the other in Munster not but that formerly there had been some established but not for 200 years executed 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 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 Master-piece 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 Vnion 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 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together Those Laws of Difference and Distinction were wholely abrogated and from that Session of Parliament utterly repealed At which time the Harp was first marshalled by King James with the Royal Arms of Great Britain Soon after even in the 9 year of his Reign he instituted the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 Verses Ecce Baronettos florentis nomen Honoris Indicat in Clypei fronte Cruenta Manus Non quod sâ—vi aliquid aut strictâ— fortiter Ense Hostibus occisis gesserit ista Cohors Neâ— genus aut virtus meritum veâ— gratia Claros Efficit at Nummi O male sana fames Quinque notent digiti centenas quinque ferendaâ— Mercandi pertium nominis esse libras Vilius at multi dum cauponare morantuâ— Ex vera Geniti Nobilitate Virâ— Interea è caulis hic prorepit Ille tabernis Et modo â—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 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 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 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 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 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 Vaulâ— 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 Wifâ— 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 mosâ— constantly believed then to behold with their bodily eyes to their endless Blessedness and everlasting Comfort 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 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
magnis meis negotiis Hiberniae nunc autem ad vos mitto Willielmum filium Audelm Dapiferum meum cui commisi negotia mea tractanda agenda mei loco vice Quare vobis mando firmiter praecipio quod ei sicut mihime intendatis de agendis meis faciatis quicquid Ipse vobis dixerit eâ— 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 Richardâ— Archidiacono Pictaviae Richardo Constabulario apud Valon Audelm the next Year builds Vice 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 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 the Barons of Curraghmore who flourished near Dungavon a long time after the Conquest being joined 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 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 Land Richard Peche was son of Robert Peche Bishop of Coventry who succeeded his Father in the Bishoprick 1162. He was buried in 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 Clergy-man made Governour Lacy was a singular good Governour 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 being always jealous of his greatness 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 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 is well observed by Sr. Peter Leceister in his Description of Ireland I take to be no more then constituit â—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 as in the future was comprehended in the Title of King 33 H. 8. Whence my Lord Coke in the third part of his Institutes writes That albeit 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 Vrban commisit Legatiam in Hiberniam ad Coronandum ibi Johannem filium Regis by which the King disappointed the Coronation and it is 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 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 to the second Year of Richard 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 his first obeisance to be forthwith covered in the Kings presence The like I find in Fullers Church 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 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 by some to decease at London and buried by his Father in the New Temple others think at Kilkenny 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 acknowledged by Prynn in his History of King John as also by Ware De praesul Hib. Sub JOHANNE 1199. In the beginning of whose 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. Conduntur tumulo Meyleri nobilis ossa Indomitus Domitor totius gentis Hibernae 1210. King John comes into Ireland
struck off at one blow than was left in the heads of the surviving Nobility He was born at Everton in Cambridg shire brought up in Baliol Colledge in Oxford He held a Parliament at Dublin in the 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 with a grateful admittance into London and was beheaded on Tower-hill 1470. and his body was 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 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 he held a Parliament at Dublin the 15 of Edw. 4. He died at Dublin December 3. 1482. and lies buried 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 who held a Parliament at Dublin the 8 of H. 7. and was afterwards Chancellour who in Synodo ab eâ— 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 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. because he had no power by his Commission to keep a Parliament other causes are alledged also The Duke of Bedford died Decemb. 21. 1495. the 11 of H. 7. Gormanston quitted his Government The same year to his Son as his Vicar or Deputy who surrendred 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 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 beaâ— the Title of O-Neal after it was dam'd by an Act of Parliament He died an old man Anno 1522. He 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 Abbey and Chancellor of Ireland Lord Justice A person of great prudence soon detecting the Imposture of Perkin Warbeck Dean died Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Febr. 15. 1502. and lies buried in the Martyrdom at Canterbury under a fair Marble stone inlaid 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 â—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 oâ— Kildare continued his Government with a new Patent under the Title of Justice though the year
