Catalogue description J. RAWSON, PRIOR OF KILMAINHAM, to HENRY VIII.

On the 13th ult., Lord James Buttelar, the Bishop of Waterford, the Mayor of the same, and I certified your Highness how it was then reported at Waterford that a chaplain of the Emperor's was arrived in the west parts of Ireland, at a port called the Dangyll, of whose business at that time we had no knowledge. Afterwards, while the Earl of Osserr was at Waterford, he received a letter from Lymeryke, which his Lordship and I inclosed in ours of the 25th ult. On 31 July, knowledge was brought to Waterford that the Archbishop of Dublin, "being in ship to depart towards England," was caused to be taken by Thomas, son to the Earl of Kildare, brought before him, and murdered in his sight and by his command, with divers of his chaplains and servants. It is feared that he will subdue and destroy your English subjects in default of aid and defence, "for such as were thereunto appointed did little good." He has also allured O'Connor to him and all other Irishmen that he can get, burning and destroying your English subjects. As there was no knowledge of the arrival of Sir William Skevington, named your Deputy, I showed the Mayor of Waterford that I would depart into England or Wales to certify you of what I knew, and arrived here at Seynt Davis in Wales on the 6th inst. As I am much diseased with the palsy, and unable to ride, "my brother archdeacon," your chaplain, who has continually been this half year in my company, is repairing to your Highness. He can inform you of what he has seen and heard in Ireland.

Seynt Davis in Wales, 7 August. Signed.

Addressed: To the King his most noble Grace.

State Papers II., 201.

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 45.