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

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Proceedings of the Deputy and Council, Feb. 25, 1557, in Carew. Four Masters for 1555 and 1556.

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Four Masters, 1555 and 1556. Proceedings of Deputy and Council, Feb. 25, 1557, in Carew. Dowling says Connel O’More was ‘apud pontem Leighlin cruci affixus.’ Ware’s Annals.

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Thomas Alen to Cecil, Dec. 18, 1558; Letters of Queen Mary, calendared under 1557 (Nos. 63 and 64), and petitions (Nos. 65 and 66). For grants of abbey-lands, see Morrin’s Patent Rolls, passim. Mary’s only Irish Parliament (3 and 4 Phil. et Mar.), met June 1, 1557, in Dublin. There were adjournments to Limerick and Drogheda. See Stuart’s Armagh, p. 244, and Rymer, Dec. 1, 1556.

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July 1557; Journal by Sussex of that date in Carew; Four Masters, 1557.

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October; Four Masters, 1557.

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Four Masters. This was towards the end of 1557.

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Four Masters, 1557.

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Lord Justice Sidney and Council to the Privy Council, Feb. 8, 1558; Desmond to the Queen, Feb. 5 and Feb. 23, and her answer, April 19; Sidney to Sussex, Feb. 26, and to the Queen, March 1.

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Piers to Curwin, Feb. 14, 1558; Sussex to Boxoll, June 8; Articles by an Irishman, 1558 (No. 15).

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The Queen’s letters are all dated March 12.

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See instructions in Carew, March 20; Estimate for munitions, March 13.

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Machyn’s Diary; Sussex to Privy Council, April 7, with inclosures; Dowdall to Heath, Nov. 17, 1557.

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This tour is in Carew, i. 274-277; the date in the end of July 1558.

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For the expedition to the isles, see Sussex to the Queen, Oct. 3, Oct. 6, and Oct. 31, 1558.

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Journeys by the Earl of Sussex, July and Nov. 1558, in Carew; oath of Gerald Earl of Desmond, Nov. 28.

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Ware’s Life of Browne. In their instructions to the Lord Deputy and Council, Philip and Mary say: – ‘Lord Cardinal Poole, being sent unto us from the Pope’s Holiness and the said See Apostolic Legate of our said realms, mindeth in brief time to despatch into Ireland certain his commissioners and officials to visit the clergy and other members of the said realm of Ireland,’ &c., Carew, April 28, 1556.