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Supposedly a desperate Northumberland offered Ireland (as well as Calais) to France in return for immediate military assistance in favor of Jane Grey against Mary in 1553.. (See https://books.google.com/books?id=9H505keQWgYC&pg=PA263 for a skeptical view.)