concentrated his campaign in the northern counties and the
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remained a threat. Although most of the lesser chiefs allied with him had been compelled to submit,
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James O'Neill, The Nine Years War, 1593-1603: O'Neill, Mountjoy and the Military Revolution, p. 192
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that had stripped him of the title of Earl of Tyrone was reversed, allowing him a seat in the
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He retained his traditional core territory, apart from any Church lands, which was held in
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and persuaded him that he should negotiate peace terms, and would travel under a
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Colm Lennon, Sixteenth Century Ireland, the Incomplete Conquest, p301-302
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was sworn in as Lord Deputy in February 1605. Lord Deputy Chichester saw
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On 27 March 1603, Mountjoy received news that the Queen had died in
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The agents employed by the Lord Deputy in the negotiations were
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By contrast, the English army assisting the Dutch during the
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The earls were no longer permitted to support the Gaelic
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18th century depiction of Tyrone's submission to Mountjoy
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Catholic colleges could not be built on his property.
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The terms were similar in policy to many previous "
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Nine Years' War
Kingdom of Ireland
Battle of Kinsale
Lord Deputy of Ireland
Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
Hugh O'Neill
Rory O'Donnell
Brian Oge O'Rourke
Hugh Maguire
Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare
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Leinster
English Privy Council
Elizabeth I of England
Eighty Years' War
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