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
my Lord Coke in the 46. writes Rushw 1371 2. Sir Richard Pembridge alias Pembrugh a Baron was appointed Deputy of Ireland but he refused to go whereupon his Offices Fees and Lands which he held of the King for life being his Servant as Warden of the Cinque Ports c. were all seized on pro servitio impendendo yet he was noâ— upon that resolution committed tâ— Prison for that he being unwilling to go the Imployment was adjudged an Exile and no man by the Common Law is perdere patriam but by Authority of Parliament or in case of Abjuration foâ— Felony 1374. Sir William de Windsor arrived at Waterford Lord Lieutenant April 18. and took his Oath for thâ— execution of his Place at Kilkenny May 4. following undertaking thâ— Custody of Ireland for 11213l 6s 8a but did no wonders He descendeâ— of Sir James de Windsor Lord oâ— Stanwel in Middlesex as I understand from the present Lord Windsor 1376. James Butler Earl of Ormond succeeded in the Government Sub RICHARDO II. James Butler Earl of Ormond continued Lord Governour till that 1379. John de Bromwich was made Lord Justice to whom succeeded Edmund Mortimer Lord Lieutenant He died at Cork 1381. on St Stephens day in the Abbey of Dominicans and was buried at Wigmore 1381. John Colton Dean of S. Patricks by Dublin Lord Chancellor of Ireland afterwards Archbishop of Ardmagh was made Lord Justice He took his Oath at Cork in the Covent of the Preaching Friers Decemb. 27. He died the 5. of the Calends of May 1404. and was buried in Droghedagh in Saint Peters Church where sometime before his death he renounced his Prelacy 1383. Philip de Courtney Lord Lieutenant and then 1385. Robert Vere the ninth Earl of Oxford a great Favourite of the Kings was made Lord Lieutenant having been created Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland the 10 of Richard 2. in which year the King furnished him with a great sum of Money that he might go into Ireland to get Dominium quod sibi Rex donaverat So Walsingham Sed novus iste insolitus umbratilis honor cito evanuit Brook in his Catalogue of Nobility saith more to whom I refer you He died in Lovania 1392. in great anguish of mind and penury leaving saith Camd. nothing but to his Tomb Titles and to the World matter of Talk He was buried at Colne in Essex in great Funeral State the King a Mourner After all his preparations and full Charter even to pass all things with his own Teste He as some others bore only the Title of Lieutenant never going into Ireland but deputed 1385. Sir John Stanley his Lieutenant 1387. Alexander de Balscot alias Petit Bishop of Meath who had been Treasurer and Chancellor of Ireland Lord Justice He died at Ardbracan a Village in Meath the 10 of November 1400. and was buried at Trim in St. Maries Monastery 1389. Sir John Stanley returning into Ireland took his Oath of Lord Justice Octob. 25. the Earl of Oxford nomine being Lord Lieutenant 1392. James Earl of Ormond Lord Justice during whose Government the Earl of Oxford under whom he was Justice died as we have said in Lovania yet he continued his Government his Patent being from the King not determining with the Earl of Oxfords death 1394. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester who afterwards was treacherously strangled going with an Army for Ireland cujus Insulae judum Rex creaverat eum Ducem was suddenly recalled and the same year King Richard 2. having been slighted by the Princes of Germany to whom by his Ambassadors he addressed himself to have been made Emperour arrived at Waterford October 2. with an Army of 4000 men at Arms and 30000 Archers the better to convince them of his Manhood But returned at Shrovetide being cheated by a feigned submission of the Irish And at his return he left Roger Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Trim Clare and Connaght Lord Lieutenant He was afterwards slain by O. Brien c. at Kenlis in Ossory July 20. 1398. on whose death 1398. Roger Gray was chosen Lord Justice in his stead The same year Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake half Brother to King R. 2. came to Dublin Lord Lieutenant October 7. He was in 1400. beheaded for conspiring to set up King Richard 2. after King Henry 4. had been established 1399. King Richard the second time came into Ireland to revenge Mortimers death and arrived at Waterford June 1. upon whose arrival all things succeeded prosperously for the Irish being divided into many Factions and they not being united the whole was sooner overcome But in the height of these proceedings Tidings came of Henry Duke of Lancasters preparations and proceedings in England Upon which the King quieted all things at a great uncertainty in Ireland and having there imprisoned in Trim Castle the sons of the Duke of Glocester and Lancaster he arrived in three nights at Milford-haven in Wales and thence marched forwards to his Ruine yielding himself up at Flint At his disserting of Ireland we find not who was left Governour But the time not being long betwixt Duke Henries being setled in the Throne and King Richard 2. coming out of Ireland we may probably conjecture who commanded the Army had also the Government of the Realm Sub HENRICO IV. 1399. Sir John Stanley was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Decemb. 10. Whilest he thus possessed the Government I find in Ware De Praes Hib. a Writ from H. 4. anno 1400. directed to Sir Thomas de Burgo Knight Justiciario suo in partibus Conaciae ordering him to restore the Temporalities to Thomas Bishop Alladensis And here that it might not be supposed that this Sir Thomas entituled Justice had thereby any other power then a Justiceship of Peace or at most as we now call it the Presidentship of Connaght I could not but take notice hereof not having met with the like president the usual Writs for the restoring of Temporalities being to the chief Governour only as Justiciario Regis of which in Prynns History of King John H. 3. Ed. 1. are many Presidents 1401. In May Sir John Stanley goes for England and leaves Sir William Stanley of Holton in Werral in Cheshire in his place 1401. August 23. Stephen Scroop of which Family there was the Lord Scroop of Bolton Castle in Richmondshire arrived in Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son He came into Ireland November 13. the same year who going for England about Novemb. 11. 1403. Left Stephen Scroop his Deputy and he going for England the first day of Lent the Noblemen of Ireland chose James Earl of Ormond Lord Justice who died at Gauran or Raligauran 1405. September 6. to whom succeeded 1405. Gerald Earl of Kildare 1406. After Michaelmass Stephen Scroop returned into Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster Lord Lieutenant He died at Tristle-Dermot
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
Curia Romana pro negotio ipsius patris nostri expediendis pro expensis quas idem Archiepiscopus fecit in servitio nostro in Hibern dum ultimo fuit Justiciar noster Hibern Assignavimus eidem Archiepiscopo Centum libras de firma Civitatis nostrae de Limerick recipiendas ad duos terminos viz. ad festum Sancti Michaelis quinquaginta libras ad Paschae quinquaginta libras Assignavimus etiam eidem Archiepiscopo in solutione ejusdem debiti quinquaginta Marcas per annum percipiendum de firma Civitatis nostrae Dublin Sicut plenius continetur in nostris patentibus quas inde fieri fecimus ideo vobis mandamus quod praedictas centum libras de firma praedictae Civitatis Limerick praedictas quinquaginta Marcas de firma Civitatis nostrae Dublin eidem Archiepiscopo recipere permittatis quousque praedictum debitum ei persolvatur Teste Rege apud Westm Maii 10. Anno Regni nostri 12. 1232. Maurice Fitz Gerald was made Lord Justice September 2. He continued so till 1245. at which time Mauritium Hiberniae Justiciarium eo quod ficte tarde auxilium ab Hibernia the King having use of his Forces against David ap Llewellin Prince of Wales domino regi duxerat periclitanti a Justiciaria deposuit Whilest he was Justice he excellently well behaved himself against Earl Marescal who 1234. had hostilely invaded Ireland animated by Geoffery de Marisco whom Mat. Paris calls homo ejus ligius senex infidelis and subduing him the first of April after that the Earl Marescal had with an unexpressable courage most of his Party betraying him manfully defended himself He died May 8. 1257. Miles strenuus facetus nulli secundus and was buried at Youghall amongst the Frier Minors which Covent he founded 1231. And upon his remove 1245. Sir John Fitz Geoffery was made Lord Justice Novemb. 