Note 379 — Chapter LI
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Carew to the Privy Council, Aug. 6, 1601; Cecil to Carew, Sept. 5—both in Carew. ‘For Desmond (James Fitzthomas),’ says Cecil, ‘I find him more discreet than I have heard of him, and for Florence the same which I ever expected, which is a malicious, vain fool.’—Pacata Hibernia, lib. ii. cap. 6.