Catalogue description HENRY HOVENDEN to the EARL OF TYRONE.

"All the delays that could possibly be used for prolonging the causes here have not been omitted, and your own advice to O'Donnell to have the variance between the Commissioners and him to be made known to your Lp., and also to take hold of Captain Warren's dealing touching the retaining of your Lp.'s pledges at Dublin, hath been likewise treated of by O'Donnell; but all will not serve, for the Lord General pretendeth to war because O'Donnell will not put in his pledge, which you know he will not do. And as yet no harm is done of any side to testify a new war, though my chiefest opinion is, it will not be so immediately. And the Commissioners find no reason to refer these causes to your hearing, in that you have signified your mind unto them in writing in this behalf, together with the copies of such letters as you wrote to O'Donnell, McWilliam, and the rest, wherein in my opinion you used more haste than was convenient. I can say no more to your Lp. by way of advice but what I have already written to you, to be provided for the wars. You shall know more as the causes here fall out"

27 June 1596

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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. III, document 243.