Writer cannot relinquish any part of the demand for timber sold off the glebe land without the consent of others; Sir H[enry] Bridgeman will expect to be supplied with gates, etc., from the glebe; there is no one more proper to take care of the money than Mr Bowman.
[?] Tho[mas] Greene at Wenlock to [Adam Ottley]. He understands that the recipient is felling a parcel of timber and cordwood near Bridgnorth and wishes to recommend Mr ffrancis Knight as a chapman for the wood. Endorsed: brief note of contents.
Understands by mistress that the recipient remembered the writer in her letters. Expected recipient to have written to know how the writer had discharged the trust put in him (or her) but mistrusts by the concern 'I find her in' and continual illness. She seldom hears herself 'which I could hardly believe thinking you, sir to have that particular esteem that I must really tell you is but gratitude, it is strange there should be any alteration in you....... for that is of true friendship or love that doth not increase, but I hope better things of you'.
The writer's absence in Reims in making submission to their new Archbishop. Sorry for their friend's death. Letter from John Lynch. The writer's uncle Dr. Donogh Conell wrote in 1643 from Rome that his uncle (the writer's) was newly made the bishop. In the same year met in Rochell with an Irish priest f. John Russell carrying the bulls for the same creation. Met at Bordeaux with r.f. Terenense O'Brien, late bishop of Imly, who told the writer of his uncle's consecration at Watterford; his uncle died in 1653 or 1654. Odorna is of St. Bernard's order. S. Christianus, O Gonairche, bishop of Lismore. Concerning Skellig-Michael and pilgrimages and the story of the birds. The privilege of Ivrahagh. Pilgrimage at Crochan. The Franciscans at Irillach. Other matters concerning Irish ecclesiastical and monastic history. Incomplete.
Referring to a joint meeting at Mountgomery. Asks that Cos. Owen should be there that 'we' may hear what he has done in the Irish affair. Finds Owen has not given satisfaction in it to the ladies and Mrs. Herbert. Fragment.