LORD DEPUTY RUSSELL to the EARL OF ORMOND.

Yesterday I received your two letters, the one to the whole [Council] table, and the other to myself. As you have been informed, Peirse Butler has been sent for, and so has his brother James, both sons to Sir Edmond, but yet neither of them comes; James pretending that he has been long sick and Peirse fearing arrest, as he owes money to some about Dublin. Both have bound themselves by oath with the O'Moores to enter into action. As they are of your name and near kindred, endeavour to bring them in to the State. "I have written letters both to the Lord of Mountgarret and Sir Peirse his father-in-law and Sir Edmond Butler, his father, without delay or excuse to apprehend him and deliver him at Kilkenny to your Lordship."

Killmainham, 3 September 1596.

Postscript.--"Write a sharp letter to my Lord Mountgarrett, that presently he send Peirse Butler to you. And for that the matter may be kept the more secret, I have thought good to send my letters both to my Lord and Sir Edmond Butler to your Lp., desiring you to be very earnest with them both for to have Peirse and James delivered unto your Lp.'s hands; for this will be made a great matter in England by some that doth not love you."

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