THE 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS, 
 
 CONSISTING OF 
 
 LETTERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 
 SLitetarp, political, anfc <£ecle?iasttcal, 
 
 TO AND FROM 
 
 Dr. JOHN BRAMIIALL, 
 
 PRIMATE OF IRELAND. 
 
THE 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS, 
 
 CONSISTING OF 
 
 LETTERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 
 
 SUtecarp, political* and €ccle£tagttcal, 
 
 TO AND FROM 
 
 Dr. JOHN BRAMHALL, 
 
 PRIMATE OF IRELAND. 
 
 INCLUDING THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SEVERAL MOST 
 EMINENT MEN DURING THE GREATER PART OF 
 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
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 AND ILLUSTRATED WITH LITERARY AND HISTORICAL NOTES, 
 
 By the Rev. EDWARD BERWICK, 
 
 FOR MANY YEARS DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE LATE EARL OF 
 MOIRA, AND CHAPLAIN TO THE PRESENT MARCIUIS OF 
 HASTINGS, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA, &C. 
 
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 SOLD ALSO BY R. MILLIKE N, DUBLIN. 
 
 1819. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 1 HE following Collection of Letters requires 
 little introduction. They are a small part of a 
 correspondence which was left in the Editor's 
 hands, after the greater portion had been sent 
 several years before to the Marquis of Hastings, 
 whose absence at this time prevents the Editor's 
 making such additions to his stock as might ren- 
 der it more interesting to the publick ; but, even 
 in its present imperfect state, he is of opinion that 
 the Letters of which it consists are of too inter- 
 esting a nature, as private details of the times, to 
 be longer withheld from seeing the light. 
 
 The literary talents of Primate Bramhall are 
 well known ; and the persons with whom he cor- 
 responded were of such exalted rank and charac- 
 ter, as to reflect on him additional lustre. These 
 persons were, the Queen of Bohemia, daughter 
 of our James the First, Lord Strafford, Arch- 
 bishops Laud and Usher, Sir George RadclifFe, 
 Mr. Wandesforde, Marquis of.Ormond, Lords 
 
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VI ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 Orrery and Southampton. Of all these Letters the 
 Rawdon Family became possessed, after Sir Ar- 
 thur Rawdon's marriage with Helen Graham, who 
 was grand-daughter and co-heiress of Primate 
 Bramhall, in right of her mother Isabella Graham, 
 his eldest daughter, who married Sir James Gra- 
 ham, one of the younger sons of the Earl of 
 Monteith. 
 
 The remainder of the Correspondence consists 
 of Letters written to Sir George Rawdon and 
 his son Sir Arthur, the Primate's Grandson, by 
 many eminent men of both countries ; among 
 whom will be found the names of the Duke of 
 Albemarle, Duke of Ormond, Lords Breadal- 
 bane, Dungannon, Massareene, and Conway, the 
 latter of whom corresponded with Sir George 
 Rawdon, his brother-in-law, during the greater 
 part of the reign of Charles the Second, wherein 
 are noticed some curious details, amongst which 
 his correspondence with Valentine Greatracks, the 
 celebrated Doctor, is not devoid of curiosity as 
 illustrative of the times. 
 
 To the above names may be added those of Smith, 
 Campbell, M'Neil, Tempest, M'Gill, Douglas, 
 Hamilton, Annesley, Reading, Warren, and Sir 
 Hans Sloane, &c. 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 vii 
 
 Of these men their correspondence is curious, 
 as containing many particulars that occurred dur- 
 ing the troubles of Ireland, from the year 1688 
 to the year 1694, with which not only the publick, 
 but their immediate descendants, who are men of 
 rank, consequence, and fortune in the North of 
 Ireland, will be amused and instructed. 
 
 A Memoir of the Rawdon Family will shortly 
 be prepared, and given to the Publick, so as to 
 bind up with these papers. 
 
 Lugan, June I, 1819. 
 
 E. B. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 JOHN BRAMHALL, to whom many of the 
 Letters in this Volume are addressed, was born at 
 Pontefract in Yorkshire in 1593, a year which also 
 gave birth to his great but unfortunate patron, 
 the Earl of Strafford. He was descended from 
 the Bramhalls, of Bramhall in Cheshire, an antient 
 and most respectable family in that county. He 
 took a degree in Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, 
 and soon after was presented to the living of El- 
 vington or Eterington, in Yorkshire, by Mr. Wan- 
 desford, who was appointed, by Lord Wentworth, 
 Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Whilst rector of 
 this place he married (according to the account 
 given in the Biographia Britannica) a clergy- 
 man's widow of the Halley family, an agreeable 
 woman, possessed of a good fortune, by whom he 
 acquired a valuable library, which greatly facili- 
 tated the literary pursuits in which he was then 
 engaged. In consequence of the great progress 
 he made in learning, particularly in scholastic di- 
 vinity, his character rose so high that it attracted 
 the notice of Toby Matthews, then Archbishop of 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 York, who immediately made him a prebendary 
 of his cathedral, and soon after gave him a stall 
 in Rippon, where he resided till he was taken to 
 Ireland in 1633 by Lord Wentworth, when ap- 
 pointed Lord Deputy of that kingdom. Soon 
 after his arrival there, the Lord Deputy made 
 him, first, Archdeacon of Meath, and next Bishop 
 of Derry. The circumstances which attended his 
 departure from England serve to display his vir- 
 tue, and to entitle him to a place even in this 
 brief account. His friends in England promised 
 to make him King's chaplain, and to use all the 
 interest in their power to raise him to the highest 
 honours in the church. However, all this he de- 
 clined, and solemnly protested in the presence of 
 God that nothing but an unmingled zeal to serve 
 God and the King, in recovering the rights of an 
 oppressed Church in Ireland (which he understood 
 to be one of the great objects of the Lord De- 
 puty), could have induced him to leave his na- 
 tive country, in opposition to the wishes of his 
 nearest friends. Of this solemn declaration he 
 never lost sight, and during the whole time he 
 was a bishop, his conduct on every occasion 
 evinced its sincerity, for in about four years he 
 regained to the Church of Ireland upwards of 
 30,000/. a-year of her just rights. Usher, who was 
 supposed not to be cordially affected to him or 
 his patron, says, in a letter to the Bishop, dated 
 1635, in acknowledgment of his service rendered 
 to the church of Ireland, that " not only myself, 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 3 
 
 but all my successors, will have cause to honour 
 the memory of my Lord Deputy and yours, whom 
 God has made an instrument to bring the work 
 to perfection." Granger says, he was " one of 
 the most learned, able, and active prelates of the 
 age in which he lived, an acute disputant, and an 
 excellent preacher." At the Restoration he was 
 made primate by Charles II. in consideration of 
 the great services which he rendered to his father, 
 and his many sufferings in the Royal cause. 
 
 His Grace died in 1663, and left three daugh- 
 ters and one son, Sir Thomas Bramhall, who was 
 married to the daughter of Sir Paul Davys, Clerk 
 of the Council; but dying without issue, his estates 
 descended to his three sisters, the eldest of whom 
 married, in the life-time of her father, Sir James 
 Graham, third son of the Earl of Monteith and 
 Airth ; the second, Jane, married Alderman Tox- 
 teith, of Drogheda; and the third, Anne, Standish 
 Harstonge, Esq. who was one of the Barons of 
 the Exchequer. The eldest, Isabella, who mar- 
 ried Sir James Graham, had one daughter, called 
 Helen, who was married to Sir Arthur Rawdon, of 
 Moira, and to whom she brought a considerable 
 estate. " This Lady Rawdon," says Lodge, " was 
 endowed with extraordinary virtues ; she was of 
 exquisite good sense and taste, and her charities 
 were numberless to all in distress, and will never 
 be forgotten." Her son, Sir John Rawdon, the 
 third Baronet, was the father of the late John 
 Earl of Moira, a man who not only inherited the 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 estates, but the virtues of his ancestors; to which 
 was added an hospitality, which he graced with 
 such a perfect urbanity of manners, as made his 
 society most captivating. Under his roof J spent 
 some of my pleasantest years, and seldom a day 
 passed in which I was not witness to the nu- 
 merous advantages arising from a highly improved 
 mind, adorned with all the courtesies of the most 
 polished life. 
 
 Of the last Will and Testament of Primate 
 Bramhall, dated oth January 1662, the original of 
 which is in the possession of the present Marquis of 
 Hastings, as it serves to throw some light on the 
 life and character of his Grace, and has never, I 
 believe, been presented to the publick, I beg leave 
 to give a faithful copy. 
 
 " In the name of God — Amen. I John, Lord 
 Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan 
 of all Ireland, being of psrfect sense and memory, 
 blessed be Almighty God, doe in the first place 
 render unto his Divine Majestie my humble and 
 hearty thanks, that he hath permitted me with 
 mine own eyes to see his salvation, and the resti- 
 tution of his Sacred Majestie to his Royall Crown, 
 and the Church of England to its former glory, 
 than which I doe not believe that the whole world 
 hath any church that cometh nearer to apostolical 
 truth, both in doctrine and discipline. And I doe 
 heartily praise God that ordained me to be born 
 and bred up in it, and pray that I may end my 
 days in the communion of it. And, withal, con- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 5 
 
 sideringwith myself the certainty of my dissolution, 
 but the uncertainty of the hour in which it shall 
 please God to call me ; and weighing with myself 
 that I approach to that time which is the ordinary 
 period of man's life, threescore years and ten ; and 
 being not unmindful of mine own paralytical in- 
 firmities, as having seen the walls of my body 
 moulder away by degrees ; I doe, with all hum- 
 bleness and resignation of myself, make this my 
 last will and testament. 
 
 " In the first place I render up my soul into 
 the hands of God that gave it, humbly beseeching 
 him, for Christ Jesus my Saviour's sake, that he 
 will vouchsafe to accept it, notwithstanding all 
 my frailties and infirmities, into his celestial ha- 
 bitation, which he hath prepared for his faithful 
 servants. Next, I do bequeath my body to the 
 earth of which it was composed, to be interred 
 with Christian decencie, without worldly pomp, so 
 far forth as it may be conveniently avoided, either 
 in the Parochial Church of St. Peter's, Droghe- 
 dah, or in the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, at 
 Armagh, at the discretion of my heir and execu- 
 tor hereinafter mentioned. Item, I will, and my 
 will is, that so many blacke freeze gownds shall 
 be bestowed upon poor men and poor women, as 
 will make up the number of my years which I 
 have lived in this transitory life, and such other 
 acts of charity performed as I shall give directions 
 to my heir. And although I cannot in present 
 settle such a course as I would towards the repa- 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ration of the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick's, 
 Armagh, and the Parochial Church of St. Peter's, 
 Droghedah ; yet it is my firm purpose and resolu- 
 tion not to be wanting to either of them, so long 
 as God permits me to live in this world ; and 
 when I have more opportunity to advise with my 
 friends, to prescribe some course for the accom- 
 plishing of that pious worke. Item, I will, and 
 my will is, that the summe of five hundred pounds, 
 out of the arrears of rent due to me out of the 
 Bishopricke of Derry, be given towards the repa- 
 ration of the said two churches, over and above 
 those summes which I shall bestow upon them in 
 my life-time. And although I found all the 
 churches and mansion-houses belonging to my See 
 either ruined or inclining to ruin, yet I have, as the 
 time would give me leave, repayred the house at 
 Drogheda, and provided timber for the house at 
 Termonfeekan, with a full purpose, if God lend me 
 life until I am able to finish it, to build up the 
 said house, and to inclose it with a Parke for my 
 successor ; and if it please God to take me away 
 before I have finished this intention, it is my will 
 that all the timber, iron, boards, and other ma- 
 terials, which I have prepared towards it, be given 
 to my successor towards the perfecting the work. 
 Item, I doe further give unto my said successor 
 the hangings of the Presence Chamber, and all 
 the chairs and stools and tables in it, and all the 
 ranges throughout the house where I found not 
 one. Item, my will is, that all my waged ser- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 7 
 
 vants shall be kept together in my last mentioned 
 house for three months after my death in decent 
 sorte, thereby to inable them to provide for them- 
 selves in other service ; and at their departure 
 they shall have each of them a year's wages, as a 
 token of my love to them, and mindfulness of 
 them. Item, I will, and my will is, and I do 
 hereby strictly injoyne my heir and executor, 
 here undernamed, to satisfie and pay all the just 
 debts which I shall owe at the time of my death, 
 whether they were due by bill, bond, or other- 
 wise, and with that speed and satisfaction to my 
 creditors as my estate shall be able to bear ; and 
 that the articles made between me and Mr. 
 Bulkely, Archdeacon of Dublin, shall be made 
 good for a rent-charge, to be paid him out of my 
 manour of Belgree, untill my heir and executor 
 shall provide for him another inheritance, or an- 
 other rent-charge of equal value to that which he 
 now holds. Provided, nevertheless, that this my 
 intention shall no further bind my heir and exe- 
 cutor than I shall give warrant for by another 
 codicill ; because, it is my meaning to see what 
 use Mr. Bulkely, Archdeacon of Dublin, did in- 
 tend or desire to make of the power usurped from 
 his Majesty, to the prejudice of me and my heirs. 
 Item, I will, and my will is, that my dear wife, 
 Ellinor Bramhall, shall have and enjoy to her 
 proper use and behoofe, for her life, all my plate 
 and household stufFe and utensils, which are not 
 otherwise disposed of by this my will, free from, 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and discharged of all debts, and other incumbran- 
 ces whatsoever; and after her death, it is my 
 further will that the same be equally divided 
 amongst my three daughters, if they be living at 
 the time of her death, or such of them as are then 
 living. Item, I doe devise and bequeath unto 
 my son and heir apparent, Sir Thomas Bramhall, 
 Barronett, and the heirs males of his body issuing, 
 all my proper and personall acquisitions, and all 
 those my manours, towns, lands, and heredita- 
 ments, of and in Castletown, Moylagh, and else- 
 where, in the County of Meath, with all the ap- 
 purtenances, and particularly some lands in the 
 County of Meath which I purchased jointly with 
 Robert Maude, Esq., and such other lands as I 
 purchased of Mr. Cowse and Mr. Roberts in the 
 manour of Moylagh, and of and in the manour of 
 Belgree, in the County of Dublin, or Meath, or 
 both of them; and of and in the manour of the 
 Omagh, as well those lands which are now pos- 
 sessed by me, as those lands which are held un- 
 justly from me by Sir Audley Mervin, which no- 
 thing withholds me from recovering but his pre- 
 sent priviledge only ; and all my other lands in 
 the County of Tyrone, which are likewise held 
 from me unjustly by the said Sir Audley Mervin ; 
 the remainder thereof to the heirs of my body 
 issuing, the remainder thereof to my right heirs 
 for ever ; charged, nevertheless, with one yearly 
 rent-charge or annual summe of two hundred and 
 fifty pounds sterling, with power to distrain as 
 aforesaid. I doe hereby devise and bequeath unto 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 9 
 
