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this Craghe remained there to this day, seducing the people CHAP, 

 from the true service of God, and their loyalty to the __ 

 Queen ; giving the world to understand, that he was there 

 without either protection or pardon : that he daily conse 

 crated priests, and used other papistical orders : that by his 

 means the land was filled with iniquity, theft, murder, and 

 rebellion. Moreover, he informed, that there were very many 

 of the inhabitants of that realm, as well in cities and towns, 

 as in the countries, that transported themselves into Spain, 

 and others sent their sons or their next kin thither, to 

 assure the Spaniard the land to be theirs. Then he ad- His advice, 

 vised that it would be necessary to send somebody furnished 

 with sufficient authority to seize upon those seminary priests 

 and their tutors, and to empower some trusty men to exa 

 mine such as sent their sons or kindred to Spain ; and espe 

 cially the Lord of Cahir, who had sent his nephew with let 

 ters to the King of Spain, and to inquire into the numbers 

 and names of those that were gone to seek the invasion of 

 the land. This man offered himself ready to answer any 

 interrogatories concerning the premises that the Council 

 should put to him, and to discourse the same more largely, 

 and to set down the best means, as was possible, to bring the 

 same to pass. He promised to discover many other abuses 

 done there, yet unknown to the Queen and her Council ; so 

 that he were encouraged, as he had been discouraged, as he 

 told the Queen. I take also out of a letter Rowghane wrote 

 to her, that he avouched that several of her chief officers 

 themselves in Ireland were traitors; as Sir John Perrot, the 

 Lord Deputy, Sir Nic. White, Master of the Rolls, and 

 many more. He subscribed himself, Her Majesty s most 

 true, humble, and faitliful subject, D. Rowhane, both Priest 

 and Solicitor to her Highness. 



But how, if, after all this, Rowghan were a Papist . still, But P roves 

 and all he drove at was only to get himself advanced and re- irishman, 

 venged ? for what a right Irishman this fellow was, was evi 

 dent by the examination that was taken of his man, one Ar 

 thur Connock, upon oath before Sir William Rowe, Lord 

 Mayor in November anno 1592 : whence it appeared, that 



