atque Cathedra submoveri debuisâ—â— In the beginning of the late Rebellion in Ireland he came for England confining himself to a most retired life which he finished at Derby on Whitsunday 1649. not 1648. as Sir James Ware Registers it And at his Death meritted this Epitaph engraven on his Marble in Bilthorp in Nottinghamshire GVILIELMVS CHAPPEL Natus Laxtouiae in Nottingham A. D. MDLXXXII Mansfieldiae bonis literis initiatus Collegii Christi Cantabrig per 27. annos Socius Collegii S S. Trinitatis Dublin Praepositus Ecclesiae Metropolit Cassel Decanus Corcagiensis Rossensis Episcopus c. Charismata quae siquis alius plurima atquae eximia à Domino acceperat singulari tum fide tum felicitate ad ejus Gloriam publicumque Ecclesiae commodum administravit Sapientiae Justitiae Gratiae divinae Strennuus assertor Charitate in Deum ac homines amicos atque inimicos ad Christi legem exemplum factus nobis exemplum lex Bona temporalia partim pro Christo partim Christo reliquit Mundum latere ut maximè semper voluit ita minime unquam potuit aut poterit Annum agens 67. placide spiritum suum Servatori reddidit die Pentecostes MDCXLIX atque hic juxta venerandam Parentem suam positus Dominum JESVM quo fruitur expectat Fratrem habuerat natu minorem dum in terris agebat JOHANNEM CHAPPEL Theologum pariter insignissimum ac pulpitis natum sed in Coelos praemigraverat Et conduntur illius Exuviae in Ecclesia de Mansfield Woodhouse He voluntarily resigned his Provostâ—â—ip July 20. 1640. and on the first of August following VIII Mr. Richard Washington B. D. of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford was sworn and admitted the eighth Provost who soon after the Rebellion broke forth retired into England of whom I can give no farther account IX Afterwards Dr. Teate a Native educated in the Colledge one that had been barbarously used by the Rebels was licensed to live in the Provosts Lodgings and oversee the Scholers that were left who so continued till that his Majesties providence in the darkness of those Times committed the care of the Colledge on X. Dr. Anthony Martin Bishop oâ— Meath educated in Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge of whom Eyr in an Epistle to Dr. Vsher 1607. p 27. gives a just account both as to his Philosophy and more polished Learning being then to be admitted into a Fellowship in the Colledge ut intra fines Hiberniae generosâ— juventus contineatur neque extrâ— Athenas vestras Romae aut alibi instituantur c. Is est qualis alii plâ—rique videri tantum volunt in humaniori literatura vitae integritat germanissimus certe Nathaneel sinâ— fraude He died Provost in Junâ— 1650. the Plague then raging and was buried in the Chappel belonging to the Colledge After his death Affairs being carried on by another current XI Mr. Samuel Winter afterwards Doctor by a fair Diploma testified by Doctor Henry Jones Vicechancellor now Bishop of Meath and others was thrust into the Government by virtue of a Thing they called an Act of Parliament anno 1649. giving the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland power thereby to place Governours Masters c. in the Colledge of Dublin How satisfactory I will not say being there are many rumors yet unreconciled But in that stream he swame till the King was most happily restored and then which we may account the IX legitimate Provost XII Dr. Thomas Seel bred in the Colledge and born in Dublin was chosen and admitted Provost A person in Morals and true Literature signally eminent Dean of St. Patricks yet living and may he long live to the benefit and honour of that Colledge for many years the University was confined to this Colledge since it hath been enlarged by some adjacent Tenements whereof of late one is converted to a Colledge of Physitians graced by his Majesty with many Priviledges and the Mass-house in Back-lane a fair Collegiate building was disposed of to the University of Dublin a Rector and Scholers being placed in it in the time of Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Corkes being Justices but whether it so continues I am not certain I hear it is alienated certain I am that the buildings of the Colledge it self are of late much enlarged and beautified On this Colledge