"'Having lately gathered, amongst the Irish here, that the fugitive earls have been in Milan, and _there much feasted_ by the Conde _de Fuentes_, I expostulated it with the secretary of state, who answered that they had not yet had any understanding of their being there; that the Conde de Fuentes was not a man disposed to such largess as to entertain strangers in any costly manner at his own charge; and that sure he was he could not expect any allowance from hence where there was intended no _receipt, countenance,_ or _comfort_ to any of that condition. I sent sithence by Cottington, my secretary, concerning one _Mack Ogg_, lately come hither, as I have been advised, to solicit for these people; which was, that as I hoped they would have no participation with the principals, whose crimes had now been made so notorious in their own countries, being both, upon public trial, condemned, and he of _Tyrone_, as I heard, _of thirteen several murders_; so I likewise assured myself that, in their own wisdoms, they would not hold it fit his majesty here should give harbor or ear to any of their ministers, and especially to that of Mack Ogg, who could not be supposed but to have had a hand in their traitorous purposes; _having been the man and the means, in person,_ to withdraw them by sea out of their own countries, in such undutiful and suspicious manner. That myself was, in a matter of that nature, solicitous only in regard of my own earnest desire that nothing might escape this state whereby their intentions might be held different from their professions. That for these fugitives, being now out of their retreats, _weak in purse_, and _people condemned and contemned_ by those of their own nation, and such as could not but daily expect the heavy hand of God's justice for their so many unnatural and detestable crimes, both of late and heretofore committed, for _my own particular I made no more account of them than of so many fleas_; neither did the king, my master, otherwise esteem them than as men reprobated both of God and the world, for their _fa??norous actions_ toward others, and inexcusable ingratitude to himself." [Transcriber's Note: The word "fa??norous" is illegible.] {17} The author gives a minute and graphic narrative of the journey of the "earls" through Italy, and their entrance into the Eternal City, where they were affectionately received by Pope Paul V., who assigned them a palace for their dwelling: