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180 campion's historie Dorset, Lord Marshall. To whom Fitz Gerald yeelded, and was sent into England, where hee with his Vncles, and other principalis of the conspiracy, were afterwards drawne, hanged and quartered at Tiburne. Soone after was the house of the Geraldines attaynted by Parliament, and all of the name busily trayned out for feare of new commotions. But Thomas Leurus, late Bishop of Kildare, schoole -master to a younger brother, Gerald Fitz Gerald, the Earle that now liveth, secretly stale away with the childe, first into Scotland, then into France, and misdoubting the French, into Italy, where Cardinall Pole his neere kinsman preserved him, till the raigne of Edward the sixt, with whom hee entred into high favour, and obtayned of him his olde inheritance of Meinothe. Lastly, by meanes of the said Cardinall, and Sir Anthony Browne, Lord Mountague, whose sister hee marryed (a woman worthy of such a brother) Queene Mary (Founder and restorer of many noble houses) repealed his attainder, and set him in his fathers Earledome, wherein since that time he hath shewed himselfe sundry wayes officious and serviceable towards his Common-wealth, and the Crowne of England, beside other good qualities of honour and curtesie, they repute him heere for the best horseman in these parts of Christendome. With this escape of yong Fitz Gerald, the Lord Leonard Gray his Vncle on the mothers side was held suspect, & the same was