Catalogue description ROBERT COWLEY to CROMWELL.

This Friday evening, the 19th, I have received a letter from my Lord Butler, abusing my Lord Deputy's proceedings as tending to subdue the King's subjects, extol the Geraldine sect, and tolerate the Papists. I have delivered it to Master Selenger to be shown to you. I am sorry to hear of such abuses;--still more so "to hear how the Papistical sect spring up and spread abroad, infecting the land pestiferously, by default of attolerance, by reason that where the King's Majesty preferred one Doctor Nangle to the bishopric of Clonefert, one Rowland Burke purchased bulls from the Bishop of Rome, whereby he expulsed the King's presentee." Although the King wrote to the Lord Deputy to prosecute the provisor, nothing was done. General recourse is had daily to Rome, whereas in times past they repaired to the King. There are "now lately" five bishops in Ireland by the Bishop of Rome's authority, besides abbots and priors. All this comes of "sufferance without any prosecuting." Of such news as Stephen Appary's servant has lately brought, although "glorious and famous," the King is not advertised either by the Lord Deputy or the Council. It is not to be firmly believed till it is certified by credible persons. I would be glad that my Lord Deputy should do such service, but I fear lest he be deceived by sinister counsel. I beseech you to be my good Lord in obtaining "my poor suit of my bill of Holmepatrik." I trust that Master Seyntleger will declare to the King my faithful service in times past, and my diligence in bringing to him registers of all the King's rights and hereditaments in Ireland, showing by whom the King has been deceived, and by what means he might recover his own. "I spake but for one which least offended, and he made a fine exceeding all others," all through Master George Poulet.

London, 19 July.

P.S.--I think it requisite for Mr. Cusack to be despatched. "He is at great charge, and being in Ireland might ensearch matters worthy of advertisement.

Addressed; My Lord Privy Seal. Endorsed.

State Papers III. 50.

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 125.