OF IRELAND. 139 uttered among them, without many blessings and prayers, and so cheerefully they served him against the Irish, that in one day he spoyled Arthur Mac Murrough, brent his country, restored O-Carrol to the towne of Callane, with-held by Walter Burke, slew a multitude of Kerneghes, and quieted Leinster. Not long before, the Major of Divelin Iohn Drake, b with his band out of the Citty, had slaine of the same Irish Outlawes 400. In this Kings raigne the inhabitants of the county and towne of Corke, c being tyred with perpetuall oppressions of their Irish borderers, complained them- selves in a generall writing, directed to the Lord of Rutheland and Corke, the Kings Deputy, and to theCouncell of the Realme, then assembled at Divelin, which Letter because it openeth the decay of those partes, and the state of the Realme in times past, have thought good to enter here as it was delivered me, by Francis Agard Esquire, one of her Majesties privy Councell in Ireland. It may please your wisedomes, d to have pittie of us the Kings poore subjects, within the county of Corke, or else we be cast away for ever, for where there was in this countie these Lords by name, besides Knights b 1402. ' Records of Christ Church in Divelin.
- letter from Corke coppied out of an old Record bearing no date.
