Catalogue description JAMES [FITZGERALD], EARL OF DESMOND.

A remembrance to your Honorable Lordship [Cromwell?] for the dispatching of my Lord of Desmond.

As the said Lord has been so long out of his native country, his former servants, and others who supported him in recovering his right, are forced to take part with his adversary. He has received no money from his country since his coming into England, but is at the King's finding, "of the which he is now destitute, so that for lack of maintenance he is not here able to live." It may therefore please your Lordship to see him dispatched. He will serve the King all his lifetime. It may also please the King to lend him a certain sum of money in mortgage upon such lands as have descended to him from his father, being without claim, in order that he may retain men of war. A letter to be sent to his said adversary, commanding him to appear before the Council in Ireland, and to "bring forth such right and title as he pretendeth to the earldom of Desmond." If he refuse to abide by the Council's decision, the Lord Deputy and Council to prosecute him as a traitor, and to put "the said James" in his rightful possession. Letters to be written accordingly to the Deputy and Council, and to the Earl of Ossory and his son, the Lord Treasurer; and others to the gentlemen and lords of the country, as he himself will declare to your Lordship.

Same hand as Rob. Cowley's Declaration on p. 150. Endorsed.

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 94.