some others attainted for the Insolencies he had done during his Deputyship Which Act was repealed in the 11 year of Queen Eliz. the Earl of Kildare's Brothers and Sisters being thereby restored to their Blood as in King Edw. 6. his Reign Gerald Earl Thomas's Brother was restored to his ancient Inheritance and by Q. Mary May 14. 1554. to his Honour and Baron of Offaly who returning the same Year into Ireland was received with great Applause by the people though his Brother had been beheaded and 5 Uncles hanged at Tiburn Febr. 3. 1537. And it was further also enacted in this Parliament that the King his Heirs and Successors should be Supream Head of the Church of Ireland prohibiting also Appeals to Rome This Lord Gray was in the Year 1541. beheaded on Tower-hill about June 25. for having as it was conjectured joined with Cardinal Pool and others of the Kings Enemies notwithstanding his good Service against O-Donnel and O-Neal as also in France and other places the Council of Ireland with whom he often wrangled having much prejudiced him in the Kings thoughts At his going for England 1540. Sir William Brereton afterwards Marshal of Ireland Ancestor of the Breretons of Brereton in Cheshire since Baron of Laghlin in Ireland was left Justice who died the same year at Kilkenny in his journey towards Limerick and was buried in St. Canicus's Church in Kilkenny 1540. Sir Anthony St. Leger a Kentish man Vnus Nobilium Secretioris Camerae Regis July 25. Lord Deputy sworn in Trinity Church in Dublin in this form viz. YOu shall swear that you shall faithfully and truly to your power serve our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty in the Room and Authority of Lord Deputy and Chief Governour of this his Realm of Ireland you shall maintain and defend the Laws of God and the Christian Faith You shall to your power not only keep his Majesties Peace amongst his People but also maintain his Officers and Ministers in the execution and administration of Justice You shall defend his Majesties Castles Garrisons Dominions People and Subjects of this Realm and repress his Rebels and Enemies You shall not consent to the Damage and Disherizen of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors neither shall you suffer the right of the Crown to be destroyed by any way but shall let it to your power and if you cannot let the same you shall certifie his Majesty clearly and expresly thereof You shall give your true and faithful Counsel for the Kings Majesties Profit and his Highness Council you shall conceal and keep All other things for the preservation of his Majesties Realm of Ireland the Peace amongst his People the execution of his Justice according to his Majesties Laws Vsages and Customs of this his Highness Realm you shall perform and do to your power So God you help and the Contents of this Book Before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin June 13. the 33 of H. 8. in which it was enacted that the King and his Successors should be Kings of Ireland not but that before by the name of Lord of Ireland they had all Sovereign Jurisdiction and Preheminence but as a Title more repleat with Majesty ut dum colit terras ipso nomine titulo Regis Consecraretur which Title the 7 of the Ides of June 1555. Paul the 4. Bishop of Rome confirmed not being able to take away that which H. 8. had before decreed To him the Irishry and degenerate English make their several submissions by Indenture as formerly to H. 2. to King John to Edw. 1. to Richard 2. and now to Sir Anthony St. Leger in 33 of H. 8. 1543. Sir Anthony going into England leaves Febr. 10. Sir William Brabazon Lord Justice 1544. Sir Anthony St. Leger Kt. of the Garter August 11. the second time arrives at Dublin Lord Deputy who going for England 1546. Leaves Sir William Brabazon the second time Lord Justice who took his Oath in Christ Church Dublin April 1. Sub EDWARDO VI. 1547. The said Sir Anthony St. Leger continued Governour first under the title of Lord Justice the Deputy He overcame the O-Birns c. To him was sent from England Sir Edward Billingham unus è nobilibus Secretioris Camerâ— Regis titulo Capitanei Generalis Viâ— fortitudine militari scientia clarus with 600 Horse and 400 Foot whâ— so powerfully pursued the O-More and O-Connars as they submitted tâ— the Deputy for which Service he was Knighted and made Marshal oâ— Ireland 1548. Sir Edward Billingham landed at Dalkie in the Vigils oâ— Whitsontide and the second day after received the Sword in Trinity Church Dublin Brian O-Connar and Patrick O-More great Lords of â—â—ix and Offaly whom he had formerly subdued St. Leger takes with him into England to whom the King gives a yearly Pension of 100l â— piece O-More dies at London within the year the ensuing year Billingham being maligned by some â—f the Council is called into England at whose departure the Council of Ireland offered him Commendatory Letters to which he replied that Credo Resurrectionem â—â—rtuorum if my innocency cannot protect me subterfugies shall not do it my Enemies may kill me but not conquer me He died in England the year following more of grief than a disease after that he had cleared himself of the accusation and it was resolved to have sent him again Deputy into Ireland He was a fervent Protestant and an excellent Governour spending his whole allowance in Hospitality calling thâ— same his dear Masters meat none â—â— his own cost He took Ship aâ— Houth Decemb. 