^{page 202 note 1} Recent work on the Counter-Reformation in Ireland 1600–50 includes the following: Corish, P. J., ‘The reorganisation of the Irish church, 1603–41’ in Proc. Irish Catholic Historical Committee (1957)Google Scholar; Corish, ‘An Irish Counter-Reformation bishop: John Roche’ in Irish Theological Quarterly, xxv. 14–32, 101–23; xxvi. 101–16, 313–30; Corish, ‘Rinuccini's censure of 27 May, 1648’, Ibid., xviii. 322–37; Corish, ‘John Callaghan and the controversies among the Irish in Paris’, Ibid., xxi. 32–50; Corish, ‘The Crisis in Ireland in 1648’, Ibid., xxii. 231–57; Corish, ‘Two contemporary historians of the Confederation’ in Irish Historical Studies, viii. 217–36; J Silke, ‘Primate Peter Lombard and Hugh O'Neill’ and ‘Primate Lombard and James I’ in Irish Theol. Quart., xxii. 15–30, 124–49; see also Coonan, T. L., The Irish Catholic Confederacy and the Puritan Revolution, Dublin 1954Google Scholar; Jennings, B., O.F.M. (ed.), Wadding Papers, Dublin 1953Google Scholar; Fathers, Franciscan, Father Luke Wadding, Dublin 1957.Google Scholar

^{page 202 note 2} Cf. A. Hutton (ed.), The Embassy in Ireland of Rinuccini, 130.

^{page 203 note 1} Wadding Papers, 80–1. He did not get this see.

^{page 203 note 2} Father Luke Wadding, 567. This book contains valuable summaries of episcopal backgrounds, edited by C. Giblin, O.F.M., under the title ‘The Processus Datariae and the appointment of Irish bishops in the seventeenth century’, 508–616.

^{page 203 note 3} Cf. H. Jedin, A History of the Council of Trent, i. 129–30.

^{page 203 note 4} Cf. Silke, op cit.

^{page 204 note 1} Wadding Papers, 121, 125.

^{page 205 note 1} Father Luke Wadding, 529, 533.

^{page 205 note 2} Wadding Papers, 141–3.

^{page 205 note 3} Ibid., 122.

^{page 205 note 4} Ibid., 158.

^{page 205 note 5} Ibid., 177.

^{page 206 note 1} Father Luke Wadding, 554–7.

^{page 206 note 2} Wadding Papers, 440.

^{page 206 note 3} Ibid., 554.

^{page 207 note 1} Wadding Papers, 543.

^{page 207 note 2} Ibid., 614. This was not Thomas Strange's view of Cashel: Ibid., 441.

^{page 207 note 3} Ibid., 557.

^{page 207 note 4} Cf. K. Pickthorn, Early Tudor Government, ii. 112–14.

^{page 207 note 5} Corish, ‘An Irish Counter-Reformation bishop: John Roche’ in Irish Theol. Quart., xxvi. 314–15.

^{page 207 note 6} Wadding Papers, 521, 611–12.

^{page 207 note 7} Ibid., 510–11.

^{page 207 note 8} Ibid., 533.

^{page 207 note 9} Ibid., 557. On the other hand, John Roche of Ferns described Rothe as ‘first for doctrine and devotion among the bishops of this Kingdom’: Moran, Spic. Ossor., i. 190.

^{page 208 note 1} Wadding Papers, 489.

^{page 208 note 2} Annales Minorum xxviii (1633–40), Clara Aqua 1941, 715–16. I am indebted to Fr. Benignus Millett, O.F.M., for this reference.

^{page 208 note 3} Coonan, Catholic Confederacy and Puritan Revolution. C. V. Wedgwood, The King's War, 260–1, 595, refers to ‘the Irish priests’ and ‘the clergy’ without distinction of views.

^{page 209 note 1} The appointment of four new bishops in 1641 to Ardfert, Down and Connor, Clonfert and Leighlin did not change the balance of power within the episcopate as a whole, although it did suggest Propaganda rather than the Holy Office was now dealing with Irish affairs: Giblin, op cit., 564.

^{page 210 note 1} Commentarius Rinuccinianus, i. 527–9. The recusants were described as ‘qui vel intra vel valde prope tenninos factionis adversae rendent et nati sunt’.

^{page 210 note 2} Gilbert, Ir. Confed., iv. 280.

^{page 210 note 3} Ibid., ii. 119.

^{page 210 note 4} Hutton, Embassy, 130.

^{page 210 note 5} Ibid., 274.

^{page 210 note 6} Ibid., 105–7.

^{page 210 note 7} For a list of this group in January 1649, cf. Hynes, The Mission of Rinuccini, 264, n. 4.

^{page 211 note 1} Hutton, Embassy, 141. Later he changed his views, and charged French with duplicity: Ibid., 352.

^{page 211 note 2} Ibid., 131, 193–5.

^{page 211 note 3} Ibid., 106.

^{page 211 note 4} Of the list of 12 names submitted by the Council in December 1645, six were consecrated bishops, and of these, two, Kildare and Cork, supported the nuncio: loc. cit.

^{page 211 note 5} Hutton, Embassy, 402.

^{page 211 note 6} The bishops still maintained external unity as late as 2 May 1648 although dissension was rumoured to exist. For a list of these bishops, cf. Comment. Rinucc, iii. 140.

^{page 211 note 7} Hutton, Embassy, 170.

^{page 211 note 8} Comment. Rinucc., iii. 206–7. Cf. Corish, ‘Rinuccini's censure of 27 May 1648’ in Irish Theol. Quart., xviii. 332–7.

^{page 211 note 9} Coonan, Confederacy, 278. In essentials, Dr. Coonan adopts the outlook of the Aphorismical Discovery, written by a supporter of Owen Roe O'Neill and the Ulster party.