Henry Gosnold

He sat in the Irish House of Commons and held office as Chief Justice of Munster and Deputy Admiralty judge for the same province.

[3] The closeness between the two men continued after their student days; in July 1592 they visited Twickenham together, and the friendship survived Henry's departure to Ireland in 1594.

[4] At least one of his jokes (a rather laboured one for modern tastes) survives, concerning Bacon's determined but ultimately unsuccessful battle in 1594 to persuade Elizabeth I to appoint him, rather than Sir Edward Coke, as Attorney General.

[6] He wrote to Bacon about the expedition in 1594 to relieve Enniskillen Castle, which was under siege (this was one of the first military actions of the Nine Years War), and gave his first impressions of the country.

An intermediate Irish Court of Appeal in Admiralty existed for some years, but Gosnold himself is known to have been opposed to its continuance, arguing that its operations weakened the Lord Admiral's authority.

By the lax standards of the age Gosnold, in contrast to his notoriously corrupt rival Sir Robert Travers, was an honest official.

Like many landowners in Munster, notably Lord Cork's sons, he suffered heavy losses as a result of the Rebellion, though he was more fortunate than his rival Travers, who was killed at the Battle of Knocknanuss.

The petition was successful: Parliament authorised a payment of €150 to Thomas Muschamp, a London merchant, on Gosnold's behalf.