Catalogue description SIR JAMES FITZ GERALD to HENRY VIII.

I have received by the Master of the Rolls of Ireland, lately appointed, your letters to me and my brother Richard. Am most bounden for your gracious respect towards us. Whatever the Master of the Rolls shall advise us to do touching our fidelity and service to your Grace, we will not fail to follow. If it shall be your pleasure to have me repair to you, I will come with him at his return. My brother, your Deputy, bears me most extreme displeasure for the service I did to Sir William Skeffington, "then your Deputy," daily oppressing my lands with such unreasonable impositions that they are wasted. I am thus deprived of my rents and living; and unless you look to the redress and relief of your poor subjects of cos. Kildare and Carlow, they will be utterly destroyed and the land left waste. The county of Carlow, which is my Lord of Norfolk's, is for the most part laid waste, for the tenants of are forced to forsake their habitations.--Dublin, 31 August.

Signed. Addressed: The King's good Grace.

State Papers II., 179.

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 40.