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
William Fitz Williams that they suffered the Irish to be trained up in the knowledge of Arms few before their attaining that Science being much more able to subdue thousands of the Irish than afterwards thrice the number of so many English were able to encounter 1588. Sir Willam Fitz Williams June 30. Lord Deputy was sworn in Christ Church Dublin Many excellent things he did as raising a Composition in Munster and then in setling the Possessions both of the Lords and Tenants in Monahan Yet that Venus might not be without her Mole he is accused of too much rigour in enquiring after the Spoils and Wrecks at Sea which happened on some of the Invincible Navy being split in Ireland and the ensuing War is laid to his charge Nor do I find that the Histories of those Times much acquit him the Irish though they have not Cloaks will have Mantles for their coverings He carried it somewhat austerely not accepting of his Commission till a particular clause was inserted that Walter Devoreux Earl of Essex should be subject to his command which considering the illustrious quality of that person some thought might have been left indifferent In his time the Queen founded a Colledge at Dublin Anno 1591. a Concern which in Sir Henry Sidneys and Sir John Perrots time was given in Instructions but never perfected till now She dedicated it to the Holy and Individual TRINITY under this Title Collegium Sanctae ac individuae Trinitatis ex fundatione Reginae ELIZABETHAE juxta Dublin in the place where was before the Monastery of All-Saints enriching the same with all Priviledges of an University of which Sir Will. Cecil Knight Baron Burghley Lord High Treasurer of England Knight of the Garter and one of the Honourable Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth was the first Chancellor II. Robert Devoreux Earl of Essex Earl Marshal of England c. afterwards Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin Since Sub Carolo I. Dr. Willam Laud Archbishop of Canterbury Chancellor of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin Then his Excellency James Marquess of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland since Duke of Ormond and Chancellor of the University of Dublin as now of Oxford Which in the year 1320. was granted to the City by Pope John 22. at the request of Alexander Bicknor alias Bignor Archbishop of Dublin mentioned in the year 1320. failing for want of support till this B. Queen enlivened the ashes To which I must profess I owe a filial Reverence not as one of the Foundation but of the Society and in memory of her Prosperity reaching to this Age. I must crave liberty to annex the Provosts though amongst Princes and Great men By these they live Non incisa notis Marmora publicis Per quae Spiritus vita redit bonis Clarius indicant Laudes quà m Calabrae Pierides Not inscribed Marbles planted forth To publick view which gives new breath To Great and Good men after Death Bespeaks their praise So loud as the Pierian Laies The Colledge before these gave countenance to the Structure was empty and unarmed the Furniture was from the Men not the Materials Postquam lacertos movere et caput immortale extollere caepisset quum ingentia virtutis Nomina Danielos alias Odonnellos Bedleios Templos Capellos Parâ—os Eustacios Hoylios Martinios Dodwillios Lingardos Richardsonos Boswellos Golburnios Worthios Wareos Boylios Seelios Jonios Margetsonos Sternios ARMACHANVM ante omnes in Lucem Peperisset Touching whom the literate World hath spread many Elogies of his Excellencies and Merit though One for his Languages not the least in the Quire hath since this Prince of Learning's Decease left out part of what he first published in acknowledgment of his assistance whilest the unanimous Vote of the incomparable and famous University of Oxford sufficient to rival Eterniry hath left this on record Jacobus Usserius Archiepiscopus Armachanus totius Hiberniae Primas Antiquitatis Primaevae peritissimus Orthodoxae Religionis vindex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 errorum Malleus in concionando frequens facundus praepotens vitae inculpatae exemplarâ— spectabile Some years before his death he was unwillingly put on an old Controversie touching the Precedency of his See of Armagh and Dublin A Controversie entailed as it seems on the Successors of that See of Dublin prosecuted in Archbishop Leches time Almoner to Edw. 2. 1310. with some animosity but now argued only as to Right not emulation which after the effusion of much Learning was desided on the Archbishop of Armagh's side And by an especial Letter from the King in the year 1634. he had afterwards also given him the Precedency of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland with all which he was nothing elated The Provosts Presidents of the COLLEDGE OF DUBLIN THe first Provost of which Colledge was Adam Lord Archbishop of Dublin formerly mentioned whose Dimensions â—e cannot better take than from â—ir James Ware and the Monuments â—e leâ—t of his Mind and Grandeur sufficiently expressed in the stately Edifice he built at Rafarnham leaving behind an ample Estate and a numerous Progenie well provided for of whom I shall say no more having occasion to speak of him amongst the Governours than thaâ— though he was a Prelate in height and spirit agreeable enough to the dignity of his place yet he esteemed iâ— no descention to be ushered by a Beadles Staff that had a Crosier aâ— his service II. The second Provost upon the Archbishops resigning up of the Provostship June 5. 