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 22 4 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 59 poor wretch was spared the fate which was intended for him. The Deputy for some reason suggested a doubt of ' the indifferency of his trial ' in Dublin. Before he could be sent to London he escaped out of prison once more, made his way to Scotland and thence to the Con- tinent, to disappear from history. The See however was filled by a nominee of Cecil's, ' a lusty good priest J named Lancaster, whom Tiiiogh Lenogh promised to support, and the English Government began to be san- guine that Protestantism would at last make progress. Elizabeth, anxious to indemnify herself for her enormous expenses, began to inquire after abbey lands and con- fiscated estates,, and ancient rights and rents of the > Crown ; and Cecil so far gave way to his hopes of bet- ter times that he thought of going in person to Dublin and joining Sidney in the settlement of the country. 1 A very short time sufficed to show that the Irish Millennium had not yet arrived. Doctor Lancaster, for one thing, could not venture to take possession of his Cathedral. Notwithstanding the fair speeches of Tiiiogh Lenogh, he had reason to fear that if he ventured be- yond the Pale he would be snatched up and sent to Spain, and he loitered at Dublin like his predecessor Adam Loftus. 2 The peace of the country could not be 1 Cecil to Sidney, July 6 : MSS. Ireland. 2 The Archbishop of Armagh to Elizabeth, November 12, 1568 : MSS. Ibid. Doctor Lancaster being unable to go to his diocese, amused himself apparently with studying medicine. Hearing that Cecil had been suffering from the gout, he sent him the following prescription : ' Take two spaniel whelps of two days old, scald them and cause the entrails to be taken out, but wash them not. Take five ounces of