SANS CHANGIER

THE REDUCTION OF IRELAND To the CROWN of ENGLAND. With the GOVERNOURS since the Conquest by King HENRY II. Anno MCLXXII. With some Passages in their Government. A Brief Account of the Rebellion Anno Dom. MDCXLI. Also, The Original of the Universitie of DUBLIN, And the COLLEDGE of Physicians.

Salust. Bell. Jugurth.
Imagines majorum ad Virtutem accendunt.

LONDON, Printed by Andr. Clarke, for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1675.

To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Derby, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties Palatines of Cheshire and Lancashire, Chamberlain of CHESTER' And Lord of MAN and the Isles.

MY LORD,

SInce I had the Ho­nor to know your Lordship I have not been in Pain to Whom I should Dedi­cate this Treatise, no Per­son being more Eminent to [Page] Whom I might with less so­licitation, or more Huma­nity approach than to your Lordship, Who hath that Felicity in your Nature as not to make Retiredness One of the Essentials of your Greatness, but being clothed with Virtue dare own her Natives as Allies and Acquaintance.

Hence I have presumed to Entrust (under your Au­spicious Name) These e­minent Persons to Posteri­ty, that They (being war­med by your Aspect) may survive the Assaults and In­juries of Time and Oblivion.

[Page]Nor will it be otherwise than Justice in You to own Them; for besides their Heroickness and Vertue, ( Qualities inherent to the Birth) the Catalogue affords some from whose Loins you are immediately descen­ded, so as in your own Per­son to fulfil what They were but Types and Shadows of.

Besides the Interest of England much appears in the series of this Discourse; and I know none to whom it is dearer, or more entire than your self, having made Religion and Allegiance the Pillars of your Family, [Page] though your Repose keeps you from the Fume as the Envy of the Court.

But that I may not wan­der from the great Motive, I must yet say my Obliga­tions to your Lordship, en­joins this Address, that a­mongst those Testimonies which the grateful pay, This may remain an ac­knowledgment of his De­voir, who is

My Lord
Your Lordships most obliged devoted humble Servant. Ed. Borlase.

To the Right Honourable DOROTHEA-HELLENA de Ruppaw COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DERBY.

MADAM,

SOme years since ca­sting my Eye on a Catalogue of the Ministers of State, I thought it a defect in History, that such Persons as had imme­diately born the Supream [Page] Office under their Sove­raign, as the Governours of Ireland (than whom none comes in State and Dignitie, nearer the Confines of Ma­jesty) should want their just Register, imperfect ones (a­dulterated with other cir­cumstances) I have seen ma­ny. And there upon (though conscious of much Tenuity) I applied my leisure to re­duce their Succession to the present Age. But not be­ing satisfied with my endea­vours (no more than with the late crude Efforts of others in this kind) I suspended the Work till MDCLXXII. [Page] that the excellent Charles Earl of Derby (your illu­strious Lord) vouchsafed his Mecoenacie, on which I re­sumed strength. But He being (that Year) unseasona­bly hewed down by many complicate distempers (bet­ter born than evicted) I languished in the Combate, yet (after some pause) ha­ving nothing to offer at his Shrine (to whom so much is due) but what (before his death) was the oblation, I thought it ingratitude to withdraw it, whilest I might presume on your counte­nance, ever ready to secure [Page] his Indulgence and extend Yours, though after all [...] fear I have, with most Pain­ters drawn an excellent face to its disadvantage, the work being much maimed of what I intended, some things in this Age being not safe to think of, much less to publish. However (having traced the Succession of the Empire to the present) I know not (on the score of having designed it for my Lord) whom to entitle it more proper to, than to your self (his Relique) de­scended from a Noble Pro­genie, clear in its Original, more by its sufferings in a [Page] Cause the State and Su­pream Council of this Kingdom once owned with all imaginable Zeal, it being thought Infidelity and Cru­elty, yea Improvidence and folly not to succour it: and therefore you are the like­lier, by a Sympathy, to coun­tenance those, who, by a se­ries of Troubles, have wa­ded through the Affronts of an unsetled and subtle Na­tion, at whose Helm many of my Lords Ancestors have long sate. As also those, and their Ancestors too, with whom your illustrious Son hath contracted the nearest [Page] and most honourable Alli­ance: so as this leads you to their Merits, whose Effi­gies you have often reveren­ced in your Gallery, than which I had nothing more solemn to offer, though this intrusion summons all your Vertues to absolve

Madam,
Your Ladyships most obliged humble Servant Ed. Borlase.

TO THE READER.

REader I have in this Treatise (of the Gover­nours of Ireland) en­deavoured to bring down their Succession to this pre­sent year, that you may see through how many Channels the ticklish Government of that Kingdom hath passed since the first Conquest of it by Henry II. more then five hundred years: In a less Circuit than which, the greatest Monarchs have felt a Change; so that if a circumstance about a Name, the Title of a Person, the Day of his Admittance, or the Year (in such [Page] variety of Alterations as that poor Kingdom hath suffered) be mi­stook, the Errour may easily be excused. And yet my diligence (to avoid these exceptions) hath been such, that I have not omitted the best Counsel I could consult with, ransacking the known and most approved Authors, though I have not always Quoted them, conceiving that the distinguish­ing of their sense by the change of Characters, the naming them a little before, or the mentioning at first on what Subject this or that man writ tacitely implies where the Proof may be had, accounting nothing more disingenious than not to own whence the Treasure hath been digged. Wherein my Task (indeed) might have been much facilitated, would such (as long since promised an account [Page] of the Progress of the whole Warr of Ireland) have contributed a Record to the Building. But they (having passed over their time) bury their Talent. And had I (hereupon) desisted, I might hap­pily have consulted more my own Quietness, nothing (of this nature) being ever exposed without Cen­sure or Misapprehension sufficient to deterr me: but so Hippolitus his scattered Pieces may be col­lected, I shall hope some more fortunate Genius may hereafter infuse a life worthy their Merits and Vertue.

Where the Chronicles and pri­vate Records failed me, the Irish Statutes (in part) supplied the Defect; yet so as they onely na­med such as have been Governours under which Parliaments were holden, never reciting those to [Page] whom (at other times) the Impe­rial Ensigns were committed; nor do they record the Date of their Inauguration or Removal of those they mention. Yet the Irish Sta­tutes (as to many circumstances) afford much light, and I have not omitted their Testimony, Records of Parliament being the best History; and though some of them are exo­luted in respect of the time for which they were calculated, yet the Judicious may (as the Lord In his Dedica­tory Epistle before the Statutes of Ireland. Bolton truly observes) Histori­cally discern both the State of the Church and Common-wealth therein: In as much as few Presi­dents of a well Modelled and ex­cellent Government can be found more rational and advantagious to the Natives, or less partial (allow­ing the soverainty of England here­tofore somewhat jealous of a Con­quered [Page] People) than those Laws are in their Constitution and San­ctity, whereby the English as well as the Irish, the Lord as the Kern is amesnable to the Law, and may be punished for any offence what­soever by the ordinary course of Common Justice.

All that I aim at herein, is to make good the Title which (in re­spect of the Governours, who bear the Image of their Master, and e­very true English mans Interest in the Conquest) deserves not less Registring than the Chancellors, Bishops, Judges, Sheriffs, and other Officers of England, of which there are particular Catalogues generally well accepted.

Some I confess (as Geraldus Cambrensis, Hoved. Mat. Par. Wal­singham, Holinshead, Hanmer, Cam­pion, and others) have, as their [Page] matter lay made an Essay at this Work. So, Reverend Camden cre­diting the Lord William Howard of Nayworths MS. too easily, hath attempted the same in his Annals of Ireland; yet so scatteringly and confused, as if it were no great concern whether it were reduced ad Ʋmbilicum. How­ever I must own these in many things, though a direct series of the Governours was never in a Body traced to the Present till now. Nor did those (who aimed at this Work) ere touch on the Families from whence they came, or (excepting a few) take notice of their Decease. In which cir­cumstances I have been a little curious, though the length of time since the Conquest, the unacquain­tedness with some Families lost in their Original, or confused in [Page] their Branches; and the back­wardness of others (as if there were an obligation in it to inform one) hath made me less certain than otherwise I would have been: though generally most of these pass not without some Remark, which I rather offer than impose.

And here I cannot well pass by this Epithite Chief, which some accustomarily annex to the Go­vernours of Ireland, if Justices or Justice, as if it were an honoura­ble or necessary distinguishment of them from others usually so called; whereas Chief is properly applied to the Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, the Common Pleas, or to the Chief Baron of the Exche­quer, (others of the same Ranke being in competition with their Power) but not to these, they be­ing Justices or Justice not onely in [Page] the Concreet but Abstract. So Philip Basset was said to be Ju­stitia Angliae. In whom the Sove­raign Power (for the time) is lodged, without need of additio­nal Epithites to amplifie or dis­criminate their Title. In pursu­ance of which all Letters or Writs are directed to them from the King, Justiciariis nostris, vel Justiciario suo Hiberniae. And in that Act the 33 of Hen. VIII. which Authorizes the State of Ireland (at the Avoi­dance or Death of the Kings Go­vernour there) to chuse an other in his room, it is Enacted that they shall elect a Justice, but speaks nothing that he should be stiled Chief Justice, the superlativeness of his Power being in the Title Justice.

The vicissitude of Governours hath been observed (by some) to [Page] be exceeding prejudicial to the Publick; private Respects of­ten introducing notable change in the State, according to their In­terests (who governed) not the Publicks, Diversi Imperatoribus C. Vel. Patere. p. 11. mores, Diversa fuêre studia. Some­times to the Degenerating of the Old English into the Irish Customs through their negligence and in­dulgence. Othertimes to the alie­nating of the Irish by their severi­ty, from the benefit of a well tem­pered and orderly Government; both equally destructive to the Princes service: And yet too long a Residence (in so eminent a Place) may over-heat a great spirit, if not bounded with excel­lent Principles. Whence the Ro­mans (those great Masters of Go­vernment) rarely admitted their Vicegerents to brood on a Pro­vince, [Page] that their continuance there might not create Self-Inte­rest.

The longest time any continued in this Government (how honou­rable soever) was never made up with happiness suitable to the an­xiety of their Mind and Body. Sir Henry Sidney (who left as clear a Fame as any man that enjoyed the place) parted with it with the words of the Psalmist, When Israel came out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from a People of a strange language, Judah was his Sanctuary and Israel his Dominion; intima­ting how little satisfaction could be took in so slippery a Place a­mongst such a People whose Lan­guage he knew not, and such va­riety of Interests, though the most (who have miscarried there) have fallen through other mens In­terests [Page] rather than their own fai­ling.

What touches on the Person or Government of any, is not writ as a History of their Times (this Work was no such attempt) onely as a brief and honourable mention of such as deserve the fairest Chara­cter. What is more, being rather to difference this from a meer Catalogue, than to engage any in a History.

As to the late Insurrection in Ireland (touching which in the first Sessions of Parliament after it brake forth there was hot disputes whe­ther it should be termed a Rebel­lion, or qualified more mildly, such Catilines were within the House) I have revived nothing in Reproach, no, I wish the In­humanity of that Age may be for­got, as well as pardoned, though [Page] such as have had a deliverance thence, and have the least sense (of what the Protestants and Bri­tish suffered in that sad and mise­rable time) cannot stifle their si­lence without Passion, since some bold Pens have avowed that there were not above xvij. killed in the beginning of that horrid Massa­cre: whereas such as will read Sir John Temples History of the Be­ginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion in Ireland, Prin­ted MDCXLVI. (a Book writ without Passion, on unquestiona­ble Proofs, by an honourable Per­son no ways interessed further than Truth and Conscience enga­ged him) may there discover the Motion, Cruelties, and Surprizals of that unhappy Insurrection dis­lodging (in few Weeks) one hun­dred and forty thousand souls, [Page] which I glance at onely Histo­rically, that the Serenity of the Present Times might be illustra­ted by the Ruggedness of those. To which I should add some­thing of the Cessation scarce by any (save his Excellency) invio­lably observed, but I am obliged to contract.

At first I intended not to have exceeded a Catalogue, but matter flowing in, my Omer hath filled an Ephah. Yet I have been abridged too, of what I thought the Age might have born; however I do not much regret these Parings, it being safer, Ʋt veritas quam­quam Veter. Epist. 50. Hiber. Syl­loge p. 118. perutilis & desiderabilis, aliquamdiu suppressa lateat quam in lucem cum majorum offensâ prae­properè pariter & Periculosè pro­rumpat, all (as this) writ with­out Periods or Cadences, that [Page] Truth, not Rhetorick, might be most prevalent. In pursuit of which (that Time might pass over with some cheerfulness) I have (with other things) interwoven the Ori­ginal of the Ʋniversity of Dublin, that that might not altogether sit neglected as a Sister that had no Breasts.

Whatever this is, it was colle­cted at Spare Hours, and so it may not be thought writ in the Dark, the Reader will do Justice to allow it gathered under the shadow of the Candle.

Farewel.

Clarissimo Amplissimo (que) Viro D. D. E. B. M. D. Hibernicarùm Antiquitatum Indagatori Acerrimo, Rerum (que) Memorabilium Delibatori eximio.

VIctrices Aquilas sprevit glacialis IER­NE
Oceano vallata suo, Tybris (que) superbi
Nobilis elatas despexit Lifnius undas.
At tandem imperio concessit laeta BRITAN­NO,
Vicinique libens subiit Moderamina Sceptri▪
Illius auspiciis animi sedere feroces,
Barbaries pudefacta fugit, silvisque relictis
Aspera Civili mite scunt Pectora cultu.
O fortunatos nimium bona si sua nôrint
Hybernos! vanae nec Libertatis Imago
Falleret incautos, animos (que) averteret Anglis:
Aspice quam vigili Generosa BRITANNIA curd
Te fovet, affectu (que) pio solatur, IERNE
Quippe tot Heroas nostri clarissima Coeli
[Page] Lumina, Praestantes (que) Viros vestro inserit or­bi▪
Hos inter Proceres digno splendore cor [...]scat
Borlacaea Domus, summum (que) implevit ho­norem
Illustri Virtute, suos excelsa natales
Exaequat Proles, & quae dignissima Cedro
Eximii gesser [...] Duces, [...]grantibus umbris
Vindicat, & seris transmissa nepotibus ornat
Quas tibi pro'tantis dignas Hibernia grates
Persolvat Curis? Citharam laetissima pulset
Altaque saltanti resonet Praeconi [...] [...]ilo.
R. H.

To his worthy and much honoured Friend Upon his History, entituled, The Reduction of IRELAND To the Crown of ENGLAND. A Pindarique Ode.

I.
IReland hath long in darkness layn,
With Time and Ignorance o'rcast:
Time, like a swelling Flood, had past
O'r all the Land, and laid it waste:
The Deluge every day new ground did gain:
Scarce any Track or Footstep there,
Scarce could the Mountains tops appear.
From hence the Monster Ignorance arose,
Of such a dreadful shape, and Birth, as those,
Which Nilus leaves when it o'rflows.
[Page]Times sacred Reliques its blind malice rent;
And its devouring rage o'r all the Kingdom went▪
But you, Sir, like the God of your own Art,
Have slain this Monster with an happy Dart:
And now with undisturbed peace you go
Through all the Realm, and unto others show,
What former Ages ne'r did know.
Ireland no longer barbarous seems, and rude;
Your fluent Pen ber Glory hath renew'd.
What strong Disease can now your Art withstand;
Since you have given new Life to an expiring Land?
II.
Her growing flame from the first Rise you trace,
When she did English manners first embrace;
And her old barbarous Customs leave.
When with her Chains she did good Laws receive.
And thus by being conquered gained more,
Then all her Victories did before.
Thus where the Roman conquer'd, 'twas his [...]re
To plant good Laws and Manners there;
That even his vanquisht Foes might Lawrels wear▪
From hence with wondrous Art and Diligence you
Guide us through unknown Paths, and there display
What ere's remarkable in the way.
And in your Book we at one Prospect may
[Page]What was performed in many Ages view.
As Saints above (if Schoolmen tell us true)
In the Glass of the Trinity may see
The Affairs of the whole VVorld to all Eternity.
III.
VVhat a brave throng of Heroes you revive?
To whom a lasting Fame You give,
VVhich will the rage of Time out live.
They all the Irish Glory did increase,
Some by the Arts of VVar, and some of Peace,
Lo! how they all in triumph stand,
Ʋpholding with their Arms the sinking Land?
They now, like Ghosts, in greater forms appear,
Then ere they had in all their grandeur here.
Now in more glorious Ornaments they shine;
And from you higher Honours have,
Then ere their Princes gave.
The narrow Bounds which did confine
Their former Glories, You out-go;
And to posterity their buried Trophi [...]s show.
Though Princes claim a faint Divinity;
Yet all they give must mortal be.
But to Your Heroes You a Pyramid raise,
By which they get immortal praise:
The Base so broad, the Top so high,
That all the Land o'rspreads, this reaches to the skie.
IV.
VVhat a large share of Fame is won
By Sidney, Chichester, and Grandison?
Lo! How brave Mountjoy marches through the field,
And makes the astonish'd Rebels yield;
Covering the Kingdom with his shield?
VVith chained Foes his Chariot's compass'd round,
And his exalted head with Lawrel crown'd.
But who can mention calmly Strafford's name,
The Nations Glory, and Her shame?
Lo! how he falls a sacrifice to asswage
The Peoples insolent Rage?
His Death his Princes Tragoedy doth presage.
And for his Funeral fire the Kingdom's on a flame.
So when great Caesar fell, the People thought,
They could no more to slavery be brought.
But soon the Empire feels an heavier weight,
Crush'd by the proud Trium-virate:
Till a young Caesar sav'd the expiring State.
How enviously the incensed Rout
Still pick the fairest Victims out?
Like thunder the low Cottage they pass by,
But strike down Towers and Trees, which touch the skie:
And even the Lawrel can't escape, if that be rais'd too high.
V.
Long did these Noble Persons bless
The stubborn Realm with peace and happiness:
VVhen lo! new storms compass the Kingdom round,
And after a long calm an Earthquake rose;
VVhich Towns and Castles soon o'rthrows,
And with vast ruines covers all the ground.
Ireland now lost▪ her old Renown,
And poisonous Creatures rag'd in every Town:
Vipers in dreadful crouds did stand:
VVhich their own Mothers Bowels tore,
And wallowed in her gore.
Our Heroes soon rescu'd the perishing Land:
Their Conduct, Valour, and success
Their Enemies proud fury did repress.
Methinks amongst the rest I see
Your Noble Father crown'd with Victory.
Lo! how he stops the rising flood,
And with his mighty Arms throws back the waves?
His Counsel and wise care the Kingdom saves,
VVhich else had been o'rwhelm'd with blood.
VVhere e'r the loyal Troops were led,
VVith speed the trembling Rebel's fled:
Thus were their Ancestors the old Giants chac't,
VVhen Jove did on their heads his thunder cast;
They threm their Mountains down, and ran away with haste.
VI.
VVhat dismal clouds, what dreadful vengeance ho­ver'd
O'r this unhappy Realm, and cover'd
Her body o'r with blood and tears?
VVhen her Sons arm'd with swords and spears,
Devoutly made Religion the pretence
To shake off all Obedience,
And even natural Innocence.
The Devil assumes the Prophets shape again,
And in a pious Garb deludes weak men.
His lying spirits through the Country went;
And with this new Divinity are sent.
Rebellion's but a name Fools to affright;
An Heretick to a Kingdom hath no right:
They now for God against their King must fight.
Thus are the People arm'd with Zeal,
VVhose edge is keener than the sharpest steel.
And first Plots and Conspiracies they contrive;
And then with open force for their Diana strive.
Their Zeal like Hell, was dark and hot;
And did as much torment the prey they got.
VVith thunder and with lightning they proclaim
Their Gospel, as the Jews receiv'd their Laws:
VVith Mahomet's zeal they advance their Cause,
And to convert the Land, they set it on a flame.
Your Father soon to stop their fury came:
Lest all the Land should be to ashes turn'd:
But whilst he quench'd the fire, himself almost was burn'd.
VII.
Now the blest smiles of Peace and Love,
All frowns and animosities remove.
Nothing is left behind of VVar,
But here and there an ugly skar.
Great Ormond was the Augustus, whose command
To perfect Loyalty and Peace reduced the Land.
Ormond, our great Apollo whose Renown
Did best deserve the Muses Crown.
VVho rules in VVar and Peace with equal fame:
And all his faithful services justly claim
A loyal Subject's and true Patriot's Name.
Brave Essex in his Power succeeds,
Fam'd for his own and his great Fathers deeds.
VVhose gallant Death and Actions do inspire
His soul with such Heroick fire,
As flam'd in the young Graecian's breast when he
Did a fam'd Generals Statue see.
So well this Hero fills his Princes Throne,
That he deserves to rule a Kingdom of his own.
VIII.
Here, Sir, you stop, and now we may look back
On all the various Scenes you track:
Here we the Historians Art may justly praise;
And there the History may our wonder raise.
VVith truth, and eloquence you write:
Of Truth the strong Materials are made,
And the Foundation firmly laid:
On which a solid structure you erect,
VVhich is with Language aptly deckt.
You neither are with fear nor flattery led;
But in the paths of truth severely tread.
Truth, which we often hate, and will not find,
Because with Interest and Envy we are blind.
As the damn'd spirits of Eternal Night
Dread the least Glimpse of Light.
And often Truth so hides her face,
That Errours we for Truth embrace,
And Truth in the dark seat of Errour place.
So when a glorious Comet here
Doth after various turns of Heaven appear;
The Wise know 'tis an harmless Star, but all
The long mistaken Vulgar call
This Star a Meteor, and its influence fear.
But when a flaming Meteor from a far
Falls down, the People then call it a Falling-star.
Z. Isham.

ERRATA.

PAge 2. Verse 2. sed for &. p. 7. l. 2. Beckly for Beckti [...], p. 17. in the close of that page add, Mariscus (being [...]nt for into England) quits the Government. p. 20. custo­ [...]iae for custodia. p. 10. dele the Quotations of Camd. and [...]anmer. p. 32. in the margent read Pryn in his Hist. p. [...]8. l. 14. dele he. p. 40. l. 6. Robert for Roger. p. 72. l. 4. Decemb. [...]. for 21. p. 84. l. 17. England for Ireland. p. 97. l. 19. 23 [...]or 33. p. 98. l. 20. read in Kild. p. 102. l. 4. 1538 for 1528. p. 104. l. 9. Garny for Grany. p. 109. after April 1. add, St. Leger the 4 of August returns Vice Roy. p. 119. l. 4. add, with that Power. p. 145. l. 10. add Loftusios. p. 149. l. 1. Minister for Master. p. 159. l. 17. Laxtoviae for Laxtoniae. p. 168. l. 4. coequal for coeval. p. 172. l. 2. read a Dysent. p. 174. l. 4. extitial for exitial. p. 180. l. 13. dele being. p. 183. l. 6. Carey for Carew. p. 197. l. 12. Hiberniae for Hibernia. p. 198. redeat for reddat. p. 204. l. 10. Consilii for Concilii. in the Plate read In utroque fidelis. p. 213. l. 12. Majestatis for Maje­ [...]ati, so in p. 217. p. 251. l. 18. add, who had it from. p. 258. l. 13. dele in. p. 274. l. 21. add, and some Seculars. p. 230. l. [...]3. for some read both.

Other Omissions or Errata's (if any) are obvious to an easie Correction, if the common favour may be in­dulged.

A DISCOURSE Introductive to the CATALOGUE of the Governours of IRELAND.

THe Rise and Growth of King­doms have been no less the Subject then the Industry of the ablest Pens, yet their Original (after the strictest Inquiries) have in most things been found so ob­scure, as if the dark side of the Cloud were still towards us; no Nation being so meanly descended, but that they something in their Temper which vaunts to be more ancient and noble then others, [Page] thereby (as Sir Walter Rawleigh observes) thinking to glorifie their own Nations; hence their innate affections to their Country leaves Truths too often dark and sullied to Posterity. Of which Spirit the Irish Chronicles participate too much, yielding few Tracts of their Original (before the Conquest by Henry the second) but what seems fabulous and vain: most of the Hi­story of the Ancients, as well as their Philosophy, which (indeed) was their Theology, being delivered to Posterity by no better then Bards

Sic honor & Nomen Divinis vati­bus atque
Carminibus venit.
Hor. de Art. Poet.

in as much as when I read their Chronicles, so many absurdities ap­pear, as I am in doubt whether I [Page] should take them for a Legend or an History; to avoid which, I shall impose nothing but the plain Story on the Reader.

It seems strange (scarce credible) that after so many years possession of Ireland, any should dare question the right of England to that part of its just Empire. And yet such have been the insinuations of some, whose spi­rits (like the foaming Sea) are un­willing to be confined, that I have of late seen many Queries started to enfeeble (if possible) this Right. And Walsh in his Vindication of the Loyal Formulary, will tell you of one Mahony, a Jesuite, his Apolo­getical Fol. 737. Disputation, De jure regni Hiberniae pro Catholicis Hybernis ad­versos Haereticos Anglos, maintains, that no King of England, nor Crown, nor People, nor State of that King­dom, had at any time any kind of right to the Kingdom of Ireland, or [Page] any part thereof: with many other damnable positions, condemned to be burnt by order of the Natio­nal Congregation at Kilkenny: which if he had not mentioned, might (happily) have been un­known to the Natives at this day, who (forsooth) conceive them­selves descended from a Progeny much injured by being imposed on by the Laws and Customs of Eng­land; whereas nothing is more e­vident then that Ireland was at first inhabited by the Britains, the Scy­thians, Goths, Spaniards, Danes, and other Easterlings falling in after­wards, as the vicissitude of time ad­ministred opportunity; though if there had not been this Title to the Dominion of Ireland, yet Conquest had been a sufficient one; especial­ly since it was at first undertook a­gainst a Nation meerly Pyrates, Barbarous, and Inhumane against [Page] the Laws of Nature and Nations, which the Lord Verulam (in his Considerations touching a War with Spain) as Grotius (in his excellent Piece, De jure Belli & Pacis) notably well argues.

But Jephtes Plea to the Ammonites [...]ustifies England (at this day,) the Bishop of Romes own Proctors having not more to produce then Prescrip­tion, for their Masters right to Rome it self; of which I should saymore, but though some cherish other thoughts, [...]ew (as the Scene now lies) have the Temerity to enforce them.

No sooner was Ireland subjugated to the Imperial Crown of England (by a Colony of Welch under the conduct of Fitz-Stephen with Mau­rice Fitz-Gerard, Maurice de Pren­dergast, principally commanded by Strongbow Earl of Pembroke, permit­ted by King Henry the second, then in Aquitain, to adventure their for­tunes [Page] but, they succeeding, King Henry the Second (the third Year after the Invasion, viz. Anno 1172.) armed with Pope Adrians and Ale­xanders Bulls, lands on St. Luke [...] Eve at Croch near Waterford, march­ing by easie steps to Dublin (oppidu [...] super Crates) so obtains a Kingdom; though it hath since appeared, that the Popes donation, and the Irish sub­missions were but weak and fickle as­surances to establish his Dominions▪ Where having took the fealty o [...] the Subject Kings, of the Country and Clergy (who bear no little sway in most mutations) he there evidenced the greatness of his mind in several Entertainments, and gratious con­descentions; and having setled the Peace of the Kingdom and the Or­der of the Church according to England in a Synod at Cassel, he on Easter-day following, leaves Ireland under a Constituted Government, [Page] which to this day continues in such an esteem, as no Vice-Roy in Chri­stendom ( Naples not excepted) ever arrived at so signal a Grandeur, lit­tle of the Power (committed to the Governours) being abated of their Sovereigns, unless in the conferring of some Offices, which (if they be not at their bestowing) are frequent­ly consented to on their commend­ing; nay, some of the Governours (as the Earl of Essex and others) had it in their Commissions to pardon even Treason it self. That at this day we may look on the Governours of Ireland, as armed with as ample Power as any Subject is capable of. Parliaments being held under their Precedency with Statutes, Ordi­nances and Acts passed, Coram Ju­stitiario Deputato, or Locum tenente, such or such an one, as they were entituled by the King, whom Cam­den in his Annals 1565. towards the [Page] end, says (until the time of Ed. 3.) they were called Justices of Ireland, and their Lieutenant Deputies, though (by his good leave) I find they were sometimes called Custodes, othertimes Generales Hiberniae Pro­curatores, though when the King would seem to honour any with the greatest Titles, he stiles them Lieu­tenants; who have generally power to depute their Deputy ( Venia a Re­ge prius impetrata) and yet then he that is so deputed, is stiled the Kings Deputy, as in the Irish Statutes the 28 of H. 8. Coram dilecto & fideli suo Domino Leonardo Gray milite Domino GRAY DEPUTATO IPSIUS DO­MINI REGIS ac praecharissimi & dilectissimi consanguinei sui Henrici Ducis Richmond & Somerset, de pro­sapia sua orti, Locum tenentis suae ter­rae & Dominii sui Hiberniae. And in elder Ages we do find that the same Condescension was also indulged, [Page] Justiciario Regis, as Prynn in his Fol. 353▪ History of Edw. 1. where (writing to the Bishop of Waterford) he di­rects his Letters to him, vel ejus Lo­cum tenenti; as also fol. 382. and many other places; but whether the one or the other, their power was for the most part of like authority: and say others, Synonima. Magna certe Spel. Gloss. fol. 336. nominum varietas sed quae olim ali­quando cum nonnullis aliis, ex Autho­rum praevaricatione, in eundem com­petebant. Magistratum, ut in his spar­s [...]n vocibus depre [...]enderis. Before whom all Ensigns of Honour (as the Sword, Mace, &c.) are carried, the service at the Table being some­times on the Knee, they have power also of Knighthood, and the very Liturgy is not without a particular Collect (answerable to their Titles) for their Government and safety; their Council is the Privy Council made up of some Bishops, more [Page] Lords, the principal Judges, the Presidents of Connaught and Mun­ster, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Treasurer, Master of the Ord­nance, the Secretary of State, and others as the King is pleased to sum­mon them to the Board.

In emergencies, or cases of more Fol. 346. difficult nature, Dr. Heylyn in his Cosmography writes, they proceeded sometimes in an Arbitrary way without formalities of Law; which hath been much decried by the Par­liament begun at Dublin, 1639. and complained of as a grievance; in as much as an honourable person (an eminent Instrument of State) writing an History of the beginnings of the late Rebellion in Ireland (wor­thy to be had in every mans eye) there takes occasion to tell, with what lenity the present Governours addressed themselves to the abroga­ting of exorbitances of Paper Peti­tions, [Page] or Bills in civil Causes exhi­bited at the Council Board, or be­fore any other by their Authority sufficient to evidence its dislike. And by the 13. Article of the Peace agreed on at the Castle of Kilkenny, the 17 of January 1648. it was con­cluded that the Council Table should contain it self within its pro­per bounds, &c. and not inter­meddle with common business that is within the cognizance of the or­dinary Courts; so sensible have all Times been of what might intrench on the known Laws and Priviledges. But leaving this, the Authority of the Governours (without assuming Irregularities) is great; and that they may be known, we shall here intrust their memory to Posterity.

[Page] [Page 1] The Chief Governours of Ire­land, under the Soveraign­ty of the Kings of England, since the Conquest thereof by Henry the Second, A. D. MCLXXII. to the Year MDCLXXIV.