 my said wife during her life, in lieu, recompence, 
 and full satisfaction of all dowers or thirds which 
 she may challenge or demand out of -my estate, 
 either real or personal, other than what I have 
 herein before devised to her. Provided, always, 
 that he my said son shall marry with the consent 
 of such overseers as I shall hereafter name in this 
 my last will and testament. Item, I do hereby 
 devise and bequeath unto my loving son-in-law, 
 Sir James Graham, Knight, and my eldest daugh- 
 ter Isabella Graham, alias Bramhall, his wife, the 
 summe of seven hundred pounds ster., which with 
 other moneys he hath already received, and other 
 advantages conferred on him, I hope will abun- 
 dantly satisfie him for his wife's portion. Item, I 
 do hereby devise and bequeath unto my two 
 younger daughters Jane and Anne, all my estate 
 in the lease of Drumragh, in the County of Ty- 
 rone, which I purchased of the two Lady Leighs 
 long since ; and likewise whatsoever other leases 
 I have in the County of Donnegal, which I be- 
 stow upon them for their maintenance untill they 
 be better provided for. Item, I doe further 
 hereby devise and bequeath unto my said second 
 daughter, Jane Bramhall, for her marriage portion 
 the sum of ^.1500 ster. payable upon her mar- 
 riage ; and I do likewise devise and bequeath the 
 like marriage portion of ^.1500 ster. unto my 
 third daughter Anne Bramhall, payable likewise 
 upon the day of her marriage. And I do further 
 will, and my will is, that each of my said daugh- 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ters unmarried shall have a piece yearly, 
 
 for their respective maintenance, from my said 
 heir, untill their respective marriages ; and in 
 case either of my said daughters unmarried die 
 before marriage, in such case, that the portion of 
 the daughter so dying before marriage shall be 
 divided between the surviving daughters ; and 
 forasmuch as I have left my son, Thomas Bram- 
 hall, an estate able to bear it, and he is not yet 
 married, it is my meaning and my will, that as 
 well his wife's portion, as all my real estate, be 
 chargeable with the said portions to be raised to 
 my two daughters. Item, the better to inable 
 my son, Thomas Bramhall, to satisfie the said 
 debts and portions, I will, and my will is, that 
 the said Thomas Bramhall, his heirs and assigns, 
 shall have and enjoy all the lands and heredita- 
 ments which hisMajestie will be graciously pleased 
 to bestow upon me, in consideration of my great 
 losses sustained in the late, or as a bounty for my 
 services as Speaker of the House of Peers in this 
 present Parliament. Item, I do hereby constitute 
 and appoint my said son, Thomas Bramhall, dur- 
 ing his life, my sole executor of this my last will 
 and testament; and from and after his death, I doe 
 constitute and appoint the heirs of his body law- 
 fully begotten executors of my said will ; and for 
 want of such heirs, I doe constitute and appoint 
 my said son-in-law Sir James Graham and my said 
 three daughters executors of this my will. Item, 
 I will, and my will is, that my said executor or 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 11 
 
 executors respectively, shall and may recover, 
 have, and enjoy, all the arrears of rent due unto 
 me out of my late Bishopricke of Deny, out of 
 which I was wrongfully expelled for twenty years 
 and more, which remains due unto me in law and 
 conscience. Yet, nevertheless, my will is, that 
 moderation be used in exacting the said arrears; 
 and that no person be compelled to pay more than 
 three years rent at the highest ; and that those 
 whose lands were not planted till of late be yet 
 more favourably used, if they do not prove obsti- 
 nate to oppose my right, which is undeniable. 
 Lastly, according to my expectation and confi- 
 dence in my said wife and children, I doe pray, 
 and as much as in me lyeth enjoyne them, to ob- 
 serve all acts of love one to another, and to avoid 
 all unnatural suites and contentions, and to rest 
 satisfied with this my will, according to the pur- 
 port thereof, and my true meaning therein de- 
 clared as afcresaid. And I doe hereby constitute 
 the most Honorable, and my singular good Lord, 
 His Grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieute- 
 nant General of Ireland, and the Right Honorable 
 the Earl of Orrery, supervisors of this my last will 
 and testament ; and intreat them to accept of two 
 Rings, such as my Executor shall present to them, 
 in remembrance of that love and duty which I 
 ought unto them. As witness my hand and seal, 
 this fifth day of January, 1662. 
 
 Ja. Armachanus. 
 
 Signed and sealed and published in the presence of 
 Ja. Grahame and John Coghill. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The last Will and Testament of Ellianor Brain- 
 hall, widow of the Primate, made two years after 
 his death. 
 
 " In the name of God — Amen. The twentieth 
 day of November, in the year of our Lord God 
 one thousand six hundred sixty and five, 1 Ellia- 
 nor Bramhall, widow and relict of the most re- 
 verend Father in God, John, late Lord Bishop of 
 Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland, being sick of 
 body, but of good and perfect memory, God be 
 praised, do make and ordain this my last will and 
 testament in manner and form following, that is 
 to say : First, I recommend my soul into the hands 
 of God my Maker ; hoping assuredly, through 
 the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be 
 made partaker of life everlasting. And I recom- 
 mend my body to the earth whereof it is made, 
 to be decently interred in the Parish Church of 
 St. Peter's in Drogheda. Item, I will that all 
 such debts and duties as I owe of right or of con- 
 science to any person or persons, be well and 
 truly contented and paid by my executor here- 
 after named, or else ordained so, for to be paid with- 
 out any delay or contradiction, especially twenty- 
 five pounds sterling which I owe to my son-in-law 
 Sir James Graham, Knt. for a quarter's diet due 
 unto him; also three pounds sterling which I owe 
 unto my servant Gertrinde . And after 
 
 my debts paid, I will and bequeath unto my three 
 daughters ten pounds apiece, to buy them mourn- 
 ing. Item, I give and bequeath unto my grand- 
 
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 13 
 
 child, Ellianor Graham, twenty pounds ster. to be 
 put out to some profitable way by her father, Sir 
 James Graham, for the use of my said grand- 
 child. Item, I give and bequeath unto Dr. John 
 Hudson, Dean of Clougher, ten pounds as legacy 
 unto him. Item, I give and bequeath unto my 
 brother, William Halley, twenty pounds ster. 
 which is in law and satisfaction of a promise I for- 
 merly made unto him to lend him fifty pounds. 
 Item, I give unto my two sisters-in-law in Eng- 
 land, Margery Halley and Alice Halley, five 
 pounds apiece, as legacy. Item, I bequeath unto 
 the poor of the town of Drogheda five pounds, to 
 be distributed by Sir James Graham and Dr. John 
 Hudson. I give and bequeath unto my antient 
 servant, Thomas Woods, five pounds ster. Item, 
 I give unto the servants of the house of Sir James 
 Graham four pounds ster., to be distributed 
 amongst them according to the pleasure of my 
 daughter, Dame Isabella Graham. And of this 
 my last will and testament I make and ordain 
 my son Sir Thomas Bramhall, Bart, my sole Ex- 
 ecutor. And I will that my said executor pay 
 the several sums of money above specified out of 
 one hundred and eighty pounds which is due to 
 me from my said executor ; and the remainder 
 which shall rest in his hands after my funeral 
 expences are defraid, if any thing remaineth, I 
 freely bequeath unto him for his labour. And I 
 utterly revoke and annul all and every other 
 forme, testament, will, legacy, and bequest, by me 
 
14 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in anywise before the time named, willed and 
 bequeathed. In witness whereof, I have hereunto 
 set my hand and seal unto this my present last 
 will and testament, the day and year first above 
 written. 
 
 " Ellianor Bramhall." 
 
h A SKETCH of the Descent of the CONWAY FAMILY. 
 
 [To face p. 14. 
 
 Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracy, of Tud-^Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley in the county=2. Katherine daughter of CU 
 dington, m the county of Gloucester, knight, of Warwick, Viscount Conway of Aberconway in Wales' HucrSk of Ghent t £>n 
 widow of Edmund Bray, son and heir of and Viscount Conway of Kilultagh in Ireland died ders and w Mow nf t V S 
 Edmund Bray, of Harrington, in the county of Jan. 3, and was buried at Ragley Jan. 12, 1630 ' ' East' 
 
 London, died June 30, 1639. 
 
 Gloucester, aforesaid. 
 
 I 
 
 1 . Edward Viscount Con-=pFrances, daughter of sir Francis 
 
 way of Aberconway and 
 of Kilultagh, and Baron 
 Conway of Ragley, aged 
 38 in 1630, died in the 
 year 1655. 
 
 Popham, of Wellington in the 
 
 county of Somerset, and of 
 
 Littlecot in the county of 
 
 Wilts, knight, died May 7, 
 
 1671, and was buried at 
 
 Arrow in the county of 
 Warwick. 
 
 2. Sir Thomas Conway, kt. aged 30 
 in 1630, Lieut. -Col. to General 
 Morgan in Germany ; also Colonel 
 of a Swedish regiment, with most 
 of whom he perished at sea about 
 the year 1632. 
 
 3. Ralph Conway, aged 24 in 1630, 
 died in Holland, unmarried. 
 
 JIM 
 
 1. Frances, wife of Sir William Pelham, 
 of Brocklesby, co. Lincoln, kt. 
 
 2. Brilliana, wife of Sir Robert Harley, 
 of Brampton, co. Hereford, K. B. 
 
 3. Heligenweigh, or Heligawrth, wife 
 of Sir William Smith, of Theydon, co. 
 Essex, kt. 
 
 4. Mary, died unmarried. 
 
 John, eldest son, aged 
 9, 1630, died young. 
 
 3. Thomas Conway, 
 aged 4 in 1630, died 
 young. 
 
 4. Francis Conway, 
 aged 2 in 1630, liv- 
 ing 1671, unmarr. 
 
 1. Anne, daughter of: 
 Sir Heneage Finch, 
 of Kensington, co. 
 Middlesex, kt. and 
 sister to Heneage 
 Lord Finch of Da- 
 ventry,Lord Keeper 
 of the Great Seal. 
 
 =Edward Viscount Conway,=:2. Elizabeth, 
 
 of Aberconway and Kilul- daughter 
 
 tagh, and Baron Conway of Henry 
 
 of Ragley, aged 7 in 1630, Booth, 
 
 created Earl of Conway Earl of 
 
 in the county of Caernar- Warring- 
 von Dec. 3, 1679, died in ton. 
 1683. 
 
 =3. Ursula, daughter of Col. 
 George Stawell, of Co- 
 thelstone, co. Somerset; 
 remarried John Earl of 
 Mulgrave, afterwards 
 created Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, but died with- 
 out issue. 
 
 r~r~i 
 
 J ' 1 
 
 1 . Dorothy, only dau. 
 in 1630, married 
 Sir George Rawdon, 
 bart. ^ 
 
 2. Anne, died before 
 March 1673. 
 
 3. A daughter, died 
 before March 1673, 
 
 Heneage Conway, son and heir, died at about the age of two years. 
 
I. A SKETCH of the Descent of the CONWAY FAMILY. 
 
 [To face p. 14. 
 
 1, Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Tracy, of Tud-=f=Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley in the county=2. Katherine, daughter of Giles 
 dington, in the county of Gloucester, knight, of Warwick, Viscount Conway of Aberconway in Wales, Hucriblock, of Ghent in Flan- 
 widow of Edmund Bray, son and heir of and Viscount Conway of Kilultagh in Ireland, died ders, and widow of John West, 
 Edmund Bray, of Barrington, in the county of Jan. 3, and was buried at Ragley Jan. 12, 1630. of St. Dunstan's in the East, 
 
 Gloucester, aforesaid. London, died June 30, 1639. , 
 
 I 
 
 1. Edward Viscount Con-= 
 way of Aberconway and 
 of Kilultagh, and Baron 
 Conway of Ragley, aged 
 38 in 1630, died in the 
 year 1655. 
 
 Frances, daughter of sir Francis 
 Popham, of Wellington in the 
 county of Somerset, and of 
 Littlecot in the county of 
 Wilts, knight, died May 7, 
 1671, and was buried at 
 Arrow in the county of 
 Warwick. 
 
 Sir Thomas Conway, kt. aged 30 
 in 1630, Lieut. -Col. to General 
 Morgan in Germany ; also Colonel 
 of a Swedish regiment, with most 
 of whom he perished at sea about 
 the year 1632. 
 
 Ralph Conway, aged 24 in 1630, 
 died in Holland, unmarried. 
 
 rill 
 
 I I I 1 
 
 1. Frances, wife of Sir William Pelham, 
 of Brocklesby, co. Lincoln, kt. 
 
 2. Brilliana, wife of Sir Robert Harley, 
 of Brampton, co. Hereford, K. B. 
 
 3. Heligen weigh, or Heligawrth, wife 
 of Sir William Smith, of Theydon, co. 
 Essex, kt. 
 
 4. Mary, died unmarried. 
 
 John, eldest son, aged 
 9, 1630, died young. 
 
 3. Thomas Conway, 
 aged 4 in 1630, died 
 young. 
 
 4. Francis Conway, 
 aged 2 in 1630, liv- 
 ing 1671, unmarr. 
 
 1. Anne, daughter of = 
 Sir Heneage Finch, 
 of Kensington, co. 
 Middlesex, kt. and 
 sister to Heneage 
 Lord Finch of Da- 
 ventry,Lord Keeper 
 of the Great Seal. 
 
 ^Edward Viscount Conway,=2. Elizabeth, 
 
 of Aberconway and Kilul- daughter 
 
 tagh, and Baron Conway of Henry 
 of Ragley, aged 7 in 1630, Booth, 
 created Earl of Conway Earl of 
 
 in the county of Caernar- Warring- 
 von Dec. 3, 1679, died in ton. 
 1683. 
 
 I. Ursula, daughter of Col. 
 George Stawell, of Co- 
 thelstone, co. Somerset ; 
 remarried John Earl of 
 Mulgrave, afterwards 
 created Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, but died with- 
 out issue. 
 
 r~r~t 
 
 I ! I 
 
 1. Dorothy, only dau. 
 in 1630, married 
 Sir George Rawdon, 
 bart. ^ 
 
 2. Anne, died before 
 March 1673. 
 
 3. A daughter, died 
 before March 1673, 
 
 Heneage Conway, son and heir, died at about the age of two years. 
 
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 LETTER I. 
 
 From Lord Deputy Wentworth*, afterwards 
 Earl of Strafford, to Dr. John Bramhall, 
 Bishop of Deny. 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I have received and perused your letters ; 
 and, according to your desire, I have written to 
 my Lord Bishop of Down concerning Mr. 
 Blayny, Mr. Dunbar, and those other refractory 
 ministers that refuse to conform themselves to 
 the order and discipline of the superiour govern- 
 ment. And that your Lordship may the better 
 understand the whole contents of the letters, I 
 have sent them herewith so sealed, as that your 
 Lordship may open and peruse them, and make 
 them fast, and deliver them according as they are 
 directed. 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 
 most faithful friend, 
 
 Wentworth. 
 
 Dublin Castle, 
 this 12th of September, 1634. 
 
