Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3)

357

Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Aug. 1; Waterhouse to Sidney, July 4, in the Sidney Papers, where also are the Instructions for Snagg and Briskett; Sidney’s Summary Relation, 1583.

358

Letter of advice to Lord Grey, Sept. 17, 1580, in the Sidney Papers. Sidney to the Queen, Sept. 15, 1577, in same; to the Queen (after reaching England), Sept. 18, 1578.

359

Lady Mary Sidney to Edward Molineux, Oct. 11, 1578, and a second letter (undated) soon after, in the Sidney Papers. It is the Book of Howth which accuses Sidney of being a ‘lusty feeder and surfeiter.’ The Irish nickname might very well come from some dispute with a contractor, and not from Sidney’s fondness for malt liquor. Sidney died in 1586, prematurely old, at fifty-seven years of age. In the British Museum a black letter pamphlet contains a funeral sermon by Thomas White, D.D., the founder of Sion College. The whole is interesting, more especially the following passage: ‘He consumed himself in yielding light to other men; besides his special gift of affability to poor and simple men, the very grace of all his greatness. It is no hard matter for a man to be humble in low estate, but to be lowly in greatness is not a common gift; and if pride herself be often forced to dissemble humility, because lowliness maketh a simple man to be highly commended, how much more doth it excel, when it shall indeed appear in persons of value and renown! Wherefore if any man will build his house high, let him lay his foundations very low, for envy shoots at high marks, and pride goes before a fall.’ Herein lay the secret of Sidney’s immense popularity. His haughtiness was reserved for the great and powerful.

360

The story of the bleeding Christ is in Strype’s Life of Parker. The item about the Bibles is given by Mant on the authority of the Loftus MS.

361

Sussex to Cecil, Dec. 25, 1561; Lord Deputy and Council to the Queen, Sept. 2, 1562; Loftus to Cecil, Nov. 3, 1566, and March 21, 1567; Richard Creagh to Sidney, Dec. 25, 1566.

362

The Queen to Lord Deputy Sidney, July 6, 1567, authorising him to make Terence Daniel Primate; Terence to Cecil, Oct. 5, accepting the charge. In a letter to Lord R. Dudley, July 23, 1564, Sir T. Wrothe says Daniel ‘would promise to do much with Shane O’Neill, and some think he could perform it.’

363

Brady’s Episcopal Succession. Lord-Lieutenant and Council to the Queen, July 16, 1561.

364

Brady’s Episcopal Succession. Creagh’s own statement in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 41, from the Vatican archives; his examinations, in the Irish State Papers, Feb. 22, March 17 and 23, 1565.

365

Most of the documents relating to Creagh are collected in Spicilegium Ossoriense, vol. i. pp. 38-58. Holing’s account is at p. 84. The Jesuit makes Creagh’s escapes miraculous, but admits that he was on parole not to leave the Tower. This may account in some degree for the severity with which he was afterwards treated. See also a story, which may be apocryphal, in O’Sullivan Beare, tom. ii. lib. iv. cap. 10.

366

Brady; Loftus to Cecil. July 16, 1565; Holing in Spicilegium Ossoriense.

367

Brady; Cotton’s Fasti.

368

Brady; Cotton.

369

Brady; Cotton; Holing in Spicilegium Ossoriense.

370

Brady; Cotton; Ware; Alexander Craik to Lord R. Dudley, April 30, 1561; to Cecil, Jan. 2 and 10, Feb. 10 and 18, April 23, 1562, and Aug. 5, 1563; Robert Daly to Cecil, July 2, 1565.

371

Brady; Cotton; Instructions to Sir H. Sidney, July 4, 1565; Shirley’s Original Letters, p. 101; Graves’s History of St. Canice’s Cathedral, p. 295.

372

Brady; Cotton; Memoranda of private suits, July 16, 1559.

373

Brady collects most that is known about this curious rivalry; see also Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. p. 83, and Hooker under the year 1567. For MacCaghwell, see Loftus to Cecil, July 3 and Nov. 7, 1566, and Shirley’s Original Letters, p. 132.

374

Brady; Cotton; Captain Gilbert Yorke to Walsingham, Dec. 5, 1579; and several letters of Bishop Middleton, with recriminating answers on the part of the townsmen.

375

Brady and Cotton.

376

Brady and Cotton.

377

Brady; Cotton. Ware mentions a Bishop-elect of Kilfenora in 1585, but the appointment seems to have come to nothing. No doubt the see was extremely poor.

378

Brady and Cotton.

379

The above is from a close comparison of the data in Cotton and Brady, and in the Parliamentary Lists in Tracts Relating to Ireland, vol. ii. The twenty prelates mentioned in the list of 1560 are thus disposed of: —

380

Lord Deputy Sidney and Council to the Privy Council, April 15, 1566.

381

Hogan’s Hibernia Ignatiana, pp. 15 to 20. Wolfe’s commission to Thady Newman is in the R.O., Dec. 7, 1563; Interrogatories for Kian O’Gara and others, May 1572; Matthew Seaine, Bishop of Cork, to Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, in the latter’s letter to Burghley, Oct. 13, 1573.