1594. was by him and the Fellows in whom the Election was seated by the first Charter bearing date Mar. 11. 1591. placed on Mr. Walter Travers who tooâ— not his Oath till Decemb. 6. 1595 He was bred up in Trinity Colledge iâ— Cambridge a person of great abilities betwixt whom and Mr. Hookeâ— Minister of the Temple and he their Lecturer there arose such animosities as ingaged the Court and others into strong Parties so as one writes Travers was struck dumb in the Temple not for Infidelity but Indiscretion both very learned Mr. Travers on what account is uncertain unless suspecting a Rebellion returned after some years stay unexpectedly into England where he lived many years obscurely though in himself a shining light He bequeathed â—at his death his Books of the Oriental Tongues in which he was singularly knowing and 50 l. worth of Plate to Sion Colledge in London After his departure III. Mr. Henry Alvey of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge was chosen the third Provost Octob. 8. to whom succeeded IV. Mr. William Temple the fourth Provost afterwards Knighted and made one of the Masters of the Chancery in Ireland A person of great Piety and Learning bred up in Kings Colledge in Cambridge from whence he was made choice of by Sir Philip Sidney the Glory of the English Nobility to attend him in the Low-Countries during his Government there De quo quid quantum sibi augurabatur Britannia non facile
Lord Viscount Wentworth c. Nov. 23. Lord Deputy During whose time the notable Case of Tenures upon the Commission of Defective Titles came to be argued by the Judges of Ireland five of which were of opinion that the Letters Patents granted by King James in the IV year of his Reign March 2. were void in the whole the Subject having contrary to the Authority given by the Commission obtained Letters Patents in fraud and deceit of the Crown to defeat the King of his Tenures in Capite a principle Flower of his Crown as is fullyargued by Sir James Barry Baron Barry in the Case drawn up by him Contrary to which two Judges viz. Justice Mayart and Justice Cressey held that the Letters Patents were only void as to the Tenure which Opinion amongst the generality begat a reverence of the later Judges almost incredible especially after it was decreed at the Council Board July 13. 1637. that all Tenures other than by Knights Service in Capite were void in the whole and therefore disannulled whatever Estates had otherwise past in the Counties of Roscomman Slygo Mayo Galloway or the County of the Town of Gallway yet after all when it had cost his Majesty much in fining Offices none of these Lands were ever alienated from the pretenders to them Afterward the Lord Deputy going for England the North of Ireland being sufficiently secured against the Scots at that time somewhat suspected 1639. Robert Lord Dillon of Kilkenney West and Christopher Wansford Master of the Rolls September 12. were sworn Lords Justices In whose time a Parliament was summoned at Dublin but more than meet did little in expectation of Illustrissimus excellentissimus Dom. Thomas Comes de Straffordia Vicecom Wentworth Baro Wentworth de Wentworth Woodhouse de Novo Mercato Oversley Raby Serenissimi Dom. CAROLI Magn. Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Locum-tenens Generalis Necnon Gubernator Generalis Regni sui Hiberniae Dominus Praesidens Consilii in partibus Borealibus Regni Angliae à Secretioribus suae Majestatis Consiliis Anno Dom. MDCXXXIX 1639. Thomas L d Viscount Wentworth some Moneths before made Earl of Strafford then constituted Lord Lieutenant for that as his Patent runs Obsequium suum industriam nobis aegregiè probaverit dum Officium Deputatus nostri in Regno nostro Hiberniae Praefecturam generalem exercitus nostri ibidem conscripti fide summa administravit resque nostras illius regni ea Prudentia ordinaverit ut nostro honori saluti Ecclesiae populoque universo optime Consulerit He arrived at Dublin March 18. and the next day received the Sword at the Council Table After which he appeared in Parliament who granted four intire Subsidies for that as it is in the Preamble of the Statute being moved thereunto by sundry great causes of joy and comfort particularly in providing and placing over us so just wise vigilant and profitable a Governour as the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of this your said Kingdom of Ireland President of your Majesties Council established in the North parts of your said Kingdom of England One of your Majesties most Honourable Privy Council of the said Kingdom Who by his great care and travel of body and mind sincere and upright Administration of Justice without Partiality increase of your Majesties Revenues without the least hurt or grievance to any of your wel-disposed and loving Subjects And our great comforts and security by the large and ample benefits which we have received and hope to receive from your Majesties Commission of Grace for remedy of Defective Titles procured hither by his Lordship from your Sacred