 * Lord Viscount Wentworth was appointed by Charles I. 
 Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1633, and Lord Lieutenant in 1640. 
 
 f Henry Echlin, a Scotsman. He was succeeded in his See by 
 Henry Leslie, Dean of Down, in 1635. 
 
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 LETTER it 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 This morning I received very hearty . recom- 
 mendation from my Lord Marquis Hamilton * in 
 behalf of his kinsman, Mr. John Hamilton, for 
 determining of some differences now on foot, be- 
 twixt my Lord Bishop of Rapho f and this gen- 
 tleman. He will attend your Lordship with par- 
 ticular information thereof. And in regard your 
 Lordship may do a charitable office, to settle the 
 business in an amicable way betwixt them ; I de- 
 sire you forthwith to call the parties interested 
 therein before you, and to compose the difference 
 by consent if you can ; or otherwavs to certify me 
 your opinion of the state thereof, that so, there- 
 upon, I may give such farther order therein as to 
 justice shall appertain ; wherein I most assuredly 
 promise myself both your Lordship's good care to 
 do the gentleman what equal favor his cause shall 
 bear, and also, that my Lord of Rapho (whom I 
 much esteem, and well know to be very inclin- 
 able of himself to peace and moderation) will, upon 
 these my letters to you, willingly submit to what 
 
 * He was third Marquis of Hamilton, created Duke of Hamil- 
 ton in 1643, and beheaded for his loyalty to Charles I. in 16*48. 
 
 f John Lesley, translated from the Bishoprick of Orkney in 
 Scotland to Rapho. He was, after the Restoration, translated to 
 the See of Clogher, 17th June, 160*1. See a curious account or 
 him in Harris's Sir James Ware. 
 
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 your Lordship shall find upon examination of the 
 matter to be indifferent, and reasonable, which I 
 shall interpret as a favor from you both. 
 
 So I rest your Lordship's very 
 Dublin, faithful friend, 
 
 this 11th of May, 1635. Wentworth. 
 My Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 
 LETTER III. 
 
 From the Lord Bishop of Derry to Lord Deputy 
 Wentworth, in answer to the aforesaid Letter. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 I have, according to your commands, recon- 
 ciled the difference between my Lord Bishop of 
 Raphoe and Mr. Hamilton, in a manner with the 
 explicit consent of both parties, but altogether 
 with the implicit. Both have referred them- 
 selves to me to set down that end in writing, 
 which then I delivered by word. I have drawn 
 one eyry of Hawks for fear of stealing * ; but, be- 
 cause they are not so ready, I forbear the other a 
 while, and will send them together very shortly. 
 As your Lordship hath committed the care of the 
 fishing to me, so I will be responsible that neither 
 
 * In 1634 His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General were 
 ordered to prepare an Act to restrain " The Stealing of great 
 Hawks, or taking of Hawks with Nets," &e, 
 
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 the fish shall be spoiled, nor the least detrime»t 
 redound to his Majesty by any mean*. Yet I de- 
 sire, so soon as may be, to know the certain rent 
 paid by the society for it, and the clear profit 
 they made of it, that at the least I shall be well 
 secured. Upon the 27th of May, at Colerain only, 
 they had taken 62 tuns of Salmon. My fishing 
 day is the 15th of June, when I shall be able to 
 give your Lordship a full account. Since my last, 
 I have disposed the Ferry at Colerain to the old 
 Charon for ^.34 a year. The City had six, the 
 officers the rest. I humbly thank your Lordship 
 for our church and bells. I have sent herein Mr. 
 Croxton's * case for Trinity Church in Cork, with 
 instructions concerning the same, and do thank- 
 fully accept your Lordship's favorable dispensa- 
 tion for a longer time, to make return of my 
 other representations. Yet one I thought fit in 
 present to make known unto you, in the behalf of 
 the bearer Mr. Stanhope, in whose favour your 
 Lordship commanded a Caveat to be entered. 
 The Rectory of Donoghchiddy is worth j£.<200 
 per annum. The patron is Sir George Hamilton 
 the younger ; the incumbent is one Simple, who 
 hath an exhibition out of it of g£-50 or ^£.60 a 
 
 * In a letter from Archbishop Laud to the Lord Deputy, dated 
 in 1634, his Grace says, " I hear from my Lord of Derry, that 
 my Lord Primate (Usher) is not very well pleased with Croxton, 
 nor his manner of preaching. I am sorry if the young man hath 
 given any just offence, but I hope he hath not j and I doubt this 
 is some foolish business of Arminianism' y 
 
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 year by composition, whereof Sir George was not 
 guilty at first, but his mother, howsoever he may 
 be an accessary after. The rectory was antiently 
 in the gift of the Bishop, but excepted and re- 
 served by his Majesty in the patent right, as in 
 the case of Bellturbitt, so as the Bishop was ex- 
 cluded by way of Estopel *, yet the King had no 
 power to convey the same to any other untill 
 there was a formal surrender, which was not un- 
 till the 14th of King James, long- before which 
 this advowson was granted from the Crown ; and 
 admit Sir George have lately passed his patent, 
 and this in it, which I know not: but suppose the 
 worst, and admit all this to be valid, yet un- 
 doubtedly it is void pro hac vice, being granted 
 by his mother, who had no right from his Majesty. 
 I do not take upon me to advise concerning the 
 inheritance ; but in respect of the unworthy com- 
 position, and to preserve the rights of the church, 
 which otherwise by long leases may be obscured, 
 I conceive it not amiss under favor to grant this 
 turn of it may stand with your Lordship's good 
 pleasure. This case requires the stricter inquisi- 
 tion because it is general, and, if it stood, would 
 bring back to the Crown, out of unworthy hands, 
 the advowsons of a great number of as good bene- 
 fices as any be in the North of Ireland. My Lord 
 of Strabane ^ (who is either in a consumption, or 
 
 * Such an act as bars any legal process. Johnson, 
 t He died in the year 1638. He was second son of James thefirst 
 Earl of Abercorn, and was dignified with the title of Strabane 
 
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 very near it) and Sir George Hamilton*, the 
 elder, having gotten some notice, I know not how, 
 but suspect it might be by some words that fell 
 from Mr. Stanhope, of a title to this rectory ob- 
 tained or to be obtained from the Crown, came 
 to me about it. I told them I knew nothing in 
 particular, but in general that you did not affect 
 such compositions; that I thought their best course 
 was to seek for an establishment of it for the 
 future ; that I would promise nothing in that re- 
 spect, because I knew not what instructions your 
 Lordship might have, but only this, that I would 
 be a suitor that Sir George might be heard before 
 it passed the Great Seal ; nor do I think the in- 
 cumbent would be averse, so he might have Mr. 
 Stanhope's vicarage of 100 marks by the year*}*. 
 We have finished the commission for Terman O 
 Mongan, and I hope we have proved by the ju- 
 ries at the great office that this is the very land 
 intended, by a collector that this land paid by 
 both names, by all the country that it was in the 
 Barony of Omagh and County of Tyrone, and so 
 their officer takes at Donegal merely extra comi- 
 tatum. That the difference is only in the Irish 
 pronuntiation, and not another Terman O Mon- 
 
 by his elder brother's gift, and was present as such by proxy in 
 the Parliament of Ireland which sat in 1634. 
 
 * Sir George Hamilton, his brother, was Baronet of Nova- 
 Scotia, and ancestor to the present Earl of Abercorn. 
 
 f At 13s. 4d. the mark, the vicarage was worth £.66. 13a. 4d. 
 by the year. 
 
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 gan to be found, tho* a man would seek it with a 
 lanthorne and candle. Macgrath himself doth in 
 a manner offer a submission, desires but forbear- 
 ance of the charges, which, tho' it have lost me 
 I would be contented to forbear upon his 
 disclamer or release. I fear nothing but delays 
 and cases. I am an humble suitor to your Lord- 
 ship for a license * to have powder for the defence 
 of my house, and provision of my table, either out 
 of the storehouse at Derry, or of the merchant. 
 I crave pardon for my tediousness, and remain, as 
 your noble favours have for ever bound me, 
 Your Lordship's most 
 
 faithful servante, 
 Fawne, May 30th, 1635. Joh. Dere;nsis. 
 
 LETTER IV. 
 
 From Sir George Radcliffe to the Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 My very good Lorde, 
 
 These return your Lordship many thanks for 
 your seasonable advertisement of our ship : we 
 
 * In a letter from Sir Christopher Wandesforde to the Bishop 
 of Derry, dated April 25, 1640, he says, " I have spoke to the 
 Master of the Ordnance for some powder for Sir Robert Steward, 
 and from him he may be supplied when he moves for it." Sii 
 Christopher was then Lord Deputy. 
 
 t Sir George Radcliffe was born in 1593 at Overthorpe in 
 Yorkshire ; he was the great favorite of Lord Wentworth, who, 
 when President of the North, made him his Attorney-general, 
 
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 heard long since that she was loadened, and ready 
 to set sail, and we began to wonder what was the 
 reason of her stay. The Captain advertiseth me 
 of your Lordship's readiness to get him supplied 
 with all necessaries, which kindness we ought to 
 acknowledge. The warrant for the Consecration 
 of the Church lay here a great while, and nothing 
 done in it. Mr. Little * showed it me, and I 
 found two faults in it, which now are both 
 amended: the one was a clause of form in the 
 conclusion, which yet was necessary, and the other 
 was quorum, put for quam in the middle, with 
 great obscuring of the sense. I hastened the dis- 
 patch, sending it with as much speed as might be, 
 perceiving how your Lordship is tied to your 
 days, and I hope the diligence of the messenger 
 will bring it to you. opportunely. The Canons 
 are published in print this week ; and by occasion 
 of speaking thereof, here is a panic fear risen in 
 this town, as if a new persecution (so they call it) 
 
 and when appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, constituted him 
 his Principal Secretary, an office which has always been regarded 
 there, as equivalent to Prime Minister. In a letter from Lord 
 Wentworth to Lord Treasurer Weston, he says, " There is no 
 one here that knows any thing I either write, or intend, except 
 Mr. Wandesforde, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir George Rad- 
 cliffe, for whose assistance in this government, and comfort to 
 myself amongst this generation, I am not sufficiently able to 
 pour forth my acknowledgments," &c. 
 
 * Mr. Thomas Little, the trusty servant of Sir George Rad- 
 cliffe, was, in consequence of a letter he had received from his 
 master, ordered into custody by the House of Commons, in 
 February 1640. 
 
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 were instantly to be set on foot *. Here is also 
 much talk of the title of a book newly come over 
 out of England, printed at Cambridge. The au- 
 thor, a country minister, styles himself Priest ; and 
 of five treatises which the book contains, one is, 
 that charity is to be preferred before faith, hope, 
 or knowledge : another, that Antichrist is yet to 
 come ; and a third, that the law of good, as it is 
 qualified by the Gospel, may be performed in this 
 life. This startles a Puritan, as much as the 
 Canons do the Papist. I am very desirous to read 
 the book, which I got but this evening; and 
 therefore, it being now past 9 o'clock, I shall bid 
 your Lordship good night. 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 
 most humble servant, 
 Dublin Castle, Geo. Radcliffe. 
 
 22d September, 1635. 
 
 To the Right Reverend Father 
 in God, John Lord Bishop of 
 Derry, my very good Lord. 
 
 * From the Letters just published of Sir G. Radcliffe, by the 
 Rev. Dr. Whitaker, it is manifest, Religion had taken a deep and 
 early root in his heart. 
 
 The Articles were received, and the Canons established agree- 
 ably to the Lord Deputy's mind j yet more by the influence of 
 his authority, than the inclination of a great party of the clergy, 
 although but one member of the Convocation ventured pub- 
 lickly to avow his dissent, Leland's Ireland, 3 vol. 4to. 28. — 
 An union between the churches of England and Ireland in the 
 same Articles of Religion, and the same Canons of discipline and 
 
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 LETTER V. 
 
 From Lord Deputy Wentworth to the Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I have received your Lordship's concerning 
 your being at Clounes *, and upon the rest of the 
 College Lands in lease to Sir Robert Loftus and 
 my Lady ; and do return you many and hearty 
 thanks for your pains, and must still be a very im- 
 portunate mover unto you to continue, and perfect 
 your respects and endeavours in settling their af- 
 fairs as well in the one place as in the other. For 
 the lease they have of the College, I account that 
 already settled, since you undertake it, and I be- 
 seech you hasten it as soon as may be. For the 
 other, the authority given to Aldri dge is now re- 
 called, and therefore no reason to conclude my 
 Lady in any thing, or to stay you in your proceed- 
 ings ; being now fully authorised thereunto, as 
 appears by the Letter of Attorney herewith sent 
 unto you. The leases which other of the tenants 
 
 worship, was managed with the greatest address by the Bishop 
 of Derry; to which Primate Usher lent his powerful assistance. 
 A Canon was passed in Ireland, so decidedly expressing its agree- 
 ment with the English Articles, as to denounce excommunication 
 against any persons who should affirm " that any of those Arti- 
 cles are in any part superstitious or erroneous." 
 
 * A small town in the County of Monaghan, about 60 miles 
 from Dublin. 
 
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 pretend to have from Sir Robert and my Lady 
 are as little considerable, they being told they 
 were void when they took them, and not good in 
 law, and that they did themselves believe them 
 to be so, and, indeed, in that they are not mis- 
 taken ; for my sister Wentworth and my young 
 Lady Coote not having past their estate, and 
 barred themselves by their fines, how can Sir Ro- 
 bert and my Lady make good these leases for the 
 whole, that had but lawful title at that time to a 
 third part only ? So as I do most earnestly again 
 intreat your Lordship to go on, and, without stay 
 upon any of these oppositions, to use your power 
 and best endeavours to raise the yearly value to 
 the true worth of the land, so as my Lady may 
 receive the benefit of your judgment and friend- 
 ship, therewith I shall alway acknowledge and 
 merit from you, as a testimony of your affection 
 and respect, and which I will not fail to endea- 
 vour to deserve of you in all which concern you, 
 and that shall pass under my managing. If you 
 conceive my brother George his coming down to 
 Clounes may be of any help to you, or use to his 
 sister's affairs, upon the least line he will not fail 
 to wait upon you at any time or place you shall 
 be pleased to assign unto him. There are rents 
 which will be due forth of the College-lands, as 
 also from the tenants at Clounes. May-day is the 
 time they are payable. Good my Lord, see that 
 they be gathered, and returned up with all speed. 
 My Lady, I perceive, had no money left by her 
 
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 husband, and must of necessity provide for pay- 
 ing the College rent, for returning money over 
 to her husband, and furnishing herself and chil- 
 dren ; for, poor Lady, there will be no living for 
 her with the Chancelour *, and that fury his 
 Lady ; so as you see it is as well a Christian cha- 
 rity to help so noble and so abominably a misused 
 creature, as a particular and mighty favour to 
 Your Lordship's most affectionate 
 1636, friend and servant, 
 
 Dublin, this 23d of Wentworth. 
 April, being St. George his day ; 
 who, as your Lordship knows, was an entire server 
 of Ladies, therefore see you that you imitate 
 the example of that Saint, as well as Patron of 
 Ladies. 
 