King JAMES besides a yearly Pension of 388 l. 15 s. English money out of the Exchequer bestowed large Possessions in Vlster and by an Act for the settlement of the Kingdom of Ireland Anno 1662. â—â—is provided Fol. 71. That the provost of Trinity Colledge near Dublin shall have out of the forfeited Lands in the Archbishoprick of Dublin and his Successors for ever the sum of 300 l. per annum Nor doth the design for the propagating of the extent of this University determine here but in the same Act Fol. 122. It is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governour or Governours of this kingdom for the time being by and with the consent of the Privy Council shall have full Power and Authority to erect another Colledge to be of the University of Dublin to be called by the Name of the KING'S Colledge and out of all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditam ts vested by this Act in his Majesty which shall be setled or restored by vertue thereof to raise a yearly allowance for ever not exceeding 2000l per annum by an equal charge upon every thousand Acres or lesser Quantities proportionably and therewith to endow the said Colledge Which said Colledge so as aforesaid to be erected shall be setled regulated and governed by such Laws and Statutes Ordinances and Constitutions as his Majesty his Heirs or Successors shall under his or their Great Seal of England or Ireland declare or appoint After the inhumane and most execrable Rebellion had stopped all relief and supply from the Colledge through the seizing on their Rents in Vlster where the chiefest of their Revenues lay and that the Treasure of the Colledge all but the sacred Utensils secured by a most Reverend hand had been expended for the Societies support his Excellency the Marquess of Ormond then Lord Lieutenant truly commiserating the exigencies of the Colledge and having no way else left possibly to succour them Ordered the Remnant yet surviving being few and miserable some relief out of the Common Stores That whilest Moses fought Aarons hands might be lifted up And here I must not omit that at the same time Sir Thomas Bodley Anno 1598. bought Books for his Library at Oxford one of the greatest Treasures in the World a stupendious work Dr. Challoner and Mr. Vsher his Son-in-Law afterwards Lord Primate were then in England bestowing 1800 l. given by the Officers of the Army for their Library to the Colledge of Dublin so that though they had not the like Patrons they were Coequal Since there hath been a fair addition by the access of Bishop Vshers
other things interwoven the Original of the Vniversity of Dublin that that might not altogether sit neglected as a Sister that had no Breasts Whatever this is it was collected at Spare Hours and so it may not be thought writ in the Dark the Reader will do Justice to allow it gathered under the shadow of the Candle Farewel Clarissimo Amplissimoque Viro D. D. E. B. M. D. Hibernicarùm Antiquitatum Indagatori Acerrimo Rerumque Memorabilium Delibatori eximio VIctrices Aquilas sprevit glacialis IERNE Oceano vallata suo Tybrisque superbi Nobilis elatas despexit Lifnius undas At tandem imperio concessit laeta BRITANNO Vicinique libens subiit Moderamina Sceptri Illius auspiciis animi sedere feroces Barbaries pudefacta fugit silvisque relictis Aspera Civili mite scunt Pectora cultu O fortunatos nimium bona si sua nôrint Hybernos vanae nec Libertatis Imago Falleret incautos animosque averteret Anglis Aspice quam vigili Generosa BRITANNIA curd Te fovet affectuque pio solatur IERNE Quippe tot Heroas nostri clarissima Coeli Lumina Praestantesque Viros vestro inserit orbi Hos inter Proceres digno splendore corâ—scat Borlacaea Domus summumque implevit honorem Illustri Virtute suos excelsa natales Exaequat Proles quae dignissima Cedro Eximii gesserâ— Duces â—â—grantibus umbris Vindicat seris transmissa nepotibus ornat Quas tibi pro'tantis dignas Hibernia grates Persolvat Curis Citharam laetissima pulset Altaque saltanti resonet Praeconiâ—â—ilo R. H. To his worthy and much honoured Friend Upon his History entituled The Reduction of IRELAND To the Crown of ENGLAND A Pindarique Ode I. IReland hath long in darkness layn With Time and Ignorance o'rcast Time