Catalogue description LORD LEONARD GREY to HENRY VIII.

After I had finished the other journey against the Cavenaghes, O'Karuile, and others mentioned in the other letter from me and the Council, I was ascertained both of the death of O'Donell, and that O'Neil had constrained certain of the borderers being upon your peace to adhere to him; and also that his son and servants were making a voyage to your castle of Ardglas "to evict the same out of your Grace's possession." By the advice of the Council I proclaimed a general hosting, to march into those parts, provided with a month's victuals, in order to repress O'Neil, and to prosecute others for their disobedience. As the Council did not wish me to proceed rigorously if O'Neil would conform himself, I appointed him to come to the border three days before the host should march, and on his so doing I sent the Chancellor, the Bishop of Meath, and the Chief Justice to commune with him, who found him very reasonable, and willing to abide "the order of them being of your Grace's Council" and of McQuyer and McDonell, captain of his galoglasses. They therefore advised me to accept this offer, as I did; though, seeing he delivered no pledges and had there a great power both of Irishmen and Scots, I would, if I might have followed my own will, have so handled him that he should have had no cause to boast of that voyage. During my thus being upon the border with the host, the new O'Donell sent me certain letters, which I inclose, with my answer to the same. He may do your Grace good service, "especially in the stay of O'Neil." I and the Council think it good that you should accept him to grace. I desire to be advertised of your pleasure, how I shall use myself in this and such like things, for else I shall be at no more certainty or stay with the said O'Donell than I am with James of Desmond, "who, upon like submission having no answer hitherto from your Highness, standeth in such doubt as he inclineth not to his duty, as he saith he else would.

At the late monastery of Bektif in Meath, 1 Sept.

Signed: Leonard Gray.

Addressed: To the King's high Majesty.

A letter of the same date to Cromwell is in the Record Office, and printed in the "State Papers," II. 471.

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 104.