Catalogue description The EARL OF TYRONE to DON CAROLO.

I have been informed by the bearer of this that you have written to me, but your letter has not yet reached my hands. I was confident that I should not in vain appeal to you for aid. The faith might be re-established in Ireland within one year, if the King of Spain would send only 3,000 soldiers. All the heretics would disappear, and no other sovereign would be recognized than the King Catholic. Both I and O'Donnell have besought him to succour the Church. Pray second our petition. If we obtain positive assurance of succour from the King, we will make no peace with the heretics. We have written frequently, but are afraid none of our letters have reached the King, as he has returned us no answer. The bearer, a man of pious zeal, has undertaken this perilous mission.

5. Cal. Octobris.

Signed: Amicus tuus ignotus--O'Neyll.

Countersigned: Franciscus Montfortius.

"Intercepted, and received the 29th Sept. from the hands of Piers O'Cullen."

Copy.

MS 617, p. 230 Another copy.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 168.