lack in things pertaining to God's glory." He
calls him "an epicurious archbishop, a brockish swine, and a dissembling
proselyte," and accuses him in plain terms of "drunkenness and
gluttony." Dr. Browne accuses Dr. Staples of having preached in such a
manner, "as I think the three-mouthed Cerberus of hell could not have
uttered it more viperously." And Dr. Mant, the Protestant panegyrist of
the Reformation and the Reformers, admits that Dr. Bale was guilty of
"uncommon warmth of temperament"--a polite appellation for a most
violent temper; and of "unbecoming coarseness"--a delicate definement of
a profligate life. His antecedents were not very creditable. After
flying from his convent in England, he was imprisoned for preaching
sedition in York and London. He obtained his release by professing
conformity to the new creed. He eventually retired to Canterbury, after
his expulsion from Kilkenny by the Catholics, and there he died, in
1563.

[Illustration: SCULPTURES AT DEVENISH.]

[Illustration: BOSS ISLAND.]

FOOTNOTES:

[380] _Persecution_.--Smith's _Ireland Hist. and Statis_. vol. i. p.
327.

[381] _Doom_.--See _The Earls of Kildare_, vol. i. p. 106, for Wolsey's
reasons for not removing him from the Viceroyalty, notwithstanding his
dislike.

[382] _Ally_.--He was charged with having written a letter to O'Carroll
of Ely, in which he advised him to keep peace with the Pale until a
Deputy should come over, and then to make war on the English. The object
of this advice is not very clear.

[383] _Salus Populi_.--There is a copy of this book in MS. in the
British Museum. The name of the author is not known.

[384] _Letter_.--The deposition accusing Kildare is printed in the
"State Papers," part iii. p. 45. The following is an extract from the
translation which it gives of his letter to O'Carroll. The original was
written in Irish: "Desiring you to kepe good peas to English men tyll an
English Deputie come there; and when any English Deputie shall come
thydder, doo your beste to make warre upon English men there, except
suche as bee towardes mee, whom you know well your silf."

[385] _Pierse Butler_.--Called by the Irish, Red Pierse. Leland gives a
curious story about him. He was at war with MacGillapatrick, who sent an
ambassador to Henry VIII. to complain of the Earl's proceedings. The
messenger met the English King as he was about to enter the royal
chapel, and addressed him thus: "Stop, Sir King! my master,