hel, 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_.--Shirley, _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 Sussex 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 document 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 fashion,
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.

[425] _Cusack_.--One reason, perhaps, was that the Chancellor always
treated O'Neill with the respect due from one gentleman to another.
Flemyng mentions, in a letter to Cecil, November 29, 1563, that O'Neill
told him, when about to take the oaths of his people to an agreement
with the Queen, that "Cusack did not give them their oath so, _but let
me give them their oath_."

CHAPTER XXVI.

Spenser's Castle--Sidney's Official Account of Ireland--Miserable State
of the Protestant Church--The Catholic Church and its Persecuted
Rulers--The Viceroy's Administration--A Packed Parliament and its
Enactments--Claim of Sir P. Carew--An Attempt to plant in
Ulster--Smith's Settlement in the Ards--His Description of the Native
Iris