Catalogue description PATRICK BARNEWALL to CROMWELL.

I have letters from my friends that my Lord Deputy, Master Treasurer and a few more of the English pale made a journey lately upon the Kevanages, and have received pledges from all the Kevanages, the Moris, O'Kerall, Fergownamyne, and O'Kenedy. They have also received "the money of O'Connour concluded upon the peace with him, which is the value of 600 kine; and for the same he hath no other liberty, but that he, his wife, and family, which is but few, shall be suffered to abide with the Earl of Ossory and others of his friends till the King's Highness' pleasure therein be known, so that he in no wise shall repair to Offaly, where he lately dwelled, in the mean time." If provision of inhabitants be had, that country is clearly won to the King. In your letters to the Commissioners it will be necessary to put them in remembrance "to inhabit as much as they can." The Baron Fynglas is deceased; I fear the King will miss him. Last Thursday the Commissioners took their journey to the Holyhede, and as soon as the wind serve, we all shall be in readiness to take shipping.

At West Chestyr, 17 August.

Addressed: Lord Privy Seal. 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 103.