KIng Henry the Second having in his own Per­son setled Affairs in Ireland, constituted at his departure thence for England

1172. Hugh Lacy Lord Justice, who, Dignitate omnes Regni Proce­res, Spel. Gloss. fol. 331. potestate omnes superabat Magi­stratus: A person endued with great vertue and prudence. He continued in the Government till that

[Page 2]1173. Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Strigil, sirnamed Strongbow, was sent over Lord Ju­stice. Alias Dominus de Chepstow, Earl of Ogie in Normandy, Earl of Leicester, Earl Marshal of England, Vicegerent of Normandy, Lord Lieute­nant (as is said) of Ire­land, and Prince of Lein­ster in the right of Eva his wife, sole heir of Dermot Mac-Morogh King of Lein­ster. He died 1176. and lies buried in Christ Church Dublin, where he hath a Monument for his Son cut off by the middle, and himself, with this Epitaph,

Nate ingrate mihi pugnanti terga dedisti
Non mihised genti, sed regno quo (que) terga dedisti.

He founded the Priory of Kilmainam about the Year 1174. whose endow­ing King Henry the Second confirm­ed; upon whose death

1177. Reymund le Grose, Gover­nour of the Earls Family, having married Basil the Earls sister, was chosen Lord Justice by the consent of the surviving Council; who, on notice of the Kings pleasure, surren­ders

[Page 3]1177. To William Fitz Audelm [...]r Aldelm, tanquam Senescallo a Re­ [...]e in Regnum transmisso, the Kings [...]ewer, Taster, or Dapifer Procuratori, Hoveden. Is est inter Cae­sarem & Popu­lum constitutus Judex ita ut quicquid ab eo Negotiorum Im­perialium ju­stum est, per­inde habeatur ratum ac si ab ipso Caesare fue­rit peractum. L. Funestella De Magistra­tibus Romano­rum, cap. 26. p. 70. Vide Pomp. Laetum De Magist. Rom. p. 92. [...]oyning with him John Curcy, Ro­ [...]ert Fitz Stephen, & Miles de Cogan, [...]s Counsellors not Commissioners, [...]s is evident by Audelms Charter, [...]edeemed from the Rubbish.

Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae, Do­minus Hiberniae, Dux Normanniae, Aquitaniae, & Comes Andegaviae, Archiepiscopis, Episcopis, Regibus, Comitibus, Baronibus, & omnibus fidelibus suis Hiberniae, salutem. Sciatis me Dei gratia sanum esse & incolumem & negotia mea bene & honorifice procedere, Ego vero, quam cito potero, vacabo magnis meis ne­gotiis Hiberniae, nunc autem ad vos mitto Willielmum filium Audelm Dapiferum meum, cui commisi negotia mea tractanda & agenda, mei loco & [Page 4] vice. Quare vobis mando & fir­miter praecipio, quod ei sicut mihime intendatis de agendis meis, & facia­tis quicquid, Ipse vobis dixerit e [...] parte mea, sicut amorem meum desi­deratis & per fidem quae mihi debe­tur. Ego quoque ratum habeo & firmum quicquid ipse fecerit, tan­quam egomet fecissem, & quicquid vos feceritis erga eum stabile habeo.

Test. Galfrido Archidiacano Cantuariensi, & Richard [...] Archidiacono Pictaviae, & Richardo Constabulario a­pud Valon.

Audelm the next Year builds, Vice Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 168. & mandato Regis, St. Thomas Court near Dublin, in expiation (as it was thought) of the murther of Thomas Becket. Afterwards our Governour growing somewhat unquiet with his Equals, his temper was disliked, ha­ving Hanmer, p. 157. [Page 5] done neither honour to his King, or good to his Country. And he was recalled into England when

1179. Hugh Lacy was again made Governour, sub titulo Genera­lis Hiberniae Procuratoris. Robert le Poer the Kings Marshal, then Go­vernour of Waterford and Weshford, (from whom immediately proceed­ed Cambd. of Irel. the Barons of Curraghmore, who flourished near Dungavon a long time after the Conquest) being join­ed Giral. Hib. Exp. lib. 2. cap. 18. as an Assistant to him.

1181. John Constable of Cheshire, Baron of Halton Castle, and Richard de Peche Bishop of Chester (or rather Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Chester not being made a Bishops See till 1539. in the 30 Year of H. 8. who converted the Monastery of Monks there into a Cathedral) a­bout the Calends of May, were sent over Governours of Ireland in Lacies room, he having raised jealousies in [Page 6] the King by marrying the Daughter of Roderick King of Connaght with­out his Licence; John Constable of Cheshire died 1190. at Tyre in Je­rusalem, in the Voyage to the Holy Hoved. p. 685. Land. Richard Peche was son of Robert Peche Bishop of Coventry, who succeeded his Father in the Bishoprick 1162. He was buried in Godw. of Bish. St. Thomas Church, near Stafford, (of which he was Founder) Anno 1183.

1181. Hugh Lacy (having given security to the King for his Alle­giance) was with Robert of Shrews­bury (of Salisbury saith Hanmer) a P. 159. Clergy-man, made Governour. Lacy was a singular good Gover­nour, Hoved. and established many Laws for the good of the Weal-publick. He was murthered at an unawares with a Pickax, Anno 1189. whose death the King was not sorry for, Hollinshead. being always jealous of his greatness. [Page 7] His body was buried in the Mona­stery of Beckly, and his head in S. Tho­mas Abbey at Dublin.

1184. Philip of Worcester (called by Hoved. Philip de Breos, alias Hoved. lib. [...]. cap. 24. Brause) Vir dapsilis & militaris, a­bout the Calends of September, Pro­curator in Hiberniam fuit missus, with Horse and Foot, the better to pre­pare the way for the Kings Son.

1185. The King gave Ireland to his younger Son John (afterwards King of England, by the name of King John) and made him King of Ireland (writes Hoved.) which as it Fol. 77. is well observed by Sr. Peter Lecei­ster in his Description of Ireland, I take to be no more then constituit [...]um Dominum Hiberniae; which is King in effect, the Supream Power being thereby imployed, and from thence we see he assumed the Title of Dominus Hiberniae afterwards, which was declared to be as much [Page 8] as in the future was comprehended in the Title of King, 33 H. 8. Whence Stat. Irel. fol. 183. my Lord Coke in the third part of his Institutes, writes, That albeit Fol. 357. the Kings of Ireland (until the Sta­tute before cited) were stiled by the name of Lords of Ireland, yet were they supream and absolute Domi­ni, and had a Royal dominion and authority, else their Consorts could not have had Aurum Reginae. And albeit there was such a grant to the Kings Son, yet by the Law the King by his Letters Patents could not grant so Royal a Member of his Im­perial stile, which happily the King being sensible of, takes with him in­to Normandy Octavianus, a Subdea­con, Cardinal of the Roman Church, and Hugo de Nunant, to whom Pope Ʋrban commisit Legatiam in Hiber­niam Hoved. Annals, Anno 1187. ad Coronandum ibi Johannem filium Regis; by which the King dis­appointed the Coronation; and it is [Page 9] observable that the Seals fixed to many Charters at Dublin, have on­ly this Inscription,

Sigillum Johannis filii Regis An­gliae Domini Hiberniae.

This Year Earl John went into Ire­land, but soon returned (having built Tibrach, Lismore, and Archsi­nan, alias Ardsivin Castles.) Con­stituting in his place

1185. John de Curcy, (whom we find every where spoken of with so much respect) principle Governour, Hanmer Chron. p. 168. and for ought I could yet discover (in which circumstance I have been vigilant) he did so continue till that Sir Hugh de Lacy the younger (the Year is omitted in the History) was sent over Lord Justice into Ireland, with absolute command of the Realm; and he continued his Go­vernment Hanmer out of the Book of Hoth. p. 169. to the second Year of Ri­chard [Page 10] the First, if not so long after­wards as Hanmer would have him. Curcy, after having endeavoured fif­teen times to go for Ireland, was still beaten back (as a judgment say the Historians, for his im­piety to Ardmagh Church) and then went into France and there died. He claimed a priviledge, af­ter Fuller in his Worthies, p. 25. his first obeisance to be forth­with covered in the Kings presence. The like I find in Fullers Church P. 167. History, granted by H. 8. and con­firmed by Act of Parliament to Francis Brown of Tollethorp in Rut­landshire Esq, Ancestor of Robert Brown Head of the Brownists, giving him leave to put on his Cap in the presence of the King or his Heirs. And the present state of England, p. 281. mentions the same priviledge Camp. fol. 73. Hanmer fol. 169 to Henry Earl of Turrey.

Sub RICHARDO I.

1189. Sir Hugh de Lacy the youn­ger, Lord Justice.

1191. William Petit Justicer.

William Marshall Lord Justice, a Relation of the Earl Marshals of England, Seneschal of Leinster, sup­posed Hollinshead. by some to decease at Lon­don, and buried by his Father in the New Temple; others think at Kil­kenny Hanm. fol. [...] ▪ Mat. Par. f [...] 403. 1231. in the Monastery there, Militiae flos temporum Modernorum: though I have some doubt whether this Elogie be intended for this person, or others of his name.

1197. Hamo de Valois, aut de Va­loniis, vel Valoineis; of an ancient Family in Suffolk, Lord Justice, Fol. [...] ▪ acknowledged by Prynn in his Hi­story of King John; as also by Ware, De praesul. Hib. Fol. [...] ▪

Sub JOHANNE.

1199. In the beginning of whose Hanm. fol. 183. Reign, I find that Hugo de Lacy was Governour; but the certainty of his continuance is not specified: and all agree that in this Year

Miler Fitz Henry, son of the base son of H. 1. was Lord Justice. He died Anno 1220. on whom Glynn hath this Epitaph in the Abbey of Conal in the County of Kildare, which Abbey he founded, 1202. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 173.

Conduntur tumulo Meyleri nobilis ossa
Indomitus Domitor totius gentis Hibernae.

1210. King John comes into Ire­land, octavo Idus Junii, and landed at Waterford with a potent Army; [Page 13] the Country fearing his puissance, flocked submissively to him, except some from the remotest places of the greatest fastnesses: the Reguli sware Fealty, Occurrerunt ei plus­quam viginti Reguli illius regionis, qui omnes maximo timore perterriti Homagium & fidelitatem ei fecerunt, pauci tamen ex Regulis supersederunt qui ad regem venire contempserunt, eo quod in locis inexpugnabilibus habita­bant, Matt. Paris. &c. But Hugh de Lacy (whom Hanmer calls Lord Justice) fearing his presence fled into France, yet afterwards the King was reconciled to him, and in process of time he became (after the decease of Curcy) Earl of Ʋlster, where at Knock fergus he founded a Monastery of Minors, about the Year 1232. in the Church Ware De An­tiq. Hib. p. 213. of which he was buried 1242. King John having the submissions of the chief of Ireland, appoints in Lein­ster and Munster twelve English [Page 14] Shires, viz. Dublin, Kildare, Meath▪ Ʋriel, Catherlogh, Kilkenny, Wexford▪ Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Kerry▪ Tipperary, with Sheriffs and other Officers, after the custom of Eng­land; and having coined money ( Denarium terrae illius ad pondus Mat. Paris fol. [...]30. numismatis Angliae fecerat fabricari, & tam obolum quam quadrantem ro­tundam fieri praecepit,) currant in England, as there, he the 30 of Au­gust lands in England with much satisfaction; having deputed

1210. In August John Gray Bi­shop of Norwich, Lord Justice; a man well seen in the Laws of the Realm, and of great integrity. He died near Poictiers in his return from Rome, Nov. 1214. and was Godw. of Bi­shops, p. 421. buried in his own Cathedral. After that he had discharged his duty in Ireland singularly well, he being sum­moned into England, leaves

1213. The 23 of July Henry Loun­dres [Page 15] alias Londers, Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Justice; and he quits it

1215. To Geoffery de Mariscis, or de Marisco, (probably a Relation of Richard de Marisco Archdeacon of Northumberland, and Chancellour of England, in the 4 year of King John, also in the 15. to the 17.) as some write, under the Title of Kee­per of Ireland, July the 6. and

Sub HENRICO III.

He continues Governour. To whom the King sent Henry de Lon­don Archbishop of Dublin, to re­form the Church by his assistance; commanding all his faithful Subjects and Barons to give obedience.

Quod ei in omnibus quae ad nos spectant ordinandis & disponendis sitis in­tendentes, [Page 16] una cum dilecto & fideli nostro Galfrido de Marisco Justi­ciario nostro Hiberniae, volumus etiam & praecipimus quod omnia ad nos spectantia per ipsius Domini Ar­chiepiscopi dispositionem, una cum Justitiarii nostri & vestro Juvami­ne & consilio ordinentur, & in hu­jus rei testimonium has literas no­stras patentes, &c. vobis mittimus. Test. Comite.

Apud Wintoniam 16. die Aprilis, Anno regni nostri primo.

And in a following Writ very memorable, he gives an account of King Johns death, and of himself being crowned at Glocester; certi­fying the fidelity sworn to him by the Barons and Prelates, advising his Justice to take the same of the Nobles of Ireland.

Rex Galfrido de Mariscallo Justiciario suo Hiberniae, salutem, multiplices [Page 17] vobis referrimus gratiarum actio­nes de bono & fideli servitio vestro foelicis memoriae, Johan. quondam Regis Angliae patri nostro exhibi­to, &c. Rogamus igitur dilectio­nem vestram quatenus etsi bonae me­moriae Joh. patri nostro fideles exti­teritis & devoti tanto nobis fidelio­res existere curetis, quanto scitis nos auxilio & consilio vestro in hac te­neritate nostra plurimum indigere, capientes fidelitatem de singulis Hi­berniae magnatibus & aliis qui no­bis ipsam facere tenentur; retinui­mus adhuc Radulphum de Norwicho, ut de his & aliis per ipsum volun­tatem nostram plenius vobis signifi­cemus, volentes ut eisdem vos et cae­teri fideles nostri Hiberniae gaudea­tis libertatibus quas fidelibus nostris de regno Angliae concessimus, & illas vobis concedemus & confirma­bimus. Pry [...] Hist. H. 3. fol. 38. Teste, &c.

[Page 18]1219. To Archbishop Loundres, Qui munus ei commissum par quinquen­nium fideliter obivit, during whose Ware De praes. Hib. fol. 107. time I find a Writ directed to him from the King; who having seized on the Temporalities of the Arch­bishoprick of Ardmagh, for that the Archbishop was elected without his licence, the King orders (on an of­fer of 300 Marks of silver, and 3 Marks of Gold, that he had from the Monks,) Quod faciatis inde secundum statutum terrae nostrae, & secundum quod tempus se habet, sicut nobis vi­deritis expedire. Et sciatis quod man­davimus Hugoni de Lacy, quod faciat de terris praedictis id quod ei ex parte nostra dicetis. Teste Domino P. Wint. Episcopo apud Cliton, Aug. 30. Anno regni 8. Our Governour Bishop Prynn. Hist. K. John, fol. 10. Loundres about the beginning of July 1228. died, and was buried in Trinity Church Dublin.

Some doubt there seems in Chro­nologie [Page 19] who succeeded Loundres, [...]hether Geoffery de Marisco, (Qui [...]ices Justiciarii sub Rege in illis par­ [...]bus gerebat) or others; indeed one but Matthew Paris mentions Mat. Paris fol. 366. Anno 1230. [...]im in this place. And I do find [...]at about this time a certain King of Connaght knowing the King of England, and▪ William Marescallus he great Marshal the Earl of Pem­rokes son, to be busily imployed in Marshal Affairs abroad, gathered a [...]opious Army, Sperans (saith my Author) se posse omne genus Anglo­rum ab Hiberniae finibus exturbare, [...]ut the design was so well attended [...]y Walter de Lacy and Richard de Burgo, that the English de latibulis [...]rumpentes & aerem clamore horribili [...]erberantes a tergo & a [...]atere irru­ [...]runt in hostes & acies quae prius [...]visu) fuger at in Hibernienses a fronte [...]evertens stragem iis miserabilem intu­ [...]erunt, interfecti namque referuntur [Page 20] ex Hiberniensibus ad viginti milli virorum bellatorum & rex eorum ca­ptus Mat. Par. ibid. & carcerali custodiae deputatus Then which they never had a greater proof of the English valour, or their own courage. Certain it is that

1227. Richard de Burgo was made Lord Justice, March 10. At this time, or near, I also find that Hubert de Burgo constitutus est Justiciarius Spelm. Gloss. fol. 340. Hiberniae ad terminum vitae, yet no [...] Record mentions his being there: so as I conjecture this Richard d [...] Burgo might be of Huberts Family, and his Substitute. During whose time the King directs a Writ to Commissioners to examine the Arch­bishop of Dublins account concern­ing moneys raised out of the vacant Bishopricks in Ireland, for the pay­ing of debts due to him. As also another Writ, to examine what debts were due to the Bishop by Services for King John in the Court [Page 21] of Rome; which Writs are both me­morable: We shall give you onely Prynn. Hist. H. 3. fol. 80. the later out of Prynn.

Rex Richardo de Burgo. Sciatis, quod in solutione Debiti quod debe­mus venerabili Patri H. Dublin Ar­chiepiscopo, pro mutuo quod fecit pro Domino Johan. Rege patre nostro per praeceptum suum, & pro expensis suis factis per ipsum Archiepiscopum in Curia Romana pro negotio ipsius patris nostri expediendis, & pro ex­pensis quas idem Archiepiscopus fecit in servitio nostro in. Hibern. dum ultimo fuit Justiciar. noster Hibern. Assignavimus eidem Archiepiscopo Centum libras de firma Civitatis nostrae de Limerick, recipiendas ad duos terminos, viz. ad festum San­cti Michaelis quinquaginta libras, & ad Paschae quinquaginta libras. Assignavimus etiam eidem Archie­piscopo in solutione ejusdem debiti, [Page 22] quinquaginta Marcas per annum percipiendum de firma Civitatis no­strae Dublin. Sicut plenius conti­netur in nostris patentibus quas inde fieri fecimus & ideo vobis manda­mus, quod praedictas centum libras de firma praedictae Civitatis Lime­rick, & praedictas quinquaginta Marcas de firma Civitatis nostrae Dublin eidem Archiepiscopo recipere permittatis, quousque praedictum de­bitum ei persolvatur.

Teste Rege apud Westm. Maii 10. Anno Regni nostri 12.

1232. Maurice Fitz Gerald was Mat. Par. fol. 397. made Lord Justice September 2. He continued so till 1245. at which time Mauritium Hiberniae Justicia­rium eo quod ficte & tarde auxilium ab Hibernia (the King having use of his Forces against David ap Llewellin Prince of Wales) domino [Page 23] regi duxerat periclitanti a Justiciaria Hanm. fol. 198. out of Florileg. and Hollinsh. deposuit. Whilest he was Justice he excellently well behaved himself against Earl Marescal, who 1234. had hostilely invaded Ireland, ani­mated by Geoffery de Marisco, whom Mat. Paris calls, homo ejus ligius senex infidelis; and subduing him the first of April after that the Earl Marescal had with an unexpressable courage (most of his Party betray­ing him) manfully defended him­self. He died May 8. 1257. Miles strenuus & facetus, nulli secundus, and Matt. Par. fol. 398. was buried at Youghall amongst the Frier Minors; which Covent he Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. [...]33. founded, 1231. And upon his re­move

1245. Sir John Fitz Geoffery was made Lord Justice, Novemb. 4. Vir quidem praeclarus genere, divitiis & Mat. Par. fol. 975. potentia. To whom the King directs his Writ, that Turvil Bishop of Ossory might dispose of his Goods by his last Will.

Mandatum est Johanni filio Galfrido Justiciar. Hiberniae, quod permittat Priorem de Conale, & alios execu­tores testamenti Galfridi de Turvil, Episcopi Ossoriensis, habere liberam administrationem omnium bonorum quae fuerunt ejusdem Episcopi. Ita quod de primis bonis leventur debita Regis, quae Regi debebat, & quae Prynn H. 3. fol. 107. sunt Clara.

Teste Rege apud Westm. April 12.

On his remove

1247. Theobald Butler Lord of Carrick, and John Cogan were chosen Lords Justices. Butler died in the Hollinsh. fol. 37. Castle of Arkelo, 1285.

1255. Alan de la Zouch succeed-Lord Justice, descended from Alan Viscount of Roan in Little Brittain; in times past Lord Ashbey de la Zouch Cambd. Brit. fol. 519. in Leicester-shire. He was in the [Page 25] 34 of H. 3. Chief Justice of the Kings Dugd. Chro­nica. Bench. He was slain by John 7. Earl Warren and of Surrey half Brother to Camd. Brit. f. 309. Vincent on Brook, fol. 522. King H. 3.) in Westminster Hall.

1259. Stephen de long Espee, se­cond Son of William the first Earl of Salisbury, Justiciarius in Hibernia & Vincent on Brook, fol. 447. Dominus Capitalis erat o [...]dinatus. He died 1260. in Ireland, being slain by his own People; his body was buried in England. The 16 year of Holmes his Note thereon. K. John, He was made Earl of Ʋl­ster.

1260. William Dean, Lord Ju­stice. He died 1261. Hanm. fol. 201.

1261. Sir Richard de Rupella, or Rochel; Glynn calls him, la Rochel de Capel, Lord Justice; who being recalled into England,

1267. Sir David de Barry was instituted in his place; who did excellent Service in composing some differences between the Geraldines and Bourks, which were too heady [Page 26] for the former Governour; it is conceived that the Viscount Barries in Ireland descended from this man, and all from Barry in Glanmorgan­shire.

1268. Sir Robert de Ʋfford, An­cestor (not unlike) of Robert de Ʋf­ford Earl of Suffolk, Lord Justice; upon whose remove into England

1269. Richardus de Exonia was made Lord Justice. He died the same Year, and

1270. Sir James Audley, alias Al­delegh, from whence (as is suppo­sed) the noble Lord Audley, was made Lord Justice. He was killed with a fall from his Horse in Toc­mond, 1272. June 23. After whose death till the entrance of Edward the first, Histories supply not who was instituted in his room. This Camd. Brit. fol. 583. was he (as probably may be conje­ctured) to whom Hugh Lacy Earl of Ʋlster gave Lands, with the Consta­bleship of Ʋlster.

Sub EDWARDO I.

1272. Maurice Fitz Maurice, Lord Justice, to whom the King di­rects this Writ, De conservatione Pacis in Hibernia.

Rex dilecto & fideli suo Mauritio filio Mauritii, Justic. suo Hibern. salu­tem. Cum defuncto jam celebris me­moriae Domino H. Rege patre nostro ad nos regni Angliae gubernaculum & terrae Hibern. Dominium succes­sione haereditaria pertineant, per quod nos qui in exhibitione & pacis conservatione omnibus & singulis de praedictis regno & sumus ex nunc debitores, jam pacem nostram in eodem regno nomine Regis fecimus proclamari, vobis mandamus firmi­ter injungentes, quod per totam ter­ram nostram Hib. pacem nostram pub­lice [Page 28] clamari & firmiter teneri facia­tis; inhibendo omnibus et singulis de eadem terra sub periculo exhaere­dationis, vitae et membrorum, ne quis pacem nostram infringere prae­sumat. Nos enim omnibus et singu­lis de praedicta terra nostra Hiberniae in omnibus juribus et rebus ipsos con­tingentibus, contra quoscunque tam majores quam minores parati sumus & erimus plenam, Auctore Domino, Justitiam exhibere.

Dat per manum W. de Merton Cancellarii nostri apud West­minst. Decemb. 7. Prynn fol. 118.

1173. Geoffery Lord Genevil, of the House of Lorrain (newly returned in Pilgrimage from the Holy Sepul­chre) Lord Justice, succeeded in October; to whom I find many Writs Prynn Hist. Edw. 1. fol. 136. directed; the following may be sufficient to testifie the truth.

Rex dilecto & fideli suo Galfrido de Genevil Justiciario suo Hiberniae salutem. Mandamus vobis quod omnimodas exactiones, demandas & districtiones, quas fieri facitis vene­rabili Cassalen Archiepiscopo ponatis in respectum usque ad ventum no­strum in Angliam, ut tunc inde pro­videatur quod rationabiliter fuerit inde faciendum, nullam molestiam sibi vel Ecclesiae suae interim inferendo.

Dat, &c. Junii 13. Anno regno 2.

He died the 12. before the Calends of November, 1314. and was buried amongst the Preaching Friers in Trim, the Foundation he himself had established.

1276. Sir Robert de Ʋfford, Lord Justice the second time, who going into England,

[Page 30]1279. Stephen de Fulborn, Bishop of Waterford (afterwards Archbi­shop of Tuam) Treasurer of Ireland, Lord Justice. The year following he surrenders, and Ʋfford resigning Ware de Praes. Hib. fol. 247. it, he again accepts it, 1282. He died at Dublin, 1288. 5. Nonas Ju­lii; to whom the King (for the bet­ter support of his Justiceship) granted a Pension out of the Exche­quer Prynn, fol. 353. in Ireland, of 500 l. per an­num.

Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. salutem. Sciatis quod concessimus venerabili Patri S. Waterfordensi Episcopo, Justiciario nostro Hibern. 500 l. singulis annis a die Dominica proxi­ma ante Festum Apostolorum Phi­lippi & Jacobi, Anno regni nostri 13. quamdiu fuerit Justiciarius noster, ibidem ad Scaccarium nostrum Dublin percipiendas, unam vide­licet medietatem ad Scaccarium no­strum [Page 31] S. Michaelis, & aliam medie­tatem ad Scaccarium nostrum Pas­chae, pro expensis suis in officio praedi­cto, ita tamen quod si turbatio, quod absit, in praedicta terra emerserit, per quod Castra nostra munire, & circa defensionem terrae nostrae pro­priae ibidem sumptus opponere neces­sario oportebit, tunc volumus quod aliquis Baro vel Clericus de quo fi­ducia habeatur, per Thesaurarium & Barones nostros de eodem Scaccario deputetur, ad pecuniam nostram in eodem Scaccario recipiendam, & in munitione & defensione hujusmodi ponendam & expendendam, per vi­sum & testimonium praedicti Justi­ciarii prode Consilio praedictorum Thesaurarii & Baronum ad opus no­strum melius & securius fuerit faci­endum, in cujus, &c.

Teste Rege apud Wolvemere, August. 6.

[Page 32]1288. John de Saunford Archbi­shop of Dublin, Lord Justice a [...] tempus. Vir fuit (writes Ware) cum doctus tum insigni prudentia. He Ware de Praes. Hibern. f. 110. in his Hist. of the King, f. 574▪ died in England Octob. 2. 1294. on his return from an Embassie to the Emperour, and was buried in S. Pa­tricks Church Dublin, February 20. following. But Prynn affirms that obiit in redeundo a Rege Arregoniae cui pro negotiis Regis Angliae missus fuerat

1290. William Vescy, Grandson of Eustach, Brother of Sir War in de Vescy, Lord of Knapton in Yorkshire, Camd. Brit. fol. 723. Lord Justice. In his time the King directs his Letters to the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland to grant him a Dism of their Spiritualities to defray his debts in redeeming his Nephew Charles; but they unani­mously returned this answer, Quod concessioni petitionis praefatae minime supercederunt. I find besides parti­cular [Page 33] Writs directed to our Lord Prynn, fol. 573. [...]ustice Vescy, but because they are [...]ut businesses of form, I shall pass [...]hem over. He returned into En­gland a great difference being be­twixt him and the Earl of Kildare.

1294. William de la Hay was con­stituted Governour (who was the [...]ustos officii Capitalis Justiciarii Hi­ [...]erniae Ware de Hib. p. 346. & Consiliarius Regius) as Ve­ [...]cies Lieutenant; during whose Go­vernment Camp. fol. 79. or Vescies, the King directs [...]he ensuing Writ, For Thomas de S. Leodegario illustri natus familia, Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 34. Prynn Hist. fol. 457. [...]ed moribus illustrior Bishop of Meath, [...]o be admitted of his Privy Council.

Rex omnibus & singulis de consilio suo Hibernia existentibus, salutem. De prudentia et circumspectione venerabi­lis Patris Tho. Midensis Episc. quem charum habemus & commendatum, specialem gerentes fiduciam, quod praesentia ipsius in consiliis dandis & [Page 34] in tractatu, habendo de negotiis n [...] ­stris in Hibernia expediendis pluri­mum nobis et vobis posset esse profu­tura, et quod fideliter commodum nostrum pro viribus suis procurabi [...] et honorem. Volumus, quod idem Episcopus de caetero nostris consiliis intersit una vobiscum, quoties de agendis nostris ibidem tractatus ha­betur, et ideo vobis mandamus quod praedictum Episcopum ad nostrum consilium admittatis, et ipsum tan­quam unum de nostris Consiliariis de caetero habeatis.

Teste Rege apud Berwick super Tweed, Octob. 22. &c.

1294. William Dodingzele, or Dodinsel, alias Oddingeseles, Lord Justice; to whom the King directs a Writ for the restitution of Tempo­ralities, &c.

Rex dilecto et fideli suo Willielmo Prynn 23 of Edw. 1. fol. 639 de Oddingeseles, vel ejus Locum te­nenti, salutem.

Teste Rege apud Aberconewey Mart. 30. Obiit April. 3. 1295.

1295. Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice, [...]ord Justice. He died 1298. ha­ving resigned

1295. To John Wogan, who was made Lord Justice, October 18▪ to whom the King sends his Royal [...]ssent to elect and receive Fealty of an Abbot de Weyna, so as not to prejudice his Prerogative for the future.

Rex Justiciario suo Hiberniae, vel ejus Locum tenenti, salutem, &c. Volu­mus etiam et vobis damus potestatem, quod si contingat electionem hujus­modi [Page 36] perloci Diocesanum Canoni [...] confirmari, et vobis, per literas ejus­dem Diocesani inde constiterit, tum accepta ab eodem electo fidelitate i [...] casu isto nobis debita temporalia ejus­dem Abbatiae eidem electo, prout mo­ris est, liberetis, vice nostra, &c.

Teste Rege apud Plympton, April. 25.

Many other Writs there were di­rected to him which (not being to our intention) we pass over, though such as are pleased to read them may turn over Prynns History of Edw 1. From fol. 774. to fol. 888. He quitting the Place

The same Year (probably) Wil­liam de Ross Prior of Kilmainam, was instituted his Lieutenant.

1302. John Wogan (the second time) was made Lord Justice; du­ring whose Government the King is­sued out Letters to the Prelates and [Page 37] Clergy of Ireland for a Subsidy pro salvatione Coronae nostrae regiae com­munique utilitate Cleri et populi regni [...]t terrarum nostro Dominio subjecta­ [...]um, &c. Assigning Richard de Burg Earl of Ʋlster, John Wogan Justice, and Thomas Cantock Chancellor, &c▪ [...]o enquire and ask the same. Teste Rege apud Blidam, Januar. 17. The success of which we find covered in great silence.

Sub EDWARDO II.

The said John Wogan continued Justice til in August.

1308. The Lord William Bourk was made Lord Justice, or Custos, or Warden of Ireland; from whom proceeded the Baron of Castle Conel and Letrim, besides others of that Family, since eminently serviceable in the Wars of Ireland.

[Page 38] Eodem Anno Pierce de Gaveston (being banished out of England) was made Lord Lieutenant, that his Exile might be the more sufferable, to whom the King assigned the Com­modities Royal of that Realm. He Davies of Ire­land, fol. 85. returned into England in June 1309. and afterwards was beheaded by the Nobles at Scarborough.

