It may please your Honourable Lordship synce the wrytinge of my other lettre, ther is the chefest follower that followed Donell Mc Carty, taken by some of my people, and brought to me; He wae goinge from Donell Mc Carthy to the Erle of Desmond, or rather to James Mc Thomas; he had a lettre in Irishe, which I interpreted; the contents whereof, is that yf the Erle do send for him sufficient Gentlemen to assure him that he shall come and go safe, he will come to him, and will take any indifferent portion at my hands before the Erle; which yf I will not, and the Erle will not take his parte, he takes God to witnes that it is not his fault to go against the holy action. At the wrytinge hereof ther came a thyrd lettre to me from Desmond; because, that at the fyrst I wroate tohim, and tolde him playnely that I would not goe to him to meete him, nor to parle with69 determined to ryde to Your Lordship, which, as I heere,70 and hereupon (he) wrote this lettre which I do sende Your Lordship here inclosed. Thus beinge not resolved what to do before I heare from Your Lordship and the Greate Boare of Thomond, I humbly take leave this 2d August 1600.
Your Lordship's moste humble and bounden,
ffLoR Mc CARTHY.If Your Lordship do fynde any salfe way for me to come unto you, send my nephewe O'Connor to me; but he cannot come to salfe; I was parlyenge with James Mc Thomas at his last beinge here, and went with him to the Iland, in hope to get his lettres for the delyvery of O'Sulyvan; but could not: and where it was blazed through the countrey then that I should ioyne with him, or promyse tohelpe or assist him, I renownce God, and my Christianitie, if ever I promyst to joyne with him, or ever ment it; which doth make me marvayle what nowe he speakes of.