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358: 277:, remarked that he "loved good cheer but too well". Due to his extravagant lifestyle, and the fact that his episcopal see produced little in the way of profit (the Queen had forbidden him to hold any other living in plurality), he accumulated very heavy debts, including one of £1000 to the Crown. At one point he was accused of resorting to 281:
to supplement his income. His widow Anne petitioned Fitzwilliam for redress for herself and her children, complaining that her husband's goods had been seized by the Crown to satisfy Longe's debts, despite his being "a good and faithful counsellor at this Board (i.e. the Irish Privy Council)".
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Although Fitzwilliam evidently did not share this high opinion of the Archbishop's services to the Crown, Anne's petition was granted, and the debt, despite its size, was written off.
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and holding many livings in England, he was promoted, from what was described as "a position of utter obscurity", to the
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was vetoed by the Queen personally: she pointed out that by his own account, the vast majority of the population was
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He was born in London; little seems to be known of his parents or his family background. He was educated at
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in 1585 (the delay was apparently due to the Queen's low opinion of him). He died at
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in the whole country. A plan to strictly enforce the laws against
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and primacy of all Ireland in July 1584, on the nomination of
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John Longe (priest)
Archbishop of Armagh
Primate of All Ireland
Church of Ireland
Armagh
Thomas Lancaster
John Garvey
Drogheda
Kingdom of Ireland
English
Anglican
Church of Ireland
archbishop of Armagh
Eton College
King's Scholar
King's College, Cambridge
holy orders
see of Armagh
Sir John Perrot
Lord Deputy of Ireland
Elizabeth I
Church of Ireland
Protestants
recusants
Roman Catholic
Edmund Spenser
Lodowick Bryskett
The Faerie Queene
Irish Privy Council
Drogheda

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