The same year Sir John Wogan was made Lord Justice again.

1312. Sir Edmund le Butler (who was made Deputy to Sir John Wo­gan:) He died 1321. So also did Sir John Wogan.

1314. Sir Theobald Lord de Ver­don was made Lord Justice, who in die Sancti Sylvestri venit in Hiber­niam: of whose name Camd. in his History of Ireland, writes that John Fol. 97. ▪ Lord Verdon was Constable of Ire­land. Prynn in his History of Edw. 1. Fol. 366. mentions one Theobald de Verdon Constable of Ireland, who constitu­ted [Page 39] the Bishop of Bath and Wells, then Chancellour, to present to all his Churches in England, during his absence in Ireland. An Office (of late years) I do not find bestowed on any, formerly of ample Jurisdi­ction in all concerns of Arms, both as to what had been done abroad and at home, with whom often the Marshal (as being of Affinity in Power) was joined. Of which you may see more in Stanlies Case in the year 1557.

1314. Sir Edmund le Butler Lord Justice, created by Edw. 2. in the 9. year of his Reign Earl of Carrick. Camd. Irel. fol. 82. He received his Commission on Fri­day after St. Matthews day; whilest he was Governour ( ann scil. 1316.) Edward Bruce, brother of Robert King of Scots, so prevailed, as that he was Crowned King of Ireland, reigning a year, England at that time (saith Davies) not being able P. 85▪ [Page 40] to send either men or money to save the Kingdom, only Sir Roger de Mortimer made Justice, arrived at Youghal in Easter Week cum 38. milit. and

1317. The said Robert Mortimer Lord Justice fencing with what prudence he could, at last the Lord John Burmingham was sent over General, who with Vernon, Stapleton, and the Commons of Meath, &c. encountring him near Dundalk, o­verthrew Spencer of Irel. fol. 13. his Army, and flew him, Et sic per manus communis Populi et dextram Dei liberatur Populus Dei a Davies, p. 86. servitute machinata et praecogitata. Mortimer going for England made

1318. William fitz John, Arch­bishop of Cassel, Custodem Hiberniae; so that at one time he was Justice, Chanceller, and Archbishop. He Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 167. died Septemb. 15. 1326. potens, di­ves, ac venerabilis in Populo et in Clero.

[Page 41]The same year, (to wit) Octob. 7. Alexander Bicknor Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Justice.

1319. Sir Roger Mortimer returns out of England Lord Justice, who

1320. Going into England, Tho­mas Fitz John Earl of Kildare, is substituted in his room. This Year Dublin is made an University, Papae Johannis XXII. authoritate Alexan­der Bicknor Archbishop of Dublin, much furthering so excellent a De­sign, the publick place for whose exercise was St. Patricks Church, al­lowed of to this day in their more solemn Commencements, caeterum deficientibus facultatibus quibus a­lumni alerentur Academia ipsa paula­tim defecit; as others at Armagh, and Ross-Carbery, or Ross-Alithry had done before, as since at Tradagh, An­no 5 Edw. 4. graced with the same Priviledges as Oxford, so Sir James De Antiq. Hib. p. 82. Ware. Though in the reign of H. 7. [Page 42] there remained some Tracts of this excellent Work, an Annual Salary to several Lecturers in Divinity, be­ing duly paid by virtue of what had been ordered in a Provincial Council held at Dublin in Trinity Church, before Walter Fitz Simons Archbishop of Dublin. Since the University of Dublin (of which in its own place we shall speak more) hath been favourably restored by Queen Elizabeth, March 3. anno MDXCI. from whence there hath shot forth many useful Lights in the Common Firmament; besides Dr. James Ʋsher Archbishop of Ard­magh, one of the greatest magnitude (for general Learning and Piety) the last Ages can truly boast of; who was the first of the Scholars ad­mitted into the Queens Foundation, gradually proceeding according to his years.

Yet though Ireland (for the suc­cession [Page 43] of some Ages) was esteemed the School of Literature, and the Mart of excellent manners. It is observable that very few, if any, of the Natives ever flourished in En­gland, either in the Ecclesiastick or Civil State, though many English increased in much honour and wealth there; which Fuller (in his Worthies, p. 67.) attributes to this, That we love to live there where we may command, and they care not to live where they must obey. Cer­tainly the defect rests much in them­selves, having been at all times in­dulged on their Addresses, and are men of parts and capacities deep as others. 'Tis true, There were some Acts made in Henry the 6. reign against Irish men inhabiting here in England in the Universities, or being Heads or Governours of any Hall or House, or to live in En­gland without some previous con­siderations. [Page 44] As it was decreed at a Council held at Cleonard in Ire­land, 1163. Gelacius Archbishop of Ardmagh being President, Ʋt nullus deinceps ad Theologiam publice praele­gendum Ware de Antiq. Hiber. lib. 15. admitteretur, nisi qui Acade­miae Armachanae fuerit alumnus. Yet I believe this was not the cause of those Statutes, but some more pres­sing occasion since, which Time and a friendlier Education hath long worn out; so as by an Act in Ireland the 13 of King James, there is a Repeal of divers Statutes concerning the Natives, for as much as they and the Inhabitants, without difference and distinction, were taken into his Majesties gracious protection, and do now live under one Law, as du­tiful Subjects of our Sovereign Lord and Monarch, that nothing now incapacitates them to be as growing and acceptable here as we are there, but a deficiency in their application.

[Page 45]1321. John Birmingham Earl of Louth, (so created for his excellent service against Bruce near Dundalk) Lord of Authenry was made Lord Justice. He was treacherously mur­thered Marleb. fol. 211 by Macgohegan and other Irish men, 1329. with several of his Family at Balybragan.

1322. Ralph de Gorges, Lord Camd. Brit. fol. 364. Justice; an ancient Family in Glo­cestershire.

1323. Sir John Darcy, Lord Ju­stice, arrived at Dublin, Febr. 2.

Sub EDWARDO III.

1327. Thomas Fitz John Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice. Obiit 1328. on Tuesday in Easter week at May­noth.

1328. Roger Outlaw, Prior of Kilmainam, succeeded Lord Justice. He was Prior of the Hospital of [Page 46] St. John of Jerusalem, and Chancel­lour of Ireland.

1329. Sir John Darcy, second time Lord Justice, who going for England deputes

1330. Prior Roger Outlaw hi [...] Lieutenant Justice.

1331. Sir Anthony Lucy, not un­likely of Charle-cot in Warwick shire▪ a person of great Authority in En­gland, was sent over Lord Justice June 3. who endeavoured by a se­vere course (the Times requiring it) to reduce the degenerate Nation to a more ready obedience. But staying not long (which some im­pute as a principal cause of the un­happiness of that Kingdom) effected little, as too frequent change o [...] Governours often subjects forme [...] Councils and proceedings to a dis­advantage.

1332. Sir John Darcy, the third time Lord Justice, arrived at Dub­li [...] [Page 47] February 13. He went into Scot­land out of Ireland with an Army.

1333. And left in his stead as Lord Justice, Thomas de Burgh, a Clergy man, then Treasurer of Ire­land.

1337. Sir John Charleton Miles [...] Baro, came Lord Justice in Festo [...]alixti Papae; but not behaving himself as it was expected, he was complained of by his Brother Tho­ [...]as Charleton Chancellour of Ire­land, and Bishop of Hereford, who

1338. Was made Justice, Custos, or Guardian of the Realm. He had been for a time Treasurer of En­gland, anno (sci.) 1329. He died Godw. de Praes. P 541. Jan. 11. 1343. and hath a reasona­ble fair Tomb in the North wall of the North cross Isle over against the Clock in Hereford Cathedral.

1340. Roger Outlaw Prior of Kil­mainam, succeeded Charleton in the Government. He died February 13. [Page 48] at Any in Comitatu Leinster; a [...] then the King by his Letters Pate [...] in the 14 Year of his Reign, ma [...] John Darcy Justice for life.

1341. Sir John Morris (Dav [...] calls him Sir William, oth [...] Sir John) came into Ireland in M [...] Lord Justice.

1344. Sir Ralph Ʋfford, prob [...] ­bly of Ʋfford in Suffolk, a Rela­tion Anno 1268. of Sir Robert, mentioned be­fore, a man of courage and severit [...] came into Ireland with his Conso [...] the Countess of Ʋlster July 13. Lo [...] Justice; obiit on Palmsunday April 19. 1346. at Kilmainam. The No­bility (who were wont to suffer [...] controllment) speak ill of him, [...] of a rigorous and cruel man. H [...] was a singular good Justicer, an [...] one (that if he had not died [...] soon) was the likeliest person [...] that Age to have reduced the d [...] generate English Colonies to the Davies, p. 205. [Page 49] natural obedience to the Crown of England.

1346. Sir Roger Darcy (whether [...] Nocton in Lincolnshire, or of [...]ick in Essex) was made Lord Ju­stice ad tempus de assensu & ordina­ [...]e Regalium & aliorum in Hiber­ [...], and was sworn, April 10. the [...]y following Ʋffords death.

1346. Sir John Morris came Lord Justice May 25. He summoned a Parliament at Dublin, to which the [...]arl of Desmond refused to come, [...]senting some priviledges newly [...]ken away, formerly granted to [...]m and his Ancestors, raising there­ [...]on such a dissention between the English of Blood and the English of [...]rth, as he and the Earl of Kildare, [...]ith the Citizens and Burgesses of [...]e principal Towns, summoned a [...]ouncil at Kilkenny, in opposition [...]o the Parliament; but effected no­thing more then some Articles a­gainst [Page 50] Maurice the Justice, which vanished. He was put out by the King and

Sir Walter Birmingham was inst­tuted Lord Justice, and came into Ireland in June, and was sworn Lord Justice the 19. of the same Moneth who going for England

1348. Made John Archer Pri [...] of Kilmainam, his Deputy Justice.

1348. Sir Walter Birmingham re­turns Justice as before, to who [...] the King gave the Barony of Ken [...] in Ossory, which belonged to Eusta [...] le Poer, lately attainted and hanged Obiit Birmingham quondam Optim [...] Justiciarius Hiberniae in Vigilia Mar­garitae Virginis 1350. in Angli [...] Camden writes that he of the Nob [...] and Martial Family of the Birming­hams alias Bremichams, took h [...] Original from the Town so named i [...] Warwickshire.

1349. Dominus de Carew, Mil [...] [Page 51] & Baro, Lord Justice, probably of Anthony in Devonshire, though o­thers think of Clopton, whence the [...]rews Barons of Clopton in War­wick shire.

1349. Sir Thomas Rokeby, Lord Justice, of an ancient Family in [...]ork shire, sworn Decemb. 20. who quitting it

1351. He appointed (for a time) Maurice de Rupeforti alias Rochfort, Bishop of Limerick, his Lieutenant Justice; who died June 9. (some write April 15.) 1353. Doctus fuit [...]ir bonae Vitae & Conversationis hone­stae. Afterwards Rokesby returned Ware de Prae [...]. Hib. f. 185. Lord Justice, and resigned July 20.

1355. To Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Desmond. He died in Dublin Castle die Conversionis St. Pauli fol­lowing.

1356. Sir Thomas Rokesby was a­gain Lord Justice. He died the [Page 52] same year in the Castle of Kilka. H [...] was an excellent Governour: h [...] held a Parliament at Kilkenny, act­ing therein many Laws for reducing the English Colonies to their Obe­dience. It is recorded of him, that he would eat in Wooden dishes, but pay for his meat silver and gold.

1357. Sir Almarick de Sancta A­mando (of which name and (for ought I can yet read) of whose Fa­mily the Barons de Sancto Amand [...] of Widehay in Berkshire are proba­bly Camd. Brit. fol. 283. descended) Lord Justice; he returned into England, anno 1358 or 1359. when

1359. James Butler Earl of Or­mond, son of Edmund Earl of Carrick was made Lord Justice. He was Camd. Irel. fol. 82. created Earl of Ormond anno 2 Ed▪ 3. and by some stiled Earl of Tipe­rary. Quem Edw. 3. eo honoris evixit▪ Camd. Title Leinster. cujus majores olim honorarii erant Hi­berniae Pincernae, unde illis hoc nomen [Page 53] Butler impositum. He married the daughter of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford, whom he had by a daugh­ter of King Edw. 1. whereupon his son James was ever stiled, The Noble Earl.

1360. The Earl of Ormond going into England, Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Kildare was made Lord Ju­stice, ut sequitur:

Omnibus ad quos hae Literae provene­rint salutem. Sciatis quod commis­simus dilecto & fideli nostro Mauri­tio Comiti Kildare, Officium Justi­ciarii nostri terrae nostrae Hiberniae, & terram nostram Hiberniam, cum Castris et omnibus pertinentiis suis custodiendam, quamdiu nobis pla­cuerit: Recipiendo ad Scaccarium nostrum Dubliniae per annum, quam­diu in Officio illo sic steterit quingen­tas libras, pro quibus Officium illud et terram custodiet, et erit vicessi­mus [Page 54] de hominibus ad arma cum to [...] equis coopertis continue durante com­missione nostra supradicta, in cujus rei testimonium, &c.

Dat. per manus dilecti nostr [...] in Christo Fratris Thomae de Burgey, Prioris Hospi­talis Sti. Johannis Hierusa­lem in Hibernia, Cancellari [...] nostri Hiberniae, apud Dub­liniam, Martii 30. 35 Ed. 3 [...]

The Earl of Kildare upon the re­turn of the Earl of Ormond Lord Ju­stice, surrenders to him; And

1361. Lionel Duke of Clarence (sirnamed Antwerp, the place of his birth) third son of Edw. 3. Earl of Ʋlster, and Lord of Connaght in right of his Wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of William de Burgo, came Lord Lieutenant into Ireland, in octav. Na­tivitatis Mariae, with about 1500 [Page 55] men by the Pole, accompanied with persons of great quality; whose pay for himself and them ( Davies in his P. 32. Discourse of Ireland particularly expresses) too circumstantial for us to insist on. His principal ser­vice was manifested in the well go­verning of his Army, and in hold­ing that famous Parliament at Kil­kenny; wherein the extortion of the Souldier, and the degenerate man­ner of the English, were by strict Laws reformed. He died October 17. 1368. not at Venice, but at Langavil in Italy, soon after he had married Violenta the Duke of Millains daugh­ter; where they feasted him so, as Dan. Hist. fol. 25 [...] Vinc. on Brook fol. 125. shortly after he died, and was bu­ried at Clare in Suffolk.

1364. Lionel Duke of Clarence went into England April 22. and left James Earl of Ormond his Deputy Justice of Ireland, and Decemb. 8. returned Lord Lieutenant.

[Page 56]1365. The Duke of Clarence go­ing into England, Sir Thomas Dal [...] was left Governour and Justice o [...] Ireland.

1367. Gerald Fitz Maurice Ear [...] of Desmond was made Lord Ju­stice.

1369. Sir William de Winsor came into Ireland July 12. Lord Lieute­nant, who taking Ship for England, March 21.

1371. The 22 of March Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Kildare was sworn Custos Hiberniae.

1372. Sir Robert de Ashton o [...] Ashton under Line in the County o [...] Lancaster, was made Lord Justice; a person of great account in this Kings reign, as being Constable o [...] Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Admiral of the Fleet from Thames mouth Westward, Lord Treasurer of England Annis 50 & 51 Edw. 3. and as a Record [Page 57] testifies, Constituitur Justiciarius Hi­ [...]erniae quamdiu, &c. Teste Reg. apud Westm', April 28. part 1. pat. anno 43 Edw. 3. M. 15. He is buried in Weavers Fun. Monum. fol. 268. the Church in Dover Castle, with this Inscription;

Hic jacet Robertus Ashton, Miles, quondam Constabularius Castri Dovoriae, & Custos 5 Portuum; Qui obiit nono die Jan. Anno Domini 1384. Cujus animae pro­pitietur Deus. Amen.

In the 44. of this Kings Reign (saith my Lord Coke) in the 46. (writes Rushw.) 1371/2. Sir Richard Fol. 523. Pembridge alias Pembrugh, a Baron, was appointed Deputy of Ireland, but he refused to go; whereupon his Offices, Fees, and Lands, which he held of the King for life, being his Servant (as Warden of the Cinque Ports, &c.) were all seized on pro [Page 58] servitio impendendo; yet he was no [...] upon that resolution committed t [...] Prison; for that he being unwilling to go, the Imployment was adjud­ged an Exile, and no man by the Common Law is perdere pa­triam, but by Authority of Parlia­ment, Coke Instit. Part 2. fol. 47. or in case of Abjuration fo [...] Felony.

1374. Sir William de Windsor ar­rived at Waterford Lord Lieutenant April 18. and took his Oath for th [...] execution of his Place at Kilkenny May 4. following; undertaking th [...] Custody of Ireland for 11213l. 6s. 8a▪ but did no wonders. He descende [...] of Sir James de Windsor, Lord o [...] Stanwel in Middlesex, as I under­stand from the present Lord Wind­sor.

1376. James Butler Earl of Or­mond, succeeded in the Govern­ment.

Sub RICHARDO II.

James Butler Earl of Ormond con­tinued Lord Governour till that 1379. John de Bromwich was made Lord Justice, to whom succeeded Edmund Mortimer, Lord Lieutenant. He died at Cork 1381. on St Stephens day, in the Abbey of Dominicans, York Title March, fol. 197. and was buried at Wigmore.

1381. John Colton, Dean of S. Pa­tricks by Dublin, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, afterwards Archbishop of Ardmagh, was made Lord Ju­stice: He took his Oath at Cork in the Covent of the Preaching Friers, Decemb. 27. He died the 5. of the Calends of May 1404. and was bu­ried in Droghedagh in Saint Peters Church, where sometime before his death, he renounced his Pre­lacy.

[Page 60]1383. Philip de Courtney, Lord Lieutenant, and then

1385. Robert Vere, the ninth Earl of Oxford, a great Favourite of the Kings, was made Lord Lieutenant, having been created Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland the 10 of Richard 2. in which year the King furnished him with a great sum of Money, that he might go in­to Ireland to get Dominium quod sibi Rex donaverat. So Walsingham. Sed novus iste insolitus & umbratilis Coke of Ireland fol. 357. honor cito evanuit. Brook in his Catalogue of Nobility, saith more, to whom I refer you. He died in Lovania, 1392. in great anguish of mind and penury; leaving (saith Camd.) nothing but to his Tomb Titles, and to the World matter of Talk. He was buried at Colne in Essex, in great Funeral State, the King a Mourner. After all his pre­parations and full Charter even to [Page 61] pass all things with his own Teste. He (as some others) bore only the Title of Lieutenant, never going into Ireland, but deputed

1385. Sir John Stanley, his Lieu­tenant.

1387. Alexander de Balscot, alias Petit, Bishop of Meath, (who had been Treasurer and Chancellor of Ireland,) Lord Justice. He died at Ardbracan (a Village in Meath) the 10 of November 1400. and was bu­ried Ware de Praes. Hib. fol. 36. at Trim in St. Maries Mona­stery.

1389. Sir John Stanley (return­ing into Ireland) took his Oath of Lord Justice, Octob. 25. the Earl of Oxford ( nomine) being Lord Lieute­nant.

1392. James Earl of Ormond, Lord Justice; during whose Go­vernment the Earl of Oxford (under whom he was Justice) died (as we have said) in Lovania; yet he con­tinued [Page 62] his Government, his Patent being from the King, not determi­ning with the Earl of Oxfords death.

1394. Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Glocester, (who afterwards was treacherously strangled) going with an Army for Ireland ( cujus Insulae judum Rex creaverat eum Ducem) was suddenly recalled; and the same Walsing. Hypod. Neust. year,

King Richard 2. (having been slighted by the Princes of Germany, to whom by his Ambassadors he addressed himself to have been made Emperour) arrived at Wa­terford October 2. with an Army of 4000 men at Arms, and 30000 Ar­chers, the better to convince them of his Manhood. But returned at Shrovetide, being cheated by a feigned submission of the Irish. And Davies, p. 42. and forwards. at his return he left

Roger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ʋlster, Lord of Wigmore, Trim, [Page 63] Clare, and Connaght, Lord Lieute­nant. He was afterwards slain by O. Brien, &c. at Kenlis in Ossory July 20. 1398. on whose death

1398. Roger Gray was chosen Lord Justice in his stead.

The same year Thomas Holland, Duke of Surrey, Earl of Kent, and Lord Wake, half Brother to King R. 2. came to Dublin Lord Lieute­nant October 7. He was in 1400. be­headed Vincent on Brook, fol. 528 for conspiring to set up King Richard 2. after King Henry 4. had been established.

1399. King Richard the second time came into Ireland to revenge Mortimers death, and arrived at Waterford June 1. upon whose arri­val all things succeeded prospe­rously; for the Irish being divided into many Factions, and they not being united, the whole was sooner overcome. But in the height of these proceedings, Tidings came of [Page 64] Henry Duke of Lancasters prepara­tions and proceedings in England. Upon which the King quieted all things (at a great uncertainty) in Ireland, and having there impri­soned (in Trim Castle) the sons of the Duke of Glocester and Lancaster, he arrived (in three nights) at Mil­ford-haven in Wales, and thence mar­ched forwards to his Ruine, yield­ing himself up at Flint. At his dis­serting of Ireland we find not who was left Governour. But the time not being long betwixt Duke Hen­ries being setled in the Throne, and King Richard 2. coming out of Ire­land, we may probably conjecture, who commanded the Army, had al­so the Government of the Realm.

Sub HENRICO IV.

1399. Sir John Stanley was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Decemb. 10. Whilest he thus possessed the Government, I find in Ware, De Fol. 271. Praes. Hib. a Writ from H. 4. anno 1400. directed to Sir Thomas de Bur­go Knight, Justiciario suo in partibus Conaciae, ordering him to restore the Temporalities to Thomas Bishop Alladensis. And here that it might not be supposed that this Sir Thomas, entituled Justice, had thereby any other power then a Justiceship of Peace, or at most (as we now call it) the Presidentship of Connaght I could not but take notice hereof, not having met with the like presi­dent; the usual Writs (for the re­storing of Temporalities) being to the chief Governour only, as Justi­ciario [Page 66] Regis, of which in Prynns Hi­story of King John, H. 3. Ed. 1. are many Presidents.

1401. In May Sir John Stanley goes for England, and leaves Sir William Stanley of Holton in Wer­ral in Cheshire, in his place.

1401. August 23. Stephen Scroop, of which Family there was the Lord Scroop of Bolton Castle in Richmond­shire, arrived in Ireland, Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster (the Kings Son.)

He came into Ireland November 13. the same year; who going for England about Novemb. 11.

1403. Left Stephen Scroop his Deputy; and he going for England the first day of Lent, the Noblemen of Ireland chose

James Earl of Ormond Lord Ju­stice, who died at Gauran (or Rali­gauran) 1405. September 6. to whom succeeded

[Page 67]1405. Gerald Earl of Kildare.

1406. After Michaelmass Stephen Scroop returned into Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster, Lord Lieu­tenant. He died at Tristle-Dermot, Jan. 16. 1408.

1407. Scroop going this Year into England, James Butler Earl of Ormond, son of the former Earl, was elected by the Country, Lord Ju­stice.

1408. Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son, lands at Carlingford in Ireland August 2. Lord Lieutenant. The third of the Ides of March fol­lowing he returned for England. Afterwards ( viz.) March 22. 1421. S [...]w. he was slain at the Battle of Bangy by the Duke of Alanson. On his re­move he left

Thomas Butler Prior of Kilmainam his Deputy. During his Govern­ment ( viz. in the tenth year of the King) Hen. 4. gave the Sword to the [Page 68] City of Dublin, formerly governed by a Provost, as appears by their ancient Seal, called Signum Praeposi­turae, which in the 14 of Hen. 3. was governed by a Major with two Bai­liffs, which Bailiffs were changed into Sheriffs by Charter of Ed. 6. Camp. Hist. fol. 96. 1547. Since in the 17 year of King Charles 1. by a Patent dated July 29. at Westminster, the Government was changed into a Lord Major, though they took not up the Title till Michaelmass 1665. that

  • Sir Daniel Bellingham Knight, Goldsmith, for the Year begin­ning at Michaelmass, was made Lord Major, 1665.
  • John Desmynieres, Merchant, 1666.
  • Mark Quinne, Apothecary, 1667.
  • John Forrest, Merchant, and some­times Chandler, 1668.
  • Lewis Desmynieres, Merchant, 1669.
  • Enoch Reader, Merchant, 1670.
  • [Page 69] John Tottie, Merchant, and some­times Glover, 1671.
  • Robert Dery, Shoemaker, 1672.
  • Joshua Allen, Merchant, 1673.

Sub HENRICO V.

1413. The said Prior of Kilmai­nam continued Lord Justice, till that

1413. October 7. Sir John Stanley landed at Clantarfe near Dublin, Lord Lieutenant. He died Jan. 6. following at Ardee. He was the Son of John the Ancestor of the illu­strious Family of the Stanleys, first created Earl of Derby, Anno 1 H. 7. The transactions of whose Affairs in Ireland, were preserved (with other evidences) in the Eagle Tower at Lathum in Lancashire, till the Ruines of that magnificent Seat fell a Sacrifice to the Insolencies of the [Page 70] late Times, which the last Lord CHARLES (a person of exem­plary worth and humanity, who died Decemb. 1. 1672.) hath since raised up (with advantage) from its Loyal Rubbish, 1671.

Upon Sir John Stanleys death the 11. of February following, Thomas Cranley Archbishop of Dublin, twice Chancellour of Ireland, was elected Lord Justice. Of whom Ware writes De Praes. Hib. 12. fol. 115. that Vir fuit qui non modo ingenio verum etiam Calamo (utpote bonis in­structus Artibus) plurimum valuit; with which Elogie I may very well take up, but being that he was bu­ried in New Colledge Chappel in Ox­ford, of which he had been the first Warden, I may injure their Antiqui­ties not to insert his Epitaph, which so long they have admitted in their Sanctuary, though truly it neither bespeaks his worth, or the least in­genuity of those Times. He was [Page 71] sometimes Chancellor of Oxford. He died May 25. 1417. at Faring­don, and on a fair Stone in New Col­ledge Chappel inlaid with Brass, there is a Portraicture of a Bishop clothed in his sacred Vestments, over whom there is placed the Arms of the See of Dublin and his own, and under all this Inscription,

Incedens siste, locus Aspice quod te­net iste,
Annis bis denis pater almus alumnus Egenis,
Pontificis gratum Develyn Corpus tumulatum,
Sedet Sacratus fungens vice pontifi­catus.
Transfuga quem Cernis dum vita vi­ces variavit
Spiritus eripitur, non arte valens re­vocari.
[Page 72]Mors Carnis, vivit, sub Humo lectum sibi stravit,
Quaeso piis praecibus sibi viribus au­xiliari.

This Inscription incompasses the sides of the Stone.

Flori Pontificum Thomae Cranley, Deus istum
Annuit optatum funer is esse locum
Talem nutrivit locus is, quem postea rexit
Quo sibi quaesivit requiem cum lumi­na flexit
M C junge quater, I duples, V nume­rater
Invenies annum quo ruit iste Pater
Aldelmi festo cursu migravit ho­nesto
Qui circumstatis praecibus sibi sub­veniatis.

[Page 73]1414. Sir John Talbot, Lord Fur­nival and Verdon, lands at Dalkie in Ireland, September 10. Lord Lieu­tenant.

Whilest he was Lieutenant of Ire­land, Anno ( sci.) 1418. the Earl of Kilmain with 1600 men armed af­ter their fashion (which you may read in the year 1578. Pelham being Justice) came from Harflue, where they landed and did excellent ser­vice as they were commanded to attend in the Forrest of Lions; Truss. fol. 111. these were the first most considera­ble Forces drawn out of Ireland. When he left Ireland he substituted his Brother

1419. Richard Talbot, Archbi­shop of Dublin, Lord Justice, Ju­ly 22.

1420. James Butler, Earl of Or­mond, landed at Waterford April 4. Lord Lieutenant.

Sub HENRICO VI.

1422. The said Earl of Ormond continued Lord Lieutenant till that

1423. Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March and Ʋlster, was sent over Lord Lieutenant. He died of the Plague in the Castle of Trim in Ireland, 1424. the third year of King H. 6. Vincent on Brook, fol. 329. and was buried at Stoke near Clare.

1425. John Lord Talbot was made Lord Justice.

1426. James Butler Earl of Or­mond, Lord Justice. He died as it is conjectured, at Ormond-Place near Garlick-Hithe London, a noble seat of that Families, and was cer­tainly Stow Survey of London in 4 to. p 487. buried at St. Thomas of Acres, called Mercers Chappel, and Dame Joan his Countess, 1428.

1427. Sir John de Gray, Lord Lieutenant, arrived at Houth the [Page 75] last of July, and August 1. took his Oath. Who afterwards going for England left

1428. Edward Dantsey, Bishop of Meath, for a time Treasurer of Ware de Praes. fol. 36. Ireland, his Deputy. He died Jan. 4. 1428.

1428. The Right Noble and Right Gracious Lord, Sir John Sutton, (whether of Stourton Castle in Staf­fordshire, or of the Family of No­tingham, is uncertain) was made Lord Lieutenant; before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin the Friday after the Feast of All-Saints, in the 7 of this Kings Reign. Stat. Irel. fol. 3.

1429. Sir Thomas Strange was made Deputy to Sir John Sutton; probably this Strange came from Camd. Brit. fol. 48 [...]. Hunstanton in Norfolk.

1432. Sir Thomas Stanley was made Lord Lieutenant. He going for England constitutes

1432. Sir Christopher Plunket his [Page 76] Deputy a valiant and wise man, who in right of his Wife, heir of the Fa­mily Camd. Irel. fol. 95. of the Cusacks, was afterwards made Baron of Killin, and his se­cond Son Baron of Dunsany.

1435. Sir Thomas Stanley returns again Lord Lieutenant.

1436. Richard Talbot, Brother of John Earl of Shrewsbury, Archbishop of Dublin, was made Deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Lieute­nant.

1438. Lion Lord Wells, Lord Lieutenant, of Alford in Lincoln­shire, an ancient and Worthy Fa­mily.

1440. Richard Talbot, Archbi­shop of Dublin, Lord Justice, before whom a Parliament was held at Dub­lin in the 18 year of the Kings Reign.

The same Year James Earl of Or­mond, Lord Lieutenant, and before the end of the year

Lion Lord Wells again Lord Lieu­tenant. [Page 77] This I conceive was that worthy person, who not prevailing with his Son Sir Robert Wells to quit H. 6. Interests, was beheaded by Edw. 4. 1470. Speed, fol. 876.

1441. James Earl of Ormond, Deputy to the said Lion Lord Wells, to whom as it seems by Sir James Ware, de Praes. Hib. fol. 170. the Tem­poralities of the Bishoprick of Cas­sels (on the death of Richard O-He­dian) was ad firmam given for 10 years, that See being so long va­cant.

1442. William Wells Esq; Depu­ty to the said Lion Lord Wells.

1443 James Earl of Ormond was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, continuing till that

1446. John Earl of Shrewsbu­ry came over Lord Lieutenant, before whom a Parliament was held at Trim in 25 of H. 6. He was slain at Castilion upon Dordon near Bur­deaux [Page 78] July 20. saith Vincent, the Mo­nument saith July 7. through the shot of a Harquebush in his thigh after that he had given testimonie of his valour 24. years. Some would have him to be buried at Rhoan i [...] Normandy, but certainly he was in­terred at Whitchurch in Shropshire with this Epitaph; Vincent on Brook from Camd. fol. 598.

