[125] Norris to Burghley, Oct. 16, 1584. See also (in Russell and Prendergast's Calendar) Sir John Davies to Salisbury, July 1, 1607, and Aug. 5, 1608, and the second conference about the Plantation, Jan. 12, 1610; and J. C. Beresford's report in the _Concise View of the Irish Society_, p. ccxxii. In the Irish _Archæological Journal_, vol. i. p. 477, Ormonde's contemporary panegyrist, who is an unconscious satirist, says:
Twice he set Glenconkein on fire, This wealthy and tender-hearted chieftain; He left no herds around Lough Neagh, This seer so provident and bountiful.
According to O'Donovan (_Four Masters_, 1526) Glenconkein originally composed the parishes of Ballinascreen, Desertmartin, and Kilcronaghan.
[126] Sir J. Cusack to Cecil, Feb. 2, 1564; Memorial for Perrott in _Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica_; Fenton to Burghley, Jan. 31, 1584; Petition to the Judges, Feb. 16; Perrott to Walsingham, Aug. 21; and to Burghley, Oct. 22.
[127] Loftus to Walsingham, Oct. 4, 1584; and March 21, 1585; to Burghley, March 18, 1585; Petition of the prebendaries (with enclosures), Dec. 1584. See also Ware's _Bishops_, arts. 'Jones' and 'Loftus,' and Cotton's _Fasti_. Writing to Burghley, Jan 10, 1585, Loftus says the only great abuse was the non-residence of prebendaries, some of them by her Majesty's express command, and he proposes to remedy this by calling on them to reside, or resign. Bancroft was one of these privileged absentees. For Swift's remark see Monck Mason's _Hist. of St. Patrick's_, book ii. chap. iii. sec. 8, where another disgraceful lease made by Jones is also mentioned. Loftus was an accomplice in this later case.
[128] Burghley to Perrott, Nov. 6, 1584; Loftus to Burghley, June 7 and 11, 1585. Writing to Burghley on the previous 10th of Jan., Loftus says Fenton had dealt earnestly for the overthrow of St. Patrick's. 'After all,' says Monck Mason, 'the opposition made by Loftus must be considered as quite reasonable. Had the scheme taken effect there would scarcely have remained a single benefice in the gift of the Archbishop; the Crown presented to all the dignities in the other cathedral, and the Chapter to all the prebends.'--_Hist. of St. Patrick's_, book i. ch. 14.