some others attainted for the Insolencies he had done during his Deputyship Which Act was repealed in the 11 year of Queen Eliz.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
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
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
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
the Judicious may as the Lord Bolton truly observes Historically discern both the State of the Church and Common-wealth therein In as much as few Presidents of a well Modelled and excellent Government can be found more rational and advantagious to the Natives or less partial allowing the soverainty of England heretofore somewhat jealous of a Conquered People than those Laws are in their Constitution and Sanctity whereby the English as well as the Irish the Lord as the Kern is amesnable to the Law and may be punished for any offence whatsoever by the ordinary course of Common Justice All that I aim at herein is to make good the Title which in respect of the Governours who bear the Image of their Master and every true English mans Interest in the Conquest deserves not less Registring than the Chancellors Bishops Judges Sheriffs and other Officers of England of which there are particular Catalogues generally well accepted Some I confess as Geraldus Cambrensis Hoved. Mat. Par. Walsingham Holinshead Hanmer Campion and others have as their matter lay made an Essay at this Work So Reverend Camden crediting the Lord William Howard of Nayworths MS. too easily hath attempted the same in his Annals of Ireland yet so scatteringly and confused as if it were no great concern whether it were reduced ad Vmbilicum However I must own these in many things though a direct series of the Governours was never in a Body traced to the Present till now Nor did those who aimed at this Work ere touch on the Families from whence they came or excepting a few take notice of their Decease In which circumstances I have been a little curious though the length of time since the Conquest the unacquaintedness with some Families lost in their Original or confused in their Branches and the backwardness of others as if there were an obligation in it to inform one hath made me less certain than otherwise I would have been though generally most of these pass not without some Remark which I rather offer than impose And here I cannot well pass by this Epithite Chief which some accustomarily annex to the Governours of Ireland if Justices or Justice as if it were an honourable or necessary distinguishment of them from others usually so called whereas Chief is properly applied to the Chief Justice of the Kings Bench the Common Pleas or to the Chief Baron of the Exchequer others of the same Ranke being in competition with their Power but not to these they being Justices or Justice not onely in the Concreet but Abstract So Philip Basset was said to be Justitia Angliae In whom the Soveraign Power for the time is lodged without need of additional Epithites to amplifie or discriminate their Title In pursuance of which all Letters or Writs are directed to them from the King Justiciariis nostris vel Justiciario suo Hiberniae And in that Act the 33 of Hen. VIII which Authorizes the State of Ireland at the Avoidance or Death of the Kings Governour there to chuse an other in his room it is Enacted that they shall elect a Justice but speaks nothing that he should be stiled Chief Justice the superlativeness of his Power being in the Title Justice The vicissitude of Governours hath been observed by some to be exceeding prejudicial to the Publick private Respects often introducing notable change in the State according to their Interests who governed not the Publicks Diversi Imperatoribus mores Diversa fuêre studia Sometimes to the Degenerating of the Old English into the Irish Customs through their negligence and indulgence Othertimes to the alienating of the Irish by their severity from the benefit of a well tempered and orderly Government both equally destructive to the Princes service And yet too long a Residence in so eminent a Place may over-heat a great spirit if not bounded with excellent Principles Whence the Romans those great Masters of Government rarely admitted their Vicegerents to brood on a Province that their continuance there might not create Self-Interest The longest time any continued in this Government how