Majesty His Lordships great care and pains in Restauration of the Church the Reinforcement of your Army within this Kingdom and ordering the same with such singular and good Discipline as that it is now become a great comfort stay and security to this your whole Kingdom which before had an Army rather in name than substance His support of your Majesties wholsome Laws here established his encouragement to your Judges and other good Officers Ministers and Dispensers of your Laws in the due and sincere Administration of Justice his necessary and just strictness for the execution thereof his due punishment of the contemners of the same and his care to relieve and redress the Poor and oppressed For this your tender care over us shewed by the deputing and supporting of so good a Governour c. We in free Recognition of your great goodness towards us do for the Alleviation of some part of your Majesties said inestimable charges most humbly and freely offer to your Majesty c. four intire Subsidies c. Upon the reputation of which the Earl of Strafford raised 8000 Foot and 1000 Horse additional to the Veterane Forces And so having expedited his Majesties Affairs there he hasted into England where after a Trial before his Peers in Westminster Hall a Scene more magnificent than History can Parallel he was on the pretended hate of the whole Empire condemned by Bill of Attaindor Et si accusatus non minus acriter quam fideliter Defensus varias sententias habuit plures tamen quasi mitiores Since which that Act with all the circumstances of it was repealed Anno 14 Caroli secundi worthy often perusal having in it the state of the whole business and the same act that condemned him also secured that his Death should not be a president for the like He was beheaded on Tower-hill May 12. 1641. Quem Ille as it was said of Momoransis supremum casum fortiter juxta Religiose tulit For whom there are several Epitaphs but that of his Majesty in his incomparable Meditations will survive Brass or Marble I look saith his Majesty upon my Lord of Strafford as a Gentleman whose abilities might make a Prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest Affairs of State Some few days after the Earl of Strafford was beheaded Robert Earl of Leicester Grandson of Sir Henry Sidney that excellent Governour was nominated Lord Lieutenant of Ireland A Person acceptable on all accounts having never been engaged in the publick Currant of the Times a virtue very remarkable but often imployed on the noblest Embassies abroad and at home whereby he was a fit Instrument to serve his Prince in so eminent an imployment on the loss of such a Minister of State as the Earl of Strafford who by his knowledge in Martial Affairs and other his great Abilities would have been no doubt as Sir Benjamin Rudyard observed abundantly capable to have reduced the Irish to a due Obedience But though he had sent over Servants and much Furniture into Ireland and lay a long time at Chester for a dispatch he yet never came into Ireland much to the Regret of many that wished well to that Service though part of the Arrears of his Entertainment there are of late secured by the Act of Settlement in
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
Romanorum cap. 26. p. 70. Vide Pomp. Laetum De Magist Rom. p. 92. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 168. Hanmer p. 157. Cambd. of Irel. Giral Hib. Exp. lib. 2. cap. 18. Hoved. p. 685. Godw. of Bish P. 159. Hoved. Hollinshead Hoved. lib. â— cap. 24. Fol. 77. Stat. Irel. fol. 183. Fol. 357. Hoved. Annals Anno 1187. Hanmer Chron. p. 168. Hanmer out of the Book of Hoth p. 169. Fuller in his Worthies p. 25. P. 167. Camp fol. 73. Hanmer fol. 169 Hollinshead Hanm. fol. â—â— Mat. Par. fâ—â— 403. Fol. â—â— Fol. â—â—â— Hanm. fol. 183. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 173. Matt. Paris Ware De Antiq Hib. p. 213. Mat. Paris fol. â—30 Godw. of Bishops p. 421. Pryâ—â— Hist H. 3. fol. 38. Ware De praes Hib. fol. 107. Prynn Hist K. John fol. 10. Mat. Paris fol. 366. Anno 1230. Mat. Par. ibid. Spelm. Gloss fol. 340. Prynn Hist H. 3. fol. 80. Mat. Par. fol. 397. Hanm. fol. 198. out of Florileg and Hollinsh Matt. Par. fol. 398. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. â—33 Mat. Par. fol. 975. Prynn H. 3. fol. 107. Hollinsh fol. 37. Cambd. Brit. fol. 519. Dugd. Chronica Camd. Brit. f. 309. Vincent on Brook fol. 522. Vincent on Brook fol. 447. Holmes his Note thereon Hanm. fol. 201. Camd. Brit. fol. 583. Prynn fol. 118. Prynn Hist Edw. 1. fol. 136. Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 247. Prynn fol. 353. Ware de Praes Hibern f. 110. in his Hist of the King f. 574 Camd. Brit. fol. 723. Prynn fol. 573. Ware de Hib. p. 346. Camp fol. 79. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 34. Prynn Hist fol. 457. Prynn 23 of Edw. 1. fol. 639 From fol. 774. to fol. 888. Davies of Ireland fol. 85. Fol. 97. Fol. 366. Camd. Irel. fol. 82. P. 85 Spencer of Irel. fol. 13. Davies p. 86. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 167. De Antiq. Hib. p. 82. Ware de Antiq. Hiber lib. 15. Marleb fol. 211 Camd. Brit. fol. 364. Godw. de Praes P 541. Anno 1268. Davies p. 205. Ware de Praeâ— Hib. f. 185. Camd. Brit. fol. 283. Camd. Irel. fol. 82. Camd. Title Leinster P. 32. Dan. Hist fol. 25â— Vinc. on Brook fol. 125. Weavers Fun. Monum fol. 268. Fol. 523. Coke Instit Part 2. fol. 47. York Title March fol. 197. Coke of Ireland fol. 357. Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 36. Walsing Hypod. Neust Davies p. 42. and forwards Vincent on Brook fol. 528 Fol. 271. Sâ—â—w Camp Hist fol. 96. De Praes Hib. 12. fol. 115. Truss fol. 111. Vincent on Brook fol. 329. Stow Survey of London in 4 to p 487. Ware de Praes fol. 36. Stat. Irel. fol. 3. Camd. Brit. fol. 48â— Camd. Irel. fol. 95. Speed fol. 876. Vincent on Brook from Camd. fol. 598. Coke Jurisd of Courts fol. 124. Stows Survey of London in 4 to p. 720. Trussel fol. 151. Stat. Irel. fol. 13. Vincent on Brook fol. 593. Ware H. 7. An. 1 Ware de Praes Hib. f. 23. Stat. Irel. f. 19. Stat. Irel. f. 21. Stat. Irel. f. 29. Vincent on Brook fol. 621. Stat. Irel. f. 31. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 174. Camd. Irel. f. 88. Stat. Irel. f. 32. Davies p. 61. Pliny Epist p. 65. Fullers Worth Stat. Irel. f. 40. Vincent onâ— Brook f. 612. also Trussel fol. 194. Stat. Irel f. 44. Stat. Irel. f. 4â— Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 37. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 171. De Antiq. Hib. p. 164. Bakers Hist R. 3. p. 43. Ware H. 7. Ann. 1487. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 117. Stat. Irel. fol. 67. Vincent on Brook fol. 50. Ware H. 7. f. 38. Davies p. 254. Ware H. 8. f. 113 De Praes Angl. Godw. de Praes Ang. p. 191. Ware H. 8. Camd. Irel. fol. 100. Spelm. Gloss fol. 334. Fol. 99. Vincent on Brook fol. 357 Stows Survey of London in 4 to p. 487. Ware De Praes Hib. fol. 157. Cherb H. 8. fol. 208. Stat. Irel. f 7. Davies p. 238. Vincent on Brook fol. 173. Herb. of H. 8. f. 389. Ware de Pras Hib. fol. 118. Stat. Irel. f. 1â—1 Herb. fol. 469. Brents Counc of Trent f. 392 ware fol. 173. ware fol. 178. So Camp and the Writers of the last Ages Sir John Hayw. in the life of Edw. 6. p. 280. Camd. Brit. fol. 331. Ware of this Q. Stat. Irel. f. 246 Camd. Annâ—â— Eliz. 1. Pag. 223. Godw. de Praes Angl. p. 360. Camd. Eliz. p. 43. Stat. Irel. fol. 259. Fol. 297. Fol. 309. Fol. 315. Ware de Script Hib. p. 136. 1580. Camd. Eliz. in this year 1586 Lib. 8. p. 404. In 1583. Camd. Anno citato Stat. Irel. fol. 373. Davies p. 256. Caesar Williamson Panaeg in Hen. Cromwel p. 22. Vir doctrinâ multifariâ modestiâ omnibúsque virtutibus conspicuus Ware de Praes Hib. f. 111. De Praes Hib. Camd. Brit. fol. 690. Vir certè praecellens in quo morum probitas cum natalium claritate certavit quae tamen Invidiae obsistere non poterant Camd. Annal. Eliz. fol. 264. P. 122. 1597. ROBERT DEVOREUX Earl of Essex Earl Marshal of England and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourchier and Lovain Master of the Horse and Ordnance to Queen Elizabeth Knight of the Garter one of her Majesties Privy Council and Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin XV. April MDXCVIII Camd. Eliz. Part 2. p. 210. Camd. Append to Eliz. Fowlis in his Hist of Romish Treason Vincent on Brook So Dan. in his Fun. Poâ—m on this noble E. p. 22. Davies of Irel. p. 264. Davies p. 265. Brit. p. 76. * Râ—â—usant In his Châ—â—â— fol. 439. Wâ—râ— de Praes Hib. fol. 121. Rushw Hist Collect. Fol. 55. Scrinia Sacra p. 236. In his Reign of K. Charles I. fol. 116. Ephemeris Parliamentar fol. 210. * A Title rather of honour than Profit having but 30 l. Fee from the Exchequer the Vice Treasurer or Treasurer at War having the chief emoluments of the Place though the Lord Treasurer carries the Staff and bears the dignity Printed at Dublin 1637. Anno 16 Car. Reg. Diurnal Occurrences p. 355. The Anniversary Act of Thanksgiving fol. 5. P 115. The Lord Inchequin and the Officers Letter from Cork July 17. P. 223. P. 347. Anno 1650. The Act of Settlement fol. 124. * Praeter quotidiana munia sua praestita perquam laudabiliter hisce Comitiis habuit in eorundem auspiciis orationem gravibus verbis cultam sapientissimis sententiis politam alias verò effudit Orationes Succulentas c. ut nemo fide prestantior nemo certè in officio constantior atque perseverantior c. Ejusdemque Consilio decretum est unanimi consensu suffragante omnia sua Membra coenae salutaris Dominicae fieri participantia sacra manu hujus Praesulis administrante Which I the rather observe it being for what I ever heard the first Order of that Nature the Composition of the Lords House consisting most of Papists P. 3. P. 1. Walsh Loyal Remonstrance fol. 674. The State of which business was Printed at Dublin with his Graces Speech and the House of Commons Considerations on the Bill of Settlement by John Crooke 1665. See the State of the Adventurers Case fol. 7. * At which Solemnity there was also present his Grace of canterbury the Bishops of London Worcester Oxford and Rochester the Earls of Bedford Aylsbury Dumferlin and Carlingford with innumerable other persons of Quality whom after the Convocation was ended he there entertained at a most sumptuous Banquet with a Mind more obliging * Quot haec aetas nec retrò omnia secula uno tempore loco vix unquam viderunt consecratos quae quidem Consecratio ita secundùm sacri officiiâ—a ex parte formam ritus Ecclesiae ex Canonibus requisitos erat celebrata ut Nihil pro Rei tam Sacrae Solemnitate venustate deâ—â—deraretur Dud. Loft Orat. Fun. in Episc Armac p. 26.
