appointed Ormonde Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with Bathe as his Deputy. However York was still very powerful in Ireland and Bathe's appointment never took effect.

York summoned the Irish Parliament at Drogheda in 1460: this Parliament ordered "Thomas Bathe" - referred to ominously as the "pretended Lord Louth" - to appear and answer numerous charges, of which the most serious was his alleged torture of Dr Stackpole