Sidney, aggrieved by the slight appreciation of his statesmanship shown by the queen, in 1571 leaves Ireland.

Campion had been transferred by Stanihurst's arrangement to the house of Patrick Barnewall at Turvey in the Pale, which he acknowledges had saved him from arrest and torture by the Protestant party at Dublin.

For some three months he has eluded his pursuers, going by the name Mr. Patrick and occupying himself by writing a history of Ireland (first published in Holinshed's Chronicles).

Campion also leaves Ireland in 1571, in secret, and escapes to Douai in the Low Countries (now France).