Although he still managed formally to shire the province in the summer and autumn of 1585, his plan to establish a presidential government and complete the integration of Ulster into English Ireland met with royal indifference.

My husband spent the next day inside the plane, cutting out an unused gasoline tank, piece by piece, with tin snips.

It was a housewife, containing needles, a bodkin, and thread; ‘and, do you know,’ added he, ‘it was the most useful thing she could have given me, for it lasted all the time I was at Rome to mend my clothes with […] .’

He believes it better to camisole a patient than to seclude him.