Catalogue description HENRY VIII. to the [LORD DEPUTY and] COUNCIL OF IRELAND.

We have perused letters from you, our Chancellor, and others of our Council there to Lord Crumwell, Keeper of our Privy Seal, containing as well your proceedings against O'Bren and the pretended Earl of Desmond, as the mutiny in our army for want of money. We had already dispatched money to you, upon the arrival whereof we doubt not but you have taken order for the advancement of some notable exploits. We desire you to signify to us "what number of persons shall be meet to be retained there this winter, how and what sort ye will dispose the same, and upon what grounds and respects ye shall establish your determinations in that behalf;" and also to advertise us of "the names of such as were ringleaders and most brave in the refusal to do that to you was thought convenient, and so the chief occasioners of the said mutiny," to the intent we may cause them to be dismissed. "Finally we recommend unto you eftsones and the effect of our former letters touching the augmentation of our revenues there, and the establishment of the same in such a certainty as we may know at the return of William Budyr [Mistake for Body.] the perfect extent as nigh as the same may be conceived thereof."

Copy. Headed erroneously: Anno 1535.

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 89.