Praes Hib. fol. 170. the Temporalities of the Bishoprick of Cassels on the death of Richard O-Hedian was ad firmam given for 10 years that See being so long vacant 1442. William Wells Esq Deputy to the said Lion Lord Wells 1443 James Earl of Ormond was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland continuing till that 1446. John Earl of Shrewsbury came over Lord Lieutenant before whom a Parliament was held at Trim in 25 of H. 6. He was slain at Castilion upon Dordon near Burdeaux July 20. saith Vincent the Monument saith July 7. through the shot of a Harquebush in his thigh after that he had given testimonie of his valour 24. years Some would have him to be buried at Rhoan iâ— Normandy but certainly he was interred at Whitchurch in Shropshire with this Epitaph Orate pro anima Praenobilis Domini Domini JOHANNIS TALBOT quondam Comitis Salopiae Domini Furnival Domini Verdon Domini Strange de Black-Mere Mare scalli Franciae Qui obiit in Bello apud Burdews Julii 7â— M. CCCC LIII At his return to England he accused the Earl of Ormond of High Treason before the Earl of Bedford Constable of England in his Marshals Court the King did abolish the Accusation 1447. Richard Talbot Archbishop of Dublin was appointed his Deputy under the title of Justice He writ many things but saith Sir J. Ware de Scriptoribus Hiberniae nothing is extant but what he writ De â—busu Regiminis Jacobi Comitis Ormoâ—iae dum Hiberniae esset Locum tenens Who by Thomas Fitz Thomas Prior of Kilmainam was appeached of Treason and appointed the Combat but took off as is before mentioned by the King He died Aug. 15. 1449. and lies buried in St. Patricks Church with this Epitaph Talbot Richardus latet hic sub marmore pressus Archi fuit Praesul hujus sedis Reverendae Parvos Canonicos qui fundavitque Choristas Anno Milleno C quater quater X quoque nono Quindeno Augusti mensis mundo vaâ— ledixit Omnipotens Dominus cui propicietuâ— in aevum 1449. Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Chief of the Faction of the White Rose Son and heir of Richard of Conesbury Earl of Cambridge second Son of Edmund Langley Duke of York was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland He arrived at Houth July 5. the Rebels being very insolent against whom he so behaved himself that he not only suppressed them but ever after purchased the affection of the Irish Nation firm and entire to him and having established Statutes and Ordinances in a great Council held at Dublin in the 28 Year of this Kings Reign as also afterwards in a Parliament at Drohedagh in the said 28 Year oâ— Hen. 6. He going for England 1450. Made James Earl of Ormond his Deputy who 1453. Being besides Earl of Ormond Earl of Wiltshire and Lord Treasurer of England in the 33 of â— 6. and also again about the 37. â—nd so continued till the 38 year â—as made Lord Lieutenant He was â—â— the first year of Edward the 4. beâ—eaded at Newcastle 1461. which atâ—indor was taken off in a Parliament at Westminster begun in Nov. in the first year of H. 7. and Sir Th. Butler was invested in his Honours and Estate At his leaving Ireland the same year John Mey Archbishop of Armagh â—as constituted his Deputy He died â—456 1454. Thomas Fitz Maurice Earl of Kildare Lord Deputy 1454. Sir Eustaceâ—night â—night was made Deputy to Richard Duke of York Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Before whom a Parliament was held in the 32 of H. 6. 1456. Thomas Fitz Maurice Earl of Kildare Deputy to the Duke oâ— York Lord Lieutenant before whom the 33 of H. 6. there was holden a Parliament at Dublin by several Prorogations at Naas and Dublin c. 1459. Richard Duke of York Lord Lieutenant came into Ireland having the Earldom of Vlster and the Lordship of Connaght and Meath by descent from Lionel Duke of Clarence He held a Parliament at Drogedagh the 38 of H. 6. the Conditions on which he took the Government were 1. That he should be the King Lieutenant of Ireland for teâ— years 2. That to support the charge oâ— that Country he should receivâ— all the Kings Revenues there both certain and casual without accompt 3. That he should be supplied also with Treasure out of England in this manner He should have 4000 Marks for the first year whereof he should be imprested 2000 l. before hand and for the other nine years he should receive 2000 per annum 4. That he might let or farm any of the Kings Lands and place or displace all Officers at his pleasure 5. That he might Levie or Wage what numbers of men he thought fit 6. That he might make a Deputy and return at his pleasure All which he managed with so much advantage as he greatly gained upon the Nation erecting only in Louth Meath and Kildare some Castles to stop the Incursions of the Irishry At his remove from thence in pursuit of a Crown the greatest part of the Nobility and Gentry oâ— Meath passed over with him into England and were slain with him at Wakefield 1460. He was first buried at Pontfract and afterwards removed to Fotheringhay Sub EDWARDO IV. 1460. Thomas Fitz Maurice Earâ— of Kildare Lord Justice 1462. Sir Rowland Fitz Eustace Knight Lord of Port Leicester Treasurer of England Deputy to George Duke of Clarence third son of Richard Duke of York and Brother to King Edw. 4. born in the Castle oâ— Dublin Lord Lieutenant before whom was held a Parliament at Dublin the 2 of Edw. 4. He died December 19. 1496. and was buried in the Covent of Minor Friers at Kilcullen New-Abbey whereof he had been Founder but erected for himself and his Lady a specious Monument in St. Audoenus Church in St. Maries Chappel in Dublin He had given him the Mannor of Port Leicester and the Honour of a Parliament Baron by Edw. 4. as also the Title of Viscount Baltinglass by H. 8. 1463. George Duke of Clarence was made Lord Lieutenant for life but as others held the Lieutenancy by substitutes as 1463. Thomas Earl of Desmond Deputy to the said Duke of Clarence held a Parliament at Weys in the 3 year of Edw. 4. as also at other places by Prorogations He lost his head at Drogedagh for the exactions of Coin and Livery 1467. John Lord Tiptoft and Powes Earl of Worcester Treasurer of England in the 31 and 32 years of H. 6. also in the 2 and 3 of Edw. 4. in whose Reign he was made Constable of England for life Lord Deputy of Ireland to the Duke of Clarence One of the most learned and eloquent men in Christendom Of whom I may say what Pliny writes of Aristonis Vt mihi non unus homo sed literae ipsae omnesque bonae artes in uno homine summum periculum adire videantur So that in him more learning was
