Catalogue description RICHARD PACE to CARDINAL WOLSEY.

The King, remembering that his Lieutenant in Ireland will be in danger of his life, if he continue there, by reason of the disease which he now suffers, as it is reported to his Grace by Musgrave his servant, thinks it expedient to revoke him, both for the recovery of his health and for the service which he can do in "such his Grace's affairs as are like to ensue." The King desires you and the rest of his councillors to devise some meet personage to succeed him, and to debate whether it would be more expedient to have an Englishman ruler there, and for the King to be at the same charge as now, or else to make some Irish Lord his deputy, in the same manner as the Earl of Kildare was, and so to save the money now expended there in waste and without profit. The King proposes two persons, the Lord Ferys, if you can induce him thereto, or the Earl of Ormond, "if he may stand with the surety of his said land." But he will be content to accept any other person who shall be thought more fit by you and his Council. He desires you to certify him of your mind with diligence.--Windsor, 8 October.

Addressed: To my Lord Legate's Grace.

State Papers I. 69.

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 17.