16. And 1549. The Chancellor and other having the Kings leave elect Sir Fâ— Brian Marshal of the Army the King Favourite Lord Justice during thâ— Kings pleasure who in Christ Church Dublin was sworn Decemb. 29. Anâ— Febr. 2. he died at Clonmel advancing against O-Carol and was buried in the Cathedral Church iâ— Waterford in great State 1549. February 2. Sir William Brabazon Vice Treasurer was made Lord Justice the third time who effectually pursued Charles Macart Cavenach who of late had flown again into Rebellion Brabazon died the 7. of the Ides of July in the Tents in Vlster and was buried in Trinity Church Dublin and his Heart carried into England 1550. Sir Anthony St. Leger about September 10. arrived at Dubâ—â—n the fourth time Lord Deputy â—â— whom Charles Mac-art Caveâ—â—ch submitted himself solemnly renouncing before him the Council â—â—d many Lords the name Macâ—urrogh On the surrender of Bulâ—in to the French they paid a considerable sum 8000 l. of which â—ame for Ireland with 400 men with a charge that the Laws of England should be there administred and the Mutinous severely suppressed and saith my Author it may seem strange that among all the horrible Hurries in England Ireland was then almost quiet which must be imputed either to the Kings withdrawing much People thence which otherwise would have disquieted affairs at home or else
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
Ireland 1640. Christopher Wansford Master of the Rolls took the Oath of Lord Deputy April 3. and died suddenly Decemb. 3. following passionately as it was thought affected with the imprisonment of the Earl of Strafford whose intimacy had been of ancient date Nor were his apprehensions the less for that not long before the Parliament sitting at Dublin some Instructions were agreed on by the House of Commons for a Committee to be sent into England which reflecting on the Earl of Strafford he caused as it was generally reported to be razed out of the Journal Book An example of which he had observed in the 19 year of King James Anno 1621. when the Protestation of the House of Commons was defaced by the Kings own hand and enjoined the Agents then appointed not to repair to the Court without the Kings License which notwithstanding they did some from one Port some from another He was buried in Christ Church Dublin A Gentleman certainly of excellent Parts a clear Orator and One regained from the Popular Partie of the House of Commons in England to serve his Prince in the Secrets of State On his death 1640. Robert Lord Dillon of Kilkenny-West and Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronnet Master of the Court of Wards Decemb. 30. were sworn Lords Justices But the Lord Dillon a person of great abilities and a shrewd reach well esteemed of by the Earl of Strafford being excepted against by some of the Irish Committee of Parliament then in England he was displaced Yet that no business for the advantage of Ireland might be delayed through the misdirections of Orders from his Majesty he was pleased by his Letters January 4. in the 16 year of his Reign directed to his Privy Council in Ireland and to Sir William Parsons and Sir John Borlase Knights then designed to be his Justices of that his Kingdom to grant amongst other things that his Subsidies there should be reduced to a lesser rate than formerly and that all Letters directed to the Lieutenant Deputy Justices Chief Governour or Governours or to any other Officers or Ministers of that Realm either concerning the Publick Affairs or private Interests of any Subject there might be entered into his Signet Office in England to the end that they may be upon occasion found to take Copies of for the Subjects better Information in such publick things as may concern them as also that all Dispatches from Ireland should safely be kept apart that like recourse may be had to them for the better satisfaction of the Subject who shall be concerned therein And whereas in the former Governours time there were endeavours to hinder some Agents of Parliament to have recourse into England his Majesty takes notice that for as much as the Committee of the Parliament of Ireland John Bellew Esquire and Oliver Cassel with others imployed thence have repaired into his Kingdom of England to represent their Grievances he hath manifested his gracious condescentions to them