Catalogue description The TREASURER OF WAR IN IRELAND to CROMWELL.

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Title: The TREASURER OF WAR IN IRELAND to CROMWELL.
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The effect of the letters addressed from the King's highness, Treasurer of the Wars in Ireland, to Mr. Secretary.

 

It is intended that the Deputy, captains and others of the Council shall repair towards Dundalk on the north border in Ireland, where will meet with them O'Nell, O'Donell, McGwyer, and Manus O'Donell, with all the best of the north parts, for a concord to be had between O'Donell and Manus his son. When the Deputy was at Dungarvan, the Chief Justice and the Treasurer had a meeting with O'Nell and others of the north parts, and concluded that Manus O'Donell should come to the Lord Deputy, to be ordered by him and others for a peace between his father and him, which is like to take effect, so that the north parts will be in quietness, and all at the King's command, except certain Scots, who within these six years have inhabited a great part of the King's lands, and must be expelled, or else they will wax a strong band.

 

The Treasurer of late was at Carlingford, to see the King's castle there, and another called the Green Castle; which castles and the country about them are almost destroyed. The English fleet was there at their herring fishing, and were 600 sail. They offered, if there were any war in those parts, to make three thousand fighting men for two or three days. If the fishing continue there as it has done, the King may have as much rent as ever was paid, and the residue of the profits will, within a short time, make both the castle of Carlingford and the Green Castle to be wardable. If the King continue his wars, as of necessity it must be, it were convenient to send over 100 masons, carpenters, and sawyers, who might be men of war, and also make and repair the castles and fortresses bordering on the King's enemies to be wardable, and do good service in making of piles, for the banishing of Irishmen.

 

The Treasurer thinks "these mulier Garraunty[n]is" will make war this winter. The King will never have his land there in quiet so long as any of that blood remains. The county of Wexford and the castle of Catherlagh with other lands there, being in the hands of spiritual men of England, are more meet to be for the King than any others; and their possessors might be otherwise recompensed. "If the Toylles, the Burnes, and the Calenayghes, which is McMurgh and his sect, were banished and destroyed, and it inhabited with Englishmen," then the King would have there a goodly country, and no Irishmen who could make wars against them. The Treasurer thinks it requisite to have the King's laws kept sometimes in other places than Dublin, as at Trym, for where they are afraid of the laws, there is good order, and nowhere else.

 

In a contemporary hand.

Date: 1535
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 602, p. 87
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 70.

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