Catalogue description GERALD AYLMER, Justice [of the King's Bench], and JOHN ALEN, Master of the Rolls, to CROMWELL.

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Title: GERALD AYLMER, Justice [of the King's Bench], and JOHN ALEN, Master of the Rolls, to CROMWELL.
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According to your command to us and Master Treasurer of the Wars, since the coming of the army into Ireland we have always kept company together from place to place. Irishmen were never in such fear as now. The King's sessions are being kept in five shires more than formerly. Many male-factors have been taken and hanged, especially in co. Kildare, where, at the last sessions, 18 were hanged, and part of them quartered. I, Aylmer, have received by the Master of the Rolls your letter, willing the Master of the Rolls and me "to persevere in our old amity with Master Treasurer, and to join in one conformity" to serve the King. We have at all times given our attendance on Master Treasurer, who has followed our advice. But of late reports have been made that we have not been friendly disposed towards him, and have written to you that he did not the King such service as he might, labouring to put him from his office of Under-Treasurer. You well know that we were never of such mind towards him; neither has he deserved dispraise of us or any others. These informations have "been especially ministered by Mr. Agarde, who hath procured the said Master Treasurer, by secret practice and device, to be in displeasure with us;" and we doubt not but the Lord Deputy, from his old displeasure towards us, "will stir, procure, and continue" them. We beseech you to write to Master Treasurer, not to regard such light reports. Since our departure from Dublin we have written to Agarde on this subject.--Kilkenny, 31 December.

 

Signed: Gerald Aylmer, Justice; John Alen, Mr. of the Rolls. Addressed: Master Crumwell, Principal Secretary. Endorsed.

Date: 31 Dec 1535
Related material:

State Papers II., 295.

Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 602, p. 90
Language: English
Physical description: 2 Pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

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 64.

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