admitting them into his Royal Presence forbidding his Counsellors in Ireland or any other Officers or Ministers of that State to proceed any wise against them or any of them for the same and that any of his Subjects shall have Copies of Records Certificates Orders of Council publick Letters or other Entries for the Declaration of their Grievances made so open was his breast to the Complaints presented to him from the Parliament in Ireland that if there had not been a general Defection long anvilled in the minds of that People the event of so horrid a Rebellion as few Moneths after happened could not have been the Issue of such Remarkable condescentions At the Lord Dillons going off 1640. Sir William Parsons Master of the Court of Wards long experienced in the Affairs of Ireland and Sir John Borlase Knight Master of the Ordnance well known to his Majesty by several Imployments at home and abroad as Collonel in the Low-Countries and Lieutenant General under the Lord Vere one of the most expert and fortunate Captains in the World were the 10 not the 9 as some write of February sworn at the Council Board Lords Justices who jointly endeavoured to smooth the rugged Passages of those Times obtaining from his Majesty more Graces than was thought would have been indulged the Irish in as much as a most Honourable person a noble Peer in the House of Lords avouched that the Lords Justices had always chearfully received their Requests and Messages and were ready to comply with them desiring that it might be entered in their Journal to the end that the memory of so even a Government might remain to Posterity Yet such then were the contrivance of the Irish to Rebellion that though as one says the Design was many times discontinued yet it bore an ancient date and was subtlely pursued in Parliament the Session before it brake forth when they pretended by a Committee of both Houses to search his Majesties Stores as if some Plot had been framed there to destroy the Parliament the House of Parliament being then over part of the Store and on that pretence they would fain have seen all his Majesties Store of Ammunition and Arms. But the Lord Borlase Master of the Ordnance under whose charge those were boldly denied their Requests as his Majesties choicest Jewels not to be discovered without his especial Orders which they took ill and Octob. 23. 1641. the Rebellion sadly broke out in its vigour and extremity raised for the Restauration of the publick Profession of the Romish Religion the Restitution of all the Plantation Lands unto the Natives and settlement of the present Government into their hands On which pretensions it went on currantly though the night before Owen O-Canally a meer Irish man but trained up in the Protestant Religion who out of a sense of his Duty and Loyalty to his Majesty and for the preservation of his good People and as an Effect of that Religion he was trained up in had discovered it first to the Lord Parsons and then not accounting himself to be sufficiently credited to the Lord Borlase at whose House the Council such as could be raised from their Beds met and securing the Castle and City with such strength as they had the Lord Mac-Guire Collonel Hugh Oge-Mac-Maâ—one some of them afterwards hanged at Tiburn and others were convened before them who yet made so slight a business of their Plot being discovered and their persons apprehended as the Relator saw Mac-Mahon and others draw Gibbets in Chalk with men hanging on them in several places in the Lord Borlases Hall as the best death the English could expect from them In the Interim Dublin by a strange Providence was secured though afterwards infested with so many inconveniences such streights as these Justices Government was under a perpetual trouble and anxiety being at the best but uncertainly supplyed out of England though such was the Resentment that the Parliament then sitting had of Ireland and the outrages committed
been in any capacity to have subsisted till Forces arrived from England the first of which was on the last of December 1641. under the Conduct of Sir Simon Harcourt Collonel of a Regiment of Foot designed Governour of the City of Dublin that long experienced and excellent Officer worthy the memory of the best Prince and most grateful People who afterwards was by an especial Order admitted into the Privy Council But Providence whose eyes are in the Wheels so ordered the business that the whole force of the Irish united in Fury and Vilany were most miraculously there defeated and that meerly through Gods mercy by the Courage and Valour of the Besieged bearing out against the uttermost of Extremity and Treachery faithfully set down by Dean Bernard in his Treatise entituled The Siege of Drogheda the compleat freeing of which was upon the taking of Dundalk March 26. 1642. Sir Henry Tichbourn entred Drogheda Novemb. 4. 