Henry Draycott
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Henry Draycott was an English-born Crown official and judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held a number of senior Government offices, including Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Despite his
St. Chads Water, on the outskirts of Draycott, Derbyshire
Mornington, where Draycott had his principal estate
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex: he and Draycott's daughter Alice were rumoured to have been poisoned by the Earl of Leicester
Henry Sidney
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Sir Henry Sidney was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Instrumental in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, his attempts to consolidate English power in Ireland were a major contrib
Henry Draycott
…Parliament of 1560. He was entrusted with a number of political missions to England, and was later a reliable supporter of the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney. He was given the task of settling a controversy between the Earl of Ormond and the Earl of Desmond, and was involved in the settlement of Munster in…
Portrait by Arnold Bronckorst, 1573
Sir Henry Sidney sets out from Dublin Castle. Detail from a plate in The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick (London, 1581).
Sidney and the English army on the march with standards and trumpets, from The Image of Irelande, 1581