When Parliament met, two drafts of the Act for “the well-disposing” of Leinster lands were “lost.” The loss or embezzlement was perhaps contrived with the hope of resisting any third Act that might arrive after the session had opened, as contrary to Poyning’s Law. If so, the hope was vain. An Act was prepared to explain “how Poyning’s Act was to be exponed and taken,” and to enact that since events might happen, (as for example the loss of unwelcome drafts) during the time of Parliament necessary to be provided for, which at the time of the summoning of Parliament were not thought or agreed upon, therefore the Irish Government might send over considerations and causes for new ordinances, and that these being returned under the Great Seal of England might be enacted, notwithstanding Poyning’s Act. A third draft was sent over, and the Act of Confiscation passed—the first of the Great Plantations. That sinister measure, “An exposition of Poyning’s Act,” was again prepared for Elizabeth’s Parliament of 1560, which was called to declare the Queen’s Title and her Supremacy over the Church. But the Houses disappeared before it was brought in: “The Lord-Deputy is said to have used force, and the speaker treachery.... I heard,” said Dr. Lynch, “that it had been previously announced in the House that Parliament would not sit on that very day on which the laws against religion were enacted; but, in the meantime, a private summons was sent to those who were well known to be favourable to the new creed ... the few members present assented, and the speaker won for himself the name of being the chief author of the laws enacted against the Catholic religion.” The Deputy Sussex sought to calm the rage of the Parliament by pledging himself solemnly that the Statute of Uniformity should not be enforced during Elizabeth’s reign. So violent was the opposition of lords and chieftains to “the laws against religion,” that Sussex, it was said, prorogued Parliament and went to England to consult the Queen. Thus it ended after nineteen days. After this experience: “We have small disposition to assent to any Parliament,” wrote Elizabeth to the Deputy in 1566. “Nevertheless, when we call to remembrance the ancient manner of that our Realm, that no manner of thing there ought to be commented or treated upon, but such as we shall first understand from you, and consent thereunto ourself, and consequently return the same under our great seal of this our Realm of England; we are the better minded to assent to this your request.”