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Venice: May 1548

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Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 5, 1534-1554. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1873.

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May 1548

May 8. MS. St. Mark's Library, Cod. xxiv. Cl. x. 539. Cardinal Pole to the Bishop of Venosa [Alvarez dell a Quadra].
From the bearer of the present letter, an Englishman, Sir Oswald [Massingberd], (fn. 1) Prior of Ireland, the Bishop will hear the causes which have induced him to endeavour to go with the French armada (armata), (fn. 2) in the company of our Irish Earl Gerard [Fitzgerald], (fn. 3) whom he recommends to the Bishop, together with Sir Oswald, praying him to concede them all possible favour in this cause, in the service of God and his Church, for which Pole will be especially obliged to him.
Rome, 8th May.
[Italian.]

Footnotes

  • 1. In the original “II Cavalr. Oswaldi.” The surname is found in Winthorp's list of the English, Irish, and Scotch knights of St. John of Jerusalem. In State Papers, vol. ix. p. 522, there is. a letter from Harvel, date Venice, 20th October 1543, alluding to the “sending of Pathis, Kildare, Brensetour, with other semblable rebelles to Scotland,” but I do not find the name of Oswald Massingberd in the printed documents of the period, though Thomas Massingberd is recorded in the late Mr. Turnbull's Calendar, date 1556, No. 497, f. 223.
  • 2. The French succour for Scotland was already preparing in April 1548. (See Turnbull's Calendar, p. 20.)
  • 3. Gerald Fitzgerald, eleventh Earl of Kildare. See Collins (vol. vi, p. 155), and State Papers (vol. xi. index); also Turnbull's Calendar, Edward VI., pp. 28–39.