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CHAP. &quot; the punishment.&quot; Thus he expostuled and argued in his 

 IX - letter dated May 13. 



Delivered of But notwithstanding all this endeavour, the Bishop could 

 him at last. not ^ ^ Q f ^is guest : for I find he was with him in 

 June. And when he was to be removed to Fulham, where 

 the Bishop now was, he would not by any means go thither : 

 of which he wrote to the Lord Treasurer in a second letter. 

 Here Sir Denys s business now was, in preparing pistols, 

 and swords in walking staves, and other weapons, whereby 

 the Bishop shewed the said Lord that his men and himself 

 were driven to some suspicion that he minded some mis 

 chief to somebody: that therefore none of his men dared 

 tarry about him, nor he [the Bishop himself] go into his 

 house, but by some back way. He acknowledged, &quot; it was 

 &quot; an honourable meaning to seek to help this man, but 

 &quot; what it would be in the eye of the world, and in the 

 &quot; chronicle to our posterity, to reward an accuser, that he 

 &quot; left to his Lordship s wisdom to judge.&quot;&quot; But at length 

 he was relieved : for I find Rowghan at Kingston in the 

 month of November, and at liberty. 



Who this Perhaps we shall be desirous to know who this Irishman 

 irishman was ^ an( j wna t his business here in England. Take this 

 account of both. He had been a Romish Priest, but now 

 professed himself a most faithful subject of the Queen, and 

 acknowledged her supremacy, made a shew of the Protestant 

 religion, and was married. And being formerly among the 

 Queen s enemies in Ireland, was privy to all their traitorous 

 purposes and doings; and upon some disgust taken, had 

 left them, and come into England, to accuse them and dis 

 cover their practices, and withal hoped by this means 

 to get himself advanced. And coming over in the year 

 1591, he exhibited a note to the Council of the special and 

 His inform- chief mischiefs in Ireland. And his informations he re- 

 Jncii peated several times to the Council, who it seems were not 

 very fond of him. The sum of which was, that there was 

 one Dr. Craghe in Ireland, who came thither in company 

 with Dr. Saunders from beyond sea, with a number of 

 Spaniards, to the arch-traitor the Earl of Desmond : that 



