ILLUSTRATIONS, HISTOEICAL AND GENEALOGICAL, png James's Jrisjr %xm^ WxM f (1689). JOHN DALTON, Esq., Barrister, AUTHOR OF THE PRIZE " ESSAT ON THE ANCIENT HISTORY, ETC. OF IRELAND," "HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN,' " MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN,"' " HISTORY OF DROGHEDA," " ANNALS OF BOYLE," ETC. ETC. ETC. DUBLIN: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR FOR THE SUBSCRIBERS. 1855. BOSTON COLLEGE L1I5KA X>\5 CONTRIBUTORS TO THE INDEMNITY FUND. £ 3. d. *% r j TVT Till TfcT 1* (* T 1 1 Most Noble the Marchioness of Londonderry 5 Most Noble the Marquess of Westmeath r U u T\ • 1 j TT TIT i m 11 a 1 "\ X 1 1 * 1 Right Honourable Lord lalbot de Malahide 5 Right Honourable Lord Farnham r u T> ! _1 i. TT . 1.1 o ■ "\Tr*n* A/TO _*n T> j. Right Honourable bir VViiliam M. bomerville, Bart. 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I have been often, and by many, invited to leave in print, from my extensive manuscript collections, some records of the families indigenous to, or long natural- ized in Ireland ; their origin, actings, and 4 habitats.' Yet it was not until a crisis of natural hurricanes had felled 'the flowers of the forest,' and dismantled their once flourishing companions, of bloom and foliage, that the appeal was mournfully effective. It was not a task of labour to me ; it was willingly and zealously undertaken. I examined my relics of other days ; and one little tract, of which I had a copy, the Muster Eoll of the Army of King James the Second in Ireland, giving the names of the several Colonels and subaltern officers of the respective Regiments of Horse, Dragoons, and Infantry in his service, seemed akin to the subject I sought to effectuate. The families in commission thereupon, upwards of five hundred, were the aristocracy of their country at that X PREFACE. day ; and though all who were then able to bear arms in the Stuart cause, were decimated on the deadly fields of this campaign, very many names still survived and struggled in respectability and tenure almost to the present time. When I embraced the project, I devoted to its accomplishment such literary aid as I could draw from those manuscripts, which it has cost me nearly fifty years of labour, research, and outlay to accumu- late. They extend through upwards of two hundred volumes, and especially supply a singular mass of in- formation for illustrating the lineage, honours and achievements of families connected with Ireland by title, tenure, rank, birth, or alliance. Having here- tofore furnished some genealogical Memoirs on liberal support, I felt confident that, when I embraced a grouping so extensive as that of King James's Army List, more than the mere expenses of my outlay in printing and paper would be cheerfully volunteered for my indemnity. I gave every reasonable publicity to the project, and was gratified by the warm co- operation of the Irish press and some of the English. I also issued very generally circulars, in which were detailed the Eegiments to be treated of; Eight of Horse, Seven of Dragoons, and Fifty-six of Infantry ; on all which the Colonels, Majors, Captains and sub- PREFACE. xi alterns are named and classed. Of the family of each I proposed to give Historical and Genealogical Illus- trations ; with especial regard, in the case of Irish Septs, to their respective ancient localities ; and in that of surnames introduced from England or Scot- land, to the counties from which they migrated, and the periods of their coming over. After some notices of early chronology, I designed to shew how far each of these was affected by Cromwell's Denunciation Ordinance of 1652, and by attainders and confisca- tions, more particularly those of 1642 and 1691 ; how they were represented in Sir John Perrot's memo- rable Conciliation Parliament of 1585, in the Assem- bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646, and in King James's own Parliament of May, 1689 ; what members of those names were distinguished by Royal Thanks in the Act of Settlement ; how far they were nominated in King James's New Charters ; what claims were preferred, and with what success, against their confiscations at Chichester House in 1700; and lastly, to a reasonable extent, their subsequent honours and achievements in the exiled Brigades. This latter designed portion has however been, as I indeed an- ticipated in my Circular, considerably lessened by the recent and continuing publication of Mr. O'Callaghan, whose researches, diligence, and enthusiasm peculiarly xii PREFACE. qualified him for the task. Of this my scope of illus- trations, a Peer, of high literary attainments and of the most active and practical nationality, was pleased to write to me, "If the work is carried on according to your plan, it will prove a most valuable compila- tion, and be absolutely indispensable for the library of every Irishman." I calculated that the Illustrations should extend from six hundred to eight hundred pages ; but, as- sured as I might well feel by such a testimonial, that the sale would be very extensive (at least one thou- sand copies), I limited the price for subscribers to ten shillings ; while I sought to indemnify myself against possible loss in the outlay, and in probable though un- designed defalcation in the collecting of small sums from widely scattered and shifting subscribers (a large number in America), by requiring that an in- demnity of £200, irrespective of copies, should be secured to me by those who felt nationally or indi- vidually interested in the work. My collections for this indemnity commenced in last March, and a List for general subscribers was opened at the same time. In June the Indemnity had reached only £100, and not three hundred copies were engaged, when it was my first thought to return the money so advanced and abandon the project ; but, thinking such conduct PREFACE. xiii might be considered a breach of faith with those who had fulfilled their parts, I put the manuscript in the printer's hands, limiting the impression to five hundred copies, while the price remained unal- tered. As the work progressed through the press, I felt that I had much under-rated its extent ; my own materials for the several memoirs would have far ex- ceeded one thousand pages, yet was it not until much of the book was printed off, that at p. 353 I felt necessitated to commence the irksome labour of abridg- ing and pruning the ensuing copy. It remains, however, an overgrown volume. The payments to the Indemnity are yet but £157 lis. ; the number of scat- tered copies engaged, little more than four hundred. Such are my especial grounds of disappointment. Those to the cause I have felt more deeply. I was too well aware of that destruction of the genealogical archives of my country, which cam- paigns of slaughter, confiscation, and persecution had effected. Two great civil wars, the result of misguided loyalty and ill-requited enthusiasm, having involved and crushed, with relentless ruin, the native aristocracies of each period, all Ireland became in a manner forfeited from its old proprietors, subjected as they were to a succession of parliamentary attain- ders. The victims of this fatal policy, expatriated xiv PREFACE. from the scenes of their hereditary history, were at least eager, when they could, to carry with them its records and memorials. They snatched up from the libraries and monasteries and cabinets, the annals, the muniments, the title-deeds of the land. They carried them off as all of venerable that could then be saved from the desolation that rioted over their homes. They treasured them as the Penates of their early attachment ; and, when they looked upon the moul- dering fragments of these native documents, in the respective lands of their exile, the remembrance of their country was softened into melancholy endurance. In all my circulars and otherwise, I sedulously la- boured to discover such of these memorials as might yet scantily exist, and solicited the inspection of any ancient family manuscripts, pedigrees, diaries, or cor- respondence, notes of well accredited tradition or local memorials, that might be relevant to the times, and could be afforded or obtained. They should explain, strengthen, verify, and enrich my own notices ; iden- tify the cavaliers and their descendants whom I sought to record, and establish links of their respective kindred. I thought the opportunity I thus afforded of noting, as on record, what may otherwise be forever lost, would be zealously embraced ; yet was my appeal responded to only by the O'Donovan of Montpelier, PREFACE. XV Messrs. Hurley, Haly, O'Carroll-Dempster, Loughnan, Browne of Moyne, and O'Keeffe. I was left to the exclusive resources of my own manuscripts, and the able and fortunately numerous genealogical publica- tions of Sir Bernard Burke. If, therefore, my Illus- trations could not be rendered complete, or if, yet more, they are erroneous, blame should attach more to those who withheld information within their know- ledge, than to me who vainly sought it. I did not profess to connect pedigrees, but only to preserve scattered — undoubted links, and afford legal evi- dence of their former existence. So anxious, however, am I that these ' discerpta membra should be re- connected and faithfully restored, that, while life is spared to me, I shall gladly receive such ancient family papers and vouchers as I heretofore sought, test them by my own collections, and, embodying all with what I have been obliged to withdraw from the present work, I shall be able from the whole to digest all that is relevant, and cast away surplusage. Or, if so great a general labour is beyond attainment or due encouragement, I shall give the results of partial prompt communications, as addenda to the present volume, or more gladly assign the whole to a publisher. 1 shall only take leave to add, that all the state- ments in this volume are based upon pure authorities, xvi PREFACE. and, as far as possible, are given in their language, the native annals being chiefly adopted from the Four Masters : and I confidently rely that the several 4 Illustrations ' herein develop scenes, events, and doings of chivalrous loyalty, disinterested friendship, and devoted love, such as the history of less stirring times cannot afford. The names of the respective actors are arranged in a copious Index. JOHN D'ALTON. 48, Summer-hill, Dublin. 29th October, 1855. ILLUSTRATIONS OF KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST (1689). — ►H^w — The Civil War, that commenced in Ireland in 1689, and whose discomfited partisans, their broken fortunes and attainted families, the ensuing pages are designed to record, originated in bitter feelings, generated a century and an half previously, when the relentless arm of one, whom history has truly delineated a Eoyal Despot, sought to enforce the religion of the Befor- mation on that reluctant country. Happily, it is not necessary nor fitting here to enter into unwelcome controversy ; enough to rely upon the facts of his- tory, and confidently to assert that in Ireland, legis- lative persecution was pre-eminently directed to such an object. The declaration of the king's supremacy, the abolition of appeals to Rome, the conferring the election to ecclesiastical preferments on the Crown, (not only of bishoprics, but those of exclusively Roman Catholic endowed abbeys, priories, and colleges) ; the suppression of the principal religious establishments on delusive surrenders, the confiscation and lay ap- propriation of their revenues and possessions, created B 2 kixg james's irish army list. feelings of hostility to the English government, that the progress of time but encreased. On Queen Mary's accession, her parliament suspended the action of these penal inflictions, — Queen Elizabeth restored them with the superadded terrors of the Act of Uniformity. This autocratic effort of bigotry was, it may be said, allowed to sleep during her reign, but, in the times of her successors, it was startled into vigorous operation. The policy of James the First devised in 1613 a new and more temporal grievance for the Irish peo- ple ; — the Commission of Grace, as it was styled, which abolished the old tenures of immemorial native use, tanistry and gavelkind. The uncertain exactions, theretofore imposed upon the tenantry, were, it is true, thereby altered into certain annual rents and free holdings, a change that would at first sight ap- pear beneficial to the people ; but, when it is under- stood that these Irish tenures gave occupants only a life estate in their lands, and that, while these were suffered to exist, no benefit whatsoever could accrue to the crown on attainders ; whereas the new patents, which this commission, as on defective titles, invited the proprietors to take out, gave the fee to the king, the old being for ever surrendered, they were obvious and powerful securities, that, on any act as of constructive treason, might absorb the whole interest from the native tanists. At the same time fell upon the Irish Catholic population, what the Protestant Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, in an official return of 1612, designated, " the payment of double tithes and offer- king james's iristi army list. 3 ings, the one paid by them to us, and the other unto their own Clergy." In 1626, in the pecuniary exigencies of the ex- chequer, King Charles was induced to proffer new 4 Graces,' as a consideration for liberal advances of money from the Irish Roman Catholics. By this device it was provided, that the taking of the oath of supremacy should be dispensed with, and ecclesiastical exactions be modified ; privileges which the Deputy Lord Falk- land caused to be proclaimed over the country. His successor, the unfortunate Lord Strafford, however, having recommended their retrenchment, the King's intentions were in point of fact but little attended to ; and, while the Catholic members, who sat in the Par- liament of 1640, relying on their fulfilment, joined in voting the large supplies required, the King's letter and the order for levying these subsidies contained no recognition of the promised Graces. That Par- liament adjourned on the 7th of August, 1641 ; and it is not to be wondered, that the native Irish and the whole Catholic population were thereupon too na- tionally excited to an assertion in arms of privileges, their King had promised — had actually fiated, but which his Irish Viceroy refused to ratify. They saw that King over-ruled, they felt that their altars were denounced, their homes invaded, and their titles con- founded by alleged defects and deceitful commissions. The ensuing 21st of October witnessed the outbreak of an insurrection, that bequeathed an inheritance of jealousy and disunion to Ireland from that day. " We B 2 4 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. declare unto your Lordship," said the confederate Catholics, in an address framed on the Hill of Tara, to the Marquess of Clanricarde, " that the only scope and purpose of our taking up arms is for the honour of God, to obtain a free exercise of the ancient Catholic Soman religion, so long and so constantly adhered unto by us and our progenitors in this King- dom, whereof we are threatened to be utterly deprived, and from which nothing but death or utter extirpation shall remove us. " The attainders and confiscations, consequent upon this war, followed up as they were with peculiar hostility by the Cromwellian adven- turers, that were let in upon the island, heaped fresh heart-burnings and unceasing discontent on the Catholic party. On the final success of these invaders, a body of from 30 to 40,000 Irish, plundered of their estates, and unwilling to submit to the revolution- ary government, left their country under different leaders, and entered the service of France, Spain, Austria, and Venice ; but ever still with the object of aiding the exiled Stuarts, and promoting their re- storation to sovereignty. Their services as such were acknowledged on paper in a section of the Act of Settlement (14 & 15 Car. 2, c. 2, s. 25). Some, as " having, for reasons known unto us, in an especial manner, merited our grace and favour ;" others, as " having continued with us, or served faithfully under our ensigns beyond the seas." But their loyalty to that ungrateful and incompetent dynasty experienced a thrilling disappointment, when the restoration of KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. 5 Charles restored nothing to them ; nay, worse, when that King confirmed the grants certified for the ad- venturers and soldiers of the usurper, while even his brother, the Catholic Duke of York, the James the Second of this work, obtained recognition patents for 276,000 acres, forfeited in various parts of Ireland by the cavaliers, who, like those of the following " Army List," fought and fell ''pro aris et focis! Loyalty to such a King, the descendant of such a race, cannot therefore be deemed the exclusive or even the para- mount incentive of the resistance to King William. In 1661, the Eoman Catholic Clergy of Ireland preferred to the King their " Humble Eemonstrance, Acknowledgment, Protestation, and Petition," wherein they represented that, " being entrusted, by the indis- pensable permission of the King of Kings, with the cure of souls and the care of our flocks, in order to the administration of the sacraments ; and teaching the people that perfect obedience, which for conscience sake they are bound to pay to your Majesty, we are yet 4 laden' with calumnies, and persecuted with severity/ 7 and they strongly deprecated " those calumnies, under which our tenets in religion, and our dependence upon the Pope's authority are aspersed ; and we humbly beg your Majesty's pardon to vindicate both by the ensuing protestation, which we make in the sight of heaven and in the presence of your Majesty, sincerely and truly, without equivocation or mental reservation." The Remonstrance then proceeded to enlarge upon the unmerited injuries inflicted upon themselves and their 6 kixg james's irish army list. flocks, and prayed the royal protection,. This memo- rial was accompanied by the " Faithful and Humble Remonstrance of the Roman Catholic Nobility and Gentry of Ireland," in which they set forth " the pro- digious afflictions under which the monarchy of Great Britain had, before his Majesty's happy Restoration, groaned these twenty years ; and out of our sad thoughts, which daily bring more and more sighs from our breasts, and tears from our eyes, for the still as yet continued miseries and sufferings of the Catholic natives of this our unfortunate country, even amidst, and ever since the so much famed joys and triumphs of your Sacred Majesty's most auspicious inauguration ;" and the Petitioners, referring to and identifying themselves with the aforesaid Remonstrance of the Clergy, then proceeded to vindicate themselves, solemnly pledged their loyalty, and disclaimed any power of the Pope to loosen their allegiance, or sanc- tion their rebellion. It forms no inapt introduction to the ' Army List,' here to give the names of those laymen, who signed that protestation ; they will be found in many instances identical, or at least of kindred with those in the present record : — Luke, Earl of Fingal ; Morrough, Earl of Inchequin ; Donogh, Earl of Clancarty ; Oliver, Earl of Tyrconnel ; Theobald, Earl of Carlingford ; Edmund, Viscount Mountgar- ret ; Thomas, Viscount Dillon ; Arthur, Viscount Iveagh ; William, Viscount Clane ; Charles Viscount Muskerry ; William, Viscount TaafFe ; Oliver, Baron of Louth ; William, Baron of Castleconnell ; Colonel Charles Dillon ; Matthew Plunkett, Esq. ; king james's irlsh army list. 7 Lieut. Col. Ignatius Nugent ; Edward Plunkett, Esq. ; Nicholas Plunkett, Knight ; Matthew Plunkett of Dun- sany ; Christopher Plunkett of Dun- sany ; James Dillon, Knight ; Colonel Christopher Bryan ; Robert Talbot, Baronet ; Ulick Burke, Baronet ; Edward Fitzharris, Baronet ; Valentine Browne, Baronet ; Luke Butler, Baronet ; Henry Slingsby, Knight ; John Bellew, Knight ; Colonel William Burke ; Colonel John Fitzpatrick ; Colonel Brian Mac Mahon ; Colonel Miles Eeilly ; Colonel Gilbert Talbot ; Colonel Milo Power ; Lieut. -Col. Pierce Lacy ; Lieut. -Col. Ulick Bourke ; Lieut.-Col. Thomas Scurlog ; Jeffry Browne of Galway ; John Walsh of Ballinvoher ; Patrick Bryan ; James Fitzgerald of Laccah ; John Talbot of Malahide ; Thomas Luttrell of Luttrells- town ; John Holy wood of Art ane ; Henry, " son to Sir Phelim O'Neill ;" Dudley Bagnall of Dunleckney ; Henry Draycott of Morning- ton ; Edward Butler of Monehire ; Nicholas D'Arcy of Platten ; Patrick Sarsfield of Lucan ; John Mc Namara of Cratloe ; James Talbot of Bellaconnell ; Robert Balfe of Carrstown ; James Talbot of Templeogue ; Patrick Archer ; Luke Dowdall of Athlumney ; Philip Hore of Killsallaghan ; J ames Barnwall of Bremore ; James Allen of St. Wolstan's; Thomas Cantwell of Bally- makeidy ; John Cantwell of Cantwell's- court ; Edmund Dillon of Streams- town ; John Fleming of Stahalmock ; Peter Sherlock of Gracedieu ; Christopher Archbold of Timo- lin ; Patrick Moore of Dowanstown ; Nicholas Haly of Towrine ; Pierce Butler of Callan ; Pierce Butler of Killveagh- legher ; J ohn Segrave of Cabragh ; Richard Wadding of Kilbarry ; Thomas Browne of Clondmet- roe ; Oliver Cashel of Dundalk ; Patrick Clinton of Irishtown ; Captain Christopher Turner ; 8 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. John Bagot ; "William Grace ; John Arthur of Hogstown ; Marcus Laffan of Greystown ; Christopher Aylmer of Balrath ; James Plunket of Gibstown ; Thomas St. John of Monks- town ; William Barry Oge of Rincor- ran ; Richard Strong of Rockwell's Castle ; J ames Butler of Ballinakill ; Anthony Colclough ; Thomas Sarsfield of Sarsfields- town ; Pierce ' Nangle ' of Monanimy ; James Wolverston of Stillor- gan; Michael Bret ; Patrick Boylan of Bally-turny- mac-Oris ; James White of Chambelly ; Major Lawrence Dempsey ; Captain Richard Dempsey ; Edward Nugent of Culvin ; Patrick Porter of Kingstown ; Major Marcus Furlong. During the life time of King Charles, in 1669, eight years after the Restoration, his brother James, Duke of York, conformed to the Roman Catholic worship, being then aged 36. * In fifteen years after, he succeeded to the Throne ; and his accession was hailed by the great majority of the Irish people, very naturally, as opening a fair prospect for their tolera- tion and protection ; while he looked to their island not less sanguinely, as the garrison of his creedsmen and prop of his government. With the object of cor- rectly ascertaining their feelings towards him, he sum- moned those Irish officials, that he considered most competent to advise him, to a meeting at Chester, in 1687. On the 27th August in that year he entered this ancient city, where " he was received by the cor- poration in their robes. He was afterwards splendidly * Clarke's Memoirs of James II. vol. 1, p. 440, &c. king james's irisii army list. 9 entertained by them. He lodged at the Bishop's Palace, from whence he walked next morning (Sunday) through the City to the Castle (the Mayor bare-headed, carrying the sword before him), heard mass in the shire hall, and received the sacrament according to the Eomish ritual, in the chapel in the square tower of the Castle. On Monday he went to Holywell ; on Tuesday returned to Chester ; and the day following closeted several gentlemen, both of the City and County, in order to prevail upon them to approve of the repeal of the penal laws and Test Act ; but he met with very little encouragement in that way. On Thursday, September the first, the King left Chester, not much satisfied with the disposition of the people." * The English historian has made no men- tion of the interview His Majesty had here with his Irish officials ; but Tyrconnel, whom that King had by his earliest exercise of the prerogative created an Irish peer, was there, and in his suite were the Chief Baron, Sir Stephen Rice ; the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Thomas Nugent ; and other influential individuals of the day, who will appear in subsequent pages. These represented the state of Irish feeling to be, as they thought it, in spirit and strength enthu- siastically loyal. In the preceding year, Tyrconnel had been ap- pointed Viceroy of Ireland, from which time he had devoted his attention to enrolling an army to uphold * Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. 1, p. 211. 10 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. his Royal master's cause. The result of his exertions is preserved in a manuscript of the British Museum, (Lansdowne Collections, No. 1152, p. 229) as follows. The promotions of many, before the day of action, may be traced on the ensuing Army List : — " A LIST OF COMMISSIONS, received and delivered by Mr. Sheridan since the Earl of Tyrconnel's coming Lord Deputy of Ireland. February 12th, 168f, for the Lord Sunderland till June 21st, 1687. Anthony Hamilton, Colonel ; Sir Neale O'Neille, Captain ; Nicholas Purcell, Captain ; William Nugent, Captain ; William Hungate, Major ; Theo. Russell, Colonel ; Theo. Russell, Lieut.-Col.; Walter Nugent, Captain ; William Talbott, Major ; George Newcomen, Captain ; Walter Harvey, Captain ; John Burk, Captain ; Edward Fitzgerald, Captain ; John Hamilton, Lieut.-Col. ; Sir Charles Hamilton , Captain ; Richard ' Cussack,' Captain- Lieutenant ; Symon Luttrell, Lieut.-Col. ; Lord Kilkenny- West, Captain ; Ullick Bourk, Captain ; Francis Carroll, Major ; James Netterville, Captain ; Lord Mountjoy, Brigadier ; John Gyles, Captain ; Daniel Macarty, Captain ; Sir Robert Gore, Captain ; Robert Nangle, Captain. COMMISSIONS OF HORSE. Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ; Ullick Burk, Lieutenant ; George Barnewall, Cornet ; Robert Grace, Capt. -Lieut. ; Francis Meara, Lieutenant ; Edmond Butler, Cornet ; Edward Butler, Capt. -Lieut. ; Walter Burke, Lieutenant ; John Gaydon, Cornet ; Robert Walsh, Cornet; John Nugent, Cornet ; John Nugent, Lieutenant ; Henry Dillon, Lieutenant ; Rene Mezandier, Lieutenant ; Arthur Magennis, Cornet ; Francis Hamilton, Lieutenant; Francis Preston, Cornet ; James Purcell, Cornet ; George Gernon, Lieutenant. king james's hush army list. 11 COMMISSIONS OF FOOT. Henry Edgeworth, Lieut. ; Hugh O'Rourk, Lieutenant ; William Netterville, Lieut. ; John Dungan, Lieutenant ; Jeffrey Connell, Ensign ; Thomas Luttrell, Ensign ; Beverley Newcomen, Ensign ; Francis Slingsby, Lieutenant ; Charles Manley, Lieutenant ; Thomas Colt, Lieutenant ; Anthony Malone, Lieutenant ; Richard Barnewall, Ensign ; Richard Plunkett, Lieut. ; Con. O'Neill, Lieutenant; John Talbott, Lieutenant; David. Lundy, Ensign ; John Talbott, Ensign ; Arthur Fitton, Lieutenant ; Flo. Fitzpatrick, Lieutenant ; Thomas Talbott, Ensign ; Edwd. Kindellan, Capt.-Lieut.; Christopher Barnewall, Lieut.; Thomas Clayton, Ensign ; Andrew Dorrington, Ensign ; Mountjoy Blount, Ensign ; Nicholas Tyrwhitt, Lieutenant ; Edmond Keating, Ensign ; Patrick Cheevers, Ensign ; Charles Stuart, Ensign ; Richard Bellew, Ensign ; Henry Sheridan, Ensign ; John Delahyde, Lieutenant ; Daniel O'Sullivan, Lieutenant ; Robert Russell, Lieutenant ; John Macartane, Ensign ; Michael ' Cussack,' Ensign ; John Bellew, Ensign; Edmund Reyley, Ensign ; George Darcy, Ensign ; John White, Lieutenant ; James Tobyn, Ensign; John Butler, Ensign ; Geo. Haughton, Capt. -Lieut. ; John Reynolds, Capt.-Lieut. ; John Hogan, Lieutenant ; Benjamin Tychborne, Ensign ; Pierce Butler, Ensign ; Nicholas Rooth, Ensign ; Andrew Browne, Ensign ; James Magee, Ensign ; John Wogan, Ensign ; Richard Barnewall, Lieut. ; George Talbot, Lieutenant ; Thomas Dongan, Ensign ; Bulkley, Ensign ; Hugh O'Neill, Ensign ; William Sheridan, Ensign. COMMISSIONS WHICH PAID IN ENGLAND. Rowland Smith, Captain ; John Roche, Cornet. COMMISSIONS EXCHANGED, FOR WHICH NO FEES PAID. Jos. Jackman, Lieutenant ; Sir Thomas Atkins, Lieut. ; Christopher Nugent, Lieut. ; Toby Purcell, Major ; Mark Talbott, Major ; 12 king james's irish army list. James Bryan, Ensign ; Lord Limerick, Capt. Horse ; Matt. Bellew, Lieut. Horse ; Silvester Mathews, Ensign ; David Lundy, Ensign ; Daniel O'Neill, Lieutenant ; Phil. Terrett, Lieutenant ; Morgan Floyd, Captain ; Colonel Grace, Governor of Athlone ; Colonel Grace, Captain ; Arundell, Captain ; Edward Butler, Captain ; Randall Plunkett, Lieutenant ; James Bryan, Ensign (erased in the original) ; John Taaffe, Captain. king's letters delivered. Lord Chancellor ; Attorney General ; Lord Lowth ; Sir William Talbot; Colonel Hamilton ; Lord Netterville ; Lord Bellew ; Symon Luttrell ; Lord Chief Baron Rice ; Sir Harry Lynch ; Justice Martin ; Lord Viscount Gallway ; Colonel ' Moor.' COMMISSIONS NOT DELIVERED, STOPPED, OR RECALLED, ETC. Henry Sheridan, Ensign ; Thomas Purcell, Ensign ; John White, Lieutenant ; Eustace White, Lieutenant ; Lord Kilkenny- West, Capt. ; James Butler, Cornet ; J ohn Power, Lieutenant ; Daniel Macnamara, Ensign ; Hugh 0' ' Roirk,' Lieut. ; William Usher, Lieutenant ; Calla. Mc Callahan, Cornet ; John Delahide, Ensign ; Bryan, Ensign ; Stafford, Ensign ; Thos. Nugent, Ensign ; Fleming, Lieut. Horse ; Burk, Lieut. Horse ; Townley, Cornet ; Richard Butler, Cornet ; John Nugent, Lieut. Horse ; Arthur Dillon, Lieut. Horse ; Henry Dillon, Lieut. Horse ; Roger Jeffryes, Cornet. LETTERS NOT DELIVERED. Colonel Richard Butler ; Dean Manby. added in another hand. Sum due _ _ _ . £547 2 Sum returned _ _ _ _ 507 1 7 For return 39 6 5 For my Lord 394 4 3 Us 73 18 4 Clerks 26 Signett Office 13 13 Sum, £547 2 king james's irish army list. 13 THE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONS DELIVERED OF EACH KIND. 25 Colonels, Lieut. -Colonels, Majors, Captains, and Brigadiers. 12 Lieutenants of Horse. 8 Cornets. 25 Lieutenants of Foot. 34 Ensigns." Ill the April of 1687, Tyrconnel had been com- missioned, to select influential persons throughout the several counties in Ireland, to aid the Commissioners of the Eevenue in collecting subsidies for the support of the state. The return of these, so appointed, as well as the above inchoate list, were doubtless laid before King James at Chester by Tyrconnel, when that monarch, still King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, devolved upon him the responsibility of supporting his royal authority in the latter king- dom, and of directing the zeal and energies of its people to his service ; and, notwithstanding all they had so recently lost in upholding the Stuarts, they rendered to Tyrconnel, says Colonel O'Kelly, in the " Exddium Macarice" not only the number of soldiers which he had demanded, equipped at their private cost, but every further aid that either their fortunes or their influence could furnish." The consummation of their labours was the Army List now presented to the public. The copy here published is preserved in the Manu- scripts of Trinity College, Dublin, where it is classed F. 1, 14. It extends over thirty-four pages octavo. On the two first are the names of all the Colonels ; 14 king james's irish army list. on the four following are the Rolls of the Eight Regi- ments of Horse ; on the next four are the Eolls of the six of Dragoons. The remaining twenty-four record the Infantry. The officers of each company are arranged in columns headed respectively Cap- tains, Lieutenants, Cornets or Ensigns, and Quarter- Masters. Under that of Captains, the Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, and Majors, are usually classed. Under the others, the entries appear seriatim, and in line, as this list was then filled up. It bears no date, but while, on inspecting many of the original commissions, some few, as that of Captain George Chamberlain, are of December, 1688 ; and a great number on the 8th of March, being near the close of that year, but four days before the King's landing at Kinsale ; others are of later appointment, as that of James Carroll, to a Captaincy in Lord Dongan's Dragoons, is of the 30th of July following. It would therefore seem to have been closed, in its present state, about the August of 1689, and before the whole force was completed. The only point that could militate with such an assignment of date, is the fact of Richard Talbot being described upon it as an Earl, whereas his patent to the Dukedom was granted on the 10th of July in that year ; but its having been a current and continuing muster may account for this. On this list the Horse had the highest pay, and were therefore classed first of the Cavalry. The Dragoons, having to do duty on foot as well as on horseback, were lighter troops than the Horse in these KING JAMES'S hush ARMY LIST. 15 times.* The three first of the Horse Regiments, viz. : TyrconneFs, Galmoy's, and Sarsfield's, had each nine troops with fifty-three men in each troop ; the five last had each six troops, with the same complement of men in each. Three of the Dragoons, viz. : Lord Dongan's, the first, Sir Neill O'Neill's, the second, and Colonel Simon Lnttreli's, the fourth, had each eight troops with sixty men in each ; the remainder had six troops in each regiment, and sixty men in each troop. f The regiments of Infantry had thirteen com- panies in each, and sixty-three men in each company. The levies were conducted with snch enthusiasm, that the force in this list was raised, armed, and clothed in less than six weeks,J and may be truly said to com- prise scions of the whole aristocracy of Ireland at that period, as well of the native Irish septs as of the Anglo-Irish. As the Colonels of the establishment are subse- quently given, each at the head of his regiment, it would be idle to display their names here, with the exception of the two first,- to whom no regiments are assigned in this list, viz. : Lord Viscount Dover, and the Duke of Berwick ; and that of Colonel Thomas Maxwell, no detail of whose regiment is given, but who is fully noticed at the close of the Dragoons' Regiments. * Macaria? Excidium, p. 441, note. f Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 97. + Story's Impartial History, pp. 5 & 6. 16 king james's irish army list. HENRY LORD VISCOUNT DOVER, Colonel of the First Troop of Guards. This Henry Jermyn, brother of Lord Thomas Jer- myn of St. Edmundsbury, was himself, in 1685, created a peer, as Lord Jermyn of Dover ; and, in deference to his elder brother (while he lived), was usually styled Lord Dover, and so sworn of the English Privy Council in 1686 ; at which period it was rumoured he was to be appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in place of the Earl of Clarendon.* In 1687, he was nominated a Lord of the English Treasury, and in 1688, a short time before the king's abdication in that country, he was especially selected and con- firmed by his Majesty's will, executed at Whitehall in the commencement of that year, the confidential adviser of the Queen. He afterwards facilitated the escape of James, and was one of the few, who accom- panied the royal exile to France and subsequently to Ireland. While yet at sea, in the latter movement, he addressed a letter " to the Corporation of Castle- haven, or any other place where the Captain (Major General Boisselau) may land." " Gentlemen," (it is copied from the original, in possession of the O'Donovan) " From aboard the King of France's ship, here upon the Irish coast for the service of his Ma- jesty of England, with all sorts of ammunition and * Singer's Correspondence, v. 2, pp. 10 & 25. LORD VISCOUNT DOVER. 17 necessaries, and myself here commanding the King's forces on board. I send Captain la Rue and another to learn what news you can inform us of ; therefore, pray send us, with all speed you possibly can, all the news you know, both of the King and the enemy's fleet, that we may govern ourselves accordingly. Gentlemen, your humble servant, Dover." (No date.) In July, 1689, he was joined in commission for the Irish Treasury with Tyrconnel, Lord Riverston, and Sir Stephen Rice ; while his name appears in this Army List, Colonel as above ; his Troop of Horse, Gards du Corps, consisting of 200 men,* but none of his subalterns appear hereon. Yiscount Dover, not being a Peer of Ireland, had no seat in the Parliament of 1689, and seems to have early taken offence or distrusted James's cause ; for on the 19th of June, 1690, eleven days before the battle of the Boyne, he applied to Mr. George Kirke, (the well- known Major-General) " You will be much surprised to receive a letter from me ; but, after the many revolutions we have seen in our time, nothing is to be wondered at." He then requests Kirke to use his interest with Marshal de Schomberg, " to obtain a pass for my Lady Dover, myself, and the little vessel we shall go in, and those few servants specified in the within note, to go and stay at Ostend, till such time as I may otherwise dispose of myself." As King William appeared unwilling to accede to this prayer, * Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 398. t Clarke 1 s Correspondence, MS. T.C.D.Lett. xiv. (J 18 kixg james's irish army list. on account of Lord Dover being excepted out of the Act of Indemnity, and also outlawed in "Westminster Hall, he, on the 12th of July, after the battle of the Boyne, wrote to obtain the interest of a Captain Fitz- gerald, to procure a similar passport from King Wil- liam, " to enable me to go and end my days quietly in England, in which place I will most certainly never more meddle with any affairs whatever, but my own little particular ones."* Another letter of his lord- ship, in the same collection, contains a perfect narra- tive of his life, stating that he had " served King- James faithfully, since he was thirteen years old, till the French thought fit he should not do it any longer." From the context, it would appear that Lord Dover had incurred some taunts from the French allies, and, possibly, displeasure from James. He was soon afterwards allowed to transport himself to Flanders, till a fitting time came for his admittance to England, whither Lady Dover and her servants had a free pass. He died on the 6th April, 1708, at Cheveley in Leicestershire ; but his remains were interred, at his own desire, in the Carmelite Convent of Bruges, where his funeral monument ranks him " a Lieu- tenant-G eneral in the army, Colonel of a troop of King James's Horse Guards, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cambridge."! On his death, without issue, * Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 140. | Nichofs Top. and Gen., part 12, p. 493. THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 19 his title became extinct, and his estates devolved upon his nieces, the daughters of the aforesaid Baron Jermyn of St. Edmundsbury. THE DUKE OF BERWICK, Colonel of the Second Troop of Guards. Such was the title, which, in deference to the bor- der town, that had for centuries been the great object of many a hard-fought day, James the Second, the son of a Scotto-English monarch, conferred upon James Fitz-James, his eldest but illegitimate son by Arabella Churchill, sister of John Churchill, after- wards the renowned Duke of Marlborough. He was born in 1671. In 1686 he distinguished himself at the siege of Buda, and in March, 1687, was created Baron of Bosworth, Earl of Tinmouth, and Duke of Berwick ; his father being then King of Eng- land. He was the companion of that father, when, having escaped from the Guards at Rochester, he crossed to France in a small boat, and landed at Ambleteuse, at six o'clock on Christmas morning (1688). The Duke was instantly despatched thence, by the Royal Exile, to Louis XIV., then at Ver- sailles, to pray an asylum in his kingdom. "J'en fus recu," says the Duke, in his narrative of that in- terview, " avec toute la politesse et l'amitie imagina- bles ; et il etoit aise de voir par ses discours, que son c 2 20 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. coeur parloit autant que sa langue."* Confiding on that reception, King James embarked for Ireland, where, on his arriving and learning the state of Ulster, he ordered Berwick off to strengthen General Eichard Hamilton on the east side of the Ban, in his design on Coleraine, as well as to sound the state of political feeling in Deny. Of this he formed a very mistaken notion, writing as he did in April, 1689, to his Royal Sire, advising him that it was the opinion of all the General Officers, that " if his Majesty would but show himself before that town, it would undoubtedly surrender." The expectation was, however, ill- grounded ; and, on the avowed determination of the garrison to hold out, James, who had gone before the town in this assurance, returned discountenanced to Dublin, to make the necessary arrangements for hold- ing his parliament.f Berwick remained with but 6,000 men, and only six guns, opposed to a garrison of 10,000 men, with from twenty to thirty pieces of cannon, and an English fleet of thirty sail in the river, with arms, ammunition, provisions, and three regiments on board, under the command of Major General Kirke, commissioned to relieve the place. J While the siege was going on, the Duke encountered a large body of the Enniskilliners ; on whom, how- ever, he made no impression. After the raising of the siege, being stationed at Newry with 1700 foot * ' Memoir ' in Clarke's James II. t Clarke's Life of James II., v. 2, p. 332. j O'Callaghan on the Excidium Macarise, pp. 320-1. THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 21 and dragoons, and two troops of horse ; and, designing to defend that pass against Schomberg, who had landed a few days previously at Carrickfergns, he is said by Story,* to have sent a letter by a trumpe- ter to that Marshal on the 1st of September, he being then in Belfast. This communication, being directed only to 1 Count ' Schomberg, was returned unopened, that officer saying his Royal Master had 'honoured him with the title of Duke, and therefore the letter was not to him.f At the close of the same year, (1689) in February, Berwick meditated taking pos- session of Belturbet, " with the expectation of being able to make excursions thence into the enemy's quarters all the winter ; but Wolseley, King Wil- liam's Colonel, suspecting his design, marched out of the town with a considerable body of Horse and Foot, when meeting Berwick's forces at Tullaghmon- gan, near Cavan, he forthwith attacked them ; and, although the Duke behaved himself with great con- duct and bravery, having his horse shot under him, yet was he worsted in the action, and the town was fired by his enemy." Berwick was afterwards at the battle of the Boyne, where the troop under his command consisted of two hundred strong. There also " his horse was shot under him, and, as he lay for some time amongst the enemy, he was rode over and ill-bruised, until by the help of a trooper he was got off again. "J After that * Impartial Review, part 1, p. 11. f Idem. t Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 400. 22 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. battle the Duke rallied, at Brazeel near Dublin, about 7,000 infantry ; of which he sent to acquaint his Royal father in that city, requesting that a convoy of Horse and Dragoons should be sent out to enable him to come in. The king accordingly ordered out six troops of Luttrell's Dragoons, and three of Aber- corn's Horse to his relief ; but night had dissolved the force which Berwick hoped to keep together — they had all dispersed. During the first siege of Limerick, (August, 1690) by King William in person, " the Irish Cavalry, 3,500 strong, commanded by the Duke of Berwick, guarded the right bank of the Shan- non, and prevented the English from investing or even sending detachments to that side, although the river was fordable in many places."* When that siege was abandoned, and Tyrconnel passed over to his King to France, " he," writes Colonel O'Kelly in the Excidium Macarice (p. 72), " established a new form of govern- ment in his absence, never before heard of in Ireland ; twelve 4 Senators ' were named to manage the civil affairs, the major part being new-interest men, without whose concurrence the rest could not act. The army he placed under the command of the Duke of Berwick, and, in regard his youth gave him little ex- perience, (he had not then attained 21 years) he ap- pointed a select council of officers to direct him ; the Duke having " as Colonel O'Kelly, who was no friendly commemorator of Tyrconnel, insinuates, " his * O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 117. THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 23 private directions to permit no person of quality to come out of Ireland in his absence, who would be likely to oppose his representations at the Court of St. G-ermains." The vessel, that was to take Tyrconnel out of Galway, was scarcely out of sight, when the young Duke, at the head of 4,000 foot, 2000 men at arms, and as many light horse, passed the Shannon and attacked the Castle of Birr ; but " on an alarm of the enemy's advance to relieve the place, he decamped, and never stopped till he crossed the Shannon back again, returning with his troops into Connaught ; having, (adds Colonel O'Kelly) by that successless attempt and his shameful retreat, discouraged the army, and disheartened the whole nation of Ireland." O'Conor, a later historian of the military memoirs of this country, says, " Berwick's operations, during the absence of Talbot, were directed by the Hamiltons, conducted without skill, and disheartened the Irish" * He was of course attainted, but not until five years after the close of that war, of which he has left the best account, embodied in Clarke's Life of James the Second, f In 1693, Berwick, who had passed to France after the surrender of Limerick, was taken prisoner in the engagement near Liege, by his uncle, the Duke of Marlborough ; and in 1695 he married the widow of Sarsfield, who, as hereafter mentioned, fell at Landen in 1693. She was the lady Honora de Burgo, second * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 130. t Idem, p. 237. 24 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, daughter of William, the seventh Earl of Clanricarde. In the chapel of the Castle of St. Germains the cere- mony took place, which she survived but three years, dying of consumption at Montpelier. In 1696, when James, under a delusive impression that the Prince of Orange's affairs began not to have so favourable an aspect as formerly, meditated ob- taining forces from the French King for invading England; the Duke of Berwick was secretly sent over to London to sound the public feeling, — again with ill success. The continent was destined to be the theatre of his own future actions and renown. The brigaded Regiment of Foot, formed in France and styled by his name was distinguished in the Italian campaign of 1701 ; when, with Galmoy's, Burke's and Dillon's, and with Sheldon's Horse, it formed part of the army that was led on by the Duke of Savoy at the engagement near Chiari. In 1703, it was incorporated in the Brigade of Piedmont,* and actively engaged in its conflicts, f In 1704, the three Kegiments, Berwick's, Dillon's, and Galmoy's, mounted the trenches at Vercelli, Ivrea, and Verrua in Italy. In the May of that year, military operations commenced in the Spanish Peninsula, by the entrance of a Spanish and French army under King Philip and the Duke of Berwick respectively, at Salvatierra. In 1705, Berwick's Regiment, together with Burke's and Fitzgerald's (formerly Albemarle's), was engaged in all the battles which marked the * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 2f>2. t Idem, p. 2G5, 273. THE DUKE OF BERWICK 25 valour and skill of the two great commanders, Eugene and Vendome, who headed the united armies.* The Brigade, thus concentrated, was called Burke's, com- manded as it was by Brigadier-General Ulick Burke, and did wonderful execution at the battle on the Ke- torto and Adda, which O'Conor describes as " the fiercest contest that occurred during the seventeenth century." A second battalion, which was raised at Arras for Berwick's Eegiment at the latter period, was ordered to Spain, and in 1706 performed important services theref , as it did at the battle of Almanza, in April, 1707. Berwick himself on the latter occasion " led his cavalry to the charge, and utterly broke the mixed line of the allies, so that the fate of the day re- mained no longer doubtful." J " His presence of mind," adds O'Conor, " was admirable ; as cool, as calm as he would be at a review, he provided for every emergency ; wherever the line yielded, he brought up troops from other posts to sustain it ; he was every where, leading on, encouraging and exhort- ing the Spaniards in their own, and the French and Irish in the respective languages of their countries." Immediately after this splendid victory, which turned the tide of war against the allies, he was made a Spanish Grandee by Philip the Fifth. In the same year, at the siege of Lerida, " one of the strongest fortresses in Europe, the Kegiments of Burke, Dillon, * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 299. fldem, p. 318. \ Idem, p. 329. 26 king james's irish army list. and Berwick were distinguished ; on the 4th of October, their trenches were opened, Berwick's, Burke's, and Dillon's Regiments mounted them, the fortress and citadel surrendered." * In 1708, two bat- talions of Berwick's, with Grafton's " Irish Dragoons," and Bulkeley's Irish Regiment of Foot in the service of Spain, formed part of the besieging army at Tortosa. On this occasion, " the Regiment of Berwick suffered severely, having mounted the trenches several nights ; the Lieutenant-Colonel and several officers and men were killed ; and, after twenty-one days' siege, the place surrendered upon honourable terms." f In the July of this year, Berwick himself, being encamped near Douay, received a letter from his illustrious op- ponent and uncle, the Duke of Marlborough, wherein the latter, perfectly recognizing the kindred, says, 4 You may be sure the difference of parties will not hinder me from having that friendship for you that becomes me towards my relations.' J In the early part of 1709, Burke's, Dillon's, and Berwick's Regiments served in Spain under the Marshal de Biron ; as they did in 1711 in Savoy, under the Marshal Duke of Berwick ; but, " from inferiority of forces, he was obliged to abandon that country, and confine himself to guard the passes of the Alps into Dauphiny. It is to his character and achievements at this period, and the war in which he encountered his own uncle, the Duke of Marlborough, that Montesquieu thus alludes, " Telle * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 335. | Idem, p. 337. { Murray's Marlborough Desp., v. 4, p. 113. THE DUKE OF BERWICK. 27 fut l'etoile de cette Maison de Churchill, qu'il en sor- tit deux hommes, dont Tun, dans le meme temps, tilt destine a ebranler, et Taut re a soutenir, les deux grandes monarchies de l'Europe." Berwick was killed at the siege of Philpsburg in Baden, 12th June, 1734 ; leaving by his aforesaid wife, the Lady Honora de Burgh (who died in 1698, and was buried at Pontoise, near Paris) one son, James Edward Francis, who was created by Philip the Fifth, Duke of Liria and Gherica, and a Grandee of Spain of the first class ; he married Catherine, the daughter and heiress of Pierre Duke of Veragas orVeras Aquas in Spain ; in whose right he also bore that title ; and, being sent ambassador from Philip to his son Don Carlos, King of the Two Sicilies, he died at Naples in 1738, leaving issue by her, two sons, the eldest James, Duke of Berwick and Liria, Grandee of Spain, and General in the Spanish service, (who was father of Charles B. Pascal Janvier Fitzjames, Marquis of Jamaica, baptised 1751;) and the second son, Duke Peter Fitzjames, called in Spain Don Pedro, who was an admiral in that service. He married the heiress of Castelblanco, and had issue. The old Duke of Ber- wick had, on the decease of his first wife, married Miss Buckley, one of the maids of Honor to Queen Mary d'Este, and by her had five children : James, who died without issue in the lifetime of his father ; Francis, who rose to eminence in the Church ; Henry, who also entered into holy orders ; Charles, who succeeded to the Dukedom of Fitzjames in France, and from whom 28 king james's irish army list. the present Duke is descended ; and Maria, married to the Duke of Mirandola, a Spanish Grandee of the first class.* The English Dukedom of Berwick had been forfeited on the attainder, though the title was used by the great Duke in his life-time, and sometimes by his descendants, who continued to be successively Colonels of his Brigade, until it was disbanded at the Revolution. The Spanish branch still retains its rank and estates. At the battle of Ypres, in 1745, the still Irish names of the hilled in Berwick's Regiment are Captains Burke, Nangle, Anthony, Cooke, and Higgins ; while, in the list of the wounded, appear Captain Colclougli, and Lieutenants Plunket, Carroll, Mac Carthy, and Dease.f In 1792, there were in garrison at London, of Berwick's ci-devant Regiment, Lieutenant- Colonels O'More and Mac Dermott. Captains: — O'Connor, Bryan O'Toole, Richard O'Toole, — O'Gormican, — Cruise, — Reed, — Egan, William O'Mara, Thaddeus O'Mara, John Geoghegan, — Hurly, — Tuite, — Swinton, — Delany, — Gregory, and Byrne. Lieutenants: — D'Alton, — Kavanagh, — Forbes, — Grace, — Mulhall, — O'Kennedy, — Garrett Fitzsimons, — Blake, Richard O'Byrne, — D'Evereux, — Geraglity, * Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, v. 4, p. 490. t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 270. counties' assessment. 29 — Doyle, — Nagle, Patt Piersse, and Gerard Piersse. Sub-Lieutenants: — O'Sullivan, — MacCarthy, Pat Jennings, Luke Allen, Andrew Elliott, Morris Cameron. While on the French Army List of 1792, the staff of this ci-devant French Kegiment numbered still in the French service : — Colonel — O'Connor. Lieutenant-Colonels: — Hurly and Shee. Captains : — S wanton, — Hussey, — MacCormick, — Doyle, — Eoberts, — Nagle, — Delany, Martin Hart, Andrew Mac Donough, — Reed, — Burke, Marcus Laffan, and — O'Flynn. Lieutenants: Luke Allen, — Merle, — D'Alton, — Burke, — Meagher, — Fleming, — Prior, — Nagle, — Pavel, — Houdart, — Derenzy, Eugene Chancel, and Shee. Sub-Lieutenant — Nestor Chancel. This seems the most apt place to introduce the genealogical evidences, that arise from a commission of the 10th April, 1690, which King James issued for applotting £20,000 per month on personal estates and the benefit of trade and traffic, " according to the ancient custom of this Kingdom used in time of dan- ger." Of this tax he appointed the following assessors in the several counties, &c. For the City and County of Dublin ; The Lord Mayor and Sheriff of the city for the time being, Garret Dillon, Esq. Recorder ; Simon Luttrell, Esq. 30 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Governor of the city ; Sir Thomas Hackett, Sir Wil- liam Ellis, Thomas Whitehead, Lewis Doe, and Thomas Browne, Esq. Their applotment on the city to be £5,000 for the three months. For the County of Dublin ; The High Sheriff for the time being ; Simon Lnttrell, Esq. Lord Lieutenant of the County ; Colonel Patrick Sarsfield, (John Tal- bot of Belgard, Esq. Captain Robert Arthur, Captain Robert Russell, James Hackett, Esq. Christopher Massy, Esq. and Ignatius Purcell, Esq. Their applot- ment to be £2,391 6s. 9d. for the three months. For the County of Kildare ; The High Sheriff pro temp. ; Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet ; Charles White, Esq. Colonel Charles Moore, Wm. Talbot, John Wogan, Francis Leigh, Esqs. the Sovereign of the Naas pro temp, and Edmund Fitzgerald, Esq. Their applot- ment, £1,643 5s. 3d. for the three months. For the County of Carlow ; The High Sheriff pro temp. ; Colonel Dudley Bagnall, John Bagot Junior, Patrick Wall, Pierce Bryan, Marcus Baggot, Hubert Kelly, Esqs. the Sovereign of Carlow pro temp, and William Coolie, Esq. Their applotment, £726 19s. 3d. for the three months. For the King's County ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Garret Moore, Esq. Colonel Francis Oxburgh, Terence Coghlan, John Coghlan of Tullamore, Edward Baggott, Owen Carroll, Henry Oxburgh, Garret Trant, Esqs. Their applotment to be £860 17s. 6d. for the three months. For the Queen's County ; The High Sheriff pro COUNTIES ASSESSMENT. 31 temp. Sir Patrick Trant, Baronet, Sir Gregory Byrne, Edward Morris, Oliver Grace, Thady Fitzpatrick, Daniel Doran, John Weaver and John Warren, Esqs. Their applotment, £956 10s. 9d. for the three months. For the County of Longford ; The High Sheriff, pro temp., Oliver Fitzgerald, Esq., Thomas Nugent of Colamber, John Nugent of Killasonna, Eobert Sans, Francis Ferrall, Robert Farrell, and Eobert Dowling, Esqs. Their applotment to be £573 18s. 3d. For the County of Meatli ; The High Sheriff pro temp., Sir Patrick Barnewall, Sir William Talbot, Baronet, Sir John Fleming, Thomas Bellew, Henry Draycott, John Hatch, Adam Crane, and Eichard Barnewall, Esqs. Their applotment, £2,793 2s. for the three months. For the County of Westmeath ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Garret Nugent of Dysart, Edmund Malone, Garret Nangle, William Handcock, James Dease, Keadagh Geoghegan, George Peyton, and Eichard Fitzgerald, Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s. for the three months. For the City of Kilkenny ; The Mayor, Eecorder^ and Sheriffs pro temp., Walter Lawless, Henry Archer, Luke Dormer, James Eafter, and John Shee, Esqs. Their applotment, £190 17s. 6d. for the three months. For the County of Kilkenny ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Colonel Edward Butler, John Grace, Marcus Shee, Harvey Morris, Esqs. The Sovereign of Callan^rc temp. Edmund Blanch ville, 32 king James's irish army list. Esq. and the Portreef of Gowran pro temp. Their applotment, £1,932 4s. 3d. for the three months. For the County of Wexford; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Walter Butler, Patrick Colclough, Walter Talbot, William Howe, Patrick Lambert, Anthony Talbot, Matthew Forde, and Patrick White, Esqs. Their applotment, £1,434 16s. for the three months. For the County of WicMow ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Francis Toole, Wm. Talbot of Fassaroe, Ph. Cowdel], Wm. Wolverston, William Hoey, Cromwell Wingfield, Esquires, and Thomas Byrne, Burgess of Wicklow. Their applotment, £688 14s. 3d. for the three months. For the County of Louth ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Sir Patrick Bellew, John Cheever, Roger Gernon, Esqs. John Babe, Henry Townley, Patrick Dowdall, and Nicholas Gernon, Esquires. Their applotment, £994 16s. for the three months. For the Town of Drogheda ; The Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs pro temp. Thomas Peppard Fitz-George, Christopher Peppard Fitz-Ignatius, Patrick Plunket, Alderman, and John Moore. Their applotment, £210 9s. 3d. for the three months. For the County of Limerick ; The High Sheriff pjro temp. Sir Joseph Fitzgerald, Dominick Roche, John Bourk of Cahirmoyle, John Rice of Hospital, Edward Rice, John Baggott Senior, Henry Wray, Thaddeus Quinn, and George Evans, Esqs. Their ap- plotment, £1,932 Is. 3d. for the three months. counties' assessment. 33 For the City of Limerick ; The Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs pro temp. Sir James G-alway, Baronet, J ohn Mc Namara, John Rice Fitz-Edward, Robert Herman, and John Leonard, Esqs. Their applotment, £382 12s. 3d. for three months. For the County of Cork ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Daniel O'Donovan, Daniel O'Snllivan Bear, Daniel Mc Carthy Reagh, Nicholas Brown, Esq. Sir John Mead, Knight, Sir James Cotter, Knight, Miles Conrsey, Charles Mc Carthy alias Mc Donogh, Edward Fitzgerald of Ballyverter, Dominick Sarsfield, David Nagle, John G-alway, Martin Supple, Esqs. the Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs of the City of Cork pro temp. Andrew Morrogh, Stephen Gold, John Longan, Ed- ward G-ough, Esqs., the Mayor of Youghal pro temp, the Sovereign of Kinsale pro temp, the Sovereign of Mallow pro temp, the Sovereign of Charleville pro temp, and John Power of Kellballer, Esq. Their applotment, £683 lis. for the three months. For the City of Waterford ; The High Sheriff pro temp., the Earl of Tyrone, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Nugent, Matthew How, John Nugent, Richard Marsfield, Thomas Sherlock, Pierce Walsh, and Nicho- las Power, Esqs. Their applotment for the three months, £1,262 12s. 9d. For the County and City of Waterford ; The Mayor, Recorder, and Sheriffs pro temp., Richard Fitz-Gerald, Michael Porter, Michael Head, and James White, Esqs. Their applotment, £382 12s. 3d. for the three months. D KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. For the County of Clare; The High Sheriff pro temp., Sir Donogk O'Brien, John Mc Namara of Cratelogh, Donogh O'Brien of Duogk, Daniel Mc Namara, John Mc Namara of Moyriff, James Aylmer, Florence Mc Namara, Samnel Boyton, John Mc Namara, Col- lector, and the Provost of Ennis pro temp. Their ap- plotment, £1,798 5s. 6d. for the three months. For the County of Kerry ; The High Sheriffs pro temp., Colonel Mc Cartky More, William Brown, Esq. Sir Thomas Crosby, Knight ; Stephen Rice, Daniel O'Donoghne, Ambrose Moore, Esqs.; the Sovereign of Dingle pro temp, the Provost of Tralee pro temp, and Andrew Elliott. Their applotment, £1,052 4s. 9d. for the three months For the County of Tipperary, including Holy cross ; The High Sheriff pro temp., Colonel Nicholas Purcell, Major James Tobin, John Cantwell, James Kearney, Thaddeus Meagher, Terence Magrath, James Hackett, Ambrose Mandcville, tke Mayor of Caskel pro temp. tke Mayor of Clonmel pro temp. Edmund Ryan, Cormick Egan, Nickolas Wkite Fitz-Henry, Esquires, tke Sovereign of Featkard, and Peter Dalton, Esq. Their applotment, £4,208 16s. for tke tkree montks. For the County of Donegal ; Tke Higk Skeriff pro temp., Captain Manus O'Donnell, Henry Nugent, Jokn Nugent, Daniel Mc Swine, Captain Daniel O'Donnell, and Captain Hugh O'Donnell. Tkeir ap- plotment, £1,951 7s. for tke tkree montks. For the County of Tyrone ; Tke Higk Skeriff pro temp., tke Provost of Strabanepro temp, tke Provost counties' assessment. 35 of Dungannon pro temp. Captain Terence Donnelly, Patrick Donnelly, Hugh Qninn, and John Clements, Esquires. Their applotment, £1,492 4s. for the three months. For the County of Fermanagh ; The High Sheriff pro temp., Constantine Maguire, Edmund Oge Maguire, Bryan Maguire, Constantine Oge Maguire, Philip Maguire, and Captain Thomas Maguire. Their applotment, £1,013 18s. 9d. for the three months. For the County of Cavan ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Captain Edmund Peilly, Luke Reilly, Philip Eeilly, Philip Oge Reilly, Francis Bourke, and Thomas Fleming, Esqs. Their applotment, £1090 9s 6d. for the three months. For the County of Monaghan ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Art Oge McMahon, Captain Hugh McMahon, Captain Bryan McMahon, Captain Farrell Ward, Doctor Henry Cassidy, and Alex. Mac Cabe. Their applotment, £1052 4s. for three months. For the County of A ntrim, including the town of Car- rickfergus ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Sir Neill O'Neill, Cormuck O'Neill, PvandaU McDonnell, Thady O'Hara, Francis Stafford, and Borland White, Esqs. Their applotment, £2257 8s. 9d. for three months. For the County Down ; the High Sheriff pro temp. Phelim Magenis, Murtagh Magenis, Rowland Savage, John Savage, John McArtan, and Toole O'Neill. Their applotment, £2011 14s. 3d. for three months. For the County of Armagh ; The High Sheriff pro temp, the Sovereign of Armagh pro temp. Colonel D 2 36 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Owen O'Neill, Turlough O'Neill, Paul O'Neill, Hugh Buy O'Neill, and Robert Martin, Esqs. Their applot- ment, £1052 4s. for three months. For the County of Londonderry and the City of Londonderry and the Town and Barony of Coleraine ; the Mayor and Sheriffs of Londonderry pro temp. Cormuck O'Neill, Conn O'Neill, Art O'Hegan, and John O'Hegan, Esqs. Their applotment, £1473 Is. 3d. for three months. For the County and the Town of Galway ; The Mayor, Recorder and Sheriff pro temp. Stephen Deane, Peter Kirwan, John Bodkin, James Browne, Collector ; John Kirwan, Thomas Revett, and George Stanton, Esqs. Their applotment, £325 4s. 6d. for the three months. For the County of Galway ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Sir Ulick Bourke, Roger O'Shaughnessy, Richard Bourke of Derryraghaghna, Nicholas French, Oliver Martin, Dermot Daly, Laughlin Daly, James Donel- lan, Richard Blake, and Miles Bourke of Clougheroge, Esqs. Their applotment, £2410 9s. 6d. for three months. For the County of Roscommon ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Charles Kelly, Captain Theobald Dillon, Bryan Fallon, Roger McDermott, Cormuck McDermott, and the Portreeve of Roscommon pro temp. Their applotment, £1501 15s. 3d. for three months. For the County of Sligo ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Oliver O'Gara, Henry Crofton, David counties' assessment. 37 Bond, Charles O'Hara, John Crofton, James French, John Brett, Esqs., and the Sovereign of Sligo pro temp. Their applotment, £1186 2s. for three months. For the County of Antrim ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Gerald Kean, Esq., Colonel Henry O'Neill, Cap- tain John Reynolds, Bryan Geoghegan, Thady Koddy, Lieutenant Jeffry O'Eourke. Their applotment, £688 14s. 3d. for three months. For the County of Mayo ; The High Sheriff pro temp. Colonel Garret Moore, Colonel Henry Dillon, Colonel John Browne, Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Bourke, George Browne, Esq. Captain Thomas Bourke, Captain John Bermingham, and John Fitzgerald. Their applotment, £1555 14s. 3d. for the three months. With all powers and instructions for collecting same. Date, 10th April, 1690 ; sixth of our reign.* ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL AND FIELD OFFICERS OF KING JAMES'S ARMY, Out of the Muster Rolls, 2nd. June, 1690. Duke of Tyrconnel, Captain-General. Duke of Berwick, Lieutenant-General. Richard Hamilton, Lieutenant-General. Count Lauzun, General of the French. Monsieur Lery alias Geraldine, Lieutenant-General. Dominick Sheldon, Lieutenant-General of the Horse. Patrick Sarsfield, Major-General. * Harris's MSS. vol. 10, p. 166, &c 38 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Monsieur Boiseleau, Major-General. Anthony Hamilton, Major-General. ' Wahup. ' Thomas Maxwell, Brigadier. John Hamilton, Brigadier. Will Dorrington, Brigadier. Solomon Slater, Muster-Master-General. Kobert Fitzgerald, Comptroller of the Musters. Sir Richard Nangle, [Nagle] Secretary at War. Sir Henry Bond, Receiver-General. Louis Doe, Receiver-General. Sir Michael Creagh, Paymaster-General. Felix O'Neill, Advocate-General. Dr. Archbold, Physician to the State. Patrick Archbold, Chirurgeon-General. Tli is classification of the Field Officers was taken by Dr. King, (State of the Protestants, App. p. 67, etc.) from the Muster Rolls drawn up subsequent to the date of this Army List. It is followed in King, by a similar detail of the Field Officers of each Regiment, and is also given in Story's History of the Campaign • (Pt. ii. p. 30.) Wherever these names or commissions differ from what appear on the ' List,' the variance is noted in the work ; while it is to be observed that the Illustrations of Families are given respectively, at the mention of that representative thereof, who ranks highest on the Roll ; and there it is proposed to collect particulars of such others of the name, as are recorded in commission on other Regiments. The Index will mark the especial places of Notices. KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Regiments of Horse. 1. Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel's. 2. Lord Galmoy's. 3. Colonel Patrick Sarsfield's. 4. Lord Abercorn's. 5. Colonel Henry Luttrell's. 6. Colonel Hugh Sutherland's. 7. Colonel John Parker's. 8. Colonel Nicholas Purcell's. 40 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF HORSE. RICHARD, EARL OF TYRCONNEL'S. Captains. The Colonel. Dominick Sheldon, Lieut.-Colonel. Francis Meara, Major. John Roch. John Arthur. Walter Bellew. Nicholas Cusack. John Talbot, Belgard. Lieutenants. Thomas Beatagh. Cornets. Edmund Butler. Edmund Nangle. George Barnewall. Edmund Harney. Edmund Keating. Thomas Bourke. James Butler. Charles King. Robert Nugent. Nicholas Barnewall. Nicholas Taaffe. Quarter-masters. Peter Casinone. John Bryan. James Furlong. Mich Ger __. Mor . Tho Ric _ The deficiencies, in the list of the above Quarter-masters, arise from the mutilation of the original manuscript. tyrconnel's horse. 41 RICHARD TALBOT, EARL OF TYRCONNEL. The achievements of this noble family are em- blazoned in the history of every civilized nation, and, like most of the English Aristocracy, they derive their origin from Normandy, claiming, as their ancestors in far back time, the Talbots, Barons of Clueville in the District of Caux. In 1066, Hugh and Richard Talbot are named amongst the Knights who espoused the cause of William the Conqueror, and as such they appear in Bromton's List and in the ancient 'Chronicle of Normandy.' The lines into which they branched in England are fully set forth in the History of the County of Dublin, p. 198, etc. Richard and Robert Talbot, having accompanied Henry the Second in the invasion of Ireland, the for- mer had a grant of the Lordship of Malahide, in the County of Dublin, which has continued in his descen- dants to the present day. His namesake was Arch- bishop of Dublin in 1262. In 1311, John Talbot was summoned to attend the Parliament of Kilkenny ; and in 1315, Richard Talbot, the lineal descendant in the fourth degree of the first Richard, distinguished him- self under the Lord de Bermingham on the occasion of Edward Bruce's invasion of this country. In 1373 and 1375, Sir Thomas Talbot of Malahide was summoned to Irish Parliaments ; and in 1378, Reginald Talbot was Sheriff of the County of Dublin, at which time branches of the family were established in the 42 king james's irish army list. Counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Louth, Meath, and Wexford. In 1379, Richard Talbot of Malahide was summoned to a great council at Baltinglas, and he also was afterwards Sheriff of the county of Dublin. In 1414, the renowned Sir John Talbot, Lord Fur- nival, after those exploits in France which the inspi- rations of Shakspere have even more immortalised, was constituted Viceroy of Ireland. In 1443, his brother, theretofore Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was appointed Archbishop of Dublin ; and in 1447, his son, who had succeeded to the title of Lord Furnival, was also named Lord Chancellor of Ireland. On the attainders of 1642 appear the names of John Talbot of Castletown, County of Kildare, Clerk ; Gerard Talbot of Naas, Gilbert and Gerald Talbot of Carton, Matthew of Templeogue, George of Malahide, Clerk ; John and William Talbot also of Malahide ; Thomas of Poerston, County Dublin ; James of Eobertstown, County Meath, clerk ; James of Athboy, Merchant ; and Sir Robert Talbot, styled of Castle- sallagh, County Wicklow, Baronet. The latter was, in 1665, under the provision of the Act of Explanation, restored to his mansion seat, and 2,000 acres, if he were seized of so much on the 21st Oct. 1642 ; if not, then only to as much as he was seized of. He was the elder brother of the Richard Talbot at present under consideration, who was the fifth son of William Talbot, a Barrister, by Alison Netterville (who died in 1633). "They," writes Lord Clarendon (who was TyrconneFs brother-in-law, and here alludes to the sons tyrconnel's horse. 43 of said William Talbot, " were all of an Irish family, but of ancient English extraction, which had always inhabited within that circle that was called the Pale, which, being originally an English Plantation, was in so many years for the most part degenerated into the manners of the Irish, and rose and mingled with them in the late rebellion ; and of this family there were two distinct branches, who had competent estates, and lived for many descents in the rank of gentlemen of quality ; and these brothers were all the sons or grand- sons of one who was a Judge in Ireland, and esteemed a learned man. The eldest was Sir Eobert Talbot, who was by much the best. The second, Peter, was a Jesuit, who had been very troublesome to the King abroad, but afterwards, on the Restoration, rose into Royal favour. The third, Gilbert, was called Colonel, for some command he had against the King ; he also had been with the King in Flanders, and was looked upon as a man of courage, having fought a duel or two with stout men. The fifth was ' Dick ' Talbot." * This last individual, the future Earl of Tyrconnel, born to no inheritance but his talent, obtained a com- mission in the 4 Irish ' army after the insurrection of 1641, and served during the ensuing Civil War, under the command of his own nephew, Sir Walter Dongan. He afterwards went to Spain with his troops, exiled by Cromwell, and thence to Flanders, following the fortune of the exiled Stuarts. He there distinguished himself by numerous acts of bravery, * Clarendon's Life of Himself, vol. 2, p. 362. 44 kixg james's irish army list. and had been a volunteer in the famous naval engage- ment between Van Tromp and the Duke of York. By his handsome figure, insinuating address and chival- rous loyalty, he ingratiated himself with that Prince, and, on the Restoration, was enabled to purchase large estates in Ireland. When in 1670 the Irish cavaliers, who had suffered in their assertion of the Royal cause, sought to press upon the attention of Charles the Second their losses and privations, Colonel Richard Talbot was their chosen advocate. Their petition, signed by Lords Westmeath, Mount- Garrett, Kingsland, Dongan, and Trimlcston, and a large body of gentlemen, on behalf of themselves and the Roman Catholics of Ireland, though a well merited appeal, was considered however an assault on vested interests, and in truth amounted to almost a Repeal of the Act of Settlement. Too powerful interests were awake to maintain that measure, and the lapse of years, the succession of families, and the transfer of property have established its conveyances down to the present day. In this his ardour to advance the claims of his Catholic countrymen, Talbot incurred the jea- lousy of the Duke of Ormonde, and actually applied such opprobrious language to that nobleman, that he, as Dr. Currie writes, " waiting on the King, inquired whether he should put off his doublet to fight with Dick Talbot/' In the attack made by the Dutch in 1672 on the English fleet in Solebay, this Colonel was taken prisoner. In six years after, he was seized in the gal- tyrconnel's horse. 45 lery of the Castle of Dublin, and committed to close confinement ; his brother, the before mentioned Peter Talbot, then the Eoman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, being at that time also imprisoned there, under the suspicion of the 4 Popish Plot.' The Colonel however effected his own escape to France, and while there in 1679, after long previous courtship, he ob- tained the hand of the beautiful widow of George Count Hamilton. This her first husband was son of the fourth Earl of Abercorn, and Colonel of a French Regiment in France, where he was killed in 1676 ; leaving issue by his young widow three daughters, Elizabeth, afterwards married to Laurence Viscount Ross ; Frances, to Henry Viscount Dillon ; and Mary, to Nicholas Viscount Kingsland. At the Viceregal Court these ladies were distinguished as the three Vis- countesses, and were buried together in St. Patrick's Cathedral, as was their mother many years after. Her maiden name was Frances Jennings, the eldest daughter of Richard Jennings of Sandridge in Herefordshire, and sister of the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough. In 1684, Tyrconnel returned from his exile, and King James, on his accession to the throne, promoted him to the rank of Lieutenant-General, as " a man of great abilities and clear courage, and one, who for many years had a true attachment to His Majesty's person and interest." He also raised him by patent of 1685 to the Peerage of Ireland, with the titles of Baron of Talbotstown, Viscount Baltinglas and Earl of Tyrcon- 46 KItfG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. nel,* to hold to him and his heirs male, and for want of such issue to his nephew Sir William Talbot of Cart own, Baronet, and his heirs male ; and, in case of failure there, to another of his nephews, William Talbot of Haggardstown. The preamble to this pa- tent also lauds the Colonel for " his immaculate alle- giance, and his infinitely great services performed to the King, and to King Charles the Second, in England, Ireland, and foreign parts, both by sea and land, in which he suffered frequent imprisonments and many great wounds." Then it was that, being jealous of the support, which the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion had received from his English subjects of the Protestant faith, and fearing the sympathies of those of Ireland in that cause, James at once determined on disarming them ; the more especially as the army of Ireland at that time consisted, in a very large propor- tion, of men of the ' new interest,' as those of Cromwell's introduction were termed ; and he gave ample powers to this new peer to regulate the existing troops, and place and displace whom he pleased ; at the same time appointing his brother-in-law, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. " Talbot," admits Har- ris, the historian of King William, " proceeded in new modelling the army, and began with the officers in the same method, that was designed immediately * This title had been originally in the illustrious Irish Sept of O'Donnell, and was subsequently enjoyed by Owen Fitz- William, by a creation of 1663, to him and his heirs, which became extinct by his death in 1669. — S. P. tyrconnel's horse. 47 before the death of King Charles ; which was, to dis- place all officers that had been in the Parliamentary or in Oliver's army, and the sons of such. The Duke of Ormonde had directions to proceed in this manner, yet he made no progress in it, under pretence of gain- ing time to find them out, but in reality because he saw it was to make room for papists."* A similar new modelling took place in the Corpo- rations, when various Catholics of this name were introduced into the new charters. James Talbot was a burgess in that to Athenry ; James and William Talbot in that to Eoscommon ; William Talbot in that to Athy ; Major William Talbot in one to Banagher. Walter, Anthony, William, Patrick, John, and Charles Talbot were burgesses in another to Enniscorthy ; Kichard Talbot in that to Swords ; while in the char- ter to Wexford, Walter, Anthony, and William Talbot were appointed aldermen, and Patrick Talbot town-clerk of the borough. Tyrconnel's annual salary at this time as Lieu- tenant-General of the Army, was £1,410 ; that of the Earl of Clarendon, as Viceroy, £6,593 6s. 8d. On the same establishment of 1687-8, Sir William Talbot, Baronet, ranks a pensioner for £500, and Mr. William Talbot for other £50. The influence, which Lord Clarendon might be sup- posed at this period to have over his brother, could not restrain those indiscretions of his that ultimately alien- * Harris's Willuim III., p. 106-7. 48 king james's irish army list. ated the kingdom from James. At the close of 1686, he was obliged to resign the Viceroyalty, and Tyrcon- nel was deputed in his place. In August, 1687, the latter waited on King James, as before mentioned,* at Chester ; and in the November of the next year, when the Prince of Orange made his descent upon England, Tyrconnel, who was especially intrusted to support the cause of James in Ireland, promptly but unsuccessfully sought to secure Deny, from which he had previously drawn off the garrison. In a fortnight after, King James made his will at Whitehall, and therein named this Earl one of those to whom he confided the conduct of his wishes and objects. On the following 14th of March, when James, having eluded the vigilance of Admiral Herbert, who was ordered to intercept him,f after landing at Kinsale proceeded to Cork, Tyrconnel a\ iiited upon him there, and gave him an account of the state and condition of this kingdom ; represent- ing that the diligence of the Catholic Nobility and Gentry had raised above fifty regiments of Foot and several troops of Horse and Dragoons," (defining thus, as accurately as possible, the contents of the present Army List); "that he had distributed amongst them about 20,000 arms, but they were most so old and unserviceable, that not above 1,000 of the fire- arms were found afterwards to be of any use ; that the old troops, consisting of one battalion of Guards, together with Macarty's, Clancarty's, and Newton's * Ante, p. 13. f Lansdowue MSS. Brit. Museum, No. 849, f. 79. tyrconnel's horse. 49 [Newcomen's] Regiments, were, pretty well armed, as also seven companies of Mountjoy's, which were with them ; the other six having staid in Derry with Colonel Limdy and Gust. Hamilton, who were respec- tively the Lieutenant-Colonel and Major of that Regiment ; that he had three Regiments of Horse, Tyrconnel's (his own), Russell's, and one of Dragoons ; that the Catholics of the country had no arms, where- as the Protestants had great plenty, and the best horses in the Kingdom ; that for artillery he had but eight small pieces in a condition to march, the rest not mounted ; no stores in the magazines, little powder and ball, all the officers gone for England, and no money in cash."* In this the Earl's own Regiment, John Talbot of Belgard (of whom hereafter) was a Captain, while in Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Henry, William and John Talbot were Lieutenants ; George Talbot was a Major in the King's Own Infantry, as was John Talbot in Colonel John Hamilton's Foot, and Gawan Talbot in the Earl of Westmeath's. In the Earl of Clanricarde's, John Talbot was a Captain, and Luke Talbot a Lieutenant. In Colonel Henry Dillon's, Gilbert Talbot was a Lieutenant, and Mark Talbot, (whom the Montgomery MSS. describe as 1 Tyrconnel's * Clarke's Life of James the II. vol. 2. It appears that King James was entertained on this occasion at Cross-Green House in Cork; one of his pages was William Owgan, who in 1721 was Sheriff of that City ; in 1742, its Mayor ; and died in 1776, at the advanced age of 95. — Hibernian Magazines, ad ann. E 50 king james's irish army list. bastard') was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Earl of An- trim's. On the 24th March, the last day of the year, (1688), James entered Dublin, the only Capital which seemed yet willing to hail him as a King. On this occasion Tyrconnel, bearing the sword of state in a carriage, preceded the King, who followed amidst the plaudits of the multitude, gallantly mounted and ac- companied by the Earl of Granard and Lord Powis on his right, and the Duke of Berwick and Lord Melfort at his left.* A short time after, he proceeded to Deny, " though the season was very bitter," writes Colonel 0'Kelly,f " in order to preserve his Protestant subjects there from the ill-treatment which he ap- prehended they might receive from the Irish ; but he was surprised, when on appearing before the City, instead of receiving their submission," he was assailed with avowed hostility. Eeturning to Dublin, he on the 24th of April summoned his Parliament for May ; on the first of which month, anxiously looking back to Deny, he wrote to Lieutenant-Gene ral Hamilton, then encamped before that City, " you shall have all I can send you, cannon and mortars, to enable you to reduce that rebellious town ; and to make the more noise, Tyrconnel is preparing to go down to you, it being, as you well observe, of the last consequence to master it."J At and previous to this Parliament, and for the * Dub. Lit. Gazette, p. 174. t Excidium Macarice, p. 33. } MSS. T.C.D., E 2, 19. TYKCONNEL'S IIOKSE. 51 whole time while he was in Dublin, King James held his court in the Castle, and thence issued his procla- mations. At that memorable Parliament the Earl of Tyrconnel sat as a peer, while in the Commons Mark Talbot was one of the representatives of Belfast ; John Talbot (of Belgard) one for Newcastle ; James Talbot of Mount-Talbot one for Athenry ; William Talbot for the County of Louth ; Sir William Talbot, Baronet, one for the County of Meath, and another William Talbot was one of the members for the Borough of Wexford. This last was of the Bally namoney (now Castle Talbot) line, son of Walter Talbot who had been High Sheriff of the County of Wexford in 1649.* He was killed at Derry in King James's service.f One of his sons, Gabriel, became a priest and superior of a college at Oporto ; and another, James, entered the Spanish service. J Early in this session of the Parliament of Dublin, a fortnight before which (11th April) King William was crowned, Sir William Talbot came up with a message from the Commons, imparting " their earnest wish, that the Bill repealing the Act of Settlement should be passed by the Lords with all the expedition they could, because the heart and courage of the whole nation were bound up in it." Tyrconnel's patent for a Dukedom bears date the * MS. in Berm. Tower. t Graham's Hist. Derry, pp. 185, 102. See some curious particulars connected with him, in Walkers Derry, p. 31. t Burke's Landed Gentry. E 2 52 king james's irish army list. 11th July following, and in August the Duke of Schomberg landed at Carrickfergus. The former Duke was one of those, who would have held back King James from a hasty resolution of marching northwards at once, to confront his enemy ; but illness, which confined him at Chapelizod, prevented him from attending his Majesty. In September, however, he joined his King at Drogheda, declaring he would have 20,000 men there by the next night, a promise which he fulfilled, drawing his supplies chiefly from Munster. On this occasion it was that he thought it advisable to oppose those, who would have transferred the scene of war to Connaught, urging that " there was not corn enough in that Province to subsist the army for two months.* On the memorable " July the First," when King James came to the ground, " he found Tyrconnel with the right wing of Horse and Dragoons drawn up before Old Bridge ;f and on that day, fatal for the Stuart Dynasty, his and Colonel Parker's Horse suffered most. The former maintained the assault of King William's most powerful regiment, the Dutch Blue Guards, at the ford of Old Bridge, " the houses, breastworks, and hedges around which they lined." u Had the French been posted there," writes Story, (part 1, p. 80) 44 it would be more to our enemy's advantage, but the reason of this was that the Irish Guard would not lose the post of honour." Nor did they yield until after repeated charges, " driving the Dutch Guards and Schomberg's * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 378. f Idem, p. 39G. tyrconnel's horse. 53 Regiment back into the river, with a loss of a great part of their officers."* Of Tyrconnel's Regiment, Nugent (Robert) and Casanone (Peter) were wound- ed, Major Meara (Francis) and Sir Charles " Take" (?) killed.f Yet did not Tyrconnel leave the field, until the King in his retreat had passed the defile of Duleek, when, joining Lausun, he followed the Royal fugitive.^ " Tyrconnel," insinuates O'Connor, in his 1 Military Memoirs, (p. 109) "was brave in danger, pusillani- mous in disaster. In the rout of the Boyne, he viewed the cause of James as hopeless, that of William as triumphant. He had estates and dignities to preserve, and only in accommodation could he see security for them. If James remained, the contest would be prolonged beyond the hope of accommodation. He therefore sent his chaplain to him, to press his flight to France, and to work on his fears of falling into the hands of William." Colonel O'Kelly (Excid. Mac. p. 57) is yet more openly severe against Tyrconnel, accusing him of " domineering and disregard of the Irish f — " designing not to oppose King William ;" — and that he actually " sent his wife, with all his own wealth and the King's treasure, into France." When the King left Dublin a fugitive, he avowedly gave expectation that he but sought France to obtain thence such aid as would establish his power in Ireland, * O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 107. t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400. + O'Kellys Excid. Mac. p. 35. 54 king james's irish army list. and he committed the conduct of his cause in the meantime to Tyrconnel. In forty days after the battle of the Boyne, King William appeared before Limerick ; at which time Colonel O'Kelly, with the suspiciousness that too fre- quently is the sole response to Irish patriotism, charges Tyrconnel with favouring a surrender of the city to, and a treaty with, that King ; an object which he relies would have been accomplished, but for the coming in of Sarsfield, and the enthusiam the pre- sence of that darling of the army excited. Even King William was shaken by the results of his popularity, abandoned the siege, and returned to England ; where- upon Tyrconnel repaired to France to urge the promised supplies.* His departure from Ireland at such a crisis was undoubtedly reprehensible, and especially injurious to himself. " No sooner was his back turned," observe the Royal Memoirs,f "than the discontented part of the Army despatched the Bishop of Cork, Colonels Simon and Henry Luttrell, and Colonel Nicholas Purcell to St. Germains, with in- structions to solicit his recall, addressing themselves to his Majesty to this effect, — that my Lord Tyrconnel was not qualified for such a superintendence as he had hitherto exercised ; that his age and infirmities made him require more sleep than was consistent with much business ; that his want of experience in military affairs rendered him exceeding slow in his resolves, * Clarke's James II. vol.2, p. 420. f Idem, vol. 2, p. 422, &c. TYRCONNEl/S HORSE. and incapable of laying projects which no depending officer would do for him ; they relied that, should he return with the same authority again, it would dishearten the body of the nation. They complained of the desponding message he sent to the King after the battle of the Boyne, which occasioned his Majesty's leaving the Kingdom, whereas, had he but stayed a few hours longer in Dublin, he had seen such a number of fine troops as would have tempted him not to abandon them ; concluding with several per- sonal reflections, particularly against the Duke of Tyrconnel, and indeed against all that had any tie to his interest." Notwithstanding these calumnious representations, Tyrconnel, in January, 1690, near the close of that year (old style), returned still Viceroy of his country, while the promised supplies, to a nation disunited and hopeless, were in unconfiding doubt parsimoniously dispensed. " The King resolved to support his own authority in Lord Tyrconnel, and hoped to send back the army-ambassadors in such a temper as would make them live easily with him, which cost the King a great deal of trouble and pains, and was lost labour in the end. But it was the King's hard fate not only to suffer by his rebellious subjects, but to be ill-served by his allies, and tormented by divisions amongst his own people ; as if his enemies gave him not dis- quiet enough, but that his friends must also come in to their aid, to exercise his patience and aggravate his 56 king james's irish army list. sufferings by turns."* The French offerings to the cause, as they came with Tyrconnel, consisted of a scanty supply of provisions, clothes, arms, and am- munition (by design, as Colonel O'Kelly would insinu- ate). Story speaks of the contributions (part 2, p. 51-2) as "some soldiers' coats and caps, but such sorry ones, that the Irish themselves could easily see in what esteem the Monarch of France held them." Tyrconnel's first act of administration, on his return, was to order the Duke of Berwick, whose conduct had much disappointed him, out of Ireland, f The privations of the Irish Army the while increased, so much so that they had it communicated to their King " over the water," that in case the expected fleet did not come promptly from France, there would need no enemy to destroy them. The Duke of Tyrconnel had, however, been making all the preparations he could in the interim, and had distributed the small resources he possessed, as long as they lasted, with as much impar- tiality as possible ; at last, upon the 8th of May, 1691, the French fleet appeared in the Shannon, and in it was " St. Euth, with other French officers, as also those gentlemen who had been in France to solicit the Duke's removal ; which, though the King had not yielded to, he however had so far given way to their advice, as to abridge his power in reference to the military affairs, the direction of which was vested so wholly in St. Euth, that Tyrconnel, who before could * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 422. f Idem, vol. 2, p. 435. tyrcoxxel's horse. 57 have made a Lieutenant-General, had not now power to make a Colonel, [thus accounting for some of the changes which were subsequently made in the Army List]. This so lowered his credit in the army, that little regard was had to his authority ; but he pru- dently submitted, and left the whole management of it to St. Ruth, u who seemingly carried fair, but in the bottom was prepossessed against him."* Tyrconnel, when he found that the French commander brought no money, earnestly applied to King James to procure for the Irish government even a thousand pistoles, and retrenched even the necessary expences of his own family and establishment ; but the request could not be granted. The deserted Irish were left utterly to their own resources and exertions, and this at a crisis when individual views were so differing and distracted. " The King," plead the Eoyal Memoirs, " was forced to work with such tools as he had, or such as were put into his hands by others, which required as much dexterity to hinder their hurting one another, and by consequence himself, as to draw any use from such ill-suited and jarring instruments." In the last struggle for the defence of Lime- rick, Tyrconnel evinced his honour and allegiance. " Though bent with age, and weighed down with cor- pulency, he assumed no inconsiderable degree of activity in repairing the fortifications of that town, establishing magazines, and enforcing discipline ; and made the officers and soldiers (first showing the * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 450. 58 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. example himself) take an oath of fidelity to James, embracing a resolution to defend his Majesty's rights to the last, and never to surrender without his con- sent. He at the same time despatched an express to St. Germains, [such communications were then of difficult transmission], begging speedy succour or leave to make terms. He was powerfully aided by Sarsfield [to whom he had brought a patent creating him Earl of Lucan], whose intentions (says O'Conor) were always right and zealous for the king's service ; but their efforts were unhappily counteracted by treachery and discord, on which the English general relied more than on the number and valour of his own troops."* While this veteran patriot was "struggling with the calamitous circumstances of his country, he was seized with a fit of apoplexy on St. Laurence's day, soon after he had done his devotion ; and, though he came to his senses and speech again, yet he only lan- guished two or three days, and then died, just when he was on the point of effecting a unity at least amongst themselves, the want of which was the greatest evil they laboured under, "f He died in the middle of August, about a month before De Ginkell commenced the siege, and was buried in St. Mun- chins Cathedral within the city. There is not a stone to tell where he lies. Harris says, in his Life of King William, that this great Irishman died " some * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, &c. p. 162-3. j Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 162. tykconnel's horse. 59 say of poison, administered to him in a cup of ratafia, because lie would not comply with the prevailing fac- tion then in the town ; while others attributed his death to fever, and some to grief for the ruin of his measures." " He was a man," writes Colonel O'Kelly, "of stately presence, bold and resolute, of greater courage than conduct, naturally proud and passion- ate, of moderate parts but of unbounded ambition. In his private friendships he was observed to be inconstant (and some did not shame to accuse him of it), even to them by whose assistance he gained his point, when he once obtained his own ends." He " headed the peace party," says O'Conor, " supported by the Hamiltons, Talbots, Nugents, Burkes, Rices, Butlers, Sheldons, all of English descent, who pre- ferred William as king of Great Britain and Ireland to James as king of Ireland only ; and, in despair of reinstating the latter in his ancestral throne, sought to preserve their own possessions by accommo- dation."* Again says O'Conor, " the English praised Tyrconnel as a lover of peace, yet confiscated all his estates ; which, if he had lived a month longer, would have been preserved by the Treaty of Limerick. "f Sir Bernard Burke in his Extinct Peerage (page 698) expressively writes in relation to Tyrconnel ; " Of him much ill has been written, and more believed ; but his history, like that of his unfortunate country, has been written by the pen of party, steeped in gall, and copied servilely from the pages * rTConors Military Memoirs, p. 114. f Idem, p. 167. 60 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. of prejudice by the lame historians of modern times, more anxious for authority than authenticity. Two qualities he possessed in an eminent degree, wit and valour ; and, if to gifts so brilliant and so Irish he joined devotion to his country and fidelity to the unfortunate and fated family, with whose exile he began life and on whose ruin he finished it, it cannot be denied that in his character the elements of evil were mixed with great and striking good. Under happier cir- cumstances the good might have predominated, and he, whose deeds are held by his own family in such high estimate, might have shed a wider lustre on his race." All these views of Tyrconnel's character may be closed with the emphatic words which Mason, in his excellent History of St. Patrick's Cathedral, breathes over his grave, " Whatever were his faults, he had the rare merit of sincere attachment to an unfortunate master." He died without issue male, when William Talbot of Haggardstown, his nephew, to whom the earldom was limited in remainder by the creation patent of 1685, assumed that title ; but, having been attainted by the description of William Talbot of Dundalk, he, too, pined in poverty at St. Germains. His son attained the rank of a Lieutenant-General in the armies of France, but died without issue, and in him the earldom in this name became extinct.* Tyrcon- * It was afterwards revived in the Herefordshire family of ( Carpenter, by a creation of 1761; while Sir John Brownlow, Baron of Charleville, was previously (1718) created Viscount Tyrconnel. tyrconnel's horse. 61 nel himself left issue two daughters, who married foreign noblemen. He had also two sisters, Frances, married first to James Cusack of Cushinstown, bar- rister, by whom she had three sons ; Captain Thomas Cusack, killed in France ; Captain William, killed in Portugal ; and Nicholas Cusack, the captain in this his uncle's regiment ; with one daughter, Helen Cu- sack, married to Robert Arthur of Hacketstown, County of Dublin, Lieutenant of Horse. On the death of Cusack, this lady married to her second hus- band the Honorable Thomas Newcomen, Privy Coun- cillor, Brigadier of his Majesty's forces, and Colonel of a Foot Regiment in Ireland, and by him she had also issue five daughters : 1st, Katherine, married to Simon Luttrell, Lieutenant-colonel of the Regiment of Foot commanded by Sir Thomas Newcomen ; 2nd, Alice, married to Major William Nugent, son of the Earl of Westmeath ; 3rd, Frances, married to Sir Ro- bert Gore, Knight, Captain of a Foot Company, eldest son of Sir Francis Gore, Knight ; 4th, Margaret, the wife of Sir Maurice Eustace of Castlemartin, Baronet, Captain in the Infantry ; and 5th, Mary, the wife of Charles White of Leixlip, one of the Privy Council. Frances, Lady Newcomen, died 17th February, 1687, and was buried at Clonsillagh, near Luttrellstown. [Funeral Entries in Berm. Tur.~\ Tyrconnel's second sister, Lucinda, married Edward Cusack of Lismullen, by whom she had a son, Patrick Cusack, a Dominican friar, who became Bishop of Meath, and was King James's High Almoner and Grand Chaplain, while he remained in this country. 62 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. It may here be noticed that, on the 14th of December, 1691, George Talbot, described as of the City of Dublin, who had been previously outlawed, obtained a warrant for a nolle prosequi on his indict- ment, grounded on his petition, which stated him an Englishman and a Protestant ; that he was in 1681 made Captain of a Company of Foot in Ireland by the Duke of Ormonde, and so continued until the 2nd July, 1690, when he was the first who, after the battle of the Boyne, surrendered himself in Dublin, and gave up at the Castle there, his own and other fire-arms ; that he had given protection to Protes- tants during the reign of James ; that, since his sur- render, he had behaved himself peaceably and loyally, and had taken the oath of fidelity before the Com- missioners ; the truth of all which allegations the Attorney-General certified. About the same time, Richard Talbot of Malahide memorialed for a pardon and restitution of his estates, he having been also outlawed. His petition alleged that, while he admit- ted he had held the office of Auditor-General to King- James, he had filled no other office or trust, civil or military, in his time; and relied that when King William, after the battle of the Boyne, was advan- cing on Dublin, he had surrendered himself in the camp at Finglas, on the 9th July, 1690, and had ever since behaved himself " civilly and inoffensively towards that monarch's government ;" the truth and sufficiency of which purgation the Solicitor-General also certified, and the prayer was granted. TYHCONNEL'S HORSE. 63 The widow of Tyrconnel and her daughters lived for some time in the Court at St. Germains, with the Ex- King, supported by a small pension which Louis XIV. allowed them ; but having established her right to a portion of jointure in 1703, as hereafter noticed, and her daughters being married on the Continent, she resolved on going over to Ireland. The state of her health, however, induced her first to try the effi- cacy of the baths at Aix-la-Chapelle, and in Murray's Despatches of the Duke of Marlborough, is preserved one of his Grace, from the Camp at Tirlemont, to the authorities of that town, written with the object of procuring attention and welcome for the Duchess, then journeying thither. He also wrote to herself, 5th September, 1705 : — " The first notice I received of your intention to go to Aix, I immediately despatched a trumpet to the French army, who brought me this morning the en- closed pass. I have likewise ordered eight dragoons to attend on you on your coming to the Bosch. These will wait on you to Maestricht, where the Governor will give you another escort on to Aix. I heartily wish you a good journey, and all the success you can desire with the waters. If I should not be able to have the satisfaction of seeing you at the waters, I hope to have that of meeting you in Holland, before I em- bark ; being with much truth, Madam, Your Grace's most obedient humble servant, M." 64 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. In 1708, she was in Brussels, and only then, it would seem, on the eve of departure. On the 24th of May in that year, Marlborough wrote to his own Duchess : — " When I took leave of Lady Tyrconnel, she told me that her jointure in Ireland was in such disorder, that there was an absolute necessity for her going thither for two or three months, for the better settling of it. As the climate of Ireland will not per- mit her being there in the winter, she should begin her journey about ten days hence ; she said that she did not intend to go to London, but hoped she might have the pleasure of seeing you at St. Alban's. I have offered her all that might be in my power to make her journey to Holland and England easy, as also that if she cared to stay at St. Alban's, either at her going or return, you would offer it her with a good heart. You will find her face a good deal changed, but, in the discourse I have had with her, she seems to be very reasonable and kind."* On her return to Dublin, she fixed her residence at Arbour Hill, a healthy and picturesque situation near the Phoenix Park ; and there, after founding a Nunnery for poor Clares in the adjacent locality of King-street, this lady, who once adorned Courts and passed through the libertine manners of Charles the Second's days un- blemished, closed her life in March, 1730-1, at the advanced age of 92. " Her death," says Walpole, " was occasioned by her falling out of bed on the floor * Jesse's Memoirs of the Court of England, vol. 4, p. 156. tyrconnel's horse. 65 in a winter's night, and being too feeble to rise or to call, she was found in the morning so perished with cold, that she died in a few hours." She is described as then appearing low in stature, and extremely ema- ciated ; without the slightest trace of ever having been a beauty. She was buried, with her daughters by George Count Hamilton, the 4 three Viscountesses' before mentioned, ante page 45, in a vault of St. Patrick's Cathedral ; while a mural slab, in St. Andrew's Scotch College at Paris, is her commemora- tion in a land where she had passed many of her days of joy and sorrow. It records her as having been a great benefactress to that establishment, and as having provided an endowment for the celebration of a daily mass for ever there, for the repose of her soul, and those of her two husbands. The Talbots outlawed in 1691 were Kichard Earl of Tyrconnel, so attainted by seven inquisitions, and by one other as Kichard, son of William Talbot, called Lord Tyrconnel ; Richard Talbot of Boolis, County Meath ; Richard Talbot of Malahide, County Dublin ; John Talbot of Dardistown, County Meath, John Talbot of Belgard, County Dublin ; John, Patrick, and Anthony Talbot of Wexford ; Wil- liam Talbot of Kilcarty, County Meath, Baronet ; other William Talbots described as of Wexford, of Wicklow, of Fassaroe, County Wicklow, of Haggards- town and of Dundalk, County Louth, and of StrafFan, County Kildare. James Talbot of Templeogue, County Dublin ; James Talbot of Mount Talbot, F 66 king james's irish army list. County Roscommon ; Brine, or Bruno Talbot of Dublin, (who was James's Chancellor of the Exche- quer,* but he early made his submission to King Wil- liam). Francis Talbot of Powerscourt, County Wicklow ; Marcus Talbot of Dublin and of the County Derry. (This last was, as before mentioned, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Earl of Antrim's Infantry, member of Parliament for Belfast in 1689, and sig- nalised himself by a gallant sally on the occasion of the first siege of Limerick, but was taken prisoner at Augh- rim). Charlotte Talbot, a daughter of Tyrconnel, was also attainted, as Was Frances his widow. The latter, however, preferred her suit, at the Court of Chichester House, Dublin, in 1700, for her jointure off the lands of Cabragh, County Dublin, forfeited by her late husband, and the claim was allowed. Lucy Talbot sought and was allowed, as Administratrix of William Talbot, the benefit of a leasehold of County Roscom- mon lands. — Jane Talbot claimed and was allowed an annuity, left by the will of Colonel Gilbert Talbot in 1674, and charged on houses in Limerick forfeited by Sir William Talbot. — Mary Talbot, a minor, sought, by her guardian, James Donnellan, and was allowed, a large charge on houses in Dublin, forfeited by James Talbot. — Helen and Margaret Talbot, daughters of George Talbot, deceased, also minors, by Patrick Talbot, their guardian, claimed the reversion of an estate tail in County of Roscommon lands, for- * Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 65. tyrconnel's horse. 67 feited by George Talbot, such reversion accruing, if their brother James Talbot should die without issue ; and their claim was allowed, subject to that contin- gency ; while said James himself claimed and was al- lowed that estate tail, and Sarah Talbot was allowed a jointure off said lands. — Lastly, Henry Talbot, a minor, by George Holmes, his guardian, claimed a remainder in Templeogue, and other lands in the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by James Talbot ; but his claim was dismist.* In the cause of Prince Charles-Edward and his in- vasion of 1745, a Captain James Talbot and Major Talbot were engaged at Prestonpans, and Brigadier General 4 de Tyrconnel ' was taken prisoner by the English at sea in 1746. f LIEUT.-COLONEL DOMINICK SHELDON. The Sheldons are an existing family of respecta- bility at Brailes-House in the County of Warwick, having been theretofore established at Beoly in that of Worcester. Ralph Sheldon of Beoly accompanied Charles the Second in his flight to Boscobel, aiding his concealment in the Oak, to the foot of which he and three others attended their Royal master ; J and of * Registries of Claims in Custom House Records. t Gent. Mag., v. 14, p. 416 ; and v. 16, pp 29, 145, 208 i Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 1226. F 2 68 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. this line, it would seem most probable, was Lieutenant Colonel Dominick. It is true that a Lieutenant Wil- liam Sheldon passed patent in 1666 as a ' soldier ' for 858 acres plantation measure in the County Tipper- ary, but it cannot be presumed that an immediate re- lative of his would be an adherent of James. The sur- name was even previously known in Ireland in the County Limerick, where a Miss Sheldon of that place intermarried in the seventeenth century with Mr. Leonard Drew, of a Devonshire family, a branch of which is yet represented in Youghal. * The Peerage Books afford strong confirmation of this officer having been of the Brailes-House line, when they record that Arthur Dillon of the noble line of Costello at the close of the seventeenth century married Christiana, the daughter of Ralph Sheldon, whom Lodge describes as ' niece of the Colonel,' while O'Callaghan (Brigades, p. 100) says she was maid of Honor to the Queen of James the Second. Inquiries on the lineage have been directed to Brailes-House, Viscount Dillon, and others, in vain. It does, however, seem almost certain that the Colonel was brother to the Ralph Sheldon, whom Sir Bernard Burke in his ' Landed Gentry,' (f. 1226) describes as " of Steeple Barton, afterwards of Weston and Beoly," and as having "died in 1720." In Clarke's Life of James II. (vol. ii. p. 252) this Ralph Sheldon is said to have aided that monarch's escape from Whitehall to Feversham. * Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 106. tyrconnel's horse, 69 This Dominick Sheldon, who had been a Captain to the Duke of Ormonde, (see post, at 1 Col. Francis Car- rol,') is on the establishment of 1687-8* set down for a pension of £200 per annum. Colonel O'Kelly repre- sents him as having been " an Englishman by birth, of the Roman Catholic religion, brought into Ireland on the accession of James the Second, by Tyrconnel, and by him made Captain of a company of men at arms. He afterwards promoted him to be his Lieu- tenant, with the command of his Regiment in his absence ; and, by his uncontrollable power with James, he (Tyrconnel) procured for this favourite a commis- sion to be one of the General Officers, though still a Lieutenant-Colonel, and got his commission dated before that of Sarsfield, whom he designed to sup- press."! Early in this campaign, " the Irish army, under Major General Richard Hamilton and 'Major ' Dominick Sheldon, having taken the fort of Hillsbo- rough and plundered Lisburn, Belfast and Antrim, laid siege to Coleraine ; but there they met with such a warm reception from Major Gustavus Hamilton, who commanded in the town, and spared no charge or pains to make it tenable, that they were forced to * In the MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin, is (E 1. 1) the " List of Payments made for civil and military affairs, with pensions in Ireland for one year, beginning 1st January, 1687." It appears to be the original book, a vellum manuscript, signed by the Council in England. It is dated 3rd February, 1687-8, at Whitehall. t O'Callaghan's Macarice Excidium, pp. 150-1. 70 king james's irish army list. draw off with considerable loss, whereby their designs against Derry were retarded."* When afterwards his King retired from investing the latter place, 1 Major ' Dominick Sheldon was one of the officers whom he left before it to continue the siege. He afterwards commanded the Cavalry at the Boyne, and had two horses shot under him.f " A gallant charge under General Sheldon at Sheep-house might have given a different termination to the fight at the Boyne, but for the prompt heroism of Levison's and Sir Albert Conyngham's Dragoons, who, getting in the rere of their antagonists, jumped from their saddles, lined the hedges on both sides of the road, and, on the return of the enemy from their successful charge, fired on them with deadly effect, while Ginkle taking them in the rear completed their discomfiture. "J When, on the 30th of August, 1690, King William abandoned his siege of Limerick, Sarsfield recommended that he should be closely and vigorously pursued, and offered to conduct the pursuit in person ; but, according to Colonel O'Kelly, Tyrconnel gave private orders to Sheldon, his Lieutenant-Colonel, to march the greater part of the Horse into Connaught. He was however ordered back by d'Usson and De Tesse, when he promptly obeyed ; but, after continuing in Limerick three days, he and his force were again commanded to march into the country, as for convenience of forage ; * Lodge's Peerage, v. 5, p. 175. t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400. J Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 326. tyrcoxnel's horse. 71 lvhereas, says Colonel O'Kelly, " they had sufficient quantity of oats within Limerick to feed all their horses for two months to come, and the enemy could not keep the field for half that time." Lieutenant-Colonel Sheldon, with Colonels Max- well and John Hamilton, constituted the Directory which Tyrconnel, when going over to France to urge the supplies, deputed to advise the Duke of Berwick in the charge of government cast upon him. At the last siege of Limerick, in September, 1691, " when by Clifford's neglect the enemy was permitted to make a bridge of boats here near Annaghbeg, and thus passed over their Horse and Dragoons . between the Irish Horse and the town, Colonel Sheldon could only, by advancing the picket, stop the enemy at a pass, till himself would be able to gain the mountains with his horse and foot, and so make their way to Six-mile- bridge, a manoeuvre which was with great difficulty performed at last ; but not being able to subsist there, they were ordered back towards Clare, upon which the enemy passed a great body of horse and dragoons over their new bridge, and came before Limerick at Thomond Gate."* Colonel O'Kelly, with his usual inclination to find fault with any of Tyrconners party, unjustifiably upbraids Sheldon for the "want of courage or conduct" which this retreat, according to him, evinced. Pending the treaty for surrendering the town, Colonel Sheldon dined at the English camp, * Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 463-4. 72 king james's irish army list. and, after the capitulation, Sarsfield entrusted to him the care of embarking the Irish refugees, " whose de- parture marks one of the most mournful epochs in our sad history."* Upon his landing them in France, King James wrote him a letter of acknowledgment from St. Germains, adding how well satisfied he was " with the behaviour and conduct of the officers, and the valour and fidelity of the soldiers ; and how sensi- ble he should ever be of their services, which he would not fail to reward when it should please God to put him in a capacity of doing so."f Edward Sheldon and Sheldon, Esqrs. were subsequently of the Board of Green Cloth at the Court of St. Germains. J It is somewhat contradictory in Colonel O'Kelly's estimate of Sheldon that, while he censures as above that officer's retreat from before Limerick, as discou- raging his party from defending the City,§ he yet insi- nuates, immediately previous to the sarcasm, that " Sheldon and Lord Galmoy, true Tyrconnelists, wrote (it is believed) more comfortably into France than was suggested by Tyrconnel, and that they en- gaged to hold out to the last extremity in hope of a powerful relief from thence, of men, money, and all other necessaries to prosecute the war, which (he adds) if timely sent had certainly preserved Ireland."^ * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 192. t See this letter in full in O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 63. X Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 411. § Excidium Macarim, p. 149. f Idem, p. 147. tyrconnel's horse. 73 This Lieutenant-Colonel was outlawed in 1691 on two inquisitions, being in one styled of Dublin, in the other of Pennyburn-mill, County Deny. In France, whither he passed over, he ranked Colonel of a Brigade Eegiment of Horse, styled par excellence i the King's Regiment;' of which Edmond Prendergast was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, (having theretofore held that rank in Colonel Hugh Sutherland's Horse), and Edmond Butler, his Cornet in Tyrconnel's, was appointed Major in the Brigade. In 1702, Sheldon so distinguished himself against the Baron de Mercy, that he was raised from the rank of Colonel to be a Lieutenant-G-eneral, and all the supernumerary offi- cers of his Regiment were put upon full pay. At the conflicts of the Mincio and Po in 1702 against Prince Eugene, "great glory was acquired by Sheldon's Horse, to which a number of reduced officers were attached as volunteers. These gallant gentlemen, exiled from their native land, reduced to French half-pay scarce sufficient for subsistence, preferred the activity of a camp to the indolence and obscurity of a French provincial town King Louis, to mark his satisfaction at the distinguished manner in which they had acted, raised their pay to an equality with that of officers of Infantry of the same rank."* " In 1703, when the Imperialists under Visconti were posted on the Christallo, whose precipitous banks that General thought secured him against surprise or at- * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 240-1. 74 king james's irish army list. tack, Vendome the French commander, his opponent, selected the best of his Eegiments of cavalry, and amongst these Sheldon's Horse, to surround and attack Visconti. The Imperialists, taken by surprise while their horses were at grass, were overwhelmed and driven into the Sassoni, a river in their rere, where most of those who were not cut down were drowned. Sheldon's Horse had a principal share in this brilliant affair, in which their commander was himself wounded."* In 1703 his brigade was not less distinguished in the Army of the Rhine, and at the battle of Spire, where he was again wounded. The name of his Regiment was afterwards changed to 'Nugent's,' again in 1733 to Fitz- James's, and was dis- banded in 1763. MAJOR FRANCIS MEARA. The O'Mearas were a distinguished territorial sept in the Barony of Upper Ormond, County Tipperary, and the name of their principal residence, Tuaim-ui- Meara, is still retained in that of Toomavara, within that district, yet the only individuals of the name, who appear in the outlawries of 1642, are Dermot Meara, described as " of Dublin," and Catherine his wife. In the commencement of the seventeenth century * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 256. tyrconnel's horse. 75 flourished Dermod O'Meara, a physician and a poet, who, Ware says in his " Writers," was educated at Oxford. He wrote a history of the House of Ormond in verse, as also some prose medical treatises. His son, Edmund O'Meara, also a Doctor of Oxford and a member of the College of Physicians of London, resided for some time at Bristol, and died in 1680, leaving three sons, William, a physician also ; the above Major Francis, his second son ; and the third, a Jesuit.* This Francis was one of the burgesses in King James's Charter of 1687 to Wicklow, and was sheriff of that county in the following year. He was killed at the battle of the Boyne.f A funeral entry in Bermingham Tower, Office of Arms, records the death of Teigue O'Meara of Lishenuske, County Tipperary, (son and heir of William O'Meara of do., son and heir of Donnell O'Meara of do. ), who had married Honora, daughter of Eobert Grace of Courtstown, County Kilkenny ; by whom he had issue three sons, Daniel, William, and Patrick, and two daughters. Said Teigue died at Killballykelty, County Waterford, 30th April, 1636, and was interred at Clonmel. Another member of this sept, Thomas Meara, was a Lieutenant in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Regiment of Foot ; and a Thady O'Meara, having been seized of various lands in the county of his sept, and being an adherent of James, was attainted ; when Daniel O'Meara claimed a fee-tail therein ; while in a patent * Ware's Writers, p. 190. + Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 400. 76 king james's irish army list. of lands in the same county to John Otway, a saving was contained of the rights of Theodore " Maragh" to certain townlands specified therein. At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Captain O'Meara was of the wounded in Clare's Brigade. He was liv- ing in 1793, when he resided with his son, General Felix O'Meara, Commandant of Dunkirk. This lat- ter individual went into the French service in 1755, being then but eighteen years of age, and was imme- diately received into Rothe's Eegiment. In the same year hostilities commenced in Europe, by Admiral Boscawen's taking the Alcide and Le Lys, French ships of war ; and preparations were made for land actions on both sides. The Irish regiments embodied in France were sent to garrison Calais, Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Ardres, on that frontier of France nearest to England, as it was the policy of the French king to oppose the Irish troops to those of England. Here O'Meara, sharing in all the services of his regiment, gradually rose, as vacancies occurred. In 1778, when this brigade was incorporated with French regiments, O'Meara, then a Captain, had the same rank given him in that of Auvergne, which was the second in military estimate of all the Infantry of that country. Peace had existed between the two kingdoms for some years previously ; but hostilities again breaking out in the latter year, (which led to the American war), Captain O'Meara for a time took part with Royalty. In the succeeding years, however, of intestine commotion in France, he, being then tyrconnel's house. 77 Lieutenant-Colonel, resigned his commission to the Crown, and, embracing the Republican movement, received a fresh commission from the National party. He fought under General Duniourier, afterwards un- der General Dampierre, and was subsequently raised to the rank of Lieutenant-General, with the defence of Dunkirk confided to him.* There he subse- quently married a young lady with a fortune of 80,000 livr^s. Three younger brothers of his were also officers in the French service.f CAPTAIN JOHN ROCH. David de la Roche, son of Alexander de Rupe, alias de la Roche, was the founder of this ancient Norman family in Ireland. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, by the Princess Joan his wife, daughter of King Edward the First. J From that marriage descended a race that acquired the lordship and territory of Fermoy, in the County of Cork, a district hence known as the Roches' Country. During the reign of that English monarch, several Royal letters were addressed to members of this family, requiring their aid and personal service in the Scottish wars ; • sum- monses were afterwards directed to them to attend * Gent.'s Mag., 1703, p. 449. f Anth. Hib., v. 2, 239. j Burke's Landed Gentry, f. 1132. 78 king james's irish army list. the earliest Irish Parliaments ; and about the year 1320, George de la Roche, who had been theretofore twice cited as a Baron to Parliaments held in Dublin, was fined 200 marks for non-attendance. In 1344 the King summoned Lord Roche, by the style of "Capitaneus des Rocheyns," to attend him in the wars in France. This nobleman was, according to Lodge, John, Lord Roche, who intermarried with Eleanor, daughter of the second Lord Kerry, by whom he had the first Countess of Kildare, mother of the first Countess of Carrick, mother of the first Earl of Ormond.* In 1377, John Roche of Fermoy had summons by writ to Parliament. f It may be here remarked, that in this and the two ensuing centuries, the Lords Roche of Fermoy are, in the Annals, Eccle- siastical Records, and official documents, universally recognised in their character of Irish chieftains, as well as of Anglo-Irish peers, by the style and title of " Capitanei suae nationis ;" and their inheritance is designated the Roches' Country, not only in the an- cient maps of Ireland, but in the Acts of Henry the Eighth, Elizabeth, and even down to the time of Cromwell. David Roche, Lord Roche, surnamed the Great, sat in Parliament as Yiscount Roche of Fer- moy in the reigns of Edward the Fourth and Henry the Seventh. J He was one of the Peers whom the latter Sovereign invited to the entertainment at * Lodge's Peerage, 1st edition, vol. 2, p. 103. •)■ Burke's Extinct Peerage, f. 711. { Idem, f. G92. tyrconnel's horse. 79 Greenwich, where he caused Lambert Simnel to attend as a menial.* Before and after this year, the mayor- alty of Cork was repeatedly filled by a Eoche. An original letter of 1556, from the Clergy, &c. of Kin- sale to Queen Mary, recommending Patrick Eoche for the then vacant See of Cork and Cloyne, is pre- served in the Cottonian Collection of the British Museum. In Perrot's memorable Parliament of 1585, Yiscount Fermoy attended on summons, while Philip Eoche sat there as member for Kinsale. Soon after the attainders consequent upon the Des- mond rebellion, John, son of Dorninick Eoche of Limerick, emigrated to Eochelle ; as did Maurice and John Eoche, two sons of John Eoche of Ellenfinch- town, in December, 1601, with Juan de Aquila, for Spain,f where it is believed the name still exists. Very extensive estates of John Eoche Fitz-Thomas, in the County Waterford, were granted in 1605 to Sir Eichard Boyle. About the year 1630, the Eeve- rend Mr. Eoche, President of the College of Douay, and subsequently Eoman Catholic Bishop of Eoss in Ireland, founded an establishment for Irish priests at Antwerp, where they were supported, " partly by the alms given at masses, and partly by the benevolence of the people ;" but Harris, in his account of such Irish establishments, attributes this foundation to a Mr. Laurence Sedgrave. The family were ever warm adherents of the * Bermingham's Remarks on Baronages, p. 54. t Pacata Hibernia, p. 426. 80 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Stuarts. David, Viscount Fernioy, lost in the Koyal cause in the war of 1641 estates worth £50,000 per annum. He was himself banished, with a Eeginient of which he had the command, to France, where he died. Amongst those attainted in 1643, were Maurice, Lord Viscount Fermoy, Patrick Eoche of Poolenelong, Richard of G-liny, David of Ballynacloghy, James of Keniere, John of Ballinvallagh, William and Adam of Bhyncorran, Thomas of Aghlenane, Ulick of Ballin- dangan, Edmund of Ballinlegan, Theobald and Wil- liam of Killeigh, Eedmond of Garravadrolane, Miles and Edward of Castletown, Theobald Fitz-John Eoche of do., Ulick Fitz-John of do., and William Fitz- Thomas Eoche of Clostage, all in the County of Cork. Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in 1646, sat Maurice Eoche, Viscount Fermoy, with the Peers ; and David Eoche of Glanaure, John Eoche of Castletown, and Redmond Eoche of Cahirdowgan in the Commons. When Ireton took Limerick in 1651, Alderman Jordan Eoche, Edmund Eoche, Esq., and David Eoche were three of the twenty-four excluded from mercy ; and Cromwell's Act " for settling Ire- land," passed in the following year, excepted Maurice Eoche, Viscount Fermoy, from pardon for life and estate. After witnessing and sharing many of the visitations of the civil war, George and John Eoche withdrew in exile to Flanders, where they found their Prince, for whom they had suffered so much, also a fugitive and a wanderer. It is recorded of them that, with their kinsman Viscount Fermoy, they shared their military tyrconnel's horse. 81 pay with Charles,* a " service which," adds Sir Ber- nard, "the monarch overlooked at the Restoration." The reproach was supererogation in the annals of that race. Even the Declaration of Royal Gratitude, spread out in the Act of Settlement, names of this family only Captain Miles " Roache," of the County of Cork, " for services beyond the seas." In King James's Charter of 1687 to Cork, Patrick and John Roch were appointed Aldermen, and Ed- mund Roche a free Burgess. In that of the same year to Limerick, Dominick Roche, Esq., and Thomas Roch, merchant, were named Aldermen. The former was by King James, on his arrival in Ireland, cre- ated Baron Tarbert and Viscount Cahiravahilla.f In the new Charter to Kinsale, Edward, Patrick, and Edmund Roche, and John Roche Fitz-Edmund were Burgesses. In those of 1688 to Cloghnekilty, John Roche was a Burgess, as was James Roch in that to Mallow. In the Charter to Wexford, An- thony, James, and John Roche were Burgesses ; in that to Middleton, Philip Roche was one of the two Bailiffs. In those of 1689, Edward Roche was a Burgess in one to Fethard ; Edward Roche and James Roche were Burgesses in that to Charleville. In the pension list of 1687-8 appear entries of £150 per annum for " Lord Roche's children," and of £100 per annum " for the now Lord Roche." * Burke's Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 280. f Ferrar's Limerick. G 82 king james's jrish army list. In the Parliament of Dublin sat David Roche, Viscount Fermoy (as on out-lawry reversed) amongst the Peers. He was afterwards drowned at Ply- mouth in the great storm of 1703, and was succeeded in the title by Ulick Roche,* who dying without issue, was succeeded by John Roche of Ballendangan, "who," writes Smith in 1745,f "is now in the ser- vice of the King of Sardinia, and has no issue. He was during the late war in the service of that King, in the rank of a General Officer, and is a great favourite of the Prince. He was sent at different times to prevent the French and Spaniards from crossing the Alps into Italy, distinguished himself in a brave defence of Augusta ; and, when compelled to surrender Casal, the French and Spanish Generals paid him all military honors, and entertained him nobly in their camp. After being a prisoner for some time, he returned to the Sardinian service." Besides the above Captain John Roche, there ap- pear of the name on this List, Mathew Roche, a Lieutenant in Lord Galinoy's Horse ; Maurice Roche a Captain, and Nicholas Roche an Ensign in Colonel Thomas Butler's Infantry ; James Roche a Captain in Lord Kilmallock's ; James Roche a Lieutenant in Major-General Boiseleau's, in which David Roche also was an Ensign. In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund Roche was a Lieutenant, and another David Roche an Ensign. In Sir Michael Creagh's, Philip Roche was a Captain, and another Philip a Lieutenant. In * NicholTs Peerage. | History of Cork, v. 1, p. 345. tyrconnel's horse. 83 Golonel Owen MacCartie's, Philip and John Roche were Captains, Ulick a Lieutenant, and David and James Eoche Ensigns ; in Colonel Gordon O'Neill's, James Eoche was an Ensign ; and lastly, in Colonel John Barrett's, Ulick Eoche was a Lieutenant, and David and James Eoche were Ensigns. The outlawries of 1691 present the following Eoches of that period : Philip Eoche of Dublin, of Brickfields, County of Cork, and of Poulelong, in the same County ; James Eoche of Ballymontagh, Coun- ty of Kilkenny, and of Feartagh, County of Cork ; David Eoche of Aghane, County of Wexford, and of Curraheen, County of Waterford ; David Eoche of Limerick, merchant ; Michael Eoche of Poulenelong, County of Cork ; Eichard and Maurice Eoche of Kinsale, County of Cork ; Maurice " Eoach" of Cork ; John Eoch of Ballydanton, County of Cork, of Skib- bereen, County of Cork, of Bally ado w, County of Wexford, and of Hussabeg, County of Clare ; Joshua Eoch of Knocknamana, County of Cork ; Theobald Eoach of Ballydallon, County of Cork ; Patrick Eoach of Dundauran, County of Cork ; Patrick Eoache of Kerrane, County of Wexford ; Patrick of Fount ainstown, County of Cork ; Dominick and An- drew of Cork ; Edward of Bally ado w, County of Wexford, and of Curraheen, County of Waterford ; Eedmond Eoche of Killehaly, County of Waterford ; and Stephen Eoach of Curwarragher, County of Cork. This latter, on his attainder, retired to Kilrush, County of Clare ; and afterwards to Pallis, in the neighbourhood of his brother-in-law, William Apjohn. g 2 84 king james's irish army list. They had married two sisters, Anastasia and Cathe- rine Lysaght, daughters and co-heiresses of William Lysaght.* At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Cathe- rine Roche, alias Lavallier, widow of Edward Eoche, claimed against the then proprietor of Trabolgan, Francis, son of said Edward, her jointure thereoff ; but her petition was dismist ; as was that of Clara Eoche for a jointure off the County of Cork lands, forfeited by Philip Eoche. It may be mentioned that amongst the Southwell MSS. some years since offered for sale by Thomas Thorpe of Covent Garden, London, were curious Col- lege Accounts of Lord Eoche, from June, 1711, to December, 1712. His tuition in dancing, fencing and riding, quadrupled in amount the charges for the mathematics, French, &c. Four dozen of gloves for him cost forty-eight shillings, a pair of leather breeches a guinea and sixpence, and there was due to the perriwig-maker twelve pounds, Lord Eoche being- then a mere boy.f The education of this young lord seems to have resulted from a petition of Lady Eoche, forwarded in October, 1703, on her failure of relief at the Court of Claims, by Mr. Canton Haly on her behalf, to Mr. Secretary Southwell ; wherein she en- treated " certain monies to send Lord Eoche's chil- dren on sight for England, who are in a most forlorn * Old Family MSS. t Southwell MSS. Catal., p. 192. tyrconnel's horse. 85 condition ; which will be one everlasting deed of cha- rity, and an eternal obligation upon the family."* CAPTAIN NICHOLAS CUSACK. The origin and early notices of this surname are so fully given in Sir Bernard Burke's 1 Landed Gentry,' that a reference to its pages must satisfy those seek- ing such information more completely than could any extended details here. It may yet be observed that in 1309, Walter de Cusack had special summons to the parliament of Kilkenny ; that in the same cen- tury Sir John Cusack, Knight, Lord of Beaupeyr and Gerardstown in the County of Meath, had also sum- mons to Parliament ; that he married Joan, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Simon de Geneville, Baron of Culmullen in the same County, by whom he left Sir Simon his eldest son, who was in 1375 himself summoned to Parliament as Baron of Culmul- len. f That in 1535, Thomas Cusack of Cushings- town was appointed a justice of the Common Pleas ; in 1542, made Master of the Polls ; and in 1546, Lord Chancellor. In the succeeding years, other Cusacks filled the highest judicial posts in Ireland. Throughout all the trials and persecutions of the Irish Catholics in the seventeenth century, this family espoused their cause ; and in the Civil War of 1641, * Southwell MSS. Cat., p. 244. t Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 706. 86 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. six were attainted for their adherence to that reli- gion and their loyalty to the Stuarts, viz. Christopher Cusack of Mullevad, and of Ardreagh ; George of Trimlestown ; Patrick of Gerardstown, and James of Cloneniaghana, all in the County of Meath ; also Adam Cusack of Monanquill and Henry of Cornesal- lagh, County of Wicklow. In the Supreme Council of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny sat James Cusack, who was therefore especially excepted from pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652, " for settling Ireland." The Declaration of Royal Gratitude, displayed in the Act of Settlement, only mentions " Mr. Thomas Cusack of Carrick, County of Kildare." In 1671, Adam Cusack was Chief Justice of Connaught ; in the following year he was appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas. King James's New Charters of 1688 have, in that to Navan, the names of Nicholas and Christopher Cusack, Esquires, and of Christopher and Robert Cusack, Gentlemen, amongst the Burgesses. In that to Trim, the above Nicholas Cusack was appointed Portreeve; while James Cusack of Flemingstown, and Francis and Christopher Cusack, were Burgesses. In the charter of 1689 to Swords, another Christopher Cusack was a Burgess, as was Luke Cusack in that to Kilkenny. Besides the above Captain Nicholas, there appear in this Army List, John and Adam Cusack, of the Lis- mullen line, Ensigns in the Royal Regiment of In- fantry ; Bartholomew of the Rathaldron line and Christopher of Corballis, Captains in Lord Slane's ; tyrconxel's horse. 87 and Robert Cusack of Staffordstown, a Lieutenant in Colonel Clifford's Dragoons ; while in Burke's "Landed Gentry" a James Cusack of Clonard is noticed, as an officer in King James's service at the battle of the Boyne. In the Parliament of 1689, at Dublin, Captain Nicholas Cusack, who was nephew of Tyrconnel, sat as one of the Representatives of Trim ; while the Borough of Navan was then represented by the above Christopher of Corballis, and by Christopher Cusack of Rathaldron ; as was Kells by said Bartholo- mew Cusack. When, in 1690, King James assumed to exercise ecclesiastical patronage in Ireland, he presented Dr. Patrick Cusack to the Rectory of St. Canice of Duleek, with the Vicarage of St. Mary of Drogheda ; and Dr. Robert Cusack to the Rectories and Vicarages of Robertstown and Kilmainham-wood. At the Capitulation of Limerick, Nicholas Cusack, then a Colonel, was an executing party of the Civil Articles. The outlawries of 1691 record as attainted Nicholas Cusack of Cushinstown, James of Fieldstown, Chris- topher and Bartholomew of Corballis, Patrick of Philpotstown, Robert of Castletown, Robert, Adam, and Michael of Gerardstown, Lucas of Brownstown, all in the County of Meath ; Philip Cusack of Kil- kenny ; Rowland of Killone, County of Cork ; Nicho- las of Lough-bryne, County of Down, with Adam and Christopher of Castletown- Abbey, County of Meath. At the Court of Chichester House, Robert Cusack claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail in various lands and premises in the Counties of 88 king james's irish army list. Dublin, Kildare, &c. of which Nicholas Cusack, the forfeiting proprietor, had been seized in right of his wife. No evidence has been communicated of the fortunes of Colonel Nicholas, or of the others of his name who passed over to the Continent; but it is stated by Sir Bernard Burke, * that of the Gerardstown line Gerald-Alexander Cusack, Knight of St. Louis, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in Roth's Brigade. He signal- ized himself at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, and received for his services there a pension of 600 francs ; he was again distinguished at the battle of Lauffield, and, after fifty three years' service, died in 1753, S. P. A Charles Cusack entered the Spanish service in Lee's Regiment, became Captain-General and Knight of St. James in Spain, and died Governor of Malatia, S. P. Lastly, Richard-Edmund Cusack, Marshal of France, and Knight of the Orders of the King of France, served at Malplaquet, Minden, &c. and re- ceived in 1755 the public thanks of that monarch for his services at Maestricht. CAPTAIN JOHN TALBOT OF BELGARD. He had been one of the Chiefs of the Pale who at- tended the great meeting at Swords in 1641, and in the Declaration of Royal Gratitude, embodied in the * Burke's Landed Gentry, sup., f. 87. tyrconnel's horse. 89 Act of Settlement, he, being there described as of Belgard, a Lieutenant, was included, "for reason known unto us in an especial manner meriting our grace and favour." For these services he further obtained a restoration of about half his estates, which had been seized by the Usurping Powers : of these however he deemed it prudent to take out a fresh patent in 1670, which expressly included Belgard. He was one of the Representatives of the borough of Newcastle in the Parliament of 1689, and, having been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wicklow, and Commissary-General over this and four other Counties, he raised and equipped a Regiment of Cavalry at his own expense, fought at its head at the battle of the Boyne, and at Aughrim ; and, having been included in the Articles of Limerick, this fine old soldier thereby effected the preservation of his estate. At his advanced age he declined to emigrate, and, retiring to Belgard, passed the remainder of his days in the ease and comfort of a competent fortune, with the consciousness of having served his King and country to the utmost of his abilities. He married a daughter of Sir Henry Talbot of Mount-Talbot and Templeogue, and, having no male heir, he sought, for his only daughter Catherine, a suitable alliance in the noble family of Dillon, which took place in 1696 by her marriage with Thomas Dillon of Brackloon, grandson of Theobald the first Lord Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen.* * D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 708. 90 king james's irish army list. LIEUTENANT THOMAS BEATAGH. In the Fourteenth century, and long after, this name, which in truth seems to have been of Danish origin, and anterior to the English invasion, is traced in the history and records of Meath. In 1382, Henry Beatagh was appointed one of the two guardians of the Peace in the Barony of Kells therein. At the close of the sixteenth century, William L Betagh ' of Moynalty was married to Anne, daughter of the sixth Lord Killeen. In 1610, Edmund Betagh, son and heir of Christopher of Moynalty deceased, had livery of his estate according to the law of wardships. The outlawries of 1642 included his name as Edmund Betagh Senior, with Edmund Betagh Junior, and James Betagh, all of Moynalty, Robert Muyle ■ Bea- tagh,' and Patrick Beatagh of Newtown, all in the County of Meath. The minutes of Courts-Martial held in St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, in 1651-2-3, record those held on 20th March, and 23rd April, 1652, on Captain Francis Betagh and other Betaghs. Of the grants confirmed on the adventurers in 1666, one to Thomas Taylor, of lands in the County of Meath, contains a saving for Henry Betagh, Christo- pher, Richard, Lucas, James, Mary, Anne, Ellenor, Margaret, and Jane Betagh, all children of Patrick Betagh, of such rights as their said father had in cer- tain lands therein specified, and which had been decreed to them in 1663. A similar saving of their tyrcomnel's horse. 