Catalogue description WALTER [WELLESLEY], BISHOP OF KILDARE, to CROMWELL.

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Title: WALTER [WELLESLEY], BISHOP OF KILDARE, to CROMWELL.
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You will receive, by the bearer, one of the brethren of the monastery of Our Lady, Connall, (which monastery the King "made in commendam to my bishopric of Kildare") an hobby "of this land breeding." I beseech you to be a mean, by your letters to the Council here, that they may "aid and strength me" in the possessions belonging to the said monastery which "wholly lie in the wild Irish amongst the King's rank rebellers; and the rather for that the said monastery is of foundation of the noble Maylor FitzHenry," son to King Henry II., so that no brother is elected "unless he be of a very English nation; in consideration whereof the wild Irish rebellers doth daily ensue all their extremities for the impoverishing of the said monastery.

 

Connall, 24 May. Signed.

 

Addressed: The Lord Privy Seal. Endorsed.

Date: 24 May 1539
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 602, p. 120
Language: English
Physical description: 1 Page.
Unpublished finding aids: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 134.

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