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matter made playne & owt of all questyon the jury notwithstandynge 

 in no wyse would be brought to fynd for the kynge, wher uppon the 

 L deputy was dryven to impanell a new jury of the most choycest 

 men that wer in the shyre, who uppon ther booke & othes gave the 

 kynge hys ryght. 



Ils^TO WHAT ftuMPTYON THE PAPYSTES 

 IN IeELAND are NOW GEOWNE UNTO. 



That it myght please you ho' to undrestand a trwth into what 

 p^sumptyon the papystes of Irelande are now lately growne unto, I 

 besech you to pdon me the settynge downe of two or thre p^sydentes 

 concernynge that matter. 



not longe sythens wythin two myles of Dublyne u dead corps 

 beynge brought to be buryed, the mynyster of the parysh p^sentynge 

 hym self to do hys duty acordyng to the p^scryptyon of hys mat's lawes 

 was not onely wythstode but was lykwyse so beaten & brused that it 

 had lyke to haue cost hym hys lyfe, and a popysh pryst brought in 

 that buryed the corps acordyng to the popysh ma3. The very lyke 

 was offered in the towne of Waxforde wher the mynyster was beaten 

 that he kept hys bed many monethes after. And now very lately a 

 mynyster at Waterford comynge to churche to haue plched was ther 

 assaulted & so beaten that he kept hys bed a long tyme after, very 

 hardly recoverynge hys lyfe. 



I myght speake of many other lyke pranckes that haue byne 

 played in diuse ptes of Irelande, but lettynge them passe, I wyll com 

 to Dublyne it self, wher not long sythens a dead corps was caryed 

 to the buryall wyth a crosse borne openly through the streates before 

 it, and where it is well knowne they haue masses eury sunday throug 

 owte the wholl yeare, wher they wyll threaten hym that doth but 

 offer to fynd fault at yt, and wher notwythstandynge the late 

 proclamatyon set forth by hys ma^i for the avoydance of prystesJ 

 they are styll reteyned & the proclamatyon scoffed at 



Who they be that doth upp hould prysti-s 

 And doth so countenance popery in Irelande. 



The pryncypall pyllers that doth enterteyne prystes & gyvet] 

 support & countenance to popery in Ireland are thos whos names 

 after f olowe ■! 



