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 1561.] SHAN CPNEtL. December. English good faith. When his terms were made known to Elizabeth's council the propriety of acceding to them was advocated for * certain secret respects ; ' and even Sir William Cecil was not ashamed to say ' that in Shan's absence from Ireland something might be cavilled against him. or his for ncn-observing the covenants on his side ; and so the pact being infringed the matter might be used as should be thought fit.' l The intention of deliberate dishonour was not persisted in. Elizabeth, after some uncer- tainty whether concessions so ignominious could be safely made, wrote to accept them all except the evacu- ation of the cathedral. Making a merit of his desire to please her, Shan said that although for ' the Earl of Sussex he would not mollify one iota of his agreement/ yet he would consent at the request of her Majesty ; 2 and thus at last, with the Earl of Kildare in attendance, a train of galloglasse, a thousand pounds in hand and a second thousand waiting for him in London, the cham- pion of Irish freedom sailed from Dublin and l ^ 2. appeared on the 2nd of January at the Eng- Januai T- lish Court. Not wholly knowing how so strange a being might conduct himself, Cecil, Pembroke, and Bacon received him privately on his arrival at the Lord Keeper's house* They gave him his promised money and endeavoured to impress upon him the enormity of his misdemeanours. Their success in this respect was indifferent. When 1 Cecil to Throgmorton, November 4, 1561 : Ccnway MSS. " Kildare to Cecil, December 3 : flfS. Ibid.