Orate pro anima Praenobilis Domini Domini JOHANNIS TALBOT quondam Comitis Salopiae, Domini Furnival, Domini Verdon, Domini Strange de Black-Mere, & Mare scalli Franciae. Qui obiit in Bello apud Burdews, Julii 7 [...] M. CCCC. LIII.

At his return to England he ac­cused Coke Jurisd. of Courts, fol. 124. the Earl of Ormond of High Treason before the Earl of Bedford Constable of England, in his Mar­shals Court, the King did abolish the Accusation.

[Page 79]1447. Richard Talbot Archbishop of Dublin, was appointed his Depu­ty under the title of Justice. He writ many things, but (saith Sir J. Ware de Scriptoribus Hiberniae) no­thing is extant but what he writ, De [...]busu Regiminis Jacobi Comitis Ormo­ [...]iae dum Hiberniae esset Locum tenens. Who by Thomas Fitz Thomas, Prior of Kilmainam, was appeached of Treason, and appointed the Com­bat, but took off (as is before men­tioned) by the King. He died Aug. Stows Survey of London in 4 to. p. 720. 15. 1449. and lies buried in St. Pa­tricks Church, with this Epitaph.

Talbot Richardus latet hic sub mar­more pressus,
Archi fuit Praesul hujus sedis Reve­rendae
Parvos Canonicos, qui fundavitque Choristas.
Anno Milleno, C quater, quater X quoque nono
[Page 80]Quindeno Augusti mensis mundo va [...] ledixit
Omnipotens Dominus cui propicietu [...] in aevum.

1449. Richard Plantagenet Duke of York, Chief of the Faction of the White Rose (Son and heir of Richard of Conesbury, Earl of Cambridge, se­cond Son of Edmund Langley Duke of York) was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He arrived at Houth July 5. the Rebels being very insolent against whom he so behaved himself that he not only suppressed them but ever after purchased the affe­ction of the Irish Nation firm and Trussel, fol. 151. entire to him; and having esta­blished Statutes and Ordinances in a great Council held at Dublin in Stat. Irel. fol. 13. the 28 Year of this Kings Reign; as also afterwards in a Parliament at Drohedagh in the said 28 Year o [...] Hen. 6. He going for England

[Page 81]1450. Made James Earl of Or­mond his Deputy; who

1453. Being besides Earl of Or­mond, Earl of Wiltshire, and Lord Treasurer of England (in the 33 of [...]. 6. and also again about the 37. [...]nd so continued till the 38 year) [...]as made Lord Lieutenant. He was [...] the first year of Edward the 4. be­ [...]eaded Vincent on Brook, fol. 593. at Newcastle 1461. which at­ [...]indor was taken off in a Parlia­ment at Westminster, begun in Nov. in the first year of H. 7. and Sir Th. Butler was invested in his Honours and Estate. At his leaving Ireland Ware, H. 7. An. 1 the same year,

John Mey Archbishop of Armagh, [...]as constituted his Deputy. He died Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 23. [...]456.

1454. Thomas Fitz Maurice, Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy.

1454. Sir Edward Fitz Eustace [...]night, was made Deputy to Richard Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant of [Page 82] Ireland. Before whom a Parliament Stat. Irel. f. 19. was held in the 32 of H. 6.

1456. Thomas Fitz Maurice, Earl of Kildare, Deputy to the Duke o [...] York, Lord Lieutenant; before whom the 33 of H. 6. there was hol­den a Parliament at Dublin, by seve­ral Prorogations at Naas and Dub­lin, Stat. Irel. f. 21. &c.

1459. Richard Duke of York Lord Lieutenant, came into Ireland having the Earldom of Ʋlster, and the Lordship of Connaght and Meath by descent from Lionel Duke of Cla­rence. He held a Parliament at Dro­gedagh Stat. Irel. f. 29. the 38 of H. 6. the Condi­tions on which he took the Govern­ment were;

  • 1. That he should be the King Lieutenant of Ireland for te [...] years.
  • 2. That to support the charge o [...] that Country, he should receiv [...] [Page 83] all the Kings Revenues there, both certain and casual, with­out accompt.
  • 3. That he should be supplied al­so with Treasure out of En­gland in this manner: He should have 4000 Marks for the first year, whereof he should be im­prested 2000 l. before hand, and for the other nine years he should receive 2000 per an­num.
  • 4. That he might let or farm any of the Kings Lands, and place or displace all Officers at his pleasure.
  • 5. That he might Levie or Wage what numbers of men he thought fit.
  • 6. That he might make a Deputy, and return at his pleasure.

All which he managed with so much advantage, as he greatly gai­ned [Page 84] upon the Nation, erecting only in Louth, Meath, and Kildare, some Castles to stop the Incursions of the Irishry. At his remove from thence (in pursuit of a Crown) the greatest part of the Nobility and Gentry o [...] Meath passed over with him into England, and were slain with him at Wakefield 1460. He was first buried at Pontfract, and afterwards remo­ved Vincent on Brook, fol. 621. to Fotheringhay.

Sub EDWARDO IV.

1460. Thomas Fitz Maurice, Ear [...] of Kildare, Lord Justice.

1462. Sir Rowland Fitz Eustace Knight, Lord of Port Leicester, Trea­surer of England, Deputy to George Duke of Clarence, third son of Ri­chard Duke of York, and Brother to King Edw. 4. born in the Castle o [...] Dublin, Lord Lieutenant; before [Page 85] whom was held a Parliament at Stat. Irel. f. 31. Dublin the 2 of Edw. 4. He died December 19. 1496. and was buried in the Covent of Minor Friers at Kilcullen (New-Abbey) whereof he had been Founder, but erected for himself and his Lady, a specious Monument in St. Audoenus Church Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 174. in St. Maries Chappel in Dublin. He had given him the Mannor of Port Leicester, and the Honour of a Par­liament Baron, by Edw. 4. as also Camd. Irel. f. 88. the Title of Viscount Baltinglass, by H. 8.

1463. George Duke of Clarence was made Lord Lieutenant for life, but as others held the Lieutenancy by substitutes; as

1463. Thomas Earl of Desmond, Deputy to the said Duke of Clarence, held a Parliament at Weys in the 3 Stat. Irel. f. 32. year of Edw. 4. as also at other places by Prorogations. He lost his head at Davies, p. 61. Drogedagh for the exactions of Coin and Livery.

[Page 86]1467. John Lord Tiptoft and Powes, Earl of Worcester, Treasurer of England in the 31 and 32 years of H. 6. also in the 2 and 3 of Edw. 4. in whose Reign he was made Consta­ble of England for life, Lord Depu­ty of Ireland to the Duke of Cla­rence. One of the most learned and eloquent men in Christendom. Of whom I may say what Pliny writes of Aristonis, Ʋt mihi non unus homo, Pliny Epist. p. 65. sed literae ipsae omnesque bonae artes in uno homine summum periculum adire videantur. So that in him more learning was struck off at one blow, than was left in the heads of the sur­viving Nobility. He was born at Fullers Worth. Everton in Cambridg shire, brought up in Baliol Colledge in Oxford. He held a Parliament at Dublin in the Stat. Irel. f. 40. 7. of this King. He was attainted by Parliament in England for taking part with Edw. 4. against King H. 6. who had then again resumed his Ti­tle [Page 87] with a grateful admittance into London, and was beheaded on Tower-hill 1470. and his body was Vincent on [...] Brook, f. 612. also Trussel fol. 194. buried in the Preaching Friers Lon­don.

1467. Thomas Fitz Maurice, Earl of Kildare, made Lord Justice, and

1471. Lord Deputy to George Duke of Clarence; before whom a Stat. Irel f. 44. Parliament was held at Naas the 12 of Edw. 4.

1475. William Sherwood, Bishop of Meath, Deputy to the Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant. In July Stat. Irel. f. 4 [...]. he held a Parliament at Dublin the 15 of Edw. 4. He died at Dublin December 3. 1482. and lies buried Ware de Praes. Hib. fol. 37. in the Church of St. Peter and Paul near Trim.

1478. Henry Gray, Lord Gray of Ruthin, a descendant of the Earls of Kent, Deputy to the said Duke of Clarence, and the same year

[Page 88]Sir Robert Preston Knight, descen­ded from the line of the Prestons in Lancashire, was Deputy to the said Henry Lord Gray, and before the end of the year

Gerald Earl of Kildare, was made Lord Justice; Vir licet spectatae for­titudinis rigidus tamen & Praeferox. He held a Parliament at Dublin the Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 171. 18 of the King, and

1479. The said Gerald Earl of Kildare, was made Deputy to Ri­chard of Shrewsbury Duke of York, second Son of Edw. 4. nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He held a Parliament at Dublin the 20 of Edw. 4.

Sub EDWARDO V.

1483. The said Earl of Kildare was continued Deputy.

Sub RICHARDO III.

1483. The said Earl of Kildare was first made Deputy to Edward the Kings Son; before whom sub exitum anni (writes Sir James Ware) De Antiq. Hib. p. 164. in Parliamento Dublinii incepto lata est lex de nummis adveteratis fi angen­dis. Edward the Kings son died 1484. the 2 of Richard 3. And af­ter Bakers Hist. R. 3. p. 43. the death of Edward the Kings Son, the said Earl of Kildare was made Lord Deputy to John de la Pole Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieute­nant; who was slain at Stokefield, taking part with Martin Swarth, June 20. the 2 of H. 7. 1487.

Sub HENRICO VII.

1485. Gerald Earl of Kildare was continued Deputy to the said Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieutenant. Whilest the Government was thus commit­ted to Kildare, Lambert Simnel (a Youth that carried a kind of fascina­tion in his Countenance) was sent thither out of the Burgundian Forge with a considerable Force under Martin Swarth, a German, accompa­nied with the Earl of Lincoln, the Lord Lovel, and other persons of Quality; who so smoothly carried their Design, as the Deputy, the Chancellour, Treasurer of Ireland, and some of the Bishops (all friends to the White Rose) conceived this Pretender to be the true Earl of War­wick, son of George Duke of Cla­rence, rightful Heir to the Crown of [Page 91] England; and thereupon had him solemnly Crowned in Christ Church Dublin, with a Crown taken off the head of the Statue of the blessed Vir­gin Mary, who (on such occasions it seems) takes it not ill to be di­vested of her Attire. Afterwards that Idol, with its complices, were defeated at Stokefield, and (which some account a notable subtilty in H. 7.) our Deputy the Earl of Kil­dare, with all the Council were not only pardoned, but continued in the same Government with Instru­ctions Ware, H. 7. Ann. 1487. suitable to the Time. And then

1491. He was made Deputy to Jasper Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford, Uncle to H. 7. Lord Lieutenant. After whom

1492. Walter Fitz Simons, Arch­bishop of Dublin, was made Depu­ty to the said Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, Lord Lieutenant; [Page 92] who held a Parliament at Dublin the 8 of H. 7. and was afterwards Chancellour; who in Synodo ab e [...] Dublinii celebrata Theologiae praelecto­ri salarium assignavit à se & Suffragiis suis annuatim pendendum; an Argu­ment the University formerly esta­blished by Archbishop Bicknor 1320. was not wholy neglected. He died at Finglass May 14. 1511. and was most honourably buried in Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 117. St. Patricks Church Dublin.

1493. Robert Preston, Viscount Gormanston, succeeded Deputy to the Duke of Bedford. He was the first Viscount Gormanston. He died the 5. of the Ides of April, 1541. He held a Parliament at Drogedagh, which was repealed the 10 of H. 7. Stat. Irel. fol. 67. because he had no power by his Commission to keep a Parliament; other causes are alledged also. The Duke of Bedford died Decemb. 21. Vincent on Brook, fol. 50. 1495. the 11 of H. 7.

[Page 93] Gormanston quitted his Govern­ment

The same year to his Son, as his Vicar or Deputy; who surren­dred Ware, H. 7. f. 38. it

1494. To Sir Edward Poynings, Knight of the Garter, and one of the Privy Council in England, designed Deputy, Decemb. 13. and was sworn at Dublin not long after. He held a Parliament at Drogedagh in the 10 of the King; wherein (besides many Acts of notable importance) he passed an Act, That no Parlia­ment should be holden in Ireland until the Acts were first certified into England, and thence returned with the Royal Assent under the Great Seal; which hath been the grand security of what the English hath since enjoyed. Then also it was enacted, That all the Statutes made in England to that time, should also be in force in Ireland. So making [Page 94] (saith my Lord Bacon) some com­pensation for the meagreness of his Service in the War. Also there past an Act that the Lords of Ireland should appear in the like Parlia­ment Robes in the Parliament of Ireland, as the English Lords are wont to wear in the Parliament of England. Which some of them put on not with less regret than ours would their Trowses; as Tirlagh Lynnagh who was suffered to bea [...] the Title of O-Neal, after it was dam'd by an Act of Parliament. He Davies, p. 254. died an old man, Anno 1522. He Ware, H. 8. f. 113 going for England in Jan.

1495. Leaves Henry Dean, then Bishop of Bangor (writes Ware) but not till the Year following (saith Godwin,) only Prior of Lanthony De Praes. Angl. Abbey, and Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Justice. A person of great prudence, soon detecting the Impo­sture of Perkin Warbeck. Dean died [Page 95] Archbishop of Canterbury at Lam­beth, Febr. 15. 1502. and lies bu­ried in the Martyrdom at Canterbury under a fair Marble stone inlaid Godw. de Praes. Ang. p. 191. with Brass.

1496. August 6. Gerald Earl of Kildare, was made Lord Lieutenant; before whom, August 26. at Tristle­dermort was held a Parliament in the [...]4 H. 7.

1503. In April, Walter Fitz Si­mons, Vir gravis & eruditus, Arch­bishop of Dublin, succeeded Depu­ty to the said Earl of Kildare: and in August the same Year quitted the Sword to

Gerald Earl of Kildare, ( magno tum honore & novis instructionibus) returning out of England Lord De­puty, maugre all the malice of his adversaries.

Sub HENRICO VIII.

1509. The said Gerald Earl o [...] Kildare continued his Government with a new Patent, under the Title of Justice, though the year following he was made Deputy; holding a Parliament by several Prorogations at Dublin in the 7 of H. 8▪ And 1513. in August at Athy he fe [...] sick, from whence he was carried t [...] Kildare, where Sept. 3. he died. Q [...] licet magnis difficultatibus diu conflictatus fuerit, posteriora tamen tempora magna animi tranquillitate reb [...] semper ferè ad vota fluentibus transegit Ware, H. 8. He was buried in Trinity Church Dublin, in a Chappel erected by himself. This Gerald Earl of Kildare Camd. Irel. fol. 100. had been at several times 3 [...] years Lord Deputy of Ireland which (had he not been a person o [...] [Page 97] sigular Parts) he could never have [...]een entrusted with.

1513. His Son Gerald Earl of [...]ildare, was Senatus Regis assensu, [...]eing then Treasurer, made Lord [...]ustice. A custom, mos per vicissi­ [...]dines ab antiquo mansit in Hibernia, [...] deinceps jam mansurus est in poste­ [...]m, Anno enim 33 H. 8. Cap. 2. Li­ [...]irici sancitur: ut vel moriente Re­ [...]i Praefecto seu Deputato, vel ex oc­ [...]sione▪ succedente: Regis illic Consi­ [...]rii, Anglum elegant in Justiciarium [...] Gubernatorem Regni, Regio bene­placito Spelm. Gloss. fol. 334. duraturum, that had been [...]ng used on the death of the Princi­ple Officer, as is evident by an Act, [...]ntituled, An Act for the Electing [...]e Lord Justice, the 23 of H. 8. therein it is enacted that none should be elected but who is an English man, born within the Realm of England, being no spiritual per­son. Afterwards by a Patent from [Page 98] England, he was made Lord Deputy. Who in the 7 year of H. 8. hel [...] a Parliament at Dublin, begun February 25.

1515. June 13. Willam Preston Viscount Gormanston was declare [...] Lord Justice, but forthwith put ou [...] and the said Earl of Kildare wa [...] continued Lord Deputy; who going for England

1519. Leaves, Regia licentia pri [...] impetrata, Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice [...] Lackagh, a Knight of his own Family, Lord Justice.

1520. A little before Whitsontide Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey, elder Son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, Admiral of England, Wales, and Ireland Knight of the Garter, was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, magis ex od [...] Kildarium (whom Wolsey hated quam ex amore erga Surreium, sait [...] Polid. Virg. mentioned by Sir James Ware (as in the later Ages and for Fol. 99. [Page 99] mer too) others have been advan­ced thither on the like Principles. [...]e held a Parliament at Dublin, June 4. 1521. in the 13 of H. 8. by several Prorogations. About Christ­mass following he went into En­gland, where having discharged the weightiest employment of his King with much integrity and honour, as he had done here and in France, Scotland, and elsewhere, being a great Master of Wisdom through long experience: he fell at last in­to this Kings displeasure, his son ( ingenio florenti & eruditione magna traeditus) being accused, and after­wards beheaded for quartering King Idward the Confessors Arms with his, though ex sententia faecialium; for which our Lieutenant (now Duke of Norfolk) was also commit­ted Prisoner to the Tower, though he had (saith the Lord Cherbury) eis much merit of ancient Service to [Page 100] plead for him, as any Subject of his time could pretend to. He laya long time Prisoner there, at last was sent against Wiat with an inconside­rable handful (made up for the greatest part) of the Kings Guards; but not succeeding (having been ever before prosperous) laid it much to heart, and being tossed to and fro betwixt the reciprocal Ebbs and Fluxes of Fortune, died in Sept. Vincent on Brook, fol. 357 1554. in the 1 and 2 year of Philip and Mary, at Keninghal in Norfolk. When he went for England he left

1521. His intimate Friend Pierce Butler, Earl of Ormond, (after Earl of Ossory) a near Allie of Thomas, who died in London, and was buried Stows Survey of London, in 4 to. p. 487. in Mercers Chappel 1515. Quo sub­ditum ditiorem, si vera sint quae de eo traduntur, Anglia, eo tempore, non vidit; about Christmass was left Lord Deputy.

1524. Gerald Earl of Kildare was [Page 101] made Lord Deputy about Midsum­mer; who caused Maurice Cava­ [...]agh, Arch-deacon of Leghlyn, to be hung on a Gibbet, and his bowels burnt, for most wickedly killing his Dioecesan, Maurice Do­ran at Glen-Reynold, a man much praised for his excellent manners Ware De Praes. Hib. fol. 157. and elegance in preaching. Kildare being sent for into England, was by Cardinal Wolseys subtle means, or­dered to be beheaded in the Tower, and the Execution had certainly been done, had not the Lieutenant of the Tower favouring Kildare, ac­quainted the King therewith; who not only respited his death, but re­turned him with honour into Ire­land, Cherb. H. 8. fol. 208. checking the Cardinals pre­sumption. Upon his being sent for into England, he

1526. Left (in his stead) Tho­mas Fitz Gerard of Leixlip, Lord Deputy. The same year he going [Page 102] off, Richard Nugent, Baron of Del­vin, was (in his stead) left Lord De­puty. He was taken Prisoner by O­Connor, 1538. treacherously, du­ring a Pa [...]ley between them. He de­scended of Gilbert Nugent, to whom (behaving himself valiantly) Hugh Lacy gave Lands in Meath.

1528. Pierce Butler then Earl of Ossory (the Title of the Earl of Or­mond, which to that time he had born, being descended of the Earls race, was conferred on Thomas [...]ul­lin Viscount Rochford,) who à Senatu Regio, was chosen Lord Deputy in Delvins stead.

1530. Sir William Skeffington, Stat. Irel. f 7. Lord Deputy to Henry Fitz Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset, base son of H. 8. L. Lieut. of Ireland

1532. Gerald Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy to the said Duke of Richmond, &c. L. Lieutenant; and being sent for into England, left in [Page 103] his stead his eldest son (as one for whose doing he would answer) ut pro cujus fidelitate ipse vellet fide jubere.

1534. Thomas, then scarce 21 years old, his Deputy. A Youth of a hot and active Brain, who having intelligence (though false) that his Father was beheaded in England, (indeed he was imprisoned in the Tower) immediately flung up the Insignia Regalia to Cromer Chancel­lor of Ireland, bidding defiance to the King and his Ministers, slaying in his fury Dr. John Allin Archbishop of Dublin, near Clantarfe, Febr. 28. in the 58 year of his age, committing besides many outrages (the Father Gerald E. of Kildare dies in the Tower oppressed with the news of his Sons inconsiderateness) upon which

1534. Sir W. Skeffington L. Deputy arrived at Dublin Octob. 21. and died at Kilmainam about the end of Decem. and was honourably buried (accor­ding [Page 104] to his dignity) in St. Patricks Church, though afterwards a Monu­ment was erected for him at Skef­fington in Leicestershire from whence he descended; since demolished by the Impiety of the last Age.

1535. Leonard Lord Gray, son of Thomas Gray, Marquess Dor [...]t, created Viscount of Garny in Ire­land, Jan. 1. was made Lord Depu­ty Davies, p. 238. to Henry Duke of Richmond and Sommerset. The Duke died at St. James's House beyond Charing Cross, in the 16 year of his Age, July 22. Anno 1535. and was buried at Thetford in Norfolk. Our Deputy Vincent on Brook, fol. 173. held a Parliament in the 28 of H. 8. by several Prorogations. Wherein amongst other Acts, Thomas late Earl of Kildare was with some others at­tainted for the Insolencies he had done during his Deputyship. Which Act was repealed in the 11 year of Queen Eliz. the Earl of Kildare's [Page 105] Brothers and Sisters being thereby restored to their Blood, as in King Edw. 6. his Reign; Gerald (Earl Thomas's Brother) was restored to his ancient Inheritance, and by Q. Mary May 14. 1554. to his Honour and Baron of Offaly; who returning the same Year into Ireland, was re­ceived with great Applause by the people, though his Brother had been beheaded and 5 Uncles hanged at Herb. of H. 8. f. 389. Ware de Pras. Hib. fol. 118. Tiburn, Febr. 3. 1537. And it was further also enacted in this Parlia­ment, that the King his Heirs and Successors should be Supream Head of the Church of Ireland, prohibit­ing Stat. Irel. f. 1 [...]1 also Appeals to Rome. This Lord Gray was in the Year 1541. beheaded on Tower-hill about June 25. for having, (as it was conjectu­red) joined with Cardinal Pool and others of the Kings Enemies; not­withstanding his good Service a­gainst O-Donnel and O-Neal; as al­so [Page 106] in France and other places: the Council of Ireland (with whom he often wrangled) having much pre­judiced Herb. fol. 469. him in the Kings thoughts. At his going for England

1540. Sir William Brereton after­wards Marshal of Ireland, Ancestor of the Breretons of Brereton in Che­shire, since Baron of Laghlin in Ire­land was left Justice, who died the same year at Kilkenny, in his journey towards Limerick, and was buried in St. Canicus's Church in Kilkenny.

1540. Sir Anthony St. Leger, a Kentish man, Ʋnus Nobilium Secre­tioris Camerae Regis, July 25. Lord Deputy, sworn in Trinity Church in Dublin, in this form, viz.

YOu shall swear that you shall faithfully and truly to your power, serve our Sove­reign Lord the Kings Majesty in the Room and Authority of Lord Deputy and Chief Gover­nour [Page 107] of this his Realm of Ire­land, you shall maintain and de­fend the Laws of God and the Christian Faith: You shall to your power not only keep his Majesties Peace amongst his People, but also maintain his Officers and Ministers in the execution and administration of Justice: You shall defend his Majesties Castles, Garrisons, Dominions, People and Sub­jects of this Realm, and repress his Rebels and Enemies: You shall not consent to the Damage and Disherizen of his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors; nei­ther shall you suffer the right of the Crown to be destroyed by any way, but shall let it to your power; and if you cannot let the same, you shall certifie his Majesty clearly and expresly [Page 108] thereof: You shall give your true and faithful Counsel for the Kings Majesties Profit; and his Highness Council you shall conceal and keep: All other things for the preservation of his Majesties Realm of Ireland, the Peace amongst his People, the execution of his Justice accor­ding to his Majesties Laws, Vsages, and Customs of this his Highness Realm, you shall perform and do to your power. So God you help and the Con­tents of this Book.

Before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin, June 13. the 33 of H. 8. in which it was enacted that the King and his Successors should be Kings of Ireland, not but that be­fore by the name of Lord of Ireland, they had all Sovereign Jurisdiction and Preheminence, but as a Title [Page 109] more repleat with Majesty, ut dum colit terras ipso nomine & titulo Regis Consecraretur; which Title the 7 of Brents Counc. of Trent. f. 392 the Ides of June 1555. Paul the 4. Bishop of Rome confirmed, not be­ing able to take away that which H. 8. had before decreed. To him the Irishry and degenerate English make their several submissions by Indenture; as formerly to H. 2. to King John, to Edw. 1. to Richard 2. and now to Sir Anthony St. Leger in 33 of H. 8.

1543. Sir Anthony going into England, leaves Febr. 10. Sir Wil­liam Brabazon, Lord Justice.

1544. Sir Anthony St. Leger Kt. of the Garter, August 11. the second time arrives at Dublin, Lord De­puty: who going for England

1546. Leaves Sir William Braba­zon, the second time Lord Justice, who took his Oath in Christ Church ware fol. 173. Dublin, April 1.

Sub EDWARDO VI.

1547. The said Sir Anthony St. Leger continued Governour first under the title of Lord Justice, the Deputy. He overcame the OBirns, &c. To him was sent from England Sir Edward Billingham unus è nobilibus Secretioris Camer [...] Regis, titulo Capitanei, Generalis Vi [...] fortitudine & militari scientia clarus with 600 Horse and 400 Foot, wh [...] so powerfully pursued the O-More and O-Connars, as they submitted t [...] ware, fol. 178. the Deputy: for which Service he was Knighted and made Marshal o [...] Ireland.

1548. Sir Edward Billingham landed at Dalkie in the Vigils o [...] Whitsontide, and the second day af­ter received the Sword in Trinity Church Dublin. Brian O-Connar [Page 111] and Patrick O-More great Lords of [...]ix and Offaly, whom he had for­merly subdued, St. Leger takes with him into England, to whom the King gives a yearly Pension of 100l. [...] piece. O-More dies at London within the year, the ensuing year Billingham being maligned by some [...]f the Council, is called into En­gland, at whose departure the Coun­cil of Ireland offered him Commen­datory Letters; to which he re­plied, that Credo Resurrectionem [...]rtuorum, if my innocency cannot protect me, subterfugies shall not do it; my Enemies may kill me, but not conquer me. He died in England the year following, more of grief than a disease, after that he had clea­red himself of the accusation, and it was resolved to have sent him a­gain Deputy into Ireland. He was a fervent Protestant and an excel­lent Governour, spending his whole [Page 112] allowance in Hospitality, calling th [...] So Camp. and the Writers of the last Ages. same his dear Masters meat, none [...] his own cost. He took Ship a [...] Houth, Decemb. 16. And

1549. The Chancellor and other having the Kings leave, elect Sir F [...] Brian Marshal of the Army, the King Favourite, Lord Justice during th [...] Kings pleasure, who in Christ Church Dublin was sworn Decemb. 29. An [...] Febr. 2. he died at Clonmel, advancing against O-Carol, and was buried in the Cathedral Church i [...] Waterford in great State.

1549. February 2. Sir William Brabazon Vice Treasurer, was made Lord Justice the third time; who effectually pursued Charles (Mac­art) Cavenach who of late had flown again into Rebellion. Brabazon died the 7. of the Ides of July, in the Tents in Ʋlster, and was buried in Trinity Church Dublin, and his Heart carried into England.

[Page 113]1550. Sir Anthony St. Leger, a­bout September 10. arrived at Dub­ [...]n the fourth time Lord Deputy; [...] whom Charles ( Mac-art) Cave­ [...]ch submitted himself, solemnly renouncing before him, the Council, [...]d many Lords, the name Mac­ [...]urrogh. On the surrender of Bul­ [...]in to the French, they paid a con­siderable sum, 8000 l. of which [...]ame for Ireland, with 400 men, with a charge that the Laws of En­gland should be there administred, and the Mutinous severely suppres­sed; Sir John Hayw. in the life of Edw. 6. p. 280. and (saith my Author) it may seem strange that among all the hor­rible Hurries in England, Ireland was then almost quiet; which must be imputed either to the Kings with­drawing much People thence, which otherwise would have disquieted affairs at home; or else to his choice of Governours, whom neither the Nobility disdained, nor the Inferi­ours [Page 114] were pressed to supply by violent courses.

1551. Sir James Crofts of Cro [...] Castle in Herefordshire, whose he (Herbert Crofts) is the present Bishop of Hereford, 1673. unus Nob [...] lium Secretioris Camerae Regis, Apr [...] 29. was designed Deputy, but coming to Dublin whilest St. Leger wa [...] in Munster, he received not th [...] Sword till May 23. at Cork, whe [...] St. Leger then was. During his tim [...] even this year, a King of Arms, Herald named Ʋlster, was first instituted for Ireland, his Provinc [...] was all Ireland; and the first tha [...] had it was Nicholas Narbon. Th [...] Liturgy in English was also this yea [...] printed in Dublin and injoined b [...] Authority. Many memorable Act [...] he did in Ireland. He repaired th [...] Castle of Belfast, and placed there [...] Garrison. Coming for England h [...] was certified by Sir Henry Knowls, [Page 115] that Mary Dowager of Scotland had [...]ent O-Connors son into Ireland to give encouragement to a new Insur­rection, which, by his prudence, de­ferring his Journey, he prevented without noise, and took Ship for England at Houth, Decemb. 4. 1552. He was in the second year of Queen Mary, accused of Wiats Conspiracy, [...]ut by the favour of the King and Queen set at liberty from the Tower, and in Queen Eliz. Reign made a Privy Counsellor, Gover­nor of Berwick, and Controller of the Queens Court, and a Delegate at the Treaty of Bourbourg. He died at Whitehall, Camd. writes about the year 1590. His heir that now is, says in the year 1595. or the year following, and was buried in West­minster Abbey.

1552. Sir Thomas Cusack of Cof­ington in Meath, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Gerald Ailmere, Chief Ju­stice, [Page 116] [...] [Page 117] [...] [Page 114] [...] [Page 115] [...] [Page 116] of the Kings Bench, Decemb. 4 [...] were in Trinity Church Dublin, [...] Proceribus & Senatu Regio, constituted Lords Justices.

Sub MARIA Regina.

1553. The said Justices (as the present Governours) were writ to by the Council of England, who July 29. certified the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland of the death o [...] King Edw. and the right of Q. Mary Whose Right in Dublin and other places, they took care immediately to proclaim; the Judges Places and the rest being speedily confirmed by new Patents.

1553. Novemb. 11. Sir Anthony St. Leger, landing at Dalkie, came to Dublin, where the 19 of the same Month, he was the fifth time swor [...] in Trinity Church Dublin, a Praede▪ [Page 117] cessoribus suis Cusaco & Ailmero, Lord Deputy. He died in Kent (where he was born) as I take it at Ʋlcomb, the ancient Mansion of the Family Camd. Brit. fol. 331. de Sancto Leodegario, corruptly Sent Leger, & Sellenger, March 12. 1559. Ʋtriusque fortunae tam prosperae quam adversae particeps verissima rerum humanarum in hoc mundo Imago. Ware of this Q.