4. Vir quidem praeclarus genere divitiis potentia To whom the King directs his Writ that Turvil Bishop of Ossory might dispose of his Goods by his last Will. Mandatum est Johanni filio Galfrido Justiciar Hiberniae quod permittat Priorem de Conale alios executores testamenti Galfridi de Turvil Episcopi Ossoriensis habere liberam administrationem omnium bonorum quae fuerunt ejusdem Episcopi Ita quod de primis bonis leventur debita Regis quae Regi debebat quae sunt Clara. Teste Rege apud Westm April 12. On his remove 1247. Theobald Butler Lord of Carrick and John Cogan were chosen Lords Justices Butler died in the Castle of Arkelo 1285. 1255. Alan de la Zouch succeed-Lord Justice descended from Alan Viscount of Roan in Little Brittain in times past Lord Ashbey de la Zouch in Leicester-shire He was in the 34 of H. 3. Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. He was slain by John 7. Earl Warren and of Surrey half Brother to King H. 3. in Westminster Hall 1259. Stephen de long Espee second Son of William the first Earl of Salisbury Justiciarius in Hibernia Dominus Capitalis erat oâ—dinatus He died 1260. in Ireland being slain by his own People his body was buried in England The 16 year of K. John He was made Earl of Vlster 1260. William Dean Lord Justice He died 1261. 1261. Sir Richard de Rupella or Rochel Glynn calls him la Rochel de Capel Lord Justice who being recalled into England 1267. Sir David de Barry was instituted in his place who did excellent Service in composing some differences between the Geraldines and Bourks which were too heady for the former Governour it is conceived that the Viscount Barries in Ireland descended from this man and all from Barry in Glanmorganshire 1268. Sir Robert de Vfford Ancestor not unlike of Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolk Lord Justice upon whose remove into England 1269. Richardus de Exonia was made Lord Justice He died the same Year and 1270. Sir James Audley alias Aldelegh from whence as is supposed the noble Lord Audley was made Lord Justice He was killed with a fall from his Horse in Tocmond 1272. June 23. After whose death till the entrance of Edward the first Histories supply not who was instituted in his room This was he as probably may be conjectured to whom Hugh Lacy Earl of Vlster gave Lands with the Constableship of Vlster Sub EDWARDO I. 1272. Maurice Fitz Maurice Lord Justice to whom the King directs this Writ De conservatione Pacis in Hibernia Rex dilecto fideli suo Mauritio filio Mauritii Justic suo Hibern salutem Cum defuncto jam celebris memoriae Domino H. Rege patre nostro ad nos regni Angliae gubernaculum terrae Hibern Dominium successione haereditaria pertineant per quod nos qui in exhibitione pacis conservatione omnibus singulis de praedictis regno sumus ex nunc debitores jam pacem nostram in eodem regno nomine Regis fecimus proclamari vobis mandamus firmiter injungentes quod per totam terram nostram Hib. pacem nostram publice clamari firmiter teneri faciatis inhibendo omnibus et singulis de eadem terra sub periculo exhaeredationis vitae et membrorum ne quis pacem nostram infringere praesumat Nos enim omnibus et singulis de praedicta terra nostra Hiberniae in omnibus juribus et rebus ipsos contingentibus contra quoscunque tam majores quam minores parati sumus erimus plenam Auctore Domino Justitiam exhibere Dat per manum W. de Merton Cancellarii nostri apud Westminst Decemb. 7. 1173. Geoffery Lord Genevil of the House of Lorrain newly returned in Pilgrimage from the Holy Sepulchre Lord Justice succeeded in October to whom I find many Writs directed the following may be sufficient to testifie the truth Rex dilecto fideli suo Galfrido de Genevil Justiciario suo Hiberniae salutem Mandamus vobis quod omnimodas exactiones demandas districtiones quas fieri facitis venerabili Cassalen Archiepiscopo ponatis in respectum usque ad ventum nostrum in Angliam ut tunc inde provideatur quod rationabiliter fuerit inde faciendum nullam molestiam sibi vel Ecclesiae suae interim inferendo Dat c. Junii 13. Anno regno 2. He died the 12. before the Calends of November 1314. and was buried amongst the Preaching Friers in Trim the Foundation he himself had established 1276. Sir Robert de Vfford Lord Justice the second time who going into England 1279. Stephen de Fulborn Bishop of Waterford afterwards Archbishop of Tuam Treasurer of Ireland Lord Justice The year following he surrenders and Vfford resigning it he again accepts it 1282. He died at Dublin 1288. 5. Nonas Julii to whom the King for the better support of his Justiceship granted a Pension out of the Exchequer in Ireland of 500 l. per annum
Jan. 16. 1408. 1407. Scroop going this Year into England James Butler Earl of Ormond son of the former Earl was elected by the Country Lord Justice 1408. Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son lands at Carlingford in Ireland August 2. Lord Lieutenant The third of the Ides of March following he returned for England Afterwards viz. March 22. 1421. he was slain at the Battle of Bangy by the Duke of Alanson On his remove he left Thomas Butler Prior of Kilmainam his Deputy During his Government viz. in the tenth year of the King Hen. 4. gave the Sword to the City of Dublin formerly governed by a Provost as appears by their ancient Seal called Signum Praepositurae which in the 14 of Hen. 3. was governed by a Major with two Bailiffs which Bailiffs were changed into Sheriffs by Charter of Ed. 6. 1547. Since in the 17 year of King Charles 1. by a Patent dated July 29. at Westminster the Government was changed into a Lord Major though they took not up the Title till Michaelmass 1665. that Sir Daniel Bellingham Knight Goldsmith for the Year beginning at Michaelmass was made Lord Major 1665. John Desmynieres Merchant 1666. Mark Quinne Apothecary 1667. John Forrest Merchant and sometimes Chandler 1668. Lewis Desmynieres Merchant 1669. Enoch Reader Merchant 1670. John Tottie Merchant and sometimes Glover 1671. Robert Dery Shoemaker 1672. Joshua Allen Merchant 1673. Sub HENRICO V. 1413. The said Prior of Kilmainam continued Lord Justice till that 1413. October 7. Sir John Stanley landed at Clantarfe near Dublin Lord Lieutenant He died Jan. 6. following at Ardee He was the Son of John the Ancestor of the illustrious Family of the Stanleys first created Earl of Derby Anno 1 H. 7. The transactions of whose Affairs in Ireland were preserved with other evidences in the Eagle Tower at Lathum in Lancashire till the Ruines of that magnificent Seat fell a Sacrifice to the Insolencies of the late Times which the last Lord CHARLES a person of exemplary worth and humanity who died Decemb. 1. 1672. hath since raised up with advantage from its Loyal Rubbish 1671. Upon Sir John Stanleys death the 11. of February following Thomas Cranley Archbishop of Dublin twice Chancellour of Ireland was elected Lord Justice Of whom Ware writes that Vir fuit qui non modo ingenio verum etiam Calamo utpote bonis instructus Artibus plurimum valuit with which Elogie I may very well take up but being that he was buried in New Colledge Chappel in Oxford of which he had been the first Warden I may injure their Antiquities not to insert his Epitaph which so long they have admitted in their Sanctuary though truly it neither bespeaks his worth or the least ingenuity of those Times He was sometimes Chancellor of Oxford He died May 25. 1417. at Faringdon and on a fair Stone in New Colledge Chappel inlaid with Brass there is a Portraicture of a Bishop clothed in his sacred Vestments over whom there is placed the Arms of the See of Dublin and his own and under all this Inscription Incedens siste locus Aspice quod tenet iste Annis bis denis pater almus alumnus Egenis Pontificis gratum Develyn Corpus tumulatum Sedet Sacratus fungens vice pontificatus Transfuga quem Cernis dum vita vices variavit Spiritus eripitur non arte valens revocari Mors Carnis vivit sub Humo lectum sibi stravit Quaeso piis praecibus sibi viribus auxiliari This Inscription incompasses the sides of the Stone Flori Pontificum Thomae Cranley Deus istum Annuit optatum funer is esse locum Talem nutrivit locus is quem postea rexit Quo sibi quaesivit requiem cum lumina flexit M C junge quater I duples V numerater Invenies annum quo ruit iste Pater Aldelmi festo cursu migravit honesto Qui circumstatis praecibus sibi subveniatis 1414. Sir John Talbot Lord Furnival and Verdon lands at Dalkie in Ireland September 10. Lord Lieutenant Whilest he was Lieutenant of Ireland Anno sci 1418. the Earl of Kilmain with 1600 men armed after their fashion which you may read in the year 1578. Pelham being Justice came from Harflue where they landed and did excellent service as they were commanded to attend in the Forrest of Lions these were the first most considerable Forces drawn out of Ireland When he left Ireland he substituted his Brother 1419. Richard Talbot Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice July 22. 