friendly to consult, and you shall flnde me as willing to preferre the generall welfare of you all, as I have beene desirous to benefit every singular person of you,, that hath in any lawfull suite attempted me.
¶ These last words gave Sidney to the Realme, as it were for a farewell, and thenceforvvards looked for Sir William Fitz Williams his brother in law, a politicke and stout gentleman, now Lord Iustice, and for Sir Iolm Perrot Lord president of Mounster, to be settled there, before his departure. He was honored at the point of his going, with such recourse, pompe, musicke, shewes & enterludes, as no man remembreth the like. He tooke ship towards England at the key of Divelin, in Lent following,[o 1] accompanied to sea with the Estates & Worshipfull of Ireland, with innumerable harty prayers, & with that wish of his returne, whereof but few Governours in these last 60. yeares, have held possession. The man was surely much loved of them, from his first office of Treasurer in the 2. yeare of Queen Mary, stately without disdaine, familiar without contempt, very continent & chast of body, no more then enough liberall, learned in many languages, & a great lover of learning perfect in blazoning of armes, skilfull of antiquities, of wit fresh and lively, in consultations very Temperate, in utterance happy, which his experience and wisedome hath made artificiall, a preferrer of many, a father to his servants, both in warre and peace of commendable courage
FINIS.
- ↑ 25. Mar. 1571.
