[138] Brereton and Salisbury to the King, Nov. 4; Skeffington to the King, Nov. 11; Ossory to Mr. Cowley, as above.
[139] John Alen to Cromwell, Dec. 26, 1534, and Feb. 16, 1535; Vice-Treasurer Brabazon to Cromwell, Feb. 16, 1535; Skeffington to Sir Edmund Walsingham, March 13.
[140] The sentence of excommunication is printed in the State Papers, No. 81; see No. 84; Stanihurst. Kildare died Dec. 12, 1534.
[141] Stanihurst; Alen to Cromwell, Dec. 26, 1534.
[142] Ossory to Skeffington, Jan. 17, 1535.
[143] Alen to Cromwell, Feb. 16, 1535; Stanihurst.
[144] Stanihurst; Lord Deputy and Council to the King, March 26.
[145] Ware; Stanihurst; the Lord-Deputy and Council to the King, March 26. The official despatch does not mention the negotiation with Paris, but I see no reason to disbelieve Stanihurst. ‘Too late, quoth Boys,’ became proverbial.
[146] ‘Quæ vulgariter dicitur a saulte.’
[147] Coyne and livery, cuddies, kernaghts, ‘vel talia poculenta.’