Catalogue description EDWARD BECK, of Manschester, to CROMWELL.

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Title: EDWARD BECK, of Manschester, to CROMWELL.
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At Drodathe, this present Monday next after Palm Sunday.

 

My Lord Deputy went into Farnay upon Paschen Sunday on a journey, and got a prey of four hundred k[ine]. Your servant Gerram Lyme was slain. The Irishmen have since been twice in the English pale, "and taken both prey, and burnt first three towns, and took men pledysches (pledges) with them." After my Lord came to Drodathe on Palm Suneven, the husbandmen brought him word, on Palm Sunday, that the Irishmen had done great harm and burnt as far as the town of Arde on the said even. This day I was ready to go with this shipping to your Lordship, but my Lord Deputy commanded me, upon pain of 600l., to be with him tomorrow by 10 o'clock, "to answer before him and my Lord Chancellor," to the intent that I should be hindered from going. He has said that I get your favours by my untrue reports.

 

Martin Pellus is put in the room to be constable of Carllyngford, and your Lordship may know of my masters the Commissioners if he be a man meet for it.

 

Addressed: My Lord Privy Seal. Endorsed.

Date: [15 April] 1538
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 602, p. 121
Language: English
Physical description: 1 Page.
Physical condition: Holograph.
Unpublished finding aids: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 119.

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