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

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Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 73; Grey to Cromwell, Feb. 4, 1537. The last session began Oct. 13, 1537; a detailed account is given by Brabazon in a letter to Cromwell in S.P., vol. ii. p. 524, and in the note there.

310

Grey and Brabazon to Cromwell, May 18, 1537. The King to the Lord Deputy and Council, S.P., vol. ii. p. 425. Harris’s Ware under Staples, Bishop of Meath. For the names of the dissolved houses, see the Statute, 28 Henry VIII. cap. 16, and Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 38. There were twenty-five mitred abbots and priors in Ireland, ten of Canons Regular, one of Benedictines, one of Hospitallers, and thirteen of Cistercians. Ware, in his Annals, says the heads of St. Mary’s and St. Thomas’s, Dublin, of Kilmainham, and of Mellifont were regularly summoned to Parliament – the more distant ones very seldom. The Augustinians were the most numerous and probably the richest of the sedentary orders. Their rule was adopted by most of the ancient Irish monasteries, the small residue becoming Benedictine. Alemand, who was originally a Huguenot and who was Voltaire’s countryman, remarks that in order to become quickly a bishop in Ireland, it was necessary first to be a Regular Canon.

311

Chiefly from Alemand; the words of John’s grant are ‘ante adventum Francorum in Hiberniam.’ For the final grant, see Archdall’s Lodge. Art. Earl of Drogheda.

312

Alemand. Sidney to Queen Elizabeth, April 20, 1567, in the Sidney Papers.

313

Alemand and Archdall. As to the intended combat, see Carew, miscellaneous vol., pp. 446, 447.

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Most of the pensions mentioned in the text are traceable in Morrin’s Calendar of Patent Rolls. For Cahir, see Archdall’s Monasticon. Queen Mary’s instructions to Lord Fitzwalter, April 28, 1556, in Carew.

315

Alemand, passim; Documents in the supplementary volume of King’s Primer, No. 66; the Waterford document is in Brennan’s Ecclesiastical History, p. 459.

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Sir John Davies’s Discovery.

317

In Mant’s Church History is an estimate of the monastic property founded on the Loftus MS.; but such calculations must be very rough. R. Cowley to Cromwell, Oct. 4, 1536.

318

Agard to Cromwell, April 4, 1538. James White to Cromwell, March 28. Spicilegium Ossoriense, vol. i. p. 437. Hibernia Dominicana.

319

In recommending a grant of Dusk to Ormonde the Council say they ‘cannot perceive, as it is situated, that any man can keep it for the King, but only the said Earl or his son.’ For Toem and Dunmore, see Calendar of Patent Rolls, pp. 73 and 84. Browne to Cromwell, May 21, 1538.

320

Ware’s Antiquities, by Harris, chap. xxxvii., sec. 3. Lord L. Grey to Cromwell, Jan. 19, 1538.

321

The King to Browne in S.P., vol. ii. p. 174; Browne’s answer, Sept. 27, 1537; Staples to St. Leger, June 17, 1538; Ware’s Life and Death of Browne.

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Ware’s Bishops; Staples to St. Leger, June 17, 1538; Devices by Travers for the Reformation in 1542, S.P., vol. iii., No. 382. The King’s rebuke was in 1537, see S.P., vol. ii. p. 174, note.

323

Lord Protector and Privy Council to Lord Deputy St. Leger and Council, March 25, 1547; the King to the same, April 7; King Edward VI. to the Earl of Desmond, Oct. 6. In a letter dated Lambeth, July 6, to her ‘assured loving friend Mr. Cecil, Master of Requests,’ Lady Ormonde begs that Abbeyleix may not be granted to Barnaby Fitzpatrick to her son’s detriment, and she refers to Cecil’s ‘former friendship.’ Here we see the beginning of a most important connection.

324

Four Masters, 1546, 1547.

325

Introduction to Carew, vol. ii. p. lxxxv.; Archbishop Butler to the Lord Protector, Feb. 25, 1548; Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 154.

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Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 66. For Butler and Powell, see three letters calendared under April and May 1548, Nos. 16, 17, and 19.

327

Privy Council to Lord Deputy and Council, Nov. 2, 1547; John Brereton to Bellingham, May 1548 (No. 20), and July (Nos. 44 and 45); Cosby to Bellingham, July (Nos. 48 and 50). Bellingham dated a letter from Athy, Aug. 19, 1548. The eighteen beds are mentioned by John Plunket and Thomas Alen in a letter to him of the 18th.

328

Lord Dunboyne to Bellingham, June 21, 1548, and the answer (No. 25).

329

Sovereign and Council of Kinsale to Bellingham, July 15, 1548; Mayor, &c., of Cork to same, July 24, Aug. 27, Dec. 29, and the answer, Jan. 10, 1549; Mayor, &c., of Waterford to Bellingham, Sept. 5, 1548.

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Mayor, &c., of Youghal to Bellingham, July 8, 1548; Deputy Mayor and Council of Galway to same, Aug. 13; Bellingham to Limerick, Aug. (No. 63); John Goldsmith to Bellingham, Aug. 22; Kyng to Wyse, Sept. 5. Sir Philip Hoby’s letter is calendared among the foreign S.P., April 17, 1549.

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Bellingham to Alen, July 1548 (No. 39); Mayor, &c., of Drogheda to Alen, Aug. 8; Bellingham to Privy Council, Aug. (No. 84), and to the Mayor of Dublin (No. 67). For the fort, which became Maryborough, see the notes to O’Donovan’s Four Masters under 1548 and 1553.

332

Bellingham to the Privy Council, Aug. 1548 (No. 84).

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Bellingham to the Mayor of Cork, Aug. 1548 (No. 80); Mayor, &c., of Cork to Bellingham, Nov. 18; Alen to Somerset, Nov. 21; Bellingham to Arthur, Dec. (No. 145).