1420. James Butler Earl of Ormond landed at Waterford April 4. Lord Lieutenant Sub HENRICO VI. 1422. The said Earl of Ormond continued Lord Lieutenant till that 1423. Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster was sent over Lord Lieutenant He died of the Plague in the Castle of Trim in Ireland 1424. the third year of King H. 6. and was buried at Stoke near Clare 1425. John Lord Talbot was made Lord Justice 1426. James Butler Earl of Ormond Lord Justice He died as it is conjectured at Ormond-Place near Garlick-Hithe London a noble seat of that Families and was certainly buried at St. Thomas of Acres called Mercers Chappel and Dame Joan his Countess 1428. 1427. Sir John de Gray Lord Lieutenant arrived at Houth the last of July and August 1. took his Oath Who afterwards going for England left 1428. Edward Dantsey Bishop of Meath for a time Treasurer of Ireland his Deputy He died Jan. 4. 1428. 1428. The Right Noble and Right Gracious Lord Sir John Sutton whether of Stourton Castle in Staffordshire or of the Family of Notingham is uncertain was made Lord Lieutenant before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin the Friday after the Feast of All-Saints in the 7 of this Kings Reign 1429. Sir Thomas Strange was made Deputy to Sir John Sutton probably this Strange came from Hunstanton in Norfolk 1432. Sir Thomas Stanley was made Lord Lieutenant He going for England constitutes 1432. Sir Christopher Plunket his Deputy a valiant and wise man who in right of his Wife heir of the Family of the Cusacks was afterwards made Baron of Killin and his second Son Baron of Dunsany 1435. Sir Thomas Stanley returns again Lord Lieutenant 1436. Richard Talbot Brother of John Earl of Shrewsbury Archbishop of Dublin was made Deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley Lord Lieutenant 1438. Lion Lord Wells Lord Lieutenant of Alford in Lincolnshire an ancient and Worthy Family 1440. Richard Talbot Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin in the 18 year of the Kings Reign The same Year James Earl of Ormond Lord Lieutenant and before the end of the year Lion Lord Wells again Lord Lieutenant This I conceive was that worthy person who not prevailing with his Son Sir Robert Wells to quit H. 6. Interests was beheaded by Edw. 4. 1470. 1441. James Earl of Ormond Deputy to the said Lion Lord Wells to whom as it seems by Sir James Ware de
Praes Hib. fol. 170. the Temporalities of the Bishoprick of Cassels on the death of Richard O-Hedian was ad firmam given for 10 years that See being so long vacant 1442. William Wells Esq Deputy to the said Lion Lord Wells 1443 James Earl of Ormond was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland continuing till that 1446. John Earl of Shrewsbury came over Lord Lieutenant before whom a Parliament was held at Trim in 25 of H. 6. He was slain at Castilion upon Dordon near Burdeaux 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
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
him that shortly after he died A man certainly of great courage Nobly born and had born â—reat Offices as Colonel General of the English under the States of the Low-Countries Marshal of the Army under the Earl of Hohenlo President of Munster General of the Auxiliaâ—y English in Britain in France Affairs through all Ireland especially in the North and Connaght growing turbulent Russel was recalled â—nd 1597. The Lord Burroughs a man of a sharp wit and great courage but scarce initiated into the very Elements of War was made Lord Deputy He soon yet marched into Vlster and without any great resistance took Blakewater but in his full pathway to Victory he died in that Province leaving the great desires of him to the good and to the bad longer security Up on his death 1597. Sir Thomas Norris Presâ—dent of Munster Son of Hen. Lorâ— Norris of Ricot and Brother to Siâ— John Norris was October 30. choseâ— Lord Justice and upon further Instructions from the Queen confirmed therein He died through thâ— neglect of a small wound 1597. Adam Loftus Archbishoâ— of Dublin Lord Chancellor anâ— Sir Robert Gardiner Chief Justice were appointed Justices of Ireland and the Army was committed to thâ— Earl of Ormond under the Title oâ— Lieutenant General in whose timâ— the Fort of Blakewater was yielded up to the Rebels After that Marshal Bagnal and others were slaiâ— in the thickest of the Crowd A Victory the like the Irish never gained since the English first set foot iâ— Ireland 1598. Robert Earl of Essex April 15. was made L. Lieutenant Son of Walter Devoreux Earl of Essex that excellent and worthy person who for the Honour of his Country had freely spent much of his Estate in Ireland formerly mentioned but never to be reflected on too often whose Vertues streaming in his Son the Queen setled in this place His Commission with a plausible Policy was dispatched to prosecute or conclude the War to pardon any offence of Treason or any thing against the Queen even Tir-Oen himself so that being furnished with 16000 Foot and 1300 Horse accompanied with many of the Prime Gentlemen of England he came into Ireland but effected little meeting much strange and contrary advice in Council so returned on the Queens resentment and in the year 1601. February 25. was beheaded within the Tower of London Amongst others that came to observe the Tragoedy one more eminent than the rest got as near to him as he could well enough as it was thought satisfied in the Spectacle which escaped not a general Censure He himself being being beheaded in the 16 of King James 1618. though a Person of great Parts and Abilities The Earl was a person singularly obliging especially to Scholers and Souldiers and if we may believe Sir Henry Wotton in his solemn Purposes of a firm and unshaken Allegiance Religion and Fidelity being inherent to his Nature whose Actions saith the Lord Bacon were faults which the Law might term Contempts yet they might have deserved a Dispensation his last inconsiderate Action deserving â—ather in Charity the Title of a Riot than of a Treason he having ever aimed at the Honour and Security of his Country But what can be sufficient against Envy managed by the subtilty of such as had charmed the Ears of a jealous Princess At his quitting the Government 1599. Adam Loftus Archbishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor and Sir George Carey Treasurer at War September 24. were left Lords Justices Archbishop Loftus of Swinshead in Yorkshire died in his Palace of St. Sepulchres Dublin April 5. 1605. and was buried in St. Patricks after that he had sate 37 years and almost 8 moneths in the Bishoprick He was as is formerly expressed a profitable Agent in procuring the Foundation of the Colledge of Dublin and though a Bishop the first Honorary Master thereof 1599. Sir Charles Blount Lord Mountjoy Knight of the Garter afterwards by King James made Earl of Devonshire as descended from an Heir of Humphrey Staffords Earl of Devonshire was October 28. made Lord Lieutenant but arrived not in Ireland till Feb. 24. following lodging that night at the Lord of Houths the next day he received the Sword at the Council Board who so effectually prosecuted the War against Tir-Oen after the notable defeat given to the Spanish Forces under Don Juan de Aquila at Kinsale Dec. 14. 1601. where saith the Lord Bacon in his Treatise of a War with Spain there appeared no other difference between the Valour of the Irish Rebels and the Spaniards but that the one ran away before they were charged and the other straight after that he brought Tir-Oen to a submission at Mellifont and in him ended that War which had cost the Crown of England so vast a sum 1198717 l. In which service Sir George Carey President of Munster afterwards Earl of Totness was very active betwixt whom and the Lord Lieutenant generally there was a good agreement though once the Contest grew so high as that the Lord Lieutenant writ to the President that he would rather serve the Queen in Prison than in Ireland where any Souldiers should not march at his command A difference afterwards well composed though such as read Pacata Hibernia may soon find at whose Honour it most aims Sub JACOBO Rege 1603. The said Lord Mountjoy continued for some time Lord Lieutenant who going for England carried Tir-Oen with him who was graciously received by the King and returned with Honours Not long after he complotted however fresh Rebellions which being detected and he proclaimed Traitor he fled privately into Normandy 1607. thence to Flanders then to Rome where he lived on the Popes allowance became blind and died 1616. His son was some years after found strangled in his Bed at Brussels and so ended this Race The Earl of Devonshire to whom so much is owing for his excellent Service in Ireland died Octob. 