"For this cause, we, who till this present, have sworn fealty to no man, submit ourselves, our lands, our families, our followers, to the protection and defence of your Majesty, and of free will and deliberate purpose we promise to obey your Majesty's orders and commands in all honest behests. We will serve your Majesty with all our force; that is to say, with 1660 horse and 2440 foot, equipped and armed. Further, we will levy and direct for your Majesty's use 13,000 men, well armed with harquebuss, bows, arrows, and swords. We will submit to your Majesty's will and jurisdiction more than a hundred castles, and they and all else shall be at your Majesty's disposition to be employed as you shall direct. "We can undertake also for the assistance and support of our good brother the Earl of Desmond, whose cousin, the daughter of the late Earl James, your Majesty's friend, is our wife. "Our further pleasure will be declared to you by our servants and friends, Robert and Dominic de Paul, to whom your Majesty will deign to give credence. May your Majesty be ever prosperous. "Written at our Castle at Clare, witness, our daughter, July 21, 1534, by your humble servant and unfailing friend, "CORNY O'BRIEN, Prince of Ireland." --MS. Archives at Brussels: _The Pilgrim_, pp. 175, 176. [330] Cowley to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. II p. 198. [331] Campion's _History of Ireland_, p. 175. Leland, Vol. II. p. 143. [332] _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 168. [333] Thomas Finglas to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 200. [334] Agard to Cromwell: _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 245. [335] Leland, Vol. II. p. 145. [336] Leland, Vol. II. p. 145. [337] Act of Attainder of the Earl of Kildare: 28 Henry VIII. cap. 1. The Prior of Kilmainham to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 501. Campion, p. 178 [338] Call McGravyll, or Charles Reynolds: Act of Attainder, 28 Henry VIII. c. 1. Campion, p. 176. [339] Such, at least, one of Fitzgerald's attendants, who was present at the murder, understood to be one of the objects of the archdeacon's mission. (_State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 201, note.) The act of attainder says merely that he was sent to beg for assistance. [340] Rawson, one of the Irish Council. [341] _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 201. [342] Leland, Vol. II. p. 146. [343] Instructions to Walter Cowley to be declared to the King's Highness in behalf of the Earl of Ossory: _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 250. [344] Ibid. Campion, pp. 177, 178. [345] M'Morrough, O'More, O'Connor, O'Brien, in September, with the greatest part of the gentlemen of the county of Kildare, were retained and sat at Carlow, Castledermot, Athye, Kilkea, and thereabout, with victualls during three weeks, to resist the Earl of Ossory from invading of the county of Kildare.--_State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 251. [346] The rebel chiefly trusteth in his ordnance, which he hath of the king's.--Allen to Cromwell: Ibid. p. 202.