1556. April 27. Thomas Radcliff Viscount Fitz Walter, at Westm. was nominated L. Deputy. He arrived at Dublin on Whitsunday, and two days after took the Oath of Deputy in Christ Church Dublin. He held a Parliament, annis 3 & 4 Phil. & Mariae at which time Patre jam mor­tuo, he was stiled Earl of Sussex, passing many Acts to the benefit of the Nation, and returned into En­gland Stat. Irel. f. 246 Decemb. 4. when

1557. Hugh Curwin of Westmore­land, Doctor of the Civil Law, Arch­bishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, [Page 118] and Sir Henry Sidney Treasurer, Decemb. 5. à Stanleio Marescallo re­ceived the Sword as Justices. On which occasion it may not be unsea­sonable to take notice of the emi­nent and honourable Office of Mar­shal, as well as of this noble person to whom (of all others) this trust (of delivering the Sword unto the Supream Officers) was committed, properly it is a Military office re­straining as well the insolencies of Souldiers as of Rebels, yet it hath power to try or determine all ap­peals made of things done out of the Realm, as Piracy, the justice of Generals to Souldiers, &c. also it hath conuzance of contracts of Deeds of Arms, which cannot be determined by the Common Law but the Civil only, secundum legem armorum, of which after sentence, there lies no forfeiture of Lands, or corruption of Bloud. By inheri­tance [Page 119] it was seated in the Barons of Morley, anno 9. Reg. Joh. but how alienated I am not certain, nor am I convinced that it is invested (though it be great) in Ireland, as the Earls Marshals are honoured with in England; a Title never gi­ven to that Officer till the 20 of R. 2. that Thomas Maubrey Duke of Nor­folk had Earl affixed to his Title of Marshal. Though we find the use of it of great consequence in Ireland, never committed but to Persons of Honour, under whom (according to the occasions) there is one or two Provost Marshals limited by instru­ctions under the Great Seal of Ire­land. Archbishop Curwin was after­wards translated to Oxford, where af­ter one year he died at Swinbroch near Burford, and there in the Paro­chial Church was buried, Novemb. 1. 1568.

1557. Febr. 6. Sir Henry Sidney [Page 120] was sworn Lord Deputy in Christ Church Dublin, and so continued till that

1558. Thomas Radcliff Earl of Sussex, Viscount Fitz Walter, April 27. returned out of England with 500 men, and was sworn Lord De­puty on Sunday May 1. in Christ Church Dublin; doing that Year ex­cellent Service against the Scots in Ʋlster, and Donald O-Brien in Thoo­mond in September. He took Ship at Dalkie with the Forces he brought out of England, and others raised at Dublin, and went against Island Rachlin and the Islanders, and left

1558. Sir Henry Sidney his De­puty, who took the Oath of Lord Justice in Christ Church Dublin on Sunday September 18. the same year

1558. Thomas Radcliff Earl of Sussex returning from his Scottish Expedition, was again sworn Lord [Page 121] Deputy in Trinity Church Dublin, Novemb. 10. where he gave to the Chancellor Curwin a new Great Seal of Ireland, as also particular new Seals to the principal Judges of o­ther Courts.

Sub ELIZABETHA Regina.

1558. The said Thomas Earl of Sussex (who on the decease of Queen Mary was found Deputy) was by a new Commission so continued; who with a Garrison of 320 Horse, and 1360 Foot, had kept Ireland in a peaceable and quiet condition. Camd. Ann [...] Eliz. 1. To whom succeeded

1559. Sir Henry Sidney Knight, President of Wales, Deputy. During whose absence in Ireland, Dr. John Whitgift Bishop of Worcester, after­wards Archbishop of Canterbury, was for two years and an half, Quam­diu [Page 122] nimirum Sidnaeus Prorex Hiber­niae praefuit Vice President of Wales. Vir optimus & eruditissimus, writes Camden, qui & Justitia in Walliae pro­praefectura & Doctrina in Ecclesiasti­ca Angliae Politeia propugnanda, sin­gularem laudem consequutus, quam for­titudine prudentia & patientia indies adauxit. Godw. de Praes. Angliae. Here Pag. 223. by the way we may take notice (of an Honour incident to the Clergy) that besides this Reverend Prelate, seve­ral others of his Function have been in this Office; and the first Presi­dent of Wales was William Smith Bi­shop of Lincoln, who continued in the Government from the 17 of H. 7. to the 4 of H. 8. at which time he Godw. de Praes. Angl. p. 360. died.

1559. Thomas Earl of Sussex, Kt. of the Garter, arrived at Bullock, August 27. Lord Lieutenant, and Camd. Eliz. p. 43. was sworn in Christ Church Dublin, August 30. having in charge strict­ly [Page 123] to look to the Irish, who being a superstitious Nation, may easily be seduced to Rebellion through the practices of the French (then at dif­ference with England) under prae­text of Religion; before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin, Jan. 12. 2. Eliz. wherein Acts of great consequences were past; as the re­storing to the Crown the ancient Ju­risdiction of the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual, and abolishing all fo­reign Power, repugnant to the same; also for the Uniformity of the Com­mon Prayer, for Consecrating of Bishops, and the Queens Title to the Imperial Crown of Ireland, with Stat. Irel. fol. 259. many others. After which he went for England, and

1559. Sir William Fitz Williams, Febr. 15. was sworn in Christ Church Dublin Lord Justice; during whose Government ( viz. anno 1560.) Q. Elizabeth (amongst the most com­mendable [Page 124] Actions of her Govern­ment) reduced Coin to its full va­lue, much debased through her Fa­thers excessive expence, and stam­ped for Ireland Coin called Ster­ling, of which the shilling in Ireland passed for 12 d. and in England 9 d. Yet (though affairs were carried thus honourably to her advantage) in the Year 1601. the Lord Buck­hurst (very skilful in Money mat­ters) got her to mingle Brass with the Money that she sent into Ireland, by reason that the War in Ireland stood her Majesty yearly in 160000l sterl. which the Souldiers suffered without mutiny, having a true Re­verence for that Lady, though not without loss, and in effect not much to her service, the Reputation of a Prince being in nothing preserved more entire than in the just value of their Coin. Hence it was that when the Earl of Leicester, Anno 1585. [Page 125] was sent into Holland, one of this excellent Princesses charges to him was, to know by what Art they en­hanced or put down the value of their Money, (in which Art they excelled all others) lest the Soul­dier should receive that at a higher rate than they could put it off for. And to this effect Sir George Carew in his Letter to the Council of En­gland, mentioned in Pacata Hiber­nia, writes that it was impossible to prevent a confusion in the State, if the People might not be put in some certain hope that upon the end of the War the now Standard should be abolished or eased.

1561. Thomas Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant, arrived at Dublin, and was sworn in Christ Church Dublin, June 25.

1561. Sir William Fitz Williams, Lord Justice, was sworn in Christ Church, Jan. 22.

[Page 126]1562. Thomas Earl of Sussex, July 24. Lord Lieutenant; who amongst other things did excellent Service in reducing the Irish Countries in­to Shires, and placing therein She­riffs and other Ministers of the Law, as Annaly in Leinster he made a Shire, calling it the County of Long­ford, and the Province of Connaght he divided into 6 Counties, viz. Clare (which contains all Thoomond) Gallaway, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, and Leitrim. He died at his house at Bermondsey in Southwark, June 9. 1583▪ and was honourably buried at New-Hall in Essex July 9. follow­ing. At his departure from Ire­land, having setled things in excel­lent order,

1565. Sir Nicholas Arnold of the County of Gloucester Knight, May 25. was made Lord Justice; to whom was assigned only a Garrison of 1596 Souldiers, with which he [Page 127] kept peace, but gained nothing. Being recalled into England, sur­renders his Government

1565. To Sir Henry Sidney; who in the time of Queen Mary had been Judge and Treasurer of Ireland, now President of Wales, Jan. 20. Lord Deputy; before whom a Parlia­ment was held at Dublin, Jan. 17. in the 11 of Eliz. many things be­ing acted therein greatly to the ad­vantage of the State; and a Subsidy granted considering the infinite masses of Treasure able to purchase a King­dom, that her most noble Progenitors, the famous Princes of England had exhausted for the Governments De­fence, and Preservation of them and her Majesties Realm of Ireland, large­ly Fol. 297. expressed in the Act. In which Parliament also (which had several Prorogations) Shane O-Neal was at­tainted, and the name extinguished. Fol. 309. In which Act also the Kings ancient Fol. 315. [Page 128] Titles to Ireland are recited. Thus having setled Affairs, he took Ship towards England at Houth, Octob. 9. having with good success discomfit­ed Shane O-Neal, who after his re­turn from England, where the Queen 1563. had graciously received him into favour, he most treacherously went into Rebellion, and affected the Title of King of Ʋlster. In the year of this Governours admit­tance, he institutes Wareham St. Le­ger first President of Mounster, with an Assessor, two Lawyers and a Clerk; the same Government he also constituted in Connaght.

1567. Dr. Weston, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Will. Fitz-Williams Treasu­rer at War, Octob. 14. Lord Justices. Weston was thought a prudent and upright man, for whom I find this Epitaph in St. Patricks Church Dub­lin on a Monument very stately ere­cted, principally in memory of the [Page 129] Relations of Richard Earl of Cork; upon the uppermost seat of which, [...]s Dr. Westons Effigies with this In­scription:

Here lieth interred the Body of that Re­verend and Honou­rable Gentleman, Robert Weston Esq Doctor of the Civil and Canon Laws, Grandfather to the Lady Katherine Countess of Cork, [...]ing sometimes one [...]f the Lord Justices [...] Ireland, and for [...]x years Lord Chan­cellour of the Realm. A small Coat of ARMS betwixt Who was so Learned, Judicious, and Ʋp­right in the Court of Judicature all the time of that imploy­ment. He never made Order or De­cree that was que­stioned or reversed. He changed this mortal life for an e­ternal life, May 20. 1573. whose honou­rable memory no time shall extinguish.

[Page 130]1568. Sir Henry Sidney, Octob. 20 Lord Deputy. He took Ship for England from the Key at Dublin March 25.

1571. When Sir William Fitz Williams the April ensuing was swor [...] Lord Justice in St. Patricks Church Dublin, and Jan. 13. eodem anno, the said Sir William Fitz Williams was made Lord Deputy.

1575. Sir Henry Sidney, Septemb▪ 18. returned into Ireland Lord De­puty; where having pacified seve­ral Rebellions, and that not with so much Rigor as excellent Conduct having (at several times) been 1 [...] years Justice and Deputy of Ireland so as that Kingdom is much indebt­ed to him for his Wisdom and Valour▪ He Septemb. 12. 1578. took Boat a [...] the Wood Key in Dublin for En­gland; he died at Worcester May 5. 1586. and was buried amongst his Ancestors at Penshurst: of whom [Page 91] Dr. Powel in his Epistle to the Rea­der in his History of Wales, writes that his Disposition was rather to seek after the Antiquities and the Weal publick of those Countries. He governed then to obtain Lands and Revenues within the same, for I know not one foot of Land that he had either in Wales or Ireland, cujus potentiam nemo sentit, nisi aut Levatione periculi aut accessione Dig­nitatis, justly applicable to him, Vel. Pater. f. 109. He caused the Irish Statutes to his time to be prin­ted, Ware de Script. Hib. p. 136. & sic ex umbra in solem eduxit. And besides many other Monuments yet surviving his equal and just Government, we must not let pass the Great Expence and Care which he bestowed upon the Castle of Dub­lin, at first built, Anno 1213. by John Comin Archbishop of Dublin, a learned facetious and solid Person, afterwards beautified and enlarged [Page 132] by Sir Henry Sidney, in memory of whom, Stanihurst (that Venerable Hi­storian) hath left these to Poste­rity:

Gesta libri referunt multorum clara virorum,
Laudis & in chartis stigmata fixa manent:
Verum Sidnaei laudes haec saxa lo­quuntur,
Nec jacet in Solis gloria tanta li­bris.
Si libri pereant, homines remanere valebunt,
Si pereant homines ligna manere queant;
Ligna si pereant, non ergo saxa peri­bunt,
Saxa si pereant tempore, tempus erit,
Si pereat tempus, minimè consumitur aevum,
Quod cum principio, sed sine fine manet.
[Page 133]Dum libri florent, homines dum vi­vere possunt
Dum quoque cum lignis saxa ma­nere valent,
Dum remanet tempus; dum denique remanet aevum,
Laus tua Sidnaei, digna perire ne­quit.

1578. Sir William Drury born at Bausted in Suffolk, of a Worshipful Family, late Governour of Berwick, a man of great experience and in­tegrity, who Septemb. 14. was sworn Lord Justice in Christ Church Dub­lin. He advanced afterwards a­gainst Desmond, but at Waterford 1579. he died. A man of approved worth, having been trained up from his Youth in the exercise of War in France, Scotland, and Ireland. After whose decease

1579. Sir Will. Pelham of Laugh­ton in Sussex was made Lord Justice [Page 134] the 11 of October; during whose short Government he constrained the Baron of Lixnaw to yield, and besieged Carrigfoil in Kerry, kept by Jules an Italian, and some Spaniards, entering at length by force the Ca­stle, 1580. atchieving besides many other things to his honour. He was af­terwards General of the English Camd. Eliz. in this year 1586 Horse in the Low-Countries, under whom, besides his own Country­men, there were Scots and Irish; and that the manner of their fight­ing may be clear, I shall not think to impose much on the Reader, what incomparable Strada hath registred in this point. Anno 1586. Erant h [...] Lib. 8. p. 404. Angli plerique & Scoti quibus se addi­derant ductore Hiberniae Prorege (Pel­ham) Hiberni 1400 è sylvestri omnes genere atque ferino medio tantum cor­pore subter umbilicum velati caetera nudi grallis seu pertiris, quarum usus intrajiciendis amnibus alte impositi, [Page 135] longe aliis superstabant arcubus & sa­gittis Minaces.

1580. Arthur Lord Gray Baron of Wilton, Knight of the Garter, ar­rived August 12. at Houth, and took the Oath of Lord Deputy in St. Pa­tricks Church, September 14. till then William Pelham Lord Justice, being not come up out of Munster to Dublin to surrender the Sword to his Successor. Through the whole course of his Actions he manifested himself a famous Warriour. In the Winter this year about 700 Italians and Spaniards landed (through the favour of the Season) at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland unresisted, com­manded by San-Joseph an Italian, authorized by the Pope and the King of Spain to propagate the Ro­man Religion; where they erected a Fort at Smerwick, naming it the Fort DEL-OR, but were soon (e­ven in four days) forced to cry for [Page 136] mercy, through the vigilance and conduct of the Deputy, who put the Strangers to the Sword, the Irish he hanged, Commanders of each side excepted, for that there were no [...] in the English Army, enough to keep every man a Prisoner, and that the Deputy expected instantly to be as­sailed by the Rebels, and that there were no Barques ready to Ship them immediately for Sea. In this do­ing as Henry 5. was forced to, after he would have saved the Bourbon Battalion at Agincourt, for fear les [...] the King of Scicils appearing with new strength (even more then the Conquerors had to guard their Pri­soners) he should have been surpri­zed without remedy. Which ex­tremity the Deputy was sorry to use, nor did his excuse easily please the Queen, the Enemy having yiel­ded on mercy. He died 1593 in much honour and repute.

[Page 137]1582. Adam Loftus Lord Arch­bishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, [...]nd Sir Henry Wallop alias Well-hop, Treasurer of the Army September 1. Lords Justices; during whose Go­vernment Gerald Fitz Gerald, the In 1583. [...] of that Family, Earl of Desmond, [...]ho had raised frequent Rebellions, [...]fter two years sculking in obscure [...]laces, was by a Common Souldier [...]rprized, and his head sent into England, where it was hung on a [...]ole on London Bridge. Sir Henry Camd. Anno citato. [...]allop died in Dublin, and was bu­ried in St. Patricks Church in an [...]bscure place under the Galleries; upon the late removing of which, on a plate of Brass, was this Inscription found.

Near unto this place lieth that worthy Knight, Sir HENRY WALLOP of Farly Wallop in the County of Southampton in the Realm of En­gland, [Page 138] who faithfully served Queen ELIZABETH in this Kingdom as Vice Treasurer and Treasurer [...] War, by the space of 18 years and moneths, and was Lord Justice with in this Realm jointly with th [...] Lord Chancellor of this Realm almost by the space of two years, in th [...] years of our Lord God 1582, 1583▪ 1584. in which time the Wars [...] Desmond were ended, and his hea [...] sent into England; besides many other weighty causes committed to hi [...] charge during his said service. H [...] departed this life the 14 day of April 1599. He was Son and Heir [...] Sir Oliv. Wallop, Brother and Hei [...] of Sir John Wallop Knight of th [...] most Honourable Order of Garter and Lieutenant of the Castle and County Gujienes in France, Nephew and Heir of Sir Robert Wallop Knight.

[Page 139]1584. Sir John Perrot Lord De­puty, arrived at Dalkie, June 9. and [...]ook his Oath in St. Patricks Church June 21. He held a Parliament at Dublin April 26. in the 27. of Eliz. Stat. Irel. fol. 373. He advanced the Reformation in establishing the great Compositi­ [...]n of Connaght, in reducing Ʋlster [...]nto 7 Shires, viz. Ardmagh, Mona­ [...]an, Tyrone, Colerain, Devegal, Fer­ [...]annagh, Davies., p. 256. and Cavan. And by ve­sting in the Crown the Lands of Desmond and his Adherents in Mun­ [...]er, which he that hath writ of his life thus comprehends, Pacificavit Connaciam, Relaxavit Mediam, Sub­jugavit Ʋltoniam, Fregit Lageniam, Ligavit Mononiam, Extirpavit Sco­tos, Refraenavit Anglos. Et his om­nibus peraeque Vectigal acquisivit Re­ginae. And after his Service in Ire­land he was made a Privie Coun­sellor in England; yet being (it seems of somewhat too Resentive a [Page 140] nature, was said to speak something dishonourable of the Queen, and thereupon was tried, and by a Jury of 12 men pronounced guilty of Treason; yet being sick died in the Tower of London, Septemb. 1592. when the Queens anger being qua­lified, there was great hopes of his pardon; though his Adversaries were of the subtilest as well as the most honourable. He left the Cha­racter of a good Governour, yet it is somewhat sharply imputed to him and his Successor Sir William Fitz Williams, that they suffered the Irish to be trained up in the knowledge of Arms, few (before their attain­ing that Science) being much more able to subdue thousands of the Irish than afterwards thrice the number of so many English were able to en­counter.

1588. Sir Willam Fitz Williams, June 30. Lord Deputy, was sworn [Page 141] in Christ Church Dublin. Many ex­cellent things he did, as raising a Composition in Munster, and then in setling the Possessions both of the Lords and Tenants in Monahan. Yet that Venus might not be without her Mole, he is accused of too much ri­gour in enquiring after the Spoils and Wrecks at Sea, which happened on some of the Invincible Navy be­ing split in Ireland, and the ensuing War is laid to his charge. Nor do I find that the Histories of those Times much acquit him, the Irish though they have not Cloaks, will have Mantles for their coverings. He carried it somewhat austerely, not accepting of his Commission till a particular clause was inserted, that Walter Devoreux Earl of Essex should be subject to his command; which (considering the illustrious quality of that person) some thought might have been left indifferent. [Page 142] In his time the Queen founded a Colledge at Dublin, Anno 1591. a Concern which in Sir Henry Sidneys and Sir John Perrots time was given in Instructions, but never perfected till now. She dedicated it to the Holy and Individual TRINITY, under this Title, Collegium Sanctae ac individuae Trinitatis ex fundatione Reginae ELIZABETHAE juxta Dublin, in the place where was be­fore the Monastery of All-Saints, enriching the same with all Privi­ledges of an University, of which Sir Will. Cecil Knight, Baron Burgh­ley, Lord High Treasurer of En­gland, Knight of the Garter, and one of the Honourable Privy Coun­cil to Queen Elizabeth, was the first Chancellor.

II. Robert Devoreux Earl of Essex, Earl Marshal of England, &c. after­wards Lord Lieutenant of Ire­land, Chancellor of the Univer­sities [Page 143] of Cambridge and Dublin. Since

Sub Carolo I.

Dr. Willam Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of the Uni­versities of Oxford and Dublin.

Then his Excellency James Mar­quess of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, since Duke of Ormond, and Chancellor of the University of Dublin, as now of Oxford.

Which in the year 1320. was granted to the City by Pope John 22. at the request of Alexan­der Bicknor alias Bignor, Archbi­shop of Dublin, mentioned in the year 1320. failing for want of sup­port till this B. Queen enlivened the ashes. To which I must profess I owe a filial Reverence (not as one of the Foundation, but of the Socie­ty) and in memory of her Pro­sperity [Page 144] reaching to this Age. I must crave liberty to annex the Provosts though amongst Princes and Great men. By these they live.

Non incisa notis Marmora publicis
Per quae Spiritus & vita redit bonis Clarius indicant
Laudes, quàm Calabrae Pierides.
Not inscribed Marbles planted forth
To publick view, which gives new breath
To Great and Good men after Death
Bespeaks their praise
So loud as the Pierian Laies.

The Colledge (before these gave countenance to the Structure) was empty and unarmed; the Furni­ture was from the Men not the Ma­terials. [Page 145] Postquam lacertos movere et caput immortale extollere caepisset quum ingentia virtutis Nomina, Danielos alias Odonnellos, Bedleios, Templos, Capellos, Par [...]os, Eusta­cios, Hoylios, Martinios, Dodwil­lios, Lingardos, Richardsonos, Bos­wellos, Golburnios, Worthios, Wareos, Boylios, Seelios, Jonios, Caesar William­son, Panaeg. in Hen. Cromwel, p. 22. Margetsonos, Sternios, ARMA­CHANƲM, ante omnes in Lucem Peperisset. Touching whom the li­terate World hath spread many Elo­gies of his Excellencies and Merit, though One (for his Languages not the least in the Quire) hath, since this Prince of Learning's Decease, left out part of what he first publi­shed Vir doctrinâ multifariâ, modestiâ, om­nibús (que) virtu­tibus conspi­cuus. in acknowledgment of his assi­stance: whilest the unanimous Vote of the incomparable and famous University of Oxford, (sufficient to rival Eterniry) hath left this on re­cord:

[Page 146] ‘ Jacobus Usserius, Archiepiscopus Armachanus, totius Hiberniae Pri­mas, Antiquitatis Primaevae peri­tissimus, Orthodoxae Religionis vin­dex [...], errorum Malleus, in concionando frequens, facundus, prae­potens, vitae inculpatae exemplar [...] spectabile.’

Some years before his death, he was unwillingly put on an old Con­troversie touching the Precedency of his See of Armagh and Dublin. A Controversie entailed (as it seems) on the Successors of that See of Ware de Praes. Hib. f. 111. Dublin, prosecuted in Archbishop Leches time, Almoner to Edw. 2. 1310. with some animosity, but now argued only as to Right, not emulation, which (after the effusion of much Learning) was desided on the Archbishop of Armagh's side. And by an especial Letter from the King in the year 1634. he had (af­terwards [Page 147] also given him the Prece­dency of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with all which he was no­thing elated.

The Provosts, Presidents, of the COLLEDGE OF DUBLIN.

THe first Provost of which Colledge was Adam Lord Archbishop of Dublin, former­ly mentioned; whose Dimensions [...]e cannot better take than from [...]ir▪ James Ware, and the Monuments De Praes. Hib. [...]e le [...]t of his Mind and Grandeur, [Page 148] sufficiently expressed in the stately Edifice he built at Rafarnham, lea­ving behind an ample Estate and a numerous Progenie well provided for, of whom I shall say no more (having occasion to speak of him amongst the Governours) than tha [...] though he was a Prelate in height and spirit agreeable enough to the dig­nity of his place, yet he esteemed i [...] no descention to be ushered by a Beadles Staff, that had a Crosier a [...] his service.

II. The second Provost upon the Archbishops resigning up of the Provostship June 5. 1594. was by him and the Fellows, in whom the Election was seated by the first Char­ter bearing date Mar. 11. 1591. pla­ced on Mr. Walter Travers; who too [...] not his Oath till Decemb. 6. 1595 He was bred up in Trinity Colledge i [...] Cambridge, a person of great abi­lities, betwixt whom and Mr. Hooke [...] [Page 149] Minister of the Temple, and he their Lecturer, there arose such animosi­ties as ingaged the Court and others into strong Parties; so as (one writes) Travers was struck dumb in the Temple, not for Infidelity but Indiscretion, both very learned. Mr. Travers (on what account is un­certain, unless suspecting a Rebel­lion) returned (after some years stay) unexpectedly into England; where he lived many years obscure­ly, though in himself a shining light. He bequeathed [...]at his death his Books of the Oriental Tongues (in which he was singularly knowing) and 50 l. worth of Plate to Sion Col­ledge in London. After his depar­ture

III. Mr. Henry Alvey of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge, was chosen the third Provost Octob. 8. to whom succeeded

IV. Mr. William Temple the fourth [Page 150] Provost, afterwards Knighted, and made one of the Masters of the Chan­cery in Ireland. A person of great Piety and Learning, bred up in Kings Colledge in Cambridge, from whence he was made choice of by Sir Philip Sidney, (the Glory of the English Nobility) to attend him in the Low-Countries during his Go­vernment there. De quo quid & quantum sibi augurabatur Britannia non facile dixerem, saith Camd. After whose unfortunate decease, a Noble Person engaged him in his service in England and Ireland; which pro­ving a rough and unhappy Scene, he retired to his private Lair, till by the importunate solicitations of Doctor Ʋsher late Lord Primate, one who well knew how to judge of the merits of others, by the immen­sity of worth in himself, prevailed with him to accept of the Provost­ship; which he did 1609. as an [Page 151] easie retreat out of the Noise and Troubles of the World. He lived 17 years in the Provostship, and fi­nished his days there, in the 72 year of his Age, and lies buried under a fair Stone in the Chappel belonging to the Colledge immediately before the Provosts Seat, leaving behind him many Children, One at present an eminent person in the State of Ireland, who hath divers Sons, some that have happily discharged (late­ly) the most active and honourable imployment in the greatest and weighty affairs of State with the neighbouring Allies, though he writes of himself, that at present he is wholly useless to the Publique, which may be his Repose not his Shame; and others that attend his Majesties Service at home, with singular re­putation and advantage. After his death

V. The fifth Provost was Mr. Wil­liam [Page 152] Bedel, bred in Emanuel Col­ledge in Cambridge; so designed May 29. 1627. on a Letter writ by Sir Henry Wotton to King Charles I. informing his Majesty that he hardly thought a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded in his whole Kingdom, for singular Eru­dition, Piety, and Conformity to the Rites of the Church of England, and zeal to advance the Cause of God, wherein all his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the Venetians Excommunication: no more then by his Letter of Contro­versie afterwards (in the highest Points betwixt us and Rome) with Wadsworth the Jesuite, which shews him profoundly versed in the Fa­thers and Schoolmen. Yet he was not sworn nor admitted till Aug. 16. fol­lowing. He was afterwards Bishop of Kilmore. A person of very great worth and learning in the Latine, [Page 153] Greek and Hebrew; witness his intimacy with Padre Paulo, whom he took into his very soul, as well for his courage and constancy (both signal) in defence of the English and that interest during the late Rebel­lion; when after he was fallen into the hands of the Irish, and impri­soned at Claughouter Castle in the County of Caven near Kilmore, where he died about the midst of March, 1641. ob funesta ea tempora & mise­rias quas pertulerat, and (according to his Opinion against burial in Churches, being an admirer of Sir Henry Spelman, de non temerandis Ecclesiis) he was interred in the Churchyard at Kilmore. There suc­ceeded him (on his Promotion to the Bishoprick of Kilmore)

VI. The sixth Provost, Dr. Robert Ʋsher, who was chosen in October 16. 29. and admitted Provost January 4. following; on whom (dying at Pan­tabirsley [Page 154] in Shropshire) in Dudelstons Church Chancel, there is this Epi­taph,

Here lieth the Body of that constant and faithful Preacher of Gods Word, the Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT Lord Bishop of Kil­dare, Son of HENRY Lord Pri­mate of all Ireland, who died at Pantabirsley, September 7. Anno Dom. 1642.

On whose Promotion to the Bishop­rick of Kildare, the Provostship was void May 11. 1634. so as in the Register Book of the Colledge there was a wide Hiatus through the va­riety of subservient Governours, till

VII. Master William Chappel, B. D. bred up in Christ Colledge in Cam­bridge, afterwards Dean of Cassels, had the care of the Colledge com­mitted [Page 155] to him by his Majesty, but he was not actually sworn nor ad­mitted till June 5. 1637. at which time new Statutes were introduced by the then Archbishop of Canter­bury their Chancellor; not so fa­vourable (as some thought) to the Natives as the Piety of the first Founders intended them; or so in­dulgent to the Fellows and former Visitors, as at first was allowed, the Provostship being made more Sove­reign, which some thought he made a sinister use of; in as much as up­on the Consequences thereon, Mr. Robert Bysse, an ingenious and solid Lawyer June 11. 1641. made an excellent Speech in the Upper House of Parliament at the delivery of divers Articles exhibited a­gainst him then Bishop of Cork and Ross, by the Commons of the House of Parliament in Ireland; to which our Provost made a Reply, which [Page 156] some thought not satisfactory, as the Scene then stood, yet certainly the Exercises of the University were ne­ver stricter looked to, or Discipline (if it were not too Ceremonious) bet­ter observed than in his time. Only the Lecture which was set up for teaching Irish (whether through In­dulgence meerly, or enjoyned by Statute, I am uncertain) was after his admission wholy waved; to which (whilest it was kept up) some diligently resorted, the better to im­prove themselves for their future Imployment in the Country, that the Irish (finding men speak in their own Tongue, [...]) might be the sooner won over to the Truth, no Nation being more tenacious or better affected to their Language than themselves. And this Design had a good issue, in as much as some of the English (preaching constant­ly in Irish) gained first an acceptance [Page 157] of their Persons, then of their Do­ctrine. Truly a pious fraud! For though by an Act in the 28 of H. 8. it was Ordered, That all who would knowledge themselves his Highness true and faithful Subjects, should speak the English Tongue. A policy com­mendable enough; yet considering how stifly the Natives were espoused to their own Speech, it could not seem otherwise than Mercy to find an Expedient which might inform them of the Truth. Nor indeed was it below the Majesty of an Univer­sity ( licet rumpantur Momi) to che­rish such a condescention, since the communicating of Knowledge is the intent of Science. Our Provost was a close Ramist, a notable Dispu­tant, and one (who in his middle Age) favoured Mr. Perkins and that side. He was once (riding to Cork) overtook by Sir William St. Leger President of Munster, who had in his [Page 158] company the Pseudo-Dean of Cork, with whom the President would needs have had Chappel to have di­sputed, but as he was not forward, so he would not deny the entertain­ment; which the Pseudo-Dean (un­derstanding who Chappel was) re­fused, for that the said Chappel had been accustomed to kill his Respon­dent; which he spake on an acci­dent long before, happening at a Commencement in Cambridge so­lemnized in the presence of King James, where Doctor Roberts of Tri­nity Colledge, being Respondent in St. Maries, this Mr. Chappel opposed him so close and subtilely that the Doctor (not being able to unloose the Arguments) fell into a swound­ing in the Pulpit, so as the King (to hold up the Commencement) under­took to maintain the Thesis: which Mr. Chappel (by his Syllogisms) prest so home, ut REX palam gratias [Page 159] ageret Deo, quod Opponens E I fuisset [...]bditus, non alteri, alias potuisset in [...]spicionem adduci ne perinde Throno [...], atque Cathedra submoveri debuis­ [...]. In the beginning of the late Re­bellion in Ireland, he came for En­gland, confining himself to a most retired life, which he finished at Derby on Whitsunday 1649. not 1648. as Sir James Ware Registers it. And at his Death meritted this Epitaph engraven on his Marble in Bilthorp in Nottinghamshire.