6. 1606. at the Savoy in the Strand and was buried in great Pomp in Westminster Abbey Of whom 't is better nothing now to say Then say too little for there rests behind A Trophy to be erected that will stay To all Posterities and keep in mind That glorious Art which did a Kingdom save Kept the Crown whole and made the Peace we have 1603. Sir George Carey Treasurer at War June 1. was made Lord Deputy he in the first year of his Majesties Reign made the first Sheriffs that ever served in Tirone and Tirconnel and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Relham Chief Baron and Sir John Davies Attorney General of Ireland the first Justices of Assize in those Countries which were welcom to the Commons though distasteful to the Irish Lords 1604. Sir Arthur Chichester a Gentleman who had done excellent Service in the Wars of Ireland giving therein frequent proofs of his Valour and Conduct was Febr. 3. made Lord Deputy He established two new Circuits for Justices of Assize the one in Connaght and
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
SANS CHANGIER THE REDUCTION OF IRELAND To the CROWN of ENGLAND With the GOVERNOURS since the Conquest by King HENRY II. Anno MCLXXII With some Passages in their Government A Brief Account of the Rebellion Anno Dom. MDCXLI Also The Original of the Universitie of DUBLIN And the COLLEDGE of Physicians Salust Bell. Jugurth Imagines majorum ad Virtutem accendunt LONDON Printed by Andr. Clarke for Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard 1675. To the Right Honourable CHARLES Earl of Derby Lord Lieutenant of the Counties Palatines of Cheshire and Lancashire Chamberlain of CHESTER ' And Lord of MAN and the Isles MY LORD SInce I had the Honor to know your Lordship I have not been in Pain to Whom I should Dedicate this Treatise no Person being more Eminent to Whom I might with less solicitation or more Humanity approach than to your Lordship Who hath that Felicity in your Nature as not to make Retiredness One of the Essentials of your Greatness but being clothed with Virtue dare own her Natives as Allies and Acquaintance Hence I have presumed to Entrust under your Auspicious Name These eminent Persons to Posterity that They being warmed by your Aspect may survive the Assaults and Injuries of Time and Oblivion Nor will it be otherwise than Justice in You to own Them for besides their Heroickness and Vertue Qualities inherent to the Birth the Catalogue affords some from whose Loins you are immediately descended so as in your own Person to fulfil what They were but Types and Shadows of Besides the Interest of England much appears in the series of this Discourse and I know none to whom it is dearer or more entire than your self having made Religion and Allegiance the Pillars of your Family though your Repose keeps you from the Fume as the Envy of the Court. But that I may not wander from the great Motive I must yet say my Obligations to your Lordship enjoins this Address that amongst those Testimonies which the grateful pay This may remain an acknowledgment of his Devoir who is My Lord Your Lordships most obliged devoted humble Servant Ed. Borlase To the Right Honourable DOROTHEA-HELLENA de Ruppaw COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DERBY MADAM SOme years since casting my Eye on a Catalogue of the Ministers of State I thought it a defect in History that such Persons as had immediately born the Supream Office under their Soveraign as the Governours of Ireland than whom none comes in State and Dignitie nearer the Confines of Majesty should want their just Register imperfect ones adulterated with other circumstances I have seen many And there upon though conscious of much Tenuity I applied my leisure to reduce their Succession to the present Age. But not being satisfied with my endeavours no more than with the late crude Efforts of others in this kind I suspended the Work till MDCLXXII that the excellent Charles Earl of Derby your illustrious Lord vouchsafed his Mecoenacie on which I resumed strength But He being that Year unseasonably hewed down by many complicate distempers better born than evicted I languished in the Combate yet after some pause having nothing to offer at his Shrine to whom so much is due but what before his death was the oblation I thought it ingratitude to withdraw it whilest I might presume on your countenance ever ready to secure his Indulgence and extend Yours though after all â— fear I have with most Painters drawn an excellent face to its disadvantage the work being much maimed of what I intended some things in this Age being not safe to think of much less to publish However having traced the Succession of the Empire to the present I know not on the score of having designed it for my Lord whom to entitle it more proper to than to your self his Relique descended from a Noble Progenie clear in its Original more by its sufferings in a Cause the State and Supream Council of this Kingdom once owned with all imaginable Zeal it being thought Infidelity and Cruelty yea Improvidence and folly not to succour it and therefore you are the likelier by a Sympathy to countenance those who by a series of Troubles have waded through the Affronts of an unsetled and subtle Nation at whose Helm many of my Lords Ancestors have long sate As also those and their Ancestors too with whom your illustrious Son hath contracted the nearest and most honourable Alliance so as this leads you to their Merits whose Effigies you have often reverenced in your Gallery than which I had nothing more solemn to offer though this intrusion summons all your Vertues to absolve Madam Your Ladyships most obliged humble Servant Ed. Borlase TO THE READER REader I have in this Treatise of the Governours of Ireland endeavoured to bring down their Succession to this present year that you may see through how many Channels the ticklish Government of that Kingdom hath passed since the first Conquest of it by Henry II. more then five hundred years In a less Circuit than which the greatest Monarchs have felt a Change so that if a circumstance about a Name the Title of a Person the Day of his Admittance or the Year in such variety of Alterations as that poor Kingdom hath suffered be mistook the Errour may easily be excused And yet my diligence to avoid these exceptions hath been such that I have not omitted the best Counsel I could consult with ransacking the known and most approved Authors though I have not always Quoted them conceiving that the distinguishing of their sense by the change of Characters the naming them a little before or the mentioning at first on what Subject this or that man writ tacitely implies where the Proof may be had accounting nothing more disingenious than not to own whence the Treasure hath been digged Wherein my Task indeed might have been much facilitated would such as long since promised an account of the Progress of the whole Warr of Ireland have contributed a Record to the Building But they having passed over their time bury their Talent And had I hereupon desisted I might happily have consulted more my own Quietness nothing of this nature being ever exposed without Censure or Misapprehension sufficient to deterr me but so Hippolitus his scattered Pieces may be collected I shall hope some more fortunate Genius may hereafter infuse a life worthy their Merits and Vertue Where the Chronicles and private Records failed me the Irish Statutes in part supplied the Defect yet so as they onely named such as have been Governours under which Parliaments were holden never reciting those to whom at other times the Imperial Ensigns were committed nor do they record the Date of their Inauguration or Removal of those they mention Yet the Irish Statutes as to many circumstances afford much light and I have not omitted their Testimony Records of Parliament being the best History and though some of them are exoluted in respect of the time for which they were calculated yet