91 rights was reserved in another patent of Meath lands to Nicholas Moore, as also in similar patents to James Stopford, Edward Stubbers, and Henry Morton, all concerning lands in the same County. The new Charter, granted by King James to the borough of Kells, contains the names of four Betaghs, burgesses, viz. Francis, Thomas, William, and Henry ; and Thomas Betagh was appointed Town- clerk. The outlawries of 1691 describe ' Thomas Beatagh of Moynalty,' who seems identical with this Lieu- tenant. Francis Beatagh is also an outlaw, de- scribed as of the same place. Both of these, Thomas and Francis, are in a later inquisition de- scribed as of Gravelstown, County of Meath. William Betagh Senior and William Betagh Junior, styled of Lisalkey, County of Down, were also attainted at this time. The case of Mr. Francis Betagh of Moynalty, as iniquitously affected by the Acts of Settlement, is especially recorded in Mr. O'Callaghan's 'Irish Bri- gades,' where it is stated that his grandson, the Chevalier de Betagh, was a Captain in Fitz- James's liegiment of Horse, previous to the battle of Fontenoy, and was living with the title of Count in 1775.* It appears from the notes in Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy, vol. 1, that some members of the Moynalty Beataghs settled at Mannin in the County of Mayo, where a daughter of Captain Gerald Dillon, becoming the * O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1 p. 94. 92 king james's irish army list. wife of James Betagh, was the object of one of Carolan's poetical effusions. LIEUTENANT CHARLES KING. It would seem that this officer was a relative of George King, theretofore proprietor of the town and manor of Clontarf, whose house and town Sir Charles Coote burned and wasted with his wonted cruelty. The outrage, which, as Borlase writes, was " excel- lently well executed," was attempted to be justified by an allegation that Mr. King had been one of the gentlemen of the Pale who had previously assembled at Swords, and who had further abetted the pillaging of a ship. This King was immediately after attainted, a reward of £400 offered for his head, and his estates, comprising the manor and island of Clontarf, with Hollybrook, were granted to John Blackwell, a favour- ite of Oliver Cromwell, who assigned to John Vernon, the ancestor of the present proprietor.* Lodge relates that Captain James Brabazon, son of Sir Anthony Brabazon, was killed in 1676 by a Charles King.f The attainders of 1642 have but one of this sur- name, George King, described as of Galtrim, County of Meath. Those of 1691 exhibit only John King of * D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dub. p. 89. f Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 5, p. 274. tyrconnel's horse. 93 Boyle, and Henry otherwise Martin King of Galway. A Thomas King was Prebendary of Swords in 1703 ; and in 1776, a Charles King was one of the Representatives of that Borough. CORNET EDMUND BUTLER. The notices applicable to this great historic name are collected at the ensuing Horse Regiment of Vis- count Galmoy ; it may, however, be here observed, that this officer appears to have been the same Ed- mund Butler, who, when Dominick Sheldon, the Lieutenant-Colonel of Tyrconnel's Horse, formed a Brigade in the service of France, appointed him, his old companion in arms, a major.* The gallant ser- vices of that force on the Continent are hereinbefore briefly alluded to, under the names of 'Berwick' and 'Sheldon.' CORNET EDMUND HARNEY. He appears to have been of the County of Wicklow, and, although his own outlawry is not mentioned on the roll of attainders, there do appear there Matthew and Thomas Harney, both described of Wicklow. The name of i Herny ' (John, and Margaret his * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 197. 94 king james's irish army list. wife) is of record in the Chancery rolls of Ireland in 1325 ; and in 1381, Thomas Henry was an officer of the customs in Waterford and Cork. QUARTER MASTER PETER CASINONE. This individual is expressly described as he appears on this List, in Tyrconnell's Regiment, in the report of the wounded at the Boyne, given in Berwick's Memoir ; though, according to Walker's Diary, &c. (p. 60), 1 Quarter Master Casinone ' was hilled at the previous siege of Derry. QUARTER MASTER JOHN BRYAN. Sir Thomas Loftus, who died in 1636, left with other issue a daughter Jane, who had married John Bryan of Whites well, alias Bawnmore, and had issue by him four sons, the youngest of whom, John Bryan,* seems identical with this Quarter Master. Alderman James Bryan, of Jenkinstown, was one of the Repre- sentatives for the City of Kilkenny in the Parliament of 1689 ; and a Walter Bryan, described as of Akipp, in the Queen's County, was attainted in 1701. * Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 7, p. 355. galmoy's HORSE. 95 REGIMENTS OF HORSE. PIERS, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY'S. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter-masters, Richard Oxburgh. Ambrose Carroll. John Kelly. Captains. The Colonel. Laurence Dempsey,^ 1st Lieut. -Col. I YMathew Cooke. [Charles Carroll, ( 2nd Lieut. -Col.] ' Robert Arthur, James Mathews. Major. Henry Fleming, George Gernon. brother to Lord Slane. Lord Baron Trim- Patrick Kearney, leston. Michael Bourke, Edward Butler. James Bryan. Piers Butler. [Denis O'Kelly.] Anthony Dulhunty. George Cooke. Morgan Ryan. Jeffry Burke. Piers Butler, Roger O'Connor. Robert Molloy. Laurence Fitzgerald. Lewis Welsh. Edmund Butler. James Purcell. Mathew Roche. John Smith. Thomas Dwyer. Oliver Welsh. Geffry Burke. James Butler. James Shee. Charles O'Connor. 96 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. PIEES BUTLER, LORD VISCOUNT GALMOY. Of this great historic family, whose annals in the bio- graphy of but one individual have extended over three large folio volumes, the notices for this work must be necessarily circumscribed within the limits fore- marked in the Prospectus. The influence and conduct of the great Ormonde prevented the attainder of any one of his name in 1642, with the exception of John Butler, an obscure miller of Westpalstown, County Dublin. Some indi- viduals of the name however attended the memorable assembly of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646. Of the Temporal Peers on that occasion were Richard Butler, Viscount Mountgarret ; Piers Butler, Viscount Ikerrin ; and Edward Butler, Vis- count Galmoy. Of the Commons were Edmond But- ler of Idough, Piers of Banshagh, James of Swyneene, John of Foulsterstown, Piers of Barrowmount, Piers of Cahir and Walter Butler of Paulstown. The afore- said Lord Mountgarret was not overlooked in Crom- well's Act for settling Ireland ; he, with James Butler, Earl of Ormonde, was especially excepted from par- don for life and estate. The Act of Settlement of 1662, in its clause of Royal Gratitude for services rendered the exiled Roy- alists beyond the seas, includes the names of Viscount Mountgarret, Viscount Ikerrin, Viscount Galmoy and Lord Dunboyne ; with Ensign Walter Butler of galmoy's horse. 97 Shanbally, Ensign Pierce (Duff) Butler of Tipperary, Ensign Theobald Butler of Barnane in said County, Lieut.-Colonel William Butler of Ballyfooky, Captain Stephen Butler, Captain Walter Butler, Captain Theobald and Ensign Thomas Butler. The same Act contained also savings from its confiscations, of the estates of Colonel Eichard Butler, of Thomas Butler of Kilconnel, of Butler, son of Theobald, son of James Butler of Derryluscan, County of Tipperary, and of Richard Butler of Bally nakill in same County ; of Lord Dunboyne's and Lord Mountgarret's, and also a saving for James (then) Duke of Ormonde and his Duchess, of their lands. The latter were further con- firmed in "their parts of the regicides' estates, ex- cepted out of the Duke of York's confirmation." In May, 1686, the above Viscount Galmoy was added to the Privy Council.* On the establish- ment of 1687-8, Viscount Ikerrin is mentioned as having an allowance of £235 4s., as Captain of the Grenadiers, with an addition of £100 charged on the pension list ; while the Lord Baron of Dunboyne is set down on the latter list for another £100. In King James's New Charters of 1687 et seq. Theobald Butler was appointed of the Common Council of Dublin. In that to Clonmel, James Butler, mer- chant, was named Mayor ; James Butler, Junior, an Alderman ; Theobald Butler a free burgess ; another Theobald, Recorder ; and Theobald Fitz- James Butler * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 400. II 98 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Town Clerk. — In that to Cashel, James Butler and James Fitz-Richard Butler were Burgesses. — In Bal- linakill's, John Butler was one of the Burgesses. — In Kilkenny's, Lord Viscount Mountgarret and Thomas Butler were Aldermen. — In New Ross, Thomas But- ler was appointed one of the Bailiffs, and Walter and Richard were Burgesses. — In Callan, John and Walter Butler were Burgesses ; In Gowran, this Vis- count Galmoy was at the head of the Burgess Roll, William Butler being another thereon. Lord Gal- moy also headed the Burgess Roll for Thomastown, with William Butler for a Burgess. He was likewise first on the Charter to Old Leighlin, where Richard Butler was another Burgess. In that to Wexford, Walter Butler was an Alderman. In Derry, Robert Butler was one of the Burgesses, as was James Butler in that to Fethard, Walter Butler in that to Ennis- corthy, and Edward and Thomas Butler in that to Knocktopher. On the present Muster Roll : — In this Regiment, besides the Colonel, Edward and Piers Butler were Captains, Edmund Butler a Lieutenant, and Piers and James Butler Quarter-masters. — In Tyrconnel's Horse, Edmund and James were, as before mentioned, Cornets. — In Sarsfield's, Edward and Piers were Lieu- tenants. — In Colonel Nicholas Purcell's, James Butler of Dunboyne was a Captain, Theobald a Lieutenant, and another James a Cornet. — In Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Piers Butler was a Cornet. In the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry, Edward Butler was a Captain. — galmoy's horse. 99 Robert was a Captain in Colonel Cormuek O'Neill's. — In Sir Neill O'Neill's, William was a Captain, as was Walter in the Earl of Clancarty's. — In Lord Kilniallock's, Richard was a Captain, James a Lieu- tenant, and Toby Butler an Ensign. — In Major General Boiseleau's, Thomas Butler was a Lieutenant. — In Colonel John Grace's, Edmund was a Captain, another Edmund a Lieutenant, and John Butler was an Ensign. — In Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, Edmund was a Lieutenant, and Thomas and Edward were En- signs. — In Sir Michael Creagh's, Edmund was a Cap- tain, as was another Edmund in Colonel Owen Mac Carty's. — Colonel Thomas Butler had a Regiment en- tirely of his own 'raising,' in which James and Rich- ard Butler were Captains ; so had Colonel Edward Butler, in which two Edmunds Butler and one John were commissioned. — In Colonel John Barrett's, John Butler was a Captain, and he may probably be identi- fied with the 'Colonel' John Butler, who commanded a troop of Grenadiers at Aughrim, was there taken prisoner, and so committed to the Tower in 1695.* Previous to the forming of this Muster Roll, a George Butler was Captain in Colonel Fairfax's, a then exist- ing Regiment ; and of him the Earl of Clarendon, in January, 1685, wrote, that he had "served abroad when the late King had forces in Flanders, and had as good a character as any young man can have ;" * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 393. H 2 100 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. but he was killed in the following year, by Captain Twisleton of Sir Thomas Newcomen's Kegiment.* At the close of the year 1688, Lord Galmoy came to Belturbet, and made an unsuccessful attempt to besiege the Castle of Crom ; he was repulsed by the Enniskilleners, who had thrown succours into it.f This Peer was one of the Privy Council, who a short time previously caused proclamations to issue from the Council Chamber of Dublin against meetings of dis- affected persons, "in a riotous and warlike manner assembled f who, according to informations received by the Lord Deputy, "have taken upon them to fortify themselves by possessing of places of strength, and dividing themselves into Troops and Companies, pro- viding themselves of arms and ammunition ; " and the Lord Deputy and Council thereby ordered all persons so assembled to disperse, or that directions shall be given to proceed against any defaulters as for high treason. In further relation to this family, it may be here noted that a Kegiment, commanded by Colonel Richard Butler, was one of those sent by King James to France in exchange for the French auxiliaries. In the Poll of the memorable Parliament of Dublin (1689), appear of this name in the Upper House the above Piers, Viscount Galmoy, Viscount Mountgar- rett, Viscount Ikerrin, Lords Dunboyne and Cahir ; while in the Commons sat Walter Butler as one of * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, pp.207, 336. t Hamilton's Enniskilleners, p. 10, &c. galmoy's horse. 101 the representatives of the Borough of Callan, Richard for that of Gowran, Walter of Munfine for the County of Wexford, Biehard for the County of Wick- low, Theobald of Strathnagallen for Enniscorthy, James of Grangebeg for the County of Tipperary, and Biehard for the Borough of New Ross. On the 4th of July, in the year of this Parliament, Lord Viscount Mountgarret led the forlorn hope of Horse against Derry, when he was taken prisoner. " The besieged took three colours of Colonel Butler into the town, and have them."* It may be added that, after the Revolution, in October, 1692, this Peer laid claim to his seat in Parliament, and took the oath of allegi- ance, but, being required to take that of supremacy, he refused so to do, declaring it was not agreeable to his conscience, whereupon he was excludedf . Crossley, in his " Peerage of Ireland," published in 1725, has an absurd story, that this Lord Viscount Galmoy was obliged to do public penance in St. Wer- burgh's Church, Dublin, " for some insolent or ill action committed by him in that Church, but that he after- wards left Ireland with King James." As the latter part of this story is erroneous, the whole may be con- sidered apocryphal. Lord Galmoy, so far from going off with King James, remained with his Regiment to the last, was taken prisoner at Aughrim, and, having been exchanged, was one of the contracting parties on the Irish side to the Treaty of Limerick, 3rd October, 1691. * Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 188. t Graham's Derriana, p. 37. 102 king james's irish army list. In the outlawries of 1691, et seq. Viscount Gal- moy was attainted on six inquisitions in Dublin, Westmeath, Kilkenny, Wexford, Tyrone and King's County. — Richard Viscount Mountgarret on four, in Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Londonderry. — Two on Lord Dunboyne, in Clare and Meath. — One on John Butler, son of Lord Galmoy. — On James Butler in the latter County. — On Tobias and Theobald in Dublin. — In Wexford on Walter, senior and junior, and Edmund of Munfyne, Richard of New Ross, Ed- ward of Leckan, and James of Ballyborough. — In Kilkenny on Walter of Callan, Edmund of Bally- ragget, Edward of Flemingstown, William of Bram- blestown, Edward Fitz-Edward of Fiertagh, Richard of Low Grange, Peter of Kilkenny, Edward Fitz-Rich- ard of Kilkenny, Piers of Coolmanan, and on Thomas and Richard of Garryricken. — In Tipperary, on James Butler of Grangebeg. — In Carlow, on Richard of Rahalin and Edward of Dunganstown. — In Water- ford, on Edward and John of Ballynaclogh ; on Tobias of Knockanebuy, James of Kilcorr, and William of Munvehogg. — In the Queen's County, on Richard and Edward of Kilderrick, and on William of Car- ran ; and lastly, in the County of Roscommon, on James Butler of Coneragh. Lord Galmoy 's forfeitures alone comprised nearly 10,000 acres plantation mea- sure in the County of Kilkenny, and about half that quantity in the Barony of Bantry, County of Wex- ford. Theobald Butler, seventh Baron of Cahir, was galmoy's horse. 103 also outlawed, but his attainder was reversed in 1693, and his Lordship restored to his estates.* While King James was in Dublin, on the 10th of May, previous to the battle of the Boyne, he gave licence to the Lady Butler and her sisterhood of the order of St. Benedict, to found a Nunnery in that City for themselves and their successors, under the name and style of " the Abbess and Convent of our Royal Monastery of St. Benedict, called Gratia Dei." At the battle of Landen, fought 29th July, 1693, the Duke of Ormonde (who, according to Clarendon,f after King James had gone to bed at Andover, 26th November, 1688, turned over to William) was wounded and taken prisoner fighting on the English side. J At the Court of Claims in 1700, George Butler claimed an estate tail in Ballyraggett, County of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edmund Butler ; he also sought and was allowed a remainder in tail in Cranagh, County of Kilkenny, forfeited by Edward Butler ; as did James Butler a similar remainder in Tipperary lands, late the estate of James Butler, but his petition was dismist. Another James Butler, a merchant, claimed the absolute fee of various lands in the County of Carlow, forfeited by Viscount Galmoy. John Butler, as surviving devisee and Executor of Colonel Walter Butler of Garryricken, claimed and was allowed a mortgage affecting Tipperary lands of * Burke's Peerage, p. 434. t Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon. \ Rawdon Papers, p. 377. 104 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Lord Dunboyne ; and Walter Butler petitioned for and was allowed mortgages affecting Lord Galmoy's estates in the County of Kilkenny ; while Theobald Butler, 'Counsellor at Law' was a claimant on lands forfeited by 'the late Lord Clare.' The name of this last claimant is entitled to especial notice, deeply and influentially as he was projected in the affairs of the period. He was the advising Counsel in all the negotiations for the Capitulation of Limerick, and an executing party to the Civil Arti- cles. Accordingly, when, in violation of these Arti- cles, the "Act against the further growth of Popery" was devised, he, with Sir Stephen Rice and Coun- sellor Malone, appeared at the Bar of the Irish House of Commons, to protest against its provisions, as a direct attempt to infringe on one or other of these Articles, which he held in his hand, presented to the House, and commented upon with thrilling but inef- fective eloquence.* He was buried in St. James's Churchyard, Dublin, the great Catholic burial-place at that time and long subsequently ; where, in the centre of that graveyard, a tall monument was erected, with a large mural slab inserted, and in- scribed with his commemoration. Sir Piers Butler, the fourth Viscount Ikerrin, was knighted and constituted a member of King James's Council, for which distinctions and his services to that monarch he was attainted, but afterwards ob- * Dr. Curry gives full notes of his arguments, Hist. Rev. vii. pp. 237, 386 to 397. galmoy's horse. 105 tained a reversal thereof, and in October, 1698, took his seat in the House of Peers. The Abbe Geoghegan, in his Histoire de VIrelande, acknowledges that the accounts which he gave of this campaign were amongst other sources derived from a journal left by the late Edmund Butler of Kilcop, who was Marshal-General of the Cavalry of Ireland, and was the more worthy of credence as he had him- self seen what he wrote of. He died, adds the Abbe, in 1725, at Saint Germain-en-Laye, Field Marshal of the Cavalry in the French service. On the first formation of the Irish Brigades in France, this Ed- mund Butler was a Major in what was styled the ' King's Eegiment while the above Lord Galmoy was Colonel of the ' Queen's Own.' Eene de Carne, a Frenchman, was his Lieutenant-Colonel, and James Tobin his Major. This latter Eegiment comprised two squadrons, four companies, six Lieutenants, and six Cornets. For the services of this Brigade on the Continent in 1701, and the succeeding years, see notices ante, page 24, &c, at Berwick's, with which this co-operated. In the movements of the Italian cam- paigns of 1703 and 1706, Galmoy's Eegiment was likewise distinguished.* In 1715, it was drafted into Dillon's. At the battle of Laumeld in 1747, Piers Butler, a Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was badly wounded ; while another Piers Butler, in Bulkeley's, was taken prisoner, f * See O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 234, &c. t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377. 106 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. LIEUTENANT COLONEL LAURENCE DEMPSEY. The O'Dempseys were Chiefs of Clan-Maoilughra (Glenmalira) a territory extending over part of the King's and Queen's Counties ; and, on the Chancery Rolls after the English invasion, are recorded sundry licenses and mandates to the Lords-Lieutenant of Ire- land, to treat and parley with the sept of ' O'Dymsy.' When Edward the Second meditated his invasion of Scotland in 1314, he directed a special letter mis- sive to ' Fyn O'Dymsy,' for his aid. Necessarily passing over remoter annals of this powerful Irish sept, it appears that in 1615, James the First directed a surrender to be received from Terence O'Dempsey of premises in the King's and Queen's Counties, with the object of regranting same to him in tail male, remainder in tail male to Dermot Mac Hugh O'Dempsey, reversion still in the Crown. The Clan continued Lords of this their recognised terri- tory until the attainders of 1641 and 1688 shook them from their inheritance. Those denounced on the former occasion were Lewis Dempsey of Baskets- town, Robert of Ballybeg, James of Tully (Clerk), Dominick also of Tully, Edmund ' Dempsie' of Kil- dare, and Henry Dempsy of Ballybrittas, all in the County of Kildare. In the Assembly of Confederate Catholics at Kil- kenny, in 1646, Edmund O'Dempsey, Bishop of galmoy's horse. 107 Leighlin, was of the Spiritual Peers ; while of the Temporal was Lewis O'Dempsey, Viscount 4 Clanma- lier ;' and Barnabas Dempsey of Clonehork was of the Commons. Cromwell's Act of 1652 excepted the above Viscount Lewis, as also Lysagh O'Dempsey of the King's County, from pardon for life and estate ; and the Declaration of Eoyal Gratitude, promulgated in the Act of Settlement (1662), includes only an 1 Ensign Phelim Dempsey.' In the List of Pensions on the Irish establishment, 1687-8, appear the names of Mrs. Anne Dempsey for £150, and of Mr. James Dempsey for £50 per annum. Besides Colonel Laurence Dempsey, Thomas Demp- sey is in this Army List a Lieutenant in Sarsfield's Horse ; while two other Colonels of the name were in the service, though not in this List, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dempsey (of whom hereafter), and Colonel James ; of which latter the Earl of Clarendon writes to Rochester, in January, 1685 : — "The Providence is cast away upon the coast of Carlingford, and but one man of all the Company saved. In her were Colonel Dempsey's horses and servants, and all his goods, which, I doubt, will almost undo the poor man."* And again writes the same Earl : — " I have known him for many years, and always for a man of honour, and a good officer ; and I do not in the least doubt his integrity and sincerity."! In the ensuing * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 214. f Idem, v. 2, p. 130. 108 king james's irish army list. April, this Colonel himself arrived in Ireland.* His name will be found included in the subsequent extract of 1688 outlawries. King James's Charters of 1687 have Charles Dempsey a burgess in that to Kildare, and James Dempsey, the Colonel, in that to A thy. In his Par- liament of 1689 sat Maximilian O'Dempsey, then Viscount Clanmalier, the Great-grandson of Sir Terence O'Dempsey, who was knighted in May, 1599, by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland; he was in 1631 created Baron of Philipstown and Viscount Clanmalier, and died in the following year. His son and heir, Anthony,f was the father of Lewis, above mentioned, who also died in 1683, when Maximilian, the Peer of King James's parliament succeeded. This Sovereign constituted him Lord Lieutenant of the Queen's County. On Sunday, the 22nd June, 1690, (eight days previous to the battle of the Boyne), King James gained what was construed an omen of success, in a skirmish with a detachment of his Royal rival's forces, which had been despatched to reconnoitre what lines of march would be most advisable for King William's advance ; and, " it being observed," say the Royal Memoirs, " that every night the latter sent a party to a pass called the Half-way Bridge, to press a guard of Horse and Dragoons which King James had there between Dunclalk and Newry, this King ordered out * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 341. f Crossley's Peerage, p. 115. galmoy's horse. 109 a party of Horse and Foot, under the command of Colonel Dempsey and Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz-geralcl, to lie in ambuscade, and if possible to surprise them ; which was performed with such success, that the enemy's force of 200 Foot and 60 Dragoons fell into it at break of day, and were most of them cut off ; the four captains that commanded and most of the sub- alterns being either killed or taken prisoners, with the loss of a few common men. On the King's side, only Colonel Dempsey himself was wounded ; but he died in two or three days after." His namesake, Viscount Maximilian, died in the same year with the Colonel, S. P., as did his widow (who had been one of the co-heiresses of John Bermingham of Dunfiert) within a few years after. — Lieutenant Colonel Francis distinguished himself in the defence of Limerick, where, in the last days of the siege (22nd Sept. 1691), he, together with Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Hurley and Major Matthew French, was taken prisoner, as was also Colonel James Skelton, who died soon after of his wounds.* The outlawries of 1691 exhibit the names of Laurence Dempsey of Drynanstown, County of Kildare, and Colonel James ' Dempsy ' of Moone, in said County ; the latter for- feited a moiety of the manor of Moone therein, and upwards of 300 acres in the Barony of Moydow, County of Longford. He also lost on his attainder certain interests in Meath, off which his widow, Ho- nora Dempsey, and his daughter Mary sought respec- * Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 225. 110 king james's irish army list. tively jointure and portion at the Court of Claims, but both their petitions were disniist. Dr. Mac Derniott, in his notes on the Four Masters (Geraghty's Edition, p. 248), suggests that Terence O'Dempsey of this family settled in Cheshire, and died in 1769, leaving issue still extant in or about Liverpool. — William Dempsey, 4 a Koman Catholic,' one of the state prison- ers in the service of Prince Charles-Edward, was executed at York in 1746.* CAPTAIN LORD BARON TRIMLESTON. One of the Knights who accompanied the Conqueror into England was Le Sieur de Barneville, Barneville et Berners, Cheyne et dialers, as old Bromton quaintly links the Roll of that warlike importation. The family was early distinguished in the Crusades, and extended itself over large pos- sessions in England. At the commencement of the thirteenth century, Ulfran de Barneville obtained estates in 'the Yale of Dublin,' which his posterity held until the reign of James the First, when they were granted principally to Adam Loftus. In the previous annals of the Pale, this family was much projected ; members of the name were frequently sum- moned to Parliaments and Great Councils, and were * Gent. Mag. v. 16, p. G14. galmoy's horse. Ill selected for the highest judicial situations. In 1435, Christopher Barnewall of Crickstown was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, (his mother was daughter of the celebrated Lord Furni- val). In 1461, Nicholas Barnewall was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; he was the lineal ancestor of the present Sir Reginald Aylmer Barnewall, and brother to Robert Barnewall, who in the follow- ing year was constituted a Lord of Parliament by the above title, Baron of Trimleston, to hold said dignity in tail male. In 1487, Christopher, the second Lord, was one of the Irish magnates who, deceived by the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, as- sisted at his coronation in Christ Church, Dublin ; but soon after, on unreserved submission, he received his pardon. In 1504, this Lord, under the command of the Earl of Kildare, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, defeated the Lord of Thoniond, Ulick Burke, O'Carrol, and others of their party at the great battle of Knock- tow, near G-alway.* In 1534, John, the third Baron of Trimlestown, was raised to the woolsack ; and three years after was selected to open a parley with O'Neill, on which occasion he succeeded in making peace. In 1563, and for years after, Sir Christopher Barnewall of Turvey was the popular leader of the Irish Parliament ; he died at Turvey in 1575, "the lamp and light as well of his house as of that part of Ireland wherein he dwelt ; zealously bent to the reformation of his country ; measuring," * D'Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 181. 112 king james's irish army list. adds the record, " all his affairs with the safety of conscience, as true as steel, close and secret, fast to his friend, stout in a good quarrel, a great householder, sparing without pinching, spending with- out wasting, of nature mild, rather choosing to plea- sure where he might harm, than willing to harm where he might pleasure."* Within the old church of Lusk, near the family mansion of Turvey, stood a noble monument commemorative of him and his Lady, who afterwards married Sir Lucas Dillon of Moymet, County of Meath. The tomb was erected in a section of the religious house, which, since the Reformation, was appropriated for the service of the Established Church. Sir Christopher is represented on the monument in a rich suit of armour, his head bare, and his hands joined over his breast in a devotion- al posture, his feet resting on the body of a grey- hound. His Lady lies beside him, her cap round, her ruffles high, her gown thickly plaited round the waist, puffed on the shoulders, and richly embroidered; her petticoat is designed as of cloth of gold, and from her girdle hangs a chain of superior workmanship, to which is appended a scapular two inches square ; at her feet, which can scarcely be distinguished, is placed a lapdog. Her hands, like those of her hus- band, are crossed devoutly on her bosom, and the head of each reposes on an embroidered pillow : the sides are sculptured with armorials of the Dillons and * Annals of the Four Masters. ualmoy's horse. 113 Barne walls.* The whole of this fine piece of sculp- ture was smothered up since the Reformation, by the steps and platform into a pulpit, which rested on the face of the monument, and were so when the work cited below was drawn up. A new church has been since erected, and the monument now stands relieved of the disfiguring woodwork, outside the walls of the new edifice, but perhaps not less exposed to mutilation and decay. In the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot, which the native chiefs were first invited to attend, Lord Trimleston sat as a Baron, while John Barnewall was one of the Representatives for Drogheda, Robert Barnewall for Ardee, and Richard Barnewall for the County of Meath. In 1605, Sir Patrick Barnewall, the active agent of the Recusants, was, on account of his zeal in their service, sent over to London, and committed to the Tower. f At the hill of Crofty, where the Civil war of 1641 first broke out, on the summons of Lord Gormanston, who had taken an active part in the politics of the day, Lord Trimleston, five other Peers of the Pale, Sir Patrick Barnewall, and Patrick Barnewall of Kilbrue, with one thousand others of its leading gentry, were, according to a preconcerted arrangement, there met by Roger Moore and others, the leaders of the Ulster move- ment, attended by a detachment of their forces ; when an interesting parley took place, which may be seen as below referred to.J It was then that, affecting a * D 1 Alton's Co. Dub. p. 415. f Idem, p. 306. I D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 457. I 114 king james's hush army list. show of confidence in these Palesmen, the Lords Just- ices and Council directed a commission for the government of the County of Dublin, to Nicholas Barnewall, who was of the Turvey line, and repre- sented that County in the Parliament of 1639. On the attainders of 1642, are the names of Mat- thew Barnewall of Bremore, County of Dublin ; Sir Richard Barnewall and Christopher Barnewall of Creekstown, County of Meath ; William of Stephens- town ; George of Seneschalstown, County of Wicklow ; Richard and Francis of Lispobel, County of Dublin ; Andrew Barnewall of Lusk, Andrew of Kilbrue, Richard of Trimlestown, Simon of Cooledarry, Rich- ard and Robert of Rossetown, James of Rathregan, George of Sprucklestown, County of Meath, and Gerald of Robertstown, ditto. Amongst the Con- federates of Kilkenny in 1646 were George Barne- wall of Creekstown, Henry Barnewall of Castle- rickard, James and Sir Richard Barnewall of Creeks- town. This last was denounced by Cromwell's Act of 1652, and transplanted into Connaught ; but the Act of Settlement provided for the restoration of his estates, as also for those of Lord Trimleston, who had been likewise denounced by Cromwell. These two Barnewalls were included in the Royal Thanks' clause of that statute. In King James's Charters, John Barnewall was named Recorder of Dublin, Matthew Barnewall one of its Aldermen, and Nicholas a Burgess. Richard was a Burgess in that to Carysfort ; while in that galmoy's house. 115 to Swords, Lord Eingsland headed the Roll, and Robert, Richard, James, and Nicholas Barnewall were named Burgesses. Lord Trimleston was at the head of the Municipal Roll of Trim, on which Francis and Nicholas Barnewall were subsequently named Burgesses. In that to Kells, Francis Barne- wall was a Burgess, and James in that to Mary- borough. These two Lords, Trimleston and Kings- land, sat amongst the Peers in the Parliament of 1689 ; while in the Commons, Francis Barnewall of Woodpark, County of Meath, was one of the Repre- sentatives of the Borough of Swords ; as was Sir Patrick Barnewall one for the County of Meath. In the Pension List of 1687-8, the name of Lord Trim- leston appears for a pension of £100 per annum, which may explain the occurrence of this represent- ative of so ancient a family being but a Captain in the Regiment. In the Royal Infantry, William Fitz-William Barnewall was a Lieutenant, while Ro- bert Barnewall was an Ensign. In Fitz-James's, James Barnewall was a Lieutenant ; in the Earl of Westmeath's, Miles was an Ensign ; and in Tyrcon- nel's, as shown before, George and Nicholas Barnewall were Lieutenants. At the siege of Derry, a Captain and an Ensign Barnewall were killed.* The attainders of 1691 include Matthew, Lord Trimleston, by three Inquisitions, one in Meath and two in Kildare ; Patrick and Richard Barnewall of Newcastle, County of Meath ; Matthew of Archers- * Walker's Derry, p. Gl. I 2 116 king james's irish army list. town and Cruiserath ; Henry of Kilmainham, Dominick and Sylvester of Arrolstown, Christopher of Portlester and Moylough, Bartholomew and Patrick of Crickstown, Simon and Patrick of Kilbrue, Nicholas of Begstown, James of Dunbro', George Barnewall (son of the Countess Dowager of Fingal) of Westown ; John of Dublin, Knight ; Bobert Barnewall of Dublin, Alderman ; Nicholas Barnewall of Dublin, merchant ; and George of Kathesker, County of Louth. At the Court of Claims, Bridget Barnewall claimed a rent-charge on Trimlestown ; Thomasina Barnewall, alias Preston, claimed an estate in fee in King's County lands, forfeited by Sir John Barnewall ; Eliza Barnewall, dower off all the lands forfeited by Matthew Barnewall ; Cicely Barnewall, alias Hussey, widow, jointure off forfeitures of Dominick Barnewall. On the latter forfeitures, John Barnewall claimed interests on behalf of himself and five children of his second brother ; his claims were, however, dismist ; while John Barnewall, " called Lord Trimleston," claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail on Trimlestown, forfeited by Matthias, Lord Trimlestown, subject to a claim of Mary Barnewall for a portion. On the formation of the Irish Brigade in France, Alexander Barnewall was constituted Lieutenant- Colonel in Lord Clare's 4 Queen's Dismounted Dra- goons,' * while, about the same time, Lord Trimleston had three sons in foreign service, Thomas in France, James in Spain, and Anthony, who went into * (/Conor 1 s Military Memoirs, p. 198. galmoy's horse. 117 Germany at the age of seventeen, in General Hamil- ton's Regiment of Cuirassiers. He was engaged in every battle against the Turks until cut down at the battle of Critzka in 1739. In 1745, amongst the adherents of the Stuart dynasty, who were crossing the sea for the expedition into Scotland, Lieutenant George Barnewall, of Berwick's Regiment, was taken prisoner off Montrose, on board the ' Louis the Fifteenth,' by the 4 Milford ;' as was another Lieutenant Barnewall on board the Charite, in 1746. Lieutenants William, Edward, and Basil Barnewall were also captured at sea, being enrolled in the same service. At the battle of Lauf- field, in 1747, Captain Bryan Barnewall, being then in Clare's Regiment, was killed ; while in Berwick's, Captains Edward and Thomas Barnewall were badly wounded.* In 1795, Lord Trimleston, father of the present Peer, obtained an absolute reversal of the out- lawry which affected the title in his line. [ CAPTAIN DENIS O'KELLY. ] This young officer was, as particularly noted in Mr. O'Callaghan's ably edited Excidium Macarice, the son and heir of Colonel Charles O'Kelly of Screen, County of Gal way, the author of that work. That father was the eldest son of John O'Kelly, born in 1621, educated at St. Omer ; and when, in twenty * Gent. Mag., ad arm., p. 377. 118 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, years after, the great Civil war broke out, he was called over to Ireland to support the Koyal cause, he, by his services on that momentous occasion, so deeply incurred the odium and hostility of the usurp- ing power, that in prudence he expatriated himself to Spain,bringing with him thither two thousand of his countrymen. In that country he for a time served the interest of Charles the Second, whom he after- wards followed to France, where a Eegiment was formed chiefly of his own officers and Irish soldiers, and which he was commissioned to command. Thence he returned to Spain, on Charles being obliged to seek protection there ; and remained in the latter country until the Restoration, when he came to live in England. In 1674, on the death of his father, (said John O'Kelly) he succeeded to the family estate of Screen. In the new Charter of 1687, granted to Athlone by James the Second, this Charles O'Kelly was nominated one of the Burgesses ; and, in the Parliament of 1689, he sat as one of the members for the County of Roscommon. In the summer of that year, he was commissioned to raise a Regiment of In- fantry for King James, to be commanded by himself, with his brother John, (who was at the same time one of the Representatives of the Borough of Roscommon) as his Lieutenant-Colonel. His Regiment does not appear in this Army List, nor was it long kept up ; but Colonel Charles's eldest son, the above Denis, was transferred to Lord Galmoy's Horse, as above. When affairs in Ulster were beginning to wear an untoward galmoy's house. 119 aspect, Colonel Charles, though then sixty-eight years of age, was selected by Brigadier Sarsfield to oppose the enemy in Connaught, with such force of the country militia as he could collect. With this object, he advanced to Boyle, but was there overthrown with considerable loss by Colonel Thomas Lloyd, popularly styled " the little Cromwell." Story says* that the Colonel was here taken prisoner, " with forty more officers and a body of about 8,000 cattle." From that period certainly no mention is made of him or any of his family, until the battle of Aughrim, where the horse of this Captain Denis was shot under him. After the surrender of Galway, when the attention of King William's Brigadier was directed to the Isle of Boffin, then held with a garrison for King James by Colonel Timothy Reyrdon (O'Eierdon) as its go- vernor, and its capitulation was necessitated, one of the articles prescribed that Lieutenant- Colonel John Kelly, and all the inhabitants of said island, shall possess and enjoy their estates, as held under the Act of Settlement ; and the said Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain Eichard Martin, were given as sureties for the due ratification thereof. After its surrender he retired to his family residence, where he devoted his remaining years to literature and religion, his first patriotic labour having been the Excidium Macarice, often cited herein. The family estates of this branch of the O'Kellys were secured by the Treaty of Lime- rick ; and consequently, on the death of the Colonel, * Impartial History, part 1, p. 25. 120 king james's irish army list. which took place in 1695, Captain Denis succeeded to it. Under a suspicion of being concerned in a plot to restore the House of Stuart, he was committed to the Tower in 1722 ; but, by an order of Council, was admitted to bail in the following year ; and, appear- ing upon his recognizance within a few months after, was fully discharged. He had married in 1702 Lady Mary Belle w, daughter of Lord Bellew and niece to Lord Strafford, by whom he had a son, Thomas O'Kelly, born in 1704 ; and daughters. This son died in 1704. His father survived to 1740, when with him the male line of Colonel O'Kelly became extinct. Denis Henry Kelly of Castle Kelly is the lineal male descendant of John O'Kelly, before men- tioned as having been the brother of Colonel Charles. Amongst the O'Kellys attainted in 1642 were William O'Kelly of Adamstown, and Shaun O'Kelly of Ballaghmoon, County of Kildare ; John Kelly of Trimbleston, Richard of Pasloeston, Matthew and James of Lusk, Bartholomew Kelly and James Kelly the younger of Lusk, Thomas O'Kelly of Ballyowen, in the County of Dublin, and William Kelly of Allenstown, County of Meath. — Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, were Daniel O'Kelly of Colan- geere and John O'Kelly styled of Corbeg. The Act of Settlement provided that Colonel John Kelly of Serine should be restored to his estate ; and the clause declaratory of Eoyal gratitude for services beyond the seas, includes the names of Ensign Kelly and Captain Charles Kelly of Serine. galmoy's horse. 121 In 1686, John O'Kelly of Clonlyon, the before- mentioned brother of Colonel Charles (ancestor of the Castle Kelly line, as well as of that which settled in France, known as Counts O'Kelly Farrell), was She- riff of Galway, as was EdAvard Kelly of Dublin in the following year. This Edward was a Burgess in the new Charter to Dublin ; Kobert in that to Carlow ; Colonel Charles, Laurence, and Edmund O'Kelly were Burgesses in that to Athlone ; while Thomas O'Kelly was Bailiff therein ; John was a Burgess in that to Tuam, Denis in that to Athenry, Daniel in Boyle, Hugh in Castlebar ; and in that to Roscommon, Charles, John, Edmund, and Hugh Kelly were Burgesses ; the Milesian 6 • being omitted in many instances. On the present Army List, besides Captain Denis Kelly in this Eegiment, John Kelly was Quarter- Master to Lord Galmoy's own troop therein ; Bryan Kelly was Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Luttrell's Horse ; Thomas Kelly a Cornet in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; Constant Kelly a Quarter-Master in the Regiment of Sir Neill O'Neill. In the Earl of Clanricarde's Infantry, Teigue O'Kelly was Lieute- nant, and Bryan and William Kelly Ensigns. In Lord Galway's Foot, William Kelly was a Lieutenant. In Lord Slane's, Richard Kelly was a Captain ; Mau- rice Kelly was a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's. In Lord Boffin's, Hugh Kelly was an Ensign. In Colonel O'Gara's, Daniel and John Kelly were Cap- tains, and another Daniel Kelly an Ensign. In Sir 122 king james's irish army list. Michael Creagh's, George Kelly was an Ensign ; as was Hugh Kelly in Colonel He ward Oxburgh's. A Lieutenant Kelly was killed at the siege of Derry ;* and in the list of general and field officers taken at the battle of Aughrim, a Major Kelly is particularly noticed, f The attainders of 1691 comprise John Kelly of Athlone, Laurence of Dunavally, Charles and John of Athlone, Edward of Athlone, merchant ; Thomas of Clonbrush ; Hubert of Waterstown, County of Car- low ; Constantine of Old Leighlin, County of Carlow ; Nicholas of Gowran, County of Kilkenny ; Garrett of Cadamstown, County of Kildare, and of Ross, County of Wexford ; Patrick O'Kelly of the County of Down ; Hugh Kelly of Drumballyryny, ditto ; Thaddeus O'Kelly of Bolies, ditto ; William Kelly of Coolenbrack, Queen's County ; Terence and Thomas of Ballyrahin, ditto ; John and Dominick Kelly of Gort ; Loughlin Kelly of Ardgool, County of Mayo, clerk ; Bryan Kelly of the County of Galway ; Oli- ver of Fidane, ditto ; Philip Kelly of Waterford ; Laurence Kelly of the County of Roscommon ; Far- gus Kelly of ditto ; and James Kelly of the County of Galway. At the Court of Claims, in 1700, Timothy Kelly claimed a fee in County of Roscommon lands, forfeited by Hugh Kelly, — dismist ; John Kelly petitioned for a leasehold interest in the County of Galway, for- * Walker's Derry, p. 60. f Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 137. galmoy's house. 123 feited by the Earl of Clanricarde, — dismist ; William Kelly and Clare his wife sought to recover a jointure off lands in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon, •forfeited by Laurence Kelly, — dismist ; while in the latter lands Francis and Margaret ' Kelley,' minors, claimed by their guardians certain remainders, — dis- allowed. Mary Kelly claimed and was allowed her jointure off Roscommon lands forfeited by Fargus Kelly. Denis Kelly claimed a leasehold in County of Roscommon lands, — disallowed. Edmund Kelly, as son, heir, and administrator of Colonel Edmund Kelly, claimed and was allowed a freehold in County of Galway lands forfeited by Lord Yiscount Galmoy. John Kelly, Junior, by John Kelly his father, sought a remainder for years in Roscommon lands forfeited by Loughlin Kelly ; while John, son of Daniel Kelly, claimed and was allowed the fee of said lands. Hugh Kelly of Cultraghbeg claimed the fee thereof, forfeited by Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan ; but his petition was dismissed. Bryan Kelly claimed, as surviving bro- ther of Hugh Kelly, who was heir of Loughlen Kelly, an equity of redemption affecting Galway lands for- feited by John, son and heir of Edmund Kelly. Hugh Kelly, a minor, claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail in Galway lands forfeited by Hugh Kelly of Ballyforan ; while Bryan Kelly, as eldest son of said Hugh, claimed and was allowed an estate tail in said lands, which comprised Ballyforan, &c; and Mary Kelly, alias Donnelan, claimed jointure off Galway lands forfeited by Edmund Kelly, — dismist. 124 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. So much has been published concerning this ancient Irish sept in Burke's Landed Gentry, and in the 1 Hy Maine' of the Irish Archaeological Society, that it would not be justifiable to transfer their details to* these pages. It may be remarked, however, that the Chancery Records yet further illustrate the annals, possessions, and lineage of this family, even from the year (1314) when Edward the Second directed his special missive to Gilbert O'Kelly, ' Duci Hiberni- corum de O'Many.'* Of their continental reputation it may be noticed as a fragment, that, in 1699, Wil- liam O'Kelly, ' born in the parish of Aughrim,'obtained from the Emperor Leopold the chairs of Philosophy, History, and Heraldry, with many other honours.f — In 1747, Lieutenant William Kelly, of Lally's Regi- ment, was one of the wounded at the battle of Lauf- field. LIEUTENANT MATTHEW COOKE. This officer is described in the Inquisition taken on his attainder as of Painstown, County of Carlow. George Cooke, a Quarter-master in the same com- pany of this Regiment, was, it may be presumed, a relative of Matthew. The only individual of the name outlawed in 1642, was Thomas Cooke, de- scribed as ' of Beldoyle.' Other Cookes, projected to notice about this time, were John Cooke, a Justice * Rymer's Focdera. f Ware's Writers, p. 287. galmoy's horse. 125 of the Bench during the Commonwealth ; and Colonel George Cooke, whose relict and children the Act of Settlement confirmed in their estate. It also saved the right of Cook, an infant, 1 grandchild to Sir John Cook,' in lands of Feartry, County of Wick- low. In King James's Charter to Carlo w, William Cook was a Burgess, as was Peter Cook in that to Fethard. Amongst those attainted in 1691 were Marcus Cooke of Cradany, the above Matthew of Painstown, County of Carlow, and John Cooke of Bally haurigan, County of Kerry. On these lands of Painstown, with which Lieutenant Matthew was so connected, William Cooke was a claimant for the fee under a conveyance of 1684, witnessed by the said Matthew, and of which the late proprietor was Dud- ley Bagnall. His claim was allowed, as was also that of Thomas Cooke for the fee of forfeited lands in the County of Cork. LIEUTENANT GEORGE GERNON. The name of Gernon appears of Irish record and history from a very early period. When Edward Bruce invaded Ireland in 1315, Roger Gernon and John Gernon his brother were of the King's lieges who vigorously opposed his incursion. Early in the reign of Edward the Third, the said Roger and J ohn, styled of Killingcoole, were summoned to attend John D'Arcy, the Irish Justiciary, with arms and horses in 126 king james's irish army list. his expedition to Scotland ; the latter (John) Ger- non was in eight years after (1344) appointed a Justice of the Bench, while in 1374 Roger Gernon was constituted a Baron of Parliament by writ.* The George Gernon here under consideration was, as described in his outlawry, of Dunany in the County of Louth, a locality more anciently included in Gernonstown ; and was also seized of estates in the County of Eoscommon, the fee of which was claimed before the Court at Chichester House in 1703, by Edward Gernon, who appears to have been his son. George Gernon was one of the Catholics admitted to the freedom of Drogheda under the new Charter of 1685. In that to Drogheda Hugh and Bartholomew Gernon were Aldermen, and in that to Ardee James Gernon was named Provost, Hugh Ger- non a Burgess, and Thomas Gernon Town-clerk. Martin Gernon was one of the Burgesses in that to Belfast. Hugh, the Burgess of Ardee, was one of its Representatives in the Parliament of 1689. But one other of the name appears on this Muster Roll, a John Gernon, who also was a Lieutenant in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry. The outlawries of 1691, besides that of Lieutenant George, record the names of Nicholas Gernon, of Ju- lianstown, County of Meath, who died at the close of the year 1689 ;f Hugh Gernon of Ardee and Killing- cool, Thomas Gernon of Dublin, George, as i son of * Burke's Ext. Peer. p. 708. t Inquisition, 3 Will. & Mary, in Cane. Hib. oalmoy's horse. 127 Roger ' Gernon of Dunany, Bartholomew of Drogheda, Patrick and Edward also of Dunany, Richard of Sta- bannon, Martin of Crookedstone, and Nicholas of Clough, County of Antrim. The greater part of the Gernon estates were granted in 1694 to Colonel Henry Baker, who did such service for King William at Derry. The claims at Chichester House were, Patrick Gernon's for a remainder in tail in Killing- coole and other Louth lands forfeited by Hugh Gernon ; and his claim was allowed ; Edward Ger- non's for a similar remainder in Dromisken and other Louth lands forfeited by Nicholas Gernon ; but his claim was not allowed. The above Martin Gernon of Crookedstone claimed various interests affecting the lands of Sir Neill O'Neill in Antrim ; — petition dismist. LIEUTENANT PATRICK KEARNEY. O'Dugan, in his Topography of Ireland, locates the sept of O'Kearney in that part of Meath (Westmeath) called Teffia. A clan of the name is placed near Kinsale in the County of Cork on Ortelius's map, and they also appear to have been territorial in the Baronies of Tulla and Bunratty, County of Clare. The elder family of this name, those of Teffia, took the cognomen of Sionnach (Fox), by which English appellation one of the family got the title of Baron of Kilcoursey in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In 128 king james's irish army list. 1095, Carbrie 'O'Kerny' was Bishop of Ferns." .In 1198, Giolla Criost 1 O'Cearney' was elected Abbot of Derry-Columb-kille, ' by the Chiefs and Clergy of the North of Ireland ;' he was afterwards appointed Bishop of Connor, to which See James O'Kerny was appointed Bishop in 1324. In 1571, a John Kerny is remembered as one who, in connection with Walsh, then Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, first introduced Irish types, and was himself author of the earliest catechism printed in that lan- guage. About the year 1601 he died. This Lieutenant Patrick appears, from an ancient pedigree in the Trinity College Collection (F. iii. 27), to have been of a Tipperary branch of this family ; thus : Daniel Kearney of Ballyknock in that County, in the middle of the sixteenth century, married Alice, daughter of William Butler ; his grandson Patrick Kearney married Ellen, daughter of Teigue c Cur- rane' of Mohernan in the same County, and died in 1G41 at the advanced age of eighty. His son, Brien Kearney, whom Patrick survived, left two sons, Donogh and Edmund : the eldest, Donogh, married Alice, daughter of Patrick Comerford of Modeshill, in the same County, and had by her three sons, Patrick, (the above Lieutenant, as it is surmised), Michael, and Nicholas, and a daughter. The attainders of 1642 present but William Ker- ney of Wicklow, while amongst the Confederate Catholics of Kilkenny was only James O'Kearney of Ballyluskey. In 1685, Sir Richard 'Carney' was galmoy's horse. 129 Ulster King of Arms. In the New Charters of King James that immediately succeeded, John Kearney was Town Clerk in that to Dublin, as also in that to Carlow. Thomas Kearney was appointed Sovereign in that to Kilmallock, in which a Patrick Kearney was a Burgess. Denis Kearney was a Burgess in that to Fetkard, while a Patrick Kearney was Eecorder and Town Clerk. Philip Kearney was Town Clerk in that to Blessington, Denis Kearney in that to Tho- mastown ; and in the Charter to Cashel Patrick Kearney was named an Alderman, while Edmund, John, Paul senior, and Paul junior were Burgesses therein. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) Dennis Kearney was one of the Kepresentatives of the Bo- rough of Cashel. A few months before the battle of the Boyne, King James appointed Patrick Kearney to the office of 1 Comptroller of the Pipe and second Engrosser of the Great Poll of the Pipe of the Exchequer of Ireland.*' In this Army List, a Michael Kearney was a Lieute- nant in Colonel Purcell's Horse, and he would seem to be the second son of Donogh by Alice Comerford, and brother to Lieutenant Patrick. It is mentioned in King James's Memoirs that, before Schomberg had landed in Ireland, a Sir Charles 'Carney' was by order of that King stationed at Coleraine with one or two Regiments, and another higher up upon the Ban water, to secure that river ; that, on Schomberg's landing, he was ordered to retire, "for fear of being * Rolls Office Index, James II. f. 72. R 130 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. cut off by the enemy ;" and that ultimately he com- manded the reserve at the Boyne.* The attainders of 1691 include Murtagh 'Kearny' of Athlone, John Kearney of Dublin, Denis of Cashel, John of Parks- town, County of Kilkenny ; Nicholas 4 Karney' of Athfane, County of Waterford ; Moriarty Kearney of Clonmacnoise, King's County, clerk ; John of Por- tumna, County of Galway ; James of the Barony of Muskerry, and John and Richard Kearney of Cork. At the Court of Claims, Anstace Kearney, as widow of Edmund Kearney, sought dower off County of Cork lands forfeited by James Kearney ; but her petition was dismist. Richard Kearney, as " only son or executor" of Daniel Kearney, claimed and was allowed a freehold remainder in estates in Tipperary forfeited by Sir John Everard of Fethard ; while Mary Kearney, alias Comerford, and James Kearney, administrators of Bryan Kearney, claimed and were allowed leaseholds in said lands. At the battle of Laufheld in 1747, Richard 4 Kearny' was wounded fighting in Bulkeley's Irish Brigade, as was also Lieutenant 'Kearny' in Lally's Regiment on the same day.f * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, pp. 372 & 397. f Gent. Mag., ad ann., p. 377. sarsfield's horse. 131 REGIMENTS OE HORSE. PATRICK SARSFIELD'S (EARL OF LUCAN). Captains. The Colonel. Lieutenants. John Gavdon. Cornets. George Slaughter. Almericus, Lord James St. John. Kinsale, Lieut. Colonel. Roger McKettigan, Major. Quarter-Masters. James Plunket. Thomas Taaffe. Rene de Came, Daniel O'Neill. John Bourke. Thomas Burke, Francis Nagle. Thomas Leicester. Christopher FitzGerald. Thomas Lilly. Rene Mazandier. James Purcell. William Synnott. George Mayo. Edmund Morris. Thomas Dempsey. Patrick Dillon. William Meagher. Richard Tyrrell. Sylvester Devenish. Richard Tyrrell. Edward Dowdall. Murtogh O'Brien. Edward Butler. John Macnamara. Piers Butler. Thomas Bourke. K 2 132 king james's irish army list. COLONEL PATRICK SARSFIELD. Thomas de 1 Sarsefeld,' ' premier porte-banniere du Roi Henri ii. A. D., 1172,' is said to be the first who brought this surname into Ireland.* In 1302, King Edward the First invited Thomas and Stephen de ' Saresfeld ' to aid him in the Scottish wars. In the time of Edward the Third, Henry, son of David Saresfeld, resided in the County of Cork. During the same reign, a branch of the family settled in Meath, one of whom, after some generations, stiled, ' of Lucan,' sent two archers to the Hosting of Tara. In 1566, Sir "William Sarsfield of Lucan was knighted by Sir Henry Sydney, for his services against Shane O'Neill, and he was seneschal of the Royal manor of Newcastle in 1591. In 1609, SirDominick Sarsfield, being Premier Baronet of Ireland, and Chief Jus- tice of Munster, was one of the three commissioners whom King James assigned to demarcate the munici- pal boundaries of Cork. In 1609, he was appointed second justice of the Irish Court of King's Bench ; in 1610, was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and in 1612, had a grant from that Monarch of the Castle of Carriglemlary, with thirteen plowlands, licence to export corn and victuals raised on the premises free of all customs, with all tithes, fisheries, courts of pie-poudre, and the usual tolls, liberty to empark with free warren ; said Sir Domi- * Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 119. sarsfield's horse. 133 nick being therefor bound to plant ninety families on the lands. All these premises are stated to have come to the Crown by the attainder of Philip Fitz- Edmond Roche. In 1627, this Eoyal favourite was unadvisedly created Lord Viscount of Kinsale, a title for centuries maintained, with unbroken succession, in the ancient and noble family of De Courcey ; where- upon John Lord Courcey, existing Baron of Kinsale, and Gerald his son, petitioned the King and Lords of the Council in England, against Sarsfield's assumption of the dignity. This petition was referred to the Judges, who transferred the question to the Earl Marshal of England, from whose Report it appeared that the De Courceys had from time immemorial been stiled Barons of Kinsale and Ringrone ; and he held that to have two titles standing, one of the Barony in de Courcey, and another of the Viscounty in Sarsfield, would be an ill-confounding of titles of honour, and that therefore Sir Dorninick, though he may retain his rank, should take his title from some other place in Ireland, or be called Viscount Sarsfield ; whereupon he took that of Kilmallock. In the outlawries of 1642 appears the name of Peter Sarsfield of Tully County of Kildare. His son Patrick* had two sons, William of Lucan, who married Marie, sister of the Duke of Monmouth ; and Patrick, the Colonel at pre- sent under consideration. This latter u was highly accomplished, and in personal appearance of a tall and manly figure ; he had been an Ensign in France * Burke's Landed Gentry. 134 king james's irish army list. in Monmouth's Regiment, and a Lieutenant of the Guards in England."* When James came over to Ireland, he ranked as a Brigadier-general, and by his own influence had embodied this noble body of Horse ; soon after which, by the death of his elder brother William, s.p.m., he succeeded to the family estates, then considered of the value of £2,000 per annum. He was a Burgess in King James's Charter to Middleton, while Dominick and James were Alder- men in that to Cork, and John a Burgess in that to Limerick. In the Parliament of 1689, sat Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, of the Peers. He had a Regi- ment of Infantry in this service, as shown hereafter ; while, in others of this List, James Sarsfield was an Ensign in Colonel Thomas Butler's, as was Joseph Sarsfield in Colonel Charles O'Brien's, in which Ignatius Sarsfield was a captain. This Ignatius was the son of Patrick Sarsfield of Limerick, theretofore Governor of Clare ; his descendants, of kindred col- lateral to Colonel Patrick, bore the title of Counts of Sarsfield in the French army. Early in the Irish campaign, after Mountcashel's defeat before Enniskillen, Sarsfield, then " a young Captain beloved by the soldiery," was stationed with some troops at Sligo, for the defence of Connaught from the Ulster adherents of William ; a position which he held until directed to remove, to maintain Athlone against the meditated attack of Lieutenant- * O'Conor's Military Memoirs. sarsfield's horse. 135 General James Douglas. The announcement of his approach affected the object for the moment, General Douglas retiring to rejoin his King. It is said of Sarsfield that, even after King William had passed the Boyne, he u implored James, before he left the hill of Dunore, to strike another blow for empire." At the first siege of Limerick, while Major-General Boiseleau had the command of the Garrison, the Duke of Berwick and Colonel Sarsfield were next under him. The latter, pending the siege, (on the 12th August) surprised, at Kelly-na-Mona, a convoy that was conducting to the besiegers provisions and am- munition. This gallant achievement is fully detailed by Story, the Chaplain of King William. He spiked their cannon and exploded their ammunition ; and the same day re-entered Limerick amidst the triumphant shouts of his fellow-soldiers, thenceforth more than ever their idol. Encouraged by his daring exploit, those who were wavering before abandoned all thoughts ot capitulation.* On the 30th August, King William directing his last assault upon the City, left 1200 regular troops killed in the trenches, and in five days after embarked himself from Waterford to England. When the Duke of Tyrconnel went to France, Sars- field was one of those whom he put in commission to direct the inexperienced Duke of Berwick ; to whom, as before mentioned, he had entrusted the command of the army. Soon afterwards the Duke and he attacked the Castle of Birr, the family residence of * Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 416. 136 king james's Irish army list. Sir Lawrence Parsons, ancestor of the present Earl of Eosse ; "the principal design, however, of this movement was to break down the bridge of Banagher, bnt the attempt was fonnd too hazardous at that time, not only as the enemy was very strong on the other side, but as it was defended by a Castle and another work which commanded it on two sides,"* and the project was consequently abandoned. Sarsfield is represented by Colonel O'Kelly, in the 'Excidium Macarice] as suspecting Berwick about this time of treacherous correspondence with his Uncle Colonel Churchill, in King William's service. Tyrconnel, when he returned from France, brought with him a patent from King James, creating this officer Earl of Lucan, Viscount of Tully, and Baron of Eosberry; titles which King William's Chaplain, Story, seems willing to concede to him, even after the conclusion of the campaign. ' Lord Lucan,' he says, ' for so we may venture to call Lieutenant-General Sarsfield, since the Articles of Limerick do it.' King James then also constituted Sarsfield a Colonel of his Life Guards, and Commander-in-chief of the Forces in Ireland ; the last appointment proved however soon but titular, as in May, 1691, the Marquess de St. Euth landed, a foreigner placed over his head by the French King. Yet no jealousy of Sarsfield at this step induced him to abate his zeal for the cause he had espoused ; and when, on Tyrconnel's death, D'Usson, the senior officer, assumed the command of * Harris's Life of William III. sarsfield's horse. 137 of Limerick, " Sarsfield attended to all the details, superintended the repair of the fortifications, the providing of ammunition and stores, watched the motions and defeated the designs of the peace party. His vigilance and activity admitted of no relaxation ; his ardour inspired the troops with confidence."* At the Battle of Aughrim he had been placed by St. Ruth at the left wing of the Irish army, with positive instructions not to stir from that position until he received St. Ruth's orders, an injunction which held him inactive until the death of that Commander closed the contest, the more effectually as Sarsfield, though second in command, was wholly ignorant of the plans of his commander ; the officers of the Irish army waited for orders, but none was there to give them.f Sarsfield, after long opposing the capitulation of Limerick, excited much astonishment by ultimately joining those who advocated it. Colonel O'Kelly could not see any justification for this change of opinion, and is the more inclined to impeach it, as, pending the arrangement of the terms for surren- der, this General dined with the Duke of Wurtem- burgh in the English camp. O'Conor, in his 4 Military Memoirs,' (p. 174) defends Sarsfield's motives in a manner that would leave without stain the memory of this truly illustrious Irishman. At a very ad- vanced state of the siege, u his constancy gave way, * O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 167. t OVCallaghan's Excidium Macwice, p. 461. 138 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. he apprehended probably that some of the gates or works would be betrayed to the enemy, that the whole garrison would be involved in the horrors of a town taken by storm, and that no terms could in that case be made for the religion or the nation. Overpowered by such considerations, he ultimately acquiesced in the wishes of the majority." The Treaty that he sought proposed indemnity for the past, free liberty of worship, security of titles and estates, admission to all employments civil and military, and equal rights with the Protestants in all the Corporations. Such was the Treaty he sought; such he construed the Articles of Limerick, to which he was an executing party. He had however been himself previously at- tainted on several Inquisitions taken in Dublin, Kil- dare, Cork and Kerry ; Lady Honoria Sarsfield, his wife, was also outlawed, as were Daniel and David Sarsfield of Sarsfield's Court. At the Court of Claims, Francis Sarsfield claimed and was allowed a fee in lands at Saggard, County of Dublin, forfeited by Patrick Sarsfield ; and in all his other estates in the County of Kildare, &c. — Dominick, James, and Patrick Sarsfield, minors, claimed, by their father Dominick Sarsfield, an estate tail in Cork lands of which he was the late occupant ; — disallowed. Pa- trick Sarsfield, in behalf of his son John, a minor, claimed an estate tail in Cork lands forfeited by the said Patrick ; allowed, after the decease of John's father and mother. Said Patrick Sarsfield also claim- ed an estate tail in Lucan, Rathbride, &c. ; — dismist. sarsfield's horse. 139 The only existing male representative of this illus- trious name now in Ireland appears to be Donii- nick Konayne Sarsfield of Dough-Cloy ne, County of Cork ; the lineal descendant of Dominick, the above minor, claimant. William Sarsfield, the aforesaid brother of the Earl of Lucan, left by the Duke of Monmouth's sister a daughter Charlotte, who, after the attainder and forfeiture of her uncle, obtained a grant of some of his estates. She married Agmon- disham Yesey, son of the Archbishop of Tuam, and had by him two daughters ; Henrietta, who married Caesar Colclough of Tintern Abbey, County of Wex- ford ; and Anne, who married John Bingham of Castlebar, ancestor of the present Earl of Lucan. On the surrender of Limerick, Sarsfield sedulously urged the removal of many of his old comrades to France, with a sanguine hope of such aid from King Louis as would secure their triumphant return.* " The Irish Officers," says Harris, " went on board with the best of their forces on the 22nd of Dec. 1691, and with them Sarsfield embarked to seek a fortune in a strange country, when he might have re- mained an ornament to his own ; but he was actu- ated by a strong bias to what, in his opinion, was the true religion, and by the false principle of honor and loyalty to a Prince, who had made it the whole busi- ness of his reign to overturn an established constitu- tion." He landed in due course at Brest, with 4,500 of the expatriated Irish, while a remainder of 19,059 * O'Conor's Military Mem., p. 189. 140 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. men and officers arrived in France about the same time, in three other divisions,* all of whom King James reviewed and regimented.f On Sarsfield's arrival in France, that King appointed him to the command of the second troop of Irish Horse Guards, that of the first having been committed to the Duke of Berwick. During the short interval that he out- lived the Stuart Dynasty, he addressed various letters, (offered for sale in the Southwell Collections some few years since) signed by himself as Earl of Lucan, to De Ginkle, Earl of Athlone ; in which he set forth the displeasure of Louis the Fourteenth, by reason that " the articles of the Capitulation of Limerick had not been punctually performed," and requiring that the delay to so doing should be removed with all imagina- ble despatch. These communications passed in the year 1692. In the following year, he fell on the field of battle. "This year," (1693) says O'Conor, "is memorable in the annals of the Irish Brigade, for the death of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. He had been instrumental in bringing over a great part of the Irish army to the service of France, and had the com- mand of the troops destined for the invasion of Eng- land. After the destruction of the French fleet off La Hogue, the Irish troops marched to Alsace ; and Sarsfield, at the close of 1692, was ordered to join the French army in Flanders under the Duke of Lux- embourg ; in 1693, he was killed in the battle of * O'Conor's Military Mem, p. 193. t 0'Calla.ghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 64. sarsfield's horse. 141 Landen, at the head of a French division. He fell leading on the charge of strangers ; his contempora- ries long deplored the loss of this gallant officer, and his memory is still cherished with enthusiastic admi- ration in his native country As a partisan, and for desultory warfare, Sarsfield possessed admirable qualifications. Brave, patient, vigilant, rapid, indefa- tigable, ardent, adventurous, and enterprising ; the foremost in the encounter, the last to retreat ; he har- rassed his enemy by sudden, unexpected, and gener- ally irresistible attacks ; inspiring his troops with the same ardour and contempt of danger with which his own soul was animated. His valour prolonged the contest in Ireland, and if he had but possessed a cor- responding degree of military skill, might materially have altered the issue of the contest."* " Patrick Sarsfield," writes a more recent biographer, " may be quoted as a type of loyalty and patriotic devotion. In the annals of Irish History he stands as a parallel to Pierre du Terrail, Chevalier de Bayard, in those of France, and may be equally accounted 4 sans peur et sans reproche.' In his public actions firm and consis- tent, in his private character amiable and unblem- ished ; attached, by religious conviction and heredi- tary reverence for the ' right divine ' of Kings, to the falling House of Stuart, he drew a sharp sword in the cause of the Monarch he had been brought up to be- lieve his lawful sovereign, and voluntarily followed * O'Conor's Military Mem. p. 222. 142 king james's irish army list. him into exile when he could wield it no longer."* Arminius was never more popular among the Ger- mans than was Sarsfield among the Irish. He had married the Lady Honoria de Burgh, daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, by whom he had one son, James Edward Francis, of whom see ante, p. 27. He fought under his illustrious stepfather, the Marshal Duke of Berwick, in Spain, and was honor- ably provided for by King Philip the Fifth. The Earl of Lucan left also one daughter, who intermar- ried with the well-known Baron Theodore de New- burgh, King of Corsica. Sarsfield's widow married the Duke of Berwick in 1695, by whom she had issue as before mentioned. Soon after the death of Lord Lucan, in October, 1693, King James appointed Donough McCarthy, Earl of Clancarthy, his succes- sor in the command of the second troop of Guards.f A Captain Peter Drake, of Drake-Rath, County of Meath, who left Ireland on the fall of James the Second's cause, says in a diary kept by him, " From Paris I went (in 1694) to St. Germains, where I met with Mrs. Sarsfield, mother of Lord Lucan, and her two daughters, Ladies Kilmallock and Mount Leins- ter ; the eldest of whom, Lady Kilmallock, was my godmother. These ladies, though supported by small pensions," adds the Captain, " received me with great generosity, and treated me with much good nature. J ,* Dublin University Magazine, November, 1823. t O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 135. X Cited, Idem, p. 334. sarsfield's horse. 143 Of the many Sarsfielcls distinguished in the armies of the Continent, see O'Callaghan's History of the Irish Brigades, (vol. 1, p. 321) ; but they were, from the fact stated, not of Patrick's descendants. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALMERIC DE COURCY, LORD KINSALE. This noble family claims alliance with most of the Royal Houses of Europe ; paternally through the Dukes of Lorraine, and maternally through those of Normandy. Robert de Courcy accompanied William the Conqueror to England, distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, and partook largely of the spoils of the conquest, in grants of estates in Somerset and Oxford Shires. His lineal descendant, Sir John de Courcy, having signalised himself in the wars of Henry the Second in England and Gascony, was sent into Ireland in 1177, as an assistant to William Fitz- Adelm in the government of that country. He it was who, having obtained from King Henry the Second, while in Ireland, a grant of Ulster, with the naive proviso that he should first subdue it by the force of his arms, invaded that province with twenty-two Knights, fifty Esquires, and about three hundred foot soldiers ; where he did such ' service in the English in- terest,' that the Annals of the North during his visita- tion are but the chronicle of successful carnage. His 144 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. course was traced by ruined districts, depopulated vil- lages, desecrated churches ; not, however, without found- ing sundry other religious houses in atonement as at Neddrum, the Black Abbey, Iniscourcy, Tobberglory, &c. His achievements acquired for him the dignity of Earl of Ulster, but afterwards incurring the dis- pleasure of King John, he was only released from its infliction on succeeding against a French Champion in a wager of battle, concerning the very important political question of the day, the Royal right to Nor- mandy. John then also conferred upon him that privilege, which has been since sometimes asserted by his descendants, of wearing the head covered in the presence of Majesty. Henry the Third rewarded his son Miles more substantially with the Barony of Kinsale. In 1302, Nicholas de Courcy was one of the Magnates of Ireland who attended, on summons, Richard de Burgo in the wars of Scotland.* The Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration was Almericus de Courcy, the twenty-third in the suc- cession of that ancient Baronage. He succeeded to the title in 1669, being then only five years old, and was sent early to Oxford ; where his education was conducted under the eye of the famous John Fell, Dean of Christ Church, and Bishop of Oxford ; whose letters in 1677-8 represent his young Lordship as " addicted to the tennis court, proof against all Latin assaults, and prone to kicking, beating, and domineering over his sisters ; fortified in the * Burke's Peerage. sarsfield's horse. 145 conceit that a title of honor was support enough, with- out the pedantry and trouble of book-learning."* One of these sisters, Ellen, was married to Sir John Magrath, of Attivolan, County of Tipperary, who was created a Baron under singular circumstances here- after alluded to at that name. This Lord's first posi- tion in King James's service was as Captain of a Troop of Horse ; he was afterwards raised to this Lieutenant- Colonelcy in Sarsfield's Eegiment, and enjoyed the continuance of a pension which had been previously granted to the 22 nd Lord by Charles the Second. He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1689 ; while in the Commons, on that occasion, Miles de Courcy was one of the Kepresentatives of Kinsale, That Miles was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's Infantry, as was also Garrett 1 Coursey ' and another Garrett Coursy, a Lieutenant. The Baron was attainted in 1691, but the outlawry having been subsequently reversed, he, in October, 1692, took his seat in the House of Peers of Ire- land, and sat a second time in 1719 ; at the close of which year (Feb. 9th) he died, and was buried in West- minster Abbey. He left no issue, whereupon his cousin-german, Myles de ' Coursy,' the Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's Foot, succeeded to the title. f * Catal. Southwell MSS., p. 391. t Crossley's Peerage, p. 208. I. 146 king james's irish army list. MAJOR ROGER 4 M'KETTIGAN.' This Sept were anciently the territorial proprietors of Clan-diarmada, a denomination still recognisable in the parish of Clan-dermot, County of Derry, over which County and that of Donegal the name is still extant. It was borne by a late Roman Catholic Bishop of Raphoe, Dr. Patrick 4 Mc Gettigan.' CAPTAIN RENE DE CARNE. He being one of the French Officers, as was Lieute- nant Rene Mezandine, they and others of that nation in the Roll are not within the scope of the present Illustrations. Of Captain Rene de Carne, however, it may be observed that, on the formation of the Irish Brigade, called the Queen's Own, this Captain was ap- pointed its Lieutenant-Colonel, as before mentioned, ante p. 105. CAPTAIN FRANCIS NAGLE. This is one of the families that branched from Gilbert de Angulo, who came into Ireland with Strongbow, and altered the name into Nangle in the County of Meath, and Nagle in Cork. A Manuscript Book of Obits, &c. in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. 3, 27) gives links of the lineage of the Nagles of sarsfield's horse. 147 Monanimy, County of Cork, for nine generations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The attainders of 1642 include the names of Richard Nagle and John Nagle of that place. The Declaration of Royal gratitude from Charles the Second, for services beyond the seas, makes special mention of Pierce Nagle, also of Monanimy. In King James's New Charters to the Corporations of Ireland, David Nagle was an Alderman in that to Cork, wherein Peter Nagle was a Burgess. In that to Mallow, Piers, David, and Edward were Burgesses ; to Dungarvan, Peter and Andrew were named Burgesses, and William Nagle, Town Clerk. James was Town Clerk in those to Trim and Belturbet. In that to Charleville, David, Piers, Richard, John, and James Nagle were named Burgesses ; while last in that to Youghal, Piers, Andrew, and William Nagle were Burgesses ; Sir Richard Nagle was an Alderman. This latter individual, the most memorable of his name at that period, (often called ' Nangle' in Lord Clarendon's Letters) was " an active and skilful lawyer of the Popish party,"* knighted on being appointed King James's Attorney-General for Ireland. Tyrconnel, who particularly admired his shrewdness, brought him with him to England " in June, 1685, after having disbanded a great part of the Officers of the Irish Army. The Earl Powis, Lord Bellasis, and * Leland's Ireland, v. 8, p. 515. King says he was originally designed for the Roman Catholic priesthood. — State of the Pro- testants, p. 73. L 2 148 king james's irish army list. other Lords were so exasperated on being informed of Nagle's arrival, that they would have him expelled from London immediately. As it was, some time elapsed before he was admitted to kiss the King's hand ; however, to complete in private what he dared not attempt upon the public, it was agreed among them that Nagle should set forth, by way of a letter to a friend, the great injustice and oppression of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, to open a way to their repeal ; the time being now thought favourable for that purpose, when the King, who, while Duke of York, had always patronised the scheme, avowed himself ready to countenance it with all his power, and no Parliament was at present sitting to control his proceedings. In the following year, accordingly, Nagle wrote this letter (October, 1686) to Tyrconnel, with great virulence and ran- cour, and not without a considerable share of sophis- try and cunning. He laid the scene at Coventry, and introduced it as the fruits of two sleepless hours there, whence it took the name of ' the Coventry Letter ;' whereas it was the labour of so many weeks in London. In this letter he endeavours to show some nullities and invalidities in the said Acts, and confidently affirmed that it was not for murder or rebellion, but for religion that the estates of the Irish were sequestered, and mainly insisted on the inconvenience that would accrue to the Popish inte- rest by the continuance of these Acts. His invectives against King Charles the Second were so virulent, sarsfield's horse. 149 that he dared not to own his production ; but in Ireland gave out that he would arrest any man in an action of £10,000, who should presume to father it on him. Yet afterwards, when Speaker of James's Irish Parliament, he pleaded it as a merit, and the Repeal of the Acts was urged, founded on his argu- ments."* His presence at the Conference which King James held at Chester, in 1687, was thus necessitated ; and accordingly, in the Rolls Office of Ireland is preserved a licence of absence to Sir • Richard Nagle for one month, under the Lord Deputy's warrant, dated 18th August, 1687, nine days before the King came up to Chester. On the assembling of the Parliament of Dublin in 1689, he was elected their Speaker.f He sat as one of the Representatives of Cork, and was, as might be expected, one of the most violent impugners of the Act of Settlement. In the summer of that year, on the retirement of Lord Melfort, he was, by the Duke of Tyrconnel's interest, appointed Secretary of State, as well as Secretary of War to His Majesty. After the defeat at the Boyne, he was one of the Council whom King James, on his arrival in Dublin, con- vened to advise proceedings. " They were all unani- mously of opinion that he should lose no time in going to France, otherwise he would run a great risk of being taken by the enemy, who they believed * The original letter was sold in the Southwell MSS. — See Thorpe's Catalogue, pp. 223-4. t Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 407- 150 king james's irish army list. would be there next morning w * When, after the first siege of Limerick, Tyrconnel went over to St. Germains, he was accompanied by Sir Richard Nagle, the duty of Secretary of State being confided in his absence to the newly created Lord Riverston ; he returned with the Duke in January, 1690, and, on the death of that great man, he feelingly laments the event in a letter, August, 1691, to Lord Merrion, as " a fatal stroke to this poor country, in this nick of time, the enemy being within four miles of the town," adding, " he is to be buried privately to-morrow, about ten of the clock at night. As he appeared always zealous for his country, so his loss is at this time extremely pernicious to this poor nation. "f In the too confident contemplation of his death, a Royal Commission had been fore-drawn, providing that the Government should, in such event, be administered by this Sir Richard Nagle, Francis Plowden, Com- missioner of the Revenue (who brought it over), and Baron Gawsworth the Lord Chancellor, as Lords Justices, with the usual forms. J Sir Richard was attainted by no less than seven Inquisitions. Im- mediately on his outlawry, an order of the Govern- ment issued, " requiring such persons as might have papers or books of his in their custody at the Castle of Dublin, to deliver same to George Clarke, the new Secretary of War."§ * Clarke's James II., p. 401. t O'Callaghan's Excidium Macaricr,, p. 472. } Idem, pp. 478-0. § Clarke's MSS. T.C.D., Letter cclii. sarsfield's horse. 151 In the mean time, Sir Richard preferred adhering to the fallen fortunes of the Stuart, rather than to compromise with the new government. At the petty court of St. Gerinains he still filled the office of 4 Secretary of State for Ireland,' while his son James married in that country Margaret, daughter of Colonel Walter Butler, one of the Officers of this list here- after alluded to. Colonel O'Kelly speaks of Sir Richard Nagle as "a person of ability and parts, generally believed an honest man while the Duke of Berwick, in his able memoir says, " he was a courteous man, of good sense, and well skilled in his profession, but by no means versed in the affairs of state." Besides the above Captain Francis Nagle, there are enrolled in Colonel Gordon O'Neill's Infantry, Arthur i Nagle,' a Lieutenant, as was David Nagle in Sir John Barrett's. This David was one of the Representatives of Mallow in the Parliament of 1689. The Nagles attainted in 1691, were Sir Richard, as before mentioned, John Nagle of Dublin, James and David of Carrigeen, County of Cork, Andrew of Youghal, Piers of Annakissy, Garret of Drummins- town, Richard of Shanballymore, all in the County, and Peter of the City, of Cork. Sir Richard's for- feitures extended over nearly 5000 acres in the Baronies of Fermoy and Duhallow in this County, also much in Waterford. David Nagle claimed and was allowed an estate for lives in Cork lands ; while James Nagle, by Michael Kearney his guardian, * Excidium Macarice, p. 106. 152 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. > claimed certain rights in the Cork lands forfeited by Piers of Annakissy, and was allowed same after the death of Piers. Joan Butler, alias Everard, also claimed the benefit of an assignment of the equity of redemption in premises forfeited by said Piers. At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, a Francis Nagle, of, it would seem, the kindred of the above Officer, being then a Lieutenant in Bulkeley's Brigade, was taken prisoner. CAPTAIN JOHN MAC NAMARA. This Sept were Chiefs of the territory now known as the Barony of Tulla, with part of that of Bunratty, County of Clare ; and enjoyed the rank of hereditary marshals of the O'Briens, Kings of Thomond. They were very powerful, and had many castles. In 1402, Quin Abbey was founded in this County for Fran- ciscan friars by Shedagh Cam Mac Namara, Lord of Clan-Cuilein ; who appointed it the burial place for himself and his posterity.* In 1408, Henry the Fourth granted to Margaret, daughter of the Mac Na- mara,' of the Irish Nation, that she and all her issue might be free, and use the English habit and law. In 1496, the Castle of Feyback was taken by the Lord Deputy from Eugene Mc Namara. In 1543, the Privy Council of Ireland transmitted a recom- mendation to the King, advising his Majesty that " an * Annals of the Four Masters. sarsfield's horse. 153 Irish Captain, called Shedagh Mac Namara, bordering on O'Brien's lands and possessing those of Clan-Cullen in Thoniond, sought to be advanced to the honor of Baron of Clan-Cullen, with his place in Parliament, offering, if he obtained such distinction, to hold his territory by Knight's service ; and, for that the said Mac Namara is a man whose ancestors have in those parts always borne a great sway, and one that for himself is of honest conformity, and whose lands lie wholly on the 4 furside ■ of the Shannon, we beseech Your Majesty to regard him, but so as not to entitle him or his heirs to any land or dominion on this side of the Shannon."* On the occasion of Perrot's Con- cilation Parliament of 1585, " there went thither Turlogh, son of Teigue, son of Conor O'Brien, and the Lord of the western part of Clan-Cullen, namely, John Mac Namara, i. e., John the son of Teigue, as one of the Knights of Parliament for the County of Clare." So say the Four Masters, whose Annals abound with notices of this ancient Sept. Daniel Mac Namara of Doone and John Mac Namara of Mori- orsky were of the Supreme Council that assembled in 1646 at Kilkenny. This Captain John had livery of his estates in the County of Clare, out of the Court of Wards in 1637, and having been ousted in the civil war of 1641, he was, by a clause in the Act of Settlement, restored to his principal seat with 2,000 acres of land ; and the same statute, in the Declaration which it contains of * D' Alton's County Dublin, p. 162. 154 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Eoyal gratitude for services during the exile, names this Mae Namara as one who, " for reasons known to us, in an especial manner merited our grace and favour." He would seem to be identical with John Mac Namara of Cruttilagh or Cratloe, who was Sheriff of Clare in 1686-7, and one of its representatives in the Irish Parliament of 1689, having previously ob- tained, in October, 1685, a patent from King James for erecting the lands of Cratillow into a manor. In King James's New Charters, Thomas Macna- mara was a Burgess in that to Limerick ; as were Florence and John in another to Ennis. Florence Macnamara was one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County of Clare, and he was a Captain in Lord Clare's Dragoons, in which Laurence and Daniel Macnamara were Quarter-Masters. Hugh Macna- mara commanded a troop of Grenadiers in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry ; Miles was a Quarter-Master in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's ; while in Colonel Charles O'Brien's, Donogh and Thady Macnamara were Captains, and a second Donogh a Lieutenant. Teigue Macnamara, of the Ayle line of this Sept, raised an independent troop for King James's service after the battle of the Boyne,* with which he garrisoned the Castle of Clare, and held it until the capitulation of Limerick ; in the Articles for which he, being included? saved his estate and removed to the old family man- sion at Ayle.f * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 514. f Burke's Landed Gentry, p 813. sarsfield's horse. 155 Captain John rose to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in this service. He married to his first wife the Lady Elizabeth O'Brien, eldest daughter of Murrough, the first Earl of Inchiquin. She died in 1688,* when it would appear he married a second time the relict of Richard Southwell, Esq., father of Sir Thomas South- well, afterwards Lord Southwell, f John was outlawed, but was subsequently adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. Others of the name then attainted were Florence Macnamara of Dromore, Donogh of Mohir, Thomas of Limerick, and John of Ralshine, County of Limerick. At the Court of Chichester House, John Macna- mara, styled of ' Creevagh,' claimed and was allowed a mortgage affecting estates of Lord Clare ; as did John, the son, heir, and executor of his father James, the benefit of a mortgage affecting said estates, and his claim was also allowed. Teigue Macnamara claimed, in right of his wife, an interest in lands in the County of Clare, the forfeiting proprietor of which was Redmond Magrath, — but his claim was disal- lowed ; as was another claim of his to a freehold in Clare lands, forfeited by Lord Clare, and which Teigue claimed, in right of his father, John Macna- mara, to whom they had been leased, and who died in 1690. In 1745 Lieutenant Macnamara, of the Irish Bri- * Archdalfs Lodge, v. 6, p. 18. t Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 241. 156 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. gade, was killed in Flanders.* And in two years after died in France, John Macnamara, a distinguished Admiral in that service ; he was, according to Mac- Geoghegan, of the grand military order of St. Louis, and Governor of the Port of Rochford. His nephew was commander of the 4 Frepinne,' in which he took a number of valuable prizes.f LIEUTENANT JOHN GAYDON. An Inquisition, taken post mortem, 6th July, 1613, at Naas, finds that John Gay don, alias Gay ton, died in 1596, seized in fee of a castle, lands, tenements, &c. in the town of Irishtown, formerly called Bally - spedagh, in the County of Kildare ; and also of the Castle, &c. of Straffan, &c. in said County, and of the lands of Hatton and Ardrosse therein ; and that his heir is Nicholas Gaydon, now aged thirty- eight years, and married ; who is in occupation of said premises, which he holds in common soccage of the heir of a certain John Fannyn, son and heir of John Fannyn, Knight. J The outlawries of 1642 record only of this name John ' Gaydon' of Irishtown ; it may be presumed a son of the last mentioned Nicholas, and identical with the Lieutenant at present under consideration. The name seems now extinct in Ireland. * Gent. Mag. v. 15, p. 275. f Ferrar's Limerick, p. 349. \ Inq. in Cane. Hib. sarsfield's house. 157 LIEUTENANT JAMES ST. JOHN. This name is of record in Ireland in the fourteenth century, and in the seventeenth was one of tenure at Mortellstown in the County of Tipperary ; of which place it will be remembered was Thomas St. John, who signed the Petition of 1661, ante, page 8 ; but nothing worth relating has been discovered of this individual or of the name, except that, at the Court of Chichester House in 1703, a James St. John claimed and was allowed an estate for lives in Carlo w lands forfeited by Dudley Bagnall. A Lieutenant St. John is said to have submitted to the Government of King William ; and it is not unlikely that this officer was the person, as well by the absence of his name from the Koll of Attainders, as by the presump- tion that he was the above claimant. His name appears to be also now extinct in Ireland. LIEUTENANT THOMAS LEICESTER. This name, in various modes of spelling, is traced in Irish records from Edward the Third. In 1357, John 4 de Lecestere,' was nominated Attorney-General for Ireland. In 1402, William 1 Lyster' was appoint- ed to the office of 4 Water-Bailly ' of Ulster, with a Clerkship of the Escheats in said County ; he had also 158 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. a grant of lands in the County of Dublin, for the term of his life. At its dissolution, the Religious House of Kil- carmick, in O'Mulloy's Country, (the King's County) having vested in the Crown, was granted by James the First, soon after his accession, to Robert Ley- cester, Gent, with sundry lands in said country. He subsequently passed patent more extensively for Cas- tles, Abbeys, Chiefries, and Lands in the several Counties of Wicklow, Westmeath, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, with licences for fairs and markets, &c. The estates in the King's County (some of which, as Killishell, were parcel of the estates of the O'Connors of that County, attainted) remained in his descendants until forfeited by the above Lieutenant Thomas. His forfeitures in that County alone comprised two thousand three hundred acres ; his father, John Leicester, also forfeited con- siderable interests therein. A Funeral Entry of 1684 in the Office of Arms of Dublin describes this latter indi- vidual as " John Leicester of Kilcormick in the King's County, son of Robert, son of Robert, son of John, son of John. The first mentioned John died last day of March, and was buried 10th of April at Ballyboy in said County. He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Tyrrel of Simon's Court, County Westmeath, second son of Richard Tyrrell of Kilbride ; by whom he had issue one son, Thomas (the above Lieutenant), and two daughters, Mary and Joane. This Funeral Entry is, as required, testified by Edward Tyrrel, sarsfield's horse. 159 brother [in law] of the deceased. Lieutenant Tho- mas was, therefore, it would appear, the great grand- son of Kobert, the patentee of 1604, who, from an examination of the lineage of the Leicesters of Toft Hall in Cheshire, was probably one of the younger sons of Sir George (who died in 1612), by Alice, eldest daughter of Peter Leicester of Tabley. The Inquisition, taken on his attainder, describes him as late of Ballyboy in the King's County, and to have been seised of about one thousand acres in that County, including Corraghmore, Ballycollane, Gur- teen, Dune, Killeshill, Kilduff, and the town and lands of the Monastery of Kilcormick, with a mill, market, and fair to the latter appertaining. LIEUTENANT GEORGE MAYO. This surname does not occur again in the List, nor does it at all appear in the Eoll of Outlawries ; where, however, some Meaghs and Meyaghs do. The name of 'Mayo we' is in the Chancery Eolls, as in Kerry, in the fourteenth century. That of ' May hew' also occurs in Irish records of about the same period ; and, in a Roll of Amerceaments of Fines laid upon Sheriffs, Mayors, Seneschals, &c, of record in the Chief Remembrancer's Office, is one of Geoffrey 'Mayhoo' in 1428. 160 king james's irisii army list. CORNET GEORGE IIAUGHTON. Neither does this name appear again on the List, nor in the attainders of the period. On the 21st of December, 1690, Thomas 4 Haghton' was appointed to the office of Second Sergeant at Arms, and on the 28th March following had a grant of the office of Clerk of the Crown and Peace of the County of Dub- lin.* certain George Haughton obtained, in the time of Charles the Second, a fiat for a grant of the manor, town and lands of Barne, in the County of Longford ; but died in 1682, before obtaining pos- session, leaving George Haughton, Junior, his son and heir, then a minor of but five years of age. It is just possible that, in the enthusiasm of the period, he, though only thirteen years of age at the time of this campaign, may have been the above Cornet George. George junior was, during his life, involved in litigation concerning the said manor of Barne, and died in 1732, seised of two other manors, that of Bormount in Wexford, and Kilthorpe in Rutlandshire, England.f QUARTER, MASTER THOMAS LILLY. Neither is this name again on the List, nor in the Outlawries. * Rolls Office. f Appeal Cases. sarsfield's horse. 161 QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM SYNNOTT. This family is descended from an ancient and honorable stock of Norman extraction. They were possessed of lands in Ireland from the time of the Invasion, and in the County where it first found footing. In 1365, John ' Synath' was one of the influential proprietors of this County (Wexford) directed by the Crown, according to the custom of the time, to elect its Sheriff. Sir John Synnot, after the Desmond war, passed out of Ireland to foreign parts.* In 1607, William Synnatt of Ballyfernock had a grant of various lands within the district of O'Murrough's Country (County of Wexford), "with certain custom sheep, called summer sheep, and cer- tain 'akates 1 upon and in O'Murrough's Country, where the said lands lie ; with all other customs, duties, and hereditaments to same belonging, and which came to King Edward the Sixth by the attain- der of Donell 0'Murrough."f This grant was subse- quently renewed to his son Walter Synnott. In 1649, David Synnot was Governor of Wexford when that town was besieged by Cromwell ; and in its gal- lant though unsuccessful defence he lost his life. In 1650, Oliver Synnot came over in commission from the Duke of Lorraine, on the occasion of his Grace's * Manuscripts T.C.D., E 3, 15. f Pat. Roll in Cane. Hib. M 162 king james's irish army list. memorable proffer of aid to the Royal cause.* This same Oliver, it would appear, was in the following- year Commander of the Fort of Ardkyn in the Isle of Arran.f No other Synnott appears in this Army List, and, from the 4 Landed Gentry 1 of Sir Bernard Burke (f. 1347), this Quarter-Master William would seem to have been of the Ballytramon line. In King James's Charters, Dominick Synnot was an Alderman in that to Waterford ; Richard a Bai- liff in that to Wexford ; and, on the Establishment of 1687-8, James Synnot was placed for a pension of £50. The outlawries of 1691 comprise the names of John 1 Sinnott' of Middletown, County of Wexford ; as also of James and Richard Synnott of Wexford, Richard and Walter ' Sinnott' of Churchtown, Ross- beare ; Stephen ' Sinnott' of Ballynant, Pierce ' Sin- nott' of Housewood, and John Synnott of Kilcotty, all in the County of Wexford ; with Francis Synnott of Waterford, and Michael Synnott of Graigue, County of Leitrim. QUARTER-MASTER SYLVESTER DEVENISH. The Norman surname of 4 Le Devenys,' is of the earli- est introduction into Ireland. In 1302, Nicholas 'Deveneys' had military summons for the Scottish war. In 1308, William 4 de Devenys' was one of the * O'Conor's Hist Address, part 2. p. 446. t Hardiman's Gal way, p. 319. sarsfield's horse. 163 Justices of the Irish Bench ; and in the same year, John 'Le Devenys' had livery of seisin of his lands there, as holding in capite from the Crown. In 1356, Maurice and Nicholas Devenys were of the influential proprietors of Kilkenny, who in that year elected J ohn Fitz-Oliver cle la Freyne into the Shrievalty of their County. In 1488, Eichard Devenys did homage to Sir Eichard Edgecombe at Kinsale.* In 1509, Peter 'Devenish' was a prebendary of Saggard, in St. Patrick's Cathedral ; and, while in that office, witnessed the surrender of the possessions of Glendalough to the See of Dublin. f An old Family Pedigree, however, derives this Quarter-master from Sir John Devenish of Hellen- leagh in England, a descendant of whom, Edmund Devenish, came to Ireland in 1512, and married a daughter of Sir Poland Penthony. Their eldest son George, the first of the family born in Ireland, built the large mansion in the town of Athlone, (hence known to a very recent period as Court Devenish) where he settled ; and, marrying Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, was the lineal ancestor of the above Sylvester, as well as of George and Thomas Devenish, who were attainted with him in 1691, all being described as 4 of Athlone, County Westmeath.' From said George, likewise sprung the existing family of Devenish of Rush-hill and Mountpleasant, in the County of Eoscommon. Edmund, who mar- * Harris's Hibernica, part 2, p. 36. f D'Alton's Archbishops of Dublin. M 2 164 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. ried Miss Penthony, had by her a second son, James, who was seised of premises in the County of Dublin, in 1637, and was the ancestor of Major-General John James Devenish, in 1728 Governor of Courtray in the Low Countries. It is to be observed that a Major Devenish is noted in the Rawdon Papers (p. 355) as having been killed in this campaign, in William's service ; while a de- spatch of the Duke of Marlborough in 1716, from the camp before Dundermond, mentions that a Colonel Devenish had proffered to bring over an Irish regi- ment to the Allies from the service of the ' Enemy,' a proposal which was afterwards entertained.* REGIMENTS OF HORSE. CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF ABERCORN'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters. The Colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel. Thomas Corbet, Major. Gerald Aylmer. Nicholas Bellew. John Hurlin. John Rice. Thomas Hiffernan. Gerald Dillon. Thomas Bourke. Charles Redmond. * Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 3, p. 117. abercorn's horse. 165 COLONEL CLAUD HAMILTON, EARL OF ABERCORN. The Illustrious House of Hamilton claims descent from Bernard, a noble of the blood Royal of Saxony, second in command to Rollo, the renowned Duke of Normandy, at the close of the ninth century. Hum- phrey, the great grandson of this nobleman, lived in the eleventh, founded and endowed the Abbey of Preaux in Normandy, and was there buried. His son, Roger de Beaumont, was one of the council who encouraged William the Conqueror to invade England ; and Roger's son, Robert, married the grand-daughter of Henry the First, King of France, commanded the right wing of the Conqueror's army at the great bat- tle of Hastings, and was created Earl of Leicester in 1103. Robert, the third Earl of Leicester, grandson of the first, died and was buried in Greece on his return from the Holy Land in 1190. His sister, having been married to the Earl of Pembroke, was mother of ' Strongbow.' The eldest son of the last named Robert died without issue ; his second son, Roger, was Bishop of St. Andrews ; and his third son, William, having been born at Hambledon in Leicester- shire, took his surname 4 de Hamilton ' from that place, and was the more especial stock of the widely extended families of the name. About the year 1215, having gone into Scotland to visit his sister, who was married to the Earl of Winton, he was there well received by the Scottish King, under 166 king james's irish army list. whose favour he settled there, and intermarried with the daughter and representative of the Earl of Strathern. His son, Sir Gilbert, married Isabella, niece to Sir Robert Bruce, and their son particularly distinguished himself at Bannockburn, on whose field he was knighted. It is of family tradition that Sir Gilbert, the younger son of this knight, having spoken in honorable terms of Robert Bruce at the Court of King Edward in 1325, received a taunting insult from John de Spencer, and a rencontre was the con- sequence, in which the latter fell. Hamilton, there- upon, a stranger as he was, apprehensive of court influence and resentment against him, fled for Scot- land ; when, being closely pursued into a forest, he and his servant changed clothes with two wood- cutters, and, taking their saw, were cutting through an oak tree when their pursuers came up. Perceiving his servant's attention too much fixed upon them, he hastily reminded him of the part he was to act, by the word 4 through; rebuked by which presence of mind, the servant resumed his work, the pursuers passed unsuspectingly, and Sir Gilbert adopted the call 1 through] with the oak tree and saw, as his motto and crest. Such were the armorials of the Earl of Aber- corn, and the many Hamiltons that succeeded of that stock. Soon after Sir Gilbert's arrival in Scotland, he obtained a grant of the Barony of Cadzow in Lanark- shire, thenceforth called Hamilton.* In 1346, Sir David ' Hambleton ' of Cadzow, accompanied King * See Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 5, p. 88 et seq. abercorn's horse. 167 David Bruce to the battle of Durham, where he was taken prisoner with his Koyal master ; but having been soon after ransomed, he was one of the 1 Mag- nates Scotia?,' who assembled at Scone to acknowledge John, Earl of Carrick, eldest son of King Eobert the Second, to be undoubted heir to the throne. In 1445, Sir John Hamilton, grandson of the before mentioned Sir David of Cadzow, was joined with the Earl of Angus in the command of the Royal Array, on the memorable occasion when the Earl of Douglas was totally routed. In 1474, Sir James Hamilton, Lord Hamilton of Cadzow, the lineal descendant of William who first assumed the name, was married to the Prin- cess Mary, eldest daughter of James the Second, King of Scotland. His daughter married the Earl of Lennox and Darnley, and was thus the ancestress of James the Second of this campaign. Having so far written of this noble family in Scot- land, its introduction into Ireland in the time of James the First, and its rapid and honorable exten- sion over that kingdom to the time of the Revolution, are subjects of more native interest. In 1698, Hans Hamilton, the lineal descendant of the Lords of Cad- zow, died minister of Dunlop in Scotland. His eldest son, James Hamilton, was the first of the family who settled in Ireland in his father's life-time, having been sent thither with James Fullarton, by James the Sixth, afterwards the First of England, to encourage his ad- herents and secure his interest in that country. The more prudently to effectuate which object, and not to 168 king james's irish army list. obtrude the real motives of their mission, they assumed the character and office of school-masters, and actually presided over that Grammar-school where Primate Usher received his rudiments, and from which he entered Trinity College under said James Hamilton, then a Fellow of this University. King James, on his accession to the Crown of Eng- land, rewarded the services of this his agent by exten- sive grants of lands in the County of Down, and con- ferred on him successively the honour of Knighthood and the titles of Viscount Claneboy and Earl of Clan- brassil, which title became extinct on the failure of his line in his grandson Viscount Claneboy. The Earl also acquired considerable estates in the County of Louth, by assignment from Sir Nicholas Bagnal, and having invited his brothers from Scotland to par- ticipate in the advantages which his rank, property and influence gave him in Ireland, five of them accord- ingly came over. Of these, Archibald, the second son of Hans, became the ancestor of the Hamiltons of Killileagh and Killough ; Gawen, the third son, was an- cestor of Robert Hamilton of Kildare ; John Hamilton, the fourth son, settling in Armagh, married Sarah, daughter of Sir Robert Brabazon, and from their union sprang the Hamiltons of Mount Hamilton, County of Carlow, those of Sheep Hill, County of Dublin, and of Rock-Hamilton, County of Down. William Hamilton, the fifth son of Hans, was ancestor of the lines of Bangor, Tyrella, Balbriggan, and Tolly- more ; as was Patrick Hamilton of the Hamiltons of abercorn's horse. 169 Granshaw, and Mount Clithero, some of whom returned to Scotland, while others are yet established in the Barony of Ardes. In 1615, James Hamilton of Cadzow acquired the manor of Drumkea, with the Islands in the County of Fermanagh ; which he afterwards sold to John Arch- dall, who took out a fresh patent thereof. Eobert Hamilton likewise then acquired considerable estates in that County, and Sir Claud Hamilton became seized of upwards of 3,000 acres in the County of Cavan, as were other members of this family of differ- ent tracts therein. In 1618, James, the second Earl of Abercorn, eldest son of the first, was created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane ; which honor was how- ever, on his Lordship's petition, transferred to his next brother, the Honorable Claud Hamilton, who had married a daughter of the first Marquis of Huntly, and died in 1638, leaving by her Sir James, his eldest son, Lord Strabane, who was drowned in 1655 ; when the title devolved upon Claud, the fourth Lord Stra- bane, and fifth Earl of Abercorn, he having been the son and heir of George Hamilton, (the brother of James) by a sister of Richard Fagan of Feltrim, hereafter mentioned, a Captain in the Boyal Eegiment of Infantry; and this Earl Claud was the Colonel of fehe present Regiment of Horse. Other sons of James, the first Earl of Abercorn, besides James tlie second Earl, and Claude the third, were Sir William Hamilton, who died b.p., and George of Dunalong, created a Baronet of Ireland in L660, for 170 king james's irish army list. his services to the Royal cause. His issue will be alluded to hereafter. The Acts of Settlement and Explanation, in 1662-5, contained a saving for arrears due to this Sir G-eorge, and also an appropri- ation of one third of the estate of Sir Nicholas Plunkett for him. In 1673, he was commissioned by the Earl of Essex, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the King's order, to recruit a Regiment of Infantry for the service of France, which was ultimately raised and did active duty under Turenne on the Rhine, in that year and the ensuing.* The Colonel at present under consideration attended King James from France to Ireland ; on his arrival in Dublin, was sworn of the Privy Council, and sat in the Parliament of 1689.f He was engaged in Lord Mount-Cashel's unsuccessful expedi- tion against the Enniskilleners, and was wounded on that occasion. On the 28th of April, 1688, when James Hamilton, who afterwards succeeded to the Peerage, had brought arms and ammunition into Derry, this Lord Claud, says Walker, in his work on the siege, (p. 23) " came up to our walls, making us many proposals and offering his King's pardon, protec- tion, and favour, if we would surrender the town; but these fine words had no place with the Garrison." After the defeat at the Boyne, when the Duke of Ber- wick sought to rally about 7,000 foot at Brazeel, near Dublin, three of the troops, sent out by King James * O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 87. f Somers' State Tracts, v. 11, p. 434. abercorn's horse. 171 to cover his retreat, were of Abercorn's Horse. This colonel himself subsequently embarked for France with James, but lost his life on the voyage. He was attainted in 1691, the earliest act of his treason having been assigned to the 1st of March, 1688. The Inquisition held on his outlawry at Strabane, finds him to have been seized of an immense tract of townlancls in the County of Tyrone, with sundry chief rents and tenements. On his attainder, the estates and title of Strabane became forfeited, but the Earldom descended to his brother Charles, who, fur- ther obtaining a reversal of Lord Claud's outlawry, succeeded to the restored title of Strabane, and died in 1701 without issue, when the honours and estates devolved upon his kinsman, JAMES HAMILTON: Who had been in the military service and confidence of James the Second, but, espousing the cause of Wil- liam, took, as before suggested, a distinguished part at the siege of Derry against his former master. * He arrived in that city on the 20th of March, 1688, from England, with arms and ammunition for the citizens, and a Commission for Colonel Lundy to be Governor; whereupon William and Mary were proclaimed the sovereigns in that city. In June, 1690, previous to * Burke's Peerage, pp. 1 & 2. 172 king james's irish army list. the battle of the Boyne, this James Hamilton was re- commended to the especial notice of Sir Robert South- well, then King William's Irish Secretary, by a letter from Colonel Fitz-patrick, in which he said, " the bearer hereof, Colonel James Hamilton, married the Earl of Monmouth's sister ; he has the best estate of all the Hamiltons in the North of Ireland, is a very rational and well affected gentleman, and as such I recommend him to you. If there be any occasion to employ such men, you will find him an honest sober man."* On the death of Colonel Lord Claud in 1701, this latter individual succeeded to the titles, and in 1706 took his seat in the Scottish Parliament. Ire- land however was his usual place of residence, and of that realm he was in December, 1701, created Baron Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane. He had married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Reading, Baronet, of Dublin, by whom he had nine sons and four daughters, and died in November, 1734.f There were various other Hamiltons concerned at each side in this unfortunate Civil War. On James's side were also, BRIGADIER-GENERAL RICHARD HAMILTON, Of whose policy, the Commissioners, who were sent * Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 179. \ Burke's Peerage, p. 2. abercorn's horse. 173 over to St. Germains to complain of Tyrconnel, expressed great dissatisfaction,* they considering it temporising. His name appears on the establishment of 1687-8, as one of the Brigadiers on pay of £497 10s. He was a Roman Catholic, the fifth son of the aforesaid Sir George Hamilton of Donalong, and had served with considerable reputation in France ; but was banished from that country on account of his un- pardonably aspiring addresses to the Princess de Conti, the daughter of the French King. He was the officer whoni Tyrconnel entrusted with the command of 2,500 men, to make head against the rebels in Ulster, and whose partial success against them at Dromore, and forcing them back to Coleraine, was the first auspicious intelligence which King James learned on his arrival in Dublin. He forced the pass at Clareford, " his horse swimming across the water, because the enemy had broke the bridge :"f and had afterwards the important confidential command of the army besieging Deny. On the loth June, 1689, he caused the boom to be drawn across the Foyle, to pre- vent the entry of expected vessels for the relief of that city. It was by his advice King James took the precaution of stationing Sir Neill O'Xeill, with his Dragoons, at the ford of the Boyne near Slane,J and on the day of the battle he led a Eegiment of Infantry to the very margin of that river, to oppose the passage of King William's forces. In the last charge, he was * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 423. f Mem, v. 2, p. 331. \ Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 323. 174 king james's irish army list. routed, wounded and taken prisoner. On the close of the campaign he betook himself to France, where, in 1696, at Calais, the Royal Exile, possibly under some expectation of an invasion for the assertion of his restoration, confirmed him Lieutenant-General of his forces, and in a few days after appointed him Master of the Robes.* Leslie says that throughout his service in Ulster he zealously protected the Protestants, and kept his soldiers under strict discipline.! Another officer of this name and service, but not commissioned on this Roll, though afterwards ap- pointed the Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Mount- Cashel's Infantry, was ^ COLONEL ANTHONY COUNT HAMILTON. He had distinguished himself in the command of the Regiment which his father, Sir George Hamilton of Dunalong, had, as before mentioned, raised in 1673, and was honored with the rank of Major-General by the French King. In 1676, he served under the Duke of Luxemburg in Alsace. (See of him, post, at Lord Mount-Cashel's Infantry.) He had a brother the more remarkable and truly gallant GEORGE COUNT HAMILTON ; Or whom, although not strictly within the proposed * Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 543. t Leslie's Answer to King. abercorn's house. 175 scope of these Illustrations, it may be said that, having been, some years previous to this Civil War, banished on account of his persecuted creed from the Court of Charles the Second, he commanded an Irish Regiment under Louis the Fourteenth, and was engaged in the campaigns of 1673-5 under Marshal Turenne. In the latter year, when Turenne fell by a cannon ball, the French army was saved from utter destruction by this gallant Irishman, as very fully and graphically detailed in O'Conor's ' Recollections of Swit- zerland. 1 In 1676, he was serving under the Prince de Conde ; but on the march towards Sauverne, was killed in the neighbourhood of Zebernstieg, with a large part of the three Regiments which he commanded, and but for whose gallant conduct the French would, as on the former occasion, have been entirely cut down. So numerous nevertheless were the Hamiltons, who espoused the cause of King William, even before his coming over to Ireland, that, in King James's Parlia- ment of May, 1689, no less than forty-six of the name were attainted or otherwise proscribed. Colonel Gus- tavus Hamilton, it may be mentioned, particularly distinguished himself for William at the battle of the Boyne ; and yet more signally by wading through the Shannon, and storming the town of Athlone, at the head of the English Grenadiers. George Hamilton, fifth son of the Earl of Selkirk, likewise distinguished himself at the Boyne under the same Monarch, as well as at Aughrim in 1691, at 176 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Steenkirk in 1692, and at Landen in the following year. By reason of all which and other military achievements, he was in 1695 advanced to the Peerage as Earl of Orkney, and had grants of a considerable proportion of the private estates of King James in Ireland. In 1704, he acquitted himself heroically at the battle of Blenheim ; in 1706, was at the siege of Menin; in 1708, commanded the van of the army at the passing of the Scheldt, assisted at the siege of Tournay, was at the battle of Malplaquet, and render- ed numerous other services, which were rewarded with a succession of honors to the time of his death in 1736. In 1691, Henry Hamilton of Baillieborough, (lineal ancestor of James Hans Hamilton, Esq. of Sheep-Hill, one of the present Members of Parliament for the County of Dublin,) was killed on the walls of Limerick. The outlawries of this year exhibit the names of the above Earl of Abercorn, Darby Hamil- ton of Athlone ; John, Richard, and Anthony Hamil- ton of Dublin ; Robert of Hamilton's-Bawn, County of Armagh ; and Richard and John Hamilton of Pennyburn-Mill, County of Londonderry. In 1693, a petition was got up on behalf of the British Protes- tants of Ireland, setting forth their services in estab- lishing English Government, and suggesting that, as intentions were avowed by certain outlawed exiles, of bringing writs of error to reverse their attainders, the petitioners therefore prayed securities from the Legis- lature against any such attempts. This document abercorn's horse. 177 was signed by James Hamilton, M.P. for the Borough of Tullamore, another James Hamilton, one of the Representatives of the County of Down, and Hans Hamilton, M.P. for Killileagh.* At the Court of Claims in 1700, the charges which were sought to be established against this Earl of Abercorn's estates were, by William Hamilton, who claimed,, and was allowed, as " grandson and heir of William, who was son and heir of William Hamilton," a fee farm by descent in the Tyrone lands forfeited by the Earl. James Hamilton, senior, claimed and was allowed sundry other interests therein, as was also John Hamilton ; while Lady Elizabeth, Baroness Dow- ager of Strabane, claimed dower thereoff ; and many creditors and sub-lessees petitioned for the benefit of their several interests. Colonel Gustavus Hamilton also sought and was allowed the amount of sundry bond-debts against this estate. On the same occasion, Anne Hamilton, widow of Sir Eobert Hamilton, Knight, and others, as Executors of James Hamilton deceased, claimed and were allowed a judgment debt charged on the estates of Valentine Russell attainted. COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON Is particularly mentioned hereafter, as the Colonel of an Infantry Regiment. * Rawdon Papers, pp. 372-3. N 178 king james's irish army list. In relation to the Balbriggan Haniiltons, (sprung from William, the fifth son, as before mentioned, of the Eeverend Hans Hamilton, the lineal descendant of the Lords of Cadzow,) Alexander, who from the year 1739 to 1760 represented the Borough of Kil- lileagh in the Irish Parliament, became the purchaser of Balbriggan, which passed on his decease to his son, the Honorable George Hamilton, member of Par- liament for Belfast, afterwards a Baron of the Ex- chequer, and yet more distinguished for public spirit in promoting the trade and welfare of his country. He died at Oswestry in 1793, and was buried in the family vault at Balrothery. Alexander had another son, Hugh, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Dean of Armagh, next advanced to the See of Clonfert, and afterwards to that of Ossory. On the Baron's death, the Balbriggan property descended to his son, the Reverend George Hamilton, and from him to his son, George Alexander Hamilton, heretofore a member of Parliament for the City of Dublin, and now for its University. He is the lineal descendant in the twenty-fifth degree from Bernard, the nobleman of Saxony noticed as the founder of the Family of Hamilton ; and this long line of ancestry could not be more proudly represented in honour, integrity, and honesty of purpose than by George Alexander Hamil- ton. abercorn's horse. 179 MAJOR THOMAS CORBET. This surname is traced on Irish record from the time of Edward the Third, in which reign John ' Corbett ' was 'Constable' of the Castle of Limerick. It is not, however, associated with the character of achieve- ment that marks the chief families of this 4 List.' In 1655, Miles Corbet, one of the Regicides, of whom a full account is given in 4 The History of the County of Dublin] (p. 194) was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and was subsequently one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal of Chancery. The above Major Thomas, having risen in the campaign, appears to have been the ' Lieutenant-Colonel Cor- bet,' who, according to Story, " came to De Ginkle, and proposed the bringing over of Tyrconnel's and Galmoy's Regiments of Horse, and out of them to make one good regiment to serve their Majesties in Flanders," provided he should have the command. Another Corbet was appointed Major of Colonel Dudley B agnail's Infantry, as noted post. CAPTAIN GERALD AYLMER. This family, (which deduces its descent from Saxon times, from Ailmer Earl of Cornwall, who lived in the reign of King Ethelred,) settled in the County of Kildare at the close of the thirteenth century. In N 2 180 king james's irish army list. 1525, Sir Gerald Aylmer was advanced to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and in 1535, was made Chief Baron ; in which latter year Eichard Aylmer was appointed Chief Sergeant of the County of Kildare. He was then residing at Lyons in that County, which became thenceforth, as in truth it had long previously been, the ancestral seat of the elder stock. From him in the direct line descended George Aylmer, hereafter alluded to as a Captain in Colonel Eoger Mac Elligott's Infantry. Gerald, the third son of Eichard, settled at Donadea, was knighted in 1605, became a Baronet in 1621, and his line is still re- presented in Sir Gerald George Aylmer of Donadea Castle, Premier Baronet ; while another, that of Bal- rath or Dollardstown, was founded by the Eight Honourable Gerald Aylmer, Knight, second son of Bartholomew Aylmer of Lyons. He was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland in 1532; promoted to the Exchequer in 1534; in 1535, further elevated to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas ; in which latter year, on the occasion of the Battle of Bellahoa, where the forces of the Pale defeated O'Neill, this Chief Justice was, with Talbot of Malahide and the Mayors of Dublin and Drogheda, respectively knighted on the field ; and, as Cox observes, "well they merited the honor for their good service in obtaining so great a victory, which broke the power of the North and quieted the borders for some years."* In 1553, he was appointed Lord Chief * DAlton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 193. abercorn's horse. 181 Justice of the Queen's Bench, His descendant, Mat- thew Aylmer, a distinguished naval officer, was in 1692 appointed Rear Admiral of the Eecl Squadron, and sent to the Mediterranean, where he acquired great reputation by his management in arranging treaties with the various states of Northern Africa. He for some time represented Dover in Parliament, and was raised to the Peerage of Ireland in 1718, by the title of Lord Aylmer, Baron of Balrath, a dignity which still exists. Of his line was the above Captain G-erald. On the dissolution of Monasteries, Nicholas Aylmer acquired parcels of the possessions of the respective religious houses of Monasterevan and Naas, County of Kilclare, and of the Commandery of Knights Hospital- lers of Killure, County of Waterford. Garret Aylmer was one of the gentry who attended in 1641 the meeting on Crofty Hill. The Act of Settlement (1662) contained a saving for Sir Andrew Aylmer of Donadea of his estate, while the clause of Royal Thanks therein, for " services beyond the seas," includes the name of Captain Gar- ret Aylmer. In Colonel Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry, George Aylmer was, as before suggested, a Captain ; while Peter Aylmer was a Lieutenant. At the siege of Derry in 1689, Sir Garret Aylmer was taken prisoner, nor was he released on exchange until May, 1691.* The Aylmers attainted in the last year were * Story's Impartial Histor}-, part 2, p. 76. 182 king james's irish army list. Gerald or Garret Aylmer of Balrath, George Ayl- mer of Caronstown, Christopher and Eichard of Senes- chalstown, Garret of Lyons, George of Dublin, Gar- ret of Pennyburn-mill, County of Deny, Knight, and Lady Ellen Aylmer of Sallins. Sir Gerald Aylmer was held entitled to the benefit of the Articles of Limerick, as were also Peter Aylmer and Colonel George (of whom post). In 1705, a 'Mr. Aylmer,' having memorialled for leave to return to Ireland, his petition was referred to Sir Eichard Cox, who at the close of September in that year writes, " I don't see any great difficulty in it ; he must by Act of Par- liament pay 40 shillings per annum to a Free School, and his licence costs about 30s. to the several officers ; and it cannot be of any consequence, that a few silly fellows may be suffered to eat potatoes and spend their money in their native country." A few days after he writes, " I won't burn my fingers about Aylmer ; if there be any difficulty in it, let it alone." At the Battle of Lauffield, in 1747, 'Elmer,' a Lieutenant in Clare's Eegiment, was wounded. CAPTAIN JOHN EICE. This name is recognised in Ireland since the thirteenth century. In 1294, John Eice was Lord Treasurer of this Kingdom. In the fifteenth, the name appears amongst the Corporate Officials of Limerick, of which town, Walter Eice was Mayor in 1520. In the reign abercorn's horse. 183 of Elizabeth, Stephen Rice came over as an under- taker, and settled at Dingle in Kerry, which County he represented in the Parliaments of King James the First. He married Ellen Trant, and died in 1622, as commemorated by an old gravestone in the churchyard of Dingle, whereon it is stated that his age at the time of his decease was 80 years, and that his 4 loyal wife,' Ellena Trant, who died five years before him, lies there also. — His eldest son and heir, James Rice, stiled of Ballinruddell, first married Eleanor, daughter of Robert White of Limerick, and secondly, Phillis Fanning of Limerick, by which last wife he left issue eight sons and three daughters. His eldest son, James, who succeeded to the family estate, was attainted in 1642, and his confiscation was granted to Mullins ; while James's son and heir, Edward Rice, (who was one of the Confederate Catholics at Kilken- ny in 1646), marrying Alice, daughter of Sir William Sheircliffe, one of Cromwell's officers, acquired through her the estate of Castle-Gregory, theretofore forfeited by one of the Husseys. Stephen Rice, the fifth son of said James, by Phillis Fanning, was in 1685 ap- pointed a Privy Councillor, and in 1686 a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, though 4 a papist,' his taking the oath of supremacy having been dispensed with.* In the following year he was made Chief Baron, and knighted, was of Tyrconnel's suite in the interview with King James at Chester, and was the chief agent in representing to His Majesty such an aspect of Irish * Clarendon's State Letters, v. 2, p. 420. 184 king james's irish army list. feeling as he thought he was justified in offering. On Tyrconnel's departure for France, Sir Stephen Eice was left by him, joined in commission with Sir Richard Nagle, for the government of Ireland ; and it is said that the unexecuted patents for making him, Sir Patrick Trant, and Robert Grace, Peers of Ire- land, were found at Dublin Castle on King William's arrival there.* Sir Stephen was attainted in 1691, but adjudged within the articles of Limerick. His exertions, in opposing the passing of the unfortunate Bill " to prevent the farther growth of Popery," are alluded to ante, at Lord Galmoy, p. 104. After the Revolution he remained in Ireland in possession of a large property, died in 1714, and was buried in St. James's churchyard, Dublin, with many of his fellow labourers in the Stuart cause, and more especially beside Sir Toby Butler. By his will, he left his estates chiefly to his eldest son, Edward Rice ; but, as Sir Stephen died ' a Papist,' these estates would have passed in gavel had not Edward conformed, which he did, and died himself in 1720,f having erected a costly monument over his father's grave. The other sons of Sir Stephen, by his wife Mary Fitzgerald, were James and Thomas. J His lady survived him, and was executrix of his will. In King James's new Charters, Francis Rice, mer- chant, was a Burgess in that to Dublin ; while in that * Memoirs of the Grace Family, p. 42. f Howard's Popery Cases, p. 71, &c. % Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 2, p. 54. abercorn's horse. 185 to Limerick, John Rice Fitz- William, John Eice Fitz- Edward, and the above Sir Stephen Rice were Bur- gesses, the latter being also named an Alderman in the Charter to Waterford. Peter Rice was a Burgess in that to Ennis, as was Robert in that to Kinsale. In the Parliament of 1689, Edward was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Askeaton, as was Edward Fitz-James Rice, of Ballinleggin, County of Limerick, (who had been previously Sheriff of Limerick) one of those for the Borough of Dingle-i- conch. Of the few contemporaneous documents that have been sent in to aid those Illustrations, one concerns the above Captain. It is an order from the Colonel of this Regiment to Alderman John Leonard of Lim- erick, directing him to pay to this Captain John Rice the sum of £175 ; "being the proportion that comes to him for the 4 mounting' our two troops, he 1 given' you his receipt for it." The order is dated 9th of March, 1689, three days before the King landed at Kinsale, and the receipt is indorsed 14th, two days after that event. Another John Rice was a Captain in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's Infantry, and either of these Johns appears identical with the Colonel John Rice, who, after the surrender of Limerick, brought in to King William a Regiment of Horse, on the faith of being received into the establishment on English pay. The Rices attainted in 1691 were Edward Rice of Askeaton, Edward Fitz-James Rice of Ballyquclig, 186 king James's irish army list. County of Limerick, John Rice of Clonee, County of Carlow, John Rice of Limerick, merchant, and David of Dingle, County of Kerry ; while Nicholas and Tho- mas Rice were adjudged within the Articles of Lime- rick. Edward Rice forfeited a fishing weir and some lands and tenements in Kerry, with very large estates in Limerick ; portions charged upon which were claimed by his only, daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Arthur, and by others. Claims were also made at Chichester House by Thomas Rice for a leasehold mortgage on Kerry lands, forfeited by Ni- cholas Skiddy ; the deed creating the incumbrance was witnessed by Dominick Rice, Thomas Rice, &c. and the claim was allowed. Thomas Rice and Mary his wife claimed and were allowed a portion, charged by the will of her father James Rice on Kerry lands forfeited by Edward Rice. John Rice Fitz- William claimed and was allowed a freehold interest in lands in the County of Limerick, forfeited by Nicholas Browne and Helen his wife. Piers Arthur and Mary his wife, late widow of Edward Rice Fitz-James, claimed her jointure off the lands of Bally neety, in the County of Kerry, forfeited by said Edward. James Rice, before mentioned as the eldest son of Sir Stephen by his second wife, married Susanna, daughter of Sir Henry O'Brien, by whom he had issue two sons, Stephen and Francis. Stephen, the eldest son, succeeded at Mount-Rice, and died in 1755, leaving issue Stephen, who married the daugh- abercorn's horse. 187 ter of Joshua Meredith.* From Thomas, the second son of Sir Stephen, it is alleged that Lord Monteagle is descended. In 1790, the Eight Honorable James Louis Count Eice, of the Holy Eoman Empire, sold the lands of Dingle to George Nagle, COENET THOMAS HIFFEENAN. The O'Heffernans possessed a territory about Corofin in the County of Clare, called from them Muintir- Ifernain, from which stock a branch was transplanted to the Barony of Owny and Arra, County of Tippe- rary. " Their war-cry," says Ware,f " was ' Ceart- na-suas-aboe,' i. e. 'the cause of right from above,' alluding perhaps to their crest, which was an armed hand, couped at the wrist and erect, holding a broken sword, all proper, signifying, as it would seem, that there was no justice to be expected from the sword, but from the protection of Heaven." Mr. Hardiman, in his Irish Minstrelsy, has preserved a poem written about a century since, much in the spirit of that war-cry as Ware interprets it, and by an O'Heffernan, William ' dall,' the blind. The poem is entitled ' Cliona of the Eock,' and, while the editor says this William " composed many other poetical pieces which are deservedly popular," he adds, " if he had left no * Arclidall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 3, p. 205. t Antiquities, p. 163. 188 king james's irish army list. other than ' Cliona,' it would be sufficient to rescue his name from oblivion."* The Four Masters record the death of Madadain O'Heffernan, Chief of Clan-Cruain, in 1047, and an engagement, in 1150, between Turlough O'Brien on the one part, and the O'Carrols and O'Rourkes on the other, wherein many of the latter party and the son of C'lfernan' were slain. They also make men- tion of the Clan-Hiffernan at 1170. In 1543, iEneas O'Hiffernan, who had been an Hospitaller and Pre- ceptor of Any, in the County of Limerick, was pre- sented to the See of Emly on the nomination of King Henry the Eighth. f CORNET CHARLES REDMOND. The origin and lineage of this family are so largely given in Sir Bernard Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' that reference to that work will best satisfy inquiry. On Ortelius's map, the Sept is located in the Barony of Forth, County of Wexford. This Cornet Charles was a Burgess in King James's Charter to Enniscor- thy. He was attainted in 1691 by the description of Charles Redmond of the City of Dublin, Gent. ; as were Alexander and Richard Redmond as of Dun- ganstown, and John Redmond of Askenmuller, in the County of Wexford. In the Southwell Collection of * Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy, v, 2, pp. 25 & 125. t Ware's Bishops, p. 499. luttrell's horse. 189 State Manuscripts were " papers said to have been found about prisoners taken by Colonel Wolseley, discovering the design of the Papists' meeting at Mullmgar, and among them letters to Captain Red- mond, whom Wolseley hanged"* After the Revolution, some members of the family are traceable in the French and Spanish services. REGIMENTS OF HORSE. HENRY LUTTRELL'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters. The Colonel. Sir James Moclare, Lieut.-Col. Major. John Connor. Harvey Morris. Redmond Morris. Lord Dunsany. Walter Lawless. John Oxburgh. Bryan Kelly. Gerard Evers. James Lawless. Thady Connor. Thady Connor. Edmund Power. Ralph Evers. Joseph Cripps. John Ash. William Fanning. Thomas Carew. David Fanning. COLONEL HENRY LUTTRELL. The estate of Luttrelstown, beautifully situated in the vale of the Liffey, was, after the English Invasion, * Thorpes Catal. of Southwell MSS. p. 182. 190 king james's irish army list. granted by King John to Sir Geoffrey Luttrell.* From him it took that name, and for centuries was inherited by his descendants. In 1236, Eobert Lut- trell, then Treasurer of St. Patrick's Cathedral, was sworn Lord Chancellor of Ireland, In 1534, Sir Thomas Luttrell, styled of Luttrelstown, was ap- pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; and to the exertions and care of this wise Judge, posterity has been indebted for the preservation of the public records and rolls of Chancery, which he found piled in a ruinous tower of Dublin Castle, at a considerable distance from St. Patrick's, where the Courts were then kept. By an order of Council he effected their removal to the Library of that Cathedral, where the Clerk of the Hanaper was ordered " to provide presses, chests, doors, locks, and all other necessaries, as well in said Library as in the better portion of the Tower, for their safe custody. f" In 1613, Thomas Luttrell was one of the Representatives of the County of Dublin in Parliament. Those of the name at- tainted in 1642 were Robert Luttrell of Girstown, and Oliver Luttrell of Tankardstown, County of Meath. The above Colonel Henry Luttrell was ancestor of the Lords Carhampton, and younger brother of Simon, hereafter mentioned. In King James's Parlia- ment of Dublin he was one of the Representatives of the County of Carlow. Graham, in his Derriana, * D' Alton's Hist. Co. Dublin, p. 569. f D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 190. luttrell's horse. 191 (p. 29), ranks him as Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of Horse, as does the article in Somers' State Tracts (v. xi., p. 398) ; but the variance arises from Colonel Hugh Sutherland's Horse being there placed between Sarsfield's and Abercorn's, not as here ; the number of the Horse Kegiments is the same. A Spottiswode Luttrell is, on a different list, recorded to have com- manded, after the battle of the Boyne, an Indepen- dent Troop.* Previous to that battle, when King James had fallen back upon Ardee, he despatched Sarsfield with this Henry Luttrell's Horse, Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, and Charles Moore's and O'Gara's Infantry, to retard the advance of King William. This Regiment was afterwards sent to relieve Sars- field in Connaught, against whom his enemy was advancing from Ulster. Colonel Henry Luttrell's conduct on this occasion is much commended, and, mainly by his exertions, Sarsfield was enabled to take possession of Sligo, "the very key of Connaught on that side." When the ' Young Ireland' party of that day, in jealousy of Tyrconnel's policy, despatched the deputation to St. Germains, Henry Luttrel was one of those on the mission chiefly entrusted with their complaints, as before-mentioned at ' Tyrconnel,' ante, p. 54. He, in truth, " and the native Irish used all exertions to undermine the power of Tyrconnel, and denounce his adherents to public scorn." It was he, they said, that fled to Gal way on the approach of William to Limerick, and during that first siege sup- * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, p. 514. 192 king james's imsh army list. plied only beans and oats to the garrison, while wheat was abundant in the Commissariat. He was, says O'Conor, represented as a coward, and was, in fact, believed to be such by the war party. It was with the hope of refuting these too popular opinions, that Tyrconnel passed over to St. Germains, there to urge his defence before James ; judiciously giving out that he had that Monarch's orders to repair to France, to give an account of affairs in Ireland.