^{page 147 note *} Certain Discourses, &c.; including a Character of the late Bishop Bedell, of Kilmore. By Nicholas Bernard, D.D. and Preacher of the Honourable Society of Grayes Inne, London. (London, 1659.) Dr. Bernard was Dean of Kilraore, but incurring the Bishop's displeasure on account of his holding a number of benefices without being resident on any (Letter of Bedell to Laud dated September 2, 1637, in the Public Record Office), he exchanged, in 1637, with Dr. Henry Jones (afterwards Bishop of Meath) his Deanery of Kilmore for that of Ardagh. Dr. Bernard suffered much in the rebellion, and fled to England.

^{page 148 note *} Certain Discourses, &c, ut supra, page 350.

^{page 148 note †} Memoir, &c. p. 139.

^{page 148 note ‡} See also Decree 11 of the Diocesan Synod: “Ut Sacrarium in Consistorium non conyertatur, &c.” in Chapter IX.

^{page 148 note §} Tanner MS. CCXC. Bodleian Library.

^{page 149 note *} See in preceding chapter Bedell's letter to Land, then Bishop of London.

^{page 149 note †} Another cause of the delay is mentioned at page 30.

^{page 149 note ‡} Bishop Bedell's predecessor in the Sees of Kilmore and Ardagh was Dr. Thomas Moygne, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who had been preferred from the Deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1612.

^{page 149 note §} Public Record Office.

^{page 150 note *} Strafford's Letters and Despatches, vol. i. pp. 146–151; folio, London, 1739.

^{page 150 note †} See “A Breviate of the Life of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury,” Necessary Introduction; and also “Canterburies Doome,” &c. by William Prynne, Esquier, London, 1644 and 1646, folio.

^{page 151 note *} Protestant Non-conformists also (settlers from England and Scotland in Ulster) would appear to have suffered from the extortions of the Courts Ecclesiastical in Ireland, and that even in as great a degree as the Catholics. In a petition to the Commons' House of Parliament in 1641, the Protestant [Non-conformist] inhabitants of the counties of Antrim, Downe, Tyrone, &c. complain that “oure sonles are starved, our estates undone, our families impoverished, and many lives among us cut off and destroyed,” all through the “over-ruling Lordly power ” of the Bishops (of the Establishment) and their subordinates. They also complain of the persecution and exile of their ministers. (See a Pamphlet in 4^e in the Library of the British Museum, to be found in the Catalogue under the name “Antrim.”) Among the Irish State Papers for 1638, in the Public Becord Office, there is “A Catalogue of the Inhabitants dwelling in Antrim the last Easter, with those that did partake of the Communion marked with a starr.” There is another paper, endorsed, “Rec^d. Jan. 22,1638–9. The names of the Inhabitants and Communicants within the parish of Antrim at Christmas, 1638, showing that more Scotts conforme to receive the Communion, as is ordered in the Church of Ireland, than formerly.” Letters to Archbishop Laud, about the Non-conformists in the counties above mentioned, also occur.

^{page 152 note *} In a letter to the Lord Primate, dated Febr. 15, 1629–30, Bishop Bedell expressed himself against the abuse of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in terms identical with those which occur here and there in the letter to Laud under notice.

^{page 153 note *} See text, page 34.

^{page 154 note *} Copy in the Public Record Office.

^{page 155 note *} Mr. Clogie (Memoir, &c. p. 86,) mentions that in 1646 he met Dr. Alane Cooke by chance in London, who spake as reverently of Bishop Bedell as any could do, and said that he thought there had not been such a man upon the face of the earth till he tried him; and that he was too hard for all the civilians in Ireland; and had he not been home down by mere force, he had undoubtedly overthrown all the Consistory Courts by lay Chancellors, and restored to all the Bishops their several jurisdictions. He seemed to me to bemoan the Bishop's death.

^{page 155 note †} Clogie's Memoir, &c. pp. 39, 40.

^{page 156 note *} John Richardson, D.D. of the University of Dublin, Archdeacon of Derry Rector of Ardstra, and Vicar of Granard. In 1639 he received the Archdeaconry of Down and Connor, instead of that of Derry, which he had held since 1622. See Sir James Ware's Antiquities of Ireland, vol. i., The Bishops; and Archdeacon Henry Cotton's Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, vol. iii. pp. 49–52, 183–4, 231, 257, 337; and vol. v. pp. 208–9.

^{page 157 note *} For this again I am obliged to the courtesy of the Rev. Dr. Reeves, of Tynan, whose numerous other contributions are of such a character that without them this work would have been very incomplete.

^{page 159 note *} Tanner MS. Ixxi. 189, in Bodleian Library.

^{page 159 note †} The Vicarage of Granard.

^{page 159 note ‡} See Sir James Ware's “Ireland,” and Archdeacon Henry Cotton's “Fasti,” ut supra, vol. v. p. 231.

^{page 159 note §} Public Kecord Office.

^{page 159 note |} Draft in the Public Record Office. Also Laud's Works, vol. vii. p. 374.