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138 campion's historic CAP. VII. The House of Lancaster, Henry the Fourth, Henry the fift, Henry the sixt. ALEXANDER Bishop of Meth, * Lieutenant of Ireland, under Thomas Lancaster We King's brother, so was also the worshipfull Knight Sir Stephen Scroope, whom for his violence and extortion before used, in the same office under King Richard, the common voyce and out-cry of poore people damned. a This report hearing the Lady his wife, she would in no wise assent to live in his company there, but if he sware a solemne oath on the Bible, that wittingly he should wrong no Christian creature in the land, that duely and truely he should see payment made for all expences, and hereof, she said, she had made a vow to Christ so deliberately, that unlesse it were on his part firmly promised, she could not without perill of her soule goe with him : her husband as- sented, and accomplished her boone effectually, re- covered a good opinion, schooled his Caters, enriched the country, continued a plentifull house, remissions of great fines, remedyes for persons endamaged to the Prince, pardons of lands and lives he granted so charitably and discreetely, that his name was never 1 1329. ' lames Young in precepts of govemement to the Earle of Ormond cap. b,