* The result has been before alluded to. The defeat at Aughrim, says Burke ,f was popularly attributed to Henry Luttrell's defection ; in corrobo- ration of which, the Williamite Diary of the last siege of Limerick, preserved in the ' Harleian Collections,' (Vol. vii., p. 481), says, at the 18th August, 1691, " We had an account this day that Henry Luttrell had been lately seized at Limerick, by order of the French Lieutenant-General, D'Usson, for having made some proposals for a surrender of the place ; and that he was sentenced by a Court Martial to be shot ; upon which our General sent them word by a trum- pet, that if they would put any man to death for having a mind to come over to us, he would revenge it on the Irish." He was in truth on the clearest evidence found guilty by Court Martial, and sen- tenced to remain in prison until King James's plea- sure could be known ; but, on the intermediate reduction of Limerick, having been released, he was * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 122. | Peerage, p. 1120. luttrell's horse. 193 mainly instrumental in enlisting the Irish over to the English interest.* Whereupon he was put upon the new Establishment for a yearly pension of £500 ; yet was he, together with a Thomas Luttrell, both described of Luttrellstown, County of Dublin, out- lawed in 1691; as were Eobert Luttrell of Simons- town, County of Kildare, and William Luttrell of Dublin, Junior. Simon Luttrell and his wife were likewise attainted ; but Colonel Henry Luttrell, hav- ing obtained a custodiam grant to him of his brother's lands, had in 1694 a patent of exemption from the rent, except the quit rents which were payable thereout under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. A letter of his to the Lord Lieutenant in 1699 was in the Southwell Collection, written in reference to his sister-in-law, Colonel Simon's lady, who had returned into Ireland " by an old pass of Lord Eomney ;" and he therein begs that he may have permission "to make use -of the outlawry against her, in case she should give me trouble by an attorney. She is a very intriguing woman, and it was thought, when she went for France, she went on a very intriguing message. I am sure I heard my Lord repent might- ily the giving her a pass ; and I need not tell your Lordship that there will be nothing left undone by the Jacobites here to perplex me in this affair. "f In 1702, he was appointed a Major-General in the Dutch army, with a Regiment, and nominated to command * O'Conor's Military Mem., p. 188. t Thorpe's Catal. of Southwell MSB., p. 104. 194 king james's irish army list. on a military enterprise of importance ; but, on the death of King William, he retired to his country seat at Luttrelstown, where he thenceforth chiefly resided* until, in October, 1717, he was shot in his sedan chair, while passing through the streets of Dublin. He left two sons ; Richard, who died abroad, and Simon, who succeeded his brother in Luttrelstown, and was created Earl of Carhampton in 1785. His only son, John, died in 1829, without issue, when the title became extinct. O'Callaghan, in reference to these descendants of Colonel Henry Luttrel, says, " He was a bad man, the father of a bad man, and the grandfather of a bad. man. "f Of Henry himself O'Conor writes, " He was possessed of great talents, and was one of the best officers in the Irish army ; but recklessly bent on pushing himself forward by the popularity of Sarsfield, and by raising him to the chief command. He had served in France with distinction ; but was so eager of perso- nal advancement, that he would shrink as little from infamy as from danger, to promote his fortunes."} * Burke's Peerage, p. 1120. t Excidium Macarice, p. 397. J O'Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 121 ; and more fully O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 196, &c. luttrell's horse. 195 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR JAMES MOCLAKE. He was outlawed in 1691, being described as "of the City of Dublin, Knight." The family, which was then and previously chiefly located in the County of Tipperary, seems to have been connected with the Luttrells, Edward Moclare being also in commission as Major in Colonel Symon Luttrell's Regiment of Dragoons. In Colonel Dudley BagnaH's Infantry, John Moclare was a Captain and James Moclare an Ensign. CAPTAINS HARVEY AND REDMOND MORRIS. This name was introduced to Ireland in the person of Harvey de Monte Maurisco, who accompanied the Earl of Pembroke (Strongbow) thither, and was by him appointed Seneschal over the vast territory he had acquired on his marriage with Eva, the heiress of Dermot Mc Murrough. This Harvey was the early founder of the noble Cistercian Religious House of Dunbrody, which he filled with monks from Bildewas in Shropshire ; and in the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Canterbury he closed his days. In 1335, John Morice, Knight, was despatched to England by the Irish Council on urgent business, and had a Treasury order, as well for money expended on his journey thither, as for services rendered by liiin in o 2 196 king james's irish army list, Munster. In the following year, being Justiciary of Ireland, he summoned a Parliament at Dublin, but, although he was the Representative of the King, he had not the confidence and did not command the co- operation of the country. It was on this occasion that the Earl of Desmond proved the extraordinary influence he possessed over all classes of the Kingdom : feeling indignant at Sir John Morice's proceedings in relation to himself, he invited the Nobles and Prelates to meet him at Kilkenny ; and there, while the Justiciary was unable to procure a sufficient atten- dance in Dublin, the Earl saw assembled at his in- vitation the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and Commons of Ireland, who joined him in a remarkable Remonstrance to the King against the proceedings of Sir John and his Irish ministry.* In 1447, D. Redmond Morris, a native of Ireland, ecclesiastically styled Cardinal de Castres, died at Rome. It is said that, in his honor and to perpetuate his Christian name in that province of the country from which he was descended, the Morris families of Castle-morres, Latragh, Knockagh and Rathlin, in the Counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, have constantly preserved the ' Redmond ' in their lines. The Act of Settlement contained a saving of the rights of John ' Morish ' as a Trustee in Wexford lands, while the declaration of Royal gratitude there- in, for services beyond the seas, includes the name of Captain Neal Morris. A ' Mr. Morris ' was on the * Red Book of the Exch. in Ch. Rememb. Off. luttrell's horse. 197 pension list of 1685, for £500 per annum.* In 1687, Edmund Morris was sheriff of the Queen's County, which was represented in the Parliament of Dublin by Edward Morris, while the above Harvey Morris was one of the members for the borough of Knocktopher, County of Kilkenny. Captain ' Red- mond ' Morris rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in this Regiment, as appears by the warrant for his pardon, dated 28th June, 1701, wherein it is recited that he " had served in the Irish army as Lieutenant- Colonel in Colonel Henry Luttrell's Horse ; that, on the surrender of Limerick, he came over to our ser- vice in said regiment, until it was broke ; that being afterwards reduced to a low condition, he was neces- sitated, contrary to his own inclination, to go into France and enter into the French King's service, in order to a subsistence for himself and his family ; that, being desirous to return into Ireland, which was his native country, he humbly prayed for a licence to enable him so to do, which was allowed ; but being advised that he cannot live there with security, with- out a free pardon, he prayed for this also," and it was thereby accordingly granted.f In 1703, a private Act was passed to prevent the disinherison of Kedmond Morris, as was in two years after a further Act, to enable John Morris, an infant, son and heir of Red- mond Morris, Esq. deceased, " to make a jointure on any woman he shall marry, and for relief of the * Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 658. t Harris's MSS. vol. 10, p. 308. 198 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. younger children of said Redmond, and for amending and explaining some clauses in the first Act." This legislation originated in a petition of Lieutenant- Colonel Redmond Morris, of 30th September, 1703, in which he set forth that he was the eldest son of Sir John Morres of Knockagh, County of Tipperary, Baronet, a Roman Catholic ; who, by reason of the Petitioner being a Protestant, threatened to disinherit him, and he therefore prayed relief from the legisla- ture to prevent his being so disinherited, and for a maintenance for himself during his father's life.* Captain Harvey Morris was a younger son of Sir Redmond of Knockagh. He had previously pur- chased the Castle and site of Derrylough in the County of Kilkenny, near Knocktopher, which had been forfeited by a member of the Comerford family, and granted by Cromwell to one Matthew Westmore- land, a Lieutenant in his army. The grandson of this Harvey Morris was created Viscount Mount- morris of Castle-morris. Edmund Morris was also an officer in this service, but not on the present List. He was killed at the battle of Aughrim, and his estate was granted in 1696 by King William for services to Richard Fitzpatrick, who was in 1715 elevated to the Peerage by the title of Baron Gowran of Gowran, and took his seat in Parliament in the November following. The estate of this Edmund Morris was situated at Grantstown in the Queen's County, off which dower was claimed by Anne Morris as his widow, and por- * Irish Commons Journal, v. 3, p. 24. luttrell's horse. 199 tions by Mary and Anne, his daughters, but their petitions were dismist ; while another part of his estate was sold by the Commissioners in 1703 to Amyas Bush of Kilfane. Amongst those outlawed at this time was also Edward Morris, styled of Maryborough, in the same County. CAPTAIN LORD DUNSANY (PLUNKETT.) This name, of Danish origin, was, after centuries from the time of its first establishment in Ireland, ennobled in the person of the Earl of Fingal, from whom branched the Barons of Dunsany and Earls of Louth. Richard Plunkett had summons to Parliament by writ in 1374, was afterwards Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and in 1388 was appointed Lord Chan- cellor. Few names have held higher place in the judicial preferments than this, even to the illustrious Chancellor, who died but a few years since. In 1461, Thomas Plunkett was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; Alexander Plunkett, Lord Chancellor in 1492 ; and in 1559, John Plunkett of Dunsoghly, Knight, was Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. The Act of attainder of the Earl of Tyrone in 1612 included in its penalties Christopher Plunkett, late of Dungannon. At the Assembly of 1641, on Crofty Hill, Lords Louth and Dunsany were present. The Attainders of the following year included of this name, the Earl of Fingal, James and George Plun- 200 kixg james's irish army list. kett of Killeen, Michael Plunkett of Feltown, Nicholas of Killallon and Balrath, Robert of Athboy, merchant ; Christopher of Girly, Thomas of Clonecatt, Alexander of Jackstown, Patrick and Henry of Grange, Richard of Dunshaughlin, John of Castlearron, Robert of Rathmore, and Henry of Iskeroon, all in the Connty of Meath ; John Plunkett of Durre, clerk ; 'Garrald' Plunkett of Gardoge, County of Kildare, and Robert Plunkett of the Grange of Portmarnock, County of Dublin. Amongst the Confederate Catholics who as- sembled at Kilkenny in 1646, Christopher Plunkett, Earl of Fingal, and Oliver Plunkett, Baron of Louth, were of the Peers ; while in the Commons sat Nicho- las Plunkett of Balrath. Cromwell's Act of 1652, "for settling Ireland," excepted from pardon for life and estate the aforesaid Lords Fingal and Dunsany, and Nicholas Plunkett. The Act of Settlement, in the re-acting clause, declaratory of Royal gratitude, includes the names of both these Lords, while it restored Lord Dunsany to his estates ; Sir Walter Plunkett to his ; Sir Nicholas Plunkett to two thirds of his ; it provided that Mabel, Countess Dowager of Fingal, should have lands set out to her to the yearly value of her jointure, and the civil establishment was afterwards charged with a pension of £100 per annum for the Lord Dunsany. In 1662, (2nd Dec.) died William Plunkett of Portmarnock, 1 son of Luke, anciently of Dublin,' and was buried at St. Audoen's in Dublin. He had mar- ried Anne, daughter of Sir Theodore Duff of that city, luttrell's horse. 201 and had issue by her a son, Luke, living at that time.* In 1681, Oliver Plunkett, then Eoman Catholic Primate of Ireland, was hanged at Tyburn, denying to the last various charges of treason that had been alleged against him.f Besides the above Captain Lord Dunsany, there appear upon this List, in Colonel Sarsfield's Horse, James Plunkett a Quarter-Master; in Lord Dongan's Dragoons, Oliver Plunkett a Captain; in the King's own Infantry, Walter Plunkett a Lieutenant, and John Plunkett an Ensign ; in Fitz-Jaines's, Garrett Plunkett a Lieu- tenant ; in Lord Louth's, Henry Plunkett was a Lieutenant, as was George Plunkett in Sir Walter Creagh's, and Walter in Colonel John Hamilton's. The two latter having been promoted to Captain- cies, one of them may be identical, with the Captain Plunkett related in contemporaneous reports as having been killed at the siege of Deny, and the other with a second Captain there wounded. Lord Louth was himself at the siege. A Captain Plunkett is also noted as of Lord Gormanstown's Regiment at the siege of Limerick.J The Earl of Fingal, and Lords Dunsany and Louth, sat in the Parliament of Dublin, and were accordingly attainted in 1691, as were Christopher Plunkett of Lagore and Killeen, Richard Plunkett of Rathregan, Gerald of Curraghstown, Thomas of * Funeral Entry in Berm. Tur. f Rawdon Papers, p. 244 X O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 374. 202 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Carrick, William and Francis of Tullaghrnoge, Oliver of Onganstown and Oldcastle, Nicholas of Killeen, Edward of G-ibbonstown, Angel Plunkett of Rathmore, Thomas of Dirpatrick and Newcastle, Alexander of Pickelstown, Edward of Girly, John and Richard of Croskeele, Patrick of Leytrim and Tankardrath, Thomas of Tallonstown, and Peter of Knockveagh, all in the County of Meath, Edward Plunkett of Kilrush, County of Westmeath ; George and William Plunkett of Portmarnock, County of Dublin (the latter had been personally engaged at the battle of the Boyne) ; Matthew Plunkett of the City of Dublin, Oliver Plunkett, son of Matthew Lord Baron Louth, Thomas Plunkett, second son of said Lord, Patrick Plunkett of Castlelumney, Simon and Richard of Priorstown, Randall of Greenhill, Thomas of Ard- keenagh, and Patrick and John of Castleplunkett, County of Roscommon. The Earl of Fingal was attainted erroneously by the name of Lucas, his real Christian name being Peter, and the outlawry was consequently reversed in 1697. The Lord Dunsany was included in the Articles of Limerick, whereby his estates were also protected for him ; " neglecting, however, the forms necessary to re-establish himself in the peerage," neither his Lordship nor his im- mediate descendants had a seat in the House of Lords.* At the Court of Claims, Margaret Plunkett claimed a child's portion off the County of Roscommon lands * Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 342. ujttrell's horse. 203 of Patrick Plunkett of Castleplunket, but her petition was dismist for non-prosecution. Thomas Plunkett, and Catherine his wife, claimed an estate for life to Thomas, and a jointure to Catherine on the lands of Portmarnock and Carrickhill, forfeited by the afore said William, son and heir of Luke Plunkett ; their claims were also dismist as being already before Parliament ; while George Plunkett, and Johanna his wife, who had been the widow of said Luke, claimed and were allowed the benefit of her jointure thereoff.* At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Watt Plunkett of Clare's Brigade was wounded.f CAPTAIN WALTER LAWLESS. So early as the year 1285, Thomas 'Laghles' ap- pears on Irish record as Constable of Connaught. In 1312, Richard Lawless was Mayor of Dublin, and in 1318, Hugh Lawless and others, his adherents, were commissioned to parley with the Irishry of the south- eastern parts of the Pale, the O'Tooles, O'Byrnes, and MacMurroughs.J In 1354, Stephen 'Lawless' succeeded to the See of Limerick; and in 1431, another Stephen Lawless was the mitred Abbot of the * D 1 Alton's County of Dublin, p. 179. t Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377. \ Rot. Pat,, 13 Edw. II. in Cane. Hib. 204 king james's irish army list. splendid religious House of the Blessed Virgin at Dublin. In 1550, died Walter Lawless, a burgess of Kil- kenny, and then the holder of Talbot's-Inch, in that County, under the See of Ossory. His son and heir was Eichard, whose heir was, acccording to family respect, another Walter. This last was found to have been, during his life-time, seized of the manor of Cal- lan, with certain ,chief rents and customs, "a certain yearly custom of 'plows,' viz., one plow for one day every season within the town of Callan ; the custom of 'ryping' hooks every harvest yearly upon the bur- gesses and inhabitants of said town, (excepting the chief brethren or 'Cunsell' of Callan,) a custom of ale, &c, out of every ale 'brued' to be sold in the town aforesaid, &c." He also claimed the Castles of Callan, Killmacoliver, Tullaghmayne, and Ballydon- nell, all in said County, and was seized of premises in Gowran, under the Earl of Ormoncl, with the afore- said lands under the See of Ossory. This Walter died in 1627, leaving Richard Lawless his son and heir, then of full age but unmarried. He however soon afterwards married Margaret Den of the old family of Grenan, and their issue was the above Captain Wal- ter. He inherited Talbot's-Inch and other estates in Kilkenny, of which county he was at one time Sheriff ; and, marrying Anne, sister of James Bryan of Jenkinstown, had by her two sons, Richard and Patrick, who with their father were engaged in this service. A James Lawless was also a Lieutenant in LUTTRELLS HORSE. 20o this Regiment ; he was Town Clerk, prothonotary, and Clerk of the Crown and Peace for Kilkenny ; while an Edward Lawless was an Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. The above Patrick Lawless, Captain Walter's son, was taken prisoner at Aughrim;* he was then a Major. Leaving this country on the Revolution, he took refuge in Spain, where in the middle of the last century he held high rank in the army of his Catholic Majesty, and was Governor of Majorca and Minorca. f In the Inquisition of 1691 on his attainder, he was described as of Colemanstown in the County of Dub- lin ; his father, Walter, being expressly named as of Talbot's-Inch and Brownstown, as were his other sons Richard and John. There were also then attainted Thomas and Dominick Lawless of Dublin, and James Fitz-Adam Lawless of Kilkenny City. The Earl of Clarendon, while Viceroy of Ireland, makes mention in 1686 of a Major Lawless, who had been quartered at Kinsale, holding that rank in Colonel Macarty's Regiment ; he died in this year at Cork, whereby a pension of £200 per annum reverted to the Crown. J At the Court of Claims in 1700, those preferred, as affecting the estate of the above Captain Walter, were Anne's as his widow for her jointure — allowed ; and one of Thomas Lawless for the amount of a bond debt charged on same and on * Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 137. t De Burgo's Hib. Dom, p. 894. \ Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, pp. 351-5-8. 206 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the inheritance of Richard his son. A portion of these estates was sold in 1703 to the Hollow Swords Blades' Company ; the other portions, within the Liber- ties of Kilkenny, to Griffith Drisdale and Amyas Bush of Kilfane, while the fee of Talbot's-Inch re- verted to the See of Ossory. In the Cathedral of Kilkenny are monuments to many members of this family. LIEUTENANT GERALD EVERS. This family name is found at a very early period after the Invasion connected with Meath. A close Roll of 1373 purports to provide for expenses of Robert ' de Evere,' a clerk of the Exchequer in Ire- land, in his journey to England on the business of the Bishop of Meath, who was then Treasurer of Ireland. In 1386, the Marquis of Dublin committed to Robert Evere (probably the same individual,) the custody of the Mills of Trim, Ardmulchan, &c, which, by reason of the death of Edward de Mortimer and the minority of his heir, Roger, were then in the seisin of the Crown.* In 1498, Robert Evers, an Englishman, was Prior of the great mitred Abbey of Kilmain- ham.f In 1631, Thomas Evers, Mayor of Dublin, married Edith Mortimer, of another Meath family. * Eot. Pat. 10 Rie. 2, in Cane. Hib. t DAlton's Co. Dub., p. 622. luttrell's horse. 207 He died in the following year, and was buried in St. John's Church, Dublin. The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Alex- ander and James Evers of Eatain ; Patrick of Bellar- din, and Edward of Noshingstown, all in the County of Meath. Those of 1691 were of the above Gerald Evers, described as of Moyrath, County of Meath, Eandolf alias Ralph Evers of Tokeroane, do. (a Cor- net in this Company,) Matthew Evers of Galmoys- town, County of Westmeath, Charles Evers of Ballin- ralline, Queen's County ; and Christopher Evers of Bellardin, aforesaid. This latter estate, comprising about 300 acres, was purchased in 1703, with other possessions, by John Asgill of Dublin. Cicely Darcy, otherwise Evers, claimed an estate for life thereon, but her right was not admitted. Gerald Evers claimed a remainder in tail therein, and his petition was also dismist ; while, at the same Court, Mary Evers, as Relict and Administratrix of William Evers, deceased, and Matthew Evers, son and heir of said William, claimed and were allowed sundry interests in County of Westmeath lands, forfeited by Sir John Nugent. CORNET JOSEPH CRIPPS. 'CuiPPs'does not occur elsewhere on this Army List, but this officer in his attainder of 1691, is described as 4 of Killerney, County of Kilkenny, Gentleman.' 208 king james's irish army list. The name is now traceable only in the County of Limerick, in connection with that of Villiers. QUARTERMASTER THOMAS CAREW. Neither does 'Carew' occur elsewhere upon this List, or at all in the Attainders of 1641 or 1691, nor does he appear of kindred with the noble family of Castle- borough, or with that of Ballinamona. At the close of the reign of King John, Raymond 'de Karreu' granted the Church of ' Stacklorgan,' with the advowson and the land around it, as an en- dowment to Christ Church, Dublin ; and about the same time he gave to the noble monastery of St. Thomas-a-Becket in said city, a burgage in Dungar- van, as also the Church of St. Colman of Cork, and those of 'Matre,' Caroulton, and Tullaghrathen, with all their appurtenances, and the whole tithes and eccle- siastical dues thereto appertaining.* In one of the Genealogical Manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin, (F 3, 27), is a pedigree of the Carews of Garryvroe, for twelve generations ; but it closes with Robert Carew of Garryvroe, who died in 1633, and the Christian name of Thomas does not appear on the whole line. It may be mentioned from Sir Richard Cox, that in 1575, Sir Henry Sydney, while Lord Deputy of Ireland, attended, at Waterford, the burial of Sir Peter Carew, "whose ancestors had been Mar- * Kings MSS., p. 180. SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 209 quises of Cork, and claimed a mighty estate, compris- ing the greater part of ancient Desmond in the Counties of Cork, Waterford and Kerry," and that claim the Mac Cartys, Barrys, and many other chiefs of Munster offered to recognize, "in opposition to the Earls of Desmond ; and proposed that, if Sir Peter would come and reside amongst them, they would ad- vance him three thousand kine, with sheep, hogs, and corn, and annually pay him all reasonable demands; but his death put an end to all these speculations." REGIMENTS OF HORSE. HUGH SUTHERLAND S. Captains. Lieutenants. Comets. Colonel Lord Brittas. Edward Preudergast, Dermott McAuliffe. Jolin Burke. Lieut. -Col. William Cox, Major. Cornelias Callaghan. Godfrey Conyngham. William Verdon. Dmry Wray. James McDonnell. John Prendergast. James Bryan. Matthew Roth. Francis Bryan. Toby Matthews. William Matthews. John Ryan. Edmund Walsh. Edward Danter. Quarter-Masters. Jo! m Hynes. James Butler. Ryan. Maguirc. Thomas Matthews Jolin Walsh. P 210 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. COLONEL HUGH SUTHERLAND. Early in this Campaign he was constituted a Briga- dier, and, while the siege of Derry was pending, was despatched with two Regiments of Infantry, one of Dragoons, and two troops of Horse, to £ straiten 1 Enniskillen on the side of Belturbet ; while Colonel Sarsfield, with whom he was to correspond, was stationed within twelve miles of that town with three troops of Horse, one of Dragoons, and three battalions of Foot. On Sutherland's arrival for this object at Belturbet, he received an order from Marshal Rosen, then at Derry, to proceed to Omagh, to protect the Irish blockading army in that direction.* Accord- ingly, on the fifth of July, Berwick wrote to Lieu- tenant-General Hamilton, the Irish Commander at the camp before that City, " I marched yesterday- morning from Newtown- Stewart, and, joining Colonel Sutherland at ' Omey,' I marched hither my advanced guard, cut off several of their sentries, and pushed a great many of the Rebels' party with such vigour as they beat with thirty Dragoons three Troops of Horse of theirs, which were drawn up at a distance from us."f Colonel Sutherland was engaged at the Boyne, and, though he was wounded, his Regiment suffered little, " having to do only with the enemy's horse, which he soon repulsed. "J * O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 267. f Manuscripts T.C.D., E 2, 19. \ Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 400. SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 211 LIEUTENANT- COLONEL EDWARD PRENDERGAST. This name came into Ireland with Earl ' Strongbow,' who induced Maurice de Prendergast to accompany him in the Invasion, and made over to him a tract of country, called Fernegenelan, to hold by the service of ten Knights.* In 1207, King John, having found the Barons of Leinster and Meath opposed to giving effect to the Royal Writs of Right, &c. sent mandates to Walter, Hugh, and Robert de Lacy, Lords of Meath and Ulster ; to Richard de Tuite, Philip de Prendergast, &c. wherein he expressed surprise " that they should attempt establishing a new form of trial without his assent, or seek his Justiciary to deliver to them, without his orders, what had been taken at the hands of the Crown by royal precept ; and he commanded them not to L default ' towards him, their Lord, and declared with God's and his rights he will acquire, according to time and place. "f In 1229, King Henry summoned Gerald de Prendergast, as one of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, to a military muster at Portsmouth for service in Brittany ; and again, in 1244, for the Scottish war. This Gerald, being Patron of the Abbey of Canons Regular at Ennis- corthy, made a grant thereof to be a cell to the noble House of St. Thomas-a-Beoket in Dublin. J A List * Wares Ant., v. 1, p. 191. t Kot. Pat. Tur. Lond. 8 Jac. 1. \ King's MSS. Dub. Soc, pp. 178-9. P 2 212 king james's irish army list. of the Barons and Knights of Richard de Burgo's Palatinate in Connaught, in 1242, names this Gerald de Prendergast as one.* In 1278, Geoffrey de Prendergast sued Paganus de Hinteberg for the estate of his mother Alienora, in the County of Limer- ick, by wager of battle. It was fought accordingly with all legal formalities of the day, and the appellant gained the battle and the lands. In 1326, Geoffrey de Prendergast was one of the Commissioners of Array for the County of Kilkenny. In 1414, Robert Prendergast was Abbot of the mitred House of the Blessed Virgin of Dublin ; and, in the Parliament of 1585, Edward Prendergast was one of the Repre- sentatives for the County of the Crosses of Tipperary. In a MS. Volume of the Royal Dublin Society's Col- lection, entitled ' Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis] occurs (at page 384) a transcript of an extraordinary deed, by which the Lady Eleanor Butler, being a co-heiress to the title of Baron of Cahir, affected to convey same to Sir Thomas Prendergast, about the time of Charles the First. Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny, in 1646, was James Prendergast of Tullivellan ; and the Royal declaration of gratitude, contained in the Act of Settlement, includes Ensign John Prender- gast, the same individual possibly who was a Cornet in this Regiment. This name is especially distin- guished in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry, where Geoffrey Prendergast was a Captain, Walter and * MS. in Trin. Coll. Lib., Dublin. Sutherland's horse. 213 Robert Prendergast, Lieutenants, andJames Prender- gast an Ensign. The latter James was indicted in 1691, by the description of Harristown, County of Kilkenny ; as was another James as of Butlerstown, County of Wexford. Thomas Prendergast of Bally - fernogue, and Nicholas Prendergast of Enniscorthy, were then likewise attainted, and a Geoffry Prender- gast, at this time, forfeited estates in Galway and Mayo. After the Revolution, this Lieutenant-Colonel Ed- ward passed into France, and was there appointed to the same rank in Colonel Sheldon's Brigade. At the battle of Lauffield, in 1747, Dennis Prender- gast, a Lieutenant in Lally's Brigade, was wounded. * MAJOR WILLIAM COX. This name does not otherwise appear in the Army List or attainders, nor has any notice, that could identify him or his family, been discovered. The most remarkable individual of the name at this period was of the Williamite politics, Richard Cox of Wilt- shire descent ; who, in September, 1690, was appoint- ed a Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, vice Justice Denis Duly, hereafter alluded to. lie was knighted in the following year, promoted to the Chief .Justice- ship in 1701, and in 1 7o:>, appointed Lord High * Oont. Mag/, ad ann., p. 377. 214 king james's irish army list. Chancellor of Ireland, from which he was preferred to be Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1711. The manuscript Diary of Primate Narcissus Marsh, (preserved in the public Library in Dublin which bears his name,) contains at the 26th of April, 1693, an interesting notice of Judge Cox : — " This evening, at six of the clock, we met at the Provost's lodgings in Trinity College, Dublin, in order to the renewal of our philosophical meeting, where Sir Eichard Cox, one of the Justices of 4 the King's Bench,' read a geographical Description of the City and County of Derry, and of the County of Antrim, being part of an entire Geographical Description of the whole King- dam of Ireland, that is designed to be perfected by him ; wherein also will be contained a Natural History of Ireland, containing the most remarkable things to be found that are the product of nature." This work, however, never was printed, though others from his pen have been. In October, 1706, Sir Richard was created a Baronet, and died in 1733, of apoplexy, leaving issue. Ware, in his 4 Writers of Ireland,' gives forty-four pages illustrative of the life and times of this Sir Richard Cox. CAPTAIN DRURY WRAY. Neither does this name appear elsewhere upon the present ' List.' The family was originally seated within the Bishopric of Durham, and subsequently Sutherland's horse. 215 possessed estates in Richmondshire, County of York. From it descended Sir Christopher Wray, Knight, who was a member of all the Parliaments of Queen Mary's reign, and, in that of Elizabeth, was Speaker of the House of Commons. He was ultimately consti- tuted Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, in which high office he died, in 1592. His son, Sir William Wray, was created a Baronet ; and the above Captain Drury Wray, his descendant and heir male, was the sixth in the succession. He was so attainted in 1691, and his estates in the County of Limerick were consequently sold by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures, partly to John Berry of Ballinacargy, in said County, and partly to the Hollow Swords Blades ' Company ; while the Rectories and Rec- torial tithes which he possessed therein, were, accord- ing to the policy of the Settlement, granted to the See of Limerick for the augmentation of vicarages. At the Court of Claims, Major Christopher Wray, the eldest son of Sir Drury, claimed and was allowed a reversion in fee, after his father's decease, in various lands in Limerick, and also in others in Cork. He preferred his claim as by descent, being the eldest son and heir to Anne Casey his mother : he also claimed and was allowed an annuity off said lands. Major Christopher offers one of many instances of the sad domestic severance which this campaign effected, fighting as he did at the Boyne for King William. He afterwards served in the wars of Flanders, Spain, and Portugal, as Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel 216 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Farrington's Regiment ; and eminently distinguished himself at the attack of Ostend.* His father, Sir Drury, dying in 1710, he became the seventh Baronet. CAPTAIN TOBY MATTHEW. This noble family is located in Ortelius's map in the Barony of Eliogurty, County of Tipperary. On Irish law records the name appears from early in the com- mencement of the fourteenth century ; in the fifteenth, King Henry the Fourth committed to Thomas Mat- thew, of the County of Meath, the custody of various lands therein, and in Drogheda.f The attainders of 1642 have, of this family, only David Matthew of Castlemore, County of Cork. In the Assembly of Confederate Catholics, Emir 1 Mat- thews' sat amongst the Spiritual Peers as Bishop of Clogher. — In King James's Charter to Cashel, William Matthew was a Burgess, as was James Matthew in that to Carlingford, (he was a Lieutenant in Galmoy's Horse,) and Francis Matthew in that to Ardee. In 1686, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant, visited the noble establishment of Captain Matthew, at Thomastown, County of Tipperary. He seems to have been the above named officer, and the lineal de- * Burke's Landed Gentry, Sup. p. 246-7. t Rot. Pat, 4 Hen. IV. in Cane. Hib. Sutherland's horse. 217 scendant of David Matthew, the great Standard Bearer of Edward the Fourth, whose monument is still to be seen in the Cathedral of Landaff, and whose issue were Lords of Baydor in Glamorganshire, as also of Landaff. "I came hither," writes Lord Clarendon, u last night, where I have been most kindly used. It is a very fine place and the most improved of any situation I have ever seen since I came into this kingdom ; especially considering that it is but sixteen years since he first sat down there, when there was no house upon it."* His estate Lord Clarendon styles, "of the new interest," thus distinguishing it from those of the old native Septs. More extended details of the singular hospitality lavished at Thomastown by his heir in the following century, when it became a hotel for all who chose to visit it, where each guest might have a separate room and meals ; and a distinct department, called a tavern, was appropriated for the use of the less temperate ; are given in the biography of Dean Swift, who, during the early part of his residence in Ireland, was a visitor there. A Colonel Matthew of the Irish forces was taken prisoner at Aughrim,f and, amongst those outlawed in 1691, was Toby or Theobald Matthew, styled of Thomastown, County of Tipperary, Esq. on whose estate the right of Catherine Matthew, his widow, for a leasehold interest, preferred on behalf of herself, and * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 2, p. 6. f Rawdon Correspondence, p. 351. 218 king james's irish army list. her children, Theobald, Mary, Frances, Catherine and Neville Matthew, was allowed by the Commissioners at the Court of Claims. Others of this name then outlawed were William Matthew, also described as of Thomastown, Gent. ; James Matthew of Carlingford, above mentioned ; Patrick and Sylvester Matthew of Dunbin, Blackall-Andrew Matthew of Melleshant [Mellefont,] clerk ; James Matthew of Charlestown, County of Louth ; and George Matthew of Carlow ; while Patrick and Sylvester forfeited lands in the Barony of Cremorne, County of Monaghan, which were sold by the Commissioners of the forfeited estates to William Fortescue of the County of Louth. LIEUTENANT GODFREY CONYNGHAM. This name does not appear elsewhere on the Army List, nor at all on the Attainders ; while a doubt of this officer's adherence to King James is raised by the fact, that at the Court of Claims in 1703, a 'Lieute- nant Godfrey Conyngham' claimed and was allowed sundry leasehold interests affecting lands in the County of Cork, forfeited by Donogh, Earl of Clan- carty. On this occasion also, a James, son of Andrew Conyngham, petitioned for premises in Strabane, while Josias 'Cunningham' claimed and was allowed a freehold in the County of Antrim. Under the latter spelling of this surname, it may be noticed that SUTHERLAND'S HORSE. 219 a Colonel 'Cimingham' is stated to have fought for King William at the battle of Aughrim.* COENET WILLIAM VEEDON. The subordinate rank of this officer here, evinces how much this once illustrious family had then declined from its early and influential character. Previous to the Invasion of Ireland by Henry the Second, the chivalrous family of De Yerdon was settled at Alton, where is now the splendid seat of the Earl of Shrews- bury. From thence, in 1184, Bertram Yerdon ac- companied Prince John to Ireland, and was appointed Seneschal of the Pale, with a grant of the Barony of Dundalk, the Lordship of Clonmore, and other estates in the County of Louth. In his time the Borough of Dundalk was incorporated, and there he founded a Priory for the order of Cross-bearers. Nicholas, his son and heir, succeeded to these estates, and died, leaving issue only a daughter, who married Theobald le Botiller. Their son, John de Yerdon, assumed the family name of his mother, and he it was who founded, in the time of Henry the Third, the Gray Friary at Dundalk. His son J Theobald de Yerdon, was present at the Parliament of Westmin- ster in 1275, where he gave the important consent, that the same customs should be payable upon wool, * Rawdon Papers, p. 357. 220 king james's irish army list. wool-fells, and hides shipped from the ports of his Liberties in Ireland, in the same manner as had been granted by the Archbishops, &c, of England upon wool, woolfells, &c, exported therefrom. In two years after and subsequently, he was engaged in those expedi- tions against Wales, which extinguished the struggles of that country for independence. In 1288, he was besieged in the Castle of Athlone, by Eichard de Burgo, the 'Red' Earl of Ulster, who then pretended title to the Lordship of Meath. He had frequent mili- tary summonses to King Edward's wars from that period, as one of the 'Fideles' of Ireland. In 1299, he was called on, as a Baron, to do service against the Scots, as was his son Theobald, the younger, in the same year, c by reason of his father's declining health.' In 1310, this younger Theobald succeeded to the estates and honors of his father, then deceased. In three years after, he was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, and died in 1314, leaving only female issue, a who," as Baron Finglas remarks in his Breviate, "being married to noblemen who dwelled still in Eng- land, and took such profits as they could get for a while, and sent small defence for their lands in Ire- land ; so as, within few years after, all their portions were lost except certain manors within the English Pale, which Thomas, Baron of Slane, and Sir Robert Hollywood, Sir John Cruise, and Sir John Bellew purchased in King Richard the Second's time ; and this hath been the decay of half of Meath, which did not obey the King's laws this hundred years and Sutherland's horse. 221 more." The name of De Verdon continued however to be represented in Louth by the male descendants of other sons of the founder. At the Parliament of York, in 1319, the King granted to Nicholas de Ver- don, (who was one of the next heirs male of John, who first, as before mentioned, assumed the name,) the manor of Mandevilleston, County of Louth ; which had come to the Crown by the surrender of Ralph Pipard. In 1335, Milo de Verdon, another of those male descendants, received a Royal Mandate to attend John D'Arcy, the Justiciary, with arms and horses in his expedition for the King's aid against Scotland.* In 1374, Patrick Verdon had summons to Parliament by writ, and in the same year, on the occasion of the memorable Parliament of Westmin- ster, to which Edward the Third required the attend- ance of a certain number of the Representatives of Irish interests, Richard de Verdon and Roger Gernon were chosen as members for the ancient borough of Drogheda.f The above notices have been extracted from 4 Col- lections for a History of DundalkJ which the compiler of these 'Illustrations' had drawn up some years since, (never published) ; but to extend this article by the many other available annals of this great name would not be allowable ; here, therefore, it must suffice to add, that in 1624 Christopher Ver- don died, seised in fee by a long ancestral line of suc- * D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 84. t Idem, v. 1, p. 244. 222 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. cession, of the Castle and manor of Clonmore, with mills, lands, &c., and of chiefries of the aforesaid manor of Mandevillstown ; leaving John Verdon, his eldest son and heir, then 22 years of age and married, and two other sons, Patrick and Robert. This John was the only one of the name attainted in 1642 ; and the ruins of the Castle which he and his ancestors had theretofore held at Clonmore, are still traceable. His namesake and descendant, John Yerdon, (titu- larly) styled of Clonmore, was attainted in 1691, while the name of this William, who must have been of the family, does not appear in the Outlawries, nor does any other Yerdon on this Army List. CORNET EDWARD DANTER. There is no other of this name on the List nor any in the Outlawries. QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HYNES. Amongst the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646, was Thomas ' Heynes of Feathard,' but the name does not otherwise appear on this List, nor at all in the Outlawries. PARKER'S HORSE. 223 REGIMENTS OF HORSE. john Parker's. Captains. The Colonel. Francis Giffard, Lieut. -Colonel. John Metham, Major. Eobert Nugent. James Doddington. Thomas Eccleston. Walter Hastings. James Hobb. Edward Weddering- ton. Lieutenants. Thomas Greene. Robert Lowich. Isidore Delagarde, George Bamfield. Robert Chernock. George Oldfield. Charles Skelton. Cornets. Quarter-Masters. Edward Haly. Edward Conforth. Thomas Smallbone. Joseph Acton. John Hills. Philemon MacCartie. Cormick O'Sullivan. Michael Stritch. Thomas Selby. COLONEL JOHN PARKER, This name is of Irish record from the time of Richard the Second. In 1403, Geoffrey Parker was consti- tuted Mayor of the Staple in Dublin. Immediately after, a John Parker filled the office of Grand Sergeant of the County of Kildare.* In 1552, John Parker was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland ; and he was in 1561, an Ecclesiasti- cal Commissioner. From him descended his name- sake, the above Colonel.f When, on the 26th of * Rolls in Chancery. t Graham's Derriana, p. 31. 224 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. August, 1689, King James resolved on going to meet the recently landed Schomberg, he took with him to Drogheda a hundred of his own Horse Guards, with two hundred of Parker's Horse, for the object of being nearer to the enemy, where he might better observe their motions*. This Eegiment sustained especial loss at the Battle of the Boyne, where several of its officers fell, and the Colonel was himself wounded. His Lieutenant-Colonel (then Greene), and his Major James Doddington, (Captain on this list) and many other officers were also killed ; " of the two squadrons of that Eegiment, there came off only about thirty sound men."f It and Tyrconnel's suffered most on that critical day. In Clarke's Correspond- ence, preserved in the manuscripts of Trinity College, is a letterj written by Robert Southwell to George Clarke, Secretary of War, in which he recommends the bearer, Lieutenant Cleere, as " a person of prin- cipal consideration in the town of Clonmel, and ex- tremely zealous to promote His Majesty's service throughout the whole County. He lies under some hardships, which are not to be suffered towards such a person." An endorsement on the letter states that " said Cleere had taken several horses and brought in divers persons, and that he desires the horses he took from Colonel Parker's Troopers :" the prayer was granted. On the attainders of 1642, is the name of Edward * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 373. t Idem, p. 400. } Clarke's Corresp. MSS., v. 1, Letter 74. parker's horse. 225 Parker described as of Templeogue, County of Dublin ; on those of 1691, is this Parker, styled of the City of Dublin, Esq. While, in the claims preferred in 1703, a John Parker made a remarkable one for £5,000, which he alleged to be due to him, on foot of a mortgage of lands and rectories in the County of Kildare, forfeited by the Earl of Tyrconnel ; but his claim was disallowed as false, and he was adjudged to pay £10,000. The name does not otherwise appear upon the Army List. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL THOMAS GIFFORD. This name does not occur here again, and Colonel Thomas appears to have early retired from the ser- vice ; as at the Boyne the Lieutenant-Colonel of this Regiment was Greene, who was killed there. The name is of high antiquity in Ireland, and to the memorable parliament of Westminster in 1376, the Clergy of the Diocese of Cashel sent John c Geffard ' to be their Representative. In that of 1560, Henry 4 Geafford ' was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Dun gar van. By the Act of Settlement in 1662, arrears of pay due to Sir Thomas Gifford, Baronet, then deceased, were directed to be paid to his relict Dame Martha Gifford. The Colonel, it would seem, was of this family. Q 226 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. MAJOR JOHN METHAM Is subject to much the same remarks as was the last officer. The Major at the Boyne was James Dodding- ton, the Captain on this muster. CAPTAIN JAMES DODDINGTON, Promoted to the Majority and killed at the Boyne, as supra. A Captain Edward Doddington had the command of 100 foot soldiers under the Lord Presi- dent of Munster, in the war of that Province during the reign of Elizabeth. When, at the close of the year 1602, it was resolved to storm the Castle of Dunboy, a breach having been made that was con- sidered assailable, the decision of who was to lead the assault having been referred to the dice, it fell upon this Captain Doddington, who was 4 shot with two bullets in his body, but not mortal.'* CAPTAIN THOMAS ECCLESTON. A branch of the Ecclestons of Eccleston in Lancas- shire settled previous to this reign in the County of Louth, where, in the churchyard of Drumshallon, within the ruins of the old church, are monuments commemorating the family, from Walter Eccleston * Pacata Hibernia, pp. 568 & 574. parker's horse. 227 of Drunishallon, in December, 1675, to William, who died in August, 1798. A manuscript book of pedi- grees in Trinity College, Dublin, (F 3, 27) suggests that the said Walter was the son of Tristram Eccles- ton (who died in 1636), by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of William Cranshaw of Lancashire ; and that Tristram was himself the youngest son of James, who was the son of Hugh Eccleston of the house of Eccles- ton in Lancashire. CAPTAIN WALTER HASTINGS. A f Major ' Hastings, possibly this ' Captain,' was committed a prisoner to the Tower in 1690. CAPTAIN JAMES HOBB. This name is not again on this Army List, while on the Attainders only that of Richard ' Hobbs ' of Creagh, County of Wexford, appears. LIEUTENANT THOMAS GREENE. He was attainted in 1691, by the description of Thomas Greene, Junior, of Corrstown, County of Kil- kenny ; but nothing more has been ascertained con- cerning him, nor what might be his kindred (as there probably was such,) with the Lieutenant-Colonel Q 2 228 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. killed, as before mentioned, at the Boyne. The war- rant for pardon to a Nicholas Greene of Cork, dated in 1701, is preserved in Harris's MSS, in the Koyal Dublin Society* from which it appears that he was a merchant, and had transported the 1 King's 7 provisions to France in the ship 1 James,' in time of war. His pardon was, however, granted, on the ground " that said Greene was ignorant of the freightage at the time ; that theretofore, while the Irish party was in possession of Cork and for ten years since, he had adhered to the Protestant religion and interest ; and that, when the Williamite forces landed in the har- bour of Cork, he was the person who, at the hazard of his life, guided them over that part of the sea which encompassed the east marsh next adjoining the said City, whereupon the garrison capitulated ; and that he hath shewed his affection to our interest by exposing his life whenever our affairs required his service ; and for that particularly, with his own hands, he took and brought in several proclaimed Traitors and Tories, who suffered punishment for their crimes, and that there were not wanting ample testimonies to his integrity." At the Court of Chichester House, in 1700, a John Greene claimed the benefit of a leasehold interest in " the Castle and great White House at Lucan," the land called the Wood, and several other premises, as forfeited by Patrick Sarsfield. His petition was however dismist for non-prosecution. * Vol. 10, p. 309. PARKER'S HORSE. 229 Lieutenants, ROBERT LOWICH, ISIDORE DELAGARDE, (French) GEORGE BAMFIELD, ROBERT CHERNOCK. None of these names occur again on the Army List, or at all on the Attainders. LIEUTENANT GEORGE OLDFIELD. He appears to have been of a Wexford family. The Outlawries of 1691 present the names of James and Thomas Oldfield, of Duncannon in the County of Wexford. LIEUTENANT CHARLES SKELTON. A sketch of Pedigree of the Skeltons of Sleaty in the Queen's County, is preserved among the Manu- scripts of Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27); and, although the Christian name of this officer does not appear upon it, he may probably have belonged to the line. Sir Bevil Skelton was the first who, while Envoy at the Hague in 1688, having intercepted a letter by which he learned the meditated expedition of the Rrince of Orange, communicated it to King James; but 230 king james's irish army list. not being accredited, he only incurred hostility there- by, which led to his committal to the Tower. He was, however, within a few days made Lieutenant of the place which he had entered a prisoner.* On this ' List • a Thomas Skelton appears Lieu- tenant in the King's Own Foot, while a James Skelton is described as one of the witnesses to the Capitu- lation of Galway, 21st July, 1691. In the Septem- ber following, this James, described as then a Colonel, was taken prisoner at the siege of Limerick, when defending the fort at Thomond Bridge. He died of the wounds he there sustained, f The Attainders of 1691 exhibit the names of John and Bevil Skelton of Dublin, and Maria Skelton, otherwise O'Brien. Another Colonel Skelton passed over with James the Second to France, and was Comptroller in the Estab- lishment at St. Germains.J CORNET THOMAS SMALLBONE. f EDMOND CONFORTH None of these surnames occur again upon this List or on the Attainders. * Harris's Life of William III., p. 127. t Story's Impartial History, part 2, pp. 180 & 225. X Harleian Collections, v. 11, p. 391. parker's horse. 231 QUARTER-MASTER JOHN HILL. The Attainders of 1641 include the names of Sir William Hill, Knight, of Ballybeg or Allenstown, County of Meath : and of Philip and Patrick Hill of Dromyn, County of Wicklow. Those outlawed in 1691 were Arthur, Dominick, and James Hill of Allenstown aforesaid, Gentlemen ; but no mention is made of a John Hill. QUARTER-MASTER CORMICK O'SULLIVAN. This noble Sept was possessed of the ancient territory of Beara, comprising the modern Baronies of Beare and Ban try in the County of Cork, whence their Chiefs took their respective designations of the O'Sullivan Beare and the O'Sullivan Bantry ; while another branch, styled O'Sullivan More, lorded over Dunkerrin and part of Iveragh in the County of Kerry, and a third were Chiefs of Knockgraffon in Tipperary. At the close of the twelfth century, Laurence O'Sullivan succeeded to the See of Cloyne ; as did Alan O'Sullivan thereto in 1240, in some years after which he was promoted to that of Lismore, where he died in 1253. In 1376, the King, at the instance of "his faithful liege, MacCarty of Des- mond, Captain of his Nation," granted to Thomas 0' 'Soulevan,' and Mac Creagh O'Soulevan, liberty to pass over to the Court of Rome, provided they carried 232 kixg james's Irish army list. or did nothing prejudicial to the English King. The Four Masters relate that in 1398, Mac Cartie of Carberry, in Cork, gave the O'Sullivan a complete overthrow, when two of his sons, Owen and Connor, with many others, were slain. They give melancholy importance to an annal of 1404, where it is said, " A contest arose between Mac Carty and O'Sullivan Buidhe ; and Turlogh Meith Mac Mahon was Mac Carty's admiral at that time, who overtook O'Sullivan at sea ; and also the sons of Dermod Mac Carty, who were aiding O'Sullivan against Mac Car thy ; he drowned O'Sullivan on that occasion, and took Donal, son of Dermod Mac Carthy, prisoner." In 1563, " O'Sullivan Beare, i. e. Donal, the son of Dermod, son of Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod Balbh, (the stammerer) fell by the hand of a bad chief, namely, Mac Gillicuddy ; and though famous as had been his father Dermod, that Donal was a Avorthy heir to him ; and his kinsman, Owen O'Sullivan, succeeded in his place." In the year 1581, the son of O'Sullivan, i. e. Donal, the son of Donal, (of 1563) defeated the people of Carberry. a The manner in which that happened was this ; Captain Siuits (Zouch) having proceeded from Cork through Carberry to the monastery of Bantry, sent the sons of Turlogh, the son of Maol- murry, son of Donagh Mac Sweeny, the son of O'Donovan, and a number of the chiefs of Pobbles and of the gentlemen of Carberry, to plunder the son of O'Sullivan. The forces sent by the Captain PARKER'S HORSE 233 having taken immense spoils and much booty, Donal thought it a great mortification to suffer his property to be carried away, and he himself alive ; and he therefore attacked the Irish clans who were about the booty, and it was verified on that day, that it is not by a numerous force that a battle is gained, for nearly three hundred of the Carberians were slain by Donal, although his own party did not number much more than fifty men who were able to fight in that battle." To Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585 went "the O'Sullivan Beare, L e. Owen, the son of Dermod, son of Donal, son of Donogh, son of Der- mod Balbh ; as also O'Sullivan More, i. e. Owen, son of Donal, son of Donal-na-Sgreadaighe." At the crisis of the Munster War, O'Neill and O'Donnell confided the command and control of their forces (according to the Four Masters) to the O'Sullivan Beare, then Donal, son of Donal, son of Dermod ; 'for he was the chief commander of his party in Mun- ster, at that time, in wisdom and valour.' The O'Sullivans, who had many strong castles over their extent of maritime country, were inalienably at- tached to the Desmond (see the 4 Pacata Hibernia ' passim). By that devotion, and the discomfiture at Kinsale, they suffered large confiscations, and their chief, the aforesaid Donal or Daniel, retiring to Spain, distinguished himself there in military service under the title of Count of Berehaven.* In 1604, according to the state policy of the * Ferrar's Limciick, p. 174. 234 king james's irish army list. time, Dermot, Daniel, and Cnogher O'Sullivan, de- scribed as sons of Daniel O'Sullivan More, deceased, surrendered all their lands and chiefries in Kerry, with the object of obtaining a re-grant thereof to them in fee from the Crown. In the following year, at the Eoyal instance, a similar surrender and re- grant of the estates of Owen O'Sullivan, called the O'Sullivan More, was effected by patents, with an arrangement for the extinction of that Captaincy, and for granting said Owen the title of Baron in lieu thereof. He had afterwards, in 1612, an en- larged grant of various Castles, Lands, Fisheries, Duties, Markets, Courts, Tolls, and Chief Rents, as formerly granted to his father 6 Sir' Owen O'Sullivan, (the rents having been payable to the Earl of Des- mond) to hold same to him, the said Owen, in tail male.* In 1613, Sir Thomas Roper had a grant of large estates in Munster, and amongst these were " parcels of the estates of Teigue Mc Daniel 0' ' Swelli- van,' and of Owen M'Donnell M'Donough O'Swellivan, late of Cahirdonellmore, both slain in rebellion." In 1632, when the sea at the south of Ireland was in- fested with Algerine Rovers, the Lord President of that Province, in a letter to the Lords Justices, in reference to the precautions he had taken to secure the coast of Cork, writes: — "Mr. Daniel O'Sullivan has a house of reasonable strength at Berehaven, and takes upon him to defend it and Ballygobbin ; he promises to * Rolls, Temp. Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib. parker's horse. 235 erect five beacons upon the Dorseys, and four upon the great island. I have directed 0' Sullivan More, who lives on the river of Kenmare, to take warning from the beacon erected on the promontory over the Dorseys, and by one of his own, to assemble his tenants and servants at his strong and defensible castle ; but I think this caution needless, as the inhabitants on both sides of that river are but few, till as far up as Glaneraught, where the pirates dare not venture."* In the Attainders of 1642 were Donell O'Sullivan Beare, of Berehaven, Philip O'Sullivan of Loughandy, Owen of Inchiclough and Drimdavane, Donell Mac Owen of Drumgarvan, John Mac Dermody of Der- ryne, G-illicuddy O'Sullivan of Traghprashy, Connor O'Sullivan of Loughane, and Owen Neagh O'Sullivan of Drumgowlane, all in the County of Cork. This Sept was represented at the supreme Council of Kil- kenny by O'Sullivan More of Dunkeiran, and Daniel O'Sullivan of Culmagort ; while the Declaration of Eoyal gratitude, in the Act of Settlement, preserves the names of Captain Dermot O'Sullivan of Kilmeloe, Lieutenant O'Sullivan of Fermoyle, and Ensign Owen O'Sullivan, all in the County of Cork. Of these outlawed in 1691, were Daniel O'Sullivan of Eosmacone, McDermott Cnogher Sullivan, and Cornelius Sullivan of Shiskeen ; Owen MacMurtough Sullivan of Berehaven, John Mac Murtough Sulli- van of Lanlaurence, Thady Sullivan of Killiebane, * Smith's Cork, v. 1, p. 279. 236 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Clerk, all in the County of Cork ; with Dermot Mac Donell 4 Soolevane ' of Litton, and Florence 1 Soole- vane ' of Nodden in the County of Kerry. In 1696, Henry Lord Shelburne passed patent for lands of the O'Sullivan More in the Barony of Dunkerron, County of Kerry, his widow Mary receiving jointure off part thereof.- At the Court of Claims, however, Daniel 0' ' Sullevane,' styled, 4 More,' claimed and was allowed a fee by descent from Daniel O'Sullivan, his grandfather, in the romantic district of Thomies at Killarney, forfeited by Sir Nicholas Browne ; while Sheely Sullivane, widow and executrix of Donald Sullevane More, and Desmond Sullevane, their son and heir, claimed interests in Cork lands, forfeited by the Earl of Clancarty. Teigue Sullevane sought a freehold near Killarney, also forfeited by Nicholas Brown, but his petition was dismist ; while William Sullevane claimed and was allowed a freehold in Kerry lands, forfeited by Valentine Brown; and Daniel Sullevane and Henrietta his wife, for them- selves and their children, petitioned (but were dis- mist) for freeholds and remainders in the Counties of Wicklow, Kildare, and Kilkenny, — the confiscations of Sir Edward Scott. A Sullivan was the last companion of the unfortu- nate Prince Charles Edward, and shared all the hard- ships and perils of his outcast days in Scotland. At Ypres, in 1745, Tim O'Sullivan and Florence Sullivan were of the wounded ; while at the battle of Laufneld, in 1747, Murtough Sullivan of Clare's PARKER'S HORSE. 237 Brigade was wounded, and subsequently Major O'Sul- livan was for many years Town-Major of Prague.* — " There is (1750) in Spain," writes Smith, in his History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 294) " a descendant of O'Sullivan Bear, who is ennobled and called the Count of Berehaven, and is also said to be hereditary Governor of the Groyne." In the American War, John Sullivan superseded Arnold in the command of the American army in Canada, in June, 1776 ; but was soon driven out of that Province. He was after- wards distinguished in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. In 1778, he laid siege to Newport, and in the following year commanded an expedition against the Six Nations of Indians in the State of New York ; but resigned his command in chagrin at the end of that year. In 1786, 1787, and 1789, he was Governor of New Hampshire, and died in January, 1795.f QUARTER-MA STEP MICHAEL STPITCH. The Stritches are located on Ortelius's Map in the Barony of Small-County, Limerick. When Ireton took that City in 1651, Alderman Thomas Stritch was one of the citizens excluded from mercy. In May, 1640, Nicholas Stritch, as son and heir of Rich- ard Stritch of Limerick, sued out 4 livery' of his * Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 498. t Gent. Mag., 1855, p. 122. 238 king james's irish army list. estates from the Court of Ward. Besides this officer, Stephen 4 Stretch' is, in the present Army List, an Ensign in Sir Charles O'Bryan's Infantry (post). On the Outlawries of 1691 the above Quarter-Master is described as of Kilrush, County of Clare; an Edward 'Stretch' of Limerick was likewise then attainted. At the Court of Claims none were pre- ferred against estates of the Stritches ; but Bartholo- mew Stritch, as son and heir of Patrick Stritch, claimed and was allowed a mortgage charged on lands in Clare, forfeited by Daniel Mulloney. QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS SELBY. This name does not otherwise occur on the List, nor on the Attainders. The ' Pacata Hibernia' makes mention, (p. 656) of a Thomas Selby, Lieutenant to Captain Francis Slingsby, in the War of Munster, temp. Elizabeth, who, in a sharp engagement with the 4 Rebels' of that Province, succeeded in taking from them 2000 cows, 4,000 sheep, and 1000 ' garrans' (horses). purcell's horse. 239 REGIMENTS OF HORSE. COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL S Cajrtains. The Colonel. Robert Purcell, Lieut. -Colonel. Charles Mc Donnel Major. John Everard. Miles Bourk. Daniel Mc Carthy. Anthony Morres. John Purcell. James Butler, of Dunbojne. Lieutenants. James Fitzgerald. Thomas Purcell. Michael Kerny. Cornelius Meagher. Piers Power. John Kennedy. Theobald Purcell. Theobald Butler. Cornets. James Butler. Anthony Purcell. Thomas Travers. Bryan Meagher. Owen Mc Carthy. Hugh Kennedy. Hugh Purcell. Thomas Meagh. Quarter- Masters. William Bannon. Daniel Quinn. James Tumy. John Fitzgerald. Edmund Meagher, Richard Keating. James Wale. COLONEL NICHOLAS PURCELL. The meagre Army List printed in the Somers' Col- lection of Tracts, (vol. XL p. 411) classes this Regi- ment among the Dragoons, and reports its strength as twelve troops, totting 720 men. It was chiefly raised in Tipperary. Sir Hugh Purcell, the ancestor of this family in Ireland, married Beatrix, daughter of Theobald Butler. The name was early introduced into Munster, where it soon became so numerous that the rolls of licences for protection and pardon in the year 1310, (in prudence then necessitated) include no less than thirteen adult Purcells ; while 240 king james's irish army list. eight years previously Hugh, Philip, Maurice, and Adam Purcell were of the Irish magnates summoned to the Scottish war. A friary for Conventual Francis- cans was founded in 1240, at Waterford, by the Lord 1 Hugh Purcell,' who was interred there in the same year.* John Purcell, Abbot of St. Thomas's Monastery of Dublin, having given credence to the pretensions of Lambert Simnel, was obliged in 1488 to sue out pardon and to take the oath of allegiance before Sir Richard Edgecombe. In 1538, Philip Purcell was Abbot of Holy-Cross, as was subsequently John Purcell Prior of St. John's Abbey, Kilkenny, where his tomb of black marble is yet to be seen.f In the reigns of Elizabeth and James, Purcells were seised of many castles and manors in Kilkenny. The only individual of this name attainted in 1642, was William Purcell of Irishtown, County of Kildare, clerk. Robert Purcell, styled ' of Curry,' was one of the Supreme Council in 1646. When Limerick was taken by Ireton in 1651, Major-General Purcell was one of the garrison excluded from mercy ;% and in the following year Cromwell, by his Act 'for settling Ireland,' further excepted this Major-General from pardon for life and estate. During the time of the Commonwealth, an Inquisition was directed and a survey made of the parish of Crumlin, County of Dublin, by Royal Com- mission, and a map was drawn (which is in the possession of Ignatius Francis Purcell, the present * Arohdall'sMon. Hib., p. 704. f Ware's Bishops, p. 459. + Leland's Ireland, v. 3, p. 402. purcell's horse. 241 proprietor) by which it is shown that the Purcells were then, as they had been for a long time previously, the owners of nearly the whole parish. By the Act of Settlement (1663), Theobald Purcell was con- firmed in his estate, as was also Philip Purcell of Ballyfoyle, County of Kilkenny ;, while the Declaration of Royal gratitude therein, 4 for services beyond the seas,' especially named James Purcell of Knockmoe, [Loughmow] County of Tipperary. He ranked in 1670 as the titular Baron of that ancient place, and was grand-nephew of the first Duke of Ormonde. Of this very ancient line a full pedigree is given in a genealogical manuscript in T.C.D. (F. iv. 18). On the present Army List, besides the Colonel and six other Purcells in this Regiment, a James Purcell was Lieutenant in Lord Clare's Dragoons, Edmund Purcell in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry, Owen in Colonel Edward Butler's, and Peter in the King's Own. In Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard Purcell was a Cap- tain ; in Colonel Dudley Bagnalls, Nicholas Purcell was an Ensign ; and in Lord Galmoy's Horse, James Purcell was a Cornet (he was wounded at Derry) ; while this latter was also the name of a Colonel of Infantry in the service. A Robert Purcell stands on the Establishment of 1687-8 for a pension of £253 per annum. The above Colonel Nicholas was titular Baron of Loughmow. In 1686, he was added to the King's Privy Council of Ireland, and in 1689 was one of the Representatives of the County of Tipperary in the R 242 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Parliament of Dublin. That Parliament was yet sit- ting when King James wrote to Lieutenant-General Hamilton, then 4 at the camp of Deny,' that he had ordered 'Purcell's Dragoons' to Belturbet ; and the achievements of this Regiment, within four miles of Enniskillen, are commended by another despatch from the Duke of Berwick to the same Lieutenant-General. Late on the fatal day of the battle of the Boyne, King James, yet ignorant that his rival had passed the river at Old Bridge, took the reserve, which con- sisted of Colonel Purcell's Horse and Browne's Infan- try, to where he found Lausun drawn up in battle array, with intent to charge the enemy's right, which stood on his front within cannon-shot ; while however he was considering this movement, he received intima- tion of the state of the field, and the attempt, which James projected, was pronounced by Sarsfield and Maxwell to be impracticable.* On Lord Tyrconnel's subsequent departure to France, Colonel Nicholas Pur- cell, who was a zealous adherent of Sarsfield, was of the Deputation despatched by the Avar party to St. Ger- mains, to solicit their King to remove Tyrconnel from the government of this country, f On the passage, according to 0'Conor,J "he and Colonel Henry Lut- trel designed to throw overboard Brigadier Maxwell, who was the accredited agent of the Duke of Berwick, and who, as these 'conspirators' were aware, had * O'Callaghan's Excidium Macarice, p. 352. t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 422. % (^Conor's Military Mem. p. 128. purcell's horse. 243 secret instructions to apprise the King that the Duke's object in placing them on the mission was, that his Majesty might have the facility of detaining them in France, as in Ireland they were 'the fire- brands of the army.'" Colonel Nicholas was afterwards one of those who negotiated and signed, on behalf of the Irish, the Treaty of Limerick. He was then most active in his endeavours to dissuade his country- men from taking service with foreign powers, and rather to enlist in the English army. O'Conor accordingly represents his Eegiment as one of those that, with Clifford's, Luttrell's, Lord Iveagh's, Dillon's, and 'Hussey's,' turned over to the new government. "The recreants," says that writer, "were mustered near the General's quarters, and regaled with bread, cheese, brandy, tobacco, and a fortnight's subsistence, to steel them against the reproaches of their country- men, and drown any scruples of conscience or honour, that might induce them to return to their colours. Colonel Nicholas was, nevertheless, attainted in 1691, with Ignatius and John Purcell of Crumlin, Robert and James Purcell of Dublin, John of Connehy, County of Kilkenny, Thomas of Clillenclin, Theobald of Clone, (who was found seized of 1478 acres in the Barony of Galmoy,) Purcell, son of John Purcell of Lissinane, in the County of Kilkenny, Robert Fitz- Theobald Purcell of the City of Kilkenny, Edward of Cork, Nicholas of Loughbrickland, County of Down, Tobias Purcell of Maynard, Queen's County, and Philip Purcell of Fleskhugh, County of Galway. Of R 2 244 king james's irish army list. all these outlaws only Ignatius Pur cell obtained a par- don from the Crown. At the Court of Claims, Colonel Nicholas Purcell and Ellen his wife claimed and were allowed her portion off Cork and Kerry lands, forfeited by Lord Kenmare and Nicholas his son. It may be mentioned that in March, 1691, (accord- ing to Story,*) Lieutenant-Colonel Toby Purcell, on several occasions, in King William's service, killed one hundred of the Kapparees in the County of Longford. He subsequently, in June of that year, was appointed Governor of Ballymore, with five companies of the Eegiment of General Douglas, who had gone off to Flanders.f In July following, he was one of three hostages exchanged for three others of James's army, pending the negotiations for the capitulation of Galway.J After the war, he was appointed Go- vernor of the fort of Duncannon, and on a repre- sentation of his services theretofore, especially at Newry, memorialed King William for a confirmation ot certain lands in Tipperary to him. § Story relates that a Major Purcell was killed at Aughrim; while, according to another authority, || Baron Purcell of Loughmow and his son were killed there. The family above alluded to as of Crumlin, County of Dublin, had removed thither from Munster at so early * Impartial History, part 2, p. 60. f Idem, p. 93. j Idem, p. 164. § Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., 247. || Rawdon Papers, p. 351. purcell's horse. 245 a period, that in the muniments of St. Patricks Cathe- dral is recorded a petition of John Purcell, Esq., claim- ing a right to be buried in the chancel of the Church of Crumlin, as a privilege which his ancestors had en- joyed time out of mind, and this his claim was so proved and allowed. The privilege of burial in the chancel was only conceded in early times to the lord of the fee, which in Crumlin is still vested in Ignatius Francis Purcell. Many Purcells followed the fortunes of James the Second to the Continent, and were distinguished in the armies of France, Spain, and Portugal. CAPTAIN JOHN EVERARD. This name is considered of Danish origin; if so, it has been very generally planted over England, especially in the southern parts of that island, earlier than it came into Ireland; where it is recorded that, in 1131, Everard died Abbot of Mary's Abbey.* In 1356, John ' Everhard ' was one of those influential pro- prietors, within what was distinguished as the County of the Cross of Tipperary, who then elected its Sheriff. The persons who exercised this authority with him were John ' Mauncell,' Knight ; Robert ' Wodlock,' Simon Cantwell, James Warner, Thomas 4 Walleys,' Thomas Taunt, John 4 Mauclerk,' William Sause, Robert Burtuin, with fourteen others; and the person * Rolls in Chancery. 246 king james's irish army list. whom they elected to this office was Andrew Haket. Laurence Everard was one of those who, in 1415, fought at the battle of Agincourt, a place not gene- erally known to be identified with the now peaceful site of St. Outer's. In 1531, Sir Thomas Everard was chosen Prior of the Religious House of St. John the Baptist, at Dublin. A genealogical manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii. 27) contains a sketch of the lineage of the Everards of Fethard, for six generations, of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- turies. In Sir JohnPerrot's Parliament of 1585, Redmond Everard was one of the Representatives of the County of Tipperary. In 1603, John Everard of Fethard was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ire- land ; he was afterwards knighted, and had a grant of various manors, castles, towns, and lands in the Counties of Tipperary and Waterford.* In 1612, he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons by the recusant party, having resigned his Judgeship sooner than take the oath of supremacy. This election was however over- ruled, and Sir John Davis, the King's Attorney-General, was substituted. Richard Ever- ard of Everard's Castle, the second son of said Sir John, was one of the Confederate Catholics in 1646 ; and was in 1651 condemned to die, when Ireton took Limerick.f His eldest son, Sir Redmond of Fethard, Baronet, was by the Act of Settlement (1662) restored to his principal seat and two thousand acres * Koils in Chancery. | Iceland's Ireland, v. 3, p. 402. purcell's horse. 247 of land ; while the Declaration of Royal gratitude in the same Act recognised his services beyond the seas. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Richard Butler of Kilcash, County of Tipperary, a brother of the whole blood to the Duke of Ormonde ; and by her had issue two sons, Sir John his eldest, and James Everard his second son, with four daughters. Sir Redmond died in Dublin in February 1686, and was buried in Trinity Church, Fethard ; as testified by a Funeral Entry in Birmingham Tower avouched by Sir John Everard, his eldest son. The will of Sir Redmond is of record in the Rolls Office, Dublin. Another funeral entry, in Birmingham Tower, certifies the burial in St. Werburgh's church on the 7th June, 1661, of Nicholas Everard, son of John, son of Nicholas, son of Sir John, son of Redmond ; and that the first named Nicholas died, a bachelor, as at- tested by Redmond Everard, his heir. On this Army List, besides Captain John, appear of the Everard family Lucas, a Captain in Lord Slane's Infantry ; as was James in Colonel Thomas Butlers ; while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick Everard was a Lieutenant and Andrew Everard an Ensign. This Patrick represented Kells in King James's Parliament, where Sir John, the Baronet, was one of the members for the County of Tipperary. This last individual was killed at the battle of Augh- rim* and seems identical with the above Captain John, of this Regiment. Another Everard, ranked * Story's Impartial Hist, part 2, p. 138. 248 king james's irish army list. Lieutenant-Colonel, and described as of Randalstown, County of Meath, (but not on this List) was adjudged within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick ; while of those attainted were Matthew of Randalstown, Patrick of Navan, Lucas of Fyanstown, and Thomas of Oristown, all in the County of Meath ; with Sir John of Fethard, and James of the County of Water- ford. In 1697, a part of the Meath estate of Patrick Everard was granted to Arthur Padmore and Joshua Dawson, as were in 1702 the Tipperary estates of Sir John of Fethard, partly to Richard Burgh of Grove, and partly to David Lowe of Knockelly in said County ; and a portion of his Waterford estates to James Roche, in consideration of his services at Derry. In 1703, a further section of Patrick Eve- rard's Meath property was purchased by Alderman John Leigh of Drogheda, from the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates, and another by the Hollow Swords ' Blades' Company. Estates of his in the County of Roscommon were acquired on similar title by Richard Lloyd of Cavetown ; and others, in the County of Longford, by James Johnston of Little- mount, County of Fermanagh. At Chichester House, in 1700, Matthias Everard claimed, as son and heir of Thomas Everard, an estate in fee in the Meath forfeitures of the aforesaid Patrick ; while, on the whole estate of Sir John Everard, Margaret Eve- rard claimed and was allowed a portion, as were John and Christopher Everard sundry interests. James purcell's horse. 249 Butler and Anstace his wife also claimed interests in the said forfeitures of Sir John and in those of Pierse Everard. In 1733, Sir Eichard Everard, of the Fethard lineage, died Governor of North Carolina. In 1750, under a decree in the cause of Dawson v. Eve- rard, a considerable remnant of the Everard estates was sold out of their possession. LIEUTENANT JOHN KENNEDY. The O'Kennedy s were, according to native chronicles, of the Dalcassian race, and possessed for centuries the district known in later years as the Barony of Upper Ormond, County of Tipperary. The Four Masters very faithfully record the succession of the chiefs of this Sept to the days of Queen Elizabeth ; and the venerable Annals of Tigernach relate the death of Cathal O'Kennedy, 1 King of the Kinselaghs,' at so early a period as 758. In 1159, say the former historians, Gildas Kevin O'Kennedy, Prince of Or- mond, died in pilgrimage at Killaloe ; as did Donal, son of Teigue O'Kennedy, Lord of Ormond, in 1180. In 1252, Donald O'Kennedy, Bishop of Killaloe, was interred in the Dominican friary of Nenagh, which his Sept had founded. In 1599, died O'Kennedy Fion, namely, Anthony, son of Donogh Oge, son of Hugh, son of Aulaffe ; and Giolla Dhu O'Kennedy was named The O'Kennedy. Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight 250 king james's irish army list. and Privy Councillor, had a large grant in 1605 of various estates of this family, forfeited by their rebel- lion in the Munster wars. Cromwell's Act of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and estate (inter alios) John O'Kennedy of Dunally, County of Tipperary. In the counter-action of Royal gratitude, the acknow- ledgment of 1662, for services beyond the seas, includes the names of Captain Philip and Lieu- tenant Daniel Kennedy ; while in the same year Sir Richard Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, Baronet, was appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer. In the List of proposed Sheriffs, submitted to the Earl of Clarendon in 1685, the name of Sir Robert Kennedy was given in for Wicklow, with the obser- vation, " If to be judged by his intimates, extremely whiggish." On which suggestion Lord Clarendon comments, " An honest gentleman, descended from loyal parents, who were in the Usurper's time sufferers for their loyalty ; and himself an active Justice of the Peace."* Besides Lieutenant John Kennedy, this Army List presents Kennedy Mac Kennedy, a Quarter- Master in Colonel Francis Carroll's Dragoons. The Outlawries of 1691 include the names of Michael Kennedy of Tureen, County of Westmeath, John, Thomas and Darby Kennedy of Dublin ; William Kennedy of Mount Kennedy, County of Wicklow, popularly called 'Lord William Kennedy' ; Edmund of Tintern, County of Wicklow ; Daniel of Kilbrubrickley, County of Mayo ; William of Finns- * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, &c. vol. 1, p. 285. purcell's horse. 251 town, County of Dublin, (houses of his in the City of Dublin, including Kennedy's-lane, were purchased in 1703 by John Asgill from the Trustees of the for- feited estates,) and Donogh O'Kennedy of the County of Galway, on whose estate Morgan Kennedy claimed a remainder in tail, but his petition was dismist. In 1747, at the fight of Laufiield, near Maestricht, Captain Bryan Kennedy of Bulkeley's Irish Brigade, was killed; while in Dillon's, Lieutenant Charles Kennedy was killed, and Captains John and Joseph were wounded.* COBNET THOMAS TRAVEB. This surname does not again occur upon the List ; nor at all upon the Outlawries of 1691 ; while those of 1642 have the names of Kobert, Luke, and William 1 Travers' of Bally kea, County of Dublin, and Patrick Travers, of the same place, Clerk. Sir John Travers, who seems to have been of a family located at Bally- kea aforesaid, died in 1561. In the confiscations of 1691, William Travers of the Bally kea line forfeited 120 acres in the parish of Lusk, County of Dublin. It may be presumed that Cornet Thomas ' Traver ' was of his family. * Gent. Mag., ad ann. } p. 377. 252 king james's irish army list. CORNET THOMAS MEAGH. Neither does this name again occur upon this List ; but on the Attainders of 1642 appears John Meagh of Loughurke, County of Cork. On the Establish- ment of 1687-8 is an entry of £6 13s. 4d. rent, charged as " payable to Patrick Meagh for the lands of Castlelinny Park, whereon the fort near the har- bour of Kinsale doth stand." In the Parliament of 1689, Henry Meagh sat as one of the Representa- tives of the Borough of Knocktopher. His name is on the Outlawries of 1691, with that of David Meagh of 1 Moyaller,' County of Cork. In St. Mary's Church, Youghal, is a large altar tomb to the memory of Peter ' Miagh,' who was mayor of that ancient Borough in 1630, and died in 1633. 'The plinth,' says the Rev. Mr. Hayman, in his interesting account of this Church, {History of Youghal), 4 has a skeleton in a shroud rudely engraven on its outer face. Above it rise Corinthian columns, between which are armorial bearings. Two figures of angels surmount these pillars, and on the summit is a third, clad in loose drapery, the right pointing up- ward and the left bearing a cross. This monument was erected by his widow Phelisia Nagle.' QUARTER-MASTER JAMES WALE. In relation to this surname, John de Wale was in purcell's horse. 253 1348, advanced to the see of Ardfert, as was Stephen de Wale to that of Limerick in 1360 ; the latter was promoted to Meath in 1369. In 1475, James Wale succeeded to the Bishoprick of Kildare, and in 1585, David Wale was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Fethard, Tipperaiy, in Sir John Perrot's parliament. In 1618, Sampson Theobalds had a grant from the Crown of the castle, town and lands of Maginstown, County of Tipperaiy ; parcel of the estates of Richard Wale attainted.* An Inquisition post mortem, taken at Carlow, 14th of June, 1620, supplies the links of descent of 'Wales' of that County for three past generations ;f while the monuments in the Cathedral of Kilkenny commemorate various ' Wales' of the vicinity in the seventeenth century. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of James Wale of Clonmulk, County of Carlow ; and those of 1696, include Philip Wale of Drogheda, merchant, and Lucas Wale of Crehelp, County of Wicklow. The name of Quarter-Master James Wale does not appear amongst them, nor does that of Matthew Wale, who was an Ensign in the Infantry Regiment commanded by Fitz-James, the Grand Prior. * Eot. Pat. 15, Jac. 1 in Cane. Hib. t Inquis. in Cane. Hib. 254 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. All the foregoing Regiments of Horse were engaged at Aughrim, together with two Troops of Horse- Guards (the Duke of Berwick's, and Lord Dover's ;) and also a Troop of Horse-Grenadiers commanded by Colonel Butler, and other Eegiments of Horse under Lord Kilmallock, the Earl of Westmeath, and Lord Merrion, respectively. KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST. KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Regiments of Dragoons. 1. Lord Dongan's (now Earl of Limerick). 2. Sir Neill O'Neill's. 3. Lord Clare's. 4. Colonel Simon Luttrell's. 5. Colonel Robert Clifford's. 6. Colonel Francis Carroll's. [7. Brigadier Thomas Maxwell's]. 256 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. LORD DONGAN'S, NOW EARL OF LIMERICK. Comets. Quarter- Masters, Thomas Kelly. Phelim Fox. Cormack 'Eggan.' Robert Quin. Captains. The Colonel. Francis Carroll, Lieut. -Colonel. Conly Geoghegan, Major. William Archbold. Cormuck O'Neill. Oliver Plunkett. Daniel O'Neill. Charles Moore. Lord Kingsland. Richard Bellew. John Mac Namara. Piers Archbold. Patrick Nugent. James Carroll. Lieutenants. Thomas Cavenagb. James Carroll. Michael Archbold. Arthur O'Neill. Henry Talbot. Patrick Nugent. John Hurly. William Talbot. George Talbot. James Archbold. John Mapas. William Carroll. Garrett Fitzgerald. James Geoghegan. Walter Fitzgerald. John Mappas. Nicholas Darcy. James Bellew. Piers Butler. Thomas Dongan. Richard Archbold. John Begg. Francis Bowers. Peter Dobbin. Richard Netterville. Richard Archbold. Simon Brice. James Wolverston. William Nugent. dongan's dragoons. 257 COLONEL LORD DONGAN. This surname appears to have been of native and Mi- lesian origin ; or, if it came over from England, it was very soon naturalized. In 1387, Dermot O'Dongan was presented, by the Marquess of Dublin, to a bene- fice within the Diocese of Limerick; and in 1392 the King granted to Thomas 'O'Dongyn,' chaplain, and an admitted 'Irishman,' the liberty of using the English tongue and law ; and the native annalists speak of the ancient Sept of O'Donnegan, who were extensive proprietors in the half Barony of Orrery, County of Cork* In 1395, John Dongan, a Benedictine Monk, who had been previously Bishop of Derry, was translated to the See of Down ; Henry the Fourth constituted him Seneschal of Ulster, and in 1405 joined him in a Commission to effectuate a peace between Sir Donald Mac Donald, Lord of the Isles, and his brother John of the one part, and on the other the merchants of Drogheda and Dublin, who had twice led harassing forays into Scotland : this prelate died in 1412.f After the Dissolution, William Dongan had a grant of the beautiful Abbey of Ennis, with a mill, an eel and salmon weir, and houses and gardens 1 in the vil- lage.' In Queen Mary's Charter of Restitution to St. Patrick's Cathedral (1555), John Dongan was named the Prebendary of Howth. Another John Dongan, * Annals of the Four Musters (Geraghty's), p. 17<>, »■ f Ware's Bishops, p. 201. S 258 king james's irtsh army list. who had been Second Bemembrancer of the Exche- quer in the time of Henry the Eighth, was a propri- etor in the City of Dublin, and in the Counties of Carlow and Kildare. He died about 1594, as shown by Inquisitions post mortem then taken. This was the ancestor of the above Lord Dongan, and he devised his estates to Walter Dongan, his eldest son and heir, with remainders, in failure of his issue, to William, Edward, and Thomas Dongan, his second, third, and fourth sons, in tail male successively ; and, on failure of all these lines, to Thomas Dongan, the brother of said testator, John.* This Walter, styled of Abbotstown, County of Dublin, brought four archers on horseback to the general Hosting on the hill of Tara in 1593, for the Barony of Navan. He was created a Baronet by King James. In 1615 he made a settlement of all his estates, and in the follow- ing year passed patent for the manor of Kildrought (Castletown), where he and his descendants thence- forth resided ; with various lands, castles, mills, weirs, and woods, also the manor of Sherlockstown, and other possessions in the County of Kildare and the County and City of Dublin.f He died in 1626, leaving John Dongan, his son and heir, then aged twenty- three and married. This Sir John Dongan, on his father's death, took up his residence at Castle- town, in the County of Kildare. He was a member of the Irish Parliament of 1634. Of his family were Thomas Dongan, junior, and Oliver Dongan, attainted * Inq. post mortem, 18 Jac. I. j Patent Roll in Cane. Hib. doxgan's dragooxs. 259 in 1642, and described in their Outlawries as 'of Castletown while his son, Walter, was one of the Confederate Catholics assembled in four years after at Kilkenny. In 1644, Thomas Dongan was ap- pointed a Justice of the King's Bench, and subse- quently (in 1651,) promoted to be a Baron of the Exchequer. On the Eestoration, William Dongan, who had been a Knight and Baronet, was created a Viscount. He was married on the Continent, which necessitated the Act styled in the Commons Journals, "for the naturalization of Maria Euphemia ' Dungan,' Walter 4 Dungan,' Esq. and Ursula 4 Dungan,' his issue born beyond the seas ;" while he was advanced to the Earldom of Limerick. Of him the Earl of Clarendon wrote, in August, 1686, to the Earl of Rochester, " My Lord Limerick was with me. I must needs say he is always very civil to me, notwithstanding his relations. He makes wonderful professions of obligations he had to my father, and likewise to yourself. He tells me sad sto- ries of the ill condition of his own fortune, how he was forced to sell £400 per annum to pay the debts which he contracted in the King's service, and that he never had any thing since the King's Restoration ; that the late King promised, and his present Majesty said he would make that promise good, that he should have a pension of £500 per annum, till £5,000 was paid. This morning my Lord Dongan was with me, and desired I would send the enclosed letter upon the s 2 260 king james's irish army list. same business."* On the 9th of October following, the same Viceroy writes to Rochester again upon this subject : — " Pray give me leave to put you in mind of a letter, I some time since sent to you from Lord Dongan ; I am called upon every day for an answer. You cannot imagine (he adds with much naivete) how impatient people here are who expect anything, even those who think themselves the best bred."f In a previous letter of this Clarendon to Rochester, in April of the same year, after alluding to Lord Don- gan as having gone over to England, he says, " His going over makes a great discourse here, as in truth most things do ; for some or other will comment upon all that is done. Those officers of the army, who are lately come out of England, say he is gone, upon his uncle Lord Tyrconnell's direction, to kiss the King's hand for a Troop of Horse, which they say he is to have upon the changes, and truly that seems very likely ; but others will have it that he has become a statesman, and is gone upon some deep matters rela- ting to the Catholic cause ; which suggestion comes from those of that religion, and is grounded upon Dr. Moore, a physician, being gone with him, who is a man of great account among that party, and is looked upon to be so subtle and designing a man, that he would not go over purely on a compliment to that young Lord, who is a very prattling and impertinent youth, and forward enough, and is so looked upon * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 566. f Idem, v. 2, p. 24. dongan's dragoons. 261 here."* This Lord, the Colonel under consideration, was named Walter, and he sat in King James's Par- liament as one of the Representatives of Naas, while his father was one of the Peers. On the tenth day of that Session he was despatched by his King to Gene- ral Hamilton before Deny, carrying the important announcement, " I now send back to you this bearer, Lord Dongan, to let you know what this day I have been informed, by one who came from Chester on Wednesday last, that Kirke was to sail with the first fair wind from thence, with four Regiments of Foot, to endeavour to relieve Deny. I have ordered a copy of the information to be sent you I have sent some Horse and Dragoons to reinforce Sarsfield at Sligo, and have ordered Purcell's dragoons to Beltur- bet. What else I have to say I refer to this bearer, Lord Dongan."f Lord Dongan's career was, however, short ; he fell at the Boyne ; and, as the Duke of Berwick writes, " Notwithstanding the Foot was broken, the right wing of Horse and Dragoons marched, and charged such of the Enemy's Horse and Foot as passed the river ; but my Lord Dongan being slain at the first by a great shot, his Dragoons could not be got to do any thing, nor did Clare's do much better. Nevertheless, the Horse did their duty with great bravery, and, though they did not break the Enemy's Foot, it was more by reason of the ground not being favourable * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 343. t Manuscripts T.C.D., (E 2, 19.) 262 king james's irish army list. than for want of vigour ; for, after they had been repulsed by the Foot, they rallied again, and charged the Enemy's Horse, and beat them every charge."* Lord Dongan's corpse was carried from the field to the family mansion at Castletown, and there interred in the parish church, whose unnoted ruins are still traceable near Celbridge. The Attainders of 1691 include Euphemia 'Dun- gan,' alias Countess of Limerick, and William, Earl of Limerick. His confiscations comprised the castle, manor, and lands of Castletown-Kildr ought, and other estates in the Counties of Dublin, Carlo w, Meath, Kilkenny, Longford, Tipperary and Queen's County, as found by eleven distinct Inquisitions. They comprised nearly 30,000 acres, with several houses in Dublin, and some impropriate rectories, glebes, advowsons of vicarages and tithes ; all which lands were given to De Ginkle, Earl of Athlone and Baron of Aughrim, a grant confirmed by Act of Par- liament so early as in 1693 ; while seven impropriate rectories with the glebes in the County of Tipperary were, in 1703, made over to the 'Trustees for the augmentation of small livings and other ecclesiastical uses ' ; as was that of Castletown-Kildrought in the County of Kildare, in which parish he had lived. The claims put forward in 1 7 00, as incumbrances affecting these estates, and some of which were allowed, were those of Euphemia Countess of Limerick for her jointure, charged by settlements of 1684 ; under * Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 399. DONGAiN's dragoons. 263 which conveyance, Thomas, described as Earl of Lim- erick, claimed an estate tail in the lands of Castle- town, &c, &c. Grace Ryder, alias Dongan, widow, also claimed a portion of £100 with interest as charged on a house in Patrick-street, Dublin, by the will of her father, John Dongan, dated 29tk Novem- ber, 1665 ; while Owen Dongan sought a life estate in lands at Grange-Clare in said County of Kildare. Both these latter claims were however dismist on non-prosecution. William, Earl of Limerick, fol- lowed his King to France, where he died in 1698 ; when a " Colonel Dongan took upon him the title, and was said to have been introduced in that rank and quality to kiss his Majesty's hands."* On the fall of Lord Dongan, the command of this Regiment was given to his relative Walter Nugent, son of Francis Nugent of Dardistown, by the Lady Bridget Dongan, sister to the Earl of Limerick. Colonel Walter was however himself slain at Aughrim, when the command was given to the Honorable Rich- ard Bellew, second son of Lord Bellew, and a Captain on this List. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL. He became full Colonel of a distinct Regiment of Dragoons, as hereafter shewn. * Thorpe's Catal. p. 226. Of this Colonel Thomas and his achievements abroad, see fully O'Callnghan's Brigades, p. 331, &c. 264 king james's irish army list. MAJOE CONLY GEOGHEGAN. This Sept claims descent from Fiachra, one of the sons of Nial of the Nine Hostages, Monarch of Ire- land in the Fifth Century. Their territory was called Kinel-Fiacha, and is by O'Dugan described as having extended over the whole tract now known as the Barony of Moycashel, with parts of those of Moyashell, Eathconrath and Fertnllagh in Westmeath ; within which they erected and long maintained the possession of various castles, the chief being at Castle- town-Geoghegan near Kilbeggan, whose wide site is marked npon the Ordnance Survey. In 1328, William Geoghegan, chief of Kinel-Fiacha, defeated Thomas le Botiller with the English army, near Mullingar. According to the Four Masters, the latter sustained a loss of 3,500 men, including " their leader and some of the D'Altons." The victor died in 1332, and the same annalists record with singular exactness his successors in the Captaincy for centuries after. In 1450 they relate, after detailing various acts of what might be called treasonable resistance on the part of this Sept, that "the English of Meath and the Duke of York, with the King's Standard, marched to Mullingar ; and the son of Mac Geoghegan, with a great force of cavalry in armour, marched on the same day to Beal-atha-glass to meet the English, who came to the resolution of making peace with them ; and they forgave him all he had committed, on them, on conditions of obtaining peace" Campion preserves a DONGAiVs DRAGOONS. 265 letter attributed to this Duke of York, written from Dublin to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in which, alluding to the power and hostility of Mac Geoghegan, he en- treats " to have men of war in defence and safeguard of this land, or my power cannot stretch to keep it in the King's obeisance, and very nearly will compel me to come into England, to live there upon my poor ' livelode ; ' for I had ' lever' be dead, than any incon- venience should fall thereto in my default ; for it shall never be chronicled nor remain in scripture by the grace of God, that Ireland was lost by my negligence." An annal of 1488, connected with this family, affords perhaps the earliest notice of the use of artillery in Ireland. "The Earl of Kildare," say the Four Masters, "marched with a predatory force into Kinel- Fiacha, where he demolished the Castle of Belerath on the sons of Murtagh Mac Geoghegan, after having conveyed some ''ordnance 1 thither." Remains of this castle also are existing. In 1556, Robert Cowley, a busy subordinate of his day, recommended that the Baron of Delvin and his son should be " occupied " against Mac Geoghegan, O'Mulloy, &c; and accordingly, in the following- year, the Deputy, Lord Leonard Grey, undertook an expedition against those Septs, " by the conduct and guidance of the Lord of Delvin," and compelled them to give hostages ; immediately after which, in accord- ance with the heartless policy of the day, their co- operation was engaged for the subjugation of the O'Carrolls. Early in 1540. a " peace 11 had been con- 266 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. eluded between the Lord Deputy and Ross Mae Geogh- egan,tlien Chief Captain of his nation and of the country of ' Kinaleigh by which the latter bound himself to serve the Crown with four horsemen and twenty- four footmen for a day and night, on notice, at any time, and as often as the King's Deputy should please ; and also to serve in every great hosting or journey (especially against Brian O'Connor), with four horse- men and twelve footmen during said journey, and at his own proper costs and charges." In the June, how- ever, of that year, information was forwarded to the Privy Council of England, "that O'Neill and O'Don- nell, with all the powers of the north part of Ireland, O'Connor, O'Mulloy, Mac Geoghegan, all the Kellys, with the most part of the powers of Connaught, O'Brien with all his company, are all combined, and have appointed to meet at the King's manor of Fore, the 6th of July next coming ; they also bringing with them five weeks' victuals. It is supposed and thought that of truth their meaning is for no purpose but only to allure the Lord Justice and Council with the best of the English Pale to the said place, by the Irishmen appointed, thinking by their great power to take their advantage of the King's subjects, and so to overrun all the English Pale at their own pleasure." On the appearance, however, of Sir William Brereton, with the forces of the Government, the Irish Confede- rates scattered ; " whereupon," writes the Irish Council to Henry VIIL, " we concluded to do some exploit, and so entered into O'Connor's country, and there en- dongan's DRAGOONS. 267 camped in sundry places, destroying his habitations, 'coins] and fortilaces, so long as our victuals endured, which hath partly abated his ' surguedy 1 and pride, albeit he reniaineth on his cankered malice and ran- cour, and so do all his confederates, continuing their traitorous conferences, expecting their time to execute their purpose." At length, Mac Geoghegan, O'Mulloy, &c., submitted themselves, "whose submission," say the amiable Council to their generous monarch, " we accepted for this season, both for the causes aforesaid, and also to the intent we might have opportunity of the other confederates of Irishmen, with separation of their confederacy, that they should not remain upon war and peace jointly, as they pretended to do ; but to be upon your Grace's peace, with their services, and shall make certain fines." In 1567, was published a map, in which Kinel- Fiacha is described as Mac Geoghegan' s country, and as containing in length twelve, and in breadth seven miles. " It lieth," says the abstract, " midway between the fort of Faley (Philipstown) and Athlone, five miles from either of them and also from Mullin- gar, which lieth northward of it ; southward is O'Mul- loy's country. On the south-east lieth Offaley, on the east it joineth Tyrrel's country, and O'Meiaghlin's on the west side, between it and Athlone, where a corner of it joineth with the Dillon country." So were the dynasties hereabout then demarcated. In the Parliament of 1585, convened by Perrot, and for the first time admitting Irish chiefs to the 268 king james's hush army list. councils of their country's legislation, this Sept was represented by Conla, son of Connor, son of Luigne Mac Geoghegan. In the following year, when con- fiscations were instituted as a resource for support- ing the necessities of Government, Inquisitions were taken as to the possessions of this family, the death of whose tanist, the aforesaid Conla, in the same year, is commemorated by the Four Masters, as that " there was not, since the times of old, a man of the race of Fiacha who was more lamented than he." At the close of this century, the ' cruel' poet, Edmund Spenser, in his " View of the State of Ireland," ear- nestly recommended that, " for the safeguard of the country, and keeping under all sudden upstarts that shall seek to trouble the peace, garrisons should be established at sundry places outside the Pale, and particularly one " at the foot of Offaley, to curb the O'Connors, O'Mulloys, MacCoghlans, MacGeoghegans, and all those Irish natives bordering thereabouts." In the year 1600, the memorable Irish hero, Hugh O'Neill, in his progress southward, under pretext of a pilgrimage to Holycross, but really to organize for the reception of the expected Spanish invasion of Mun- ster, after passing through the barony of Delvin, " marched thence to the gates of Athlone, and along the southern side of Clan-Colman, and Kinel-Fiacha (MacGeoghegan's) and into Fearcall (O'Mulloy's,) where he encamped for nine nights," confirming friendships with the surrounding chiefs. When, soon after, the war of Munster broke out, Captain Richard dongan's dragoons. 269 Mac Geoghegan, u a chief of Westmeath," was, for his distinguished valour, entrusted by 0' Sullivan with the custody and care of the castle of Dunboy, which he gallantly defended until mortally wounded. He was carried down into the vaults in a dying state, where, learning that it was the intention of the garrison un- der their necessity to surrender, he made a feeble effort to stagger over to a barrel of gunpowder there deposited, with a resolution, by setting fire to it, to blow up the English then in the castle, even with a sacrifice of his own friends ; but the former, rushing down at the crisis, arrested his arm and stabbed him to death." In the confiscations consequent upon the insurrec- tion of 1641, Rosse, Laurence, and Dermott Mac Geoghegan were forfeiting proprietors within the County of Kildare, as was Thomas in the County of Meath ; while, in the old territory of Kinaleigh, Arthur Mac Geoghegan lost all that then remained of his ancestors' immemorial inheritance there — little more, at that time, than 1,500 acres, (including Castletown-Mac Geoghegan). His wife, one of the no- ble Sept of Mac Coghlan, having given protection to some of Cromwell's soldiers, received from the usurp- ing powers a transplantation grant in the County of Gal way, of Bennowen, part of the OTlaherty's terri- tory ; and through her second son, Edward, a junior branch of the Mac Geoghegans has been continued to the present day in Connaught ; though in its two last generations this line has adopted the surname of 270 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. O'Neill, as sounding more of Milesian royalty. Nine hundred acres of Arthur's forfeiture in Kinaleigh haying been claimed by EdAvard Mac Geoghegan, as a remainder under settlements, were allowed to him, and a portion of the residue was granted to Sir William Petty (ancestor of the Marquis of Lans- downe), the great compiler of the Down Survey. This Edward obtained further savings of his rights in other lands within the County of Westmeath, on decrees of innocence, but died without issue. In the Assem- bly of Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1647, sat, amongst the Spiritual Peers, Doctor Anthony Mac Geoghegan ; while of the Commons were Conly and Charles Mac Geoghegan of Donore, Edward Mac Geoghegan of Tyroterin, and Richard Mac Geogh- egan of Moycashell, all within the old inheritance of Kinel-Fiacha, The first named, Conly Mac Geogh- egan, was one of the seven sons of Hugh Buy Mac Geoghegan, by Ellen, daughter of Walter Tyrrell of Clonmoyle, County of Westmeath, and is especially included in the declaration of Royal gratitude of the Act of Settlement, which further restored him to his principal seat of Donore, and 2,000 acres of land. The adjacent Borough of Kilbeggan was, in King James's Parliament of 1689, represented by Bryan Geoghegan of Donore, and Charles Geoghegan of Syonan. On this Army List, besides the above Major Conly and Cornet James of the present Regiment, Charles and Conn Geoghegan were Captains in Colonel Simon Luttrell's Dragoons ; another Charles was a Lieutenant DOXGAX's DRAGOONS. 271 in that of Colonel Francis Carroll ; Anthony Geoghegan was a Captain in Colonel John Hamilton's Infantry, and Garret Geoghegan was appointed Major of Colo- nel Edward Butler's, after the forming of this List. When Lord Dongan was killed, and the Lieutenant- Colonel Francis Carroll had obtained a separate Eegiment of Dragoons, it would seem that Major Conly Geoghegan succeeded to the Colonelcy of this, hence then styled 'Geoghegan's Eegiment,' "and from which," says O'Conor, " many soldiers were after- wards brought over to William's party, u by the influ- ence of officers, who sought favour from the govern- ment by corrupting their soldiers."* Previous to this dereliction, however, when, in May, 1691, Captain Underhill, at the head of a Williamite party, engaged an Irish detachment, and killed their Captain, Geoghegan, he was "the next day set upon by another party of the Irish, commanded by Colonel Geoghegan, and was obliged to make his retreat. "f The Inquisitions of 1691 contain the Outlawries of Peter Mac Thomas Geoghegan, and William and Mori- ertagh Mac Peter Geoghegan of Newtown, County of Westmeath ; Hugh Ban Geoghegan of Carrymare, Do. ; Hugo Mac Kedagh Geoghegan of Loughar- laghnonght, Edward his son, Hugh Fitz-Conly Buy Geoghegan of Laragh; Bryan Geoghegan of Donore; Charles, Con, James and Anthony Geoghegan of Syonan, all in Westmeath ; Bryan Geoghegan of Ballyduffe, and Eugene of Ballyhecnock, in the * O'Conors Military Memoirs, p. 190. | Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 79. 272 king james's irish army list. King's County, with James Geoghegan of Granard, County of Longford. Of these,. Bryan of Donore, styled Colonel Bryan, was adjudged within the Arti- cles of Limerick ; while in 1700 the warrant issued for a pardon to Edward Geoghegan of Castletown for the reasons, as stated in his petition, "that he had never borne any employment civil or military under the late King James ; but, after the battle of the Boyne, put himself under King William's protection at his own house, until he was fallen upon by a party of Captain Point z's soldiers, by whom he was shot through the body, stripped of all his substance, and both himself and his family most inhumanly and bar- barously used : by which means he was forced into the enemy's quarters for security of his life, and that on this account only was he outlawed. That on the capitulation of Limerick he came to Dublin, and was put in possession of his estate according to the Articles ; and that he had always showed great kind- ness to his Protestant neighbours." He therefore prayed a reversal of his Outlawry and a pardon ; and the Privy Council, on the Attorney-General's Report, having certified in his favour, and the executors of Colonel Wolsely, deceased, (who in his lifetime had op- posed said Edward's prayer,) offering no opposition, his full pardon was ordered to be made out.* The claims preferred against the Geoghegan confisca- tions in 1700 were, — Matthew Geoghegan for a charge affecting Westmeath lands of said Edward Geoghegan * Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 304. DONGAX'S DRAGOONS. 273 ill the Barony of Rathconrath, allowed. Mary Geoghegan for her jointure off same, also allowed. Edward, Thomas and James Geoghegan, the sons of said Edward, claimed estates tail therein respectively under marriage articles of 1684, disallowed. While Anne, the widow of Conly Geoghegan, sought a small jointure and arrears as charges on the King's County estate of Charles Geoghegan ; and Mary, his widow, sought her jointure to the like amount : both which claims were allowed. In 1728, Arthur Geoghegan married Susanna, daughter of William Stafford of Blatherwick, and widow of Henry O'Brien of the Inchiquin line, whereupon said Arthur assumed the name of Staf- ford, and has transmitted it to his descendants. In 1745, Sir Thomas Geoghegan of Toulouse, an Officer in L ally's Eegiment, was taken prisoner at Carlisle, but, pleading that he was a French subject, he was released.* In two years after, he was killed at the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht ;f while Alexander Geoghegan, having been taken at the memorable battle of Culloden, executed with many others an article herein elsewhere, more fully alluded to, engaging themselves on parole not to pass out of Inverness without the licence of the Duke of Cum- berland. Subsequently, the Abbe Jaques Mac Geoghegan, residing in France, published in 1758 a very interesting History of Ireland in the French language. * Gent. Mag., vol. 16, p. 24. t Idem, vol. 18, p. 377 T 274 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN WILLIAM ARCHBOLD. This name, of Danish origin, is traceable in Ireland from the earliest period of existing records ; more especially in the annals of Wicklow. Henry the Fourth, in the first year of his reign, constituted William Archbold Constable of the important Castle of Mackinnegan within that territory, with a salary of 100 marks in times of peace, and of £80 during war ; for the due performance of which trust, four of his sept and vicinage became sureties to the Crown.* Another William Archbold had been a few years previously appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, while, in ecclesiastical rank, Richard Archbold was in 1491 elected Prior of the noble mitred House of Kilmainham. In 1610, the King's letter issued for receiving a surrender from Patrick Archbold of Kendlestown, County of "Wicklow, with the state policy of re-grant- ing his estates to him on payment of a fine, and on holding same thenceforth by Knight's service. f A very long letter of the 31st March, 1628, from King- Charles the First to Viscount Falkland, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, directs a Commission of In- quiry to be held respecting all the manors, castles, estates, &c. of which the aforesaid Patrick Archbold died seised in Wicklow and Dublin Counties ; with authority and instructions for conveying them to the Rot. Pat. 1 Hen. IV. t Patent Roll in Cane. Hib. dongan's dragoons. 275 Earl of Meath in fee, together with Letters Patent for markets, fairs, tan-pits, a Court Baron and Court Leet, in Great and Little Bree. This letter was afterwards recalled for a substituted grant of said pre- mises to George Kirke, Esq., Groom of the Bedcham- ber ; with specific directions that the Earl should not make use of the preceding Letter. The Attainders of 1642 exhibit Inquisitions on Christopher and William Archbold of Timolin, Rich- ard of Flemingstown, and James of Crookstown, all in the County of Kilclare. William, Roland, and Ed- mund Archbold of Cloghran-Swords, County of Dub- lin ; Robert, James, and Henry Archbold of Tuck- myne, County of Wicklow ; Christopher of Skidow, and Nicholas of Carrowkeel, County of Dublin ; Theo- bald of Eathbran, Edward of Stagonell, Thomas of Wicklow, George of Glancormuck, Edward and Owen Archbold of Kilmurry, Gerald of Brea and James of Bally kea, all in the County of Wicklow. On this Army List, besides the six officers of the present Regiment, Christopher Archbold was an En- sign in the King's Own Foot, and Bernard Archbold a Lieutenant in Sir Michael Creagh's. An Ensign Archbold was, at the commencement of the campaign, taken prisoner at Derry. In the Parliament of 1689, William Archbold, the Captain in this Regiment, was one of the Represen- tatives of the Borough of Athy. During the siege of Limerick, in August, 1691, the fine Castle of Carrig- Ogunnel near that City, " whose garrison was one 276 king james's irish army list. hundred and thirty men with two Captains, com- manded by one Archbold, surrendered upon mercy, and the Prisoners were immediately put into the provost's custody." The Attainders of 1691 in- clude Nicholas, John, and Francis Archbold of Ballymalee, County of Westmeath ; Simon of Dublin, Pierce of Carysfort, County of Wicklow ; the above Captain, by the description of Captain William of Athy, County of Kildare ; James of Brumgust, County of Carlo w ; William of Kilkenny, merchant ; with Walter, Pierce, Thomas, and Richard Archbold of Cullen, County of Kildare. The latter, styled Captain Richard, seems identical with either of the Richards in this Regiment, and was held to be within the Articles of Limerick. At the Court of Claims, Robert Archbold sought an estate tail in the County Kildare lands, forfeited by Captain William his father, to whom they had been on a former occasion assured by a Decree of Innocence. — A James Archbold sought and was allowed a chattel leasehold in Kilmacudd, County of Dublin, the private estate (i. e. of the Duke of York); while a John Archbold claimed, under a deed of 1671, an estate for lives in lands in the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, forfeited by the Earl of Tyrconnel, but his petition was disallowed. DONGAx's DRAGOONS. 277 CAPTAIN LORD KINGSLAND. The family of Barnewall has been heretofore noticed under Lord Trimleston, who was a Captain in Lord Galmoy's Eegiment of Horse. John Barnewall, ancestor of this nobleman in the direct line, was Sheriff of Meath in 1433. After the rout of the Boynethis Lord went to Limerick, where he continued until its surrender. Pending the Treaty, he was one of the hostages for the performance thereof on the part of the Irish army.* Being com- prised within the Articles, he obtained a reversal of his Outlawry, but was not suffered to take his seat in the House of Peers ; and, on his refusing to subscribe the required Declaration, he was ordered to withdraw ; he and his brother thereupon followed the fortunes of the banished James. The former had a Commission under the Duke of Berwick, and fell in action against the Germans in 1692 ; whereupon his brother, returning from Flanders to Ireland, recovered the family estates and was summoned to Parliament, but he too declined the honor with the oaths. He was at- tainted by three Inquisitions, one taken in the County of Dublin, another in the City, and a third in the County of Meath. His son Joseph was also at- tainted. * D' Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, p. 310. 278 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN RICHARD BELLEW. The name of Bellew will be fully treated of at Lord Belle w's Infantry Regiment. Of this officer it may be here said that he was the second son of that Lord, and early distinguished himself in supporting King James's cause. When Walter Nugent, who succeeded Lord Dongan in the command of this Regiment, fell at Aughrim, as before related, Richard Bellew, although then only twenty years of age, was appointed to succeed him ; and, on the termination of the war, he brought his forces with him to France, where they ranked as the 'King of England's Dismounted Dra- goons.' There however he took umbrage, as Brigadier Thomas Maxwell was placed over his head, which he thought an unmerited slight. Returning to Ireland in 1694, on the decease of his elder brother Walter, the second Lord Bellew, he became the third Baron ; and, marrying a daughter of Lord Brudenell with a large fortune, conformed to the Established Church in 1705, sat in the House of Peers in 1707, and died in 1714, leaving John, the fourth Lord Bellew, his successor ; at whose death at Lisle, in 1770, this title became extinct.* CAPTAIN JAMES CARROLL. The Sept of O'Carroll was early established in Louth, * O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 156. dongan's dragoons. 279 being there popularly styled Princes of Orgiel. Pre- vious to the English invasion, immediately after the great Synod of Mellefont in 1152, the Four Masters record the expulsion of their Chief from that country, of which he had been the acknowledged Lord, from Drogheda to Asigh in the County of Meath. These annalists however notice O'Carrols as Chiefs of Orgiel down to the year 1193 ; and it is especially recorded that when, in 1166, on the eve of Strongbow's in- vasion of Ireland, Roderic O'Conor, then King of this country, seeking to ascertain the feelings of allegiance towards himself, encamped with an army hereabout, Donogh O'Carroll with the other chiefs of Louth came into his tent, delivered hostages for their fealty, and received in return, as related in the ' Annals of Inis- fallen,' a present of two hundred and forty beeves. O'Carrolls were, at that time and previously, also settled in a territory of Tipperary, from them called Ely-O' Carroll ; the Masters record the death of Am- ergin O'Carroll, Lord of Ely, in 1033. This inhe- ritance comprised the present Barony of Lower Or- mond, with that of Clonlisk and part of Ballybritt in the King's County, and to the Slieve Bloom Moun- tains in the Queen's. Their chief castle was at Birr. The name was also one of power and possession in the Counties of Cavan and Leitrim. In 1168 died O'Carroll, Bishop of Ross, in the County of Cork. In 1171, Morrough O'Carroll, Lord of Orgiel, joined Roderick O'Conor, the las1 native King of Ireland, in the ineffective siege of 280 king james's irish army list. Dublin, then occupied by Dermott Mac Murrough and the English invaders. In 1178, he made a gal- lant and successful attack upon De Courcy ; and dying in 1189, was interred in the noble Abbey which he had founded for Cistercians at Mellefont. In 1184, Maolisa O'Carroll was Primate of Armagh, and in 1327, John O'Carroll succeeded to the Archbishopric of Cashel ; as did Thomas O'Carroll to that of Tuam in 1349. In 1532, the Four Masters commemorate the death of Maolruana O'Carrol, the distinguished Chief of Munster, ' the golden pillar of the Elyans.' His son, Ferganainim O'Carrol, being the tanist of Ely, surrendered its possessions to Edward the Sixth, who restored it to him on English tenure, with the addition of the dignity of Baron of Ely for his life. Perrot's Parliament of 1585 was attended, amongst other Irish Chiefs, by 'O'Carroll of Ely,' whom the same Annalists describe as "Calvach, son of William Odher, son of Ferganainim, son of Maolruana, son of John." In 1605, Sir Henry Broncar, Knight, Presi- dent of Munster, had a grant of (inter alia) a castle and lands in the County of Tipper ary, parcel of the estate of Teigue O'Carroll attainted. A funeral entry of 1630, in the Office of Arms, Dublin, records the death, on 15th August in this year, of William O'Carroll ofCouloge, King's County, (son and heir of Donough ni Kelly O'Carroll, son and heir of Ony, son and heir of Donogh Ballagh O'Carroll of same place,) where said William died and was interred. He had married Honora, daughter of John doxgan's dragoons. 281 Meagher of Game, County of Tipperary ; by whom he had six sons, 1, Donogh, who married Katherine, daughter of Walter Bourke of Borrisoleigh, County of Tipperary ; 2, Keadagh, who married Amy, daughter of Eoger OTlaherty of Lomelonny, King's County ; 3, John, who married Joanna, daughter of William O'Carroll of Moderenny, County of Tipperary ; 4, Teigue, married to Grany, daughter of Ony O'Car- roll of Ely-O'Carroll ; 5, Charles, as yet unmarried ; and 6, Ony, also unmarried. About the time of the above entry, a Donogh O'Carroll, according to an an- cient manuscript fonvarded in aid of this work, mar- ried the daughter of O'Kennedy by Margaret O'Bryan Arra, which Margaret was the daughter of O'Carroll Ely. By her he is said to have had thirty sons, all of whom he presented, in one troop of Horse, and accoutred in habiliments of war, to the Earl of Ormonde, with proffers of all his and their assistance in the Koyal cause. Most of these sons, it is added, died in foreign lands, having followed the wanderings of the Stuarts. One, Daniel, remaining in Ireland, was father of John, who at the tender age of five years was transplanted into Connaught by Cromwell. He married Margaret, daughter of O'Connor, Sligo, (by Margaret, daughter of Lord Athenry,) and from that union sprang Sir Daniel O'Carroll, who, some short time previous to this campaign, was created by the King of Spain a Knight of the military order of St. J ago, 'for singular services done for that Monarch in time of war.' He left Spain however in disgust, 282 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. and, entering into Queen Anne's army, was made Colonel of a Regiment of Horse, and knighted. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Jervis of the ' County of Southampton,' by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Gilbert Clark of Chy- liothe in Derbyshire. To return to the line and locality of Ely. Amongst the active measures concerted by James the First for reducing Ireland, a Commission was appointed " for ascertaining the bounds and limits of O'Carroll's Country, commonly called Ely O'Carroll." In the grants that ensued on its plantation, the chief portion, including Birr and its appanages, was assigned to Laurence, brother of Sir William Parsons, the Sur- veyor-General ; and, on the breaking out of the war of 1641, William Parsons was made Governor of Ely- O'Carroll. Of this Sept and district of O'Carroll was the above Captain James Carroll, whose commis- sion to the Captaincy bears date on the 30th of July, 1689, thereby suggesting that the present Army List was drawn up subsequent thereto ; for previously James Carroll was but a Cornet in this Eegiment, as of the troop of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Carroll, by Commission of the 10th November, 1688, from Tyr- connel. That of 1689 was signed by the King at the Castle of Dublin, and countersigned by Lord Melfort ; but, in the confusion of the time, not entered in the Office of the Muster-Master-General until the 22nd of November following. Accordingly, on this List that doxgan's dragoons. 283 especial Cornetcy is stated as filled by Cormack 'Eggan ' [Egan]. Besides this Captain James Carroll, another James, and William Carroll, Lieutenants in this Kegiment, there appear on the Army List, in Lord Galmoy's In- fantry, John Carroll a Captain, William Carroll a Lieutenant, and Daniel and Laurence Carroll, Ensigns. In the Earl of Westmeath's Foot, Patrick Carroll an Ensign, as was Nicholas Carroll in Sir Michael Creagh's. In Colonel He ward Oxburgh's, Anthony Carroll a Captain, a second Anthony his Lieutenant, and a James Carroll an En- sign. In Lord G-almoy's Horse, Charles Carroll was appointed (after the date of this List) second Lieutenant-Colonel ; while Francis Carroll, a Lieute- nant-Colonel here, had afterwards the command of a Eegiment of Dragoons, and to him, in conformity with the proposed arrangement of these Illustrations, that of the O'Carrolls should in strictness be referred ; but the aid of Manuscripts which Mr. Davis Carroll Dempster volunteered for this work, with a very an- cient pedigree which establishes his maternal descent from this Captain James, who was himself descended from the O'Carroll of Ely, well justifies anticipating the O'Carroll notices here. One of the Carrolls named Anthony, who are mentioned above as in Colonel Oxburgh's Infantry, appears to have been the active popular leader, ' Long Anthony Carroll,' who, according to Story, (Impartial History, Part II. p. 69) contrived an ambuscade, by which, in April, 284 king james's irish army list. 1691, a Captain Palliser, Lieutenant Armstrong, and a party of sixty firelocks, were taken prisoners near Birr. " Lieutenant Armstrong paid money to be released ; Captain Palliser made his escape in the beginning of June from Limerick, but the poor men were kept prisoners till the surrender of that City."* On the 29th October, 1691, the Officer at present under consideration, being then 1 Major ' James Carroll, had a pass from King William's Commander- in-Chief, as one " entitled to the benefit of the Capitulation, and desirous of returning home to his habitation in the County of Tipper ary ; " and all Officers, civil and military, were thereby directed " to permit the said James, with his family and ser- vants, horses, swords, pistols, and goods whatsoever, to pass freely from the City of ' Lymerick ' to his habi- tation aforesaid, to look after his concerns, and into all such parts of the Kingdom where his lawful occa- sions will require, without giving him any trouble or hindrance." Of the early brigaded French Regiment styled 4 the King's Regiment of Dismounted Dragoons,' Turenne O'Carroll was Lieutenant-Colonel, and was killed at the battle of Marsiglia in 1693 ;f while at the battle of the Bridge of the Retorto, in 1705, Colonel O'Carroll of Galmoy's Brigade signally distin- guished himself. In 1743, Cornet O'Carroll was wounded at Dettingen, as was Lieutenant Carroll of * Story's Impart. Hist, part 2, p. 69. j O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 198, 221. doxgan's dragoons. 285 Berwick's Begiment at Ypres in 1745 ; and in two years after, Major Carroll, also of Berwick's (possibly the same who was wounded in 1745) supported the credit of his name in the engagement at Laufheld village near Maestricht, as did not less in his station Lieutenant Carroll of Dillon's Brigade. A commission from King Louis, dated at Ver- sailles, 5th September, 1756, appointing Matthias Carroll to an Ensigncy in Berwick's Brigade, vacant by the promotion of William Cruise to a Lieutenancy, is amongst the family papers of Mr. D. Carroll Dempster, and suggests that he was of Mr. Demp- ster's kindred. This family also claim affinity with Charles Carroll of Carrolton, who signed the memo- rable Declaration of American Independence, and who, as far as present materials suggest, was the uncle of John, the grandfather of Mr. Carroll Dempster. LIEUTENANT JOHN HUELY. According to the evidence of the ancient annals, the Books of Leacan and Ballymote, &c. the O'Hurley, O'Hierlehy, or Hurly was a Dalcassian Sept derived from the same stock as that of the O'Briens of Thomond ; each springing from a lineal descendant of Cormac Cas, son of Oiliol Ollum, who was King of Munster in the third century. Their territory ex- tended on the borders of Tipperary adjoining the Limerick district of the O'Briens, and was latterly 286 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. known by the name of Knocklong in the Barony of Coshlea, County of Limerick. Within it was a Castle, for centuries the residence of the Chief. Its ruins still remain, and from it branched off others of this Sept in the Counties of Cork and Kerry. It is true that the surname Hurle or Hurley, with the Norman prefix of 4 de,' is found at an early period in English local records, even from the time of Edward the First, but a paramount authority of the Irish Annalists shows the long previous existence of the Milesian O'Hurly. In reference to an era more within the scope of these illustrations, Thomas Urley, alias Ourhilly, Bachelor of Canon Law, afterwards Bishop of Emly, being a recognised native Irishman, sued out in 1502 a licence entitling him to use the English tongue and law.* In a venerable pedigree, of forty-one unbroken generations, preserved by the present representative of the family of Knocklong, occurs the name of Der- mod, son of Teigue O'Hurly, described as the Chief ' living at the Oakwoods,' about the middle of the six- teenth century. His daughter Juliana, according to Lodge,f was married to Edmund Oge de Courcy, by whom she was mother of John the eighteenth Baron of Kinsale ; whose only daughter Ellen de Courcy became the wife of Randal Hurley of Ballinacarrig ; while his son, Eandal Hurley the younger, married the widow of Gerald the nineteenth Lord of Kinsale.J * Rot. Pat. in Cane. Hib. f Peerage, vol. 6, p. 151. % Idem, p. 154. dongan's dragoons. 287 The ensuing annals of this family afford strong evi- dence of the loose spirit in which, after the secession from Eome, the dignities of the Established Church were filled in Ireland. In 1543, King Henry presented Donogh Eyan, chaplain, to the Deanery of the Cathe- dral of Emly, "vacant, inasmuch as William Mc Bryen and William O'Hurly, the present incumbents, hold the same by the authority of the Bishop of Eome." In 1609, King James presented Edmund Hurly, 4 not- withstanding his minority and defect of clerical orders,' to the Chancellorship of that Cathedral, with a corps of vicarages united ; and in the same year his Majesty presented Eandal Hurley, under similar dis- qualifications, to the Chantorship thereof.* In 1563, Thomas O'Herlihey, being Bishop of Eoss, (it would seem on the Pope's appointment) assisted at the Council of Trent. He died in 1579, and was in- terred in the Abbey of Kilcrea. In 1583, Dermott O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel, suffered martyrdom in Dublin ; and was buried in St. Kevin's Church, where his tomb became celebrated, says De Burgo,f for miracles. In the Conciliation Parliament, convened two years afterwards by Sir John Perrot, Thomas Hur- ley of Knocklong represented the Borough of Kilmal- lock. He was father of Maurice of Knocklong, who, in 1601, "for his dutiful affection and good dispo- sition towards her Majesty's service in Munster, and * Patent Eolls, Jac. I. t Hibernia Dominicana, p. 601. 288 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. considering that for the good of the country and daily annoyance of the rebels he hath been at such great charge of 1 wardening' the Castle of 4 Knock- longy' during the rebellion in Munster," obtained a patent for a weekly market and fair twice a year at that locality. It was also ordered in the patent that certain lands of said Maurice, which he alleged were of ancient freedom, should, if proved on inquiry to be so, be thenceforth exempted from cesses and exac- tions ; and Knocklong was proved to be, with other lands, within the privilege. In 1632, this Maurice erected in the Cathedral of Emly a fine marble monument to the memory of his two wives, whom he had survived. His will, dated in 1634, is registered in the Prerogative Court. By his first wife, Crania Hogan, he left two sons, Sir Thomas, his successor, and John Hurly. The former married Johanna, daughter of John Browne of Camus, by Catherine, daughter of Dermot O'Ryan of Solloghode, County of Tipperary ; by whom he had Sir Maurice, mentioned hereafter, and another John, with four daughters : 1st, Catherine, married to Pierce, Lord Dunboyne ; 2nd, Anne, to Daniel OTiyan of Solloghode; 3rd, Grace, to Walter Bourke ; and 4th, Eleanor, to David Barry of Kahinisky, father of Edmund Barry, Queen Anne's foster-father. In 1638, James O'Hurly was constituted Bishop of Emly. The Outlawries in 1642 present the names of Ran- dle Hurley and Randle Hurley Oge of Ballynacarrig, William Hurly of Ballenlearde and Lisgulby, County dongan's dragoons. 289 of Cork ; Donough McDaniel Hurley of Bunnamun- ney, Ellen Hurley of Gellagh-Iteragh, Donnell Oge Hurly of Kilbrittain, James Hurly of Ballenbride, Thomas O'Hurlehy, Donogli O'Hurlehy of Monita- ginta and John O'Hurlehy of Ballyberny, all in the County of Cork. Sir Maurice Hurly, the grandson of Maurice the testator of 1634, was one of the Confederate Catho- lics at the Council of Kilkenny in 1647. He for- feited largely by his adherence to Charles the First, and his estates in the Counties of Limerick and Tipperary were seized for Cromwell's adventurers ; while he was himself transplanted into Connaught, where he died in 1683, leaving Sir William, his eldest son, hereafter alluded to. In his will of that year, Sir Maurice, with ' a sweet remembrance of his ancient inheritance,' directs, in regard to " the lands that I have been dispossessed of, and to which I have a just title, and now is defending in law, after the recovery thereof, I leave and bequeath the same unto my sons William and John Hurly, to be equally divided, between them for ever ; together with the 'maine' profits thereof:" and in a codicil he further leaves to his said son John, " if my ancient estate (i. e. Knocklong) be recovered, £200 per annum for himself and his heirs for ever." This eldest son, how- ever, who inherited the Baronetcy, could not recover the ancient estate ; it is not, therefore, to be won- dered that he attended King James's Parliament of Dublin in 1689, as a Representative of the Borough u 290 king james's irish army list. of Kilmallock; and early in August of the last year of the campaign, when "the English army marched from Carrick to Golden-bridge, three miles from Cashel, Mr. John Grady of Corbray in the County of Clare, arriving there with some intelligence of the posture and strength of the Irish forces, stated that Lord Brittas and Sir William Hurly were devastating the country."* Again, in the subsequent engagement at Thorn ond Gate, where 600 of the Irish perished, besides 150 who were forced over the bridge, Colo- nels Skelton, Hurly, sixteen other officers, and above one hundred privates were taken prisoners.f Dean Story, in his 4 Impartial History ,' says that Colonel Hurly was wounded in desperate conflict, of which wounds he probably died, as, when on his attainder his transplanted Galway estate became forfeited, it appears that the claim of his infant heir, Sir John Hurly, was put forward at Chichester House in 1700, as that of a minor, by Bryan O'Bryan, his guardian (who had married his widowed mother) ; an estate tail was claimed for him, and a jointure off the Galway property for her; but both petitions were dismist, and the estate was sold discharged thereof to Thomas O'Connor, Sir Thomas Montgomery, and the Hollow Swords Blades' Company. The ill-fated young Baronet, smarting under the confiscations which had left him landless, attempted to raise men for the ser- vice of the Pretender, but was arrested in Dublin about the year 1714; he, however, effected his escape. * Fitzgerald's Limerick, vol. 2, p. 332. f Idem, p. 370. dongan's dragoons. 291 Others of this name attainted in 1691 were Patrick Hurley of Dublin, Arthur of Grillagh, County of Cork, and John of Lissene, County of Sligo. The Hurly Manuscript Pedigree Book, the in- teresting document before referred to, suggests that Sir Maurice, the transplanted Hurly that died in 1683, had a younger brother John, who was father of a John the younger (that may be identical with the Lieutenant John at present under consideration), and of three daughters ; 1, Grace, married to Captain Purdon of the County of Clare ; 2, Anne, to John Bourke of Cahir- moyle ; and 3, Ellen, to John Lacey the father by her of John and Pierce Lacey ; all these males having been companions in arms in this short but desperate campaign. Another John Hurly was Lieutenant in Lord Clare's Dragoons, but he had passed with them to France ; yet a third John was a Lieutenant in the Infantry Regiment of Colonel Charles O'Bryan, while a John 4 Hurliu ranks as Cornet in the Earl of Aber- corn's Horse. The aforesaid Genealogical Manuscript also relates that a Dennis Hurly (descending from the brother of Sir Thomas of Knocklong, Baronet), married Anne, daughter of Robert Blenerhassett of Ballyseedy, Esq., by Avice Conway, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Conway of Castle Conway ; and that he had issue by said Anne five sons, Thomas, Charles, John, William, and Dennis. The three last died without issue. I Thomas, the eldest, married Alice, daughter of bis r 2 292 king james's irish army list. uncle, Thomas Blenerhassett and Jane Darby, and he had by her three daughters. Charles, the second son, married Alice, sole daughter and heiress of Edmund Fitzgerald of Morrineregan and Mary Ferriter, by whom he had a daughter and two sons, Thomas and John. Thomas married Letitia, daughter of Arthur Browne of Ventry and Alice Hurly ; and had issue one son, Charles the younger. John, the second son of the above-named Charles, married Mary, daughter of Edmund Conway and Christian Bice, by whom he left issue two sons, Robert Conway Hurly, the eldest, and John, and five daughters. John, the second son of John by Mary Conway, married Anna-Maria- Theresa, only daughter of Colonel Hugh Hill of Mount-hill, County of Armagh, by Elizabeth Kirwan, daughter of the distinguished scholar, Richard Kir- wan of Creg Castle, County of G-alway ; and he has issue three sons ; Robert Conway married, and has issue ; Hugh-Richard Kirwan, died s.p. and John unmarried ; with four daughters. LIEUTENANT JOHN MAPAS [alias Malpas]. When Edward Bruce, in the assertion of a claim to the Crown of Ireland, fought in 1317 the battle of Faughart, near Dundalk, John Malpas a native of Drogheda, accomplished the most signal achievement of that day ; he and Edward Bruce, writes Pembridge, " fought hand to hand ; the valiant Scot fell before his dongan's dragoons. 293 opponent ; who, himself pierced with mortal wounds, sunk a victor in death on the corse of his prostrate enemy." In 1326, Henry Mapase, his descendant, is recorded as a landed proprietor in Louth. John 1 Malpas ' was Mayor of Waterfordin 1363. Of those attainted in 1642, were Christopher Mapas of Dublin, Merchant ; Nicholas Mapas of the same, and Garret and Edward ' Mape ' of Maperath, County of Meath; the outlawed of 1691 were the above John Mapas and Christopher Mapas, both described as of Rochestown, County of Dublin; — an estate which does not appear to have been divested, or it has otherwise been restored to the old family ; for in 1789, on the marriage of Catherine, the heiress of John 4 Malpas,' as he is called, with Lord Talbot de Malahide, the uncle of the present Peer, this property passed to his family. CORNET JOHN BEGG. This surname appears on Irish records from the com- mencement of the fourteenth century. In 1359, John ' Beg ' was one of the influential proprietors of the County of Dublin, who were selected to applot that district for a state assessment; and a family of the name appears subsequently settled at Saggard in said County. In 1500, the Corporation of Gal way voted the freedom of their town to Richard Begg, on condi- 294 king james's irish army list. tion of his keeping an inn for victualling and lodging strangers.* In the Outlawries of 1642 appears the name of Matthew Begg of Boranstown, County of Dublin. On this Army List, another John Begg ranks an Ensign in Sir Michael Creagh's Infantry ; and the Attainders of 1691 comprise John Begg, described of Kilkellan, County of Meath ; James 'Beggs' of Cartown in the same County, Barnabas Begg of Galway, Merchant ; and Thomas Begg of same. At the Court of Claims in 1703, Joseph Dowdall, and Ishma Begg his mother, (widow of Matt Dowdall his father, who had married to her second husband Ignatius Begg), claimed an estate tail for him, an estate for life to Ishma, and a reversion to the heirs of Ignatius in County of Westmeath lands, forfeited by said Matt Dowdall. Pending the proceedings at Chichester House, she became an idiot and a fresh claim was made for her as Ishmay Begg, alias Dowdall, by her son Ignatius Begg the younger, for small incumbrances charged on the confiscations of Sir Anthony Mulledy in the County of Meath. QUARTER-MASTERS FRANCIS BOWERS AND SIMON BRICE. Neither of these surnames occurs again on this Army List, nor at all on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691. * Hardiman's Galway, p. 199. dongan's dragoons. 295 QUAETEE-MASTEE JAMES WOLVERSTON. The Wolverstons were long located in Wicklow. At the time that tract was erected into a County, James Wolverston claimed Ballinecor and Ballycreery in Cooleranill as his right and inheritance, by a convey- ance from a native Sept.* He was also possessed of 'Stalorgan,' County of Dublin, under a lease from Eichard Plunket of Eathmore. Of those outlawed in 1642, were James Wolverston, described as of Rath- bran and Frainstown, County of Wicklow ; Paul Wolverston of the same locality, with Christopher Wolverston of Newcastle in said County. At the Assembly of Confederates in Kilkenny in 1647, Francis Wolverston, styled of Newtown, was of the Commons. On the present Army List, besides this James, Eichard Wolverston was an Ensign in Lord Galway's Eegiment of Infantry. Neither of these surnames appears in the Attainders of 1691, but only that of a William 'Wolferston' of Knockedritt, County of Wicklow. He, it appears, held these lands under Sir Eobert Kennedy, whose heir, Sir Eichard Kennedy, claimed and was allowed the reversion. William forfeited also certain interests in King's County lands, the former estate of Eobert Wolvers- ton. * Inquis. 1005, in Cane. Ilib. 296 king james's irish army list. QUARTER-MASTER RICHARD NETTERVILLE. The name of Netterville is traceable on Rolls in the Irish Chancery of such high antiquity, that the gene- ral contents have ceased to be legible. In 1224, Luke Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founded the Dominican Friary in Drogheda ; in three years after which he died, and was buried at the noble religious house of Mellefont. In 1335, John Netterville was summoned to attend John D'Arcy the Justiciary on an expedition against Scotland. Some years after which, Luke Netterville's seisin of Dowth, (long sub- sequently the residence of this ennobled family) is re- cognised on record,* while the right of presentation to its Rectory was, on suit instituted, adjudged to the English Priory of Lanthony. In 1559, Luke Netter- ville of Dowth, theretofore Chief Justice of the Com- mon Pleas, was promoted to be Chief of the King's Bench. