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Endorsed in the Duke of OnnoncCs hand. 



ffor his majesties lord 

 lieutenant in Ireland 

 th lord James Butler ) ffraneiscan ffriar I 



Duke of Ormond these I Irish Verses . 



be d. d. [i. e. delivered] at I 



i-:n-. 



f Dublin 



19 of Oct'. 



Health & heaven &c 

 My Lord 



Bee it knowen vnto yo r 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 in 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 ch 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 ONeill iny e battle of blackwather. by 

 my mothers syd too I am of the Cassills, Garnons, Doudalls 

 & many others of y e EngKs pale — soe that by originall descent 

 I am 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. 



t That is, from the " General" or Superior of the Franciscan Order. 