like a swelling Flood had past O'r all the Land and laid it waste The Deluge every day new ground did gain Scarce any Track or Footstep there Scarce could the Mountains tops appear From hence the Monster Ignorance arose Of such a dreadful shape and Birth as those Which Nilus leaves when it o'rflows Times sacred Reliques its blind malice rent And its devouring rage o'r all the Kingdom went But you Sir like the God of your own Art Have slain this Monster with an happy Dart And now with undisturbed peace you go Through all the Realm and unto others show What former Ages ne'r did know Ireland no longer barbarous seems and rude Your fluent Pen ber Glory hath renew'd What strong Disease can now your Art withstand Since you have given new Life to an expiring Land II. Her growing flame from the first Rise you trace When she did English manners first embrace And her old barbarous Customs leave When with her Chains she did good Laws receive And thus by being conquered gained more Then all her Victories did before Thus where the Roman conquer'd 't was his â—â—re To plant good Laws and Manners there That even his vanquisht Foes might Lawrels wear From hence with wondrous Art and Diligence you Guide us through unknown Paths and there display What ere 's remarkable in the way And in your Book we at one Prospect may What was performed in many Ages view As Saints above if Schoolmen tell us true In the Glass of the Trinity may see The Affairs of the whole VVorld to all Eternity III. VVhat a brave throng of Heroes you revive To whom a lasting Fame You give VVhich will the rage of Time out live They all the Irish Glory did increase Some by the Arts of VVar and some of Peace Lo how they all in triumph stand Vpholding with their Arms the sinking Land They now like Ghosts in greater forms appear Then ere they had in all their grandeur here Now in more glorious Ornaments they shine And from you higher Honours have Then ere their Princes gave The narrow Bounds which did confine Their former Glories You out-go And to posterity their buried Trophiâ—s show Though Princes claim a faint Divinity Yet all they give must mortal be But to Your Heroes You a Pyramid raise By which they get immortal praise The Base so broad the Top so high That all the Land o'rspreads this reaches to the skie IV. VVhat a large share of Fame is won By Sidney Chichester and Grandison Lo How brave Mountjoy marches through the field And makes the astonish'd Rebels yield Covering the Kingdom with his shield VVith chained Foes his Chariot's compass'd round And his exalted head with Lawrel crown'd But who can mention calmly Strafford's name The Nations Glory and Her shame Lo how he falls a sacrifice to asswage The Peoples insolent Rage His Death his Princes Tragoedy doth presage And for his Funeral fire the Kingdom 's on a flame So when great Caesar fell the People thought They could no more to slavery be brought But soon the Empire feels an heavier weight Crush'd by the proud Trium-virate Till a young Caesar sav'd the expiring State How enviously the incensed Rout Still pick the fairest Victims out Like thunder the low Cottage they pass by But strike down Towers and Trees which touch the skie And even the Lawrel can't escape if that be rais'd too high V. Long did these Noble Persons bless The stubborn Realm with peace and happiness VVhen lo new storms compass the Kingdom round And after a long calm an Earthquake rose VVhich Towns and Castles soon o'rthrows And with vast ruines covers all the ground Ireland now lost her old Renown And poisonous Creatures rag'd in every Town Vipers in dreadful crouds did stand VVhich their own Mothers Bowels tore And wallowed in her gore Our Heroes soon rescu'd the perishing Land Their Conduct Valour and success Their Enemies proud fury did repress Methinks amongst the rest I see Your Noble Father crown'd with Victory Lo how he stops the rising flood And with his mighty Arms throws back the waves His Counsel and wise care the Kingdom saves VVhich else had been o'rwhelm'd with blood VVhere e'r the loyal Troops were led VVith speed the trembling Rebel 's fled Thus were their Ancestors the old Giants chac't VVhen Jove did on their heads his thunder cast They threm their Mountains down