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, Richard Netterville was one of the Representatives of the County of Dublin. Immediately after the breaking out of the Insurrec- tion of 1641, Lords Netterville, Gormanston, Fingal, and Trimleston addressed a letter to the Marquess of Clanricarde, whereby they sought earnestly to vin- dicate 4 the scope and purpose of their taking up arms ;' and, while the letter is dated 23rd February, 1641, from the camp near Drogheda, it contains a * D 1 Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 432. dongan's dragoons. 297 candid and explicit avowal that they had made com- mon cause with O'Neill ; " and we now give your Lordship to understand, that by God's assistance the work is, by the help of our neighbours of Ulster, and by our own endeavours, in a fair way; we having already in the field about Dublin and Drogheda about 12,000 able men, and more expected daily, for the most part well armed ; and besides we can assure ourselves of the good will and endeavours of the rest of our Catholic countrymen."* Nicholas Netterville, Lord Viscount Dowth, was consequently attainted in 1642'; as were Luke Netterville of Corballis, and Thomas Netterville of Black Castle, both in the County of Dublin. At the Kilkenny Assembly of 1646, Viscount Netterville was one of the Temporal Peers ; while, amongst the Commons, were Patrick Netterville of Belfast, and Eichard Netterville. This Viscount was 'excepted from pardon for life and estate' in Cromwell's Act of 1652, as was also Sir John Netterville, Knight. The Act of Settlement, however, of 1662, restored (after certain reprisals) Lord Netterville and Luke Netterville of Corballis. The Act of Explanation, 17 and 18 Car. 2, c. 2, sec. 97, reciting that whereas Nicholas Lord Netterville had been adjudged by the Commissioners 'nocent,' but his younger brothers and sisters had by decrees of said Commissioners recovered remainders, expectant upon his death without issue male, and also their por- tions chargeable thereon ; it was thereby ordered * D' Alton's Hist. Drogheda, v. 2, p. 243. 298 king james's irish army list. that, two-thirds of his estates being reserved to the adventurers applotted thereon, the remaining third should be given back to the Viscount, and that he should himself be restored in blood to all intents and purposes. It is remarkable that of this historic name no other member is noted in this Army List. Walker, however, in his 'Siege of Deny,' (p. 60) makes mention of a Lieutenant 'Netervil' as having been taken prisoner on that occasion. The Viscount's name appears on the Pension List of 1687-8, for £100 per annum. He sat in the Parliament of 1689, and was attainted in 1691, with James and Terence Netterville of Dowth, Sir John Netterville, and William and Nicholas Netterville of Cruise-rath, County of Meath. The Inquisition held at Trim on the 13th January, 1699, on Viscount Nettervill, finds that he, "with divers other armed traitors, and with banners dis- played, levied war against the King and Queen ; that he did service at the siege of Derry, in July, 1689, where he was taken in battle; and that he afterwards died." At the Court of Claims in 1703, a Nicholas Netterville was a suitor for the benefit of a mortgage, affecting lands forfeited by John Cheeverjs within the Half Barony of Killian, County of Galway. king james's irish army list. 299 REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. sir neill o'xeill's. Captains. Lieutenants. Comets. Quarter-Masters. The Colonel. Henry O'Neill. Lieut.-Colonel, Major. Nicholas Eustace. Christopher Eustace. Daniel Egan. William Butler. Richard Redely. John Manning. Constant Kelly. It would detract from the glories of this great Milesian name to attempt any summary of its annals and achievements here. They alike abound on the native chronicles and on those of later histories and records. ' In 1394, on the occasion of King Richard's first visit to Ireland, O'Neill, Dynast of Ulster, and his subordinate Chieftains, O'Hanlon, Mac Mahon, and others, did homage and fealty to that Monarch at Jeffry Fay. < Murtogh McGuinnis. Ever McGuinnis. Charles Fitzgerald. Laurence Delahunty. Roland Savage. John Savage. Charles Mc Carty. Henry Savage. Nicholas Williams. Christopher Piers. Thomas Darcy. COLONEL SIR NEILL O'NEILL. 300 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Drogheda.* In 1520, when the Earl of Surrey came over as Lord Lieutenant to Ireland, Con (surnamed Bocagh) O'Neill, who had by popular election suc- ceeded his brother in the Principality of Ulster, in- vaded Meath with a large but undisciplined force : Surrey hastened to encounter him, but O'Neill, awed by his character and the well-known discipline of his forces, retired before him, and sent letters to solicit pardon and peace. In the October following, Koyal policy directed that O'Neill and certain other Irish potentates should be knighted, and the King sent a collar of gold to the former, ordering Surrey to prevail upon him to visit the Court, where Henry hoped to introduce him to English habits. f A simi- lar policy prompted James the First to take under his especial care Con O'Neill, the son of the newly cre- ated Earl of Tyrone ; and Eoyal disbursements appear on the Pell Polls of that time, as for "£51 for so much money expended for the apparel, bedding, and other necessaries, provided for the education and bringing up of Con O'Neill ;" another "for £20 5s. for his expenses one quarter, at Eton College," &c. J The Attainders of 1642 include James 'O'Neale' of F el trim, and Thomas Neale of A thy ; while, in the Assembly of Confederate Catholics, four years after- wards, sat Henry O'Neill of Kilboy, Phelim O'Neill of Morly, and Turlough O'Neill of Ardgonnell. The Declaration of Royal gratitude in 1662, as "for * Dalton's Drogheda, vol. 1, p. 122. t Idem, vol. 2, p. 182. J Idem, p. 210. O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS. 301 services beyond the seas," notices Con O'Neill of Ard- gonnell, County of Armagh ; and Captain John O'Neill of Carrick, County of Tipperary. In 1687, Sir Bryan O'Neill was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench ; at which time Sir Neill O'Neill raised this Regiment at his own expence.* Besides him and Lieutenant Henry in his Regiment, there are on this Army List four other O'Neills, Colonels of Infantry ; viz. Cormuck O'Neill, Gordon O'Neill, Felix O'Neill, and Henry O'Neill. The name further appears com- missioned in other Regiments ; as, — in Sarsfield's Horse, Daniel O'Neill was a Captain ; — in Lord Don- gan's Dragoons, Cormuck and Daniel O'Neill were Captains, and Arthur a Lieutenant ; — in the Earl of Antrim's Infantry, Hugh O'Neill was a Captain, John, Bryan, and a second John, Lieutenants, and Francis and Turlough O'Neill were Ensigns. — In Lord Bellew's, Henry and Hugh O'Neill were Captains ; — in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's, Felix, James, Bryan, and Con O'Neill were Captains, Thomas and Henry, Lieutenants, and Art O'Neill an Ensign. " I am sending down," wrote King James to Gene- ral Richard Hamilton before Derry, on the 10th of May, 1689, the day after the meeting of his Parlia- ment of Dublin, " Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons into the Counties of Down and Antrim I think it ab- solutely necessary you should not let any more men come out of Derry, but for intelligence or some extraordinary occasion ; for they may want provisions, * O'Conor s Milit. Mem. p 195. 302 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. and would be glad to rid themselves of useless mouths."* Accordingly, early in the campaign this Eegiment signalized itself in Down and Antrim, and afterwards at the siege of Deny, where a Lieutenant Con O'Neill was killed. In the Parliament of 1689, Constantine O'Neill was one of the Representa- tives for the Borough of Armagh, as was Cormuck O'Neill for the County of Antrim, Daniel O'Neill for Lisburn, Toole O'Neill for Killileagh, Arthur O'Neill of Bally gawly for Dungannon, and Colonel Gordon O'Neill for the County of Tyrone. When Schomberg was reported to have sent detach- ments to Sligo to command that country, King James despatched Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, with Briga- dier Sarsfield's and Henry Luttrell's Horse, and Charles Moore's and O'Gara's Infantry, to prevent their progress thither ; and the gallant conduct ot Henry Luttrell on this occasion is before alluded to, ante p. 191, by King James's biographer. This Eegi- ment did further and most effective service at the Boyne, disputing the passing of the River at Slane by the enemy's right wing, " till their cannon came up, and then retiring in good order with the loss of only five or six common men, their Colonel shot through the thigh, (of which wound he died), and one officer or two wounded, f According to the Duke of Berwick's Memoir, this movement of Sir Neill O'Neill was by King James's especial order ; who, " believing * Manuscripts in T.C.D. (E. ii. 19). f O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 352. o'xeill's dragoons. 303 the enemy might march by their right up to Slane to pass the river there, and endeavour to force the ford at Old Bridge, sent for Sir Neill O'Neill s Eegiment of Dragoons to Slane, with orders to defend that pass as long as he could, without exposing his men to be cut to pieces, and then either offer the King battle, or march straight towards Dublin, which they might easily have done, at least with a detached body of Horse and Dragoons, being so much superior to the King in them as well as in Foot."* His Eegiment accordingly " resisted for a whole hour the passage of the English at Slane, though exposed to the fire of a numerous artillery and the charges of cavalry greatly their superiors in number, "f The Attainders of 1691 include of this name Bichard, Earl of Tyrone; Bryan O'Neill of Dublin, Baronet ; Henry, Gordon, Hugh, and Philip O'Neill, also of Dublin ; Arthur of Ballygawley, County of Tyrone ; Constantine of Armagh, Cormuck of Brook- shane, County of Antrim ; Daniel of Belfast, Toole of Dromin willy, County of Down ; Arthur of Bally- duff, Kings County ; Brian of Ballinacor, County of Wicklow ; Henry 'Neal' of Drogheda, clerk ; Daniel Neal of Ballycamond, County of Carlow ; James ' Neel ' of Clonegal, Do.; Cam O'Neill of Loughmore, County of Antrim ; Gordon O'Neill of Crea, County of Tyrone ; Cormuck of Kilultagh, Felix and Michael of Killellagh, County of Antrim ; and this Sir Neill * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 395. t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 107. 304 king james's irish army list. O'Neill, described as also of said Killellagh ; Shane O'Neill of Creevecarnow, and Murtough of Tullylish, County of Down ; John of Fallagh, Owen of Brenton, Turlough, James, and Francis of Fintona, all in the County of Tyrone ; Paul and Phelemy of Bally ma- cully, Charles of Derry noose, and Terence of Aghna- grahan, all in the County of Armagh. At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, claims were preferred against the confiscations of Sir Neill O'Neill, Baronet, by Dame Frances O'Neill his widow, for her jointure, as charged by settlement of 1677, allowed. By Cormuck O'Neill, as administrator of the Marchioness of Antrim, for mortgages and judgments affecting his estates, allowed By Eose O'Neill, one of his daugh- ters, for her portion, dismist. There were three other daughters of his, Mary, Elizabeth, and Anne, who do not appear to have made any claims. Jane, Clare, and Elizabeth O'Neill sought and were allowed their portions off Mayo estates of Con O'Neill ; as did Alice and Margaret, other daughters of Con by his wife Honoria O'Neill, alias ' Mc Daniel,' and all their claims were allowed, as charged by the will of said Con, dated 10th of May, 1684. Ellis O'Neill, alias Mc Donnell, and Neile O'Neile claimed and were al- lowed a leasehold affecting Mayo lands of Henry O'Neile ; while a second Ellis O'Neill claimed, as administratrix of John O'Neill, a charge on other Mayo estates of Turlough O'Neill, but her petition was dismist. O'NEILL'S DRAGOONS. 305 CAPTAIN JEFFREY FAY. A family of the name was settled in the County of Westmeath, of which this Jeffry, styled in the Inqui- sition of 1691 Galfred Ffay of Trumroe in that County, Gentleman, was a member. Eichard, Wil- liam, Michael, and Edward Fay were also attainted, and described as of the same house. George and John Ffay of Derryneganahan and Thomas Ffay of Togher were likewise outlawed in that County. There was also in the North a Sept to which the Milesian was prefixed, and of which Morres O'Fay of Ballyloran and Hugo O'Fay of Ballylanagh, County of Antrim, were attainted in 1691. CAPTAIN ROLAND SAYAGE. This name is of early introduction into Ireland. In 1302, William, son of Alexander Savage, was one of the Irish Magnates selected to attend Richard de Burgo in the Scottish war. In eight years after, Richard le Savage was one of those summoned to a great Council convened at Kilkenny ; and, in 1335, Robert Savage and John de Sauvage were of the Ulster chiefs ordered to attend John Darcy the Justiciary in the expedition against Scotland.* Pembridge in his Annals records the death in 1360 of Sir Robert * I)' Alton's History of Droghcda, vol. 2, p. 83. 306 king james's irish army list. Savage of Ulster, 1 an excellent soldier he was buried in the Dominican Friary of Deny. In 1375, Henry Savage, Knight, was summoned to Parliament ; as he was again in 1377 and 1381. In 1493, John ' Savage ' was Mayor of Dublin. The Settlement of the family in the Ardes, County of Down— or rather the recognition of their oc- cupancy there in the time of Queen Elizabeth — is fully set out in Harris's too brief History of that in- teresting County. " The Family is reputed to be above 400 years standing in Ireland," writes William Montgomery immediately after the Eevolution ; "They called themselves Lords of the Little Ardes, and were men of great esteem, and had far larger estates in the County of Antrim, than they have now in the Ardes, which former they resigned to hold under the Mc Donnell.* Besides the line long settled at Porta- ferry, there was another not less ancient branch, the Savages of Ardkeen Castle. This family is of good account, and hath a second Castle called Scatrick, (the oldest pile of this family as is said,) and thirteen islands in Lough Coan ; both castles are tenable if fortified and repaired. Of this family one cadet, named Roland, an officer in Queen Elizabeth's wars against the Irish, hath, since King James's entry into England, built the two Castles of Ballygalgat and Kerkstone (being high square piles), and gave the shore with lands adjoining unto two of his sons."f In 1614, Sir Arthur Savage, Knight and Privy * Montgomery MS. p. 68. t Idem, p. 302. o'neill's dragoons. 307 Councillor, (who had been previously distinguished in the war in Munster) obtained a grant of various castles, rectories, houses, mills, woods, lands, tithes, &c. in the Counties of Cavan, Mayo, Galway, Limerick, Tipperary, Kerry, Cork, Clare, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Eoscommon and Dublin, as well as in the City of Dublin. The only individual of the name attainted in 1642 was William Savage of Lusk. In King James's new Charter of 1688 to Ar- magh, Patrick Savage was one of the burgesses. Besides this Captain Eoland, there are in the Army List, in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, Edmund Savage a Lieutenant, and Henry Savage an Ensign. Captain Eoland represented Newry in King James's Parliament, and, in the Inquisition for his Attainder, was described as of Portaferry and Newry, in Down. Within which County were also outlawed Patrick and Henry Savage of Ballygalgat, Thomas and Hugh of Dromode, James of Ballyspurge, Hugh of Bally- darves, Lucas of Dunhunck, and John and James Savage of Eocks. In 1702, the Eight Honourable Philip Savage, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, purchased various lands in the County of Carlow, which had been the estates of John Baggott attainted ; as did Patrick Savage of Portaferry part of the confiscations of Captain Eoland Savage, with "the fresh-water lough thereto belonging." The Hollow Swords Blades' Company also purchased his estate of Dromardin in the Ardos. At the Court of Claims, Patrick Savage 308 king james's irish army list. a minor, sought and was in part allowed a remainder in tail under settlements of 1685 in said Roland's estates ; while Hugh Savage, as son and heir of John Savage, was allowed a chiefly out of certain lands of the same forfeiting proprietor ; as was another Patrick Savage, to a certain extent, a mortgage charged upon same ; and John Mc Cormick and Dame Elizabeth Ponsonby claimed and were allowed charges on other premises of Roland. LIEUTENANT RICHARD REDDY. The Inquisition, taken on his Attainder in 1691, describes him as of Leighlin Bridge ; a William Reddy, described as of Old Leighlin, was also then outlawed. CORNET JOHN MANNING. The O'Mannings were a Sept more especially located in the present Barony of Tyaquin, County of Gal way, where the Castle of Clogher was their chief residence. This Cornet is however described, on the Inquisition for his Outlawry, as of Lebeltstown, County of Kil- kenny ; and, as a family of the name of ' Maynwaring' was at this time and previously of influence and re- spect in Kilkenny, it would seem that this officer's o'neill's dragoons. 309 surname may have been here corrupted from the latter appellation. CORNET CHRISTOPHER PIERS. Besides Cornet Piers, in this Regiment, Maurice Piers was a Lieutenant, and Patrick ■ Peirs ' an En- sign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. Yet the Attainders of 1691 do not mark off any of these per- sons, but only others, viz. John and Turlogh Piers of Calavennane, County of Clare ; while John Piers of Wicklow is the single outlaw on those of 1641. The name is however of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Third. In 1362, Thomas Piers was Abbot of the venerable Religious House of Clon- ard ; and when, in two centuries after, the dissolution of these establishments was resolved upon, Sir Henry Piers, Baronet, had a grant of the monasteries of Corock, Gervaherin, and Puble in the County of Tyrone, with their possessions ; while Captain Wil- liam Piers had a lease of the once beautiful priory of Tristernagh, with its ambit and possessions. His title was afterwards converted into the fee; the noble Priory, however, has long since been disconsecrated to domestic uses, and its extent and magnificence can but be conjectured from the virw in Grose's Antiqui- ties of Ireland. 310 king james's irish army list. CORNET NICHOLAS WILLIAMS. The name of Williams does not appear on the Attain- ders of 1642, or on those of 1691. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, Thomas Williams was one of the Representatives of the County of Mayo, as was Edward Williams of the Borough of Philipstown. Dr. Griffith Williams, born in Caernarvon in 1589, succeeded to the see of Ossory in 1641, and died at Kilkenny in 1672. His Life is chronicled fully in Ware's Bishops. In 1662, William Williams represented the borough of Swords in Parliament, and in 1675 he was Sheriff of the County of Dublin. REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. COLONEL DANIEL O'BRYAN'S, (LORD CLARE). Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter- Masters. The Colonel. Turlogh O'Bryan. Daniel O'Bryan. James Neylan. James Phillips, David Barry. Thomas Fitzgerald. William Hawford. Lieut.-Colonel. Francis Browne, Major. Florence Mac Na- John Hurley. Murtagh Hogan. James White, mara. Redmond Magrath. John Ryan. Hugh Perry. James Ryan. Morres Fitzgerald. Murrough O'Bryan. Thomas Donnell. Christopher O'Bryan James Mc Daniell. Owen Cahane. Nicholas Archdeken. Edmund Bohilly. Nicholas Bourke. Silvester Purdon. John Bourke. Gerald Fitzgerald. John Fitzgerald. William Lysaght. William Neylan. Daniel MacNamara. Roger Shaughnessy. Joseph Furlong. Laurence Dean. Dermott Sullivan. Teigue O'Bryan. Patrick Hehir. Hugh Hogan. James O'Dea. Thady Quin. Richard Bedford. Thomas Clanchy. Thomas Lee. glare's dragoons. 311 COLONEL DANIEL O'BEYAN, LORD CLARE. This is another of the kingly families of Ireland in old times, whose achievements cannot be here com- pressed. The Sept was one of the five of the Irishry, who were by special grace early enfranchised, and enabled to take benefit of the laws of England ; the other four being O'Neill of Ulster, O'Melaghlin of Meath, O'Conor of Connaught, and Mac Murrough of Leinster.* In 1314, Edward the Second directed an especial letter missive for aid on his Scottish expedi- tion to Donogh O'Brian, 'Duci Hibernicorum de Thomond ;' and also to Murtagh O'Brien. As the de- descendants of Brien Boru of immortal memory, this race gave titular Kings to Thomond down to the year 1543 ; when Murrough O'Brien, surrendering his Captaincy and Principality to Henry the Eighth, was created the first Earl of Thomond ; while at the same time the politic monarch conferred the title of Baron of Ibrackan upon his nephew, Donogh O'Brien, on whom, upon his uncle's death, Edward the Sixth, in 1552, conferred the Earldom of Thomond, to be enjoyed by him and his heirs male. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1647, sat in the Commons Conor O'Brien of Ballinacody, and Dermot O'Brien of Dromore. In 1652, Cromwell's ' Act for Settling Ireland' excepted from 1 pardon for life and estate' Murrough O'Brien, Baron of Inchiquin, * Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 46. 312 king james's irish army list. Dermot O'Brien of the County of Clare, and Murtogh O'Brien of Arra, County of Tipperary. In 1663, the Declaration of Eoyal gratitude for 'services beyond the seas,' includes Captain Terence Bryan of Palace- greny, County of Louth; and Captain Dermot O'Brian of Carrickonguis, County of Cork ; while, by the Act of Explanation, Daniel O'Bryan of Duogh, County of Clare, was ordered to be restored to his ' Seat ' and 2,000 acres of his estates. By an order of Lord Tyrconnel to Colonel John Russell, dated 18th June, 1686, that officer was directed to receive into his Regiment, and to rank there on his respective companies, (inter alios) Lieutenant Cornelius O'Bryan, Lieutenant Terence O'Bryan, Ensign Turlogh O'Bryan, and Ensign Mau- rice 'Bryan.'* In King James's Charter of 1687, &c. Pierce Bryan was one of the Free Burgesses in that to Carlow, and was also head of the municipal Roll of Maryborough. Michael was one of the Aldermen in that to Kilkenny. This Colonel, Lord Clare, and Denis O'Bryan of Dough, Esq., were Burgesses in the Charter to Ennis, as was Terence O'Bryan in that to Navan, and Luke ' Bryan ' in the Charter to Ennis- corthy. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) sat, amongst the Peers, O'Bryan, Earl of Thomond ('a papist'); O'Bryan, Earl of Inchiquin, (a Protestant); and O'Brien, this Viscount Clare : while in the Com- mons David O'Brien was one of the Representatives of the County of Clare, Alderman James 4 Bryan ' one of * Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459. CLARES DRAGOONS. 313 those for the City of Kilkenny, as was Piers 4 Bryan 7 for the Borough of Maryborough. This Army List has on Lord Clare's Regiment, besides the Colonel, four others of the name of O'Bryan : — Charles O'Bryan was Colonel of another Regiment, (Infantry), in which Donogh O'Bryan was Captain, and Teigue and a second Donogh were Lieu- tenants ; Carberry 4 Bryan ' was a Lieutenant in Col- onel Robert Clifford's Dragoons ; Kennedy O'Bryan, a Captain in Lord Mount Cashel's Infantry, in which Walter Bryan was a Lieutenant. James and Lewis 4 Bryan 7 were Lieutenants, and Denis Bryan an Ensign in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Michael 4 Bryan ' a Captain in Colonel Thomas Butler's ; Thomas Bryan, a Captain in Lord Kilmaliock's, as was Donogh O'Bryan in Major-General Boiseleau's ; Arthur and Denis Bryan were Lieutenants in Sir Michael Creagh's ; James Bryan a Captain in Lord Galmoy's Horse; Murtagh Bryan in Sarsfield's. In that of Colonel Hugh Sutherland, James Bryan was a Captain, and Francis Bryan a Cornet ; while, lastly, John Bryan was a Quarter-Master in Tyrconnel's. One of these officers, styled Captain O'Bryan, was killed at the siege of Derry, 28th June, 1689.* In the August following, at the time of Schomberg's landing, this Regiment was stationed in Munster.f The history of this family has very peculiar inte- rest, even within the limits prescribed for these Illus- * Walker's Siege of Derry, p. 61. t Clarke's James II. p. 372. 314 king james's irish army list. trations. Daniel O'Bryan, the third and youngest son of Cornelius 0' Bryan, third Earl of Thomond, was styled of Moyarty and Carrigaholt. He did great service and received many wounds in the wars of Ire- land, for which he was knighted and rewarded with considerable grants of lands in the County of Clare, which he had represented in the Parliament of 1613. Living to see the Restoration, he was created Viscount of Clare in 1662, in consideration of his own and his children's services, both at home and in foreign parts, and, for the maintenance of that degree of honor, he had restitution of his whole estate. His grandson and namesake was the individual under present con- sideration, the third Viscount Clare, who attended King Charles in his exile, raised two Regiments of Infantry for James the Second, and this of Dragoons, which, from the facing of the uniform, was known by the popular name of the Dragoons Buy (yellow). It was raised at Carrigaholt, and being considered the flower of James's army, was sent into Ulster at the opening of the campaign, under the conduct of Sir James Cotter, forming part of the numerous and well appointed force of which Lord Mountcashel had then the command ; but, on the 26th July, 1689, those troops were encountered near Lisnaskea, in the County of Fermanagh, by Captain Martin Armstrong, with two troops of Horse and two companies of Foot, who, "making a feint to attack with his horse, retired as if in disorder, till he drew Lord Mountcashel's forces into the ambuscade of his Foot, who, by an un- glare's dragoons. 315 expected volley caused a great slaughter ; the Horse at the same instant facing about, fell on with incredi- ble force, and cut this brave Regiment almost to pieces, very few escaping by flight."* This Colonel Lord Clare was of King James's Privy Council from 1684, and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Clare. He fought at the Boyne, and died soon after. He had married Philadelphia, eldest daughter of Francis Leonard Lord Dacre, of the South, and sister to Thomas, Earl of Sussex. She died in 1662, leaving two sons by Lord Clare, Daniel and Charles ; Daniel, the fourth Viscount, went with King James into France, and was selected by that Monarch to form a portion of the Brigade of Mount- cashel. He died in 1693 at Pignerol, of wounds he had received on the occasion of the victory gained by Catinat over the Allies at Marsiglia. He never married, and his brother Charles, who had espoused the eldest daughter of Henry Buckley, Esq. Master of the Household to King James, became the fifth Viscount. For him was embodied a French Brigade Regiment, styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons, that after- wards was eminently distinguished in the wars of the Continent. It consisted of one Battalion formed into six Companies, each of one hundred men, officered by one Captain, two Lieutenants, and two Cornets. Alexander Barnewall was its Lieutenant-Colonel, and Charles Maxwell, Major. This gallant Brigade in 1691 mounted the trenches * Graham's Derriana, p. 27. 316 king james's irish army list. at Mountmelian, and served in Piedmont in 1693. At the battle of Marsiglia, being strengthened to three Battalions, they presented a phalanx which remained impenetrable to the attacks of the German Regiments commanded by Prince Eugene, and they mainly effected his defeat. In Spain, in 1695, this Lord Clare, at the head of his Dragoons, was very active in several encounters, and chiefly contributed to raising the siege of Castle Follet. In the Campaign of 1696, his Regiment was distinguished at the siege of Valen- za in Lombardy, in one of the sallies from which the garrison bore everything before them, until checked by Clare's Regiment, who finally repulsed and pur- sued them to the palisades of Ortavie. In 1703, it won much glory in the Italian campaign, when Prince Eugene was compelled to raise the blockade of Mantua. Afterwards, in the same year under Villiers it maintained its character. At Blenheim, Lord Clare led the Irish by a forced and rapid march against the Imperialists, charged and broke them, and commenced a horrible carnage, which continued in the woods during the whole of the following night. It is perhaps unnecessary to say, however, that this was not the battle which immortalized Marlborough. At that battle, however, which occurred in 1704, Clare's was one of the Regiments posted at Oberklaw; and, though assailed by four of the Dutch Regiments, Lord Clare maintained his post with indescribable bravery; the carnage was awful. In 1705, it served in Germany under Marshal Villars, and in 1706 was glare's dragoons. 317 thrown into Eamillies to resist the assault of Marlbo- rough. " So long as the Irish were supported by the right wing of the French, they never yielded a single inch of ground ; but, when the cavalry of that wing was broken, and the infantry taken in flank, they were forced to retreat. Lord Clare, who commanded the Irish, and who on this occasion performed prodi- gies, did not surrender his fine corps prisoners of war, but cut his way through the enemy's Battalion, bear- ing down their infantry with matchless intrepidity. In the heroic effort to save his corps, he was mortally wounded, and many of his best officers were killed. His Lieutenant-Colonel, then Murrough O'Brien, evinced on this occasion heroism worthy of the name. Assuming the command, and leading on his men with fixed bayonets, he bore down and broke through the enemy's ranks, took two pair of colours, and joined the rere of the French retreat on the heights of St. Andre."* Lord Clare was himself carried into Brus- sels, where he died of his wounds, and was interred in the Irish monastery there. He left several children, but only one son, another Charles, born at St. Germains-en-Laye in 1699, and styled the sixth Viscount, or more usually in France, my Lord Comte de Clare. He, after some years, having been invited to England by his cousin Henry, Earl of Thomoncl, was by him presented to King * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 316-17, to which work the com- piler is indebted for much of this narrative of Lord Clare's Brigade. nr. 318 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. George the First, as heir at law to his estates and honours, whereupon he was assured of pardon, provi- ded he would conform to the Established Church, but with this condition he would not comply. On the breaking out of war between France and the Empire in 1733, this Lord was attached to the army of the Rhine, under the Duke of Berwick, and on the follow- ing year he served at the memorable siege of Philips- burg, where he received a contusion on the shoulder from the same cannon shot that killed the Marshal Duke. The Earl of Thomond did not however forget his nephew ; but, dying in 1741, left a will of 1738, whereby, although he bequeathed the bulk of his estates to Murrough, Lord O'Brien, eldest son of the Earl of Inchiquin, as being a Protestant ; he yet left a legacy of £20,000 to this individual, who upon his death assumed the title of ' Thomond ' in France, and there in the military service was distinguished for his knowledge of strategics, particularly evinced at the battle of Dettingen in 1743, and of Fontenoy in two years after; on the latter occasion, he was made Lieutenant-General. In the same year, at Ypres in Flanders, this Regiment of Lord Clare suffered con- siderably. The list of those killed and wounded there records of the killed, Lieutenant-Colonel O'Neill, Captain-Lieutenant Short all, Captains Talsey, Mac Ellicott and Maguire ; and Lieutenants Edward Fitz- gerald and Macnamara ; while of the wounded were Captain Grant, (Lord Clare's Aid-de-Camp), Captains Christopher Plunket, Brien O'Brien, glare's dragoons. 319 Creagh, Kennedy, Daniel Mac Carty and John O'Brien; with Lieutenants Hugh Talsey, Davoren, Charles O'Brien, Cornelius O'Neill, and Brien O'Brien.* A Captain O'Brien was there also mortally wounded in Roth's Regiment. In two years after, at Lauffield, was killed in Clare's Regiment Captain Charles O'Brien ; while Captains Murtough and Conor O'Brien were there wounded. For his services in this engagement, the French monarch promoted this Colo- nel to the rank of Marshal Thomond, appointing him Governor of New Brisac in Alsace, and Commander- in-Chief of the Province of Languedoc and all the coasts on the Mediterranean. In 1755, he married Lady Marie Genevieve Louisa de Cheffraville, Marchio- ness of Cheffraville in Normandy, and, dying of fever at Montpelier in 1762, left by her Charles, his heir, born at Paris in 1757, and a daughter born in 1758, who married the Duke de Choiseul Praslin, by whom she had a numerous issue. Charles the younger, and the last Yiscount, died at Paris unmarried in 1774, when the title became extinct,f while the Regiment that bore his name was, on his decease, drafted into Berwick's. JAMES O'BRYAN, THIRD VISCOUNT INCHIQUIN, Was a Captain of Grenadiers in this army, and as such he was allowed a pension of £235 4s per annum on the military establishment, with another of £100 * Gent. Mag. vol. xv. p. 276. t Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 34. 320 king james's irish army list. per annum on the Civil List ; he died in London of smallpox, 26th October, 1688. His third son, Kich- ard, being an officer, also in King James's service, and going to France in April, 1689, during the war with that kingdom, was therefore prohibited from coming home by the Act, 9 William III. ; but, upon his petition and his avowed willingness to take the oath of allegiance, Queen Anne granted him licence to return in 1703, and he died in 1707 unmarried.* This Viscount was not included in the Attainders of 1601 ; but Daniel Viscount Clare was then out- lawed, as was Charles the fifth Viscount in 1696, by the designation of Charles O'Bryan, commonly called Lord Viscount Clare. There were also outlawed in the former year Charles and Daniel O'Brien of Carrig- aholt, and Murrough of Corrofin in the County of Clare ; Morgan, Connor, and Daniel ' O'Bryen ' of Hospital ; William, Kennedy, and Daniel O'Bryen of Castletown, County of Limerick ; and Teigue 4 O'Brien ' of Carrowmore, County of Sligo. While in the County of Westmeath were held Inquisitions of outlawry against Bartholomew 1 Bryan ' of Coolvock, Francis Bryan of Ballykeeran, and Henry Bryan of Castleback; in the County of Carlo w, against William and Michael Bryan of Eaheragh ; in the County of Kilkenny, against Walter and Michael Bryan of Harristown, James Bryan of Jenkinstown, and John and Edward Fitz-james Bryan of Browns- town ; in the County of Cork, against Dionysius * Lodge's Peerage, vol. 2, p. 316. glare's dragoons. 321 Bryan of Kilcoleman, Edward Bryan, Senior, and Edward Bryan, Jnnior. In the County of Wexford, against Lucas Bryan of Wexford Town, Hugh Bryan of Mungane, Arthur Bryan of Ironbrick, and William ' Bryant ' of Rosse. In the County of Waterford, against Darby Bryan of Craig-rush, and Terence Bryan of Comeragh ; and lastly, against Turrock Bryan of Ballinroan, County of Galway, and Piers Bryan of the Queen's County. At the Court of Claims, Francis O'Brien claimed an estate in fee, pur- suant to the Act of Settlement, in lands forfeited by Lord Clare ; while Ellen O'Bryen, alias O'Shaughnessy, widow of Connor O'Bryen, claimed an estate for life under her marriage settlements on lands forfeited by Donogh O'Bryan. For the gallant achievements of Murrough O'Bryan (of Carrigogunnell) on the Continent, see OCallagli- arils Brigades, vol. I, p. 82, &c; and of various other O'Bryens distinguished in foreign service much will be found in the same work, (p. 291). In 1769, died at Cambray in France Dr. John O'Brien, there- tofore the Eoman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES PHILLIPS. Colonel Phillips was killed early in the campaign, at the engagement with Colonel Wolseley, near Beltur- y 322 king james's irish army list. bet * when John Macnaniara of Cratloe was appointed in his place. The earliest notice of this name within the scope of these Illustrations, occurs in the Declaration of King Charles's gratitude for 4 services beyond the seas,' which includes Captain Walter Phillips of Clonmore, County of Mayo. Of that family was Charles Phillips, a Captain in Colonel O'Gara's Infantry, and Gilduff Phillips, an Ensign in his troop. Captain Charles, de- scribed as of Ballindoe, a townland adjoining Clon- more, and his relative Philip Phillips, were afterwards adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. The name appears also in King James's Charter to Kil- kenny, where Samuel Phillips was one of the Alder- men, and Thomas Phillips one of the Burgesses. In the Attainders of 1691 are included James and Edward Phillips, described as of Dromore, County of Down ; and this James it would certainly seem was the Lieutenant-Colonel here under consideration. As the surname has, however, not flourished in the North, while in the aforesaid locality of Clonmore it existed to the present year, some particulars of its descent from Wales are extracted from an ancient Pedigree in the compiler's possession, drawn up in the last century, and expressedly vouched by the attestation of all the Eoman Catholic Bishops of Connaught, and the Warden of Gal way. It commences with Cadifer ap Colhoyn, Lord of Dyfed, who was of the same tribe with Vortigern * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 36. CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 323 King of Britain, and paternally descended from Maxi- mus, King of Britain and Emperor of Rome. This Cad- ifer was the founder of the ennobled line of Picton Castle, and from him and his lady Helen, only daugh- ter and heiress of Lleoch Llawen Vawr, a Prince of Wales, the tree of these two Houses grows out through his lineal heir male, Sir Adrin Ap Rhys, who attended Richard the First into the Holy Land, where he behaved so gallantly that he received the order of Knighthood of the Holy Sepulchre, and a grant of armorials, a lion rampant sable in a field argent. His descendant, Philip ap Evan, left a son Meredith, who was the first that took the name of Phillips, styling himself Meredith Phillips, instead of ap Phillip, the usual character of designation. This Meredith was born in 1242, and while his eldest son, Philip Phillips of Kylsant, was the ancestor of the family of Picton Castle, his youngest son, John Phillips, in the time of Edward the First, crossed over in that monarch's service to subdue the Irish 4 rebels ' in Connaught, where, the enterprise having succeeded, he acquired the patrimony of Clonmore, with the townlands annexed in the County of Mayo, in reward of his services. This John was born in 1271, as was, in the eighth generation from him, Gilbert Phillips of Clonmore, who married Mary Jordan, daughter of Walter Jordan, a Chief of the adjacent Barony of Gallen. Their eldest son Philip Phillips, born in 1557, married a daughter of O'Gara, Chief of the Barony of Coolavin, in the County of Sligo; and their son Myles, born in 1590, married y 2 324 king james's irish army list. Mable, daughter of O'Donnelan of Rossedonelan, County of Roscommon. Walter, the eldest son of Myles and Mable, became a Major in the army, and he is the individual named in the aforesaid Declara- tion of thanks. He married Winifred, daughter of Dudley Costello of the Barony of Costello. Their eldest son, Philip Phillips, commonly called Captain Phillips, was born in Austrian Belgium in 1653, where his father then sojourned with the Royal Family. On the Restoration these exiles returned to Clonmore; and Philip, in 1682, married Bridget O'Mulloy, daughter of Edward O'Mulloy, Chief of Oughtertyry, County of Roscommon. Their eldest son Myles, born in 1684, married in 1712 Juliana, daughter of Edward Browne of Tullimore, County of Mayo, by whom he had issue Edward his eldest son, Philip Phillips his second son, Archbishop of Tuam, ('lately deceased,' says the Manuscript cited), and John who died unmarried. Edward, in October, 1739, married Helena, daughter of John O'Kelly, County of Galway, by whom he had one son, Thomas, born in January, 1749, who in 1767 married Cathe- rine, daughter of Philip and Anne O'Byrne of Kil- loughter, County of Wicklow. Their issue £ are ' Edward, born 24th May, 1768; Philip, born 1770; and Myles, born 1774. Here this ancient Pedigree concludes. Edward, the eldest son, married in 1794, Anne, daughter of Doctor Terence Mac Dermot of Coolavin, and had issue Thomas, (and two other sons who died unmarried), with three daughters. Thomas, Clare's dragoons. 325 the eldest son of Edward, married in 1828 Alicia, daughter of Doctor O'Ferrall, of the old Sept of Annaly, and he has by her three sons and four daughters. This family, of such ancient origin and old respect- ability in their County, has, in the bloodless revolution of the Incumbered Estates' Commission, been uprooted from the soil. They are there no more. MAJOK FEANCIS BEOWNE. He was descended from Dominick Browne, who was Mayor of Galway in 1575, through a younger son, Andrew ; (the eldest son of Dominick was Geoffry, ancestor of Lord Oranmore). Andrew's son, John, was the father of this Major Francis, who having been killed at Athlone was attainted in the following year, the Inquisition styling him 'a Merchant of Waterford.' On his death and attainder, his brother Anthony succeeded to his property, and he was the lineal ancestor of the present inheritor of Moyne, Michael Joseph Browne. Extended notices of this name are appended to Lord Kenmare. CAPTAIN EEDMOND MAGEATH. The Sept of Magrath, or Mac Crath, was located in 326 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the County of Tipperary, also at Termon-Magrath in the County of Fermanagh, and in later time in the County of Clare, where they are spoken of in the mid- dle ages as the chief poets of Thomond ; while in the Parish of Modeligo, County of Waterford, they had a large estate, on which the remains of their Castles are noted by Smith.* In 1224, Simon Magrath was Bishop of Ardagh; of Killaloe, Matthew ' Mac Cragh ' was Bishop in 1391, Donat ' Mac Cragh in 1428, Thady Mac Cragh in 1430, and Dermot 4 Mac Cragh ' in 1480; and Matthew Macraigh was Bishop of Clon- fert in 1482. In the ensuing century lived Miler Magrath, a Franciscan friar of the Fermanagh line of this family. He had been by the Pope's provision ad- vanced to the See of Down ; but, having embraced the Protestant religion in 1570, he was by Queen Eliza- beth translated to that of Clogher, and afterwards in the same year to the Archbishopric of Cashel, with Emly annexed, and yet more those of Waterford and Lismore by a commendatory grant, with various other substantial favours from her Majesty. He filled the Archbishopric for upwards of fifty-two years, during which time, says Harris in his additions to Ware, 4 he made most scandalous wastes and alienations of the revenues and manors belonging to it.' He died at Cashel in 1622, in the hundredth year of his age.f In 1629, a Royal warrant issued, directing Lord Falkland * History of Waterford, p. 82. t Ware's Bishops, pp. 484-5, CLARE'S DRiVGOONS. 327 to grant a Baronetage* to John Magrath of Attyvo- lane, in the County of Tipperary, who had some years previously obtained from the Crown a grant of the Lordship of Knockorden, with divers townlands, the castle, town, and lands of Ballyneanty, and all tithes and advowsons belonging to the premises, with courts leet and baron, f The Attainders of 1641 present the names of Rich- ard and Patrick Magrath, both of Fyanstown, County of Meath ; while Cromwell's Act (1652) so often cited, excepted from pardon for life and estate Sir John ' Magragh ' of the County of Tipperary, (i. e. the Baronet of Attyvolane), and Turlogh, son of James Magragh. Besides Captain Redmond- Ma- grath, there are on this List Bryan Magrath, a Lieu- tenant in the Earl of Antrim's Infantry; James, a Captain in the Earl of Tyrone's ; Terence and John, Captains in Lord Galmoy's (the latter was afterwards adjudged within the Articles of Limerick) ; another Terence was Lieutenant in Tyrone's, Miles and Nicholas were Lieutenants in Colonel John Barrett's, and Thomas was a Captain in Sir Charles O'Bryan's Infantry. It appears from the Inquisitions of 1691, and the Petitions of 1700, that this Captain Redmond was of * Gilbert, in his interesting History of the City of Dublin, states (p. 4) that Charles II. granted to the request of Sir James Ware, who had declined the honours of a Viscounty and a Baronetage from his Sovereign, two blank baronetcies which Sir James filled up for two friends. t Rot. Pat. 13, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib. 328 king james's irish army list. a Clare family, and seized of estates in that County ; an estate tail in which was on his attainder claimed by Eobert Magrath, and allowed. Eedmond Magrath, a minor, also sought and was allowed an estate tail in other Clare lands of said Eedmond, under articles entered into in 1687, upon the marriage of James, the father of said minor, and Mary his mother; under which articles that mother was allowed an annuity and jointure off said lands ; while John Magrath obtained the benefit of a mortgage on the same estate, and Honora, widow of Thomas Magrath, an annuity thereof. For other claims, see ante, p. 155. A large portion lying in the Barony of Tullagh, County of Clare, was sold by the Commissioners of the forfei- tures to Terence G-eoghegan in 1703. Another Magrath then attainted was Bryan of Large, County of Fermanagh. At the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht, in 1747, Captain Jehn Magrath and Lieutenant Magrath were of those in Berwick's Brigade wounded. CAPTAIN ROGEK SHAUGHNESSY. The O'Shaughnessys were Lords of a mountainous dis- trict dividing Galway from Clare. The Sept is, how- ever, traced in the Annals of other parts of this country. In 1060, died Dermot O'Shaughnessy, Abbot of Dunshaughlin, County of Meath ; as did in 1140 another Dermot O'Shaughnessy, 'the most dis- clare's dragoons. 329 tinguished sage of Leath Cuinn,' the northern half of Ireland ; and in 1224, Giolla-na-naomh O'Shaugh- nessy, Lord of the western half of Kinalea, (Barony of Kiltartan, County of Galway). In 1451, a licence for using the English law was granted to Donat * O'Shasn am/ which seems to refer to a member of this Sept. In 1543, King Henry, by a patent, reciting that Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy and his ancestors had theretofore possessed themselves of premises in the County of Galway unjustly, but that Sir Dermot had now surrendered same, the King therefore hereby con- veyed to him as the Chief of his name, and to his heirs male, all the manors, lands, &c. of Gort-Inchigorie, with several other denominations. To Perrot's Par- liament of 1585, went John and Dermot, the two sons of Giolla Dhu O'Shaughnessy, Chief of Kinel-aodha and Gort ; while in the Supreme Council of 1647, Dermot O'Shaughnessy, the heir male of Dermot of 1543, was one of the Commons. He was deprived of his estates by the Usurping Powers ; but on the Re- storation was knighted, and by the Act of Explana- tion restored to his seat and 2,000 acres of his inhe- ritance. In 1642, the Marquis of Clanricarde wrote to Lord Inchiquin : — " The bearer, my noble kinsman, Sir Roger Shaughnessy, has, by my licence, taken his de- parture out of this government into Munster, to take care of his lady, family [who were besieged there] and estate in these parts, which, by reason of his long absence, doth and may suffer by the general unhappy 330 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. distemper in this kingdom. I could not let so much worth and merit pass from me, without giving your Lordship notice that in his own person, his son and followers, he hath constantly, and with much forward affection, been present and assisting to me in all my proceedings and endeavours for his Majesty's ser- vice."* The son here alluded to was Dermot O'Shaughnessy, hereinafter mentioned, who raised fifty foot soldiers in the Marquis's service. William, the brother of Sir Roger, was likewise a Captain in the Clanricarde levy, and his character and loyalty obtained from the Corporation of G-alway in 1648 a vote that he, then " Lieutenant-Colonel William O'Shaughnessy, (in consideration of his alliance in blood to the whole town, and for the good nature and affection that he and his whole family do bear to it,) and his posterity shall be hereafter free of their guild, "f The Captain Eoger in this Eegiment was the lineal male descendant of his namesake ; he married Helen, daughter of Connor O'Bryan, Lord Viscount Clare ; joined King James's forces, and was present at the battle of the Boyne, from which he returned home sick, though not wounded, and died in the Castle of Gort ten days after that fatal field. He was attainted in 1697, when his estates were granted to Sir Thomas Prendergast, ' a gentleman of family in Ireland,' j " upon the most valuable consideration of his * Clanricarde's Memoirs, fol. p. 201. f Hardiman's Gal way, p. 216. | Dalrymple's Mem. vol. 3, p. 75. glare's dragoons. 331 discovering a most barbarous and bloody conspiracy to assassinate the King's most Excellent Majesty, to destroy the liberties and in consequence the Protest- ant religion throughout Europe." The Irish House of Commons had previously solemnly thanked him therefor ; and, on a representation that the rental of O'Shaughnessy's estate fell short of £500 per ann. other lands in the Counties of Tipperary, Galway, Eoscommon and Wexford were added to those already appropriated for his reward ; the latter to the clear amount of £334 per annum. The O'Shaughnessy estates were afterwards the subject of long litigation, even to an appeal to the Lords ; but all attempts to disturb the grant of these confiscations were ineffec- tive. Sir William, the heir of Eoger O'Shaughnessy, died an exile in France in 1744. His cousin and next heir was Coleman O'Shaughnessy, Roman Catho- lic Bishop of Ossory, who instituted the alleged pro- ceedings ; they were continued by his next relative, Roebuck O'Shaughnessy, and on his death by Joseph, the son of Roebuck, until decisively defeated. The Attainders of 1691 include those of Dermot 1 Shaghnessy' of Castlegar, and William Shaghnessy of Gort ; while from the claims preferred at Chiches- ter House it appears that Captain Hugh Kelly, on behalf of himself and his wife, sought a jointure charged under settlements of 1688, on lands in the County of Galway, forfeited by Roger O'Shaughnessy; but their petition was clismist. In 1699, the Trustees of the Forfeited Estates complained, in an 332 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. official report, that so hasty had been several of the grantees or their agents in the disposal of the forfeited woods, that vast numbers of trees had been cut and sold for not above 6d. a piece; and they particularly named the wood of O'Shaughnessy's estate as having been the subject of such waste. CAPTAIN THADY QUINN. This ancient Sept is recognised in the native Annals from the earliest date of surnames ; those of Ulster commemorate, amongst the heroes who fought at Clon- tarf in 1014, Neill O'Quin. Widely spreading over Ireland, this family held territory in Limerick, Clare, Longford, Westmeath, and Derry. In the first County the name has been in later years ennobled, with the titles of Barons Adare and Earls of Dun- raven. In 1095, died of the plague Augustin O'Quinn, Chief Brehon of Leinster ; and in 1188, Edwina, commemorated as 'daughter of O'Quinn of Muinter-Iffernan in Thomond (Clare), and Queen of Munster,' died in her pilgrimage at Derry, 'victorious over the world and the devil.' In 1252, Thomas O'Quinn was Bishop of Clonmacnoise, as was John Quin of Limerick in 1505. The Patent Eolls record pardons to Thomas 'Cuin ' in 1318, to Maolmurry O'Coigne' of Castlemartin in 1395 ; and in 1402, King Henry the Fourth granted to Thomas O'Coyne, clerk, 'of the Irish nation and blood,' liberty to use CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 333 the English law and language. In 1404, David and John 0' ' Coynge,' of the County of Kildare, sued out a licence of pardon ; and in 1413, Henry the Fifth granted to James 'Coygne' similar licence as that before given to Thomas 'Coyne,' clerk, with the additional liberty of acquiring lands in mortmain for religious uses. Walter Quinn 'of Dublin' was preceptor to Prince Henry, on whose death he pub- lished an epitaph in 1613.* The Act that in 1612 confiscated Ulster by the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his confederates, included Murtogh O'Quinn, 'late of Dungannon,' and Teigue Modder O'Quinn of the same place. Crom- well's memorable Ordinance of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and estate Brien Modder O'Quynne, and Turlogh Groom O'Quynne of Monagowre, in the County of Tyrone; while Mr. John Quinn was one of the twenty-four whom Ire ton condemned to die on the capitulation of Limerick. The Attainders of 1642 include Richard and Laughlin Quinn of Bally- hooke, County of Wicklow ; Edmund Quin of Bal- lenteskin, do. clerk ; Christopher Quinn of St. Audoen's parish, Dublin, and Christopher Quin of St. Michan's, do. merchant. In a patent of Clare lands granted in 1680 to Dame Lucy 'Fitzmorrice' and her son Richard Fitz-Morrice, there was an especial saving of the rights of Thady Quinn, possibly the above Captain, to certain lands therein, and to a mort- gage on others of the grant. * Watt's Biblioth. Britt. 334 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. On this Army List, besides the above Captain Thady Quinn, Daniel Quinn was a Quarter-Master in Colonel Nicholas Purcell's Horse, as was Eobert Quinn in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; Christopher 'Quin,' a Cornet in Colonel Symon Luttrell's, and James 'Quinn,' a Lieutenant in Major General Boise- leau's Infantrjr. Captain Thady Quinn was attainted in 1691, when his estates in the County of Limerick became vested in the Crown. The other Outlawries were of William Quin of Dublin, Eichard Quinn of A thy, Hugh Mc Turlogh O'Quin of Cornetule, and Brian Oge Mac Turlogh O'Quin of Glunoe, County of Tyrone. LIEUTENANT SYLVESTER PURDON. While this name is still extant of respectability in the County of Clare, the above Lieutenant appears to have been of a Cork family ; to one of whom, Colo- nel Bartholomew Purdon, M. P. who died in 1737, a monument is erected in the church of Ballyclogh. The name does not appear on the Outlawries, or else- where on the Army List. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM LYSAGHT. In 1542, Edward 'Lysart' was presented by the King to the perpetual vicarage of Ballytobin, which glare's dragoons. 335 had come to the Crown on the Dissolution of monas- teries, as parcel of the possessions of that of Kenlis in Ossory. The List of ' Scholars ' of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1612, has the name of Daniel Lysagh, otherwise Mac Gillisagh, afterwards presented to the rectory of Kathblynninge in the Diocese of Killaloe, with a proviso that £ unless he shall reside thereon, after he shall have finished his studies in Trinity College, Dublin, the presentation shall be void.'* In the war of 1641, James Lysaght was a Cornet in the army, and distinguished himself under the com- mand of the Earl of Inchiquin. [His son Nicholas was a Captain in King William's army at the battle of the Boyne, and was afterwards a claimant at Chi- chester House, for charges affecting the Clare estates of William Creagh, but his petition was dismist. His son John Lysaght was in 1758 raised to the Peerage, by the title of Baron Lisle of Mountrath, a title which still exists.] In 1666, Cornet John Lysaght had a confirmatory grant of 500 acres in the Barony of Orrery, County of Cork. It was at this time that a Thomas Lysaght, then a young man, being on his passage to England, on his way to study at Oxford, was taken by a French privateer and car- ried into France, where he became a convert to the Eoman Catholic religion. Incurring thereby the displeasure of his father, he was disinherited, and the estate of the family was bequeathed by that gentleman * Rot. Pat- 10 Car 1, in Cane. Iiib. 33G KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. to a younger son, the above Captain Nicholas of King William's army. In the old cathedral graveyard of Kilfenora is the chief burial place of the Clare Lysaghts, and on a slab there is an inscription to Patrick Lysaght; in his epitaph he is made to say, 1 Marti et Baccho scepe tributa dedi. 1 The tradition of the country points to his grave as that of 'the warrior,' and suggests him to have been engaged in the Stuart wars, more especially as it is stated on the tombstone that he died in 1741, at the very advanced age of 85 ; he had four brothers, whose descendants are yet established in and about Ennis. In 1678, a William Lysaght, possibly the above Lieutenant, obtained a grant of 800 acres in the Baronies of Bunratty, Tulla, and Inchiquin in the County of Clare, by a patent in which he is ex- pressly described as the son of a Patrick Lysaght. The daughters and co-heiresses of this William were married as before mentioned, ante, p. 84. Besides this Lieutenant, a Thomas ' Lycett ' held the same rank in Colonel Carroll's Dragoons. In the before mentioned churchyard of Ballyclogh, County of Cork, is a handsome monument to the memory of the above John Lysaght, styled of Mount- north, Lord Lisle, and to his wife Catherine, who died before him. In the year 1780, another John Lysaght, styled of Brick-hill, died at Mallow; he was the father of the facetious Barrister of a past gene- ration, — Ned Lysaght. CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 337 LIEUTENANT JOSEPH FURLONG. This family was one of the earliest English colonists of the County of Wexford, where they settled in the neighbourhood of Roscarlan. On the Patent Rolls of 1346, David Furlong is mentioned as then a landed proprietor there ; it would seem indeed he was the mitred Abbot of the noble monastery of Dunbrody, whose remains, after a lapse of centuries, are still strikingly interesting. About his time a Carmelite House was founded and endowed at Hoartown, in the same County, by a Furlong. In the Parliament of 1585, Patrick Furlong was one of the Representatives of the borough of Wexford ; and at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, Mark Furlong, described as of Wexford, was one of the Commons. This Mark, it would seem, was the same gratefully named in the Declaration of Royal gratitude of 1662, for subsequent services 1 beyond the seas.' Besides this Lieutenant Joseph, James Furlong was a Quarter-Master in Lord Tyrconnel's Horse. Yet neither of the names appears in the Outlawries of 1691, which do mention David Furlong of Bannow, Nicholas of Kilcavan, Michael of Brown-castle, and Walter of Coole-Hall. The lands of the latter were in 1703 purchased from the Trustees of the Forfeited Estates by George Saville. Ware, in his 'Writers of Ireland,' makes mention of a White Furlong, born in Wexford, a student in z 338 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Oxford, and subsequently a priest and author ; while in later years Thomas Furlong of the same County was a poet, whose talents, out of Ireland, might have been encouraged into high repute. He was one of the principal translators engaged in that national com- pilation of Mr. Hardiman, " the Irish Minstrelsy," — the songs of Carolan having been assigned for his trans- lation. Dying in 1827, at the age of 33 years, he was buried at Drumcondra, near the monument of Francis Grose the Antiquarian.* LIEUTENANT PATEICK HEHIE. The Sept of OTIehir was in earliest time noticed as territorially located at Magh-Adhair, a district of Clare lying between Ennis and Tulla. In a battle fought in 1094, at Fenagh, in the County of Leitrim, between Eoderic O'Conor with his adherents of the Siol-Murry, and the people of Thomond and West Connaught, in which Eoderic was victorious, Aalaffe O'Hehir was slain ; while the Four Masters notice at 1099 the death of Donogh OTIehir, as then Lord of Magh- Adhair. Soon after, however, this Sept were driven hence by the Macnamaras, westward to Hy-Cormaic, a tract lying between Slieve Callan and the town of Ennis. * The name does not appear on the Attainders of 1642, but the clause of Eoyal gratitude in the Act of * DAlton's County of Dublin, p. 247 CLARE'S DRAGOONS. 339 Settlement includes Ensign Turlogh O'Hehir, de- scribed as of Balame in that County. Adherents, as this family were of the O'Briens, the present Army List, besides the above Lieutenant Patrick, presents Teigue O'Hehir, an Ensign in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's Kegiment of Infantry ; while, still following the fortunes of the dethroned Stuart under the O'Bryan guidance, Captain Hehir was one of those in Clare's Regiment of Dragoons, wounded at the battle of Lauffield village in 1747. LIEUTENANT RICHARD BEDFORD. This Officer was of Ardclogh in the County of Wick- low, as was also Thomas Bedford an Ensign in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry, and a Dennis Bedford attainted at the same time, all of whom are described in the Inquisitions for their outlawry as of this locality. The name is of record in the Irish Rolls of Chancery from Edward the First. CORNET HUGH PERRY. This name is not repeated on the Army List, nor does it at all appear on the Attainders. It is traced in the later records of Cork ; as that of 4 Pery ' is from an earlier period in Limerick ; where, in the middle of the last century, nourished the Right Honourable z 2 340 king james's irish army list. Edmund Sexton Pery, by whose influence that City of the Sieges was, though not until the year 1760, de- clared by government to be no longer a fortress ; and its walls were thereupon levelled, new approaches made to it, and a new bridge and spacious quays were constructed. CORNET NICHOLAS AECHDEKIN. This name is traceable in the Local and Family Hist- ory of the Counties of Gal way and Kilkenny, from a very early period, and subsequently in Cork. Alured, Prior of the House of Inistiogue, County of Kilkenny, assigned in 1218 to the Abbey of St. Thomas of Dub- lin, a moiety of the Churches of Kilcormack and Tul- laghbarry, with which his house had been previously . endowed by Stephen Archdekin, Knight ; who on this occasion confirmed the transfer. In 1309, 'Maurice le Ercedekne' had livery of his estates in Ireland, a short time previous to which John le Ercedekne, Maurice le Ercedekne, Sylvester and William le Ercedekne were summoned, as ' Fideles ' of Ireland, to the Scottish wars. And in 1435, John Archde- kin, a citizen and merchant of Dublin, was permitted to sue out a ' quietus ' from being thenceforth sum- moned on Juries. In 1585, Eobert i Archdeacon' was one of the Eepresentatives of Ennistiogue in Perrot's Parliament. In King James's Charter of 1687, to Kilkenny, John Archdekin, merchant, was one of the clare's dragoons. 341 Aldermen ; John Archdekin, junior, merchant, She- riff, and Peter Archdekin, Chamberlain. The aforesaid Alderman John was in 1689 elected by this body Mayor of their City. Besides the above Nicholas, Redmond 'Archdeacon ' was a Lieutenant in Lord Galway's Infantry. The former, according to the description on the Inquisi- tion of Outlawry in 1691, was of the County of Cork, yet he is shown on record to have been seized of lands in Gal way, which were the subject of a marriage set- tlement in 1699; while Redmond is styled on his Attainder as of Tristane, County of Galway. There were also attainted with them in 1691, James Arch- deacon of Kilmosheer, Henry Archdeacon of the City of Cork, merchant, and John Archdeacon of Monks- town, in the same County, at which latter place the castle was erected by one of said John's progenitors. CORNET THOMAS CLANCHY. The Mac Clanchys were a Sept of the Dal-Cassian stock, hereditary Brehons or Judges of Thomond, under the O'Bryans its Princes ; while another family of the name were Lords of Dartry and Rosclogher, in West Brefney (Leitrim). The Declaration of Royal gratitude in 1662, for ' services beyond the seas,' in- cludes Captain Murtough Clanchy of Castlekeale, County of Clare ; while on this Army List, besides 342 king james's irish army list. Cornet Thomas, John 6 Clancy ' was a Lieutenant in the Royal Infantry. The Attainders of 1691 name Murtough and James Clancy of Knocklane, Beetum Clancy of Cor- ringer, and Boetius Clancy of Glancun, all in the County of Clare. At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Connor Clancey claimed a freehold in a small estate of Lord Clare ; — allowed. QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM HAWFORD. This surname, probably identical with Harford, is not found again on the List, nor at all on the Attainders. A family of the latter spelling existed in the County of Dublin in the last century. QUARTER-MASTER EDMUND BOHILLY. The Milesian surname of O'Bohilly, O'Bohill, O'Boyle, is of early record, as well on the native annals as on the Rolls of the Irish Chancery. In 1099, Canlam- rach O'Boyle was Bishop of Armagh, as was Cineath O'Boyle of Clogher in 1135. In 1301, during the vacancy of the See of Cashel, the King presented John O'Boghill to the Vicarage of Calveston, within that Diocese ; while in 1318 Dionysius O'Boghill sued out a patent for pardon and protection, and in 1597 * Rolls in Cane. Hib. clare's dragoons. 343 Niall O'Boyle was Bishop of Eaplioe. Of the particu- lar individual, however, here in commission, nothing- has been ascertained, nor of his family. QUAETEB-MASTEB JAMES O'DEA. This Sept possessed the territory in the County of Clare now known as the Parish of Dysart, in the Barony of Inchiquin, and within it had many castles, of which some ruins still remain. Branches of the family had also settled in Cork and Tipperary. So early as 1151 the Four Masters record that when at Moinmore, a place which lies between Cork and the Blackwater, a battle was fought to establish the right to the sovereignty of Minister, (claimed as vested in the O'Brien succession), no less than nine of the Sept of O'Dea were slain. Again, in 1318 occurred the battle of Dysart-O'Dea, where Sir Eobert de Clare was slain by Conor O'Dea, the warlike Prince of Cineal-Fermain,* a country of ancient Thomond in the County of Clare. In 1415, Dionysius O'Dea, precentor in the Cathedral of Limerick, sued out a licence to absent himself from his dignity for five years, and place himself in the schools of Oxford or Cambridge, receiving there, however, during that in- terval, the profits of his precentorship :f he was subse- * Vallancey's Collect. Hib. vol. 1, p. 617. t Rot. Pat. 2 Hen. 5, in Cane. Hib. 344 king james's irish army list. quently raised to the See of Ossory. Cornelius O'Dea died Bishop of Limerick in 1426, while another Cor- nelius O'Dea was the first Prelate appointed to the See of Killaloeby Henry VIII. in 1546 ; his predeces- sor, James O'Corren, having then resigned " for the sake of retirement and living private."* At the Court of Chichester House, John O'Dea was a claim- ant for a freehold in Clare, on Lord Clare's confisca- tions ; — allowed. REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL's. Captains. Lieutenants. Cornets. Quarter-Masters. The Colonel. Lieut. -Colonel. Edward Moclare, Major. Oliver Grace. Charles Geoghegan. Charles Lucas. Adam Kennigs. Conn Geoghegan. Christopher Quinn. Thomas Bourke. Thomas Ducken- Henry Morley. Christopher Tyrrell, field. Sir Edward Tyrrell. John Perkins. COLONEL SIMON LUTTRELL. An Inquisition taken in 1687 finds that Thomas Lut- trell of Luttrelstown died about fourteen years pre- * Ware's Bishops. luttrell's dragoons. 345 vious, seized of upwards of 2,500 acres in the County of Dublin, with the Eectories of Clonsillagh, Duna- bate, and Knockraddy, and that this Simon Luttrell was his son and heir ; and as so much has been written of the Luttrell family, ante, p. 189, &c, the notices here shall be confined to him. When Tyrcon- nel repaired to Cork to receive King James on his landing, this Simon (who had previously, as before mentioned, ante, p. 61, been the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Hon. Thomas Newcomen's Infantry), was appointed Governor of Dublin, with an adequate Gar- rison.* Such he continued to be when James made his entry into that City ; and, in the Parlia- ment convened there immediately after, he repre- sented the County of Dublin. In June, 1690, when James heard that his rival was marching to confront him, he committed Dublin to the more especial charge of Colonel Simon Luttrell, intending himself to pene- trate northwards to Dundalk, preserving the harvest of the County of Louth behind him.f After the de- feat at the Boyne, when Berwick collected a body of the routed Army at Brazeel, near Swords, King James at his instance sent out from Dublin six troops of this Colonel's Dragoons, to cover the Duke's retreat into the City. He afterwards, when determined to fly from Ireland, ordered this Officer to march to Leixlip with all the forces in town, except two troops of his own Regiment of Horse, of which this Army * Clarke's Mem. Jac. 2, v. 2, p. 378. t D'Alton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 316. 346 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. List affords no details, but which he kept to attend upon himself if necessitated to fly.* After the de- parture of his Sovereign, however, Colonel Simon, true to the interest of the self-exiled James, returned to Dublin, and did not retire from the trust which had been reposed in him, until dusk.f (A Narcissus Luttrel, it may be remarked, was about this time in King William's service,J while a Spottiswode Luttrel commanded an independent troop for James after the Boyne §) When the Irish party at Limerick, opposed to Tyrconnel, despatched their deputation to the King at St. Germains, Colonel Simon was associated therein, as before mentioned, p. 54. He was attainted in 1691, as were also his wife, and Thomas Luttrell described as of Luttrelstown, and Robert Luttrel of Simonstown, County of Kil- dare. That wife, Katherine, became a widow before the sitting of the Court of Claims in 1700, where she preferred a memorial for her jointure off his estates in the Counties of Dublin and Kildare, which was allowed her ; while his brother, Colonel Henry, claimed an estate tail therein ; but his petition was postponed, as pending already before Parliament. Margaret Luttrel, spinster, also sought and was allowed a remainder for years in Meath lands of said Colonel Simon. By the Articles of Limerick it was * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 402. f O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 358. % Kawdon Papers, p. 419. § Singers Correspondence, v. 2, p. 514. luttrell's dragoons. 347 agreed that this Simon Luttrell, together with Mau- rice Eustace of Yeomanstown, and Chevers of Mayestown, commonly called 4 Viscount Leinster,' (who are stated then to belong to the Regiments in the garrisons and quarters of the Irish Army beyond the seas, sent thither upon the affairs of their respective Eegiments, or of the Army in general), should have the benefit thereof, provided they returned within eight months, submitted to King William's govern- ment, and took the oath of allegiance.* Simon did not, however, avail himself of this proffered amnesty ; but, remaining in France, became there Colonel of the 4 Queen's Regiment of Guards,' of which Francis Wauchop was Lieutenant-Colonel, and James O'Brien Major.f He died in September, 1698, as recorded on his monument in the Chapel of the Irish College at Paris, and left no issue to represent him.J O'Conor commemorates him as an Officer of great in- tegrity, who followed faithfully the fortune of King James, and forfeited his estates in that cause. The same historian says that at the battle of Marsiglia, in 1693, his Lieutenant-Colonel, at the head of 2,600 Irishmen, was posted in the centre of Catinat's line, and that in assuring this victory, these Irish had a principal share; their leader, Wauchop, however, fell on the field. § * Harleian MSS. v. 7, p. 490. f Fitzgerald's Limerick, v. 2, p. 374. I O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 203. § O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, pp. 219, 222. 348 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. In 1696, Colonel Simon Luttrell's glebe land was granted to Walter Delamer in trust,* while several im- propriate Kectories and Tithes, of which he had been seized, were granted by the Commissioners to the Trus- tees for augmenting poor livings, &c. ; and at Chiches- ter House in 1700, many claims were preferred and some allowed affecting his lands in the Counties of Dublin, Kildare, and Meath, and his house property in Dublin City. MAJOR EDWARD MOCLARE. The Moclares were a family very widely spread over Tipperary in the time of Queen Elizabeth. It does not appear, however, of what County this Major was a native ; while in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry John Moclare was a Captain, and James Moclare an Ensign. The Attainders of 1691 present the names of James Moclare, Knight, of Dublin ; and a Jeffry ' Mockler ' was the forfeiting occupant of lands in the Barony of Tulla, County of Clare, which were claimed in 1703, and allowed to be the estate in fee of Sir Arthur Gore, then a minor. CAPTAIN THOMAS DUCKENFIELD. This Officer is described in the Inquisition of At- tainder as of Longwood, County of Meath ; as is also * Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 260. luttrell's dragoons. 349 a Loftus Duckenfield who was attainted at the same time. The name no otherwise occurs on this Army List, or in the Attainders. Captain Thomas appears to have been the son of Colonel William Duckenfield, by Elinor, daughter of Sir Dudley Loftus of Killyan, who after his decease married Sir Edward Tyrrell of Lynn, the next Captain in this Regiment. The early ancestry of this family is to be traced in Che- shire, where it enjoyed the honor of a Baronetcy. CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD TYRRELL. Hugh De Lacy, the great Palatine of Meath, in his settlement of that ' Kingdom,' as it was then yet designated, gave Castleknock and its lands accounted therein to his namesake Hugh Tyrrell, whose descend- ants were hence long after styled Barons of Castle- knock, In 1302, Gerald Tyrrell and Richard Tyrrell were two of the ' Fideles ' of Ireland, whose military services were sought by King Edward for the war in Scotland. When, in fifteen years after, Edward Bruce led his rash invasion into Ireland, in his south- ward march he encamped before Castleknock, and took the Baron and his Lady prisoners, until soon after ransomed.* The last Lord of this ancient line was Hugh Tyrrell, in 1485 ; and, on his death with- out issue male, the inheritance passed to Christopher * D'Alton's Hist. Dub. p. 557. 350 king james's irtsh army list. Barnewall and John Burnell, who had respectively married the daughters and co-heiresses of the Chief. During Tyrone's rebellion in 1597, a Captain Tyr- rell was sent into Leinster by the ' insurgents,' with a troop of five hundred men to excite disaffection in that Province ; " a son of Lord Trimleston was de- tached with 1,000 men to attack him and his party; but the experience and address of the rebel leader supplied the deficiency of his numbers, he gave the royalists a total defeat, and sent their young commander a prisoner to O'Neill.* In 1600, the same Tyrrell it would seem was an active adherent of Desmond in the Munster war. He it was who defended the Castle of Cape Clear, and consequently, in the Instruction given for the prosecution of the war in Munster, 1 Tyrrel ' is mentioned as one of the L capital rebels' whom his Lordship (the President) must lose no exertion to take, alive or dead. A Funeral Entry of 1636, in the Office of Arms, records the death of Edward Tyrrell of Caverstown, County of Westmeath, (second son of Edward Tyrrell of do., eldest son and heir of Eichard Tyrrell of same place); adding that he married Honora, daughter of John Tyrrell of Clonmoyle in said County, by whom he had three sons ; Richard, as yet unmarried, and two others who died so ; that said Edward took to his se- cond wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Eustace of Clongowes Wood, by whom he had a daughter — dead. His third wife was Amy, daughter of Richard Sutton * Leland's Ireland, vol. 2, p. 354. luttrell's dragoons. 351 of Richardstown, County of Kildare ; by whom he had one son James. Said first-mentioned Edward Tyrrell died 11th May, 1636, and was buried at Castlelost, County of Westmeath. The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Henry Tyrrell of Killussy, County of Kildare ; Peter Tyrrell of Ath- boy, merchant ; and Thomas Tyrrell of do., with many others of the name in Westmeath.* In the same year Colonel Monk, afterwards celebrated as the Duke of Albemarle, took Castleknock and put many of the garrison to the sword; but in November, 1647, Owen Roe O'Neill retook this old fortress from the Republicans. In this latter year, Thomas Tyrrell of Kilbride was of" the Supreme Council at Kilkenny ; he was therefore, in Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate ; but, by the Act of Explanation in 1665, was restored to his seat and three thousand acres. In particular reference to this Captain Sir Edward Tyrrel, the Earl of Clarendon, writing to the Earl of Rochester, says, " On Saturday last in the evening, one Mr. Edward Tyrrell of the County of Meath brought me the King's letter for creating him a Baro- net. He is a very old man, and it were to be wished His Majesty had good accounts of men before he conferred marks of honor upon them, which he * On the Westmeath Forfeitures of this Civil war and the several patentees thereof, the Book of Survey and Distribution in that County has been recently copied, compared, and printed, to the extent of 126 folios, beautifully executed by John Charles Lyons, Esq. of Ladiston, a Deputy Lieutenant there. 352 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, may very easily have if he pleaseth, and still do what he has a mind to. This gentleman's father was a law- yer and a Roman Catholic ; what religion he was of in the time of the Usurper nobody can tell, but he was employed by them to make a Survey of the County of Meath, which he did most exactly ; therein discovering all the secrets with which he was entrusted. His estate was very small. This gentle- man has much improved it, as he says that he bought of new title from soldiers, adventurers, and c 49 1 in- terest, to the value of about £700 per annum ; of which it is said he owes £5,000, and is incumbered with variety of lawsuits He is of any or no re- ligion, sometimes a Roman Catholic, sometimes a Protestant."* In the Parliament of 1689, this in- dividual sat as one of the Representatives for the Borough of Belturbet, and there appear of his name, and possibly kindred, on this Army List, John Tyrrell, a Captain in the King's Own Foot ; Walter Tyrrell in Fitz-James's ; and Simon ' Turrill,' a Lieu- tenant in Colonel Robert Clifford's Dragoons. On the 7th of April, 1690, King James, 'reposing great trust and confidence in the honesty and diligence, care and circumspection of our trusty and well- beloved Sir Edward Tyrrell,' appointed him supervisor of the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Kerry ; with powers to prevent or punish frauds, neglects, and mis- demeanours there ; " to preserve our woods, houses, and parks, and to view our fortifications within the * Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, &c, v. 1, p. 383. luttrell's dragoons. 353 same, and execute all necessary repairs."* In the King's ecclesiastical appointments of 4th June, 1690, Doctor Philip Tyrrell was one of those whom His Majesty presented to the Rectories of Lynn and Moylesker in the County of Westmeath ; while Doc- tor John Tyrrell was at the same time presented to those of Kilmetsan and Galtoon, and another John Tyrrel to the Eectory of Eathconnel, all in said County, f It may be observed that amongst the Roman Catholic Prelates, whom King James immedi- ately after his accession recommended to the protec- tion of the Earl of Clarendon, were Doctor Patrick Tyrrell, R.C. Bishop of Clogher and Kilmore, with Doctor Dominick Maguire, the R.C. Primate of Armagh, and the other Irish Roman Catholic Pre- lates. The first Doctor Tyrrell was Secretary to Lord Tyrconnel, and amongst papers of his that were taken by King William's party, was that Lord's 1 occult ono- matographie,' to which was a key on a separate sheet, in which Ireland was designated Barbadoes, &c.J There were of this name attainted in 1691, the above Captain Edward of Longwood, Baronet, with nine of the name in the County of Westmeath, and three in other parts of the country. § At the Court of * Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, p. 143. f De Burgo, Hib. Dom. p. 20. } Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 183. § Hitherto the ' Illustrations ' in this Work have been extended to details, which it is thought prudent henceforth to abridge as above. In cases, where no particular interest has been evinced, they might be only irksome to the public at large. A A 3o4 king james's irish army list. Claims, Gabriel Tyrrell claimed an estate tail especial in County of Westmeath lands forfeited by Francis Tyrrell, but bis petition was dismist ; as was also a claim of Eicbarcl Tyrrel for a remainder of 41 years leasehold, in the lands forfeited by Sir Edward Tyrrell. The witness to this conveyance was Thomas Ducken- field, probably the preceding Captain. The daughter of this Sir Edward was a Protestant, and, marrying Sir John Edgeworth, another Protestant, Longwood passed into the latter family, in which it remained unaffected by the penal laws. LIEUTENANT CHARLES LUCAS. This Officer seems to have been akin to another Charles Lucas, the nephew of Sir Charles Lucas who was shot in 1648, by the Parliament army, on the sur- render of Colchester. This nephew was ennobled by the title of Lord Lucas, had a pension of £500 per ann. on the Establishment of 1687-8, and was, by warrant of the Lords assembled at Guildhall, Decem- ber 11th, 1688, the day before James the Second fled from the palace of Whitehall, appointed Constable of the Tower of London. In 1661, Edward Lucas, who seems to have been of the Monaghan lineage, was ap- pointed a Sub-Commissioner for putting in execution the King's Declaration for the Settlement of Ireland ; while in later years flourished in Ireland a namesake of the Lieutenant, the well-known Dr. Charles Lucas, luttrell's dragoons. 355 commemorated by a fine marble statue in the Royal Exchange, now the Town-hall of Dublin. LIEUTENANT HENRY MORLEY, CORNET ADAM KENNING S, CORNET JOHN PERKINS. None of these names is repeated on the Army List, nor noted in the Outlawries of 1691. A family of the ' Morleys ' had been settled at Feltrim, in the County of Dublin ; and in the minutes of the Courts- martial held by the Usurping Power in 1651, &c, appears the name of Humphrey Morley, tried at Naas on the 27th October, 1652. A family of the name of Perkins was about the same time settled at Ath- boy. REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD'S. Captains. The Colonel. Alexander McKenzie Lieut.-Col. Conn ell Ferrall. Henry Crofton. Terence Coghlan. Miles D'Alton. James Fitzgerald. Simon Wyer. John Mackewy. Lieutenants. Constantine O'Con- nor. Carberry Bryan. Myles M'Dermott. Robert Cusack. Simon Terrill. William Clifford. Thomas Burton. Cornets. Quarter- M asters. Christopher Ferrall. John Crofton, William Smith, Henry Clifford. Christoph gerald. Fits- Daniel Griffin. A A 2 356 king james's irish army list. COLONEL ROBERT CLIFFORD. The name of De Clifford is traced on Irish records from the time of Henry the Third. In 1227, Simon Clif- ford granted an annuity of forty shillings (no very small sum at the time) to the Abbey which he had refounded at Durrow, in the King's County. The religious house which previously existed there had been dilapidated by Sir Hugh de Lacy, as before mentioned, in 1175. In 1282, William de Clifford was Bishop of Emly ; and in 1374, Sir Thomas Clif- ford was summoned to a Parliament held in Dublin. In 1597, Sir Conyers Clifford was governor of Con- naught; and in 1600, Sir Alexander Clifford had the command of 150 men in the Munster war. Story, in his Impartial History, alluding to the movements of King William's army, relates that on the 31st Decem- ber, 1690, three Regiments of the Irish, coming down to the Shannon at the Connaught side near Lanes- borough, " Colonel Clifford and the other Irish officers drank healths over to our men, and those on our side returned the compliment." In May, 1691, says the same historian, Captain Johnston, at the head of 100 men, surprised near Ballinamona in the King's County two troops of Clifford's Dragoons and a party of Lord Merrion's Horse. In three months after, at the time of the death of Tyrconnel, as Harris suggests,* the Irish began to be jealous of Brigadier Clifford, (as in truth they had some reason) but, in consequence of * Life of King Will. 3, p. 337. Clifford's dragoons. 357 the disunion among the principal officers, he was continued in the command of 1,500 horse to guard the passes of the Shannon ; and in confirmation of the justice of that jealousy, the writer adds that " when the besiegers had finished a bridge into the island of Limerick, and Colonel Matthews' (Williamite) Dra- goons began to pass over it, Brigadier Clifford was posted near the place of passage with four Regiments of Dragoons, who did not seem very forward, though they marched down on foot and pretended to give opposition He was of the moderate party who were inclined to put an end to the war."* Colonel 'Kelly, in reference to this inertness, states circum- stances which clearly establish that Clifford, if innocent of treachery, was at least guilty of unpardonable neglect.f "He (says the Colonel) was an Irishman by birth, his grandfather being of a noble family in Eng- land who came to Ireland in Queen Elizabeth's days ; he professed the Roman Catholic religion ; was vain, of shallow parts, of no great conduct ; and, though it cannot be positively averred he was a traitor, yet it was not prudent in Sarsfield to entrust him with such a post, as he knew him to be a creature of Tyrconnel's, to be malcontent, and very unfortunate in all his undertakings ; and Sarsfield was earnestly desired, on the morning before that fatal night, by O'Kelly himself (as the Colonel relies), for whose opinion he always seemed to have a great value, either to come * Life of King Will. 3, p. 346. t Excid. Mao. p. 151, &c. 358 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, in person from Limerick to command at those passes, or, if he could not come himself, to send Wauchop thither ; otherwise that the enemy would come over and besiege the town on both sides ; but there was some fatality in the matter." The Earl of Westmeath (whose Regiment of In- fantry is hereafter alluded to), writing to Harris, the compiler of the Life of William the Third, on 22nd August, 1749, further confirms by his experience Clifford's great neglect: — "This Brigadier commanded where the bridge was laid over, and by a very great neglect he made no opposition to it. He was for that neglect confined in the Castle [of Limerick], and I believe, if the Articles were not made, he must of course be condemned by a Court Martial. I had a Regiment of Horse, and we were encamped on a mountain within three miles of the bridge, and the body consisted of 3,000 horse commanded by General Sheldon ; and, on his hearing an account of G-inkle's having laid a bridge over the Shannon, and that a great number both of Horse and Foot had passed it, he marched with the Horse to Sixmilebridge, which we passed, and marched the next day to Clare, where we remained till we made Articles."* After the Capitulation, Clifford was particularly active in en- deavouring to bring over the Irish soldiers to the English service,! and his own Regiment is represented as having exhibited the most numerous defections to * Excidium Macariae, p. 481. t O'Conor's Milit, Mem, p. 188. Clifford's dragoons. 359 the new interest. His Attainder bears date 11th May, 1691, and he is thereon described as Robert Clifford of Dublin, Esq. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDER MAC KENZIE. Nothing has been ascertained of this evidently Scotch officer, though information has been sought from the Baronet of Coul, in Rosshire, of whose ancestry it is conjectured he was. CAPTAIN CONNELL FERRALL. The Principality of this illustrious Irish Sept was Annaly, covering a large portion of the present County of Longford ; and, from the earliest use of surnames in Ireland, the achievements, succession, and obits of their Tanists or Captains, the many religious houses they founded, and the castles they erected, are recorded in the native annals. They have been Bishops and Abbots of the highest rank, and, although located on the debateable borders of the Pale, have intermarried with the noblest houses of the English Settlers. The Four Masters relate that Gildas O'Fer- ral, leader of the Annaly Sept, Chief Arbitrator of Ireland, died in 1141 at an advanced age. In 1203, Amalgaid O'Ferral, then Abbot of Deny, was elected 360 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Abbot of Iona. Later in this century the O'Ferrals founded Abbey-shrule for Cistercian monks, and the friary of Ballynasaggard for Franciscans : both es- tablishments being in the present County of Longford. In 1299, Florence O'Ferral died Bishop of Emly, and 'left behind him a great reputation for his alms- deeds, hospitality, and other good works.,* In 1314, Geffrey O'Ferral of 1 Montravy ' was summoned by King Edward to the Scottish war. In 1347, Owen O'Ferral succeeded to the See of Ardagh, as did Char- les O'Ferral in 1373. In 1400, the noble Dominican Friary of Longford was founded by the Chief, in which Cornelius O'Ferral, who died Bishop of Ardagh in 1424, was buried. In 1486, William O'Ferrall, himself the Dynast of Annaly, was Bishop of Ardagh, and continued to discharge the double duties of the prelacy and the Chiefry . f In 1 5 4 1 , Richard O'Ferrall, Abbot of Larha and Dynast of Annaly, had a similar charge of the Diocese of Ardagh. In 1565, Sir Henry Sidney first erected 'Annaly of the O'Ferralls' into the Shire of Longford. In 1583, Lysach O'Fer- ral, a conformist, obtained the See of Ardagh from Queen Elizabeth ; and in 1587, Thady O'Ferral was Bishop of Clonfert. Two years previously, in Per- rot's Parliament, the sept was represented by the Captains of two diverging lines ; viz. William, son of Donal, son of Cormac O'Ferrall ; and Fachtna, son of Bryan, son of Eoderic, son of Cathal O'Ferrall ; yet * Ware's Bishops, p. 271. f Idem, p. 254. CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 361 both their territories were soon after included in the plantation scheme of James the First, and an enquiry was directed to ascertain the extent of their estates. This measure almost wholly cast the Sept out of their old territory ; and in 1610, by the marriage of Amy, daughter of Cormac OTerral, with Captain George Lane, a portion passed to that family, the grandson of which marriage was the first Viscount Lanesborough. The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Ge- rald 0' < Farrel,' of Kill, Clerk ; Dionysius Ferrel, of Kildrought, County of Kildare ; and Nicholas Farrel of Kill, merchant. Amongst the Confederate Catho- lics who were assembled at Kilkenny in 1647, were Donel O'Ferrall of Enniscorthy, Fergus O'Fer- rall of Bleamclogher, and Francis O'Ferrall of Moate. Colonel Richard O'Ferrall was then a dis- tinguished officer in the service of Owen Roe O'Neill. The Declaration of Royal gratitude, for services be- yond the seas, includes Captain Gerald Ferrall, Ensign John Ferrall, Colonel Lewis O'Ferrall, Sir Connell Ferrall of Tirlickin, County of Longford (who seems to be identical with the above Captain Connell), with Charles Ferrall, and Francis Ferrall of Mornin in the same County. Besides the above Captain Connell Ferrall, there are on this Army List Fergus Farrell a Captain in Colonel Richard Nugent's Infantry, and Gerald Farrell a Lieutenant, and Fergus Farrell an Ensign in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's (late Colonel Iriell Farrell's). In the Parliament of 1689, Roger and Robert Ferrall were the Representatives of the County of Longford, as was another Roger Ferrall one of 362 king james's irish army list. those for Lanesborough. The above Captain Connell (or more correctly, it would seem, Sir Connell Ferrall) was early advanced to be a Lientenant-Colonel ; and he, as Mackenzie relates, was in 1688 ordered out from Boyle, with the Dartry Irish to the number of four or five hundred, to oppose the Enniskilleners. He was afterwards killed at the siege of Deny, as was also a Captain Ferrall.* The Attainders of 1691 present the names of eight of the Sept in the County of Longford, and one in each of the Counties of Westmeath, Roscommon, Tyrone, and the City of Dublin ; and at Chiches- ter House many claims were made as attaching on the Longford estates of O'Ferralls ; they are, however, too numerous to detail here. On the 10th of July, 1703, the Duke of Marlbro' wrote to the Duke of Ormond, in regard to an officer of this name, " I give your Grace this trouble at the request of my old ac- quaintance Brigadier 1 Offarel though falling now under your Grace's government, I cannot but recom- mend him to your protection ; and pray that as he may have occasion to apply himself to your Grace, you will please to afford him your favourable counte- nance, as well on account of his own merit as for the sake of your Grace's, &. &c. Marlbro'. f Diana, daughter of this Brigadier, married Francis, after- wards created Earl of Effingham, from which union this noble house has sprung. * Mac Kenzie's Siege of Derry, p. 17. t Murray's Marlborough Despatches, v. 1, p. 136. CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 363 The notice of this Sept cannot be closed without expressing a regret, that the compiler has in vain sought the free inspection of a ' Diary ' of the above Brigadier, where it is known to exist. CAPTAIN HENRY CROFTON. In 1606, Edward Crofton had a grant from the Crown of several rectories, vicarages, priories, tithes, and lands in the Counties of Sligo and Roscommon. He is described in the patent as Edward, " son of John Crofton of Connaught." His grandson and namesake, Edward Crofton of Moate, was created a Baronet, and married Mary, daughter of the justly venerated Sir James Ware. The above Captain Henry Crofton was Sheriff of the County of Sligo in 1687, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia- ment of 1689. He was attainted in 1691, and from him is lineally descended the present Sir Malby Crofton, Baronet, who represents the elder branch of this family in Ireland. Another Henry Crofton was Captain in the Earl of Clanricarde's Infantry, and seems to have been the Captain Henry adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. The Attainders of 1691, besides this Captain Henry, name John Crof- ton, described as of Ruppagh, County of Mayo. 364 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN TERENCE COGHLAN. The Sept of Mac Coghlan was one of those eligible to the dignity of Kings of Leinster, and at a very remote period was possessed of Dealbhna Eathra, the present Barony of Garry castle in the King s County. The ruins of seven castles in that County attest their former importance there. In 1134, say the Four Masters, died Aodh (Hugh), grandson of Loughlin Mac 4 Cochlan,' Lord of Dealbhna Eathra, as did Eandall Mac Coghlan the Chief in 1187, and Mur- rough Mac Coghlan in 1199. In 1213, Melaghlin Mac Coghlan, 4 Prince of Dealbhna,' died on pilgrim- age at the Abbey of Kilbeggan. In 1386, Conor Mac Coghlan died the Chief. John Mac Coughlan was Bishop of Clonmacnoise in 1427. In 1520, died Turlough, son of Phelim Mac Coghlan, the Lord of Delvin, by whom the Castles of Feadan and Kincora were erected. In the following year the Masters record a 4 dividing of Delvin, by the authority of Mel- aghlin and O'Carroll, between Ferdoragh, the son of the last Mac Coghlan, and his relative Cormac ;' and, on the death of this Ferdoragh in 1535, ' Phelim, son of Meyler Mac Coghlan, took his place.' Cormac, the tanist of a moiety, died in the preceding year, and in his line the Chieftaincy appears to have been recog- nised; at least, on the convening of the Irish Septs in Perrot's Parliament, this was represented by John, son of Art, son of Cormac Mac Coghlan. In Decem- ber, 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde accused the CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 365 O'Mulloys, Coghlans, Geoghegans, &c, of passing out of the King's County and preying over that of Galway. In the following year, however, he made especial mention of Terence Coghlan, then proprietor of Kilcolgan in the former County, as ' a person of great worth and ability,' — 4 whom himself confidenti- ally employed ;' 'a gentleman of very good parts and ability, and of a disposition and integrity suit- able thereto.' The Outlawries of 1642 include John Coghlan of Wicklow, Dermod Mac-Teigue Coghlan of Long Island, County of Cork ; and Donough Mac- Teigue 0' Coghlan of do. In the Assembly of Confed- erate Catholics (1647), the Reverend Charles Cogh- lan was an active member ; he was Vicar-General of the Diocese of Leighlin ; while John and Terence Coghlan were of the Commons in that meeting. The latter individual appears identical with this Captain, who also sat in the Parliament of 1689 as Represent- ative for the Borough of Banagher. The Royal Declaration of gratitude, embodied in the Act of Set- tlement for 4 services beyond the seas,' includes Lieu- tenants Simon Coghlan and Francis Coghlan of Bel- clare ; while the Act of Explanation, three years afterwards, restored the latter, described as Francis Coghlan of Kilcolgan, King's County, to his family mansion and 2,000 acres, with a saving for Dame Mary, widow of the above Terence, in lieu of her jointure. On this Army List, besides Captain Terence, John ' Mc Coghlan ' was a Captain in Lord Galway's 366 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Infantry, and Cornelius Coghlan a Lieutenant. In Colonel Heward Oxburgh's, John Coghlan was a Captain, and Edmund Coghlan an Ensign. In King James's Parliament, Captain Terence and ano- ther Terence Coghlan, probably his son, represented Banagher ; and Joseph Coghlan was one of the Mem- bers for Trinity College, Dublin ; but, according to Dr. King, this latter having been a Protestant, would not sit out the Acts of Attainder there passed. The Attainders of 1691 include Captain Terence Coghlan, four others of the County of Cork, two of the King's County, one of the Queen's County, and one of Limerick. Sundry claims were made at Chichester House as affecting their confiscations, and some were allowed. In 1704, a private Act was passed to prevent the disinheriting of Captain Garret Coghlan, and another in 1706 for the relief of Captain James Coghlan and Felix Coghlan, the surviving Protestant sons of John Coghlan, Esq., they having petitioned for such relief in regard to some defects in the Act of 1704. In 1746, Quarter-Master Coghlan was one of the prison- ers taken on board the Bourbon by Commodore Knowles.* It is said that the last Eepresentative of note of this ancient family was Thomas Mac Coghlan, who was one of the Members for Banagher in the Irish Parlia- ment, and died in 1790. In the year 1828, however, died in London Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Cogh- lan, who had been Governor of Chester ; and his * Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 145. CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 367 obituary states him to have been second son of the late Mr. James Coghlan of Cloghan in the King's County, by Miss Hearne of Hearnesbrook, County of Galway. The notice adds that a remnant of about £7,000 per aim. of the family property is now vested in the Honorable Frederic Ponsonby, to whom it came in the maternal line of inheritance. This Officer, (Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund) was buried in St. James's Church, his only son and his brother Colonel Andrew Coghlan being the chief mourners, and a number of the Members of the United Service Club attending the obsequies. In six years after, died at Brighton Lieutenant-G-eneral Roger Coghlan, who commenced his career in the Connaught Rangers in 1779 ; he accompanied that Regiment to Jamaica, and was afterwards in the 60th at Nova Scotia ; then in the 66th, in the 134th, and the 82nd ; on which last oc- casion he obtained the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel in 1796, and in 1819 the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel. CAPTAIN MILES D'ALTON. The tradition of the introduction of this family from France to Ireland, as preserved in the Office of Arms, records Walter D'Alton to have been its founder ; that he secretly married a daughter of Louis, King of France, and, having thereby incurred this Monarch's displeasure, fled to England, whence he passed with Plenry the Second on the invasion of Ireland. He 368 king james's irish army list. early acquired possessions in the Western portion of Meath, where he and his descendants founded religi- ous houses and erected castles. In 1328, the English forces, including the D'Altons (who from the time of their settling in Western Meath were the chief bulwark of the Pale in that direction), sustained a dreadful defeat near Mullingar ; when, according to the Four Masters, 3,500 of their army, ■ together with the D'Altons,' were slain. At the siege of Calais in 1346, under the gallant English King, Robert D'Alton was one of his Knights ; while in the Parliament of Westminster, in 1376, William D'Alton sat as one of the Kepresentatives of the County of Cork.* The district, however, where the name was first planted, witnessed its extension so widely, that, when in the time of Henry the Eighth, (1545) the western portion of Meath was separated and erected into a distinct County by the title of Westmeath, a very large tract especially described as 4 the D'Alton's Country ' was, with that alias, consti- tuted the Barony of Rathconrath. The D'Alton had previously ranked as a Palatine Baron thereof, under an early grant of that dignity from Hugh De Lacy ; and he and his descendants adopted the fleur-de-lis on ' their ' armorials, as in right of the daughter of Louis. Throughout the centuries of this their resi- dence in Ireland, they supported their rank and influ- ence by alliances not only with the noble native families, but likewise with the most illustrious of Anglo-Norman descent ; while in the progress of time * Leland's Ireland, v. 1, p. 396. CLIFFORD'S DRAGOONS. 369 members of the House branched into the Counties of Kilkenny, Waterford, and Tipperary. A Funeral Entry in the Office of Arms, Dublin, records the death in July, 1636, of John D'Alton of Dundonell, County of Westmeath, son and heir of Hubert D'Alton, eldest son of Henry D' Alton, eldest son of Edmund, eldest son of Henry, eldest son of John, (all of Dundonell) eldest son of Pierce D'Alton of Ballymore in said County, whose death, as son of an elder Pierce, is attributed to the plague of 1467. The first named John had married Elinor, daughter of Gerald Dillon of Portlick in said County, by whom he had five sons ; 1st. Garret, married to Margaret Plunket of Loughcrew, County of Meath ; 2nd. Eich- ard ; 3rd. Robert ; 4th. James ;* 5th. Thomas, un- married. Said John, the defunct, was buried in Churchtown. None of this name appear on the Out- lawries of 1642, but many fell in the contests that immediately preceded, and estates were then forfeited in Westmeath by Oliver, Nicholas, Richard, Garret, Henry, Edmund, John, Geofiry, Walter, Theobald, and James Dalton, respectively. In 1662, Lieute- nant Alexander D'Alton received the Royal thanks in the Act of Settlement. Besides this Myles, there are on the Army List * It may be permitted to remark that this James, the fourth son of John DAlton of Dundonell, married Mary or Margaret Purdon, and was the great grandfather of the compiler of the present volume. This single entry therefore suggests a retro- spective pedigree of eleven generations for one, who is now the only DAlton inheriting a fee-simple estate in the old barony. BB 370 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Walter D'Alton, (who appears to have been of the family of Kildallon) a Lieutenant in the Eoyal Re- giment of Infantry. In Colonel Henry Dillon's, two John D'Altons were Captains, Richard a Lieutenant, and a third John an Ensign. In Colonel John Grace's, Walter 1 Daton ' and John D' Alton were Lieutenants ; and in Sir Michael Creagh's, Richard D'Alton was a Captain. One of these Officers, a Captain D'Alton, was taken prisoner at the siege of Athlone.* The Attainders of 1691 include the above Captain Myles ' of Grangebeg, County of Westmeath,' with seventeen others of the name in Westmeath, three in Wexford, three in Kilkenny, and one in Dublin. Of these outlaws, Christopher D'Alton of Miltown, Major John D'Alton of Doneele, and William his son, with Edward D'Alton of Cleg, County of Wexford, were adjudged within the Articles. At the Court of Claims, James D'Alton, then a minor, by Walter Delamer, his guardian, claimed an estate in fee in lands forfeited by Garret D'Alton. Elizabeth D'Alton, widow, claimed dower off Doneele, forfeited by Major John D'Alton ; Richard and Mary D'Alton, minors, by Bryan Kelly their pivchain ami, claimed a mortgage affecting County of Roscommon estates, (including Lough-Giynn, &c.,) of Richard D'Alton ; John Adams claimed an estate in fee in the lands of Irishtown and Raheenquin forfeited by D'Alton ; but his petition was disallowed. In 1725, Thomas D'Alton was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in five years after * Story's Impartial History, part 2, p. 108. Clifford's dragoons. 371 which he died. Captain ' Daton' was one of those in Kothe's Eegiment wounded in 1747, at the battle of Lauffield, near Maestricht. Other members of the family were distinguished in the services of foreign states, and created Counts of the Holy Eoman Em- pire ; as Count Richard D'Alton, the too memorable agent of the Emperor Joseph in the oppressions of Brabant ; and Major-General James D'Alton, Gover- nor of Gratz, from which he removed to Brussels. Christopher D'Alton of Grenanstown was Chamber- lain and Colonel of the Guards to His Electoral High- ness of Saxony, and died at Eichmond near Dublin, in 1793 * Edward D'Alton brother of said Chris- topher, was Chamberlain and Major-General in the service of the Emperor of Austria. He was killed in the trenches at Dunkirk, when in 1793 that town was besieged by the Duke of York. CAPTAIN SIMON WYEE. He was attainted in 1691, as of Lea, Queen's County ; James Wyer of Kilbeggan was then also outlawed. CAPTAIN JOHN MACKEWY. This name does not otherwise occur in the Army List, or at all on the Attainders. * Anth. Hib. v. 2, p. 320. BB 2 372 king james's irish army list. LIEUTENANT THOMAS BURTON. Neither is this name repeated on the Army List, nor is it at all on the Attainders. Robert Burton was Constable of Castle Mac-Kinnegan, County of Wick- low, in 1309 ; soon after which William de Burton was one of the Remembrancers of the Irish Exchequer. A Lieutenant-Colonel 6 Burston ' was the Irish Engineer when Ballymore was besieged by de Ginckle; and on his death, he having been slain in the defence, the garrison surrendered at discretion.* QUARTER-MASTER DANIEL GRIFFIN. A native Sept of the O'Griffin is traceable in the An- nals of Ireland, while it would appear that the same name, without the Milesian prefix, came early from Pembrokeshire into this country. In 1199, Daniel O'Griffin died Abbot of the Abbey of Canons Regular of Roscommon. Matthew Fitz- Griffin was summoned hence in 1220 to the war in Britanny, and in 1257, say the Four Masters, Mac Griffin, an illustrious Knight, was taken prisoner by O'Donnell's people. In 1375, O'Molroney O'Griffin, having made his submission to the English govern- ment as Captain of his Sept, he and his three brothers obtained liberty to use the English law ; about which time Matthew 'Mac Griffin' founded a Priory for * O'CallagWs Excid. Mac. p. 419. Clifford's dragoons. 373 Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Tullylesk in the County of Cork, which was afterwards united to that of Kells (Kenlis) in the County of Kilkenny.* In 1398, John Griffin was appointed Bishop of Ossory, as was Michael Griffin to be Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1446. In 1601, DermodO"Griffien' was one of the Irish who fled to Spain after the result of the Munster war.f In 1643, Walter Griffin, de- cribed as of Hacketstown, County of Wicklow, was attainted. The name of this Quarter-Master does not appear upon the Attainders of 1691, but only Murtogh Griffin, described as 'of Dublin,' and George and Thomas Griffin of Knocksymon, County of West- meath ; while in Ulster, Hugo ' O'Gribbin' of Killeg- neen, Henry O'Gribbin of Glenbuck, and Richard O'Gribbin of Clogher, all in the County of Antrim, were outlawed. A Lord Griffin, it may be here observed, followed the fortunes of James the Second through all his wanderings ; and at the time of the Revolution main- tained personal fidelity to the unfortunate Exile. "He had been Lieutenant-General of that Regiment of his Guards, which bore the name of the Coldstream. Coming over from France in the Pretender's interest, he was captured in the Salisbury by Sir George Byng in 1708, and was tried and condemned to be beheaded ; but Queen Anne, well knowing the ad herence of the old Jacobite to her father, could not * Archdall's Mon. Hib. p. 80. t Pacata Hibernia. p. 426. 374 king james's irish army list. be prevailed upon to sign the death-warrant, and he was thus regularly respited every month, until his death in the Tower in 1710."* REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL'S, FORMERLY COLONEL THOMAS TRANT'S, FORMERLY SIR JAMES COTTER'S. Captains. The Colonel. Lieut. Colonel. Terence Carroll, Major. John Taylor. Edward Rice. Peter Lavallen. Arthur Galway. Sir Thomas Crosby. John Winnetts. John Barry. Jasper Grant. Henry Coppinger, Lieutenants. Piers Power. Stephen Galway. John Kir wan. John Lacy. Matthew Lavallen. Nicholas Barry. Thomas Lycett. Charles Geoghegan. George Moore. James Barry. James Coppinger. Comets. Arthur Hide. James Conn ell. Dominick Lynch. William Bourke. Patrick Stanton. William Collins. Robert Goold. Teigue O'Lyne. Henry Wilse. John Fitzgerald. Quarter-Masters. Richard Barry. David Moskell. Stephen Lawless. Kenedy Mc Kenedy. Patrick Stanton. John Fennell. Edward Shewell. Dermot Don worth. William Baker. Thomas Dynneen. COLONEL FRANCIS CARROLL. The Officers who commanded this Regiment previous to Colonel Carroll were, Colonel Thomas Trant, of * Miss Strickland's Queens of England, v. 12, p. 214. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 375 whom hereafter ; and Colonel Sir James Cotter, the lineal ancestor of Sir James Laurence Cotter of Rock- forest, County of Cork, Baronet. The chief notices of this ancient Irish Sept have been collected at 4 Captain James Carroll,' of Lord Dongan's Dragoons. It but remains to observe, that the Colonel here brought forward was previous- ly Lieutenant-Colonel of that Lord's Dragoons. In the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, are some papers which appear to have been rough drafts of King James's correspondence with the Irish Executive before the Revolution, and which the Rev. Mr. Rowan of Belmont, County of Kerry, conjectures to have been Sunderland's papers. One of these, (without date) directed to the Lords Justices, the Right Reverend Father, &e. &c. runs thus : — "Where- as we thought fit by our instructions to you, bearing date the 27th of March last, to direct you to cause the oaths of allegiance and supremacy to be adminis- tered to all officers and soldiers of our army there, and to all Governors of Towns, Forts, Castles ; and to cashier and dismiss our service such of them as shall refuse the said oaths or either of them ; and whereas we have been pleased to withhold Richard Talbot, Colonel of a Regiment of Horse ; Col. Justin Macar- tie, Colonel of a Regiment of Foot ; Rene Carney and Dominick Sheldon, Captains to the Duke of Ormonde; Anthony Hamilton, Lieutenant-Colonel to Sir Thomas Newcomen's Regiment of Foot ; William Dorrington, Major to Colonel Fairfax ; Patrick Lawless, Major 376 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. to Colonel Macartie ; * and Francis Carroll, Captain to said Colonel's Company ; all in our army, to dis- pense as we do hereby dispense accordingly with their taking the said oaths or either of them : our will and pleasure is, and we do by these presents charge and require you to give effectual orders from time to time for mustering the said officers, notwithstanding their not having taken the said oaths or either of them." "On the 11th of April, 1691," says Story, "jColonelMac Fineen's, Colonel Mac Carty's, and two more|Regiments, making in all about 1,500 men, commanded by Brig- adier Carroll, came to Iniskean with a design to have that place and some other small garrisons near it, as steps to further advance upon our frontiers ;"f but the assailants were driven off by Colonel Ogleby. In the following month, Brigadier Francis Carroll was stationed at Eoss, and acting as Governor 3 and Com- mander-in-Chief of His Majesty's army in the Counties of Kerry and Cork. (See post, at Colonel ' Daniel O'Donovan.') A Colonel Carroll was taken pri- soner at Aughrim, while, in the August following, after De Ginkle with his army had passed the Shan- non, Anthony Carroll, (surnamed Fada, the tall), a gentleman of Tipperary who possessed much influence with the Eapparees, and who could, according to Story, bring together to the number of at least 2,000 men, was Governor of Nenagh, a position which he continued to hold during the autumn and winter of * See his death in 1680, ante, p. 205. | Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 65. CARROLL S DRAGOONS. 377 1690, and the spring and summer of 1691, making frequent hostile excursions through the County. On the 2nd of August in that year he set fire to the town, in opposition to the movements of Brigadier Levison, who was making with his party to Limerick; but the fire was soon put out by sonie^prisoners of the Williamites who were in the town. The Diary here cited,* adds that " Brigadier Levison with his Horse and Dragoons pursued Carroll and his party so closely and so far, that within four miles of Limerick he took all their baggage ; amongst which were two rich coats of long Anthony Carroll's, one valued at eighty pounds, the other at forty guineas, and about forty pistoles in gold ; as also 450 head of black cattle and some sheep, which the enemy's sudden flight would not suffer them to carry off." Amongst those attainted in 1691 were Eugene Carroll, Queen's County ; the above Francis Carroll, styled of Dublin ; Keene Carroll of Aughgurty, King's County ; John Mulroney Carroll, of Do. John Carroll of Cappoquin (he is buried in the churchyard of Dun- kerron, near Roscrea); Patrick Carroll of Aherna, County of Wicklow ; and John Carroll of Ballindoon, County of Sligo. This Colonel Francis was, on the formation of the Irish Brigades in France, constituted Colonel of the ' Queen's Dismounted Dragoons,' at the head of which he fell in the battle of Marsaglia in Italy, in October, 1693.f * Ilarleian MSS. vol. 7, p. 480. t O'Callaglian's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 81. 378 king james's irish army list. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL After this List was drawn up, Thomas Carroll was appointed first Lieutenant-Colonel and Francis Bois- meral, second. CAPTAIN JOHN TAYLOR. The escallops in the armorials of this family afford heraldic evidence of their achievements in the Holy Land. They passed at a very early period from France into England, where they are traced in the records of the Southern and Midland Counties. In the reign of Henry the Third, Edward Taylor of Beverley in Yorkshire was Chief Falconer to his Sovereign, and his second son, Nicholas, having passed into Ireland in 1273, became the founder of the Taylors of Swords. The lineal descendant and heir male, Alex- ander Taylor, by his marriage with Agnes, daughter of William Swinnock, acquired the inheritance of Swords, and built a mansion house within that town. His descendant Richard Taylor was in 1543 joined in a Commission, to try and decide what temporal and spiritual possessions within the County of Dublin became vested in the Crown by the dissolution of monasteries. George Taylor of this line was after- wards Eecorder of Dublin, its Representative in Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, and its Sheriff in 1586. Carroll's dragoons. 379 In the Parliament of 1639, John, heir of Michael Taylor of Swords, was Member for that Borough. He married Mary, daughter of John Fagan of Feltrim, by whom he had John Taylor his heir, whose privations and sufferings in resisting a transplantation into Connaught up to the time of the Restoration, when he obtained a decree confirmatory of his old estate at Swords, are fully detailed in a Manuscript preserved by the family. He died in 1680, and the above Captain John was his second son, but became his heir on the death of his elder brother Michael, in 1684, without issue. He Avas one of the Burgesses in the new Charter granted by King James to his town, and married first, Alice, daughter of Browne of Clongowes Wood, (by whom he had one daughter) ; and second, Helen, daughter of Eichard Fagan of Feltrim, by whom he had, with several other children, John his heir, whose grandson, James Joseph Taylor, now represents this ancient family in the seventeenth generation from the falconer of Beverley. His sister, Jane-Elizabeth, who married Josiah Forster, formerly of St. Croix in the West Indies, died a few years since, leaving James Fitz-Eustace Forster their only issue.* This name of Fitz-Eustace was intro- duced into the family through the grandmother of Mrs. Forster, Anne Fitz-Eustace, daughter of Fitz-Eustace, of Cradockstown, County of Kildare, by a daughter of Patrick Sutton of Morristovvn-Lattin in the same County. John, Thomas and Robert Taylor, * D'Alton's History of the County of Dublin, p. 295, &c. 380 king james's irish army list. all of Swords, were attainted in 1642 ; the above Captain John was the only one of this name outlawed in 1691. CAPTAIN PETER LEVALLIN. Besides this Captain Peter, Patrick 6 Lavallin ' was an Ensign in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry. In the Attainders of 1691 the former was described as of Waterstown, County of Cork ; the latter of Rohara, in said County ; where were then also outlawed Matthew Levallin of Great Island ; Thomas Levallin of Moyallow and of Cork, merchant ; and Janette Levallin of Dublin, spinster. At the Court of Claims, James Levallin claimed a remainder in special tail male, expectant on the death of Melchior Levallin his father, in County of Cork lands forfeited by the above Peter Levallin and Jane his wife ; while Mel- chior himself at the same time claimed an estate tail in part, and an estate for life in the remainder of said lands. Digby Foulke claimed and was al- lowed an interest in Cork lands forfeited by Jane Levallin, daughter of Patrick 4 Lavallin,' as did the aforesaid Melchior a mortgage affecting said last mentioned forfeitures, with similar adjudication in his favour. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 381 CAPTAIN ARTHUR GAL WAY. From a period early in the fourteenth century this name is found on the records of the Counties of Waterford and Cork. In 1229, Alan de ' Galweye/ and Galwaye had military summons directed to them for services in the war in Britanny. In 1605, the King granted to Dominick Sarsfield the wardship of Walter Galway, son and heir of John Gal way, late of Cork, deceased, for the yearly sum of £5 9s. 8d. Irish, and the payment of all rents and other rights due to the Crown, the said Dominick re- taining thereout the usual allowances for maintenance and education of the minor. A funeral entry of 1636, in the Ulster Office of Arms, records the death in March of this year at Kinsale of Sir Jeffrey Galway, a Limerick Baronet, eldest son of Alderman James Galway of Limerick, eldest son of Jeffrey Galway of Kinsale ; where he was interred in the monument of his ancestors. Of this first named Sir Jeffrey, it is said in the Pacata Hibernia* that " he had spent many years in England in studying the common laws, and, returning into Ireland about the year 1597, did so pervert the City of Limerick of which he was one time Mayor, that by his malicious counsel and 1 perjurious ' example he withdrew the Mayor, Aldermen, and generally the whole City from coming to the Church, which before they had some- * P. 196, &c. Christie's edition. 382 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. times frequented." The same work alleges instances of his contumacy and disobedience to military power. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of a Sir Jeffrey Galway, Baronet, described as of Typananbeg ; with those of John Fitz-Christopher Galway and William David Galway of Blarney, County of Cork. On the present Army List, Walter Galway appears, also a Captain, in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. In the Parliament of 1689, John Galway sat as one of the Eepresentatives of the City of Cork. Of those at- tainted in 1691 were the above Captain Arthur Galway, described as of Ballycoghane, County of Cork ; with ten others of the name in that County. The estates of this Arthur Galway in the City of Cork were sold by the Trustees of the Forfeitures to Daniel Gibbs, and Edward Bennett of Cork, mer- chant, and another portion to George Baghtye of Cork, cutler ; as were other his estates in the Liberties of Cork to Edward Webber, William Wake- ham of Barry's Court, Abraham Dixon, and Humph- rey Sheaves of Cork severally ; as also to the Hollow Swords' Blades Company and to Thomas Hodder of Ballyea. The estates of the other officer, Walter Galway, in West Carbury, County of Cork, were then sold to Hugh Hutchinson of Black Eock in said County. carkoll's dragoons. 383 CAPTAIN SIR THOMAS CROSBY. John Crosby succeeded to the Sees of Ardfert and Agliadoe, by the Queen's provision, in 1600. Of those attainted in 1642 were Sir John Crosby of Waters- town, County of Kildare, and Walter Crosby of Gort- maskohe. This Sir John was the grandson of Patrick Crosby, to whom Queen Elizabeth granted a noble estate in the Queens County, in reward for his ser- vices towards ' exterminating ' the O'Mores of Leix. Part of the lands thereby granted, viz. Ballyfin, the demesne of the Chief of that Sept, was, on Sir John's confiscation, granted to Periam Pole, brother of Sir John Pole of Shute in Devonshire. The above Captain Sir Thomas is described in the Inquisition of his Attainder, as " of Tralee, Knight." In the Parlia- ment of 1689 he sat as one of the Representatives of the County of Kerry. Those attainted with him were David Crosby of Ardfert, and Maurice Crosby of Knockmar, Queen's County. CAPTAIN JOHN WINNETTS. This name does not appear again in the Army List, nor at all on the Attainders. 384 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN JOHN BARRY. This illustrious name occurs in the earliest records of Ireland, and in especial association with the County of Cork, where the Barry was raised with grants of large possessions, and a succession of titles in the Peerage, from Baron Barry to Viscount Buttevant and Earl of Barrymore. Of the Irish magnates who in 1302 attended Edward the First in his campaign against the Scots, were William de Barry, Odo (Hugh) de Barry, David de Barry of Rathcormack, Philip de Barry of Rincorran, William Fitz-Phillip Barry, and William Fitz-William Barry.* In 1507, say the Four Masters, " The Barry Roe of Cork, i.e. James, the son of James, accompanied by the Chiefs of his people, proceeded on a pilgrimage to Spain, and, after having performed the pilgrimage, they got on board of a ship to return, and no tidings of their being liv- ing or dead was ever received." The same Annalists, at 1580, furnish an interesting genealogical notice of this noble family. " Barry More, i.e. James, the son of Richard, son of Thomas, son of Edward, who was imprisoned in Dublin, died. That James was of the real genealogical stock of Barry Roe ; and he was a man who suffered, in the early part of his life, much trouble and affliction, and he had no hope or expecta- tion of ever obtaining the title of Barry Roe ; but, however, God granted him the Captainship of Barry Maol and also of Barry Roe ; (Barry Maol or the * Rymer's Foedera, ad ann. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 385 bald Barry, and also Barry Kuadh or red Barry, were native designations borne by two branches of this family) : and not these alone, for he was nominated Chief of Barrymore, after the destruction of those whose rightful inheritance it was to possess that title till then. His son David Barry was afterwards nomi- nated the Barry by the Earl of Desmond, and another son of his was according to law Lord of Barry Eoe." In 1641 "Philip Barry Oge, (styled of Eincorran) was amongst the earliest who took up arms against the English ; and, being master of the camp of Bell- gorley, he, James Mellifont, and his son went to a neck of land between the harbour and oyster-haven of Kinsale, collected all the cattle, horses, cows, &c, be- longing to the inhabitants of Kinsale, took them to the camp, and divided them amongst their troopers. His lands were, by an ordinance of 4th August, 1648, given in custodiam to Captain William Parsons, in satisfaction of £1113 due to him by the Common- wealth authorities. Captain Parsons dying in 1652, Kobert Southwell was in 1655 put into the custodiam of these lands, for the benefit of the Captain's children. In 1658, however, he induced the heir to relinquish his original title to these lands, and to accept them back on a lease only, and subjected to a rent of £100 per ann. which Southwell, under pretence of serving the other children, promised to pay to them. The Kestoration followed in May, 1660, and, in the ensuing August, Southwell obtained a grant of the cc 386 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. lands as in lieu of £700 worth of sea-beer supplied by him in 1648 for Prince Eupert's shipping, and by charging interest at six per cent extended the debt to £1300, Meantime, in 1648, Philip Barry Oge, who had been so expelled from his inheritance, complying with the articles of peace of that year, retired to Flanders, where he served King Charles till his death in 1656. He had married Juliana, daughter of Sir Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, by whom he had a son, William Barry Oge, who endeavoured after the Restoration to subvert the grant to South- well, in which suit he was joined by the heir of the Mellifonts, whose adjoining estate Southwell had ob- tained at an undervaluation ; but Southwell was secure in the influence of the Court party, and Wil- liam Barry Oge, forsaken and friendless, had the mortification to see "the soil, which was his birthplace, confirmed by patent of 1666 to his opponent. The heir of the Mellifonts, also, who had fallen irretriev- ably into poverty, was reduced to petition the South- wells' further interest to procure for him a tide-waiter- ship, or other subordinate office in the Custom House of Dublin."* Besides Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, there were attainted in 1642 Redmond and Gerald Barry of Lisgrifiin, and eleven others of the name in the County of Cork. The above Gerald was one of the Confederate Catholics at the Assembly of 1647 in Kilkenny. The Declaration of Royal gratitude, * Thorpe's Cat. Southwell MSS., p. 193. Carroll's dragoons. 387 embodied in 'the Act of Settlement,' includes the names of Captain Philip Barry of Dunbogy, Captain William Barry of Rhincorran, and Lieutenant Robert Barry of Robertstown, all in the County of Cork. Besides this John Barry a Captain, Nicholas and James Barry Lieutenants, and Richard Barry a Quarter-Master in this present Regiment, Philip Barry Oge was a Captain in Lord Mountcashel's Infantry ; (he appears to have been the grandson of Philip Barry Oge of Rhyncorran, who married the Honourable Margaret de Courcy, aunt by the father's side of Almeric Lord Kinsale, hereafter alluded to) ;* and nineteen others of the name were commissioned on this List. In King James's Parliament of 1689, James Barry was one of the Representatives for the Borough of Rathcormack, while the Attainders there attempted to be passed included Barry, Earl of Barrymore ; Richard Barry, the second Baron of Santry ; Laurence Barry, Lord Buttevant ; and Richard Barry, Gentleman. The Inquisitions of 1691 record the effective attainders of the above Captain, described as John Barry of Shanagrane, Walshestownmore, and Derrylone, with sixteen others of the name in the County of Cork ; on whose estates sundry claims were made at Chichester House, and some allowed. * Nichols's Top*, and Gen*, p. 547. cc 2 388 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN JASPER GRANT. This family was from a very remote period settled in the County of Kilkenny, where so early as in 1346 William le Graunt is reported a landed proprietor. Captain Jasper was, however, of the County of Cork, and had estates therein at Kilmurry, as likewise at Grantstown in the County of Waterford. Gillian Grant, his widow, claimed in 1700 and was allowed an estate for her life thereoff ; and for her son, another Jasper Grant a minor, she claimed an estate tail in said lands. Annabella Grant sought jointure off certain Cork Estates under Settlement of 1681, but her petition was dismist. Walter Grant, described as of Curlody, in the County of Kilkenny, was attainted at the same time. In 1747, Captain Matthew Grant, of Clare's Regi- ment of Brigade, was killed at Lauffield village, near Maestricht.* CAPTAIN HENRY COPINGER, This is one of the few families of Danish extraction yet existing in Ireland. Its first settlement was in the County of Cork, where it still continues. In 1535, William Copinger, Mayor of Cork, had a grant of the King's Castle there to him and his future successors in the Mayoralty. In the first Parliament * Gent. Mag. ad ann. p. 377. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 389 of Queen Elizabeth, Stephen Copinger was one of the Eepresentatives for that City. When, early in the reign of James the First, the East India Company of England meditated a settlement in Munster, for carrying on iron works and building large ships, they purchased for this speculation woods and lands in the Barony of Kinalea and Kerrycurrihy, erected a dock, and actually launched two ships. " Yet were they," says Smith* " so disturbed in their undertaking by Walter Copinger and others of the Irishry, that they were forced to quit the country, and abandon the pro- ject. Nevertheless, soon afterwards, Walter Copinger had a grant of a castle, with various lands, chiefrents, and customs, the lands being erected into two manors, that of Cloghanmore with liberty to impark 1,000 acres, and Kilfinane with like liberty for 600 acres. Of this name were attainted, in 1642, Stephen Copinger of Grange, Thomas Fitz- Walter Copinger of Manances, and Richard and Walter of Ringroan, all in the County of Cork. A James Copinger of Clogh- ane in said County was likewise outlawed ; and it was in reference to him and his sequestered estates that the Earl of Anglesey, when in power, wrote to the Sheriff of Cork in a tone of tenderness and com- miseration creditable to his memory : — " Mr. Sheriff, whereas Mr. James Copinger, upon his claim before his Majesty's Commissioners for putting in execution the Act of Settlement, hath been declared innocent and to be restored to his lands, and hath obtained a * Hist, of Cork, vol. 1, p. 219. 390 king james's irish army list, decree pursuant thereunto ; and whereas part of the land is in my possession, I desire, when the decree conies to your hands to be executed, that you will, notwithstanding any interest I have in the said lands, see the same put in execution for so much as I am concerned in."* An Ensign John Copinger was on the List of officers recommended for early prefer- ment in Lord Tyrconners orders of 1686 to Colonel Eussel;f he does not, however, appear on this. In April, 1691, a Captain Copinger was killed in a skirmish with a party of Captain Clayton's Infantry .J The Attainders of this year include the names of Thomas Copinger of Killentine, with ten others of that name in the County of Cork, and Henry, Mat- thew, and* William Copinger of the City, merchants. This latter individual was the Catholic Sheriff of Cork in King James's time, and fled with his Koyal Master to France, where on his death Louis the Four- teenth assigned a foreigner's pension for his widow. The above Captain Henry of this Eegiment was his brother, as was also Edward, the Captain who was killed as above in April, 1691. From a family pedi- gree furnished to the compiler of these notices, it ap- pears that the above Thomas Copinger of Killentine was an elder brother of the three last mentioned, that he married Helen Galway of Lota, and was the lineal ancestor of the present William Copinger of Ballyvo- * Thorpe's Cat. Southw. MSS., p. 186. t Smith's Cork, vol. 1, p. 459. % Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 70, CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 391 lane and Barryscourt, in the County of Cork. At the Court of Claims, Stephen Copinger, as son and heir of said Thomas, claimed a remainder in tail in his estates under marriage settlements of 1676 ; as did John and Edward Copinger similar remainders under the same deed. These claims were allowed to the ex- tent of the lands comprised in that settlement, which were very considerable. Such property as said Thomas Copinger had in the City of Cork was sold by the Commissioners to Charles Farringdon, as were such of his unsettled estates as lay in the County and within the Liberties of the City, to Helen Galway and Abraham Dixon, of Cork ; while those of the above Walter, and James his son, were similarly conveyed to Edmund Roch of Trabolgan. From the above Captain Henry Coppinger are de- scended, in the male line, General Joseph Coppinger, now in the Spanish service ; and Francis Coppinger of Monkstown Castle, County of Dublin ; as are, in the female line, Christopher Coppinger, Chairman of the County of Kildare ; and the O'Briens of Kilcor, near Castle Lyons, County of Cork. LIEUTENANT JOHN LACY. This great name occurs in the first Roll of the Patents of Ireland, the King thereby granting to Hugh de Lacy the whole Province of Meath, thereto- fore the mensal estate of the native Monarch s of Ire- 392 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. land ; to hold the same with as full and ample powers as Hugh O'Melaghlin, then yet styled King of Meath had held the same, and this conveyance is especially witnessed amongst others by Earl Strongbow, whose recognition, as husband of the heiress of King Der- mott Mac Murrough, Henry was perhaps then not unwilling in policy to obtain.* De Lacy in this grant had the powers of a Lord Palatine conferred upon him, and early after he sought to arrange a peaceful treaty with Poderic O'Conor, the King of Ire- land, as acknowledged by the natives. They met on the banks of the Shannon, but De Lacy's terms were then considered too severe to be accepted by Poderic. The former, however, received his daughter in mar- riage as his second wife, whereby he incurred the Royal jealousy, and was recalled from the Viceroy alty which he then filled. His powers as a Palatine ex- tended to the erection of boroughs, one of which, on the northern border of the Pale, was Drogheda ; and he yet more practically endeavoured to secure the English interest, and to extend the circuit of that Pale, by fortifying castles in advance into the island. The Four Masters jealously say of his government, that "he confiscated and transferred many churches to the English Lords in Meath, Brefney, and Oriel, and to him the rents of Connaught were paid." He was assassinated in 1186, while inspecting a castle which had just been erected by his order at Durrow, in the Kings County. His sons were Hugh and Walter ; * D'Altou's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 40. Carroll's dragoons. 393 the former, after sharp contests with De Courcy, became Lord of Ulster ; and dying in 1241, his daughter and heiress married William de Burgo, who died in 1244. Their daughter and heiress married Lionel, Duke of Clarence, third son of King Edward the Third, and she was grandmother of Edward the Fourth, in whose right the title and estates vested in the Crown. To the failure of the De Lacys' issue male, Baron Finglas in his 1 Breviate' mainly attri- butes the origin of absenteeism in this country ; and it is a remarkable concurrence in the destinies of Ire- land, that the male line of Earl Strongbow also failed, and similar marriages of his female issue into English families, scattered his immense territory amongst powerful but ever absent proprietors. In 1314, Walter and another Hugh de Lacy were of the Irish Magnates, who attended King Edward on his expedition against Scotland. They appear to have descended from Hugh de Lacy's second marriage with the daughter of Koderic O'Conor. In Mount- joy's engagement against the Earl of Tyrone, fell Pierce Lacy of Bruff, County of Limerick, " a zeal- ous Catholic and one of the most alert of the Munster Chieftains."* In 1604, and 1608, King James the First granted to his favourite Sir James Fullerton the castle and lands of Bruff (inter alia) as "late in the tenure of Piers Lacie attainted, with all other his estate belonging to him at his death in rebellion." The name does not appear on the Attainders of 1642, * Stuart's Armagh, p. 29 G. 394 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. although there were at that time three branches of the family settled in the County of Limerick alone, at Bruree, Bruff, and Ballingarry.* John Lacy of the House of Bruff was the only in- dividual of the name who attended the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1647 ; he was placed in the rank of Colonel on the Restoration ; and, on the raising of the army for King James, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Charles Cavanagh's Infantry, as noted hereafter ; but, as his name did not appear on the present Army List, the notices of 'de Lacy' could not be referred to him. He resided at Kilmallock, and was Deputy Governor of Limerick under Lord Blessington in 1685-6 ; at which time the Viceroy, the Earl of Clarendon, wrote of him to the Earl of Sunderland : — u Here is a Colonel Lacy, an old Cavalier, who hopes the King will, when he has an opportunity, put him into employment. I am sure he desires it. He was an officer in the time of King Charles the First, and I believe His Majesty remem- bers him with himself in France and Flanders, where he served very bravely. This poor gentleman was settled here in a very comfortable way, when in Oates' 4 reign' he was sent into England, and kept prisoner in the Gatehouse about two years, besides other severities both to his person and his estate. I take the liberty to recommend his enclosed petition to your Lordship."f Clarendon at the same time wrote * Ferrar's Limerick, p. 346. | Singer's Correspondence of Clarendon, v. 1, p. 207. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS, 395 a special letter in Lacy's favour to the King, grace- fully adding, " I beg your Majesty's pardon for say- ing thus much in a particular man's case, which I will never do, but when the person's eminent loyalty and services will justify me."* Subsequently, al- luding to growing apprehensions that a restoration of their lands would be sought by many from the new King, and that some who had been made officers encouraged the apprehension, the Viceroy says, " all this would be very easily remedied, and the King have all done he has mind to, if men would be dis- creet in their states as several are ; amongst whom ought to be remembered Sir John Fitzgerald, both the Dempsys, Colonel Sheldon, Lacy, and many more who have moulded their troops and companies to their mind, without the least dissatisfaction to any one. They are beloved in their quarters, they cherish and comfort the people, and punish those who talk impertinently. But there are likewise several of whom I cannot give so good characters ; and those who ought to reprove them for indiscretion will only say, 'Alas! poor man, he has lost his estate ; you must give him leave to talk.' I have taken the liberty to entertain your Lordship with these stories, that you may see something of the temper of persons as well as things ; and to show you that it is not so much the King's employing Roman Catholics in his army which disquiets men, as that there are such from whom, by their own words and actions, they fear to * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 208. 396 king james's irish army list. be oppressed instead of being protected. Believe it, my Lord, when it is known what the King would have, and which, with submission (in some cases) ought to be known but to a few, it may be easily done to general satisfaction ; for I must needs say, never were people in the world more disposed to obedience, and to betake themselves to their industry, than the generality of people here, if they are let alone."* In 1689, this Colonel John Lacy was one of the Repre- sentatives of Kilmallock in the Parliament of Dublin. At the second siege of Limerick, when the William- ites had succeeded in throwing a bridge over the Shannon at Thomond Gate, (as before mentioned, p. 71) Colonel Lacy, with 800 picked men, was ordered out to contest their advance, which he did with great valour and good success for a time, till, overpowered by a continual supply of fresh opponents, he was forced to give way and retire to the gate ; which the mayor of the City, however, apprehending the English might enter with them, imprudently closed, whereby the greater number of Lacy's gallant band was cut down. The subsequent Attainders of 1691 include the names of this Colonel, stiled "of Kilmallock;" Simon Lacy of Ferns, County of Wexford ; and Thomas and Walter Lacy of Balrath, County of Westmeath. This Thomas Lacy forfeited also largely in the Barony and County of Roscommon, and very many claims were preferred at Chichester House as affecting his confis- * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 456. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 397 cations, the greater portion of which was sold in 1703 by the Commissioners to Samuel Massy of Dublin, M.D. Various gallant officers of this name appear on the records of continental military achievement, the career of one of whom powerfully connects with pass- ing events,- the Count Peter de Lasci; whom an autobiography preserved by his descendant Mrs- de Lacy Nash states to have been born in the County of Limerick in 1678 ; that his father was Peter, son of John Lacy of Ballingarry ; that on the capitula- tion of Limerick he was brought off by his uncle John (who appears to have been the above Colonel), who had the rank of Quarter-master General and Brigadier in France, and was Colonel of the Prince of Wales's Infantry Eegiment, on which this youth was at once enrolled ; that he marched with it to Piedmont in 1692, joined Catinat in May, 1693, and in the October of that year was at the battle of the 'Val de Marseilles,' in which his uncle, said John, received a mortal wound. The Regiment having been disband- ed on the peace of Ryswick, this young officer volun- teered in the Polish service under Marshal Due de Croy, in the rank of Lieutenant. The Due presented him to Peter the Great, who was then in alliance with Poland, and the Czar took him into his own service, in which he obtained a majority in 1705, and a Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the following year. In 1708, he was promoted to the command of the Sibe- rian Eegiment of Infantry, and joined the Grand 398 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Army. On the first of January, 1709, he commanded the right wing and acted as a Brigadier at the great Battle of Pultowa, where he was wounded. In 1710, he distinguished himself in the attack on Kiga, and in the following year was made Major-General. His various movements are in the manuscript set down by the year, until in 1737 he was appointed to command an expedition into the Crimea. Crossing an arm of the sea (he writes) near Arabat, we marched and took Perekop, and blew up the fortifi- cations. He died in Livonia in 1751, Governor of that Province. This was the general who, according to Ferrar,* u taught the Russians to beat the army of the King of Sweden, and to become from the worst some of the best soldiers of Europe. Before the battle of Pultowa he advised the Czar to send orders that every soldier should reserve his fire until he came within a few yards of the enemy ; in consequence of which Charles the Twelfth was there totally defeated, losing in that single action the advantages of nine campaigns of glory, and narrowly escaping being taken prisoner." The son of this Count Peter was Joseph-Francis- Maurice, Count de Lasci, born in 1725 at St. Peters- burgh, and educated at Vienna. He made his first campaign in the Austrian army in Italy during the year 1744, where he had three horses shot under him at the battle of Velletri. At the siege of Maestricht in 1748, he received the rank of Colonel. He dis- tinguished himself against Prussia in the seven years' * Hist, of Limerick, p. 347. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 399 war, in 1762 received the baton of Marshal from the Emperor's own hand, and in the same year served with considerable eclat in the war between Austria and Prussia. In 1801, he died at Vienna, where the Emperor Joseph the Second, to whom he left all his property, caused a bust to be erected to his memory in the hall of the Chancery of the Council of War. Of this latter Marshal, Wraxall writes,* in 1778, "Marshal Lacy is now approaching his sixtieth year ; when young, he must have been very handsome. Though he has been six times wounded by musket balls, he enjoys perfect health, and preserves a youth- ful appearance. He was born in Eussia, son of the famous Marshal Lacy, who in conjunction with Munich commanded the Muscovite armies against the Turks, and obtained so many victories over them in the last years of the Empress Anne. It was in that great school he learned the art of war. I have heard him say that his father sent him to study at Legnitz in Silesia, and afterwards at Vienna. In 1740, about the time of Maria Theresa's accession, he en- tered the Austrian service as an Ensign in the Regi- ment of Count (afterwards Marshal) Brown, who was killed at the battle of Prague. Having distinguished himself by a thousand acts of personal courage, ac- tivity, and ability, he rose so rapidly that at the commencement of the war of 1756 he was already a Colonel, and soon became a Major-General. Another General Maurice de Lacy, born in * Memoirs of the Court of Berlin, vol. 1, p. 173. 400 king james's irish army list. Limerick in 1740, was invited to Kussia by his rela- tive, the aforesaid Marshal Peter, and entered that service when but ten years old. He served under Suwarrow in the Italian campaign of 1799, in cam- paigns against the Turks, and also in the Crimea. He died in 1820, unmarried. Of Lacys in Spain, Francis Anthony Lacy, Count de Lacy, was a famous General and Diplomatist ; born in 1731, commenced his military career as an Ensign in the Irish Brigade of Ultonia Infantry, was raised to be a Colonel in 1762, and a Commander of Artillery in 1780, when he was employed at the celebrated siege of Gibraltar. After the peace of Utrecht in 1783, he was consti- tuted Minister Plenipotentiary in Sweden and Russia, and died at Barcelona in 1792. He had married a daughter of the Marquis d'Abbeville, by whom he left a son, Captain-General of Artillery to his Most Catholic Majesty ; and a daughter, who married " the Marquis of Canada, originally Irish, of the an- cient family of Terry." COKNET PATRICK STAUNTON. In England the name of de Staunton dates from the Conquest, while in Ireland it is of record from the earliest days after the English Invasion. About the year 1200, Milo and Henry de Staunton disputed the patronage of the parish church of Monmohenock in Wicklow with the Bishop of Glendaloch ; Milo was CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 401 then seised of its manor.* In 1220, Adam de Staun- ton granted lands in Kilbrenin, witli the mill, the church, and all tithes there, to Christ Church, Dublin, for the founding of a cell with resident canons. The above Milo at the same time endowed the abbey of St. Thomas in that City with the churches of Dun- brin and Demloff. In 1244, Adam was summoned, as one of the 4 Fideles ' of Ireland, to service in the Scottish war ; and in 1279, Richard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, petitioned for the wardship of Adam de Staunton, who held lands in Connaught under him. In 1295, the latter Adam was summoned for the war in Gascony, as was William de Staunton to that of Scotland in 1302. In 1308, Gerald, son and heir of Maurice de Staunton, made a marriage appointment of dower, (according to the custom of the time) at the gate of St. Patrick's Cathedral ; assigning four ca- rucates of land in the County of Cork (which had been his father's) with seven marks for his wife, Ma- tilda de Ruggeleye ; while Henry de Ruggeleye pass- ed his bond for fifty-seven marks as the portion of said Matilda. About this time, Philip de Staunton, clerk, received the fall sum of £100 for his remune- ration in the service of mustering men-at-arms, 'to put down the Irish felons in the mountains of Leinster.' In 1312, Fromund le Brim (Brown) acquired a con- siderable property in Connaught in right of his wife, Nesta, the daughter of the aforesaid Adam de Staun- ton. In 1359, Philip de Staunton was deputed to * Mason's St. Patrick's, p. C>5. J)!) 402 king james's irish army list. treat with the Irish 1 rebels ' in Leinster, and to hold parley and make peace with them. In 1373, John Staunton was one of those directed to be summoned from Meath by its Sheriff, to attend a great Council. In eight years after, the Earl of Mortimer, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, died at Cork, whereupon the Lord Chancellor and a Justice of the Bench issued summonses for such persons as usually formed a Par- liament, to meet at Cork for the purpose of appointing a temporary Viceroy. Amongst those so summoned were Milo Staunton and David Fitz-Thomas Eoche, Knights, returned as for the County of Cork.* In 1422, John Staunton was appointed Constable of Trim for life, with power to hear and decide controversies con- cerning customs, his salary being fixed at twenty marks per annum. The last Prior of the old abbey of Ballintobber in the County of Mayo, at the time of the dissolution, was Walter Mac Willie de Staunton.f In 1574, Thomas Staunton, described as having been 'an ancient Captain in the Irish wars,' purchased the manor and advowson of Wolverston in Warwickshire ; while another Captain Staunton distinguished himself in 1601 in the war of Ulster. In 1606, Sir John Everard of Fethard, County of Tipperary, had a grant of (inter alia) Clogher, one quarter and other lands in the County of Mayo, parcel of the estate of John (Ballagh) Stanton, 'attainted;' while in 1634, a George Staunton came over from Buckinghamshire to Ireland, settled in the County of Galway, and there, * Mason's St. Patrick's, p. 127. t King's MSS., p. 197. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 403 intermarrying with a lady of the name of Lynch, became founder of the Cargins line. His son, another George, had a grant in 1678 of various lands in the Barony of Dunmore within that County. * On the present Army List and in this Regiment a second Patrick Staunton appears as Quarter-Master to his above namesake. The Attainders of 1691 describe either of them as Patrick Stanton of Great Island, County of Cork, where were also outlawed Michael Stanton, merchant, and James Stanton ? clothier, both of the City of Cork. In 1698, Thomas Staunton was appointed with others to collect a state subsidy of £940 off Clare, and another of £1260 off Galway County ; he became in 1722 Recorder of Gal way and its Representative in Parliament. In 1801, died Sir George Leonard Staunton, (a descen- dant of George of 1634)- he had applied himself to the profession of the Bar, and was appointed His Majesty's Attorney General for Grenada ; after which he accompanied Lord Macartney to Madras, and sub- sequently on his celebrated embassy to China in 1791. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. CORNET WILLIAM COLLINS. Nothing has been discovered of note concerning him; and a Darby Collins, described as of Buttevant, is the only individual of the surname appearing on the At- tainders of 1691. dd2 404 king james's irish army list. CORNET ROBERT GOOLD. The Goold family was at an early period established in the County of Cork. In 1356, Nicholas ' Gold ' was one of these influential persons commissioned to applot a state subsidy off that County, as was David ' Gold ' in a few years after. With the Municipal History of the City they were, during the years previ- ous to the first Civil War, intimately connected, Golds having been Mayors of Cork, from 1442 to 1640, no less than thirty times ; but afterwards they ceased to fill any corporate office there. Queen Elizabeth's instructions to her Lord President of Munster, Sir George Carew, in 1600, directed that William Saxey, Chief Justice, and James Golde, second Justice of the said Province, being of special trust appointed to be of his Council, shall give their continual attendance thereat, and shall not depart at any time without the special licence of the said Lord President. The salary of the Chief was fixed at £100, that of James Golde at one hundred marks, subject to deductions in case of their absence from the duties so imposed upon them. A Manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iv. 18), supplies some links of the family of William Goold, Mayor of Cork in 1618, and who died in 1634. The Attainders of 1642 include the names of Gar- rett 4 Goold ' of Castletown, and of James .and John Fitz-Richard Goold of Tower-Bridge, merchants. James Goold was the only member of the family who Carroll's dragoons. 405 attended the Supreme Council in 1647. Besides the above Cornet Robert Goold, there appear on this List, Thomas ' Gold ' an Ensign in Colonel Nicholas Browne's Infantry Regiment ; and James Gold, an Ensign in Colonel John Barrett's. The Attainders of 1691 include the names of James and Ignatius Goold, described as of Cork, Esquires ; John Goold of Kin- sale, Esq.; Richard of Cork, merchant ; Patrick of said City ; James ' Goold ' of Galway, and Ellen Bagot, otherwise Goold, wife of John Bagot of Cork. Amongst those who were taken at sea in 1746, volunteering to aid the cause of Prince Charles- Edward, was ' Captain Gould, Ultonia Regiment, Spanish service.'* It may be added that in the Church of St. Giles at Bruges is a burial place of Wil- liam Goold, ' of ancient and venerable lineage in Cork,' c hujus ecclesice ceditui] as inscribed upon a white marble slab inserted in the flag of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin.f In 1801, a branch of this family was raised to the Baronetcy in Sir Francis Goold of Oldcourt, County of Cork ; while in the Imperial Par- liament Wyndham Goold was, until his recent decease, one of the Representatives for the County of Limerick. CORNET TEIGUE O'LYNE. The O'Lynes constituted an ancient Sept in the * Gent. Mag. vol. 16, p. 208. f Nichols's Top*, and Gen 1 , for 1853, p. 535. 406 king james's irish army list. County of Kerry, but the name does not otherwise ap- pear on this List. John Lyne was one of those attainted in 1691, and his estate in Kerry was sold by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures to Thomas Connor of Dublin. COENET HENEY WILSE, QUAETEE-MASTEE DAVID MOSKELL, QUAETEE-MASTEE EDWAED SHEWELL. Nothing is known of these officers or their families. QUAETEE-MASTEE JOHN FENNELL. The Attainders of 1642 include a Patrick Fennell, described as of Kilrush, County of Clare. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, five years after, Gerard Fennell ' of Bally griffin,' County of Tipperary, was one of the Commons ; his estates were accordingly confis- cated in Cromwell's time, but restored by the Act of Explanation in 1665. By the Usurper's ordinance of 1652 this Gerard, described as a Doctor of Physic, was excepted from pardon for life and estate. He died in 1663, and was buried at St. Michan's, Dublin. This estate of Bally griffin was, in 1668, confirmed under the Act of Settlement to Thomas Gower, with a saving, however, of such right as Ellen, Gerald's widow, might prove herself entitled to. CARROLL'S DRAGOONS. 407 QUARTER-MASTER DERMOT DONWORTH. In the Inquisition for his Attainder in 1691, he is described as of Templeconolly, County of Cork ; where another of the family, Robert Donworth, was also outlawed. QUARTER-MASTER WILLIAM BAKER. This Officer seems identical with William Baker of Ballytobin in the County of Kilkenny, (the son of a Major William Baker, who lost all his estates in Worcestershire by his adherence to King Charles the First). He obtained Ballytobin from Charles the Second, and is at this clay represented by his lineal descendant, Abraham Whyte Baker. A Francis Baker was Captain in Lord Bophin's Regiment of Infantry ; yet neither name appears on the At- tainders of 1691, but only that of Peter Baker, described as of Dungorney, County of Cork. QUARTER-MASTER THOMAS DYNNEEN. The O'Dinnahans or O'Dinans were located in the County of Limerick, Chiefs of the tract now known as the Barony of Owneybeg. 408 king james's irish army list. REGIMENTS OF DRAGOONS. [BRIGADIER THOMAS MAXWELL.] [LIEUTENANT- COLONEL DANIEL MAGENNIS.] [MAJOR ■ CALLAGHAN.] The Army List, more concisely given in Somers' State Tracts, (vol. xi., p. 399) makes note of this seventh Regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Colo- nel Thomas Maxwell, and his name appears on the List of Colonels that introduces this Muster Roll ; while in Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon (vol. ii, p. 512,) his force is set down as twelve com- panies, comprising a total of six hundred men. He, according to Colonel O'Kelly, was a Scotchman by birth, a pretended Roman Catholic, and of mean ex- traction. O'Callaghan, with less prejudice and on more satisfactory authority, reports him to have been " of a very good family in his native country, prob- ably a branch of the Maxwells of Nithsdale." Previ- ous to King James retiring into France in 1688, Maxwell was appointed in England Colonel of a Regi- ment of Dragoons, in place of James Berkeley, Viscount Fitz-Harding, who succeeded to the command on Maxwell's following that King. In Ireland the latter was afterwards made Colonel of a Regiment of Dragoons, of which Daniel Magennis was Lieutenant- Colonel, and Callaghan, Major.* Mr. Hardi- * King's State of the Protestants, p. 68. maxwell's dragoons. 409 man adds of this Colonel,* that he was married in England to Jane, Duchess of Norfolk, widow of the sixth Duke, a Lady remarkable for her beauty and accomplishments. When Schomberg landed at Bangor in 1689, Maxwell, then stationed in that place, not being able with his small force to give opposition, left there Mac Carty More's Eegiment with some Companies of Cormuck O'Neill's, and retired to Newry. He was present at the battle of the Boyne. Colonel O'Kelly says he was one of those appointed by Tyrconnell to guide and advise the young Duke of Berwick on that Viceroy's departure for France ; and it would appear from his narrative, that he interested himself in predisposing King James to give a cool reception to the delegates against Tyr- connel, whom he accompanied to St. Germains. On that delegation were, besides Maxwell, the Bishop of Cork, the two Luttrells, and Colonel Purcell. " Pur- cell," says 0'Conor,f " and Henry Luttrell, suspecting that Maxwell carried private instructions, proposed to throw him overboard ; but the Bishop interposed the sanctity, and Simon Luttrell the mildness and honesty of his character, and their united expostula- tions rescued him from a watery grave." O'Kelly, who was himself a partizan of St. Ruth against Tyrconnel, ascribes the surprisal of Athlone by De Ginkle to the neglect or treachery of Colonel Maxwell. The Duke of Berwick in his Memoir takes * History of Galway, p. 429. f O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 128. 410 king james's irish army list. a very different view of the circumstance, as men- tioned in O'Callaghan's valuable notes on the Excid. Macarice, (p. 427). Dr. Story, the Williamite his- torian of the campaign, in reference to the taking of Athlone, writes : — " 1691, 28th June, the garrison detached a sergeant and ten men out of Brigadier Maxwell's Regiment, being all bold and daring Scots. These were all in armour, and came over their own works with a design to ruin ours, but were all of them slain ; yet this did not discourage as many more from setting about the same piece of service, and they effected it by throwing down our planks and beams, maugre all our firming and skill, though they all lost their lives as testimonies of their valour, except two."* The town was taken in two days after, and Major-General Maxwell made prisoner, and sent up with others to Dublin ; "but some," says Story, " made their escape.f" The Dragoons of Maxwell (who had himself in the course of the campaign become a Brigadier, and Major-General in the Irish army), with the others hereinbefore mentioned, were all engaged at Aughrim, with the exception of Lord Clare's, which had been previously brigaded ; while Mr. O'Callaghan in his Green Booh, (p. 319) suggests the existence of another Regiment of Dragoons there, commanded by Colonel John O'Reilly. The " Diary of the Siege and Surrender of Limerick * Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 102. f Idem, pp. 108-9, and 117. maxwell's dragoons. 411 in 1691" says, at 16th September, "About seven of the clock the bridge was finished, and the General immediately ordered the Royal Eegiment of Dragoons to pass In the meantime the enemy's Dragoons came down on foot to oppose us, but as soon as our men advanced they took to their heels, leaving their tents and baggage with their bridles and saddles (their horses being at grass at a place about two miles off ) behind them. We took also two pieces of brass can- non, and Brigadier Maxwell's standard We took several prisoners, and among them a French Lieute- nant-Colonel of Dragoons, and some other officers."* O'Conor writes in respect to this critical scene, u Maxwell, who guarded the ford below the town, had suffered his men to fall asleep, and some of them de- serting apprised the enemy of the state of the gar- rison ; De Ginkle, who had resolved upon a desperate effort, was much encouraged by this information, and his efforts were successful. f" That this Brigadier was not guilty of any deficiency of allegiance to the King he acknowledged, may yet be presumed from the fact of his having, after the Capitulation of Lime- rick, passed over to France at the head of two Irish Regiments of Dragoons, spoken of by Marshal Catinat as performing 1 des clioses surprenentes de valeur et de bon ordre dans le combat.'' He was killed at the battle of Marsiglia in Piedmont, gained over the Duke of Savoy and the allies by that Marshal in 1693. * Harleian MSS. vol. 7, p. 486. t O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 140. 412 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. O'Conor, however, in his " Military Memoirs ' says^ it was a Charles Maxwell, Major in the Brigaded Eegiment styled the Queen's Dismounted Dragoons, who was killed at the battle of Marsiglia. * O'Conor's Milit. Mem., pp. 198 and 222. [ 413 ] KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Regiments of Infantry. 1. The King's, 2. John Hamilton's, 3. Henry Fitz- James's, Lord Grand Prior, 4. Mountcashel's, 5. Clancarthy's, 6 Clanricarde's, 7. Earl of Antrim's, 8. Earl of Tyrone's, 9. Nugent's (Richard), 10. Gormanston's, 11. Dillon's (Henry), 12. Lord Galway's, 13. Lord Bellew's, 14. Lord Kenmaee's, 15. Lord Slane's, 16 O'Neill's (Cormuck), 17. Cavenagh's (Charles), 18. Bdtler's (Thomas), 19. FitzGerald's (John), 20. Lord Louth's, 21. Lord Kilmallock's, 22. Sir Maurice Eustace's, 23. Earl of Westmeath's, 24. Major-General Boise- LEAU'S , 25. Lord Bophin's, 26. O'Gara's (Oliver), 27. Grace's (John), 28. Butler's (Edward), 29. McMahon's (Art), 30. Moore's (Charles), 31. Bagnall's (Dudley), 32. O'Neill's (Gordon), 33. Browne's (Nicholas), 34. Sir Michael Creagh's, 35. Sir He ward Oxburgh's, 36. Browne's (Dominick), 37. Mac C artie's (Owen), 38. Barrett's, (John), 39. O'Bryan's (Charles), 40. O'Donovan's (Daniel), 41. Lord Iveagh's, 42. McEllicott's (Roger), 43. O'Reilly's (Edmund), 44. MacGuire's (Cuconaught) 45. Bourke's (Walter), 46. O'Neill's (Felix), 47. McMahon's (Hugh), 48. McGillicuddy's (Denis), 49. Purcell's (James), 50. Lord Hunsdon's, 51. Moore's (Garrett), 52. Bourke's (Patrick), 53. Bourke's (Michael), 54. Cormick's (Michael), 55. O'Neill's (Henry), 56. McMahon's (Hugh). 414 king james's irisii army list. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. Captains. The King's Company, Mi- chael Roth, Captain. William Dorrington, Colonel. William Maunsell Barker, Lieutenant-Colonel. Thomas Arthur, Major. j George Talbot. Richard Fagan. Sir Luke Dowdall. | Sir Gregory Byrne. j Patrick Dowdall. Bartholomew Russel. j Thomas Hackett. j Thomas Warren. j Walter Nangle, and Geo. ) C Nangle, his Son. ) \ Edward Dowdall. | George Aylmer. j John Segrave. Sir Anthony Mulledy. j Thomas Arundell, Grena- i diers. \ John Tyrrell. John Arthur. THE KING'S. Lieutenants. Richard Fitzgerald. Robert Russell. Thomas Wafer. John Connell, Walter Plunket. William Fitzwilliam Barnwell, John Edwards. Edmund Fahy, John Clancy. Christopher Weldon Edmund Brennan. Charles M'Donnell, Peter Purcell. Richard Bourke. James Russell, James Carney. David Nihffl, Christopher Taaffe. Robert Dillon, Walter D'Alton. Edward Nangle, John Grace. Peter Bathe, Bryen Lynch. Edward Tipper, Thomas Skelton. James Molloy. Francis White, Edmund Kelly. Charles Povey, John Marge tson. Andrew Doyle, William Fitzwilliam Barnwell. Ensigns. Edward Arthur. Talbot Salter. James Touchett. John Arthur. Nicholas Tyrwhitt. Piers Meade. Robert Barnewall. Edward Hanlon. Christopher Archbold. Edward Toole. Michael Warren. John Dillon. JohnPlunket. John Cusack. Matthew Taaffe. Adam Cusack. George Russell. Henry Driscoll. Thomas Povntz. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 415 THE KING'S. This fine Regiment is stated in the Establishment of 1687-8 as then consisting of only twelve companies (1080 men); its charge being stated as £17,827 12s. When strengthened as in this Muster Roll, it comprised twenty-two companies of ninety soldiers each, or 1980 men, exclusive of officers. The celebrated Doctor Alexius Stafford (a secular priest of Wexford County) Dean of Christ Church, Master in Chancery, and member for Bannow in King James's Parliament, was Chaplain to the Regiment ; and he, having in his zeal passed into the ranks at the battle of Aughrim, fell on that disastrous day. The Clarendon Correspondence (vol. 1, p. 434,) gives an interesting account of a review of this Regiment in 1686. "This morning (8th June, 1686) the Royal Regiment drew up in St. Stephen's Green, when my Lord Tyrconnei viewed them and saw them exercise ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrington was in his post; I was not in the field. His Lordship told the officers that the King was so satisfied in the long services of Sir Charles Fielding, that he had removed him to prefer him to a better post, and that he did the like for Master Billingsley, who was then in the field, Major Barker not being yet come. His Lordship likewise said, as I am informed, His Majesty did not remove any of the other officers out of any dislike, for he was well satisfied with their services, but to make room for other men of great 416 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. merit. Then presented Captain Harman to the Com- pany he was to command, on the head of which was Captain Margetson, who said he bought his employ- ment to show his readiness to venture his life and fortune in the King's service ; that whilst he had been in it he behaved himself with loyalty and honor, and did now most readily submit to his Majesty's pleasure." This Regiment of Infantry, together with Fitz-James's, Lord Galway's, Sir Maurice Eustace's, and Colonel Eamsay's, Lord Galmoy's, Lord Abercorn's, and Colonel Dominick Sheldon's Horse, constituted the besieging force at Derry ; and at the Boyne and on the last fatal field of Aughrim, the valour and steadiness of this truly Royal Regiment were preemi- nent. COLONEL WILLIAM DORRINGTON. Dorrington was a native of England * and belonged to this Regiment of Guards from its first formation- In the Establishment of 1687-8 he is entered on the Pension List for £200 per annum. A tract, contem- poraneous with the arrival of King James in Dublin, states as in a letter from Chester, that this ill-judging monarch had issued orders which were construed as confiding the care and guard of his person rather to his French auxiliaries then lately arrived, than to his Irish adherents; that a deputation of his own officers * O'Callaglian's Macarice Excidium, p. 419. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 417 having received no satisfactory reply, this Colonel and twelve other chief officers went to the King and delivered up their commissions, telling him withal that many more were resolved to do the like. Where- upon an arrangement was entered into, which, how- ever, little satisfied either party. Constituted as the King's Council was, and attended chiefly by com- manders of the Irish, the occurrence, if truly alleged, must have had an awful effect on the eve of the cam- paign. Dorrington was himself of that Board, toge- ther with the Dukes of Powis and Berwick, the Earls of Clanricarde, Abercorn, Carlingford, and M effort, the Lords Kilmallock, Clare, Merrion, and Kenmare ; the English Lord Chief Justice, Sir Edward Herbert, (who followed the King's fortune, and subsequently became his Chancellor at St. Grermains), Colonel Patrick Sarsfield, afterwards created by him Earl of Lucan, and Sir Ignatius White of Limerick, Baro- net.* Colonel Dorrington was afterwards commissioned by his King, immediately before the meeting of the Parliament of Dublin, to serve at the siege of Deny, and there was he wounded, but not so badly as long to supersede his active duty. In the September of that year, when King James would fain advance to arrest the progress of his enemy in Louth, having marched within a short distance of Dundalk, he di- rected Colonel Dorrington with the Brigade of Guards to come on as far as Mapletown-bridge, and resolved * O'CallagWs Brigade, v. 1, p. 168. EE 418 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. himself to encamp near that of Affane.* Dorrington subsequently distinguished himself at the Boyne, and was Governor of Limerick in the latter portion of that year (1690). When Tyconnel passed over to France, leaving the Duke of Berwick his Deputy in the Vice-Royalty of Ireland, Brigadier Dorrington was one of these deputed to represent to his Grace that the power so attempted to be conferred upon him was illegal, but that the Great Council in Lime- rick, consisting of the Prelates, Nobles, and Officers, were willing that he should have the civil and mili- itary authority, provided he would admit a select council of officers to direct his military operations, and allow two able persons from each of the provinces to advise him in relation to the civil, f On Tyrconnel's return to France, Dorrington was made Major-Gene- ral of the Army J. Immediately before the last siege of Limerick, he was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim,§ and was thereupon sent up to Dublin, from thence to Chester and at last to the Tower of London ; but was so soon released or exchanged by the Revolutionists as to be able to resume in France his active adherence to the Jacobite cause. There he retained his Colonelcy of the Royal Irish Foot Guards ; of which, in the re- modelling, Oliver O'Gara, who had been a full Colonel in Ireland, was constituted Lieutenant-Colonel, and * Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 379. t O'Connor's Milit. Mem. p. 126. | Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 55. § Idem, p. 137. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY* 419 John Roth, Major. The Regiment, then consisting of twelve companies, was stationed on the coast of Normandy, as part of the army designed for the inva- sion of England in 1693 : it subsequently served in Flanders ; and in Germany, in 1703, under Villars, maintained a high character ; Dorrington himself having been then raised to the rank of Lieutenant- General. In the same year he was engaged in the mountain campaign against the Tyrolose. In 1704, he sustained with the French that signal discomfiture of which O'Conor writes as " a memorable instance of the finest army in the world annihilated by the igno- rance of the leaders."* He again distinguished him- self in Germany under Marshal Villars, and especially at Ramillies in 1705. In 1709, he was engaged at the battle of Malplaquet, and subsequently under the same leadership until 1712. In 1718, he died at Paris, when this Regiment was transferred to the Compte Michael de Roth, and bore his name. This title was again changed in 1766 to 'Roscommon,' and in 1770 to 'Walsh's,' which it continued to bear, down to the French Revolution. Another Dorrington (Andrew) was Captain in the Earl of Clancarthy's Regiment of Infantry, but William is the only one on the Roll of Attainders, whereon he is described as ' of Dublin.' * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 290. EE 2 420 king james's irish army list. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM MAUN- SELL BAEKEE. This name does not seem to have been known in Ire- land until the days of the Tudor Dynasty, neither does it appear on the Attainders of 1642 or 1691. By the Act of Explanation (1665) William Barker, Esq., was restored to his estates in the County of Limerick, and seems to have been the father of the above Lieutenant-Colonel, who commanded the Infan- try at the momentous battle of Aughrim. There, ac- cording to Clarke's Memoir of James the Second, (vol. 2, p. 359), he was wounded, according to Dean Story,* killed. A Sir William Barker being seized in fee of lands in the County of Limerick, and also of a manor in Essex, settled same on his marriage in 1676, and the eldest son of that marriage was another Sir William. f MAJOE THOMAS AETHUE, This name appears of Irish record from the time of Edward the Second, and Ortelius's map locates the family in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County of Limerick. In the year 1210, Eobert Arthur was a benefactor to the great Abbey of St. Thomas in Dublin. In 1486, Dr. Thomas Arthur, by birth of Limerick City, died there Bishop of the See. In the * Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 130. | Appeal Cases. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 421 first Parliament of Elizabeth, Edward Arthur was one of the members elected to represent the City. After the Restoration, a patent of lands in the County of Limerick to Captain John Winckworth, a Cromwel- lian, contained a saving of the right of Dr. Thomas Arthur to certain lands therein named, as a nominee after reprisals. He had a similar saving in a patent of premises in the City of Limerick, to Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon ; while, under the Acts of Settle- ment and Explanation, he was restored to his principal seat and 2,000 acres of land ; as was, by the same legislative arrangement of property, John Arthur to the estates of his father, Alderman Arthur, with some exceptions ; and a Patrick Arthur was likewise thereby similarly restored. In King James's Charter to Limerick, Nicholas Arthur was named one of the Aldermen, while James and Thomas Arthur were of its Burgesses. This Thomas it may be concluded was the above Major. At the Parliament of Dublin in 1689, he sat as one of the Representatives for the Bo- rough of Newcastle, in the County of Dublin.* An early notice of this Thomas appears in the " Correspondence of the Earl of Clarendon," (6th May, 1686), when, writing to the Earl of Sunderland he recommends " that Captain Thomas Arthur, a Roman Catholic, who lately bought the employment, be advanced to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Guards."f Early in the September of that year he * King's MSS. in Dublin Soc. t Singer's Correspond, vol. 2, p. 372. 422 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. was sent to Connaught by Tyrconnel to raise recruits, but not having the Earl of Clarendon's order, he was recalled, and this the rather " as the Captain could command no serviceable interest in Connaught."* Lord Clarendon, having been afterwards accused of thus recalling Arthur, defended himself as that the raising of men is a matter of great consequence, and ought to be done by no authority but that of the Chief Governor. f Besides Major Thomas, there were of the family in this Eegiment John Arthur a Captain, Edward and John Arthur Ensigns ; and Patrick Arthur was a Captain in Major-General Boiseleau's Infantry. One of these Captains was wounded at Deny, while the above Major fell at the Boyne ;J and Dean Story records the death of a Colonel Arthur at the battle of Aughrim,§ who it would seem from Lodge,|| was married to a niece of Richard, Earl of Tyrconnel. The outlawries of 1691 include the above Thomas, described as of Colganstown, County of Dublin, with three others in said County, and one in each of those of Limerick, Clare, and Kilkenny. Various claims were made on their estates at Chi- chester House. * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, pp. 578-9. f Idem. % Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 399. § Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. || Peerage, v. 4, p. 160. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 423 CAPTAIN RICHARD FAGAN. This family is by some considered of English descent, while others prefix to it the Milesian ' 0.' In the thirteenth century it was established in Meath, and in its branches became early connected with the De Lacys, Plunketts, and Barne walls. In 1358, John Fagan was High Sheriff of the Liberties of Meath ; and in 1373, was appointed Governor of the important Castle of the Pale at Trim. Christopher Fagan, the representative of the Meath line, and inheritor of their estates, was induced to lend his influence in maintaining Perkin Warbeck's claim to the Crown. He (as it is said in an old family pedigree, verified by wills and funeral entries in the Office of Arms, and now preserved by Mr. William Fagan of Cork), was slain with four of his sons at the siege of Carlo w, when a great portion of their Meath estates was, as confiscated, granted to the Aylmers, Barnewalls, and other gentry of the Pale. John, the youngest son of Christopher, was also at Carlow, being then but 18 years of age ; he, however, escaped the slaughter, and fled to Cork, a city that held out strenuously for Perkin. He there married Phillis, daughter of William Skiddy of Skiddy's Castle in that city, by whom he had two sons, and a daughter Phillis, who married Thomas Gould. Rich- ard, the eldest son of Christopher, left a son Thomas Fagan, who acquired that estate of Feltrim in the County of Dublin from which the head of the family 424 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. has since derived a territorial designation. His eldest son, another Christopher, was High Sheriff of the City of Dublin in 1565 and 1573 ; and it was during his possession of Feltrim that the unfortunate Earl of Desmond, being a prisoner of state in the Castle of Dublin, and his health failing so as to need the air of the country, this Christopher Fagan was selected to take charge of his person at his residence. But when it was intimated to Fagan that it would be his duty to watch the captive, he magnanimously replied, that the Earl would be welcome to diet and lodging at his house, yet would he never consent to be his keeper. Desmond, it may be added, in such li- beral guardianship was allowed to walk abroad on his parol ; but, abusing the privilege, he escaped into Munster, where entering soon after into open rebellion he was treacherously murdered.* The descendant and namesake of this Christopher was declared a forfeit- ing proprietor during the civil wars of 1641. On proof, however, of his innocence, he was in 1670 decreed the possession of Feltrim, qualified into an estate in tail-male. His death in 1682 is recorded in a funeral entry in the Office of Arms, wherein he is described as ' Christopher, son of Richard, son of John, son of Richard ;' that he died 12th February, 1682-3, and was buried in St. Audoens' Church, Dublin ; having married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas White of Leixlip, by whom he had several children, of whom (says the record) Richard and Peter are now living, * D'Alton's History of the Co. Dublin, pp. 211-12. THE RING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 425 and one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Lord Stra- bane [and who became mother by him of Claud, fourth Earl of Abercorn, Colonel of a Eegiment of Horse in this Army, as before noticed]. The Eicharcl here mentioned was the above Captain, and he married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Aylmer of Lyons, by whom he had one daughter, Anna-Maria. Eichard's uncle, John Fagan, became the founder of that Munster line in which the representation is now preserved ; and his son Christopher was, as hereafter noticed, a Captain in Lord Kenmare's Infantry ; while in Sir Michael Creagh's, Patrick 4 Ffagan ' was also a Captain. The Attainders of 1691 exhibit the names of Thomas Fagan of Kinsale, Bryan ' O'Fegan' of Drumgagh, County of Down, clerk ; Manus 4 O'Fegan ' of Clonallon, County of Down ; with Eichard Fagan t , described as of Drakestown, County of Meath, and Feltrim, County of Dublin. The value of the latter's estate alone was so considerable, that an inquiry into its circumstances was directed in 1690-1, Avith the object of presenting it as a royal boon to Sir Eobert Southwell.* The sale of all his estates ultimately brought in not less than £100,000, out of which only his wife's jointure and his daugh- ters' portions (for he died without male issue) were allowed to be paid ; viz. £1,000 for his eldest daugh- ter Anne, and £400 for each of his other daughters, Elizabeth and Helen. They were all minors at the * Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 213. 426 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. time of the claims made. Helen afterwards married John Taylor of Swords, ante, p. 379. A James Fagan passed after the Revolution into the Spanish service, where he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Harnel's Regiment. He married the heiress of the House of Turges in Lor- raine, and was living in 1722.* See further of this family at Christopher Fagan, a Captain in Lord Ken- mare's Infantry. CAPTAINS SIR LUKE, PATRICK, AND EDWARD DOWDALL. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of King Edward the Third. In 1446, Robert Dowdall of Newtown-Termonfeckin, County of Louth, was ap- pointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ire- land. His son Thomas was Master of the Rolls in 1488, and James Dowdall was appointed in 1583 Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench. An imprinted Act of Resumption of 1468 contains a saving of the rights of the aforesaid Robert Dowdall. Edward Dowdall of Glaspistol was one of the Representatives of the County of Louth in Queen Elizabeth's first Parlia- ment ; and Laurence Dowdall of Athlumney and Nicholas Dowdall of Brownstown attended the cele- brated meeting on the hill of Crofty. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of this Nicholas, Walter of * Fagan MSS. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 427 Athboy, and Laurence of Athlumney. The latter was of the Confederate Catholics who adhered to the King at the meeting in Kilkenny, and he was accordingly excepted from pardon for life or estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652. In a grant of Athlumney as forfeited property to William Kidges in 1666, a saving was inserted " of such right and no other as should be ad- judged due to Sir Luke Dowdall, Knight, as a nomi- nee in the town and lands of Athlumney." Besides these Captains, there appear upon this List another Edward Dowdall a Quarter-Master, and Joseph Dowdall an Ensign in Lord Louth's Kegiment of Infantry ; while a John Dowdall, who does not appear upon it, was, after its date, appointed Major of Lord 'Bellew's' Infantry. The list of names for the Shrievalties in Ireland, sent over to Lord Clarendon the Viceroy, contained for the County of Meath the name of Launcelot Dowdall, with the observation, 1 a factious caballing whig ; ' to which Clarendon replied in comment, ' This gentleman is of an ancient Eng- lish family in that county, where he behaves himself with great sobriety, and is so far from being a favour- ite of the whigs or caballing with them, that they are dissatisfied with his. being Sheriff, concluding him a friend to the old natives of the County.'* John Dowdall was one of the Kepresentatives of the Borough of Dundalk in the Parliament of 1689, as was Henry Dowdall, Recorder of Drogheda, for that ancient town. This latter it was who, in duty of his * Singers Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 286. 428 king james's irish army list. office, delivered that address of its Corporation to King James, when entering the town on the 7th of April, 1689, which is preserved in the Anihologia Hibernica, (vol. 1, p. 42). The Attainders of 1691 comprise the names of the above Sir Luke, described as Lucas Dowdall of Old Connaught, County of Dub- lin, and of Dublin City ; Patrick of ISFavan, mer- chant ; and Edward of Dublin and Moate ; besides James Dowdall of Navan, merchant, George of Cluncestown, Stephen of Athboy, Henry of BroAvns- town and Drogheda, Joseph and Matthew of Cloran, County of Westmeath, and Sylvester, son of Matthew of said last mentioned place. Patrick of Dundalk and Termonfeckin, John of Dundalk, Christopher and John of Drogheda, merchants, Peter of Ardee, clerk, and Walter Dowdall of Drumshallon, clerk. Sir Lucas forfeited in Meath extensive estates, off which his widow, Dame Katherine, claimed dower, but was dismist, as were alike the claims of their children Anne, Thomasine, and Mary Dowdall for portions, and that of Daniel Dowdall, his son and heir, by his guardian, for a fee therein. Margaret Dowdall claimed in her own right and was allowed the benefit of sundry debts due to her, but 'put out' in the name of Patrick Dowdall, who was attainted ; while she also claimed as one of the executors of Lady Jane Dowdall a mortgage debt affecting the County of Longford estate of said Patrick Dowdall. Lady Alice Dowdall, otherwise Nugent, one of the daughters of Richard, late Earl of Westmeath, claimed THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 429 a jointure of £180 off the Meath estates of Henry Dowdall — clismist. Joseph Dowdall sought and was allowed an estate tail in Westmeath lands forfeited by- Matthew Dowdall ; and Redmond Dowdall, and Mary his wife, claimed an estate tail in County of Limerick lands forfeited by Tobias and John Dowdall, as did said Mary her dower off these estates as the widow of Tobias and under his will of 25th August, 1688. — — The estates of Sir Lucas were subsequently sold in lots to John Preston of Ardsallagh, Robert Rochfort, her Majesty's Attorney-General, Michael Shields of Wainstown, John Drury of Dublin, and Richard Gorges, Esq. the patentee of Kilrue. In the engagement at Lauffield village in 1747, Lieutenant Dowdall, then ranking in Berwick's Brigade, was wounded. CAPTAIN SIR GREGORY BYRNE. The O'Byrnes were the formidable Chieftains of that last subjugated district of Ireland, now the County of Wicklow ; the present Barony of Ballinacor and the Rainilogh were possessed exclusively by them, and they, with the O'Tooles, the territorial Lords of the remainder of this County, maintained for nearly four centuries an unceasing war against Dublin and the English Pale. So early after the introduction of sur- names as 1119 the Four Masters record the death of Aodh O'Brin (Byrne), Lord of East Leinster, and when 430 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. afterwards Dermot McMurrough invited the English invasion, the O'Byrne, who was, in the adjustment of Irish government, his tributary, although Dermot confided in him as his last hope, renounced his allegi- ance, and unhesitatingly opposed the invaders ; when, being brought before 4 Strongbow,' he was condemned to death. In 1176, Malachy O'Byrne died Bishop of Kildare. Murrough ' Mac Byrn ' of Eainilough and Connor 1 O'Brin ' were of the Irish Chiefs, to whom Henry the Third directed a special requisition for re- pairing to his standard, and assisting him with their forces against the King of Scotland.* In 1398, Eoger Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, and Lord of Dunamase, was killed when endeavouring to reduce this mountain Sept ; a catastrophe which induced the second visit of the unfortunate Eichard the Second to Ireland, when the O'Byrne was fain to yield him ho- mage.f In 1535, Lord Leonard Grey received inti- mation that one of the Fitzgeralds, uniting with Lord Baltinglas and a Chieftain of the O'Byrnes, had taken their station in the valleys of Glendalough, that their numbers were daily increasing, and 4 their excursions were pestilent and audacious.' In two years after, however, the O'Byrne made his submission to Lord Grey. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, the celebrated Feagh Mac Hugh was the Captain of the O'Byrnes ; he it was whom Spencer commemorates, " so far emboldened as to threaten peril even to Dublin, over Kymers Fcedera. f Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 22. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 431 whose neck he continually hung." His capture and escape are well narrated by the Four Masters. Two cruel Inquisitions were held at Newcastle, in the County of Dublin in 1604, by operation of which the estates of upwards of eighty of the O'Byrnes of Wicklow were declared forfeited to the Crown ; many of them, as appears by the finding, having been killed or taken prisoners and hanged by martial law during the rebellion, which broke out 2nd of September, 36th Elizabeth. In two years after, eighty-five others of this devoted mountain Sept felt it necessary in pru- dence to pay the fines and charges for patents of pardon. The Attainders of 1642 include one hundred and fifty-six O'Byrnes in their old County, with four in Dublin, three in the County of Kildare, and one in Carlow. The Kilkenny Assembly of Con- federate Catholics was attended by Hugh 4 Brin ' of Corinnon, Bryan 6 Burne ' of Ballinacor, Bryan of Rodine, James of Ballyaude, and John of Ballyglann. Cromwell's Denunciation Act of 1652 excepts two of these Confederates, there described as Hugh Mac Phelim and Bryan Mac Phelim Byrne, both of the County of Wicklow, from pardon for life and estate. In the Record Tower of Dublin Castle is a petition of Phelim Byrne, soon after the Restoration, to recover his ancient inheritance in Wicklow ; but it does not seem to have been effective. The above Captain Sir Gregory Byrne was resident at Tymogue in the Queen's County ; in 1669, he married Margaret Copley, sister and co-heiress of Sir 432 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Christopher Copley, and grand-daughter of the first Viscount Eanelagh ; in two years after he was created a Baronet, and in 1685 his Lady died, leav- ing issue by him an only son Daniel. Sir Gregory was attainted in 1691 ; nevertheless, at the Court of Chichester House he claimed estates in fee in divers lands in the Queen's County, and in plots and houses in Dublin ; but the claim was dismist as cautionary ; while some other interests in the City and County of Dublin were allowed to him. He married to his second wife Alice Fleming, only daughter of Randal Lord Slane, by the Lady Penelope Moore, daughter of Henry, Earl of Drogheda ; (the grand-daughter of this union, having married into the family of Bryan of Jenkinstown, her son sought to establish title to the dormant title of Slane as heir general of Christo- pher Lord Slane, and on the extinction of all interme- diate issue). Besides this Captain, there are on the present ' List ' Garret and John Byrne, Captains in the Earl of Westmeath's Infantry. The former was afterwards adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. In the Parliament of Dublin, Hugh Byrne sat as one of the Representatives of the Borough of Carysfort, and Thomas Byrne as one of that of Wicklow. Sir Gregory was outlawed on four Inquisitions in Dublin, Meath, and the Queen's County ; while the scattered quantity of these political attainders in 1692, in rela- tion to the O'Byrnes, powerfully evinces the dispersion from their native mountain fastnesses, to which this devoted race were within a few years after its reduc- THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 433 tion subjected. Nineteen of these Inquisitions were held in the County of Wicklow, eight in Carlo w, seven in Westmeath, three in Meath, Dublin, and Wexford respectively, two in the Queen's County, and one in Louth ; while even in such remote settlements as Derry and Galway two occur in the former and one in the latter. At the Court of Claims, besides those so made by Sir Gregory Byrne, Garret Byrne claimed the tithes of Kectories in Wicklow forfeited by Hugh Byrne, — dismist for non-prosecution. Off the forfeitures of Walter Byrne in the City of Dublin, his widow claimed and was allowed an estate for life under settlement of 1682 ; and Edmund Byrne claimed and was allowed the fee of some estates of Thady Byrne in the Barony of Arklow, County of Wicklow. In 1707, Dr. Edmund Byrne was the Eoman Ca- tholic Archbishop of Dublin. A proclamation issued in 1712 for his apprehension, as well as of others " who attempted to exercise ecclesiastical jurisdiction contrary to the laws of the kingdom."* In 1746, ' Cornet Byrne' was one of the rebel officers taken prisoner at sea, being in the 'Pretender's' service on board the Charite.f In 1757, Colonel O'Byrne was a distinguished officer in the Austrian service ; he died in 1813. * Hardiman's Galway, pp. 275-7. t Gent. Mag. ad annum, p. 145. 1 FF 434 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN BAETHOLOMEW RUSSELL. This name is of Irish record from the earliest period after the Invasion, while the Four Masters relate the death of Actin Kussell in a battle between the Burkes and O'Conors in 1263. In 1594, Sir William Rus- sell was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, when his earliest movement was directed against the O'Byrnes at their stronghold of Ballinacor. The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Thomas Russell Ruagh of Rush, Christopher Russell of Seatown, Andrew Russell of Swords, Patrick of Brownstown, Nicholas of Collinstown, Thomas of Dry nam, and Francis of Kilrush, all in the County of Dublin ; with Patrick Russell of Rodanstown, County of Meath. In 1646, George Russell of Rathmolin was one of the Confede- rate Catholics assembled at Kilkenny. A short time before the accession of King James, Dr. Patrick Russell (of the family that, as shown by the above attainders, was congregated about the ancient town of Swords,) was appointed the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in which dignity he continued during that monarch's reign. In 1685, he held the first Provincial Council at Dublin that had been known for many years ; and Lord Clarendon, then Viceroy, writing at that time to the Earl of Rochester one of his state letters, says of this prelate, " He has been with me, seems to be a good man, but no poli- tician ; he is a secular."* In the peaceful course of * Singer's Corresp. v. 1, p. 387. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 435 his life he continued, by synods and councils and visitations, to inculcate humility and attention in his clergy, and virtue and loyalty in their flocks."* During his King's residence in the Irish metropolis, he performed the service and rites of his church con- stantly in the Royal presence ; the last permitted occasion of these solemnities having been for the consecration of a Benedictine nunnery in Dublin. On the downfall of the Stuart dynasty, he fled to Paris, whence however he returned to close his life in the land of his birth and ministry. At the termi- nation of the year 1692 he died, and was buried in the venerable church of Lusk near Swords. While he was Primate, his principal residence was in the old chapel-house at Francis-street, by the Fraternity of which establishment an ancient censer is preserved exhibiting the inscription, " Orate pro Patricio Russell, Archiepiscopo Dublinice, Primati Hibeimice et pro ejus fratre Jacobo Russell, Decano DiMinice et Prothonotario Apostolico, qui me fieri fecit "f During King James's reign he enjoyed a pension of £200 per annum charged on the Irish Exchequer. The above Captain Bartholomew Russell was the pro- prietor of Seatown, County of Dublin, by which de- scription he was attainted in 1691 ; while there appear on this Army List Garret and Thomas Russell, Ensigns in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry (the latter described on his attainder as of Ballymacscanlon, County of Louth), and Christopher Russell (described * D' Alton's Archbishops of Dublin, p. 454. f Idem. p. 456" IF 2 436 king james's irisii army list. as of Seatown, County of Dublin) a Captain in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry. The Attainders of 1691, besides the above officers, include the names of Valentine Eussell of Quoniams- town, James of Russelstown, County of Westmeath, Robert of Drynam (who had been one of the Repre- sentatives of Swords in the Parliament of 1689), and eight other Russells in the Counties of Cork, Water- ford, Down, and Louth. Captain Bartholomew forfeited much about Swords and in the Barony of Nethercross. Thomas's confiscations were of portions of the Rectorial tithes of Julianstown, Platten, and Dunany. Valentine's comprised extensive estates in the County of Down, in which his son Patrick Russell, then a minor, claimed an estate tail as did his mother Mary Russell, alias Hanlon, by Hugh Hanlon her Trustee, a rent charge in lieu of dower under marriage articles of February, 1683. Their petitions do not, however, appear to have been allowed, and a portion of his estates, including Quon- iamstown was sold by the Commissioners of the For- feitures in 1703 to Robert Echlin of Rush, Esq. Bridget, the only child and heiress of Robert Russell of Drynam, married Andrew Cruise of the Naul family. See post, at Captain Francis Cruise, in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 437 CAPTAIN THOMAS HACKETT. This name 4 Hecket ' occurs on the Roll of Battle Abbey as of one of the Knights who attended the Con- queror from Normandy. His race early extended over Worcestershire and Yorkshire. One of his decendants, Paganus Hacket, came over to Ireland with the English Invasion. He witnessed an en- dowment from Hugh Tyrrell to the priory of Kilmain- ham about 1180, and acquired a grant of lands in the district of Wicklow still known by the name of Hacketstown,* which remained in his line until their adhesion to the Earl of Desmond caused its confis- cation in the time of Queen Elizabeth. In 1200, Rowland Hacket was seised of lands near Kinsale County of Dublin ;f and in 1250, William Hacket founded the Franciscan Friary, in Cashel. In 1302, John and Robert 'Haket' were of the 'Fideles' of Ireland, whose services were sought by special Royal mandate for the war in Scotland. J About the same time, Robert and Walter Haket received similar recognitions of the King's confidence,§ the latter being entrusted with the custody of Newcastle Mac Kinegan near Delgany. In 1356, Andrew Hakett was Sheriff and Escheator of the County of Cross-Tipperary. At the Battle of Agincourt, Rich- ard Hakett was one of the Knights in the Duke of * Lynch's Feudal Dignities, p. 255. f Arclidalfs Monasticon, p. 152. X Parliamentary Writs. § "Roll in Irish Chancery. 438 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Gloucester's retinue, as was another Eichard in Sir Henry Hussey's, and a Walter Haket in Sir William Bourchier's.* In 1460, David Haket was Bishop of Ossoiy ; and in 1484, Peter Haket was Archbishop of Cashel. In the sixteenth century, and it would seem anterior to it,, a branch of this family was estab- lished in the county of Galway, and erected a castle on a townland of that district which still bears the name of Castle-Hacket. By Inquisition of 1584, it was found that Ulick Mac Eedmond Mac Meyler died in 1571, seised of the castles of Castle-Hacket and Cahir-Morris ; but that Mac Hacket, the chief of his name, and others of the Sept of the Rackets, claimed the aforesaid Castle of Castle-Hacket, with the two quarters of land adjoining, f The Attainders of 1642 comprise but one individual in the old County, described as George Hackett of Ballinahensy, County of Wicklow ; about which time Thomas Hackett was transplanted to Connaught, and others of the na me settled in the County of Mayo, where they seem now extinct. In 1672, Thomas Hacket succeeded to the Sees of Down and Connor. In 1678, Thomas Hacket, described as of Dublin, merchant, an especial friend of the Duke of Tyrconnel, had a grant of upwards of 1,000 statutable acres in the Barony of Clare, County of Galway, with cer- tain savings. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689), Thomas Hackett, Bishop of Down and Connor, was one of the spiritual Peers ; while in the Commons, Sir * Nicholas's Agincourt. f Hardiman's Galway, p. 21. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 439 Thomas Hacket represented Portarlington, as did Alderman James the City of Cashel. Another Hac- kett (James) appears on this Army List a Lieutenant in Colonel Thomas Butler's Infantry. When King- James, after the Boyne, fled from Dublin through the hills of Wicklow, he stopped for a few hours with some followers at the house of a Mr. Hackett near Arklow, whence he proceeded to Duncannon, arriving there about sunrise. According to Archbishop King, a Captain Robert Hacket was one of those who followed the fortunes of James to France. In 1691, was attainted Thomas Hackett, de- scribed as of Cloncullen, with five others of the name. It does not appear how far the estates of this Thomas Hackett were affected by attainder, but by a Private Act of the Irish Parliament in 1706, explained by another of 1708, those of Sir Thomas Hacket were vested in Trustees for the payment of his debts. CAPTAIN THOMAS WARREN. This ■ name is ' of record in Ireland early in the reign of Edward the Second, from which time it extended its branches over all the Counties of the Pale. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of six Warrens. Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646, were Alexander Warren, then styled of Churchtown ; Edward Warren, ' late of Dublin,' and William War- ren of Casheltown. About the year 1667, William 440 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. and John Warren of Corduff joined in conveying a parcel of Castleknock to the Crown, for the purpose of enlarging the Phoenix Park. This William War- ren, as appears by Inquisition of 1687, was seised of upwards of 283 acres in Upper Castleknock, 51 in Carpenterstown, and 58 in Lacken, which he had settled in tail-mail on his nephew, the above Captain Thomas, by deed of 22nd March, 1669. It is of legal record that Lord Dongan, whom James the Second afterwards created Earl of Limerick, leased in 1688 lands in the County of Kildare to a Maurice Warren for his life, and the lives of his nephews Ed- ward and William Warren, with covenant for per- petual renewal. William died in the camp of D un- ci alk, while the lessor was in the Irish Army, and Maurice himself (the lessee) died in 1691, when Gil- bert, the eldest son of Maurice, entered on the lands, but was unable to obtain a renewal, by reason that the Earl of Athlone, the Patentee of the estates of the attainted Earl of Limerick, was absent from Ireland. On the establishment of 1687-8, a Mrs. Mary Warren appears for a pension of £80. Thomas Warren was then Sheriff of Dublin, as he was again in the year of King James's sojourn there. He was attainted in 1691, by the description of Thomas Warren of Cor- duff, County of Dublin, and of Warrenstown, County of Meath. Besides this officer there appear of the name on this Army List, John Warren a Captain, and Kichard Warren a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. In Lord Bophin's, Laurence THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 441 Warren was a Lieutenant. In Sir Michael Creagh's, Edward was a Captain, as was Nicholas in Sir Charles Cavenagh's (but appointed subsequent to the date of the present Army List.) Said Captain John War- ren was Sheriff of Dublin in 1686 ; in 1689 he was a Deputy Lieutenant of the County, and in the Par- liament of that year represented the Borough of Car- low. He was attainted as of 4 Warrenstown, County of Meath,' and also of Carlow, but his forfeitures lay chiefly in the Queen's County, and in the County and Town of Carlow. At the Court of Claims, Maurice Warren claimed some judgment debts as affecting the Carlow estate of John, some of which were allowed; while Henry Warren claimed and was allowed a mort- gage in fee on said property; and subject to these charges his lands were sold in 1703 to Colonel Went- worth Hardman, and to Walter Welclon of Eahin, as were the town plots to Charles Bouleey. There were also attainted in 1692 Patrick, James, and Michael Warren, described as of Warrenstown, County of Meath ; and Richard Warren of Carlow. CAPTAINS WALTER AND GEORGE NANGLE. " This," says Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed Gentry, " is one of the most ancient Anglo-Norman families in Ireland." Amongst the Knights who accompanied Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, (Strongbow) to that country in 1169, were Gilbert 442 king james's irish army list. de Angulo and his two sons Jocelyn and Hostilio. From the latter descends the family of de Costello, called Mac Hostilio or Mac Costello. Gilbert de An- gulo obtained the territory of Maherigallen and other lands in Meath ; whilst his eldest son Jocelyn acquired Navan and the lands of Ardbraccan, whence his lineal successors, the Nangles, were subsequently styled Barons of Navan. His descendant in the fourteenth generation, Sir Thomas Nangle, Baron of Navan, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jenico, third Viscount Gormanstown, by Catherine, eldest daughter of Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare ; and had issue by her eight sons, the youngest of whom, Walter N angle of Kildalkey in the County of Meath, was grandfather of the above Captain Walter, who was himself father of Captain George, as well as of Edward, a Lieutenant herein, and of Garret or Gerald, a Lieutenant in Sir Michael Creagh's Infantry. Captain Walter had been Sheriff of Meath in 1687, and was one of the Eepresentatives of the Borough of Trim in the Parlia- ment of 1689. In 1605, Eobert Nangle obtained a grant or con- firmation from King James of the Manor and Castle of Ballysax, with divers lands and tithes in the Counties of Kildare and Tipper ary, ' in due acknow- ledgment,' as was recited in the patent, of his wounds and losses sustained in his several services of extra- ordinary merit to the Crown. He was, however, attainted in 1642, together with Matthew Nangle, also styled of Ballysax, Eoland of Ardrass, Peter of THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 443 Naas, clerk ; Thomas Nangle, otherwise Baron of Navan, and Jocelyn Nangle of Kildalkey (the yonnger brother of the above Captain Walter). In 1646, Eoger Nangle, styled of Glynmore, was of the Con- federate Catholics in the Supreme Council. On this Army List, besides the Nangles in this Kegiment, Eobert Nangle is mentioned by Mr. O'Callaghan as having been a Major in Tyrconnel's Eegiment. He was killed near Eaphoe in the skirmishes that pre- ceded the siege of Deny. Walker, in his Diary of the siege, writes (p. 62) that " Major Nangle was drowned coming over at Lifford." The Inquisition of Attainder on said Eobert Nangle bears date in Sep- tember, 1694, and finds him seised of various estates in the County of Westmeath. In King James's New Charters, John Nangle was appointed Portrieve in that to Navan, while Walter was one of its Burgesses. In another to Trim, Walter, George, and Edward Nangle were Burgesses, as was Walter in a third to Athboy. Sir Eichard Nagle before alluded to (p. 147), where the present notices should have been introduced, is mentioned by Lord Clarendon * as " Eichard Nangle, a lawyer, a Eoman Catholic, and a man of the best re- putation for learning as well as honesty amongst the people f and when, in May, 1686, he was ap- pointed one of King James's Council, Lord Claren- don, in a letter to the Duke of Ormond, thus com- mented : " I do a little wonder to find Mr. Nan- gle's name among them, though he be a very honest * Singer's Corresp. of Ld. Clarendon, v. 1, p. 273. 444 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. and able man. Yet it is very extraordinary to have a practising lawyer a Privy Councillor ; and will not be very decent for him to follow his practice or to quit his profession ; I believe he will not like it. I am sure he had no mind to be a judge, and I believe he will be as little pleased with this preferment."* Again, " I have not heard it was yet ever done but to Sir Francis Bacon, when he was Attorney-General ; and to satisfy his ambition by the credit he had with the Duke of Buckingham, or rather by importunity he was made a Privy Councillor, but never appeared afterwards in Westminster Hall, unless the King's business required him."f Nangle (Nagle) declined the honor, and the King accepted his resignation. The Attainders of 1691 comprise the above Walter and George, together with Edward Nangle of Kil- dalkey, Francis of Harberston, John of Navan, Gerald of Mayne, Piers of Kilmihill, and Robert Nangle, all of the County of Westmeath. At the Court of Chichester House, Walter Nangle claimed and was allowed an estate tail in Meath lands forfeited by the above Captain Walter, as did Margaret Nangle her jointure off said estate, and also off Walter's West- meath estates ; while Penelope Nangle claimed a jointure and her son Eobert (a minor) an estate tail in the Westmeath lands of Robert Nangle. A great portion of Captain Walter Nangle's estate in Meath was afterwards sold to John Asgill of Dublin, as were * Singer's Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, vol. 1, p. 411. f Idem. p. 417. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 445 Eobert Nangle's estates in Westmeath to the Hollow Swords Blades' Company. CAPTAIN JOHN SEGEAVE. The name of Segrave or Sedgrave is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, their chief seat being early recorded as at Killeglan in the County of Meath. See further of this name post, at Captain Francis Segrave, in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry., In a confirmatory grant of 1668, of lands and premises in various counties to Charles Viscount Fitz-Harding, the rights of John Segrave to certain houses and plots within the Manor of Eathmore were especially saved, and he may possibly be the above Captain, afterwards attainted as of Cabra, County of Dublin, and Burtonstown, County of Meath. He was, however, adjudged within the Articles of Limerick. Besides this Captain John, there appear on the Army List said Francis, a Captain, and Laurence Segrave, his Lieutenant, in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. The attainders of 1691 present the names of the above Captain and John Segrave, with those of Gilbert and Nicholas Segrave of Ballyhack, County of Meath, and Francis Segrave of Fryarstown and of Eosberry, County of Kildare. 446 KING JAMES'S IMSH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN SIP ANTHONY MULLEDT. The O'Mulledy's were an ancient sept of the King's County and Westmeath, located near Garry-Castle. In 1447, Cornelius O'Mulledy succeeded to the See of Clonfert, whence in the following year he was trans- lated to that of Emly. The only individual of the name attainted in 1642 was styled Patrick 0' ' Mullady, Baronet, of Ballinver, County of Meath. A letter is extant of the 10th of August, 1690, from the Wil- liamite Colonel Wolseley to Secretary Southwell, 6 from the camp near Mullingar ;' in which he says, " We had advices from Colonel Babington that 2,000 of the enemy were got together at Tyrrelspass, they advanced with about 120 Horse, ' who' our men charged and broke ; the night came upon us or else we had done great execution; as it was, we killed between 80 and 100, and have taken prisoners three of the greatest rogues amongst them, viz. Andrew Tuite, James Ledwich, and Redmund Mulledy, late Sheriff for King James. They are no soldiers nor have any commission for what they do, and therefore I have a great mind to hang them if His Majesty will either give orders for it or say nothing about it, but leave me to myself ; for I am well assured that an Irishman is to be taught his duty only by the rod. Tuite's father holds out a garrison now in an island within two miles of this place. I conceive the whole number of this party were about 1,000; one Nugent, THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 447 the present Sheriff for King James, headed them."* Dean Story reports the transaction as that " one Mulledy, late High Sheriff of Longford, got at least 3,000 of rabble or sneh like near Mullingar, where they hectored and swaggered for some days," adding, that Colonel Wolseley fell in with the party and killed about thirty of them, " High Sheriff Mulledy being wounded and never since able to raise such a 6 posse comitatus.' " Those of this name attainted in 1691 were the above Anthony Mulledy, described as of Eobertstown, Knight ; Eedmund Mulledy of Grange- more, and Hugh Mulledy of Eathwyre, in the County of Westmeath ; John Mulledy of Dublin, and John Mulledy of Ballintobber, County of Mayo. The estates of Eedmund and Hugh Mulledy, comprising the Lordship of Eathwyre and various other lands, &c, in the County of Westmeath, were sold by the Com- missioners of Forfeited Estates to Chichester Phillips of Drumcondra, County of Dublin, and a larger proportion to Eobert Pakenham of Bracklyn. Those of the above Captain Sir Anthony lay in the Baronies of Dunboyne and Eatoath, County of Meath. CAPTAIN THOMAS ARUNDEL. This name is of Irish record from the time of Edward the Second. Several links in the pedigree of Arun- dells of Main, in the County of Limerick, in the 17th * Clarke's MSS. Correspondence, Trin. Coll. Liby. Lett, lxxxiii. 448 king james's irish army list. century, are given in a genealogical manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (F 3, 27). In the Munster war of 1600, Paul Arundel was a Captain in Lord Audley's Regiment of Infantry. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Garret Arundel and Garret Oge Arundel, both described as of Aghdullane, County of Cork. Lord Henry, the third Baron Arundell of Wardour, who was one of the persons committed to prison in 1678 on the information of the infamous Titus Gates, after suffering five years' incarceration, was released, and on King James's accession to the throne was sworn of the Privy Council. In the fol- lowing year he was constituted Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and honored with the order of the Bath. In the will which King James executed at Whitehall, on the eve of his abdication, 17th November, 1688, he appointed this nobleman the adviser of his Queen, and he is one of the witnesses to the instrument. On that King's departure, Lord Arundel, retiring from public life, secluded himself at Breamore in Wilts, where he died 28th December, 1694:* The above Captain Arundel fell at the battle of the Boyne.f LIEUTENANT THOMAS WAFER. The Attainders of 1642 name amongst the forfeiting proprietors Francis Wafer of Gyanstown, County of * Burke's Peerage, p 36. | Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 399. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 449 Meath, and those of 1691 have the same name as of Castletown in said County. LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARDS. Though this name is of Irish record since the time of the Tudors, nothing worthy of notice connected with this individual has been discovered. LIEUTENANT EDMUND FAHY. THE-OTahys were an ancient sept of the County of Galway, while the only notice attainable here is of an Adjutant Fahy, who, according to Walker,* was killed at Derry. LIEUTENANT JOHN CLANCY. This was the name of a clan tributary to the O'Bryan, yet in the time of Elizabeth so influential, that in Clare, Boetius ' Glanchy' was one of the Representa- tives of that County in Sir John Perrot's Parliament of 1585, and was afterwards its Sheriff. The name of this Lieutenant does not appear on the Attainders of 1692, which suggests that he may have fallen in the campaign. Those outlawries have the names of * Siege of Derry, p. 36. GO 450 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Murtough and James Clancy of Knocklane, and another Boetius Clancy of 4 Glancan,' both in said County. LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHEK WELDON. This name is of record on Irish Rolls from the time of Richard the Second ; and James Weldon, described as of Newry, was of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1647. LIEUTENANT EDMUND BRENNAN. . The Mac Brannans were chiefs of Corcaghlan, a dis- trict of the County of Roscommon, forming part of that in which is the well-known mountain Slieye- Ban. So early as in the year 1150, the Masters record the death of Maolisa Brannan, Archdeacon of Deny ; and in 1159 that of Branan Mac Branan, chief of Corcaighlann, in a battle between the O'Conors and O'Briens. The Kilkenny Supreme Council of 1646 had of its Commons, John Brennan, styled of Cloyne- finlough. LIEUTENANT DAYID NIHILL. Besides this officer, a Peter 1 Nihill' was Lieutenant in Lord Kilmallock's Infantry. On the Attainders of 1691 are the names of James Nihill of Limerick and THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 451 Dublin, and the above David Nihill, styled of the Barony of Tulla, County of Clare. In the lands of the latter, Laurence Nihill claimed an estate tail, but was disniist, while Elinor Nihill, alias Hackett, as his widow and executrix, sought and was allowed a third part of his Clare estates, as in pursuance of his will of 1683 ; and Eobert Woulfe made a claim thereon for the portion of his wife Anstace, a daughter of said David. At the battle of Lauffield in 1746, Lieutenant Nihill, of Dillon's Regiment, was killed. LIEUTENANT CHRISTOPHER AND ENSIGN MATTHEW TAAFFE. This Cambrian name is of record in Ireland from the time of the English invasion. In 1287 flourished Sir Nicholas Taaffe, whose son John Taaffe was by the Pope's provision consecrated Archbishop of Armagh. He died at Rome in 1306, after taking the mitre, but never saw his see.* In 1295, Richard Taaffe was Sheriff of Dublin, and, in 1311, a member of the Par- liament of Kilkenny. In 1373 and 1375, Richard Taaffe of Ballybragan and John Taaffe were summoned to Great Councils ; and in 1376, John Taaffe of Castle-Lumnagh was Sheriff of Louth. In 1479/ Sir Laurence Taaffe, the descendant of the above Sir Nicholas, was one of the honorable fraternity of St. * Ware's Bishops, p. 71. GG 2 452 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. George in Ireland on its first institution ; and in 1560, Nicholas Taaffe of Ballybragan was Sheriff of Louth.* In 1628, Sir John Taaffe of this family was ad- vanced to the Peerage by the titles of Baron of Ballymote and Viscount Corran, in the County of Sligo. His eldest son Theobald was created Earl of Carlingford in 1661 ; his second son Lucas Taaffe was a Major-General in the Irish Army during the Com- monwealth, was appointed Governor of Ross in 1649, and defended that town against Cromwell, but, being subsequently obliged to expatriate himself, served as a Colonel in Italy and Spain, whence on the Eestoration he returned and died in Ireland, f On the Attainders of 1642, the only Taaffe is Laurence Taaffe, described as of ' Killen,' County of Meath. Cromwell's Ordi- nance of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and estate Theobald, ' Viscount Taaffe of Corran,' and Luke Taaffe, his brother. In 1665, by the operation of the Act of Settlement, the aforesaid Lucas, by the style of Colonel Lucas Taaffe, and Elizabeth his wife, were restored to the " jointure, portions, lands, &c, which she or any for her use had held and enjoyed while Theobald his brother, the Viscount, was likewise restored to his estates, and directed to have and enjoy to him and his heirs the manors, lands, &c, whereof Christopher Taaffe of Bryanstown and Taaffe of Cockston were seised on the 23rd of October, 1641. * See Dalton's Drogheda, v. 2, p. 162. f Burke's Extinct Peerage. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 453 He had likewise a pension of £800 per annum on the establishment, with other substantial marks of Royal favour, and died in December, 1677. His son Nicholas was a Colonel in this campaign, but not on the present Army List. In Eing James's Charters of 1697, John Taaffe was one of the Burgesses in that to Sligo ; as Avere John 4 Taafe,' merchant, George, Peter, Nicholas, and another John in one to the Borough of Ardee. Besides those of the name in this Regiment, Nicho- las Taaffe was a Cornet in Tyrconnel's Horse, and Thomas Taaffe a Quarter-Master in SarsfiekVs. At the siege of Derry, a Major John Taaffe, who was brother to the Peer of Carlingford,was killed at Penny- burn Mill. In King James's Parliament of Dublin sat in the House of Peers Nicholas, Earl of Carling- ford, who was soon after despatched as a confidential envoy to the Emperor Leopold ; from which embassy returning, he in the following year commanded a Regi- ment of Infantry at the Boyne, where he fell heading a charge. He had married, but left no issue ;* whereupon his honors devolved upon his brother Francis Taaffe, the celebrated Count Taaffe of the Ger- manic Empire ; he ranked there a Marshal, and when he succeeded to his honors in his native land, was, by a special clause in the acts of William and Mary, saved from the consequences of outlawry and attain- der. He was Colonel of the Royal Cuirassiers under the Emperor, and Lieutenant-General of the Horse * Archdall's Lodge, v. 5, p. 206. 454 king james's irish army list. (see of him fully in G 1 Callagharts Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 370, &c.) After the disastrous day at the Boyne, Mr. Taaffe, 'the Duke of Tyrconnel's chaplain,' "a very honest and discreet clergyman,"* was one of those who strongly laboured to persuade his discomfited Sovereign to fly from Dublin. The Attainders of 1691 contain the names of the above Christopher Taaffe, styled of Stephenstown ; five others in the County of Louth ; and one, Francis Taaffe of Bally- mote, County of Sligo. At Chichester House, a Theobald Taaffe claimed and was allowed the benefit of sundry mortgages affecting the Louth and Sligo estates of Lord Caiiingford. Of the services of Taaffe's Brigaded Eegiment, see '0' Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 251-2 and 262. LIEUTENANT PETEE BATHE. This family is of record here from the time of Edward the Second, having come from Devonshire, where Bathe House was long the designation of the locality of its settlement. In Ireland the name first ap- pears in the person of Simon Bathe, a proprietor of lands in the County of Limerick at the commence- ment of the fourteenth century. In 1327, Eichard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, having recently died in- debted to the King, Matthew de Bathe was commanded on his allegiance and under heavy penalties, to take * Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 402. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 455 into his custody and care all money and jewels, silver vessels, and all other the goods and chattels of the said Earl, and them safely to keep until he received the Royal commands. This Matthew continued a confi- dential subject of King Edward, and of his successor Edward the Third, the latter having in 1333 granted to him the manor of Eathfay in the County of Meath, with the advowson. In 1381, Thomas Bathe, clerk, was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, in which year he had an allowance of £6 for his expences as a Commissioner, in levying the forfeited two-thirds off lands of absentees. In four years after, he had a Treasury order for his expences on passing over to England, to acquaint the King with the state of Ireland ; and in 1393 was one of the Lords Justices. By an imprinted statute of the Parliament of Drogheda in 1640, (c. 9), it was enacted that Thomas Bathe, Knight, 4 who pretends to be Lord of Louth,' shall ap- pear in court on a certain day or be out of the King's protection ; and it was further thereby ordered that said Thomas Bathe shall never have place in the Par- liament of this land, nor shall enjoy any office therein under the King's grant. His lands in Louth appear to have been thereupon seized as forfeited ; but a sub- sequent act of the same session (c. 21) restored John Bathe of Ardee, who seems to have been his son or relative, to certain messuages, lands, and tenements in Dromisken, Dundalk, and other places in the County of "Louth, which were kept from him under order offorfei- tures. In 1533, William Bathe of Dollardstown was Vice-Treasurer of Ireland; but was soon afterwards at- 456 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. tainted. In 1535, James Bathe of Drumconrath was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; when he fixed his residence in the fine old Castle of Drym- nagh near Dublin, whose ruins are still interesting.* In 1554, John Bathe of Drumconrath and Athcarne was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. In 1564, his son and namesake was Attor- ney-general for Ireland, and afterwards Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his daughter Eleanor was married to Nicholas Netterville, who in 1622 was created the first Viscount Netterville of Dowth. In 1581, Wil- liam Bathe was constituted a Justice of the Common Pleas ; and, in the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot in four years after, Thomas Bathe was one of the Representatives for Dundalk. ' A note (of about this period) of persons born in Ireland but residing beyond seas 'f has the names of Luke Bath, a Capuchin friar in Cologne ; William Bathe, a Jesuit in Sala- manca ; and John Bath, a Knight of Malta ('as is reputed') at the Court of Madrid. In 1611, King James granted to John Bathe of BalgrifFen, County of Dublin, the manor, &c. of Balgriffen, to hold by the service of a rose on St. John's day, with various other lands and premises in the Counties of Kildare, Meath, Westmeath, and the City of Dublin. The Act of 1612, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his adherents, included John Bathe of Dunalong, County of Tyrone, and John Bath, late of Drogheda, merchant. * See D' Alton's County of Dublin, p. 700, &c. t MSS. in Trin. Coll. Dub. (E. 3, 8, f. 46.) THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 457 In 1641, James Bathe of Athcarne was one of the gentry of the County of Meath, who assembled at the Hill of Crofty to parley with Roger Moore and his adherents of Ulster. He was consequently attainted in the following year, with Eobert Bath of Killussy^ County of Kildare ; William and Eobert Bathe of Clonturk, County of Dublin, and Patrick Bathe of the ancient inheritance of Bathfay, County of Meath. In the Commons of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny sat Peter Bathe Fitz-Eobert, late of Dublin, Peter Bathe of Kilkenny, Eobert Bath of Clonturk, and Eobert Bath, late of Dublin. This Peter Fitz-Eobert forfeited Athcarne Castle, which was thereupon granted to Colonel Grace in 1673. Before the Act of Ex- planation in 1665, Sir Luke Bathe was ordered to be restored to his estate, and to those which his deceased father James Bathe had held on the 22nd of October, 1641, with certain exceptions. The Attainders of 1691 included Christopher Bathe of Knightstown, Michael and James Bathe of Lady-Bath, Peter Bathe of Ashbourne (where he seems to have lived after the previous loss of Athcarne) Andrew Bathe of Drogheda, merchant, and Edward Bathe of Painstown, County of Louth. At Chichester House, James Bathe, a minor, by Stephen Bath his guardian, claimed under settlement of November, 1694, an estate for life to himself with remainders in tail to his sons, (after the death of Peter Bathe and Mary his wife,) in the County of Meath lands theretofore forfeited by Chris- topher Bathe ; while Elizabeth Bathe, the wife of said 458 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Christopher, claimed also an estate for her life therein, after the death of said Peter. On the subsequent sale of Athcarne Castle and its lands by the Trustees of the forfeited estates, it appeared that, having been for- feited as before mentioned by Peter Bathe, it vested on mesne assignment in King James, when Duke of York, and was then sold by the Trustees, as his private estate, to Thomas Somerville of Dublin, subject to a lease (allowed by the Commissioners) to George Ayl- mer, Launcelot Dowdall, Esqs. and Dame Cicely Bath, for 99 years, from January, 1668, at a pepper- corn rent. LIEUTENANT EDWARD TIPPER, This officer is described in his attainder as of a local- ity in the County of Kildare, that took its name of Tippers town from the family. Francis Tipper was also a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry, and a William Tipper appears to have been at the same time attainted in this County, on whose estates there, another William claimed an estate for life with remainders in tail to his sons. LIEUTENANT THOMAS SKELTON. A Charles Skelton also appears on this List a Lieu- tenant in Colonel John Parker's Horse, yet neither of THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 459 \ these names appears on the Attainders of 1691, which ' comprise only John of Dublin, Bevil Skelton of Dub- I lin, and Maria Skelton, alias O'Brien his wife. In i 1689, July the 1st, a Lieutenant-Colonel Skelton is | recorded as having been joined in commission with i Colonel Dominick Sheldon, to conclude a treaty with i the garrison of Berry on that day. In a genealogical | manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, are links of a pedigree of the Skeltons of the County of Limerick for five generations. LIEUTENANT CHAELES POVEY. None of this name appear on the Attainders, and it would seem rather of the opposite politics. In 1673, John Povey, Knight, and theretofore Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, was appointed Chief Jus- tice of the Kings Bench ; and in 1702, Eickard Povey was appointed principal Serjeant-at-arms. The connections of this Lieutenant are, however, wholly unknown. LIEUTENANT JOHN MORGAN. One of this name was an Ensign in Fitz-James's In- fantry. Three Morgans were attainted in 1642. At the battle of Newberry, fought in 1643, a Colonel Morgan was killed on the Royalist side ; while at 460 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Aughrim fell a Lieutenant- Colonel of the name.* The Morgans attainted in 1692 were Joseph of Cooks- town, and Edward of Drogheda, merchant. ENSIGN TALBOT SALTER. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family. ENSIGN JAMES TOUCHETT, The family of Touchett came into England with the Conqueror, as recorded on the Eoll of Battle Abbey, and in the Chronicles of Normandy. In 1405, John Touchett was summoned to Parliament in England as Lord Audley ; his great grandson James Audley was attainted in the time of Henry the Seventh, but his son was restored to his rank in 1513, and Ms great grandson, George Lord Audley, took up his residence in Ireland, where in the year 1610, in consideration of an annuity or rentcharge of £500 English secured to him for his life, he assigned " to Sir Mervyn 'Tuchett,' Knight, his son and heir apparent, his whole estate in Ireland, to hold to him thenceforth in fee, together with all his stock of cattle and corn, and all other goods and chattels in Ireland, reserving to his Lordship some chattels and household stuffs, and he, said Sir Mervyn, paying to Sir Ferdinando Tuchett, * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 461 Knight, second son of said Lord Audley, an annuity of one hundred marks in the Middle Temple Hall, London ; and being bound after his Lordship's death, to convey over to the said Ferdinando the fee of lands in England or Ireland, to the clear yearly value of £100 sterling.* Lord George was in seven years after advanced in the Irish Peerage to the dignities of Baron Oriel and Earl of Castlehaven. His grand- son, James Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, during the civil wars of Ireland commanded under the Duke of Ormonde, and in 1649 was chosen General of the Irish forces. He and his brother were therefore, in Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate. His son Mervyn, Earl of Castle- haven, was of the Peers in King James's Parliament of 1689, and had a pension of £500 per annum, charged on the establishment of 1687-8. Mervyn's son James, afterwards the Earl, is possibly identical with the above Ensign James. ENSIGN NICHOLAS TYRWHITT. Nothing known of him or his family. * Rot. Pat. Jac. 1, Cam. Hib. This Lord and his Lady had a grant in 1612, of various lands in the County of Armagh, as had the said Sir Mervyn of yet more in the County of Tyrone, to hold subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Ulster. 462 king james's irish army list. ENSIGN EDWARD TOOLE. Some, who write of the battle of the Boyne, allege that the death of the Duke of Schomberg, while passing that river, was caused by a shot from O'Toole, ' an exempt of the King's Guard,' and affect to call this guardsman Sir Charles Toole; but the name of this only Toole in the Infantry Guards would lead to an infer- ence of his identity with the transaction. The very ancient sept of the O'Tooles were independent Princes of Imaile and Cuolan, in the wild mountain district forming a moiety of what had been in the time of James the First reduced to English government, and erected into the County of Wicklow. They constituted one of the septs that were eligible to the dignity of Kings of Leinster, and their territory formed the Diocese of Glen-da-lough, whose bishops and abbots they exercised the prerogative of appointing, down to 1497, when it was united to the Archiepiscopal See of Dublin. A few years before the English Invasion, Laurence O'Toole, afterwards canonized, was advanced from the Abbacy of Glendalough to the Archbishopric of Dublin.* The death of his father is recorded by the Masters at 1164. In 1308, the infamous Piers Gaveston diverted the interval of his official exile to Ireland, in penetrating the country of the O'Tooles, whose stronghold at Castle-Kevin he is * See of this illustrious Prelate, fully, D 1 Alton's Archbishops of Dublin, p. 51, &c. THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 463 reported to have stormed, afterwards laying his offer- ings, as of atonement, at the shrine of St. Kevin in G-lendalough. In 1327, David O'Toole, then Captain of the Sept, was taken prisoner by Sir John de TTellesley, ancestor of 'the Duke.' In 1366, the Lord Deputy made a treaty with Hugh O'Toole, then the Captain, whereby he agreed to allow that chieftain a stipend in the nature of black mail, to secure the Pale from the predatory incursions of his followers.* This policy of bounty was in the history of the Pale so frequently necessitated for its security, that an Act of the Irish legislature (28 Hen. 8, c. 11) was passed " for restraining tributes given to Irishmen." In 1396, say the Four Masters, " the English of Leinster were defeated by O'Toole with great slaughter." It was on the occasion of this continued foray, that Roger Mortimer, then Earl of March, King Richard's Vicegerent in Ireland, and the heir presumptive to the English Crown, was surprised, defeated, and slain. Therefore it was, and with the object of chastising 1 the insolence of the Irish,' and avenging the death of Mortimer, that the English Monarch undertook his second journey to Ireland; but to raise another patriot hero in Art Mac Murrough, for the veneration of that country, and to consummate his own dethronement. In 1497, Sir William Wellesley of Dangan, the lineal descendant of the aforesaid John, who had done such active service against the O'Tooles, was fain to espouse one of this denounced Sept, Matilda O'Toole, having * Mason's Irish Parliaments, p. 22.' 464 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. first, as was necessary, obtained a Royal letter of licence, dated the 30th of May in this year, whereby she and their heirs were admitted to the benefit of English laws and English liberties, and thus exempted from the many penal statutes then in force against alliances with the native Irish. It is singular that pedigree compilations omit to mention this mar- riage ; but, while the licence is of record in Chancery, the fact is yet more assured by a patent of 1506, whereby King Henry the Seventh pardoned Patrick Hussey and 4 Maw' O'Toole, his wife (lately the wife of Sir William Wellesley of Dangan), for their inter- marrying without having first obtained the Royal licence. Spencer in his ' View of Ireland ' characterizes the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes as 4 the two mischievous clans that inhabited the glyns of Wicklow.' The Four Masters are very full in the particulars of the O'Toole's resistance to subjugation, especially in 1580. In the time of James the First, however, O'Toole, ' the Lord of Imaile,' furnished to military muster 24 horsemen and 80 Kerns; yet were many of the Sept then attainted, as were in 1642 no less than twenty- four O'Tooles, great proprietors in Wicklow. In the Irish Parliament of 1689, Francis Toole sat as Repre- sentative of the Borough of Wicklow, while on the List of Colonels prefixed to the present Army List the name of Francis Toole appears, Colonel of an In- dependent Company of Fusiliers ; but, as he is omitted in the subsequent details, the memoir of the THE KING'S REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. 465 name should be attached to Ensign Edward. The forfeitures of 1691 exhibit but six OTooles as of Wicklow, and one in each of three other Counties, Carlo w, Kildare, and Wexford. Several of this name were afterwards distinguished officers in the Irish Brigades serving in France and Spain; and in 1719, Captain O'Toole, with Colonel Wogan of the Rathcoffy line, and two others of the Irish Brigade in the service of the latter power, succeeded in carrying off Maria-Clementina Sobieski, (grand-daughter of the celebrated John Sobieski, King of Poland, who defeated the Turks before Vienna), then betrothed to James the Third, as the Pretender was styled by them. They effected her liberation from the Castle of Inspruck in the Tyrol, where she had been detained for some previous months by command of the Emperor Charles VI. at the instance of George the First. From hence they brought her in' disguise to Monte Fiascone within the Pope's dominions, where James himself met her, and their marriage was celebrated. The Pope, on their repairing to Rome, received the gallant officers most cordially, and created them Knights of the Holy Roman order.* ENSIGN THOMAS POYNTZ. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his connec- tions. * De Burgo's Hib. Dom. p. 266. HH 466 king james's irish army list. EEGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON S. Captains. The Colonel James Nugent, Lieut. -Coh John Talbot. Major. [James Gibbes, 2nd Major.] Lieutenants. Anthony Coleman. Daniel O'Hara. John Stanley. Nicholas Harrold. Edmund Murphy. Maurice Fitzgerald. James Gibbons. Anthony Geoghegan. Sieur du Pratt, Grenad. Keane O'Hara. Andrew Duffe. Bartholomew Harrold. Lawrence Duffe. Walter Plunkett. Ensigns. Cormick O'Hara. Francis Warren. Charles Sanders. COLONEL JOHN HAMILTON. This Officer, says Colonel O'Kelly's narrative,* was one of these deputed by Tyrconnel, during his absence from the government on attendance at St. Germains, to guide and advise the young Duke of Berwick. He was the brother as well of General Eichard Hamil- ton who was taken prisoner at the Boyne, as of the accomplished Colonel Anthony Hamilton who fought against the Enniskilleners, and wrote the well-known ' Memoirs of Grammont.' The above Colonel John * O'Callaghan's Macarice Excidium, p. 83. john Hamilton's infantry. 467 ranked as a Major-General and a Brigadier at Augh- rim, where he was taken prisoner.* O'Conor, in his Military Memoirs, (p. 143), says that this General was with a force detached to the aid of besieged Limerick, too late for its last struggle ; the enemy were in possession of the ramparts, and drove back the designed relief to their camp. CAPTAIN DANIEL O'HABA. Of the noble Sept of O'Hara the Chief was Lord of Lnigne, in the County of Sligo, a territory which comprised the present Barony of Leney with parts of those of Costello and Gallan. At so early a period as 1023, the death of Donagh O'Hara, Lord of Luigne, is noted by the Four Masters ; as is the death of Duncan O'Hara, Lord of the Three Tribes of Luigne, in 1059. From which period the succession of their Tanists or Captains is set down with singular exact- ness to a comparatively recent date, in a venerable Irish manuscript entitled the ' Book of the OTTaras.' By one of these Chiefs, Keane O'Hara, Templehouse was erected early in the fourteenth century, within their principality, and on the site of an ancient foundation of the Knights Templars. The Abbey of Court, whose ruins are still discernible, was soon after founded by another of the O'Haras. The above Officer, Captain Daniel was, it will be seen, of an An- * Story's Impartial Hist., pt. 2, p 137. III! '2 468 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. trim branch of the family, of whom in 1608, in awe of the Plantation system, Cahill O'Hara, John Oge O'Hara, John Grome O'Hara, and Donnel O'Hara sought and obtained patents of pardon and protection. Of these, Cahill in 1612 obtained a patent for holding a weekly market at Crebilly, with right of pie powder and the usual tolls.* In 1627, Cormac O'Hara was Sheriff of the County of Antrim. A Manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, supplies links in the pedigree of this northern family for five generations. Besides the above Captain Daniel, Keane his Lieutenant, and Cormick O'Hara his Ensign, who in their attainders are described as of Loghdale, County of Antrim, there are upon this Army List, another Cormack O'Hara, Captain in Colonel Cor muck O'Neill's Infantry, in which Arthur O'Hara of Farris in said County was a Lieutenant, and Manus O'Hara an Ensign ; while in Colonel Dominick Browne's, John O'Hara, son of Thadeus O'Hara of Crebilly, was a Lieutenant. All these were consequently attainted in 1691, with the ad- dition of Roger O'Hara of Montagh, in the County of Sligo. In 1692, Sir Charles ' Hara ' and others obtained a patent grant from King William and Queen Mary for lighting Dublin with convex lamps.f A Charles Hara was afterwards wounded at the battle of Landon.J The name of O'Hara was subsequently ennobled in * Rot. Pat. 9, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib. t Harris's MSS. Dub. Soc. v. 10, pp. 9, &c. \ Rawdon Papers, p. 379. JOHN HAMILTON'S INFANTRY. 469 the person of James O'Hara, created in 1721 Baron of Kilmaine.* In 1744, Captain O'Hara, of an Irish Brigade in Prince Charles-Edward's service, was, with Captain O'Brien, taken prisoner at Harwich by an order from Lord Carteret. They had arrived there with the intention of crossing to Holland, but were carried back in custody to London. Brigadier-Gene- ral O'Hara was distinguished in the American war of 1781, and was wounded in an engagement near Deep River, where the Americans were commanded by General Greene. He was, however, ultimately obliged with Earl Cornwallis to surrender at York- town. In 1793, a General O'Hara was taken prisoner in the attack on Toulon. f CAPTAIN JOHN STANLEY. This name is of record in Ireland from the earliest introduction of the English Government. In 1385, Sir John Stanley was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as he was four several times after. He it was who, on the forfeiture of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, obtained a grant in fee from the Crown, of the Isle of Man with all its regalities and franchises, to hold by homage and the service of two falcons, to be rendered to the King, his heirs and successors, on the days of their coronation. He was afterwards constituted * Crossly's Peerage, p. 2G0. | Gent. Mag. ad ann. 470 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Constable of Windsor Castle, made a Knight of the Garter by Henry V. and died in 1413, Lord Lieuten- ant of Ireland for the last time. Sir William Stanley, Sir John's brother, was Lord Deputy in 1401 ; and in 1432, Sir Thomas, grandson of Sir John Stanley, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for six years. About the year 1530, Sir James Stanley, of the same Derby stock as the before mentioned Stanleys, was Marshal of Ireland. A Funeral Entry in the Office of Arms records the death in 1636 of Thomas Stanley of Finnor, County of Meath, son and heir of Walter Stanley of same, and that he had mar- ried Mary, daughter of Patrick Gernon of Gernons- town, County of Louth, by whom he had daughters. The above Captain, though not of Walter's issue, ap- pears to have been of the Finnor family, the son of Edward, the third son of Stanley of Finnor, by Anne, daughter of Stern of Great Eccleston in Kent.* He had been Sheriff of the County of Dublin in 1688, and a resident of Swords, of whose ancient Borough he was constituted one of the Burgesses in King James's Charter of 1689. In his attainder of 1691, he is described as of that place ; while another Stanley (Thomas) is located on the Outlawries as of Martinstown, County of Louth. * Genealogical MSS. Collection in Trin. Coll. Dub. (F. 3, 27.) john Hamilton's infantry. 471 CAPTAIN NICHOLAS HARROLD. This family name, introduced into Ireland on the Danish invasion, appears subsequently of frequent oc- currence in the records of this country. In 1302, John 4 Harald ' and Geoffrey 1 Harold ' were of the Magnates of Ireland whom King Edward invited to assist him in the invasion of Scotland. In the seven- teenth century the Harolds were established in the Counties of Kildare, Wicldow, Dublin, and Limerick; accordingly the Attainders of 1642 present the names of Gerald Harold of Kildrought (Celbridge), County of Kildare ; Richard Harold of Kilhele, Do. ; Thomas Harold of Coolnehamon, County of Wicklow ; and William of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin. John Harold was one of five tried by court martial in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, on the 18th May, 1652* In 1676, Thomas Harold, 4 a native of Ireland,' soli- cited the interference of King Charles in his behalf ; he having been confined in Brussels ten years 'for re- sisting the Pope's claim as to his allegiance, and for his having been one of the subscribers to the Remon- strance of 1661. f Besides the above Captain, there stands on this Army List William Harold, a Lieutenant in Major- General Boiseleau's Infantry. In the Parliament of Dublin, Alderman Thomas Harold was one of the the Representatives of the City of Limerick ; he was * Minutes of Courts Martial during the Commonwealth, MS. t Catal. Southwell MSS. p. GO. 472 king james's irish army list. consequently attainted with Walter Harold of Lime- rick, merchant, and the above Nicholas Harrold, styled of Kilmaceogue, County of Dublin, a lineal de- scendant of William Harrold, who was attainted in 1642. A John Harrold, described as of the same locality, Irish papist, then also forfeited estates there. In 1787, Colonel Harrold, of the Limerick family, was Chamberlain to the Elector of Bavaria.* CAPTAIN EDMUND MUKPHY. The Murphys, or O'Murphys, were a Sept very widely extended over Ireland, as even the few records here noted will evince. This Officer was of Kilkenny, in whose Cathedral are monuments to his family from 1640 to 1741. So early after the introduction of surnames in Ireland as 1031, the death of Flaherty O'Murroghoe (Murphy), Chief of Cinel-Breaghain, in the County of Donegal, is recorded by the Masters, as is that of O'Murroghoe, Chief Sage of Leinster, in 1127. The Attainders of 1642 name Michael Murphy of Balruddery, and Laughlin Murphy of Dunganstown ; George of St. Michan s Parish, Dub- lin, with Donogh and Connor Murphy of Blarney, County of Cork. In 1654, a Colonel of this name, at the head of 800 Irishmen, distinguished himself in the campaign in Spain. Besides the above Captain there appear on this Army List, in the Earl of Tyrone's * Ferrar's Limerick, p. 350. john Hamilton's infantry. 473 Infantry, Nicholas and Michael Murphy, Lieutenants ; — in Lord Bellew's, Owen and Bryan Captains, Phe- lim and Denis Lieutenants, and John Murphy an Ensign ; — in Colonel Nicholas Browne's, William Murphy was a Captain, Maurice Murphy his Lieute- nant, and John Murphy Ensign. Those attainted in 1692 were the above Captain Edmund, styled of Kil- kenny, with two others of the name there, seven in Wexford, six in Louth, four in Cork, three in Down, two in Armagh, and one in Waterford and Clare re- spectively. In the Brigades commissioned in the French service, of that styled the 4 Eegiment of Charlemont,' commanded by Gordon O'Neill on its first formation, the above Captain Edmund Murphy was constituted Major, while a Cornelius Murphy was Major of the Regiment of Clancarty.* At the Court of Claims in 1700, Maria de Margarita ' de Murphy ' claimed the benefit of a judgment debt affecting the estates of Donogh, Earl of Clancarty, but her petition was dismist. The Archives of Bruges record a Darby L Morphy,' Captain-Lieutenant in Lord Hunsdon's Infantry as hereafter noticed ; while in St. Donat's Cathedral of that City is a monument to the Reverend and Venerable John Albert ' de Morphy,' i of the Royal Sept of O'Morrough, which had given Kings to Leinster,' who " had been imprisoned in London, driven into exile, found an asylum at Bruges, where * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 199. For achievements of this name in the Brigades, see idem, p. 73. 474 king james's irish army list. he was constituted ' Penitentiary ' of the Diocese, and died 12th November, 1745."* CAPTAIN JAMES GIBBONS. No information of him has been ascertained, nor does he appear on the Roll of Attainders ; those of 1642 have two of the name, and those of 1691 three. LIEUTENANT ANTHONY COLEMAN. The native Annalists of Ireland notice at a very early age the Sept of O'Coleman, and sometimes of Mac Colman, the latter as in the County of Louth, where the name is still of respectability. In 1206, say the Four Masters, died ' Maolpeddar O'Coleman, successor of Canice (Abbot of Kilkenny), the pillar of piety and wisdom of the North of Ireland.' The Rolls of the Irish records present the name from the time of Edward the Second. In 1642, were attainted John Coleman of Artaine and Patrick Coleman of Kill, County of Dublin, with Anne his wife. On the minutes of courts martial held in St. Patrick's Cathe- dral, Dublin, it is stated that an Ensign Coleman was one of those tried there on the 9th of March, 1651. The name does not appear at all on the Attainders of 1691, &c. * Nichols's Top 1 , and Gen*. 1853, p. 484. joiin Hamilton's infantry. 475 LIEUTENANTS ANDREW AND LAURENCE DUFFE. The 'Duffs were Chiefs of Hy Cruinthain, a district extending round Dunamase in the Queen's County ; and the name is of record on the Irish Rolls of Chancery from the days of Edward the Third. On the Attainders of 1642 appear Patrick Duffe of Westpalstown, County of Dublin, with five other Duffes in the same County, three in Kildare, and one in Meath. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1647, Patrick Duff, there described as of Rospatrick, but probably identical with the attainted Patrick of Westpalstown, was of the Commons.* Besides these Lieutenants, Duffe was a Lieutenant in Colonel Roger Mac Elligott's Infantry. The Attainders of 1691 name only Thady ' Duff' of Piltown, County of Meath ; Thadeus Duff of Athlone, merchant ; Thadeus Duff, junior, of Dublin and Thomas Duff of Kilkenny, merchant. ENSIGN CHARLES SANDERS. His connections are unknown. * The compiler of these Illustrations sincerely regrets the occurrence of assertions on probability ; but the difficulty he has experienced in obtaining authentic family information precludes that certainty, which could be otherwise obtained, only from his own manuscripts, at a labour impracticable gratuitously for so many families. 476 king james's ipjsh army list. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. FITZ- JAMES'S (THE LORD GRAND PRIOR.) Captains. The Colonel. Edward Nugent, Lieut.-Col. ■ Porter. Major. Walter ' Tyrrell.' Hugh M'Mahon. John Sutton. Christopher Sherlock. John Wogan. Alexander Knightley. John Panter. William Moore. Le Sieur Corridore. Thom. Justie. Patrick Kendelan. George Corridons, Granad. Oliver Nugent. Lieutenant Colonel Clon- shinge. Ignatius Usher. Lieutenants. James ' Barnwell.' Catalier. Garrett Plunkett Christopher Bellew. Charles Deguent. Bartholomew White. C John Herne. \ Claudius Beauregard. John Stephens. Walter Grace. Walter Usher. Ensigns. Phill Mownson. Daniel O'Daniel. Morgan. Matthew Wale. Francis Borre. Beaghan Kendelan. Bartholomew Piead. Edward Rigney. Oliver Grace. COLONEL HENRY FITZ-JAMES, THE LORD GRAND PRIOR. This gallant young officer was another son of King James by his mistress Arabella Churchill, sister of the great Duke of Marlborough ; he was the youngest of five children of that connection ; was born in August, FITZ- JAMES'S INFANTRY. 477 1673; accompanied his father in his flight from Eng- land, and after, in his expedition to Ireland ; where, at the age of sixteen, he was appointed Colonel of this Regiment, thenceforward known by his name. He headed it at the battle of the Boyne, but retired with his father immediately after to France. This his Regiment, which was consigned to the command of Nicholas Fitzgerald* distinguished itself throughout the first siege of Limerick, and especially along with that of Major-General Boiselean, the French General, at the successful resistance of the assault of the 6th of September, 1690, which led to the raising of the siege by King William. The Grand Prior was in 1696 in France placed over the Toulon fleet designed to invade England, at which time O'Callaghan conjec- tures he was created Duke of Albemarle. In Decem- ber, 1702, he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Marine, and in the same month died at Bagnols in Languedoc, aged only between 29 and 30, married, but without issue. Louis the Fourteenth placed the Court of France in mourning on his decease.f On the formation of the French Brigades, Fitz-James's Regiment was equipped as Cavalry and styled 1 Le Regiment de la Marine,' from the circumstance of the Lord Grand Prior having been originally designed for the British Navy, and his having entered the French on his father's dethronement, and actually distin- guished himself at sea under Tourville in the engage - * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 209. + Idem, p. 37G. 478 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. ment at St. Vincent against the English Admiral Sir George Rooke in 1693.* Of this Brigaded force the Lord Prior was Colonel, Nicholas Fitzgerald Lieuten- ant-Colonel, and Edward O'Madden Major,f (the lat- ter had been Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Clanricarde's Infantry in Ireland, as noted hereafter). It fought with signal bravery at Fontenoy in 1745, where it consisted of four squadrons, one of which, styled the Scotch Royals or Squadron, and the picquets of those of Dillon, Rothe, and Lally, were despatched from France to Scotland and England, to sustain the claim of Prince Charles-Edward. They only reached their destination, however, to be made prisoners of war, after the battle of Culloden, fought 2nd April, 1746. The three first squadrons of Fitz- James's Regiment, as it continued to be styled, and the picquets of Bulke- ley's, Clare's and Berwick's, had been previously cap- tured on the voyage in the month of October, 1745, and March, 1746. J A meagre list of those of the respective Irish Brigades killed and wounded at Fon- tenoy may be seen in the Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 15). In 1746, the 'Count de Fitz-James,' de- scribed as Major-General-Commandant, was one of the volunteers bound for Scotland in Prince Charles- Edward's service, but taken at sea ; as was also M. D'Arcy, his aide-de-camp, Major-General Ruth, 'Briga- dier-General de Tyrconnel,' and eighteen other officers, * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 210. "I" O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, p. 198. t Idem, p. 400. FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 479 six gunners, one corporal, one labourer, and five com- panies of Fitz- James's Eegiment, in all 199 men. These were taken on board the French transport ship the 1 Bourbon/ by Commodore Knowles ; while at the same time there were captured by him on board the ' Charite ' thirteen other officers and four companies of Fitz- James's Eegiment of Horse, in all about 160 men. MAJOK POETEE. The name of Porter is of record on the Irish Eolls from the time of Edward the Third. The Attainders of 1642 present of this name only Eichard Porter of Oldbridge, County of Meath. In 1686, Sir Charles Porter was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; he was afterwards removed for Sir Alexander Fitton, but was restored at the close of 1690, on the Eevo- lution. In the Parliament of 1689, Eobert Porter was one of the Eepresentatives of the County of Eildare, as was John Porter of the City of Waterford, and Colonel James Porter of the Borough of Fethard, County of Wexford. The above Major, whose Christian name does not appear on this roll, was, it may be presumed, the Colonel James, Member for Fethard in 1689, as he was early promoted to the rank of second Lieutenant- Colonel in this Eegiment, Dodsley having been sub- stituted in the Majority. He was in France at the time of the battle of the Boyne, on the day previous to 480 king james's irish army list. which he wrote from St. Germains to Father Warner, 1 confessor to the King in Dublin/ a letter* in which he says, " the dreadful fleet of France has got into the Channel. We may daily expect strange changes, and with reason ; we may expect to see our Eoyal Master in Whitehall before Michaelmas. We are sending a fleet of thirty frigates for Ireland : after such preparations, what may we not expect?" When that Eoyal Master had fled to France, this Colonel Porter was made Vice-Camberlain in his titular Court.f The Attainders of 1691 include his name as of Feathard, with Patrick Porter of Kings- town and William of Jongiunstown, County of Meath; Robert Porter of Kildare, and Nicholas Porter of Waterforcl, merchant, who was Mayor of that city in 1689. His forfeitures consisted of premises in that city, all which were purchased from the Trus- tees by Alderman Lapp in 1703. Some links of the descent of the Porters of Waterford are preserved in a manuscript book of Obits in Trinity College, (F. 3. 27), deriving them from Gloucestershire. CAPTAIN JOHN SUTTON. This family was established in Ireland at a very re- mote period. In 1302, Gilbert de Sutton was one of the Magnates of this country whom Edward the First * Southwell MSS. Catal. p. 179. f Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 411. FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 481 invited to aid him in the Scottish war. They early- settled in the County of Kildare, where a genealogi- cal manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (F. iii. 27), traces links of their pedigree for five generations, in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1605, John Lye, gentleman, servant to Queen Elizabeth, had a grant from her Eoyal successor of the towns, lands, &c. of Eathbride, Morristown-Biller, Kelickstown, &c, par- cel of the estate of David Sutton in the County of Kildare, the patentee being bound to keep upon Eath- bride one able horseman, archer, or ' hargabusher,' of the English nation, sufficiently furnished for the de- fence of Ireland. Oliver Sutton was previous to this time seised of Eichardstown in the same County. His heiress, Elinor, married Gerald Sutton, who sur- vived her, but died in 1616, leaving Gilbert Sutton their heir, who died in 1631. Gerald Sutton was his son and heir, then aged but eight years ; he was in 1642 attainted, with Laurence and Nicholas Sutton of Tipper in the same County, who were a branch of the stock. William Sutton died seised of Tip- per, Barbyeston, &c. County of Kildare in 1592, leaving John his son and heir, who succeeded to said estates, which were forfeited in 1642 by the attainder of his son William Sutton, junior. This William was one of the Confederate Catholics at the Supreme Coun- cil of Kilkenny in 1646, and he would seem to have been father to the above Captain John, in whose favour a saving was reserved in a patent of lands in the County of Gal way to William Clynch. Pie was, 1 1 482 king james's irish army list. in 1691, attainted by the description of John Sutton of Haverston, County of Kildare, together with five other Suttons in the County of Wexford, and one in the City of Dublin. At the Court of Chichester House, Bridget Sutton, in 1700, claimed and was allowed her jointure off the Kildare estate of this Captain Sutton, which was sold by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures in 1703 to the Hollow Swords Blades' Company. CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER SHERLOCK. This family is of record in Ireland from the time of the Tudors. They were located in the Barony of Coshmore, County of Waterford, as also in the Coun- ties of Tipperary, Limerick, Dublin, and Kildare. In 1422, the King appointed Walter 6 Sherloke' to be Chief Sergeant of the County of Kildare, an office which he held for several years after. In 1431, he had an order on the Irish Exchequer for remune- rating his great labours in the County of Kilkenny and its marches. In 1499, James 4 Sherloke' was commissioned to hold an assize. In 1586, an Inqui- sition post mortem was held of the estates of John Sherlock of Bally clerihan, in the County of Cross- Tipperary, when it was found that, at the time of his death, he was seised of a castle and sundry lands and premises there. In 1616, Thomas Sherlock of 'the Naas' was one of the County of Kildare gentry impa- FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 483 nelled to hold a similar post mortem inquiry as to the estates of Walter Wellesley of the Norragh, then lately deceased. This Thomas was attainted in 1642, as were Edward Sherlock of Blackhall in the same County, clerk, and George Sherlock of Wicklow, mer- chant. In the confirmatory patents of King Charles the Second to the adventurers in Waterford were savings of the rights of Paul, heir of Sir Thomas Sherlock. In 1684, 18th May, died Philip Sherlock of Little- rath, son of Christopher of that place ; he was buried on the 20th at Bowdingstown in the same County, leaving issue by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Wil- liam Eustace,* the above Christopher his eldest son, Eustace, Eobert, John, William, and Edward, his younger sons, and Hester and Mary his two daughters. The estate, having descended to Christo- pher, was forfeited on his attainder, subject to the charges which the will of his father created for the younger children. The testator's widow intermarried with Nicholas Adams, while of her children by Sher- lock, Eobert and Mary died under age, and Edward the youngest was long resident in Corfu. f He was a claimant for his portion on the family estate, as were his brothers John and William, and their rights were allowed. Besides Captain Christopher, there are on this List Thomas Sherlock of Blackhall, a Captain, and Robert Sherlock an Ensign, in Sir Maurice Eustace's * Funeral Entry, Berm. Tower. t MBS. in Marsh's Library, Dublin. 1 1 2 484 king james's imsh army list. Infantry, evidently near relatives of Captain Christo- pher. Edward Sherlock of Blackball, possibly the same individual who was attainted in 1642, was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Cloughmine in King James's Parliament of 1689. He was consequently at- tainted with said Thomas, John Sherlock of Lady's Castle, Laurence and Eustace Sherlock of Littlerath, all in said County of Kildare ; Robert Sherlock of Carlo w (the En- sign in Sir Maurice Eustace's), and James, Pierce, and Balthazzar Sherlock of Ballykenny and Ballyleigh, County of Waterford. In 1 6 94, Thomas Sherlock, a mer- chant of Irish birth, theretofore trading in Dublin, but then a merchant at Rouen in France, obtained, under circumstances detailed in his petition, full pardon and liberty to return to his native country. CAPTAIN ALEXANDER KNIGHTLEY. CAPTAIN JOHN PANTON. Nothing worthy of note has been ascertained of either of these officers or their families, in connexion with this period. CAPTAIN PATRICK KENDELAN. The O'Caendelain were Tanists of Leogaire in Meath, of which Donell O'Caendelain died lord in 1017, as did Angus O'Caendelain in 1085. This officer was FITZ-JAMES'S INFANTRY. 485 of Ballynakill, County of Meath, by which description he was attainted with three others of his kindred there, Edward, Vaughan, and John Kendelan. CAPTAIN IGNATIUS USHEE. In Lord Slane's Regiment of Infantry, Walter Usher was an Ensign, but nothing of note touching this period has been discovered of either of these officers. LIEUTENANT JOHN HEENE. He appears to have been of the Gal way Hemes. LIEUTENANT JOHN STEPHENS. Of this name at the period it can only be said that, in 1690, Sir Eichard Stephens was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, while a Thomas Stephens, described as of Ballyvaughan, County of Limerick, was the only one of the name then attainted. 486 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. ENSIGN PHILL MOWNSON, ENSIGN BARTHOLOMEW READ, ENSIGN EDWARD RIGNEY. No notice of any of these officers, worthy of insertion, has been obtained. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY'S, NOW LORD MOUNTCASHEL. Captains. The Colonel. [Count Anthony Hamil- ton, Lieut.-Col.] Major, Garret Fitzgerald. Philip Barry Oge. Thomas Power. Ulick Browne. Charles Fitzgerald. John Hogan, Granad. Richard Condon. Kennedy O'Bryan. Thady O'Connor. COLONEL JUSTIN MACARTY. Lieutenants. Dominick Terry. Francis Fitzgerald. Edmund Sweeny. John Sullivan. Miles Carroll. Lewis Moore. Thomas Hogan. Robert Fitzgerald. Walter Bryan. Donogh M'Carty. Maurice Piers. John Ryan. John Mally. Ensigns. James Fitzgerald. George Auliffe Callaghan. Edward Fitzgerald Patrick Levallin. Eedmond Condon. Teigue M'Carty. William White. Patrick ' Peirs.' John Ryan. Philip Connor. The native Annals, especially those of Innisfallen, abound in records of the patriotism and perseverance LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 487 with which the noble Sept of the Macartys laboured to resist the early invasion of the Danes, until they were at length induced to tolerate their settling for commercial purposes in that province, Desmond, of which they were Kings. When Henry the Second landed at Waterford, Mac Carty, King of Desmond, delivered to him the keys of Cork and did homage. This great family was popularly distinguished into two branches, the Mac Carty More, of which was Donald Mac Carty, created Earl of Glancare by Queen Elizabeth ; and Mac Carty Keagh, ranked Princes of Carbery. Besides being Earls of Glancare, the Mac Cartys were subsequently at various times en- nobled as Barons of Valentia, Barons and Yiscounts Muskerry, Earls of Clancarty, and in this reign Lords Mountcashel. In 1314, Edward the Second directed his especial letter missive to Dermot Mac Arthy, 1 Duel Hibernicorum de Dessemond] for his aid in the Scottish war. In Sir John Perrot's Parliament, the Earl of Glancare sat as chief representative of this Sept. In a few years after, the Desmond war having wasted Munster, Florence Mac Carty and Der- mot Mac-Donagh Mac Carty passed out of that Pro- vince to Spain. Florence had been previously imprison- ed, and during his confinement, in the enthusiasm of national feeling, he wrote an ' Epistle on the Antiqui- ties of the Irish Nation,' which is preserved in the MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin, (D. 3. 16). In 1 605, David Lord Barrie, Viscount Buttevant, had a grant from King James of various castles, manors, 488 king james's irish army list. customs, &c. in the Comity of Cork, ' the estate of Fineen Mac Owen Mac Cartie, late of Iniskeen, slain in rebellion.' The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Dermot Mc Carthy, and Donell Mac Teigue Mc Carthy, both of Ballyea, County of Cork ; with the large proportion of one hundred and ten several Inquisitions confiscating the estates of other proprie- tors of the name in that County. At the Supreme Council held in Kilkenny in 1646, Donogh Mc Carty, Viscount Muskerry, was of its Temporal Peers ; while Charles Mc Carty Keagh, Dermot Mc Carty of Kanturk, and Thady Mc Carty of Killfallaway were of the Commons. The Viscount was consequently especially excepted from pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652. On the Irish Establishment of 1687-8, this Colonel Justin Macarty was placed as a Major-General of the Army for the annual pay of £680, with an addition of £500 on the Pension List ; while, on the latter fund, Daniel Mc Carty Keagh was placed for £100 per an- num. This name appears in commission in eight other Regiments of the present muster. In 1689, a Captain Mac Cartie was killed, according to Walker, or taken prisoner, as Mac Kenzie has it, in attempting to scale the walls of Derry ; while in September of the following year another Captain Mac Carty was taken prisoner at the siege of Cork by Colonel Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough.* This Colonel Justin Macarty, whom O'Kelly, in * Story's Impartial History, pt. 1, p. 131. LOUD MOUNTOASHEL'S INFANTRY. . 489 his ' Excidium Macarice] styles First Lieutenant- General of the Irish Army, was, he says, " a man of parts and courage, wanting no quality fit for a com- plete captain, if he were not somewhat short-sighted."* As the best qualified officer for inspecting arms, ord- nance, and engineering tools, he was appointed Mus- ter-Master General of Artillery in Ireland, and con- stituted Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cork ; where, previously to King James's coming over, he took Castle-Martyr and Bandon from the possession of the Protestant party, and was considered to have suppressed their movements in two of the other pro- vinces.! On King James's landing at Kinsale, he sought his information as to the state of the country more especially " from Justin Macarty and from Sir Thomas Nugent, (afterwards created Lord Eiverston) the Lord Chief Justice. He then applied himself to the affairs of the Army, and gave orders to this Jus- tin Macarty to form seven Eegiments of Foot of the forces raised in those quarters, as also to arm the Regiment of Dragoons of Sir James Cotter ( Sir Fran- cis Carroll's on this List). J Early in May, 1689, he was created Lord Viscount Mountcashel and Baron of Castleinchy, and was introduced with that title on the second day of the meeting of the Parliament of Dublin, to the House of Peers; immediately after which he was constituted Commander of the forces designed * O'Callaghan's Excidium Macarise, p. 36. t Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 327. \ Idem. 490 king james's irish army list. to reduce Enniskillen.* Amongst the Peers on that occasion sat also Donogh Mac Carty (although a minor) by Eoyal dispensation; while in the Commons another Justin Macarty was one of the Representa- tives of the County of Cork ; Charles and Daniel Mac Carty Reagh sat for the Borough of Bandon, Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Mac Carty and Daniel Fynneen Mac Carty for that of Cloughnakilty, and Florence Mac Carty was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Ennis. Lord Mountcashel proceeded under his aforesaid commission into Ulster, attended by three whole Regiments of Infantry, two of Dragoons, and some Horse ; being all the troops the King could draw together at that time. His Lordship's efforts in that Province were, however, from the want of am- munition and the rawness of his soldiers, ineffective. In an engagement near Enniskillen, he was severely wounded, and, being carried into that town a prisoner, " he there lay long under cure ; but, before he was ful- ly recovered of his wounds, he made his escape after a strange and wonderful manner, to the universal joy of all the Irish, "f " The town of Enniskillen," writes Story (Impartial History, part 1, p. 51) ''stands upon a lough, and the water came to the door of the house where he was confined, or very near it. He found means to corrupt a servant, and to get two small boats called 4 cots ' to carry him and his best moveables off by night.' 1 This act having been represented as a breach of parol, Lord Mountcashel, previous to re- * O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 26. f Idem, p. 36. LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 491 suming military duties in France, the new scene of his achievements, thought it necessary to submit him- self to be tried before a Court of Honour in that country, when he was fully aquitted by this tribunal. When the Duke of Schomberg landed at Bangor in the County of Down, in August, 1689, his first move- ment was against Carrickfergus ; to invest which he sent five Regiments of Foot and some Horse, follow- ing on the next day himself with the remainder of the Army. The town was governed by Colonel Charles Macarty More, whose garrison consisted of his own Eegiment and nine companies of Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's. He defended the place for ten days against Scomberg's operations by land and sea ; nor was it until reduced to the last extremity, having but one barrel of powder left, and without any hope of relief, that he quitted the town, upon very honourable terms. " The garrison," says Story, in the first part of his Impartial History (p. 10), " were lusty strong fellows, but ill-clad, and, to give them their due, they did not behave ill in that siege." Lord Mountcashel was attainted in 1691, and again in 1696, on which occasion seventy-eight other Inquisitions of Outlawries were held on the McCartys, on whose confiscations various claims were preferred at Chichester House. The reader must be here reminded that, when James the Second was induced to attempt a landing in Ireland, Louis the Fourteenth agreed to send over thither for his service six thousand of his veterans, under the command of De Lausun, in exchange for as 492 KUG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. many young soldiers from Ireland. Lord Mount- cashel was appointed to head the latter, a movement which, Colonel O'Kelly writes, " was desired by Tyrcon- nel, while Mountcashel himself, who could not endure Tyrconnel's haughty movement, was not displeased to serve France under the great Louis."* On the arrival of the Irish forces in that country, they were received with the most flattering and generous treatment by the King. Mountcashel's Regiment, having suffered almost annihilation in the engagement near Ennis- killen, was strengthened with fresh recruits before it could be brought out. The second Regiment sent out, Clare's, was commanded by the Honourable Daniel O'Brian, son of Lord Clare ; the third, Dillon's, was under the Honourable Arthur Dillon, second son of the Lord Viscount of that name. There were two other Regiments sent over with these, viz. Colonel Rich- ard Butlers and Colonel Robert Fielding's, but they do not appear upon this ' List and were at once incorpo- rated in the three first. Soon after Mountcashel's arrival in France (1690-91), he received a commission from Louis, entitling him to command all the Irish troops taken into the French service, viz., his own, O'Brien's, and Dillon's ; and in a few days after was empowered to act as a Lieutenant-General of France, as he already was of England and Ireland.f In order at once to engage his military services, he was ordered to Savoy, where the French corps cVarmee was then too feeble for active operations. After a march of * Excid. Mac. p. 46. f O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 69. LORD MOUNTCASIIEL'S INFANTRY. 493 five hundred miles under a burning sun, to which the men were unaccustomed, it joined the French army near the capital of Savoy, towards the latter end of July. Lieutenant-General the Marquis of St. Ruth, (destined afterwards to fall at Aughrim) on the ar- rival of the Irish, recognised their value, and fearlessly approached Chantilly. Calculating on their courage and agility as mountaineers, he promptly ordered their forces to join him, with the object of driving the Piedmontese beyond the high Alps that separate Savoy from Piedmont. Nor did Mountcashel disap- point his expectations ; at the head of his Regiment he gained the defiles, burst through the abattis, carried the entrenchments, and forced the Piedmontese to fly to the summits of the mountains. M. de Salles, their commander, was taken prisoner, the next in command was killed, and several others were, in the pursuit, killed or taken. Mountcashel received wounds on this occasion, which, though he was unwilling they should withdraw him from service, yet ultimately preyed upon him to death. During the campaign of 1691, St. Ruth's corps was embodied in the French armies of Piedmont and Catalonia, and shared with them the honor of the capture of Montmelian, the strongest fortress in the south of Europe ; and of Urgel in Catalonia, defended by a large garrison, the elite of the Spanish army. Clares mounted the trenches at Montmelian, and Mountcashel's and Dillon's at Urgel.* In 1692, Mountcashel's Brigade was en- * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 100, &c. 494 KING JAxMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. gaged in brilliant services with Catinat on the Pied- montese frontier, at Guillestre, and Embrun. Nine battalions of his Brigade were engaged in this service, with three of Clare's, two of the King's and Queen's Dismounted Dragoons, and two of the Queen's In- fantry.* In 1694, when the French army in Germany was commanded by Marshal Boufflers, Mountcashel served as a Lieutenant-General in the corps of the Grand Army, having under him his own Regiment, consisting of three Battalions, the Dublin, the Charlemont, and the Marines. Their nine Bat- talions, in all about 6,000 men, effected the reduction of Beringheim on the Necker, the only achievement of the French in Germany during this year.f In the campaign on the Rhine, Mountcashel acted as Lieutenant-General under Marshal Lorges, but the effects of his wounds obliged him to seek benefit from the waters of Barege, where he died on the 21st of July, 1694. He had married the Lady Arabella Wentworth, second daughter of Thomas, the ill-fated Earl of Strafford, by whom he left no issue. " His death made room for the advancement of Colonel Andrew Lee, an officer of distinguished reputation, who afterwards obtained the rank of Lieutenant- General, and by whose name Mountcashel's Regiment was thenceforward known. J In 1747, Captain Charles Mac Cartie of Buckley's Regiment was killed at Lauffield, as was Flory Mac * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 215-16. t Idem, p. 224. t Idem, p. 228-9. LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S INFANTRY. 495 Carty of Clare's ; and Lieutenant Florence Mac Carty of Berwick's was wounded on the same occasion. In 1770, died in England Charles Mac Carty More, a Captain in the First Foot Guards, who claimed de- scent from Dermot Mac Carthy, King of Cork in the time Henry the Second.* [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL COUNT ANTHONY HAMILTON.] This son of Sir George Hamilton and brother of Count George Hamilton, both before alluded to, was a native of Ireland, but passed out of it to France during the visitation of Cromwell. On the Restora- tion he also returned ; and, after the accession of James the Second was created a Privy Councillor in Ireland, and made Governor of Limerick, with a pen- sion of £200 per annum. When the Revolution broke out in England he retired to France with James the Second, whom he afterwards accompanied to Ireland, and was by him appointed Colonel of a Regiment of Infantry, and finally Major-General of the forces under Lord Mountcashel designed to re- duce Enniskillen ; in the progress of which expedi- tion he was wounded at Belturbet.f He had greatly incensed King William by undertaking, as it was alleged, to persuade Tyrconnel to yield up Ireland to * Exshaw's Mag. ad ann. f O'Callaghan's Brigades, p. 32, &c. 496 king james's irish army list. him ; adding that, when he had obtained all the con- fidence with which the Whigs would entrust him, he posted over to Ireland, and did all in his power, by pen, interest, or sword, in the cause of King James. He was taken prisoner at the Boyne, when a sarcasm little worthy of majesty is said to have been applied to him by King William. Leland, following Dr. Story, says this rebuke was uttered against General Eichard Hamilton, who was also taken prisoner here ; but the reproach (if it ever were spoken) could not apply to the latter. By the interest of the Queen, on the representations of the Duke of Devonshire and " the fair Grammont," his own sister, Count Anthony was released from captivity, and died at St. Germain s in 1720, aged 74.* He was the well-known author of the 4 Memoirs of Grammont,' an attractive record of scandalous reminiscences. It is only to be observed that on the present Army List the Lieute- nant-Colonelcy is not filled; but it was afterwards filled by this officer. CAPTAIN JOHN HOGAN. Orteliuss map locates the 'O'Hogains' as an ancient Sept in Tipperary, in the vicinity of Nenagh. Of this family the Annals of the Diocese of Killaloe record Matthew O'Hogain its Bishop in 1267, * O'Callaghan's Brigades, p. 284. LORD MOUNTCASIIEL'S INFAMTRY. 497 Maurice O'Hogain in 1281, Thomas O'Hogain in 1343, and Richard Hogan in 1525 ; this last was afterwards translated to the See of Clonmacnoise, a short time previous to its union with Meath. The above officer was of Terraleague, County of Cork ; while there are also on this Army List, besides him and Thomas Hogan a Lieutenant in this Eegiment, Murtough and Hugh Hogan, Cornets in Lord Clare's Dragoons ; the latter was of Car nan, County of Clare ; and in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry, Daniel Hogan was a Captain, and William Hogan an Ensign. Of these, John and Hugh only appear on the Roll of Attainders in 1691. Story relates * that " Grace and Hogan, two Rapparee Captains, with eighty men surprised a castle called Camgart, within six miles of Birr." CAPTAIN RICHARD CONDON. The Condons were anciently settled in the County of Cork; but their chief territory was, on the plantation of Munster, granted to Arthur Hyde, as forfeited by Patrick Condon, an adherent of the Earl of Des- mond. In the subsequent Attainders of 1642 no less than twenty-one Inquisitions were held on this name. Besides the above Captain Richard, and Red- mond Condon an Ensign in this Regiment, Edmund Condon was a Lieutenant in Colonel John Barrett's * Story's Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 3. KK 498 king james's irish army list. Infantry. The Attainders of 1691 have the names of John Condon of Carricknavoura, David of Bally- Tnacpatrick and John his son, Garrett of Killecar and Redmond of Ballywilliam, all in the Connty of Cork. Captain Richard appears to have fallen in battle. His widow Julianne was an unsuccessful claimant at Chichester House for a life estate in his Cork lands. LIEUTENANT DOMINICK TERRY. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of the Tudors. In 1536, Dominick Terry consented to be appointed Bishop of Cork and Ross, by mandate of Henry VIII. and held the See in opposition to the Pope's nominee; while in 1616, William 4 Thyrry,' on the latter authority, became titular Bishop thereof. The Attainders of 1642 have only the names of Ed- mund Tyrry of Clonturk, and William Tyrry Fitz- Dominick of Ballymacperry, County of Cork. Those of 1691 include William and Robert Terry of Ballingcurry, George and John of Rathnagarde, Francis of Galway, and James, Patrick and Stephen Thyrry of Limerick. LIEUTENANT MAURICE PIERS. This family has been noticed ante, p. 309 and its settle- ment at Tristernagh in the County of Westmeath. LORD MOUNTCASHEL's INFANTRY. 499 Captain William Piers of that place was an Officer under Queen Elizabeth in her Avars of Ireland, and Holinshed mentions that he was the person who "contrived of destroying the great rebel O'Neill."* His great grandson, Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh, drew a brief memoir of his native County, which has been published in Vallancey's Collectanea Hibernica. In the Attainders of 1642, John Piers, described as of Wicklow, is the only person of this name, while those outlawed in 1691 were John and Turlogh Piers of Calwonmaine, County of Clare. In this Eegiment Patrick Piers was Maurice's Ensign, and in Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, Christopher Piers was a Cornet. LIEUTENANT JOHN MALLY. The most influential branch of this family, O'Mally or O'Maley, has been long established in the County of Mayo, where, in the reign of Elizabeth, Grace, daughter of Owen O'Maley, called by the natives Grana Uile, made her name so widely known, that in 1576 the Lord Deputy Sidney wrote of her to the Council in England, as one ' powerful in gallies and seamen.' The renown of her Sept in maritime affairs and naval exploits is indicated in their heral- dic motto, i Terra marique potens. 