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 1 J*8 campion's historle mercy, your words against his Majesty shall not bee counted malicious, but rather balked out for heat and impotency, except your selfe by heaping offences, discover a mischievous and willfull meaning. Farewell. Nettled with this round answere, forth he passed to increase his power, offered violence to very few, ex- cept that one despitous murther at Tartaine, the twenty five of Iuly, where in a morning earely he caused to be brought before him, the honourable Pre- late Doctour Allen, Archbishop of Divelin, and Lord Chancellor, who being a reverent personage, feeble for age and sicknesse, kneeling at his feete in his shirte and mantle, bequeathing his soule to God, his body to the Traytors mercy, the wretched young man commaunded there to be brained like an oxe. The place is ever since hedged in, overgrowne and unfre- quented, in detestation of the fact. The people have observed that all the accessaries thereof, being after pardoned for rebellion, ended miserably. Allen had beene in service with Cardinall Wolsey, of deepe judge- ment ; in the Cannon law, the onely match of Stephen Gardener another of VVblseyes Chaplaines, for avoyd- ing of which emulation he was preferred in Ireland, rough and rigorous in iustice, hated of the Geraldines for his Masters sake, & his owne, as that he crossed them diverse times, and much troubled both the father and sonne in their governements, nor unlike to have promoted their accusations.