The Life of Arthur Chichester

Arthur chichester was made lord deputy of ireland in 16 o, five after the end of the war. He would continue in that role all the way through to 16 16. Chichester was deeply anti catholic but his primary objection was political rather than theological. For this reason, he would make life hard for recusant catholics. And however he might want to become a builder and a planter, he could also be brutal. On one occasion, for example, he persuaded an old english catholic to walk with him to the protestant church. But when the man refused to actually go into the church chichester hid him over the head and dragged him inside