Note 71 — Chapter XXI · 1561 TO 1564.
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Shane O’Neill to Cusack, Sept. 10, 1563—‘Per potionem vini in quo clam venenum, &c.’ Memorial for Cusack, Oct. 20, 1563; for Wroth and Arnold, same date. Cusack to Cecil, March 22, 1564. There was an apothecary named Thomas Smythe in Dublin about this time, and he was probably a relation of John, and may have got the poison for him. The would-be assassin was afterwards known as ‘Bottle Smythe;’ see Irish Archæological Journal, N.S., vol. i. p. 99.