Temerity to enforce them No sooner was Ireland subjugated to the Imperial Crown of England by a Colony of Welch under the conduct of Fitz-Stephen with Maurice Fitz-Gerard Maurice de Prendergast principally commanded by Strongbow Earl of Pembroke permitted by King Henry the second then in Aquitain to adventure their fortunes but they succeeding King Henry the Second the third Year after the Invasion viz. Anno 1172. armed with Pope Adrians and Alexanders Bulls lands on St. Lukeâ— Eve at Croch near Waterford marching by easie steps to Dublin oppiduâ— super Crates so obtains a Kingdom though it hath since appeared that the Popes donation and the Irish submissions were but weak and fickle assurances to establish his Dominions Where having took the fealty oâ— the Subject Kings of the Country and Clergy who bear no little sway in most mutations he there evidenced the greatness of his mind in several Entertainments and gratious condescentions and having setled the Peace of the Kingdom and the Order of the Church according to England in a Synod at Cassel he on Easter-day following leaves Ireland under a Constituted Government which to this day continues in such an esteem as no Vice-Roy in Christendom Naples not excepted ever arrived at so signal a Grandeur little of the Power committed to the Governours being abated of their Sovereigns unless in the conferring of some Offices which if they be not at their bestowing are frequently consented to on their commending nay some of the Governours as the Earl of Essex and others had it in their Commissions to pardon even Treason it self That at this day we may look on the Governours of Ireland as armed with as ample Power as any Subject is capable of Parliaments being held under their Precedency with Statutes Ordinances and Acts passed Coram Justitiario Deputato or Locum tenente such or such an one as they were entituled by the King whom Camden in his Annals 1565. towards the end says until the time of Ed. 3. they were called Justices of Ireland and their Lieutenant Deputies though by his good leave I find they were sometimes called Custodes othertimes Generales Hiberniae Procuratores though when the King would seem to honour any with the greatest Titles he stiles them Lieutenants who have generally power to depute their Deputy Venia a Rege prius impetrata and yet then he that is so deputed is stiled the Kings Deputy as in the Irish Statutes the 28 of H. 8. Coram dilecto fideli suo Domino Leonardo Gray milite Domino GRAY DEPUTATO IPSIUS DOMINI REGIS ac praecharissimi dilectissimi consanguinei sui Henrici Ducis Richmond Somerset de prosapia sua orti Locum tenentis suae terrae Dominii sui Hiberniae And in elder Ages we do find that the same Condescension was also indulged Justiciario Regis as Prynn in his History of Edw. 1. where writing to the Bishop of Waterford he directs his Letters to him vel ejus Locum tenenti as also fol. 382. and many other places but whether the one or the other their power was for the most part of like authority and say others Synonima Magna certe nominum varietas sed quae olim aliquando cum nonnullis aliis ex Authorum praevaricatione in eundem competebant Magistratum ut in his sparsâ—n vocibus depreâ—enderis Before whom all Ensigns of Honour as the Sword Mace c. are carried the service at the Table being sometimes on the Knee they have power also of Knighthood and the very Liturgy is not without a particular Collect answerable to their Titles for their Government and safety their Council is the Privy Council made up of some Bishops more Lords the principal Judges the Presidents of Connaught and Munster the Master of the Rolls the Vice-Treasurer Master of the Ordnance the Secretary of State and others as the King is pleased to summon them to the Board In emergencies or cases of more difficult nature Dr. Heylyn in his Cosmography writes they proceeded sometimes in an Arbitrary way without formalities of Law which hath been much decried by the Parliament begun at Dublin 1639. and complained of as a grievance in as much as an honourable person an eminent Instrument of State writing an History of the beginnings of the late Rebellion in Ireland worthy to be had in every mans eye there takes occasion to tell with what lenity the present Governours addressed themselves to the abrogating of exorbitances of Paper Petitions or Bills in civil Causes exhibited at the Council Board or before any other by their Authority sufficient to evidence its dislike And by the 13. Article of the Peace agreed on at the Castle of Kilkenny the 17 of January 1648. it was concluded that the Council Table should contain it self within its proper bounds c. and not intermeddle with common business that is within the cognizance of the ordinary Courts so sensible have all Times been of what might intrench on the known Laws and Priviledges But leaving this the Authority of the Governours without assuming Irregularities is great and that they may be known we shall here intrust their memory to Posterity The Chief Governours of Ireland under the Soveraignty of the Kings of England since the Conquest thereof by Henry the Second A. D. MCLXXII to the Year MDCLXXIV KIng Henry the Second having in his own Person setled Affairs in Ireland constituted at his departure thence for England 1172. Hugh Lacy Lord Justice who Dignitate omnes Regni Proceres potestate omnes superabat Magistratus A person endued with great vertue and prudence He continued in the Government till that 1173. Richard de Clare Earl of Pembroke and Strigil sirnamed Strongbow was sent over Lord Justice He died 1176. and lies buried in Christ Church Dublin where he hath a Monument for his Son cut off by the middle and himself with this Epitaph Nate ingrate mihi pugnanti terga dedisti Non mihised genti sed regno quoque terga dedisti He founded the Priory of Kilmainam about the Year 1174. whose endowing King Henry the Second confirmed upon whose death 1177. Reymund le Grose Governour of the Earls Family having married Basil the Earls sister was chosen Lord Justice by the consent of the surviving Council who on notice of the Kings pleasure surrenders 1177. To Audelmâ—r â—r Aldelm tanquam Senescallo a Reâ—e in Regnum transmisso the Kings â—ewer Taster or Dapifer Procuratori â—oyning with him John Curcy Roâ—ert Fitz Stephen Miles de Cogan â—s Counsellors not Commissioners â—s is evident by Audelms Charter â—edeemed from the Rubbish Henricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Regibus Comitibus Baronibus omnibus fidelibus suis Hiberniae salutem Sciatis me Dei gratia sanum esse incolumem negotia mea bene honorifice procedere Ego vero quam cito potero vacabo
magnis meis negotiis Hiberniae nunc autem ad vos mitto Willielmum filium Audelm Dapiferum meum cui commisi negotia mea tractanda agenda mei loco 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
Rex omnibus ad quos c. salutem Sciatis quod concessimus venerabili Patri S. Waterfordensi Episcopo Justiciario nostro Hibern 500 l. singulis annis a die Dominica proxima ante Festum Apostolorum Philippi Jacobi Anno regni nostri 13. quamdiu fuerit Justiciarius noster ibidem ad Scaccarium nostrum Dublin percipiendas unam videlicet medietatem ad Scaccarium nostrum S. Michaelis aliam medietatem ad Scaccarium nostrum Paschae pro expensis suis in officio praedicto ita tamen quod si turbatio quod absit in praedicta terra emerserit per quod Castra nostra munire circa defensionem terrae nostrae propriae ibidem sumptus opponere necessario oportebit tunc volumus quod aliquis Baro vel Clericus de quo fiducia habeatur per Thesaurarium Barones nostros de eodem Scaccario deputetur ad pecuniam nostram in eodem Scaccario recipiendam in munitione defensione hujusmodi ponendam expendendam per visum testimonium praedicti Justiciarii prode Consilio praedictorum Thesaurarii Baronum ad opus nostrum melius securius fuerit faciendum in cujus c. Teste Rege apud Wolvemere August 6. 1288. John de Saunford Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice aâ— tempus Vir fuit writes Ware cum doctus tum insigni prudentia He died in England Octob. 2. 