a letter of advice to the earl of Essex to take upon he the care of the Irish  business when mr secretary cecil be in France my singular good lord I do write  because I have not yet have time full to express my conceit nor now to attend  you touch Irish matter consider they as they may concern the state that it be  one of the apt particular that have come or can come upon the stage to  purchase your lordship honour upon I be move to think for three reason because  it be ingenerate in your house in respect of my lord your father noble attempt  because of all the accident of state of this time the labour rest most upon  that and because the world will make a kind of comparison between those that  set it out of France and those that shall bring it unto France which kind of  honour give the quick kind of reflection the transfer this honour upon your  self consist upon two point the one if the principal person employ come in by  you and depend upon you the other if your lordship declare your self to  undertake a care of that matter for the person it fall out well that your  lordship have have no interest in the person of imputation for neither sir  William Fitzherbert William nor sir John nourice be you sir William Russel be  conceive you but be curb sir Connyers Clifford as I conceive it depend upon  you who be say to do well and if my lord of Ormond in this interim shall  accommodate well I take it he have always have good understanding with your  lordship so as all thing be not only whole and entire but of favourable aspect  towards your lordship if you now choose well wherein in your wisdom you will  remember there be a great difference in choice of the person as you shall  think the affair to incline to composition or to war for your care take  general and popular conceit have be that Irish cause have be much neglect  whereby the very reputation of better care will be a strength and I be sure  her majesty and my lord of the Council do not think their care dissolve when  they have choose who to employ but that they will proceed in a spirit of state  and not leave the main point to discretion then if a resolution be take a  consultation must be govern upon information to be have from such as know the  place and matter in fact and in the take of information I have always note  there be a skill and a wisdom for I can tell what a account or enquiry have be  take of sir William Russel and of sir r Bingham of the earl of thomond of mr  Wilbraham but I be of opinion much more will be have of they if your lordship  shall be please several to confer not obliter but express and upon caveat give  they to think of it before for be to cause to know who wisely interrogate for  the point of oppose they I be too much a stranger to the business to deduce  they but in a topic I think the pertinent interrogatory must be either of the  possibility and mean of accord or of the nature of the war or of the  reformation of the particular abuse or of the join of practice with force in  the division of the rebel if your lordship doubt to put your fickle in other  harvest first time be fit to you in mr secretary absence next unite strong  three be mix with matter of war it be fit for you last I know your lordship  will carry it with that modesty and respect towards age dignity and that good  correspondence towards my dear alley and your good friend now abroad as no  inconvenience may grow that way thus have I play the ignorant statesman which  I do to no body but your lordship except I do it to the queen sometime when  she train I on but your lordship will accept my duty and good meaning and  secure I touch the privateness of that I write your lordship to be command