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

359

This conference is detailed in Mant’s Church History, pp. 194, 199. See also Ware’s Life of Browne. The conference was held in St. Mary’s Abbey, the residence of Dowdall, he having refused to attend the Lord Deputy at Kilmainham.

360

Browne to Warwick, ut supra. Examination of Oliver Sutton, March 23, 1552.

361

St. Leger to Cecil, Jan. 19, 1551. Deposition of Sir John Alen, March 19, in the deponent’s own hand. ‘The Bishop of Kildare (Lancaster),’ he says, ‘came to me persuading me on his behalf to put in writing the words Mr. St. Leger spoke to me in Kilmainham, to whom I made this answer, “Show my lord that albeit I love his little toe better than all Mr. St. Leger’s body, yet I will do nothing against truth.”’

362

Bicton’s curious will is printed in Cotton’s Fasti, vol. ii. Appendix.

363

Croft to Warwick, May 1551; Instructions to Desmond and others July 1; Archbishop Browne to Warwick, Aug. 6.

364

Cusack to Warwick, Sept. 27, 1551.

365

Cusack to Warwick, Sept. 27, 1551; Instructions to Mr. Wood, Sept. 29, with Cecil’s notes, ‘Keep him (Tyrone) still, participating the cause thereof to the nobility;’ Hill’s MacDonnells of Antrim, chap. iii.

366

Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 146; Maine’s Early History of Institutions, p. 53.

367

Bagenal to Croft, Oct. 27, 1551.

368

Bagenal to Croft, Nov. 11, 1551; Sir Thomas Cusack’s Book, May 8, 1552; Four Masters, ad ann. 1551.

369

Mant, pp. 209-210, from a Clarendon MS. The letters which passed between Croft and Dowdall are given by Mant from the Harris MSS.

370

Browne to Warwick, Aug. 6, 1551; Ware’s Browne.

371

Instructions for Mr. Thomas Wood, July 28, 1551; and the King’s answer, Aug. 17.

372

Strype’s Cranmer, book ii. chap. xxviii., and Appendices 65 and 66.

373

Instructions for Mr. Wood, Sept. 29, 1551. Cecil wrote on the margin ‘denied for the King liketh no union.’ The King’s amended answer, Nov. 26.

374

Croft to Cecil, March 14, 1552; to the Marquis of Winchester, March 22.

375

W. Crofton to Cecil, April 12, 1551; Lord Deputy and Council to Privy Council, Aug. 30, and the answer in Nov.; Croft to Northumberland, Dec. 22; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Jan. 27, 1552 – ‘idleness decayeth nobility, one of the principal “kayes” of a commonwealth, and bringeth magistrates in contempt and hatred of the people,’ and the petition enclosed. Croft to Cecil, March 14, and to Winchester, March 22. Ware’s Annals.

376

Wicklow tinstone has never been thought workable, see Kane’s Industrial Resources, p. 210. Dr. Kane does not seem to have known anything of the Clonmines venture. Lord Deputy St. Leger and Council to Henry VIII., Oct. 24, 1541, and June 4, 1543. St. Leger acted on the advice of Thomas Agard, a mining expert. Minute of Council in S.P., 1546. St. Leger, Croft, and others to the Privy Council, May 20, 1551; Robert Record, surveyor of mines to the Privy Council, Feb. 1552. Harman’s certificate, same date. Joachim Gundelfinger to the Privy Council, May 15. Reports on the mines, Aug. 1552, and Feb. and April, 1553. Instructions to St. Leger in Carew, July 1550, p. 228, as to alum. The MSS. contains many details interesting to specialists, especially the certificate of Gerrard Harman, a German.

377

Privy Council to Croft, Feb. 23, and May 29, 1552. Sir Thomas Cusack’s ‘Book,’ in Carew, 1553, p. 241.

378

The Earl of Tyrone’s articles, Feb. 9, 1552; St. Leger to Northumberland, March 10. Sir Thomas Cusack’s ‘Book,’ in Carew.

379

Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew. Four Masters, 1552.

380

Earls of Kildare. The patent of restoration is dated April 25, 1552. Orders for Leighlin and Carlow in Carew, April 30. Croft to the Privy Council, April 16, May 1, and May 31.

381

Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew, No. 200. It is there wrongly dated 1553.

382

The facts of this expedition (June and July 1552) are given by the Four Masters; and see Ware’s Annals.

383

Tyrone’s complaint, July 1552; Privy Council to George Paris, Oct. 25; to Croft, Dec. 10; Cusack to Privy Council, Dec. 22; Memorandum concerning Tyrone, Dec. 30, in Carew.