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[402] _Heretics_.--Annals, vol. v. p. 1493.

[403] _Service_.--s.h.i.+rley's _Original Letters_, p. 47. Dr. Browne gives an account of his signal failures in attempting to introduce the Protestant form of prayer in his letters to Cromwell. He says one prebendary of St. Patrick's ”thought scorn to read them.” He adds: ”They be in a manner all the same point with me. There are twenty-eight of them, and yet scarce one that favoureth G.o.d's Word.”--_State Papers_, vol. iii. p. 6.

[404] _Pertinacity_.--_The Victoria History of England_, p. 256.

[405] _Pope_.--_Lib. Mun. Hib_. part i. p. 37.

[406] _Captivity_.--Lord Chancellor Cusack addressed a very curious ”Book on the State of Ireland” to the Duke of Northumberland, in 1552, in which he mentions the fearful condition of the northern counties. He states that ”the cause why the Earl was detained [in Dublin Castle] was for the wasting and destroying of his county.” This Sir Thomas Cusack, who took a prominent part in public affairs during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was a son of Thomas Cusack, of Ca.s.sington, in Meath, an ancient Norman-Irish family, who were hereditary seneschals and sheriffs of that county.--_Ulster Arch. Jour_. vol. iii p. 51.

[407] _People.--The Irish Reformation_, by the Rev. W. Maziere Brady, D.D., fifth edition, pp. 32, 33.

[408] _Creed_.--_Cambrensis Eversus_, vol. iii. p. 19.

[409] _Book_.--_Orationes et Motiva_, p. 87.

[410] _Date_.--_a.n.a.lecta_, p. 387.

[411] _Dr. Moran_.--_Archbishops of Dublin_, p. 68. Further information may be obtained also in Curry's _Historical Review_.

[412] _Clergyman_.--The Rev. W. Maziere Brady, D.D. Mr. Froude remarks, in his _History of England_, vol. x. p. 480: ”There is no evidence that any of the bishops in Ireland who were in office at Queen Mary's death, with the exception of Curwin, either accepted the Reformed Prayer-Book, or abjured the authority of the Pope.” He adds, in a foot-note: ”I cannot express my astonishment at a proposition maintained by Bishop Mant and others, that whole hierarchy of Ireland went over to the Reformation with the Government. In a survey of the country supplied to Cecil in 1571, after death and deprivation had enabled the Government to fill several sees, the Archbishops Armagh, Tuam, and Cashel, with almost every one of the Bishops of the respective provinces, are described as _Catholici et Confederati_. The Archbishop of Dublin, with the Bishops of Kildare, Ossory, and Ferns, are alone returned as 'Protestantes'”

[413] _Withal_.--s.h.i.+rley, _Original Letters_, p. 194.

[414] _Traitors_.--Letter of October 18, 1597.--State Paper Office.

[415] _Law_.--Letter to the Queen, in _Government of Ireland under Sir John Parrot_, p.4.

[416] _Thumbs_.--Despatch of Castlerosse, in State Paper Office, London.

[417] _Swords_.--O'Sullivan Beare, _Hist. Cath_. p. 238.

[418] _Mothers_.--_Ibid_. p. 99.

[419] _Them.--Hist. Cath_. p.133.

[420] _Army_.--See Dr. Stuart's _History of Armagh_, p. 261.

[421] _Style_.--In one of the communications from Suss.e.x to O'Neill, he complains of the chieftain's letters as being ”_nimis superbe scriptae_.”--State Papers for 1561.

[422] _May_.--Moore's _History of Ireland_, vol. iv. p.33.

[423] _Denied_.--This doc.u.ment has been printed in the _Ulster Arch.

Jour_. vol. ii, p.221, but the editor does not mention where the original was procured.

[424] _Englishman_.--Moore, vol. iv. p. 37, has ”like a gentleman,” but the above is the correct reading. In 1584 Sir J. Perrot tried to get the Irish chieftains to attend Parliament clothed in the English fas.h.i.+on, and even offered them robes and cloaks of velvet and satin. The chieftains objected; the Lord Deputy insisted. At last one of them, with exquisite humour, suggested that if he were obliged to wear English robes, a Protestant minister should accompany him attired in Irish garments, so that the mirth and amazement of the People should be fairly divided between them.--_Sir J. Perrot's Life_, p.198.