1641. so early had the Vigilance of the State through the experience of One who well knew the hazards of delay in War provided for its Defence sending thither with Sir Henry Tichbourn Governour Sir John Borlase jun. afterwards Collonel and Lieutenant of the Ordnance Lieutenant Collonel Robert Byron since Knight and late Master of the Ordnance and Lieutenant Collonel Philip Wainmond all formerly Field-Officers to join with the most excellent and truly Noble Henry Lord Viscount Moore afterwards Lieutenant General of the Horse deservedly registred amongst the first of the Nobility and Officers who was unfortunately slain at the beginning of the Treaty of the first Ceslation through the grazing of a Cannon bullet which he foresaw yet took not warning enough to evade These all served chearfully under his Command though the change of Fortune to whom none is indebted for her constancy hath sufficiently evidenced in Some how little is to be trusted to Ones Merits if Favour be not also put into the Ballance Sir Henry Tichbourn descended from an ancient Family in Hampshire from whom though he received much his Vertue added more he was early educated in the Wars some years before his death he was made Marshal of Ireland 1643. James Marquess of Ormond Jan. 21. in Christ Church Dublin was with great solemnity and general acceptance sworn L. Lieutenant a person likeliest by his Interests and Concerns to manage the troublesom Affairs then in agitation Not long after his access to the Government the Lord Inchequin instigated by the Parliament of England violated the Cessation in Munster as the Scots had done before in Vlster whilest the Irish under the Command of the Popes Nuncio and Owen Row a most inveterate Enemy to the English equally impatient of the Name as of the Government withdrew their Souldiers from their Fidelity and Colours though in the interim Preston and Taff endeavoured to make up a Peace with the King In opposition to which the Lord Inchequin and the Prime Officers in Munster had before interposed their sense That no Peace could be concluded with the Irish which would not bring unto his Majesty and the Kingdom in general a far greater prejudice than shew of a Peace there will bring them an advantage c. adding in the close that the true sense of the aspersion the Irish had cast upon his Majesty with all those other Reasons which they had set down in their Declaration made them resolve to die a thousand deaths rather than to condescend to any Peace with the perfidious Rebels vowing never to desert the Cause that was so visibly God Almighties Notwithstanding which and many more difficulties his Excellency bore up with an equal heat till that through the impetuousness of the Times the English Monarchy was discemented that the King being retired to New Castle writes from thence to the Marquess of Ormond June 11. 1646. That for many Reasons too long for a Letter we think it fit to require you to proceed no further in Treaty with the Rebels nor to engage Vs upon any Conditions with them after sight hereof c. Our Service and the good of our Protestant Subjects being herein much concerned After which the Rebels laying Siege to Dublin and the Lord Lieutenant not being able to sustain a longer Encounter the Scots too infesting at a distance surrendred Dublin June 18. 1647. and what the King held in Ireland to the Parliaments Commissioners Arthur Ansloe Esq Sir Robert King Sir Robert Meredith Collonel John More Collonel Michael Jones to whom Cheshire gives a Character that he never charged the Enemy till he came to the Head of their Troops rather then to suffer the Interest of the English and Protestants to fall into the Power of the Irish And so retires for England soon after But before that he left the Kingdom Philip Lord Lisle was by the Parliament of England 1646. Jan. 28. ordered to go into Ireland as their Lieutenant personally well furnished though otherwise with no considerable Force being made to believe that that part of the Army in England which had then nothing to do the King being brought to Holmby should be sent after him upon which Febr. 19. he set sail from Minhead and arrived at Cork the 22. yet the Army from whence he expected great matters then growing mutinous would not be commanded by the Parliament amongst which there were besides a Party in the House that did not further his Design with whom some in Ireland shewed at his landing to have an intimacy or correspondence so that though for the little time he was there it could not be said but that Affairs were prudently carried yet finding the Scene so contrary to his expectation he furnished the Marquess of of Ormond the 10 of March with 20 Barrels of Powder and the first of April 1647. he returned for England being out of hopes of more than those small Forces he carried with him 1648. The said James Marquess of Ormond furnished with new Instructions returns on the Votes of Non-Addresses anew into Ireland Lord Lieutenant but so writes Elenchus as to Act nothing in the execution of that Power as long as the Treaty with the King or any hopes of Peace lasted Which Injunction he very solemnly observed retiring himself to the Castle of Kilkenny his proper Inheritance but finding at length how the King was abused in that Treaty he then vigorously endeavoured to improve his Interests for his Majesties Service though with that Caution so vigilant an Eye such a wary Foot as if the concerns of Posterity more than his own was deposited in the weightiest Scale and thereupon being forced in the midst of great streights to conclude a Peace with the Confederate Irish he proclaimed it Jan. 17. 