[381] Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew, No. 200. It is there wrongly dated 1553.
[382] The facts of this expedition (June and July 1552) are given by the Four Masters; and see Ware’s Annals.
[383] Tyrone’s complaint, July 1552; Privy Council to George Paris, Oct. 25; to Croft, Dec. 10; Cusack to Privy Council, Dec. 22; Memorandum concerning Tyrone, Dec. 30, in Carew.
[384] Mayor, &c., of Waterford to the Privy Council, Dec. 18; Cusack and Aylmer to the Privy Council, Dec. 22 and 30; Declaration of Desmond’s title, Dec. 30; Cusack in Carew, ut supra.
[385] Northumberland to Cecil, Nov. 25, 1552; Cusack’s ‘Book’ in Carew, vol. i. p. 236; King’s letter in Lodge’s Patent Officers; Ware’s Annals.
[386] A paper calendared under Jan. 1553 (No. 75) calculates the average expenses from 33 to 38 Hen. VIII. at 8,500l. a year. In the six years of Edward’s reign they rose by regular gradation from 17,000l. to 52,000l. The average revenue for the former period was 9,000l., for the latter, 11,000l. See also No. 83, ‘a device how to keep Ireland in the stay it now remaineth upon the revenues only.’
[387] The consecrations took place on Feb. 2, 1553.
[388] Bale’s ‘Vocation,’ in the Harleian Miscellany.
[389] Church histories of Mant, Killen, Brennan, and Reid. Graves’s History of St. Canice. They all derive their chief inspiration from Bale’s own ‘Vocation.’ Fuller has preserved the nickname of ‘biliosus Balæus,’ given to the Bishop in contemporary controversy.
[390] Browne and Bale were friars; yet Protestants will not blame them for entering the holy estate of matrimony, any vows to the contrary notwithstanding. To modern England a married clergy seems quite natural, but the scandal was great during the transition period, and Queen Elizabeth felt the awkwardness herself. The following statement of Harpsfield may be true or false, but it shows what could be said by a contemporary. It should be remembered that Harpsfield was Archdeacon of Canterbury. ‘Against these kind of marriages, and maintenance of the same, King Henry, in his latter days, made very sharp laws, whereupon many so married put over their women to their servants and other friends, who kept them at bed and board as their own wives. And after the death of King Henry they received them again (as love money) with usury; that is, the children in the mean season begotten by the said friends, whom they took, called and brought up as their own, as it was well known, as well in other as in Browne, Archbishop of Dublin. It would now pity a man at the heart to hear of the naughty and dissolute life of these yoked priests,’ &c.