GƲILIELMƲS CHAPPEL

Natus Laxtouiae in Nottingham, A. D. MDLXXXII. Mansfieldiae bonis literis initiatus Collegii Chri­sti Cantabrig. per 27. annos Socius, Collegii S S. Trinitatis Dublin. Praepositus; Ecclesiae Metropolit. Cassel. Decanus, Corcagiensis & Rossensis Episcopus, &c.

[Page 160]Charismata, quae (siquis alius) pluri­ma atquae eximia à Domino acce­perat, singulari tum fide tum felici­tate ad ejus Gloriam publicumque Ecclesiae commodum administravit, Sapientiae, Justitiae, Gratiae divinae Strennuus assertor, Charitate in Deum ac homines, amicos atque ini­micos ad Christi legem & exem­plum factus nobis exemplum & lex, Bona temporalia partim pro Chri­sto, partim Christo reliquit, Mun­dum latere ut maximè semper vo­luit, ita minime unquam potuit aut poterit.

Annum agens 67. placide spiritum suum Servatori reddidit die Pen­tecostes MDCXLIX. atque hic juxta venerandam Parentem suam positus, Dominum JESƲM, quo fruitur, expectat.

[Page 161]Fratrem habuerat natu minorem (dum in terris agebat) JOHAN­NEM CHAPPEL Theologum pa­riter insignissimum, ac pulpitis na­tum sed in Coelos praemigraverat; Et conduntur illius Exuviae in Ec­clesia de Mansfield Woodhouse.

He voluntarily resigned his Provost­ [...]ip July 20. 1640. and on the first of August following,

VIII. Mr. Richard Washington B. D. of Ʋniversity Colledge in Oxford, was sworn and admitted the eighth Pro­vost; who soon after the Rebellion broke forth retired into England, of whom I can give no farther ac­count.

IX. Afterwards Dr. Teate, a Na­tive, educated in the Colledge, one that had been barbarously used by the Rebels, was licensed to live in the Provosts Lodgings, and oversee the Scholers that were left; who so [Page 162] continued till, that his Majesties providence (in the darkness of those Times) committed the care of the Colledge on

X. Dr. Anthony Martin Bishop o [...] Meath, educated in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, of whom Eyr in an Epistle to Dr. Ʋsher 1607. p▪ 27. gives a just account, both as to his Philosophy, and more polished Learning, being then to be admitted into a Fellowship in the Colledge, ut intra fines Hiberniae generos [...] juventus contineatur, neque extr [...] Athenas vestras Romae, aut alibi instituantur, &c. Is est qualis alii pl [...] rique videri tantum volunt & in humaniori literatura & vitae integritat germanissimus certe Nathaneel sin [...] fraude. He died Provost in Jun [...] 1650. the Plague then raging, and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Colledge. After his death Affairs being carried on by another current,

[Page 163]XI. Mr. Samuel Winter, afterwards Doctor (by a fair Diploma testified by Doctor Henry Jones Vicechancel­lor, now Bishop of Meath and o­thers) was thrust into the Govern­ment by virtue of a Thing they cal­led an Act of Parliament, anno 1649. giving the Lord Lieutenant of Ire­land power thereby to place Gover­nours, Masters, &c. in the Colledge of Dublin. How satisfactory, I will not say being there are many rumors yet unreconciled. But in that stream he swame till the King was most happily restored, and then (which we may account the IX. le­gitimate Provost)

XII. Dr. Thomas Seel bred in the Colledge, and born in Dublin, was chosen and admitted Provost. A person in Morals and true Litera­ture signally eminent, Dean of St. Patricks, yet living, and may he long live to the benefit and ho­nour [Page 164] of that Colledge! for many years the University was confined to this Colledge; since it hath been enlarged by some adjacent Tene­ments, whereof (of late) one is con­verted to a Colledge of Physitians graced by his Majesty with many Priviledges, and the Mass-house in Back-lane, a fair Collegiate build­ing, was disposed of to the Univer­sity of Dublin, a Rector and Scho­lers being placed in it in the time of Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Corkes being Justices; but whether it so continues I am not certain, I hear it is alienated; certain I am that the buildings of the Colledge it self are of late much enlarged and beautified. On this Colledge King JAMES (besides a yearly Pension of 388 l. 15 s. English mo­ney out of the Exchequer) bestowed large Possessions in Ʋlster, and by an Act for the settlement of the [Page 165] Kingdom of Ireland, Anno 1662. [...]is provided, Fol. 71. That the provost of Trinity Colledge near Dublin shall have out of the for­feited Lands in the Archbishop­rick of Dublin, and his Succes­sors for ever, the sum of 300 l. per annum. Nor doth the design for the propagating of the extent of this University determine here, but in the same Act, Fol. 122. It is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Lord Lieu­tenant, or other Chief Gover­nour or Governours of this kingdom, for the time being, by, and with the consent of the Privy Council, shall have full Power and Authority to erect another Colledge to be of the University of Dublin, to be called by the Name of the KING'S Colledge, and out of all and e­very the Lands, Tenements, [Page 166] and Hereditam ts, vested by this Act in his Majesty, & w ch shall be setled or restored by vertue there­of, to raise a yearly allowance for ever, not exceeding 2000l. per annum, by an equal charge upon every thousand Acres, or lesser Quantities proportiona­bly, and therewith to endow the said Colledge. Which said Colledge so as aforesaid to be erected, shall be setled, regulated, and governed by such Laws and Statutes, Ordinances and Constitutions as his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors shall un­der his or their Great Seal of England or Ireland declare or ap­point.

After the inhumane and most ex­ecrable Rebellion had stopped all relief and supply from the Colledge, through the seizing on their Rents in Ʋlster, where the chiefest of their [Page 167] Revenues lay, and that the Treasure of the Colledge (all but the sacred Utensils secured by a most Reve­rend hand) had been expended for the Societies support, his Excel­lency the Marquess of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant, truly commisera­ting the exigencies of the Colledge, and having no way else left possibly to succour them, Ordered the Rem­nant yet surviving, being few and miserable, some relief out of the Common Stores, That whilest Moses fought Aarons hands might be lift­ed up.

And here I must not omit that at the same time Sir Thomas Bodley Anno 1598. bought Books for his Library at Oxford, one of the grea­test Treasures in the World, a stu­pendious work; Dr. Challoner and Mr. Ʋsher his Son-in-Law, after­wards Lord Primate, were then in England, bestowing 1800 l. given [Page 168] by the Officers of the Army for their Library to the Colledge of Dublin; so that though they had not the like Patrons, they were Co­equal. Since, there hath been a fair addition by the access of Bishop Ʋshers Library bestowed on the University, as the other was by the late Army. Quos Deputatus docuit (saith Caesar Williamson) primum Ar­morum usum, deinde Librorum; and much more very elegantly he speaks in that Oration, concluding with Ptolomaeus Philadelphus's Library in Alexandria, to which, Numero Li­b [...]orum cedimus, virtute superamus. Since, Sir Jerome Alexander, second Justice in the Common-Pleas in Ire­land, by his last Testament hath be­stowed his Library of Law Books and others, upon the Colledge, with 100 l. for fitting a place for his Li­brary. Also he bequeathed 500 l. in Money to be laid out in an addi­tional [Page 169] Building to the same Col­ledge, to be called Alexanders Buil­dings. He also gave 24 l. real Estate per annum, thus to be disposed of viz. 7 l. per annum to the Library Keeper, 20 s. yearly for a Sermon on Christmass day, to be preached in the Colledge in memory of Gods mercy in sending his Son then to save Sinners, and the remainder to be disposed of monethly, to such poor persons as the Provost and Se­niour Fellows shall think fit. The residue of his Estate he gave unto his Daughter Elizabeth Alexander, provided she married no Irish man, or any related to that Interest; if she did, or died without Issue, the whole Estate he setled on the Colledge of Dublin: that at this day many things conspire to advance that Founda­tion.

Semper Pax tua moenia
Colat! semper in Aedibus
Tuis Copia Dextra
Larga munera fundat!
Dulcis Collegii Domus
Te Pax incola sospitet!
Leges Numinis omnia
Pervadant Loca Jernes!
Ʋt Ros tenella gemmulis argentei [...]
Pingit Syonis gramina
Sic gratiarum gemmulis Coelestibus
Pingas Jernes Pectora!

But to return to Sir William Fitz Williams Deputy, in whose time this happy Work was effected; in me­mory of whom, his Arms on the Gate are left to posterity. He de­scended from the Fitz Williams of Sprotsburg Knights, an ancient Fa­mily Camd. Brit. fol. 690. in Yorkshire, who in his own person had been long experienc'd in the Wars, he was of an high and ela­ted spirit, in as much as Walter Earl [Page 171] of Essex, 1573. desiring to go into Ʋlster against the Rebels, was by this Governour much opposed, lest the splendor of so great a man should eclipse his Honour. But the Queen (constant to her own Election) would by no means gratifie Fitz-Williams in diverting the Earls Voyage, yet ordered he should take the Commission of his Government from the Deputy; which (to testi­fie the eminency of his Power) he granted; by which he was Gover­nour of Ʋlster, but after such Atten­dance, as the reflection of it hath made some Remarks very observable in our Deputies Government. At length the Earl (discontented with those perfidious passages which he found encouraged against him in Ireland) retired into England; where Leicester (the better to over­throw him with Honour) got him sent back with the vain Title of Earl [Page 172] Marshal of Ireland, where pining away with Grief and Dysentery, (some write Poison) he died at Dublin, and was buried at Caermar­den in Wales, where he was born. A most excellent man (saith Camd.) Vir certè prae­cellens, in quo morum probi­tas cum nata­lium claritate certavit, quae tamen Invidiae obsistere non poterant. Camd. Annal. Eliz. fol. 264. in whom sweetness of manners con­tended with his Nobleness of Birth.

This Dysentery or Flux (so fatal to this worthy Person) is common­ly termed the Country Disease; and well it may, for it reigns no where so Epidemically as in Ireland; tain­ting Strangers as well as Natives. But whether it proceeds from the peculiar Disposition of the Air, Errour in Diet, the laxity, and wa­terishness of the Meat, or some Oc­cult cause, no venomous Creature living there to suck that which may be thought (in other Countries) well distributed amongst reptitious Animals, I shall not determine, though each of these circumstances [Page 173] may well conduce to its strength and vigour. Certain it is that Re­gular Diet preserves most from the violence▪ and many from the Infe­ction of this Disease; yet as that which is thought very soveraign (besides those particular applica­tions due to several symptomes ari­sing thence, viz. Gripings, Tenes­mus's, &c. which have their particu­lar Cures, obvious to every know­ing Physician) I must say that the stronger Cordial Liquors, ( viz. Brandy, Ʋsquebah, Treacle, and Mi­thridate Waters) are very proper; or the Electuaries themselves, and the like; quorum particulae summe▪ activae, dum vasorum splanchnicorum oscula facilè subierint, humores exun­daturos repellerent. Judicially ob­served by Dr. Willis in his Pharma­ceutice P. 122. Rationalis; for that besides their Energie to make the Bloud more lively, they may also strengthen [Page 174] it to a Diaphoretick motion, where­by what is offensive to the Bloud (as ichorous and acid humours often irritating such extitial expulsions) may thence be thrown off into the habit of the Body, so by a Diapho­resis happily evert the Humour. Of late in extremity great use hath been made of Swines dung drank in a convenient vehicle. Nor is it a Medicine merely Emperical, it ha­ving (from the nature of the Crea­ture to eject it always moist) an Anodine quality, highly conducing to dulcorate the Humour apt to fer­ment with so much virulency, not to enlarge on other qualities where­with it may be thought to be in­dued. At his departure

1594. Sir William Russel, Youn­gest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford, August 11. was made Lord Deputy; to whom Tir-Oen submitted himself, but as all submissions of the Irish ge­nerally [Page 175] proved prejudicial to the [...]te; it being observed by Caesar Williamson, in the Epistle to his Ora­tion on the Kings Coronation day, that ex omnibus gentibus vix ullam [...]perias cui peccare & flere magis na­ [...]rale est. He soon fell into Rebel­ [...]ion, and the Deputy to strengthen his ability in the management of the War, besought the Queen to as­sist him with some able Souldiers. upon which Sir John Norris excel­lently skilled in Martial Discipline, (contrary to the Deputies expecta­tion) was sent over 1595. who much wished for Baskervile. Tir-Oen upon Norris's arrival, fell to his old Artifice of Complying, but was detected, and proclaimed Trai­tor, under the name of Hugh O-Neal Son of Matthew Fathereugh, that is an Iron-Smith, the base born Son of Con-O-Neal; at which time the Rebels Forces amounted to 1000 [Page 176] Horse, and 6280 Foot in Ʋlster and 2300 in Connaght, all at Tir-Oens beck; whereas before 80 [...] Foot and 300 Horse were esteemed on our side an invincible Army such mischief arose by teaching them the use of Arms. Norris with what he brought over, and those he took out of Dublin and other pla­ces, had fully as potent an Army yet did little against Tir-Oen more then reduced him to a submission One Article of Norris's Commission being to have the whole charge of the War, and Treat with Tir-Oen as he pleased; which kindled ill Fires with the Deputy, that another should be superinducted to so great a Charge; who leaving Norris to Ʋlster, took care of the Affairs of the other Provinces, and happily managed them, whilest no good ef­fect came of the Truce with Tir-Oen. Which in the end so much re­dounded [Page 177] to Norris's discontent, that Tir-Oen by his dissembling had nocked him, that shortly after he died. A man certainly of great cou­rage, 1597. Nobly born, and had born [...]reat Offices, as Colonel General of the English under the States of the Low-Countries, Marshal of the Army under the Earl of Hohenlo, President of Munster, General of the Auxilia­ [...]y English in Britain in France. Af­fairs through all Ireland, especially in the North, and Connaght growing turbulent, Russel was recalled. [...]nd

1597. The Lord Burroughs, a man of a sharp wit and great cou­rage, but scarce initiated into the very Elements of War, was made Lord Deputy. He soon yet marched into Ʋlster, and without any great resistance took Blakewater, but in his full pathway to Victory he died in that Province, leaving [Page 178] the great desires of him to the good and to the bad longer security. Up on his death

1597. Sir Thomas Norris Pres [...] ­dent of Munster, Son of Hen. Lor [...] Norris of Ricot, and Brother to Si [...] John Norris, was October 30. chose [...] Lord Justice; and upon further In­structions from the Queen, confirm­ed therein. He died through th [...] neglect of a small wound.

1597. Adam Loftus Archbisho [...] of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, an [...] Sir Robert Gardiner Chief Justice were appointed Justices of Ireland and the Army was committed to th [...] Earl of Ormond, under the Title o [...] Lieutenant General, in whose tim [...] the Fort of Blakewater was yielded up to the Rebels. After that Mar­shal Bagnal and others were slai [...] in the thickest of the Crowd. A Victory, the like the Irish never gain­ed since the English first set foot i [...] Ireland.

[Page 179]1598. Robert Earl ROBERT DEVOREUX Earl of Essex, Earl Mar­shal of England, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Vis­count Hereford, Baron Ferrars of Chartley, Lord Bourchier and Lovain, Ma­ster of the Horse and Ord­nance to Queen Elizabeth, Knight of the Garter, one of her Majesties Privy Council, and Chancellor of the Universities of Cam­bridge and Dublin. XV. April, MDXCVIII. of Essex, April 15. was made L. Lieutenant, Son of Walter Devoreux Earl of Essex, that ex­cellent and worthy person, who (for the Honour of his Coun­try) had freely spent much of his Estate in Ireland, formerly men­tioned, but never to be reflected on too often, whose Vertues streaming in his Son, the Queen setled in this place. His Commission (with a plausible Po­licy) was dispatched to prosecute or conclude the War, to pardon any offence of Treason, or any thing a­gainst the Queen, even Tir-Oen him­self; so that being furnished with 16000 Foot, and 1300 Horse, ac­companied with many of the Prime Gentlemen of England, he came into [Page 180] Ireland, but effected little; meeting much strange and contrary advice in Council, so returned on the Queens resentment, and in the year 1601. February 25. was beheaded within the Tower of London. A­mongst others that came to observe the Tragoedy, one (more eminent than the rest) got as near to him as he could, well enough (as it was thought) satisfied in the Spectacle, which escaped not a general Cen­sure, He himself being being behea­ded in the 16 of King James 1618. though a Person of great Parts and Abilities. The Earl was a person singularly obliging, especially to Scholers and Souldiers; and if we may believe Sir Henry Wotton, in his solemn Purposes of a firm and un­shaken Allegiance, Religion, and Fi­delity, being inherent to his Na­ture, whose Actions (saith the Lord Bacon, were faults which the Law [Page 181] might term Contempts, yet they might have deserved a Dispensation; his last inconsiderate Action deserving [...]ather (in Charity) the Title of a Riot than of a Treason, he having ever aimed at the Honour and Security of his Country. But what can be Camd. Eliz. Part 2. p. 210. sufficient against Envy managed by the subtilty of such as had charmed the Ears of a jealous Princess? At his quitting the Government

1599. Adam Loftus Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, and Sir George Carey Treasurer at War, September 24. were left Lords Justi­ces, Archbishop Loftus of Swinshead in Yorkshire, died in his Palace of St. Sepulchres Dublin, April 5. 1605. and was buried in St. Patricks, af­ter that he had sate 37 years, and almost 8 moneths in the Bishoprick. He was (as is formerly expressed) a profitable Agent in procuring the Foundation of the Colledge of Dub­lin, [Page 182] and though a Bishop the first Honorary Master thereof.

1599. Sir Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy, Knight of the Garter (af­terwards by King James made Earl of Devonshire, as descended from an Heir of Humphrey Staffords Earl of Devonshire) was October 28. made Lord Lieutenant, but arri­ved not in Ireland till Feb. 24. fol­lowing, lodging that night at the Lord of Houths, the next day he re­ceived the Sword at the Council Board; who so effectually prosecu­ted the War against Tir-Oen, after the notable defeat given to the Spanish Forces under Don Juan de Aquila, at Kinsale, Dec. 14. 1601. where (saith the Lord Bacon in his Treatise of a War with Spain) there appeared no other difference between the Va­lour of the Irish Rebels and the Spa­niards, but that the one ran away before they were charged, and the [Page 183] other straight after; that he brought Tir-Oen to a submission at Mellifont, and in him ended that War which had cost the Crown of England so vast a sum 1198717 l. In which ser­vice Camd. Ap­pend. to Eliz. Sir George Carey (President of Munster, afterwards Earl of Totness) was very active; betwixt whom and the Lord Lieutenant (generally) there was a good agreement, though once the Contest grew so high, as that the Lord Lieutenant writ to the President that he would rather serve the Queen in Prison than in Ireland, where any Souldiers should not march at his command. A dif­ference afterwards well composed, though such as read Pacata Hiber­nia may soon find, at whose Honour it most aims.

Sub JACOBO Rege.

1603. The said Lord Mountjoy continued for some time Lord Lieu­tenant; who going for England, carried Tir-Oen with him; who was graciously received by the King, and returned with Honours. Not long after he complotted however fresh Rebellions; which being detected, and he proclaimed Traitor, he fled privately into Normandy, 1607. thence to Flanders, then to Rome, where he lived on the Popes al­lowance, became blind and died, 1616. His son was some years after found strangled in his Bed at Brus­sels, Fowlis in his Hist. of Romish Treason. and so ended this Race. The Earl of Devonshire (to whom so much is owing for his excellent Ser­vice Vincent on Brook. in Ireland) died Octob. 6. 1606. at the Savoy in the Strand, and was [Page 185] buried (in great Pomp) in Westmin­ster Abbey.

Of whom 'tis better nothing now to say
Then say too little: for there rests behind,
A Trophy to be erected, that
So Dan. in his Fun. Po [...]m on this noble E. p. 22.
will stay
To all Posterities, and keep in mind
That glorious Art, which did a Kingdom save;
Kept the Crown whole, and made the Peace we have.

1603. Sir George Carey Treasurer at War, June 1. was made Lord Deputy; he in the first year of his Majesties Reign, made the first She­riffs that ever served in Tirone and Tirconnel, and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Relham Chief Baron, and Sir John Davies Attorney Gene­ral [Page 186] of Ireland, the first Justices of Assize in those Countries, which were welcom to the Commons, though distasteful to the Irish Davies of Irel. p. 264. Lords.

1604. Sir Arthur Chichester, (a Gentleman who had done excellent Service in the Wars of Ireland, gi­ving therein frequent proofs of his Valour and Conduct) was Febr. 3. made Lord Deputy. He establish­ed two new Circuits for Justices of Assize, the one in Connaght; and the other in Munster; not but that for­merly there had been some esta­blished, but not for 200 years exe­cuted. Davies, p. 265.

1613. Dr. Thomas Jones Arch­bishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Richard Wingfield Marshal of Ireland, March 4. were constitu­ted Lords Justices.

1614. Sir Arthur Chichester, now Lord of Belfast, July 27. was made [Page 187] Lord Deputy. Who in the 11, 12, and 13. year of this King held a Par­liament at Dublin by several Proro­gations, passing therein a Recogni­tion of his Majesties Title to Ireland. An Act against Pyrats, another for the Attaindor of Tir-Oen, and an Act of Repeal of divers Statutes concer­ning the Natives of Ireland; as ano­ther of Oblivion, which more really subdued the Irish than all the Forces formerly sent, for the Irish finding themselves thereby Subjects not Ene­mies, as formerly they were distin­guished, the whole Nation grew more in Love with their Subjection to the Crown of England and the English Laws, than ever any Force had reduced them to before; they being a Nation (saith Sir John Da­vies) that love equal and indifferent Justice, much contented with the Benefit and Protection of the Law. Which (in that it was the Master­piece [Page 188] and most excellent part of the Work of Reformation, securing the Crown of England, by allowing the British and Irish to grow up together into one Nation) I conceive it not impertinent to give you a touch of; that it may be evident with what singular affection (as well as pru­dence) the State of England aimed at the Interest of the Natives, as well as the British. By which Act Ireland was indeed Reduced, and not before, to the Imperial Crown of England; Ʋnion of Laws being the best Cement of Affections; as farther may appear by the Act it self, Anno XI JACOBI, Cap. V. Fol. 428.

‘ Declaring, That the Natives of Irish bloud (for their Hostility a­gainst the English) were in seve­ral Statutes and Records, called Irish Enemies; and accordingly abridged of the benefit of the Laws. [Page 189] Bot being now taken into his Ma­jesties gracious Protection under One Law, as dutiful Subjects, to match and freely commerce together, Those Laws of Difference and Di­stinction, were wholely abrogated, and from that Session of Parlia­ment utterly repealed.’

At which time the Harp was first marshalled by King James with the Royal Arms of Great Britain. Soon after (even in the 9 year of his Reign) he instituted the Order of Baronets, upon which Sir Henry Spelman in his Glossary, hath these Brit. p. 76. ▪ Verses;

Ecce Baronettos florentis nomen Ho­noris
Indicat in Clypei fronte Cruenta Manus,
[Page 190]Non quod s [...]vi aliquid, aut strict [...] fortiter Ense
Hostibus occisis gesserit ista Co­hors▪
Ne [...] genus, aut virtus, meritum ve [...] gratia Claros
Efficit, at Nummi O male sana fa­mes!
Quinque notent digiti centenas quin­que ferenda [...]
Mercandi pertium nominis esse li­bras.
Vilius at multi, dum cauponare
R [...]usant.
mo­rantu [...]
Ex vera Geniti Nobilitate Vi­r [...]
Interea è caulis hic prorepit: Ille ta­bernis,
Et modo [...]it Dominus, Qni modo servus erat.

And to keep the Order from swarm­ing, the King confined it to the number of 200, and as their Issue [Page 191] should fail; their Order to cease; engaging for himself and his Heirs, not to superinduct a New Order un­der another Name. But he that will look how well the End of the Institu­tion, and the Laws of it have been observed, shall (to use Sir Richard In his Ch [...]. fol. 439. Bakers words) perhaps find it to be here, as it was in the Order of St. Mi­chael in France; into which, at first, there were none admitted but Prin­ces, and eminent Persons, but after­wards, all sorts of Men without any difference; that it came almost to be doubted, whether the Dignity of the Order did more grace the Persons, or the Meanness of the Persons dis­grace the Order. In so much, as with Camd. (in his Eliz. An. 1594.) I shall conclude with what a noble French man said, The Chain of St. Michael was once a badge of Noble men, but now a Collar for all Creatures. After his quitting Ireland he was sent Ambas­sadour [Page 192] to the Emperour of Germany, which he discharged with singular Integrity and Honour. He died near the time that King James died, and was buried at Belfast in Ireland. For whom some Friend (in a Table hung over his Tomb) hath exprest his Passion, but not our Deputies merit; for which we shall omit the Poem, only give you what is inscri­bed on the Table.

Sacred to GOD and eternal MEMORY.

Sir Arthur Chichester Knight, Ba­ron of Belfast, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Governour of Carrig­fergus, and of the Countries adjoin­ing; descended of the ancient and noble House of the Chichesters in the County of Devon, Son of Sir John Chichester of Raleigh [Page 193] Knight, and of his Wife Gertrude Courtney▪ Grandchild of Edward Chichester and of his Wife Eliza­beth, Daughter of Bourchier Earl of Bath, after the flight of the Earls of Tirone and Ter-Connel, and other Arch Traitors their Compli­ces, having suppressed Odough­ertie, and other Northern Rebels, and setled the Plantation of this Province of Ulster, and well and happily governed this Kingdom in flourishing estate under JAMES our King the space of xj years and more, whilest he was Lord Deputy and Governour General thereof, retired himself into his Private Go­vernment, and being mindful of his Mortality, represented unto him by the untimely death of Arthur his Son, the onely hope of his House; who lived not full two Moneths af­ter his Birth; as also of his Noble and Valiant Brother Sir John Chi­chester [Page 194] Knight, late Serjeant Major of the Army in this Kingdom of Ire­land, and the Precedent Governour of this Town, hath caused this Chap­pel to be repaired, and this Vaul [...] and Monument to be made and ere­cted, as well in remembrance of them whose Statues are expressed, and their Bodies interred, as also a rest­ing place for the Body of himself and his most dear and best beloved Wif [...] the Noble and Vertuous Lady Let­tice, Eldest Daughter of Sir John Perrot Knight, sometime the Worthy Deputy of this Kingdom; Which they hope shall rest here in peace until the second coming of their crucified Redeemer, whom they mos [...] constantly believed then to behold with their bodily eyes, to their endless Blessedness and everlasting Comfort.

[Page 195]Under the Crest,

En me triumphantem.

Under the Arms,

Honor sequitur fugientem.

Over the Quire Dore in Christ Church Dublin there is this erected to his Memory, at the repairing of the place;

‘The Right Honourable Arthur Chi­chester Baron of Belfast, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, who took the Sword of State and Government of this Kingdom the third of Febru­ary 1604. and when he had been Lord Deputy and governed with Justice 11 Years and odd Days, sur­rendred the Sword the 11 of Fe­bruary 1616. to the then Lords [Page 196] Justices to his now great Honour and his Majesties approbation of his worth and merit.’

1615. Doctor Thomas Jones Arch­bishop of Dublin, Lord Chancellor, and Sir John Denham Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Chief Place, Febr. 11. were constituted Lords Justices. Jones died at his Palace of S. Sepulchres Dublin, April 10. 1619. when he had been Bishop W [...]r [...] de Praes. Hib. fol. 121. 13 Years, 5 Moneths, and 2 Days▪ and was buried in St. Patricks; over whom I find this Inscription;

Christus mihi Vires.

On the Right hand the Tomb On the Left hand the Tomb
D. O. M. S. D. O. M. S.

Thomas Jones, Archie­piscopus Dublin, Pri­mus & Metropolitanus Hiberniae, ejusdem Cancellarius, necnon Bis e Justiciariis unus, obiit decimo Aprilis Anno reparatae salutis Humanae, 1619.

Margareta, ejusdem Thomae Ʋxor charissi­ma, obiit decimo quin­to Decembris, Anno a partu Virginis, 1618.

Rogerus Jones, Eques au­ratus, Vicecomes Rane­lough, Baro de Navan, nec­non Conatiae Praeses, Poten­tissimis Principibus Jaco­bo & Carolo, Magrae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hi­berniae Regibus à Secretio­ribus in Hiberniae Consiliis parentibus optimis, Ʋxori­bus charissimis, sibi & po­steris posuit. Prior Ʋxor fuit Francisca filia Geral­di Viceeomitis Moore de Drogheda quae obiit 23 Novembris, Anno à Chri­sto nato 1620. Altera vero Katherina filia Henrici Longevil de Woolverton in Comitatu Buckingha­miae Equitis aurati, quae obiit 4. Decembris, Anno Domini 1628.

Filius & Conjux moesti Monumenta doloris Hic Patri, Matri, Conjugibus (que) loco.

[Page 198] Denham died, January▪ 6. 1638. anno aetatis 80. and lies buried in a noble Monument in Egham in Surrey. Where is his Effigies rising out of his Coffin with his Winding Sheet falling off, holding up his left hand, and his right hand streight down. Over his left hand in the Tomb are these words, Futura spero ut à pec­catis in vita, sic à morte post vitam ut secund [...] redeat primam & ultimam in Christo resurrectionem ex omni parte perfectam. Under his right hand up­on the side of the Coffin pointing to his Robes, only two words, Praete­rita Sperno, contemning the World and the glory of it. Further under his Coffin he lies at length in his Judges Robes, and upon the edge of which Compartment (under which the Dead are rising, with his own Effigies among the rest) there is writ Ex Ossibus armati.

The Tomb is supported by two [Page 199] Pillars upon which stand two An­gels, one on the right hand with a Sithe and Trumpet; and the other on the left, with a Book and Trum­pet, under either of which Pedestals there is Surge à Somnis. And then round about the edge of the Tomb over his head is writ in Golden Let­ters (as all the rest) Via, vita & re­surrectio mea est per Jesum Christum ad aeternam Beatitudinem cum sanctis. Over his Tomb are his Arms.

Over the Quire Dore in Christ Church Dublin, likewise is this for Sir John Denham.

The Honourable Sir John Denham Knight, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Chief Place, and one of the Lords Justices in this Kingdom in the Year 1616.

And in one of the Chappel Windows in Lincolns Inn, illustrated by the in­defatigable [Page 200] Antiquary Mr. Dugdale, I find this Registred;

Johannes Denham Miles, unus Ba­ronum Curiae Scaccarii in Anglia, & quondam Capitalis Baro Scacca­rii in Hibernia, & unus Dominorum Justiciariorum in Hibernia.