and ran away with haste VI. VVhat dismal clouds what dreadful vengeance hover'd O'r this unhappy Realm and cover'd Her body o'r with blood and tears VVhen her Sons arm'd with swords and spears Devoutly made Religion the pretence To shake off all Obedience And even natural Innocence The Devil assumes the Prophets shape again And in a pious Garb deludes weak men His lying spirits through the Country went And with this new Divinity are sent Rebellion's but a name Fools to affright An Heretick to a Kingdom hath no right They now for God against their King must fight Thus are the People arm'd with Zeal VVhose edge is keener than the sharpest steel And first Plots and Conspiracies they contrive And then with open force for their Diana strive Their Zeal like Hell was dark and hot And did as much torment
following he was made Deputy holding a Parliament by several Prorogations at Dublin in the 7 of H. 8 And 1513. in August at Athy he feâ— sick from whence he was carried tâ— Kildare where Sept. 3. he died Qâ—licet magnis difficultatibus diu conflictatus fuerit posteriora tamen tempora magna animi tranquillitate rebâ—semper ferè ad vota fluentibus transegit He was buried in Trinity Church Dublin in a Chappel erected by himself This Gerald Earl of Kildare had been at several times 3â— years Lord Deputy of Ireland which had he not been a person oâ— sigular Parts he could never have â—een entrusted with 1513. His Son Gerald Earl of â—ildare was Senatus Regis assensu â—eing then Treasurer made Lord â—ustice A custom mos per vicissiâ—dines ab antiquo mansit in Hibernia â—â— deinceps jam mansurus est in posteâ—m Anno enim 33 H. 8. Cap. 2. Liâ—irici sancitur ut vel moriente Reâ—i Praefecto seu Deputato vel ex ocâ—sione succedente Regis illic Consiâ—â—rii Anglum elegant in Justiciarium â—â— Gubernatorem Regni Regio beneplacito duraturum that had been â—â—ng used on the death of the Principle Officer as is evident by an Act â—ntituled An Act for the Electing â—â—e Lord Justice the 23 of H. 8. therein it is enacted that none should be elected but who is an English man born within the Realm of England being no spiritual person Afterwards by a Patent from England he was made Lord Deputy Who in the 7 year of H. 8. helâ— a Parliament at Dublin begun February 25. 1515. June 13. Willam Preston Viscount Gormanston was declareâ— Lord Justice but forthwith put ouâ— and the said Earl of Kildare waâ— continued Lord Deputy who going for England 1519. Leaves Regia licentia priâ— impetrata Sir Thomas Fitz Maurice â—â— Lackagh a Knight of his own Family Lord Justice 1520. A little before Whitsontide Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey elder Son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk Admiral of England Wales and Ireland Knight of the Garter was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland magis ex odâ— Kildarium whom Wolsey hated quam ex amore erga Surreium saitâ— Polid. Virg. mentioned by Sir James Ware as in the later Ages and for mer too others have been advanced thither on the like Principles â—e held a Parliament at Dublin June 4. 1521. in the 13 of H. 8. by several Prorogations About Christmass following he went into England where having discharged the weightiest employment of his King with much integrity and honour as he had done here and in France Scotland and elsewhere being a great Master of Wisdom through long experience he fell at last into this Kings displeasure his son ingenio florenti eruditione magna traeditus being accused and afterwards beheaded for quartering King Idward the Confessors Arms with his though ex sententia faecialium for which our Lieutenant now Duke of Norfolk was also committed Prisoner to the Tower though he had saith the Lord Cherbury eis much merit of ancient Service to plead for him as any Subject of his time could pretend to He laya long time Prisoner there at last was sent against Wiat with an inconsiderable handful made up for the greatest part of the Kings Guards but not succeeding having been ever before prosperous laid it much to heart and being tossed to and fro betwixt the reciprocal Ebbs and Fluxes of Fortune died in Sept. 1554. in the 1 and 2 year of Philip and Mary at Keninghal in Norfolk When