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433

‘Descriptio Itineris Capitanei Josiæ Bodlei in Lecaliam, 1602-3,’ Ulster Arch. Journal, ii. 73.

434

The identification of Elizabeth Boyle is due to Mr. Grosart. Bryskett’s description of the party at his house has been reprinted by several of Spenser’s biographers. For topographical matters see a most thorough article by Dr. P. W. Joyce in Fraser’s Magazine for March 1878, p. 315. Dr. Joyce hesitates to identify ‘the stony Aubrion,’ but is it not the Burren in Carlow?

435

Cotton’s Fasti; Brady’s Episcopal Succession.

436

Considerations touching Munster, 1587, No. 70; Andrew Trollope to Walsingham, Oct. 26, 1587. Sir William Russell is said to have advised liberal grants of church lands to the nobility of both persuasions, ‘who would then hold their religion with their lands, in capite.’

437

Spenser’s View of the State of Ireland, 1596. Some of the poet’s words might suggest Swift’s savage outburst about the worthy divines appointed to Irish sees who were uniformly robbed and murdered on Hounslow Heath ‘by the highwaymen frequenting that common, who seize upon their robes and patents, come over to Ireland, and are consecrated bishops in their stead.’

438

Cornelius, bishop of Killaloe, to O’Rourke, Feb. 13, 1596; Sir John Dowdall to Cecil, March 9, 1596; Memorial among the Rawlinson MSS. July 28, 1592, printed in Irish Arch. Journal, i. 80; Dominic O’Colan’s confession, July 9, 1602.

439

Pelham to Walsingham, Dec. 7, 1579; Bishop Middleton to Walsingham, June 29, July 21, and Aug. 19, 1580. ‘They call their city young Rochelle; I pray God it be not ironice dictum.’ And see John Shearman, schoolmaster of Waterford, to Primate Long, July 12, 1585.

440

Bishop Lyon to Burghley, Sept. 23, 1595. The State Papers contain evidence that this was an energetic and liberal bishop: he built a church at Ross with 150l. of his own money, also a free school and a bridge.

441

Rawlinson MS. July 28, 1592, printed in Irish Arch. Journal, i. 80. Pacata Hibernica, book i. chap. xviii. Letter from Lord Cahir to Creagh, MS. Hatfield; Brady’s Episcopal Succession.

442

Rawlinson MS. ut sup.; Brady’s Episcopal Succession; Four Masters, 1601. In July 1588 O’Gallagher, as ‘Vice-Primas,’ delegates his authority to O’Devany for one year: ‘quoniam propter imminentia pericula ac discrimina interitus vitæ, personaliter terras illas visitare nequimus.’ See Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Oct. 26, 1588.

443

Archbishop Lancaster to Walsingham, April 26, 1581; Sir N. White to Burghley, Feb. 3, 1589; Archbishop Garvey to Burghley, Feb. 20, 1592; Ware’s Bishops.

444

Archbishop Long to Burghley, Jan. 20, 1585, and June 10; to Walsingham, July 8; Archbishop Henry Ussher to Burghley, April 10, 1596.

445

Ware’s Bishops; Cotton’s Fasti; Archbishop Jones to Salisbury, Aug. 3, 1607; Note of abuses, &c. in Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore, in the Chancellor Archbishop of Dublin’s hand, and signed by him, Aug. 4, 1607. Writing to Cecil Feb. 20, 1604, Sir John Davies says Magrath held seventy-seven spiritual livings besides his four bishoprics.

446

Sir John Davies to Cecil, Feb. 20, 1604, and May 4, 1606; certificates to Dublin and Meath dioceses, calendared under 1604, Nos. 267 and 268.

447

The charter, as well as the deed of gift from the city of Dublin, are in Morrin’s Patent Rolls, ii. p. 345, and see p. 21; Taylor’s History of the University. There is a good account, from a Presbyterian point of view, in Killen’s Ecclesiastical History, vol. i. pp. 447-455.

448

Neal’s History of the Puritans, vol. i., for Travers; Lowry’s Hamilton MSS., pp. 1-9, and Bruce’s Correspondence of James VI. and Cecil, for Fullerton and Hamilton. Hibernia Ignatiana, pp. 37 and 39. ‘Litteræ Annuæ’ of the Irish Jesuits, 1609, in Spicilegium Ossoriense.

449

O’Sullivan, tom. iv. lib. i. cap. 17; Spicilegium Ossoriense, vol. i. p. 133.

450

Gilbert’s History of Dublin, vol. i. pp. 29, 186, 383, 385; Ball’s Reformed Church of Ireland, chaps. iii. and iv.; Cotton’s Fasti; Bedell’s Life, printed by the Camden Society, and the articles on Bedell, Daniel, and Robert Boyle in the new Dictionary of National Biography. William Kearney, who printed the proclamation against Tyrone in 1595, may have been related to the Treasurer of St. Patrick’s; see above chap. xlv.

451

William Lynch to Sir James Macintosh, printed in the Calendar of S. P. Ireland, 1606-8, p. civ; Francis Bacon to Cecil, 1602, printed by Spedding, pp. 48, 49. A commission to ‘execute the Acts concerning the Queen’s supremacy,’ was issued in 1594, Morrin’s Patent Rolls, ii. 290. Loftus and Jones were the only prelates commissioned, and very little was done.