1648. which yet so little endeared him to them though such Terms could never have been gained but at such an extremity as August 12. 1650. the titulary Archbishops of Ireland and others of the Clergy convened at James Town left no stone unturned to have hit him if it had been
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
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
dixerem saith Camd. After whose unfortunate decease a Noble Person engaged him in his service in England and Ireland which proving a rough and unhappy Scene he retired to his private Lair till by the importunate solicitations of Doctor Vsher late Lord Primate one who well knew how to judge of the merits of others by the immensity of worth in himself prevailed with him to accept of the Provostship which he did 1609. as an easie retreat out of the Noise and Troubles of the World He lived 17 years in the Provostship and finished his days there in the 72 year of his Age and lies buried under a fair Stone in the Chappel belonging to the Colledge immediately before the Provosts Seat leaving behind him many Children One at present an eminent person in the State of Ireland who hath divers Sons some that have happily discharged lately the most active and honourable imployment in the greatest and weighty affairs of State with the neighbouring Allies though he writes of himself that at present he is wholly useless to the Publique which may be his Repose not his Shame and others that attend his Majesties Service at home with singular reputation and advantage After his death V. The fifth Provost was Mr. William Bedel bred in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge so designed May 29. 1627. on a Letter writ by Sir Henry Wotton to King Charles I. informing his Majesty that he hardly thought a fitter man for that charge could have been propounded in his whole Kingdom for singular Erudition Piety and Conformity to the Rites of the Church of England and zeal to advance the Cause of God wherein all his Travels abroad were not obscure in the time of the Venetians Excommunication no more then by his Letter of Controversie afterwards in the highest Points betwixt us and Rome with Wadsworth the Jesuite which shews him profoundly versed in the Fathers and Schoolmen Yet he was not sworn nor admitted till Aug. 16. following He was afterwards Bishop of Kilmore A person of very great worth and learning in the Latine Greek and Hebrew witness his intimacy with Padre Paulo whom he took into his very soul as well for his courage and constancy both signal in defence of the English and that interest during the late Rebellion when after he was fallen into the hands of the Irish and imprisoned at Claughouter Castle in the County of Caven near Kilmore where he died about the midst of March 1641. ob funesta ea tempora miserias quas pertulerat and according to his Opinion against burial in Churches being an admirer of Sir Henry Spelman de non temerandis Ecclesiis he was interred in the Churchyard at Kilmore There succeeded him on his Promotion to the Bishoprick of Kilmore VI. The sixth Provost Dr. Robert Vsher who was chosen in October 16. 29. and admitted Provost January 4. following on whom dying at Pantabirsley in Shropshire in Dudelstons Church Chancel there is this Epitaph Here lieth the Body of that constant and faithful Preacher of Gods Word the Right Reverend Father in God ROBERT Lord Bishop of Kildare Son of HENRY Lord Primate of all Ireland who died at Pantabirsley September 7. Anno Dom. 1642. On whose Promotion to the Bishoprick of Kildare the Provostship was void May 11. 1634. so as in the Register Book of the Colledge there was a wide Hiatus through the variety of subservient Governours till VII Master William Chappel B. D. bred up in Christ Colledge in Cambridge afterwards Dean of Cassels had the care of the Colledge committed to him by his Majesty but he was not actually sworn nor admitted till June 5. 1637. at which time new Statutes were introduced by the then Archbishop of Canterbury their Chancellor not so favourable as some thought to the Natives as the Piety of the first Founders intended them or so indulgent to the Fellows and former Visitors as at first was allowed the Provostship being made more Sovereign which some thought he made a sinister use of in as much as upon the Consequences thereon Mr. Robert Bysse an ingenious and solid Lawyer June 11. 