On her refusal, he retired to Ireland, and died in Dublin, on the 22nd September, 1576. It was rumoured he had died of poison, and that the poison was administered at the desire of the Earl of Leicester, who soon after divorced his own wife, and married the widow of his late rival Essex complained bitterly, in his letter to Sir Henry Sidney, of the way in which he had been treated in his projected plantation of Clannaboy, and protested against the injustice which had been done through him on O'Donnell, MacMahon, and others, who were always peaceable and loyal, but "whom he had, on the pledged word of the Queen, undone with fair promises."
"An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800"
Mary Frances Cusack
Pretended plots were rumoured in all directions, and numbers of innocent persons were executed.
"An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800"
Mary Frances Cusack
It is rumoured that Patrick Henry has been at some rebel tavern in town.
"Cardigan"
Robert W. Chambers