may expect by the next a letter to his grace of Canterbury, and another to the archbishop of York. I apprized them both of the business. The latter, if I remember right, spoke to her majesty about it; I am not sure, that her majesty remembers what I said on that subject; but am sure she was pleased to seem satisfied with it, and to scruple only the time: I suppose, not thinking it fit to confer the favour she designed the clergy of Ireland by the hands it must then have passed through, but said, that in the interval of a change, or absence of a chief governor, it should be done. I hope now is the proper time, and that her majesty will rather follow the dictates of her own bountiful inclinations, than the intrigues of cunning covetous counsellors.
I thought to have troubled you with a great many things; but such a crowd of visitors have broken in upon me before I could lock my gates, that I am forced to break off abruptly, recommending you to God's care.
I am, &c.
FROM LORD PRIMATE[1] AND ARCHBISHOP KING.
WE directed a letter to the bishops of Ossory and Killaloe last August, desiring and empower-
