Most of the Butlers had training at the English Court, constant visits there, knighthoods and earldoms and wealthy English marriages. But MacRichard Butler was different; captain of his nation; his mother an O'Reilly; his wife an O'Carroll of Ely, he had been the pupil of a great Irish scholar and Prelate O'Hedigan, Archbishop of Cashel, the great builder of repairer of churches, who had been impeached on the charge that he gave no benefice to Englishmen in defiance of the Statue of 1416 which prescribed that no one of Irish birth should hold an ecclesiastical post.43