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ee Tne eciaseaties lori Endorsed in the Duke of Ormond’s hand. 
lieutenant in Ireland 
th lord James Butler ffranciscan ffriar & 
Duke of Ormond these Irish Verses — 
be d. d. [i. e. delivered] at 19 of Octt. 80 
Kitrenny” Dublin 
Health & heaven & 
My Lord 
Bee it knowen vuto yo' grace that I am a poore old & 
feeble Franciscan friar, whoe longe before & after his majes- 
ties proclamations have endeavoured with all my force to gett 
out of this kingdom to die quietly im some Catholik country, 
to which intent I gathered some charges heere & there, & 
went often tymes to sea coasts, but mist shipinge, fell sick 
afterwards, & laid soe amonge friends by reason of a rupture 
I suffer this 30 at least years. Cominge to Ireland about 16 
yeares ago, I had an indifferent commission from our Generall,f 
and lived soe amonge the Christians, nott affixed to friary or 
convents, wherefore I may not bee called a regular priest. I 
am & was of Peeter Walshes Remonstrance for w™ I suffered 
much to this day from the contrary sort. I am of the Parkers 
of England by my mothers sid, whose grandfather Captaine 
Parker fought against O Neill in y° battle of blackwather. by 
my mothers syd too I am of the Cassills, Garnons, Doudalls 
& many others of y® Englis pale—soe that by originall descent 
Iam bound to defend his majesties crowne, and priviledges to 
death. I am this whole yeare persecuted with fulminations of 
censures by one Doctor Henry o Hugh Doctor Plunketts vicar 
generall, & suborned person in all his bad designs, for not 
keepinge friary against his majesties proclamations & that by 
the procuration of one Shean o Neill, owen Roe o Neill’s pre- 
tended bastard, whoe under the cloake of S. Francisis habit 
* Kilkenny erased, and Dublin written instead, in a coeval hand. 
+ That is, from the ‘‘ General” or Superior of the Franciscan Order. 
