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Castle near Dublin, but his hiding place was betrayed. Lord Thomas arrived before the house in hot pursuit of him. The
Archbishop was dragged out in his shirt, and, falling on his knees, begged for mercy. Archbishop Alen was killed by two retainers of "Silken Thomas" Fitzgerald, John Teeling and
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to "take this fellow away" as a command to murder him. Lord Thomas subsequently insisted that he meant only that the
Archbishop should be removed to custody. He afterwards sent his chaplain to Rome to obtain absolution for him from the excommunication incurred by this murder.
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Nicholas Wafer, at Artane Castle, on 28 July 1534. Whether Silken Thomas actually ordered the killing or not remains a subject of dispute: there is a well-known tradition that
Teeling and Wafer misunderstood his command in
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Chancellorship. For a short time until Wolsey's downfall, Alen was a dominant figure in the Irish administration, forming one of an "inner council of three" on the
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Kildare (the FitzGeralds), whose chief, Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, had been imprisoned by Wolsey in the
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declared invalid without her knowledge. In the summer of the same year he accompanied the cardinal on his mission to France, and finally (August 1528) was rewarded with the archepiscopal see of Dublin.
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Anglican archdiocese of Dublin are still preserved two important registers made by his order, the
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says of Alen that "he was of a turbulent spirit, but a man of hospitality and learning, and a diligent inquirer into antiquities".
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De consuetudinibus ac statutis in tutoriis causis observandis.
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