[399] Indentures with the O’Briens, Sept. 1554, in Carew; Four Masters, 1554.
[400] Sarpi’s Council of Trent, trans. by Courayer, lib. v. cap. 15, and the notes. Dr. Lingard, vol. v. end of chap. v., objects to Fra Paolo’s account, but I cannot see that his own much differs.
[401] Brady; Hook’s Life of Pole; Ware’s Life of Curwin; Rymer, Feb. 22, and April 25, 1555; Morrin’s Patent Rolls, p. 339.
[402] Hooker in Holinshed; St. Leger to Petre, Dec. 18, 1555; Four Masters, 1555. James MacDonnell’s agents to Calvagh O’Donnell, calendared under 1554 (No. 7).
[403] Instructions to Lord Fitzwalter, April 28, 1556, in Carew. Sidney Papers, i. p. 85.
[404] Ware’s Annals.
[405] Sussex’s Journal, Aug. 8, 1556, in Carew; Sidney’s Relation, in Carew; 1583; Lord Deputy Fitzwalter to the Queen, Jan. 2, 1557; Calendar of Foreign State Papers, Oct. 28, 1556.
[406] Opinions of Lord Fitzwalter, Jan. 2, 1557. He mentions hake as ‘a kind of salt fish much eaten in Ireland.’
[407] Privy Council to Lord Deputy, Sept. 30, 1556; Orders for Leix, Dec.; Lord Deputy to the Queen, Jan. 2, 1557. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1557, entitling the Crown to Leix and Offaly, and authorising the Lord Deputy to make grants under the Great Seal.
[408] Proceedings of the Deputy and Council, Feb. 25, 1557, in Carew. Four Masters for 1555 and 1556.