Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3)

Wat. Are such with him in any price?

Jeff. Yea, for they do all his advice,
Whether it be wrong or right.

285

As to the legatine authority, see Brewer, vol. iii., No. 2838, and iv., No. 5131; John Alen to Wolsey, June 1, 1523, in S.P.

286

Clement VII. to Henry VIII., Oct. 21, 1524, in Brewer and in Rymer; Kildare’s Articles against Ormonde in S.P., vol. ii. p. 123; and see Brewer, vol. iv., No. 4277; R. Cowley to Wolsey in 1528, S.P., vol. ii. p. 141; Presentments of Grievances, edited by Graves, p. 203; Council of Ireland to Cromwell, Feb. 8, 1539.

287

Brady, vol. ii.; Council of Ireland to Cromwell, Feb. 8, 1539.

288

Theiner’s Vetera Monumenta, pp. 515, 516, 521; Brady, Arts, Kilmore, Clogher, and Raphoe.

289

Kildare to Wolsey, Feb. 8, 1522; R. Cowley to Wolsey, S.P., vol. ii., No. 53; Ware.

290

For the Ross case, see Theiner, p. 520; for the union of Ross and Dromore ‘propter tenuitatem utriusque ecclesiæ,’ see Brady, vol. ii. p. 109.

291

See Brady, under Elphin and Kilmacduagh.

292

S.P., vol. ii. pp. 11, 15, and 16.

293

For Ardagh, see Theiner, p. 521; for Ross, p. 529; for Clonmacnoise, p. 518. For Enaghdune, see Ossory to Cromwell in 1532, Carew, vol. i. No. 37.

294

Presentments of Grievances, ed. Graves; particularly pp. 192 and 203.

295

Kildare’s Articles against Ormonde in 1525, S.P., vol. ii. p. 123; his statement is partially confirmed by the Presentments of Grievances, and see Ossory’s own statements in 1534, Carew, vol. i. p. 55; Ware’s Life and Death of Archbishop Browne.

296

Indenture of Remembrance for the Earl of Ossory and Lord Butler, May 31, 1534, in Carew; Presentments of Grievances, pp. 48 and 204; Four Masters, 1525; Dowling’s Annals, 1522: – ‘Mauritius Doran episcopus in jocando ejus adventu quibusdam persuadentibus duplicari subsidium cleri respondit: melius radere oves quam destruere.’

297

Presentments of Grievances, especially pp. 100, 202, 204, and 248; for the sons of clergy, &c., see Kildare’s Articles in S.P., vol. ii. p. 122. In Brewer, Feb. 25, 1521, Leo X. authorises a priest’s son to govern the Cistercian Abbey of Rosglas; Browne to Cromwell, Nov. 6, 1538, in S.P.; for Kilclehin (wrongly calendared as Kilcullen), see Hamilton, Oct. 9, 1539.

298

For the educating monasteries, see Lord Deputy and Council to Cromwell, May 21, 1539, and the petition from St. Mary’s, July 31. The value of the friars appears from the whole history of the time. See in particular Presentments of Grievances, p. 130; R. Cowley to Cromwell, Oct. 4, 1536.

299

Browne to Cromwell, July 15, 1536 (?), in Browne’s Life and Death, in Ware, p. 148, and in the Phœnix; R. Cowley to Cromwell, Oct. 4, 1536.

300

Browne to Cromwell, Jan. 8, May 8, and Aug. 10, 1538. The Form of the Beads in S.P., vol. ii., No. 214; R. Cowley to Cromwell, July 19, 1538 and Aug. 5.

301

James White to Cromwell, March 28; Lord Butler to the King, March 31; again to Cromwell, April 5; Brabazon to Cromwell, April 30; Browne to Cromwell, Jan. 8, May 8 and 20, 1538.

302

This quarrel may be traced in detail in the State Papers. Browne to J. Alen, April 15, 1538; to Cromwell, May 8 and 21, and June 20 and 27; Staples to St. Leger, June 17; to Cromwell, June 10 and Aug. 10; Thomas Alen to Cromwell, Oct. 20; Brabazon to Cromwell, April 30.

303

Grey to Cromwell, Dec. 31, 1537; J. Alen to Cromwell, Oct. 20, 1538; Browne’s Letters in S.P. from 1538 to 1540; R. Cowley to Cromwell, July 19, 1538; Lord Butler to Cromwell, Aug. 26. Butler says that at the Lord Deputy’s table the vicar of Chester said the King had commanded images to be set up, worshipped, and honoured as much as ever. ‘We held us all in silence to see what the Lord Deputy would say thereto. He held his peace, and said nothing; and then my Lord of Dublin, the Master of the Rolls, and I said that if … he were out of the Deputy’s presence, we would put him fast by the heels… His lordship said nothing all the while. Surely he hath a special zeal to the Papists.’ For Down Cathedral, see Stanihurst.

304

Ware places the destruction of relics in 1538: it was perhaps a little later. For Our Lady of Trim and the Baculum Jesu, see the Four Masters, under 1537, and O’Donovan’s notes; also Giraldus Cambrensis, Top. Dist. iii. cap. 33 and 34, and Expug. lib. ii. c. 19, Record Edition. The notice in Campion is perhaps only an echo of Giraldus.

305

The above paragraph is founded on a careful comparison of the data in Ware, Cotton, and Brady. R. Cowley to Cromwell, Aug. 5, 1538; and see S.P., vol. iii. pp. 110, 117, and 123. A letter from Staples to St. Leger, June 17, 1538, throws some light on Henry’s relations with Rome before the divorce question arose: ‘Appoint some means how that such bishops as had their bulls of the Bishop of Rome by our sovereign lord’s commandment may bring in their bulls, cancelling the same, and to have some remembrance from his Highness, which shall stand them in like effect with the same.’

306

There are notices of Wauchop in Ware, Brady, Sarpi, ii. 34 (French translation and Courayer’s notes), and Moran’s Spicilegium Ossoriense, vol. i. p. 13. Twelve letters of Wauchop printed in the last-named work have nothing particular to do with Ireland. He must be regarded as founder of the titular hierarchy in Ireland.

307

Abstracted from Hogan’s Hibernia Ignatiana, p. 4, where Paul’s letter may be also read in the original Latin.

308

Hogan’s Hibernia Ignatiana, pp. 3-9. Paul III.’s letter to Con O’Neill is dated April 24, 1541. The Jesuits were in Ireland in February and March, 1542. O’Sullivan Beare, lib. iii. cap. 8. James V. to the Irish chiefs, in S.P., vol. v. p. 202; Paget to Henry VIII. from Lyons, July 13, 1542, in S.P., vol. ix. p. 106.