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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."

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Willing.—Sidney's Despatches, British Museum, MSS. Cat. Titus B. x.

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Irreligion.—Mant, vol. i. p.287.

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