honourable soever was never made up with happiness suitable to the anxiety of their Mind and Body Sir Henry Sidney who left as clear a Fame as any man that enjoyed the place parted with it with the words of the Psalmist When Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Jacob from a People of a strange language Judah was his Sanctuary and Israel his Dominion intimating how little satisfaction could be took in so slippery a Place amongst such a People whose Language he knew not and such variety of Interests though the most who have miscarried there have fallen through other mens Interests rather than their own failing What touches on the Person or Government of any is not writ as a History of their Times this Work was no such attempt onely as a brief and honourable mention of such as deserve the fairest Character What is more being rather to difference this from a meer Catalogue than to engage any in a History As to the late Insurrection in Ireland touching which in the first Sessions of Parliament after it brake forth there was hot disputes whether it should be termed a Rebellion or qualified more mildly such Catilines were within the House I have revived nothing in Reproach no I wish the Inhumanity of that Age may be forgot as well as pardoned though such as have had a deliverance thence and have the least sense of what the Protestants and British suffered in that sad and miserable time cannot stifle their silence without Passion since some bold Pens have avowed that there were not above xvij killed in the beginning of that horrid Massacre whereas such as will read Sir John Temples History of the Beginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion in Ireland Printed MDCXLVI a Book writ without Passion on unquestionable Proofs by an honourable Person no ways interessed further than Truth and Conscience engaged him may there discover the Motion Cruelties and Surprizals of that unhappy Insurrection dislodging in few Weeks one hundred and forty thousand souls which I glance at onely Historically that the Serenity of the Present Times might be illustrated by the Ruggedness of those To which I should add something of the Cessation scarce by any save his Excellency inviolably observed but I am obliged to contract At first I intended not to have exceeded a Catalogue but matter flowing in my Omer hath filled an Ephah Yet I have been abridged too of what I thought the Age might have born however I do not much regret these Parings it being safer Vt veritas quamquam perutilis desiderabilis aliquamdiu suppressa lateat quam in lucem cum majorum offensâ praeproperè pariter Periculosè prorumpat all as this writ without Periods or Cadences that Truth not Rhetorick might be most prevalent In pursuit of which that Time might pass over with some cheerfulness I have with
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
died 1559. Thomas Earl of Sussex Kt. of the Garter arrived at Bullock August 27. Lord Lieutenant and was sworn in Christ Church Dublin August 30. having in charge strictly to look to the Irish who being a superstitious Nation may easily be seduced to Rebellion through the practices of the French then at difference with England under praetext of Religion before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin Jan. 12. 2. Eliz. wherein Acts of great consequences were past as the restoring to the Crown the ancient Jurisdiction of the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual and abolishing all foreign Power repugnant to the same also for the Uniformity of the Common Prayer for Consecrating of Bishops and the Queens Title to the Imperial Crown of Ireland with many others After which he went for England and 1559. Sir William Fitz Williams Febr. 15. was sworn in Christ Church Dublin Lord Justice during whose Government viz. anno 1560. Q. Elizabeth amongst the most commendable Actions of her Government reduced Coin to its full value much debased through her Fathers excessive expence and stamped for Ireland Coin called Sterling of which the shilling in Ireland passed for 12 d. and in England 9 d. Yet though affairs were carried thus honourably to her advantage in the Year 1601. the Lord Buckhurst very skilful in Money matters got her to mingle Brass with the Money that she sent into Ireland by reason that the War in Ireland stood her Majesty yearly in 160000l sterl which the