1294. on his return from an Embassie to the Emperour and was buried in S. Patricks Church Dublin February 20. following But Prynn affirms that obiit in redeundo a Rege Arregoniae cui pro negotiis Regis Angliae missus fuerat 1290. William Vescy Grandson of Eustach Brother of Sir War in de Vescy Lord of Knapton in Yorkshire Lord Justice In his time the King directs his Letters to the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland to grant him a Dism of their Spiritualities to defray his debts in redeeming his Nephew Charles but they unanimously returned this answer Quod concessioni petitionis praefatae minime supercederunt I find besides particular Writs directed to our Lord â—ustice Vescy but because they are â—ut businesses of form I shall pass â—hem over He returned into England a great difference being betwixt him and the Earl of Kildare 1294. William de la Hay was constituted Governour who was the â—ustos officii Capitalis Justiciarii Hiâ—erniae Consiliarius Regius as Veâ—cies Lieutenant during whose Government or Vescies the King directs â—he ensuing Writ For Thomas de S. Leodegario illustri natus familia â—ed moribus illustrior Bishop of Meath â—o be admitted of his Privy Council Rex omnibus singulis de consilio suo Hibernia existentibus salutem De prudentia et circumspectione venerabilis Patris Tho. Midensis Episc quem charum habemus commendatum specialem gerentes fiduciam quod praesentia ipsius in consiliis dandis in tractatu habendo de negotiis nâ—stris in Hibernia expediendis plurimum nobis et vobis posset esse profutura et quod fideliter commodum nostrum pro viribus suis procurabiâ— et honorem Volumus quod idem Episcopus de caetero nostris consiliis intersit una vobiscum quoties de agendis nostris ibidem tractatus habetur et ideo vobis mandamus quod praedictum Episcopum ad nostrum consilium admittatis et ipsum tanquam unum de nostris Consiliariis de caetero habeatis Teste Rege apud Berwick super Tweed Octob. 22. c. 1294. William Dodingzele or Dodinsel alias Oddingeseles Lord Justice to whom the King directs a Writ for the restitution of Temporalities c. Rex dilecto et fideli suo Willielmo de Oddingeseles vel ejus Locum tenenti salutem Teste Rege apud Aberconewey Mart. 30. Obiit April 3. 1295. 1295. Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice â—ord Justice He died 1298. having resigned 1295. To John Wogan who was made Lord Justice October 18 to whom the King sends his Royal â—ssent to elect and receive Fealty of an Abbot de Weyna so as not to prejudice his Prerogative for the future Rex Justiciario suo Hiberniae vel ejus Locum tenenti salutem c. Volumus etiam et vobis damus potestatem quod si contingat electionem hujusmodi perloci Diocesanum Canoniâ—â— confirmari et vobis per literas ejusdem Diocesani inde constiterit tum accepta ab eodem electo fidelitate iâ— casu isto nobis debita temporalia ejusdem Abbatiae eidem electo prout moris est liberetis vice nostra c. Teste Rege apud Plympton April 25. Many other Writs there were directed to him which not being to our intention we pass over though such as are pleased to read them may turn over Prynns History of Edw 1. He quitting the Place The same Year probably William de Ross Prior of Kilmainam was instituted his Lieutenant 1302. John Wogan the second time was made Lord Justice during whose Government the King issued out Letters to the Prelates and Clergy of Ireland for a Subsidy pro salvatione Coronae nostrae regiae communique utilitate Cleri et populi regni â—t terrarum nostro Dominio subjectaâ—um c. Assigning Richard de Burg Earl of Vlster John Wogan Justice and Thomas Cantock Chancellor c â—o enquire and ask the same Teste Rege apud Blidam Januar. 17. The success of which we find covered in great silence Sub EDWARDO II. The said John Wogan continued Justice til in August 1308. The Lord William Bourk was made Lord Justice or Custos or Warden of Ireland from whom proceeded the Baron of Castle Conel and Letrim besides others of that Family since eminently serviceable in the Wars of Ireland Eodem Anno Pierce de Gaveston being banished out of England was made Lord Lieutenant that his Exile might be the more sufferable to whom the King assigned the Commodities Royal of that Realm He returned into England in June 1309. and afterwards was beheaded by the Nobles at Scarborough The same year Sir John Wogan was made Lord Justice again 1312. Sir Edmund le Butler who was made Deputy to Sir John Wogan He died 1321. So also did Sir John Wogan 1314. Sir Theobald Lord de Verdon was made Lord Justice who in die Sancti Sylvestri venit in Hiberniam of whose name Camd. in his History of Ireland writes that John Lord Verdon was Constable of Ireland Prynn in his History of Edw. 1. mentions one Theobald de Verdon Constable of Ireland who constituted the Bishop of Bath and Wells then Chancellour to present to all his Churches in England during his absence in Ireland An Office of late years I do not find bestowed on any formerly of ample Jurisdiction in all concerns of Arms both as to what had been done abroad and at home with whom often the Marshal as being of Affinity in Power was joined Of which you may see more in Stanlies Case in the year 1557. 1314. Sir Edmund
Vlster July 13. Loâ—â— Justice obiit on Palmsunday April 19. 1346. at Kilmainam The Nobility who were wont to suffer â—â— controllment speak ill of him â—â— of a rigorous and cruel man Hâ— was a singular good Justicer anâ— one that if he had not died â—â— soon was the likeliest person â—â— that Age to have reduced the dâ—generate English Colonies to the natural obedience to the Crown of England 1346. Sir Roger Darcy whether â—â— Nocton in Lincolnshire or of â—â—ick in Essex was made Lord Justice ad tempus de assensu ordinaâ—â—e Regalium aliorum in Hiberâ—â— and was sworn April 10. the â—â—y following Vffords death 1346. Sir John Morris came Lord Justice May 25. He summoned a Parliament at Dublin to which the â—arl of Desmond refused to come â—â—senting some priviledges newly â—â—ken away formerly granted to â—â—m and his Ancestors raising thereâ—â—on such a dissention between the English of Blood and the English of â—â—rth as he and the Earl of Kildare â—ith the Citizens and Burgesses of â—â—e principal Towns summoned a â—ouncil at Kilkenny in opposition â—o the Parliament but effected nothing more then some Articles against Maurice the Justice which vanished He was put out by the King and Sir Walter Birmingham was insttuted Lord Justice and came into Ireland in June and was sworn Lord Justice the 19. of the same Moneth who going for England 1348. Made John Archer Priâ—â— of Kilmainam his Deputy Justice 1348. Sir Walter Birmingham returns Justice as before to whoâ— the King gave the Barony of Kenâ—â— in Ossory which belonged to Eustaâ—â— le Poer lately attainted and hanged Obiit Birmingham quondam Optimâ—â— Justiciarius Hiberniae in Vigilia Margaritae Virginis 1350. in Angliâ—â— Camden writes that he of the Nobâ—â— and Martial Family of the Birminghams alias Bremichams took hâ—â— Original from the Town so named iâ— Warwickshire 1349. Dominus de Carew Milâ—â— Baro Lord Justice probably of Anthony in Devonshire though others think of Clopton whence the â—â—rews Barons of Clopton in Warwick shire 1349. Sir Thomas Rokeby Lord Justice of an ancient Family in â—ork shire sworn Decemb. 20. who quitting it 1351. He appointed for a time Maurice de Rupeforti alias Rochfort Bishop of Limerick his Lieutenant Justice who died June 9. some write April 15. 1353. Doctus fuit â—ir bonae Vitae Conversationis honestae Afterwards Rokesby returned Lord Justice and resigned July 20. 1355. To Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Desmond He died in Dublin Castle die Conversionis St. Pauli following 1356. Sir Thomas Rokesby was again Lord Justice He died the same year in the Castle of Kilka Hâ— was an excellent Governour hâ— held a Parliament at Kilkenny acting therein many Laws for reducing the English Colonies to their Obedience It is recorded of him that he would eat in Wooden dishes but pay for his meat silver and gold 1357. Sir Almarick de Sancta Amando of which name and for ought I can yet read of whose Family the Barons de Sancto Amandâ— of Widehay in Berkshire are probably descended Lord Justice he returned into England anno 1358 or 1359. when 1359. James Butler Earl of Ormond son of Edmund Earl of Carrick was made Lord Justice He was created Earl of Ormond anno 2 Ed 3. and by some stiled Earl of Tiperary Quem Edw. 3. eo honoris evixit cujus majores olim honorarii erant Hiberniae Pincernae unde illis hoc nomen Butler impositum He married the daughter of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford whom he had by a daughter of King Edw. 1. whereupon his son James was ever stiled The Noble Earl 1360. The Earl of Ormond going into England Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Kildare was made Lord Justice ut sequitur Omnibus ad quos hae Literae provenerint salutem Sciatis quod commissimus dilecto fideli nostro Mauritio Comiti Kildare Officium Justiciarii nostri terrae nostrae Hiberniae terram nostram Hiberniam cum Castris et omnibus pertinentiis suis custodiendam quamdiu nobis placuerit Recipiendo ad Scaccarium nostrum Dubliniae per annum quamdiu in Officio illo sic steterit quingentas libras pro quibus Officium illud et terram custodiet et erit vicessimus de hominibus ad arma cum toâ— equis coopertis continue durante commissione nostra supradicta in cujus rei testimonium c. Dat. per manus dilecti nostrâ— in Christo Fratris Thomae de Burgey Prioris Hospitalis Sti. Johannis Hierusalem in Hibernia Cancellariâ— nostri Hiberniae apud Dubliniam Martii 30. 