1 Her visit to the Court of Elizabeth and her carrying off the infant son of the Lord of Howth from his father's residence have * Ware's Writers, p. 102. KK 2 500 king james's irish army list. been commemorated in prose and poetry. Her nephew, Edmund O'Malley, born in 1579, adhered to the cause of Charles the First, and died at Breda in exile, leaving a son who was present when very young at the battle of Worcester, and accompanied his father to Breda ; on the Restoration he recovered a portion of his ancient inheritance. He (continues Sir Ber- nard Burke) attended James the Second through all his Irish campaigns, and died with him in exile at St. Germains in 1692. He married at the Court of Spain the daughter of Sir Christopher Garvey, a maid of honor to the Queen, by whom he had a son Teigue or Thady O'Malley, who held a commission as Captain of Irish Dragoons during this campaign.* This family was so formidable in the estimation of the Lord President of Munster during the war in that Province, that in 1601 when "intelligence haying reached him, and letters being intercepted, whereby it probably appeared that the O'Mayleys and O'Flahertys had a purpose with six hundred men to invade Kerry,.... principally to disturb his Govern- ment, he despatched a strong body of men to do good service on the rebels at their passage over the Shan- non, which, of necessity, they must hazard before they could come into Munster ;"f a service which was effectively rendered. After the defeat of the Spaniards at Kinsale, when Sir Charles Wilmot was despatched to watch over the inhabitants of Kerry, * Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 964. f Pacata Hibernia, pp. 222-3. LORD MOUNTCASIIEL's INFANTRY 501 Owen O'Mayley was one of the native chiefs who, at the head of " 500 foot and a few horse, vainly sought at Lixnaw to stay his passage."* In Lord Galway's Regiment of Infantry, a Daniel Mally, described in his Attainder as of Tynehugh, County of Donegal, was an Ensign. With him were attainted in 1690 Nicholas Mally of Dublin, Thady of Drogheda, mer- chant ; Neil O'Malley also of Tynehugh, and Patrick, Owen, and Darby O'Malley of Owles, County of Mayo. In the latter part of the eighteenth century, Patrick O'Malley, of the Mayo Sept, was killed in the Austrian service. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. DONOGH, EARL OF CLANCARTY. Captains. The Colonel. John Shelton, Lieut.-Col. Philip Ricautt, Major. Alexander Maguire. Walter Butler. Lord Upper Ossory. Garret 'TirrehV Edmund Fitzgerald. Donogh M'Carty. Andrew Dorrington. Cornelius Murphy. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Gerald Fitzgerald. Edmund Purcell. Garret Dease. * Pacata Hibernia, p. 533. 502 king james's irish army list, COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANG ARTY. Doxogh Mac Carty, the grandfather of this noble- man, was Viscount Muskerry and first Earl of Clan- carty. He was General of the Irish forces of Mun- ster for Charles the First and Charles the Second against the Parliamentarian Revolutionists. When resistance was no longer available at home, he brought off a large body of his countrymen to the Continent ; and, surviving the Restoration, died in London in August, 1665. He had by his wife, the Lady Butler, eldest sister of James the first Duke of Ormond, Charles, Callaghan, and Justin Mac Carty ; the eldest fell in battle about two months previous to his father's decease, in the memorable sea-fight at South-hold Bay, where James, then Duke of York, at the head of ninety- eight ships of the line and four fire-ships, gained the most glorious victory that had ever been obtained by the English marine, over the naval power of Holland. This son of Earl Donogh was interred in Westminster Abbey, and, as he left no issue, the titles and estates devolved upon his next brother Callaghan, who had entered upon an ecclesiastical life in France with the intention of becoming a Priest ; but, on the extinc- tion of his elder brother's line, he became a Protestant, married Elizabeth, daughter of the sixteenth Earl of Kildare, and dying in November, 1676, left issue by her one son, the above Colonel, born about the year 1670, He was educated a Protestant by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and bred up at Oxford, " where young EARL OF CLANCARTY'S INFANTRY. 503 gentlemen in those days did not a learn a compla- cency for popery, as they have since Sacheverel and his fellows have been encouraged there."* His uncle Justin McCarty, without the knowledge of his mother, married him at sixteen years old to Mary, daughter of the Earl of Sunderland, who was then a Court favourite, and immediately sent him to Ireland. Smith, in his History of Cork, (vol. 1, p. 175, n.) details some curious particulars respecting this noble- man's marriage. He and his uncle warmly espoused the cause of King James. Early in March, 1689, the townspeople of Bandon fell upon its small Jacobite garrison under Captain Donell O'Neill, seized their arms, clothes, &c, and shut the gates against this Earl Donogh, who was advancing with a reinforce- ment of six companies to relieve the place.f His uncle, however, Lieutenant-General Justin, after taking precautions against any hostile rising in the City of Cork and its vicinity, compelled the William- ites of Bandon to seek pardon, open their gates, pay £1000 fine, and level their walls, which have never since been rebuilt ; this achievement put an end to any opposition to James in Munster. On that monarch's subsequently landing at Kinsale, the Earl of Clancarty with Tyrconnel received him ; the former entertain- ing His Majesty, who " made him a Lord of the Bed- chamber, appointed him Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the Province by Letters Patent, and * Memoirs of Ireland (printed 1716), p. 56. f Idem, p. 23. 504 king james's irish army list. created his Infantry Eegiment a Royal Regiment of Guards."* In the Parliament of Dublin, May, 1689, this Earl, though under age, sat as a Peer by royal dispensation. In 1690, being in the City of Cork when it was be- sieged by the Earl, afterwards Duke, of Marlborough, he was taken prisoner and sent off to the Tower of London, where he was held until the autumn of 1694, when he succeeded in making his escape to France, and there he commanded a troop of King James's Guards until the peace of Ryswick in 1697. In the following year he ventured to visit England and his wife, but was instantly arrested, and was only par- doned on condition of abjuring the kingdom ; where- upon he retired to Hamburgh, and, purchasing an island on the Elbe near Altona, made it his residence till his death.f He was attainted in 1691 and 1696, and his forfeitures gave an immense tract of country to the Crown. A letter of Bartholomew Van Homrigh, dated 11th December, 1697, in the Southwell MSS. Collections, says, " the grant of the late Earl of Clan- carty's estates to Lord Woodstock is this night past the Great Seal of Ireland, so that all the said estate is now by law in my Lord Woodstock and his heirs for ever. "J The extent of the old Irish assessments which his ancestors levied may be judged from a previous patent of King James (1608), granting to * Memoirs of Ireland, p. 24. f O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 140. \ Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 26. EARL OF CLANCARTY'S INFANTRY. 505 Sir Henry Power, Knight, Privy Councillor, all and singular the seigniories, chief rents, silver rents, customs of beeves, swine, butter, oats, beer, bran, honey, and all other services which belonged to Donald, late Earl of Clancartie, and were forfeited to the Crown in Kerry and Desmond counties. At the Court of Chichester House, the Countess of Clancarty claimed off all the estate of this nobleman 4 a competent maintenance,' and preferred other charges attaching to the same, but with no success. Various other claims were advanced as att aching to this immense territory, and some few were allowed. The chief purchasers of these estates from the Commission- ers of the Forfeitures were Alderman James French, Sir Richard Pyne, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; seventeen other private individuals, and, yet more, the Hollow Swords' Blades Company. In June, 1704, this Earl's Countess died at the place of his exile, leaving issue by him two sons, Robert and Justin. His attainder was reversed and his honors restored in 1721, but he never returned, and died at his island retreat in October, 1734, aged 64. His son and heir Robert resided many years at Boulogne-sur-mer, where he lived an Irish hospitable life (see Walker's Hibernian Magazine for 1796, p. 12, &c), and died in 1770, aged 84, he also leaving two sons. The Brigade Regiment known as Clan- carty 's was commanded by Roger Mc Ellicott (who had been Governor of Cork when it was taken by the Earl of Marlborough) ; Edward Scott was its Lieu- 506 kixg james's irish army list. tenant-Colonel and John Murphy its Major. The late Compte de Mac Carthy Reagh collected a library, second in its extent only to that of the King of France ; no other possessed so large a number of printed and manuscript books on vellum. On his death, however, this magnificent collection, like the estates of the family a century previous, was scattered amongst strangers.* LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SHELTON. Nothing known of him or his connexions. CAPTAIN LORD UPPER OSSORY. The Mac Gilla Phadruig (Fitz-Patrick) was in the early period of Irish history Ruler of Ossory, a territory extending over the whole country between the rivers Nore and Suir ; and the native annals are full of their lineage, charitable foundations, and achievements, the castles they erected, and the abbeys they founded and endowed. In 1314, Edward the Second directed his official letter missive to Donogh Mac Gille-Patrick, as Chief of his Sept, for service and aid in the war to Scotland. In 1541, Brian Mac Gilla Phadrig was created Baron of Upper Ossory. His son, the second Baron, was the companion and favourite of Edward the * O'Callaghans Green Book, p. 281. EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY. 507 Sixth. Four letters of his to that young king, re- lating interesting circumstances connected with the war in France and Flanders, are preserved in the British Museum, as are two others from him to the Earl of Leicester, dated in 1578 and 1579 from Dublin Castle, where, having incurred Queen Eliza- beth's displeasure, he was confined a state prisoner. In the last letter he sought to obtain the Earl's inter- position with the Queen, accompanying his petition with a present of ' a very fair hawk of a tried agree.' When Sir John Perrot convened the Conciliation Parliament of 1585, " thither went Mc Gill Phadruig of Ossory, namely Fingin, the son of Bryan, son of Fingin."* At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny Bryan Fitz-Patrick, Baron of Upper Ossory, was of the Temporal Peers ; while Florence Fitz-Patrick of Lisdunvearney was of the Commons. Cromwell's Ordinance of 1652 excepted the above Florence Fitz- Patrick and Colonel John his son from pardon for life and estate. As the honors of this family are in abeyance, and the descent of its lines obscure, it may be here mentioned that in 1674, 28th January, was buried in the old graveyard of the Catholic aristocracy at St. James's, Dublin, Dr. Thady Fitz-Patrick, son to Teigue Oge Fitzpatrick of Akipe, son to Dermot of Ballyrellin, son to Teigue Oge Mac Teigue of Munni- drohid. This Dr. Thady married Julian, daughter of Pierce Martin of Galway, merchant, son of Walter Martin ; and had issue by her divers children, of * Annals of the Four Masters, ad arm. 508 king james's irish army list. whom 'survive' three sons, Patrick, John, and James, and two daughters, Christian and Anne, as is testified in a Funeral Entry in Bermingham Tower by Julian Martin, the widow of Dr.Thady. The above Captain was Bryan Fitzpatrick, the seventh Baron of Upper Ossory, whose exploits at Mons are fully detailed in Harris's Life of William the Third.* He had a pension of £100 per annum from Charles the Second, which was on the 1st of January, 1687, continued to him by King James. He sat in the Parliament of Dublin, was attainted in 1691, and died in 1696. He had been married three times, but left no issue by any of of his wives. In the Act " to hinder the reversal of several Outlawries and Attainders," passed in the sixth year of William the Third, it was provided that the same should not extend to confirm the outlawries of the late Earl of Upper Ossory, but the same might be capable of being reversed in such manner as if that Act had never been made. On his decease his nephew assumed the title, but it was denied to hjm at law, and this ancient Barony has been considered thence extinct. At Chichester House, the Lady Dorothy his third wife, claimed, as Baroness Dowager of Upper Ossory, a long term for years in the Queen's County estates forfeited by her lord's attainder. Of the name there appear also on this 'Army List,' John Fitzpatrick a Captain and Darby Fitzpatrick a Lieutenant in Colonel Edward Butler's Regiment of Infantry ; the former afterwards became a Major, and was taken * See its Index Titles ' Ossory' and ' Mons.' EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY. 509 prisoner in the service. He was described in his attainder as i of Kilkenny,' the latter of Clooneen, Queen's County. • A Thady Fitzpatrick, most pro- bably a relative of the above Dr. Thady, was in 1689 Deputy Lieutenant of the Queen's County, and one of the Representatives for Maryborough in the Parlia- ment of Dublin. He too was attainted in 1691, but afterwards obtained a pardon under the Great Seal. Besides those before mentioned, there were also at- tainted in 1691 Terence Fitzpatrick of Kilbredelegg, Bryan of Moneydriluch and Killdeley, Redmond of Kilmanbought, Charles of Barnyballeragh, and Flo- rence of Clonaghill, all in their native County, (the Queen's); while Dermott Fitzpatrick was a forfeiting proprietor in the County of Clare. At the siege of Derry, a Lieutenant Fitzpatrick was killed " in the orchard on the other side of the walls."* On the first of May, 1691, "Major Wood, having notice that the rapparees were in great force about Brittas in the Queen's County, went out with 300 of my Lord George Hamilton's and Colonel Lloyd's Foot and fifty of Colonel Byerly's Horse, with which he first killed nigh seventy Rapparees, and, leaving part of his men to secure passes, he went three miles further beyond a place called the Togher of Malahone, having with him 110 Foot, and 30 Horse ; but, instead of the rappa- rees whom only he expected, he espied two bodies of the Irish army said to be near eight hundred in num- ber. These he encountered, and after several charges * Walker's Siege of Derry, p. 61. 510 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. at different places put them to the rout, killing one hundred and fifty on the place, amongst whom was one Captain Sheales ; and he took Major John Fitz- patrick (before alluded to) prisoner, who commanded the party, and seventeen officers more, with six ser- geants, sixteen corporals, two drummers, and also eighty privates."* In 1693, at the battle of Landon, a Colonel Fitzpatrick was woundedf ; and in 1696, Brigadier-General Edward Fitzpatrick was drowned in the Holyhead packet with several other officers. The vessel was cast away by a violent storm near Sutton, on the Dublin coast. He was the elder brother of Richard first Lord Gowran, the son of which latter nobleman was afterwards created Earl of Upper Ossory.J In 1732, James Fitzpatrick was killed at the battle of Oran, in the Spanish service. He had preferred a claim to the Barony of Upper Ossory before the House of Lords in the previous year, but he was considered to have failed in his evidence, and the issue, which he left, did not prosecute the claim. ENSIGN GARRET DEASE. He was of the House of Turbotstown, County of Westmeath, as was also Richard Dease, and there the * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 73. f Rawdon Papers, p. 379. . t Lodge's Peerage, edited by Archdall, vol. 2, p. 346. EARL OF CLANCARTY's INFANTRY. 511 family still exists. They were both attainted in 1691, as were Thomas Fitz-Laurence Dease of Morterstown, and Richard amd Edward Dease of Glanidan, in the same County. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. RICHARD, EARL OF CLANRICARDE. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. Paul Daly. James Bourk. Edward Madden."^ Lord Dillon. > Richard de Burgo. David Dowd. Lieut. Cols. J Major. Edmund Darcy. j Michael Madden. Charles Daly. Teigue O'Kelly. Bryan Kelly. John Bourke. * Luk * Talbot. William Kelly. Sir Ulick Bourke. Gerald Farrell. Patrick Bermingham. James Talbot. Marcus French. John French. Edward Bourke. Hugh Daly. William Kelly. Henry Crofton. Thady Daly. John Bourke. John Stephenson. Michael Madden. Ulick ' Bourk.' John Bermingham. John Bourk. Augustin Bodkin. William Bermingham. J ohn Talbot. Bryan ' Maghan. ' Lord Athenree. __ Ulick Bourke. COLONEL THE EARL OF CLANRICARDE. This great family of De Burgh deduces its origin from Charlemagne. His descendant, Baldwin the 512 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Second, was father of Harlowen, who married Arlotta, the mother of William the Conqueror. His eldest son by her was Robert, Earl of Cornwall, who accom- panied his half-brother William in the invasion of England. The grandson of Robert was Adelm, who is said to have married Agnes, daughter of Louis the Seventh, King of France, and he was father to William, who married Isabella, daughter of Richard the Second, King of England, and widow of the cele- brated Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. He founded with pious policy the Monastery of St. Thomas a-Becket in Dublin, and was father of Richard De Burgh, the great Lord of Connaught, Viceroy of Ireland in 1227, and who died in 1243, when on his passage to France, attended by his Barons and Knights, to meet the King of England at Bourdeaux. He had two sons, Walter, Lord of Connaught, who, marrying Maud, daughter and heiress of Hugh De Lacie the Younger, became in her right Earl of Ulster on the death of his father-in-law, and who left by his said wife, Richard, the second Earl of Ulster, commonly known as the Red Earl. His great grand-daughter, the Lady Elizabeth De Burgh, only child and heiress of William, third Earl of Ulster, married Lionel, Duke of Clarence, son of Edward the Third ; from which marriage most of the Crowned Heads of Europe are descended ; those of England, Scotland, Denmark, France, Bohemia, Sardinia, Spain, Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Hungary, &c, as all laid down on author- ities and in tables by Doctor Burke Ryan of London, EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 513 with a kind hope that it might suit the present work ; but, as the record was not found to interest the pre- cent generation, the expense of such an addition was reluctantly declined. William, the second son of Richard the Lord of Connaught, derived large estates (beyond the two Provinces of Connaught and Ulster), in Tipperary, where, according to his namesake De Burgo, the historian of the Irish Dominican order, the name was then still widely extended; although, a few years previous to the time of that laborious wri- ter, a large portion of the estates of the Tipperary Bourkes was granted to Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight and Privy Councillor. The Attainders of 1642 give but one of this name, John Bourke, described as ' of Dublin.' At the Supreme Council of 1646, John ' Burke,' Bishop of Clonfert, was of the Spiritual Peers; William Burke, Baron of Castleconnell, of the Temporal; and of the Commons were John Burke of Castlecaroe, Richard of Drumrusk, William of Pol- lardstown, Richard of Shellewly, Theobald of Buoly- burk, and Ulick Burke of Glinsk. Cromwell's Act 4 for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon for life and estate Miles ' Bourk,' Viscount Mayo, Sir Theo- bald Bourk his son ; Edmund of Cloghan, County of Mayo; Thomas of Anbally, and Redmond of Kilcornin, both in the County of Galway. The Royal declara- tion of thanks, as for services beyond the seas, includes the names of the Earl of Clanricarde ; David Bourk of Barnanlahie, County of Tipperary; Sir Ulick Bourk, Knight and Baronet, of Glinsk; Lieutenant LL 514 king james's irish army list. William Bourke of Turlogh, County of Mayo ; and Captain William Mac Redmond Bourke. Lords Brit- tas and Castleconnell were on the Establishment of 1617-18 for pensions of £100 per annum each. In King James's Charters to the Boroughs of Gal- way, Limerick, Mayo, Cavan, and Koscommon, this family was numerously represented. In the Parlia- ment of 1689 sat amongst the Peers this Earl of Clanricarde, the Viscount Mayo, the Lord Castlecon- nel, Lord Bophin, and Lord Brittas. The father of this latter nobleman, the Honorable William Bourke, served in the Royalist cause during the Civil Avar of 1641, and by Cromwell's order was executed at Cork in 1653. His son, the Lord here spoken of, served as above, a Colonel in King James's army. He married the Lady Honora, daughter of Morrough, the first Earl of Inchequin, by whom he left a son, dis- inherited by his attainder. This son resided at St. Germains, assumed the title of Lord Brittas, and died in France, leaving issue by his wife Catherine, daughter of Colonel Gordon O'Neill, two sons; John, styled Lord Brittas, a Captain in the French service; and Thomas, a Lieutenant-General in the Sardinian.* In the Commons sat Sir Ulick Bourke, one of the Representatives for Gal way ; John of Carrickni- hill, one for Askeaton ; Walter, one for the County of Mayo ; Thomas for Castlebar ; William Bourke of Carrowford for the Borough of Tuam ; and John Bourke for the County of Roscommon. Besides this, * Burke's Extinct Peerage. EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 515 the Earl of Clanricarde's Regiment, Walter Bourke was Colonel of a second Regiment of Infantry, Patrick of a third, and Michael of a fourth; while the name appears commissioned in twenty-two other Regiments on this list. At the siege of Deny in 1689, a Lieutenant Burke was killed on the occasion of the attack by the wind- mill.* In the following year, William Burke of the Mayo line, who had been appointed Governor of the Castle of Grange in the County of Sligo, was ordered by King James to defend it ; when, being vigorously besieged and disappointed of promised succours, at the moment that the besiegers were about to enter the breach he blew up the Castle, and, with many of his enemies, was buried in the ruins. On the 7th of June, 1691, Baron De Ginkle appeared before Bally- more on the line to Athlone, and summoned the Irish Governor, Sir Ulick Burke, to surrender. "The gar- rison consisted of 800 men, the elite of the Irish, be- ing picked . men from all the Regiments. In the space of twenty-four hours, six batteries crumbled) all the works to the south, and the appearance of a flotilla on the lake induced a surrender. Burke, the Governor," adds O'Conor, " is charged with treachery and cowardice in King James's Memoir; it would appear rather that vanity induced the defence, and incapacity the surrender ;"f and it does appear from Story that the Governor had no greater artillery in * Walkers Siege of Derry, p. 61. t O'Connor's Milit. Mem. p. 135 516 king james's irish army list. the place than ' two small Turkish pieces mounted upon old cart wheels.'* The Irish Engineer, Lieuten- ant-Colonel Burton, was slain. Colonel David Burke was killed at Aughrim with another Ulick Burke, who had been for a time Governor of Galway;f while a Colonel Neill Burke, his Lieutenant, with Colonel Walter Burke and Lord Bophin, were taken prisoners. On the 2nd of September, 1691, writes Story, " Brigadier Levison, learning where Lord Mer- rion's and Lorcl Brittas's Regiments lay, marched as privately as he could that way ; and about one o'clock in the morning he fell in with them, killing several and dispersing the rest, Lord Merrion himself (Thomas Fitz-William) escaping narrowly. Then he divided his party to pursue their broken troops, but they knowing that country, made most of them a shift to escape. ''J The Colonel of this Regiment was a Privy Council- lor, and was appointed Governor of Galway by King James ; which, having been besieged by De Ginkle fourteen days after the battle of Aughrim, he was compelled to surrender.§ O'Conor, in his Military Memoirs, (vol. 1, p. 161) denounces this surrender as a treacherous compromise. " Lord Clanricarde," writes that historian, " inherited neither the courage nor the loyalty of his ancestor, the great Earl of St. * Impartial Hist. pt. 2, p. 87. f Clarke's James II., v. 2. p. 459. \ Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 204. § Clarke's James II. vol 2, p. 459. EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 517 Albans ; he compounded his honor for personal security, and, quitting the service of James, remained at Galway, though by the capitulation he was at liberty to march to Limerick." The Outlawries of 1691 include this Earl by two Inquisitions, William, Baron of Castleconnell, and Ulick, Lord Viscount Galway, Lord Brittas, and John his son ; eighteen Burkes or Bourkes in Mayo ; John Burke of Ower, and fifteen others in Galway ; six in Limerick, five in Roscommon, two in Dublin and Wexford respectively, and one in each of the Counties of Sligo, Cavan, and the Queen's. In 1696, the name of the Lady Honora Burke, alias Sarsfield, and then Duchess of Berwick before alluded to, was entered in the Outlawries. Sir Ulick the Baronet was also attainted, but adjudged within the benefit of the Articles of Limerick. The achievements of the Brigade of Colonel Walter Burke, styled ' the Regiment of Athlone,' are referred to that Colonel's own Regiment in this service, hereafter noticed, but it may be here added that a Regiment commanded by a son of the attainted Lord of Castle- connell was distinguished at the battle of Cremona ; while, at that of Lauffield in 1747, Walter Burke was taken prisoner in Bulkeley's Regiment ; and in Dillon's, Captain Pierce 1 Bourke ' was killed, and Captain Anthony Bourk wounded. 518 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWARD MADDEN. The Sept of the 0' Maddens were chiefs of what is now styled the Barony of Longford in the County of Galway, with a portion of the parish of Lusmagh in the King's County, on the opposite side of the Shan- non ; this whole territory being in the Chronicles of the country called 4 Silanchia.' The Annals of Ulster record the death of Matodhan, Lord of Silanchia, in the year 1008, who seems to have given their distinc- tive name to his descendants. In 1059, Melaghlin O'Madden was the leader of a military expedition re- corded by the Four Masters. The same Chronicle mentions the death of Matodhan O'Madden, chief of Silanchia, in 1096 ; and subsequently gives various other annals of this family. In 1540, the Lord Deputy was instructed to confirm treaties between the King and Melaghlin O'Madden and Hugh O'Madden, Chiefs of their country.* In 1567, on the submission of Donald O'Madden, who prayed " to be recognised in the Captaincy of his Sept, (with the country of Long- fort and Silankey, commonly called O'Madden's country, w hereof Hugh Mac Melaghlin Ballagh O'Madden, deceased, was the late Captain) his petition was granted, on the condition of said Donald paying to the Lord Deputy at Mullingar, for a fine, eighty fat heifers."f When, in eighteen years after, Sir John Perrot assembled the Conciliation Parliament in Dub- * State Papers, temp. Henry VIII., pt. 3 continued, p. 171. t Roll 9 Eliz. in Chancery. EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 519 lin, " thither went O'Madden, Lord of Siol-Amcha, namely Donald, the son of John, son of Breasal," i. e. the same Donald of 1567. The O'Maddens were, however, soon after implicated in such resistance to the government, as led to deaths and confiscations of many of the name; and in 1606, John King, of Dub- lin, had a grant of the estates of various O'Maddens in the County of Galway and the King's County, 1 slain in rebellion ;' as had also Sir John Davis, the Attorney-General of the day, of others described as the estate of Bresail O'Madden of the County of Clare, 'slain in rebellion.' In 1612, however, Donald O'Madden, then still the Captain, settled on trustees his Manor and Castle of Longfort, and all his other estates in that part of the County of Galway, to hold to the use of Ambrose O'Madden his son and heir in tail male ; with remainder to his other sons Malachy and Donell, and their respective heirs male ; remainder to Brasil O'Madden, son of Hugh, one of the sons of Donell, in tail male ; remainder to the heirs of Ambrose O'Madden in fee.* A Manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. IV. 18.) con- tains links of the pedigree of the O'Maddens of Bag- gotrath, near Dublin, through six generations of the 16th and 17th centuries, also some links of those of Donore, County of Dublin. Besides the above Lieutenant-Colonel, Michael Madden was an Ensign in this Regiment, John Mad- den a Lieutenant in the Earl of Tyrone's ; another * Patent Roll James I . 520 king james's irish army list. John an Ensign in Lord Bophin's, and in Colonel Heward Oxburgh's Hugh Madden was a Captain, and J ohn a Lieutenant. This Lieutenant-Colonel Edward was taken prisoner at the battle of Aughrim ;* but, having afterwards obtained his liberty, he repaired to France, where, as before mentioned, ante, p. 478, he was commissioned as Major in the Brigade of Fitz- James, the Grand Prior. Five of this name were attainted in 1691. CAPTAIN CHARLES DALY. This family claims descent from Nial of the Nine Hostages, one of the most illustrious of Irish Kings, and whose reign synchronises with the time of the Saviour. The Sept extended itself at a very remote period over Munster and Connaught, as well as in the Barony of Clonlonan, County of Westmeath ; and, through the long lapse of years, have they been eminently distinguished as poets and annalists, and are so commemorated by the Four Masters. In 1337, died Lewis O'Daly, Bishop of Clonmacnoise, while that interesting locality was yet a Bishop's See. About the same time O'Daly of Munster had a grant of Moynter-barry, on a customary tenure of that time, of being Rythmour or Chronicler of the Chief Lord and of his achievements, f In 1410, * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. t Pacata Hibernia, p. 529. EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 521 John O'Daly had licence from the crown for making a pilgrimage to Rome, the penalties against absentee- ism making such a sanction necessary. In 1436, Nicholas O'Daly was by the Pope's Bull appointed Bishop of Athenry. It is alleged that in the middle of the succeeding century, in consequence of a wish expressed by the King of Denmark to Queen Eliza- beth, to have Irish manuscripts then in his possession translated, one Donald Daly was selected for the work ; but that the project was abandoned, being opposed in Council, 'lest it might be prejudicial to the English interest.' In 1582, Robert Daly died Bishop of Kildare. In 1606, John King, of Dublin, had a grant of parcel of the estate of Morrogh O'Daly of Ballinakill in the King's County, ' slain in rebel- lion.' By a remarkable deed of 1612, Donough, son of Laughlin Roe O'Daly of Finvara in the County of Clare, " in consideration of six pounds of pure crowned stamped money of England, (as pure, as refined, and as valuable as that coin now is in Eng- land, and as it was when first it was made current, consisting of four ounces to every pound,)" then stated to have been received by said Donough from An- thony, son of James, son of Ambrose Lynch of Galway, merchant, conveyed to him certain premises in Finvara, with royalties 4 over and under ground,' as his pro- portion of the estate of Finvara held by the Daly family from the Earl of Thomond.* Early in the Civil war of 1641, the Marquis of Clanricarde * Hardiman's Ancient Deeds, pp. 91-2. 522 king james's irish army list. committed the custody and safe-keeping of the Castle of Clare-Galway to Lieutenant Dermot O'Daly, 1 who did very good service there.' He was the grandson of Dermot O'Daly, who in 1478 obtained a grant of the Manor of Lerha with all its appurtenances. The At- tainders of 1641 comprise the names of Loughlin Daly of Little Clonshaugh, County of Dublin ; Donogh Hugh Buy Daly of Neeston, County of Kildare ; and Eneas O'Daly of Ballyrowne, County of Cork. In 1662, died Daniel O'Daly a native of Kerry, who had founded the Dominican convent at Lisbon ; he after- wards became an especial favourite and confidential ambassador of the Duke of Braganza, when that noble- man succeeded to the throne of Portugal. O'Daly wrote a work giving full historical particulars of the family of Desmond, long rare, but now reprinted. He was himself buried in the convent he had so estab- lished. In this Regiment, besides Captain Charles, Paul, Hugh and Thady Daly were Lieutenants, and the name was in commission in four others. This Captain Charles was of the Dunsandle family, and in King- James's Parliament of 1689 was one of the Represent- atives for the Borough of Athenry ; as was Richard Daly of Kilcorky for that of Newborough, County of Wexford. Charles was brother of the Right Honora- ble Denis Daly, who was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland at the commencement of the reign of James the Second. Colonel O'Kelly, in the ' Eoccidium Macariw] while he admits his ' great EARL OF clanricarde's l\fantry. 523 knowledge of the law,' says he was one of Tyrconnel's confidants, and therefore imprisoned in Galway by the young Duke of Berwick, as on suspicion of keeping private correspondence with the common enemy ; but, adds 'Kelly, " his deliverer was near at hand, for, within a few days after his confinement, he had the good fortune to hear of Tyrconnel's landing at Lime- rick ; and no sooner was he arrived there, than he made use of his prerogative to enlarge the Judge, and restore him, without further trial, to his former station and dignity.* He was included in the Attainders of 1691, but in 1698 obtained a pardon from the Crown as in pursuance of the Capitulation of Galway, and the special promise of the Earl of Ath- lone. The Dalys attainted in 1691 were Peter and Terence of Killileigh, County of Westmeath, (Thomas Daly was then the head of the Killileigh line, but was a minor) ; Eugene of Cork, merchant ; John, also of Cork ; John of Cloghrevanny, County of Galway ; Edward of Kilmeny, do. ; with the above Judge Denis and Captain Charles. At the sale of 1703 by the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates, Colonel John Eyre of Eyrecourt purchased the lands of Bally- house and Killevany in the Barony of Longford and County of Galway, the estate of Teigue or Hugh Daly, attainted. This Hugh was the father of Teigue, which latter had died in 1691, leaving four sons, the three elder of whom were in King James's army, and after the surrender of Limerick went into France. Lough- * O'Callaghan's Excid. Mac. p. 106. 524 king james's irish army list. lin Daly, the fourth son, subsequently in 1711 sought to recover these estates from the Eyres by proceedings in Chancery, alleging that the conveyance from the Trustees was for his benefit; but his claim was de- feated. In 1746, Ensign Daly in Monroe's Regiment was one of those wounded at the battle of Culloden. The Mayor of Gralway from 1761 to some few years since was in almost unbroken succession a Daly, while the Parliamentary representation of the town was like- wise long held by the family. CAPTAIN JAMES TALBOT. This individual was the proprietor of Templeogue in the County of Dublin, and represented the borough of Athenry in King James's Parliament. At the battle of Aughrim he had the command of a Regiment, and was there killed.* He forfeited largely in the County of Gralway, and in the County and City of Dublin. His estates in the latter county were sold by the com- missioners of the forfeitures to Sir Compton Domville. CAPTAIN JOHN STEPHENSON. This officer is described in the Inquisition on his out- lawry as of Ballyvaughan, County of Limerick ; but * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 525 his confiscations were of estates in that of Clare. John Stephenson was an attesting witness to the ar- ticles of Galway. In the reign of James the First, William and Richard 'Stevenson' had patents of na- turalization, and the name was yet earlier introduced in Munster in the time of Elizabeth. In 1600, the custody of the castle of Corkroge on the Shannon was entrusted to Oliver Stephenson* who became a Col- onel in the Austrian service, but in 1648 petitioned Ferdinand the Third to permit him to resign his com- mission and fight against Cromwell when invading Ireland, f His prayer was granted, and he afterwards fell at the battle of Liscarrol. It may be observed that an Oliver Stephenson was Captain on this List in Colonel Eoger Mc Ellicott's Infantry, where Nicholas Stephenson was his Lieutenant. CAPTAINS LORD ATHENRY AND JOHN AND WILLIAM BERMINGHAM. This historic name has been early projected on the Irish chronicles. In 1302, Henry de Bermingham, afterwards Sheriff of Connaught,J was one of the ' Magnates ' of Ireland who attended the Earl of Uls- ter on the Royal summons to the Scottish war ; soon after which Sir John Bermingham was created Earl * Pacata Hibernia, p. 123. f O'Conor's Hist. Address, pt. 2, p. 466. \ Harris's Hibernica, pt. 2, p. 35. 526 KING JAMES S IRISH ARMY LIST. of Louth, by reason of his gallant and successful resis- tance to Brace's invasion. It is recorded that on the death of Lord Walter de Bermingham in 1354, in- debted to the King, his estates with his armour were taken by the Escheator ; but King Edward at once restored the armour piece by piece, as in a schedule, to Sir Eobert de Preston, who was guardian of Lord Walter's infant son, in trust to deliver same to him on his coming of age.* In 1402, John Bermingham was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland. In 1464, Philip Bermingham was constituted Chief Justice of the Common Pleas there; he, in 1488, did homage to Sir Richard Edgecombe. In 1489, Wil- liam Bermingham died Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to which high judicial office Patrick Berming- ham was appointed in 1521. At the meeting of the Irish Parliament in 1541, considerable surprise is said to have been caused by the unexpected attendance of Lord Bermingham of Athenry, Lord Barry, Lord Roche, and Lord Fitz-Morris ; 'which Lords had not been here for many years before. 'f These noblemen, together with the Earls of Ormond and Desmond, and the Baron of Upper Ossory, previous to opening Par- liament, as Saint Leger the Lord Deputy in his zeal announced to Henry the Eighth, "attended the solemn mass of the Holy Ghost, the most part of them in their robes, and rode on in procession, in such sort as the like thereof has not been seen here of many years. "J * Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 12. t Idem, p. 88. } State Papers, temp. Henry VIII. pt. 3 continued, p. 304. EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 527 Lord Athenry sat in the Parliament of 1560 ; and, in seven years after, having avowed himself to the Queen under recognizance, a faithful subject of the Crown, and offered to surrender his estates for himself and his Sept, and to receive back from her Majesty the same according to her pleasure, she in consideration thereof directed a patent to pass to him accordingly in tail male.* He sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1585. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of the above William Bermingham, described as of Bally - namallough, County of Kildare ; John Bermingham of Eaheen and Muckland, with six others of the name in the County of Cavan, and three in that of Dublin, one in Wicklow, and one in Meath. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, Francis Bermingham, then Lord Athenry, sat as a Temporal Peer : with four Ber- minghams in the Commons. This Lord Athenry was, in 1652, excepted by Cromwell's Ordinance from par- don for life and estate. Besides the above Captains, the name appears on this List commissioned in three other Kegiments. In King James's Parliament of 1689 sat this Lord Athenry as one of the Peers, while the above John Bermingham, who was Portrieve of Castlebar in its new Charter, sat as one of its Eepresentatives. Near the close of this campaign, on the 19th of August, 1691, by the Articles for the surrender of the island and garrison of Bophin, "Lord Athenry and Colonel John Kelly, with all the inhabitants of said island, * Lynch on Feudal Dignities, p. 216. 528 king james's irish army list. were permitted to possess and enjoy their estates therein, as they held them nnder the Acts of Settle- ment and Explanation."* The Attainders of 1691 include the names of the above Lord Athenry ; of said Captain, described as John Bermingham of Castlebar, County of Mayo; with two of the name in Meath, two in the Queen's County, three in Kildare, and two in Galway. LIEUTENANT EDMUND D'ARCY. The family of D'Arcy, writes Burke,f "ranks with the most eminent established in England by the Nor- man conquest, and amongst the peerages of past times. There are two Baronies in abeyance, one forfeited Barony, and three extinct Baronies, all of which had been conferred upon the House of D'Arcy, besides the extinct Earldom of Holderness." The D'Arcys of Hyde Park are the chief and eldest existing line of this ancient race in Ireland, and to Sir Bernard Burke's memoir of that House the genealogical inquirer is best referred. Of this family, Sir John D'Arcy, Knight, had been Chief Justiciary and Governor of Ireland in 1324, 1327, and 1341 ; on the latter occasion, the appointment was made to him for life. He had large grants to him and his heirs male of manors and lands in the County of Westmeath, with * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 201. f Landed Gentry, p. 306. EARL OF CLANRICARDE's INFANTRY. 529 Knight's fees and advowsons of churches; and, marry- ing twice, had by his first wife a son, who was ances- tor of the D'Arcys, Barons D'Arcy and Moynell, and of the Earls of Holderness. His second wife was Jane, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and widow of Thomas Fitz-John, Earl of Kildare; upon which marriage he settled in Ireland, and became the founder of the family of Platten, from which the other D'Arcys of this country have branched. When Lam- bert Simnel shook the allegiance of Ireland, and was crowned King at Christ Church Cathedral in 1487, it is related that Sir William D'Arcy of Platten bore him out on his shoulders, after the ceremony, to the deluded multitude. Sir William was however par- doned in the following year, on doing homage to Sir Richard Edgecombe. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Ni- cholas D'Arcy of Platten, County of Meath (who had attended the great meeting at the hill of Crofty), Francis D'Arcy of Ballymount, County of Kildare ; and Christopher of Athlumney, County of Meath. Nicholas of Platten had, however, a Decree of Inno- cence in 1666, and was further restored to his estates by patent of 1670. Patrick D'Arcy of the Galway line was one of the Confederate Catholics who sat at Kil- kenny in 1646, and he was accordingly excepted from pardon for life and estate in Cromwell's Act of 1652. In the Establishment of 1685, Sir William D'Arcy was placed for a pension of £400 per annum ; while, in the new Charter of 1687 to Galway, six D'Arcys were MM 530 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. appointed Burgesses. Besides the above Lieutenant, there appear on this Army List, Nicholas D'Arcy, a Cornet in Lord Dongan's Dragoons (afterwards wounded at Deny), and Thomas D'Arcy, a Quarter- Master in Sir Neill O'Neill's. A short time previous to the battle of the Boyne, Killeshandra, which was garrisoned by one hundred and sixty Irish under the command of a Captain D'Arcy, was obliged to surrender to Colonel Wolseley.* Those attainted in 1691 were Nicholas D'Arcy, described as of Platten (who had been nominated an Alderman in King James's Charter to Drogheda), George D'Arcy his son, and Thomas D'Arcy of Corbetstown and Porterstown, County of Westmeath. Various claims were preferred at Chi- chester House in 1700, as affecting the confiscations of Nicholas D'Arcv in Westmeath. LIEUTENANT BRYAN MAHON. This officer was of a family that, as appears from the Patent Rolls of James, settled about this time in the County of Gal way, and, as well from the date of its migration being contemporaneous with the planting of Ulster, as from the adoption of the same christian names, appears to have ^branched from the illustrious House of Mac Mahon, dynast of Monaghan. His father, Bryan Mahon the Elder, of Loughrea, was in 1665 possessed of considerable property in that neigh- * Rawdon Papers, p. 322. EARL OF CLANRICARDE'S INFANTRY. 531 bourhood, the leasehold portion of which, having been held under Lord Bophin, was, on the attainder of that nobleman, the subject of claim before the Commis- sioners at Chichester House, on the part of his widow Maggin Mahon, alias Power, who was afterwards interred with her husband in the family vault at the old Abbey of Loughrea. They left two sons ; the elder, James, became the ancestor of the Mahons of Beech-hill, County of Galway ; the second, this Bryan, who was advanced to a Captaincy before his death, (which occurred in 1719), became a conformist, and was ancestor of the Baronets of Castlegar. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. ALEXANDER, EARL OF ANTRIM. The Colonel. Mark Talbot, Captains. Lieutenants. Archibald M'Donnel. Denis Callaghan. Ensigns. Randall M'Donnell. Lieut.-Col. James Wogan, Francis Moore. Con. O'Rourke. Major. Edmund O'Reilly. Manus O'Donnell. Ulick Bourke. Daniel M'Donald. Bryan M'Ginnis. Arthur Magill. Lord of Enniskillen. Hugh O'Neill. f Eneas M'Donnel. I John O'Neill. Bryan O'Neill. Bryan Magrath. Bryan O'Neill. Terence M'Sweeny. John O'Neill. Francis O'Neill. Augustine M'Donnell. Fran. Reilly. John O'Cahan. Eneas M'Donnell, Turlogh O'Neill. John M'Manus. John M'Donald. MM 2 532 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. COLONEL ALEXANDER McDONNEL, EARL OF ANTRIM. About the middle of the fifteenth century, the McDonnels or McConnells, Lords of the Western Isles of Scotland, established a branch of their family in Antrim, by the marriage of John McConnell with Sarah, daughter of Phelim O'Neill of Clandeboy. He thereupon principally resided in Ireland, and the alliance seems to have given rise to a claim set up by the McConnells to Clandeboy. John Mc Connell, junior, his heir, was knighted by King James the Fourth of Scotland ; but afterwards, about 1494, re- belled against him, for which he and three of his sons were taken and executed at Edinburgh. The two eldest, Alexander and Angus, on the deaths of their kindred, fled to Ireland, where Mac Cahane gave his daughter Catherine in marriage to Alexander. James, the heir of that marriage, passed over to Scotland, leaving his brother ' Sorleboy ' to hold possession of the Glyns in Antrim. He, however, having been after- wards, about 1565, hardly pressed by the O'Neill, soli- cited and obtained his brother's assistance. O'Neill at once gave them battle with signal success, James was killed, and Sorleboy taken prisoner; they had a brother, Angus the younger, also killed on this occasion. Sor- leboy afterwards married Mary, daughter of Con ( Boccagh) O'Neill, by whom he had issue James, who was knighted by James the Sixth on visiting Edm- earl of Antrim's infantry. 533 burgh* Sorleboy remained in Ireland, having been established on his estates by Queen Elizabeth, but his brothers returned to Scotland ; and one of their de- scendants, Coll Kittach, the son of Archibald, was father to AlisterMac Coll, who, as hereafter mentioned, was sent by the first Marquis of Antrim to join Montrose at Tippermuir. Coll Kittach himself be- came the prisoner of the Marquis of Argyle, and was executed at Dunstaffnage, near Oban. An old family Manuscript of the Mac Quillanes, purporting to give a catalogue of the Orgillian Princes, descended from Colla Uais, the grandson of King Carbry, mentions Mugdorne as the 38th on this suc- cession, in whose time it says, " in 1580, Coll Mac Don- nell came to Ireland, being the fifth lineal descendant from Donald, King or Lord of the Hebrides and of Cantyre. His clandestine marriage with a daughter of Mac Quillan, Lord of Eathmor-Mac-Quillan, now Dunluce, was the cause of a war between these two families ; which was not terminated till 1610, when James the First of England unjustly deprived Mac Quillan of his lands, and divided them amongst his patentees, which lands are now some of the best improved in Ireland. To Mc Donnell, the son-in-law or brother-in-law of Mac Quillan, he gave the four great Baronies of Dunluce, Carie, Ballycastle, and Glenarm, with the island of Eaghery ; to Sir John Chichester he gave the Barony of Belfast and town of Carrickfergus ; to the Seymours and Con ways part of * Gregory MSS. 534 king james's irish army list. Massareene ; to the Skeffingtons another portion of Massareene ; and several other persons he ennobled at that time or soon after, some of whom were not the most loyal subjects to his son Charles the First." Previous to this period, Hugh O'Donnell, chief of his nation, married a daughter of James McDonnel, Lord of the Isles, by whom he had the celebrated hero, Ked ' Hugh O'Donnel,' in whose ensuing wars with the Queen, the McDonnels afforded him great assistance. James Mac Sorleboy, before alluded to, was one of those who supported O'Neill at the battle of the Black- water. The Four Masters contain many annals of this family, that cannot be brought forward here. In 1613, King James directed his mandatory let- ter for an Act of Parliament to secure Sir Randal Mac Sorley McDonnell in all his lands, &c. in Ulster, to hold to him and his heirs male by his wife Elly ny Neale, remainder to the heirs male of his body and to those of Alexander McDonnel, his cousin, and of Con McDonnel his late cousin successively, remainder to the right heirs of Sir Randal for ever. In 1618, the same Monarch created this Sir Randal, who was a de- scendant of the Lords of the Isles and grand-father of the nobleman at present under consideration, Viscount Dunluce in the Peerage of Ireland, and in two years after advanced him to the Earldom of Antrim. On the Attainders of 1642 appear of this name six in the County of Wicklow, three in Cork, two in Dublin, and one in Kildare. Randal, then Earl, and his bro- ther, this Alexander, were also affected by attainder, EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. o3o but were by a clause in the Act of Settlement restored to their estates (excepting tithes). In 1644, the gallant Montrose, desirous to raise forces in Ireland to uphold the Royal cause in Scot- land, commissioned Earl Randal, as an Irishman by birth and a Scot by descent, to effectuate the import- ant object ; and, for facilitating these levies, he directed the Marquess of Ormonde, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to procure a cessation of arms there between the Catholics and the Protestants, both parties being then considered alike favourable to the enlistment. Accordingly, when Montrose himself entered Scotland with but two companies, he was joined by 1,200 Irish recruits, commanded by Alexander McDonnell, whom Earl Randal (then advanced to a Marquisate) sent over to the cause. This Alexander or Alister Mac Coll, son of Coll Kittach as before mentioned, had Coll his eldest son, from whom was lineally descended the late Doctor McDonnell, lpng the national and literary attraction of Belfast. Another son of Alister was Archibald, the Lieutenant in this Regiment, who died in 1720, aged 73, and was buried in the secluded churchyard of Layde on the coast of Antrim ; as was his son Coll, who died in 1737, and Coil's son Alexander, who died in 1793. To return to Earl Randal : he died in 1682, when the Marquisate became extinct ; but the other honors continued to his son, the above Colonel, who also had taken an active part in the Civil war of 1641, and was attainted therefor, but restored by the Act of Settlement. In 1646, being then Earl of Antrim in ihs father's life-time, he sat as one of the Temporal 536 king james's irish army list. Peers at the Supreme Council in Kilkenny ; while James McDonnel of Muff (who was also buried atLarne) and Allen McDonnell of Muntaghwereof theCommons. The Declaration of Royal Thanks in the Act of 1662, " for services beyond the seas," includes Lieutenant Charles and Ensign Alexander Mc Donnell. In 1686, this Earl was appointed of King James's Privy Council, in which year another Alexander Mc Donnell was Sheriff of Leitrim. In 1688, a Colonel Mc Donnell garrisoned Boyle, and " prevented the transit of Protestants with goods and provisions towards the garrison of Sligo ; which, on being requested to per- mit, he affected so to do, but afterwards declined to perform, though we looked upon him as one of the fairest reputation among the Irish in these parts. On the approach, however, of our party, he drew all his Horse, Foot, and Dragoons within the walls of Lord Kingston's house and garden."* Besides the Colonel^ there were six other Mc Don- nells holding commissions in this Regiment. In Lord Clare's Dragoons Thomas 'Donell' was a Cornet ; Charles Mc Donnell was a Lieutenant in the King's own Infantry ; and in the Earl of Westmeath's, Bryan was a Lieutenant, as was Francis in Colonel John Grace's. The Parliament of Dublin in 1689 was attended by this Earl amongst the Peers ; while, amongst the Commons, a Randal Mc Donnell sat as one of the Representatives of the County of Antrim, as did Alexander Mc Donnell for the Borough of * Mackenzie's Derry, p. 16. EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 537 Jamestown, County of Leitrim. A short time pre- vious to this assembly, Tyrconnel "commanded this Earl to quarter at Derry with his Regiment, consis- ting of a numerous swarm of Irish and Highlanders,"* but the gates were closed against them. The town then, however, agreed, on capitulation, to admit two companies, being Protestants ; and Lieutenant-Colonel Lundy was appointed by Lord Mountjoy, Governor. During the subsequent siege, a Captain Mc Donnell was taken prisoner. f A letter of the Duke of Berwick, dated 5th July, 1689, mentioning his having had a skirmish with the enemy near Trellick, adds that Captain Bellew and Major Mc Donnell commanded his vanguard on the occasion. About this time an Alexander Mc Donnell was appointed by Lord Tyr- connel Governor of Galway ; and he, in the progress of the campaign, became a Brigadier-General. Colonel O'Kelly, in his Excidium Macarice, says he was a "soldier of fortune, raised by merit from the ranks and Croker, in his notes on that little work, adds that he was otherwise called 4 Mc Gregor,' and was of Drumsna, County of Leitrim. He married in 1685 the Lady Jane Nugent, a sister of Thomas Nugent, afterwards created Lord Riverston. In December, 1690, he was removed from the Government of Gal- way.J It is remarkable that in the Outlawries of 1691 he is styled Alexander Mc Donnell, alias Gregor, alias Boyd, of Clonin, County of Westmeath. At the * Walker's Derry, p. 11. f Idem, p. 61. t Clarke's James II. v. 2. p. 423. 538 king james's irish army list. same time were attainted six Mc Donnels of Antrim, four of Mayo, two of Leitrim, and one of Roscommon and Clare respectively. This Earl of Antrim was outlawed on three Inquisitions taken in Dublin, Derry, and Antrim ; but, being included in the sa- vings of the Articles of Limerick, he was restored to his estates, and died in 1699. At the petty Court of St. Germains, Captain 'Mc Donald' was one of the grooms of the bedchamber ;* while, from the Des- patches of Sir Paul Bycaut, it appears that in 1693 a large body of Irish exiles was sent from France, under the command of a Colonel Mc Donnel, for the service of the Emperor in Hungary. f At Chichester House, in 1700, sundry claims were preferred as charges on Mc Donnell estates, some of which were allowed. In 1710, Mc Donnell's Irish Brigade did signal service in Spain,! and, in the pre- sent century, the name has been chronicled there on great achievements. In 1746, Colonel John Mc Donell of Fitz-James's Brigade was a state prisoner at Inverness. In 1814, a Colonel Alexander Mc Don- nel distinguished himself at the siege of Dantzic. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MARK TALBOT. See of him, ante, p. 49. * Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 411. | See Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 69. I O'Conor's Military Memoirs, v. 1, p. 353. EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 539 MAJOR JAMES WOGAN. This name is also projected on the records of Ireland from the earliest years after the Invasion. In 1295, Sir John Wogan was Lord Justice there; again in 1298, 1302, 1307, and 1309. In 1446, Richard Wogan, clerk, was the Irish Lord Chancellor. In 1636, died Nicholas Wogan of Blackhall, County of Kildare, fourth son of David Wogan of New-Hall in said County. He had married Margaret, daughter of William Hollywood of Harbertstown in the County of Meath, by whom he had four sons ; 1. William, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Wogan of Grangerosnolvan, County of Kildare ; 2. Charles ; 3. Edward ; and 4. Thomas, all yet unmarried, says the Funeral Entry of Nicholas in the Heralds' Office ; said Nicholas, it adds, died in July, 1636, and was buried at Kilmaoge in said County. The above Wil- liam and Thomas were attainted in 1642, as were Oliver Wogan of Downings and Nicholas Wogan of Rathcoffy. The latter was one of the Supreme Coun- cil of Kilkenny in 1646. Besides this officer, who was killed at the Siege of Deny, a John Wogan ap- pears on this List as Captain in Fitz-James's Foot. He was of Rathcoffy, Sheriff of the County of Kildare in 1687, and one of its Representatives in the Parlia- ment of Dublin. He was attainted in 1691, with Patrick Wogan of Maynham in the same County ; and, according to other Muster Rolls, a John Wogan was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Sir Maurice 540 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Eustace's Infantry, subsequent to the forming of this List. The chivalry and devotion of Irishmen to the de- throned Stuart, as evinced by the gallant daring of Colonel Charles Wogan in the time of George the First, are alluded to hereafter ; meanwhile it may here be remarked that a manuscript compilation of this Colonel Charles, of a very miscellaneous character, is in the possession of Mr. Aylmer of Painstown. In it are an address in poetry from Lord Wharton to himself, as to ' My friend Sir Charles Wogan, Baronet,' and a Comment from Dean Swift to him on particulars of the exile's life which had been furnished to the Dean. " We guessed you," writes Swift, " to have been born in this country from some passages, but not from the style, which we wondered to find so correct in an exile, a soldier, and a native of Ireland. Although I have no great regard for your trade, from the judgment I make of those who profess it in these kingdoms, yet I cannot but esteem those gentle- men of Ireland who, with all the disadvantages of being exiles and strangers, have been able to distin- guish themselves by their valour and conduct in so many parts of Europe, I think above all other nations. Which ought to make the English ashamed at the re- proaches they cast on the ignorance, the dulness, and the want of courage of the Irish natives; these defects, wherever they happen, arising only from the poverty and slavery they suffer from their inhuman neighbours, and the base corrupt spirits of too many earl of Antrim's infantry. 541 of the chief gentry. By such events as these the very Grecians are grown slavish, ignorant, and supersti- tious. I do assert, from several experiments I have made in travelling over both kingdoms, I have found the poor cottagers here, who could speak our language, to have a much better taste for good sense, humour, and raillery, than ever I observed among people of the like sort in England." CAPTAIN LORD ENNISKILLEN, ( CONNOR MAC GUIRE). The Irish county now known as Fermanagh, of which Enniskillen is the chief town, was anciently the prin- cipality of the Sept of Mac Guire, who held it for centuries after the Invasion, independent of English government ; and were, according to the Irish form, solemnly inaugurated on the summit of Cuilcaigh (the Quilka of Dean Swift), and sometimes near Lis- naskea. In the time of James the First, however, Ulster, including their territory, fell into the power of the Crown by the Attainders of O'Neill, O'Donnel, Mac Guire, &c, and was subjected to the allocations and disposition of the Plantation. Nevertheless, Con- nor Roe Mac Guire, the acknowledged Captain of his name, obtained from King James a re-grant of 12,000 acres of the confiscations of his ancestors, and was created Baron of Enniskillen, a title which passed in his descendants to the nobleman here introduced. 542 king james's irish army list. Of the earlier notices of this Sept it may be men- tioned that when, in 1314, King Edward was about to prosecute the war in Scotland, he directed an especial letter missive to ' Laveragh Mac Wyr, duci Hibernorum,' seeking his aid on the expedition. In 1379, when Edmund Mortimer, who had married the grand-daughter of Edward the Third, came over to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant, various native chiefs waited upon him, and amongst these the Mac Guire. In 1428, " Hugh, the hospitable son of Philip Mac Guire, died at Kinsale, on his landing from Spain, where he had been performing the pilgrimage of St. James of Compostella. Thomas Oge Mac Guire, who had accompanied him, conveyed his body to Cork, where it was buried." The death of this Thomas Oge is thus commemorated by the Masters : — " In 1480 died Thomas Oge, son of Thomas More, son of Philip, son of Hugh Poe Mac Guire, the most distinguished of his time for alms-doing, piety, and hospitality ; a man who defended his territory against invading foes, a founder of monasteries and churches, a donor of chalices, a man who was at Pome, and twice visited the City of St. James (of Compostella). He was in- terred in the monastery of Cavan, having selected that as his burial place." The influence of the Mac Guire in a later century is thus spoken of by Sir John Davis, in a report to the King's Council : — " Concerning Fermanagh, other- wise Mac Guire's country, that territory was never reduced to the Crown from the conquest of Ireland, either by surrender, attainder, or other resumption earl of Antrim's infantry. 543 whatever, until Sir John Perrot's government ; who caused Lord Conogher, father of Hugh Mac Guire, who was a principal actor in the late rebellion, and slain in Minister, to surrender all the County of Fermanagh in general words unto the late Queen, and to take new patents back again of all the County in like general words to him and his heirs, whereupon was reserved a rent, &c." On the Plantation of Ulster, which was much influenced by this representa- tion of the then Attorney-G-eneral, Bryan Mac Guire had a grant of various lands in the old district, with licence for fairs and markets, to hold same for ever, as of the Castle of Dublin in common soccage, subject to the conditions of the Plantation. The Act for the attainders of the Ulster Lords (1612) makes express mention of Sir Hugh Mac Guire, as having then lately fallen in the field in rebellion. The Sept, it may be concluded, suffered yet more severely in the confiscations of 1642, by reason of the part they had taken with Lord Mac Guire ; while, beyond their ancient district, were attainted Murrough and Thomas Mac Guire of Angestown, County of Meath, and Donogh Mac Guire of Castlemartin, County of Kildare. Crom- well's Act of 1652 excepted from pardon for life and estate ' Connor Mac Guire, Baron of Enniskillen ;' while, on the other hand, the declaration of Eoyal gratitude, for services beyond the seas, recognises those of Ensign Connor Mac Guire, and of Patrick Mac Guire of Ballykilcunny, ' County of Enniskillen.' In 1685-6, the Earl of Sunderland wrote by the 544 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. King's order from Whitehall to the Earl of Clarendon, then the Irish Viceroy, recommending to his Excel- lency Dr. Dominick Magnire, then Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, and the other prelates of that communion in Ireland, " for patronage and protection upon all occasions.; " and desiring his Excellency to recommend to the Prelates of the established church, and to the Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace there, not to molest the Roman Catholic clergy, in the exer- cise of their ecclesiastical functions amongst those of their own communion. The King further directed the payment of certain sums out of the Irish Exche- quer to the said Catholic Primate to be partly for himself, and other parts in trust annuities for certain other proscribed Roman Catholic Bishops'* The total sum so allocated for this hierarchy was £2,190 per annum, to be paid to the Primate, ' without any account impressed or other charges to be set upon him.' Lord Enniskillen, though here ranked as but a Cap- tain, was Lord Lieutenant of the County of Fermanagh, afterwards sat as a Peer in the Parliament of 1689, and ultimately commanded in this campaign a Regi- ment which he had himself raised. He fought at Aughrim, where fell Colonel Art Mac Guire, 'one of the chief noblemen of Ulster, and a stout warrior.' Another Infantry Regiment, alluded to hereafter, was led by Colonel Cuconnaght Mac Guire, the Deputy Lieutenant of Fermanagh ; while in the Earl of Clan- carty's Infantry Alexander Mac Guire was a Captain. * O'Callaghan's Macariae Excidium, p. 308. earl of Antrim's infantry. 545 The Attainders of 1691 present the names of Lord Enniskillen, Cuconnaght of Lisnaskea, County of Fermanagh (of whom hereafter) ; Alexander, also of Lisnaskea; Thomas of Mnllintoosse, County of Antrim; James of Ballinecurvin, County of Cork ; and Domi- nick Mac Gwire, L commonly called Primate of Ire- land.' After the Capitulation of Limerick, Lord Enniskillen accompanied the Irish army to France, hut, having no Eegiment assigned to him there, he retired to St. Germains, where he died in October, 1708, aged 67. He was succeeded by his brother Philip, the sixth Lord Enniskillen, as he was styled ; who by his wife, the daughter of Sir Phelim O'Neill of Kinard, and sister to Brigadier Gordon O'Neill, had a son Theophilus, seventh titular Lord Ennis- killen ; the son of which latter nobleman, by his Lady Margaret O'Donnell of the Tyrconnel line, was named Alexander, and accounted eighth Lord Enniskillen. He was an officer of the Irish Brigades, and, about the middle of the last century, a Captain in Bulkeley's Regiment.* CAPTAIN MANUS O'DONNELL. The researches of O'Callaghan, in his recent History of the Irish Brigade, p. 312, &c. are so full and satis factory, as to leave little necessity for further illustra- ting the name of O'Donnell here. Only let it be added that, in 1494, Hugh Oge O'Donnell, 'Prince of * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 278, where sec of other Mac Guires distinguished in foreign service. NN 546 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Tyrconnel,' was received with great honour by James the Fourth of Scotland at Glasgow ;* and Pinkerton, in his ' Scotland] (vol. 11, p. 59) mentions a corre- spondence between these individuals as extant. This O'Donnel went in 1505 on a pilgrimage to Rome, going and returning through London, where he was on both occasions entertained with great honour by King Henry the Seventh ; and in 1511 he received knighthood at the Justs which Henry the Eighth held at Westminster, in honour of the birth of a Prince, f Yet this monarch is shown to have taken much umbrage at the friendly intercourse so existing between the O'Donnells and the Scottish Kings. % In 1529, Roderic O'Donnel was Bishop of Deny. In three years after, O'Donnel did covenant with Sir William Skeffington that, if the King wished to reform Ireland, of which it would seem the Irish chief enter- tained some doubt, he and his people would gladly be governed by the laws of England.§ In 1567, Hugh O'Donnel was knighted by Sir Henry Sydney ; in the following year he became chief of his Sept, and was father of Hugh Roe O'Donnel, who was treache- rously carried off from Donegal in the time of Sir John Perrot's government, and, to the discredit and injury of the English interest, was confined in the Castle of Dublin, whence he twice made his escape. On the last occasion, he kindled a war in his native * Comp s . Thes. Scotiae. f Ellis's Letters, 2nd series, vol. 1, p. 224. § Davis's Hist. Rel. p. 52. \ Idem. earl of Antrim's infantry. 547 territory, which expelled the English from the Castle of Donegal, and regained his whole country from them, with such acts of implacable hostility as the re- collection of his own suffering stimulated. He was in truth an extraordinary man, of talents, courage, liter- ary acquirements, and personal attractions that pro- jected him to the admiration of his age. Betham, in the first part of his Antiquarian Researches, furnishes very fully, from an Irish manuscript, his history and achievements. In 1601, with the flower and strength of Ulster, he flew to co-operate with the Spaniards in the siege of Kinsale, but was obliged to give up the cause by the precipitancy of the Spanish commander. He thereupon retired with him to Spain, where, says Leland,* a he was every where received by that proud nation with all that pomp and magnificence which is paid to blood Royal only." He died in 1602, and was buried with great magnificence at Valladolid. The O'Donnel, who thereupon assumed the chiefry, joined with O'Neill in the desperate resist- ance to English rule, that was only terminated by the flight of both these chiefs to the continent, when the extinction of their sway left the most valuable part of Ulster, upwards of 800,000 English acres, at the disposal of the Crown, which exercised its power in the memorable Plantation of that Province. King James, early in his reign, granted to lioderic O'Donnell, ' brother to the arch-traitor Hugh O'Don- nell, lately deceased in Spain,' the title and dignity * Hist. Ireland, vol. 1, Introd. p. 9. NN 2 548 king james's irish army list, of Earl of Tyrconnei, with remainder to his heirs male ; and, in defect thereof to his brother Galfred or Caffry O'Donnell and his heirs male, with the title of Baron of Donegal to his heir apparent ; making, at the same time, a more substantial grant to him, on like entails of the territories or countries in the pre- cinct of Tyrconnei, in as large and ample manner as his brother Hugh Euath O'Donnell, attainted, and dead in Spain, or his father Hugh Mc Manus O'Donnell, or his grandfather Manus Mc Donnell, or any other of his ancestors had enjoyed or possessed the same ; reserving to the Crown all churches, abbeys, tithes, and certain castles ; also excepting all manors, lands, and estates which the Earl or any of his ancestors at any time possessed within O'Doghertie's country, and reserving also to the Crown the power of erecting forts on the premises so granted.* The Act of 1612, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and his 1 accomplices,' included in its desolating penalties the above Caffry O'Donel, brother to the then late Earl of Tyrconnel, of Caffersconse, County of Donegal ; Caffry Oge O'Donel of Starfollis, and Donell Oge O'Donel, late of Donegal in said County. The Kil- kenny Assembly of the Confederate Catholics in 1646 was attended by Hugh O'Donell of Eamelton. Of this Sept was Daniel O'Donnell, who, in December, 1688, was appointed Captain of a Company in the Royal service, and in 1689 was authorised to rank and act as a Colonel. After the capitulation of * Rot. Pat. 1, Jac. 1, in Cane. Hib. EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 549 Limerick, he passed over to France, where he suc- ceeded Colonel Nicholas Fitz-Gerald in the command of F it z- James's Regiment. He also served on the coast of Normandy with the Irish and French forces, then designed for the invasion of England ; after- wards in Germany and Piedmont ; and ultimately he retired to St. Germains-en-Laye, where he died in 1735, in the seventieth year of his age.* The achievements of Brigadier Baldearg Euadh O'Donnell in this campaign are of peculiar interest. The Irish, placing faith in some ancient prophecy, wilfully believed that he would be raised to deliver Ireland from the English yoke. u He was," (writes Colonel O'Kelly in the Excidium Macarice, pp. 125-6, &c. ) " heir presumptive to the second Prince of Uls- ter, that O'Donnell who, at the close of Queen Eliza- beth's reign, retired into Spain, where he died without issue. His brother also died there, but leaving one son, who was carried off by sickness in the flower of his age ; whereupon Baldearg, being next of kin, went into Spain, where he was received with honour by the King, and established in the dignity and employment theretofore filled by his kinsman. After serving several years in the Spanish wars against France, when he heard of the Prince of Orange's invasion of England, and James's return to Ireland, he solicited from the Spanish court permission to quit service there, in order to serve his own King and country ; but, being unable to obtain his dis- * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p 221- 550 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. charge, by reason that the Irish and their King were then strictly leagued with Louis the Fourteenth, he left Spain without any license, and arrived at Kinsale much about the time that James the Second came thither after the engagement on the Boyne. [King James did not, however, come so far south.] The King recommending him to Tyrconnel, he gave him the command of the new levies raised by the inhabi- tants of Ulster, who were then retired into Con- naught ; but afforded him neither arms nor mainte- nance ; and, observing soon after that O'Donnel grew popular among the old Irish, and especially with the natives of Ulster, who superstitiously believed him to be the prophesied deliverer of Ireland, he took from him some of the new legions, whom he incorporated in the standing army, leaving him and the rest with- out any manner of subsistence, but what they were forced to extort from the country. He also encou- raged the nobles of Ulster, and even the officers of his own Brigade to oppose him, in order to suppress his aspiring mind, and render him contemptible to the people : but his chiefest aim was to breed jealou- sies between him and Brigadier Gordon O'Neill, who was descended from the first Prince of Ulster ; for he apprehended (and perhaps he had reason) that if the forces of Ulster, all composed of old Irish, were united together, they might easily obstruct his design to reduce Ireland under the jurisdiction of William the Third, in order to preserve there the English interest, which is held so sacred by those of England, and earl of Antrim's infantry. 551 even by some natives of Ireland deriving their ex- traction thence (whereof Tyrconnel was himself one). O'Donnel was at that time posted at Jamestown, to defend the Shannon on that side ; and, when De Ginkle forced over a passage at Athlone, he had orders sent to him in all haste to march straight to Galway ; but, to satisfy Tyrconnel and those of his party, who loudly declared that to entrust a person, of his credit among the ancient Irish, with a place of that consequence, was in effect to abrogate the Royal authority in Ireland ; the first orders were counter- manded, and he was bid to dispose of his men into several posts for the defence of the western parts of Connaught." After the fatal clay of Aughrim, Baldearg was ordered to gather in his scattered force with the object of strengthening Galway. The enemy, how- ever, had taken measures to prevent his throwing succour into that town. Its surrender decided Bal- dearg's course, and in August, 1691, he arranged with De Ginkle's agent to go over to the cause of King William, "provided he might have the men he brought over with him admitted to pay, in order to serve his Majesty in Flanders or elsewhere, and that himself should be created Earl of Tyrconnel, a title to which he claimed an ancestral right ; he likewise required that £2,000 should be given to him.'* "The General," adds Story, "thought it politic to consent to some of O'Donnel's propositions, * Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 182. 552 kixg james's irisii army list. and from the following Christmas he and Colonel Henry Lnttrel received each a yearly pension of £500. Of his doings in September, 1691, in the country between Sligo and Boyle, see the Annals of Boyle, vol. 1. Ultimately, " with about 1200 of his own men, he joined 800 of the Williamite Ulster forces, and then joined Lieutenant-General Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard, with 5,000 more TTilliamite militia and a train of artillery from Leinster, that were commissioned to reduce Sir Teague O'Began in Sligo."* The Memoir of James the Second speaks very disparagingly of Baldearg, as that " he had set up for a sort of independent commander ; and, having got together no less than eight Regiments newly raised, with a crowd of loose men over and above, he lived in a manner at discretion, so that those troops were in effect but a rabble, that destroyed the country, ruined the inhabitants, and prevented the regular forces from drawing that subsistence, they might otherwise have had from the people, f At the battle of Aughrim, a Major O'Donnell was killed, possibly the above Manns, here a Captain. The Attainders of 1691 present the names of three O'Donnells in Armagh, and of seven in Donegal, including this Captain Manus, described as of Boylagh, County of Donegal. O'Conor in his Mili- tary Memoirs, mentions another O'Donnel, Conal, who he says raised a Regiment of Foot for King * O'Callaglian's Excidium Macariae, p. 14, &c. f Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 434. EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 553 James, which was afterwards brigaded, and was about 1709 incorporated in Lee's and O'Brien's Brigades; in which year Conal distinguished himself at Mons, as he did in 1712 at Cambray. Another Conal O'Don- nell, the grand-nephew of the illustrious Hugh 4 Buadh,' was a Field-Marshal and Generalissimo in the Austrian Army, and Governor of Transylvania in the reign of Maria Theresa. He died in 1771.* In 1805, Charles Count O'Donel, a Major-General in the Austrian service, was killed at Neresheim.f Colonel d'Abisbal, who distinguished himself in Spain during the late Peninsular war, w r as of this family .$ CAPTAIN ARTHUR MAGILL. This seems to have been one of the families intro- duced into Ulster by the Plantation. In 1642, was attainted John Magill, described in his outlawry as of Naptown, County of Dublin; he was, however, a con- siderable landed proprietor in Down, and on the hold- ing of the Commission respecting the confiscations of that period, he was adjudged an 'innocent Protestant.' In 1660, he was Sheriff of that County, and his de- scendants continued inheritors of Gill-Hall therein until the time of Queen Anne; and the name is still on the Roll of Magistrates in three or four Ulster Counties. It appears from the Proceedings in the Court at Chichester House in 1700, that the above * Bctham's Ant. Res p. 191. t Idem. { Idem, p. 192, 554 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Captain was a Leaseholder of the lands of Erginagh, County of Antrim ; the fee of which, on his attainder, was claimed by Hugh Colvill. A Bryan Magill also then forfeited lands in the same County. ENSIGN CON O'ROURKE. The earliest Irish Annalists record the high antiquity of this Sept, giving them the title of Kings of West Brefny, a territory which, in modern parlance, com- prised the whole County of Leitrim, with the Barony of Tullaghagh, County of Cavan, and a portion of that of Carbury, County of Sligo ; the same authority sets down some of the race as Kings of Connaught on the first use of the surname. Tiernan O'Rourke was King of Brefny and Conmacne at the time of the English invasion, an event which is popularly attribu- ted to the seduction of his wife by Dermot Mac Mur- rough. In 1376, say the Four Masters, " died Teigue O'Rourke, Lord of Brefny, when Tiernan his son assumed the Lordship of Brefny. On the occasion of Sir John Perrot's Conciliation Parliament, "thither went the chiefs of Gairbhthrian (i. e. the rough districts) of Connaught, namely O'Rourke, Captain of West Brefny, i. e. Bryan the son of Bryan, son of Owen O'Rourke ; &c."* This unfortunate chief, having hospitably received the crew of some of the Armada vessels, which were cast on his shores, incur- * Annals of the Four Masters. EARL OF ANTRIM'S INFANTRY. 555 red the jealousy of Queen Elizabeth's government, and was by the Lord President driven into Scotland, where he was seized by the government there, de- livered to Elizabeth, and afterwards executed in Lon- don as a traitor.* In 1604, King James granted to Thadeus or Teigue O'Eourke, " only legitimate son of Sir Bryan O'Eourke," various Lordships and Manors in " O'Kourke's territory, County of Leitrim," which had previously belonged to Sir Bryan O'Eourke, and which had been by him according to the policy of the day sur- rendered to Sir John Perrot, with the object of obtain- ing a re-grant thereof in tail male. King James's grant is stated to comprise 166 quarters of land, with castles, manors, advowsons, &c, the patentee to hold same thenceforth at knight's service when required, and presenting to the Lord Deputy yearly at Easter, " a fair chief horse, and a piece of gold with the words i servie?ido Guberno engraved thereon."f At the supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646, Hugh O'Eourke of Cooncrena was one of the Commons. The Act of Explanation (1665) saved the rights of this Ensign Con O'Eourke to his estates in the County of Leitrim. Besides him, Michael Eourke was an Ensign in Colonel Henry Dillon's Eegiment of Infantry. The Attainders of 1696 comprise the names of Brian Fitz-Francis O'Eourke of Galovrea, Brian Oge O'Eourke of Carnegreve, Terence Mac * Leland's Ireland, vol. 2, p. 322. t Pat. Roll in Chancery, temp. Jas. 1. 556 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Brian O'Rourke of Lallagh, Rourke Fitz-Con O'Rourke, and Thady and John O'Rourke of Dungebb, all in the County of Leitrim. Several of the O'Rourkes have been distinguished in the service of foreign Potentates of Europe; as Count Owen O'Rourke of the Austrian army in the time of Maria Theresa ; Count John O'Rourke,* who served as a Commander in the armies of Russia, Poland and France, between the years 1760 and 1780 ; and another Count Owen, who was married to a niece of Field-Marshal de Lacy. * See of him, Walkers Hibernian Mag. for 1782, p. 147. EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 557 REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. RICHARD, EARL OF TYRONE. Captains. The Colonel. Thomas Nugent. Lieut.-Col. Richard Nagle, Major. James Magrath. Edward Butler. Joseph Comerford. Valentine Walsh. James Power. Francis Cruice. Lord Castleconnel. John Byrne. Lord Cahir. Piers Walsh. Dominick Forriter. Andrew Rice. Hugh M'Namara. Edmund Fitzgerald, Nicholas Stafford. Joseph ' Neagle.' Lieutenants. 5 John Power. I Richard Fitzgerald. John Power. James Bryan. Lewis Bryan. Thomas Nugent. Ensigns. David Power. Garrett Russell. Denis Bryan. Peter Ay 1 ward. { Thomas Russell. I Thady Connor. { Theobald Throgmorton ) T , {John Winstonf J John Power. Jenico Preston. Andrew Rice. John Madden. Nicholas Murphy. Edmund Fitzgerald, John Ronan. Michael Murphy. Thomas Power. Robert Walsh. ( Thomas Bedford, l John Walsh. Thomas Power. Piers Dobbins. William Carroll. Francis Garvan. Robert Barry. COLONEL THE EARL OF TYRONE. An illustration of this native Royal family would de- mand more space, than in the prescribed limits of this work can be afforded. Here it must suffice to remark 558 king james's irish army list. that the territory of Tyrone gave to them a title of tenure, recognized by even the English invaders from the earliest period. When Edward the First and Edward the Second invited the aid of the Magnates of Ireland against Scotland, a Letter Missive was directed to Donald O'Neill, as 4 Dux Hibernicorum de Tyrowyn.' In the last year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Con O'Neill, the Ulster chief, having an affray with some of the Queen's soldiers in Belfast, an Inquest was ordered to be held, in which Con, with some of his adherents, was found guilty of waging war against the Queen ; but, before any grant could be made of his thereby confiscated lands, her Majesty died ; and, on the accession of James of Scot- land, Montgomery, Laird of Braidstane, applied to the King for a grant of half of Con's lands, recommending that the other half should be given with a free pardon to Con himself ; in which appropriation Mr. James Hamilton was subsequently made a participator. Con was the more induced to accede to this arrange- ment, and even with thanks, as it was insinuated that, from the date of the Act attainting the O'Neills and confiscating their territories (11th of Elizabeth), he (Con) was but a usurper on the rights of the Crown. Thus in 1606 commenced the celebrated Plantation of the O'Neill's Province of Ulster, and such is the suggestion of its origin as given in the ' Montgomery Manuscripts,' which are, as might be expected, most eloquent on the results. The Act of 1612, for the Attainder of the Earl of EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 559 Tyrone, included with him Hugh his eldest and Henry his second sons, and Art Oge Mac Cormock O'Neill, late of Clogher, County of Tyrone. In a Report made about this time to the Council, as ' of the Irish then in the King of Spain's service or dominions,' Don John O'Neill Earl of Tyrone, Colonel of the Irish in Flanders, is the first name recorded ; and is followed by Don Hugh O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnel, page to the Infanta in Flanders ; Don Dermot O'Sullivan, Earl of Beerhaven ; Don Eugene O'Neill, serving as Major ; Don Arthur O'Neill, Captain Cormock O'Neill, Don Thady O'Sullivan, Captain Cormock O'Donnell, Samuel Mac Donnell, Owen O'Hanlon, Eobert Davis, Owen Carthy, Don Redmond Bourke, Baron of Leitrim ; Don Balthazar Bourke, page of the chamber ; William Bourke ; Maurish, Thomas and Edward Fitz-Gerald, Gerald Mac Maurish, and many others.* The Attainders of 1642 comprise but four minor names of this great family. Of the Con- federate Catholics at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny were Henry O'Neill of Kilbeg, Phelim O'Neill of Mor- ley, and Turlough of Ardgonnel. The latter was bro- ther to the celebrated Sir Phelim O'Neill, and was in Cromwell's Act of 1652, together with Hugh Buy O'Neill and Shane Mac Brian O'Neill, excepted from pardon for life and estate. In 1687, Sir Bryan O'Neill, Baronet, was appointed a Justice of the King's Bench of Ireland ; while, on the Establishment at the close of this year, Richard, Earl of Tyrone, was placed for a pension of £300 per ann. * MSS. in Triii. Coll. Dub. (E. 3, 8.) 560 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Besides the above Colonel, the name appears upon this Army List commanding or commissioned in seven other Regiments. In the Parliament of Dublin (1689) sat Constantine O'Neill, one of the Represent- atives for the Borough of Armagh ; Colonel Cormuck O'Neill for the County of Antrim ; Tool O'Neill, of Dromnavilly, County of Down, for the borough of Killileagh ; Colonel Gordon O'Neill for the County of Tyrone ; Colonel Arthur of Bally gawley, for the borough of Dungannon, and Daniel for that of Lisburn. This latter individual afterwards accompa- nied King James to France. He was subsequently pardoned by King William, and invited by that Monarch to return and resume the possession of his Irish estates ; in respect to which Koyal indulgence, he proceeded as far as Calais on his homeward route, but there, under severe visitations of sickness from wounds he had received at the Battle of the Boyne, he died. King William, when informed of his death, bestowed £20,000 on his daughter and only child, as a provision on her marriage with Hugh O'Reilly of Ballinlough. In 1690, September 28th, the above Earl of Tyrone was one of the Irish parties, who nego- tiated the terms for surrendering Cork to Colonel Churchhill,* afterwards Duke of Marlborough. In July, 1691, one Captain Bryan O'Neill, with most of his Company, deserted to King William, and took the oath of fidelity to him ; "f in reference to which notice it may be remarked, that there are two Bryans * Story's Irapar. Hist., pt. 1, p. 142. f Idem, pt. 2, p. 173. EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 561 Captains in this Army List, in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, and two Lieutenants in the Earl of Antrim's. The Inquisitions of 1691 on attainders of O'Neills exceed one hundred, on foot of which various claims were made and some allowed at Chichester House in 1700. The Earl, who commanded this Eegiment, it is to be remarked, did not sit in King James's Parliament, and in 1697 (22nd April) he ob- tained a pardon under the Great Seal, grounded on his allegations with proof, that after the surrender of Waterford he had come over to King William, that he was a Protestant, never outlawed nor indicted, and in point of fact then Governor of the County and City of Waterford. O'Conor, in his Military Memoirs of the Irish, gives sundry notices of the O'Neill Sept and their achievements in the Brigades, and particularly mentions (p. 399) that at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745, 'Monsieur O'Neill,' Lieutenant-Colonel of Clare's Regiment, was killed. CAPTAIN JOSEPH COMERFORD, Ortelius's map locates this family in the Barony of Shelburne, County of Wexford. It extended also into the adjoining Counties of Kilkenny and Waterford; in the Corporate History of Waterford, indeed, its members appear frequently on the Poll of Mayors from 1432 to the Revolution. In the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Garret or Gerald Comerford was one of 00 562 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the Councellors appointed by the Lord Deputy, Sir Charles Blount, to be assistant to the Lord President of Munster in the discharge of his arduous duties ; his actings in which trust are repeatedly noticed in the Pacata Hibernia. He ranked as second Justice of Munster, and was in 1603 advanced to be the third Baron of the Irish Exchequer. Pierce Comerford, described as of Mangin, County of WicMow, is the only individual of the name who appears on the Poll of the 1642 Attainders. At the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics (1646, &c), Dr. Patrick Comerford, the Poman Catholic Bishop of Waterford, sat as one of the Spiritual Peers, while Edward Comer- ford of Callan was of the Commons. On this Army List, besides the above Captain Joseph, there are com- missioned, in Colonel Thomas Butler's Foot, Michael Comerford a Lieutenant, and James and Garret Ensigns ; and in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's, John Com- erford was an Ensign. On the Attainders of 1691 are four, of the County of Kilkenny, with Thomas Comerford of Enniscorthy. In 1709, John Comer- ford was a Colonel in the Spanish Brigade ;* and in 1747, Lieutenant Comerford, of Bulkeley's Pegiment, was wounded at Lauffield. CAPTAINS VALENTINE AND PEIPS WALSH. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of * O Conor's Military Memoirs, p. 351. earl or Tyrone's infantry. 563 Edward the Third. In 1587, the Queen, by letters under the Privy Seal, commanded that Nicholas Walsh, who had been Chief Justice of Minister, and was then Second Justice of the Bench in Dublin, should be sworn of Her Majesty's Privy Council. He was subsequently promoted by King James to be Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. A little genea- logical manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, (F. iii. 27), gives some links of the pedigree of the Walshes of Killencargy, County of Wicklow, and of Kil- gobbin, Carrickmines, and Shanganagh, County of Dublin, for many generations. Amongst the 4 En- glished Irish,' reported in the time of James the First to be sojourning after the siege of Kinsale in the King of Spain's dominions, were "William Walsh, Nicholas 4 Wise,' Captain Thomas Preston, James Gernon, Walter De la Hoyde, (who served the ancient Irish in the last war), George De la Hoyde, Captain Bathe, Thomas Stanyhurst, John Bathe, &c." In 1599, Sir Nicholas 4 Welch' was one of the Councillors appointed by the Lord Deputy to be assistant on the President of Munster, his acts in which duty are detailed in the Pacata Hibernia. In 1605, Sir Oliver Lambert, Knight, Privy Councillor, had a grant of {inter alia) estates of Eichard and Oliver 'Walshe,' in the King's County, both of whom, as the patent alleges, were 4 slain in rebellion against Queen Elizabeth.' There were of Walshes attainted in 1 642, six in the County of Kildare, five in Wicklow, four in Dublin, oo 2 564 king james's irish army list. and one in Meath. At the Kilkenny Assembly in 1646, Thomas Walsh, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, was of the Spiritual Peers, while Michael and William of Park, County of Wicklow, with John of Ballybechaine, and John of Wallford, were of the Commons. An inquisition, taken in 1617, finds that John Walsh, of the old stock at Shanganagh, died in 1671, seised in tail-male of Kilturk, 'Connagh,' Cork, and Little Bray ; that he held same directly under the King by military service, and that Edward Walsh is his son and heir. On the subsequent death of this Edward without issue, these estates passed to his brother, in whose time by a private Act of the Irish Parliament (11th Anne, chap. 4) the Cork or Corkagh parcel was sold for the payment of debts. Besides the above two Captains in this Regiment, Robert Walsh was a Lieutenant and John Walsh an Ensign ; while in Lord Galmoy's Horse, Lewis and Oliver Walsh were Cornets. In Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry, James was an Ensign, and in Colonel John Grace's, Robert Walsh was a Captain and Adam Walsh an Ensign. This Robert, described as 4 of Cloneshy,' was one of the Representatives of the County of Kilkenny in the Parliament of 1689 at Dublin. Both Captains Valentine and Peirs were of the Sept distinguished as 4 Walsh of the Mountains.' The former was attainted in 1691, described as of PiL town, County of Waterford, as was Piers of Guning, County of Kilkenny, with ten others in the latter EARL OF TYRONE S INFANTRY. 565 County, live in Wexford, two of Wicklow, and two of Dublin. The only Walsh estate, on which a claim was made at Chichester House, was that of Robert Walsh in the County of Kilkenny, whereon Mary his widow claimed the fee of tithes and glebes found to be forfeited by him, but which she alleged were hers under the will of Piers Walsh, her father. Of the Walshes in foreign Brigades and service see fully OCallagharHs Brigades, vol. 1, p. 180, &c. In 1745, 12th July, a merchant of Nantes, of the name of Walsh, is mentioned by Voltaire (Siecle Louis XIV., vol. 4, p. 58) as the son of an Irishman attached to the house of Stuart ; adding that he was the person who furnished Prince Charles-Edward with a frigate, in which he embarked at the above date 4 for the Crown of Great Britain.' The ' relics' of Walsh's Regiment, when stationed at Vannes in 1792, and the names of the respective officers, are given in the Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian, (v. 2, pp. 175-6.) CAPTAIN FRANCIS CRUISE. Of this Anglo-Norman family, which had, on the con- quest of England, settled in Cornwall, a branch came to Ireland with the invaders of Henry the Second's time, and obtained grants, from the successful ' Strong- bow' and Prince John, of various estates in the Counties of Dublin and Meath ; those in the former 5G6 king james's irish army list. included the glen of the Naul, on the boundary of each. At its head a member of this family erected that castle whose ruins faintly testify its former im- portance, and in which his descendants resided down to the time of Charles the First. Stephen 'de Crues' was the individual seised of the Naul in the time of Richard the First and King John. His lineal descen- dant, Hugh ' de Crues,' married the heiress of Sir Henry Tyrrell, to whom the Chief Serjeantcy of Leinster was granted by Prince John ; and by this marriage, according to the construction of the law at that period, Tyrrel's estates, with the serjeantcy, passed to this Hugh, and his filling such office at the time is proved by a roll in the Tower of London. His grandson, Nicholas 4 de Cruys,' had licence to enfeoff his son Robert in the estates and serjeantcy; soon after which, Robert dying, King Edward the Second, in 1320, committed to the Royal Escheator the custody of his estates, &c, to hold during the minority of his son Richard. In 1346, Thomas, son of a Peter de Cruys, was commissioned, with the Baron of Slane and others, to parley with the disaffect- ed Irish of Meath, and induce them to allegiance. Walter de Cruys was about the same time confirmed by Edward the Third in his seisin of the manor of Balrothery, which his father had held before him ; while another branch of the family was then seised of the manor of Stillorgan, at the south side of the Lif- fey. By an inquisition taken in 1356, it was found that the King's Escheator, acting on the aforesaid earl of Tyrone's infantry. 567 authority of 1320, had seised upon sundry lands which were held by military service of De Cruys's manor of the Naul ; that liichard, then a minor, having subsequently attained age acquired same, and died seised thereof in 1338, leaving John de Cruys his heir, who died in 1359, similarly seised of the manor of the Naul, as well as of other lands in Cruisetown and Altemash, which last he held of the Lady Eliza- beth de Burgo, as of her manor of Kells. Margaret, the only child and heiress of this John, had previously married Simon Cruise, and thus kept the estates, &c. in the same name and family. That Simon acquired the serjeantcy also, and acted in discharge of its duties, is proved by a record of 1376 in the office of the Chief Eemembrancer, Dublin. In that year a John Cruys, who appears to have been a son of this Simon, w r as elected a confidential envoy to England, to com- municate with the government there on the state of Ireland, and he received £20 as remuneration for his expenses of travel and sojourn. In 1380, he was summoned to a Parliament convened to meet at Baltinglas ; in two years after was appointed one of the guardians of the Peace for the Counties of Dublin and Meath ; in 1385, filled the office of Justice in Eyre, and in the same year had a treasury liberate for his expenses and services in a military expedition against the O'Tooles and other 'Irish enemies,' on which occasion he was badly wounded. In 1386, the King's Escheator was ordered to give possession of the manors of Clonmore and Mansneldstown in the 568 king james's irish army list. County of Louth to (as it would seem) this John and Matilda his wife. In the following year, he and John D'Arcy, then Sheriff of Meath, had similar commission with that which was given to Thomas de Cruys in 1346. In 1394, John Cruys was summoned to a great council, and in 1399, by a writ reciting that, whereas John Cruys, 'chevaler,' held 160 acres at Thorncastle (Booterstown near Dublin), the rent of which to the Crown he was unable to discharge, by reason of the premises being subject to be burned and laid waste by adjoining Irish enemies of the mountains ; it was thereupon directed that he should be exempted from any such payments during his life. An inquisition of 1407 finds that this John had died seised, in his own right and in right of his wife, of the manors of Merrion, Thorncastle, Killsallaghan, Rathmore, Do- naghpatrick and Ballgyhen, with portions of those of Duleek, Dundalk, and Kenlis, of which Thomas, who was their son and heir, became afterwards possessed ; while a James Cruys, who married Catherine Plunket, had livery from the Crown of the inheritance of the Naul, with the office of Chief Serjeant* It is of record that, on some untrue suggestions to the Crown, this office was afterwards conferred on a Walter Goulding, who and his descendants for four generations usurped the office, until in the time of Edward the Sixth (1552) Walter, described as the descendant and heir of the above James Cruys, proceeded to recover the * Lynch's Feudal Dignities, pp. 104, &c. earl of Tyrone's infantry. 569 office before the Lord Deputy and Privy Council, when, " after the production and examination of divers and several ancient and authentic writings, deeds, licences, and inquisitions ; and, after allowing a long time to the counsel for the Crown, to show any title in the King, when passing the patent to G-oulding, it was decreed and adjudged that the said Walter Cruys's ancestors were all, under the grant from King John, lineally seised and possessed of said office, and that said Walter should be immediately restored to the possession thereof, and enjoy same according to said grant of King John. In 1610, it was found on inquisition that Christopher, son and heir of Walter de Cruys, was seised of the manors of Naul, Grallagh, and Cruisetown in the Counties of Dublin and Meath, and also in his demesne as in fee of the Chief Ser- jeantcy of the County of Dublin, " which office was granted to his ancestor by the most serene Prince J ohn, formerly King of England, to be held from him and his successors by military service ; that said Chris- topher died in that year (1610), and was succeeded by his grandson and heir, Christopher Cruise, who continued seised thereof to the time of the civil war, when he forfeited on attainder the manor of the Naul and other lands in the County of Dublin, with the Castle and 500 acres, which were granted to Charles, Viscount Fitz-Harding.* With him were then attainted Walter Cruise of Cruisetown, County of Meath, and Peter Cruise of the Naul. The lat- * D' Alton's Hist. County of Dublin, pp. 487 & 494. 570 king james's irish army list. ter was transplanted, on a Connaught debenture, into that Province, and from him are the western Cruises principally descended. Their previous existence, how- ever, in Clare is shown by an annal of the Four Mas- ters at 1584, where is stated that, when Sir John Perrot was on his memorable circuit, to persuade or compel the gentry of that devoted Province to com- pound for titles to their estates, "he was waited upon at Quin Abbey (in Clare), where he stopped, by Cruise, then Sheriff of the County." In five years after the same annalists record an engagement between the Burkes and the people of Inchiquin, in which " Thomas, the son of Christopher Cruise, was slain.' 1 In 1646, Walter Cruise of Arlonan was one of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny. In 1668, a confirmatory grant of lands in the County of Louth to Mary and John Fowke contained a saving of the right of a Christopher Cruise to a mortgage thereon. The Attainders of 1691 broke the fortunes of many of the name, and in particular of Patrick Cruise of Taberath, County of Meath, and Patrick Cruise of Dublin, M.D.; from whom, as well as from the above- mentioned Walter of Cruisetown, are descended the Cruises of Eahood, Belgart, Drynam, &c, in short all the Cruises of Leinster, as well as some in Minister. Drynam had been the estate of the Kussells, but, by the marriage of Andrew Cruise of the old Naul line with Bridget, the daughter and heiress of Bartholo- mew Eussell, in 1771, ante p. 436. William Eobert Russell Cruise, the great grandson of that marriage, now represents those two lines. EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 571 CAPTAIN DOMINICK FERRITER.. This family is of Irish record from the time of Edward the Third. " It was," writes the Reverend Mr. Eowan to the compiler of these papers, " a family established at Dingle in the County of Kerry, and conspicuous in the troubles of 1641, &c, when a member, Piers Ferriter, was taken prisoner and exe- cuted by Cromwell's commander, Brigadier Neilson, at Kilkenny." Besides this officer, Edmund Ferriter stands upon the Army List a Captain in Colonel Nicholas Browne's Infantry ; neither name, however, appears on the subsequent Attainders, but only those of Maurice Ferriter of Ballynalug, and Peter Ferriter of Bally oughter in the County of Kerry. CAPTAIN NICHOLAS STAFFORD. This name is of record in Ireland from the earliest period after the English Invasion. Within the scope of the present Illustrations, it is only allowable to mention that in 1599 Francis Stafford was one of the Counsellors appointed to be assistant to the Lord President of Munster, in conducting the government of that disturbed Province ; while a Captain William Stafford, with one hundred Infantry, and a Lieutenant Thomas, were distinguished there in that service, as shown in the 'Pacata Hibernia.' In 1600, Dr. Nicholas Stafford was appointed by the Queen, Bishop 572 king james's irish army list. of Ferns, in the enjoyment of which See he died in 1604. In 1606, King James the First granted to William Barker the wardship and marriage of Xicholas Stafford, son and heir of Bichard Stafford of Ballinakaherne, County of Wexford, deceased ; for a fine of £17 16s. 8d. and an annual rent to the same amount, with the usual allowance for his maintenance and education in Trinity College.* A manuscript book of obits in that College supplies links of the pedigree and descendants of this Nicholas for four generations. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646, Richard Fitz-Eichard Stafford (evidently of the Ballinakaherne line) was one of the attending Con- federate Catholics. Of Dean Alexius Stafford, a secular priest of this County, who celebrated mass in Christ Church daily during King James's sojourn in Dublin, mention has been made before (ante p. 415). He was one of the Eepresentatives of the Borough of Bannow in the Parliament of 1689, as was the above Captain Nicholas Stafford of that of Fethard in Wex- ford. After James's flight to France, Stafford, Esq. was one of his Court at St, Grermains. The Attainders of 1691 include this Nicholas, described as of Fethard and Kilcoran, County of Wexford, with six others of the name. LIEUTENANT JOHN WINSTON. He is described, in the inquisition on his attainder, * Patent Roll, 3 James I. in Cane. Hib. EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 573 as 'of Ballycashin, County of Waterford, and his name does appear a corruption from Wynchedon or de Wynchedown. Richard de Wyncedoun is on Irish records of the time of Edward the Second. In 1345, John Wynchedon was one of three leading men assigned to treat on peace with Mc Dermot and his men, and to reclaim them to friendship ;* the name was then also established in Cork. In 1377, Richard Wynchedon was farmer of the Royal lands in that County, f He was afterwards one of the Justices in Eyre in Munster, while John Wynchedon was ap- pointed to several offices of trust in the same province, and was also one of the Justices in Eyre there in 1407. LIEUTENANT JOHN 'RONAN.' The O'Ronans or Ronaynes were a Sept long settled in Munster and parts of Leinster. At the time of the English Invasion, two of the name presided over Irish Bishoprics ; Kinacl O'Ronan over Glendaloch, and Mel-Brendan O'Ronan over Kerry (i. e. Ardfert), The Attainders of 1642 present only the name of Owen O'Ronayne of Ballybeg, County of Kildare ; while in 1646, Francis O'Ronayne of Kilkenny was one of the Confederate Catholics there assembled. The Attainders of 1691 include the above Lieutenant, described as of Hilltown, County of Waterford, with * Rot. Pat. 19 & 20, Edw. 3, in Cane. Hib. t Rot. Claus. 51, Edw. 3 in Cane. Hib. 574 kixg james's irish army list. nine other Eonanynes. At the Court of Claims in 1700, William Eonayne claimed and was allowed the fee of Youghal and County of Cork estates, which had been forfeited by James Eonayne of Eonayne's Court; and at same time were allowed claims of Hamilton Montgomery and Grace, otherwise Eonayne, his wife, and those of Anstace, Elizabeth, and Margaret Eonayne, minors, by their guardians, as charged on said estates. James Eonayne also forfeited plots and tenements in Kinsale. In certain forfeitures of Nicholas of Youghal, Amos Strettell and Edward Webb, on behalf of themselves and all the Quakers of Ireland, claimed a remainder for years. ENSIGN PETEE AYLWAED. This family name is recorded on the Irish Rolls from the time of Edward the Second ; and is located on Ortelius's map in the Barony of Upper-third, County of Waterford. In 1566 and 1577, Peter Aylward was Mayor of Waterford, as was Nicholas Aylward in 1592, Sir Peter Aylward in 1627, and John Aylward in 1650. In 1602, the Lord Deputy, on his return from Munster, after the successful termination of the war in that Province, calling at Waterford, knighted there Eichard Aylward and Edward Gough, " two ancient and well deserving citizens."* A confirma- tory patent of 1666 to Francis Jones affected to con- * Pacata Hibernia, p. 503. EARL OF TYRONE'S INFANTRY. 575 vey to him certain lands in Wexford, the estate of Richard Ay 1 ward ; but for which he, Aylward, had three years previously obtained a decree of innocence. The patent therefore saved his right, but left him to his remedy in law. The attainder of the above officer describes him as ' Pierse' Aylward of Aylwardstown, County of Kilkenny, and of Faithlegg, County of Waterford. ENSIGN FEANCIS GAEVAN. According to ancient Irish genealogists, the ' O'Gar- veys' (for to this Sept the present officer, it is consi- dered, belonged) were a very ancient family located in that territory of ' Craobh Ruadh] ' the red branch,' which the early native poetry, and even the modern Arch-poet of Ireland have so celebrated. It comprised much of the present Counties of Armagh and Down, and its principal chiefs were, with the O'Garveys, the O'Dunlevy, O'Egan, O'Lynch, O'Moran, O'Hanvey, &c. ; while O'Heerin, in his Topography, locates a branch of this family in the Barony of Ballaghkeen, County of Wexford. In 1589, Dr. John Garvey was, by Queen Elizabeth, promoted from the See of Kilmore to the Primacy of Armagh. The Attainders of 1642 name six Garveys; those of 1691 present five. 576 king james's irish army list. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL RICHARD NUGENT. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Richard Nugent, Colonel. Lieutenant-Colonel. Major. Fergus Farrell. Patrick Missett. George Dowdall. Matthew Nugent. CAPTAIN PATRICK MISSETT. The Inquisitions of 169.1 describe him as of Plucks- town, County of Meath, with his relative James Mis- sett of the same locality ; they also name Bartholomew of Naas, and Robert of Robertstown, County of Kildare ; the former a Lieutenant, and the latter an Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's Regiment of Infantry. Of these Kildare Missetts the Attainders of 1642 record three, viz., James and Laurence Missett of Castlemartin, and George of Kilcullen- Bridge, in that County. LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY. 577 REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. JENICO PRESTON, LORD VISCOUNT GORMANSTON. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Jenico Preston, __ Colonel. [Richard Eustace,] __ Lieutenant- Colonel. Major. Oliver Fitzgerald. Gerald Fitzgerald. Thomas Fitzgerald. COLONEL JENICO PRESTON, LORD GORMANSTON. This name is found on Irish record from the time of Edward the Second. In 1342, Robert de Preston was appointed one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland, and in 1358 was advanced to be Chief of that Court. In the previous year, it was " agreed and granted by the Lord Justice, Chancellor and Privy Council at Dublin, that Robert de Preston (his son), then the King's Sergeant (1357), should, for the King's benefit and profit, accompany the Lord Justice towards the parts of Leinster and Munster, to plead and defend the pleas of the Crown, and should receive four shillings per day wages, for himself and a man and horse at arms." This individual was knighted in 1361 by Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and pp 578 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. obtained a grant in fee of the manor of Gormanston. He was likewise Lord of Preston in Lancashire, and filled the office of High Chancellor of Ireland. His great grandson, another Sir Robert Preston, was con- stituted Lord Deputy there in 1478, and in the same year was elevated to the Peerage by the title of Viscount Gormanston. His son, Sir William Preston, the second Viscount, was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1515. On the breaking out of the civil war of 1641, Nicholas, then the Viscount Gormanston, caused the resident Noblemen and Gentry of the County of Meath to assemble on the Hill of Crofty, near Gormanston. The Lords Fingal, Slane, Louth, Dimsany, Trimleston and Netterville, with upwards of 1,000 of the leading gentry, responded to his invita- tion ; and here, according to a preconcerted arrange- ment, they were met by Roger Moore and the other leaders of the movement, attended by a detachment of their forces.* He was accordingly in the following year attainted, with Robert Preston also described as of Gormanston, Preston of Rogerstown, County of Meath, James of Grangemore, and Richard of Kil- kelan, County of Kildare. The Assembly of the Con- federate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646 was attended by three members of this House, Thomas, James, and Robert Preston of Gormanston. The former, styled Colonel Thomas, was, by Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate, together with Nicholas, Viscount Gormanston. * D' Alton's History of Drogheda, v. 2, p. 457. LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY. 579 In February, 1685-6, Lords Gormanston and Ikerrin, on behalf of themselves and several other Lords and Gentlemen, petitioned for reversals of their fathers' outlawries imposed on account of the late civil war. "Several of the petitioners," wrote the Earl of Clarendon to the Earl of Sunderland, " have served the King very well since, and, by the late King's favor, have been advanced to hope titles and be restored to their estates ; and certainly they (as many as are alive at least) ought to be restored in blood as well as to their estates. The children of many of them are in his Majesty's service, and therefore may deserve to partake so much farther of his Majesty's favor ; but the best way of doing it will be the ques- tion, for it is a case of greater consequence than may at first appear." * The King subsequently assented to Lords Gormanston and Ikerrin bringing writs of error to reverse their fathers' outlawries, and directed that the cases of others should be considered at Council,f while Lord Gormanston was himself at the same time made a Privy Councillor. When, however, the intentions of making such applications transpired, caveats were immediately entered against granting any such writs of reversal ; the opposition naturally arising from the persons who, under the Acts of Settle- ment, were in actual and for some time recognised possession of lauds, the ancient property of those Lords, &c.J In November, 1688, previous to King * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 267. t Idem, p. 399. \ Idem, p. 487. pp 2 580 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. James's abdication, a Lord Preston was his Secretary of State ; and in the January following, after that Monarch's flight, this Nobleman received a letter from him, which led to subsequent suspicions of his being engaged with Lord Clarendon and others in a conspi- racy for a counter-revolution in favour of James, for which he was afterwards arraigned, tried, and condemned.* The noble Colonel of this Eegiment sat in the Par- liament of Dublin, while another Jenico Preston was a Lieutenant in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry. When King James meditated advancing towards Dundalk, soon after his arrival in Dublin, " a brigade of Guards, consisting of two battalions, together with Gormanston's and Creagh's Regiments, each of which made a good battalion, came to the camp about the Bridge of Affane by eleven o'clock at night, and the rest next morning, before noon.f This Regiment, which was here so incomplete, is reported as compris- ing, after the battle of the Boyne, thirteen companies, a total of 650 men. J In 1691, this Lord was attainted on five Inquisitions. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Anthony Preston, ' called Lord Viscount Gormanston,' and Mary his wife, claimed and were allowed the benefit of a trust term for 500 years, created to secure a charge of £3,000 for said * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2, pp. 211, 251, 319, n. and 331. | Clarke's Mem. of James II., v. 2, p. 379. \ Singer's Correspondence, v. 2, p. 514. LORD GORMANSTON'S INFANTRY. 581 Mary, and a remainder in tail for Anthony, off Lord Gormanston's forfeited estates. A Nicholas Preston also claimed and was allowed a remainder for his life, as was Captain Robert Preston a remainder in tail, expectant upon several other remainders in being, as attaching to said estates : while James Butler, Esq., and Margaret, Lady Viscountess Gormanston, his wife, claimed in her right an annuity of £500 per annum, with an arrear of £3,400 as due thereoff. [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL RICHARD EUSTACE]. This officer does not appear on the present Army List, the appointment having been made subsequent to its issue. The name is here inserted from Dr. King's Appendix. He was of Barretstown in the County of Dublin. 582 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL HENRY DILLON. Captains. The Colonel. Walter Burke, Lieutenant-Colonel. John Morgan, Major. Luke Dillon. Theobald Dillon. Thomas Daly. Edward Fitzgerald. Hugh O'Donnell. Edmund Reynolds. William Bourke. Lucas Powell. Thomas Dillon. James Lally. Patrick M'Gawley. Robert Dillon. Christopher Dillon. George Browne. Walter Blake. William Brabazon. Hugh M'Dermott. John D'Alton. Terence M'Donough. John Dillon. Robert Fitzgerald. John D'Alton. Lieutenants. Hubert Dillon. Paul Rutledge. Francis Martin. Bryan O'Connor. Peter Daly. Murrough Melaghlin. Terence Sweeny. Morgan Reynolds. Patrick Bourke. Alexander Plunket. Thomas Dillon. Gerald Lally. Edmund Tyrrell. Christopher Dillon. Bartholomew Dillon. Thady Naughton. Valentine Blake. Gilbert Talbot. Richard Fitzgerald. Luke Sheill. Thady M'Donough. Miles Bourk. Robert Fox. Richard D'Alton. Ensigns. Edmund Dillon. Thomas Dolphin Bryan M'Dermott. Thomas Dillon. John Molloy. Redmond Fitzgerald. Michael Rourke. Ferdinando Reynolds. Edmond Daly. Edmund Dowell. Christopher Dillon. Thomas Costello. Philip M'Gawley. Pbelim Hart. Hubert Farrell. Rowland ' Bourk.' Nicholas Lynch. Miles Laughlin. Michael M'Dermott. Andrew D'Alton. Cornelius M'Donough. Richard Dillon. Philip Fox. John D'Alton. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 583 COLONEL HENRY DILLON. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of the Invasion, immediately after which Sir Henry Dillon, styled of Drnmrany, had from King John large grants over that portion of Western Meath and Annaly, which was thence called the Dillon's Conn- try. His descendants were Barons of Kilkenny West, and subsequently ennobled as Earls of Eoscommon, Viscounts Dillon and Mayo, and Barons of Clonbrock. In the sixteenth century the name of Dillon is con- spicuous on the Roll of the Judicial Officers of Ireland. In 1532, Sir Bartholomew Dillon was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench. In 1554, Robert Dillon, of Newtown near Trim was named a Justice of the Queen's Bench, and advanced in 1559 to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas. In 1560, Richard Dillon of Proutestown, County of Meath, became a Justice of the Queen's Bench. In 1570, Sir Lucas Dillon was Chief Baron of the Exchequer. In 1581, Robert Dillon, of Riverston, County of Westmeath, was second Justice of the Common Pleas. In 1590, Gerald Dillon was a Justice of the Queen's Bench. In two years after, Thomas Dillon, theretofore Chief Justice of Connaught, was appointed a Justice of the Common Pleas ; and in 1638, Robert Lord Dillon was one of the Keepers of the Great Seal. From the above Sir Henry Dillon of Drumrany sprang Sir Theobald, the founder of the noble house of Costello-Gallen, and who was ennobled in 1621-2 by 584 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the title of Viscount thereof. His successor, Lucas, the second Viscount, married in 1625 the Lady Mary, daughter of the Earl of Antrim, by whom he left issue an only son, Viscount Lucas, who died in 1629 ; when, as a manuscript obit in the Trinity College MSS. records, his remains were conveyed in a coach from Kilnefaghny, where he died, to Athlone, in whose abbey he was buried. His only son, the third Vis- count, died an infant, when the title reverted to his uncle Thomas, the fourth Viscount, who was attainted in 1642, and driven with his four sons into exile on the continent ; whence, however, he returned on the Restoration, and was restored to his extensive estates in the Counties of Mayo, Roscommon, and Westmeath. He was, however, attainted in 1642, with nine others of his name. Of the Confederate Catholics assembled at Kilkenny in 1646, &c, were Edmund and John Dillon of Streamstown, James of Clonegassel, and Lucas of Lough-Glyn. Those excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell's Act of Denunciation were James Dillon of Roscommon, and James Dillon, brother to the Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen. Theobald Dillon succeeded in 1682 to this title as the seventh Viscount ; and he appears on this Army List (as before) the Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Clan- ricarde's Infantry. He raised two Regiments for King James's service ; one, — that under present con- sideration, — commanded by the above Colonel Henry Dillon, his eldest son and successor in the title, one of the Representatives of the County of Westmeath in the COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 585 Parliament of 1689, and afterwards Governor of Galway. The second Eegiment so raised by Viscount Theobald was put under the command of his second son, the Honorable Arthur Dillon, and was that after- wards assigned to form part of Mountcashel's Brigade. In 1686, Dillon, Lord Eoscommon, together with Tyrconnel, the Lords Limerick and Gormanston, Justin Mac Cartie, Richard Hamilton, Nicholas Pur- cel, and others, signed a proclamation of amnesty, as emanating from the Council Chamber ; whereby it was declared " that none of his Majesty's subjects of this Kingdom shall at any time hereafter be sued, vexed, or disquieted, either by indictment, information or otherwise, in his Majesty's name or at his suit, for or by reason of any treasonable, seditious, or other words whatsoever spoken or that may be pretended to have been spoken by any of them, before the de- cease of his late Majesty and his now Majesty's accession to the crown."* [This Lord Eoscommon, however, it is to be remarked, was, at his own request, presented in December, 1688, by the Earl of Claren- don to the Prince of Orange at the Prince of Den- mark's.f] In December, 1686, Lord Clarendon wrote to the Earl of Sunderland, in reference to fill- ing a vacancy on the Irish Bench, and those com- petent to fill it : — " There are Mr. Garret Dillon, Mr. Nangle, and Mr. Browne ; these three are Roman Catholics. Mr. Nangle I know has no mind to be a Judge, nor I believe will Mr. Dillon, he being in very * Singers Corresp. vol. 1, p. 519. | Idem, v. 2, p. 237. 586 kixg james's irish army list. great practice ; he is a very honest gentleman, and it is not fit for me to omit the best men."* This latter was raised to a Serjeantcy at the close of the ensuing year. On the establishment of 1687-8, Colonel Cary Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, was put upon the Pension List for £200 per annum. He sat in the Parliament of 1689, together with Theobald, Viscount Dillon, of Costello-G-allen : while of the Commons were John Dillon, one of the Representatives of the Borough of Roscommon ; this Honorable Colonel Heniy, one for those of Westmeath; and the aforesaid Prime-Serjeant Gerald for the Borough of Mullingar. It may be here mentioned that the above Theobald, Viscount Dillon, married Mary, a daughter of Sir Henry Tal- bot of Templeogue, County of Dublin, and was after- wards attainted; but the outlawry was reversed in favour of his son and successor, Henry, the eighth Vis- count. Theobald's second son, Arthur, entered the military service in France as hereinafter noticed. The above named Prime-Serjeant Dillon was seised in fee of divers estates in the Counties of Mayo and Roscommon, which he devised in 1690 to Theo- bald, his then only son, in tail-male, with remainders ; but he was himself attainted. He followed King James to France, and there had two other sons, James and Claude, who both died there, intestate and un- married. Theobald, the eldest son, however, survived his father, continuing to be a Catholic until his death. In 1720, he married Mary, eldest daughter of Richard * Singer's Corresp. v. 2, p. 122. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 587 Malone, by whom he had Nicholas, his only son, and three daughters. Theobald lived to 1763, his son Nicholas being then with him in France, but he, on his fathers death, which occurred in that year, came over and conformed ; in four years after which he died intestate, unmarried, and without issue.* Besides the fifteen Dillons in this Regiment, Gerald Dillon was a Captain in Lord Abercorn's Horse, Lord Dillon was Lieutenant-Colonel in the Earl of Clan- ricarde's Infantry, and, in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's, Charles Dillon was an Ensign. In July, 1691, after the battle of Aughrim, Lord Dillon was Governor of Galway. On the 26th of that month he capitulated, "marching out," says Story, "with the Irish garrison, having not above 2,300 men, and those but indiffer- ently armed and worse clothed." It may be added that a Major Dillon was one of the hostages given by the Governor for the due performance of the Articles on the Irish side.f On the 9th of September follow- ing, Lough-Glyn Castle, commanded by Colonel Theo- bald Dillon, surrendered to the summons of King William's party. In the memorable month of October following, Colonel Garret Dillon, the Prime- Serjeant, was one of the executing parties to the civil Articles of Limerick. The Attainders of 1691 record the names of Henry, Lucas, and Christopher Dillon of Killenfaghny ; Gerald and Theobald Dillon of Port- lick ; John Dillon of Roscommon ; Arthur, Christopher, and James Dillon of Lough-Glyn; James Dillon of * Pleadings in Chancery. t Hardiman's Galway, p. 1G2. 588 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Lissian ; with fifty-nine other Inquisitions taken on the name. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Red- mund Dillon, a minor, claimed and was allowed a remainder in tail, after the decease of Margery Dillon, in various lands in the Baronies of Kilkenny West and Eathconrath, forfeited by Pierce Dillon ; while said Margery claimed her jointure thereoff. Ed- mund Dillon was allowed a reversion in fee in Mayo lands, forfeited by Christopher Dillon ; off which Margaret Dillon, his widow, sought and was allowed her dower ; while Richard Bourk and Mary Bourk, alias Dillon, also obtained a certain amount of jointure off the same property. Garret Dillon was allowed a mortgage on Peter Dillon's forfeited lands of Gran- aghan, &c. Mary, Catherine, and Elizabeth Dillon, minors, claimed by their guardian and were allowed portions of £150 each, off lands in the Counties of Dublin and Meath, forfeited by Martin Dillon. Robert Dillon, also a minor, was allowed a remainder in special tail therein : while Matthew Dillon, in full age, sought and obtained a similar remainder. Gerald Dillon was allowed a fee in Portlick, &c. County of Westmeath. Henry Lord Dillon claimed the fee of lands of the County of Roscommon, as pur- chased for his benefit by John Dillon, the forfeiting proprietor, his trustee ; he also claimed an annuity, a chiefry, a term for years, and an estate tail in several estates in Mayo, Galway, and Westmeath, forfeited by Gerald Dillon, all which claims were allowed ; as was COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 589 the claim of a Thomas Dillon to a trust estate in fee, held by said attainted Gerald for his benefit. Arthur Dillon, before mentioned as the second son of Theobald, the seventh Viscount Dillon, passed into France with a Regiment raised by that nobleman, and consisting of two battalions of 1,600 men and two companies. It formed part of Mountcashel's Brigade; its Colonel at the time of his landing being only twenty years of age ; he immediately, however, rose to high rank. In 1691, his Regiment was distinguished at Urgel. In 1694, a battalion of his served in Spain, in Catalonia under Marshal Noailles ; and at the siege of Rosas, Dillon's Grenadiers carried the counter- scarp in three days, after which the place surrendered. In 1696, his Regiment continued to serve in Spain under the Duke de Vendome, and it is recorded that at the little village of Colfilla, two hundred of his Regiment drove back 4,000 Spaniards in two well contested assaults. In 1697, at the siege of Barcelona, his Regiment dislodged the Spaniards from the neighbouring hills, whence they had been enabled occasionally to throw succours into the place, and to incommode the besiegers. This successful achieve- ment led to the immediate capture of the City, and the termination of the war by the Treaty of Ryswick.* Dillon's Regiment participated with those of Galmoy, Berwick, and Burke in the campaigns of 1701, 1702, and 1703. In the latter year, in the Tyrol, Dillon and his Irish forces were ordered to clear the moun- * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 230, &c. 590 kixg james's irish army list. tains on the northern side of the lake of Garda. " The passages were closed with entrenchments con- structed by Austrian engineers, and guarded by the peasants and regular militia. On viewing them, they were found impregnable in front, while in the rere steep precipices lifted their summits to the clouds, accessible only to the wild animals of the Alps. There the eagle built his nest, the chamois bounded from cliff to cliff, and the bouquelin gambolled in the wantonness of his freedom ; but man had never been seen on these summits. The Irish scaled them, and, appearing in the rere of the entrenchments, so terri- fied the armed peasantry and the few regular troops who were with them, that after a few discharges they abandoned their position with the utmost precipitation. Dillon caused several fires to blaze on the summit of the mountain, in order to magnify his detachment into a large body in the eyes of the garrison and inhabitants of Eiva; whereupon the citizens, apprehensive of the horrors of the city being taken by storm, shut their gates and sent a deputation to Dillon with the keys. He entered in triumph, and his detachment was regaled with refreshments, and possessed themselves of several pieces of cannon and considerable ammu- nition."* Dillon's was not less distinguished in 1704 in Piedmont and Savoy. In the following year he was made a Field- Marshal, was appointed Governor of Toulon, signalized himself in Lombardy, was constitu- ted Knight of the Holy Ghost, and raised to the rank * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 278, &c. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 591 of Lieutenant-General. In the early part of 1707, he served in Dauphine. He married Christiana, the niece (it would seem) of Lieutenant-Colonel Dominick Sheldon, before alluded to, ante, p. 68, by whom he had five sons, the eldest born in 1701. The third, James, a Knight of Malta, succeeded to the command of this Brigade, and fell at its head at Fontenoy; when, in consideration of his services, and those of his next brother, Edward, who succeeded him in the command, the King of France was induced to declare that the Colonelcy of that Brigade should not be conferred on any person, who did not bear the name of Dillon and was recommended by the family in whom it origi- nated. The fullest particulars of this Brigade will be found in O CallagliaiH s Brigades (vol. 1, p. 101, &c). At the battle of Ypres in 1745, the Colonel of Dillon's Regiment, the Lieutenant-Colonel, and two Captains were killed, while four Captains and five Lieutenants were wounded. In 1747, at the battle of Lauflield, Colonel Dillon, ' nom celebre clans les troupes Irlanclaises]* distinguished himself yet more; his Eegiment lost there three Captains and four Lieu- tenants, while four Captains and one Lieutenant were wounded. [The Muster Roll of Dillon's Regiment at Lisle in 1794, and the last gathering, after it was dis- banded, of those who remained in France at Arras, are, with some interesting and it would seem authen- tic particulars, given in the Reminiscences of an Emi- grant Milesian, v. 2, p. 175]. * Voltaire, Siecle Louis XIV., v. 4, p. 102. 592 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN EDWARD REYNOLDS. The family of Reynolds is anglicised from Mac Ranall, a Sept who held the territory of Monter-Iolis, comprising the southern part of the County of Leitrim, with the northern part of Longford, including within its ambit the Castles of Rinn, Lough-Scur, and Leitrim, and the religious houses of Fenagh, Lough- Scur, and Leitrim. The native annals record their too frequent feuds with the O'Ruarcs, the rival tanists of Brefhey. In 1535, Mac Ranall, Archdeacon of Kells, was deputed by the unfortunate Lord Thomas Fitzgerald (the Silken Lord), to solicit aid in his insurrection, from the Pope and the Emperor Charles the Fifth. * In the seventeenth century, Anne Ware, a younger sister of Sir James Ware, the justly vene- rated antiquarian, was married to Humphrey Reynolds of Lough-Scur. In 1642, Reynolds of New- castle, County of Dublin, was attainted; and in 1646, Charles Reynolds, described as ' of Jamestown,' sat amongst the Confederate Catholics in Kilkenny. In the latter year O'Ruarc, " Chief of Brefny, with his Sept, Bernard Mac Ranall, Captain of his Sept, Conrad Mac Ranall and Cornelius Mac Ranall, with their ad- herents, repudiated the political settlement then pro- posed, commonly called 'the Peace of Ormonde.' "f The Act of Explanation (1665) contained a proviso for restoring James Reynolds of Lough-Scur to all his * Clarke's James II., v. 1, p. 176. f De Burgo, Hib. Dom. p. 879. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 593 lands, and, in some ensuing confirmatory patents of 1679, there are savings of his rights in the County of Roscommon, as also of those of Humphrey Reynolds. The above Captain Edward Reynolds was one of the Representatives of the County of Leitrim in the Par- liament of 1689 ; and, besides him, there appear in commission upon the present Army List in this Regi- ment Morgan Reynolds a Lieutenant, and Ferdinando an Ensign ; while in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's Infantry Turlough Reynolds was an Ensign. Those attainted of the name in 1691 were, with the above Edward, (styled of Leitrim) John Reynolds of Blundelstown, County of Dublin, Charles of Dublin, Fardagh of Castlefore, Loughlin and Bruin of Lisnagann, Connor and Thady of Ballinaboy (all in the County of Leitrim). On Edward's attainder, a portion of the ancient estate of Rathmore was considered confiscated as his, but at Chichester House the fee thereof was claimed by and allowed to Bridget Reynolds, alias Long, ' his widow,' she deriving title by descent from her father, Patrick, and through her brother, Christo- pher Long. CAPTAIN LUCAS POWELL. The Powells are of Welsh extraction the most respectable, descended from Howell ap Rhys of Pinkelly in Caermarthenshire. In 1641, a William Powell claimed title to the Vicarage of Laraghbryan, QQ 594 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. against Lady Talbot ; it was, however, adjudged to her by an order of the Irish House of Commons. Amongst the Eoyalists who were in 1652 tried by court-martial in St. Patrick's Church, was a Thomas Powell. In 1688, Sir John Powell was a Puisne Judge of the Irish King's Bench, and in the following year was transferred to the Common Pleas.* At the battle of the Boyne, a Lieutenant Powell, ' of the Guards,' was killed, f The Attainders of 1691 have of this name only Edward Powell of Kathcormac, County of Cork. CAPTAIN JAMES LALLY. An interesting old manuscript has been forwarded in aid of this work by Mr. Browne of Moyne ; it is entitled, " Extracts from the Genealogy of the most illustrious House of O'Mullally or O'Lally of Ireland, collected from the old Irish MS. Books of Pedigrees, as well as from the records preserved in the offices of the Exchequer, the Polls, and the Auditor-General in said kingdom, by William Hawkins, Esq., King of Arms, &c, under the seal of his office." This compi- lation deduces the family from Amlavus O'Maollalla, Chief of Tulla-ny-Maolalla, descended in the thirteenth generation from Maolalla, who, at the close of the tenth century, was ruler of Moen-nioge, now Clanricarde ; from which period the annals recorded are sad * Singer's Corresp. v. 2, p. 273. t Clarke's Mem. James II.., v. 2, p. 399. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 595 evidences of the feuds that existed between the tanists of this house and the De Burgos. At length, in 1523, Dr. Thomas O'Mullally or Lally appears presi- ding as Archbishop of Tuam at a synod there held. In 1541, Melaghlin Mac Dermott O'Mullally submitted himself, his vassals, and land, by indented articles of agreement, to Sir Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy ; and delivered his eldest son, John Mc Melaghlin, then twenty-five years old, as a hostage for performance on his part. Melaghlin had married Margaret, daughter of Cormac Mac Eoger Mac Der- mot, Chief of Moylurg, and their son, said John, styled Baron of Tully-Mullally (converted into Tullin- daly, and yet later to Tolendal) distinguished himself with his galloglasses at the siege of Boulogne in 1544. He married a daughter of Hugh O'Madden, Chief of Silanchia, and his brother William O'Mullally was Archbishop of Tuam in 1573, by the Queen's ap- pointment. In 1585, this Prelate was nominated in a commission for the pacification of Connaught, and died in 1595. James O'Mullally, the great grandson of John, forfeited a great part of the family estate in Cromwell's time ; he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Gerald Dillon of Feamore in the County of Mayo (brother of the first Viscount Dillon of Costello- Gallen), and died on the old soil of Tullindaly. His brothers Donald and William, following the fortunes of Charles the Second, were outlawed, and the remainder of the Lally estates in the Baronies of Dunmore and Kilconnell, County of Galway, were thereupon confis- QQ 2 596 king james's irish army list. cated. The grandson of the last named James O'Mul- lally was another James, a Captain [the officer under present consideration] afterwards Colonel, who was killed at Montmelian. Thus far, almost in the words of the aforesaid Manuscript Pedigree, the authenticity of which is vouched by " Lally Marquis Tollendal, Peer of France, Minister of State, in Paris, 29th October, 1817." This Captain James Lally sat as Eepresentative of Tuam in the Parliament of 1689, in the roll of which he was expressly styled of Tullindaly. When Theo- bald, the second Viscount Dillon, (writes O'Cal- laghan*) raised in 1690, and sent over to France the Eegiment subsequently known as Dillon's Regiment, to form part of Lord Mountcashel's Brigade, having appointed his son Colonel thereof, though then not twenty years of age, he conferred the rank of Colonel, as Commandant of the second Battalion, on his cousin James Lally de Tollendal ; who, with his brothers Gerald, William, and Mark Lally, mainly contributed to form that second Battalion from several independent companies. In the blockade and siege of Montmelian, in November, 1691, this James was killed. Besides this James in Colonel Henry Dillon's Infantry, Edmund Lally was a Captain, and another James Lally was an Ensign in Lord Galway's. The Attainders of 1691 have but the names of James and Gerald. The Tollindaly so confiscated was sold in 1703 to Edward Crew, styled of Carrowkeel, County of Gal- * History of the Brigades, p. 121. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 597 way, it being described as " the castle, town, and lands of Tullynadaly, &c, in the Barony of Dunmore, County of Galway f subject, however, to a legacy to Michael Lally, and portions to Bridget Lally and to Mary Jordan, alias Lally. Gerald Lally, the attainted brother of James and his companion in exile, married in France a lady connected with some of the noblest houses in that kingdom, and they were the parents of Thomas Arthur Lally, the Count Lally, styled, from a devotion to the natale solum, ' de Tollendal.' He was born in Dau- phine in 1702, and was, according to the custom then in France, entered a soldier on his birth. He obtained a Company in Dillon's Irish Brigade at the age of nineteen, and at twenty-five was, on Cardinal Fleury's selection, sent to negotiate some important state affairs with the Court of Eussia ; a mission in which he acquitted himself so well, that he gained the confi- dence of his master and a recommendation from the Czarina. In 1743, he fought at Dettingen. In 1744, a Regiment was drafted from an Irish Brigade for his command, hence styled ' Lally's Regiment,' down to its reduction in 1763. At the battle of Ypres, in May of the following year, this body of men was signally distinguished ; Colonel Lally and several of his officers were wounded. He, however, as Voltaire relates,* " took with his own hand many English officers, whereupon the King caused him to be appointed a Colonel," afterwards a Brigadier-General. * Siecle de Louis XIV., v. 4, p. 181. 