some others attainted for the Insolencies he had done during his Deputyship Which Act was repealed in the 11 year of Queen Eliz. the Earl of Kildare's Brothers and Sisters being thereby restored to their Blood as in King Edw. 6. his Reign Gerald Earl Thomas's Brother was restored to his ancient Inheritance and by Q. Mary May 14. 1554. to his Honour and Baron of Offaly who returning the same Year into Ireland was received with great Applause by the people though his Brother had been beheaded and 5 Uncles hanged at Tiburn Febr. 3. 1537. And it was further also enacted in this Parliament that the King his Heirs and Successors should be Supream Head of the Church of Ireland prohibiting also Appeals to Rome This Lord Gray was in the Year 1541. beheaded on Tower-hill about June 25. for having as it was conjectured joined with Cardinal Pool and others of the Kings Enemies notwithstanding his good Service against O-Donnel and O-Neal as also in France and other places the Council of Ireland with whom he often wrangled having much prejudiced him in the Kings thoughts At his going for England 1540. Sir William Brereton afterwards Marshal of Ireland Ancestor of the Breretons of Brereton in Cheshire since Baron of Laghlin in Ireland was left Justice who died the same year at Kilkenny in his journey towards Limerick and was buried in St. Canicus's Church in Kilkenny 1540. Sir Anthony St. Leger a Kentish man Vnus Nobilium Secretioris Camerae Regis July 25. Lord Deputy sworn in Trinity Church in Dublin in this form viz. YOu shall swear that you shall faithfully and truly to your power serve our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty in the Room and Authority of Lord Deputy and Chief Governour of this his Realm of Ireland you shall maintain and defend the Laws of God and the Christian Faith You shall to your power not only keep his Majesties Peace amongst his People but also maintain his Officers and Ministers in the execution and administration of Justice You shall defend his Majesties Castles Garrisons Dominions People and Subjects of this Realm and repress his Rebels and Enemies You shall not consent to the Damage and Disherizen of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors neither shall you suffer the right of the Crown to be destroyed by any way but shall let it to your power and if you cannot let the same you shall certifie his Majesty clearly and expresly thereof You shall give your true and faithful Counsel for the Kings Majesties Profit and his Highness Council you shall conceal and keep All other things for the preservation of his Majesties Realm of Ireland the Peace amongst his People the execution of his Justice according to his Majesties Laws Vsages and Customs of this his Highness Realm you shall perform and do to your power So God you help and the Contents of this Book Before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin June 13. the 33 of H. 8. in which it was enacted that the King and his Successors should be Kings of Ireland not but that before by the name of Lord of Ireland they had all Sovereign Jurisdiction and Preheminence but as a Title more repleat with Majesty ut dum colit terras ipso nomine titulo Regis Consecraretur which Title the 7 of the Ides of June 1555. Paul the 4. Bishop of Rome confirmed not being able to take away that which H. 8. had before decreed To him the Irishry and degenerate English make their several submissions by Indenture as formerly to H. 2. to King John to Edw. 1. to Richard 2. and now to Sir Anthony St. Leger in 33 of H. 8. 1543. Sir Anthony going into England leaves Febr. 10. Sir William Brabazon Lord Justice 1544. Sir Anthony St. Leger Kt. of the Garter August 11. the second time arrives at Dublin Lord Deputy who going for England 1546. Leaves Sir William Brabazon the second time Lord Justice who took his Oath in Christ Church Dublin April 1. Sub EDWARDO VI. 1547. The said Sir Anthony St. Leger continued Governour first under the title of Lord Justice the Deputy He overcame the O-Birns c. To him was sent from England Sir Edward Billingham unus è nobilibus Secretioris Camerâ— Regis titulo Capitanei Generalis Viâ— fortitudine militari scientia clarus with 600 Horse and 400 Foot whâ— so powerfully pursued the O-More and O-Connars as they submitted tâ— the Deputy for which Service he was Knighted and made Marshal oâ— Ireland 1548. Sir Edward Billingham landed at Dalkie in the Vigils oâ— Whitsontide and the second day after received the Sword in Trinity Church Dublin Brian O-Connar and Patrick O-More great Lords of â—â—ix and Offaly whom he had formerly subdued St. Leger takes with him into England to whom the King gives a yearly Pension of 100l â— piece O-More dies at London within the year the ensuing year Billingham being maligned by some â—f the Council is called into England at whose departure the Council of Ireland offered him Commendatory Letters to which he replied that Credo Resurrectionem â—â—rtuorum if my innocency cannot protect me subterfugies shall not do it my Enemies may kill me but not conquer me He died in England the year following more of grief than a disease after that he had cleared himself of the accusation and it was resolved to have sent him again Deputy into Ireland He was a fervent Protestant and an excellent Governour spending his whole allowance in Hospitality calling thâ— same his dear Masters meat none â—â— his own cost He took Ship aâ— Houth Decemb. 16. And 1549. The Chancellor and other having the Kings leave elect Sir Fâ— Brian Marshal of the Army the King Favourite Lord Justice during thâ— Kings pleasure who in Christ Church Dublin was sworn Decemb. 29. Anâ— Febr. 2. he died at Clonmel advancing against O-Carol and was buried in the Cathedral Church iâ— Waterford in great State 1549. February 2. Sir William Brabazon Vice Treasurer was made Lord Justice the third time who effectually pursued Charles Macart Cavenach who of late had flown again into Rebellion Brabazon died the 7. of the Ides of July in the Tents in Vlster and was buried in Trinity Church Dublin and his Heart carried into England 1550. Sir Anthony St. Leger about September 10. arrived at Dubâ—â—n the fourth time Lord Deputy â—â— whom Charles Mac-art Caveâ—â—ch submitted himself solemnly renouncing before him the Council â—â—d many Lords the name Macâ—urrogh On the surrender of Bulâ—in to the French they paid a considerable sum 8000 l. of which â—ame for Ireland with 400 men with a charge that the Laws of England should be there administred and the Mutinous severely suppressed and saith my Author it may seem strange that among all the horrible Hurries in England Ireland was then almost quiet which must be imputed either to the Kings withdrawing much People thence which otherwise would have disquieted affairs at home or else
