My humble duty remembred. Right Honourable with no les thankes to your Honor for your favor and furtherance shewed unto me, wherby I presume thus fur to treble you, by whose good meanes I may be rid of troble iminent unto me. So yt is, Right Honourable that the mariadge betwene the Erle of Clancarthys daughter and myself breaking of, by contempt againste Her Majestie, and contrarye to her consent given therein to me, I was allotted 12 horsemen in pay, for the better defence of myself and my brothren who are the onelie English that ar residint in that remote wilde place of all the west of Ireland; of the which horsemen we ar discharged, whose services upon the Spaniards, with whose repetition I will not troble you which is [defaced] so prejudiciall to our state, that we shalbe constrained, to our utter undoinge, to leave the contrey, where our expenses have benn greate, and to wery Her Majestie with sute for recompence, whose title to the whole Erldom after the disseas of this man, if it be not prevented, will not be without great chardg recovered or maintained. My humble suite unto your good Honor therefore is this, that as unto a pore follower of your's, you will be a means to Her Highnes eytherto restore me to my former number of horsmen, or in lieu of them 20 fotemen, or els, for my further conntennance, and les chardg to Her Majestie to derecte her lettres to hir Deputye here, to appoint me hir officer, and Shriffe (which place I have heretofore executed) over Desmond and Kerry duringe the space of some 4 or five year next ensuinge: which motion, if your Honor shall first like, and then make in my behalfe unto Her Majestie, her title dependinge so much uppon yt, and the preservacion of us, there is verye good hope of Her Highnes allowing therof, and your Honor shall bind us in great dutye devote unto your sarvice. Thus wishinge your Honor long life, good health, and all increase of Honnor, I humbly leave you to the tuityon of th Almightye.40
Your Honor's humble follower,
NICHOLAS BROWNE.
From Dublin,