598 king james's irish army list. In the succeeding July (1745), when, by the aid of Walsh, a merchant in Nantes, who was an Irish refu- gee, Prince Charles Edward embarked in this last effort to recover the crown of his ancestors, Colonel Lally attended him, shared all the dangers and hardships of that campaign, and was, as Yoltaire expresses it, the soul of the enterprise. The Duke of Cumberland caused him to be seized as a spy, but by influential interposition he was discharged, on the terms of quit- ting England within twenty-four hours. "His hatred of the English and his courage," says Yoltaire, " led to his having been selected some years after to command the expedition required to uphold the French Company established for traffic in India." The details of this appointment and the circumstances con- nected with it are given fully by that historian ; enough here to say that, when he was appointed to this command in 1755, it was avowed that he should have forthwith a force of 3,000 men and £250,000 in money, with three ships of war ; to which the French India Company might add such vessels as they could arm. The equipment was not, however, sent out until two years after, and then so curtailed in every particular, that Lally declined taking charge of it, until peremptorily ordered so to do. The capture by the English in 1761 of Pondicherry, of which he was Governor, closed his career and that war in India. He was taken prisoner by the English, removed to Madras, and thence transported to England ; where, having learned the weighty accusations and charges COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 599 that were raised against him in his own country, he sought and obtained leave to return thither to meet and confute them. Repairing to Fontainbleau, he wrote to the Duke de Choiseul, 4 1 have brought hither my head and my innocence, and shall await your orders/ These orders were of unexampled severity. His property was seized, and himself incarce- rated in the Bastille for fifteen months before he was brought to trial. " Is this the reward of forty years' service ?" he cried, as he passed at the age of 64 to the Conciergerie — to judgment. He was sentenced to die, and having been guarded to the place of execution and gagged, was beheaded in 1766, some hours previ- ous to that which was fixed by his judges. His remains were buried in an obscure church of Paris. Thus died the Count Lally de Tollendal the Elder, the victim of court intrigues to screen the faults of others. He left a son, Gerald de Lally, born at Paris in 1751, who, in the generous reverence of his father's reputation, was successfully labouring in 1789 to obtain from the Parliament of Rouen a reversal of his condemnation and an acknowledgment of his innocence, when the Revolution breaking out paralysed his efforts, and obliged him to seek an asylum in Switzerland. But Gerald was a zealous Royalist, and he it was who, on the memorable 20th of July in that year, presenting the unfortunate King to his people, delivered the eloquent and pathetic address which is extant in the journals and history of the time. His loyalty driving him again into exile. 600 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. he retired into Switzerland ; whence, nevertheless, he returned to Paris in 1792, with the vain hope of saving the King's life, but he was promptly arrested and imprisoned in the Abbaye ; whence making his escape to England, he resided for some years at Rich- mond, until, on the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1814, he was made a Privy Councillor by Louis XVIII. , with whom he retreated to Ghent on the return of the exiled Emperor in the following year. On the second Restoration he was created a Peer, and soon after died. CAPTAIN PATRICK MAC GAWLEY. The Mac Gawleys, or more correctly Mac Awleys, were Chiefs of Calrigia, a territory on the borders of Westmeath and King's County, comprising the present parish of Ballyloughloe in the Barony of Clon- ronan ; while, according to Mac Geoghegan, the Sept also possessed part of the Barony of Kilcoursy in the King's County. They trace their lineage from Manie, the fourth son of Niall of the Nine Hostages ; and a venerable pedigree, long preserved in the family, details the succession from him to Awley of the 13th century, and from him to the present representative. In this pedigree the respective matches of each tanist are confidently given. The Four Masters commemo- rate the death of Aireachtach Mac Awley, then Chief of Calrigia, in 1187. In 1460, Manus Mc Awley, its COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 601 chief, married Una O'Mulloy, daughter of the Lord of Fearcal. In 1527, say the same annalists with undisguised candour, Aulaff Oge Dhu Mac Awley, the Chief of Calrigia, was slain by the Clan Colman ; but previous to his death he had his revenge, for he slew at the same place Fiochadh Mac Geoghegan. In the seventeenth century occurred the marriage of Henry Mac Gawley, then the Chief, with Maria daughter of John Brown of the Neal. A very detailed pedigree in the ascending line of this Henry, through twenty -four generations, to Byrne, son of Maurice, whom it mentions as having been baptized by St. Patrick, is incorporated in a Funeral Entry in Bir- mingham Tower. Henry had by this lady five sons; the above Patrick, Henry, John, Philip, and Gerald. Francis, third son of said Patrick by the daughter of John Leicester of Kilcormack, was father of Awley Mac Awley, who, in the early part of his life, was in the service of Maria Theresa. His son was the late Count Francis Philip Mac Awley, who married in 1808 Clara, daughter and sole heiress of the Count Cerati, and was in 1815 the chosen Prime Minister of the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa. He died in 1835, when his son Valerio, Count Magawley (Cerati), succeeded to the representation of this ancient Sept. The Mac Gawley s attainted in 1691 were the above Patrick, styled of Tulliwood, County of Westmeath, with twelve others of the name. He had risen to be a Lieutenant-Colonel in this campaign, and was adjudged within the Articles of 1698. At the Court 602 king james's irish army list. of Claims in 1700, Christopher Mac Gawley and Jane his wife claimed an estate tail in Westmeath lands forfeited by James Mac Gawley, but their prayer was disallowed ; while a Patrick Mac Gawley sought and obtained a long leasehold term, and a mortgage affecting Westmeath lands, as well those of said James as of Henry Mac Gawley. In 1709, a Michael ' Mac Auley ' was a Colonel in Spain of a Regiment formed by Philip the Fifth, of those Irish who had deserted from the English army then in that country ; and in the Spanish campaign of the follow- ing year O'Conor * mentions this Eegiment as having been distinguished. CAPTAIN WALTER BLAKE. The founder of this family in Ireland, says Sir Bernard Burke in his Baronetage, was Richard Blake, alias Caddell, who accompanied Prince John in 1185 into this Kingdom, and subsequently obtained large grants in Connaught. His descendant and namesake was commanded in 1303, as Sheriff of Connaught, to levy a debt due to the Crown by David de Burgo. — In 1487, Robert Blake was Bishop of Clonmacnoise by the Pope's provision. Francis Blake of this old Galway family was one of the Confederates at the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, of which Assembly Sir Richard Blake, the founder of the family of Ardfry, * O'Conors Milit. Mem. p. 353. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 603 was Speaker. In King James's New Charter to Gal way in 1687, fourteen of this name were set down upon the Eoll of Burgesses. Eight of the name of Blake were attainted in 1691, and amongst them the above Walter, described as of Galway. He was in truth Sir Walter Blake of Menlough ; and, though he was one of the Representatives of the County of Galway in the Parliament of 1689, he was yet, says Sir Bernard Burke,* 4 the first Catholic gentleman that joined the standard of the Prince of Orange, and obtained a commission from his Highness to raise a Eegiment which he maintained and clothed at his own expense.' He was, however, formally attainted in 1691, as was also John Blake of Ardfry ; but Sir Walter was adjudged within the articles of 1698 and 1699, as were Lieutenant Blake of Drum, and Eichard Blake of Ardfry. The latter was one of the Burgesses named in the New Charter to Galway, but not having taken arms for either party, his own burned Ardfry and destroyed his property, in conse- quence of which De Ginkle promised him relief that he afterwards obtained; but, being a papist, much diffi- culty was interposed to his getting possession of his lands. f Francis and Martin Blake, who were also of King James's party, obtained pardons under the Great Seal. At Chichester House Sir Walter Blake claimed and was allowed a fee in estates in the County of Clare, forfeited by John Blake of Ardfry ; while on other estates of said John, Isidore and Patrick Blake, * Peerage, p. 90. f Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. p. 38. 604 king james's irish army list. minors, by their uncle and guardian Thomas Lynch, sought respective remainders ; as did Mary Lynch, otherwise Blake, his widow, her jointure. Joseph Henry Blake, the representative of the Ardfry line, was in 1800 ennobled by the title of Lord Baron Wallscourt. CAPTAIN WILLIAM BRABAZON. Sir Bernard Burke remarks in his Peerage that Jaques C. Brabazon appears in the Roll of Battle- Abbey, as one of the Knights that accompanied the Conqueror to England. In 1534, his lineal descend- ant, Sir William Brabazon, was Vice-Treasurer and General-Receiver of Ireland, and was thrice at £he head of the Irish government as Lord Justice. His eldest son, Edward Brabazon, was one of the Repre- sentatives for the County of Wicklow in Perrot's Par- liament of 1585, and from him have descended the Earls of Meath. This name does not appear on the Attainders of 1641 ; but in 1652, Anthony Brabazon, described as of Ballinasloe, a younger branch of the aforesaid Sir William, and ancestor of the Baronets of the County of Mayo, was excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell's Ordinance. It has not been ascertained of what family was the above Captain ; and the Earl of Meath of that day was so identified with King William, as to have been attainted in James's Parliament. He had the com- COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 605 mand of a Regiment in the service of the former at the battle of the Boyne ; at the subsequent first siege of Limerick led a Regiment, on which occasion several of his men were shot,* and he was wounded ; was sworn of King William's Privy Council, and afterwards of Queen Anne's, and died in February, 1708, s.P. CAPTAIN HUGH MAC DERMOT. The early annals of this once powerful family are fully detailed in the ' Book of Lecan,' avowedly from the more ancient Psalter of Cashel. The 1 Book of Kilronan,' compiled by their chief ' Seanachies] the O'Duigenans, has, as might be expected, most inte- resting particulars of their lineage. He, who in re- mote time may be pointed out as Prepositus of this Sept, was Maolruana, King of Moylurg at the time of the battle of Clontarf in 1014 ; he, however, having been, as the Annalists relate, too old to be pre- sent at that great engagement, one of his sons led his Sept, the Clan-Maolruana, on that memorable day. His lineal descendant in the seventh generation was Dermott, who died in 1159, " Supreme Councillor, Sage, and excellent Mediator of one-fifth of Con. naught," In him the surname originated, while their territory was called Moylurg. Conor, the son of this Dermott, Tanist of Moylurg in the twelfth century, after enjoying the sovereignty of this little principal- * Rawdon Papers, p. 334. 606 king james's irish army list. it j for ten years, took upon him the Cistercian habit, and became a monk in the Abbey of Boyle, within whose still noble and picturesque walls he was interred in 1198 ; whereupon the government hereof devolved upon Tumultagh (Timothy) Mac Dermot, his son, who erected in 1204 the original castle on an Island of Lough Ke, within the beautiful demesne of Viscount Lorton. Thomas, (the son of Ferral Mac Dermot, theretofore Abbot of Boyle), was in 1262 promoted to the Bishopric of Elphin. In this interval branched off the founders of the Mac Dermots-na-Gall and the McDermotts Ruagh (Roe). Early in the fourteenth century Dermot McDermot ofMoylurgwas one of the Irish Magnates who, from a hatred of the English government, invited the invasion of Edward, the brother of King Robert Bruce. On his arrival in Ulster, Dermot was one of the first who joined his standard, and fell, his unsuccessful ally, in the last struggle of the invader at the battle of Athenry, with many other McDermots, his adherents. From Conor Mac Dermot of this period sprung the McDermots 'of the Rock.' To the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot in 1585, Teigue the son of Hugh 'Oge,' being tanist of Moylurg and very old, sent his relative ' of the Rock,' viz. Bryan, son of Rory, son of Teigue, son of Rory Oge, who was the great grandson of Connor, the founder of that line (as aforesaid), to represent the Sept at this first national Assembly. Teigue's line afterwards became extinct, and the Captainship passed to the family ' of the Rock.' COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 607 In 1602, when the Lord Deputy Mount joy passed the Christmas at Galway, the McDermot (styled 'of the Curlews') made his submission to him. Bryan McDermot was then the Chief; in 1603, how- ever, his estates were held to be confiscated, and seven leading members of the Sept were obliged to sue out their pardons. In 1604, King James granted to Sir Theobald Dillon, Knight, (afterwards created Viscount Dillon, and ancestor of the Colonel of this Regiment), the wardship of Bryan Oge McDermot, son and heir of the aforesaid Bryan ' of the Rock,' for the consideration of a fine of £4, and an annual rent of £3 6s. 8d., the patentee retaining thereout certain allowances for the maintenance and education of the minor. This Bryan attained age in 1618, when he had from the Crown a grant which would seem magnificent and extensive (covering as it does sixteen skins of parchment, the first richly illu- minated) yet comprising but a portion of the former princely inheritance of the Sept. He died Chief in 1636, and was buried in a church founded by one of his ancestors, within the holy ambit of Clonmacnoise. His second son, Charles, on the death of an elder brother Terence without issue, became seized of Moy- lurg — its last Chief. He had married Eleanor, daughter 'of the great O'Mulloy of Croghan,'* in the County of Roscommon. Hugh Mc Dermot, the Captain in this notice, was * For fuller particulars of this fine old Sept, see D'Alton's Annals of Boyle, v. 1, p. 97, &c. 608 king james's irish army list. the eldest son of said Charles and Eleanor ; he was taken prisoner at Aughrim, bnt, on the interference and by the interest of Sir Bobert King, the ancestor of Viscount Lorton, (then residing at Eockingham, part of the ancient property of the McDermots), he was released, avowedly by reason of the humanity and kindness evinced by him towards the Protestant Clergy and Laity. He intermarried with Eliza, daughter of O'Kelly of Aughrim, and by her had issue Charles and Terence. In January, 1688, Ballymote was garrisoned by the latter, who represented the Borough of Boyle in King James's Parliament of Dublin, and was consequently attainted in King William's ; whereupon all his interest in the family estates (the greater portion of which had been conveyed in 1669 to him by his father) was confiscated ; and his brother Charles succeeded only to Coolavin on the death of their father, Captain Hugh, in 1707. Before that event, in September, 1690, this Charles was, in virtue of King James's Commission, directed and empowered to receive for his Majesty the Castle of Carrick Mac Dermott, i.e. the Castle of the Bock, in Lough Ke, and the Castle or Strong House of Canbo, and all other the Castles and Strong Houses upon the said Charles's estate and ancient inheritance. He died in 1758, at the advanced age of 98, leaving issue by his lady, Catherine Dillon of the House of Clonbrock, Myles his eldest son, who married a daughter of Charles O'Conor, the elder historian, and died at Coolavin in 1793, leaving issue Hugh and COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 609 other children. Hugh married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Denis O'Conor of Ballinagar, (ancestor of the O'Conors Don), and by her had Charles and several other children. Charles intermarried with Arabella O'Eourke of the ancient Sept of Brefhy, by whom he has a numerous issue, and he now ranks as the lineal representative of the elder line of the Mac Dermots. Besides the above Captain Hugh, there are in commission, in different Eegiments of this Army List, nine other McDermots or McDermotts. In the Parliament of 1689, Terence McDermott, who was an Alderman of Dublin, and a Captain in Sir Michael Creagh's Infantry, represented, with his Colonel, that City. Terence of Coolavin, with Captain John King, represented the Borough of Boyle ; while Eobert Dermot was one of the Members for Dundalk, and Bryan Dermod for Carlingford. The Attainders of 1691 exhibit the names of thirteen of the Sept. CAPTAIN TEEENCE McDONOUGH. The McDonoughs were a powerful Sept in the County of Sligo, having an extensive territory in the Barony of Corran; they were also at a very early date established in the County of Cork, where they held the noble castle of Kanturk. In the former County they are considered to have branched from the Mac Dermots, in the latter from the McCarties. This Sept is expressly stated by the Four Masters to have taken RR 610 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. their patronymic in Sligo, from a Donough who flou- rished there in 1278. The same Annalists record, with much importance of language, the progress of Mac Donough of Tyrrerill in 1397 to the plain of Connaught (about Boyle), with his whole force, pro- perty, and cattle, in order to aid the O'Conor. In 1446, " the McDonoughs, Turlough Carrach O'Connor, and O'Conor Don having joined Mac William of Clan- ricarde, for the purpose of appointing a McDonough in Tyrrerill, they finally agreed on electing two Mac Donoughs, giving half of the country to each, namely to John, the son of Conor McDonough, and to Teigue the son of Tomaltach More McDonough." In 1598, " Ballymote, (in Sligo) which had been in possession of the Queen's people for thirteen years till this time, was taken by its own original inheritors, namely, by the McDonoughs of Corran." By a patent of 1617 various manors, castles, towns, and lands of their ancient territory in the County of Sligo were, accord- ing to the policy of the day, re-granted on new and more forfeitable tenures to different members of this Sept, as also to those of O'Hara, O'Higgins, and O'Connor ; while the same patent included other re-grants to the O'Dowdes and O'Garas in that county and in Mayo. The Attainders of 1642 have the names of five M'Donoughs ; those of 1691, twelve. On the Army List, besides Captain Terence, there appear Henry M'Donough, a Lieutenant in Sir Charles O'Brian's Infantry ; and Morgan M'Donough, an Ensign in Colonel Oliver O'Gara's. In the Parli- COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 611 ament of Dublin the above Terence M'Donough was one of the Representatives returned for the Borough of Sligo, but appears to have been the same Captain, who was at that time taken prisoner at Deny in the attack at the Windmill ;* while Hamilton, in his " Enniskilleners" (p. 19) says that in May, 1689, Ballyshannon was relieved by them, and the Irish obliged to evacuate. " All their foot fled away to- towards Sligo, or got off safe, except some few that were taken in the Fish Island near the town, with their Captain, one Mac Donough, a counsellor-at-law, commonly known by the name of 'blind' Mac Donough." In 1690, one of the Cork McDonoughs was appointed by King James a Governor of that County. LIEUTENANT PAUL RUTLEDGE. This officer is described, in the Inquisition taken on his attainder, as 'of Clontikilty, County Mayo.' A James Rutledge, on the same roll of outlawries, was possessed of property in the town of Galway, off which Catherine Rutledge, otherwise Blake, claimed and was allowed jointure. LIEUTENANT MURROUGH MELAGHLIN. The power of the family that bore this name, and the * Walker's Derry, p. 61. RR 2 612 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. extent of territory over which it lorded as a Koyal appropriation, are evinced in the grant from Henry the Second to Hugh de Lacy, making over to him the whole Province of Meath, including Westmeath (of modern partition); yet, in the lapse of centuries, this great name has become extinct, or is only sought to be traced in existing assimilations, as M'Loughlin, O'Laughlin, &c. According to the native chronicles, a daughter of O'Melaghlin, King of Meath in the ninth century, was the agent of killing Turgesius the Danish tyrant, by a stratagem like that related by Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas. At the commence- ment of the eleventh century, Malachy O'Melaghlin, theretofore the acknowledged King of Ireland, was deposed by Brien Boroimhe. In 1105, the territory of Meath was divided between the sons of Donald O'Melaghlin. In the progress of the same century, Murrough O'Melaghlin was one of the chief leaders in the feudal conflicts, that opened Ireland to the English adventurers ; while the abduction of his daughter, then wife of O'Pourke, is effectively narrated by the Annalists as leading in that invasion. His Kingdom passed from him, and even his great mensal patri- mony, the Province of Meath, was given as a Palati- nate to Hugh de Lacy, to be held as amply as it had been enjoyed by said Murrough. This great family was, however, afterwards one of the five Irish Septs to whom the privilege of using the English laws was confined. In 1314, when Edward the Second sought the aid of the Irish magnates, he directed an especial COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 613 letter missive to 1 UMelan Helyn, Duci Hibemorum Midice? In 1462, when the remaining estates of this family were invaded by the Palesmen, aided by the Lord Deputy, the native clans espoused their cause and took the Viceroy prisoner. In the time of James the First, this Sept was stripped of a very considera- ble portion of their old territory, a large tract of which, described as ' O'Melaghlin's Country,' situated about Clonmacnoise, and comprising advowsons, rec- tories, churches, chief rents, lands, &c. was granted to Kichard, Earl of Clanricarde ; while about the same time Francis Blundel, ' Clerk of the Commission for Defective Titles,' had a grant of other O'Melaghlin estates in the County of Westmeath. On the Attain- ders of 1642, only two of the name appear, William (Dhu) Mc Melaghlin, and Edmund Mc Melaghlin of Ballyshanduff, County of Wicklow. The outlawries of 1691 name but one, Maolseachlin O'Melaghlin, of Lough-Mask, County of Mayo ; so completely had the family been expelled from their ancient province. LIEUTENANT LUKE SHEILL. The O'Sheills were an ancient Clan of the County of Antrim, and accordingly another officer of the name, Lieutenant Patrick 'O'Sheale,' stands on the roll of Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's Infantry. This Luke or Lucas was, however, of Ballinderry, County of West- meath ; by which description he, William Sheill, and 614 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Denis Sheill were attainted in 1691. There were also then outlawed Daniel 'O'Sheal' of Creggan, County of Antrim ; Francis O'Shiel of Boviddy, County of Derry ; Hugh O'Sheil of Drumgolan, County of Down, clerk ; and Patrick 'Sheile' of An- nabeg, County of Sligo. In 1695, Roger Sheill, the eldest son of the above William of Ballinderry, peti- tioned the Irish House of Commons, stating that he was a Protestant and the eldest son of a Papist, and praying that a Committee might be appointed to pre- pare heads of a Bill to prevent his being disinherited by his said father. To this petition William Sheill replied, setting forth "that he was willing, without an Act of Parliament, to settle his estates on his Protes- tant sons and none else, and that he had no design to disinherit his eldest son Roger Sheill, as being a Pro- testant, though he be less dutiful to him than his other sons ; and praying that in regard his real estate is not worth above £10 per annum, and that the allegations of his son Eoger are false, that the House would examine into the truth on both sides." A Committee was accordingly appointed for the purpose. In 1747, a Captain 'Sheill,' was killed at Lauffield in Dillon's Regiment. ENSIGN THOMAS DOLPHIN. This name is of record in the native Annals from the time of Henry the Third. COLONEL HENRY DILLON'S INFANTRY. 615 ENSIGN EDMUND DOWELL. This officer does not appear on the Attainders ot 1691; the only persons of the name there are Hugo and Patrick O'Dowell of Tullyard, County of Down ; and Dionysius 'Dowell' of Moneylagh, County of Roscommon. ENSIGN THOMAS COSTELLO. The Costellos, or, as the family were more usually styled on the Irish records, Mc Costellos, sprung in truth from Hostilio the second son of Gilbert de An- gulo. In 1192, his descendant and namesake Gilbert Mac Costello led what the Annalists call an army to Easroa near Bally shannon, and there erected a castle. Myles Mc Costello invaded the country of Mac Ranall in 1247, but was repulsed. In 1487, say the Four Masters, John (Dim) Mc Costello, Lord of Sleive Lugha (in Mayo) died, and two of the Sept were nomi- nated to succeed him ; and in 1565, when recount- ing the military expedition of Sir Richard Bingham through that county, they mark Castlemore, near Ballaghaderrin, as the chief seat of the Mac Costello. In 1666, say the Rawdon Papers, 'the great Tory, Colonel Costello, was killed.' The name does not ap- pear on the attainders of 1641, and only that of Wil- liam Costello, of Ross, County of Wexford, on those of 1691 ; but, by the proceedings before the Court of 616 king james's irish army list. Claims in 1700, it is shown that a Thomas 'Costelloe' there claimed a remainder in Mayo lands, forfeited by Miles 'Costelloe;' his petition was, however, 'dismist.' ENSIGN PHELIM HAKT. The name of Hart or 'Hert' is of Irish record from the time of Edward the First, while O'Dugan says that the O'Harts were an ancient Sept, settled in the immediate vicinity of Tara. On the Attainders of 1642 are two O'Hartes and one Hart. The name does not appear on those of 1691 ; but, at the sales of 1703, the estate of a John Hart, described as 'of Blundelstown, County of Dublin,' was sold as forfeited property by the Commissioners. Besides this Ensign, a Simon Hart held the same rank in the Infantry Kegiment of Sir Maurice Eustace. LORD GAL WAY'S INFANTRY. 617 REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. ULICK, LORD GALWAY's. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. Edward Tully. Richard Wolferston. Morrogh Flaherty, James Lynch. Daniel Mally. Lieut. Colonel. Thomas Magrath. Terence Magrath. James Egan. Miles Bourke. Redmond Archdeacon. Carberry Egan. Thomas Bourke. Ulick Bourke. . Hubert Bourke. John Power. David Stapleton. William Synon. M'Laughlin Donnelan. M'Laughlin Daly. Gerald Bourke. John M'Coghlan. Cornelius Coghlan. Morgan ' Cuolaghan. Thomas Bourke. Eichard Bourke. Francis Bourke. Edmund Lally. William Kelly. James Lally. John Carroll. William Carroll. Daniel Carroll. James Power. Richard Bourke. Thomas Lynch. Cornelius Horan. Roger Horan. Lawrence Carroll. James Lynch. Ulick ' Bonrck.' Dominick Martin. COLONEL ULICK DE BURGH, LORD GALWAY. The family of Bourke and Burke has been noticed as fully, as here allowable, at the Earl of Clanricarde's Regiment of Infantry, ante, p. 5 1 1 , &c. This Ulick was the eldest son of William, Earl of Clanricarde, by his second wife. He was created Baron Tyaquin and Viscount Galway. Lodge characterizes him as a nobleman of true courage, and endued with many good qualities. He fought in this army when but 618 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. twenty-two years of age, and fell at Aughrim. " Some say," writes Story, " that my Lord Galway had hard measure from some of our troops, who killed him after he had surrendered himself a prisoner, not to themselves but to some others." LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MORROGH O'FLAHERTY. This Sept was originally settled in the Barony of Clare, County of Galway ; whence in the thirteenth century they were driven to the western side of Lough Corrib, and were there styled Lords of Iar or Western Connaught. On the islands of that water they had many castles, traces of some of which still remain. " Itf 1132," writes Hardiman,* " the King of Munster despatched a body of men by sea, to take the Castle of Galway, which his General Cormac Mac Carthy having effected, put the garrison to the sword, levelled and destroyed the Castle and Town, and soon after defeated and slew Connor O'Flahertie, Lord of Iar-Connaught." In 1243, Henry the Third sum- moned the O'Flahertie to do military service against the King of Scotland.f To Perrot's Parliament in 1585, " no one of note went from the Western Province of Connaught, except Morrogh (' na duaghj 1 of the battle-axes,') the son of Teigue, son of * History of Galway, p. 40. | Lynch, on Feudal Dignities, p. 191. LORD GAL WAY'S INFANTRY. 619 Morrogh, son of Koderic O'Flaherty."* About this time the O'Briens were expelled from the Isles of Arran by the OTlaherties of Iar-Connaught, when a Commission issued which found them the right of the Queen, and she thereupon granted them to John Rawson of Athlone.f In 1606, John King, of Dub- lin, had a grant from the Crown of castles and lands, estates of the OTlaherties in the County of Galway, - slain in rebellion;' while in 1610, Morrough-ne- Moyer OTflahertie of Benowen had a grant of the castles or forts of Benowen, and Ballynahinch, with various lands, fisheries, and chief-rents, described as having come to the Crown by the attainder of Teigue, son of Sir Morrogh-ne-doe O'Flahertie, 'lately slain in rebellion.' In two years after, Sir Robert Newcomen, Knight, had a grant of other Galway lands, part of the estate of said Teigue. Morrogh Flaherty of Culvin, County of Westmeath, is the the only one of this name on the Outlawries of 1642. In Cromwell's Act of 1652, said Morrough-ne- Moyer O'Flaherty of the County of Galway, and Teigue O'Flaherty were excepted from pardon for life and estate. The former passed out of Ireland to serve King Charles the Second 4 beyond the seas,' and received that Monarch's thanks therefor in the clause of Eoyal gratitude embodied in the Act of Settlement. Eoderic O'Flahertie, the well-known author of the ' Ogygia^ 1 was born in 1630, within the old family ter- * Four Masters, ad ann. t Ilardiman's Galway, p. 319. 620 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. ritory at Moycullen, his interest in which was lost on the confiscations of 1641. He dedicated the Ogygia to James, then Duke of York* ; and was living on the old soil in 1709, when Mr. Molineux, the antiquary, made him a visit, which is very interestingly spoken of in a Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, (I. 4, 12.) Nine years after, he died, in the 89th year of his age, of want, as is alleged in a Tract recently published by the Irish Archaeological Society. In 1641, Morrough Dhu OTflahertie was chosen one of the Captains of the forces raised by the Assembly then held at Loughrea, and his able resistance to the Marquis of Clanricarde, is often alluded to in the Memoirs of that nobleman. Amongst the nobles and chiefs, who went out of Ireland to Charles the Second in his exile, and who were afterwards specially men- tioned in his Letter from Breda, was this Captain Morrough, then the OTflahertie, and who had married the daughter of Viscount Mayo. Besides this officer, whose Lieutenant-Colonelcy was soon after given to John Power, Hugh Flaherty was a Lieutenant in Colonel Heward Oxburgh's Infantry. The Eoll of the ensuing Outlawries names Teigue Mac Morgan Flaherty of Ballynahinch, and Hugo and Patrick Flaherty of Park, in the County of Gal way, but has no mention of this Morrough ; while at the Court of 1700, Bryan Flaherty claimed and was allowed a term for years in County of Galway lands 'forfeited by Morrogh Flaherty.' * Ware's Writers, p. 271. LORD GALWAY'S INFANTRY. 621 Amongst the Manuscripts of Marsh's Library, ( V. 3. 1. 25, No. 25) is a Petition of Cornet Robert Fla- herty, in which he states " that, being bred a Protest- ant, he had ever sought to advance the cause of King William and that religion, that he was suffering for his principles, &c, and prayed Royal relief." In the alarm which existed in 1745, on the assertion of the Pretender's title in Scotland, the representative of this family proffered to the Viceroy (the Earl of Chester- field) at Dublin Castle, the most solemn assurances of his fidelity and of that of his family and people to the King's person and government. His grandson, John, inherited the remaining family estates, and, accepting a commission in his Majesty's army, was styled therein Sir John O'Fflahertie, his ancestors having been always held to be hereditary Knights of West Con- naught. Sir John's son and heir, says Lynch,* is the present Thomas Henry O'Fflahertie of Lemonfield, County of Galway, who still inherits a portion of the family estates. In 1747, Captain Francis Flaherty, in Lally's Regiment, was severely wounded in the battle at Laufheld. In 1768, died at Nice Count O'Flaherty, who had been long in the Imperial service ; and in two years after died General O'Flaherty, for many years in the service of Spain. * Feudal Dignities, p. 1G3. 622 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. captain Mclaughlin donelan. The Sept of the O'Donelans, from which this Captain descended, were Chiefs of Clan-Breasail in the Barony of Leitrim, County of Galway ; and are so located by O'Dugan in his Topographical Poem on Ireland. They also ruled over Hy Tuirtre, a territory lying along the northern shores of Lough Neagh, comprising the Baronies of Toome and Antrim, in the County of Antrim. They derive their lineage from Murrough Mullethan, a King of Connaught in the eighth century, from whose time frequent annals of their obits in the Irish Chronicles commemorate them as c Chief Poets' of that Province. In 1412, Tully O'Donelan, then Chief, built the Castle of Ballydonelan on the site, it is related, of a more ancient stronghold of his family. He also built a chapel and family cemetery at the abbey of Kilconnel, hence called ' Chapel-Tully.' Melaghlin O'Donelan died at Ballydonelan in 1548 ; he was father of Dr. Nehemiah, who was educated at Cambridge, and consecrated Archbishop of Tuam on Queen Elizabeth's patent in 1595. He married Elizabeth O'Donnell, daughter of the then Earl of Tyrconnell, and died in 1609, leavingbyher, John, his eldest son, and James, who became Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. John was the great-grandfather of the above officer, who should be more correctly styled, 4 Me- laghlin Donelan.' He rose to the rank of Colonel, was wounded at Aughrim, and was afterwards com- prehended in the Articles of Limerick. He had mar- LORD GAL WAY'S INFANTRY. 623 ried Mary, daughter of Robert Dillon, (ancestor of the Lords Clonbrock,) and died at his house in Dublin in 1726, leaving issue, through which this family has been since represented, and is now by another Malachy, a minor. James Donelan, the brother of the above officer, was a Captain and afterwards a Major in Lord Louth's Regiment of Infantry. At the close of the campaign he passed into France where he obtained a commission and rank from Louis the Fourteenth, but was killed in Piedmont in 1693. The Attainders of 1691 included Edward Donnelan of Killenane, County of Galway ; with James Donelan of Bally donelan. In 1696, Nehemiah Donellan, a collateral of this House, being then a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, was appointed one of the Commis- sioners of the Great Seal, and had at the same time a grant of lands in the Counties of Galway and Roscom- mon. In 1703, he was appointed Chief Baron. This Nehemiah was the surviving son of the aforesaid Sir James Donellan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He had married Mary, daughter of Alderman John Preston of Dublin, and had issue by her James, John, and William Donellan. She died in September, 1684, and was buried in Christ Church.* The peti- tions preferred against the forfeited estates by Donelans in 1700, were for claims attaching to the confiscations of Lord Bophin, Lord Galway, Hugh Kelly, Sir Edward Tyrrell, and the Earl of Clanri- carde. In 1742, Peter O'Donelan was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert. * Funeral Entry, Berm. Tur. 624 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN CORNELIUS HORAN. The O'Horans were a clan in the County of Gal way. This Captain does not appear on the Roll of Attainders, but his Lieutenant Roger Horan does, and is there described as of Abbey Gormigan, County of Gal way. LIEUTENANT EDWARD TULLY. He was also of a Galway family ; and though he does not appear on the Attainders of 1691, there are there Thaddeus Tully, of Athlone, Thomas of Galway, and Matthew of Clymore in that County. Claims on the estates of the latter were preferred in 1700 by Agnes Tully, his widow, for her jointure, as well as on behalf of her sons by said Matthew, viz. Edward, William, Thomas, and Matthias, for remainders ; and on behalf of her daughters Mary and Agnes for their portions. These claims were, however, dismissed for non-prosecu- tion, and the estate of Clymore was thereupon sold by the Commissioners of the Forfeitures to Frederick Trench, Esq. of Galbally, ancestor of the Earl of Clancarty. LIEUTENANT DAVID STAPLETON. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of the English Invasion. Another officer of the name, LORD GALWAY'S INFANTRY. 625 Piers, was a Lieutenant in Major-General Boiseleau's Infantry, and in their attainders they are described, the former as of Kilbolane and Buttevant, the latter as of Ballyfrizzle, County of Cork ; while another Stapleton, whose Christian name is not given, is styled of Portumna, County of Galway. At the memorable battle of Fontenoy, fought on the 11th of May, 1745, M. Stapleton, Lieutenant-Colonel in Berwick's Brigade, was, in consequence of his gallant conduct, promoted to be a Brigadier. Being made a prisoner at Culloden in the ensuing year, he headed a memorial from the officers there taken, to the Duke of Cumber- land, by which, acknowledging themselves prisoners of war of His Britannic Majesty, they engaged not to go out of the town of Inverness without his Grace's licence. " Done at the Head Quarters at Inverness, April 17th, 1746." Signed and sealed. This interest- ing memorial of banished Irish Cavaliers is preserved in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1746, p. 211. ENSIGN WILLIAM SHINAN. The attainder of this officer describes him as of Kil- bolane, County of Cork ; while a previous attainder of 1642 has William Shynnane of Castletown in the same county ; but the name so spelt was evidently corrupted from O'Shanahan — " a Sept," writes that able Irish genealogist, Dr. Mc Dermott, in his notes to the Four Masters (Geraghty's edition, p. 199), ss 626 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. " descended from Lorcan, King of Munster, and grandfather of Brian Bom, and hence a branch of the Dalcassians. They were in ancient times power- ful Chiefs, and in the great battle of Moinmor in Desmond, fought in 1151, it is stated by the Four Masters that, amongst others, seven chiefs of the O'Shanahans were slain. Their ancient territory was called Feadha Hy Eongaile, or 'the Woods of Hy Eongaile,' comprising the country about Eibhlone, near Cashel. In modern times they possessed the lands of Eathmoyne, between Cashel and Temple- more." EEGIMENTS OF INFANTEY. LORD JOHN BELLEW'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Lord Bellew, Colonel. [Nicholas Fitzgerald, Lieutenant-Colonel. ] [John Dowdele, Major.] Colin Hanlon. John Hanlon. Patrick Hanlon. Henry O'Neill. Ter. Morris. Oliver Murphy. Phelim ' Murphie.' Daniel Crowley. Bryan 'Murphye.' Dennis ' Murphie.' John ' Murphey.' Eichard Bellew. John Dowdall. Patrick Bellew. Tady Crowley. Hugh 0"Xeill, John Halfpenny. Grenad. LOUD BELLEW's INFANTRY. 627 COLONEL JOHN LORD BELLEW. The family of Bellew, originally of Norman descent, came with the Conqueror to England, and into Ire- land in the ensuing century. In both countries it has been so distinguished, as to exhibit no less than eighteen Knights of the pre-eminently chivalrous Order of the Banner ; while Peers and distinguished Commoners of the same lineage occur most numerous on the Soils of Parliament, but whose honors, by fail- ure of issue, or yet more by attainders, have become extinct. Sichard Bellew was one of the Sepresenta- tives of Dundalk in Perrot's Parliament of 1585 ; and Sir John Bellew of Willystown in Louth repre- sented that County in the Parliament of 1639. He was afterwards one of the members of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646 ; and as such was excepted from pardon for life and estate by Cromwell's Act of 1652. Having married Mary, daughter of Sobert Dillon of Clonbrock (ancestor of the Lords Clonbrock), he was himself the founder of the lines that are now represented by Lord Bellew and Sir Michael Dillon Bellew respectively. John Bellew of Bellewstown, who had by the Act of Settlement been restored to his previously usurped estates, was the Colonel above named. On the acces- sion of James the Second he was knighted, appointed one of that Monarch's earliest Councillors, and soon after created an Irish Peer by the title of Baron Bel- lew of Duleek, and was also constituted Lord Lieute- ss 2 628 king james's irish army list. nant and Governor of the County of Louth. In the command of this Regiment he was taken prisoner at Aughrim, and was so severely wounded that he died in the following January, as commemorated on his tomb, still standing in the middle of the aisle of Duleek church. It states that he was shot in the belly at Aughrim, and that, " as soon as he found himself able to undertake a journey, he went with his lady to London, where he died, 12th January, 1692. He was laid in a vault at Westminster till the April fol- lowing, when his corpse was brought hither." His lady, Dame Mary Bellew, alias Bermingham, of Dunfert, County of Kildare, who erected the monument, died in 1694. Lord Bellew was outlawed in 1691, and his estates were actually granted to Lords Roinney and Trevor ; but, he having been comprehended within the Articles of Limerick, these estates were restored to his second son, Richard, who had obtained a par- don, as hereafter noted. The Honorable Walter, the eldest son of Lord Bellew, succeeded to the title, and was by court influence permitted to enjoy it, though he too was wounded at Aughrim. He died without issue male in 1696, when the aforesaid Richard became the third Lord Bellew. His son John was the fourth, but he also died without issue male at Lisle, whereby the Bellewstown line became extinct. The Attainders of 1642 comprise the names of Nicholas Bellew of Balruddery, surgeon ; and of Patrick Bellew of Athboy. The Declaration of Royal gratitude from Charles the Second, as 'for services beyond the seas,' includes Lawrence Bellew of , County of Louth. LORD BELLEW'S INFANTRY. 629 Besides the three Bellews, officers in this Eegiraent, there were eleven others commissioned on this Army List. In King James's Parliament of 1689 Lord Bellew sat as one of the Peers, while in the Commons Thomas Bellew was one of the Representatives for the County of Louth. On the 3rd of July in that year the Duke of Berwick wrote to General Hamil- ton, then besieging Derry, "I marched yesterday morning from Newtown- Stewart, and joining Sunder- land at 'Omey,' I marched hither (Trelick)........My advance guard cut off several of their sentries, and pushed a great many of the Rebels' party with such vigour as they beat, with thirty dragoons, three troops of Horse of theirs, which were drawn up at a distance from us. Captain Patrick 4 Belue' (i. e. Bellew of this Regiment) and Major 'Magdonnel' commanded the van-guard. There was eight or nine of the enemy killed, but none of ours."* Schomberg, soon after he landed in Ulster, garrisoned Lord Bellew's Castle near Dundalk. "At our coming to Dundalk," (in September, 1689), writes Story, "we got about 2,000 of Lord Bellew's sheep, which came in very good time to the army, for it had gone hard with us before, for want of provisions."! During this sojourn of Schom- berg, three of his Colonels, dying of distemper, were interred in Lord Bellew's vault at Dundalk, but they were taken up on the Irish regaining possession of the place, and interred at the church door.J In * MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin, F 2, 19. t Story's Impartial History, pt. 1, p. 19. \ Idem, p. 36. 630 king james's irish army list. 1690, Thomas Bellew was one of the Deputy Lieu- tenants of the County of Meath, as was Roger Bellew of that of Louth. The Inquisitions of 1691 include Richard Lord Bellew, with eighteen other Bellews. In 1696, this Richard Lord Bellew preferred his peti- tion for pardon, grounded on allegations and proofs which were admitted, and he afterwards sat in the House of Peers in 1707. His sister was the wife of Denis Kelly of Aughrim, who was long a state pri- soner in the Tower of London. John, the eldest son of Sir Patrick Bellew of Barmeath, had also at this time a pardon under the Great Seal. At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, various claims were pre- ferred as affecting the Meath estates of Thomas Bel- lew of Gafhey and Dundalk. [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NICHOLAS FITZGERALD.] This officer does not appear on the present Army List, but his appointment is mentioned in Graham's Derriana (p. 36). Of the family name, see post, "Sir John Fitzgerald's Infantry." [MAJOR JOHN 'DOWDELE.'] Neither is his name on this Army List, but is sup- plied from King's State of the Protestants, Appendix. Of the family, see ante, at the Royal Infantry. LOUD BELLEW'S INFANTRY. 631 CAPTAIN COLIN HANLON. The O'Hanlons were Tanists of a large territory within the present County of Armagh, and up to the time of James the First enjoyed the honor and office of Hereditary Standard-bearer of Ulster — a privilege which Sir William Kussel, when Lord Deputy, with due policy recognised ; as, marching against O'Neill and the Northern insurgents, he committed the royal standard, (which the O'Mulloy had carried through the Pale), to Hugh O'Hanlon, who had theretofore submitted to English government. In 1314, King Edward directed an especial letter missive to Neill O'Hanlon, ' Duci Hibernorum de Erther] for his aid in the Scottish war. In 1337, on the violation of a peace existing between the Crown and Donald O'Han- lon, a Commission was directed to enquire into the circumstances of such disruption, and in 1346 it was provided, that he should be taken under the protec- tion of the King. In the reign of James the First, encroachments having been made, in the working out of the Plantation of Ulster, on the estates of Patrick O'Hanlon, who was at the time a pensioner of the King, he petitioned the Privy Council of England, who in 1605 thereupon ordered that he should be re- stored to his lands in the County of Tyrone ; and that an equivalent in lands should be given to him, in lieu of any injury he may have received by the erection of Fort-Norris on his land ; and that the pension granted to him by the late Queen should be 632 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. continued. In the same year Sir Oghy O'Hanlon was one of the Ulster forfeitors ; and, as his lands adjoined the fort and castle of Moyry, County of Armagh, a certain portion was allotted towards the maintenance of its garrison ; but a subsequent patent provided that it "might be lawful for O'Hanlon and his heirs to possess it and the lands thereto assigned, so long as it should continue without a ward. In 1612, Turlogh Groome O'Hanlon and others of his Sept had grants of other premises in their old County of Ar- magh, to hold for ever subject to the conditions of the Plantation of Ulster. Eedmund O'Hanlon had about the same time licence to surrender his lands, with the object of receiving a re-grant thereof from King James. The memorable Act by which Ulster was de- clared confiscated, and its leading chiefs were attaint- ed, included "Oghy Oge O'Hanlon, eldest son of the said Sir Oghy O'Hanlon, Knight, late of Tovergy, County of Armagh." The Attainders of 1642 present but the name of Fyrmyn 'O'Hanlyn' of Castlemore, County of Cork. Those of 1691 comprise Shane Bane O'Hanlon, Oghy O'Hanlon, Phelim Mc Edmund Teigue O'Hanlon, Bryan Mac Oghy O'Hanlon, all of Tyrone'sditch, County of Armagh. Phelimy Mc Patrick Oge O'Hanlon of Clara, Kedmond of Phecos and Roger of Tonragee,all in said County ; with John Hanlon, clerk, and Patrick Hanlon, both of Carlingford, County of Louth. LORD BELLEW'S INFANTRY 633 LIEUTENANT THADY CROWLEY AND ENSIGN DANIEL CROWLEY. The O'Crowleys were a Sept of Cork, who, in Smith's History of that County, are said to have branched from the McDermots ofMoylurg. In the Munster war of Elizabeth's time, the Crowleys, then styled of Carberry, sought and obtained the protection of the Lord President, and continued loyal until the landing of the Spaniards.* The Attainders of 1641 include twenty-six members of the family, all of this County. Those of 1691 comprised the above Thady Crowley, described as of Temple-brien, County of Cork, with eight others of the name, but some differently spelt. LIEUTENANT JOHN HALFPENNY. This name does not appear on the Attainders of 1691, while on those of 1641 are Cornelius Halfpenny of Angestown, and Terence Halfpenny of Roestown, County of Meath, with John Halfpenny Oge of Lusk. It is not improbable that this John Halfpenny, then young (Oge), may, with inveterate fidelity to the Stuart, have been the above Lieutenant. * Pacata Hibernia, p. 138. G34 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. SIR VALENTINE BROWNE, NOW LORD KENMARE. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. His Lordship, Colonel. Lieut.-Colonel. . Major. William Reeves. Thomas Carter. [Daniel O'Donovan.] Garrett 'Neagle.' [Christopher Fagan.] It would seem that this Regiment, thus imperfectly set down, was after- wards incorporated with that of Colonel Nicholas Browne, but all efforts to obtain information from the family have failed. COLONEL LORD KENMARE. In 1555, Sir Valentine Browne of Crofts in Lincoln- shire was Auditor-General of Ireland, and, dying in 1567, left Sir Valentine his son and heir, who in 1583 received instructions, jointly with Sir Henry Wallop, from the Queen, relative to the escheated lands of Munster, on the Plantation of which Pro- vince he wrote a 'Discourse.' In 1588, he repaired to Ireland with his son Nicholas, and in the same year obtained from Donald, Earl of Clancarre, a grant in the nature of a mortgage of various castles, towns, lands, &c. in the County of Desmond. This Sir Valentine had issue, besides the aforesaid Sir LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY. 635 Nicholas, Sir Thomas Browne of Hospital, County of Limerick, his eldest son. The former, described as of Molahiffe and Rosse, County of Kerry, married Julia, daughter of O'Sullivan Beare, and died in 1616. His eldest son, Sir Valentine, (whose wardship had been committed to Sir Geoffry Fenton in 1607*) preferred a Petition to King James the First, for an abatement of some of the yearly rent reserved on that part of his estate, which he held from the Crown as an Under- taker, at £113 6s. 8d., "in regard of the small profit he made of it, being set out in the most barren and remote part of the County of Kerry, and having so hard a rate imposed upon it, that unless he was relieved by his Majesty's favour, he should not be able to inhabit there, and perform the articles of Plantation to which he was bound." This rent was accordingly in 1612 abated to £53 18s. 6d., and the tenure was afterwards converted into a fee. Sir Valentine was in 1621 further created a Baronet. He married, to his first wife, a daughter of that Earl of Desmond who was beheaded in 1583 : his grandson by her was another Sir Valentine, the above officer and third Baronet. Those of this name attainted in 1642 were Nicholas Browne, described as 4 of Leixlip,' and Richard Browne of Athboy, merchant. Of the Confederate Catholics assembled at Kilkenny, were Edward and Geoffry Browne of G-alway, and Sylvester Browne of Dublin. This Geoffry Browne was, by the denun- * Rot. Pat. in Cane. Ilib. 636 king james's irish army list. ciation of Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate ; as was also John Browne of the Neale, County of Mayo. (See of these Brownes, post , Colonel Dominick Browne's Infantry). The Royal declaration of thanks of 1662 includes Sir Valentine Browne, Knight, Thomas Browne of the Baronies of Bear and Bantry, and Colonel William Browne of Mulrankin, County of Wexford. Colonel Sir Valentine Browne was of King James's Privy Council, and was, by patent of 20th May, 1689, created Baron of Castleross and Viscount Kenmare ; a proof that this Army List was drawn up subsequent to that date, as he is here described as of such a recent creation. He sat by this title at the Parlia- ment of Dublin in that year, while John Browne of Ardagh was one of the Representatives for the Borough of Tralee. Besides this Colonel, (who was taken prisoner at Aughrim*) other Brownes com- manded Infantry Regiments in this campaign and service, as Colonel Nicholas Browne, the son of Lord Kenmare, in whose Regiment it will be seen John Browne was a Lieutenant. Colonel Dominick Browne had, under him, Andrew Browne a Captain, and another Andrew a Lieutenant ; while Brownes were commissioned in six other Regiments. The Attain- ders of 1691 record the names of twenty-six Brownes, including Patrick of Mulrankin, County of Wexford, where the name was so anciently established that Laurence 'Bron' was one of the Representatives of the * Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 138. LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY. 637 Borough of Wexford in King Edward's Parliament of 1376. . The above Colonel Nicholas had married Jane, only- daughter and heiress of Sir Nicholas Plunkett of Bal- rath, County of Meath, by whom he had five sons and four daughters ; his eldest son being Colonel Nicholas, hereafter mentioned. He died in 1694, having by his will of 1690 directed his burial "in the monument himself had built some years past in the Church of Killeen; or, if he died in the County of Kerry or near it, then with his own dear and affec- tionate wife Jane, Lady Kenmare, in the parish church of Killarney , with his parents and other relations."* ' Browne's ' was the style of a Free Company in the Brigades, and the name has been signally distinguish- ed in the military annals of the Continent, in Austria, Italy, Hungary, Transylvania, Russia, and Styria. Ulysses Maximilian, Count Brown, was a memorable individual in the Austrian service. He was born in 1705, educated at the Diocesan school of his native City, Limerick, and, when ten years old, was invited to Hungary by his uncle, Count Browne, who com- manded an Infantry Regiment there. He was pre- sent at the siege of Belgrade in 1717, was a Colonel in 1725, and in 1730, with his uncle, invested Corsica. In 1739, the Emperor Charles VI. for his services raised him to the dignity of a Field-Marshal and Member of the Aulic Council of war. On the Coronation of the Empress Queen of Bohemia in 1743, * Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 7, pp. 54, &c, n. 638 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. she appointed Brown one of her Privy Councillors, and in 1752 nominated him Generalissimo of all her forces ; while the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony, in the following year invested him with the order of the White Eagle. At the memorable battle of Prague in 1757, this hero received a wound of which he expired in two months. He had married in 1726 a Countess of illustrious lineage in Bohemia, by whom he had issue two sons. His Life was published in two volumes at Prague in the year of his death. General Count Browne, Governor-general of Livonia, signalized himself by uncommon bravery at the bat- tle of Zerndorf. He married the daughter of Field- Marshal Lacy, by whom he had issue General and Colonel Browne, now (writes Ferrar,* in 1787) in the Emperors service. CAPTAIN WILLIAM REEVES. No particulars of this family, applicable to the period, have been ascertaiDed. CAPTAIN DANIEL O'DONOVAN. Full notices of this family are given post, at Colonel Daniel O'Donovan. Here it may be mentioned, that the commission of this Captain Daniel bears date from Dublin Castle, 1st January, 1688. * History of Limerick, p. 349. LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY. 639 CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER FAGAN. Very fall particulars of this family have been given, ante, p. 423, &c. at the name of Captain Richard Fagan of the King's Own Infantry Regiment. This Christopher was his cousin, fought at Aughrim, was included in the benefit of the Articles of Limerick, purchased property in Kerry, and married Mary, daughter of Patrick Nagle of Ballinamona Castle, by Catherine, daughter of Hugh De Lacy of Bruff, County of Limerick. He settled in Kerry, and, dying in 1740, was buried in the Abbey of Killarney. His grandson and namesake Christopher entered the French army in 1755, in which he distinguished himself and bore the style of the Chevalier de Fagan ; but, by his attachment to Royalty, he too lost, on the breaking out of the Revolution, what he had acquired there, and died in London in 1816, at the advanced age of eighty-three. Christopher, his eldest son, a Captain in Dillon's French Brigade, afterwards entered the English service, and died unmarried in the West Indies. Charles, his brother, married a Marchioness, daughter of a Grandee of Spain of the First Class, and by Royal permission bore the title of Count de Fagan ; he died in 1813.* A brother of Christopher, the aforesaid Chevalier de Fagan, was John Fagan of Kiltallah, County of Kerry, who mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of George Hickson of Tralee, by Mary, only daughter of Henry Gould, Esq., of * Burke's Landed Gentry. king james's irish army list. Cork ; and he had by her six sons, five of whom entered military service in the armies of the East India Company. The sixth, Robert Fagan, entered the British service, was wounded in the assault of Bona-Fortuna in the island of Martinico, in 1802, and fell in the following year at the taking of St. Lucia. Of the five who served in India, James Patrick Fagan is the survivor. He was engaged in the arduous campaigns under Sir Robert Abercrombie against the French islands in the Indian Seas, and in that against Nepaul, in the capacity of Brigade-Major to the advance division of the army; for which ser- vice he received the war medal, and was nominated Paymaster-in-Chief to all the troops constituting the Raypoolana and Malwah field forces. This appoint- ment he held for sixteen years, when he was com- pelled to return for his health to Europe, having received a gratifying acknowledgment of his services, in a special report from Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General. He and his brothers, while in India, were called ' the military family.' Lieutenant- Colonel Fagan (as he now ranks), being anxious to continue this designation in his line, has placed two of his sons in the Indian army. The second son of the above Captain Christopher Fagan was Stephen Fagan, a merchant of Cork, whose son James married Ellen, daughter of Ignatius Trant, Esq., lineal descendant of Sir Patrick Trant, whose attainder and confiscations are mentioned post, at Major-General Boiseleau's Regiment. The present LORD KENMARE'S INFANTRY. 641 William Fagan, a member of Parliament for the City of Cork, is the eldest son of that marriage. LIEUTENANT THOMAS CARTER. The name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the First ; but nothing has been ascertained concerning this officer or his kindred about the period. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. CHRISTOPHER, LORD SLANTS. Captains. Lieutenants. The Colonel. Ignatius Nagle. [Maurice O'Connell, Lieutenant-Colonel.] Major. feted E*. Lucas Everard. Bartholomew Cusack. Christopher Cusack. ^ Simon Donnelly. Richard Uriall. Walter Usher. This Regiment, so imperfect at the date of this List, was reported after the Battle of the Boyne as comprising thirteen companies, with a total of G50 men.* * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 2. p. 513. TT 642 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. COLONEL CHRISTOPHER FLEMING, LORD SLANE. Richard le Fleming, son of Archibald Fleming of Devonshire, attended Hugh de Lacy to Ireland, and got from him, within the Palatinate of Meath, twenty Knights' Fees, afterwards called the Baronies of Slane and Newcastle. This grant constituted Richard, according to the powers of the Palatine, one of his Barons or Magnates. " In 1176," say the Four Mas- ters, " the Castle of Slane, which was occupied by Richard Fleming and his forces, (and from which he was in the habit of making predatory incursions into Oriel [Louth, Monaghan, and Armagh], and Ry Briun [in Tyrone], and against the men of Meath), was plundered by Melaghlin, son of Mac Laughlin of Kinel-Owen [County of Tyrone], at the head of the Kinel-Owen and the people of Oriel. They slew about five hundred or more of the English and their horses, and not one person escaped with his life from the Castle. Richard Fleming was slain on that occasion." When Edward the Second summoned the Magnates of Ireland to aid him in the Scottish war, he directed a letter missive to Baldwin le Fle- ming, who had married Matilda, daughter of Simon de Geneville. He was summoned to the Parliament of Kilkenny in 1302, and died in the year 1335 ; but details of a name of such historic interest must here, though reluctantly, be declined. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of Wil- LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY. 643 Ham, Lord Baron of Slane, James Fleming of Slane and Stahalmock, County of Meath ; Thomas Fleming of Cavan ; George of Blakestown, County of Kildare ; and Christopher of Clonefean, County of Dublin. Thomas of Cabragh was one of the Confederate Catholics who constituted the Supreme Council of Kilkenny ; and in 1652, the then Baron of Slane was, by Cromwell's Act, excepted from pardon for life and estate. In January, 1685-6, the Earl of Clarendon applied to the Earl of Sunderland, for his interest to obtain a vacant cornetcy in Colonel Ha- milton's Regiment for Mr. Eichard Fleming, "who is a very worthy young man, and well deserves his Majesty's countenance ; besides the favour it will be to me, your Lordship will oblige a very good man in England, Sir Eichard Bellings, to whom this young gentleman is nephew ;"* a request which met with the usual cautious postponement. In 1687, Sir John Fleming was Sheriff of the County of Monaghan. Henry Fleming, the brother of this Lord Slane, was a Captain in Galmoy's Horse. The Lord himself sat in King James's Parliament of 1689. He fought at the battle of the Boyne, in a few days after which the Lady Anne, Baroness of Slane, came to Dublin, then in the hands of King William, and threw herself on his mercy for a pass for herself, three men, and three servants.f ^ er l° rc ^ however, persevering in his adherence to King James, was taken prisoner at * Singer's Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 223. f Thorpe's Catalogue of the Southwell MSS., p. 234. TT 2 644 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Aughrim.* He was attainted in 1691, when his estates were granted to the Earl of Athlone, who sub- sequently assigned them in portions to eight other individuals ; while, at the sale of the forfeitures in 1703, the manor, castle, and lands of Slane were pur- chased by Brigadier Henry Conyngham. The land- less lord followed the monarch of his adoption to France, where he remained until, in 1708, he had a pension of £500 per annum allowed to him, and was restored to his honours, but not to his estates, by Queen Anne. In 1713, he was advanced in the Peerage to be Viscount Longford, but no patent issued, and he died in France in 1726, leaving a daughter, Helen Fleming, his only issue, who died in Paris, 7th August, 1748, unmarried. Captain Pich- ard, son of the aforesaid Sir John Fleming, was killed at the siege of Deny ; and it appears by his attainder, post mortem, in 1694, that he had been possessed of very considerable estates in the County of Monaghan. The Attainders of 1691 included with Lord Slane, John Fleming of Stahalmock, Knight, who is stated by the Inquisition taken on his out- lawry, at the close of 1690, to have been personally engaged at the battle of the Boyne. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Sir Stephen Pice, on behalf of Ellen, the only daughter of the Lady Anne Slane, claimed for her a portion and maintenance off Lord Slane's Meath estate, but his application was dismissed for non-prosecution ; he also claimed for Lady * Story's Impart. Hist. pt. 2, p. 437. LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY. 645 Anne herself, and was allowed £200 per ann. during the life of Christopher Lord Slane, and £800 per ann. as her jointure on his decease ; William Fleming claimed, as son and heir of Thomas, who was one of the sons of William, late Lord Slane, an estate tail in the Meath, Louth, Cavan, and Monaghan estates of the above Lord Christopher ; as did Michael Fleming a remainder in tail in the castle, manor, towns, and lands of Slane ; but both these petitions were also dismissed for non-prosecution. The obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine of 17 '47 notices the then recent death, but without precise date, of " William Fleming, commonly called Lord Slane, who had an annual pension of £300 from his Majesty. His uncle, to whom he was heir, had forfeited an estate of £25,000 per annum for adhering to King James the Second, whom he followed to France; but being ill-treated there and in Spain, returned to England, where he obtained a pension from Queen Anne and a Eegiment on the Irish establishment ; but he died not long after." This William, who so assumed the title, left a son Christopher, also commonly called Lord Slane, and he too died without issue male, in 1772. [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MAURICE O'CONNELL.] His name was put upon the Roll after the drawing up of this list; notices of him have been therefore KINC JA.MKs's IRISH A KM V LIST. referred to the officer of the name who is upon it — Captain Morgan Council of Colonel Charles O'Biyan'fi I nfantry, post LIEUTENANT JAMES DONNELLY. The Four Masters record in 1177 the death of Giolla Mac Liag O'Dongaile (Donnelly), Chief of Ferdroma, a territory within the precincts of Donegal. He, with many other Chiefs of the north of Ireland, fell in resisting the invasion of the chivalrous but cruel John de Conrcy. There is in Tyrone a district which took its name, Bally-Donnelly, from this Sept ; and O'Heerin, in his topographical work on Ireland, locates Chiefs of this family in Tipperary. In 1641, Daniel O'Donnelly, described as of Pitchfordstpwn, County of Kildare, was the only individual of this name attainted. In 1687, Terence Donnelly was Sheriff of Tyrone; and, in the Parliament of 1689, Patrick Donnelly of Dungannon was one of the Kepresentatives of the Borough of Dungannon, as was David O'Don- nelly one of those for that of Strabane. The Attainders of 1691 include the name of the above officer, thereon described as James O'Donnelly of Bauehran, County of Tyrone, with fourteen others in that County, four in Armagh, and one in Dublin. LORD SLANE'S INFANTRY. 647 ENSIGN BICHABD UKIALL. This name, now of rare occurrence, is yet to be found on Irish record from the time of Edward the Third. In that of Henry the Fifth, James 4 Uriel' was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. 648 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S. Lieutenants. Henry Smyth. Thomas O'Neill. Cormuck M'Gill. Oliver O'Hagan. Daniel Makay. Daniel O'Donnell. Alexander Stewart. Cormuck M'Quillan. ( Hngh Magennis. I Henry O'Neill. Edward M 'Conway. John Gernon. { DonaghyM'Gunsh< I Bryan M'Cann. John O'Hagan. Arthur O'Hara. Con. O'Dogherty. Bryan O'Cahane. Bryan M'Manus. Patrick O'Sheale. Edmund M'llderry. Ensigns. James Walsh. James O'Crilly. Neill M'Gill. Cormuck O'Hagan. Bryan O'Connor. Maurice O'Hagarty. Alexander Stewart. Theo. M'Quillan, \ - Terence M' Conway. John Clements. Myles M'Namee. James O'Hagan. Manus O'Hara. John O'Dogherty. Donoghy O'Cahane. Darhy O'Cahane. Cormuck M'Cann. Art O'Neill. ] Captains. The Colonel. Felix O'Neill, Lieutenant-Coloneh James O'Neill. Arthur M'Gill. Cormuck O'Hagan. Thomas M'Naughton. Daniel Hagarty. William Stewart. Ross M'Quillan. Henry O'Neill, Grenad. Bryan O'Neill. John Clements. Con O'Neill, Art O'Hagan. Cormuck O'Hara. Robert Butler. Thomas O'Cahane. Henry Courtney. Roger O'Cahane. Bryan O'Neill. Con O'Neill. Daniel O'Hagan. Peter Dohin. Christopher Russell. Hugh O'Gribbin. Art O'Harane. Thomas Dobin. Edmund Savage. Christopher Fleming. Hen. Savage. Patrick O'Harane. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 649 COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL. This family of native Royalty has been fully noticed, ante, p. 557, &c, at the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry. Colonel Cormuck, as there suggested, resided at Broughshane in the County of Antrim, was Sheriff of that County in 1687, one of its Representatives in 1689, and was outlawed in 1691. At the commencement of this cam- paign a part of this Regiment was despatched with the Earl of Antrim's to strengthen the garrison of Carrick- fergus.* CAPTAIN ARTHUR McGILL. This officer appears by the description in his attainder of 1691 to have been of Carryroan, County of Antrim. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Hugh Colvill preferred a petition for the reversion of a chattel interest, which this Arthur held in that county, and the claim was allowed. Rory Magill of Larne and Bryan Magill also forfeited lands in same county. CAPTAINS ART, CORMUCK, AND DANIEL O'HAGAN. Tins ancient Sept were Chiefs of Tullaghoge, within * Mackenzie's Siege of Deny, p. 11. 650 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the present Barony of Dungannon, County of Tyrone. They were amongst those hereditary Tanists who assisted at the inauguration of the O'Neills, successive Princes of that country ; and Sir Nicholas Malby, in a Eeport on the state of Ireland which he made to Queen Elizabeth in 1579, describes this O'Hagan as one of the principal men of note in that country. True to the O'Neill, they attended him subsequently in the Munster war, and were engaged at the battle of Kinsale. The Act of 1612 for the attainder of this great Chief accordingly included, in the visitation of its penalties, John Opanty O'Hagan, late of Dungan- non, with Henry and Teigue O'Hagan of the same place. The above officers are described in the Inqui- sition taken on their attainder, Art as of Dungannon, and Cormuck and Daniel of the County of London- derry. Five others of this Sept were then likewise outlawed in the latter County. CAPTAIN THOMAS McNAUGHTON. This officer is described on the Inquisition for his attainder as 6 of Kiltimurry, County of Antrim.' CAPTAIN DANIEL HAGARTY. The O'Hagartys were another Ulster Sept sub-feuda- tory to the O'Neill, under whose leadership Maolmura COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 651 O'Hagarty fought and fell at the battle of Kinsale. The Attainders of 1691 have but two of the name both of this Province ; James Hagarty of Pennyburn- Mill, County of Londonderry, and William Hagarty of Tyrehugh, County of Donegal, clerk.- A Lieu- tenant-Colonel Hagarty in Lally's Regiment was wounded in 1747, at the battle of Lauffield, having so distinguished himself as to merit a pension of 1,200 francs thenceforth from the King of France.* CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEWART. The Inquisition, taken on the attainder of this officer, describes him as of Dundermod, County of Antrim ; the only other then attainted individual of the name being George ' Stuart' of Lisnadevin, in the same County. CAPTAIN ROSS Mc QUILLAN. The Mc Quillans were Lords of the Territory of the Routes in the County of Antrim, holding their chief residence in the fine old sea-girt Castle of Dunluce. They are considered to have been themselves invaders from Wales on earlier inhabitants of the North. With- in that county, not far from the Ravel-water, are the ruins of another castle at Clough, traditionally * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 404. G52 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. believed to have been in very remote times also a chief seat of the Mc Quillan, until dispossessed by the Mc Donnells, after a great battle fought between them near the mountain of Ora. This castle stood upon a high insulated basaltic rock about twenty feet above the level of the surrounding ground, and was encompassed by a foss. According to the same local traditions, it was burnt in 1641, with a hostility that left standing only a noble gateway, about twenty feet high and fourteen wide, with its mortar work five feet in thick- ness and powerfully cemented ; the ruin is surround- ed on every side by forts. When Edward Bruce, in 1315 invading Ireland, encamped before the Castle of Carrickfergus, ten or twelve of the petty Princes of the North came in to him and proffered their allegiance ; amongst whom was the Mc Quillan. In 1358, say the Four Masters, died Senechan Mc Quillan, who, in the existing native government, ranked High Constable of Ulster ;* and the death of Slevin Mc Quillan in ten years after is commemorated by these historians with the same title, as hereditary. Succeeding annals are filled with narratives of active and melancholy feuds between the O'Neills, O'Don- nells, and O'Cahanes on the one side, and the Mc Quillans on the other. On the 13th July, 1563, was fought the battle of Ora, before alluded to, be- tween the Mc Donnells, headed by Sorle-buy, and the Mc Quillans, headed by Conway Mc Quillan, whose * Annals of the Four Masters, COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 653 tomb is still pointed out by the people at Ardagh, in the parish of Kamoan. An interesting existing manuscript, of modern date (1823), but compiled from ancient papers of authority, commences a history of this family from Edward Mc Quillan, who was born in 1503, and ranked as Prince of Dalaridia for seventy years, during five reigns of English Sovereigns. On the Plantation of Ulster, his estates were seised by the Crown. "The King," says the manuscript, "as sensible of the in- justice done to the Mc Quillan in depriving him of his estate, offered him the lands of O'Doherty, Prince of Inishowen, in lieu of them; but Mc Quillan refused to accept thereof, indignantly saying he would not take lands belonging to another man ; that, as he was not attainted, he still expected to get his own, and that all the claim Mc Donnell had to the lands was his being married to Mc Quillan's daughter." Edward did not outlive the Plantation ; his decease occurred at the very advanced age of 102 He was descended from Feidlim Fionn Mac Quillan, who was descended from Fiach Mac Quillan, a son of Niall of the Nine Hostages "I believe," adds the com- piler of the document (Edward Mc Quillan, born in 1760), "that my great-grandfather was the first of the family who conformed to the established religion, with his two youngest sons; Richard, my grandfather, and his youngest brother, Charles ; but his eldest daughter, Mary, was so steadfast in the Romish reli- gion, that she went to Spain before the battle of the 654 king james's irisii army list. Boyne, and became there Maid of Honour to the Queen, an office which she filled to the day of her death, when she left a fortune, to which I am heir, if it could be got. Her two eldest brothers were strict Catholics also (one, it may be presumed, the above Captain Eoss), and followed the fortunes of King James the Second, the grandson of him who deprived the family of their principality. They were in Limerick at the time of the siege, and intending to follow the King to France, when, in the very act of taking leave of their brother officers, one of them was killed by a cannon ball. The other went to France, and served with distinction in the Irish Brigade, as did also his son Lewis Mc Quillan, who died at Versailles some time previous to the year 1766, leaving a large property to the nearest heir of the name of McQuillan and House of Dunluce. This my father went to France to seek ; when he went to the Jesuits' College at Versailles, there to prefer his claim (they being the trustees to the property of all officers of the Irish Brigade in France) ; but the kingdom was then in a ferment on account of the ex- pulsion of these Jesuits ; he was arrested, and all his papers taken from him, amongst which was a pedigree of the Mc Quillans, as long as the third chapter of Luke The McDonnells, who got a great part of our lands, wish it to be believed that the Mc Quillan family is extinct, and really they were nearly extin- guished by the Mc Donnells, as shown in these Memoirs ; but they are not yet extinct, for there are COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 655 several of them living in Ireland, and when I last heard from America, my brother had two sons and one grandson living ; and I have also two sons living and two daughters, and all my children comfortably settled." The Memoir concludes with the attestation, " As my family was never attainted, my blood is legally pure, and I am the legitimate lineal hereditary (in abeyance) Prince of Dalaridia ; though I now subscribe myself only plain Edward Mac Quillan, this 11th of 12th Mo. 1823, being the completion of my 63rd year." The son of that Edward, Joseph Mc Quillan, is now living in the County of Wexford. Previous patents of James the First record pardons passed to several members of this Sept; and, yet more, a grant in 1608 of the territory of Clinaghartie in Lower Clandeboy, County of Antrim, comprising twenty-one extensive townlands, with all heredita- ments, advowsons, &c. of churches, formerly belong- ing to any religious houses therein ; the Mc Quillan being bound to find and maintain every year, for the space of forty days, two able horsemen and six foot- men to serve the King, Lord Deputy, or Governor of Carrickfergus, whenever required within the Province of Ulster, and to answer all risings out and general hostings. In 1619, however, a royal letter was issued for a surrender of this territory from the patentee, and in truth the family were so utterly despoiled, that the name does not appear on the Out- lawries either of 1641 or 1691, with the exception of a James Mc Quillan, who forfeited on the latter occasion, 656 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. when Hugh Colville claimed at Chichester House a chattel remainder in the lands of Attefathaw, County of Antrim, as forfeited by said James. CAPTAIN JOHN CLEMENTS. Nothing worthy of note has been ascertained of this officer or his family. CAPTAIN COEMUCK O'HARA. Tins very ancient Sept is spoken of very fully, ante, p. 467, &c. In 1614, Teigue O'Hara had a grant of the castle, town, and lands of Coolany (Coolooney), with upwards of one hundred townlands, stated to have been parcels of the estate of Teagh Temple (Temple House), with sundry chief-rents and moduses, fairs, courts, &c. In the ensuing confiscations on the civil war of 1641, no less than thirteen O'Haras were forfeiting proprietors within the Barony of Leney, but the name of Teigue does not appear amongst them. In 1661, Margaret, daughter of Thady O'Hara of Crebilly, by Catherine, sister to Daniel O'Neill, page of honor to King Charles the Second, was married to the third Viscount Netter- ville.* Besides this Captain, John 4 Hara ' was a Lieute- * Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 4, p. 216. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 657 nant in Colonel Dominick Browne's Infantry. The latter was of the Sligo stock, and is described in the Inquisition on his attainder as John O'Hara of Clon- acule, County of Sligo ; as is the former of Loughdale, County of Antrim. Daniel O'Hara of the same place was then also attainted, as were Teigue of Crebilly, and John his son ; John of Ballynahinch, County of Down ; Eoger of Montagh, County of Sligo ; and Ar- thur O'Hara of Faris, County of Antrim. In 1703, the confiscated estates of the aforesaid John O'Hara of Ballynahinch, and of a Kean O'Hara in the County of Antrim, were sold to the Hollow Swords' Blades Company. The Baronage of Tyrawley was, after the Revolution, conferred on an O'Hara, as was that of Kilmain on James O'Hara, ante, p. 469. History records the achievements of Governor O'Hara in Senegal in 1766 ; of Admiral and Captain O'Hara in the following year ; of Captain O'Hara in Africa in 1770, and in the French service in 1777 ; but all further notices of them are inadmissible here. CAPTAINS FRANCIS AND ROGER O'CAHANE. Tins Sept claims descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, the King of Ireland who brought St. Patrick a captive from France to its shores. They constituted one of the most powerful families of ancient Dalaradia in Ulster, from whence passed out Till 658 king james's irish army list. the emigrants who colonised Scotland, conquered the Picts, and established a Kingdom there, which, in memory of their old home, was named Dalriada. From them descended the line of Scottish Kings — the Stuart, for whose service the present Army List was drawn up. In the earliest Annals of Ireland, Dalriada and the O'Cahanes are associated with events of chivalrous and romantic interest. At Dunseverick, on the northern coast of Antrim, upon a rock over the sea, amidst the basaltic wonders of the Giant's Causeway, was erected their castle ; its im- posing ruins still remain. On the earliest adoption of surnames in Ireland, Eogan O'Cahan is recorded an Abbot in the County of Galway, A.D. 980. In 1145, died Sluaghdeach O'Cahane, ' Bishop of the people of Leighlin.' In 1192, a porch of the black church of St. Columbkill was built by O'Cahane of the Crieve, (i.e. the Barony of Coleraine), soon after which this powerful Sept possessed themselves of the greater part of the County of Deny, thence called the O'Cahane's Country. In 1244, Henry the Third requested the attendance and assistance of the O'Cahane in his projected war. In 1314, King Edward directed a special letter missive to Dermod O'Cahane, ' Daci Hibernorum de Femetreeve] for military service in Scotland. Associated with the O'Neill, the McGenis, O'Hanlon, McMahon, Maguire, and other Chiefs of Ulster, under the command of Eichard de Burgo, Earl of Ulster,* the O'Cahane em- * Rot. Scot. 7, Edw. 2 in Tur. L. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 659 barked from Droglieda for Scotland. In 1338, David McOghy O' 4 Kyne' sued out a patent of pardon and protection. This was the first recorded conversion of the name towards that by which it is latterly frequently known Kyan. Before this time, a monastery was founded by the O'Cahan at Dungiven, which became thenceforth the burial place of the family, and still exhibits monuments of sculptured ornament commemorative of them. One is particu- larly alluded to in a note of Dr. 0'Donov r an to the Four Masters, ad ann. 1385. About the middle of the fourteenth century, Angus 4 Oge' (the younger), Lord of the Isles, married the daughter of the O'Cahane ;* and in 1537, Cornelius O'Cahane was Bishop of Eaphoe. Amongst the State Papers, temp. Henry the Eighth, is a Eeport of 1542, from the Lord Deputy of Ireland and his Council to the King, in which it is written, " Now, as to the further occurrences of this your realm, for as much as one McQuillan, which is an Englishman (they claim to be of Welsh descent), and now submitted to your Majesty's obedience, is invaded by one called O'Cahan, by the aid as it is supposed of O'Donnell his galloglas, we have therefore sent John Travers, with a convenient number of horsemen and footmen, to the aid of the same McQuillan, as well for that the same O'Cahane, which never yet showed any obedience to your Majesty, should not destroy the said McQuillan, as also to give courage to others * Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, v. 7, p. 111. uu 2 • 660 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. that have in like sort submitted themselves to your obedience as McQuillan has done, shall in like case be aided if they persist in their due allegiance/'* At the close of this year, Manus O'Cahane, then the Chief, renewed his submission to the King, and signed an indenture of peace, a copy of which is preserved in the Lambeth MSS.f In 1558, George Dowdall, the first Archbishop of Armagh after the Eeformation, urged, in a letter to the Viceroy, the policy of expelling the Hebridean Scots from Ulster, by procuring their Irish neighbours, O'Neill, O'Donnell, O'Cahane, and others, to unite against them. He further relied that the power of the Scots in Ireland proceeded princi- pally, from the Irish Chiefs engaging them as their auxiliaries in their private quarrels ; a practice to the suppression of which the Primate earnestly directed the attention of the Viceroy. J Accordingly, in 1567, Sir Henry Sydney reported to the Queen, U A11 Tyr- connel's, together with O'Cahane's country under the government of O'Cahane, is in great obedience to your Majesty, and daily doth annoyance to the rebels." At the Irish Conciliation Parliament, sought to be assembled in Dublin by Sir John Perrot, in 1585, " there came to it (say the Four Masters), O'Cahane, Lord of Oireach-O'Cahan, namely, Eode- ric, the son of Manus, son of Donough the hospitable, son of John, son of Accency." It was in his time, * State Papers, temp. Hen. VIII. , v. 3, p. 399. t Idem, p. 407-8. | Gregory's Hebrides, p. 198. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 661 and, as appears, with his aid, that the McGonnell, or McDonnell, settled in Antrim. The O'Cahanes, how- ever, sedulously adhered to the O'Neill as their Lord Paramount, and fell with his fortunes, being expressly by name included in the act for his attainder, by which all Ulster was declared confiscated to the Crown. In the Egerton Papers, recently published by the Camden Society, is an interesting report from Sir John Davis to the Lord Chancellor, dated in 1607, wherein he writes, " The Earl of Tyrone is sent for into England, to receive order in the cause between him and O'Cahane, or rather between him and the King's Majesty, touching the title of O'Cahane's Country ; and he is directed by the King's letters to attend at Court about the beginning of Michaelmas term."* In 1615, on an alleged conspiracy "to seize and destroy Derry and the other principal towns of the Plantation," a few of the chief Irish gentlemen of the North were apprehended, tried, and six of them found guilty and executed ; one of these, it appears, was Rory O'Cahane, whose estate was thereupon granted away by the Commissioners of the Plantation, as forfeited.f The Duchess of Buckingham having, after her first widowhood, married the Earl of Antrim, took up her residence in that County, and there raised a force of 1,000 men in aid of the Monarchy. Lord Wentworth, who was at the time Lord Deputy, * Camden Papers, v. 12, p. 414. f Ordnance Survey of Derry, pp. 40-41. 662 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. directed her Grace to have these recruits marched by the route of Newtown-Liraavady, in passing through which village she was induced to visit the wife of O'Cahane, whose castle had been demolished and himself banished. "In the midst of a half ruined edifice was kindled a fire of branches, and the window casements were stuffed with straw, to keep off the rigour of the season. There lodged the wife of O'Cahane."* Colonel 4 O'Kyan,' mentioned in the wars of Montrose, and who was executed after the defeat at Philipsburg, is considered to have been in his day the head of the O'Cahanes ; while another officer, styled Manns Eoe O'Cahane, was, by Crom- well's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate. In ten years after, Nicholas £ Cahane' of this family was called upon his knees before the Irish House of Commons, and committed to prison, for alleged disrespect " to the best of Kings, on whose head God by his miraculous providence had placed a crown of pure gold, which all the machinations of such as he, would never be able to remove, "f In the Army List given in Berwick's Rawdon Papers (p. 360), a Eegiment of Infantry in this campaign is stated to have been commanded by an O'Cahane, and O'Conor in his Military Memoirs says O'Cahane did raise such a force. Three other O'Cahanes, it will be observed, held commissions in this Eegiment, while John O'Cahane was an Ensign in the Earl of Antrim's * Graham's Derriana, p. 46. f Comm. Journ. v. 2, pp. 604-5. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 663 Infantry, and Owen ' Cahane' was a Lieutenant in Lord Clare's Dragoons. The Attainders of 1691 enumerate, with Captain Francis, described as of Pennyburn-Mill, County of Derry, and Captain Roger ' Reign' 0' Cahane of Con- nateile, County of Tyrone, twelve others of the Sept. After the capitulation of Limerick, Lord Iveagh brought over a body of the expatriated soldiers to France, who were sent thence, as before mentioned, under the command of Colonel McDonnell for the service of the Emperor of Austria in Hungary. He employed them against the Turks, by whom they were so severely handled, that the remnant was drafted into other corps of the Imperial army.* Of these suffer- ing Irish refugees were two O'Cahanes, whose Peti- tions to King William, " that they, being sick, might safely repair to Ireland, their natural soil," have been noted as in the Southwell Manuscripts. It is alleged f that the Irish Roman Catholics petitioned the Pretender, in 1711, to nominate a Dr. Bryan O'Cahane, then Parish Priest of Ballynascreen, County of Down, to the vacant See of Derry. Bunt- ing, in his Ancient Music of Ireland (pp. 44 & 68), makes mention of a celebrated Irish harper of the name of O'Cahane, who, having been about the year 1773 in the Highlands, often entertained the Lord Mac Donald at his residence in the Isle of Skye, with his excellent performance on the harp. " He was * O'Callnghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 359. t Ordnance Survey of Derry, p. 69. 664 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. considered one of the chief O'Cahanes of his old terri- tory ; and the names of the estates in the North, to which he was traditionally entitled, were enumerated at the great meeting of the harpers some years since in Belfast" CAPTAIN HENRY COURTNEY. His name does not appear on the Outlawries of 1691, nor has any information been obtained of him or his family. CAPTAIN PETER DOBIN. This officer is described in the Inquisition for his at- tainder as of Drumferagh, County of Antrim ; within which county were then also outlawed Thomas 'Dobbin' of Clough and Henry Dobbin of Ballynacard ; while in the County of Kilkenny three Dobbins stand outlawed. At the Court of Claims, Captain William Dobbin was allowed an equity of redemption on a mortgage of County of Antrim lands, forfeited by said Captain Peter. Another Peter Dobbin was Quarter-master in Lord Dongan's Dragoons ; while a third Peter, alias Piers, was an Ensign in the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry. Anthony Dobin was a Burgess of Carrickfergus in the time of James the First, as was Nicholas Dobin in the time of Charles the First. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 665 CAPTAIN HUGH O'GRIBBIN. He was attainted by the description of Hugo O'Grib- bin of Killegneen, County of Antrim. See further of this name at Colonel Robert Clifford's Dragoons. CAPTAIN ART O'HARANE. The O'Horans were a clan of Hy Maine in the County of Galway, but do not seem convertible into this name. LIEUTENANT HENRY SMITH. The Attainders of 1642 present the name of Richard * Smith,' described as of Madanstown, County of Meath. In 1665, Sir Edward Smith was appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, as was John 4 Smith' a Puisne Judge thereof in 1700. In the Parliament of 1689, two of the name were of the Temporal Peers — Smith, Viscount Carrington of Bar- rifore, a 4 Papist/ and Smith, Viscount Strangford, a Protestant ; while William Smith, Bishop of Raphoe, was one of the Spiritual Peers. Besides this officer, three other Smiths were commissioned on this Army List, and the Attainders of 1691 present four Smiths, the majority of whom, including Lieutenant Henry, appear to have been of the County of Kilkenny. 666 king james's irish army list. LIEUTENANT DANIEL MAKAY. In the settlement of property in Ulster consequent upon the Plantation, Randal Mc Donnell of Dunluce, Earl of Antrim, conveyed lands in that Connty to Daniel ' Mc Key ' of Bally tirim, to hold in fee; where- of said Daniel died seised in 1622, leaving Alexander Mc Allaster Mc Key his son and heir, then of full age.* The present Lieutenant, it may be concluded, was the son of this Alexander. LIEUTENANT EDWARD Mc CONWAY. Amongst the manuscripts of Mr. Robert Conway Hurley of Tralee (which have been kindly forwarded in aid of these Illustrations), is a very interesting pedigree of the family of Conway, compiled from the Herald's Office in London and North Wales, and yet more especially from one at Ragley, certified by Francis, Viscount Beauchamp, 4 now Marquis of Hert- ford.' From this it appears that Sir John Conway, of Ragley in Worcestershire, (whose lineage is there deduced from Sir William Conais, High Constable of England in the time of the Conqueror), was made Governor of Ostend in 1586 by the Earl of Leicester; and that having married Ellen, daughter of Sir Fulke Greville of Beauchamp's-court, Warwickshire, he died in the first year of the reign of James the First, * Inquis. 1635, in Cane. Hib. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 667 leaving issue by her, two sons ; Sir Edward, his suc- cessor ; and Sir Fulke, his second son. The latter, in 1609, on the Plantation of Ulster, settled as an under- taker in Antrim, where he obtained a large territory in Killultagh, the ancient inheritance of Cori O'Neill. Sir Fulke was a distinguished officer in Ireland, be- came a Representative of Antrim in Parliament, and ultimately a Privy Councillor. He died in 1624, leaving a son Christopher, Member for the Borough of Armagh in the Parliament of 161^, and who mar- ried the eldest sister of the justly revered Sir James Ware. By her he had James Conway, Captain of Horse, who, with his cousin Lord Conway, accom- panied Charles the Second in his exile. On the Restoration, the former returned to Ireland, with nothing but his commission to depend upon. Here Smith, in his ' History of Kerry] takes up the migra- tion ; " there came into this county, soon after the Restoration, James Conway, son to Christopher Con- way, nephew to Lord Conway." He married (re- sumes the manuscript) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Roe, Esq. of Clohane, County of Kerry, by Alice, daughter of Jenkin Conway of Castle Conway in the same county, one of the Munster undertakers who, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, came from Wales with Sir William Herbert, Sir Edward Denny and Robert Blennerhassett, to plant some of the forfeited estates of the Desmond ; on which occasion Jenkin obtained the seignory of Killorglin (afterwards called Castle Conway), comprising the castles, towns, and lands 6G8 king james's irish army list. thereof, the island of Inisfallen, and several other denominations, 5260 acres, in said county ; with sundry advowsons. This castle was afterwards burnt by order of the Lord President of Munster. James Conway, in consequence of his marriage with the Kerry lady, settled at Clohane, and had by her two sons, Edward and Christopher. The former married a daughter of John Blenerhasset of Ballyseedy, and seems to be identical with the above Lieutenant, erroneously styled on the Army List, by a Sept designation, 4 McConway.' It is to be observed, how- ever, that the Hurley manuscript, from which these illustrations are drawn, states that Christopher, a brother of Edward, was also an officer in King James's Army, and fell at Aughrim ; he had married Joan Roche of the House of Dundine, County of Cork, by whom he had issue six sons (and one daughter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of John O'Connell of Derrynane). The second of his six sons, James Conway, went to France with the Irish emigrants, and had the command of a company in Lord Mount- cashel's Regiment. Thomas Conway, the fourth of Christopher's sons, had by his wife Anne, daughter of Patrick Fitzgerald of G-allerus, for Ms second son, another James Conway, Count Conway in France, a very distinguished officer in the Irish Brigade ; and he, marrying Julianne O'Mahony, had by her two sons, Thomas Count Conway, and Thomas Henry, Viscount Conway, both officers in the service of France ; but neither left male issue. Edward, the third son of COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 669 Thomas and Anne Conway, married Ellen Mahony, by whom he had two sons ; Thomas, who died in 1824, s. p.; and James, who became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Fifty-third Foot ; his eldest son, John S. Con- way, appears to be now the representative of this ancient family. To return to the immediate descendants of Chris- topher Conway by Joan Roche ; Robert, their fifth son, married Mary, daughter of Colonel Maurice Hussey of Flesk-bridge, now called Cahirnane, by whom he had a son, Edward Conway ; who, marrying Christian, daughter of Edward Rice, left issue by her one son, who died unmarried in 1777, and two daugh- ters ; Lucy, who also died unmarried in 1799, and Mary, who married John Hurley in 1784, by whom she left issue two sons, Robert Conway and John Hurly, and five daughters. Robert Conway, the eldest, died without issue ; John, the younger, married Elizabeth, daughter of the well known Richard Kir- wan of Creg Castle, the eminent philosopher, by whom he had issue as before mentioned (ante, p. 292). Christopher, the sixth son of Christopher and Joan Roche, married Ellen Mahony, by whom he had two sons, Sir Matthew and Sir Robert, Knights of St. Louis, and who both died without issue. All these children of Christopher and Joan were educated members of the Church of Rome, and hence their necessitated devotion to foreign service. In Coric Abbey, County of Tyrone, is a monument commemorating Captain Cormac Conway, who fought for King James at Aughrim. 670 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. LIEUTENANT DONAGHY MAC GUNSHENAN. A Clan of this name was located in Fermanagh, about Lough Erne. LIEUTENANT BRYAN Mc CANN. The Mc Canns were chiefs of Hy Breasail, an ancient territory on the borders of Armagh and Tyrone, near Lough Neagh. In 1189, (say the Four Masters) died Echmilidh, son of Mc Can, £ the delight and happiness of all Tyrone.' In 1212, the death of Donogh Mac Can, Chief of the Sept, is recorded. Five of this family were slain in the Minister war of Elizabeth's time, at the battle of Kinsale. LIEUTENANT CON O'DOIIERTY. The O'Dohertys were an ancient Sept, a branch of the O'Donnells, located on the territory between Loughs Foyle and S willy and the Atlantic, now known as the Barony of Inishowen, County of Donegal. In 1194, an Abbey was founded for Cistercians at Hil- fothair in this county by the O'Doghertie. It was a filial establishment of Easroa, to which, in process of time, it was united.* In three years after, Eachmar- cagh O'Doghertie, who had assumed the chieftaincy * Archclall's Mon. Hib. p. 99. COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 671 of Kinel-Connell, the country of O'Donnell, was slain by John de Courcy, in an engagement, where fell several of both those native Septs. In 1454, Donell O'Donnell, chief of Tyrconnel, was taken prisoner by the O'Dohertie. The Tanist succession of these rival Chiefs is very accurately and fully given by the Four Masters. In 1548, O'Doherty was one of the 1 con- federates ' with Con O'Neill against English govern- ment.* In 1582, say the Four Masters, died the O'Doherty, i.e. John, son of Phelim, son of Connor Carrach, Lord of Inishowen. " Had the deceased been a hostage to be ransomed, horses and flocks would have been given for his ransom ; his son John Oge was appointed in his place, in opposition to Cahir O'Doherty, and on that account the country was much plundered in its crops, corn, dwellings, and cattle." At the Parliament convened by Sir John Perrot, in 1585, this Sept was represented by John Oge, the son of John, son of Phelim, son of Connor Carrach O'Doherty. In three years after, he was taken prisoner by the forces of Sir Bichard Bingham and Sir Thomas Norris, on the charge of having " made friendship and alliance with a portion of the men of the Spanish fleet." He died in 1601, " Lord of the Barony of Inishowen," say the Masters, " and there was not a Lord of a Barony amongst the Irish more distinguished for manual action and hospitality, or more bold in counsel than he." That rank and title the O'Doherty maintained until the time of * Stuart's Armagh, p. 237. 672 king james's irisii army list. James the First, when Sir Cahir O'Doherty was killed in a contest with the English. He had in 1605 a grant from King James, of various manors, lordships, castles, lands, advowsons, &c. in the County of Inish- owen, or O'Doherty 's Country, saving and reserving the Castle of Culmore, in lieu of which he was to receive four salmons per day during the season an- nually, with the custody of the castle in time of peace, or when not occupied by the Crown ; to hold same to him and his heirs male, paying between Michaelmas and All Saints' days 30 good and fat beeves at Newry, and he and his said heirs attending all hostings, risings out, and journies, with twenty footmen and six horse- men armed, and with victuals for forty days, to serve against the ' rebels ' in Ireland. This was a resto- ration patent, as of territory theretofore forfeited by Sir John O'Doherty, Knight, Chief of his name and father of said Sir Cahir. The Act of 1612, however, for the attainder of the Earl of Tyrone and confisca- tion of Ulster, included Sir Cahir O'Doherty, 1 late of Birtecastle, County of Donegal', in its extermination ; and the King thereupon directed that his possessions within the Barony of Inishowen and O'Doherty 's Countrie should be granted to Sir Arthur Chichester, Knight, with liberty to create manors and freehold estates. To a lady of this broken down and landless family, ' Rose O'Doherty, daughter of the Dynasts of Inishowen,' a monument is erected in the Franciscan church at Lovaine. It states that she was first married to Caffry O'Donnell, cousin of the Prince COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANTRY. 673 of Tyrconnel, and secondly to Owen O'Neill, Com- mander of the Catholic Army in Ulster. In 1691, was attainted Charles Doherty of Muff, County of Cavan ; as was also Edmund O'Doherty of the County of Donegal. The latter forfeited derivative interests, the reversion of which in fee was claimed in 1700 by the Earl of Donegal, but his petition was dismissed as cautionary. LIEUTENANT BEY AN MAC MANUS. The Mc Manus was Chief of a numerous and influen- tial Clan of Fermanagh. According to the native Annalists, they had the command of the shipping in Lough Erne, and held the post of hereditary chief managers of its fisheries under the Maguire. A branch of this family was also located on the borders of the Counties of Leitrim and Eoscommon. The Four Masters record, at 1498, the death of Mac Magnusa of Seanaid, i. e. Cathal Oge, the son of Cathal, son of Cathal, son of Gillpatrick, son of Matthew, &c. a Coadjutor Bishop of Clogher for fifteen years before his death, " a patron of learning and art in his own country, chief conservator of the canons, a fountain of charity and mercy to the poor and unprotected of God's people, a man who brought together many historical books which he compiled for himself — the Book of Annals of Ballymacmanus, [better known as the Annals of Ulster, published in xx 674 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. the splendid collection of the late Dr. Charles O'Conor, JRerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, vol. IV.] He died of the small-pox on the 10th of the kalends of April, 1498, in the 60th year of his age." The Attainders of 1642 have but one of this name, and far away from the homes of the Sept ; he is described as Owen Mc Manus of Dunbouke, County of Wicklow. Those of 1691 trace them back in their old ground, but to be again expelled. There were then outlawed Kory Phelimy Mc Manus of Lisnaskea, County of Fer- managh, and Cullen Mc Manus of Tullycool, County of Down. A Colonel Hugh Mc Manus was killed at Aughrim. LIEUTENANT EDMUND Mc ILDEREY. In the Inquisition taken on his attainder, he is called and described as Edward Mc Uderry, Salt-pans, County of Antrim. ENSIGN JAMES O'CRILLEY. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his Sept, but, from the Regiment in which he appears, and the description of his brother officers, the entry seems a mistake for O'Clery, a name of the deepest historic interest in Irish genealogy. That Sept had large pos- sessions in Tyr-hugh ; their chief seat being at Kilbar- ron, where still remain the ruins of their castle, situ- COLONEL CORMUCK O'NEILL'S INFANT11Y. 675 a ted on a rock over the shore of the Atlantic, near Ballyshannon. They were highly distinguished in the native literature, and became hereditary bards and historians to the O'Donnells, Princes of Tyrcon- nel. One of them, Michael O'Clery, was a native of Donegal, born about the year 1580 ; at an early age he resorted for education to the Irish Franciscan monas- tery of Louvain, whence returning to his native land, and eager to rescue its historic memorials, (then, he feared, on the verge of annihilation) he travelled for fifteen years through Ireland, collected all manu- scripts, civil and ecclesiastical, that could be disco- vered, and, from the mass of these materials, drew out the Annals styled of the Four Masters. They com- mence at the earliest period of Irish history, and are brought down to the year 1616. This work is, as might be conjectured, especially diffuse in celebrating the obits and achievements of the family of -O'Clery ; yet the name does not appear on the Attainders of 1641, while those of 1688 have only Roger O'Clery of Kirelly, County of Londonderry. ENSIGN MYLES Mc NAMEE. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his Sept. xx 2 676 king james's irish army list. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH'S. Captains. The Colonel. [John Lacy, Lieutenant- Colonel. ] [Gros. Perdeverande, Major.] Walter Esmond. Le Sr. Deffoser. Robert Esmond. Anthony Eustace. Ignatius Cavanagh, Grenad. [Nicholas Warren.] Lieutenants. Bonaventure Kinselagh. Denis ' Kavanagh.' William Boole. William Fisher. Ensigns, Edmund Kauvanagh. COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH. Dermod Mac Murrough, who led in the English invaders, was at the time King of Leinster. Donal Cavenagh was his only son, and as such, though illegi- timate, assumed a title of sovereignty in that pro- vince. His descendants, known as Cavenaghs, or Mac Murrough Cavenaghs, maintained their inde- pendence, and held the title of Kings of Leinster, with large possessions in Wexford and Carlow, down to the reign of Elizabeth. On a fortress by the bank of the Barrow, between Carlow and Leighlin, they were inaugurated, attended by the O'Nolan, Chief of Forth in Carlow, as King's Marshal. In 1314, COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH's INFANTRY. 677 Edward the Second directed his especial missive to Maurice 'Kavanagh' Mac Murrough, for his aid against the Scots. In 1417, died the most illustrious individual of this Irish Sept, Art Mac Murrough O'Cavenagh, King of Leinster ; "a man," say the Masters, " who defended his province against the Eng- lish and Irish from the age of 16 to that of 60; a man distinguished for his hospitality, knowledge, and feats of arms ; a man full of prosperity and Royalty, a founder of churches and monasteries by his bounty and contributions. He had been forty-two years in the government of Leinster, when he died." Throughout these Annals, his contests with the English, in the very presence of their King, Richard the Second, are proudly recorded ; and when his son, after a long imprison- ment, was restored in 1428 to his people, they write, " Murrough, Lord of Leinster, namely Donogh, the son of Art Cavenagh, who was imprisoned in England for the space of nine years, was ransomed by his own Province, which was joyful news to the Irish." In the Munster wars, at the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Donal O'Cavenagh, surnamed ' Spanagh ' having sojourned some time in Spain, became a distin- guished leader of thelrishry. On the Roll of Attainders in 1641 appear four of the name ; while, at the head of these of 1691, Charles Cavenagh, the above Colonel, is described as of Carrickduff, County of Carlow, Esq. with Ignatius and James Cavenagh of the same place, and nineteen others in the Counties of Carlow and Wexford. 678 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. [LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN LACY.] This post does not appear filled upon the present Army List, but having been subsequently so appointed, as shown in Appendix to King's State of the Protestants, it is here inserted ; while the available notices of the family and of this Colonel are set down at Lieutenant John Lacy, in the Royal Regiment of Infantry. CAPTAINS WALTER AND ROBERT ESMONDE. This name is of Norman extraction, ' Esmon ' and ' Sieur Esmon ' appearing on sundry early records. In Wexford, more especially, it is traceable from the time of Edward the First, who, in 1303, projecting his invasion of Scotland, commissioned Henry ' Est- mund ' to provide ships in the harbour of Wexford and in the adjoining havens, to be in readiness to pass over thence in the service of that campaign. In 1349, John Esmonde was consecrated Bishop of Ferns, from which See he was afterwards translated to Emly. In 1371, Thomas Estmonde was Constable of Wexford Castle. About the year 1569, John Esmonde, the founder of the existing line of Baronets, and then head of this family, was settled at Johnstown in the County of Wexford, a property which by forfeiture and alienation has since passed to the family of Grogan. In the time of Queen Elizabeth flourished Laurence Es- COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGIl'S INFANTRY. 679 monde, great grandson of the above John of 1569. A "Brief Description of the Barony of Forth," written in 1684 for Sir William Petty, and now or lately in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillips of Middlehill, is very full on the family of Esmonde ; and in relation to this Laurence, says that he " during his minority continued a 4 martialist,' in the Low Countries of Ger- many, the famous academy of military discipline and good literature, the only theatre of warlike stratagems and heroic exploits, wherein he became an excellent proficient," &c. He was afterwards employed by Queen Elizabeth in Holland, and in Ireland in the wars of the Pale ; was knighted by Sir Henry Sidney, and afterwards, when serving in Connaught, so distinguished himself by zeal and activity, that in 1622 he was raised to the Peerage as Lord Esmonde, Baron of Limbericke,* County of Wexford. He mar- ried a Catholic lady of the name of O'Fflahertie, by whom he had a son Thomas ; but, on the suggestion that this marriage Avas illegal, he having been a con- formist, Lord Esmonde, without taking any legal steps to annul it, took to his second wife a grand- daughter of the Earl of Ormonde, by whom, however, he had no issue. Lord Esmonde sat in the Irish Parliament of 1634 as a Peer, and was one of the nobles who attended the unfortunate Lord Strafford in the memorable procession to St. Patrick's Cathe- * This title was afterwards, with the Earldom of Castlemain, conferred by Charles II. upon Roger Palmer, husband of a Royal favourite. 680 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. dral, being then one of the Privy Council of Ireland. During the ensuing civil war, the custody of the fort of Duncannon was entrusted to him, then 4 an old but experienced officer. ' He was compelled, however, to surrender it in March, 1644, to General Preston, upon obtaining quarter and sufferance for life and goods. The disaster, however, so sorely affected him, that he died, 4 worn out with age' and vexation, within a short time after ; having, by a will executed immediately previously, directed his interment 4 in the chapel he had built at Limbericke,' and bequeathed all his estates, upwards of seventy townlands, with advowsons, manors, rectories, and fisheries (after some prior limitations), to Laurence, the eldest born of his aforesaid son Thomas, in tail-male. This Thomas had been created a Baronet during his father's life, but, under the domestic circumstance alluded to, and the troubles of the period, he never claimed the Baronage on his father's death. He attended the Council of Kilkenny in 1646, when the Nuncio advised that, in all military affairs within their cognizance, Sir Thomas Esmonde should be taken into consultation. He was consequently, by Cromwell's Act of 1652, excepted from pardon for life and estate. The Act of Settlement, however, directed that he should be restored to his principal seat and 2,000 acres of land, exclusive of those portions of the family estates then in the possession of the Duke of Albemarle or his tenants. Many subsequent confirmatory patents, from Charles the Second to men of the 4 new interest' COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGH'S INFANTRY. 681 in Wexford, contain savings of the rights of Sir Thomas, as also of Laurence his son, afterwards the second Baronet, who in 1687 was Sheriff for the County of Carlo w, in the year after which he died. The Outlawries of 1691 comprise Thomas Esmonde of Wexford, William of Johnstown, and John of Ferrybank, all in that County. This John appears identical with John who afterwards succeeded as the fourth in the line of the Baronets, and with an indi- vidual of the same name who, after the Eevolution, passed over to the Continent, and served in the Spanish Army as Captain of a Regiment of Dragoons, under the Marshal Duke of Berwick. Two confi- dential and familiar letters, from the son of this illus- trious commander to Captain John Esmonde, have been shown to the compiler of this work. The first, of 6th November, 1733, from Barcelona, opens, "A commission, dear Jack, has been given me which obliges me to go off tomorrow morning, and I can assure you I am very sorry to part you without see- ing you ; but since it cannot be, I will tell you at least in this letter what you are to do." — (The writer then gives directions as to the route for the march of Horse and Dragoons through France to the seat of war) " When you come near Avignon, you can take a trip thence to see the Duke of Ormonde, and if you find there a cook, that perhaps will be sent from Paris for me to the Duke of Ormonde, you will take him along with you I am persuaded you will take care the Horse should be embarked in good 682 king james's irisij army list. ships, and you may be sure that Marvillac, Maredo, &c, as also Mahony, will render you all the services that depend on them I believe that when you have once passed the Ehone, it will not be amiss you should march on before with the horse and mules, to the place where you are to embark, that you may rest them for some days before embarking ; but inform before-hand whether if you are to go off from Antibe or Toulon, for it is not as yet well resolved upon. &c. &c, Most faithfully yours, Liria," — The letter, so signed while his father lived, is contrasted with his signature to the second, of the 20th February, 1736, when, the old Duke having died, he signs, 'Ber- wick.' It is written from Naples : " My health, God be praised, is very good, and I want nothing but fair weather to 1 make ' a little exercise ; great talk of peace, and if so, we shall soon return home." This Duke died at Naples in 1738, leaving issue as mentioned ante, p. 27. His correspondent, Captain John Esmond, had long previously entered the Spanish service as a Cadet, was on commission in 1719, and raised to a Captaincy in 1734. After the death of the third Baronet, he sought in 1739 a pass- port to his native country, ' to take care of his private concerns,' which was granted under the official seal on the 28th of May in that year. Accordingly, his claim having been allowed, he died the fourth Baro- net in 1758, as recorded in Burke's Baronetage. Sir Walter, the brother and successor of Sir John, closed the elder line of this Baronetcy, he leaving no COLONEL CHARLES CAVENAGIl'S INFANTRY. 683 male issue. His daughter and sole heiress married Stanislaus Maximilian James Mc Mahon, of the County of Clare, by whom she had issue a son and a daughter ; but the Baronetcy passed to the heir male of the second son of the first Baronet, viz. James Esmonde of Ballynestra, and is now borne by his son and heir, Sir Thomas Esmonde, a Deputy Lieutenant and Privy Councillor. Patrick Chevalier d'Esmonde, a Colonel ■ in the Austrian service, was during a considerable time a captive in Turkey : he left an only daughter and heiress, who married Charles Count Kavanagh, (of the family of Borris), a General of Cavalry in the Imperial Army.* [CAPTAIN NICHOLAS WARREN.] This officer does not appear upon the present Army List, although his commission bears date on the 1st of December, 1688. He was of a family long pre- viously settled at Corduff, before alluded to, ante, p. 440. " LIEUTENANT BONAVENTURE KINSELAGH. The O'Kinsellaghs were a numerous and territorial Clan, located in the Counties of Carlow and Wexford. * Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, p. 37(>. 684 king james's irish army list. The only individual of the name attainted in 1642, was Dermott Kinselagh of Ballaghmone, County of Kildare. Eneas 4 Kinsly ' of Ballynacargy was a member of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny in 1646. The above officer is described in the Inquisition taken on his attainder, as of Ferns in the County of Wexford ; at which place a Turlogh Kinsellagh was then also outlawed, with Arthur Kinsellagh of Bally- duff, in the same County. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BOOLE. This officer is described in the Inquisition on his outlawry as of Clonegal, in the County of Carlo w. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM FFISHER. Nothing has been ascertained worthy of notice re- specting this officer, or the name at the period. COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 685 REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Ine colonel. John .Nugent. VJTclliy ill// vJcidilU. [_— JJe ousDy, William QnwfVi William omycn. James Comerford. Phil in Wall Edward Fitz Gerald. Nicholas Lambert. Marcus Quirke. James Everard. Thomas Mandeville. John Mandeville. Richard Butler. James Hackett. Daniel Meagher. Thomas Kehoe. Michael Comerford. John Lucker. Maurice Roche. Richard Tobin. Nicholas Roche. Garrett Gough. John Tobin. John Gough. John Ankittell. Richard Ankittell. James Sarsfield. Thomas Shee. Richard Malone. James Tobin. Michael Bryan. John Howley. Garret Comerford. Ambrose Mandeville. Marcus Shea. Patrick Mandeville. Thomas Tierney. John Lambert. Edward Mandeville. Edmund Bray. John Fitz Maurice. COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER. Of this noble family and Colonel, see ante, at Lord Galmoy's Horse. 686 king james's irish army list. [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DE BUSBY]. This officer is inserted in the Army List, on the authority of the Appendix to King's State of the Pro- testants. CAPTAIN THOMAS KEHOE. A family of this name appears then and previously located in the County of WicMow. Of the attainted in 1642 are recorded Thomas Mac Mulmurry M'Kehoe, and William McShane McFarrel McKehoe of Knock- andarragh, County of Wicklow ; while there were outlawed in 1691 John 4 Keagho' of Ballymuraroe, in the same County, and Humphrey 4 Keagho' of Bally- beddin, in the adjoining County of Wexford. More in conformity with the latter orthography was Keoghoe, an Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. CAPTAIN GARRETT GOUGH. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second ; in that of Henry the Sixth, John 4 Goghe' was a Justice in Eyre. In 1601, Edmund Gough was knighted by the President of Munster, Lord Carew, for his services in the province, and especially at the battle of Kinsale. In 1626, Dr. COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 687 Francis Gough succeeded to the See of Limerick. The Attainders of 1642 record the names of Eichard 4 Geogh' of Lusk, and John Geogh of Heathstown, in the County of Dublin ; William Gough of Ballycom- mon, County of Wicklow, and Patrick Gough of Ark- low. At the Kilkenny Assembly in 1646, Patrick Gough of Kilmanahan was one of the Commons. In King James's Parliament of Dublin (1689), Edward Gough sat as one of the Eepresentatives of Youghal. The above officer is described on the Attainders of 1691, as Garrett £ Goff ' of Kilmanaheen, County of Waterford ; a son or relative, it would seem, of the Patrick who sat in the Council of Kilkenny. With him were then outlawed Edward ' Goff,' merchant of Cork, and Edward ' Goff' of Youghal, Alderman. Ignatius Gough also was a forfeiting proprietor in Dublin, as was Patt Gough in the County of Meath. CAPTAIN JOHN ANKITTEL. So early as in the reign of Eichard the Second, the name of 'Angetale' is of Irish record. The officer here introduced appears to have been of Ballinakill, in the Queen's County, of which estate he had livery on coming of age in 1640. 688 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN THOMAS SHEE. The Sept of the O'Shee or O'Shea was extended over territory in the Counties of Kerry, Tipperary, and in later years in Kilkenny. An ancient MS. pedigree in the Collections of Trinity College, Dublin, (F. 3, 27), sets forth that Sir Richard Shee, Knight, died in August, 1608, leaving Luke of Kilkenny, his eldest son, and Thomas his second son, ' sometime Mayor thereof this latter married Ellen, daughter of Nicho- las Dobin of Waterford, by whom he had no issue, and, dying in 1636, was buried in St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny. Luke, the eldest son of Sir Richard, mar- ried Ellen, daughter of Edmund, Viscount Mountgar- rat ; by whom he had, besides seven daughters, two sons, 1. Robert, who married Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Masterson of Ferns, County of Wexford, Knight ; 2. Edmund, who married Dorothea, daughter of Nicholas Dormer of Ross, County of Wex- ford. At the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, Edward Shee and Robert Fitz-William Shee of that city, with Walter Shee of Trim, were of the Confederate Catho- lics. The declaration of Royal gratitude of 1662 includes Ensign George Shee of Kilkenny. Besides the above officer, James Shea was a Quarter-Master in Lord Galmoy's Horse. The Attainders of 1691 include the above officer, described as Thomas Fitz- John Shea, merchant, with seven other cavaliers of the name, all of the City of Kilkenny. At the Court of Claims, John ' Shee,' Ellen Shee his sister, Francis COLONEL THOMAS BUTLERS INFANTRY. 689 Shee and Patrick Shee, for themselves, and as execu- tors of William Shee, claimed and were allowed charges affecting the County of Kilkenny estates of James Shee ; while Henry Shee had a similar allow- ance of the benefit of several freehold interests there- out : Laurence Shee also claimed and was allowed a charge on Kilkenny lands of Samuel Shee. At the battle of Laufheld, in 1747, Captain Shea, in Roth's Regiment, was wounded. CAPTAINS AMBROSE AND EDWARD MANDEVILLE. This name is of record in Ulster from the time of John de Conrcy's invasion, when some of the family followed his standard. In 1302, Thomas de Mandeville, 'of Ireland,' had a treasury order for £566 13s. 4d., for his expenses in men, arms, and horses, incurred in the King's first expedition to Scotland, and his and their expenses of passage. In 1325, King Edward the Second granted to John de Mandeville the office of Sheriff of Down and Newtown during pleasure, with such fees as other sheriffs of said counties in times past used to receive. In 1335, Henry de Mandeville had liberates for his services in Ulster against the Mc Cartan, as also for relieving Green Castle when besieged. Nothing has been ascertained worthy of notice respecting these officers or their connections, nor do they appear on the Attainders. VY 690 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN THOMAS TIERNEY. A Francis ' Tirney,' described as of Galway, mer- chant, alone appears on the Attainders of 1691. CAPTAIN JOHN LAMBERT. This individual was the younger son of James Lam- bert, who in the seventeenth century was head of the Lamberts of Carnagh in the County of Wexford, at present represented by Henry Lambert, a Deputy- Lieutenant for that county, and at one time its Repre- sentative in Parliament. There were attainted in 1691, Peter 'Lamport' of Wexford, Nicholas Lamport of Carnagh, and Peter of Ballyhew in the County of Wexford. A Charles Lambert of Aggard, County of Galway, was also at this time a forfeiting proprietor ; on whose estate John French and Jane his wife claimed and were allowed an estate for her life. LIEUTENANT PHILIP WALL. An Edmund Wall, holding various lands in the Parish of Uglin in Carlow, was attainted in 1641. In the declaration of thanks' clause in 1662, Ensign Piers Wall was included, ■ for services beyond the sea.' This Lieutenant Philip, as appears by the Inquisition for his attainder, was a merchant of Drogheda. Six other Walls were outlawed at the COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 691 same time ; while a Richard Wall, who was an Ensign in Lord Louth's Infantry, does not appear in this proscribed Roll. In 1747, Lieutenant Wall, of Clare's Regiment of Brigade, was wounded at the battle of Lauffield. LIEUTENANTS RICHARD AND JOHN TOBIN. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Third. It was especially established in the County of Tipperary. A manuscript Book ot Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, (F iv. 18), supplies seven links of the generations of Tobins of Killaghy, in the seventeenth century. In Colonel Dudley Bag- nail's Infantry, Edward Tobin was a Lieutenant. In King James's Parliament of Dublin, James Tobin sat as one of the Representatives for the Borough of Feth- ard, County of Tipperary ; and the Attainders of 1691 include with him Pierce 4 Tobyn' of Jerpoint, and James Tobyn of Killalow, in the County of Kil- kenny. On the first formation of Galmoy's Horse Regiment of Brigade, James Tobin was appointed a Major. LIEUTENANT RICHARD MALONE. The O'Malones, a very ancient Irish Sept, are consi- dered to have been a branch of the O'Conors, Kings of Connaught, and are, on old topographical records, YY 2 692 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. located in the Baronies of Brawney and Clonlonan, County of Westmeath. The Four Masters exhibit them in frequent succession as Abbots or Bishops of Clonmacnoise. On the Roll of Attainders of 1642 stand the names of John Malone of Skerries, clerk ; Christopher of Drogheda, merchant ; and William Malone of Lismullen, Esq. An ancient manuscript mentions those of the name that acted in that Civil War as, " Young Edmund Malone, living near Ath- lone, ' a notorious rebel ;' James Malone of Ballina- hown, Eory and Thomas Malone of the parish of Kil- beggan, Morres Malone of the King's County, and the above William Malone of Lismullen." This latter was one of the influential proprietors who attended the celebrated meeting of the Catholic party on the Hill of Crofty. In the Parliament of Dublin, Dermot Malone sat in the Peers by the title of Baron of G-len- maliere and Courchy ; while in the Commons, Edmund Malone of Ballynahown, Esq., and Edmund Malone, barrister, represented the Barony of Athlone. This Edmund of Ballynahown was a Lieutenant in Colonel Richard Grace's Regiment of Horse, (not in- cluded in this List) ; and John Malone of Cartrons was a Cornet of Horse in the same service. Anthony Malone of Ballynahown was also a Lieutenant in this army. The Malones attainted in 1691 were Edward of Lismullen, County of Meath ; Anthony of Ballyna- hown, John and Edmund of Cartrons, Hugh of Mullin- gar, Edward of Dublin, and Patrick and John of Dro- more, County of Down. Edmund Malone, styled of COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 693 'Rathleigh,' subsequently obtained a pardon under the Great Seal. Edmund, the barrister, was one of those who in 1703 appeared at the bar of the Irish House of Commons, together with Sir Theobald Butler and Sir Stephen Rice, to protest against the passing of the 'Act to prevent the further growth of Popery,' as sub- versive of the rights secured to themselves and their Roman Catholic countrymen by the Treaty of Lime- rick. In 1786, Colonel Sir James Stackpole Malone (Q? Moloney) volunteered on a forlorn hope connected with the reduction of Montreal. He had one hundred men under his command, who were, with himself, all cut down, excepting only seven.* LIEUTENANT JOHN HOWLEY. Although in latter years this name has been borne in England by an Archbishop of Canterbury, and in Ireland is of respectability in the Counties of Mayo, Sligo, Tipperary, and Limerick, it yet does not appear on the Attainders of 1641, or 1691 ; and is not other- wise associated with the present work than in the above Lieutenant, who, as the compiler has been informed, was the great grandfather of the present Sergeant John Howley. * Dublin Journal, March 9th, 1786. 694 king james's irish army list. ENSIGN MARCUS QUIRKE. The O'Cuirces (Quirkes), or Mac Quirkes were an ancient Sept of Munster. In 1643 were attainted Teige Mac Quirke of Bally macquirke, County of Cork, with Donell and Cornelius, his sons. Amongst those thanked for 1 services beyond the seas,' by the clause in the Act of Settlement so often alluded to, were Ensigns Pierce and William Quirke of the County of Tipperary. In 1686, Colonel John Russell received an order from Tyrconnel to provide for sundry officers, who could not then be received into the respective Regiments of the army, in his (Colonel Russell's) Regi- ments, duty free, and to place them in their respective companies. One of the officers named for this service was Ensign 4 Matthew' Quirke.* ENSIGN JOHN LUCKER. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family. ENSIGN EDMUND BRAY. The name of De Bray is of record in Ireland from the time of King John. This officer seems to have been connected with a family of the name in Oxfordshire ; from which county Lord Abingdon wrote in June, * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 459. COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 695 1685, to the Earl of Clarendon, " I had forgot to tell your Lordship that Mr. Bray was the second gentle- man in this county who offered his service to go a volunteer with me ; which I take so kindly, that If your Lordship, thinks fit and he behaves himself well, I will hereafter give him some command in the Militia, wherein his father was Lieutenant- Colonel."* The Diary of Clarendon, in September, 1688, says, "Sun- day, Mr. Bray dined with me ; he told me Lord Abingdon had agreed to set him up as one of the Knights for this County, for the Parliament which is to meet in November next."f A Mr. John Bray was nominated by King James an Alderman in the new Charter of Clonmel ; he afterwards represented that borough in the Parliament of Dublin, and was at- tainted in 1691. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. _ John Binns, Lieutenant-Colonel. Major. Charles M'Cartie. Keadagh Leary. Thomas Donovan. * Singer's Correspondence, v. 1, p. 136. t Idem, vol. 2, p. 187. 696 king james's irish army list. COLONEL SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD [BARONET]. The annals and achievements of this noble and historic name are emblazoned in the history not only of Ire- land, bnt of every civilized country of the world. In the limited scope of memoir here allowable it may be noted that, in the centuries within the scope of these Illustrations, after the merciless extermination of the Munster war against the Earl of Desmond, John Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Gerald fled from Cork to Spain, as did James Fitz-Gerald from Kerry. The Attainders of 1642 present no less than sixty Inquisitions on Fitz- Geralds ; those in Meath comprising Sir Luke Fitz- Gerald of Tecroghan, Richard of Rathrone, and four others ; those in Kildare, Pierce Fitz-Gerald of Bally- sonnan, James of Timolin, Maurice of Allen, John, William, James, and Oliver of Blackhall, and forty- seven others. — In the Supreme Council at Kilkenny sat Christopher Fitz-Gerald of Coynelunan, Edmund of Ballymartyr, Edmund of Brownsford, Gerald of Clonegad, Gerald of Timogue, the aforesaid Luke of Tecroghan, Matthew of Gobinstown, the said Maurice of Allen, Nicholas of Marmayne, Thomas of Binneys- ford, and said Pierce of Ballysonnan. Cromwell's Act 'for settling Ireland' excepted from pardon for life and estate said Sir Luke Fitz-Gerald of Tecroghan, Knight, and Pierse Fitz-Gerald of Ballyshannon, 'com- monly called Mac Thomas ; ' while, on the other hand, the Parliamentary thanks in the Act of Settlement SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 697 were given to Mr. Edmund Fitz-Gerald and Colonel Richard Fitz-Gerald of Ballymaloe, to Ensign Morris Fitz-Gerald of Ballynamartery, County of Cork, and to Mr. George Fitz-Gerald of Tecroghan. This George Fitz-Gerald was son of the said Sir Luke (by his wife, Mary, daughter of Lord Netter- ville), grandson of Sir Edward, and lineal male de- scendant in the fifth generation from Thomas Fitz- Gerald, the seventh Earl of Kildare, by his first wife, Dorothy, daughter of Anthony O'More, the Lord of Leix, whom he married in his father's life- time, when only Lord of Offaley. George died about the year 1669, leaving Mary Fitz-Gerald his only child and heiress ; who, intermarrying with her cousin Henry Fitz-Gerald, the inheritor and representative of the Fitz-Gerald s of Rathrone, and thus descended from a common ancestor with that of Tecroghan, thereby united these two ancient Houses. Accordingly, on the Attainders of 1691, this Henry is styled on one Inqui- sition as of Tecroghan, on another as of Rathrone. Their son and heir was Gerald Fitz-Gerald of Rath- rone, who married, in 1720, Clare, only daughter of Sir John Bellew, Baronet ; by whom he had issue Gerald Fitz-Gerald the younger, of Rathrone, who was Member of Parliament for Kildare in the year 1761, and for Harristown in 1768. He, the last heir male of Henry and Mary Fitz-Gerald, died unmarried in 1775, and the representation descended through his sister Julia (who had in 1757 married John Daly of Dalybrook, County of Kildare) to her only married 698 king james's irish army list. child and heiress, Bridget Fitz-Gerald Daly ; and through her, on her marriage with William Kenney, Esq. of Kilclogher, Co. of G-alway, and of Ballytarsney, County of Wexford, to their eldest son, James Fitz- gerald Kenney, Esq., who, by his wife, the Honorable Jane Olivia Nugent, daughter of the late William Tho- . mas, Lord Riverston, had issue only William Nugent Kenney, a Captain in the Eleventh, who died unmar- ried ; James Christopher Fitz-Gerald Kenney, Esq. of Kilclogher and Merrion Square ; and a third son, Nugent T. F. Kenney of Correndoo, County of Gal- way. This J ames is now, therefore, the representative and heir general of the families of Tecroghan and Rathrone.* This name is abundantly displayed over the present Army List. James Fitz-Gerald was a Captain in Colonel Purcell's Horse, in which John Fitz-Gerald was a Quarter-Master. In Sir Neill O'Neill's, Char- les Fitz-Gerald was a Captain, as were Morres and John in Lord Clare's, in which latter Thomas was a Cornet, and Gerald a Quarter-Master. In Colonel Robert Clifford's, James Fitz-Gerald was a Captain, and Christopher a Cornet. Maurice was a Captain in Colonel John Hamilton's Infantry. In Lord Mount- cashel's, Garret and Charles were Captains, Francis and Robert Lieutenants, and James and Edward En- signs. Edmund Fitz-Gerald was a Captain in the Earl of Clancarthy's, wherein Gerald was a Lieuten- * See Sir Bernard Burke's valuable genealogical works, passim. SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 699 ant. (It would seem that either of the Geralds here underlined was the son of Henry and Mary above alluded to). In the Earl of Tyrone's Infantry, Edmund was a Captain, and Richard and another Edmund Lieutenants. In Lord Gormanston's, Oliver Fitz-Gerald was a Captain, Gerald a Lieutenant, and Thomas an Ensign. In Colonel Henry Dillon's, Edward and Robert were Captains, Richard a Lieu- tenant, and Redmond an Ensign. Edward was a Captain and Geoffrey an Ensign in Colonel Thomas Butler's ; Edmund a Captain in Lord Kilmallock's. In Major-General Boiseleau's, Maurice and Garret Fitz-Gerald were Captains, and Edmund an Ensign. James and Dudley were Captains, and Edmund a Lieutenant in Colonel Nicholas Browne's. Thomas was a Captain in Colonel Charles O'Bryan's ; as were John and David in Colonel Roger McEllicot's, wherein James was a Lieutenant, and Nicholas an Ensign. Laurence Fitz-Gerald was a Lieutenant in Lord Galmoy's Horse, Christopher a Cornet in Sarsfield's ; as were Garret and Walter in Lord Dongan's, and John in Colonel Francis Carroll's Dragoons. Richard Fitz-Gerald was a Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Foot. Walter was a Lieutenant and Maurice an Ensign in Colonel Sir Maurice Eustace's Infantry. In Colonel Edward Butler's, John Fitz-Gerald was a Lieutenant, as was Gibbon Fitz-Gerald in Colonel John Barrett's. In the Parliament of 1689, Fitz-Gerald, Earl of Kildare, did not sit ; but in the Commons, Edward 700 king james's irish army list. Fitz-Gerald was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Inistiogue, William of that of Athy, a second Edward of Harristown, Oliver of Lanesborough, James of Ratoath, Nicholas of the City of Waterford ; while this officer, Sir John, and Gerald Fitz-Gerald, Esq., commonly called the Knight of Glin, were Mem- bers for the County of Limerick. This Parliament was convened in May, 1689 ; on the first of June following, says a Diary of the day,* " there marched from Dublin Sir Michael Creagh, the present Lord Mayor, with his Regiment, Sir John Fitz-Gerald from Rathcoole and Lucan, with his Regiment, and several others from other parts towards Trim, twenty miles from Dublin, the place appointed for the general rendezvous of the army that are sent against Ennis- killen. Colonel Sarsfield from Sligo is to join them, and so to march to Enniskillen to attack it, with a resolution to bear it down. All Sir Michael Creagh's Regiment was raised in Dublin, Sir John Fitz- Gerald's from Munster, and most that are gone down there are all raw fellows, not knowing how to fire a gun." On the following 25th of July, writes Macken- zie,f "the enemy had several cows feeding behind their lines near us ; our men resolved they would try to get so welcome a prey into their own hands, and ac- cordingly early this morning they go out, surprised Sir John Fitz-Gerald's Regiment, who were in these lines, made havoc of them, beat them from their trenches, * Somers's State Tracts, vol. 11, p. 429. t Siege of Derry, p. 45. SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 701 killed the Lieutenant-Colonel, (then another Fitz- Gerald), and Captain Frank Wilson, and took Captain Nugent prisoner," but were driven back with- out obtaining their desired prey. During the ensuing siege of Deny, a Captain Fitz-Gerald was killed at Pennyburn-Mill * as was another Captain at the Boyne.f The Colonel at present under consideration " had suffered under the machinations of the whigs in the reign of Charles the Second, having been one of the Roman Catholic gentry arrested and conveyed to England in 1680, on account of the pretended Popish Plot. After the accession of James the Second, he was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel to the Infantry Regi- ment of Colonel Justin McCarty (Lord Mountcashel), and in 1689 was made Colonel of this Regiment, with which he served at the siege of Derry."J His ser- vices on the 22nd of June, 1690, near Dundalk, are noticed ante, p. 109. In the same month of the fol- lowing year, when De Grinkle was advancing to besiege Athlone with his veteran army, Sir John Fitz- Gerald sent out a party of Irish grenadiers to dispute the passes and defiles ; and this duty they discharged with equal courage and prudence, " keeping the masses of the enemy in check as long as possible, while retiring before superior numbers, making them purchase their advance at considerable loss."§ He * Walkers Siege of Deny, p. 60. t Clarke's Mem. James II., v. 2, p. 399. | O Callaglian's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 232. § O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 309. 702 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. took an active part afterwards in defending Limerick from the same assailant ; but O'Conor writes that he was removed for D'Usson, 4 one more versed in the science of defending fortified places.' After the capi- tulation he passed with his Regiment to France, where his Brigade was styled 'the Regiment of Limerick,' of which Jeremiah O'Mahony was Lieutenant-Colonel, and William Therry Major. In that country, and in other parts of the Continent, this Regiment ' ac- quired glorious renown' in various engagements in Normandy, Germany, and Italy, as fully set forth in O'Conor's Military Memoirs. Sir John Fitz-Gerald fell at Oudenarde in 1698. Although not an adherent of King James, another Fitz-Gerald is too intimately connected with the times to be here omitted. Robert Fitz-Gerald, second son of the sixteenth Earl of Kildare, was, on the accession of James, " stripped of all his employments and estates to the value of £3,300 per annum, and impri- soned in Newgate for twenty-one weeks ; but after- wards, in consequence of the state of his health, was removed to his own house, where he remained guarded for five months. On the landing of King William in Ireland he was placed in close durance in Trinity College, and so restrained until the defeat of James at the Boyne, when he broke from his prison, and by his courage and prudence preserved Dublin from being sacked. When King William entered the metropolis, Captain Fitz-Gerald had the honour of presenting to his Majesty the keys of the city, and was afterwards SIR JOHN FITZ-GERALD'S INFANTRY. 703 sworn of his Privy Council."* The Attainders on Inquisitions of 1691 against Fitz-Geralds are in num- ber in the several counties, twenty-one in Waterford, seventeen in Cork, as many in Westmeath, twenty- three in Kildare, nine in Meath, six in Limerick and Kilkenny respectively, five in Longford, four in Ros- common and in Dublin, two in Carlow, two in Wick- low, and one each in Clare, Kerry, Queen's County, and Cavan. At the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Dame Ellen Fitz-Gerald claimed, as the widow of Sir John Fitz-Gerald, deceased, and was as such allowed, her jointure off his County of Limerick estates ; Piers Fitz-Gerald also claimed and. was allowed a remainder for years in other Limerick pos- sessions of said Sir John. Thomas and John Fitz- Gerald, minors, by their guardian, claimed and were allowed an estate tail to Thomas, with remainder to John, in other Limerick lands forfeited by Gerald Fitz-Gerald ; while John Fitz-Gerald, second son of said Gerald, and five of his daughters, claimed portions off his said Limerick lands, but their prayer was dismissed. Mary Fitz-Gerald claimed an estate for her life in County of Kildare lands for- feited by Henry Fitz-Gerald, her husband, which was allowed if she survived him, while Luke Fitz-Gerald claimed and was also allowed a reversion in fee in said Kildare estate, after the death of said Mary ; and Gerald and Edward Fitz-Gerald, minors, by William Fitz-Gerald, their prochein ami, claimed and were * Burke's Peerage, pp. 604-5. 704 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. allowed estates in tail-male, not only in the Kildare estates of said Henry, but also in other of his estates in Meath, Westmeath, and Cavan. Alice Fitz- Gerald, otherwise Dillon, claimed dower for herself, and portions for her daughters Elinor and Alice Fitz- Gerald, off Cork lands of Edmund Fitz-Gerald, her husband and their father— dismissed as cautionary. 1 In 1747, Lieutenant Edward Fitz-Gerald, in Clare's Regiment, was wounded at Lauffield. The exploits of Brigadier James Fitz-Gerald in Dillon's Regiment, and his death in 1773, are related in O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 91. