Catalogue description ALEXANDER FITZGERALD, BISHOP [OF ST. DOMINGO] to HENRY VIII.

Certain fragments of Philostratus "De Liberalitate, ad Cyrum, Persarum regem," came into his hands, and reminded him of King Henry, who at a time when he might have given himself up to youthful pleasures, undertook a war against France, and returned into his own kingdom after bringing King Louis to his will. Enters into a long dissertation concerning the qualities of a miser and a tyrant, though Henry is neither. But does it not seem miserly for the Queen to withhold from the Bishop the rewards which he deserves as her tutor, and tyrannical to rob him of all the days of his youth? Has lost all the inheritance of his ancestors, through instructing the Queen in distant lands for so long a time. It has been seized and partitioned by his kinsmen. Begs redress.

Headed: Enrico Angliæ et Franciæ regi florentissimo Alex. ep'us Geraldinus s. p. d.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. I, document 3.