Sir John Denham was the first that ever set up Customs in Ireland, (not but that there were Laws for the same before) of which the first year was made 500 l. but before his death which was about 22 years after, they were let for 54000 l. per an­num.

1616. Sir Oliver St. John, after­wards Viscount Grandeson, who had done very memorable Service at Kinsale, and other places, August 30. Lord Deputy. In memory of whom, over the Quire Dore in Christ Church Dublin, it is thus written;

[Page 201] ‘The Right Honourable Sir Oliver St. John Knight, descended of the noble House of the Lord St. Johns of Bletso, Deputy General of Ireland, who took the Sword of State and Government of this Kingdom into his hands August 30. 1616.’

During his Government, Affairs were not carried on so happily in Ireland, but several discontents arose daily in the Parliament assembled at Westminster, especially in the House of Commons, who brake up with a Protestation much resented by King James, 1621. in as much as several Members of Parliament were com­mitted, and Sir Dudley Diggs, Sir Tho. Crew, Sir Nath. Rich, and Sir James Perrot, all active Commoners (for Punishment) were sent into Ireland, joined in Commission with others under the Great Seal of England, [Page 202] for the Enquiry of sundry matters concerning his Majesties Service, as well in the Government Ecclesiasti­cal as Civil, as in point of his Re­venue, and otherwise within that Rushw. Hist. Collect. Fol. 55. Kingdom, of whose account the Times were silent; nor do I find but by the Acts that passed in this Governours time, and the Character that he left behind Little, was justly to be inspected into. He lived after­wards in great repute in England, and died at Battersey, Anno Aetatis 70. December 29. 1630. for whom on the North side of the Quire in Battersey Church, is this Inscription on a fair Marble;

Deo Trino & uni sacrum.

Olivero Nicolai St. John de Lydi­ard, filio secundo, Equiti aurato, antiquissimis & illustribus de Bello Campo de Bletsoe, Grandisonis & [Page 203] Tregoziae Familiis oriundo. Terra Marique, Domi Forisque, Belli Pa­cisque, artibus egregio: Diu Eli­zabethae e nobilissima Pensionario­rum Cohorte suis inde meritis & singulari Divi Jacobi gratia in Hybernia Instrumentis bellicis prae­fecto: Conaciae propreside Questori summo & Regis Vicario, Proco­miti de Grandisonis & Tregoziae de Hyworth in Anglia Baroni. Eidem Divo Jacobo & Filio ejus Piissimo a Secretioribus & Sanctio­ribus Consiliis, postquam is annos Honoribus Aequaverat, & tran­quilissime senuerat. Somnienti si­militer extincto Johannes de St. John Eques & Baronettus ex Fra­tre Nepos & Heres Avunculo me­ [...]entissimo moestissimus posuit in Ec­clesia de Battersea. Vixit annos 70. Mor. 29. Decembris, 1630.

[Page 204]1622. Sir Adam Loftus Lord Vis­count Ely, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Rich. Wingfield Viscount Powers­court, May 4. Lords Justices.

Henricus Dominus Cary, Vice­comes Faulklandiae Contrarotula­tor Hospitii Serenissimi Domini Regis Jacobi Deputatus suae Maje­statis in Regno Hiberniae, & unus Dominorum Privati Consilii Di­cti Domini Regis in Regno Angliae, Anno Dom. MDCXXII.

1622. Henry Cary Lord Viscount of Falk­land in Scotland, born at Aldernam in Hart­fordshire, September 8. Lord Deputy.

Sub CAROLO I.

1625. The said Henry Viscount Falkland Lord Deputy; in whose time that memorable Protestation made by the Bishops, published by Doctor Downham Bishop of London­derry in Christ Church Dublin, against [Page 205] Popery (every where extant) was grateful; he carried himself very circumspect, and was in his own person mighty obliging; but as a late Author observes, that an unruly Colt will fume and chafe (though never switched nor spurred) meerly because backed. In vindication of whose equal and just Government, the Council of Ireland, Apr. 28. 1629. assured his Majesty, that for the In­solence and Excrescence of the Po­pish Clergy, and the outragious Pre­sumption of the unsetled Irish it was less curbed by reason the Deputy and Council were somewhat limited concerning them, by late Instructi­ons, Letters, and Directions out of England; and that they did dare affirm that the rest of the great Body (as to the Civil part thereof) was in better order at that time then ever it was in the memory of man, as to the execution of Justice and [Page 206] the freedom of Mens Persons and Estates (the present charge of the Army excepted) and the advance­ment of the Revenues of the Crown, the competent number of Bishops and other able and learned Mini­sters of the Church of England, and that for 200 years last past, England had never been so free of the charge of Ireland, as under this Govern­ment. Scrinia Sacra, p. 236. After his quitting of Ireland, he lived very honourable in En­gland, until by a casualty he brake his Leg on a Stand in Theobalds Park, and soon after died thereof, Anno 163.

1629. Sir Adam Loftus Lord Vis­count Ely, Lord Chancellor, and Sir Richard Boyle Earl of Cork, Lord Treasurer, October 26. were sworn Lords Justices. In their time the Fiction of St. Patricks Purgatory in Lough-Dirg was discovered to be a meer Illusion, a little Cell hewed [Page 207] out of a Rock, no Confines of Pur­gatory or Hell, though Priests made use of it to ensnare Pilgrims. In whose time also (though none were less Favourers of the Papists then they) the Roman Catholicks ( viz. In his Reign of K. Charles I. fol. 116. 1633.) writes Hamond L' Estrange, began to rant it in Ireland, and to exercise their Fansies (called Re­ligion) so publickly as if they had gained a Toleration; in as much as they said Mass frequently, till they were supprest by the Lords Justices, and 15 Houses (by dire­ction of the Lords of the Council from England) were seized on to the Kings use, and the Friers and Priests so persecuted, as two hanged themselves in their own defence. Their principle House in Backlane was disposed of to the University of Dublin, (formerly took notice of) who placed a Rector and Scholers in it, maintaining a Weekly Lecture [Page 208] there, which the Justices countenan­ced with their presence, though af­terwards the House was otherwise disposed of. Yet Affairs of this nature, as well as others, growing still irregular, the Romish Clergy too increasing to near double the number of Reformed Believers, in as much as their Insolency aspired to that height, as openly to erect an University in Dublin, in emula­tion, or rather in defiance of the Kings Colledge there. Of which the House of Commons in England (e­ver tender of the Affairs of Ireland) took especial notice in their first Ephemeris Parliamentar. fol. 210. Remonstrance to the King 1628. that without control the Popish Religion in Ireland, was openly professed and practised in every part thereof, Po­pish Jurisdiction being there gene­rally exercised and avowed, Mona­steries, Nunneries, and other super­stitious Houses newly erected, re­edified [Page 209] and replenished with men and women of several Orders, and in a plentiful manner maintained in Dublin, and most of the great Towns, &c. Upon which Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth President of the North, was thought of as the fittest person to ballance those Diffe­rences. Sir Richard Boyle Earl of Cork died at Youghal, and was there buried, Anno 1643. near the Date, (if not on the Day) of the Cessation concluded at Siggins-town, Septem­ber 15. unwilling to survive what he suspected might not be auspi­cious to the English, or conducible to the end for which it was design­ed; wherein he prophesied not ill. He was a person for his Abilities and Knowledge in the Affairs of the World eminently observable; in as much as (though he was no Peer of England, yet) he was admitted to sit in the Lords House upon the [Page 210] Woolsacks ut Consiliarius. And for all the Estate he arrived at (which was the greatest in the memory of the last Age) none ever taxed him with exorbitancies, but such as thought Princes had too little, and Religious men not enough. In St. Patricks Church Dublin, there is a fair Monument for him and his Relations. What concerns him is this,

Gods Providence is our Inheritance.

This Monument was erected for the Right Honourable Sir Richard Boyle Knight, Lord Boyle, Ba­ron of Youghal, Viscount of Dun­garvan, Earl of Cork, A Title ra­ther of honour than Profit, having but 30 l. Fee from the Exchequer, the Vice Treasurer or Treasurer at War having the chief emoluments of the Place, though the Lord Treasurer car­ries the Staff and bears the dignity. Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, of the Kings [Page 211] Privy Council of this Realm, and one of the two Lords Justices for the Government of this Kingdom, in memory of his most dear, ver­tuous and Religious Wife, the Lady Katherine, Countess of Cork, and their Posterity; as also of her Grandfather Dr. Robert Weston sometime Lord Chancellor of Ire­land, and one of the Lords Justices for the Government thereof: whose Daughter Alice Weston was mar­ried to Sir Geoffery Fenton Kt. Principal Secretary of State in this Realm; and they had issue the said Lady Katherine Countess of Cork, who lieth here interred with her said Father and Grandfather, whose Vertues she inherited on the Earth, and lieth here entombed with them. All expecting a joyful Resurrection. Obiit 10. die Februarii, Anno 1629.

[Page 210] [...] [Page 211] [...] [Page 212] Just under the above, are divers of their Children with the follow­ing Inscription,

The Issue of the Right Ho­nourable Richard Lord Boyle, Earl of Cork, and the Lady Katherine his Wife, with the Arms of such of their Daughters Hus­bands as are married.

Anno Dom. 1631

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Honoratissimus, praenobilis ac Illustrissimus Dominus Thomas Vi­cecomes Wentworth, Baro Wentworth de Wentworth Woodhouse, Dominus de Newmarche & Oversley, Serenissi­mi Domini CAROLI Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Regis, Deputatus Generalis in re­gno suo Hiberniae. Dominus Prae­sidens Concilii in partibus Borea­libus regni Angliae & à Secretio­ribus suae Majestatis Conciliis, Anno Dom. MDCXXXIII.

1633. Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth, President of the North, was sworn Lord De­puty July 25. One whose vast abilities the King had had due ex­perience of, therefore constitutes him in this Place. The year fol­lowing he summoned a Parliament at Dublin, who granted three Sub­sidies; by Virtue of which, and his prudent management thereof, he paid an Arrear of 80000 l. due before his Arrival, than which no­thing (of his Masters Justice) could be more honourable and obliging. No kind of Expence being more worthy a Prince, or like to eternize him surer than what is paid to Po­sterity in right of their Ancestors. [Page 214] And besides this, all Salaries, Civil and Military, were (through his pru­dent management of those Subsidies and his Majesties Revenue) paid without charge to England, beyond what else he advanced to his Maje­sties Purse. Who going for En­gland,

1636. Sir Adam Loftus Viscount Ely, Lord Chancellor, and Christo­pher Wansford Master of the Rolls, July 3. were sworn Lords Justices. Viscount Ely died about the begin­ning of the late Troubles in England, in Yorkshire, as I take it, where he was born, and there was buried. He was a Person of a grave Presence, and one that had long managed the Chancellorship in Ireland without offence, till some private Interest made an Inspection into his car­riage; yet (when a very remarka­ble business came on the Stage) he waved making publick Clamour the subject of his Revenge.

[Page 215]1636. Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth, &c. Nov. 23. Lord De­puty. During whose time the nota­ble Case of Tenures upon the Com­mission of Defective Titles came to be argued by the Judges of Ireland; five of which were of opinion, that the Letters Patents granted by King James in the IV year of his Reign, March 2. were void in the whole, the Subject having contrary to the Authority given by the Commis­sion, obtained Letters Patents in fraud and deceit of the Crown, to defeat the King of his Tenures in Capite, a principle Flower of his Crown, as is fullyargued by Sir James Barry (Baron Barry) in the Case Printed at Dublin, 1637. drawn up by him. Contrary to which, two Judges ( viz. Justice Mayart and Justice Cressey) held that the Letters Patents were only void as to the Tenure, which Opi­nion (amongst the generality) be­gat [Page 216] a reverence of the later Judges almost incredible; especially after it was decreed at the Council Board July 13. 1637. that all Tenures (other than by Knights Service in Capite) were void in the whole, and there­fore disannulled whatever Estates had otherwise past in the Counties of Roscomman, Slygo, Mayo, Galloway, or the County of the Town of Gall­way; yet after all (when it had cost his Majesty much in fining Offices) none of these Lands were ever alie­nated from the pretenders to them. Afterward the Lord Deputy going for England, the North of Ireland being sufficiently secured against the Scots, at that time somewhat su­spected.

1639. Robert Lord Dillon of Kil­kenney West, and Christopher Wans­ford Master of the Rolls, September 12. were sworn Lords Justices; In whose time a Parliament was sum­moned [Page 217] at Dublin, but more than meet did little, in expectation of

Illustrissimus & excellentissimus Dom. Thomas Comes de Straffordia, Vicecom. Wentworth, Baro Wentworth de Wentworth Woodhouse, de Novo Mercato, Oversley, & Raby, Serenissimi Dom. CAROLI, Magn. Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Regis, Locum­tenens Generalis: Necnon Guber­nator Generalis Regni sui Hiberniae, Dominus Praesidens Consilii in par­tibus Borealibus Regni Angliae: & à Secretioribus suae Majestatis Con­siliis, Anno Dom. MDCXXXIX.

1639. Thomas L d Vis­count Wentworth, some Moneths before made Earl of Strafford, then constituted Lord Lieu­tenant, for that as his Patent runs, Obsequium suum & industriam no­bis aegregiè probaverit dum Officium Deputatus nostri in Regno nostro Hiberniae, & Praefectu­ram generalem exercitus nostri ibidem conscripti fide summa administravit, resque nostras illius regni ea Pruden­tia ordinaverit ut nostro honori, salu­ti, Ecclesiae populoque universo, optime Consulerit. He arrived at Dublin March 18. and the next day recei­ved the Sword at the Council Table. After which he appeared in Parlia­ment, [Page 218] who granted four intire Sub­sidies for that (as it is in the Pream­ble of the Statute) being moved Anno 16 Car. Reg. thereunto by sundry great causes of joy and comfort; particularly in providing and placing over us so just, wise, vigilant, and profitable a Gover­nour as the Right Honourable Sir Tho­mas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of this your said Kingdom of Ireland, President of your Majesties Council, established in the North parts of your said Kingdom of England, One of your Majesties most Honourable Privy Council of the said Kingdom. Who by his great care and travel of body and mind, sincere and upright Administration of Justice without Partiality, increase of your Ma­jesties Revenues without the least hurt or grievance to any of your wel-disposed and loving Subjects: And our great comforts and security by the large and ample benefits which we have received, [Page 219] and hope to receive from your Majesties Commission of Grace for remedy of De­fective Titles, procured hither by his Lordship from your Sacred Majesty. His Lordships great care and pains in Restauration of the Church, the Re­inforcement of your Army within this Kingdom, and ordering the same with such singular and good Discipline, as that it is now become a great comfort, stay and security to this your whole Kingdom, which before had an Army rather in name than substance: His support of your Majesties wholsome Laws here established; his encourage­ment to your Judges, and other good Officers, Ministers, and Dispensers of your Laws in the due and sincere Ad­ministration of Justice: his necessary and just strictness for the execution thereof, his due punishment of the con­temners of the same, and his care to re­lieve and redress the Poor and oppres­sed. For this your tender care over [Page 220] us, shewed by the deputing and sup­porting of so good a Governour, &c. We in free Recognition of your great goodness towards us, do for the Alle­viation of some part of your Majesties said inestimable charges, most humbly and freely offer to your Majesty, &c. four intire Subsidies, &c. Upon the reputation of which, the Earl of Strafford raised 8000 Foot, and 1000 Horse, additional to the Ve­terane Forces. And so having ex­pedited his Majesties Affairs there, he hasted into England; where after a Trial before his Peers in Westminster Hall, (a Scene more magnificent than History can Parallel) he was on the pretended hate of the whole Em­pire, condemned by Bill of Attain­dor. Et si accusatus non minus acri­ter quam fideliter Defensus, varias sen­tentias habuit plures tamen quasi mi­tiores. Since which, that Act, with all the circumstances of it, was re­pealed, [Page 221] Anno 14 Caroli secundi, wor­thy often perusal, having in it the state of the whole business; and the same act that condemned him also secured, that his Death should not be a president for the like. He was beheaded on Tower-hill, May 12. 1641. Quem Ille (as it was said of Momoransis) supremum casum fortiter juxta & Religiose tulit. For whom there are several Epitaphs, but that of his Majesty in his incomparable Meditations will survive Brass or Marble:

I look (saith his Majesty) upon my Lord of Strafford, as a Gentleman whose abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest Affairs of State.

Some few days after the Earl of Strafford was beheaded, Robert Earl of Leicester (Grandson of Sir Henry [Page 222] Sidney that excellent Governour) was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A Person acceptable on all accounts, having never been engaged in the publick Currant of the Times, a virtue very remarka­ble, but often imployed on the no­blest Embassies abroad and at home, whereby he was a fit Instrument to serve his Prince in so eminent an imployment on the loss of such a Minister of State as the Earl of Straf­ford, who by his knowledge in Mar­tial Affairs, and other his great Abi­lities, would have been no doubt (as Sir Benjamin Rudyard observed) Diurnal Oc­currences, p. 355. abundantly capable to have reduced the Irish to a due Obedience. But though he had sent over Servants and much Furniture into Ireland, and lay a long time at Chester for a dispatch, he yet never came into Ireland, much to the Regret of many that wished well to that Service; [Page 223] though part of the Arrears of his Entertainment there, are of late se­cured by the Act of Settlement in Ireland.

1640. Christopher Wansford, Ma­ster of the Rolls, took the Oath of Lord Deputy April 3. and died sud­denly Decemb. 3. following, passio­nately (as it was thought) affected with the imprisonment of the Earl of Strafford, whose intimacy had been of ancient date. Nor were his apprehensions the less, for that not long before (the Parliament sitting at Dublin) some Instructions were agreed on by the House of Com­mons, (for a Committee to be sent into England) which reflecting on the Earl of Strafford, he caused (as it was generally reported) to be razed out of the Journal Book. An example of which he had observed in the 19 year of King James, Anno 1621. when the Protestation of the [Page 224] House of Commons was defaced by the Kings own hand, and enjoined the Agents (then appointed) not to repair to the Court without the Kings License; which (notwith­standing) they did, some from one Port some from another. He was buried in Christ Church Dublin. A Gentleman certainly of excellent Parts, a clear Orator, and One re­gained from the Popular Partie of the House of Commons in England, to serve his Prince in the Secrets of State. On his death

1640. Robert Lord Dillon of Kil­kenny-West, and Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronnet, Master of the Court of Wards, Decemb. 30. were sworn Lords Justices. But the Lord Dillon, a person of great abilities and a shrewd reach, well esteemed of by the Earl of Strafford, being excepted against by some of the Irish Committee of Parliament then [Page 225] in England, he was displaced. Yet that no business for the advantage of Ireland might be delayed through the misdirections of Orders from his Majesty; he was pleased by his Letters January 4. in the 16 year of his Reign, directed to his Privy Council in Ireland, and to Sir Wil­liam Parsons and Sir John Borlase Knights, then designed to be his Justices of that his Kingdom, to grant (amongst other things) that his Subsidies there should be redu­ced to a lesser rate than formerly; and that all Letters directed to the Lieutenant, Deputy, Justices, Chief Governour or Governours, or to any other Officers or Ministers of that Realm, either concerning the Publick Affairs or private Interests of any Subject there, might be en­tered into his Signet Office in En­gland, to the end that they may be (upon occasion) found to take [Page 226] Copies of for the Subjects better Information in such publick things as may concern them; as also that all Dispatches from Ireland should safely be kept apart, that like re­course may be had to them for the better satisfaction of the Subject who shall be concerned therein. And whereas in the former Governours time there were endeavours to hin­der some Agents of Parliament to have recourse into England, his Ma­jesty takes notice that for as much as the Committee of the Parliament of Ireland, John Bellew Esquire, and Oliver Cassel, with others imployed thence, have repaired into his King­dom of England to represent their Grievances, he hath manifested his gracious condescentions to them, admitting them into his Royal Pre­sence, forbidding his Counsellors in Ireland, or any other Officers or Ministers of that State to proceed [Page 227] any wise against them or any of them for the same; and that any of his Subjects shall have Copies of Re­cords, Certificates, Orders of Coun­cil, publick Letters, or other En­tries for the Declaration of their▪ Grievances made, so open was his breast to the Complaints presented to him from the Parliament in Ire­land, that if there had not been a general Defection long anvilled in the minds of that People, the event of so horrid a Rebellion (as few Moneths after happened) could not have been the Issue of such Remar­kable condescentions. At the Lord Dillons going off,

1640. Sir William Parsons Ma­ster of the Court of Wards, long ex­perienced in the Affairs of Ireland, and Sir John Borlase Knight, Master of the Ordnance, well known to his Majesty by several Imployments at home and abroad, as Collonel in [Page 228] the Low-Countries, and Lieutenant General under the Lord Vere, one of the most expert and fortunate Captains in the World, were the 10 (not the 9 as some write) of February, sworn at the Council Board Lords Justices: who joint­ly endeavoured to smooth the rug­ged Passages of those Times, ob­taining from his Majesty more Gra­ces than was thought would have been indulged the Irish, in as much as a most Honourable person a no­ble Peer in the House of Lords, avouched that the Lords Justices had always chearfully received their Requests and Messages, and were ready to comply with them, de­siring that it might be entered in their Journal, to the end that the memory of so even a Government might remain to Posterity. Yet such then were the contrivance of the Irish to Rebellion, that though [Page 229] as one says, the Design was many times discontinued, yet it bore an ancient date, and was subtlely pur­sued in Parliament the Session be­fore it brake forth; when they pre­tended (by a Committee of both Houses) to search his Majesties Stores, as if some Plot had been fra­med there to destroy the Parliament (the House of Parliament being then over part of the Store) and on that pretence they would fain have seen all his Majesties Store of Ammuni­tion and Arms. But the Lord Bor­lase (Master of the Ordnance, un­der whose charge those were) bold­ly denied their Requests as his Ma­jesties choicest Jewels, not to be discovered without his especial Or­ders, which they took ill, and Octob. 23. 1641. the Rebellion sadly broke out in its vigour and extremity, raised for the Restauration of the publick Profession of the Romish Re­ligion, [Page 230] the Restitution of all the Plantation Lands unto the Natives, and settlement of the present Go­vernment into their hands. On which pretensions it went on cur­rantly, though the night before Owen O-Canally (a meer Irish man, but trained up in the Protestant Religion, who out of a sense of his The Anniver­sary Act of Thanksgiving, fol. 5. Duty and Loyalty to his Majesty, and for the preservation of his good People, and as an Effect of that Re­ligion he was trained up in) had discovered it first to the Lord Par­sons, and then (not accounting him­self to be sufficiently credited) to the Lord Borlase, at whose House the Council (such as could be rai­sed from their Beds) met; and se­curing the Castle and City with such strength as they had, the Lord Mac­Guire, Collonel Hugh Oge-Mac-Ma­ [...]one, (some of them afterwards hanged at Tiburn) and others, were [Page 231] convened before them; who yet made so slight a business of their Plot (being discovered and their persons apprehended) as the Rela­tor saw Mac-Mahon and others draw Gibbets (in Chalk) with men hang­ing on them in several places in the Lord Borlases Hall, as the best death the English could expect from them. In the Interim Dublin (by a strange Providence) was secured, though afterwards infested with so ma­ny inconveniences, such streights, as these Justices Government was under a perpetual trouble and an­xiety, being at the best but uncer­tainly supplyed out of England; though such was the Resentment that the Parliament (then sitting) had of Ireland, and the outrages committed against the English, as they forthwith Ordered 20000 l. for the present supply; as also 6000 Foot and 2000 Horse to be raised [Page 232] with all convenient speed, Voting other things necessary thereunto, passing an Act afterwards for Sub­scriptions, which were very free and liberal, besides a general Colle­ction through all his Majesties Do­minion of England and Wales to­wards the necessities of the poor di­stressed Christians and Protestants barbarously suffering in Ireland. Which later Act arose to a very considerable sum, so much were the People generally affected with the afflictions of their Brethren, and for the most part the Contribution was circumspectly and well disposed of, though I am not ignorant that some laid it out in vanity, when af­terwards their necessities wished a sup­ply for food. That hence such was the success (that waited on the War prosecuted by the English) that till the Exigencies of the Time brought on a Cessation, they never received [Page 233] (the Defeat near Julians Town ex­cepted, hapning not without much ignorance) any Scorn or Defeats; and what was very remarkable, with­out any assistance either from the meer Irish or English-Irish, such a Ʋnity was in the Conspirators, (the Irish Catholicks) that the Insurrection diffusing it self over the whole King­dom, setled into, and became a formed and almost a National Rebellion of the Irish Papists against his late Royal Majesty of blessed Memory; as more at large appears in an Act entituled, An Act for the better Execution of his Majesties gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland, fol. 1. As also in an Act for the Anni­versary Thanksgiving for the Deli­verance, October 23. shewing the Conspiracy so generally inhumane, bar­barous, and cruel, as the like was ne­ver before heard of in any Age or Kingdom, &c. Nihil illâ caede per [Page 234] paludes, per plateas, per viam Regiam perque Sylvas cruentius, nihil insulta­tione barbarorum intolerantius prae­cipuè tamen in Causarum Patronos, to use Floras's expression in his Chapter, De Bello adversus gentes P: 115. exteras: to which I need add no more, those Acts being of Authority to continue and out-face such as would lay a finer Varnish on so hor­rid a Design. So as these Gover­nours were encompassed with a thousand difficulties, (maugre the Imputation of very unjust Designs some would charge them with) and Money coming in very slow; all Peo­ple were encouraged by Orders from the Council Board, Dated at the Castle of Dublin, (one on the 5, the later on the 14 of January, 1642.) to bring in their Plate to be coined, which many did; some who in re­spect of their Imployment had least reason to do it, whilest others secu­red [Page 235] theirs. At first the Stamp was in this Form, meerly with the value of the Silver upon it.

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Afterwards by the Kings Appro­bation, all kinds of pieces from 1 d. to 5 s. were in this manner stam­ped.

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And now some exceptions being taken against Sir William Parsons, (which in the Scene of Affairs was no difficult thing to do) he was re­moved, [Page 236] yet without any other dis­respect or reflections, that now be­ing free, he retired (with much ease) to his own Privacies, with which he was much satisfied, till Dublin be­ing on all sides (but the Sea) ob­structed, he went for England; where (not finding his expectations answered) he grew less composed, and died at Westminster, MDCXLIX, and was buried the II of March in St. Margerets Church near the Ab­bey. A Gentleman of long and hap­py experience, one of a considerable Allie in Ireland, having many Chil­dren fortunately bestowed on thri­ving Families, in which himself was an excellent Example, a knowing Judge, and a Civil Magistrate.

1643. Sir John Borlase Knight, Master of the Ordnance, and Sir Hen­ry Tichborn Governour of Tredath, (who deserves a noble Memory for his Service there) were May 1. sworn [Page 237] Lords Justices at the Council Board: who upon the Consumma­tion of the Cessation wholely con­cluded by the Marquess of Ormond, and the settlement of the Army, re­signed. Nor indeed did they it without much Repose, great diffi­culties arising upon the Cessation, not possible for them to satisfie, the Exchequer being quite exhausted, and the Money agreed to be brought in by the Cessation being very neg­ligently paid; besides the Cessati­on was not by all the British and Protestant Forces received with e­qual compliance, through which complaints daily multiplied. Mon­ro in the North grew so much in­censed at the Cessation that in his Letters to the Lords Justices, dated September 29. 1643. after that he had acknowledged the States Com­mand to obey it, he writ to the Lords Justices and Council, That [Page 238] that kind of usage and contempt of making a Cessation without security for their Pay, &c. would constrain good servants (though his Majesties Loyal Subjects) to think upon some course which might be satisfactory to them, being driven almost to despair, and threatned to be persecuted by the Roman Catholick Subjects, as they were termed. Upon which the Con­federate Council at Kilkenny, Octob. 15. following, writ to the Lords Ju­stices and Council at Dublin to join with them the Power of all his Maje­sties good Subjects within this King­dom, to secure the Cessation inviola­ble, and that (whilest their Succours were in preparation) their Proceed­ings might no ways be thought to vio­late the Cessation. The Consequence of which may hereafter be enlar­ged on. Sir John Borlase (truly sensible of the times) died in great St. Bartholomews London, March 15. [Page 239] 1647. Anno Aetatis suae, 72. and lies there buried in the East end of the North side of the Chancel, near the Communion Table; for whom I find Edward Bisse Esquire, now Sir Edward Clarentieux, in his Notes on Sir Henry Spelmans Aspilogia, hath left this Character, writing (after that he had taken notice of his de­scent from Borlase in Cornwal) that

Cum ab Imperatoriis muneribus, qui­bus, cum in Hollandia, tum in Ger­mania & Dania defunctus est, re­quievisset, postmodum cum provin­ciae socio Guilielmo Parsono Equi­te Aurato, vices Proregis in Hiber­nia amoto Straffordiae Comite obi­vit, sub titulo Hiberniae Justicia­rii, majori virtutis famâ, quàm sibi & suis consulturus de re familiari amplianda, ut qui tam Divitiarum Contemptor, quam fortitudinis & [Page 240] verae Pietatis Cultor. Isque pari famae integritate ad obitum usque summum praefecturam aeneorum tor­mentorum in Hibernia sustinuit; Per Maternam Ishamiorum in Nor­thamptonia originem sanguine an­nexus erat vetustissimae & nobilissi­mae familiae Comitum Oxoniensium quos Heroicarum virtutum & san­guinis juxta Cognatione continge­bat.

Sir Henry Tichburn died at Beauly his House near Drogheda, Anno 1667. and was buried in St. Maries Church in Drogheda, that owed a Rite to his Ashes, who (with so much vigilance and excellent Con­duct) had preserved It and the Town; the Defence of which was the security of Dublin, for had the Irish took Drogheda, or deserted it (so as to have laid the like Siege to Dublin) so many poor souls as esca­ped [Page 241] thither, could never have been relieved; nor could the State have been in any capacity to have subsi­sted till Forces arrived from En­gland, the first of which was on the last of December 1641. under the Conduct of Sir Simon Harcourt, Col­lonel of a Regiment of Foot design­ed Governour of the City of Dublin, that long experienced and excel­lent Officer, worthy the memory of the best Prince, and most grateful People; who afterwards was by an especial Order admitted into the Privy Council. But Providence (whose eyes are in the Wheels) so ordered the business, that the whole force of the Irish (united in Fury and Vilany) were most miraculously there defeated, and that meerly through Gods mercy, by the Courage and Valour of the Besieged, bear­ing out against the uttermost of Ex­tremity and Treachery, faithfully set [Page 242] down by Dean Bernard in his Trea­tise entituled, The Siege of Drogheda, the compleat freeing of which was upon the taking of Dundalk, March 26. 1642. Sir Henry Tichbourn entred Drogheda, Novemb. 4. 1641. so early had the Vigilance of the State (through the experience of One, who well knew the hazards of de­lay in War) provided for its De­fence, sending thither with Sir Hen­ry Tichbourn Governour, Sir John Borlase jun. afterwards Collonel, and Lieutenant of the Ordnance, Lieutenant Collonel Robert Byron, since Knight, and late Master of the Ordnance, and Lieutenant Collonel Philip Wainmond, all formerly Field-Officers, to join with the most excel­lent and truly Noble Henry Lord Viscount Moore, afterwards Lieute­nant General of the Horse, deser­vedly registred amongst the first of the Nobility and Officers; who was [Page 243] unfortunately slain at the beginning of the Treaty of the first Ceslation, through the grazing of a Cannon bullet, which he foresaw, yet took not warning enough to evade. These all served chearfully under his Command, though the change of Fortune (to whom none is in­debted for her constancy) hath suf­ficiently evidenced in Some, how lit­tle is to be trusted to Ones Merits, if Favour be not also put into the Ballance.

