Difficultés rencontrées par le primat d'Irlande, Oliver Plunket, avec les franciscains (extrait d'une lettre écrite en 1680)

I am consoled by hearing of the calumnies of an apostate [Franciscan] friar, Anthony Daly, dimidium animae of Father Phelim O'Neill. This Father Anthony sought to take away my life here, instigating the tories to kill me. They came at midnight about six years ago to the house of my vicar-general, where I then was. They broke open the doors and took away all the money from myself and my vicar-general, and my secretary, Michael Plunket, who is now in Rome, and they held a sword to my throat. The chief of this band was afterwards taken and bafore death declared in prison to the parihs priest of Armagh and to his curate, that Father Anthony told him to kill me and that afterwards he woulf give him absolution. The curate, Patrick O'Donnelly, is now in Paris and before embarking swore this in the presence of the Bishop of Clogher. I have in my possession a letter written by the same Anthony in which he says: “If God tried to injure the Franciscan order, I would rise up against God” [...]. I suspended him from preaching and hearing the confessions of the laity [...]. He nevertheless continued to preach and to hear confessions sacrilegiously.