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

384

Mayor, &c., of Waterford to the Privy Council, Dec. 18; Cusack and Aylmer to the Privy Council, Dec. 22 and 30; Declaration of Desmond’s title, Dec. 30; Cusack in Carew, ut supra.

385

Northumberland to Cecil, Nov. 25, 1552; Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew, vol. i. p. 236; King’s letter in Lodge’s Patent Officers; Ware’s Annals.

386

A paper calendared under Jan. 1553 (No. 75) calculates the average expenses from 33 to 38 Hen. VIII. at 8,500l. a year. In the six years of Edward’s reign they rose by regular gradation from 17,000l. to 52,000l. The average revenue for the former period was 9,000l., for the latter, 11,000l. See also No. 83, ‘a device how to keep Ireland in the stay it now remaineth upon the revenues only.’

387

The consecrations took place on Feb. 2, 1553.

388

Bale’s ‘Vocation,’ in the Harleian Miscellany.

389

Church histories of Mant, Killen, Brennan, and Reid. Graves’s History of St. Canice. They all derive their chief inspiration from Bale’s own ‘Vocation.’ Fuller has preserved the nickname of ‘biliosus Balæus,’ given to the Bishop in contemporary controversy.

390

Browne and Bale were friars; yet Protestants will not blame them for entering the holy estate of matrimony, any vows to the contrary notwithstanding. To modern England a married clergy seems quite natural, but the scandal was great during the transition period, and Queen Elizabeth felt the awkwardness herself. The following statement of Harpsfield may be true or false, but it shows what could be said by a contemporary. It should be remembered that Harpsfield was Archdeacon of Canterbury. ‘Against these kind of marriages, and maintenance of the same, King Henry, in his latter days, made very sharp laws, whereupon many so married put over their women to their servants and other friends, who kept them at bed and board as their own wives. And after the death of King Henry they received them again (as love money) with usury; that is, the children in the mean season begotten by the said friends, whom they took, called and brought up as their own, as it was well known, as well in other as in Browne, Archbishop of Dublin. It would now pity a man at the heart to hear of the naughty and dissolute life of these yoked priests,’ &c.

391

Morrin’s Patent Rolls, p. 304.

392

Instructions for Sir A. St. Leger, Oct. 1553; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, pp. 300-304.

393

Petition of Connor MacCarthy, 1553. The Queen to Sussex, July 6, 1558. Orders taken at Drogheda, Dec. 6, 1553, in Carew.

394

Bale’s select works, Parker Society; King Johan, a play, ed. J. Payne Collier, Camden Society; ‘God’s promises in all ages of the old law,’ in Dodsley’s Old Plays, vol. i.; a brief comedy or interlude of John Baptist in Harl. Misc. vol. i.

395

Bale’s Vocation; Cotton’s Fasti, vol. i. p. 123.

396

Bale’s Vocation; Ware’s Annals. Queen Elizabeth to the two St. Legers, calendared under 1559 (No. 85). Dr. Reid printed the following contemporary epigram: —

‘Plurima Lutherus patefecit, Platina multa,
Quædam Vergerius, cuncta Balæus habet.’

397

Hook’s Life of Pole, vol. iii. p. 359, note; Machyn’s Diary, Jan. 27, 1554; Life of Sir Peter Carew, ed. by Macleane, and also printed in Carew, vol. i.

398

Brady; Cotton. Dowling says of Thonory: ‘Pro dolore amissionis thesauri sui per fures mortuus. Fures confitebantur et executi.’

399

Indentures with the O’Briens, Sept. 1554, in Carew; Four Masters, 1554.

400

Sarpi’s Council of Trent, trans. by Courayer, lib. v. cap. 15, and the notes. Dr. Lingard, vol. v. end of chap. v., objects to Fra Paolo’s account, but I cannot see that his own much differs.

401

Brady; Hook’s Life of Pole; Ware’s Life of Curwin; Rymer, Feb. 22, and April 25, 1555; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, p. 339.

402

Hooker in Holinshed; St. Leger to Petre, Dec. 18, 1555; Four Masters, 1555. James MacDonnell’s agents to Calvagh O’Donnell, calendared under 1554 (No. 7).

403

Instructions to Lord Fitzwalter, April 28, 1556, in Carew. Sidney Papers, i. p. 85.

404

Ware’s Annals.

405

Sussex’s Journal, Aug. 8, 1556, in Carew; Sidney’s Relation, in Carew; 1583; Lord Deputy Fitzwalter to the Queen, Jan. 2, 1557; Calendar of Foreign State Papers, Oct. 28, 1556.

406

Opinions of Lord Fitzwalter, Jan. 2, 1557. He mentions hake as ‘a kind of salt fish much eaten in Ireland.’

407

Privy Council to Lord Deputy, Sept. 30, 1556; Orders for Leix, Dec.; Lord Deputy to the Queen, Jan. 2, 1557. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1557, entitling the Crown to Leix and Offaly, and authorising the Lord Deputy to make grants under the Great Seal.