Complex sentence: His wife escaped from Cork a few days later, supposedly on his instructions, and he was examined by the privy council in March, when he denied all complicity in the continental intrigues of the English Catholic, Sir William Stanley.
Split into simpler sentences: His wife escaped from Cork a few days later, probably on his instructions. He was examined by the privy council in March and denied all complicity in the continental intrigues of the English Catholic, Sir William Stanley.