he went for England he left 1521. His intimate Friend Pierce Butler Earl of Ormond after Earl of Ossory a near Allie of Thomas who died in London and was buried in Mercers Chappel 1515. Quo subditum ditiorem si vera sint quae de eo traduntur Anglia eo tempore non vidit about Christmass was left Lord Deputy 1524. Gerald Earl of Kildare was made Lord Deputy about Midsummer who caused Maurice Cavaâ—agh Arch-deacon of Leghlyn to be hung on a Gibbet and his bowels burnt for most wickedly killing his Dioecesan Maurice Doran at Glen-Reynold a man much praised for his excellent manners and elegance in preaching Kildare being sent for into England was by Cardinal Wolseys subtle means ordered to be beheaded in the Tower and the Execution had certainly been done had not the Lieutenant of the Tower favouring Kildare acquainted the King therewith who not only respited his death but returned him with honour into Ireland checking the Cardinals presumption Upon his being sent for into England he 1526. Left in his stead Thomas Fitz Gerard of Leixlip Lord Deputy The same year he going off Richard Nugent Baron of Delvin was in his stead left Lord Deputy He was taken Prisoner by O-Connor 1538. treacherously during a Paâ—ley between them He descended of Gilbert Nugent to whom behaving himself valiantly Hugh Lacy gave Lands in Meath 1528. Pierce Butler then Earl of Ossory the Title of the Earl of Ormond which to that time he had born being descended of the Earls race was conferred on Thomas â—ullin Viscount Rochford who à Senatu Regio was chosen Lord Deputy in Delvins stead 1530. Sir William Skeffington Lord Deputy to Henry Fitz Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset base son of H. 8. L. Lieut. of Ireland 1532. Gerald Earl of Kildare Lord Deputy to the said Duke of Richmond c. L. Lieutenant and being sent for into England left in his stead his eldest son as one for whose doing he would answer ut pro cujus fidelitate ipse vellet fide jubere 1534. Thomas then scarce 21 years old his Deputy A Youth of a hot and active Brain who having intelligence though false that his Father was beheaded in England indeed he was imprisoned in the Tower immediately flung up the Insignia Regalia to Cromer Chancellor of Ireland bidding defiance to the King and his Ministers slaying in his fury Dr. John Allin Archbishop of Dublin near Clantarfe Febr. 28. in the 58 year of his age committing besides many outrages the Father Gerald E. of Kildare dies in the Tower oppressed with the news of his Sons inconsiderateness upon which 1534. Sir W. Skeffington L. Deputy arrived at Dublin Octob. 21. and died at Kilmainam about the end of Decem. and was honourably buried according to his dignity in St. Patricks Church though afterwards a Monument was erected for him at Skeffington in Leicestershire from whence he descended since demolished by the Impiety of the last Age. 1535. Leonard Lord Gray son of Thomas Gray Marquess Dorâ—t created Viscount of Garny in Ireland Jan. 1. was made Lord Deputy to Henry Duke of Richmond and Sommerset The Duke died at St. James's House beyond Charing Cross in the 16 year of his Age July 22. Anno 1535. and was buried at Thetford in Norfolk Our Deputy held a Parliament in the 28 of H. 8. by several Prorogations Wherein amongst other Acts Thomas late Earl of Kildare was with
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
been in any capacity to have subsisted till Forces arrived from England the first of which was on the last of December 1641. under the Conduct of Sir Simon Harcourt Collonel of a Regiment of Foot designed Governour of the City of Dublin that long experienced and excellent Officer worthy the memory of the best Prince and most grateful People who afterwards was by an especial Order admitted into the Privy Council But Providence whose eyes are in the Wheels so ordered the business that the whole force of the Irish united in Fury and Vilany were most miraculously there defeated and that meerly through Gods mercy by the Courage and Valour of the Besieged bearing out against the uttermost of Extremity and Treachery faithfully set down by Dean Bernard in his Treatise entituled The Siege of Drogheda the compleat freeing of which was upon the taking of Dundalk March 26. 