Catalogue description SIR G. CAREW to the LORD DEPUTY (FITZWILLIAM).

I have received your letters by Mr. Shellton, dated both the 4th and 12th of May. As to the Magohagans, my Lord Treasurer desires the matter should be ended to their mutual satisfaction; but foreign affairs so trouble him that he cannot despatch private business. Dermond McOwen is here, a great and importunate suitor for reversing the decree between him and Donoghe MacCormocke, alleging that the same was passed in his absence, and that no land was allotted to him. I have informed my Lord Treasurer that the land appertaining to the Tanist was allowed him. We shall be both sent for today before the Council. I am glad you have weeded out the great disturbers of Leinster.

"Your Lo. writeth that my wife is a good solicitor in my causes. As yet her man that embarked with Mr. Shellton is not come unto me, so that I do not perfectly conceive what suits I have, for when I left Ireland I neither impleaded any man [n]or myself was sued; but in truth I had a mistrust that one called Tallon would in my absence steal out some order for a possession of certain land within the barony of Idrone, which Sir Peter Carewe the elder did recover as parcel of that barony. My whole title doth depend upon the same claim." Albeit the land is passed from me, and the Bagnolls are to defend the same, yet because the heir is in his minority, and his guardian not acquainted with the title so well as myself, I pray that stay may be made until my return, which shall be with all convenient haste.

Grenewyche, 30 May 1591. "By Shellton."

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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 114.