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FOOTNOTES:

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

[403] _Service_.--Shirley'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 God'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 Cassington, 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_.--_Analecta_, 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 Cas