Kildare had now no choice but between obedience and open rebellion. Before embarking at Drogheda he delivered the sword to his eldest son in the presence of several members of Council. Thomas Lord Offaly, better known as Lord Thomas and Silken Thomas, was about twenty years old, and his father advised him to be guided in all things by his uncle, Sir James Fitzgerald; his cousin, Sir Thomas Eustace; his great-aunt, Lady Janet Eustace, and her husband and son, Walter and James Delahide. It is impossible to pronounce on the genuineness of the speech which the chronicler puts into Kildare's mouth, but the advice contained in it would have been well suited to the occasion. He told his son that his youth should be guided by age; his ignorance by experience. He was, he said, putting a naked sword into a young man's hand, and urged him to defer to the Council, 'for albeit in authority you rule them, yet in counsel they must rule you.'[125] FOOTNOTES: [76] See his patent of Nov. 8, 1510. Council of Ireland to the King, June 8, 1509, in _Brewer_; _Four Masters_; _Annals of Lough Cé_. [77] _Earls of Kildare_, p. 69; Ware; _Four Masters_. Kildare died Sept. 3, 1513. [78] See the grant in _Brewer_, Dec. 2, 1513, and again, March 24, 1516. [79] Kildare to the King, Dec. 1, and Archbishop Rokeby to Wolsey, Dec. 12, 1515, both in _Brewer_. [80] _Four Masters_, 1516. [81] _Ibid._ [82] Kite to Wolsey, May 1 and June 7, 1514, R.O.; Lady Kildare's _Articles of Complaint_, 1515, R.O.; Ware's _Annals_. [83] The tract by Finglas is in _Carew_, under 1515. [84] For further details of Irish exactions see Ware's _Antiquities_, and _Presentments of Irish Grand Juries in the Sixteenth Century_, ed. Hore and Graves, p. 266, _sqq._ Articles by Sir William Darcy, June 24, 1515, in _Carew_. [85] The paper printed by Leland, ii. 132, contains only Donogh O'Carroll's recollections. Surrey to Wolsey, September 6, 1520. [86] The Lord-Lieutenant and Council to the King, August 25; Surrey to Wolsey, August 27; Surrey to the King, July 29, 1521. [87] The Lord-Lieutenant and Council to the King, October 6; Surrey to Wolsey, November 3; Surrey to Wolsey, April 27, 1521. [88] The King to Surrey, No. 12 of the printed State Papers; the King to an Irishman, No. 14 of the same; Instructions for Sir John Petchie, No. 18 of the same. [89] Surrey to the King, July 31, 1521. [90] Stile to Wolsey, July 30, 1571; Surrey to the King, July 29 and September 14; Ware. [91] The King to Surrey, May 1520; Surrey to Wolsey, September 6 and 25; the King to Surrey, S.P. No. 12; Surrey to Wolsey, November 3; Surrey to the King, September 14, 1521. [92] _Irish Statutes_, 13 Henry VIII. [93] The Lord-Lieutenant and Council to the King, August 25, 1520. The King to Surrey, Nos. 12 and 19 in the printed S.P. [94] Surrey to the King, September 16, 1521; to Pace, December 2. The latter letter was written in bed. Surrey to Wolsey, August 2 and November 3, 1520.