Popish Clergy and the outragious Presumption of the unsetled Irish it was less curbed by reason the Deputy and Council were somewhat limited concerning them by late Instructions Letters and Directions out of England and that they did dare affirm that the rest of the great Body as to the Civil part thereof was in better order at that time then ever it was in the memory of man as to the execution of Justice and the freedom of Mens Persons and Estates the present charge of the Army excepted and the advancement of the Revenues of the Crown the competent number of Bishops and other able and learned Ministers of the Church of England and that for 200 years last past England had never been so free of the charge of Ireland as under this Government After his quitting of Ireland he lived very honourable in England until by a casualty he brake his Leg on a Stand in Theobalds Park and soon after died thereof Anno 163. 1629. Sir Adam Loftus Lord Viscount Ely Lord Chancellor and Sir Richard Boyle Earl of Cork Lord Treasurer October 26. were sworn Lords Justices In their time the Fiction of St. Patricks Purgatory in Lough-Dirg was discovered to be a meer Illusion a little Cell hewed out of a Rock no Confines of Purgatory or Hell though Priests made use of it to ensnare Pilgrims In whose time also though none were less Favourers of the Papists then they the Roman Catholicks viz. 1633. writes Hamond L' Estrange began to rant it in Ireland and to exercise their Fansies called Religion so publickly as if they had gained a Toleration in as much as they said Mass frequently till they were supprest by the Lords Justices and 15 Houses by direction of the Lords of the Council from England were seized on to the Kings use and the Friers and Priests so persecuted as two hanged themselves in their own defence Their principle House in Backlane was disposed of to the University of Dublin formerly took notice of who placed a Rector and Scholers in it maintaining a Weekly Lecture there which the Justices countenanced with their presence though afterwards the House was otherwise disposed of Yet Affairs of this nature as well as others growing still irregular the Romish Clergy too increasing to near double the number of Reformed Believers in as much as their Insolency aspired to that height as openly to erect an University in Dublin in emulation or rather in defiance of the Kings Colledge there Of which the House of Commons in England ever tender of the Affairs of Ireland took especial notice in their first Remonstrance to the King 1628. that without control the Popish Religion in Ireland was openly professed and practised in every part thereof Popish Jurisdiction being there generally exercised and avowed Monasteries Nunneries and other superstitious Houses newly erected reedified and replenished with men and women of several Orders and in a plentiful manner maintained in Dublin and most of the great Towns c. Upon which Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth President of the North was thought of as the fittest person to ballance those Differences Sir Richard Boyle Earl of Cork died at Youghal and was there buried Anno 1643. near the Date if not on the Day of the Cessation concluded at Siggins-town September 15. unwilling to survive what he suspected might not be auspicious to the English or conducible to the end for which it was designed wherein he prophesied not ill He was a person for his Abilities and Knowledge in the Affairs of the World eminently observable in as much as though he was no Peer of England yet he was admitted to sit in the Lords House upon the Woolsacks ut Consiliarius And for all the Estate he arrived at which was the greatest in the memory of the last Age none ever taxed him with exorbitancies but such as thought Princes had too little and Religious men not enough In St. Patricks Church Dublin there is a fair Monument for him and his Relations What concerns him is this Gods Providence is our Inheritance This Monument was erected for the Right Honourable Sir Richard Boyle Knight Lord Boyle Baron of Youghal Viscount of Dungarvan Earl of Cork Lord High Treasurer of Ireland of the Kings Privy Council of this Realm and one of the two Lords Justices for the Government of this Kingdom in memory of his most dear vertuous and Religious Wife the Lady Katherine Countess of Cork and their Posterity as also of her Grandfather Dr. Robert Weston sometime Lord Chancellor of Ireland and one of the Lords Justices for the Government thereof whose Daughter Alice Weston was married to Sir Geoffery Fenton Kt. Principal Secretary of State in this Realm and they had issue the said Lady Katherine Countess of Cork who lieth here interred with her said Father and Grandfather whose Vertues she inherited on the Earth and lieth here entombed with them All expecting a joyful Resurrection Obiit 10. die Februarii Anno 1629. The Issue of the Right Honourable Richard Lord Boyle Earl of Cork and the Lady Katherine his Wife with the Arms of such of their Daughters Husbands as are married Anno Dom. 1631 Honoratissimus praenobilis ac Illustrissimus Dominus Thomas Vicecomes Wentworth Baro Wentworth de Wentworth Woodhouse Dominus de Newmarche Oversley Serenissimi Domini CAROLI Magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Deputatus Generalis in regno suo Hiberniae Dominus Praesidens Concilii in partibus Borealibus regni Angliae à Secretioribus suae Majestatis Conciliis Anno Dom. MDCXXXIII 1633. Thomas Lord Viscount Wentworth President of the North was sworn Lord Deputy July 25. One whose vast abilities the King had had due experience of therefore constitutes him in this Place The year following he summoned a Parliament at Dublin who granted three Subsidies by Virtue of which and his prudent management thereof he paid an Arrear of 80000 l. due before his Arrival than which nothing of his Masters Justice could be more honourable and obliging No kind of Expence being more worthy a Prince or like to eternize him surer than what is paid to Posterity in right of their Ancestors And besides this all Salaries Civil and Military were through his prudent management of those Subsidies and his Majesties Revenue paid without charge to England beyond what else he advanced to his Majesties Purse Who going for England 1636. Sir Adam Loftus Viscount Ely Lord Chancellor and Christopher Wansford Master of the Rolls July 3. were sworn Lords Justices Viscount Ely died about the beginning of the late Troubles in England in Yorkshire as I take it where he was born and there was buried He was a Person of a grave Presence and one that had long managed the Chancellorship in Ireland without offence till some private Interest made an Inspection into his carriage yet when a very remarkable business came on the Stage he waved making publick Clamour the subject of his Revenge 1636. Thomas
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
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
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
