Catalogue description HENRY VIII. to the PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND.

"The King's letter to the Commons assembled there in Parliament, moving them to contribution towards his charges in suppressing the Geraldines in Ireland. Anno 1535."

A certain motion was made to you in the last session for a benevolence to be granted to us by you our subjects of our lay fee within Ireland, but you made a certain argument and stay therein. We doubt not but you do all consider what importable charges we have been at lately for your defences, and that you would, though none instance were made to you, devise how to gratify us with some recompence, and to condescend to such an augmentation of our revenues there as might be able to defend you from the violence of all traitors and rebels. It shall be much to our contentation if you lovingly grow to some resolute point in the grant of the said benevolence, which we desire not for any notable gain, but for that we have such a zeal to reduce that land to a perfect conformity, that we would have some convenient furniture of yearly revenues there. We therefore desire you so to proceed in this matter, that we may have cause to think you have the stomachs of faithful subjects.

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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 67.