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liness of their relations with the recusant priests at home and with the Romanists abroad. While digesting the heavy meal they were contented to be at rest—and in a general interchange of cordialities and courtesies the late confederates, who had sworn to drive the English from the country, conferred on Henry the title of King of Ireland. Henry in return distributed peerages on those who had most deserved them by persevering hostility; while the amity was completed by the appearance of Donough O'Brien, Morrough O'Brien, and Ulick Bourke, to partake of the splendid hospitalities of Greenwich, and to receive their investitures respectively as Baron of Ibrachain and Earls of Thomond and Clanrickard.[1]
- ↑ State Papers, vol. iii. p. 473. For the suppression of the religious houses and the distribution of the lands, see Irish Statutes, 32 Henry VIII. cap. 5; and State Papers, vol. iii. pp. 295–6, 334, 339, 392, 463–5. 474.
