Note 204 — Chapter XXVIII · FOREIGN INTRIGUES.
Reading edition
According to Froude, vol. x. p. 525, Philip called the Irish ‘salbaxes,’ or savages. Henry Cobham to Burghley, April 27, 1571, in Foreign Calendar. Cardinal Alciati to the Archbishop of Cashel, June 13, 1570, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, i. 64.