 I understand there are some arrears of rents, 
 due the last year, in the hands of Overing : I pray 
 you call him before you, examine the account, 
 and give order that he pay in the remaine, as 
 well as the growing rents forthwith here to my 
 Lady. 
 
 * Adam Loftus, appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619, 
 in which situation he long continued. He was afterwards created 
 Viscount Loftus of Ely, which title James I. conferred on him 
 for his great services and merits. He married, says Archdale, 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Bathow, Esq., and widow of Richard 
 
 Meredyth, Bishop of Leighlin. 
 
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 LETTER VI. 
 
 From Sir George Wentworth * to the Bishop 
 of Derry. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 There is a letter of yours in my hands, and 
 as yet unanswered, because unknowing of the 
 means to send a return ; and, after that serious 
 guest, these will assure you, that my sister Loftus, 
 whom it concerns, acknowledges her obligations 
 to be much increased by your Lordship's favour, 
 and is not altogether out of doubt to receive 
 some opportunity of shewing herself the same in 
 actions, that in this character she manifests her- 
 self to be ; and withal to assure you that there is 
 nothing done by you, reflecting towards her, but, 
 besides her approbation, her thanks is due in a 
 very large measure for it, conforming herself 
 therein wholly to the rule proposed by you. And 
 if you would be pleased to let your care descend 
 to that other of Clones, you might by that charity 
 link a whole family unto you ; in furtherance 
 whereof, she intends to go thither shortly, and 
 with your help (if she may obtain it) hopes to 
 settle that likewise. My Lord, if I might under- 
 
 * He was brother to the Lord Deputy, and knighted by him, 
 was made General of the Forces in Ireland, and a Privy Coun- 
 sellor. He sat in the Irish Parliament for the Borough of Naas, 
 1639. 
 
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 stand from you, and the sooner much the better, 
 how your occasions will permit, your waiting of a 
 Lady, I should then quickly hasten to ascertain 
 unto you the day of her resolutions for those parts, 
 which without your company she dares not at- 
 tempt ; in which progress, besides the waiting of 
 my sister, I shall have the happiness of seeing 
 you, which otherwise your occasions would, I 
 fear, give a lingering hinderance unto. And 
 lastly, my Lord, it would be a fit season to settle 
 those leases you have not let ; and if you deem it 
 convenient, we may bring along with us, a Law- 
 yer, the better to further therein, and so at once 
 quiet the business, so as it may be found free of 
 the trouble now it is in, for ever hereafter ; and 
 thus, expecting to hear from you at your best 
 conveniency, and with what haste you may, I 
 take leave, and rest 
 
 Your most humble servant, 
 
 G. Wentworth. 
 
 Dublin Castle, 
 the 3d of July, 1636. 
 
 My Lord Deputy is at London*, and hath 
 kissed the King's hand, very graciously received, 
 which is the best news I can tell you ; and is much 
 mended in his health, for so much I have received. 
 
 * In a letter from my Lord Deputy to Sir Christopher Wan- 
 desford, then one of the Lords Justices, dated London, July 
 1636, he says: " His Majesty was pleased to express his appro- 
 bation of all I had done, &c. &c. ; so I kneeled down, and kissed 
 the King's hand, and the Council rose." 
 
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 My sister presents her humble service unto you, 
 and so does my wife ; and afraid to forget here- 
 after, I wish you would bring along with you the 
 letter of attorney. 
 
 LETTER VII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I have received one from you the second of 
 this month, yet of a sooner expectation, and not 
 hearing from you sooner, we were resolved to set 
 forward the next day, and now defer it a day or 
 two longer ; and God willing absolutely resolve 
 to be at Clones the 10th of this month, and doubt 
 not of your company, where my sister will be 
 glad to see you, and to participate of your care 
 in this particular, as well as that other of the 
 lease. My Lord, I have little news to send you, 
 besides the health of all here ; my sister presents 
 her service unto your Lordship. 
 
 Your Lordship's faithful 
 
 friend, and humble servant, 
 G. Went worth. 
 
 Dublin Castle, 
 the 2d of September, 1636. 
 
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 LETTER VIII. 
 
 From Lord Deputy Wentworth to the Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I shall answer your letter in a very few lines : 
 there is a treaty with the King by the City to 
 compound their fine, and to be restored to their 
 lands and signories in Ireland, but nothing at all 
 concluded, nor indeed near it as yet, so as ac- 
 cording to the former directions, your Lordship 
 will be pleased to go on with the payment of the 
 moneys to the use of Sir Thomas Philips, accord- 
 ing to his Majesty's warrant in that behalf. I be- 
 lieve not only the ^£.1000 due for this last fishing, 
 but the fishing itself will be reserved to the Crown. 
 If they proceed against clandestines, they do not 
 well to hasten things unseasonably, and indeed 
 unwisely, and without authority ; but a little co- 
 lour will serve the time, where some profit is to 
 be had. It were well the Bishops would neverthe- 
 less forbear till further order, which I deliver only 
 as my opinion, not my direction ; yet I will ac- 
 quaint his Majesty withal, and so be enabled how 
 to direct that business upon my coming over, 
 which will by the grace of God be now very 
 speedily, when, and always, you will find me, 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 
 Wentworth, friend and servant, 
 
 this 27th of September, 1636. Wentworth. 
 
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 . LETTER IX. 
 From Lord Deputy to the Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 As concerning the exception (you mention) 
 some report I should have against your Lordship, 
 it is the strangest to me in all the world, there 
 never having been any person that had the bold- 
 ness to attempt me to your prejudice, never any 
 thing arising from your carriage towards me, 
 never any thought arising in my heart towards 
 you, that should cause me to believe, judge, or 
 think any other for you than a mutual and hearty 
 affection and respect ; so as there is no possibility 
 left for any thing to be more false and groundless 
 than this, which some have a mind, it seems, to 
 fancy, that have a desire it might be so betwixt 
 us ; wherein I am confident they will miss very 
 freely of their purpose ; your Lordship and I 
 knowing one another too well, and more beaten 
 to the world than to receive such adulterate coin 
 to our own loss. I am here over head and ears 
 in a troublesom account, and extreme desire to 
 be again in Ireland with my family ; so as, without 
 mentioning any other matter, I shall content my- 
 self in present to protest unto you I have written 
 the very truth, and futurely to make it appear to 
 you, and those that wish it otherwise, that I am 
 
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 the very same without change, that I have always 
 been since I knew you. 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 friend and servant, 
 Wentw. Woodh. * Went worth. 
 
 this £d of September, 1636, 
 
 LETTER X. 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 The Steward hath sent down the bearer to 
 give help in the getting of the marble ; I pray you 
 have an eye upon him, and give him a great 
 charge that he take his stone forth of the best 
 beds, which are commonly at the bottom, and so 
 are by workmen willingly left behind by reason 
 they require more getting : the speed you cause 
 them to make will be a mighty favour to me, that 
 we may have them in time of my building without 
 staying. As for a bark, if it could be got there, 
 or if not one great enough, then many lesser 
 would be the best, but if the place afford it not, 
 then upon notice when you are ready, we will 
 
 * Wentworth Wood-house, his seat in Yorkshire, where, in a 
 letter to Sir Edward Stanhope, he says, " I could possess myself 
 with more satisfaction and repose under that roof, than with all 
 the preferment and power a Crown can communicate of her 
 grace and favor. Dublin, Oct, 3, 1634." 
 
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 take order to freight one from hence. You will 
 thank Captain Dutton for his kindness, and if 
 you will get him in his lease to reserve a liberty 
 for me to get in those quarries all such quantities 
 of stone for my use as I shall think fit, as also for 
 the use of the king, you may tell him I shall take 
 it very kindly, and then be you careful to see the 
 promise put into the lease my Lord Marshall is 
 to have ; you may tell him this will be a respect 
 also well taken by the King, who hath already 
 commanded me to send him three-score tuns of 
 stone. Whatsoever Chamberlaine writes to scare 
 men withal, there is as yet no war declared with 
 Spain. As for Doctor Brpce, if he die, I will pre- 
 sent presently, therefore pray you give me notice, 
 as soon as possibly you can, when you hear he is 
 dead, and enter a caveat for the king with the or- 
 dinary, that he does not give forth his institution 
 to put the king again to his t/uare impedit. I have 
 no more in present to say unto your Lordship more 
 than that I wish you health, and constantly re- 
 main, 
 
 Your Lordship's very faithful 
 friend, and servant, 
 Dublin, this sixth Wentworth. 
 of April, 1637. 
 
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 LETTER XL 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 My vety good Lord, 
 The course settled by your Lordship for the 
 salmon, we like very well, and will pursue it ac- 
 cordingly, in so much as is to be done here ; Sir 
 George Radcliffe writes to you particularly upon 
 that subject, and so God speed it well. For Sig- 
 nor Clement let him go on without disturbance, 
 for I would not have hifei to clamour and lay the 
 fault upon me if the stone were not ready for the 
 King's work ; besides if it be not otherwise then 
 the old wont, he must quickly leave the work for 
 want of money ; besides he can do no great harm 
 to the quarry ; but I pray you deal with the Cap- 
 tain as you and I purposed upon your last being 
 at Dublin, and for the rest leave it to me ; let the 
 gentleman have for the present good words given 
 him, arid rather furtherance than hinderance from 
 your Lordship, only let him work with his own 
 tools, and not spoil mine. The Dean of Down * 
 shall not pass any thing upon the commission of 
 defective titles, till the Bishop be heard. I have 
 writ the letters you desire ; here you have them 
 with their duplicates, that you may know what 
 
 * Rev. Dr. Coote. 
 
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 you cany, and so God Almighty send you a good 
 journey, and a safe return. 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 friend and servant, 
 
 Naas, this 12th Wentworth. 
 of September, 1637. 
 
 You are beholden to me for writing so many 
 letters with my own hand, being here the busiest 
 and pettisht creature about my building you ever 
 saw, or read of in all your books. Your best way 
 will be to be brought to kiss the King's hand by 
 my Lord of Canterbury. 
 
 LETTER XII. 
 
 From the Lord Bishop of Derry to Doctor 
 Coote % Dean of Down. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received yours of the 15th of January, 
 and would not part with it for an ^QAOO; you 
 will hardly believe that your letters are so pre- 
 cious ; but I will keep it as a monument of your 
 gratitude and discretion. You call herein for an 
 account in your letter, truly I cannot send it till 
 the Lords Justices sign : but then you shall have 
 it by a messenger on purpose ; if it give you not 
 content, blame yourself. And when you write 
 
 * After the BLhop's Impeachment in 1640, there was a peti- 
 tion presented to the House of Lords by this Dean of Down, 
 which was ordered to be taken into consideration. 
 
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 how dearly you have paid for the lease, I desire 
 you to recollect yourself, and inform me in what 
 coin it was, for in good soothe I. remember not 
 so much as one cracked groate that ever you dis- 
 bursed about it. You tell me that for the time to 
 come, neither I, nor any for me, shall let, set, or 
 intermeddle with the tithes, or any thing that was 
 the Countess of TirconnePs — Dura verba ; on the 
 other side I tell you I will dispose of them, and 
 for the time to come (you have been so thankful 
 for the ^.100 a year I have given you some- 
 times) you shall not meddle with a sheaf of them, 
 (mark it, Sir) so long as the lease endures. Some 
 other part of the Church shall fare the better for 
 your disrespect. I am not bound to relieve you 
 in those pinching necessities, as you call them, 
 which your letter imply, who lose not only your 
 friends, but your brothers by your disrespect. 
 You tell me of my Lord Deputy, whose mind I 
 know better than yourself. When your service to 
 this Church and mine are laid together, I shall 
 not need to appear hood-winked, 'tis your usual 
 phrase — So God bless us from ingratitude. 
 
 Your neglected servant, 
 Jan. £7, 1639. Joh. Derensis. 
 
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 LETTER XIII. 
 
 From Sir William Boswell * to the Lord 
 Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My ever honored Lord ! 
 
 The opportunity of this passage from Rotter- 
 dam to Dublin, invites me to write, but my pre- 
 sent business will suffer me to appear only upon 
 paper, and part for news from Dutch pen-men. 
 Daniel Heinsius's Annotations upon the New 
 Testament are printed to the end of the Acts : 
 will be finished (Deo dante) by Easter ; the cor- 
 rectors, printers, &c. employed about it having 
 made oath, and received special command from 
 the directors of the volume, not to let out, nor 
 suffer to issue abroad, any sheet or piece thereof. ' 
 Salmasius hath a Treatise in the press, De Usura, 
 large and learned, which will shortly be out ; and 
 presently after, a Collation of the Hebrew and 
 Roman Laws, by L'Empereur, Professor in Ley- 
 den of the Hebrew tongue, and against the Jews, 
 which is all of worth I shall forward in that kind. 
 
 * He was Secretary to Sir Dudley Carleton, Leiger Ambassa- 
 dor in Holland, and afterwards Leiger Ambassador there him- 
 self. He was an excellent scholar, an accomplished statesman ; 
 and to his negotiations England was indebted for almost all the 
 assistance and civility she had from Holland during the reign of 
 Charles I. It is said he died there about the year 1646-7, in 
 the 54th year of his age. 
 
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 Since the Prince of Orange's * sitting down be- 
 fore Breda, which he is likely to take before three 
 weeks pass, the Spaniard hath taken in Venlo 
 and Ruremonde, upon the Maes, the first of great 
 importance by its situation, and passage out the 
 Bril, not equal in worth unto Breda, yet sufficient 
 to make the Cardinal -f value his action equally 
 in Spain, and check the reputation of these states 
 in their conquest of Breda. About 10 days since, 
 Col. Goring + having the guard of the English in 
 the approaches, w r as shot so dangerously cross the 
 shin of his leg a little above his ancle, as the Chi- 
 rurgions at first resolved to cut off his leg to save 
 his life ; but upon second thoughts, and some op- 
 position by one of them against four, they for- 
 bare : and now thanks be to God, he is gotten 
 out of danger of losing life or leg this bout : his 
 excellent merits caused a great sorrow at his mis- 
 
 * The Prince of Orange, William II. after a siege of two 
 months, took Breda, which he entered the 9th of October, just 
 about three weeks after the date of this letter. Sir William Bos- 
 well took great pains in the business of the marriage of this 
 Prince of Orange and the Princess Mary, which took place in 
 Feb. 1640-1641. 
 
 f This year Cardinal Richelieu was very successful against 
 Spain. 
 
 X Col. Goring, afterwards George Lord Goring. He served in 
 Sir Francis and Sir Horace Vere's company in the Low Country 
 wars, and behaved so well, that he attained to the command of 
 the best regiment of foot, where he remained till Charles I. called 
 him to command against the Scots. See Clarendon for a parti- 
 cular account of his conduct afterward?. 
 
KAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 fortune, and now as great comfort in the hope of 
 his recovery. At the same time Mons. Charnace*, 
 the French Ambassador, and also Colonel of a 
 French regiment, having the guard on the French 
 post, was shot through the head with a firelock, 
 whereof he died within an hour after, without en- 
 joying either speech or utterance, or understand- 
 ing, after the blow. So little could his priviledge 
 of public minister save his head, or Colonel. 
 Blessed England, where we enjoy peace ; and 
 blessed (again and again) be the author thereof. 
 Your Lordship will excuse my scribling in haste, 
 and ever succour 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful, 
 and humble servant, 
 Haghe, 16 Sept. 1637. Will. Boswell. 
 
 LETTER XIV. 
 
 From the Lord Bishop of Derry to John Spottis*- 
 wood -f~, Archbishop of St. Andrew's. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 Finding in my journey to Londonderry so 
 fair an opportunity, I could not in gratitude and 
 civility omit the expression of my thanks, and 
 
 * Mons. Charnace was employed by the Cardinal in the year 
 1631, in concluding a peace between France and Sweden. 
 
 f Lord Clarendon speaks of the Archbishop of St. Andrew's as 
 being a learned, wise, and pious man . he was appointed Chan- 
 cellor of Scotland in 1634 ; the greatest office which had been in 
 
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 faithful services to your grace by this gentleman, 
 Colonel Steward. Mr. Cunningham is provided 
 of a benefice not so good as I would wish, but 
 yet, one that may hold life and soul together, as 
 we say, untill he get one that he may live mor^e 
 comfortably upon, which I doubt not a short 
 time will effect, after my Lord Deputy's return 
 from his progress. I humbly thank your Grace 
 for your high favour, the book of Common Prayer: 
 glad I was to see it, and more glad to see it such 
 as it is, to be envied in some things perhaps if 
 one owned. I am meditating a journey into 
 England, and hope to kiss your Grace's hands in 
 the way, if my Lord Deputy's absence afford me 
 so much leisure, whose commands I expect by 
 the next. So wishing your Grace many happy 
 days for the good of that Church, I desire to 
 remain, Your Graced faithful, 
 
 and humble servant, 
 
 Joh. Derensis. 
 
 Glasslough, Aug. 13, 1687. 
 Thus superscribed — 
 
 " To the most Reverend Father 
 in God, the Lord Archbishop 
 of Saint Andrews his Grace, 
 Lord Chancelor of the king- 
 dom of Scotland, these present." 
 
 the hands of a Churchman since the Reformation. His History 
 of the Church of Scotland is well known, which was written by 
 the command of James I. His being a Clergyman, and as such 
 being made Chancellor, gave offence, says Whitelocke, to many : 
 
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 LETTER XV. 
 
 From Lord Deputy Wentworth to my Lord 
 Keeper Coventry. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 This ietter will be brought your Lordship by 
 my Lord Bishop of Deny # , a personage whose 
 learning, abilities, and good affections value him 
 very much to as many as know him ; and desires 
 by me to become known to your Lordship. It 
 seems there is one Mr. Bacon hath made him a 
 defendant in the Star-chamber, and charged the 
 Bishop with some Yeomanly language, uttered 
 upon the serving and executing a Commission out 
 of that Court. The truth is, the words are rather 
 savouring of want of breeding, than to be height- 
 ened to a crime ; yet, I am very certain the Bi- 
 shop is a man more civil, and of better modera- 
 tion, than that any such words could escape him. 
 And the truth is, he tells me he is able to prove 
 those words to be spoken by his fellow Commis- 
 
 He was brother of James Spottiswood, who was made Bishop of 
 Clogher, and was author of a Treatise called St. Patrick's Pur- 
 gatory: he died in 1644 at Westminster. 
 
 * The Reverend Mr. Garrard, in a letter to my Lord Deputy, 
 mentions seeing the Bishop in London in the following Novem- 
 ber : " I see your Bishop of Deny here / Dr. Bramhall ; a very 
 able man 1 hear he is, and one told me he should be the lard 
 Chancellor of Ireland." 
 
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 sioner, who doth indeed confess he spake them, 
 and not the Bishop. The favour your Lordship 
 shall be pleased to afford my Lord the Bishop, I 
 shall, as I must do many particulars besides, ac- 
 knowledge as your great goodness towards me, 
 that, believe me, will not live longer than to be 
 most perfectly your Lordship's 
 
 Most humbly to be commanded, 
 Naas, this 11th of Wentworth, 
 September, lGSJ. 
 
 LETTER XVI. 
 From my Lord Deputy to the Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 My Lady Loftus having now been sick of 
 the small-pox a fortnight, this morning, I hear, is 
 in very great danger, and feared she cannot re- 
 cover, which I am most heartily and extreme sorry 
 for, so as indeed it much indisposes me for the 
 present to do any thing ; and therefore you will 
 excuse it, that I write not now by my own hand, 
 as otherwise I should have done. And I do be- 
 seech your Lordship to be very especially careful 
 of her Ladyship's commissions recommended unto 
 you ; the dispatch whereof I have so far made 
 my own care, as I shall very heartily acknowledge 
 to you the favorable and speedy assistance you 
 
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 shall aford therein. Your Lordship's course taken 
 and intended against the two packs of Rogues 
 and petty Rebels there, I do both well approve 
 of, and desire your Lordship it may effectually 
 be pursued, thanking your Lordship for the ad- 
 vertisement thereof. And for the Clergy-man 
 you have committed for his lewd praying for the 
 prosperous success of Scotland in the maintenance 
 of Religion, if there be sufficient good witness 
 thereof, as it is likely there may be enow, I de- 
 sire your Lordship, that he may forthwith be very 
 safely conveyed up hither with sufficient proofs 
 thereabouts, and examinations, if any be taken 
 therein. When Dean Tilson's * letter for Elphin 
 comes, which is not as yet, the Bishop of Ar- 
 dagh's warrant, as is desired, shall be dispatched. 
 So with my hearty recommendations to your 
 Lordship, I rest your Lordship's 
 
 faithful friend and servant, 
 Dublin, this 7th of Wentworth. 
 June, 1639. 
 
 * Henry Tilson was Dean of Christ Church, Chaplain to Lord 
 Strafford, and consecrated Bishop of Elphin 23d September, 
 1639. He was born in Yorkshire, educated at Oxford, and for 
 some time held the vicarage of Rochdale in his own county, be- 
 fore he was removed to Ireland. 
 
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 LETTER XVII. 
 
 From Sir George Wentworth to the Lord 
 Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 Sir George Radcliffe is now come over after 
 a dangerous passage ; news is very scarce, but 
 that little that is, gives us nothing the better, nor 
 much to the other side of good ; we stand at gaze ; 
 only my Lord of Holland hath seen the army in- 
 trenched, it is reported, with a naked sword in 
 his hand, sent a trumpet to the enemy to know 
 their intention and was bid keep off, which he 
 did*. It is by my Deputy's command that I should 
 commit to your favour one Mr. Washington, my 
 tutor, as one my Lord intends to dignify in the 
 church, and make him his chaplain, and hope 
 you will at this remove of Elphin mind my Lord 
 of him, not forgetting Doctour Price. I mid my 
 Lord will disclose of nothing untill you be here. 
 It hath pleased God to take my sister Loftus f to 
 his mercy, which is as heavy an affliction as ever 
 
 * 1639, March 28. The King encamped within two miles of 
 Berwick, and within view of the Scotch army. 
 
 t She died 27 th May, 1639, and had by her husband, Sir Ro- 
 bert Loftus, one son and one daughter, the former of whom 
 dying young, the latter became heir ; and was married to Ri- 
 chard Lennard Barret, of Bell-house, in the County of Essex, 
 Esq. to whom she carried a considerable estate at Clones, in the 
 County of Monaghan, Ireland. Lady Loftus was daughter of 
 
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 I received any, but with patience it is submitted 
 unto. I am within few days for England, where 
 I expect to have my grief renewed, by a sad sister 
 of her's, and wife of mine. God grant us all pa- 
 tience, and comfort one of another, for with a 
 more sorrowful haste I never left any place. 
 " Leves loquuntur curae, ingentes stupent." 
 
 Your truly affectionate friend, 
 and humble servant, 
 Dublin, the 19th G. Went worth. 
 
 of June, 1639. 
 
 The following Postscript was added by my Lord 
 Deputy his Brother: 
 My Lord, We owe all the possible care that can 
 be to the children of my Lady Loftus, owe it to her 
 Ladyship's great obligations put upon us, owe it 
 to her memory, and myself to her trust and desire 
 that I should so do, near the time it pleased God 
 to take her to himself. And, therefore, I do most 
 earnestly beseech your Lordship to see that busi- 
 ness of the college lease settled before you stir 
 
 Sir Francis Ruishe, of Castle-Jordan, and sister of Lady Went- 
 worth, wife of Sir George. Archdale in a note says, Sir Francis 
 Ruishe, of Ruish-Hall, in the Queen's County, and of Castle- 
 Jordan, died in 1623, and had issue Thomas, who died unmar- 
 ried, and three daughters who became coheirs j and were, Ele- 
 nor, married to Sir Robert Loftus, eldest son of Adam, Viscount 
 Ely, whose death is mentioned in the above letter; Mary mar- 
 ried to Sir Charles Coote, Earl of Montrath ; and Anne married 
 to Sir George Wentworth, which, tho' not mentioned by Arch- 
 dale, must have been the case. 
 
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 out of those parts, for if you intrust it with any 
 other, I cannot hope for any good to be done in 
 it. Nothing done for myself can be so accepta- 
 ble to me as this will be, and therefore I am con- 
 fident you will deny yourself a little to your own 
 occasions to the satisfaction of 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 friend and servant, 
 
 Wextwortit. 
 
 LETTER XVIII. 
 
 From Archbishop Laud to the Lord Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 S: in Xpo. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I am very glad you are safe come into Ire- 
 land ; but that you should venture to be twice 
 beaten back upon those rough seas, was neither 
 my command nor council. My Lords of the 
 Council here are now thinking apon a new sup- 
 ply to S. Paul's *, and as soon as ever that is be- 
 gun, my Lord Deputy shall be sure to hear of me 
 with the first. As for the money sent by Mr. 
 
 * In consequence of the resolutions taken in 1620 by James I. 
 to repair the Cathedral of St. Paul's, the celebrated Jnigo Jones 
 was appointed to the work, and the first stone was laid by Laud 
 in 1633. 
 
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 Culme *, the party trusted here hath been with 
 me, and so soon as the money is paid in, and that 
 I can see a discharge, I will write an answer to 
 the Dean of S. Patricks and give him thanks. 
 My Lord, I thank you heartily for your Lenten 
 present The salmon and the eels I have re- 
 ceived, but not the herrings, which makes me 
 think they were not sent together in the same 
 vessel ; and I am the more sorry the herrings are 
 not come, because those which we have here, are 
 stark nought. The salmon and the eels are so f 
 lately come, that I cannot yet send you word 
 how they prove. But if this letter go not sud- 
 denly away, you shall have it in a Postscript ; 
 for the mean time I pray, commend me to my 
 Lord Deputy, and tell him that I have oftentimes 
 purposed to write to him about his Martinmass 
 
 * A note on the margin by the Archbishop. — " The money is 
 paid in, but the honest man that is trusted here with the paying 
 of it, desires to send the acquittances himself to the Dean of 
 St. Patrick's, which I am well content with. So you may com- 
 mend me to the Dean with thanks, and I will not write." 
 
 t In a letter from the Archbishop to the Lord Deputy, dated 
 Dec. 29, 1638, his Grace says, " Tis well that your hunting 
 hath not made you forget your fishing j but I somewhat fear, if 
 it be yet to come from Galway, it will hardly get hither by Lent, 
 and it is the best Lent Provision that ever I met with, next to 
 old Sir John Ling." 
 
 In answer to this letter my Lord Deputy says, " My hunting 
 has not made me forget my fishing j I have good store for you 
 on the way from Galway," &c. So that between the Bishop of 
 Derry and my Lord Deputy, the Archbishop must have been well 
 supplied with Lenten presents. 
 
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 Beef, but still forgot it. It was the worst that 
 ever I tasted *$ and you may tell him, if he does 
 not take order to send me better, I will not be- 
 lieve that there 's any good in Yorkshire. I am 
 very glad to hear, that since my Lord Primate 
 had a mischance by his coach, he caught no harm 
 by it ; and for the rest, I shull leave it to my 
 Lord Deputy and you ; and secure myself that it 
 will be done sine strepita. Now for your merry 
 suit, which may perchance end in earnest ; I will 
 take my first opportunity to speak with Dr. Guin, 
 somewhat afar off, and see what he will say to 
 me, and then come closer to him as I see cause. 
 But in the mean time I must desire you to send 
 me present word, how I shall be inabled for proof 
 against him, in case he stand out resolutely against 
 me, " That the Church of S. Culy is within the 
 act of dissolution. " I am glad my Lord is pleased 
 to be so mindful of the Provost and his brother. 
 I hope they will deserve both such preferment as 
 he shall think them fit for, and I shall concur 
 most willingly, if it be such as I may serve them 
 in. Since my Lord imploys you so thick upon 
 your return, I shall be content to stay for the ac- 
 count of Restitutions to the Church, till leisure 
 will give you leave to send it me perfect. Only 
 I could be content, you would add to every par- 
 ticular the year of our Lord in which it was done, 
 
 * And in a letter of the Archbishop's to the Lord Deputy, he 
 sa'ys, in speaking of this Beef, that " it was as hard as the very 
 horn the old Runt wore when she lived." 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 which I think you may easily do. I did not think 
 I should have received any news from Ireland 
 concerning Witches. But if my Lord fall to con- 
 juring of them, I make no doubt but I shall 
 quickly hear more. Your mentioning of my 
 Lord's forwardness to St. Paul's, makes me think 
 farther of that business ; and you may tell my 
 Lord from me, that when I send to him for his 
 second ^.100, I will desire him to take care, that 
 yourself, and such other Englishmen as are Bi- 
 shops there, and likewise your Master of the 
 Rolls *, and your Secretary -f% and such other 
 English as are of the Council there, or in places 
 of Judicature, may contribute, as well as his Lord- 
 ship : and I hope there 's none of you will refuse 
 me in this motion. So wishing you all happiness 
 and health, I leave you to God's blessed protec- 
 tion, and rest your Lordship's 
 
 very loving friend and brother, 
 Lambeth, Feb. 17, W. Cant. 
 
 168* 
 
 Since I writ this, I have spoken to Dr. Guin 
 about the Church of S, Culy at Holyhead ; and 
 he confirms 'tis his, and withall hath told me 
 what he means to do with it, which is, that he 
 will take direction from the Diocesan what is fit 
 for him to add for maintenance of the incumbent 
 for ever ; and that addition he will make. The 
 rest of the means he intends to settle upon Jesus 
 
 * Sir Christopher Wandesford. f Sir George Radcliffe. 
 
