264
Hill, p. 41; St. Leger to the King, June 4, 1543; Lord Deputy and Council to the King, June 5.
265
St. Leger to the King, July 18, 1543, and the notes; see also Carew, July 15 and 16.
266
Lord Deputy and Council to the King, May 15, 1543; same to same, Dec. 7, 1542, and the King’s answer.
267
St. Leger to the King, April 6, 1543; the King to the Lord Deputy and Council, Aug. 9; Lord Justice Brabazon and Council to St. Leger, March 24, 1544.
268
Lord Justice Brabazon and Council to the King, May 7, 1544; same to St. Leger, March 24, where the kerne are first mentioned in the S.P.; Privy Council to Lord Justice and Council, March 30; Ormonde to the King, May 7. In a letter to the King printed in S.P., vol. iii., No. 437, O’Reilly complains that his contingent cost him 600l., that eight weeks of their wages remained unpaid, and that his chaplain had been taken prisoner in Scotland, and had paid eight nobles for his ransom. This shows that some of the 1,000 kerne went to Scotland.
269
Stanihurst.
270
For these rumours, see the S.P. from May 20, 1544, till May 11, 1545, vol. iii., Nos. 407, 408, 411, 414, 415.
271
St. Leger to Wriothesley, Feb. 26, 1545, with Lord Upper Ossory’s letter in a note; to the Privy Council, April 14.
272
Hill, p. 43. In a letter printed in S.P., vol. v. p. 483, Donnell Dhu speaks of himself as ‘in materno utero inimicorum jugo et captivitati astricti, et in hoc pene tempus carceris squalore obruti, et intolerabilibus compedibus truculentissime ligati.’ The notarial instrument between the islemen is in S.P., vol. v. p. 477. Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland to the King, Aug. 13, 1545.
273
Privy Council to Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, in S.P., vol. iii., No. 422. See S.P., vol. v. pp. 505-7.
274
Ormonde to Russell, Nov. 15, 1545; Lord Deputy and Council to the King, Nov. 19. Donnell Dhu died before Jan. 20, 1546, the date of a letter from James MacDonnell in S.P., vol. iii. p. 548. Dowling.
275
Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Feb. 15, 1546, and a letter in a note from ‘Ewyne Allane of Locheld.’ James MacDonnell is called Lord of the Isles ‘by consent of the nobility,’ ‘apparent heir,’ ‘worthy to succeed,’ and ‘Lord elect.’
276
Ormonde to Russell, Nov. 15, 1545.
277
Cusack to Paget, March 28, 1546. See the S.P. from Feb. 20 to March 28, vol. iii., Nos. 431, 433, 434, 435, 438, 439, and 440.
278
See S.P. 1546, vol. iii., Nos. 441 to 448. No. 439 is a letter from certain Irish chiefs to the King in St. Leger’s favour, and they make the reflection, ‘Oh si majoribus nostris tales contigissent moderatores.’
279
Alen’s Answer to St. Leger in S.P., vol. iii. No. 446, and W. Cowley’s Letter to the Privy Council, No. 448; Alen to Paget, April 21, 1549; St. Leger to Cecil, Dec. 5, 1550.
280
Stanihurst; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, p. 168.
281
Surrey to Wolsey, Sept. 6, 1520, and the notes; Pace to Wolsey, April 7, 1521, in Carew; Stubbs, Const. Hist. ii. 317.
282
Ware’s Bishops; Richard Culoke to Brabazon, Nov. 10, 1537; the King to the Lord Deputy and Council, July 10, 1543.
283
Ware.
284
Brady’s Episcopal Succession, vol. i. p. 325; Ware. Roy’s satire against Wolsey, printed in the 9th vol. of the Harleian Miscellany, has the following:
Wat. And who did for the show pay?
Jeff. Truly many a rich abbaye
To be eased of his visitation.
Wat. Doth he in his own person visit?
No, another for him doth it,
That can skill of the occupation.
A fellow neither wise nor sad,
But he was never yet full mad,
Though he be frantic and more.
Dr. Alen he is named,
One that to lie is not ashamed
If he spy advantage therefore.