When the King
apostatized, he could not induce Hugh to join in his rebellion or to stain himself by subscribing to
this supremacy.
Wherefore he was deprived first of his
revenues and afterwards of his bishopric.
When the King
could effect nothing by these means, he had Lacy shut up in a noisome prison
in Cork, the filth of which almost caused his death.
When he was
released he returned
to Limerick, to his flock.
As the evil
grew in strength during the last years of Henry’s reign he fled, and went to France.
When Mary
ascended the throne, he was called back by Cardinal Pole, to the great delight of all the diocese, where he tended his flock for many years.
When he was
over sixty years of age, Elizabeth, began to lay waste the vineyard of the
Lord.
Lacy, was again driven from his See, and cast into prison, because he would not take the oath of
Supremacy.
Worn out by these sufferings, he died on
the 26th March, 1577.2
The
date given by Rothe, 1580, is most probably, the correct one, for
Holinshed says, Lacy was upon some suspicions committed prisoner to
his own house in 1579, and
his successor was appointed in 1582.
1
Brady says he was appointed in 1556. Ep. Succ., ii.42
2
The date given by Rothe, 1580, is most probably, the correct one,
for Holinshed says, Lacy was upon some suspicions committed prisoner
to his own house in 1579. Chron., vi. 429 ; and his successor was
appointed in 1582. See Moran’s Archbishops, p. 186