Matthew Sheyn Explained
Matthew Sheyn, a graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge,[1] was Bishop of Cork and Cloyne[2] from 1572 until his death 13 June 1582.[3]
In popular culture
- Around 1577, a caustic satire against Irish Anglican bishops Miler Magrath, Matthew Sheyn, William Casey, and a fourth bishop no longer recognizable, was composed as Irish bardic poetry by the Franciscan priest-poet Friar Eoghan Ó Dubhthaigh (Owen O'Duffy). In the poem, which begins, Léig dod chomortus dúinn ("No more of your companions for us"), the bishops are skewered for having renounced veneration of the Blessed Virgin in return for earthly wives, whom Friar O'Duffy then compares in a very unflattering way to the Mother of Jesus Christ.[4]
Further reading
- Eoghan O'Duffy, tr. by John O'Daly (1864), The Apostasy of Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, Cashel, County Tipperary.
Notes and References
- [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]
- "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. pp 222/3 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . Third . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 345.
- [Vivian Mercier]
