The LORD JUSTICE and COUNCIL to the COUNCIL in ENGLAND.

Sent by Mr. Cotton.

Assembly of the nobility and Council here, for the prosecution of the rebels in Munster with a double force, and for the guard of the Pale in the absence of me, the Lord Justice. As a good store of malt is provided at Bristol, we desire that 300 quarters thereof may be sent to Limerick with the rest of the provision. Corruption of the victuallers. Order taken to prevent wasting of victuals. We have spent the last penny of the treasure lately sent out of England. Petition of Mr. Waterhouse to be discharged of his place of Secretary.

As I, the Lord Justice, find the burthen of this service too heavy for me, I request to be discharged after my return from Munster.

Dublin, 10 January 1579. Signed.

Postscript.--Sir Nicholas Bagnall, Knight Marshal, is left in the North, for the better stay of that border, and for none other cause. We have joined the Treasurer's clerk with John Thickpennie.

II. List of the "bands of soldiers, pensioners, and wards cashed in December and January 1579; the copy hereof was sent to the Council by Mr. Cotton, the 10th of January 1579." Men, 410; money, 610l. 5s. 8d.

Contemp. copy.