35 Ed. 3â— The Earl of Kildare upon the return of the Earl of Ormond Lord Justice surrenders to him And 1361. Lionel Duke of Clarence sirnamed Antwerp the place of his birth third son of Edw. 3. Earl of Vlster and Lord of Connaght in right of his Wife Elizabeth daughter and heir of William de Burgo came Lord Lieutenant into Ireland in octav Nativitatis Mariae with about 1500 men by the Pole accompanied with persons of great quality whose pay for himself and them Davies in his Discourse of Ireland particularly expresses too circumstantial for us to insist on His principal service was manifested in the well governing of his Army and in holding that famous Parliament at Kilkenny wherein the extortion of the Souldier and the degenerate manner of the English were by strict Laws reformed He died October 17. 1368. not at Venice but at Langavil in Italy soon after he had married Violenta the Duke of Millains daughter where they feasted him so as shortly after he died and was buried at Clare in Suffolk 1364. Lionel Duke of Clarence went into England April 22. and left James Earl of Ormond his Deputy Justice of Ireland and Decemb. 8. returned Lord Lieutenant 1365. The Duke of Clarence going into England Sir Thomas Dalâ— was left Governour and Justice oâ— Ireland 1367. Gerald Fitz Maurice Earâ— of Desmond was made Lord Justice 1369. Sir William de Winsor came into Ireland July 12. Lord Lieutenant who taking Ship for England March 21. 1371. The 22 of March Maurice Fitz Thomas Earl of Kildare was sworn Custos Hiberniae 1372. Sir Robert de Ashton oâ— Ashton under Line in the County oâ— Lancaster was made Lord Justice a person of great account in this Kings reign as being Constable oâ— Dover Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports Admiral of the Fleet from Thames mouth Westward Lord Treasurer of England Annis 50 51 Edw. 3. and as a Record testifies Constituitur Justiciarius Hiâ—erniae quamdiu c. Teste Reg. apud Westm ' April 28. part 1. pat anno 43 Edw. 3. M. 15. He is buried in the Church in Dover Castle with this Inscription Hic jacet Robertus Ashton Miles quondam Constabularius Castri Dovoriae Custos 5 Portuum Qui obiit nono die Jan. Anno Domini 1384. Cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen In the 44. of this Kings Reign saith
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
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
time to be printed sic ex umbra in solem eduxit And besides many other Monuments yet surviving his equal and just Government we must not let pass the Great Expence and Care which he bestowed upon the Castle of Dublin at first built Anno 1213. by John Comin Archbishop of Dublin a learned facetious and solid Person afterwards beautified and enlarged by Sir Henry Sidney in memory of whom Stanihurst that Venerable Historian hath left these to Posterity Gesta libri referunt multorum clara virorum Laudis in chartis stigmata fixa manent Verum Sidnaei laudes haec saxa loquuntur Nec jacet in Solis gloria tanta libris Si libri pereant homines remanere valebunt Si pereant homines ligna manere queant Ligna si pereant non ergo saxa peribunt Saxa si pereant tempore tempus erit Si pereat tempus minimè consumitur aevum Quod cum principio sed sine fine manet Dum libri florent homines dum vivere possunt Dum quoque cum lignis saxa manere valent Dum remanet tempus dum denique remanet aevum Laus tua Sidnaei digna perire nequit 1578. Sir William Drury born at Bausted in Suffolk of a Worshipful Family late Governour of Berwick a man of great experience and integrity who Septemb. 14. was sworn Lord Justice in Christ Church Dublin He advanced afterwards against Desmond but at Waterford 1579. he died A man of approved worth having been trained up from his Youth in the exercise of War in France Scotland and Ireland After whose decease 1579. Sir Will. Pelham of Laughton in Sussex was made Lord Justice the 11 of October during whose short Government he constrained the Baron of Lixnaw to yield and besieged Carrigfoil in Kerry kept by Jules an Italian and some Spaniards entering at length by force the Castle atchieving besides many other things to his honour He was afterwards General of the English Horse in the Low-Countries under whom besides his own Country-men there were Scots and Irish and that the manner of their fighting may be clear I shall not think to impose much on the Reader what incomparable Strada hath registred in this point Anno 1586. Erant hâ— Angli plerique Scoti quibus se addiderant ductore Hiberniae Prorege Pelham Hiberni 1400 è sylvestri omnes genere atque ferino medio tantum corpore subter umbilicum velati caetera nudi grallis seu pertiris quarum usus intrajiciendis amnibus alte impositi longe aliis superstabant arcubus sagittis Minaces 1580. Arthur Lord Gray Baron of Wilton Knight of the Garter arrived August 12. at Houth and took the Oath of Lord Deputy in St. Patricks Church September 14. till then William Pelham Lord Justice being not come up out of Munster to Dublin to surrender the Sword to his Successor Through the whole course of his Actions he manifested himself a famous Warriour In the Winter this year about 700 Italians and Spaniards landed through the favour of the Season at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland unresisted commanded by San-Joseph an Italian authorized by the Pope and the King of Spain to propagate the Roman Religion where they erected a Fort at Smerwick naming it the Fort DEL-OR but were soon even in four days forced to cry for mercy through the vigilance and conduct of the Deputy who put the Strangers to the Sword the Irish he hanged Commanders of each side excepted for that there were noâ— in the English Army enough to keep every man a Prisoner and that the Deputy expected instantly to be assailed by the Rebels and that there were no Barques ready to Ship them immediately for Sea In this doing as Henry 5. was forced to after he would have saved the Bourbon Battalion at Agincourt for fear lesâ— the King of Scicils appearing with new strength even more then the Conquerors had to guard their Prisoners he should have been surprized without remedy Which extremity the Deputy was sorry to use nor did his excuse easily please the Queen the Enemy having yielded on mercy He died 1593 in much honour and repute 1582. Adam Loftus Lord Archbishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor â—nd Sir Henry Wallop alias Well-hop Treasurer of the Army September 1. Lords Justices during whose Government Gerald Fitz Gerald the â—â— of that Family Earl of Desmond â—ho had raised frequent Rebellions â—fter two years sculking in obscure â—laces was by a Common Souldier â—â—rprized and his head sent into England where it was hung on a â—ole on London Bridge Sir Henry â—allop died in Dublin and was buried in St. Patricks Church in an â—bscure place under the Galleries upon the late removing of which on a plate of Brass was this Inscription found Near unto this place lieth that worthy Knight Sir HENRY WALLOP of Farly Wallop in the County of Southampton in the Realm of England who faithfully served Queen ELIZABETH in this Kingdom as Vice Treasurer and Treasurer â—â— War by the space of 18 years and moneths and was Lord Justice with in this Realm jointly with thâ— Lord Chancellor of this Realm almost by the space of two years in thâ— years of our Lord God 1582 1583 1584. in which time the Wars â—â— Desmond were ended and his heaâ—â— sent into England besides many other weighty causes committed to hiâ— charge during his said service Hâ— departed this life the 14 day of April 1599. He was Son and Heir â—â— Sir Oliv. Wallop Brother and Heiâ— of Sir John Wallop Knight of thâ— most Honourable Order of Garter and Lieutenant of the Castle and County Gujienes in France Nephew and Heir of Sir Robert Wallop Knight 1584. Sir John Perrot Lord Deputy arrived at Dalkie June 9. and â—ook his Oath in St. Patricks Church June 21. He held a Parliament at Dublin April 26. in the 27. of Eliz. He advanced the Reformation in establishing the great Compositiâ—â—n of Connaght in reducing Vlsterâ—nto â—nto 7 Shires viz. Ardmagh Monaâ—an Tyrone Colerain Devegal Ferâ—annagh and Cavan And by vesting in the Crown the Lands of Desmond and his Adherents in Munâ—â—er which he that hath writ of his life thus comprehends Pacificavit Connaciam Relaxavit Mediam Subjugavit Vltoniam Fregit Lageniam Ligavit Mononiam Extirpavit Scotos Refraenavit Anglos Et his omnibus peraeque Vectigal acquisivit Reginae And after his Service in Ireland he was made a Privie Counsellor in England yet being it seems of somewhat too Resentive a nature was said to speak something dishonourable of the Queen and thereupon was tried and by a Jury of 12 men pronounced guilty of Treason yet being sick died in the Tower of London Septemb. 1592. when the Queens anger being qualified there was great hopes of his pardon though his Adversaries were of the subtilest as well as the most honourable He left the Character of a good Governour yet it is somewhat sharply imputed to him and his Successor Sir
