Catalogue description [SIR] FRANCIS HARBART to CROMWELL.

Since the departure of Sir James Feis Gerrot and his brethren, these parts have been in quietness. The army here makes the peace so well to be kept. My Lord Deputy has spoken this last week with O'Mor and MacMorro at a house of the King's, named Kylka. I was with him, and perceived they were desirous of peace. Nevertheless, the report was that O'Konnore, O'More, McMorro, O'Dowyn, O'Molmoye, and all the Irishmen of these parts were confederated against us when Sir James and his brethren were taken, but they dare not stir. At the same house my Lord Treasurer and my Lord his father met the Deputy, and told him and the Council that O'Bren intends to move war against my Lord of Osre and his country. This O'Bren is the most powerful Irishman. The Deputy is valiant and forward in doing service. Mr. Treasurer has great pains with the army for lack of money. "The soldiers may not ride abroad in the borders for lack of money, for rather they do steal than otherwise, many of them." The gentlemen of co. Kildare are "the most sorriest afraid men in the world, for they thinks that they shall be taken one after another of them, as Sir James Fis Gerrot was and his brethren." The country is waste and void of inhabitants, for there are no farmers able to inhabit it. Would God the King sent Englishmen to inhabit here!--Dublin, 21 March.

Addressed: Mr. Th. Cromwell, Chief Secretary. Endorsed.

State Papers II. 307.

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 74.