1641. made an excellent Speech in the Upper House of Parliament at the delivery of divers Articles exhibited against him then Bishop of Cork and Ross by the Commons of the House of Parliament in Ireland to which our Provost made a Reply which some thought not satisfactory as the Scene then stood yet certainly the Exercises of the University were never stricter looked to or Discipline if it were not too Ceremonious better observed than in his time Only the Lecture which was set up for teaching Irish whether through Indulgence meerly or enjoyned by Statute I am uncertain was after his admission wholy waved to which whilest it was kept up some diligently resorted the better to improve themselves for their future Imployment in the Country that the Irish finding men speak in their own Tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might be the sooner won over to the Truth no Nation being more tenacious or better affected to their Language than themselves And this Design had a good issue in as much as some of the English preaching constantly in Irish gained first an acceptance of their Persons then of their Doctrine Truly a pious fraud For though by an Act in the 28 of H. 8. it was Ordered That all who would knowledge themselves his Highness true and faithful Subjects should speak the English Tongue A policy commendable enough yet considering how stifly the Natives were espoused to their own Speech it could not seem otherwise than Mercy to find an Expedient which might inform them of the Truth Nor indeed was it below the Majesty of an University licet rumpantur Momi to cherish such a condescention since the communicating of Knowledge is the intent of Science Our Provost was a close Ramist a notable Disputant and one who in his middle Age favoured Mr. Perkins and that side He was once riding to Cork overtook by Sir William St. Leger President of Munster who had in his company the Pseudo-Dean of Cork with whom the President would needs have had Chappel to have disputed but as he was not forward so he would not deny the entertainment which the Pseudo-Dean understanding who Chappel was refused for that the said Chappel had been accustomed to kill his Respondent which he spake on an accident long before happening at a Commencement in Cambridge solemnized in the presence of King James where Doctor Roberts of Trinity Colledge being Respondent in St. Maries this Mr. Chappel opposed him so close and subtilely that the Doctor not being able to unloose the Arguments fell into a swounding in the Pulpit so as the King to hold up the Commencement undertook to maintain the Thesis which Mr. Chappel by his Syllogisms prest so home ut REX palam gratias ageret Deo quod Opponens E I fuisset â—â—bditus non alteri alias potuisset in â—â—spicionem adduci ne perinde Throno â—â—â—
atque Cathedra submoveri debuisâ—â— In the beginning of the late Rebellion in Ireland he came for England confining himself to a most retired life which he finished at Derby on Whitsunday 1649. not 1648. as Sir James Ware Registers it And at his Death meritted this Epitaph engraven on his Marble in Bilthorp in Nottinghamshire GVILIELMVS CHAPPEL Natus Laxtouiae in Nottingham A. D. MDLXXXII Mansfieldiae bonis literis initiatus Collegii Christi Cantabrig per 27. annos Socius Collegii S S. Trinitatis Dublin Praepositus Ecclesiae Metropolit Cassel Decanus Corcagiensis Rossensis Episcopus c. Charismata quae siquis alius plurima atquae eximia à Domino acceperat singulari tum fide tum felicitate ad ejus Gloriam publicumque Ecclesiae commodum administravit Sapientiae Justitiae Gratiae divinae Strennuus assertor Charitate in Deum ac homines amicos atque inimicos ad Christi legem exemplum factus nobis exemplum lex Bona temporalia partim pro Christo partim Christo reliquit Mundum latere ut maximè semper voluit ita minime unquam potuit aut poterit Annum agens 67. placide spiritum suum Servatori reddidit die Pentecostes MDCXLIX atque hic juxta venerandam Parentem suam positus Dominum JESVM quo fruitur expectat Fratrem habuerat natu minorem dum in terris agebat JOHANNEM CHAPPEL Theologum pariter insignissimum ac pulpitis natum sed in Coelos praemigraverat Et conduntur illius Exuviae in Ecclesia de Mansfield Woodhouse He voluntarily resigned his Provostâ—â—ip July 20. 