William Fitz Williams that they suffered the Irish to be trained up in the knowledge of Arms few before their attaining that Science being much more able to subdue thousands of the Irish than afterwards thrice the number of so many English were able to encounter 1588. Sir Willam Fitz Williams June 30. Lord Deputy was sworn 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
Library bestowed on the University as the other was by the late Army Quos Deputatus docuit saith Caesar Williamson primum Armorum usum deinde Librorum and much more very elegantly he speaks in that Oration concluding with Philadelphus's Library in Alexandria to which Numero Libâ—orum cedimus virtute superamus Since Sir Jerome Alexander second Justice in the Common-Pleas in Ireland by his last Testament hath bestowed his Library of Law Books and others upon the Colledge with 100 l. for fitting a place for his Library Also he bequeathed 500 l. in Money to be laid out in an additional Building to the same Colledge to be called Alexanders Buildings He also gave 24 l. real Estate per annum thus to be disposed of viz. 7 l. per annum to the Library Keeper 20 s. yearly for a Sermon on Christmass day to be preached in the Colledge in memory of Gods mercy in sending his Son then to save Sinners and the remainder to be disposed of monethly to such poor persons as the Provost and Seniour Fellows shall think fit The residue of his Estate he gave unto his Daughter Elizabeth Alexander provided she married no Irish man or any related to that Interest if she did or died without Issue the whole Estate he setled on the Colledge of Dublin that at this day many things conspire to advance that Foundation Semper Pax tua moenia Colat semper in Aedibus Tuis Copia Dextra Larga munera fundat Dulcis Collegii Domus Te Pax incola sospitet Leges Numinis omnia Pervadant Loca Jernes Vt Ros tenella gemmulis argenteiâ— Pingit Syonis gramina Sic gratiarum gemmulis Coelestibus Pingas Jernes Pectora But to return to Sir William Fitz Williams Deputy in whose time this happy Work was effected in memory of whom his Arms on the Gate are left to posterity He descended from the Fitz Williams of Sprotsburg Knights an ancient Family in Yorkshire who in his own person had been long experienc'd in the Wars he was of an high and elated spirit in as much as Walter Earl of Essex 1573. desiring to go into Vlster against the Rebels was by this Governour much opposed lest the splendor of so great a man should eclipse his Honour But the Queen constant to her own Election would by no means gratifie Fitz-Williams in diverting the Earls Voyage yet ordered he should take the Commission of his Government from the Deputy which to testifie the eminency of his Power he granted by which he was Governour of Vlster but after such Attendance as the reflection of it hath made some Remarks very observable in our Deputies Government At length the Earl discontented with those perfidious passages which he found encouraged against him in Ireland retired into England where Leicester the better to overthrow him with Honour got him sent back with the vain Title of Earl Marshal of Ireland where pining away with Grief and Dysentery some write Poison he died at Dublin and was buried at Caermarden in Wales where he was born A most excellent man saith Camd. in whom sweetness of manners contended with his Nobleness of Birth This Dysentery or Flux so fatal to this worthy Person is commonly termed the Country Disease and well it may for it reigns no where so Epidemically as in Ireland tainting Strangers as well as Natives But whether it proceeds from the peculiar Disposition of the Air Errour in Diet the laxity and waterishness of the Meat or some Occult cause no venomous Creature living there to suck that which may be thought in other Countries well distributed amongst reptitious Animals I shall not determine though each of these circumstances may well conduce to its strength and vigour Certain it is that Regular Diet preserves most from the violence and many from the Infection of this Disease yet as that which is thought very soveraign besides those particular applications due to several symptomes arising thence viz. Gripings Tenesmus's c. which have their particular Cures obvious to every knowing Physician I must say that the stronger Cordial Liquors viz. Brandy Vsquebah Treacle and Mithridate Waters are very proper or the Electuaries themselves and the like quorum particulae summe activae dum vasorum splanchnicorum oscula facilè subierint humores exundaturos repellerent Judicially observed by Dr. Willis in his Pharmaceutice Rationalis for that besides their Energie to make the Bloud more lively they may also strengthen it to a Diaphoretick motion whereby what is offensive to the Bloud as ichorous and acid humours often irritating such extitial expulsions may thence be thrown off into the habit of the Body so by a Diaphoresis happily evert the Humour Of late in extremity great use hath been made of Swines dung drank in a convenient vehicle Nor is it a Medicine merely Emperical it having from the nature of the Creature to eject it always moist an Anodine quality highly conducing to dulcorate the Humour apt to ferment with so much virulency not to enlarge on other qualities wherewith it may be thought to be indued At his departure 1594. Sir William Russel Youngest Son of Francis Earl of Bedford August 11. was made Lord Deputy to whom Tir-Oen submitted himself but as all submissions of the Irish generally proved prejudicial to the â—â—â—te it being observed by Caesar Williamson in the Epistle to his Oration on the Kings Coronation day that ex omnibus gentibus vix ullam â—â—perias cui peccare flere magis naâ—â—rale est He soon fell into Rebelâ—ion and the Deputy to strengthen his ability in the management of the War besought the Queen to assist him with some able Souldiers upon which Sir John Norris excellently skilled in Martial Discipline contrary to the Deputies expectation was sent over 1595. who much wished for Baskervile Tir-Oen upon Norris's arrival fell to his old Artifice of Complying but was detected and proclaimed Traitor under the name of Hugh O-Neal Son of Matthew Fathereugh that is an Iron-Smith the base born Son of Con-O-Neal at which time the Rebels Forces amounted to 1000 Horse and 6280 Foot in Vlster and 2300 in Connaght all at Tir-Oens beck whereas before 80â— Foot and 300 Horse were esteemed on our side an invincible Army such mischief arose by teaching them the use of Arms. Norris with what he brought over and those he took out of Dublin and other places had fully as potent an Army yet did little against Tir-Oen more then reduced him to a submission One Article of Norris's Commission being to have the whole charge of the War and Treat with Tir-Oen as he pleased which kindled ill Fires with the Deputy that another should be superinducted to so great a Charge who leaving Norris to Vlster took care of the Affairs of the other Provinces and happily managed them whilest no good effect came of the Truce with Tir-Oen Which in the end so much redounded to Norris's discontent that Tir-Oen by his dissembling had nocked
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
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
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
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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.
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