They ask appointed 30 in Munster, were ever more attached than we are, to the faith delivered to us by our apostle St. Patrick, or more determined, extinct as it has been, alas! in these parts, and well nigh buried,-now that we have so far shaken off the yoke of the English, to raise it again to life, and promote its growth, extention and amplification; for in these cherished views we have no other object, than to see the glory of God and the exaltation of the orthodox faith: may your holiness then vouchsafe to lend a favourable ear to these our supplications, addressed to you by men, who despising all honours and advantages whatsoever, desire not to live a day longer than we may see the Church of God flourishing all over the entire world. "First then we have to express our desires that in to have titu- order to the furtherance and increase of the faith, aplar bishops pointments may be made to the vacant sees in this kingfor "the va- dom, of those individuals who are distinguished for their cant sees life, morals, and literary attainments, and who labour of Ireland; most with us in promoting the interests of the faith, particularly whom also the right reverend the bishop of Cork and Cloyne united with us in nominating and recommending, as fit pastors to instruct the flock of God by their wordand example; for fear that an opening may be left for the coming in of unworthy persons, who may perhaps intrude themselves into the charge over souls without due respect for canonical order, and yet with all possible authority and pomp. In presenting which petition we are influenced by the very serious damage to souls, which our people are subjected to by reason of the scarcity of pastors in the two provinces of Munster, a country which comprehends eleven bishoprics under the metropolis of Cashel; for we do not include the reverend prelate of Cork and Cloyne, who is now well nigh exhausted from Vid. No. XLVI. p. 1266, sup. The "bishop of Cork and Cloyne " here noticed was, I suppose, Edmund Tanner, vid. 68, inf. and Bren. ii. 123. his age and troubles. And we urge our petition the more confidently from this consideration, that the prelates who have been elected, consecrated, and sent over to us from your holy see, to occupy vacant sees in these parts, are by us defended in the same, by God's grace, to the utmost of our power, thay they may be enabled in safety to take the oversight of the flocks committed to their charge. to have a renewal of tion" of their Queen, "Furthermore, we desire, that as the Supreme Pontiff and in fine, Pius the Fifth, of happy memory, issued his Bull of excommunication against the Queen of England and her the Bull of abbettors; as also GREGORY XIII. continued the same, "Excomand announced that it was to have force in the war of the municaGeraldines; so your holiness may be pleased to issue a like sentence for promoting this war, and bringing it to a prosperous issue. And now we commend generally to your holiness, with feelings of the strongest attachment of which we are capable, this your kingdom, depending on you alone after God, and ourselves your humble subjects, together with our proctors the bearers of these presents, whom we depute on behalf of ourselves, and in our name, and who will more fully set forth, at large and authentically, by oral communication, all the achievements that we have, with aid of their exertions and learning, performed in this war. Praying that your holiness may be pleased to repose implicit faith in their statements, we are &c. Your holiness's most obedient sons and most faithful subjects, "James Desmond. "Mac Cartie More. [Florence] "Dermond Mac Cartie, alias Mac Donogh." "Dated in our Catholic Camp, the} 30th of March, 1600. Νο. ΧΧΙΧ. Clement of the Irish BULL OF POPE CLEMENT VIII. EXCITING THE IRISH TO JOIN IN "CLEMENT VIII. pope, to All and Singular, our venelauds highly rable brethren the Archbishops, Bishops, and prelates; the activity also to our beloved children, the Princes, Earls, Barons, in obeying and people of the kingdom of Ireland, Health and Aposhis exhorta- tolical benediction. tions to rebellion. A.D. 1600. H. O'Neill's followers to "Whereas we have learned, that in pursuance of the exhortations addressed to you this some while past, by the popes of Rome our predecessors, and by ourselves and the apostolic see, for the recovering of your liberty, and the defence and preservation of the same against the attacks of heretics, you have with united