Souldiers suffered without mutiny having a true Reverence for that Lady though not without loss and in effect not much to her service the Reputation of a Prince being in nothing preserved more entire than in the just value of their Coin Hence it was that when the Earl of Leicester Anno 1585. was sent into Holland one of this excellent Princesses charges to him was to know by what Art they enhanced or put down the value of their Money in which Art they excelled all others lest the Souldier should receive that at a higher rate than they could put it off for And to this effect Sir George Carew in his Letter to the Council of England mentioned in Pacata Hibernia writes that it was impossible to prevent a confusion in the State if the People might not be put in some certain hope that upon the end of the War the now Standard should be abolished or eased 1561. Thomas Earl of Sussex Lord Lieutenant arrived at Dublin and was sworn in Christ Church Dublin June 25. 1561. Sir William Fitz Williams Lord Justice was sworn in Christ Church Jan. 22. 1562. Thomas Earl of Sussex July 24. Lord Lieutenant who amongst other things did excellent Service in reducing the Irish Countries into Shires and placing therein Sheriffs and other Ministers of the Law as Annaly in Leinster he made a Shire calling it the County of Longford and the Province of Connaght he divided into 6 Counties viz. Clare which contains all Thoomond Gallaway Sligo Mayo Roscommon and Leitrim He died at his house at Bermondsey in Southwark June 9. 1583 and was honourably buried at New-Hall in Essex July 9. following At his departure from Ireland having setled things in excellent order 1565. Sir Nicholas Arnold of the County of Gloucester Knight May 25. was made Lord Justice to whom was assigned only a Garrison of 1596 Souldiers with which he kept peace but gained nothing Being recalled into England surrenders his Government 1565. To Sir Henry Sidney who in the time of Queen Mary had been Judge and Treasurer of Ireland now President of Wales Jan. 20. Lord Deputy before whom a Parliament was held at Dublin Jan. 17. in the 11 of Eliz. many things being acted therein greatly to the advantage of the State and a Subsidy granted considering the infinite masses of Treasure able to purchase a Kingdom that her most noble Progenitors the famous Princes of England had exhausted for the Governments Defence and Preservation of them and her Majesties Realm of Ireland largely expressed in the Act. In which Parliament also which had several Prorogations Shane O-Neal was attainted and the name extinguished In which Act also the Kings ancient Titles to Ireland are recited Thus having setled Affairs he took Ship towards England at Houth Octob. 9. having with good success discomfited Shane O-Neal who after his return from England where the Queen 1563. had graciously received him into favour he most treacherously went into Rebellion and affected the Title of King of Vlster In the year of this Governours admittance he institutes Wareham St. Leger first President of Mounster with an Assessor two Lawyers and a Clerk the same Government he also constituted in Connaght 1567. Dr. Weston Lord Chancellor and Sir Will. Fitz-Williams Treasurer at War Octob. 14. Lord Justices Weston was thought a prudent and upright man for whom I find this Epitaph in St. Patricks Church Dublin on a Monument very stately erected principally in memory of the Relations of Richard Earl of Cork upon the uppermost seat of which â—s Dr. Westons Effigies with this Inscription Here lieth interred the Body of that Reverend and Honourable Gentleman Robert Weston Esq Doctor of the Civil and Canon Laws Grandfather to the Lady Katherine Countess of Cork â—â—ing sometimes one â—f the Lord Justices â—â— Ireland and for â—â—x years Lord Chancellour of the Realm A small Coat of ARMS betwixt Who was so Learned Judicious and Vpright in the Court of Judicature all the time of that imployment He never made Order or Decree that was questioned or reversed He changed this mortal life for an eternal life May 20. 1573. whos 's honourable memory no time shall extinguish 1568. Sir Henry Sidney Octob. 20 Lord Deputy He took Ship for England from the Key at Dublin March 25. 