The premises considered, some saith the king's deputy, by extortion, chargeth the king's poor subjects and common folk, in horse meat and man's meat, by estimation, to the value of a hundred pound every day in the year, one day counted with another, which cometh to the sum of 36,000 pounds yearly.--_State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 13. Finglas says that coyne and livery would destroy hell itself, if it was used there.--Finglas's _Breviate_. [297] The wretchedness of the country drove the Irish to emigrate in multitudes. In 1524, twenty thousand of them had settled themselves in Pembrokeshire; and the majority of these had crossed in a single twelvemonth. They brought with them Irish manners, and caused no little trouble. "The king's town of Tenby," wrote a Welsh gentleman to Wolsey, "is almost clean Irish, as well the head men and rulers as the commons of the said town; and of their high and presumptuous minds [they] do disobey all manner the king's process that cometh to them out of the king's exchequer of Pembroke."--R. Gryffith to Cardinal Wolsey: Ellis, first series, Vol. I. p. 191, &c. [298] Leland, Vol. II. p. 110. [299] Campion's _History of Ireland_. Leland, Vol. II. p. 111. [300] Campion. Leland. [301] The earl married Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver St. John, while in London. [302] Report to Cromwell, apparently by Allen, Master of the Rolls: _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 175. [303] Henry VIII. to the Earl of Surrey: _State Papers_, Vol. II. pp. 52, 53. [304] This is one of them, and another of similar import was found to have been sent to O'Neile. "Life and health to O'Carroll, from the Earl of Kildare. There is none Irishman in Ireland that I am better content with than with you; and whenever I come into Ireland, I shall do you good for anything that ye shall do for me; and any displeasure that I have done to you, I shall make you amends therefore, desiring you to keep good peace to Englishmen till an English deputy shall come there; and when an English deputy shall come thither, do your best to make war upon Englishmen then, except such as be toward me, whom you know well yourself."--_State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 45. [305] _State Papers_, Vol. II. p. 62. [306] Surrey to Henry VIII.: _State Papers_, Vol. II. pp. 72-74. [307] Council of Ireland to Wolsey: _State Papers_, Vol. II. pp. 92, 93. [308] Campion says Kildare had a friend in the Duke of Suffolk.--_History of Ireland_, by Edward Campion, p. 161. [309] Act of Attainder of the Earl of Kildare: _Irish Statute Book_, 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 1. An account of this negotiation is to be seen in a paper in the British Museum, Titus, B. xi. fol. 352. [310] Act of Attainder of the Earl of Kildare: Ibid. [311] The elder sisters of the "fair Geraldine" of Lord Surrey.