Deputy. He was also receiver of the manors of Chapelizod and Leixlip, which were the property of the Knights Hospitallers, until 1455. Wars of the Roses In the late 1450s the Wars of the Roses, the dynastic conflict between the rival branches of the Plantagenet dynasty, spread to Ireland, where Richard of York, the Yorkist claimant to the Crown of England, found his strongest support. The ruling House of Lancaster was supported by James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormonde, with whom Bathe was closely allied. The English Parliament of 1459, popularly known as the Parliament of Devils, 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 in 1449. Understandably Bathe did not choose to appear. He was outlawed and deprived of his estates, although it seems that he was able to have a portion of them regranted to his son John Bathe of Ardee. It was explicitly stated in the verdict of Parliament that Bathe "shall never have place in the Parliament of this land or hold any office under the King's grant". Later years Despite the triumph of the Yorkist cause in 1461, Bathe's disgrace was not permanent: York's son, the new King Edward IV, where possible followed a policy of reconciliation with his former enemies. Bathe's estates were restored to him in 1472 and even his much-disputed title of Baron Louth was acknowledged: in 1468 he used the title when witnessing a royal grant of murage (the right to levy a toll for the upkeep of the town walls) to the town of Drogheda, and a statute of 1476 appoints Thomas Bathe "Lord and Baron of Louth" as one of the commissioners to fix the boundaries of County Louth. He was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1473 and held office until 1478 when he apparently died. He had at least one son, John Bathe of Ardee, but the title Baron Louth seems to have lapsed on his death. It was recreated for the Plunkett family in 1541. He also had cousins, including presumably the John Bathe who