Catalogue description SIR ANTHONY SENTLEGER to CROMWELL.

On 1st March I received your letters dated Greenwich, 16th January, and the King's to me and my companions. James of Desmond, who was supposed to be dead, is whole and in good health, and has already delivered his son into the hands of Mr. William Wyse of Waterford. We look every hour for his arrival here in company of the Lord James Butler, who, notwithstanding his good service, has much ado to please all parties. O'Konnour, by means of the Lord Deputy and Lord James Butler and his father, has wholly submitted. I and my fellows thought good, upon delivery of the said James of Desmond's son, "further to persuade with him for young Garrard, who is not (as it was supposed) passed the seas, but remaineth in Connaught." The secretary of the said James has promised that if Garrard will not submit upon the King's pardon, his master will proceed against him as a traitor. "As touching the bringing in of O'Konnour, I know my Lord Deputy is minded to send over Matthew Kyng, your servant and his, to ascribe all the laud thereof to himself; but give no full credence to what he saith," until you hear more. You will perceive that others have taken pains therein by a letter enclosed, which we received from the Lord James Butler the 6th of March. Nevertheless, the Lord Deputy has "right well used himself in the same." I write in haste, for that the said Matthew will pass at the next tide with letters to divers persons.

Dublin, 8 March. Signed.

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 142.