[2] Fighting in France, Drury was taken prisoner in 1544; then after his release, he helped Lord Russell, afterwards Earl of Bedford, to quell a rising in Devonshire in 1549, but he did not come to the front until the reign of Elizabeth I.

[6] In February, he wrote to Cecil that Mary, Queen of Scots, who was held at Lochleven Castle, was "troubled with a disease in her side and a pain in her arm".

[10] Drury heard that trouble on the borders was caused by Dan Carr or Ker of Shilstoke-Bray, who was said to have visited Mary, Queen of Scots, at Carlisle Castle.

[11] Drury went to Scotland with Sir Henry Gates and met Regent Moray in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle on 19 January 1570, and they had a discussion in his bedchamber after dinner.

[18] Regent Morton had argued with Drury, and in June he wrote to Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, asking if she could use her influence to have him sacked from his office at Berwick.

[21] Grange seems to have intended to give some pieces of turquoise jewellery to Drury's wife Lady Thame as a kind of diplomatic gift at Restalrig in 1572.

[22] A year after the Castle fell, a letter came to light, which mentioned the jewels Mary, Queen of Scots, had left behind in Scotland, and that Drury had taken some for a loan of £600.

Both Franciscans insisted that they were not involved in anything except their religious mission, and refused to take the Oath of Supremacy or answer questiond about alleged plans by the Pope and King Philip II of Spain for invading the British Isles.

The two prisoners were first placed on the rack, their arms and feet were beaten with hammers, so that their thigh bones were broken and sharp iron points and needles were cruelly thrust under their nails, which caused an extreme agony of suffering.

For a considerable time they were subjected to these tortures, which the holy confessors bore patiently for the love of Christ, mutually exhorting one another to constancy and perseverance.

[27] According to Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, "When the martyr-prelate was being hurried to execution, he turned to Drury, and warned him that before many days he himself should appear before the tribunal of God to answer for his crimes.

[35] After painstaking investigation by the Catholic Church in Ireland, both Patrick O'Hely and Conn O'Rourke were beatified by Pope John Paul II in September 1992.