Browne made an attempt to evangelise the more distant parts of his archdiocese, and even places outside it. He accompanied some of the Council on a sort of legal circuit through part of Leinster and Munster. The Archbishop, we are told (1539), preached to crowded congregations at the various towns, ” setting forth the word of God and the King’s Supremacy.”

However, Skeffington’s fit of activity was transient, and he  attempted, for the present, nothing more. In July Lord Leonard Grey, who had been appointed Marshal of the Forces, arrived in Ireland.

His arrival at once changed the aspect of affairs. He marched against the rebels, whom he reduced to such straits that his few remaining allies were compelled to desert Kildare, and in August (1535) he himself submitted and was sent a prisoner to England.    Whether his surrender was unconditional or not is somewhat uncertain.

The evidence that terms  of some kind were guaranteed to him, though very strong, is not absolutely conclusive. At anyrate.it was deemed inexpedient to execute him at once, and he was lodged in the Tower.   Here he remained for sixteen months, bare¬footed and shivering in the winter cold, and indebted for even the few rags he wore to the kindness of some fellow captives.