stances conthe visit of Sanders to nected with Ireland. the circum- ther Sanders to Ireland. He says, 'In Munster, a province of Ireland, James Fitz Morris raised a new rebellion; the same James which a while before falling upon his knees before Perott, president of Munster, had with lamentable howlings and humble intreaties begged his pardon, and most religiously vowed his fidelity and obedience to the Queen. This man (who was never well but in troubles) had withdrawn himself into France, promising the king that if he would assist him, he would unite all Ireland to the sceptre of France, and restore the Romish religion in that Isle. But being wearied out with delays, and in the end laughed at, he went from France into Spain, and made the same promises to the Catholic king. The king sent him over to the bishop of Rome; from whom having (at the earnest solicitation of Sanders, an English priest, and Allen, an Irish one, both of them Doctors in Divinity) gotten a little money, the authority of a legate granted to SANDERS, a consecrated banner, and letters of recommendation to the Spaniard, he returned into Spain, and from thence arrived about the first day of July, with those two divines, three ships, and a small body of men at Saint Mary Wick, (which the Irish contractedly call Smerwick) in Kerry, a peninsula in Ireland, where in a place solemnly consecrated by the priests, he erected a fort, and drew up his ships close under: which ships Thomas Courtney an English gentleman, who lay by chance at anchor with a man of war in a road hard by, soon after set upon, took, and carried away, and deprived the Spaniards of the benefit of the sea. [Camd. Hist. Eliz., P. 236.] One of his original in dulgences still extant. "One of the original printed indulgences granted by the pope on this occasion to those who should join the Irish rebels, preparatory to the expedition, is still preserved in the same volume of the Lansdowne Collection, with Father Sanders's Letter; and bears date in 1577. It is indorsed in Lord Burghley's hand, 'Bulla contra Reginam for Jam. Fitz Moris.' It has at the bottom, a wafer seal of one of the Cardinals, and is further attested by one of the apostolic notaries. The letters J. H. S. at the beginning, have the cross above and the nails below encircled with a glory." [MS. Lans. 96, Art. 53.] Then follows in Mr. Ellis's work the Bull itself of Pope Gregory XIII., here referred to, just as it has been already given to the reader of this volume in Art. XXVII. p. 1262 sup. No. XLVIII. LIST OF THE PRELATES WHO WERE PRESENT IN THE IRISH PAR- the parlia the Loftus The following catalogue of the spiritual peers Prelates in who attended the parliament held in Dublin in ment of A.D. the year 1585 is given in the Irish Annals con- 1585, from tained in the Loftus MS. in Marsh's Library, Ms. Dublin, under that year; and appears of sufficient interest and rarity to find a place here. It will be found to throw a little additional light on the state of some, at least, of the Irish sees, (Ardfert, for instance, and Killala,) at the time, beyond what can be derived from the labours of Ware and Harris, whose attention would appear not to have been directed to this particular document. (Vid. No. XXV. sup.) 1585. "The Names of the Lds. Spirll. and Temporall wh. sat in Parl'- "1. John Long, Archbp. of Ar- 3. Meilerus Magragh, archieps. Cas- 5. Thos. Jones eps. Midensis. Ye bishopric of Ossory at this 7. Hugh Allen eps. Ffernensis. 9. Jo: Linch eps. Elphinensis. 11. Daniel Cavenagh Eps. Leigh linensis. 12. Gulielmus Lyon, eps. Rossensis. 23. Roland Lynch, eps. Clonfertensis. 14. Maritius O'Brian Eps. Lao- 15. Episcop' Conneresis vacant. 18. Episcopus Dromorensis. Bull of P. No. XXVIII. BULL OF POPE GREGORY XIII., INCITING THE IRISH TO AID IN THE The document placed before the reader in this article may be seen in the original form in A.D. 1580. O'Sullevan, tom. ii. lib. 4, cap. 17, pp. 100, 101; in O'Daly, (Dom. de Rosario) Relatio Geraldi norum Hyberniæ, Ulyssip. 1658, pp. 75-78; Mac Geoghegan, Histoire, &c., vol. iii. p. 437; Amsterd. 1763; or in Foulis's History of Romish Treasons, p. 306. London, 1681. mer bull in Gregory XIII., pope, to all and singular the Arch- Gregory rebishops, Bishops, and other prelates, and also to the cites the forPrinces, Earls, Barons, Clergy, Nobility, and People of favour of J. the kingdom of Ireland, Health and Apostolical Bene- Fitzmaudiction. "Whereas in these years last past we have by our letters exhorted you to give your utmost aid, (in order to the recovery of your liberty, and the defence and preservation thereof against the heretics,) to James Geraldine, of worthy memory, who was planning measures, in aspirit of the most fervent zeal, for shaking off the cruel yoke of bondage imposed on you by the English deserters from the Holy Roman Church, and to support him with promptness and energy in his preparations for making war on God's enemies and yours; rice; (Art. XXVII. sup.) stowed on "And whereas to encourage you to engage in this ser- alludes to vice with greater alacrity, we made a grant to all, who the privibeing contrite and confessing, should follow the aforesaid leges it beGeneral James and his army, and join themselves thereto his followfor the purpose of asserting the Catholic faith, and fight- ers; ing its battles, or support his cause in this expedition, by their counsel, countenance, military stores, arms, and other necessaries of war, or in any manner whatsoever, of a plenary pardon and remission of all their sins, and the same privileges which have usually been bestowed by the Roman pontiffs, on those who set out for the war against the Turks, and for the recovery of the Holy Land; and promises a con "And whereas further, tidings have been recently received by us, not without deep distress of mind on our tinuance of port, that the aforesaid James hath been slain, (as it them to pleased the Lord,) in a valiant encounter with the ene- John Geral men; dine and his my; and that our beloved son, John Geraldine, his kinsman, a person of exemplary piety and heroism, which are to be attributed to God, whose cause is now at issue, hath succeeded to him in this expedition, and hath already performed many noble acts in his worthy struggle for the Catholic faith, We, therefore, in the strongest manner of which we are capable, exhort, require, and urge you in the Lord, all and singular, that you study to aid the aforesaid General John and his army, against the said heretics, by every means in your power, according to the admonitions which we addressed to you for the regulation of your conduct toward the said James while he was yet alive. who were to be treated as equally me ritorious with Turkexterminators. The mode of publication of this Bull. "For we, in dependance on the mercy of Almighty God, and the authority of Blessed Peter and Paul his apostles, do grant, and by these presents bestow on all and singular of you, who having confessed and communicated, shall do the things contained in the letter aforesaid, for the said John and his army, or who after his death, (if it should haply occur, which God vouchsafe to avert,) shall adhere to and favour his brother James, the same plenary indulgence and remission of all your sins, as they obtain who engage in the war against the Turks, and for the recovery of the Holy Land, these privileges to continue in force so long as the said brothers John and James shall survive. "And whereas it would be difficult for these our letters to come to the notice of all whom they may concern, our pleasure is that the printed copies thereof also, after having been subscribed by the hand of a notary public, and stamped with the seal of a Church dignitary, shall be received every where with the same full and implicit confidence, as if these presents had been exhibited or shewn. "Given at St. Peter's, Rome, under the Ring of the |