1571. When Sir William Fitz Williams the April ensuing was sworâ— Lord Justice in St. Patricks Church Dublin and Jan. 13. eodem anno the said Sir William Fitz Williams was made Lord Deputy 1575. Sir Henry Sidney Septemb 18. returned into Ireland Lord Deputy where having pacified several Rebellions and that not with so much Rigor as excellent Conduct having at several times been 1â— years Justice and Deputy of Ireland so as that Kingdom is much indebted to him for his Wisdom and Valour He Septemb. 12. 1578. took Boat aâ— the Wood Key in Dublin for England he died at Worcester May 5. 1586. and was buried amongst his Ancestors at Penshurst of whom Dr. Powel in his Epistle to the Reader in his History of Wales writes that his Disposition was rather to seek after the Antiquities and the Weal publick of those Countries He governed then to obtain Lands and Revenues within the same for I know not one foot of Land that he had either in Wales or Ireland cujus potentiam nemo sentit nisi aut Levatione periculi aut accessione Dignitatis justly applicable to him Vel. Pater f. 109. He caused the Irish Statutes to his
the 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
against the English as they forthwith Ordered 20000 l. for the present supply as also 6000 Foot and 2000 Horse to be raised with all convenient speed Voting other things necessary thereunto passing an Act afterwards for Subscriptions which were very free and liberal besides a general Collection through all his Majesties Dominion of England and Wales towards the necessities of the poor distressed Christians and Protestants barbarously suffering in Ireland Which later Act arose to a very considerable sum so much were the People generally affected with the afflictions of their Brethren and for the most part the Contribution was circumspectly and well disposed of though I am not ignorant that some laid it out in vanity when afterwards their necessities wished a supply for food That hence such was the success that waited on the War prosecuted by the English that till the Exigencies of the Time brought on a Cessation they never received the Defeat near Julians Town excepted hapning not without much ignorance any Scorn or Defeats and what was very remarkable without any assistance either from the meer Irish or English-Irish such a Vnity was in the Conspirators the Irish Catholicks that the Insurrection diffusing it self over the whole Kingdom setled into and became a formed and almost a National Rebellion of the Irish Papists against his late Royal Majesty of blessed Memory as more at large appears in an Act entituled An Act for the better Execution of his Majesties gracious Declaration for the settlement of his Kingdom of Ireland fol. 1. As also in an Act for the Anniversary Thanksgiving for the Deliverance October 23. shewing the Conspiracy so generally inhumane barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of in any Age or Kingdom c. Nihil illâ caede per paludes per plateas per viam Regiam perque Sylvas cruentius nihil insultatione barbarorum intolerantius praecipuè tamen in Causarum Patronos to use Floras's expression in his Chapter De Bello adversus gentes exteras to which I need add no more those Acts being of Authority to continue and out-face such as would lay a finer Varnish on so horrid a Design So as these Governours were encompassed with a thousand difficulties maugre the Imputation of very unjust Designs some would charge them with and Money coming in very slow all People were encouraged by Orders from the Council Board Dated at the Castle of Dublin one on the 5 the later on the 14 of January 1642. to bring in their Plate to be coined which many did some who in respect of their Imployment had least reason to do it whilest others secured theirs At first the Stamp was in this Form meerly with the value of the Silver upon it Afterwards by the Kings Approbation all kinds of pieces from 1 d. to 5 s. were in this manner stamped And now some exceptions being taken against Sir William Parsons which in the Scene of Affairs was no difficult thing to do he was removed yet without any other disrespect or reflections that now being free he retired with much ease to his own Privacies with which he was much satisfied till Dublin being on all sides but the Sea obstructed he went for England where not finding his expectations answered he grew less composed and died at Westminster MDCXLIX and was buried the II of March in St. Margerets Church near the Abbey A Gentleman of long and happy experience one of a