Sir Henry Tichbourn, descended from an ancient Family in Hamp­shire, from whom, though he recei­ved much, his Vertue added more, he was early educated in the Wars; some years before his death he was made Marshal of Ireland.

1643. James Marquess of Or­mond, Jan. 21. in Christ Church Dub­lin, was with great solemnity and general acceptance, sworn L. Lieute­nant; [Page 244] a person likeliest, by his In­terests and Concerns, to manage the troublesom Affairs then in agitation. Not long after his access to the Go­vernment, the Lord Inchequin (in­stigated by the Parliament of Eng­land) violated the Cessation in Mun­ster, as the Scots had done before in Ʋlster, whilest the Irish under the Command of the Popes Nuncio, and Owen Row (a most inveterate Enemy to the English) equally impatient of the Name as of the Government, withdrew their Souldiers from their Fidelity and Colours; though in the interim Preston and Taff endea­voured to make up a Peace with the King. In opposition to which the Lord Inchequin and the Prime Offi­cers in Munster, had before inter­posed their sense, That no Peace The Lord In­chequin and the Officers Letter from Cork July 17. could be concluded with the Irish which would not bring unto his Majesty and the Kingdom (in general) a far grea­ter [Page 245] prejudice than shew of a Peace there will bring them an advantage &c. adding in the close, that the true sense of the aspersion the Irish had cast upon his Majesty (with all those other Reasons which they had set down in their Declaration) made them re­solve to die a thousand deaths rather than to condescend to any Peace with the perfidious Rebels, vowing never to desert the Cause that was so visibly God Almighties.

Notwithstanding which and ma­ny more difficulties, his Excellen­cy bore up with an equal heat, till that through the impetuousness of the Times, the English Monarchy was discemented, that the King be­ing retired to New Castle, writes from thence to the Marquess of Or­mond, June 11. 1646. That for many Reasons, too long for a Letter, we think it fit to require you to proceed no fur­ther in Treaty with the Rebels, nor to [Page 246] engage Ʋs upon any Conditions with them after sight hereof, &c. Our Ser­vice and the good of our Protestant Subjects being herein much concerned. After which the Rebels laying Siege to Dublin, and the Lord Lieutenant not being able to sustain a longer Encounter, the Scots too infesting at a distance, surrendred Dublin, June 18. 1647. and what the King held in Ireland to the Parliaments Commissioners, Arthur Ansloe Esq;, Sir Robert King, Sir Robert Meredith, Collonel John More, Collonel Mi­chael Jones (to whom Cheshire gives a Character that he never charged the Enemy till he came to the Head of their Troops) rather then to suf­fer the Interest of the English and Protestants to fall into the Power of the Irish. And so retires for Eng­land soon after. But before that he left the Kingdom, Philip Lord Lisle was by the Parliament of England, [Page 247] 1646. Jan. 28. ordered to go into Ireland as their Lieutenant perso­nally well furnished, though other­wise with no considerable Force; being made to believe that that part of the Army in England (which had then nothing to do, the King being brought to Holmby) should be sent after him, upon which Febr. 19. he set sail from Minhead and arri­ved at Cork the 22. yet the Army (from whence he expected great matters) then growing mutinous, would not be commanded by the Parliament; amongst which there were, besides a Party in the House, that did not further his Design, with whom some in Ireland shewed (at his landing) to have an intimacy or correspondence; so that though (for the little time he was there) it could not be said but that Affairs were prudently carried, yet finding the Scene so contrary to his expecta­tion, [Page 248] he furnished the Marquess of of Ormond the 10 of March, with 20 Barrels of Powder, and the first of April 1647. he returned for Eng­land, being out of hopes of more than those small Forces he carried with him.

1648. The said James Marquess of Ormond (furnished with new In­structions) returns (on the Votes of Non-Addresses) anew into Ire­land Lord Lieutenant; but so writes Elenchus, as to Act nothing in the P. 223. execution of that Power as long as the Treaty with the King, or any hopes of Peace lasted. Which Injunction he very solemnly observed, retiring himself to the Castle of Kilkenny, his proper Inheritance; but finding (at length) how the King was abu­sed in that Treaty, he then vigorously endeavoured to improve his Inte­rests for his Majesties Service, though with that Caution, so vigilant an [Page 249] Eye, such a wary Foot, as if the con­cerns of Posterity, more than his own, was deposited in the weightiest Scale: and thereupon, being forced in the midst of great streights, to conclude a Peace with the Confede­rate Irish, he proclaimed it, Jan. 17. 1648. which yet so little endeared him to them (though such Terms could never have been gained but at such an extremity) as August 12. 1650. the titulary Archbishops of Ireland and others of the Clergy, con­vened at James Town, left no stone un­turned to have hit him if it had been possible; excommunicating all that adhered to him, though at his de­parture they testified (by an Act made at their General Assembly at Loghreough, Decemb. 7. 1650.) that they were fully satisfied that his Ex­cellency had faithful Intentions and hearty Affections to advance his Ma­jesties Interests and Service in that [Page 250] Kingdom. Soon after which he quitted Ireland, having born (with incredible patience) the Affronts and Insolencies of the most consi­derable part of the Irish against his Majesties Authority lodged in him; and so, at length, that he might gra­tifie their Expectations, he left the Government in the Marquess of Clanrickard; a person, say they, faithful to his Majesty, and acce­ptable to the Nation. And now be­ing loose from an ungrateful People, whom all his Condescentions, Tra­vels and Sufferings made more In­solent, he at length reached France; where he had not been long, but he was summoned to an imployment answerable to his Fidelity. The Duke of Glocester being sent out of England, the Jesuites (who were ready to improve the sufferings of that poor Prince to the advantage of their own Interests) got him in­to [Page 251] their Clutches, which the King hearing of, immediately imploys the Marquess of Ormond to recover him from their Insinuations and Allurements; the which he did with singular prudence and sinceri­ty, though the Duke of Glocester had before given such evidence of his satisfaction and proof of his Reli­gion, that the Jesuites subtilties could work nothing on him, but a closer adherence to the true Faith; which (that this History may be more evident) I shall here insert what Monsieur De L' Angle (in his Letter, p. 30. touching the Religion of the King) hath evidenced to the World, from Monsieur Durel the Princes Governour.

Voicy donc ce que j'ensçay. C'est que les Jesuittes entreprirent de porter cejeune Prince à la revolte, pour cela ils trouverent le moyen d'oster [Page 252] son Gouverneur d' auprés de luy. En suitte dequoy ils livrerent divers assauts à sa Religion. On luy faisoit reluire mille belles esperances, on luy promettoit de luy faire pluvoir dans le sein les plus importantes digni­tez Ecclesiastiques du Royaume, on l' asseuroit de l' Abaye de Sainct Denys, & de l' Archevesché de Rheims, & d'un Chappeau de Car­dinal. Bref ces Messieurs luy don­noient parole que l' on le rendroit si riche qu'il seroit assez puissant pour restablir le Roy son frere dans son thrône. Mais Dieu assista extra­ordinairement ce Prince, & pour l' opprobre de Christ, qu'il prist pour sa part, il méprisa genereuse­ment ces Richesses d' Aegypte. Surquoy les Jesuittes le transporte­rent de lieu en lieu, comme l' Esprit fit autrefois nostre Seigneur pour le tenter. Ils le menerent premiere­ment à Pontoise, au Seminaire des [Page 253] Jesuittes, ou Dieu luy fit la grace de soustenir de grands combats, mais par la force de son esprit dont il ac­compagna cét excellent Prince, qui en ce temps là n' avoit pas plus de dix ou douze ans, il resta victorieux de tous ses puissans ennemis, qui re­solurent encor de changer de place & de revenir à Paris, faisan, com­me Balaam qui miroit de tous costez le peuple de Dieu pour donner quel­que prise à ses charmes. Mais tout cela ne leur reussit point, par tout Dieu benit cet illustre Enfant, & Dieu luy donna cette sapience d'enhaut à laquelle le monde ne sçauroit resister. Et Dieu qui ne souffre point que les siens soient tentez par dessus leur force, le delivra de tentation. Car le Roy d' Angleterre qui apprist par son Gouverneur exilé l'estat de son frere; envoya promptement à son secours le Marquis d' Ormont qui [Page 254] le tira de ce mauvais pas par l' or­dre de la Reyne, qui eut la bonté de deferer à la volonté du Roy d' An­gleterre son fils, & de faire remit­tre le Duc de Glocester entre les mains de ce Marquis, qui le rame­na auprés de ce Roy, qui depuis ce temps là a veillé sur son éducation & l'affirmi en la cognoissance de la verité.

1650. Ʋlike Burgh Marquess of Clanrickard, Earl of St. Albons, in December, (upon the departure of the Marquess of Ormond) was left Lord Deputy. He lived sometimes at Loghreough, sometimes at Port Tumney, and at Tirrillen, continuing (by virtue of his Commission) the Assembly at Loghreough, begun by the Marquess of Ormond, which (in respect of the three States, Lords, Bishops, and Commons, assembled in that Body) the Irish entituled a Par­liament. [Page 255] He entered the 7. of March into Galloway with all the Nobility and Gentry in great splendour, much to the content of that [...]y; yet behaved himself with so even a temper, as the Kings business was carried on, and the English every where countenanced: Till the Tor­rent proving too strong by the Par­liaments Forces daily succeeding, he (on the best terms he could make) quitted all to their Mercy about the Year 1652. and returned for Eng­land, where not long after he died at London, and was buried at Sum­merhil by Tunbridge in Kent. The English Interest being now wholy under the Government of the Par­liaments Forces (managed some­times by Cromwel, sometimes by Ire­ton, then by Fleetwood, at last by Henry Cromwel) victoriously succee­ding through the whole Nation, Victory (as the Lord Chancellor ob­serves [Page 256] in his Speech in Parliament, Septemb. 13. 1660.) being entailed on the Army, which humanely spea­king, could hardly fail of Con­quest, &c. Whose Order and Di­scipline, whose sobriety and man­ners, whose courage and success hath made it famous and terrible over the whole World: In as much as some of the Rebels themselves (in their Queries to the Bishop of Limerick) say, that such a Winter success in War, by so inconsidera­ble a Party, against so considerable a Kingdom, was never read or heard of; considering especially, that to the support of the Irish Interests from▪ January 1649. to January 1650. there was raised 533564 l. 10 s. 11 d. besides Meal, Beefs, Wheat, Win­ter Quarter, Kings Customs, Excise, and Enemies Estates, if we may cre­dit the Relation of Mercurius Poli­ticus. P. 347. Anno 1650. So as the Confederacie of [Page 257] the Irish being thereupon broken, September 26. 1653. notwithstand­ing the Popes Cement, there insued thereupon a distribution of the Re­bels Estates, which since (by a Su­pream Power) is more orderly in­vested in the Possessors; and those (whose Loyalty valued not the Nun­cio's Excommunication) have their Lands secured by the Act of Settle­ment. And what is more, their Names, their Honours, and Them­selves perpetuated to Posterity, ha­ving eminently suffered for their adhering to the Authority of his Majesty, or his late Father of Bles­sed Memory, against the Nuncio and The Act of Settlement, fol. 124. his Party.

The Year before his Majesties hap­py return into England, Interesses of all sorts bandying one against another, Ireland (amongst the rest) thought how best to secure its Stake. Upon which Sir Charles Coote Bar­ronet, [Page 258] and other Officers of the Ar­my in Ireland (much in Vouge with the People) set forth a Declaration at Dublin, February 16. 1659. ta­king notice how the Authority o [...] the Parliament in England was o­penly violated, and that it was but Reason to secure the Grand Interest, having been poured forth from Ves­sel to Vessel, &c. with much more to the same effect, worthy of a Re­cord, in as much as not long after in a General Convention (not with­out the subtlety of some contrived to effect the Kings Restauration) was summoned at Dublin, in which there was Orders taken for the satis­fying the Souldiers, who had been long behind in their Pay, and the effecting of other things conducible to the Grand Design. And now ha­ving notice of the Kings Letter from Breda, they (accounting themselves not less concerned than others) [Page 259] laid hold on his Clemency in this Declaration.

A Declaration of the Gene­ral Convention of Ireland.

ALthough the Deluge of Bloud spilt in these his Majesties Kingdoms of England, Ireland, and Scotland, might by the cry thereof awaken us; and the observation how God hath from time to time blasted all the attempts of rasing our ancient Foundations, speaks plainly unto all, that we must return to, and repose in the proper Center of that Government under which these Kingdoms for ma­ny hundreds of years flourished: Yet we cannot but acknow­ledge, and we do hereby Declare, [Page 260] That we receive additional in­couragement to hope and endea­vour for his Majesties return and resettlement, (the onely ba­sis to support our Liberties and Freedom) from perusal of his Majesties late gracious Decla­ration dated at his Court at Breda the 4/14 day of April in the twelfth Year of his Reign, di­rected to all his loving Subjects, under which title we are compre­hended, which we justly esteem our glory and happiness.

And we cannot pass by our acknowledgment of the undeser­ved Mercies of our God, who by inclining his Majesties heart to the entertaining of the thoughts of Clemency, Justice, and Peace; and by bowing the hearts of all his Majesties faith­ful Subjects in these three King­doms, [Page 261] to embrace resolutions of duty and loyalty due to his sa­cred Person; hath in a great part removed those obstructions which to humane appearance seemed insuperable by Treasure and Bloud, without the expence of the one, or effusion of the o­ther.

And we do hereby declare our humble, hearty and joyful sense of those gracious offers held forth by his Majesty in his said Declaration, and confirmed by the word of a KING, which are like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, and the lively expres­sions of an indulgent King, that prevents the desires of his Peo­ple by free Concessions.

And we further declare, That with all submissive thankfulness we receive, and do lay hold of [Page 262] those condescensions of favour and grace, as the fittest expedi­ents to cement the divided Inte­rests in these three Kingdoms; for which we shall always pay a constant Tribute of Duty and Loyalty to his Majesty, as the undoubted▪ Heir of these three Kingdoms, and our just and lawful Soveraign, so that as we may with full satisfaction say we live under the best of Kings: [...] his Majesty may be pleased to repute us amongst the best of Subjects.

God save the KING.

Dated the 14 of May, 1660.

May 14. 1660.

ORdered by the General Con­vention of Ireland, That this Declaration be forthwith Prin­ted and Published.

Ma. Barry Clerk of the Gene­ral Convention of Ireland.

Dublin, Printed by William Bladen, by special Order, Anno Dom. 1660.

The Convention (which in all things had manifested its Loyalty, and the first fruits of obedience) con­tinued after the Kings Return with his permission; having exprest their Loyalty to Him, his Royal Highness, and the Duke of Glocester, in a sum considerable for that poor Nation. And, on the promise of a Parliament, dissolved.

Sub CAROLO II.

His Majesty was no sooner setled in his Throne, but he reflected on the miserable and languishing State of Ireland, whose Harp had long hung on the Willows solitary and un­strung; and thereupon named some to whom the Affairs of Ireland were particularly addressed, yet till that he had pitched on such as he thought fittest for the continuance in that Government, I find by a Proclamation dated at Dublin Sept. 24. 1660. Sir Charles Coote Knight Barronet, and Major ▪ William Bury, stiled Commissioners of Government and Management of Affairs in Ire­land; which I could not pass over, though these had not the Regalia signa puniendi, Sword and Mace com­mitted to their trust; the first of that nature were

[Page 265]1660. Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger Boyle Earl of Or­rerey, Baron Braughil President of Munster, and Sir Charles Coote Earl of Montrath, Lords Justices; the Chancellor and Montrath were sworn Decemb. 31. Orrerey the 17 of Ja­nuary; before whom a Parliament was summoned the 8 of May 1661. of which Dr. Bramhal Lord Primate of Ardmagh was by the Kings ap­pointment made Speaker of the House of Lords, the Chancellor be­ing then one of the Lords Justices substituted (with his Colleagues) to present the Kings person in that Senate. Of whom Dr. Dud. Loftus in his Funeral Oration of this Bi­shop, p. 30. writes very worthily Praeter quo­tidiana munia sua praestita perquam lau­dabiliter hisce Comitiis, ha­buit in eorundem auspiciis orationem gravibus verbis cultam, & sapien­tissimis sententiis politam, alias verò effudit Orationes Succulentas, &c. ut nemo fide prestantior, nemo certè in officio constantior atque perseve­rantior, &c. Ejusdemque Consilio, decretum est, unanimi consensu suf­fragante, omnia sua Membra, coenae salutaris Dominicae fieri participantia, sacra manu hujus Praesulis administrante. Which I the rather observe, it being (for what I ever heard) the first Order of that Nature, the Composition of the Lords House consisting most of Papists. [Page 266] And Sir Audley Mervin his Majesties Prime Serjeant at Law, was made Speaker of the House of Commons; which he discharged with equal Faith and Integrity.

The House of Commons gave the Duke of Ormond 30000 l. as a Pre­sent from their House, without rela­tion to any satisfaction which should be provided for him by his Majesty, or otherwise in recompence of his great losses and sufferings; such a value was placed on his Me­rits, such an estimate on his suffer­ings. And as soon as the King had declared at Court ( viz. the 4 of No­vember 1661.) that he had made the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Irish Committee of Parliament then attending the King, returned him solemn thanks for so excellent a Choice, and the Lords Ju­stices and Council of Ireland, upon the notice thereof, published this Order.

By the Lords Justices and Council. M [...]ur. Eustace Canc. Orrerey, Montrath

WHereas his Majesty hath in his Highness Wise­dom adjudged it fit to declare our very good Lord his Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieute­nant of this Kingdom, who had the honour to be so eminently in­strumental in laying such firm Foundations for the future strengthening of this Kingdom, the propagation of the Prote­stant Religion, and securing the English Interest therein: We therefore think fit, and so do Or­der, That the Major of the City of Dublin do take Order that there be this Evening such Pub­lick [Page 268] Demonstrations of Joy, up­on so happy an occasion, in and throughout the▪ City and Sub­urbs, as well by the Militia of the City as otherwise, as may testifie the joined and unanimous gladness of all men for that hap­py choice made by his Majesty, tending, by the blessing of God, in an high degree, to the honour and service of his Majesty, and to the happiness of this his Kingdom and People.

Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, Novemb. 20. 1661.
  • Jam. Dublin
  • H. Midensis
  • W. Caulfield
  • Jo. Bysse
  • Jo. Temple
  • Paul Davies
  • Robert Forth
  • Robert Meredith

[Page 269]The Earl of Montrath dying the 18 of December 1661. of the Smal Pox in Dublin, was privately buried in Christ Church the next night, but his Obsequies were there solemnly per­formed the 6 of February following in great State. After whose death

1661. Sir Maurice Eustace Lord Chancellor, and Roger Earl of Or­rerey, &c. January 14. were sworn Lords Justices at the Council Board. Sir Maurice Eustace died in Dublin the 22 of June, in the 71 year of his Age of a Palsie, 1665. and was bu­ried at Castle Martin early the next morning; his Funeral was solemni­zed in St. Patricks Church in Dublin that day three Weeks after he died.

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The most noble Prince James, Duke, Marquess, and Earl of Or­mond, Earl of Ossory and Brecknock, Viscount [...]hurles, Lord Baron of Arclo and Lanthony, Lord of the Regalities and Liberties of the County of Tiperary, Chancellor of the University of Dublin, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties King­dom of Ireland, one of the Lords of his Majesties most honourable Pri­vy Council of his Majesties King­doms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Lord Steward of his Maje­sties Houshold, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset, Gentleman of his Majesties Bedchamber, and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter. MDCLXII.

1662. James Duke of Ormond, &c. who had (as the Act for the Settlement of the Kingdom of Ireland saith, fol. 99.) upon the most abstracted consi­derations of Honour and Conscience, faith­fully adhered to his Majesty, and to the Crown of England, without any regard to his own Estate or For­tune, was the 28 of July sworn in Cork-House Lord Lieutenant, and the 27 of September following, he gave the Royal Assent to several Acts of Par­liament. At that time delivering himself in so significant a Speech as (besides those Elegances which beautified the Oration) he disco­vered, with singular humanity, how [Page 271] far men (further than their▪ first in­tention) may proceed to Villanies, Policy and Power (in conclusion) could not restrain. All delivered with that Vigour, that nothing could have made equal Impression, or in­deed have been spoken, but from one that had lain in his Masters breast, known his thoughts, uttered his sense; which being registred amongst the Records of Parliament, is there to be sought for with Reve­rence.

Then (as I have said) he past ma­ny Acts of Parliament, amongst the rest, one for the Settlement of the King­dom of Ireland was the chief; which afterwards (through the proceed­ings of the Commissioners authori­zed by Virtue of that Act to judge betwixt Party and Party) came a­gain to be considered: In as much as Sir Audley Mervin (Speaker of the House of Commons) in his excel­lent [Page 272] Speech to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, February 13. 1662. stiles it the Magna Charta Hiberniae; P. 3. and in maintenance of the true sense thereof, presents an Instrument to his Grace, with Rules and Directions for the Commissioners proceedings thereupon, that discerning a Cloud (through the Interposition of some malevolent Planet) it might remain (whether pursued or no) as a Re­cord of their endeavours, that the hard fate and ruine of an English In­terest P. 1. in Ireland, might not bear date under the best of Kings, under so vi­gilant a Lord Lieutenant, under the first, if not prevented, like to be the last Protestant Parliament there; which with fuller circumstances, were so lively presented by him, that with one Voice it was Ordered to be Printed, and so it was by William Bladen at Dublin, and re-printed at London by J. Streater soon after; [Page 273] which for its length I omit, though (as to the English Interest, the Ad­venturers security, and the Soul­diers Arrears) nothing deserves more solemnly to be commended to Posterity. All afterwards duly con­sidered of by his Grace the Duke of Ormond, who in the timely compo­sure of this business, struggled un­der no mean or short Incumbrances, and so having laid the Storm (the better to reduce all Interests into a Settlement) he repaired into Eng­land, the 31 of May, 1663. And his Son

1663. Thomas Earl of Ossory the same day was sworn Lord Deputy in the Council Chamber, the Sword (till then deposited in the Dukes Closet) being with usual Ceremonies committed to his Trust. And well it might, for never any (unless his Father) received it with more gene­ral applause, or bore it with a more [Page 274] equal and obliging temper. Since he hath (in several capacities at Sea) gallantly acted beyond the Fiction of a Romance.

1665. In the beginning of Sep­tember his Grace the Duke of Or­mond landed at Waterford and came to Kilkenney, having the Sword deli­vered to him again upon his land­ing, the Earl of Ossory's Commission then being determined. And now his Excellency being returned (on whose Indulgence Father Walsh with his Party much relied) the Glossing Design of some Papists (to demon­strate their Allegiance to the King against all pretences of the Roman Court) daily gathered fire, in as much as the Irish Clergy (Archbi­shops, Bishops, &c. with two Di­vines of each Regular Order, to the number of 70) obtained the free­dom to meet at Dublin in the Resi­dence of the Parish Priest of St. Owens [Page 275] Church the 11 of June 1666. in a National Synod, to sign the Remon­strance and Protestation subscribed and presented to his Majesty in Ja­nuary and February, 1661. by di­vers of the Nobility, Gentry, and Romish Clergy; the like whereof, nay Walsh Loyal Remonstrance fol. 674. nor any way near it, had ever been permitted (saith my Author, others thought so too) since Queen Maries Reign; that rational men expected (from so gracious a connivance) some notable and grateful Act would have proceeded; but in stead of such, first they clash amongst them­selves, then the Primate coming in, bids the Bishop of Kilfinuragh their Speaker to quit the Chair; who re­fusing, the Primate with most of the Assembly depart the House; upon which the Remnant cry hard for a Dissolution. But Father Walshes Arguments (after some heats on all sides) prevailed to continue the [Page 276] Assembly, and the Primate returns thither of himself, the House decla­ring that the Chair was no Seat of Dignity, but of Ministry and Office. And so the Assembly proceeded, but with such animosities in their De­bates, as the Result was wholy in­significant, granting little more (if any thing) then when their Confe­derates, in the late Rebellion, coined Monies, slew his Majesties innocent naked Subjects, surprized his Ca­stles, vilified his Governour, yet verbally professed Allegiance to the King: so as the 25 of June (the 15 day of their meeting) the National Synod was dissolved, his Grace signifying to them that he found no satisfaction in any of their Addres­ses. In all which Father Walsh is ve­ry particular in his History and Vin­dication of the Loyal Formulary. A Piece (bating his exuberances) wor­thy perusal; for which, and his in­tegrity, [Page 277] he bears the Papal Frown; having manifested only that the Vi­car of the Church hath no Sove­raignty over Soveraign Princes in their own Dominions in Civil and Temporal Affairs. A Tenent so necessary, that the contrary in Hi­story is marked with a black Coal. Nor can it be otherwise, no Pope willingly allowing Subjects any o­ther Obedience to their Prince, than what is in subordination to their See, upon which the greatest dissen­tions in the World have ensued; so that indeed to talk of Obedience in Civil and Temporal Affairs only, is in truth nothing; the Ecclesia­stick Authority wiping off at plea­sure the other Cobweb pretended Subjection.

The 26 of October following his Graces arrival at Kilkenny, the Par­liament (which had been long put off by many necessary Prorogations) [Page 278] fell into consideration of the Expla­natory Bill of Setlement, which took up much time, as it had long before exercised his Graces Solicitations, Interest and Studies in England: At length it passed (though not without some doubts) by the Com­mons in Parliament; which his Grace, with the advice of the Coun­cil the 15 of December, 1665.) ha­ving The State of which business was Printed at Dublin, with his Graces Speech, and the House of Commons Considerations on the Bill of Settlement, by John Crooke, 1665. satisfied, he past into an Act; which I am the willinger to mention, that what Niceties soever one may raise thence, the Faith of this Illu­strious person, given in its defence, may bear up its honour and validi­ty; though some thought (notwith­standing the utmost extent of the Investing Clause) the whole was short of what might be expected for Mo­ney See the State of the Adven­turers Case, fol. 7. so long subscribed; the charge the Souldiers and Adventurers had been at for surveying, maintaining, and defending their Lots, the pas­sing [Page 279] of Patents, and the great Rents payable thence; which considering the State of Affairs, could hardly be avoided: As it may well be conclu­ded by this, that after five years pains taken by the King, by his Councils, and by his two Houses of Parliament, the State was got no farther than into the Prospect of a Settlement.

All which and more you will find in his Graces Speech to both Houses of Parliament, at his giving the Royal Assent to the Grand Act of Set­tlement, 1665. to which I must refer you, as being the support of his Graces confidence in the Settlement; and may well be others, whoever is most concerned in the Adven­ture.

At his Return for England (near three years after) he was chosen Chancellor of Oxford, on Dr. Shel­don Lord Archbishop of Canterbu­rie's [Page 280] rie's Resignation, August 4. 1669. as one best able to protect that place, and the Theatrum Sheldonianum, a Piece (if not exceeding) emula­ting the stateliest Monuments of Antiquity; yet he was not sworn till August the 26. at Worcester-House London, in a Convocation there held by Dr. Fell Vice Chancel­lor; a most obliging and vigilant Governour, and others of the Uni­versity in their Formalities At which Solemnity there was also present his Grace of can­terbury, the Bishops of London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rochester, the Earls of Bedford, Aylsbury, Dumferlin, and Carlingford, with innumerable other per­sons of Quality, whom (after the Convocation was ended) he there enter­tained at a most sumptuous Banquet, with a Mind more obliging.

1668. April the 25. the Earl of Ossory was again sworn Lord Depu­ty in the absence of the Duke his Father, who embarqued the day be­fore for England, he (having passed over his Government with general satisfaction) resigned.

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The right Honourable John Lord Roberts of Tr [...]ro, Lord Privy Seal, Lord Lieutenant General and Ge­neral Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland, one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honou­rable Privy Council, Anno Domini, MDCLXIX.

1669. To John Lord Roberts, Baron of Thru­ro, Lord Privy Seal, the 18 of September, who landed at Houth, and was that day honourably con­ducted to Dublin, and sworn at the Council Board Lord Lieutenant: who (on the access of the Lord Barkley to the Government) gave up his Power with this short Speech,

My Lord,

I will not detain you long from the great Charge now placed upon you, Action is the life of all Govern­ment. I have no more to say. But I received this Sword in Peace, and will deliver it so to your Excellency.

[Page 282]For whom I have seen this Inscri­ption, written by one who knows as well what Men are, as the Language (wherein he is excellent) to express them in:

Hic jacet aut habitat Recti Pertinax.
Honoratissimus Dominus Domi­nus Johannes Barkley, Baro de Strat­ton, Locum Tenens & Gubernator Generalis Hiberniae, necnon Serenis­simo Principi CAROLO Secun­do, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hi­berniae Regi, Fidei Defensori, &c. tam Anglia quam Hibernia e Consi­liis Secretioribus.

1670. May the 21. John Lord Barkley, Baron of Stratton, lan­ded privately at Rings End by Dublin (scarce then expected) and was that day sworn Lord Lieutenant at the Council Board. Who going for England

1671. June the 12. Dr. Richard Boyle Archbishop of Dublin, and Lord Chancellor, and Sir Arthur Forbes Barronet, a Member of the Privy Council, and Captain of a [Page 283] Troop of Horse, were sworn Lords Justices: Archbishop Boyle was one of the Quot haec aetas nec retrò omnia secula uno tempore & loco, vix un­quam▪ viderunt consecratos, quae quidem Consecratio ita secundùm sacri officii [...]a ex parte for­mam & ritus Ecclesiae ex Canonibus re­quisitos, erat celebrata, ut Nihil pro Rei tam Sacrae So­lemnitate, & venustate de [...] ­deraretur. Dud. Loft. Orat. Fun. in Episc. Armac. p. 26. twelve Bishops consecra­ted in St. Patricks Church in Dub­lin, the 27. of January 1660. in that solemn Order as (since the Reforma­tion) the like hath not been obser­ved with so much Formality and State, a Procession yet not so solemn as amazing. To the Euge of which was that ingenious and celebrated Anthem designed, entituled, Quam de [...]o exaltavit Dominus Coronam, Composed by the then Dean of S. Pa­tricks Dr. William Fuller, since Bi­shop of Limerick, now of Lincoln; and (that no question might be rai­sed as to the Legitimacy of this Or­dination) some (who in the late Wars moved excentrical to their Fun­ctions) were not admitted to lay on their hands, though the eminency of their Parts, and the strictness of their lives are exemplary. The Ju­stices

[Page]1671. The 23 of September, deli­vered up their Power to John Lord Barkly Lord Lieutenant, then retur­ned out of England; who with much tranquility continued his Govern­ment, till that

His Excellency Arthur Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, Baron Capel of Hadham, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Hertford and Wilts, one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour to his most excellent Majesty King CHARLES the Second of his Kingdom of Ireland, in the 24 year o [...] his Reign, MDCLXXII.

1672. August the 5. Arthur Lord Capel Earl of Essex (Son of Arthur Lord Capel the Victim) arrived at Dun­lary near Dublin, and that afternoon was sworn (at the Council Board) Lord Lieute­tenant. A person so acceptable to the Nation, as Obe­dience is their Sacrifice, and Ho­nour his Rule.

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