to his choice of Governours whom neither the Nobility disdained nor the Inferiours were pressed to supply by violent courses 1551. Sir James Crofts of Croâ—â— Castle in Herefordshire whose he Herbert Crofts is the present Bishop of Hereford 1673. unus Nobâ—lium Secretioris Camerae Regis Aprâ— 29. was designed Deputy but coming to Dublin whilest St. Leger waâ— in Munster he received not thâ— Sword till May 23. at Cork wheâ— St. Leger then was During his timâ— even this year a King of Arms Herald named Vlster was first instituted for Ireland his Provincâ— was all Ireland and the first thaâ— had it was Nicholas Narbon Thâ— Liturgy in English was also this yeaâ— printed in Dublin and injoined bâ— Authority Many memorable Actâ— he did in Ireland He repaired thâ— Castle of Belfast and placed there â— Garrison Coming for England hâ— was certified by Sir Henry Knowls that Mary Dowager of Scotland had â—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 â—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 of the Kings Bench Decemb. 4â— were in Trinity Church Dublin â—â— 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 oâ— 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 sworâ— in Trinity Church Dublin a Praede cessoribus suis Cusaco Ailmero Lord Deputy He died in Kent where he was born as I take it at Vlcomb the ancient Mansion of the Family de Sancto Leodegario corruptly Sent Leger Sellenger March 12. 1559. Vtriusque fortunae tam prosperae quam adversae particeps verissima rerum humanarum in hoc mundo Imago 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 Decemb. 4. when 1557. Hugh Curwin of Westmoreland Doctor of the Civil Law Archbishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor and Sir Henry Sidney Treasurer Decemb. 5. Ã 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 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 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 Vlster 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 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 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 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 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
died 1559. Thomas Earl of Sussex Kt. of the Garter arrived at Bullock August 27. Lord Lieutenant and was sworn in Christ Church Dublin August 30. having in charge strictly 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 expressed in the Act. In which Parliament also which had several Prorogations Shane O-Neal was attainted and the name extinguished In which Act also the Kings ancient 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 Vlster 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 Relations of Richard Earl of Cork upon the uppermost seat of which â—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 â—â—ing sometimes one â—f the Lord Justices â—â— Ireland and for â—â—x years Lord Chancellour of the Realm A small Coat of ARMS betwixt Who was so Learned Judicious and Vpright 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. whos 's honourable memory no time shall extinguish 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 sworâ— 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 1â— 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 aâ— the Wood Key in Dublin for England he died at Worcester May 5. 1586. and was buried amongst his Ancestors at Penshurst of whom 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
the Judicious may as the Lord 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 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 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 Vmbilicum 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Vt veritas quamquam perutilis desiderabilis aliquamdiu suppressa lateat quam in lucem cum majorum offensâ praeproperè pariter Periculosè prorumpat all as this writ without Periods or Cadences that Truth not Rhetorick might be most prevalent In pursuit of which that Time might pass over with some cheerfulness I have with
octavo Idus Junii and landed at Waterford with a potent Army 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 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 Vlster where at Knock fergus he founded a Monastery of Minors about the Year 1232. in the Church of which he was buried 1242. King John having the submissions of the chief of Ireland appoints in Leinster and Munster twelve English Shires viz. Dublin Kildare Meath Vriel 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 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 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 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 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 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 Teste c. 1219. To Archbishop Loundres Qui munus ei commissum par quinquennium fideliter obivit during whose 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 Loundres about the beginning of July 1228. died and was buried in Trinity Church Dublin Some doubt there seems in Chronologie who succeeded Loundres â—hether Geoffery de Marisco Qui â—â—ices Justiciarii sub Rege in illis parâ—bus gerebat or others indeed one but Matthew Paris mentions â—im in this place And I do find â—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 â—opious Army Sperans saith my Author se posse omne genus Anglorum ab Hiberniae finibus exturbare â—ut the design was so well attended â—y Walter de Lacy and Richard de Burgo that the English priusâ—visu â—visu fuger at in Hibernienses a fronte â—evertens stragem iis miserabilem intuâ—erunt interfecti namque referuntur ex Hiberniensibus ad viginti milli virorum bellatorum rex eorum captus 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 Hiberniae ad terminum vitae yet noâ— Record mentions his being there so as I conjecture this Richard dâ— 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 of Rome which Writs are both memorable We shall give you onely 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
le Butler Lord Justice created by Edw. 2. in the 9. year of his Reign Earl of Carrick 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 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 his Army and flew him Et sic per manus communis Populi et dextram Dei liberatur Populus Dei a 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 died Septemb. 15. 1326. potens dives ac venerabilis in Populo et in Clero 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 Ware Though in the reign of H. 7. 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 Vsher 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 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 'T is 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 As it was decreed at a Council held at Cleonard in Ireland 1163. Gelacius Archbishop of Ardmagh being President Vt nullus deinceps ad Theologiam publice praelegendum 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 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 by Macgohegan and other Irish men 1329. with several of his Family at Balybragan 1322. Ralph de Gorges Lord 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 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 hiâ— 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 oâ— Governours often subjects formeâ— Councils and proceedings to a disadvantage 1332. Sir John Darcy the third time Lord Justice arrived at Dubliâ— 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 â—â— Baro came Lord Justice in Festo â—alixti Papae but not behaving himself as it was expected he was complained of by his Brother Thoâ—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 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. at Any in Comitatu Leinster aâ—â— then the King by his Letters Pateâ—â— in the 14 Year of his Reign maâ—â— John Darcy Justice for life 1341. Sir John Morris Davâ—â—â— calls him Sir William othâ—â—â— Sir John came into Ireland in Mâ—â— Lord Justice 1344. Sir Ralph Vfford probâ—bly of Vfford in Suffolk a Relation of Sir Robert mentioned before a man of courage and severitâ— came into Ireland with his Consoâ—â— the Countess of