1642. Sir Henry Tichbourn entred Drogheda Novemb. 4. 1641. so early had the Vigilance of the State through the experience of One who well knew the hazards of delay in War provided for its Defence sending thither with Sir Henry Tichbourn Governour Sir John Borlase jun. afterwards Collonel and Lieutenant of the Ordnance Lieutenant Collonel Robert Byron since Knight and late Master of the Ordnance and Lieutenant Collonel Philip Wainmond all formerly Field-Officers to join with the most excellent and truly Noble Henry Lord Viscount Moore afterwards Lieutenant General of the Horse deservedly registred amongst the first of the Nobility and Officers who was unfortunately slain at the beginning of the Treaty of the first Ceslation through the grazing of a Cannon bullet which he foresaw yet took not warning enough to evade These all served chearfully under his Command though the change of Fortune to whom none is indebted for her constancy hath sufficiently evidenced in Some how little is to be trusted to Ones Merits if Favour be not also put into the Ballance Sir Henry Tichbourn descended from an ancient Family in Hampshire from whom though he received much his Vertue added more he was early educated in the Wars some years before his death he was made Marshal of Ireland 1643. James Marquess of Ormond Jan. 21. in Christ Church Dublin was with great solemnity and general acceptance sworn L. Lieutenant a person likeliest by his Interests and Concerns to manage the troublesom Affairs then in agitation Not long after his access to the Government the Lord Inchequin instigated by the Parliament of England violated the Cessation in Munster as the Scots had done before in Vlster whilest the Irish under the Command of the Popes Nuncio and Owen Row a most inveterate Enemy to the English equally impatient of the Name as of the Government withdrew their Souldiers from their Fidelity and Colours though in the interim Preston and Taff endeavoured to make up a Peace with the King In opposition to which the Lord Inchequin and the Prime Officers in Munster had before interposed their sense That no Peace could be concluded with the Irish which would not bring unto his Majesty and the Kingdom in general a far greater prejudice than shew of a Peace there will bring them an advantage c. adding in the close that the true sense of the aspersion the Irish had cast upon his Majesty with all those other Reasons which they had set down in their Declaration made them resolve to die a thousand deaths rather than to condescend to any Peace with the perfidious Rebels vowing never to desert the Cause that was so visibly God Almighties Notwithstanding which and many more difficulties his Excellency bore up with an equal heat till that through the impetuousness of the Times the English Monarchy was discemented that the King being retired to New Castle writes from thence to the Marquess of Ormond June 11. 1646. That for many Reasons too long for a Letter we think it fit to require you to proceed no further in Treaty with the Rebels nor to engage Vs upon any Conditions with them after sight hereof c. Our Service and the good of our Protestant Subjects being herein much concerned After which the Rebels laying Siege to Dublin and the Lord Lieutenant not being able to sustain a longer Encounter the Scots too infesting at a distance surrendred Dublin June 18. 1647. and what the King held in Ireland to the Parliaments Commissioners Arthur Ansloe Esq Sir Robert King Sir Robert Meredith Collonel John More Collonel Michael Jones to whom Cheshire gives a Character that he never charged the Enemy till he came to the Head of their Troops rather then to suffer the Interest of the English and Protestants to fall into the Power of the Irish And so retires for England soon after But before that he left the Kingdom Philip Lord Lisle was by the Parliament of England 1646. Jan. 28. ordered to go into Ireland as their Lieutenant personally well furnished though otherwise with no considerable Force being made to believe that that part of the Army in England which had then nothing to do the King being brought to Holmby should be sent after him upon which Febr. 19. he set sail from Minhead and arrived