Salutem in Christo.

My very Good Lord.

I have receaved your Letters of September 13th. They Came to my Hands aboute the 9th of October. And I hope, these Letters of myne may now finde you at Dublyn, Terme being well spent.

Your Letters begin with the Lady Carew's Busines. To which I wish very well so far as anie thing may be done (to take of her greate Importunity, and the Queen's for her) without prejudice to the Kings, or the Churches Affayres. And truly my Lord so far as I understand your Irish Proceedings, I thinke you are fallen upon a very Good Expedient. Neither doe I yet see anie Reason, Why it should sticke in the Execution. And therefore I have now sent a Letter on purpose for this Busines only to my Lord Deputy. And I am Confident his Lordship will either doe it, or give me some satisfying reason Why it cannot be done, though as yet that Reason appeares not to myselfe.

I shall Expect your Account Concerning the Church preferments, when you Can be ready; But I Confesse the sooner I have it, the better. And though Michaelmas Terme be begun, yet I hitherto heare not of your first part.

I Thanke your Lordship heartily for your Provident Care Concerning the Indowments of the Bishopricks in Ulster; And the Covenants with his Majesty against Exorbitant Leases. There was great necessity of that Covenant, when those Bishopricks were first settled. But since, the Act of Parliament hath putt them into greater Security, then those Covenants could: And Considering how easily it may be for an ill-mynded Bishop and a Courtier to Conspire together, and divide the Profits, and so undoe Succession, I think it is extremely well thought on by you to make Use of the Commission of Grace without any such Limitations. And though it be a little Chargeable so to doe, yet your Brethren shall be very much unadvised, if they doe not therein, as you doe. And I pray if anie Man stick at it, shew him this Clause of my Letter, that he may see what my Judgment is Concerning it.