 E 
 
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 College in Oxford, which is a Welch foundation 
 there, and needs it. So you see he intends the 
 public in it; but yet if there* be any strong title 
 against it that you know, it is not amiss you im- 
 part it to me, that so Dr. Gwin may resolve either 
 to make it Church work that way which the title 
 leads to, or make his present title certain to the 
 good works intended by him. 
 
 Thus superscribed — 
 " To the Rt. Reverend Father in God 
 my very good Lo. and Brother the 
 Lo. Bp. of Derry in Ireland. These." 
 
 LETTER XIX. 
 
 I?rom the same to the same. 
 
 S. in Xpo. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I shall expect the beginning of the exact ac- 
 count you promise of the Church of Ireland this 
 vacation ; and should be very glad it might not 
 be only a beginning, but a full account to this 
 present, if it may be. But whatever you send 
 shall be welcome, till more come ; only I pray 
 keep a copy of both, that you may know exactly 
 where you leave, and that you may have it safe 
 in case the copy you send to me should miscarry. 
 I make no doubt but it will please God and the 
 
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 King, to give you good content in the way of 
 service you now are. And for my Lord Deputy 
 and myself, I think you are sure enough of both 
 of us. And howsoever, I am of the same opinion 
 I was, that } r ou are not to think of a private life, 
 but must make a contentment to yourself out of 
 the public as well as you can. I thank your Lord- 
 ship for your respect to my kinswoman Mrs. 
 Browne ; and if your Lordship and my Lord De- 
 puty do think her daughter will be a fit match for 
 Mr. Howlett, I shall easily rest satisfied : and am 
 very glad to hear that Mr. Howlett * is a man of 
 tiiat temper and moderation that you express in 
 your letters. But for my own part, I have never 
 been a medler in marriages, and do not mean to 
 begin now. 
 
 For the Provost -J~ 5 the motion of his keeping 
 the College, tho' he was a Bishop, proceeded 
 
 * I believe the Mr. Howlett mentioned by the Archbishop had 
 been the Bishop's tutor at Cambridge, and was then in Ireland, 
 where he was well provided for by his pupil, according to the 
 account given by Dr. Lloyd in his book of Worthies. In the 
 Biographia Britannica, Hulet is the name of his tutor at Cam- 
 bridge, the same perhaps as Howlett. 
 
 f Mr. Chappel became Provost in 1634, and continued Pro- 
 vost after his acceptance of the Bishoprics of Corke and Ross, 
 contrary to the statutes. This is enumerated among the griev- 
 ances of the nation in 1640. He died in 1649, after many suf- 
 ferings between the Rebellions of Ireland and England He 
 was tutor to Milton at Christ's-college, Cambridge, and 
 was, says Symmons, the reputed author of the Whole Dutij of 
 Man. 
 
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 originally from my Lord Deputy, and not from 
 me. And there is no man that loves the Church, 
 but hath great reason to observe him, and give 
 him all the content he can in his just desires. And 
 if it appear to him, that the dispensation will not 
 serve, I promise you, absolutely for my part, I 
 will not take away the statute. I have written to 
 my Lord again about it, and there leave him free 
 to do whatsoever he shall find best and fittest. 
 For two Bishops being of the Committee for Plan- 
 tations, you may let it rest if you please ; for I 
 am clearly of opinion as well as you, there will be 
 little use of them in my Lord Deputy's time, for 
 he will supply all defects that way. But for after- 
 times, tho' this would have been a good example, 
 yet they will be regulated according to the De- 
 puty's there, and his disposition toward the 
 Church : and therefore that must be left to God's 
 blessing, and I will trouble you no farther in this 
 particular. I like the clause * well you desire 
 should be added to the minutes of those letters 
 which are for Bishops, and I shall deliver a note 
 concerning it in writing to W. Raylton f, that so 
 it may be put in practice upon the next opportu- 
 
 * Added by the Archbishop in the margin : — " You shall do 
 well to acquaint my Lord Deputy with this clause, that it may 
 not be strange to him, when the letters come." 
 
 f William Raylton is often mentioned in Lord Strafford's let- 
 ters, whose agent he was : he is frequently mentioned in the 
 letters just published by Dr. Whitaker, and always with respect. 
 Sir G. Radcliffe writes, " Mr. Raylton is very diligent in your 
 business," &c. 
 
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 nity, and so after to continue in use. For your 
 Brother I have heard no more speech at the Coun- 
 cil table since I writ last. So that if the Gentle- 
 men of Cheshire stir not, it may be that business 
 may die. I have nothing else to trouble you with, 
 but to thank you for your love and respect to my- 
 self. So I leave you to God's protection, and rest 
 your Lordship's loving friend and brother, 
 
 Croydon*, W. Cant. 
 
 Aug. 11, 1638. 
 
 Under the superscription is written, in my Lord 
 Deputy's hand, the following apology : 
 
 " In truth, my Lord, thoughe I opened this let- 
 ter inawares, taking it to have been for myself, 
 yet I only reade two or three of the first lines, 
 when finding my mistake I gave over." 
 
 LETTER XX. 
 
 From Mr. Wandesford -f^, Master of the Rolls 
 in Ireland, to the Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 We have no news since you left us. The 
 business of the Chancellor remains as it was, doubt- 
 
 * Croydon is a town in Surrey, about ten miles South of Lon- 
 don, where was the seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury. 
 
 t Sir Christopher Wandesford, Master of the Rolls, 22d March, 
 1634, 9th of Charles I. He was afterwards Lord Deputy. The 
 late Earl of Wandesford was his descendant, whose daughter, the 
 present Countess Dowager of Ormond, inherits his estates. 
 
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 ful what he will do ; we hear nothing from him 
 publickly, only the Primate (who communicates 
 most with him) saith, he will petition this after- 
 noon for his liberty, which hitherto he hath not 
 clone. We hear no more what is done about the 
 Scotish business ; only bless yourself from them, 
 for you hear what an inquisition passed upon Mr. 
 Thorpe *, my Lord Deputy's chaplain, in his pas- 
 sage hither ; had the Bishop of Derry been there, 
 he had scaped with the loss of his garments. In 
 earnest you must be careful of yourself, and be 
 aware of those of that disposition in your northern 
 parts. God knows how far the like fury may 
 transport them also. I pray God bless you. The 
 death of my niece will, I suppose, hasten my sister 
 into England. Be pleased, I pray your Lordship, 
 to settle the accounts betwixt her and me, and to 
 know when she will have the money in England. 
 I cannot pay them till May next out of my rents 
 there. My Lord Deputy hath not been well 
 since you went, a n't of the stone gives him severe 
 pain. To-morrow his Lordship is for Castle Jor- 
 dan, on Saturday at Naas, from thence to Co- 
 shawe \ during pleasure. My family and yours, 
 
 * In a letter from Sir George Wentworth to the Bishop, dated 
 Aug. 1638, he says, " I make no question but you have heard 
 of Mr. Thorpe's coming through Scotland : they put things 
 home. You would be well used there 1 warrant you." 
 
 f In a letter from Archbishop Laud to the Lord Deputy, his 
 Grace says, " 1 am glad Cosha is such a fine mountainous soli- 
 tary place, and gives you such content/' It is frequently men- 
 
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 5.5 
 
 thank God, are well. Farewell, God bless your 
 Lordship. Your Lordship's most 
 
 affectionate faithful servant, 
 August 7, 1638. Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 LETTER XXI. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 I approve well of your resolution to forbear 
 your bargain of Moylough, doubtless no other 
 will be forward to deal in it. Mr. staid in 
 
 expectation of the King's letter for the Bishopric, 
 but now I will send him away, for the King mov- 
 eth the Bishop of Ross in Scotland for the man ; 
 yet so as, if my Lord Deputy will hold him to his 
 former consent for our Dean *, he shall stand ; this 
 my Lord Deputy referreth to his Majesty, but 
 with such an insinuation for the Dean as I think 
 
 tioned by Lord Strafford, who dates several of his letters from it, 
 and in one of them calls it the Park of Parks. Fairwood house, 
 where he resided when in that part of the County of Wicklow, 
 was at a short distance from Tinehely, a small post-town, about 
 forty miles from Dublin. The adjacent hills, and indeed that 
 whole district, were then covered with the fine Shillela oaks, so 
 justly celebrated in former days. Lord Strafford's estates in the 
 County of Wicklow belong now to the Earl Fitzwilliam, his 
 illustrious descendant. 
 
 * Dean of Christ Church. Dr. Tilson was made the Bishop. 
 
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 he will carry : but not a word of this to any crea- 
 ture. His Majesty is not in Scotland, as we sup- 
 posed, but gone back to London as we hear ; but 
 this also we conceal. You may by this guess how 
 things go in Scotland, certainly very ill. Little 
 hope of accommodation. These insolencies are 
 almost as high as ever, not to be endured. 
 Imagine what will follow. I am afraid our latter 
 days will be more troublesome than our former. 
 God give safety and peace to his Majesty and his 
 affairs. My Lord Deputy purposeth to go to 
 Fairwood * this next week, and I to Idoughe, 
 but long there I cannot stay : the prosecution of 
 the plantations calls me back, which we now in- 
 tend diligently. My Lord, God bless you, and 
 restore you to us again in health. Farewell, I 
 am, as you know, your Lordship's 
 
 most faithful humble servant, 
 July 24, 1639. Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 Sir William Usher died yesterday. 
 
 LETTER XXII. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 Your's of the 27th comes to my hands this 
 afternoon, when I am making ready to go to- 
 
 * See Note to the last Letter. 
 
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 wards Idoughe * early in the morning. The set- 
 tlement for the Clergy, I am afraid, cannot be 
 done as you desire, for we have given over sitting 
 at the table till Michalmas, yet I will secure my 
 Lord in it before I go, and if the answer be worth 
 your trouble, you shall find it here in these before 
 they are sealed. There is no time yet to move 
 one word in that concerning the Bishops of Scot- 
 land, for I have reason to believe nothing con- 
 cerning Ross is known to the Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury: hereafter I will find means to enlarge 
 you in this particular, but for the present it is 
 not to be taken notice of, neither can more be 
 done in that than is already. It seems you have 
 heard of the Counter-scuffle, for indeed the town 
 speaks more of it than friends may, for all the 
 parties are close to me. In a word never man 
 had greater advantage over another than C. had 
 
 * Idoughe, or Edoughe, anciently called Brennan, in the County 
 of Kilkenny, which was conveyed by Letters Patent of Charles 1 1 
 to Lord Deputy Wandesford. See Carte, vol. I. p. 116. 
 
 In a letter from Lord Strafford to the Earl of Ormond, dated 
 Tower, 17 Dec. 1 640, he says, in speaking of my Lord Mar- 
 shal's opposition to Ormond : " he (Lord Marshal, Earl of Arun- 
 del) hath not got Edoughe off his stomach either to your Lord- 
 ship or me." 
 
 In a letter from Sir C. Wandesforde to Sir G. Radcliffe, he 
 says, " If the business of Idough come in your way, I am most 
 confident you will be mindful of it : and if you can handsomely 
 learn whether certain men, especially one Richard Butler, em- 
 ployed by the natives as agents, be attending upon Arundel 
 House, you will tell me what you hear." June <23, 163S. 
 
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 over R. ; not for spirit alone, but for the discre- 
 tionary part ; and had not the master of the house 
 where it happened kept C. in awe, he had left 
 him dead upon the place, for his sword was ad- 
 vanced in his hand ready for execution ; but in a 
 brave manner C. said to the other, thank him 
 (meaning Sir G. R. *) for thy life. This is indeed 
 a gallant story, if you heard it all, but the sport 
 is, all the footmen in town talk of it, and yet 
 none of the parties will acknowledge it. The 
 victory against Gallas -f- was certain and great. 
 The Swedish party are strong in Germany. We 
 yet know not whether his Majesty is in England 
 or Scotland. My service to Mrs. Bramhall ; she 
 was gone before I heard, so you must excuse my 
 not taking leave. My Lord, God give you strength 
 herewith. I am, 
 
 Your Lordship's most faithful servant, 
 July 28, 1639. Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 By my Lord Deputy's directions, I leave the 
 papers for the quarter past with Sir Paul Davis. 
 
 * Sir George Radcliffe. 
 
 f In a letter from Lord Deputy Wentvvorth to Sir Christopher 
 Wandesford, dated London, 25 July, 1640, he says, " We speak 
 of the Duke of Lorraine and Galas, their falling into France by 
 another quarter ; which if they do, they will distress France 
 more this summer, than France did them the last." 
 
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 LETTER XXIII. 
 
 From Dr. James Usher # , Primate of Ireland, to 
 the Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 I joyed much to receive a letter written with 
 your own hand, after so dangerous an accident, 
 and so much the more, that I understood thereby, 
 what good use you have made of that fatherly 
 chastisement, wherewith it hath pleased God (with 
 so gracious an event) to visit you, for the con- 
 tinuance of whose blessings toward you my pray- 
 ers shall never be wanting. The public troubles 
 that are feared from Scotland, begin now to drown 
 all the thoughts we have had either of our own, 
 or our friends private grievances. The first day 
 of July came out that Protestation of the Co- 
 venanters, which manifested how guilefully they 
 have circumvented their good King with a sem- 
 
 * This learned and pious Prelate was born in Dublin 15S0, 
 was made Bishop of Meath in 1621, and Primate in 1624 ; he 
 died in March 1655-6. Cromwell was proud of expressing his 
 regard for so great and good a man, and took care that a com- 
 petent allowance was made him. 
 
 f The Solemn League and Covenant. 
 
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 blance of a pretended peace. The 29th of the 
 same month, at four of the clock in the morning, 
 his Majesty went in poste from Barwick, and after- 
 wards rested at Theobalds, whence he now (with 
 safety of his sacred person) expecteth the issue of 
 that confused assembly, which is to begin on 
 Monday next. In that same month of July, vic- 
 torious Duke Bernard * died of a burning fever. 
 Yesterday I received the first entire copy of my 
 book and I now give order that one of them 
 shall be presently sent down unto you. How my 
 woods of the Lisson are used, your Lordship may 
 see by the inclosed letter of Mr. Chambers. Whe- 
 ther that Mr. Church which he speaketh of be 
 the man whom your Lordship committed the care 
 of marking the trees unto, I know not ; and thus 
 doth Sir Thomas Staples serve his own turn sure 
 enough ; but for the payment of his rent, return- 
 eth me for answer, that there is no money in the 
 country. I should take it for a great favour at 
 his hands, that I should have no rent paid me at 
 all, and that he would leave my woods entire and 
 unwasted unto my successor. Whereof I know 
 your Lordship will have a care also, when God 
 shall restore you unto your perfect strength : for 
 
 * Duke Bernard of Saxony. He was esteemed one of the 
 greatest Captains of the age, and died at Neubourg on the 
 Rhine, 18 July, 1639. 
 
 t In this year Archbishop Usher published in Dublin, his ce- 
 lebrated and long expected work, intitled, " Britannicarum £c- 
 clesiarum Antiqvitates" which he dedicated to Charles I. 
 
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 which none shall more heartily pray than, 
 Your Lordship's most faithful 
 
 friend and loving brother, 
 Termon-feckin*, Ja. Armachanus. 
 
