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 16*2 campion's historic griefes, wherein if they found Kildare but even tolle- rably purged, their instructions was to depose the plain- tiffe, and to sweare the other Lord Deputy. The Commissioners were, Sir Raphe Egerton, a Cheshire Knight, Anthony Fitzherbert, second Iustice of the Common-pleas, and lames Denton, Deane of Lich- field, who huddeled up those accusations as they thought good, and suddenly tooke the sword from the Earle of Ossory, sware the Geraldine Lord Deputy, before whom Con Oneale bare the sword that day. Con- cerning the murtherer whom they might have hanged, they brought him prisoner into England, presented him to Cardinall Wolsey, who was said to hate Kildares bloud : And the Cardinall intending his execution with more dishonour to the name, caused him to be ledde about London streetes manacled and haltered, which asked so long time, that the Deane of Lichfield step- ped to the King, and got the Gentleman his pardon. This untimely shift inflamed the Cardinall, and ripened the malice hitherto not so ranke, and there- fore hereafter Ossory brought evident proofes of the Deputies disorder, that hee willfully winked at the Earle of Desmond, whom hee should have attached by the Kings letters, that he curryed acquaintance and friendship with meere Irish enemyes, that he had armed them against him being the Kings Deputy, that he hanged and hewed rashly good subiects, whom hee " mistrusted to leaue to the Butlers friendship. Yet againe therefore was Kildare commanded to appeare,