Catalogue description THE DEPUTY AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND to PHILIP AND MARY.

We have perused your letters of 30th March last and certain petitions enclosed therein, exhibited to you by the Countess of Kildare, in behalf of the Earl, her husband. You instruct us to weigh every part of the petitions and your answer thereto, and to signify what we think fit for the common weal of this realm with the more speed, for that the Countess is attending an answer there to her great charges, and also because you have heretofore written like letters, but received no answer. We write nothing touching the not answering of the first letters, but leave the same to the declaration of Mr. Treasurer, and proceed to the last letters.

(1.) We think that "all such lands as be found by office to come to your Majesties by th'attainder of the Earl's father, and be yet detained from the said Earl, and the rents answered in the Exchequer," should be delivered to the said Earl; and that the rents of the lands on lease, now paid into the Exchequer, should be paid to the Earl. As to all other lands claimed by the Earl which are not in your possession, and to which you are not entitled, we think the Earl should try his right by course of the laws, or else that commission should be sent to us to hear his claims and proofs. (2.) The galloglasse bonaughts were set upon the Irish by your Deputies, and therefore belong to the crown, as will appear by the examinations (enclosed) of the captains of every sept of the galloglasse. (3.) "We like well the countries named in the petitions to be made shire ground, but the liberties to be kept in your own hands for divers respects." (4.) We refer the whole to your order. We have sent you "advertisements of all our proceeding and planting in the said countries." (5.) "The bands of horsemen be already placed, and without a new charge or discharge of old servitors the same cannot be altered at this present." (6.) We refer the whole thereof to your Majesties. "You may of your own dispose at your good pleasure where ye think meet, and what ye bestow on the said Earl shall be well bestowed.

We send you herewith the book of particularities exhibited to us by the said Earl, "noted on the side with Re. upon every matter found in record, L. C. upon every matter that must be tried by law or commission, L. upon every matter where he requireth to have liberties, and D. upon every matter where he claimeth to have duties upon Irishmen." As many things claimed by the Earl are let, together with your ancient possessions, without any partition of rents specified in the leases, it is expedient that you should authorize us to make partition of such parts as are to be delivered to the Earl.

Kylmaynam, 3 July 1557.

Signed: T. Sussex, [H.] Dublin., Cane.; Henry Radeclyff; George Stanley; Francis Agarde; Jo. Plunket; Robt. Dyllon.

Addressed: To the King and Queen's most excellent Majesties. 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 210.