hearts and efforts, followed, and supplied with aid and assistance, first JAMES GERALDINE of worthy memory, (who to the utmost of his power exerted himself, as long as he lived, with most spirited resolution, to shake off the cruel yoke of slavery imposed upon you by the English deserters from the Holy Roman Church ;) after that JOHN GERALDINE, kinsman of the said JAMES; and most recently our beloved son, the noble lord HUGH, Prince O'NEAL, styled Earl Tyrone, Baron of Dungannon, and Captain General of the Catholic army in Ireland, and Whereas further, the Generals themselves and their soldiers have in progress of time, the hand of the Lord of Hosts assisting them, achieved very many noble exploits in valiant combat with the enemy, and are still ready for the like hereafter; "We therefore, (to encourage you, and the General have pardon and soldiers aforesaid to exert yourselves with the more of sin, and alacrity for the time to come also, in giving your assist ly bestowed ance to this expedition against the heretics aforesaid) all other fahaving a desire to confer upon you spiritual graces and yours usualfavours, after the example set us by our predecessors on the Cruaforesaid, and in dependance on the mercy of Almighty saders. God, and the authority of Blessed Peter and Paul His apostles, Do mercifully grant in the Lord to you all and singular (if truly penitent and confessing, and likewise refreshed, if it be possible, with the Holy Communion,) who shall follow the said General Hugh and his army, the champions and asserters of the Catholic faith, and who shall join yourselves to their number, or give them help in this expedition by your Counsel, Countenance, Military Stores, Arms, and other implements of War, or in any mode whatsoever; and also to the said General HUGH and the soldiers of his army all and singular, [on the like terms] a plenary indulgence and remission of all their sins, and the same privileges as have been usually conceded by the popes of Rome to those who set out for the war against the Turks, and for the recovery of the Holy Land: our decretals concerning the not granting of indulgences in such form, and on the occasion of receiving the Jubilee year's indulgences, and any other apostolical constitutions and ordinances &c. to the contrary, (if this be requisite,) notwithstanding. tle. "And inasmuch as it would be difficult for these our The mode of publicapresents to come to the knowledge of all whom they may concern, our pleasure is, that the printed copies thereof of the Episalso, after having been subscribed by the hand of a notary public, and confirmed by the seal of a Church Dignitary, shall be received every where with the same reliance on their authority, as would be commanded by production of the original. "Given at St. Peter's at Rome, under the Ring of the Fisherman, the 18th day of April 1600, in the IXth year of our Pontificate. "M. VESTRIUS BARBIANUS." The original of this document may be seen in Foulis, pp. 479, 480; Mac Geoghegan, vol. iii. p. 548; or among the documents in the Collection of Records' at the end of Collier's Eccl. History, No. 97. M. de Ovie er of this letter. No. LIII. LETTER OF DONOGH (MAC CORMIC) CARTIE TO THE KING OF SPAIN. [Foulis, p. 483. Mateo de Oviedo being now in Iredo the bear- land, and calling himself Archbishop of Dublin, wrote to the titular Earl of Desmond, James Fitz Thomas, a letter encouraging him " to fight constantly and valiantly for the Faith and Liberty of your country, knowing and firmly hoping that the help of my Lord the Catholique king is now coming, which when it cometh, all things shall be prosperous. He observes, ib., that he is just going to Spain. The letter, given by Foulis in full, is dated" From Donegall the 13th of Jan. 1601."] F. Mac Cartie solicits aid from Spain against Q Elizabeth. " [Carew gave the rebels some trouble at this time:] yet their plottings go on; and at the desire of Florence Mac Cartie, Donogh Mac Cormock (who called himself also Cartie) sent this letter the king of Spain. "Having received directions from the earl of Clancare, I would not omit this opportunity, at the departure of the Archbishop of Dublin [Oviedo] and don Martin de la Creda, to make known to your majesty how the said earl hath written to your majesty by two or three ways; but understanding that these letters came not to your royal hands, he hath now again written by me to your majesty making offer as well of his person and lands, as |