[361] St. Leger to Cecil, Jan. 19, 1551. Deposition of Sir John Alen, March 19, in the deponent’s own hand. ‘The Bishop of Kildare (Lancaster),’ he says, ‘came to me persuading me on his behalf to put in writing the words Mr. St. Leger spoke to me in Kilmainham, to whom I made this answer, “Show my lord that albeit I love his little toe better than all Mr. St. Leger’s body, yet I will do nothing against truth.”’
[362] Bicton’s curious will is printed in Cotton’s Fasti, vol. ii. Appendix.
[363] Croft to Warwick, May 1551; Instructions to Desmond and others July 1; Archbishop Browne to Warwick, Aug. 6.
[364] Cusack to Warwick, Sept. 27, 1551.
[365] Cusack to Warwick, Sept. 27, 1551; Instructions to Mr. Wood, Sept. 29, with Cecil’s notes, ‘Keep him (Tyrone) still, participating the cause thereof to the nobility;’ Hill’s MacDonnells of Antrim, chap. iii.
[366] Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 146; Maine’s Early History of Institutions, p. 53.
[367] Bagenal to Croft, Oct. 27, 1551.
[368] Bagenal to Croft, Nov. 11, 1551; Sir Thomas Cusack’s Book, May 8, 1552; Four Masters, ad ann. 1551.
[369] Mant, pp. 209-210, from a Clarendon MS. The letters which passed between Croft and Dowdall are given by Mant from the Harris MSS.
[370] Browne to Warwick, Aug. 6, 1551; Ware’s Browne.