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xxxix. Modern claimants to the title of shamrock are the white clover,
the common trefoil (_medicago lupulina_), and the bog-bean (_menyanthes trifoliata_); but none of these are edible by men.
[418] Queen Elizabeth to King James VI., June or July, 1585, in Bruce's _Letters_ of those two sovereigns, also Dec. 2, Feb. 3, 1601-2, and 'after July,' 1602; James VI. to Tyrone, Aug. 10, 1597, in _Lansdowne MSS._; Tyrone to James VI., April 10, 1600, in Scotch _Calendar_; and the letters printed in _Ulster Arch. Journal_, vol. v. pp. 205-8.
[419] Mountjoy to Cecil, Jan. 20, 1603; to Vice-Treasurer Carey, Jan. 25; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Feb. 26 (draft in _Carew_).
[420] Cecil to Mountjoy, Feb. 18, 1603, in _Carew_; Moryson, book iii. chap. ii.
[421] Moryson, book iii. chap. ii.