considerable Allie in Ireland having many Children fortunately bestowed on thriving Families in which himself was an excellent Example a knowing Judge and a Civil Magistrate 1643. Sir John Borlase Knight Master of the Ordnance and Sir Henry Tichborn Governour of Tredath who deserves a noble Memory for his Service there were May 1. sworn Lords Justices at the Council Board who upon the Consummation of the Cessation wholely concluded by the Marquess of Ormond and the settlement of the Army resigned Nor indeed did they it without much Repose great difficulties arising upon the Cessation not possible for them to satisfie the Exchequer being quite exhausted and the Money agreed to be brought in by the Cessation being very negligently paid besides the Cessation was not by all the British and Protestant Forces received with equal compliance through which complaints daily multiplied Monro in the North grew so much incensed at the Cessation that in his Letters to the Lords Justices dated September 29. 1643. after that he had acknowledged the States Command to obey it he writ to the Lords Justices and Council That that kind of usage and contempt of making a Cessation without security for their Pay c. would constrain good servants though his Majesties Loyal Subjects to think upon some course which might be satisfactory to them being driven almost to despair and threatned to be persecuted by the Roman Catholick Subjects as they were termed Upon which the Confederate Council at Kilkenny Octob. 15. following writ to the Lords Justices and Council at Dublin to join with them the Power of all his Majesties good Subjects within this Kingdom to secure the Cessation inviolable and that whilest their Succours were in preparation their Proceedings might no ways be thought to violate the Cessation The Consequence of which may hereafter be enlarged on Sir John Borlase truly sensible of the times died in great St. Bartholomews London March 15. 1647. Anno Aetatis suae 72. and lies there buried in the East end of the North side of the Chancel near the Communion Table for whom I find Edward Bisse Esquire now Sir Edward Clarentieux in his Notes on Sir Henry Spelmans Aspilogia hath left this Character writing after that he had taken notice of his descent from Borlase in Cornwal that Cum ab Imperatoriis muneribus quibus cum in Hollandia tum in Germania Dania defunctus est requievisset postmodum cum provinciae socio Guilielmo Parsono Equite Aurato vices Proregis in Hibernia amoto Straffordiae Comite obivit sub titulo Hiberniae Justiciarii majori virtutis famâ quà m sibi suis consulturus de re familiari amplianda ut qui tam Divitiarum Contemptor quam fortitudinis verae Pietatis Cultor Isque pari famae integritate ad obitum usque summum praefecturam aeneorum tormentorum in Hibernia sustinuit Per Maternam Ishamiorum in Northamptonia originem sanguine annexus erat vetustissimae nobilissimae familiae Comitum Oxoniensium quos Heroicarum virtutum sanguinis juxta Cognatione contingebat Sir Henry Tichburn died at Beauly his House near Drogheda Anno 1667. and was buried in St. Maries Church in Drogheda that owed a Rite to his Ashes who with so much vigilance and excellent Conduct had preserved It and the Town the Defence of which was the security of Dublin for had the Irish took Drogheda or deserted it so as to have laid the like Siege to Dublin so many poor souls as escaped thither could never have been relieved nor could the State have
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
for which and his integrity he bears the Papal Frown having manifested only that the Vicar of the Church hath no Soveraignty over Soveraign Princes in their own Dominions in Civil and Temporal Affairs A Tenent so necessary that the contrary in History is marked with a black Coal Nor can it be otherwise no Pope willingly allowing Subjects any other Obedience to their Prince than what is in subordination to their See upon which the greatest dissentions in the World have ensued so that indeed to talk of Obedience in Civil and Temporal Affairs only is in truth nothing the Ecclesiastick Authority wiping off at pleasure the other Cobweb pretended Subjection The 26 of October following his Graces arrival at Kilkenny the Parliament which had been long put off by many necessary Prorogations fell into consideration of the Explanatory Bill of Setlement which took up much