at Cork the 22. yet the Army from whence he expected great matters then growing mutinous would not be commanded by the Parliament amongst which there were besides a Party in the House that did not further his Design with whom some in Ireland shewed at his landing to have an intimacy or correspondence so that though for the little time he was there it could not be said but that Affairs were prudently carried yet finding the Scene so contrary to his expectation he furnished the Marquess of of Ormond the 10 of March with 20 Barrels of Powder and the first of April 1647. he returned for England being out of hopes of more than those small Forces he carried with him 1648. The said James Marquess of Ormond furnished with new Instructions returns on the Votes of Non-Addresses anew into Ireland Lord Lieutenant but so writes Elenchus as to Act nothing in the execution of that Power as long as the Treaty with the King or any hopes of Peace lasted Which Injunction he very solemnly observed retiring himself to the Castle of Kilkenny his proper Inheritance but finding at length how the King was abused in that Treaty he then vigorously endeavoured to improve his Interests for his Majesties Service though with that Caution so vigilant an Eye such a wary Foot as if the concerns of Posterity more than his own was deposited in the weightiest Scale and thereupon being forced in the midst of great streights to conclude a Peace with the Confederate Irish he proclaimed it Jan. 17. 1648. which yet so little endeared him to them though such Terms could never have been gained but at such an extremity as August 12. 1650. the titulary Archbishops of Ireland and others of the Clergy convened at James Town left no stone unturned to have hit him if it had been
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
time to be printed sic ex umbra in solem eduxit And besides many other Monuments yet surviving his equal and just Government we must not let pass the Great Expence and Care which he bestowed upon the Castle of Dublin at first built Anno 1213. by John Comin Archbishop of Dublin a learned facetious and solid Person afterwards beautified and enlarged by Sir Henry Sidney in memory of whom Stanihurst that Venerable Historian hath left these to Posterity Gesta libri referunt multorum clara virorum Laudis in chartis stigmata fixa manent Verum Sidnaei laudes haec saxa loquuntur Nec jacet in Solis gloria tanta libris Si libri pereant homines remanere valebunt Si pereant homines ligna manere queant Ligna si pereant non ergo saxa peribunt Saxa si pereant tempore tempus erit Si pereat tempus minimè consumitur aevum Quod cum principio sed sine fine manet Dum libri florent homines dum vivere possunt Dum quoque cum lignis saxa manere valent Dum remanet tempus dum denique remanet aevum Laus tua Sidnaei digna perire nequit 1578. Sir William Drury born at Bausted in Suffolk of a Worshipful Family late Governour of Berwick a man of great experience and integrity who Septemb. 14. was sworn Lord Justice in Christ Church Dublin He advanced afterwards against Desmond but at Waterford 1579. he died A man of approved worth having been trained up from his Youth in the exercise of War in France Scotland and Ireland After whose decease 1579. Sir Will. Pelham of Laughton in Sussex was made Lord Justice the 11 of October during whose short Government he constrained the Baron of Lixnaw to yield and besieged Carrigfoil in Kerry kept by Jules an Italian and some Spaniards entering at length by force the Castle atchieving besides many other things to his honour He was afterwards General of the English Horse in the Low-Countries under whom besides his own Country-men there were Scots and Irish and that the manner of their fighting may be clear I shall not think to impose much on the Reader what incomparable Strada hath registred in this point Anno 1586. Erant hâ— Angli plerique Scoti quibus se addiderant ductore Hiberniae Prorege Pelham Hiberni 1400 è sylvestri omnes genere atque ferino medio tantum corpore subter umbilicum velati caetera nudi grallis seu pertiris quarum usus intrajiciendis amnibus alte impositi longe aliis superstabant arcubus sagittis Minaces 1580. Arthur Lord Gray Baron of Wilton Knight of