Soon after he had risen from table, an apoplectic stroke deprived him of speech and sensation.

On the fourteenth he breathed his last.

The wasted remains of that form which had once been a model for statuaries were laid under the pavement of the Cathedral; but no inscription, no tradition, preserves the memory of the spot.

[114] As soon as the Lord Lieutenant was no more, Plowden, who had superintended the Irish finances while there were any Irish finances to superintend, produced a commission under the great seal of James.

This commission appointed Plowden himself, Fitton and Nagle, Lords justices in the event of Tyrconnel's death.