 Aug. 10, 1639. 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 To the Right Reverend Father 
 in God, my very good Lord 
 and brother, the Lo. Bishop 
 of Derrye, These DD. 
 
 LETTER XXIV. 
 
 From Sir Christopher Wandesford to the Lord 
 Bishop of Derry. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 My absence from hence these 3 weeks caused 
 my so long silence, and it falls out to be at a 
 time when affairs are great and weighty. You 
 hear of my Lord Deputy going to England by Sir 
 George RadclifFe, He tells me that he advised 
 your Lordship to come up, whereof I made a 
 great scruple ; but when I find by Sir John Clot- 
 
 * Termon-feckin, or Terfeckan, a palace belonging to the See 
 of Armagh j it is in the County of Lowth, barony of Ferrard, and 
 about three miles and a half from Drogheda ; a Monastery was 
 founded here in the year 665. Usher was the last Primate who 
 ?nade it his residence. 
 
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 worthy *, that you are able to go to Deny, I am 
 in hope to see your Lordship here shortly ; but it 
 is under such a safe caution for your coming, 
 that I dare not say I wish it absolutely. My 
 Lord purposeth to go about Tuesday next to take 
 the sword the beginning of the next week, but I 
 think he cannot be soon ready. The Letter for 
 the dean of Christ's Church is come at last by the 
 packet on Wednesday. I had much to say to you, 
 more than I can think fit to write. The business 
 of * Scotland I fear is very bad still. I pity the 
 state of that Church extremely, and not of that 
 only. The business of my Lord Chancellor, tve 
 fear, carries my Lord over : his Lordship is at 
 liberty to go when he hath answered the charge, 
 which I believe, seeing the Deputy goes, he will 
 be slow to do. My wife hath been at Chester 
 this fortnight, and I expect her, and two of my 
 poor Danbys ^ children, the first wind. My Lord 
 Dillon J and myself are to be Justices. Your fellow 
 Commissioners (it seems) act their parts well. 
 
 * Sir John Qotworthy, ancestor to the present Earl of Mas- 
 sareene in Ireland. He is mentioned particularly by Lord Cla- 
 rendon in his Account of the First Debate in the House of Com- 
 mons, November 1G40, when he followed Pyrn in his Recapitu- 
 lation of Grievances, and the Maladministration of Lord Straf- 
 ford in Ireland- He was one of Lord Strafford's greatest enemies. 
 
 f Carte, in his Life of the Duke of Ormond, mentions a Mr. 
 Danby, who was knighted with Mr. George Wentvvorth, by 
 Lord Wentworth the day he was sworn in as Lord Deputy. 
 
 % Robert, Lord Dillon, of Kilkenny West, and Sir C. Wan- 
 desford, Master of the Rolls, Lords Justices, sworn Sept. 12, 1639 # 
 
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 My Lord, I could wish I might be longer than I 
 dare be. God Almighty bless you with health 
 and strength. Farewell. I am, 
 
 Your Lordship's most 
 affectionate faithful servant, 
 Aug. 30, 1639. Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 LETTER XXV. 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your procession of horse and foot about 
 Fawne * is a discreet act, and so shall it be to in- 
 cite all the country about you to do the like. 
 There be, you know, in the six Counties of the 
 North, some considerable number of men and 
 arms (I suppose) about 4000 to be found and 
 provided by the planters and servitors, the order- 
 ing whereof hath been committed to one Gryme. 
 He now gives me a list of the defects ; we know 
 not well what to direct, for considering most of 
 them are of the Scotch nation, I know not whe- 
 ther it may be safe to compel them to provide 
 more arms — let me have your opinion. I like not 
 this tumultuary quarrelling in the markets ; for 
 
 * Otherwise, I believe, called Fahan, six miles North-west of 
 Derry, on Loughswilly, in Inishowen. Here was formerly a 
 noble Monastery, and at this time must have been the residence 
 of the Bishops of Deny. 
 
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 God sake settle some discreet course with Sir W. 
 Stewart, and the rest for the preservation of the 
 like, lest the humor proceed too far. Some course 
 shall be thought of for watch, and beacons to be 
 set up, and your Lordship shall hear from me 
 about it. The King's pinnace, the Whelp, and 
 one other ship, is now upon your coast ; that of the 
 gallies shall be thought of. There is a course 
 taken for the Scotchmen to trade upon security. 
 By letters two days since, we understand my 
 Lord Lieutenant is better than he was, but that 
 his looseness and gout trouble him still, yet so as 
 he goeth abroad. The Parliament begun some- 
 thing roughly. The Commons desired a confer- 
 ence with the Lords upon three things : 1st. Con- 
 cerning Religion ; 2d. To secure their property 
 in their goods and estates ; 3dly. To obtain a 
 pardon from the King for what should be spoken 
 in Parliament. The King understanding this, 
 came the next morning to the Lords house, and 
 expressed so much there, that the Lords resolved 
 to treat upon the supply before these things were 
 to be thought of. This the Commons disliked, 
 and desired a second conference, which was not 
 disclosed the 28th of April, when our letters came 
 away ; but our author hoped the Commons would 
 be drawn to comply with the opinion of the Lords. 
 In the mean time here is a printed declaration set 
 out by the King, " wherein narratively all that 
 happened since the pacification at Barwick, is set 
 forth, what the articles then agreed upon were, 
 
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 wherein broken by the Covenanters, what hath 
 been treated by these Petitioners since with his 
 Majesty :" in all which the King's cause hath 
 gained very much, and the treason of the other 
 party fully discovered, particularly in a short let- 
 ter which they writ to the French King, which 
 is printed in French and English, and the conclu- 
 sion expresses a resolution to reduce them by 
 force, unless they submit, in which case mercy is 
 tendered unto them. The subjects of England 
 are exhorted to supply this occasion by the exam- 
 ple of Ireland, which is set down. This is all I 
 know for the present. God bless us all, farewell. 
 
 Your Lordship's most 
 
 affectionate servant, 
 Dublin, May 7, 1640. Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 The consideration of Captain Benson must be 
 left to the Earl of Ormond, who disposeth of those 
 offices; I will recommend him to his Lordship, 
 but I fear all places are disposed of. 
 
 Since the other part was writ, I received this 
 morning a packet from my Lord of the 2d of this 
 month, whereby I perceive his looseness and gout 
 continue still *, but in no such extremity but 
 that he is able to go abroad every day, and I un- 
 derstand the service he doth at this time is admir- 
 able. The Commons are unruly, like to be dis- 
 
 * In a letter from Sir C. Wandesforde to Sir G. RadclifFe, dated 
 the following month, in speaking of this illness of Lord Strafford, 
 he says, " God Almighty restore his Lordship to health •. Prayer 
 is now all the service we can perform." 
 
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 solved, for they will needs have their grievances 
 (the same they call such which I mentioned be- 
 fore) first treated of before supply. The Lords 
 are of the contrary opinion ; hereupon they differ, 
 and the King required them to give a peremptory 
 answer, whether they would supply or not in the 
 present. Of this they took time to give answer 
 till Monday last : in the mean time they did sit 
 all Saturday advising upon it till 6 o'clock at 
 night. What is done we know not (for the mes- 
 senger came aw T ay before they did rise), but we 
 have no great hope left that they will do reason ; 
 but I doubt the House is dissolved before this 
 time *. The meeting of the army is to be put off 
 for a month both here and in England, though 
 we give other reasons in the proclamation, which 
 you shall have shortly afterwards, for it is print- 
 ing, yet we cannot make provisions sooner. 
 
 Farewell, yours, 
 May 8, 1640. Chr. Wandes. 
 
 * 1640, May 5, Parliament dissolved. 
 
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 LETTER XXVL 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I have received this day letters of the 13 and 
 of the 21 of this month, which assure me of my 
 Lord Lieutenant's perfect recovery ; so perfect, Sir 
 G. RadclitTe writes, that he hath not seen him 
 better these seven years. No certain day yet ap- 
 pointed for his coming out, but I suppose he is 
 upon his way by this time. Sir George was to 
 come forth upon Thursday last. 
 
 This great action of war proceeds still : moneys 
 are had out of 1,-390,000 of bullion, which the 
 Merchants of London brought to the Mint. They 
 are content to lend the same to the King for pre- 
 sent supply. 
 
 The Queen safely delivered of a son, who is 
 christened the Duke of Glocester*. Thus wish* 
 ing your Lordship all good health, I rest 
 Your Lordship's 
 
 affectionate faithful servant, 
 Dublin, Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 July 27, 1640. 
 
 * Henry, third son of Charles the First and Henrietta. He 
 was born at Oatlands, July 8, 3 640. He was declared, by his 
 Royal Father, Duke of Gloucester, and Earl of Cambridge) and 
 was so styled in 1641 ; but not created Duke till May 13, 1659. 
 He died in 1660, s. p. 
 
 F2 
 
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 LETTER XXVII. 
 
 From the same to the same *. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 If what you write of the Scotch Meeting be 
 true, the business will be soon ended, but I fear 
 they have too much encouragement to proceed 
 from the unreadiness they find in us to assail 
 them. This copy of a Petition styled as you see, 
 I found yesterday walking up and down this town. 
 If it be true, as I believe it to be, it is an untoward 
 expression of their grievances, and portends no 
 good. I have not heard a word since my last out 
 of England : this deep silence makes me suspect 
 things are not so well as we could wish them. 
 All the comfort is, my Lord f proceeds on to his 
 strength, thank God. Thus wishing your Lord- 
 ship all happiness, I remain your Lordship's 
 
 most affectionate humble servant, 
 Dublin, Chr. Wandesforde. 
 
 August 14, 1640. 
 
 * Sir Christopher Wandesforde was at this time Lord Deputy 
 in the absence of Lord Strafford. 
 
 f Lord Strafford, whose troubles soon after, and the appre- 
 hensions of those which were like to ensue in Ireland, as well as 
 in England, affected the writer of this letter so much, that he 
 died suddenly the December following, universally lamented, 
 says Carte, as a man of great prudence, moderation, virtue, and 
 integrity. 
 
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 LETTER XXVIII. 
 
 From Mr. George Carr * to the Lord Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 The departure of the bearer prevents me to 
 give your Lordship any advertisement of news, 
 better or worse, touching my Lord, in regard 
 there hath come no Packet from the other side, 
 since the last brought by Mr. Smith touching the 
 settlement of this Government in the Lords Jus- 
 tices. Only we have it reported that my Lord 
 Justice Dillon is to be called over to the other 
 side, and Sir John Borlase -f- to be, in his stead, 
 the other Justice here. Commission for this, 
 they say, comes by a packet which is yet at Holly- 
 head. The ground of this change, they say, is 
 
 * Mr. George Carr is frequently mentioned in Lord Strafford's 
 letters, and also in Dr. Whitaker's Collection just published. In 
 a letter from Sir C. Wandesforde to Sir G. RadclifFe, he is men- 
 tioned with great respect in the following terms: "What I 
 write of Mr. Carr, I protest, the man deserves, and a thousand 
 times more, for I hold him very worthy of great estimation, and 
 encouragement." 
 
 f The Government of Ireland was abandoned to Sir William 
 Parsons and Sir John Borlase, two Puritan Lords Justices, with- * 
 out abilities or character, and full fraught with that party viru- 
 lence, which is readily imbibed by men of mean understandings, 
 and illiberal principles. Leland. 
 
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 upon some complaints made by the Committee 
 that went from hence against the Lord Dillon. I 
 have seen the complaints, and they seem very, 
 trivial * ; besides his Lordship hath not been re- 
 quired to make any defence. So as I cannot see 
 any reason to credit this report further than that 
 it is so general upon some letters brought over. 
 There is nothing to sway our belief touching my 
 Lord, save saying that it is believed on the other 
 side that his Lordship is in no danger, and other 
 reports otherwise. They say that all particular 
 Committees there, were, a fortnight since, sus- 
 pended for fourteen days, that the business of 
 state might be wholly that time agitated. Where- 
 upon it is imagined, that my Lord's trial would 
 be this last week ; but of this we shall hear very 
 shortly, and then I hope nothing discomfortable 
 on that behalf ; my Lord's Council, as I hear, 
 being very confident. I hear Sir George Rad- 
 cliffe is removed from the Gatehouse to the Fleet, 
 which is the better Prison of the two, but no 
 charge against him as yet. One there is against 
 my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, as is re- 
 
 * The Irish Committee, says Leland, proceeded to remon- 
 strate against Lord Dillon, as a person unfit to be entrusted 
 with the administration of Irish government ; and Charles list- 
 ened to their frivolous objections. In a letter from Sir C. Wan- 
 desforde to Sir G. Radcliffe, dated in the June following, he 
 says, in speaking of Lord Dillon, " We now find your absence 
 (Sir G. Radcliffe was then in London) in the House ; and were 
 not the cause of the King supported by my Lord Dillon, I know 
 not what would become of us." 
 
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 ported, but I have not seen it. I would gladly 
 have staid this bearer, till the packet came over, 
 which must be here before Wednesday next, or 
 else the Parliament here cannot be continued : 
 they say this packet brings authority in that be- 
 half for conhrmance thereof ; but the winds are 
 yet extreme high and cross, unless this rain alter 
 them. When the Packet comes, if any thing 
 worth the advertisement, your Lordship shall 
 have it. So daily praying for happy news, I pre- 
 sent my humble service to your Lordship, &c. 
 
 George Carre. 
 
 Dublin, this 23d 
 of January, 1640. 
 
 I hear there is lately come over to England an 
 Ambassador from France, demanding perform- 
 ance of former conditions upon the sudden com- 
 ing over, and that the King's army in the North 
 are doubted that they will disband, and that, 
 thereupon, the English begin to be more jealous 
 of the Scots, but no certainty, and therefore 
 your Lordship will burn this scribble. 
 
7 C 2 
 
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 LETTER XXIX. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 My Lord Dillon hath received a particular 
 letter from his Majesty, acknowledging his faith- 
 fulness in his service, and that it is without any 
 diminution of his Majesty's esteem, that he is 
 now called over to the other side, so as upon his 
 repair to the other side, Sir John Borlase is ap- 
 pointed to be joined with the Lord Justice Par- 
 sons, as Lords Justices here. I believe they will 
 have the same instructions given them by the 
 Council here, that was at last concluded upon for 
 my Lord Dillon and Sir William Parsons, and 
 there they are left at large for disposing of Church 
 Livings, saving my Lord Lieutenant's right in all 
 things : but they being here upon the place, if 
 they should not advertise my Lord first (as I be- 
 lieve they will) upon any avoidance, my Lord's 
 disposal will come too late. This I thought fit to 
 advertise your Lordship of, to make what use 
 thereof your Lordship thinks good. I do believe 
 the inclosed will give your Lordship full account 
 of my Lord's business on the other side. My let- 
 ters give very good hopes in that particular, and 
 that all will conclude with his Lordship's safety, 
 which God Almighty grant, as my confidence is 
 
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 he will ; for I believe on all hands that his Lord- 
 ship's chief est friends (your Lordship will imagine 
 whom I mean) are very constant *, as in truth 
 his Lordship's faith and zeal most justly deserve. 
 Thus with my own most humble respects to your 
 Lordship, I rest, your Lordship's humbly 
 
 to be commanded, 
 Dublin Castle, George Carr-J~. 
 
