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 146 campion's historie son George, Duke of Clarence, afterwards drowned in a butt of Malmsey : his god fathers at the front were the Earles of Ormond and Desmond. r Whether the commotion of Iacke Cade an Irish- man borne, naming liimselfeiJ/brltmer, and so clayming cousinage to diverse noble houses, proceeded from this crew, it is uncertaine : s surely the Duke was thereof vehemently mistrusted, & immediately began his tu- mults, which because our English histories discourse at large, I omit as impertinent. Those broyles being couched for a time, Richard held himselfe in Ireland, being lately by Parliament ordained Protector of the Realme of England, leaving his agent in the Court his brother the Earle of Salis- bury 1 Lord Chauncellour, to whom he declared by letters, the trouble then toward in Ireland, which letter exemplified by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, a great searcher and preserver of Antiquities, as it came to my hands, I thinke it convenient here to set downe. To the right worshipfull and with all my heart entirely beloved brother, the Earle of Shrewesbury. Right worshipfull and with all my heart entirely beloved Brother, I commend mee unto you as heartily as I can. r Records of Christ church. * 1450. Io. Ma. L 6. c. 16.
 * 1458.