Ireland 1640. Christopher Wansford Master of the Rolls took the Oath of Lord Deputy April 3. and died suddenly Decemb. 3. following passionately as it was thought affected with the imprisonment of the Earl of Strafford whose intimacy had been of ancient date Nor were his apprehensions the less for that not long before the Parliament sitting at Dublin some Instructions were agreed on by the House of Commons for a Committee to be sent into England which reflecting on the Earl of Strafford he caused as it was generally reported to be razed out of the Journal Book An example of which he had observed in the 19 year of King James Anno 1621. when the Protestation of the House of Commons was defaced by the Kings own hand and enjoined the Agents then appointed not to repair to the Court without the Kings License which notwithstanding they did some from one Port some from another He was buried in Christ Church Dublin A Gentleman certainly of excellent Parts a clear Orator and One regained from the Popular Partie of the House of Commons in England to serve his Prince in the Secrets of State On his death 1640. Robert Lord Dillon of Kilkenny-West and Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronnet Master of the Court of Wards Decemb. 30. were sworn Lords Justices But the Lord Dillon a person of great abilities and a shrewd reach well esteemed of by the Earl of Strafford being excepted against by some of the Irish Committee of Parliament then in England he was displaced Yet that no business for the advantage of Ireland might be delayed through the misdirections of Orders from his Majesty he was pleased by his Letters January 4. in the 16 year of his Reign directed to his Privy Council in Ireland and to Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlase Knights then designed to be his Justices of that his Kingdom to grant amongst other things that his Subsidies there should be reduced to a lesser rate than formerly and that all Letters directed to the Lieutenant Deputy Justices Chief Governour or Governours or to any other Officers or Ministers of that Realm either concerning the Publick Affairs or private Interests of any Subject there might be entered into his Signet Office in England to the end that they may be upon occasion found to take Copies of for the Subjects better Information in such publick things as may concern them as also that all Dispatches from Ireland should safely be kept apart that like recourse may be had to them for the better satisfaction of the Subject who shall be concerned therein And whereas in the former Governours time there were endeavours to hinder some Agents of Parliament to have recourse into England his Majesty takes notice that for as much as the Committee of the Parliament of Ireland John Bellew Esquire and Oliver Cassel with others imployed thence have repaired into his Kingdom of England to represent their Grievances he hath manifested his gracious condescentions to them admitting them into his Royal Presence forbidding his Counsellors in Ireland or any other Officers or Ministers of that State to proceed any wise against them or any of them for the same and that any of his Subjects shall have Copies of Records Certificates Orders of Council publick Letters or other Entries for the Declaration of their Grievances made so open was his breast to the Complaints presented to him from the Parliament in Ireland that if there had not been a general Defection long anvilled in the minds of that People the event of so horrid a Rebellion as few Moneths after happened could not have been the Issue of such Remarkable condescentions At the Lord Dillons going off 1640. Sir William Parsons Master of the Court of Wards long experienced in the Affairs of Ireland and Sir John Borlase Knight Master of the Ordnance well known to his Majesty by several Imployments at home and abroad as Collonel in the Low-Countries and Lieutenant General under the Lord Vere one of the most expert and fortunate Captains in the World were the 10 not the 9 as some write of February sworn at the Council Board Lords Justices who jointly endeavoured to smooth the rugged Passages of those Times obtaining from his Majesty more Graces than was thought would have been indulged the Irish in as much as a most Honourable person a noble Peer in the House of Lords avouched that the Lords Justices had always chearfully received their Requests and Messages and were ready to comply with them desiring that it might be entered in their Journal to the end that the memory of so even a Government might remain to Posterity Yet such then were the contrivance of the Irish to Rebellion that though as one says the Design was many times discontinued yet it bore an ancient date and was subtlely pursued in Parliament the Session before it brake forth when they pretended by a Committee of both Houses to search his Majesties Stores as if some Plot had been framed there to destroy the Parliament the House of Parliament being then over part of the Store and on that pretence they would fain have seen all his Majesties Store of Ammunition and Arms. But the Lord Borlase Master of the Ordnance under whose charge those were boldly denied their Requests as his Majesties choicest Jewels not to be discovered without his especial Orders which they took ill and Octob. 23. 1641. the Rebellion sadly broke out in its vigour and extremity raised for the Restauration of the publick Profession of the Romish Religion the Restitution of all the Plantation Lands unto the Natives and settlement of the present Government into their hands On which pretensions it went on currantly though the night before Owen O-Canally a meer Irish man but trained up in the Protestant Religion who out of a sense of his Duty and Loyalty to his Majesty and for the preservation of his good People and as an Effect of that Religion he was trained up in had discovered it first to the Lord Parsons and then not accounting himself to be sufficiently credited to the Lord Borlase at whose House the Council such as could be raised from their Beds met and securing the Castle and City with such strength as they had the Lord Mac-Guire Collonel Hugh Oge-Mac-Maâ—one some of them afterwards hanged at Tiburn and others were convened before them who yet made so slight a business of their Plot being discovered and their persons apprehended as the Relator saw Mac-Mahon and others draw Gibbets in Chalk with men hanging on them in several places in the Lord Borlases Hall as the best death the English could expect from them In the Interim Dublin by a strange Providence was secured though afterwards infested with so many inconveniences such streights as these Justices Government was under a perpetual trouble and anxiety being at the best but uncertainly supplyed out of England though such was the Resentment that the Parliament then sitting had of Ireland and the outrages committed