some others attainted for the Insolencies he had done during his Deputyship Which Act was repealed in the 11 year of Queen Eliz.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
my Lord Coke in the 46. writes Rushw 1371 2. Sir Richard Pembridge alias Pembrugh a Baron was appointed Deputy of Ireland but he refused to go whereupon his Offices Fees and Lands which he held of the King for life being his Servant as Warden of the Cinque Ports c. were all seized on pro servitio impendendo yet he was noâ— upon that resolution committed tâ— Prison for that he being unwilling to go the Imployment was adjudged an Exile and no man by the Common Law is perdere patriam but by Authority of Parliament or in case of Abjuration foâ— Felony 1374. Sir William de Windsor arrived at Waterford Lord Lieutenant April 18. and took his Oath for thâ— execution of his Place at Kilkenny May 4. following undertaking thâ— Custody of Ireland for 11213l 6s 8a but did no wonders He descendeâ— of Sir James de Windsor Lord oâ— Stanwel in Middlesex as I understand from the present Lord Windsor 1376. James Butler Earl of Ormond succeeded in the Government Sub RICHARDO II. James Butler Earl of Ormond continued Lord Governour till that 1379. John de Bromwich was made Lord Justice to whom succeeded Edmund Mortimer Lord Lieutenant He died at Cork 1381. on St Stephens day in the Abbey of Dominicans and was buried at Wigmore 1381. John Colton Dean of S. Patricks by Dublin Lord Chancellor of Ireland afterwards Archbishop of Ardmagh was made Lord Justice He took his Oath at Cork in the Covent of the Preaching Friers Decemb. 27. He died the 5. of the Calends of May 1404. and was buried in Droghedagh in Saint Peters Church where sometime before his death he renounced his Prelacy 1383. Philip de Courtney Lord Lieutenant and then 1385. Robert Vere the ninth Earl of Oxford a great Favourite of the Kings was made Lord Lieutenant having been created Marquess of Dublin and Duke of Ireland the 10 of Richard 2. in which year the King furnished him with a great sum of Money that he might go into Ireland to get Dominium quod sibi Rex donaverat So Walsingham Sed novus iste insolitus umbratilis honor cito evanuit Brook in his Catalogue of Nobility saith more to whom I refer you He died in Lovania 1392. in great anguish of mind and penury leaving saith Camd. nothing but to his Tomb Titles and to the World matter of Talk He was buried at Colne in Essex in great Funeral State the King a Mourner After all his preparations and full Charter even to pass all things with his own Teste He as some others bore only the Title of Lieutenant never going into Ireland but deputed 1385. Sir John Stanley his Lieutenant 1387. Alexander de Balscot alias Petit Bishop of Meath who had been Treasurer and Chancellor of Ireland Lord Justice He died at Ardbracan a Village in Meath the 10 of November 1400. and was buried at Trim in St. Maries Monastery 1389. Sir John Stanley returning into Ireland took his Oath of Lord Justice Octob. 25. the Earl of Oxford nomine being Lord Lieutenant 1392. James Earl of Ormond Lord Justice during whose Government the Earl of Oxford under whom he was Justice died as we have said in Lovania yet he continued his Government his Patent being from the King not determining with the Earl of Oxfords death 1394. Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester who afterwards was treacherously strangled going with an Army for Ireland cujus Insulae judum Rex creaverat eum Ducem was suddenly recalled and the same year King Richard 2. having been slighted by the Princes of Germany to whom by his Ambassadors he addressed himself to have been made Emperour arrived at Waterford October 2. with an Army of 4000 men at Arms and 30000 Archers the better to convince them of his Manhood But returned at Shrovetide being cheated by a feigned submission of the Irish And at his return he left Roger Mortimer Earl of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Trim Clare and Connaght Lord Lieutenant He was afterwards slain by O. Brien c. at Kenlis in Ossory July 20. 1398. on whose death 1398. Roger Gray was chosen Lord Justice in his stead The same year Thomas Holland Duke of Surrey Earl of Kent and Lord Wake half Brother to King R. 2. came to Dublin Lord Lieutenant October 7. He was in 1400. beheaded for conspiring to set up King Richard 2. after King Henry 4. had been established 1399. King Richard the second time came into Ireland to revenge Mortimers death and arrived at Waterford June 1. upon whose arrival all things succeeded prosperously for the Irish being divided into many Factions and they not being united the whole was sooner overcome But in the height of these proceedings Tidings came of Henry Duke of Lancasters preparations and proceedings in England Upon which the King quieted all things at a great uncertainty in Ireland and having there imprisoned in Trim Castle the sons of the Duke of Glocester and Lancaster he arrived in three nights at Milford-haven in Wales and thence marched forwards to his Ruine yielding himself up at Flint At his disserting of Ireland we find not who was left Governour But the time not being long betwixt Duke Henries being setled in the Throne and King Richard 2. coming out of Ireland we may probably conjecture who commanded the Army had also the Government of the Realm Sub HENRICO IV. 1399. Sir John Stanley was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Decemb. 10. Whilest he thus possessed the Government I find in Ware De Praes Hib. a Writ from H. 4. anno 1400. directed to Sir Thomas de Burgo Knight Justiciario suo in partibus Conaciae ordering him to restore the Temporalities to Thomas Bishop Alladensis And here that it might not be supposed that this Sir Thomas entituled Justice had thereby any other power then a Justiceship of Peace or at most as we now call it the Presidentship of Connaght I could not but take notice hereof not having met with the like president the usual Writs for the restoring of Temporalities being to the chief Governour only as Justiciario Regis of which in Prynns History of King John H. 3. Ed. 1. are many Presidents 1401. In May Sir John Stanley goes for England and leaves Sir William Stanley of Holton in Werral in Cheshire in his place 1401. August 23. Stephen Scroop of which Family there was the Lord Scroop of Bolton Castle in Richmondshire arrived in Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster the Kings Son He came into Ireland November 13. the same year who going for England about Novemb. 11. 1403. Left Stephen Scroop his Deputy and he going for England the first day of Lent the Noblemen of Ireland chose James Earl of Ormond Lord Justice who died at Gauran or Raligauran 1405. September 6. to whom succeeded 1405. Gerald Earl of Kildare 1406. After Michaelmass Stephen Scroop returned into Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster Lord Lieutenant He died at Tristle-Dermot
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
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
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
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