time as it had long before exercised his Graces Solicitations Interest and Studies in England At length it passed though not without some doubts by the Commons in Parliament which his Grace with the advice of the Council the 15 of December 1665. having satisfied he past into an Act which I am the willinger to mention that what Niceties soever one may raise thence the Faith of this Illustrious person given in its defence may bear up its honour and validity though some thought notwithstanding the utmost extent of the Investing Clause the whole was short of what might be expected for Money so long subscribed the charge the Souldiers and Adventurers had been at for surveying maintaining and defending their Lots the passing of Patents and the great Rents payable thence which considering the State of Affairs could hardly be avoided As it may well be concluded by this that after five years pains taken by the King by his Councils and by his two Houses of Parliament the State was got no farther than into the Prospect of a Settlement All which and more you will find in his Graces Speech to both Houses of Parliament at his giving the Royal Assent to the Grand Act of Settlement 1665. to which I must refer you as being the support of his Graces confidence in the Settlement and may well be others whoever is most concerned in the Adventure At his Return for England near three years after he was chosen Chancellor of Oxford on Dr. Sheldon Lord Archbishop of Canterburie's rie's Resignation August 4. 1669. as one best able to protect that place and the Theatrum Sheldonianum a Piece if not exceeding emulating the stateliest Monuments of Antiquity yet he was not sworn till August the 26. at Worcester-House London in a Convocation there held by Dr. Fell Vice Chancellor a most obliging and vigilant Governour and others of the University in their Formalities 1668. April the 25. the Earl of Ossory was again sworn Lord Deputy in the absence of the Duke his Father who embarqued the day before for England he having passed over his Government with general satisfaction resigned The right Honourable John Lord Roberts of Trâ—ro Lord Privy Seal Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Anno Domini MDCLXIX 1669. To John Lord Roberts Baron of Thruro Lord Privy Seal the 18 of September who landed at Houth and was that day honourably conducted to Dublin and sworn at the Council Board Lord Lieutenant who on the access of the Lord Barkley to the Government gave up his Power with this short Speech My Lord I will not detain you long from the great Charge now placed upon you Action is the life of all Government I have no more to say But I received this Sword in Peace and will deliver it so to your Excellency For whom I have seen this Inscription written by one who knows as well what Men are as the Language wherein he is excellent to express them in Hic jacet aut habitat Recti Pertinax Honoratissimus Dominus Dominus Johannes Barkley Baro de Stratton Locum Tenens Gubernator Generalis Hiberniae necnon Serenissimo Principi CAROLO Secundo Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regi Fidei Defensori c. tam Anglia quam Hibernia e Consiliis Secretioribus 1670. May the 21. John Lord Barkley Baron of Stratton landed privately at Rings End by Dublin scarce then expected and was that day sworn Lord Lieutenant at the Council Board Who going for England 1671. June the 12. Dr. Richard Boyle Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor and Sir Arthur Forbes Barronet a Member of the Privy Council and Captain of a Troop of Horse were sworn Lords Justices Archbishop Boyle was one of the twelve Bishops consecrated in St. Patricks Church in Dublin the 27. of January 1660. in that solemn Order as since the Reformation the like hath not been observed with so much Formality and State a Procession yet not so solemn as amazing To the Euge of which was that ingenious and celebrated Anthem designed entituled Quam deâ—â—o exaltavit Dominus Coronam Composed by the then Dean of S. Patricks Dr. William Fuller since Bishop of Limerick now of Lincoln and that no question might be raised as to the Legitimacy of this Ordination some who in the late Wars moved excentrical to their Functions were not admitted to lay on their hands though the eminency of their Parts and the strictness of their lives are exemplary The Justices 1671. The 23 of September