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 feâ— sick from whence he was carried tâ— Kildare where Sept. 3. he died Qâ—licet magnis difficultatibus diu conflictatus fuerit posteriora tamen tempora magna animi tranquillitate rebâ—semper ferè ad vota fluentibus transegit He was buried in Trinity Church Dublin in a Chappel erected by himself This Gerald Earl of Kildare had been at several times 3â— years Lord Deputy of Ireland which had he not been a person oâ— sigular Parts he could never have â—een entrusted with 1513. His Son Gerald Earl of â—ildare was Senatus Regis assensu â—eing then Treasurer made Lord â—ustice A custom mos per vicissiâ—dines ab antiquo mansit in Hibernia â—â— deinceps jam mansurus est in posteâ—m Anno enim 33 H. 8. Cap. 2. Liâ—irici sancitur ut vel moriente Reâ—i Praefecto seu Deputato vel ex ocâ—sione succedente Regis illic Consiâ—â—rii Anglum elegant in Justiciarium â—â— Gubernatorem Regni Regio beneplacito duraturum that had been â—â—ng used on the death of the Principle Officer as is evident by an Act â—ntituled An Act for the Electing â—â—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 England he was made Lord Deputy Who in the 7 year of H. 8. helâ— a Parliament at Dublin begun February 25. 1515. June 13. Willam Preston Viscount Gormanston was declareâ— Lord Justice but forthwith put ouâ— and the said Earl of Kildare waâ— continued Lord Deputy who going for England 1519. Leaves Regia licentia priâ— impetrata Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice â—â— 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 odâ— Kildarium whom Wolsey hated quam ex amore erga Surreium saitâ— Polid. Virg. mentioned by Sir James Ware as in the later Ages and for mer too others have been advanced thither on the like Principles â—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 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. 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 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 made Lord Deputy about Midsummer who caused Maurice Cavaâ—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 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 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 off Richard Nugent Baron of Delvin was in his stead left Lord Deputy He was taken Prisoner by O-Connor 1538. treacherously during a Paâ—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 â—ullin Viscount Rochford who à Senatu Regio was chosen Lord Deputy in Delvins stead 1530. Sir William Skeffington 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 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 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 Dorâ—t created Viscount of Garny in Ireland Jan. 1. was made Lord Deputy 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 held a Parliament in the 28 of H. 8. by several Prorogations Wherein amongst other Acts Thomas late Earl of Kildare was with
Jones died at his Palace of S. Sepulchres Dublin April 10. 1619. when he had been Bishop 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 Vxor 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 Vxoribus charissimis sibi posteris posuit Prior Vxor 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 Conjugibusque loco 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 secundâ— 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 meâ—entissimo moestissimus posuit in Ecclesia de Battersea Vixit annos 70. Mor. 29. Decembris 1630. 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 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
against the English as they forthwith Ordered 20000 l. for the present supply as also 6000 Foot and 2000 Horse to be raised 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 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 Vnity 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 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 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 theirs At first the Stamp was in this Form meerly with the value of the Silver upon it Afterwards by the Kings Approbation all kinds of pieces from 1 d. to 5 s. were in this manner stamped 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 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 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 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. 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 quà m sibi suis consulturus de re familiari amplianda ut qui tam Divitiarum Contemptor quam fortitudinis 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 thither could never have been relieved nor could the State have
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 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 The most noble Prince James Duke Marquess and Earl of Ormond Earl of Ossory and Brecknock Viscount â—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 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 Speech to his Grace the Duke of Ormond February 13. 1662. stiles it the Magna Charta Hiberniae 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 so long subscribed the charge the Souldiers and Adventurers had been at for surveying maintaining and defending their Lots the passing 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 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 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 The right Honourable John Lord Roberts of Trâ—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 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 Troop of Horse were sworn Lords Justices Archbishop Boyle was one of the 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 deâ—â—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 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 oâ— 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 FINIS In his Dedicatory Epistle before the Statutes of Ireland C. Vel. Patere p. 11. Veter Epist 50. Hiber Sylloge p. 118. Fol. 737. Fol. 353 Spel. Gloss fol. 336. Fol. 346. Spel. Gloss fol. 331. 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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. Vlike 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 He entered the 7. of March into Galloway with all the Nobility and Gentry in great splendour much to the content of that â—â—â—â—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 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 So as the Confederacie of 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 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 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 oâ— 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 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 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 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 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 â—â— 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 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 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 Mâ—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 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