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN BINNS. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family. LIEUTENANT KEDAGH LEARY. The Sept of O'Leary was territorially settled in Muskerry, County of Cork, between Macroom and Inchageela, where are still the ruins of several of their castles. They suffered much in the Desmond war, and, on the defeat of Juan de Aquila at Kinsale, Mahon Mac Donough O'Leary passed over with him out of Ireland.* On the Attainders of 1642 occur the names of Connor O'Leary of Carrignyeorry, * Pacata Hibernia, p. 425, LORD LOUTH'S INFANTRY. 705 Auliff O'Leary of Cunnowley, with fourteen other O'Leary s, all located in the County of Cork. On those of 1691, William Leary of Aghare, County of Cork, stands alone. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. OLIVER, LORD LOUTH'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. _ Lieutenant-Colonel, Major. Barnaby Burne. James Hussey. Joseph Dowdall, Theobald Throckmorton. > T D . , , ,, T Charles Throckmorton. \ JameS Bellew " Richard Walle. James Donellan. Henry Plunkett. CAPTAINS THEOBALD AND CHARLES THROCKMORTON. Of this name it can only be said that the latter officer is described, in the Inquisition on his attainder in 1691, as 'of Crucetown. County of Louth.' 706 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. LORD KILMALLOCK'S. Captains. Lieutenants. The Colonel. John Power, Lieutenant-Colonel. John Chappel, Major. Walter Galway. Morgan ' Kavenagh.' Patrick Power. . . Thomas Bryan. . . James Roch. Peter Nihill. Martin Supple. Terence Browne. Edmund Fitz-Gerald. Peregrine Spencer. John Barry. . , Richard Butler. James Butler. Piers Birmingham. David Mac Jonnin. . John Noble. . Daniel Egan. Richard Butler, . Grenad. Ensigns. Toby Butler. COLONEL DOMINICK SARSFIELD, LORD KILMALLOCK. The family of Sarsfield has been fully written of in the notices of the illustrious Patrick Sarsfield's 'Horse/ In reference to this noble officer, his grandfather was Sir Dominick Sarsfield, Knight, Chief Justice of the LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY. 707 Common Pleas. He was created Premier Baronet of Ireland in 1619, and raised to the Peerage in 1624, as Baron of Barrett's Comity and Yisconnt Kinsale, both localities lying in Cork ; but the Baron of Kin- sale (De Conrcy), having preferred his remonstrance to the Crown, as that the title of Kinsale belonged to him, the appointment was submitted for the conside- ration and decision of the Lords and Judges, which was given in favour of Lord Kinsale ; whereupon Sir Dominick was soon after created a Viscount Sarsfielcl of Kilmallock, with the precedence of the former patent. He died in 1636, and was buried in Christ Church, Cork. He left two sons, William the eldest, his immediate successor, whose only son David or Daniel, the third Viscount, died in 1687 without issue ; when Dominick, the second son of the first Viscount, succeeded to the title, and was father of the above Dominick junior, the fourth Viscount of Kil- mallock. He was, in 1689, constituted of the Privy Council of King James, sat as a Peer in the Parlia- ment of that year, subsequently distinguished himself at the first siege of Limerick, was also at the battle of Aughrim, and, after the Capitulation of Limerick, fol- lowed the fortunes of the dethroned Stuart. On the reorganization of the Irish forces in Bretagne, he was appointed First-Lieutenant in the second troop of Horse Guards, commanded by his brother-in-law the Earl of Lucan. In 1693, he was commissioned to succeed Major-General Maxwell in the command of the King's Regiment of Dismounted Dragoons, having 708 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Turenne O'Connor (the Marshal de Turenne's godson) his Lieutenant-Colonel, and de Sales his Major. This Regiment, together with that of the Queen's Irish Dragoons, 1,400 men, he headed at the battle of Marsiglia in 1693, continuing Colonel of the former until after the peace of Ryswick in 1697, when that Regiment was broken up.* He afterwards became a Colonel of Dragoons in Spain, and was Governor and Commander at Badajos. In the Spanish campaign of 1710, he fell in battle, f He had been attainted in 1691, when Sir Robert Southwell, whose grasping at confiscations has been more particularly alluded to ante, p. 386, having represented his losses by the Irish rebels and the English soldiers as amounting from March, 1689, to All Saints' day, 1690, to £4,759, he thereupon obtained a grant of the estates of this 1 Dominick Sarsfield,' as also of those of James Ronayne and Peter Levallin, all situated in the County of Cork. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN POWER. Some few notices of this great name in Ireland, beyond the scope generally proposed for these Illustra- tions, cannot be uninteresting. On the Invasion of Ireland, the Earl, popularly called Strongbow, con- ferred upon Robert le Poer the territory of Waterford, * O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, vol. 1, p. 160. f O'Conor's Milit. Mem. v. 1, p. 218. LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY. 709 excepting therefrom the city and the eantred of the Ostmen or Danes,* whom the invaders found settled there, and in good policy encouraged as mer- chants. At the close of the thirteenth century, when the Earl of Desmond refused to attend a Parliament- ary summons, the Lord Deputy, raising the King's standard, marched into Minister, seized his possessions, and executed Eustace le Poer as one of his chief ad- herents.f Amongst the Irish Magnates and Captains who, in 1314, accompanied Edward the Second in his expedition against Scotland, were John le Poer, Arnold le Poer, and Peter le Poer, Knight. In 1320, Meyler le Poer was Bishop of Leighlin, as was Eobert Poer, of Waterford and Lismore, in 1446. The Attainders of 1641 include David Fitz-John Power of Prowhus ; Edmund, alias Naghton Power of Drome- nyne ; and Eobert Power of Castletown, all in the County of Cork. The Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646 had David 'Poor' of Clonmore, and John Power of Kilmacdan of its members. The Declara- tion of Eoyal thanks in the Act of Settlement parti- cularly notices Mr. David ' Powre' of Kilbolane, and Captain Edmund Power of Inch, County of Cork. Besides this Lieutenant-Colonel John and Captain Patrick in this Eegiment, another John Power was Lieutenant-Colonel in Sir Michael Creagh's, as was James Power in Colonel Dudley Bagnall's Infantry ; and the name was commissioned in six other Eegi- ments of this List. In the Parliament of 1689 sat * Sir John Davis's Hist. Eel. p. 00. t Idem, p. 89. 710 king james's irish army list. Power, Earl of Tyrone, in the Peers; while in the Commons John Power was one of the Members for the County of Waterford, as was John Power of Kilbo- lane for the Borough of Charleville. The Attainders of 1691 include the aforesaid John Power of Kilbolane, with three others in Cork, four in Carlow, three in Galway, one in Clare, and thirty-one in Waterford. On the formation in France of the Brigade Eegiment styled £ of Dublin,' this John Power was appointed Colonel, while another John Power, the Lieutenant- Colonel it would seem of Sir Michael Creagh's, had the same rank under him. In 1703, John Power, 1 commonly called Lord Power,' petitioned Queen Anne, setting forth that " during the late calamitous times he was kind and serviceable to divers Protestants, especially in Lime- rick during the siege, he being then Mayor of the city ; that he had gone to France and was in the army there, when encouragement having been given to him by the late King William, he quitted France, though offered a Major-Generalship if he remained ; that the sudden death of that King retarded his in- terest, but her Majesty having given him licence to return, he gave up his son to be educated a Protes- tant, the Queen allowing a yearly maintenance for his education ; and that she gave himself an appoint- ment to go and serve the King of Portugal, her ally. That, during his absence from the kingdom, he was outlawed as for treason, though, as he relied, he had neither real nor personal property that could accrue LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY. 711 to the Crown by his outlawry. That, however, by a recent Act of Parliament such attainder could not be cleared away but only by another Act of Parliament, the benefit of which he thereby prayed."* MAJOR JOHN CHAPPEL, The name of Chappel, 1 de la Chapelle,' is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, when this family was seised of estates in the County of Cork. On the death of Maurice de la Chapelle in 1326, his estates in that county were, according to the profit- able Royal prerogative of wardships, granted during the minority of James, his son and heir. In 1347, John de la Chapelle was appointed a Guardian of the Peace in that county. Of this rather rare sur- name was also Dr. William Chappel, born in Notting- hamshire in 1582, advanced in 1633, on the recom- mendation of Dr. Laud, then Bishop of London, to the See of Killaloe ; by the same influence was sworn Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1633 ; where, " in order to give the junior students a taste of government, he established a Roman Commonwealth among them, to continue during the Christmas vaca- tion, in which they had their dictator, consuls, cen- sors, and other officers of the Roman state in great splendor, "f It may be remarked that this divine sought preferment in the province where the above * Folio Pamphlet in Dublin Soc. Lib. f Ware's Bishops. 712 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY, LIST. individuals of his name had settled, and in 1638 he was consecrated Bishop of Cork ; but, when the civil war of 1641 broke out, he fled to England, and, dying at Derby in 1649, was buried in the family grave at Belthorp in Nottinghamshire. The above Major John, from the regiment in which he took rank, seems to have been also of Cork. He was a Lieute- nant-Colonel at Aughrim, where he was taken prisoner. CAPTAIN MARTIN SUPPLE. Nothing is known of this officer, but the family was also of Cork. On the Outlawries of 1691, appears John ■ Soople' of Kilcolman in that county ; and, at the Court of Chichester House in 1700, Jane Supple, otherwise Kenny, claimed her jointure off lands there forfeited by the above Martin, as did William Supple a remainder in tail therein. A James Supple, also, on behalf of himself and his son William, claimed a remainder in tail out of the same interest ; but all these petitions were dismissed as cautionary. CAPTAIN DAVID MAC JONNIN. Mac Jonnin or Jennings is a name peculiarly located in the Connaught Counties of Mayo and Gal way ; a branch is also traced in the County of Down ; ac- cordingly the Attainders of 1691 include James LORD KILMALLOCK's INFANTRY. 713 Jennings of Tullyard, County of Down ; David, Hu- bert, Thomas, and Michael Jonyne of Killoran ; and Francis Jonyne of Skeloghoa in the County of Mayo : but this Captain does not appear thereon. CAPTAIN JOHN NOBLE. At the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Richard Noble of Dublin married Maria Ryan, heiress of a castle and some premises in Naas in the County of Kildare. This officer, it would seem, was a descendant of that marriage, and the inquisition had on his at- tainder describes him as John Noble of Blackball, County of Kildare ; while a George Noble of Birtown in the same county was also then attainted. So early as in the reign of Edward the First, Philip le Noble appears on Irish record. In the time of Henry the Fourth, John Noble was the incumbent of Drumcar, County of Louth. CAPTAIN DANIEL EG AN. The Sept of Mac Egan was territorially seised of Clan-Dearmida, a district of the Barony 'of Leitrim, County of Galway ; within which they had in old time some castles. They were celebrated Brehons of Connaught, as also of Munster. Accordingly John Mac Egan is chronicled as the Brehon of the O'Conor, 714 king james's irish army list. slain at the battle of Athenry in 1316 ; and the Four Masters commemorate, at 1378, the death of Teigue Mac Egan, chief Brehon of North Connaught, " a man of learning, free from pride and arrogance, who kept a house of general hospitality f and in 1399 they relate the death of Boothgalach Mac Egan of Ormond, 4 a man learned in the laws and in music, and eminent for hospitality ;' also of Giolba-na-neev, son of Conor Mac Egan, Chief Professor of Laws, with many subse- quent obits, similarly recording their learning and hospitality. The Attainders of 1642 name Owen and John Mac Egan of Aghmagh, County of Cork ; while the Declaration of Eoyal thanks, in the Act of 1662, includes Owen Oge Mac Egan of the County of Cork,- Adjutant. Besides this officer, four others of the name appear on the present Army List. The name of Captain Daniel Egan does not occur on the Outlawries of 1691 ; but, at the Court of Chichester House, Daniel 1 Eagan,' a minor, claimed by his guardian an estate tail in County of Kildare lands as forfeited by Thomas Egan ; Margaret Egan claimed a small jointure thereoff ; and Elizabeth, Mary, and Anne Egan, their daughters, claimed also by their guardian portions of one hundred pounds for each thereout ; but all these petitions were dismissed, and Thomas's estate in that county was in 1703 sold by the Commissioners of Forfeiture to William Hewetson of Clough, in the same county, discharged of all said liabilities. A John Egan forfeited in the confisca- tions of this time lands in the County of Tipperary ; LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY, 715 off which Pierce Nugent, in right of his wife Mary, 4 who had been theretofore wife of Dan Egan,' (very probably the above Captain Daniel), claimed her jointure. LIEUTENANT PEREGRINE SPENCER. Although this name is known in Ireland from the time of Edward the Third, the present officer, whose Christian name should have been set down as Hugo- line, not Peregrine, was associated with a more illus- trious origin, the gifted author of the 4 Faerie Queen. In 1580, Edmund Spencer accompanied Lord Grey, then Viceroy of Ireland, as his secretary ; an office which he held until 1588, when he was appointed Clerk of the Council of Munster, and on the plant- ation of that province, he had, in 1591, a grant of the manor and castle of Kilcolman, with other lands, containing 3,028 acres, in the Barony of Fermoy ; and here, on the banks of the Awbeg, the poet's ' gentle Mulla,' was composed the Faerie Queen. He was not, however, so devoted to the muses as to neglect the opportunities which his post gave him of aggrandizing his income, and this by oppression and injustice, which provoked the vengeance of his vic- tims ; his house was burned, a little child of his was consumed in the flames, and he and his wife were obliged to fly to Dublin ; where, as Mr. Hardiman 716 king james's irish ahmy list. says,* he died of want, leaving two sons, Sylvanus and Peregrine. Sylvanus had also two sons, Edmund and William. To the former, Charles the First granted the manor, castle, &c. of Kilcolman ; but he dying without issue, the right to Kilcolman survived to William, whose possession having been intruded upon during the civil war of 1641, he presented a petition in 1657 for redress, which was favoured by Cromwell ; and, although the lands were on the Eestoration granted under the Act of Settlement to Lord Kingston, yet were they restored to said Wil- liam Spencer by a patent grant of 1678, together with other lands in the Counties of Galway and Eoscommon, this addition comprising nearly two thousand acres ; said William, by his wife Barbara, left a son Nathaniel. The poet's second son, Pere- grine, died in 1641, seised of the lands of Einney, near Kilcolman, to which the above Hugoline, his eldest son, succeded ; but, being a Eoman Catholic, and having attached himself to the cause of James the Second, he was outlawed. Thereupon, in 1697, some impropriate rectories and tithes of which he was seised were, under the Act of Settlement, conveyed to augment poor vicarages, while his said estate of Ein- ney, described as three hundred and thirty-two acres, &c, was granted by patent to the above Nathaniel, son of William, as the next Protestant heir of said Hugoline ; and he, in 1716, sold the lands, &c. of Ballinasloe, with the fairs and markets there, to * Irish Minstrelsy, vol. 1, p. 319, &c. LORD KILMALLOCK'S INFANTRY. 717 Frederick Trench, ancestor of the present Earl of Clancarty. These fairs became afterwards the most celebrated in the British Empire. The will of this Nathaniel Spencer, dated 14th October, 1718, was proved in 1734, in the Prerogative Court, Dublin. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. sir maurice Eustace's. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. _ [John Wogan, __ Lieutenant-Colonel.] Major. James Clinch. Edward Moore. John Warren. Thomas Denn. Thomas Hussey. Oliver Rochford. Cornel. Conan. James Eustace. Francis Segrave. Edward Masterson. Thomas Sherlock. Francis Tipper. Bartholomew Missett. Richard Warren. Christopher 'Denne.' Meyler Hussey. Michael Berford. Walter Fitz-Gerald. Maurice Kelly. Laurence Segrave. Richard Eustace. Simon Hart. Robert ' Shirlock. Edward Lawless. John Hussey. Ulysses ' Bourk.' Maurice Fitz-Gerald. Patrick Godding. Kehoe. John Eustace. COLONEL SIR MAURICE EUSTACE. De Borgo relies upon an inscription on a monument 718 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. in the Church of St. Sextus, as deriving this family from the Roman martyr St. Eustachius. Declining, however, to adopt such apocryphal deductions of pedigree, it will suffice here to state that the Irish branch of this family may be traced to that ' adven- turer of the first water,' Maurice Fitz-Gerald, to whom Henry the Second gave the Barony of Naas. His relative Eustace, the founder of this name, inhe- rited the northern parts thereof, with part of the Barony of Kilcullen ; and a descendant of his, Rich- ard Fitz-Eustace, was Baron of Castlemartin in 1200 ; while others became Barons of Harristown and Portlester. In 1356, a member of the family founded the Dominican friary at Naas, and, according to De Burgo, in due reverence to their reputed origin, dedicated it to St. Eustachius. In 1373, Thomas, Archbishop of Dublin, appointed Thomas, son of Almaric Fitz-Eustace, Constable of the Castle of Ballymore, with a salary of £10 per annum, pro- vided he should reside there with his family, and govern the tenants without extortion, and guard and maintain the fortress. In 1454, Sir Edward Fitz- Eustace, being Lord Deputy of Ireland, ' a warlike Knight and fitted for a government which required activity and vigour,' routed the O'Connors of Offaley in that memorable engagement, where Leland records the generous contest between a father and son of the House, each seeking, by self-devotion, to save the other from the vengeance of the enemy. Sir Roland Eustace, son of Sir Edward of Harristown, was sir maurice Eustace's infantry. 719 created Baron of Portlester, with the manor annexed in tail male ; and afterwards was appointed Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of Ireland. In 1462, he founded the Franciscan monastery of New Abbey, in the County of Kildare ; and also the beautiful struc- ture called from him Portlester's Chapel, within the precincts of St. Audoen's parish church, Dublin. In 1475, he and Sir Robert Eustace were the two most noble and worthy persons appointed to represent the County of Kildare, on the first formation of the honorable order of St. George. The former after- wards, in his zeal for the house of York, credulously espoused the cause of the pretender Lambert Simnel, but was pardoned on doing homage to Sir Richard Edgecombe. In 1472, Oliver, son of Sir Roland, Lord Portlester, was raised to be a Baron of the Irish Exchequer. In 1580, the Eustaces took part with the oppressed O'Tooles, and joined them in resisting the wild expe- dition of Lord Gray through the romantic pass of Glenmolaur for their extermination. Fitz-Eustace, Viscount Baltinglas, and his adherents were conse- quently attainted, and their confiscated estates were, in 1605, granted to Sir Henry Harrington, Knight, " in regard that he had been a very good, ancient, and long servitor in the late wars and rebellion in Ireland." The Attainders of 1642 name John Fitz- Christopher Eustace of Baltrasney, County of Kil- dare ; Maurice Eustace of Castlemartin, Roland of Blackhall, and twelve others in the said county ; five 720 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. in the County of Wicklow, and two in that of Dublin. Oliver and Thomas Eustace, also, though not named on the Outlawries of that period, forfeited estates in the Barony of Upper Cross, County of Dublin. In 1639, the Irish House of Commons elected Mr. Sergeant Maurice Eustace their Speaker, 'a wise, learned, and discreet man, and of great integrity.' During the ensuing civil war, he con- ducted negotiations between the conflicting parties, in a manner that elicited, in 1647, from the Com- mons a vote of thanks i for his singular affection to the English nation.' He had been, in 1644, ap- pointed Master of the Eolls, and in 1660 was raised to the Chancery Bench. He died in 1665, having, by his will of that date, bequeathed his chief estates in Kildare, Dublin, and Wicklow, together with the Abbey of Cong, County of Mayo, and its appurte- nances, severally, to his nephews Sir John and the above Sir Maurice Eustace, in tail male. He also devised to the Provost and Board of Trinity College, Dublin, a rent-charge of £20 per annum, chargeable on the great house built by him in Dame-street, for the maintenance of a Hebrew lecturer in that estab- lishment ; and directed his interment in the old family vault at Castlemartin. The latter direction was not, however, complied with ; he was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Royal declaration of thanks in 1662 includes James Eustace, styled of Culadain, County of Wexford. A funeral entry of 1684, in Bermingham Tower, sir maurice Eustace's infantry. 721 states the death in that year of John Eustace, son of Maurice, son of William, of Castlemartin, and conse- quently a brother of this Colonel Sir Maurice. He had married (states the document) Margaret, daughter of Edward Keating of Narraghmore, in said county, by whom he had three sons, Maurice, John, and Thomas. The former, Maurice, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Newcome, Knight ; John, the second son, had four daughters. In two years after, the present Sir Maurice was constituted a Privy Councillor. Besides him, Richard Eustace of Barrets- town was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Gormanston's Infantry ; and in Sir Neill O'Neill's Dragoons, Nicho- las Eustace was a Captain, and Christopher a Lieute- nant. The latter, it would seem, was taken prisoner at the siege of Deny, in the attack at the Windmill,* while this Lieutenant-Colonel was there wounded. On the 10th of May, 1689, King James, in a letter to Lieutenant-General Hamilton, then encamped before Derry, writes, " I am sending down one great mortar and two pieces of battery by land, and the same num- ber of both by sea ; it was actually impossible to despatch them sooner. Ten companies of Eustace's will be soon with you, all well armed and clothed. "f It is remarkable that on this very day the bill recognizing his title, &c. was read the third time in his parliament and presence. James Eustace and Maurice Eustace sat there as representatives of the Borough of Blessington. * Walkers Siege of Derry, p. 60. f King James's Letters, Trinity College MSS. E. 2 19. 722 king james's irish army list. The Attainders of 1691 include the above Lieutenant- Colonels, Maurice Eustace, styled of Castlemartin, Baronet, and Kichard of Barretstown, County of Dublin ; with ten others of the name in the County of Kildare, eight in Carlo w, and two in Wicklow. Maurice Eustace, styled of Yeomanstown, County of Kildare, being then absent from Ireland, had, in Octo- ber, 1691, on the capitulation of Limerick, a reserva- tion of the benefit of the Civil Articles then agreed upon, see ante, p. 347. An Inquisition taken at the close of the year, (14th March) 1690, on Francis Eustace, in regard to his possessions in the Baronies of Forth and Idrone in the County of Carlow, finds that he and his son and heir Oliver were in actual rebellion on the 1st of May, 1689, against the King and Queen ; and that after the battle of the Boyne, they departed with Kichard, Earl of Tyrconnel, William, Earl of Limerick, and other rebels and traitors, beyond the Shannon, and had there continued in actual war and rebellion ; whereupon the jurors found their respective freehold estates in both baronies. In 1697, an Act was passed for settling certain recto- ries according to the will of Sir Maurice Eustace ; and in 1720, another statute authorized the sale of his lands for the payment of his debts. At the Court of Claims in 1700, various claims were preferred as affecting the confiscations of the above Sir Maurice Eustace, as also those of Francis and Oliver Eustace in Carlow, and Alexander, Thomas, and Katherine Eustace in Kildare. SIR MAURICE EUSTACE'S INFANTRY, 723 [LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN WOGAN.] This commission is filled from Doctor King's Appen- dix, but does not appear upon the present Army List. Any available illustrations of the family have been therefore anticipated in the notices of Major James Wogan, ante, p. 539, CAPTAIN JAMES CLINCH. This name is of record in Ireland since the time of Edward the Second. Those attainted in 1642 were Eichard Clinch of Cappah, Henry of Kill, and Anne his wife. In 1691, only Peter and Simon Clinch, described as of the College, Dublin, were out- lawed. A James Clinch, described as of Dunshaugh- lin, County of Meath, was, in June, 1747, married to Sarah Wood of the same place, at Holyhead,* the penal laws affecting Ireland necessitating the celebra- tion of this union out of that kingdom. CAPTAIN THOMAS DENN. Thomas Den succeeded to the See of Ferns in 1363. Peter Denn, as son and heir of William Denn, late of * Registry at Holyhead, wherein, as also in that at Bangor, are many other certificates of Irish families married under similar circumstances, as noted off by the compiler of this volume. AAA 2 724 king james's irisii army list. Muckully in the County of Kilkenny, had livery of his estates in May, 1640. In the Attainders of 1642, occur Thomas and Christopher Den of Saggard, County of Dublin. In the grants, soon after the Restoration, of Kilkenny lands to William Poulter, to William Warden, to Christopher Hewetson, to Anthony Hor- sey, to Barnard Annaly, to George Deyos, and to Anthony Stampe, are several savings of the rights of Theobald Denn, in the various subjects of conveyance, under his decree of innocence in 1663. Tobias Den of G-renan, (where he had a noble castle) in the same county, was attainted in 1691, as was William Den of Saggard. A farm at the latter locality was forfeited by Thomas Den, the fee of which was claim- ed by and allowed to John Den. CAPTAIN THOMAS HUSSEY. This family, Hussey or Hoese, is of Norman extrac- tion. On the first invasion of Ireland, Sir Hugh Hussey, who had married the sister of Theobald Fitz- Walter, the first Butler of that Kingdom, obtained a grant from Hugh de Lacie of large possessions in the County of Meath, including the locality of Galtrim ; in right of which this family took the palatine title of Barons of Galtrim; while within the circuit of the same county, ancient Meath, the Petits were Barons of Mullingar, the DAltons of Eathconrath, Nangles of Navan, Marwards of Serine, etc. etc. In 1374, Sir SIR MAURICE EUSTACE'S INFANTRY. 725 John Hussey, Knight, Baron of Galtrim, was sum- moned to Parliament ; as was his son Edmund Hussey, Baron of Galtrim, to those of 1380 and 1382 ; and Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed Gentry, gives the succession of these Barons to the time of Queen Eli- zabeth, early in whose reign a member of the family, obtaining a grant of lands from the Earl of Desmond, settled in the County of Kerry, and established the name there, where it still exists. An Act of Henry the Eighth, in 1534, recognizing Nicholas Hussey as then Baron of Galtrim, united the parsonage thereof, there- tofore claimed to be of said Nicholas' patronage, to the monastery of St. Peter's by Trim. The Attainders of 1642 proscribe nine of this name in Meath and two in Kildare, of whom two were, in Cromwell's Ordinance of Denunciation in 1652, exempted from pardon for life and estate. Besides the three Husseys in this Eegiment, James Hussey was a Lieutenant in Lord Louth's Infantry. In the Parliament of 1 6 8 9, Maurice Hussey of Flesk Bridge (hereafter alluded to) was one of the Representatives of the Borough of Tralee. He married Clare, daughter of Sir Edward Hales, Baronet, who was created by James, after his abdication, Earl of Tenderden. John Hussey was one of the Repre- sentatives of Dingle-i-couch, as was another, John Hussey of Ratoath. Nine of the name were in 1691 attainted in Meath, three in Kerry, one in Louth, with Edward Hussey of Westown in the County of Dublin. This last individual (Edward of Westown), though not named in the present Army List, was engaged for 726 king james's irish army list. James in this campaign, and attained the rank of Colonel ; by which title he was by the Council Board adjudged entitled to the benefit of the Articles of Limerick. He is also so styled in a family settlement executed by his mother-in-law, the Countess of Fingal, in 1693, and in various other ancient deeds. In a chauntry of the old church at the Naul, near Westown House, is still preserved a mural slab, stating that the Honorable Colonel Hussey and his lady, Madame Mable Hussey, otherwise Barnewall, had erected this chapel and monument, for their use and that of their posterity, in 1710.* John Hussey of Culmullen had also a pardon under the great seal, and James Hussey, having, like Colonel Edward, obtained a judicial ac- knowledgment of his right to the benefit of the Articles of Limerick, preferred a claim at Chichester House, in 1700, to the Meath estates of his ancestor, Thomas Hussey; at which time Jane Hussey, otherwise Tel- ling, by her husband Thomas Telling, and on behalf of Christopher and Lucy, their eldest son and daughter, and Edward, Val, Mary, Catherine, and Ellen, minors, their younger children, claimed jointure for herself and portions for them, off the Meath estates of said Thomas Hussey ; but their petitions were dismissed as cautionary. These estates were afterwards purchased by Isaac Holroyd. A Colonel Maurice Hussey (pos- sibly he of Flesk Bridge in the County of Kerry, above mentioned) yielded to the altered state of gov- ernment, and some of his letters to Secretary South- * D' Alton's Hist. County of Dublin, p. 486. SIR MAURICE EUSTACE'S INFANTRY. 727 well in the time of Queen Anne are in the Southwell collection.* In one dated 7th June, 1703, he writes complaining of a severe visitation of the gout, and adds, "Here was lately a foolish report that spread over all our mountains, that several Irish Eegiments were to he immediately raised for the Queen's service, to go into Portugal, and that I was to have one. Upon this rumour, all the Milesian Princes of these parts flocked to my house, to offer their service to go along with me to any part of the world; and they would scarce believe but that I had my commission in my pocket, and I could not but take their offers and readiness for the Queens service kindly, and made them all as welcome as my poor house could afford, and that, I 'phancie,' has brought this fit of the 'goute' upon me. Mac Cartie More, O'Sullivan More, O'Donohue More, Mac Gillicuddy, Mac Finin, O'Leary, and a long et ccetera of the best gentlemen of the Irish of these parts, are, in a manner, mad to be employed in her Majesty's service abroad, and swear I must go at the head of them, whether I will or no." A comment on this Colonel's correspondence says, "Not- withstanding his observations, there is every reason to suspect the Colonel of being a Jacobite. His patron the Duke of Ormond, Southwell, and the whole body were silent favourers of the Stuart interests." The Colonel Edward Hussey, before mentioned, was grandfather of an Edward Hussey of Westown, who married in 1743 the celebrated Duchess of * Thorpe's Catal. Southwell MSS. pp. 227-8. 728 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Manchester, and was created Earl Beaulieu in 1784. There have been several of the Husseys since signalized in the Austrian armies ; one, Anthony, a son of Anthony Stronge Hussey, the inheritor of Westown House, D. L., is at present a Brevet Major in that service. CAPTAIN OLIVER ROCHFORT. This name is traced in Irish records from the first year of the English invasion. In 1194, Simon Roch- fort succeeded to the See of Meath. In the subsequent century, when Edward the First invited the aid of the Magnates of Ireland, to accompany him in the war on Scotland, he summoned no less than six of this name. In 1337, Maurice Rochfort succeeded to the See of Limerick, and in 1464, at a Parliament held in Wex- ford, an act was passed to assure a part of the manor of Rathconrath, County of Westmeath, to Robert and Roger Rochfort. The Attainders of 1642 name three Rochforts in Kildare, four in Meath, and one in the County of Dublin. Of the Supreme Council of Kil- kenny in 1646, were Hugh Rochfort of Taghmon, and John of Kilbride. In March, 1651, a Colonel Roch- fort was tried by Court Martial in St. Patrick's Ca- thedral, Dublin, for adherence to the Royalist cause, in opposition to the usurping powers ; while, in the Act of Settlement (1662), King Charles especially thanked Henry Rochfort of Kilbride "for services be- yond sea." In 1691, the above Captain Oliver was SIR MAURICE EUSTACE'S INFANTRY. 729 attainted, being described as of Fiddolph, County of Meath ; Christopher of Carronstown and James of Vesingstown, in the same county, were also then out- lawed. It is to be remarked that a Robert Rochfort (it would seem of the aforesaid Westmeath branch) was in 1700 nominated on commission a Keeper of the Great Seal, and in 1707 was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. LIEUTENANT CONEL COONAN. This officer was attainted in 1691 by the style of 4 Cornelius ' Coonan of Kilcock, in the County of Kildare ; nothing further is known of him or his family. CAPTAIN FRANCIS SEGRAVE. See ante, Captain John Segrave in the King's Own Infantry. In 1322, Stephen Segrave, who had been theretofore Rector of Stepney near London, was ap- pointed to the Primacy of Armagh. Of him King Edward the Third wrote, soon after his accession, to the Pope, commending him for " the nobility of his birth, the integrity of his morals, his eminent sanctity, and approved diligence in his pastoral function."* In 1401, Richard 1 Sydegrave ' was appointed a Baron * Ware's Bishops, p. 81. 730 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. of the Irish Exchequer, and in 1423 was promoted to be Chief of that Bench, In 1578, another Eichard Segrave was also a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, which station he filled for twenty years, when dying he was buried at Killeglan. A branch of the family having settled at Cabragh in the County of Dublin, it is of record that Henry Segrave, on coming of age in 1638, sued out, according to the then still existing law of wardship, a licence for 1 livery ' of his estates at Cab- ragh. In the following year, Eichard Segrave, of Ballybogliill in the last mentioned county, was the King's Escheator. Patrick Segrave of Killeglan was one of the influential Catholics who attended the great meeting of Tara in 1641, and was consequently attainted in the following year. The above Captain Francis was of Fryarstown, County of Kildare ; John Segrave of Cabragh was a Captain in the King's In- fantry, and Laurence was a Lieutenant in Sir Maurice Eustace's. In 1783, died at his seat of Cabragh John Segrave, Colonel of the Finglas Volunteers ; he was interred with all military honours at St. James's churchyard, long the chosen place of sepulture for the upper class of Irish Catholics. CAPTAIN EDWAED MASTEESON. This family is located on Ortelius's map in the Barony of Shelmaliere, County of Wexford ; and, sir maurice Eustace's infantry. 731 accordingly, this officer is described in his attainder as of Money fad in that county ; the others then attainted being John, Richard, Nicholas, and Domi- nick Masterson ' of Tomcoil,' and Alexander of Lydon, in the same county. CAPTAIN THOMAS SHERLOCK. Ortelius's map locates the Sherlocks in the Barony of Middlethird, County of Wexford. The name appears on Irish records from the time of the Tudors, and is traced on the evidence of records in the seve- ral Counties of Kildare, Tipper ary, and Waterford. Henry the Fifth conferred the Chief Serjeantcy of the County of Kildare on Walter ' Sherlok who had from his son and successor, in 1432, a treasury order for five pounds, on account of his 'great labours' in the County of Kilkenny and marches of the Pale, as well as in collecting a state subsidy within the Dio- cese of Ossory. In 1499, James Sherlock was appointed a Justice in Eyre. In 1616, John Fitz- James Sherlock, of Waterford City, Esq., had a grant from the Crown of the wardship of John Fitz-George Sherlock, son and heir of Sir George Sherlock, Knight, deceased. A Funeral entry of 1636 in Bermingham Tower, shows the death in that year of Richard Sher- lock, late Sovereign of the Naas, third son of Edward Sherlock of said place, where he was interred. The Attainders of 1642 present Edward Sherlock of 732 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Blackball and Clane ; with Thomas of Naas, in the County of Kildare ; and George of Wicklow, merchant. The Act of Settlement (1662) included in the clause for Eoyal gratitude Sir Thomas Sherlock, Knight. Besides the above Captain Thomas, who was of Blackhall, County of Kildare, Christopher Sherlock of Littlerath in same county was a Captain in Fitz- James's Foot, and Eobert Sherlock of Carlow was an Ensign in Sir Maurice Eustace's. They were all attainted in 1691, together with Edward Sherlock, also of Blackhall, and who had been one of the Bepre- sentatives of the ancient Borough of Cloghmyne, County of Wexford, in the Parliament of 1689. There were then also attainted three other Sherlocks in the County of Kildare, and four in that of Waterford. The above Christopher of Littlerath forfeited various rectories and tithes in the Counties of Carlow and Kildare, which were, under the Act of Settlement, conveyed to the Trustees for augmenting vicarages ; while the estates in the latter county, also forfeited by said Christopher, were in 1703 purchased from the Trustees of the forfeitures by Geoffry Paul of Bally- raggin. These interests of Christopher were the subject of much subsequent litigation. LIEUTENANT MICHAEL BERFORD. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the First. In 1314, Richard de Berford was sir maurice Eustace's infantry. 733 Chancellor of Ireland, having been previously on a commission, to enquire into the rights in the weirs and waters of the Liffey, between Dublin and the Salmon Leap. In 1403, Simon 4 Berfford ' was one of those appointed to assess and array the men of the Barony of Katoath, County of Meath. On his death, in ten years after, his estates of Eilrowe, &c. in said county became vested in the Crown during the minority of his heir, whose wardship and marriage were thereupon granted to Thomas ' Barre,' rent-free. Branches of the family were at this time proprietors in Lagore and Scurlockstown, in the same county. In the reign of Elizabeth, Michael Berford was the proprietor of Kil- rowe, as heir of the before mentioned Simon. In 1618, Nichols 'Byrforcl ' was seized of Newtown near Trim, Culmullen and Scurlockstown, in the County of Meath ; and in 1633, John Berford died seized of Kilrowe, leaving Michael his cousin and heir, then aged thirty years and married. It seems probable that he was the grandfather of the above officer. ENSIGN PATRICK GODDING. Tins name does not appear on the Attainders. 734 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. EARL OF WESTMEATH'S, LATE COLONEL FRANCIS TOOLE'S, Captains. The Colonel. Michael de la Hoyde, Lieutenant-ColoneL Gowan Talbot, Major. John White. John Doyle. Thomas Cowdall. Garrett Byrne, John Byrne. Hen. Nugent, Grenad. Lieutenants, John Doyle. John Toole. Bryan M'Donnelh Garrett Nowlan. Matthew Kearney. Ensigns. Daniel Doyle. Matthew Cowdall. Patrick Carroll. Miles Barnewall. COLONEL THE EARL OF WESTMEATH. The materials, which the compiler of this work has amassed for illustrating the noble name of Nugent, would fill a large volume. Its descent from the illustrious house of Bellesme, and its alliances with the Royalty of England and Spain are shown at length in the Peerage of Sir Bernard Burke. In Ire- land it is of record from the time when Hugh de Lacy, the powerful Palatine of Meath, granted the territory of Delvin to Gilbert de Nugent. In 1449, Eichard Nugent, Lord Delvin, was Lord Deputy of Ireland. In 1463, Christopher, the eleventh Baron of Delvin, was one of the Irish Peers whom Henry's EARL OF WESTMEATH'S INFANTRY. 735 policy, after his victory at Stoke over the adherents of Lambert Simnel, invited to a feast at Greenwich, where that impostor was forced to attend as a menial at the Royal table. In 1570, Nicholas Nugent was constituted a Baron of the Irish Exchequer ; and in 1621, Eichard, Baron of Delvin, was created Earl of Westineath. The inquisitions taken on the name in 1642 were three in Meath, three in Kildare, and eight in the County of Cork ; while Cromwell's Par- liamentary denunciation of 1652 excepted from par- don for life and estate Eichard Nugent, Earl of West- meath. He was the grandfather of Thomas, the Earl under present consideration, who had married when about sixteen years of age, after which he went to travel, and on his return obtained the command of this Eegiment. In 1686, James Nugent was Sheriff of Longford, as was Thomas Nugent Sheriff of West- meath, and John of Waterford in the same year. In King James's succeeding Charters to the Corpor- ations of Ireland, this name appears in office in those of Dublin, Drogheda, Swords, New Eoss, Derry, Dun- garvan, and St. Johnstown, County of Donegal. Earl Thomas's Eegiment is very incomplete on the present Muster, and has but one of his own name. In the other Eeginients of the List it is very numer- ously displayed, as in Sarsfield's Horse, in Lord Don- gan's Dragoons, and in Fitz-James's, Tyrone's, Sir Thomas Butler's, and Sir Michael Creagh's respective Eegiments of Infantry. Colonel Eichard Nugent commanded another Eegiment of Infantry ; James 736 king james's irisii army list. Nugent was Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel John Hamilton's, while a Colonel Walter Nugent is recorded as having been killed at the battle of Aughrim.* In King James's Parliament of 1689, this Earl sat in the House of Peers, though then under age, by a simi- lar Royal dispensation to that accorded to the Earl of Clancarty, as before mentioned {ante p. 504), and notwithstanding that his elder brother, the rightful Earl, was then living, but in holy orders and abroad. In the Commons, Colonel James Nugent was one of the Representatives of St. Johnstown, County of Done- gal ; the Honourable William one of those for the County of Westmeath. (He was the youngest son of Richard, the second Earl of Westmeath, and distin- guished himself in King James's service, especially by forcing the pass over the bridge at Portglenone in April, 1689, to facilitate approach to the siege of Derry ; he was killed at Cavan in 1690, leaving issue by his wife, who was a daughter of Sir Thomas Newcomen ; but they all died, s. P.f ) Edward Nugent of Garlanstown represented the Borough of Mullingar ; John Nugent of Donore, and Christopher of Dardistown were the Members for that of Fore ; and Christopher Nugent of Dublin was one for that of Strabane. On the second day of the session, 8th of May, 1689, the Chief Justice Nugent, then just cre- ated Lord Baron Riverston (uncle of the Earl under present consideration), brought in a Bill, which was * O'Callaghan's Green Book, p. 455 t Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, vol. 1, p. 244. EARL OF WESTMEATIl's INFANTRY. 737 read twice that day, containing " a recognition of King James's title, and an abhorrence of the Prince of Orange's usurpation and of the defection of the English." On the 10th, it received the third reading, (King James being himself present in the House), and was sent down to the Commons, where it was passed on the following day ; when the same mover intro- duced the Bill for encouraging trade and merchant strangers, and on the 13th the more memorable Act for altering the Act of Settlement. This talented member of the name was settled at Pallace in the County of Galway ; and, having at- tained much eminence at the bar, was appointed King's Council in 1685, and in the following year promoted to the King's Bench as one of the Justices ; the King directing that he, Denis Daly, a Justice of the Common Pleas, and Charles Ingleby, a Baron of the Exchequer, should be admitted to their respec- tive offices without taking the oath of supremacy. In 1687, he succeeded to the Chief Justiceship of that Bench, and was on the 3rd of April, 1689, created Baron Riverston. It is to be especially remarked, that the date of this creation was seven days before that on which the rebellion was declared by the Irish Act of 9 Will. 3, c. 2, to have commenced in that country; nor was it until November, 1689, that Wil- liam and Mary, theretofore Prince and Princess of Orange, were declared Sovereigns of England, France, and Ireland. With such a title, Lord Iiiverston sat a Peer in the Parliament of May, 1689. After the BBB 738 king james's misii army list. disastrous issue of the battle of the Boyne, he was one of those who advised King James to fly to France, himself still continuing to hold the office of Secretary of State ; and when Tyrconnel, after the defeat of King William from before Limerick, felt necessitated to pass over to the Exile's Court at St. Germains, and to place the government of Ireland in the hands of the Duke of Berwick, that young and inexperienced nobleman was induced by some factious insinuation to dismiss Lord Rivers ton from the Secretaryship of War, which he then held* and actually to confine him a prisoner in Galway. On the return of Tyrconnel, however, to Ireland, he was immediately released. In two days after the capitulation of Limerick, he receiv- ed from Lieutenant-General de Ginkel the following recognition of his title. It recites that " whereas the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Riverston is com- prehended in the late capitulation with the Irish army at Limerick, and thereby entitled to be restored to his real and personal estate, and to all other advan- tages accruing by the said capitulation ; and whereas the said Lord Riverston made suit to me for His Majesty's protection for himself, his family, and ten- ants, and for my passport and licence to use and carry fire-arms, I do hereby receive the said Lord Rivers- ton into their Majesties' special protection, with his family, servants, real and personal estates, and his tenants, their families and personal estates ; and do hereby empower the said Lord Riverston and his ser- vants to carry and use three cases of pistols, three * Clarke's James II. vol. 2, p. 423. EARL OF WESTMEATIl's INFANTRY. 739 swords, and two firelocks for the defence of his person, house, stock, and goods, and do hereby order all officers civil and military in the respective counties, where any part of his real estates lies, to restore him to the possession thereof, and to be aiding and assist- ing to him in order to receive the issues and profits thereof, as at any time heretofore ; and I do hereby command all officers civil and military, in the respec- tive garrisons between Limerick and Galway, to suffer the said Lord Riverston, his lady, family, servants, goods, and carriages, to pass peaceably from Limerick to Galway, or his dwelling-house in the County of Galway, or to any other part of the Kingdom as his occasion may require ; and all governors and com- manders-in-chief in Limerick, and all other garrisons between Limerick and his said house, are hereby re- quired to furnish him with a sufficient convoy from garrison to garrison, from Limerick to his said house of abode ; whereof all persons concerned are to take notice at their peril. Given at the Camp before Limerick, this 5th of October, 1691. Signed Bar. de Ginkell."* It is an awful document to look upon ! He was, however, attainted, and his title disallowed, as conferred after James had abdicated the English Crown ; nevertheless, he continued to sit for some time as Chief Justice, and is so styled in King's Ap- pendix, p. 66. He had married the Honourable Mary Anne Barnewall, daughter of Viscount Kingsland, by * Copied from the original, in the possession of Lord "Rivers- ton's heir male. BBB 2 740 king james's irish army list. whom he had issue three sons and five daughters. He remained in the Kingdom after the Revolution, and died in 1715. The eldest son, Richard Hyacinth Nugent, who was attainted in 1696, fled to France, and there remained until 1727; previous to which, on his proof that he was but six years of age at the time of his attainder, and that he had conformed to the Protestant religion, King George consented to the passing of a Bill in the English Parliament, whereby this exile was permitted to return, and certain privileges were secured to him for the recovery of his lands, rents, &c* The title of Riverston was subsequently borne by the succeed- ing heirs male of the first Lord ; but the present heir, Anthony-Francis Nugent, declined its assumption. At the Battle of the Boyne, Robert Nugent, a Cor- net in Tyrconnel's Horse, was wounded. In three days after, three ecclesiastics of the name were pre- sented, as by the authority of King James, to Irish benefices : Dr. William Nugent to the Rectory of Castletown-Delvin, Dr. Oliver Nugent to those of Ardmulchan, Ballynagarvy, and Timole, and the Reverend Richard Nugent to the Rectory of Carrick. In 1691, the Earl, who was Colonel of this Regiment, was indicted ; but he having been one of the hostages exchanged for the due observance of the articles of Limerick, the outlawry was reversed, and he was restored to his estates and honours. He died in * The perception of the rents of these estates during the exile of Richard Hyacinth was the cause of some family litigation. EARL OF WESTMEATIl'S INFANTRY. 741 1752, at the advanced age of 96. Others of the name then attainted were three in Meath, forty-five in Westmeath, fonr in Dublin, one in Cavan, five in Roscommon ; in Waterford three, Cork three, Drogh- eda two, and in Donegal one. At the Conrt of Claims various petitions were preferred as for charges affecting the several estates of Sir John Nugent, Baronet, of Colonel Richard Nugent, and Sir Thomas Nugent, of Christopher Nugent in Roscommon and Westmeath, and of James Nugent in the latter county ; while the above Earl and the aforesaid Thomas, Lord Riverston, as Executors of Richard, late Earl of West- meath, claimed and were allowed the benefit of a mortgage affecting Dardistown and other lands. On the Continent, 4 Nugent's Horse' served in Flanders in 1706 and 1707. It formed part of the wing of the forces commanded by Yendome at the battle of Oudenarde, in 1708 ; served in 1711 in Flanders, under Villeroy, against Marlborough ;* and at Spirebach, ' Nugent's Horse' brought victory to the cause in which they were engaged, by a brave and successful attack upon two Regiments of Cuirassiers, completely armed, f A John Nugent, second son of James of Ballinacor, entered the French service, was Captain in Fitz-James's Regiment of Cavalry, and particularly distinguished himself at Fontenoy, on which occasion he obtained the Cross of St. Louis. He married the daughter of Commodore Pearson, on * O'Conor's Military Memoirs, pp. 339 and 3G0. | Ferrar's Limerick, p. 346. \ 742 king james's irish army list. whose death he left the service, and, retiring to Bal- linacor, died there in 1779, without issue, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MICHAEL DELAHIDE. This family is upon Irish record from the days of Richard the Second. In 1527, Christopher De la Hide was a Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, to the Chief-Justiceship of which Court Richard De la Hide was elevated in 1532. In five years after, the Act for the Attainders consequent upon the Geraldine re- bellion included 1 that most false, disloyal traytor, James Delahyde,' 4 the principal councillor of the Lord Thomas Fitz-Gerald in all his doings,' (son and heir of Walter de la Hyde of Moy glare, Knight), with John de la Hide and Edward Delahide, Parson of Kilbery, and divers others. By a subsequent Statute of Queen Elizabeth, however, in 1585, after reciting these attainders of the Delahide family, Laurence de la Hide, the son of said James, and grandson of Sir Walter of Moyglare, was, by the Queen and Parlia- ment, restored to his ancient blood and lineage. In 1642, Francis Delahyde of Phepoestown, County of Dublin, was attainted ; as was Nicholas 'Delahoyde' of Carnagh, County of Kildare in 1691. Colonel Michael appears to have been of the Moyglare line, but no certain notice of him has been discovered. EARL OF WESTMEATll'S INFANTRY. 743 CAPTAIN JOHN WHITE. This name is traceable on the records of Ireland from the period of the Invasion. The Abbe McGeoghegan, indeed, suggests that Walter White, in Henry the Second's time Governor over a certain district of South W ales, came over then to Ireland with his bro- thers, who scattered themselves over that country, their chief house being at Leixlip. Ortelius's map more especially locates the name in the County of Down. In 1422, John White was Attorney-General of Ireland. Sir Patrick White of Kilsallaghan was a Baron of the Exchequer from 1535 to 1559. In 1572, Nicholas ' Whyte' of Whyte's Hall, was appointed Master of the Bolls there ; soon after which a ' Colonel John White,' who was born in Waterforcl in 1568, settled at Tirlemont in the Netherlands, and became founder of a branch of the family traceable in the foreign armies* and believed to be only recently extinct. Another emigrant, Dominick White, passed off in the time of James the First, from Limerick to Bourdeaux, where he settled. He was seised of con- siderable house property in that city, which he had theretofore conveyed to the use of his son Richard, with remainders in tail male to other sons of his, viz., Stephen, Edward, and Bartholomew. In 1637, Alison, heiress of Patrick White of Clonmel, had livery of her estates ; as had Sir Nicholas White of the manor of Leixlip in the same year ; and Edward * O'Callaghan's Brigades, vol. 1, p. 342. 744 king james's irish army list. of Balrathnesly, County of Wexford, as son and heir of Richard White, with similar licences of livery for the Whites of Clongell, County of Meath. The Attainders of 1642 name James White of Carberry, County of Kildare, clerk ; with Patrick of Eoddens- town, and James and Nicholas of Clongell, in the County of Meath. In the Supreme Council of 1646 sat John White of Clonmel ; while the Act of Settle- ment named a John White, possibly the same, though described as of Loyhall, County of Limerick, with ex- press acknowledgment of Eoyal gratitude for his services beyond the sea. Besides the above Captain John, the name of White appears commissioned in six other Eegiments of this List. In the Parliament of Dublin, Eoland White was one of the Eepresentatives of Newry, Alderman Nicholas White of the Borough of Clonmel, Nicholas White of New Eoss, merchant, of that of Cloughmine, and Charles White of the Borough of Naas. This last was of the Leixlip family, afterwards a Privy Coun- cillor ; he raised an Independent Troop for King James's service. The Member for Newry, Eoland White, had a saving of the benefit of the Articles of Limerick, on the same grounds, and subject to the same conditions as in the case of Colonel Simon Lut- trel. On the Attainders of 1691 the above Captain John is described as of Bally more in the County of Westmeath, with three others of the same locality, Ignatius White of Dublin, commonly called Marquess of Abbeville, and seventeen more of the name. EARL OF WESTMEATH'S INFANTRY. 745 At the battle of Lauffield in 1747, Captain White in Lally's Eegiment was severely wounded. CAPTAIN JOHN DOYLE. The O'Doyles were a Sept of Carlo w and Wexford. On the Attainders of 1642 appear three of the name in Wicklow, one in Meath, and one in the County of Dublin. James Doyle of 'Carrig' was of the Supreme Council at Kilkenny ; and on the present Army List, besides Captain John, three other Doyles were com- missioned. Those attainted in 1691 were the above officer, described as of Arklow, County of Wexford, three others in the same county, and one in Meath, Kildare, and Dublin respectively. CAPTAIN THOMAS COWDALL. This name, though now rare, is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second. Nothing, how- ever, is known of this officer, except that in 1693 he sued out his pardon from attainder, on the ground that he had early surrendered himself, and had actually gone over to the service of King William.* * Harris's MSS. in Dub. Soc. vol. 10, p. 240. 746 king james's irish army list. REGIMENTS OF INFANTKY. MAJOR GENERAL BOISELEAU'S. Captains. The Colonel. Monsr. Durett. Callahan M'Carty. David Colt. Garrett Coursay. Donogh Mac Sweeny. Henry Trant. Robert Dorney. Charles M'Carty. Donogh O'Brien. Charles M'Carty. Cornelius Courtain. Patrick Hide. Patrick Arthur. Edmund Barry. Denis Falvey. Peter M 'Sweeny. Miles de Coursy. David Trant. Maurice Fitz-Gerald. Philip Cogan. John Mahony. David Barry. Edmund Barrett. Garrett Fitz-Gerald. Daniel O'Herlihey. Garrett Coursy. Lieutenants. De Boucands. Florence M'Carty. Edmund Colt, Garrett Coursey. Edmund Mac Sweeny. Redmond Connor. William Harrold. Charles M'Carty. John Condon. Callahan M'Carty. Richard Bulman. James Roche. Piers Stapleton. James Baggott. Dermott Falvey. Donogh M' Sweeny. Thomas Butler. James Trant. Philip Supple. John Barry. Martin Mahony. David Barry. Charles M'Carty. James Quinn. Daniel O'Herlihey. Ensigns. Sr. Phalle. De la Martiniere. Teigue Glorney. Richard Colt. Denis ' Keefe.' Symon Mac Sweeny. Thomas Haly. Bartholomew Leary. Gibbon Fitz- Gibbon. David Roche. Constans ' Keefe.' Daniel ' O'Keefe.' Philip ' Wolfe.' David Barry. Hugh Falvey. Edmund M'Sweeny. Charles Carty. Michael Trant. Edmund Fitz-Gerald. Donogh M'Carty. James Mahony. John Daly. Teigue M- Carty. Nat. 'Whyte,' Garrett Barry. MAJOR-GEN ERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 747 MAJOR GENERAL BOISELEAU, " Boiseleau, a Captain of the French Guards, who had some knowledge, which none of the Irish had, of the defence of fortified towns, was sent to Ireland with the rank of 'Marshal de Camp,' or Major General."* This his Regiment was styled 4 the Munster,' having been chiefly raised in that province ; but was early disbanded. In November, 1689, when King James was necessitated to break up his camp at Ardee, by reason of the want of forage there, and to retire to Drogheda, he left six battalions of Foot and fifty Horse there, under the command of this Major-Gene- ral, scattering little garrisons on both sides of it to secure the country, f Boiseleau soon after made an attack on Newry, but was repulsed with the loss of a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was, after the defeat at the Boyne, appointed Governor of Limerick, before its first siege by King William, the city having then a garrison of fourteen Regiments of Infantry, with three of Horse and two of Dragoons. During that siege he, the Duke of Berwick, and Sarsfield are recorded as having been most active in preventing its surrender. u In the midst of a cannonade of eighteen pieces of artillery, supported by a prodigious blaze of musketry his standard was planted at the top of the breach. "J * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 116. t Clarke's James II., v. 2, p. 383. } O'Callaghan's Brigades, v. 1, p. 374. 748 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN DAVID COLT. Nothing more is known of this officer or his family, except that he was attainted in 1691, by the descrip- tion of David 'Court' of Ballyammon, County of Cork. CAPTAINS DONOUGH AND PETER Mc SWEENY. The Mac Sweenys were, in their origin, a branch of the O'Neills, and, settling in Donegal, established there three great families. They also became distinguished and influential proprietors in Munster in the thirteenth century, where they ranked as subfeudatory to the Mac Cartys, Princes of Desmond. According to Smith's History of Cork, they located themselves in the parish of Kilmurry, where they built some castles, one especially at Clodagh, near Macroom. A Mac Sweeny, mentioned by the Four Masters at 1397, is stiled 'High Constable of Connaught.' In 1424, says the same authority, "died Maolruana Mac Sweeny, Constable of Tyrconnel, the star of defence and bravery of the province." In 1524, "Mac Sweeny of Tir- Boghain (Barony of Bannagh, in Donegal), i.e. Niall More, son of Owen, died, after extreme unction and penance, in his own castle at Eathain, on the 14th of December." These Annalists, having executed their great history in the Abbey of Donegal, and being in- timately connected with that county, make frequent MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 749 mention of the Mac Sweenys there located, and espe- cially record at 1524 a treacherous invasion on their territory by the Mac Donnels and their Scots. In 1560, occurs their first notice of this Sept in Minister, when the sons of the Earl of Desmond having marched into Carberry (Co. of Cork) on a foray, Mc Carty 'Riavach' attacked the plunderers, being aided by " Turlogh the son of Maolmurry, son of Donogh, son of Turlogh Mac Sweeny, of the tribe of Donogh More, from Tuaith Tiraidhe (Tory Island, off Donegal), with a brave select party of gallowglasses." In 1587, when Sir John Perrot's memorable stratagem was effectuated in the Bay of Lough Swilly, by the enticing of Hugh Eoe O'Donnell on shipboard, and his capture, " Mac Sweeny of the Districts, in common with all others of that country, came to the shore, and they proffered hostages and sureties in lieu of him ; but it was of no avail to him, for there was not a hostage in the Province of Ulster they would take in his stead." Of the Munster line of this Sept, six passed out of the country to Spain, after the result of the war in Mun- ster, in Queen Elizabeth's time. In 1612, King James directed instructions to Sir Arthur Chichester, then his Lord Deputy, on behalf of Owen Mac Sweeny, to accept a surrender of his lands, and grant to him a patent for their restoration on a new title. " This Owen," says Smith,* "was particularly recommended by the Lord Dan vers, President of Munster, and by Sir Richard Morison, Vice-President, for having per- * History of Cork, v. 1, p. 186. n. 750 king james's irish army list. formed many faithful services in that Kings reign and in Queen Elizabeth's." Nevertheless, Owen Mac Sweeny Oge, his son, was attainted in 1642, and thus forfeited the property, which was theretofore granted to his father by a title, which subjected the whole interest to confiscation. Besides the three Mac Sweenys in this Eegiment, the name was in commission on five others. In Sep- tember, 1691, Sir Bobert King (ancestor of Lord Lorton) wrote to Colonel Lloyd, then Governor of Athlone, in relation to the state of affairs about Boyle ; " There is one Mac Sweeny has a party of about one hundred men well armed in the woods of Moygara, four miles from this ; and, though the numbers are so great to the Sheriff's twenty men (all that he has here), and our yet unsettled militia, they have not ventured on us, nor durst, could you favour us with a company of your men. v * The Attainders of 1691 include three of the name in the County of Cork, five in Donegal, and one in Mayo. At the battle of Ypres, says a Gazette of the year 1745, the Irish troops in the French service recovered the field when the French Guards gave way, but they suffered much ; and in Bulkeley's Eegiment, which was one of those gallant bands, Captain Morgan Mac Sweeny was severely wounded ; as was Captain Boger Sweeny of the same Eegiment, mortally, at Lauffield, in two years after. * D'Alton's 'Annals of Boyle,' v. 1, p. 275. MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. ' 751 CAPTAINS HENEY AND DAVID TEANT. This family, of Danish extraction, is on Ortelius's map located in the Barony of Corkaguinny, County of Kerry. The name does not appear on the Attainders of 1641. In the Parliament of 1689, Sir Patrick Trant was one of the Eepresentatives of the Queen's County. The Attainders of 1691 include himself, de- scribed as Baronet, of Coldwell, County of Dublin, his lady, then Lady Helen Trant, widow, with her sons Eichard, Laurence, and Charles Trant ; Maurice Trant of Dublin, Garrett of Port aldington, Queen's County, and Gerald Trant of Dingle. By the confis- cations of Sir Patrick, his very extensive estates vested in the Crown, including lands in the Counties of Kerry, Kildare, Dublin, King's and Queen's Counties ; and within these the Manors and Lord- ships of Portarlington, Lea, and Charleston, all which were purchased by the Hollow Swords' Blades Com- pany, from the Trustees of the Forfeitures, for £30,000. Sir Patrick himself followed King James to France, where he died soon after ; on the petition of his widow, however, she and her family were allowed to retain a small portion of the Kerry estate. The only claimant upon Sir Patrick's confiscations at Chichester House in 1700 was John, son of Richard Trant, a grandson, it would seem, of the Baronet. He sought a charge affecting the whole estates, but his petition was dismissed for non-prosecution. 752 king james's irish army list. CAPTAIN ROBERT DORNEY. An Owen O'Dorney, described as of Clonedullane, County of Cork, was attainted. Nothing has been ascertained of this officer or of his family, but from his associates in this Regiment, he would seem to be of the same county. CAPTAIN PATRICK HIDE. Sir Arthur ' Hyde,' who was made a Knight Baronet by Queen Elizabeth, having raised a Regiment in England at the time of the Invasion by the invincible Armada, was one of the Munster undertakers endowed with 6,000 acres of the Desmond forfeitures in Cork. This Captain, it would seem, was his relative. Patrick's name does not appear on the Attainders of 1691, but only that of Hugo Hide 4 of Ballymac- Phillip, County of Cork.' CAPTAIN DENNIS FALVEY. The O'Falveys were Chiefs of Cork, and in ancient times recorded as the hereditary Admirals of Desmond. One of the despairing emigrants, who passed into Spain after the wars of Elizabeth's time, was John ' O'Fallevay.' MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 753 CAPTAIN PHILIP COGAN. This name is of record in Ireland from the Invasion, often and eminently displayed in its history, especially in connexion with Cork, the whole of which county Henry the Second, on his invasion of Ireland, conferred jointly upon Milo de Cogan, and Eobert Fitz-Stephen his uncle. Milo was the first Consta- ble of Dublin after its reduction from the natives. In 1221, Eichard de Cogan, who was possessed of lands in the Honor of Bray, was summoned to attend a Great Council, as was John de Cogan to do military service against the Scots in 1244. In 1294, John Cogan was required to do military service in Gas- cony, as he was again in the ensuing year. He died in 1309, and was buried in St. Saviour's Friary, Dub- lin. In 1334, William Cogan was Lord Treasurer of Ireland, and in the following year Milo de Cogan had special summons to attend John D'Arcy, the Jus- ticiary of Ireland, in his expedition into Scotland. In 1438, Eobert Fitz-Geoffry Cogan granted to Gerald Fitz-Gerald, Lord of Decies, half the County of Cork, described as all his lands in Ireland. In 1488, James Cogan, being Prior of the great monastery of Holmpatrick, took the oath of allegiance to Sir Eichard Edgecombe, as required by the then recent rising for Lambert Simnel. In March, 1601, Eich- ard Fitz-Philip Cogan was one of those who emigrated to Spain with Don Juan de Aquila, about which time John de Courcy, eighteenth Lord of Kinsale, married ccc 754 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Catherine, daughter of William Cogan, from which marriage the Baronage has been lineally continued to Baron John Constantine, the present Lord Kinsale. A James Cogan was a Lieutenant in another Munster Eegiment of Infantry, that of Colonel Nicholas Browne ; he was attainted in 1691 by the description of Kilmore, County of Cork, as was Captain Philip as of Carrickbrinna, in that county. What degree of kindred, if any, these individuals bore to the Lords of Kinsale, has not been ascertained. CAPTAIN JOHN MAHONY. The O'Mahonys were powerful chieftains in Munster, and had extensive estates along the sea coast of Cork and Kerry. Opposite Horse Island, off the former county, was their castle of Eosbrin, boldly erected on a rock over the sea ; and its proprietor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, availing himself of the natural ad- vantage it possessed, led a life of such successful piracy, that Sir George Carew, when Lord President, was obliged to demolish it. Smith says there was an ancient Irish Chronicle, called from this locality the Psalter of Rosbrin, which contained a genealogical account of the O'Mahonys.* In the manuscripts of the Lambeth Library, is a "note of the names of all the plow-lands belonging to the O'Mahone Fione in Disagh, a part of West Carbury ;" also " the division of * Smith's Cork, v. 1, p. 284. MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 755 the territory of Iveagh (the peninsula of Mizen Head), a part also of Carbury, among the O'Mahonys." This O'Mahony Fion, says an ancient authority * was " Sovereign Prince of Kath-lean, and next lawful heir to the Crown of Cashel, when vacant for want of a successor ; and, on coming into the presence of the King of Cashel, he was not bound to make any other homage than to bow his head." In 950, says Arch- dall, died Donough O'Mahony, Abbot of Glendaloch and Clonmacnoise. In 1089, this Sept obtained a victory over Donough O'Brien. In 1135, Connor O'Brien, in the alternate assertion of an old feud, defeated the O'Mahonys in battle, slaying their chief, Cian O'Mahony, styled " King of Rathlean or East Iveach." In 1178, Donat O'Brien, with his Dalcas- sians, routed the O'Donovans and the O'Connels, driving them from Limerick County to beyond Man- gerton in Kerry. Here these two exiled families, being powerfully assisted by the O'Mahonys, made new settlements for themselves on the ancient proper- ties of the O'Donoghues, O'Learys, and O'Driscolls, to which three families the O'Mahonys were always declared enemies ; after which the O'Donoghues settled at Killarney, on the borders of Lough Lean. At Perrot's Parliament of 1585, this Sept was represented by Owen, son of Donell, son of Donell-na- Screedagh O'Mahony (of the western district of Iveragh, County of Kerry), and by Conor, son of Conor Fion Oge, son of Conor Fion, son of Conor * O'Gorman's MSS. Roy. Ir. Acad. p. 54. ccc 2 756 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. O'Mahony. In the following year, on an Inquisition taken at Shanclon Castle, there were attainted, as im- plicated in the Desmond rebellion, Daniel, son of Connor O'Mahony of Bosbrin, and Conor O'Mahony of Castle Mahony, near Bandon, who were thereupon adjudged to forfeit all their honors, castles, manors, &c. In 1605, Sir William Taaffe, Knight, had a grant in 1 Muskrie,' County of Cork, of the entire ter- ritory or country of Ichonloe, containing twenty-eight small carucates of land of every kind, each being 120 acres, the greater part bog and unprofitable, and theretofore the estate of (the above) Daniel, son of Connor O'Mahony, attainted. The Attainders of 1643 include ten of this name in the County of Cork. About that time flourished Connor O'Mahony, long residing at St. Koch in Lisbon ; he was born in the Barony of Muskerry, County of Cork, became a Jesuit, and published some works under a fictitious name, especially the Disputatio Apologetica, &c. in 1645, a work which was thought so ultra even by the Supreme Council of Kilkenny, that they ordered it to the flames.* Dermot O'Mahony of Bosbrin became a Colonel in this campaign, and was killed at Aughrim ; he was attainted in 1691, with two other Mahonys of Cork. Daniel, the brother of said Colonel Dermot, was knighted by King James at St. Germains for his distinguished conduct at Cremona, and afterwards obtained the title of Count from Louis the Fourteenth * Ware's Writers, pp. 121-2. Hardiman's Galway, p. 123. MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 757 for his good services in France, Spain, and Italy. In the latter country he was distinguished in 1702. In 1706, when Admiral Leake invested Alicant, Mahony, who was its Governor, defended it until he received three wounds, and was obliged to send to General Georges, who commanded the English land forces, for a surgeon, a request which was at once complied with, and the brave Governor still held out till the last necessity compelled a capitulation.* In 1707, Mahony's Dragoons carried much glory in the victory of Almanza, and being in the same year appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish troops in Sicily, his arrival there secured to the King of Spain the possession of that island, and extinguished various smouldering conspiracies in favour of the Austrians.f He was advanced to be a Lieutenant- General in the Spanish service, and was ennobled with the title of Count of Castile. " He was not only brave," says Bellerue in his Campaign of Vendome, "but laborious and indefatigable ; his life was a con- tinued chain of dangerous combats, desperate attacks, and honourable retreats." His son remained in Spain and retained the title, while his brother, Demetrio, became a Captain in the King of Spain's Guards. % Bacallar y Sanna, in his History of Spain under Philip the Third, gives very full details of the achievements of Colonel Count Mahony at Cartha- * Crooner's Milit. Mem. v. 1, pp. 318-19. f Idem, v. 2, p. 336. + Notiees of Co. Kerry, MS. Roy. Ir. Aead. p. 42. 758 king james's irish army list. gena and other places in Spain. The sons of Colonel Dermot were no less signalised in Holland.* Of the Brigaded Eegiment of Limerick, of which Sir John Fitz-Gerald was Colonel, Jeremy O'Mahony was Lientenant-Colonel. Smith, in his History of Cork (v. 1, p. 201), re- lates the death in 1728 of a remarkable character, Denis O'Mahony, a priest, who had lived for 28 years in a lonely island in the wild scenery of G-ougane Barra. What a scene it was to nourish the despair of a landless victim ! In 1745, Dennis and Darby Mahony, Lieutenants in Bulkeley's Eegiment, were taken prisoners at sea, off Montrose. In 1786, says a Chronicle of the time, " His Excellency Count Mahony, Ambassador from Spain to the Court of Vienna, gave a grand entertainment in honour of Patrick's Day ; where were present Count Lacy, President of the Council of War, the Generals O'Donnell, Maguire, O'Kelly, Browne, Plunket, Mac Ellicot, four chiefs of the Grand Cross, two Governors, several Knights military, six Staff Officers, four Privy Councillors, with the principal Officers of State, who, to show their respect for the Irish nation, wore crosses in honor of the day, as did the whole Court. "f * Notices of Co. Kerry, MS. Roy. Ir. Acad. p. 52. t Gent. Mag. ad arm. p. 195. MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 759 CAPTAIN DANIEL O'HERLIHY. See of this Sept, ante, p. 285, &c. The Attainders of 1643 describe eleven of the Sept of O'Herlihy in the County of Cork ; those of 1691 have but one, John Herrlihy of Tuogage, in that county. LIEUTENANT JOHN CONDON. The Condons were deemed so powerful a Sept of old, that their territory was adopted as the name of a Barony in the County of Cork. On the first entrance of the Lord President of Munster, in 1600, into that county, Mac Hugh Condon was one of the native chiefs who first made submission to him.* In 1606, John King, of Dublin, had a grant from the Crown of certain estates in the County of Waterford, thereto- fore the property of Patrick Condon ; while, in seven years after, David Condon of Bally dorrawne, County of Cork, " in performance of an indented order taken and conceived between him and Arthur Hide of Car- riginedy, concerning the title, right, and possession of all the estates sometime belonging to Patrick Condon, said David's father," granted, assigned and confirmed to Hide various manors and lands in said county, to hold of the King as fully as same had been granted to David by letters patent. The Attainders of 1642 present the names of ten Condons in the County of * Pacata Hibernia, p. 61. 760 king james's irish army list. Cork, while on those of 1691 are the above Lieu- tenant John, styled of Carricknavoura and Dysart, and five others in the same county. At the Court of Claims in 1700, Julian Condon preferred her peti- tion for her jointure in his Cork estate ; but her prayer was dismissed. LIEUTENANT RICHARD BULMAN. Nothing has been ascertained of him or his family at the period. ENSIGN TEIGUE GLORNEY. The O'Glorneys or O'Glorans were a Sept of the County of Kilkenny. ENSIGN THOMAS 4 HALY.' The 4 O'Halys' are located by O'Brien in a large tract of the Barony of Muskerry, County of Cork, called from them Pobble-O'Haly. The Four Masters record the death in 1309 of Dermod O'Healey, 4 the most eminent of the landed gentry of his time.' In 1328, died Duvesa, daughter of O'Hely, and wife of Donal, son of Teigue O'Conor. In 1389, the Septs of O'Conor and O'Ruarc invaded Muinter-Hely, whose MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 761 ' cavalry' they put to flight, slaying Maims O'Hely and others at that place ; and in 1426 is recorded the death of O'Hely More, that is Conor Caoch O'Hely. The officer at present under consideration, however, is, on the authority of ancient family tradition, alleged to have been of the Connaught Sept of O'Hanly of Slieve-Ban, whose Chief in the sixteenth century had three sons, Robert, Hugh, and James. The last, having killed a person of rank in a duel, retired from that province and settled in Limerick, where he took the name of Haly, as concealing, though not utterly renouncing his patronymic, and there he married. His grandson, William Haly, acquired large posses- sions in that county, of which he was High Sheriff in 1636. He had two sons : Nicholas, who, for his ad- herence to King Charles, is said to have been honour- ed with a fiat for the dignity of Baron ; in evidence of which three letters are referred to, one of the King, dated at Newcastle, February 20th, 1646, and two others of the Earl of Glamorgan and Worcester, dated 13th September, 1646, and 20th April, 1647, (in the custody of William Haly); but, as it is alleged, the patents could not be made out, the King being at the time a prisoner with the Scottish army, and not having the Great Seal with him. This Nicholas, styled of Towrine, and his younger brother John of Limerick, were of the Supreme Council of Kilkenny in 1646. John died without issue. Nicholas signed the Treaty of Limerick in 1651 with Ireton, as one of the Com- missioners on the part of the garrison, and for the 762 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. performance of which he was one of the hostages retained. He was subsequently stripped of all his property by Cromwell ; but his eldest son, Robert, who married Lady Eoche, the widow of John, the tenth Viscount Fermoy, was restored to his estates by James the Second. From very full notices of this family in the handwriting of the late Mr. James Roche (which are necessarily compressed here), it appears suggested that not only the above officer, Ensign Thomas, but also Edward Haly, the Cornet in Colonel Parker's Horse, were of this line of ancestry ; those Christian names being then introduced by marriages with the Yerdon and Roche families. The only representative of this old and respectable family now remaining in Ireland is the Very Reverend Robert Haly, S. J., resi- dent in Dublin ; but Colonel O'Grady Haly command- ing the 47th Regiment, (to whom the Crimean medal was lately presented by Her Majesty), and Mr. Haly, of the English bar, are also representatives thereof, with many others living in England, France, India, and the British Colonies. There were eleven Healys attainted in 1691, but neither Thomas nor Edward ' Haly' appears upon the Roll. In 1710, a Captain ' Hely,' of Lord Kilmallock's Brigade, was killed in battle in Spain. A Lieutenant Richard ' Haly,' of Rothe's Regiment, was engaged at Fontenoy, wounded at Lauffield in 1747, subsequently promoted to the rank of Major in the Irish Brigade of France, and died at an advanced age about the year 1785, at Cambray. MAJOR-GENERAL BOISELEAU'S INFANTRY. 763 ENSIGN GIBBON FITZ-GIBBON. Four of this name were attainted in 1642, all in the County of Meath. ENSIGN PHILIP 'WOLFE.' The name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second. On Ortelius's map it is located in the Barony of Clanwilliam, County of Tipper ary. They were also territorial proprietors in the County of Kildare, where Thomas died in 1582, seised of Beart and other estates. Edmund Wolfe was at the same time seised of Kilcolman, Oldcourt, Ardscull, &c. all which premises were forfeited on the attainder of Nicholas Wolfe in 1641, when three others of the name were outlawed, but none in 1691. At the Court of Claims, however, a John Wolfe petitioned for an interest in County of Kildare lands forfeited by Sarsfield ; and the name existed in that county to modern times. The Eev. Charles Wolfe, who died but recently, the well known author of the lines on the death of Sir John Moore, was born in 1791, the youngest son of Theobald Wolfe of Blackhall, County of Kildare. In the County of Clare it attained eminence of another character, in that ornament of the Irish Exchequer, the late Chief Baron Stephen ' Woulfe.' The hero, Major-General James ' Woulfe,' who fell in victory at Quebec hi 1 7-39, was lineally 7 64 king james's hush army list. descended from a Captain George Woulfe of the City of Limerick, who was one of the victims proscribed for his devotion to the Royal cause by Ireton in 1651, when he stormed that city. Captain George, how- ever, escaped to the North of England, where he settled. His grandson, General Edward Woulfe, was appointed Colonel of the 8th Regiment of Foot in 1745, and he was the father of the hero of Quebec,* who, at the early age of twenty-one, fought at the often mentioned battle of Lauffield. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. LORD BOPHIN'S, ALIAS COLONEL JOHN BOURKE. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. Tho Colonel. Francis Bourke. John Madden. William Connock, Lieutenant- Colonel. John Bodkin, Major. Patrick Kirwan. Piers Lynch. Andrew Kirwan. Richard Blake. John Blake. Stephen Lynch. Peter Blake, Lawrence Deane. Peter Blake. William Bourke. Francis Baker, 2nd. | Miles Bourke. Walter Bourke. Robert Lynch. Stephen Lynch. Nicholas Blake. Joseph Lynch. Richard Blake. William Lynch. Arthur Lynch. Dominick Lovelock. Thomas Brown. Nicholas Lynch. Thomas Lynch. Matthew Bodkin. Matthew Lynch. Lawrence Warren. Hugh Kelly. John White, Grenad. * Ferrar's Limerick, p. 350. LORD BOPIIIN'S INFANTRY. 765 COLONEL LOED BOPHIN. This Peer, the second son of William, Earl of Clan- ricarde, was one of King James's creation, on the 2nd of April, 1689. He was, in this campaign, taken prisoner at Aughrim at the head of his Regiment, brought off to the Castle of Dublin, and thence sent to England. He was attainted on Inquisition, and although a bill was brought into Parliament in 1698 for restoring him to his estate and blood, it was thrown out on the second reading; his children, however, having preferred their petitions at the Court of Claims, were allowed their respective remainders, and, in the first year of the reign of Queen Anne, an Act was pass- ed whereby Lord Bophin was acquitted of all treasons and attainders, and he and his children restored to their blood and estate. The Family of * Bourke' is fully noticed ante, at the Earl of Clanricarde. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM CONNOCK. This officer, of whose antecedents nothing has been ascertained, passed over to France ; where, in the Brigades, he obtained the rank of full Colonel, by reason of his gallant actions. He particularly dis- tinguished himself at Cremona, and at the siege of 766 king james's irish army list. Verrua in Piedmont, in 1704, where, however, he was killed by the bursting of a shell.* MAJOR JOHN BODKIN. This name appears on the records of Galway from the time of the Tudors. In 1533, Dr. Christopher 4 Bodekine' was consecrated Bishop of Kilmacduagh at Marseilles, and was in three years after, by the favour of Henry the Eighth, translated to the Archbishopric of Tuam, with which he held to his death the See of Kilmacduagh. f Dominick Bodkin of Galway was one of the Confederate Catholics who assembled at Kil- kenny in 1646. At the siege of Galway in 1652, six townsmen of this name refused to sign the articles for its surrender, while twelve other Bodkins absent- ed themselves to avoid so doing. J Besides Major John and Matthew Bodkin, an Ensign in this Regi- ment, John Bodkin was an Ensign in Colonel Domi- nick Browne's Infantry, as was Augustus Bodkin in the Earl of Clanricarde's. In July, 1691, this Major, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, was of the hostages delivered to the besiegers of the town, to be bound for the due observance of the terms imposed upon the garrison and townspeople until surrender.§ He was a merchant of Galway, was included in the Attain- * O'Conor's Milit. Mem. p. 294. f Ware's Bishops, p. 615. J Hardiman's Galway, Ap. p. 33. § Idem, p. 162. LORD BOPIIIN'S INFANTRY. 767 ders of that year, but was afterwards adjudged within the benefit of the articles of 1698 and 1699. CAPTAIN PATRICK KIRWAN. The O'Kerwans were an ancient Irish Sept of Con- naught, but the name has been, as it may be consi- dered, anglicised into Kirwan, by which orthogra- phy it was known in the County of Galway from the thirteenth century,* whence they extended to Mayo, and at a later period to Waterford and Tipperary. From 1501 to the time of the Revolution the Shrievalty of Galway, then a very important town, was frequently filled by a Kirwan, as was not less the Mayoralty. In 1582, Stephen Kirwan was Bishop of Clonfert, as was Francis Kirwan of Killala in 1646. These, however, will not be found in Ware's Bishops. At the Supreme Council of 1646, Patrick Kirwan of Galway was one of the Members ; yet would it seem he was the same individual, to whom General Ireton in 1652 returned special thanks, for the protection he had afforded to the Protestants during the immedi- ately preceding years of civil war ; Ireton also gave him, under hand and seal, permission to carry arms. He was of the Cregg line of Kir wans, and grandfather of the above Captain Patrick ; while the Major of this Regiment, John Bodkin, was Captain Patrick's mater- nal uncle. Patrick married in 1703, Mary, daughter * Hardiraan's Galway, p. 16. 768 RING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. of Richard Martin of Dangan, and succeeded to the Cregg estates on the death of his own father, Martin Kirwan, in 1705. Sir John Kirwan was Mayor of Galway in 1686, and its Eepresentative in the Parlia- ment of 1689. He is said to have been the first who introduced in that town the modern style of glass windows, in lieu of the small leaden lattices thereto- fore used. This family was distinguished in the Bri- gades, in the person of Richard Kirwan, the second son of the above Captain Patrick. He was sent out at an early age to study in France ; but, preferring a mili- tary life, he obtained a commission in Dillon's Bri- gade, fought at Fontenoy in 1745, and was a great favourite with Lord Clare and Marshal Saxe. He died at Woodfield in 1779. His nephew was Richard Kirwan, pre-eminently styled the Chemist, accounted one of the greatest philosophers of his day, and a member of most of the literary institutions of Europe. CAPTAIN WILLIAM BOURKE. The illustrations of the ' Bourke' family occur ante, at the Earl of Clanricarde. This officer, afterwards promoted to a Majority, was taken prisoner at Aughrim.* * Story's Impart. Hist. p. 2, p. 137. LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY. 769 CAPTAINS ROBERT, JOSEPH, NICHOLAS, AND MATTHEW LYNCH ; LIEUTENANTS PIERS AND HENRY LYNCH, AND ENSIGNS STEPHEN AND WILLIAM LYNCH. This family came over to Ireland in the first arma- ment of the English Invasion, and soon after settled at the Knock in the County of Meath, hence called Knock-Lynch. They were there frequently styled 4 Leyns,' by that spelling received Royal mandates to the Hostings, and are so denominated in the current records and state papers. A younger son of this house, migrating westward, established the name in Galway,* where his line acquired much property, and, until the middle of the seventeenth century, were one of its most influential families. From them were elected its first and last Provost, and its first and last Sovereign ; six of its Recorders were also Lynches. During this connexion with the place, they effected many public works within this ancient town, much strengthened its fortifications, and founded various religious houses. In 1484, Dominick Lynch pro- cured the Charter from Richard the Third, under which he caused his brother Pierce to be elected first Mayor, and was himself the second. His son Stephen at the same time sued out the Bull of Pope Innocent the Eighth, establishing in Galway the sin- gular jurisdiction of Warden ; from this period to the * Hardiman's Galway, p. 50. DDI) 770 king james's irish army list. time of the Eestoration, in the succession of its Mayors, no less than eighty-four were Lynches, and the family is one of the four tribes who have an acknowledged privilege of burial in the Cathedral of that town. In the sixteenth century the name was established in Mayo, In 1584, John Lynch, a native of Galway, educated at Oxford, was advanced by Queen Elizabeth to the Bishopric of Elphin. In Perrot's Parliament of the following year, Jonoke Lynch and Peter Lynch represented Galway. In 1602, Richard Lynch was Bishop of Kilmacduagh. In the Parlia- ment of 1639, Sir Robert Lynch was one of the Repre- sentatives of Galway. He was proprietor of the Isles of Arran, which, on his subsequent attainder, were included in the grant to Erasmus Smith, one of the most considerable of the London adventurers in Ire- land, whose title to these islands was afterwards pur- chased by Richard, Earl of Arran.* In 1642 were attainted, with said Sir Robert Lynch, Oliver Lynch of Dublin, Myles Lynch of Cloncurry, and Laurence Lynch of Creganstown, in the County of Meath. The head of the family at the Knock is not noted on the Roll, as their Castle had been in this year taken by the Earl of Ormond, when the besieged, not accepting quarter, were put to the sword.f The elder of this house, Robert Lynch or Leyns, was fain to accept a certificate from the usurping powers, transplanting him and his * Hardiman's Galway, p. 320. f Temple's Irish Rebellion, p. 80. LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY. 771 family into the County of Roscommon, where a small allotment at the foot of Slieve-Ban was all conceded to him in tail male, in lieu of his extensive Meath estates. Of the Confederate Catholics at Kilkenny in 1646, were Martin, Nicholas, and Roebuck Lynch of Gal- way. In 1650, Walter Lynch succeeded to the See of Clonfert, at which time flourished John Lynch, an able antiquary and scholar, born in the town of Gal- way ; after its surrender in 1652, he betook himself to France, where, under the assumed name of Gratia- nus Lucius, he published his ' Cambrensis Eversus] and other works. In regard to the aforesaid transplanted Robert Lynch or Leyns, (whose last male descendant, it may be mentioned, was the author's maternal uncle), his will bears date in 1667, and commences with a 4 sweet reminiscence' of his family, directing his interment " in the sepulchre of my dear mother, children, and grand-children, in the church of Clonard, without any great cost or solemnity ; being banished into Connaught, and deprived of my estate, and stript of all my moveable goods and substance." Then, after recounting his debts and providing for their due and early payment, he adds, " I leave and bequeath my little nag to my little grand-child Christopher Leyns, and my apparel to be distributed to such poor as are in want of clothes to cover their nakedness." " And in case the Ir. be restored, my will is that the feoffment I made of Croboy, in the year of our Lord 1631, shall stand and be in force according to the intent thereof." The estate of DDI) 2 772 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Croboy here alluded to included Summer Hill, and was, in two years after the date of this will, granted by patent of Charles the Second to Charles Barker, from whom it passed by purchase to the ancestor of Lord Langford ; while little more than twenty years have elapsed since the Crown asserted its title to the Eoscommon allotment, as on failure of the issue male of Robert, In the Charter to Galway in 1687, twenty-three Lynches were placed upon the Burgess Roll. In the same year Sir Henry Lynch was appointed a Baron of the Irish Exchequer, on Sir Stephen Rice being ad- vanced to be chief. Besides the nine officers of the name in this Regiment, six others were commissioned on this list. In the Parliament of 1689, Geoffry Lynch was one of the Representatives of Gal way, while the hostages for its surrender in 1691 were Lieuten- ant-Colonels Lynch, Burke, and Kelly. The Attain- ders of 1691 include fifteen Lynches. In the Augustinian Convent at Bruges are monu- ments to ' Steven' Lynch, who died 1691 ; Agnes Lynch, died 1728 ; to Dominick Anthony Lynch, 'Eschevon' of Bruges in 1707, 1711, 1713, and 1727 ; to Dominick Lynch, who in 1782 became a member of the society of St. George there. James Lynch, (son of Henry Lynch), whose wife was Anastasia, daughter of Jasper Joyce, has a sepulchral monument on the outside of the south wall of the church of Notre Dame in said city, commemorating his death on the 21st of July, 1793, aged 77. At the battle of Lauffield LORD BOPHIN'S INFANTRY. 773 in 1747, 1 Colonel Lynch, a la Suite' in Lally's Brigade Regiment, was wounded ; and in Hardiman's Galway (p. 18), mention is made of a Count Lynch, Mayor of Bourdeaux, who so eminently distinguished himself in the cause of the Royal family of France in opposi- tion to Buonaparte. LIEUTENANT LAURENCE DEANE. This name Den, Dene, Dean, etc. is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second, more especially located in the Counties of Cork and Carlow. In 1609, Richard Dean, a native of Yorkshire, suc- ceeded to the See of Ossory. The only attainder in 1642 of the name is that of Patrick Deane of Lusk ; that in 1691 is of Dominick Deane of Cong, County of Mayo. In 1714, Joseph Deane was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. The kindred, however, of the above officer is unknown. LIEUTENANT DOMINICK LOVELOCK. He was attainted in 1691, as Dominick Lovelock of Milltown, County of Galway ; no more is known of him. 774 king james's irish army list. ENSIGN JOHN MADDEN. He was indited in 1691 as of Longford, County of Galway, and was ancestor of the present Dr. R. R. Madden, so well known and respected in various walks of literature. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. colonel oliver gara s, late colonel iriel farrell's. Captains. The Colonel. Lieuten an t- Colon el . Thady O'Connor, Major. John Conry. Michael Shanly. Green Mulloy. William Mulloy. William Shanley. Latighlin Naughton. Daniel ' Kelley.' John ' Kelley.' Charles Phillips. Bryan M'Gowran. Owen Gallagher. Christopher Bellew. Henry M'Dermott Roe. Bryan Duff M'Dermott. Lieutenants. Michael Shanley. Bryan Conry. ^ Nicholas White. Theohald Mulloy. Thady Shanley. Edmund Naughton. ^ Edmund Doyle. Connor M'Dermott. Daniel M'Gowran. Ffarrell Gallagher. Nicholas Bermingham. Roger M'Dermott. Far; Ensigns. Farrell. Thady Mahon. Charles Dillon. John Connor. Paul Duigenan. Thomas Naughton. Daniel ' Kelley.' Gilduffe Phillips. ( Turlogh Reynolds. I Morgan M'Donough. Owen Gallagher. William O'Gara. Arthur M'Manus. Thomas Walgrave. COLONEL OLIVER OSAKA'S INFANTRY. 775 COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA. The O'Garas were the ancient territorial Lords of Moy-O'Gara and Coolavin, in the County of Sligo. So early as in the year 1056, the Four Masters record the death of Roderic O'Gara ; and their valuable and extensive Chronicle, originating in the patronage of Ferral O'Gara in the commencement of the seven- teenth century, is particularly full in details of this House. Their dedication proclaims him "a descen- dant of the race of Heber, son of Milesius, which gave Ireland thirty monarchs, while sixty-one of that race died in the odour of sanctity." The antiquary Michael O'Clery, who had at the time peculiar resources for verifying native genealogies, many of which perished in the immediately ensuing wars, confidently traces the lineage of this Ferral O'Gara up ninety- three generations ; he was himself the Representative of the County of Sligo in the Parliament of 1634. The confiscations and ravages of Cromwell, however, left but little of their rank or territory remaining at this period, when the above Colonel Oliver was the head of the Sept. He also was one of the Representatives for the County of Sligo in the Parliament of 1689, and was connected by marriage with the Lady Mary Fleming, daughter of Lord Slane and widow of Richard Fleming of Stahalmock, by whom he left no issue. Tins regiment, raised by himself, was one of four which King James, in falling back upon Ardee, de- spatched under the command of Brigadier Sarsfield, 776 KING JAiUES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. in September, 1689, to retard the advance of the Wil- liamite forces into Connaught.* Story states that Colonel O'Gara was killed at the siege of Athlone in June, 1691 ; but if he intended to refer this statement to Colonel Oliver, it was erroneous, as he is known to have witnessed the Articles of Limerick, and accom- panied the Irish emigrants to the Continent, where he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel to King James's fine Regiment of Irish Foot-Guards, amounting, before its departure from Limerick to France, to 1400 men.f This reduction of his rank to a post subordinate to Colonel William Dorrington, was soon redressed by his appointment to the Colonelcy of the Queen's Dra- goons. He was attainted in 1691, with 'Maria' his wife, John O'Gara of Clunoghill, and Roger and Morgan ' Gara ' of Ballyhowla, County of Sligo. It may be added that the Reverend Nicholas O'Gara, faithful to the memory of his country in a foreign land, was a valuable collector of Irish poems in the Netherlands,! In 1734, Bryan O'Gara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, as was Michael O'Gara in 1742. MAJOR THADY O'CONNOR. The Annals of this family of native Royalty cannot * Clarke's James II. v. 2, p. 382. f O'Callaghan's Irish Brigades, p. 164, &c. \ Trans. Ibern. Celt. p. 97 and 174. COLONEL OLIVER o'GARA's INFANTRY. 777 be alluded to here beyond the scope denned in the prospectus of this volume. They were particularly located in Connaught, with branches in Kerry (where they gave name to Iraghti-connor), and in Offaley of Leinster, hence there styled O'Connor-Failey. In 1302, Edward the First invited Hugh O'Conor to aid him in the Scottish war, and Edward the Second sought similar services in 1314 from 'O'Conogher, Dux Hibernicorum de Connagh] and from ' Dermod O'Tonoghur d'Offaley.' A Report to Government of the chief leaders of Connaught in the time of Henry the Eighth, and their available strength, mentions O'Conor as Lord of a portion of that province, with a musterable force of 120 Horse, 160 Galloglasses, and 300 Kerns. A manuscript Book of Obits in Trinity College, Dublin, furnishes several links in the generations of the O'Connors-Kerry in the sixteeenth and seventeenth centuries. Cromwell's Act of 1652, ' for settling Ireland,' excepted from pardon for life and estate Charles O'Conor Don of Ballintobber, County of Roscommon, Teigue O'Connor Roe of said county, Teigue O'Connor Sligo of Sligo, and Charles and Hugh O'Connor, his brothers. The acknowledg- ment in the Act of Settlement, of Royal gratitude for services beyond the seas, includes Major f wen O'Conor of Balinagare, County of Roscommon Cap- tain Hugh O'Conor Don of Ballintobber, Ensign Daniel O'Connor of the County of Mayo, with Lieu- tenant Roger and Ensign Hugh O'Connor. This Sept mustered very strong upon the Army List 3 778 KIXG JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. holding several commissions in fifteen other Regi- ments. According to a contemporaneous Diary,* a short time before the surrender of Limerick, " Major O'Connor, who was Governor of Banagher, surrender- ed it on condition of being allowed to march out of it with his men. He hath since been in Limerick, and upon view of the condition of that place, and consider- ation of the wants of the Irish and their impending ruin, came over to us this day (21st August, 1691) ; also nine more of the Irish army well mounted." Story says that of sixty men, who came over with him, " forty laid down their arms, and to each the general gave five shillings for encouragement, "f It does, however, appear from the same narrator, that a Colonel O'Connor, subsequently to the last date, at the head of 400 Irish, burned Edenderry and after- wards Ballybrittas.J On the Roll of Attainders in 1691, stand Phelini O'Conor of Balinagare, Roger O'Connor of Doagh, Thady O'Connor of Cloonkelly, and Charles Connor of Carrovan, County of Ros- common ; with eleven others in Kerry, Kildare, Queen's County, Sligo, Longford, Galway, Cork, and Dublin. At the Court of Chichester House, Denis O'Conor, with Peter Conry and Anne Conry, alias O'Conor, his wife, and Bridget O'Conor, claimed and were allowed three parts out of four of the real estates of Major Owen O'Conor in Ballinagar, &c, under his * Harleian Coll. v. 7, p. 481. t Story's Impartial History, part 1, p. 149. t Idem, pt. 2, p. 56. COLONEL OLIVER CLARA'S INFANTRY. 779 will of 8th May, 1685, but which had been forfeited by Phelim O'Conor. —Captain Thomas O'Connor in Dillon's Brigade was wounded at the battle of Lauffield. CAPTAIN JOHN CONEY. The O'Maol Conrys were a branch of the Southern Hy-Nialls, who for centuries ruled as kings of Meath and Monarchs of Ireland. They were originally chiefs in Teffia, in the present County of Westmeath ; but in the tenth century, crossing the Shannon, located themselves upon its western bank, and from that time were known as Connacians. This Sept, which be- longed to the Great Bardic Order, acquired under the patronage of the O'Conors, Kings of Connaught, con- siderable possessions in that Province, and became its Chief Bards, as well as Seanachies to its Kings ; as shown in the Annals of the Four Masters, in the compilation of which record, two of the Sept, Maurice and Fearfeasa O'Mulconroy, contributed the ancient chronicles of their tribe, and were active assistants. In virtue of the hereditary and honourable office of Seanachie, it was the duty of the Chief of this cele- brated Bardic clan to officiate upon the Sacred Hill, at the Inauguration of a new King of Connaught ; to present to him the white wand or sceptre, the emblem of Sovereignty ; to administer to him the usual oath or admonition to preserve the customs of the country ; 780 king james's irish army list. and, finally, to record the proceedings. In the learned Dr. O'Conors Latin translation of the MSS. chronicles of Ireland appears the following account of the ceremonies, &c. performed by Torna O'Mulconry in the year 1312, at the Inauguration of Phelim O'Conor, King of Connaught. The account is written by Torna himself, and is to be found in the aforesaid Irish Chronicles :— "O'Maolconarii erant jure hereditario Begum Connacice Bardi a Secido XL, sine quorum genealo- gid metricd, in conventione Begni, publice recitandd, Begem inaugurare nefas est. Hinc plurimi istius nominis archi-poetce Connacice in annalibus memoran- tur. Hoc est OMaolconarii jus. — Virgam regiam dare in ejus manum Begi inaugurato: et nefas est alicui Ducum Connacice esse in ejus prcesentid supra agger em sacrum, nisi CMaolconario, prope Begem, et O Connaclitano, custodienti aggeris sacri: — Ejus (i. e. Begis) equus militaris et vestimenta traduntur Vi- cario Daehonni: — cujus est officium ire ad montem (i. e. arcem Concobari) supra equum istum: — et uncia auri [datur~\ Connachtano ; et ejus officium inequali- tates aggeris sacri Iwvigare, quando inauguratio Begia Jit:" etc. etc. The office of chief bard to an Irish king was deem- ed a post of great honour and dignity, and many of the duties of it were of a solemn description : some of the functions of the Royal Seanachies at the ceremony of inauguration were in late times performed by the clergy themselves, as we find stated in the account COLONEL OLIVER OSAKA'S INFANTRY. 781 given of the inauguration of Hugh O'Neil, Titular King of Ulster and Earl of Tyrone, at the close of Elizabeth's reign. The inauguration of an Irish king, even as late as the reign of James the First, was per- formed in the open air, upon one of the Sacred Hills, or places appointed for that purpose, and in the pre- sence of the Septs of the province, who were led thither by their respective chiefs to witness the cere- mony.- The poet Spencer, in his History of Ire- land, written in 1597, thus describes one of these solemn rites, of which he himself had been an eye- witness. " Whenever an Irish king or chief is to be inaugurated on one of their hills, it is usual to place him on a particular stone, whereon is imprinted the form of their first chieftain's foot, and there proffer to him an oath to preserve the customs of the country. There was then a wand delivered to him by the proper officer, with which in his hand, descending from the stone, he turned himself round, thrice forward, thrice backward." In an account of the ceremonies per- formed at the initiation of the O'Donels, Princes of Tyrconnel, it is said that in presenting the new king with the wand, which was perfectly white and straight, the chief who officiated used this form of words : — " Receive, King, this auspicious badge of your authority, and remember to imitate in your conduct the whiteness and straightness of this wand." This hereditary and remarkable office became obsolete in the O'Mulconry clan after the split of the great O'Conor family into the three kindred but rival houses 782 king james's irish army list. of O'Conor Don, O'Conor Roe, and O'Conor Sligo, and the divisions of the lands and Septs of Connanght between them. The O'Mulconrys became tributaries to the O'Conors Roe. All the branches of the great honse of O'Conor had submitted to Elizabeth, and re- maining faithful to her during the fierce wars of that period in Ireland, provoked the hostility of their countrymen, the O'Neils and O'Donels of the north ; who, in revenge for this apostasy from the common cause, made a descent into Connaught in 1597, and laid waste the territories of the O'Conors with fire and sword. In this foray, the O'Conor Don, chief of all the O'Conors, was taken prisoner ; the country of O'Conor Eoe, south of Elphin, was ravaged from Ath- glissento Sliabh-bann ; and the Mac Dermot ofMoy- lurg was obliged to declare himself O'Donel's vassal, and to attend him when required, with eighty foot and twenty horse, &c, &c. In this inroad of the northern chieftains, the numerically small Sept of the O'Mulconrys was almost annihilated, and the decay ot the family dates from that period. Their subsequent history assimilates with that of most other Irish families ; the cruel civil wars that desolated unhappy Ireland throughout the seventeenth century, producing attainders, forfeiture and exile, almost extinguished them. One or two families of the Sept, neverthe- less, continued, through all vicissitudes of fortune, to retain some footing in their native province. The above Captain John Conry, his brother Lieutenant Bryan, and a third brother Patrick, were COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA's INFANTRY. 783 of this house, and all engaged in the service of King- James the Second ; while another John Conry of the elder branch of the same family claims more especial notice, as well for the sacrifices he and his descend- ants had made to this canse, as for the position and rank they have respectively held to the present day. The grandfather of this latter John was Moylin O'Maolconry, who died in 1637, the last individual recognised in native heraldry as chief of his nation. His son Thorna entered and caused to be certified in the Heralds' College, his father's lineage, which declares him to have been the forty-third in descent from the first recorded ancestor (" Conn" of the hundred Battles) in that pedigree. Thorna, dying in 1647, was succeeded by his son John, who, having taken part and suffered in his estate, in the Cromwellian wars, fled to France, and there married the daughter of another emigrant, of the Fitz-Geralds, who had quitted Ireland in Elizabeth's reign, on the destruc- tion of the great Ceraldine chief, the Earl of Desmond. John Conry served throughout the wars of France under the celebrated Marshal Turenne, and was killed at the passage of the Rhine in 1672, leaving two sons, who both returned to Ireland. The eldest, Charles, who is stated to have also fought under Turenne at the early age of fifteen, endeavoured after the Resto- ration of Charles the Second to obtain compensa- tion for his family's losses in the Royal cause, but, in common with the large majority of the ruined Irish gentry, he failed in this object. However, in 784 king james's irish army list. 1678, he obtained by patent a small and tardy appro- priation of lands in his native province, and again returned to France. On the abdication of King James the Second, Charles Conry, still clinging to the old dynasty, sold the estate he had inherited through his mother in France, and, adding to the pro- ceeds whatever he could raise in Ireland, he devoted his fortune and his life to the cause of that Monarch, whom, in common with his Roman Catholic country- men, he alone recognised as his lawful Sovereign. His name, however, does not appear in the present Army List, but unimpeachable records establish the fact of his bearing arms for King James as a volun- teer, of which description of force there was a consi- derable body. Having joined King James's army with whomsoever of his Sept he could collect, he fought and fell at the Boyne. Leaving no issue, he was suc- ceeded by his brother Fearfeasa, who was the first member of this family that professed Protestantism. His son, another John, was a celebrated antiquarian, and in his devotion to literature pursued the heredi- tary vocation of his ancestors ; he collected a very valuable library, in addition to ancient and curious MSS. of the O'Maolconaire tribe. Among these, it is said, was the first volume of the original of the Four Masters, in the compilation of which (as before men- tioned), two members of the Sept had been engaged in the year 1632. This volume, and many of the Conroy MSS. passed into the late ill-fated Library at Stowe. John Conroy himself compiled a remarkably inte- COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 785 resting history of his family from the earliest period to the year 1750 ; it is divided into chapters, and throws light on many passages of the general and family history of Ireland. His grandson and name- sake was the late Sir John Conroy, Knight of four foreign orders, and created a Baronet for long and faithful services to her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The present Baronet, a godson of that Royal Duke, bears his respected name, Sir Edward Conroy of Llanbryn- mair, County of Montgomery. A distinguished indi- vidual of this name was Florence O'Mulconry, titular Archbishop of Tuam, and founder of the Irish Fran- ciscan monastery at Louvain, under the auspices of Philip the Third of Spain. This Prelate was the au- thor of several works, and, dying at Madrid in 1629, his bones were subsequently removed to the Convent he had founded at Louvain. He was intimately con- cerned in the political movements of the times, and was instrumental in aiding the escape of the great Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel out of Ireland. The fact is announced in a letter, dated " Dublin, 1 2th of Sept. 1607," from Sir John Davis, the celebrated Attorney-General of Ireland, to the English Lor^d Chancellor Ellesmere, in which he says that this pre- late came over in person in a ship equipped and sent by Philip of Spain for the rescue of these Earls. EEE 786 king james's irish army list. CAPTAINS MICHAEL AND WILLIAM SHANLEY. The Shanleys, sometimes styled 0' Shanleys, but more usually Mac Shanleys, are noticed as a Sept of Leitrim from the thirteenth century. In 1254, Sitric Mac Shanley was taken prisoner by Phelim, son of Cathal Crov-dearg 0' Conor, on suspicion of conspi- ring to betray him. In 1378, the Mac Shanley was slain in an engagement between the O'Rourkes and Mac Eannels. At 1404, the Four Masters com- memorate the death of Donogh, son of Morrough Mac Shanley, " a wealthy landed proprietor of Cor- caghlan [in the County of Roscommon], and the in- timate friend of Roderick O'Conor, King of Con- naught." In 1473, " a great commotion broke out in Muinter-Eolis [in the County of Leitrim], and much destruction was committed ; Mac Rannal made an attack on the town of Mac Shanly, which he burned, and slew Donogh, son of Donogh Mac Shan- ley, with several others."* On the plantation of the Counties of Leitrim and Longford, Teigue Mac Shan- ly of Mornin and Edward Oge Mac Shanly in policy sued out patents of pardon and protection, as did Bryan Mac Shanly of Ancurvy in the King's County. Besides the above two Captains, Thady and another Michael Shanley were Lieutenants in this Regiment, while Bryan Shanley was an Ensign in Colonel Reward Oxburgh's Infantry. In King James's * Annals of the Four Masters, ad ann. COLONEL OLIVER o'gARA'S INFANTRY. 787 Charter to Jamestown, County of Leitrim, the above Captain William was appointed the Sovereign, and Michael constituted one of its free Burgesses. Wil- liam was one of its Representatives in the Parliament of 1689. The Attainders of 1691 denounce both William and Michael Shanley, as of the County of Leitrim ; with Thady and Brian Shanley of Fenagh in the same county ; James ' Shanly' of Macetown, County of Westmeath ; and John of Swords, County of Dublin. A Michael Shanly came over to King Wil- liam, and was placed on the pension list of the mili- tary Establishment for 5s. per day, afterwards increas- ed to 6s. 9d. until 1729, when he died. Members of the family, with his christian and surname, appear on the Army Lists of successive years. In that of 1759, when was raised in three weeks the 19 th Eegiment or Light Drogheda Dragoons, Michael Shanly was its Quarter-Master. In 1785, William Shanley, the lineal descendant of this Captain William, was High Sheriff of the County of Leitrim ; and his son Walter, now an engineer in Canada, appears to represent the Sept. CAPTAINS ' GREENE' AND WILLIAM MULLOY. The O'Mulloys or O'Molloys claim descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages, and were anciently Lords of Fearcall in the King's County, a district extend- eee 2 788 king james's irish army list. ing over the present Baronies of Ballyboy, Bally cowen and Eglish, with much of those of Geshil and Garry- castle. Of the early and interesting annals of this family, it can only be here noticed that in September, 1189, Albin O'Mulloy, then Bishop of Ferns, officiated with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin, and with other Prelates and Nobles, at the coronation of the renowned Richard Coeur de Lion in Westminster Abbey.* In the commencement of the fifteenth cen- tury, Hugh O'Mulloy founded the celebrated Carmelite monastery of Kilcormuck, in the heart of Fearcall, in which he was interred in 1454. The state papers of the time of Henry the Eighth record numerous evi- dences of the struggles of the O'Mulloys to uphold the independence of their Sept and territory. At length, in 1538, a treaty was concluded by the Lord Deputy with their Chief, by which he (Cahir O'Mulloy) bound himself " to pay to the King all rents and revenues due and accustomed on the country of Fearcall, and to wait on the Deputy at any time and as often as he will, with six horsemen and forty kern, during one day and one night, having warning three days before the day appointed." In 1585, when, in the language of the Four Masters, a Parliament was given to the people of Ireland (for these assemblies were previously composed exclusively of the English or Anglo-Irish Lords and proprietors), this Sept was represented by Conall, the son of Cahir O'Mulloy. At a somewhat earlier period, the O'Mulloy was * Hoveden, p. 656. COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 789 appointed by the Crown hereditary Bearer of the British Standard in Ireland, in right of which honour an official coat of arms was granted, representing vert a mounted Knight in armour, on a steed richly caparisoned argent ; and bearing in his hand the British standard, and on his shield the family armo- rials. This right was recognized in 1595, when, on the march of the Lord Deputy, Sir William Eussell, to the North, the Royal standard of England was borne on the first day, as within the Pale, by O'Mulloy, and in the next, after passing out of the Pale, by O'Hanlon, the hereditary standard bearer of O'Neill. The privilege was subsequently, in 1634, recorded, and the armorials exemplified by certificate from the Office of Arms. Early in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth, Anthony O'Mulloy, a younger son of Hugh O'Mulloy, then Chief of Fearcall, migrated to the County of Roscommon, where he became the founder of the Hughstown and Oakport lines. He is said to have filled the important offices of Vice-President of the Council, and Provost Marshal of the Province of Connaught. He died in 1603, when the Inquisition post mortem describes him by the same cognomen as one of the above Captains, ' Greene Mulloy.' In 1613, a portion of the Fearcall inheritance was grant- ed to Francis Blunde, ' clerk of the Commissioners for defective titles,' while the estates of others of the Sept in the same county, who had been 4 attainted' or ' slain in rebellion,' were given to Gerald, Earl of Kildare. The declaration of Royal gratitude, which is incor- 790 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. porated in the Act of Settlement, acknowledges the services of Captain Charles O'Mulloy, Lieutenant Edmund O'Mulloy, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Mulloy, Captain Art Mac Turlough Mulloy, Lieutenant John Molloy, Lieutenant John Mac Art Molloy, Lieutenant Edward Molloy, Ensign Fenagh Molloy, Captain Turlogh Molloy of Ballyboy, King's County, and Terence Molloy of Gortachuttery in said county. Besides the above two Captains, there appear upon this List Robert Molloy, a Quarter-Master in Lord Galmoy's Horse ; James, a Lieutenant in the King's Infantry ; John, an Ensign in Colonel Henry Dil- lon's ; and Hugh Molloy, in Colonel Heward Ox- burgh's. Edward O'Mulloy, of the above mentioned Hughstown line, was appointed one of the Burgesses in King James's charter to Boyle ; and he, marrying Mary, daughter of the O'Conor Don, had by her a son, the above Captain 4 Greene' Mulloy. Connor O'Mulloy, the elder brother of the above Edward, was the lineal ancestor of the families of Hughstown and Oakpost.* He had two sons, Theobald and William O'Mulloy, who, as frequently occurred in that distract- ed period, espoused different lines of policy. Theo- bald took part with King William, was a Captain of his Dragoons at the Battle of the Boyne, and, accord- ing to the family tradition, when that King's horse was shot under him, Theobald presented his own charger to His Majesty. He lived to a great age, and, * For a full memoir of this family, see D' Alton's Annals of Boyle, vol. 1, p. 97, &c. COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 791 dying in 1734, was buried at Ardcarne near Boyle. His son Charles, being in Athlone when some of King James's officers were raising recruits there, was enlisted into that service, and was actually taken prisoner at the Boyne, by the Regiment of which his father was Captain ; he was then but seventeen, and in consideration of that father's services was pardoned, afterwards served for William, and at the siege of Sligo was wounded in the leg.* William, the second son of Connor O'Mulloy, was the above Captain ; who, marrying Alison, daughter of Sir Oliver Tuite of Sonna, County of Westmeath, left issue by her. He was attainted in 1691, with four others of the Sept, described as located about their ancient territory. CAPTAIN LAUGHLIN NAUGHTON. The O'Naughtons were an ancient Irish Sept of the County of Gal way, located about the country now comprised in the Baronies of Leitrim and Longford. Besides the three Naughtons in this Regiment, Thady Naughton was a Lieutenant in Colonel Henry Dillon's Infantry, and Thomas Mac Naghton a Cap- tain in Colonel Cormuck O'Neill's. The latter, how- ever, was of the Scottish Plantation in Ulster, and not of the native Sept. * Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 897. 792 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN BRYAN MAC GO WEAN. Ortelius's map locates this Sept between Leitrim and Cavan ; they were more especially indigenous in the Barony of Tullaghaw in the latter county, and the Four Masters record the successive chiefs of the Sept. In 1593, the Maguires perpetrated a predatory incur- sion over Cavan, in which Dr. Edmund Mac Gawran, the titular Primate of Armagh, was accidentally killed ; he being then protected by Maguire from the consequences of proscriptions and a reward offered for his apprehension. At the time of the Plantation of Ulster, several of the Mac Gowrans were necessitated for their protection to sue out pardons from the Crown, and, in the immediately succeeding years, grants were made and manors created out of their lordship of Tullaghaw ; as the manor of Calva to Hugh Culme, other lands to Sir George and Richard Graeme ; and, in 1614, all the mountains of Quilca, Slieve-an-erin, &c. to John Sanclford. Phelimy Magow- ran, however, and others of the Sept obtained from the King some small reserved portions within Tullaghaw, to hold on the conditions of the Plantation ; but even these scanty concessions were, early in the reign of Charles the First, subjected to searching and hostile inquisitions. This family, nevertheless, contributed an officer to King James's cause, and are still, though in humble circumstances, a marked race within their old Barony. In truth, their Barony is popularly known as ' the Kingdom of Glan,' and is to this day so isolated, that it is said " no public road leads into it, and only one difficult pass, in some places a track- COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 793 way, is seen over it. It is about sixteen miles in length by seven and a-half in breadth, and is densely inhabited by a primitive race of Mac Gowrans, who intermarry with each other, and observe some pecu- liar customs, as an especial election of their own King and Queen from the tribe, to whom they pay implicit obedience." A bard of this family, commemorated by Hardiman in his Irish Minstrelsy, composed, amongst other poems, one entitled 4 the Revelry of O'Rourke,' which has been the subject of Dean Swift's well- known parody, ' O'Rourke's noble fare shall ne'er be forgot!' &c. CAPTAIN OWEN GALLAGHER. The native Topographers locate the O'Gallaghers in the Baronies of Tyrhugh and Raphoe, County of Donegal, where they had Castles at Lifford and Bally- shannon. In 1397, an O'Gallagher was Bishop of Clonmacnoise, Laurence O'Gallagher was Bishop of Raphoe in 1419, and in 1549, Redmond Gallagher was Bishop of Killala. The Sept is characterized in the history of their country as commanders of O'Don- nell's cavalry, and their achievements in that service are subjects of many annals. At the siege of Sligo by O'Donnell in 1495, William, son of the O'Gallagher, L e. of Edmund, son of Donogh, son of Laughlin, and Owen, son of Cormac O'Gallagher, were amongst those killed by the guards of the castle. In two 794 king james's irish army list. years after, in a battle fought between the O'Neills and O'Donnells, three of the leaders under O'Donnell, named O'Gallagher, were slain at Ballysadare. In Perrot's Parliament of 1585 appeared as Representa- tive of this Sept 'the O'Gallagher, i.e. John, son of Tuathal, son of John, son of Eoderic, son of Hugh.' The Masters record the death in 1595 of ' Sir John O'Gallagher, the son of Tuathal, a man of great fame and renown among the English at that time.' When, in six years after, O'Donnell went southward to the Munster war, he entrusted the custody of his Castle of Ballymote to the O'Gallagher, i. e., Owen, son of John O'Gallagher. The Act of 1612, for the Attain- der of Hugh O'Neill, late Earl of Tyrone, Pvory O'Don- nell, late Earl of Tyrconnel, and their adherents, in- cludes in the severity of its enactments Hugh More DoneU 0' ' Gallachor,' and Turlogh Carrach O'Gal- lacher, both described as ' late of Donegal.' The only one of the name on the Outlawries of 1691 is Ferdo- roagh O'Gallagher of Boylagh, County of Donegal ; while Harris, the Williamite historian of this cam- paign, writing of the capitulation of Limerick, says, " the numerous Sept of O'Gallagher in the County of Mayo submitted to Colonel James Wynne, and offered to receive pay under him in the army." ENSIGN PAUL DUIGNAN. The O'Duigenans were located at Kilronan, in the northern division of the County of Eoscommon, and COLONEL OLIVER O'GARA'S INFANTRY. 795 are especially celebrated in the native annals for their devotion to the history and literature of their country. Manus O'Duigenan was, at the close of the fourteenth century, engaged in drawing up a conside- rable portion of the Book of Ballymote; subsequently to which a Chronicle was compiled that, deriving its title from the locality of this family, was called the Book of Kilronan, or sometimes the Book of the O'Duigenans ; and it was one of the Chronicles from which the Four Masters, one of whom was Cucorgh- righe O'Duigenan, collected their great work in 1632. In 1339, the Church of Kilronan was begun by Ferral Muinach O'Duigenan ; it stood over Lough Meelagh, and has a deep national interest, as in a vault close to the ruins, erected for the family of Mac Dermott Eoe, were deposited the last earthly remains of the once celebrated Carolan. The Four Masters have, as might be expected, numerous obits of O'Duigenans, each of whom is commemorated as a learned historian or philosopher. In 1588, Duffy O'Duigenan wrote a History of the Sept of the O'Donnels. ENSIGN MORGAN McDONOUGH. Tins Sept has been before treated of ante, p. 609, &c, and here it can alone be stated that the Attain- ders of 1691 name ten of the County of Sligo family, with four of Cork and one of Arklow. 796 king james's irish army list. ENSIGN THOMAS WALGRAVE. Nothing worthy of insertion has been learned regard- ing him or his family. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The Colonel. Richard Grace. Robert Grace, Lieutenant-Colonel. Charles Moore, .. Major. Richard Grace. Mark Baggott. Francis M'Donnell. Patrick Connor. Robert Walsh. Walter ' Daton.' Adam Walsh. Robert Grace. Richard Grace. Nicholas Dale. Edward Caddon, { Thomas Pearson. Grenad. \ James Caddon. Patrick Browne. John D'Alton. Thomas Guibenny. James 6 Shortall } William Shortall. John Knaresborough. Matthew Hoar. Thady O'Bryan. Robert Grace. Valentine Bolger. COLONEL JOHN GRACE. The late Mr. Sheffield Grace has devoted a large quarto volume to the honours and lineage of this COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 797 family, which the author of this work does not wish to intrude upon. Colonel Eichard Grace, the younger son of Bobert Grace, Baron of Courtown, in the commencement of the reign of King Charles the First, went over to England, and distinguished him- self in the cause of that ill-fated monarch up to the surrender of Oxford in 1646, when he came back to Ireland, and raised, by his wealth and influence, a force of about 3,000 men ; at the head of which he for" several years made himself so formidable to the Parliament and Cromwell, that they offered £500 for his head, but afterwards admitted him to an honor- able capitulation, by the terms of which he was allow- ed to embark for the Continent with a Eegiment of 1,200 men, and was even to be supplied with money and every other necessary for the voyage. He had the glory of being the last who held out for the Eoyal cause in Ireland, and with his brave companions signalized himself in the French and Spanish services, with loyalty and attachment to the exiled Eoyal family. He was denounced by Cromwell's ordinance of 1652, thanked in the Act of Settlement, made Chamberlain to the Duke of York, (afterwards James the Second), and on the Eestoration, returning with the Stuarts, was restored to his estates in the King's County, had also a grant of the reversion of some valuable lands in the County of Kildare, and was further rewarded with a pension of £300 per annum by James the Second in 1685. After that monarch's flight from Ireland, Colonel Eichard Grace was ap- 798 king james's irish army list. pointed Governor of Athlone, in which trust he dis- played zeal and activity, equally worthy of his youthful achievements at home and on the Continent, and as- tonishing in such an old man. ' When William's commander, Lieutenant-General Douglas, sent a drum- mer to summon the fortress, the Colonel, firing a pistol in the presence of the messenger, replied, 4 These are my terms, these only will I give or receive, and when my provisions are consumed I will defend till I eat my boots.' In the account of the final surprise of this town by De Ginkle in the following year, it is mentioned in the London Gazette of the day, that the body of the venerable warrior, by whom the place had been in the previous year so successfully defended, was found among the dead, where he had lain from the day before. The above Colonel John Grace was the near kins- man of Colonel Richard, and the last Palatine Baron of Courtstown. He had been in his youth restored to his estates in Kilkenny and Tipperary, was Sheriff of the former county in 1687, and one of its Repre- sentatives in the Parliament of 1689. On the eve of the Revolution he raised and equipped this Regiment, and also a troop of horse at his own expence for King James, whom he farther assisted with money and plate.* This Regiment of Infantry was one of those stationed in Dublin when King James landed at Kin- sale, and, though on this List so short of its propor- tions, it was stated, on a Muster Roll taken after the * Green Book, p. 357. COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 799 Battle of the Boyne, to consist of thirteen companies, of a total of 650 men ; while on that Roll was also set down an ' Independent Company or Troop styled Old Colonel Grace's (evidently Colonel Richard's) of sixty men.'* Besides these two Colonels and the other 4 Graces' in this Regiment, there are on the Army List Oliver Grace, a Captain in Colonel Simon Luttrell's Dragoons, (probably identical with the Major Grace who was taken prisoner at Aughrim); J ohn Grace, a Lieutenant in the King's Infantry ; and in Fitz-James's, Walter Grace was a Lieutenant and another Oliver Grace an Ensign. Captain Oliver was one of the Representatives of Ballinakill in the Parliament of 1689. The Attainders of 1691 include the above Colonel John Grace of Courtstown (who was seised of considerable estates in Gowran and Crannagh, County of Kilkenny), the above Richard, described as also of Courtstown, and four other Graces. At the Court in Chichester House, claims were prefer- red as attaching to the estates of Richard, John, and Robert Grace in the King's County and County of Kilkenny. In 1703, Richard Grace's estate in Clare was sold to John I vers of Mount I vers in said county, while a portion of his Kilkenny estates was purchased by the Hollow Swords' Blades Company, as were likewise portions of the Kilkenny estates of John, Robert, and Oliver Grace, and part of the King's County estates of John and Richard, Other parcels * Singer's Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, vol. 2, pp. 513-H. 800 king james's irish army list. of the King's County estates of the latter, comprising the Castle of Moyally, were bought by Nathaniel Boyse ; while Colonel George Carpenter of Nether- court purchased Killanny, County of Kilkenny, the estate of John Grace. A petition of the following year is recorded in the State Papers of the Southwell Collection, dated in 1704, from Oliver Grace, whose house, household goods, &c. at Ballymone in the King's County were destroyed by fire in this year, to the value of £300 ; praying, for his relief, the benefit of a full collection in and throughout the churches and chapels of Dublin, and those of the Provinces of Leinster, Munster, &c. At the battle of Ypres in 1745, a Captain Grace of Roth's Brigade was killed. CAPTAIN MARK BAGGOTT. This family, early after the invasion, passed into Ire- land. In 1280, Robert ' Bagod' obtained a grant of the manor of the Rath near Dublin, with the water- course of the Dodder and the common of woods, &c. A castle was soon after erected there, and it was hence to the present day distinguished by the name of Bag- got-rath. In 1302, he was summoned to aid King Edward in the Scottish war. The name subsequently extended over the Pale, as in Kildare, Meath, Car- low, and even to Limerick. The only attainder of the family in 1642 is that of Thomas Bagot of Castle- martin, County of Kildare. The above officer was COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 801 the son of a Mr. John Bagot, by Edith his wife, who died in 1684, having had several children by him (as shown by a funeral entry in Bermingham Tower). Of her issue, only this Mark Bagot survived. He was one of the Kepresentatives of the Borough of Carlow in the Parliament of 1689, while John Bag- got of Bagotstown, senior, was one of those for Char- leville, and John Baggot junior for Doneraile. On the List of the Sheriffs, recommended to be appointed in 1685-6 by the Earl of Clarendon, Edward Baggot was named for the King's County, as ' reputed dis- honest but loyal ;' to which the Lord Clarendon's return is underlined, 4 very loyal, though once ques- tioned for favouring Tories, but acquitted ; some think him to be a Roman Catholic.'* A Lieutenant- Colonel Baggot (possibly this Captain, on promotion) was taken prisoner at Aughrim.f Nine Baggots were attainted in 1691, on whose estates, in Carlow and Limerick Counties, divers claims were made and al- lowed at Chichester House ; the former were chiefly sold to the Right Honorable Philip Savage, then Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. CAPTAIN EDWAPtD C ADDON. This officer is described in the Inquisition on his Attainder, as Edward Caddon of Kilkenny, merchant. * Singers Corresp. of Lord Clarendon, v. 1, p. 285. t Story's Impartial History, pt. 2, p. 137. FFF 802 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. A James Caddon, of the same place and profession, and a William Caddon of Cork were likewise then outlawed. CAPTAIN JAMES SHORTALL. This name is of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second. Ortelius's map locates them in the Barony of Iverk, County of Kilkenny, where many of their castles are still standing, as at Claragh, Kilbline, Tubrid, Cloghmantagh, &c. In 1642, a Richard ' Shortaun,' described as of Lemrick, County of Wexford, was attainted. The above officer was attainted as James Shortall of Kilrush, County of Kilkenny ; as were Robert Shortall of the same place, Patrick Shortall of Tubrid, Nicholas of Shortalls- graig, and Robert of Upper-Clare, all in the same county ; with Nicholas Fitz-Piers Shortall of the City of Kilkenny. CAPTAIN MATTHEW HOAR. This family are of record in Ireland from the time of Edward the Second. Sir David 6 le Hore' of the Pole in Wexford was Sheriff of that county in 1334, as was his son Nicholas in 1370, 1377, and 1379. About the latter year, William le Hore was Chief Serjeant of Wexford, of which county his son, another COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 803 Nicholas, was Sheriff in 1390 and 1396. A funeral entry of 1636, of record in the Office of Arms, cer- tifies the death, on the 11th May in that year, of Edward Hore of Harperstown, County of Wexford, buried at ' Monneth.' He had married Alison, daugh- ter of Thomas Hore of Waterford, merchant, by whom he left three sons, Andrew, Thomas, and Luke, and three daughters. In 1642 were attainted Philip and James 1 Hore' of Kilsallaghan, County of Dublin. Of the Confederate Catholics at the Council of Kilkenny in 1646, were William Hore of Cork and another William Hoare. In 1685-6, an Association originated in Ireland for the object of obtaining Catholic Eman- cipation. Its character and scope, as reported by the Earl of Clarendon, are published in Singer's Corres- pondence, &c. (vol. i, p. 233, &c.) Gentlemen were appointed and entrusted in every county to collect contributions, and to pay same to the above Mr. Luke Hore, then a merchant in Dublin ; " and whereas several natives of this kingdom are merchants abroad in foreign parts, their contributions are expected, and requested to be paid to the said Luke Hore, who is to deliver all such moneys as he shall so receive, to agents approved of by the Earl of Tyrconnel." The above Captain Matthew was of Shandon, County of Waterford ; he was one of the members for that county in the Parliament of 1689, and became afterwards a Lieutenant-Colonel.* Besides him there were, in the Parliament of Dublin, John Hore and * Nichol's Top. et Gent, for 1853, pp. 486-7. FFF 2 804 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. Martin Hore, members for the Borough of Dungar- van ; as were George Hore of Pole-Hore and Walter Hore of Harperstown for that of Taghmon. The Attainders of 1691 name the said Luke as 4 Lucas Hoare of Wexford,' the above Captain Matthew styled of Waterford, with George, Walter, John, and Martin Hoare. LIEUTENANT THOMAS PEARSON. He was attainted as ' Thomas Pierson of Kilkenny.' LIEUTENANT JOHN D'ALTON. See of this family at ' Captain Miles D' Alton, ' in Colonel Clifford's Dragoons. They had large estates in the County of Kilkenny, as shown by the descrip- tions of their attainders. LIEUTENANT VALENTINE BOLGER, The O'Bolgers were an Irish Sept located in Wexford and Carlow. In 1461, William O'Bolger, a chaplain of the Irish nation, had a charter of denization from King Edward the Fourth, as by special grace and favour, granting to him freedom from all Irish servi- tude, liberty to use English laws and customs, to plead COLONEL JOHN GRACE'S INFANTRY. 805 and be impleaded in the courts, and to acquire lands, tenements, and services for ever. * A branch of this family was in the seventeenth century settled at Blanchfieldstown, in the County of Kilkenny, of which county this officer was a native. His name does not appear on the attainders of 1691, but that of James Bolger, described as of Inistiogue in that county, does ; and in his estates there Pat. Bolger, a minor, claimed and was allowed an estate tail, subject to which interest it was sold to Arthur Anderson, clerk. ENSIGN NICHOLAS DALE. The name is of record in Ireland from the time of the Tudors, but nothing has been ascertained of this officer or his family. ENSIGN JOHN KNAKESBOROUGH. He also was of Kilkenny, described in his attainder as of Ballcallon in that county. * Pat. Roll. l,Edw. 4. 806 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY. COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S. Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. The ColoneL John Ennis, Lieutenant- Colonel. [Garret Geoghegan,] Major. Edmund Butler, C Edmund Butler. Grenad. John Fitzgerald. Oliver Purcell. John Butler. John Fitz-Patrick. Darby Fitz-Patrick. James Blanchville. Samuel Leigh. Nicholas Blanchville. John Rowsh. Thomas ' Hah erne.' William Comin. James Baron. [Daniel Magrath.] [John Magrath.] John Power. [William Dormer.] Patrick Pay. [Michael Blanchfield.] [George Gafhey.] [John Brenan.] [John Loughnan.] [Michael Forster.] COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER, The notices of this noble family, as full as could be allowed in this volume, are inserted at Lord Viscount Galmoy. This officer appears to have been the Edward Fitz-Richard Butler of Kilkenny there men- tioned to have been attainted in 1691. At any rate, it is of certainty that this Regiment was on the 4th May of that year engaged in a skirmish with Major Woods of the Williamite party near Castle Cuff, who reported his success on that occasion, giving a list of COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 807 officers, expressly as of Colonel Edward Butler's Infantry, who were there taken prisoners ; as Captains Michael Forster and Edmund Butler, Lieutenants Daniel Magrath, William Dormer, Oliver Purcell, Michael Blanchjielcl, and Ensign John Magrath. This Eegiment was on that occasion commanded by John Fitz-patrick, a Captain on this List, but then the Major. The names italicised do not appear on the original Army List, but are inserted as being thus verified. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN ENNIS. On the Attainders of 1642 appear the names of James and Maolmurry Ennis of Grannagh, County of Wicklow ; James Ennis of Clane, County of Kildare, and Walter ■ Enes' of Hacketstown, clerk. A Lieute- nant James ' Enis' is included in the clause of Eoyal gratitude in the Act of Settlement, but nothing has been learned worthy of notice respecting this Lieuten- ant-Colonel or his family. [MAJOR GARRET GEOGHEGAN]. This appointment is filled on the authority of the Appendix to King's State of the Protestants. For full particulars of this name, see ante, Major Conly Geoghegan, on Lord Dongan's Dragoons. 808 KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST. CAPTAIN JAMES BLANCHVILLE. This family is of record in Ireland from the time of the Tudors, and was especially located in the County of Kilkenny ; where Gerald Blanchville died seised of considerable estates in 1594. In the Cathedral of Kilkenny a monument records his lineal descendant, Sir Edmund Blanchville, who forfeited largely by attainder in 1641. The Outlawries on that occasion include the names of two other Blanchvilles. CAPTAIN JOHN POWSH. So stands this name upon the present Army List, but it is evidently a mis-spelling for Kooth or Pothe, a family of much note and rank in Kilkenny. The most illustrious of the name was Dr. David, son of Geoffry Poth of that county, who filled the See of Ossory from 1641 to 1650, and during all that troubled interval continued in Kilkenny, the chief town of his Diocese, the seat of the Supreme Council, and the residence of the Pope's Nuncio, Cardinal Pinuccini. Messingham, in his Florilegium (p. 87), says of this Prelate, that " he was well versed in learning, was an elegant orator, a subtle philosopher, a profound divine, an eminent historian, and a sharp reprover of vice." In the Cathedral of Kilkenny stands a much admired cenotaph to his memory. He was the author of several works, his principal produc- COLONEL EDWARD BUTLER'S INFANTRY. 809 tion being the Analecta Sacra, Nova, et Mir a de Rebus Catholicorum,