1640. and on the first of August following VIII Mr. Richard Washington B. D. of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford was sworn and admitted the eighth Provost who soon after the Rebellion broke forth retired into England of whom I can give no farther account IX Afterwards Dr. Teate a Native educated in the Colledge one that had been barbarously used by the Rebels was licensed to live in the Provosts Lodgings and oversee the Scholers that were left who so continued till that his Majesties providence in the darkness of those Times committed the care of the Colledge on X. Dr. Anthony Martin Bishop oâ— Meath educated in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge of whom Eyr in an Epistle to Dr. Vsher 1607. p 27. gives a just account both as to his Philosophy and more polished Learning being then to be admitted into a Fellowship in the Colledge ut intra fines Hiberniae generosâ— juventus contineatur neque extrâ— Athenas vestras Romae aut alibi instituantur c. Is est qualis alii plâ—rique videri tantum volunt in humaniori literatura vitae integritat germanissimus certe Nathaneel sinâ— fraude He died Provost in Junâ— 1650. the Plague then raging and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Colledge After his death Affairs being carried on by another current XI Mr. Samuel Winter afterwards Doctor by a fair Diploma testified by Doctor Henry Jones Vicechancellor now Bishop of Meath and others was thrust into the Government by virtue of a Thing they called an Act of Parliament anno 1649. giving the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland power thereby to place Governours Masters c. in the Colledge of Dublin How satisfactory I will not say being there are many rumors yet unreconciled But in that stream he swame till the King was most happily restored and then which we may account the IX legitimate Provost XII Dr. Thomas Seel bred in the Colledge and born in Dublin was chosen and admitted Provost A person in Morals and true Literature signally eminent Dean of St. Patricks yet living and may he long live to the benefit and honour of that Colledge for many years the University was confined to this Colledge since it hath been enlarged by some adjacent Tenements whereof of late one is converted to a Colledge of Physitians graced by his Majesty with many Priviledges and the Mass-house in Back-lane a fair Collegiate building was disposed of to the University of Dublin a Rector and Scholers being placed in it in the time of Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Corkes being Justices but whether it so continues I am not certain I hear it is alienated certain I am that the buildings of the Colledge it self are of late much enlarged and beautified On this Colledge King JAMES besides a yearly Pension of 388 l. 15 s. English money out of the Exchequer bestowed large Possessions in Vlster and by an Act for the settlement of the Kingdom of Ireland Anno 1662. â—â—is provided Fol. 71. That the provost of Trinity Colledge near Dublin shall have out of the forfeited Lands in the Archbishoprick of Dublin and his Successors for ever the sum of 300 l. per annum Nor doth the design for the propagating of the extent of this University determine here but in the same Act Fol. 122. It is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this kingdom for the time being by and with the consent of the Privy Council shall have full Power and Authority to erect another Colledge to be of the University of Dublin to be called by the Name of the KING'S Colledge and out of all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditam ts vested by this Act in his Majesty which shall be setled or restored by vertue thereof to raise a yearly allowance for ever not exceeding 2000l per annum by an equal charge upon every thousand Acres or lesser Quantities proportionably and therewith to endow the said Colledge Which said Colledge so as aforesaid to be erected shall be setled regulated and governed by such Laws and Statutes Ordinances and Constitutions as his Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall under his or their Great Seal of England or Ireland declare or appoint After the inhumane and most execrable Rebellion had stopped all relief and supply from the Colledge through the seizing on their Rents in Vlster where the chiefest of their Revenues lay and that the Treasure of the Colledge all but the sacred Utensils secured by a most Reverend hand had been expended for the Societies support his Excellency the Marquess of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant truly commiserating the exigencies of the Colledge and having no way else left possibly to succour them Ordered the Remnant yet surviving being few and miserable some relief out of the Common Stores That whilest Moses fought Aarons hands might be lifted up And here I must not omit that at the same time Sir Thomas Bodley Anno 1598. bought Books for his Library at Oxford one of the greatest Treasures in the World a stupendious work Dr. Challoner and Mr. Vsher his Son-in-Law afterwards Lord Primate were then in England bestowing 1800 l. given by the Officers of the Army for their Library to the Colledge of Dublin so that though they had not the like Patrons they were Coequal Since there hath been a fair addition by the access of Bishop Vshers