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

334

Archbishop Bodkin to Bellingham, July 25, 1548; Bellingham to Richard Burke, Aug. (No. 83), and to the Mayor of Limerick, Sept. 18; Ulick Burke to Bellingham, Sept. 22.

335

Four Masters, 1548 and 1549.

336

Alen to Paget, Nov. 21, 1548.

337

Harris’s Ware, pp. 211-217; S.P., vol. iii. p. 534; Four Masters, 1546; Mayor, &c., of Galway to Bellingham, July 27 and Aug. 13, 1548; Sovereign and Council of Kinsale to same, July 16; Agard to same, Sept. 23; Richard Brasier to same, Oct. 8; Memoranda by Bellingham, Nov. 14; Bellingham to Warwick, November (No. 132, i.); Privy Council to Bellingham, Jan. 6, 1549.

338

Bellingham to Somerset, Nov. 22, 1548, which encloses a copy of the letter to Warwick; to Issam, Dec. (No. 163).

339

Bellingham to O’Molloy, Nov. 24, 1548; to O’Carroll (No. 138); to Thomond (No. 137).

340

Alen to Paget, April 1549 (No. 32).

341

Bellingham to John Issam, Nov. 1548 (No. 140). Hooker’s Chronicle in Holinshed. The capture of Desmond was about Christmas 1548.

342

Richard Brasier to Somerset, Nov. 14, 1548; John Moorton to same, April 15, 1549; Anthony Colcloght to same, Feb. 1 and 13, and to Cahir MacArt, Jan. 27; Walter Cowley to Bellingham, March 14; Brian Jones to same, April (No. 35).

343

Staples to – between Dec. 22 and 29, 1548. The letter is not addressed to Bellingham, but he must have seen it, as it is endorsed by his clerk. See also Walter Palatyne to Bellingham, Nov. 23, 1547, and Interrogatories for Archbishop Browne at the end of that year. The first Book of Common Prayer was not printed till 1550.

344

Bellingham to Dowdall, Dec. 1548; John Issam to Bellingham, Dec. 22; Richard Brasier to Somerset, Nov. 14.

345

Sovereign of Kilkenny to the Lord Deputy, April 26, 1549; Walter Cowley to same, June 25; Brasier to Somerset, Nov. 14, 1548; John Brereton to Bellingham, 1548 (No. 174).

346

Book of Howth; Ware; Hooker in Holinshed; Lodge’s Patentee Officer in Liber Hiberniæ. Bellingham embarked at Howth, Dec. 16, 1549.

347

Patrick Fraser Tytler’s England under Edward VI. and Mary. He quotes Melville’s Memoirs. See in particular the letter of Sir John Mason to the Privy Council, June 16, 1550. The ‘Loch’ mentioned by Melville must be Lough Foyle or Lough Swilly.

348

Instructions from Lord Chancellor Alen to Thomas Alen, Feb. 1550. Bryan died, Feb. 2, 1550.

349

Lord Chancellor and Council to Tyrone, March 17, 1550: – ‘Tam ferox est illius nationis nobilitas ut sub Turcâ (quantumvis barbaro) mitius viveres quam sub illorum regimine … summo conatu libertatem patriæ, sanguinis libertatem et personæ vestræ dignitatem abolebunt.’ Dowdall to Alen, March 22; Brabazon to the Privy Council, March 26, with enclosures.

350

Sir John Mason to the Privy Council, June 14, 1550; Foreign Calendar and Fraser Tytler, ut supra.

351

Letters of Croft and the two Bagenals, July 31, 1551; Alen to Cecil, April 5, 1551, and to the Privy Council, Aug. 10. The grant is calendared after the latter date. Having been chief of the commission for the dissolution of abbeys, Alen thought it prudent to go to England during Mary’s reign, but made his peace, became again a member of Council, and lived to congratulate Cecil on becoming once more Secretary of State.

352

Instructions to Lord Deputy St. Leger, July 1550; Mr. St. Leger’s Remembrances for Ireland, same date. He was sworn in on Sept. 10.

353

Instructions to St. Leger; Barbaro’s ‘Report on England’ in 1551, in the Venetian Calendar.

354

St. Leger to the Lord High Treasurer, Sept. 27, 1550; Henry Wise and John Moorton, officers at Fort Protector, to Bellingham, Jan. 6, 1549; Articles for an expedition into Ireland, Jan. 7, 1551; St. Leger to Somerset, Feb. 18; Privy Council to Lord Deputy and Council, Jan. 26.

355

Martin Pirry to the Privy Council, Feb. 21, 1551; St. Leger to the same, March 23.

356

Instructions to Sir James Croft, Feb. 25, 1551, in Carew; Sir John Mason to the Privy Council, April 18, printed by Fraser Tytler.

357

Articles against Andrew Brereton, Nov. 1550; St. Leger to Cecil, Jan. 19, 1551. The Council in Ireland to the Privy Council, May 20.

358

St. Leger to Cecil, Jan. 19, 1551; Brady’s Episcopal Succession.