[371] Instructions for Mr. Thomas Wood, July 28, 1551; and the King’s answer, Aug. 17.
[372] Strype’s Cranmer, book ii. chap. xxviii., and Appendices 65 and 66.
[373] Instructions for Mr. Wood, Sept. 29, 1551. Cecil wrote on the margin ‘denied for the King liketh no union.’ The King’s amended answer, Nov. 26.
[374] Croft to Cecil, March 14, 1552; to the Marquis of Winchester, March 22.
[375] W. Crofton to Cecil, April 12, 1551; Lord Deputy and Council to Privy Council, Aug. 30, and the answer in Nov.; Croft to Northumberland, Dec. 22; Lord Deputy and Council to the Privy Council, Jan. 27, 1552—‘idleness decayeth nobility, one of the principal “kayes” of a commonwealth, and bringeth magistrates in contempt and hatred of the people,’ and the petition enclosed. Croft to Cecil, March 14, and to Winchester, March 22. Ware’s Annals.
[376] Wicklow tinstone has never been thought workable, see Kane’s Industrial Resources, p. 210. Dr. Kane does not seem to have known anything of the Clonmines venture. Lord Deputy St. Leger and Council to Henry VIII., Oct. 24, 1541, and June 4, 1543. St. Leger acted on the advice of Thomas Agard, a mining expert. Minute of Council in S.P., 1546. St. Leger, Croft, and others to the Privy Council, May 20, 1551; Robert Record, surveyor of mines to the Privy Council, Feb. 1552. Harman’s certificate, same date. Joachim Gundelfinger to the Privy Council, May 15. Reports on the mines, Aug. 1552, and Feb. and April, 1553. Instructions to St. Leger in Carew, July 1550, p. 228, as to alum. The MSS. contains many details interesting to specialists, especially the certificate of Gerrard Harman, a German.
[377] Privy Council to Croft, Feb. 23, and May 29, 1552. Sir Thomas Cusack’s ‘Book,’ in Carew, 1553, p. 241.
[378] The Earl of Tyrone’s articles, Feb. 9, 1552; St. Leger to Northumberland, March 10. Sir Thomas Cusack’s ‘Book,’ in Carew.
[379] Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew. Four Masters, 1552.
[380] Earls of Kildare. The patent of restoration is dated April 25, 1552. Orders for Leighlin and Carlow in Carew, April 30. Croft to the Privy Council, April 16, May 1, and May 31.