[114] February 6th, 1554.
[115] Mason to Queen Mary, October 5th, 1554.
[116] Froude, vol. vi. 395 and 517.
[117] Phillips's Life of Pole, vol. ii. 172, note.
[118] Lingard, vol. v. 224.
[119] March 23d, 1555.
[120] Hist. Ref. vol. ii. p. 156.
[121] Vita Poli, fol. 33.
[122] Poli Epist. Phillips's Life, vol. ii. p. 222.
[123] The number of persons put to death in Queen Mary's reign was, as stated above, not over 400. From the year 1641 to 1659, 826,000 persons perished, were exiled or sold as slaves in Ireland, through the religious persecution of the English Protestant government. (O'Reilly's Memorials, p. 345.)