the Garter arrived August 12. at Houth and took the Oath of Lord Deputy in St. Patricks Church September 14. till then William Pelham Lord Justice being not come up out of Munster to Dublin to surrender the Sword to his Successor Through the whole course of his Actions he manifested himself a famous Warriour In the Winter this year about 700 Italians and Spaniards landed through the favour of the Season at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland unresisted commanded by San-Joseph an Italian authorized by the Pope and the King of Spain to propagate the Roman Religion where they erected a Fort at Smerwick naming it the Fort DEL-OR but were soon even in four days forced to cry for mercy through the vigilance and conduct of the Deputy who put the Strangers to the Sword the Irish he hanged Commanders of each side excepted for that there were noâ— in the English Army enough to keep every man a Prisoner and that the Deputy expected instantly to be assailed by the Rebels and that there were no Barques ready to Ship them immediately for Sea In this doing as Henry 5. was forced to after he would have saved the Bourbon Battalion at Agincourt for fear lesâ— the King of Scicils appearing with new strength even more then the Conquerors had to guard their Prisoners he should have been surprized without remedy Which extremity the Deputy was sorry to use nor did his excuse easily please the Queen the Enemy having yielded on mercy He died 1593 in much honour and repute 1582. Adam Loftus Lord Archbishop of Dublin Lord Chancellor â—nd Sir Henry Wallop alias Well-hop Treasurer of the Army September 1. Lords Justices during whose Government Gerald Fitz Gerald the â—â— of that Family Earl of Desmond â—ho had raised frequent Rebellions â—fter two years sculking in obscure â—laces was by a Common Souldier â—â—rprized and his head sent into England where it was hung on a â—ole on London Bridge Sir Henry â—allop died in Dublin and was buried in St. Patricks Church in an â—bscure place under the Galleries upon the late removing of which on a plate of Brass was this Inscription found Near unto this place lieth that worthy Knight Sir HENRY WALLOP of Farly Wallop in the County of Southampton in the Realm of England who faithfully served Queen ELIZABETH in this Kingdom as Vice Treasurer and Treasurer â—â— War by the space of 18 years and moneths and was Lord Justice with in this Realm jointly with thâ— Lord Chancellor of this Realm almost by the space of two years in thâ— years of our Lord God 1582 1583 1584. in which time the Wars â—â— Desmond were ended and his heaâ—â— sent into England besides many other weighty causes committed to hiâ— charge during his said service Hâ— departed this life the 14 day of April 1599. He was Son and Heir â—â— Sir Oliv. Wallop Brother and Heiâ— of Sir John Wallop Knight of thâ— most Honourable Order of Garter and Lieutenant of the Castle and County Gujienes in France Nephew and Heir of Sir Robert Wallop Knight 1584. Sir John Perrot Lord Deputy arrived at Dalkie June 9. and â—ook his Oath in St. Patricks Church June 21. He held a Parliament at Dublin April 26. in the 27. of Eliz. He advanced the Reformation in establishing the great Compositiâ—â—n of Connaght in reducing Vlsterâ—nto â—nto 7 Shires viz. Ardmagh Monaâ—an Tyrone Colerain Devegal Ferâ—annagh and Cavan And by vesting in the Crown the Lands of Desmond and his Adherents in Munâ—â—er which he that hath writ of his life thus comprehends Pacificavit Connaciam Relaxavit Mediam Subjugavit Vltoniam Fregit Lageniam Ligavit Mononiam Extirpavit Scotos Refraenavit Anglos Et his omnibus peraeque Vectigal acquisivit Reginae And after his Service in Ireland he was made a Privie Counsellor in England yet being it seems of somewhat too Resentive a nature was said to speak something dishonourable of the Queen and thereupon was tried and by a Jury of 12 men pronounced guilty of Treason yet being sick died in the Tower of London Septemb. 1592. when the Queens anger being qualified there was great hopes of his pardon though his Adversaries were of the subtilest as well as the most honourable He left the Character of a good Governour yet it is somewhat sharply imputed to him and his Successor Sir