[372] Brady; Cotton; Memoranda of private suits, July 16, 1559.

[373] Brady collects most that is known about this curious rivalry; see also Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. p. 83, and Hooker under the year 1567. For MacCaghwell, see Loftus to Cecil, July 3 and Nov. 7, 1566, and Shirley’s Original Letters, p. 132.

[374] Brady; Cotton; Captain Gilbert Yorke to Walsingham, Dec. 5, 1579; and several letters of Bishop Middleton, with recriminating answers on the part of the townsmen.

[375] Brady and Cotton.

[376] Brady and Cotton.

[377] Brady; Cotton. Ware mentions a Bishop-elect of Kilfenora in 1585, but the appointment seems to have come to nothing. No doubt the see was extremely poor.

[378] Brady and Cotton.

[379] The above is from a close comparison of the data in Cotton and Brady, and in the Parliamentary Lists in Tracts Relating to Ireland, vol. ii. The twenty prelates mentioned in the list of 1560 are thus disposed of:—

Conformed2
Deprived2
Never confirmed by the Popes2
More or less doubtful14
Total20

[380] Lord Deputy Sidney and Council to the Privy Council, April 15, 1566.