[438] Cornelius, bishop of Killaloe, to O’Rourke, Feb. 13, 1596; Sir John Dowdall to Cecil, March 9, 1596; Memorial among the Rawlinson MSS. July 28, 1592, printed in Irish Arch. Journal, i. 80; Dominic O’Colan’s confession, July 9, 1602.
[439] Pelham to Walsingham, Dec. 7, 1579; Bishop Middleton to Walsingham, June 29, July 21, and Aug. 19, 1580. ‘They call their city young Rochelle; I pray God it be not ironice dictum.’ And see John Shearman, schoolmaster of Waterford, to Primate Long, July 12, 1585.
[440] Bishop Lyon to Burghley, Sept. 23, 1595. The State Papers contain evidence that this was an energetic and liberal bishop: he built a church at Ross with 150l. of his own money, also a free school and a bridge.
[441] Rawlinson MS. July 28, 1592, printed in Irish Arch. Journal, i. 80. Pacata Hibernica, book i. chap. xviii. Letter from Lord Cahir to Creagh, MS. Hatfield; Brady’s Episcopal Succession.
[442] Rawlinson MS. ut sup.; Brady’s Episcopal Succession; Four Masters, 1601. In July 1588 O’Gallagher, as ‘Vice-Primas,’ delegates his authority to O’Devany for one year: ‘quoniam propter imminentia pericula ac discrimina interitus vitæ, personaliter terras illas visitare nequimus.’ See Fitzwilliam to Burghley, Oct. 26, 1588.
[443] Archbishop Lancaster to Walsingham, April 26, 1581; Sir N. White to Burghley, Feb. 3, 1589; Archbishop Garvey to Burghley, Feb. 20, 1592; Ware’s Bishops.
[444] Archbishop Long to Burghley, Jan. 20, 1585, and June 10; to Walsingham, July 8; Archbishop Henry Ussher to Burghley, April 10, 1596.
[445] Ware’s Bishops; Cotton’s Fasti; Archbishop Jones to Salisbury, Aug. 3, 1607; Note of abuses, &c. in Cashel, Emly, Waterford, and Lismore, in the Chancellor Archbishop of Dublin’s hand, and signed by him, Aug. 4, 1607. Writing to Cecil Feb. 20, 1604, Sir John Davies says Magrath held seventy-seven spiritual livings besides his four bishoprics.
[446] Sir John Davies to Cecil, Feb. 20, 1604, and May 4, 1606; certificates to Dublin and Meath dioceses, calendared under 1604, Nos. 267 and 268.
[447] The charter, as well as the deed of gift from the city of Dublin, are in Morrin’s Patent Rolls, ii. p. 345, and see p. 21; Taylor’s History of the University. There is a good account, from a Presbyterian point of view, in Killen’s Ecclesiastical History, vol. i. pp. 447-455.