delivered up their Power to John Lord Barkly Lord Lieutenant then returned out of England who with much tranquility continued his Government till that His Excellency Arthur Earl of Essex Viscount Maldon Baron Capel of Hadham Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Hertford and Wilts one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour to his most excellent Majesty King CHARLES the Second of his Kingdom of Ireland in the 24 year oâ— his Reign MDCLXXII 1672. August the 5. Arthur Lord Capel Earl of Essex Son of Arthur Lord Capel the Victim arrived at Dunlary near Dublin and that afternoon was sworn at the Council Board Lord Lieutetenant A person so acceptable to the Nation as Obedience is their Sacrifice and Honour his Rule FINIS In his Dedicatory Epistle before the Statutes of Ireland C. Vel. Patere p. 11. Veter Epist 50. Hiber Sylloge p. 118. Fol. 737. Fol. 353 Spel. Gloss fol. 336. Fol. 346. Spel. Gloss fol. 331. Alias Dominus de Chepstow Earl of Ogie in Normandy Earl of Leicester Earl Marshal of England Vicegerent of Normandy Lord Lieutenant as is said of Ireland and Prince of Leinster in the right of Eva his wife sole heir of Dermot Mac-Morogh King of Leinster Hoveden Is est inter Caesarem Populum constitutus Judex ita ut quicquid ab eo Negotiorum Imperialium justum est perinde habeatur ratum ac si ab ipso Caesare fuerit peractum L. Funestella De Magistratibus
Romanorum cap. 26. p. 70. Vide Pomp. Laetum De Magist Rom. p. 92. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 168. Hanmer p. 157. Cambd. of Irel. Giral Hib. Exp. lib. 2. cap. 18. Hoved. p. 685. Godw. of Bish P. 159. Hoved. Hollinshead Hoved. lib. â— cap. 24. Fol. 77. Stat. Irel. fol. 183. Fol. 357. Hoved. Annals Anno 1187. Hanmer Chron. p. 168. Hanmer out of the Book of Hoth p. 169. Fuller in his Worthies p. 25. P. 167. Camp fol. 73. Hanmer fol. 169 Hollinshead Hanm. fol. â—â— Mat. Par. fâ—â— 403. Fol. â—â— Fol. â—â—â— Hanm. fol. 183. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 173. Matt. Paris Ware De Antiq Hib. p. 213. Mat. Paris fol. â—30 Godw. of Bishops p. 421. Pryâ—â— Hist H. 3. fol. 38. Ware De praes Hib. fol. 107. Prynn Hist K. John fol. 10. Mat. Paris fol. 366. Anno 1230. Mat. Par. ibid. Spelm. Gloss fol. 340. Prynn Hist H. 3. fol. 80. Mat. Par. fol. 397. Hanm. fol. 198. out of Florileg and Hollinsh Matt. Par. fol. 398. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. â—33 Mat. Par. fol. 975. Prynn H. 3. fol. 107. Hollinsh fol. 37. Cambd. Brit. fol. 519. Dugd. Chronica Camd. Brit. f. 309. Vincent on Brook fol. 522. Vincent on Brook fol. 447. Holmes his Note thereon Hanm. fol. 201. Camd. Brit. fol. 583. Prynn fol. 118. Prynn Hist Edw. 1. fol. 136. Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 247. Prynn fol. 353. Ware de Praes Hibern f. 110. in his Hist of the King f. 574 Camd. Brit. fol. 723. Prynn fol. 573. Ware de Hib. p. 346. Camp fol. 79. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 34. Prynn Hist fol. 457. Prynn 23 of Edw. 1. fol. 639 From fol. 774. to fol. 888. Davies of Ireland fol. 85. Fol. 97. Fol. 366. Camd. Irel. fol. 82. P. 85 Spencer of Irel. fol. 13. Davies p. 86. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 167. De Antiq. Hib. p. 82. Ware de Antiq. Hiber lib. 15. Marleb fol. 211 Camd. Brit. fol. 364. Godw. de Praes P 541. Anno 1268. Davies p. 205. Ware de Praeâ— Hib. f. 185. Camd. Brit. fol. 283. Camd. Irel. fol. 82. Camd. Title Leinster P. 32. Dan. Hist fol. 25â— Vinc. on Brook fol. 125. Weavers Fun. Monum fol. 268. Fol. 523. Coke Instit Part 2. fol. 47. York Title March fol. 197. Coke of Ireland fol. 357. Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 36. Walsing Hypod. Neust Davies p. 42. and forwards Vincent on Brook fol. 528 Fol. 271. Sâ—â—w Camp Hist fol. 96. De Praes Hib. 12. fol. 115. Truss fol. 111. Vincent on Brook fol. 329. Stow Survey of London in 4 to p 487. Ware de Praes fol. 36. Stat. Irel. fol. 3. Camd. Brit. fol. 48â— Camd. Irel. fol. 95. Speed fol. 876. Vincent on Brook from Camd. fol. 598. Coke Jurisd of Courts fol. 124. Stows Survey of London in 4 to p. 720. Trussel fol. 151. Stat. Irel. fol. 13. Vincent on Brook fol. 593. Ware H. 7. An. 1 Ware de Praes Hib. f. 23. Stat. Irel. f. 19. Stat. Irel. f. 21. Stat. Irel. f. 29. Vincent on Brook fol. 621. Stat. Irel. f. 31. Ware de Antiq. Hib. p. 174. Camd. Irel. f. 88. Stat. Irel. f. 32. Davies p. 61. Pliny Epist p. 65. Fullers Worth Stat. Irel. f. 40. Vincent onâ— Brook f. 612. also Trussel fol. 194. Stat. Irel f. 44. Stat. Irel. f. 4â— Ware de Praes Hib. fol. 37. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 171. De Antiq. Hib. p. 164. Bakers Hist R. 3. p. 43. Ware H. 7. Ann. 1487. Ware de Praes Hib. f. 117. Stat. Irel. fol. 67. Vincent on Brook fol. 50. Ware H. 7. f. 38. Davies p. 254. Ware H. 8. f. 113 De Praes Angl. Godw. de Praes Ang. p. 191. Ware H. 8. Camd. Irel. fol. 100. Spelm. Gloss fol. 334. Fol. 99. Vincent on Brook fol. 357 Stows Survey of London in 4 to p. 487. Ware De Praes Hib. fol. 157. Cherb H. 8. fol. 208. Stat. Irel. f 7. Davies p. 238. Vincent on Brook fol. 173. Herb. of H. 8. f. 389. Ware de Pras Hib. fol. 118. Stat. Irel. f. 1â—1 Herb. fol. 469. Brents Counc of Trent f. 392 ware fol. 173. ware fol. 178. So Camp and the Writers of the last Ages Sir John Hayw. in the life of Edw. 6. p. 280. Camd. Brit. fol. 331. Ware of this Q. Stat. Irel. f. 246 Camd. Annâ—â— Eliz. 1. Pag. 223. Godw. de Praes Angl. p. 360. Camd. Eliz. p. 43. Stat. Irel. fol. 259. Fol. 297. Fol. 309. Fol. 315. Ware de Script Hib. p. 136. 1580. Camd. Eliz. in this year 1586 Lib. 8. p. 404. In 1583. Camd. Anno citato Stat. Irel. fol. 373. Davies p. 256. Caesar Williamson Panaeg in Hen. Cromwel p. 22. Vir doctrinâ multifariâ modestiâ omnibúsque virtutibus conspicuus Ware de Praes Hib. f. 111. De Praes Hib. Camd. Brit. fol. 690. Vir certè praecellens in quo morum probitas cum natalium claritate certavit quae tamen Invidiae obsistere non poterant Camd. Annal. Eliz. fol. 264. P. 122. 1597. ROBERT DEVOREUX Earl of Essex Earl Marshal of England and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Viscount Hereford Baron Ferrars of Chartley Lord Bourchier and Lovain Master of the Horse and Ordnance to Queen Elizabeth Knight of the Garter one of her Majesties Privy Council and Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Dublin XV. April MDXCVIII Camd. Eliz. Part 2. p. 210. Camd. Append to Eliz. Fowlis in his Hist of Romish Treason Vincent on Brook So Dan. in his Fun. Poâ—m on this noble E. p. 22. Davies of Irel. p. 264. Davies p. 265. Brit. p. 76. * Râ—â—usant In his Châ—â—â— fol. 439. Wâ—râ— de Praes Hib. fol. 121. Rushw Hist Collect. Fol. 55. Scrinia Sacra p. 236. In his Reign of K. Charles I. fol. 116. Ephemeris Parliamentar fol. 210. * A Title rather of honour than Profit having but 30 l. Fee from the Exchequer the Vice Treasurer or Treasurer at War having the chief emoluments of the Place though the Lord Treasurer carries the Staff and bears the dignity Printed at Dublin 1637. Anno 16 Car. Reg. Diurnal Occurrences p. 355. The Anniversary Act of Thanksgiving fol. 5. P 115. The Lord Inchequin and the Officers Letter from Cork July 17. P. 223. P. 347. Anno 1650. The Act of Settlement fol. 124. * Praeter quotidiana munia sua praestita perquam laudabiliter hisce Comitiis habuit in eorundem auspiciis orationem gravibus verbis cultam sapientissimis sententiis politam alias verò effudit Orationes Succulentas c. ut nemo fide prestantior nemo certè in officio constantior atque perseverantior c. Ejusdemque Consilio decretum est unanimi consensu suffragante omnia sua Membra coenae salutaris Dominicae fieri participantia sacra manu hujus Praesulis administrante Which I the rather observe it being for what I ever heard the first Order of that Nature the Composition of the Lords House consisting most of Papists P. 3. P. 1. Walsh Loyal Remonstrance fol. 674. The State of which business was Printed at Dublin with his Graces Speech and the House of Commons Considerations on the Bill of Settlement by John Crooke 1665. See the State of the Adventurers Case fol. 7. * At which Solemnity there was also present his Grace of canterbury the Bishops of London Worcester Oxford and Rochester the Earls of Bedford Aylsbury Dumferlin and Carlingford with innumerable other persons of Quality whom after the Convocation was ended he there entertained at a most sumptuous Banquet with a Mind more obliging * Quot haec aetas nec retrò omnia secula uno tempore loco vix unquam viderunt consecratos quae quidem Consecratio ita secundùm sacri officiiâ—a ex parte formam ritus Ecclesiae ex Canonibus requisitos erat celebrata ut Nihil pro Rei tam Sacrae Solemnitate venustate deâ—â—deraretur Dud. Loft Orat. Fun. in Episc Armac p. 26.