Note 11 — PREFACE.

“Soon after,” says Campion, “was the house of the Geraldines attaynted by Parliament, and all of the name busily trayned out for feare of new commotions. But Thomas Leurces, late Bishop of Kildare, schoolemaster to a younger brother, Gerald Fitzgerald, the Earle that now liveth, secretly stole away with the childe, first into Scotland, then into France, and misdoubting the French, into Italy; where Cardinall Pole, his neare 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.”