146 campion's historie son George, Duke of Clarence, afterwards drowned in a butt of Malmsey : his god fathers at the front were the Earles of Ormond and Desmond. r Whether the commotion of Iacke Cade an Irish- man borne, naming liimselfeiJ/brltmer, and so clayming cousinage to diverse noble houses, proceeded from this crew, it is uncertaine : s surely the Duke was thereof vehemently mistrusted, & immediately began his tu- mults, which because our English histories discourse at large, I omit as impertinent. Those broyles being couched for a time, Richard held himselfe in Ireland, being lately by Parliament ordained Protector of the Realme of England, leaving his agent in the Court his brother the Earle of Salis- bury 1 Lord Chauncellour, to whom he declared by letters, the trouble then toward in Ireland, which letter exemplified by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy, a great searcher and preserver of Antiquities, as it came to my hands, I thinke it convenient here to set downe. To the right worshipfull and with all my heart entirely beloved brother, the Earle of Shrewesbury . Right worshipfull and with all my heart entirely beloved Brother, I commend mee unto you as heartily as I can. r Records of Christ church. * 1450. Io. Ma. L 6. c. 16.
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