 9 of February, 1640. 
 
 I beg leave to insert a clause, which I received 
 in a letter from Lord Baltinglass last night, viz. 
 " I trust my Lord of Deny and you amongst you 
 look to the rents of Glaslough : pray you write 
 me word how that business stands, and how my 
 rents are paid in all places." My Lord, in other 
 parts of this letter I find extreme comfortable 
 hopes that all will go well with my Lord J ; that 
 his Lordship (to tell it your Lordship in your ear) 
 trusts extremely well of his cause, having God 
 and the King on his side, and the Lord's house 
 fairly inclined towards him. There came likewise 
 a Signet Letter in my Lord's behalf, to stay all ac- 
 counts to the King from his Lordship till an end 
 
 * The event proved the contrary. 
 
 f In a letter from Lord Strafford to Sir Adarn Loftus, dated 
 Feb. 4, 1640, he says, " Pray assist George Car with your coun- 
 sel in things that he may move you in concerning me." 
 
 In a letter from Sir George Radcliffe to the Marquis of Or- 
 mond, he desires him to take George Carr into his care and pro- 
 tection : which letter is dated 18 Nov. 1643. 
 
 { Lord Strafford. 
 
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 of this business. There likewise came a Letter to 
 my Lords Justices, and to be communicated to 
 the Council, under the King's own hand, in my 
 Lord's special favour. Likewise a Signet Letter 
 authorising my Lord to dispose of his lands here 
 in Ireland, notwithstanding his Lordship's accu- 
 sation, or what may follow thereon. My Lord, 
 I am, your Lordship's most 
 
 humble servant, 
 16 February. G. Carr. 
 
 LETTER XXX. 
 
 From the Bishop of Derry to his Wife, 
 Mrs. Bramhall. 
 
 My dearest Joy, 
 
 Thou mayest see by my delay in writing, that 
 I am not willing to write while things are in those 
 conditions *. But shal] we receive good at the 
 hands of God, and shall we not receive ill? He 
 
 * 1640, 27 February, Committee appointed to draw up a 
 Charge of Impeachment against the Lord Chancellor, Sir Richard 
 Bolton, John Lord Bishop of Derry, Sir Gerard Lowther, Lord 
 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir George Radcliffe. 
 The Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice entered into 
 recognisances. Sir George Radcliffe was in England. The Bishop 
 of Derry remained in confinement till 1644, when he was dis- 
 charged. They were all impeached, to deprive Lord Strafford of 
 the benefit of their testimony, particularly of that of Sir George 
 Radclitle, who was the best qualified to assist him on his trial. 
 
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 gives and takes away, blessed be his holy name ! 
 I have "been near a fortnight at the black rod, 
 charged with a treason. Never any man was 
 more innocent of that foul crime the ground is 
 only my reservedness. God in his mercy, I do 
 not doubt, will send us many merry and happy 
 days together after this, when this storm is blown 
 over. But this is a time of humiliation for the 
 present. By all the love between us, I require 
 thee that thou do not cast down thyself, but bear 
 it with a chearful mind, and trust in God that he 
 will deliver us. I send all the horses down ex- 
 cept mine own nag, which John Field looks to. 
 I would have thee to come up, and only Isabell -f~ 
 with thee, and two servants. I hope by that time 
 you come to Dublin all things will be cleared. 
 Whatsoever monies Thomas Rowth hath, bring 
 up with thee, for we shall have need of all and 
 more. In thy absence and mine, let my sister 
 govern the house at Fawne, and live privately 
 there ; I know Mrs. Wandesforde will assist her. 
 Give Thomas Rowth charge in your absence and 
 mine to take care of the husbandry at Fawne, 
 
 * His enemies examined all his actions minutely, and could 
 not find the slightest trace of private advantage to sully the 
 purity of his character. He defied them to shew where he had 
 received so much as a pair of gloves by any part of his conduct. 
 Finding themselves unable to prove any thing particular against 
 him, the prosecution was dropped, and their malice over-ruled 
 by the authority of the King. 
 
 f His daughter Isabell, afterwards wife to Sir James Graham, 
 
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 and desire Captain Vaughan to occupy it ; I be- 
 lieve he will do so much for me. I send you a 
 copy of the charge ; my Lord Chancellor * and 
 the Chief Justice -f- believe it not to be of any 
 great moment. I suppose the Archdeacon % will 
 come up with you, his own business requires it. 
 If he do not, send to Thomas Halley to come 
 along with you. My blessing on the children ; 
 my love to all my sisters, and all our friends. 
 God Almighty send us a speedy and an happy 
 meeting. 
 
 Your loving and faithful husband, 
 March 12, 1640. Joh. Derensis. 
 
 Sweet Heart, upon some better consideration 
 let Thomas Halley come with you, not the Arch- 
 deacon. Put up all the plate into a great trunk, 
 and when you come leave the key of it with my 
 sister. 
 
 Thus superscribed — 
 M To my dear and loving wife Mrs. Ellen Bram- 
 
 hall at Deny," These. 
 
 * Sir Richard Bolton. f Sir Gerard Lowther. 
 
 X Edward Stanhope, Archdeacon of Derry. In the follow- 
 ing year, I see a petition of his referred to the consideration of 
 the Committee of Grievances. 
 
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 77 
 
 LETTER XXXI. 
 
 From Sir George Wentworth to the Bishop of 
 Derry. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I have not written unto you since my coming 
 hither, which I shall not pardon myself for, and 
 if you be more charitable, I have still the more 
 to thank you for. Sir, We hear nothing here but 
 that the war continues, to which there is more 
 want of money than men, and if the former be 
 supplied as they say it will, the latter cannot fail, 
 and the good effects of both will, I hope, by God's 
 blessing, not be found wanting to the honour, 
 good, and quiet of King and Country. The re- 
 port is, that the Spaniards make large offers of 
 supply, but the performance is doubted : the com- 
 mon sort here affects not that nation like those in 
 Ireland, nor do they like they should be trusted 
 at any time ; for all that, I wish we had their 
 money *, for there is want of it for the present, 
 though for the future they say there is enough. 
 5000 arms have been taken, bound for Scotland, 
 with amunition, and some field pieces ; in lieu of 
 this they threaten to attempt upon England, and 
 be as great Lords here, as they take themselves 
 
 * At this time a loan of 40,000 pounds was extorted from 
 the Spanish Merchants, who had bullion in the Tower, exposed 
 to the attempts of the King. 
 
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 to be there, but this frights not. The Convoca- 
 tion hath concluded their work with h's Majesty's 
 approbation, and now sent them to York to have 
 them done there ; only one Bishop refused to 
 sign them, and was sent into the Tower for it. 
 These constitutions, they say, are very much agree- 
 ing with the complaints of these times, yet all 
 the Civilians made complaint against some thing 
 done in these contraries, to his Majesty, at the 
 Council Board, when Sir Henry Martin appeared 
 but came away not well pleased, and so the busi- 
 ness remains unaltered. There was one Bishop 
 Mainwaring *, mightily complained of in the 
 higher House of Parliament, and the noise goes 
 that the displeasure was so great at him here, as 
 he is to be removed into Ireland ; the truth of 
 this I cannot affirm, though there may be proba- 
 bility in it. My Lord Primate -j- is very much 
 followed here upon Sundays, hath been often with 
 his Majesty, and well used, but I cannot well tell 
 
 * Dr. Roger Mainwaring, appointed to the "Bishopric of St. 
 David's in 1655. In 1628 Dr. Mainwaring preached a Sermon, 
 which, for its unconstitutional doctrines, and its being printed 
 by the special command of the King, was burnt, and its author 
 impeached ; in consequence of which, he was fined and con- 
 fined, and enlarged on conditions of an apology, which he made 
 on his knees at the bar of the House of Commons. Notwith- 
 standing all this, Charles pardoned him, and made him a Bishop. 
 ] n this year, 1640, he incurred the popular indignation, which 
 never ceased persecuting him, until death delivered him out of 
 their hands. He was of the ancient family of the Manwaryngs 
 of Cheshire. f Usher. 
 
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 79 
 
 whether he is commanded to print his Sermons, 
 or to state the question of Scotland ; I hear it 
 said, the latter, Mr. Pryn is very much with his 
 Lordship, who lives at Warwick-house, whose 
 company we have sometimes. Mr. Washington 
 will shortly be in Ireland to supply the place of 
 Provost. I must intreat your assistance and fa- 
 vour to him, I hope the Gentleman will deserve 
 it, and I must thank you for it and him, desiring 
 that my Lord's bounty may, by your means, be 
 put into his hands with what convenient speed 
 you can ; I shall obtain the signing of it here, if 
 you please to put it in that way. I have not 
 heard from you what becomes of the College 
 lease, but hope well of it; if it proves otherwise 
 we are undone, and therefore recommend it once 
 more to your care. 
 
 My Lord, your friend and 
 humble servant, 
 June 11, 1640. G. Wentworth. 
 
 LETTER XXXII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 These are in answer of yours from Clogher, 
 which may assure you, I shall take your advice, 
 and send my man amongst the College tenants, 
 with commands for them to pay their rents, or 
 
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 otherwise I will sue every man of them this next 
 week, my servant shall be with them. Mr. Stew- 
 ard, I hear, hath received the monies, and yet 
 does not send me an exchange bill for it, which 
 is not fair by his leave, considering I must 
 pay it to the College. I hear little good news out 
 of England, the Scotch, they say, are invading 
 it *, and the English will not resist : they come 
 with prayer, public proclamation of their allegi- 
 ance and innocence, good intentions to their 
 brethren, but who are they, I wist not, I think 
 the Irish must do it. I think the old P. -j~ would 
 have willingly staid; his departure was without 
 taking leave of any, that I hear of. My Lord 
 Lieutenant, I hear, is in exceeding good health, 
 hath commanded the Contidente to attend for 
 him at Chester. God grant him health, and well 
 amongst us. 
 
 Your Lordship's most affectionate 
 friend and servant, 
 19 August, 1640. G. Wentworth. 
 
 * Nine days after the writing of this letter, the Seotch army 
 routed the English at Newburn, Aug. 28, who were commanded 
 by Lord Viscount Conway. 
 
 f Provost. 
 
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 81 
 
 LETTER XXXIII. 
 
 From Primate Usher to the Lord Bishop of 
 Derry, 
 
 Salutem in Christo Jesu. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 The Commissioners from the Parliament 
 there, are required by the Lords of the Council 
 here, to produce on Monday next some precedent 
 for their proceedings in any capital cause, since 
 the time of Poynings Act, otherwise than by Bill : 
 which if they cannot do (as it is verily believed 
 they cannot) no other form of judicatory power 
 is like to be granted unto them ; and so all dan- 
 ger, so far as concerneth the main of the matter, 
 is past. Untill that point be determined, we for- 
 bear to proceed further : although, if that fail, as 
 well that which you prescribe as all other likely 
 means shall be assayed, and pursued to the utmost 
 for the compassing of that which you desire. And 
 although the thoughts of the highest are for the 
 present wholly taken up with the apprehension 
 both of the voting down of Episcopacy by the 
 House of Commons, and the hot pursuit of some 
 troubles which are conceived to be raised as well 
 in England as in Scotland : yet shall no occasion 
 be pretermitted of compassing your desires before 
 
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 your Parliament Committee be dismissed, which 
 is thought will be about a fortnight hence. Sir 
 John Clotworthy * hath presented a far larger 
 Petition to the House of Commons here for the 
 abolishing of Episcopacy in Ireland, than that 
 which you sent unto me, and signed with a huge 
 number of hands. When I shewed unto the King 
 that passage of your letter, that it were no diffi- 
 cult task (if that were thought the way) to get 
 half of those hands to a contrary Petition, and 
 50,000 of better number in Ulster to the contrary, 
 he twice wished me to direct you to pursue it ; 
 and whilst that the Bishops are there together, it 
 were not amiss that as many hands as could be, 
 sjiould be procured for the continuance of Epis- 
 copacy ; one schedule containing the subscription 
 of the Clergy of the land (which are no bishops), 
 and \> others of the laity of the 4 Provinces to the 
 same effect, as we are like to be here by the 
 means aforesaid. Mr. Rowley hath moved no 
 such matter here as was reported. How far I 
 have proceeded in the saving of the rights of the 
 Church (as much as the violence of the present 
 storm would permit), I have declared in my let- 
 ters to the Archbishop of Dublin and the rest 
 of the Lords of the Convocation. Somewhat more 
 I have prevailed since in the matter of those cus- 
 
 * This Sir John Clotworthy, an Irish Gentleman, supported 
 all the measures of the opposition of the day. 
 
 f Lancelot Bulkeley. See his Life in Harris's Continuation o! 
 Srr James Ware, vol. I. p. 355. 
 
ItAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 toms which they term barbarous, which I will 
 signify unto them upon the next occasion of writ- 
 ing. I have had much ado to work with his Ma- 
 jesty for the necessary relief of the Scottish Mini- 
 Sters which are here : and it would be very un- 
 seasonable that the Ministers of that nation which 
 are there, should come over at this time and put 
 him unto a further charge, which (God knows) 
 he is little able to bear as things now stand with 
 him. I should therefore wish that both they and 
 Mr. Matthews also should continue where they 
 are, and I will move his Majesty to take order 
 with the 11 Justices and our new Lord Lieute- 
 nant (the Earl of Leicester *) that provision may 
 be made for them there. Thus with the remem- 
 brance of my heartiest respects unto your good 
 wife (whom I have always found to be as you 
 have represented her unto me), I commend you 
 both unto the blessing of Almighty God, and 
 ever rest 
 
 Your faithful friend 
 and loving brother, 
 (No date.) Ja. Armachanus. 
 
 * The Earl of Leicester was both by King and Parliament 
 (then sitting) agreed upon as a fit person to succeed Lord 
 Strafford in the Lieutenancy of Ireland. But he never went to 
 his Government, discouraged either by the fate of his predeces- 
 sor, or the ill condition of the affairs of Ireland, which took 
 place after the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1641. He ws£ 
 appointed, May 25, 1641, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 
 
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 LETTER XXXIV*. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 My very good Lord, 
 
 However I have been silent all this while 
 (expecting every day to get from his Majesty 
 some such answer as I might hope would give you 
 full contentment), yet I assure you my care never 
 slackened, in soliciting your cause at Court with 
 as much vigilance as if it did touch mine own 
 proper person. I never intermitted an occasion 
 of mediating with his Majesty in your behalf, who 
 still pitied your case, acknowledging the faithful- 
 ness of your service both to the church and to 
 him, avowed that you were no more guilty of 
 treason than himself, and assured me that he 
 would do for you all that lay in his power. My 
 Lord Strafford, the very night -f- before his suf- 
 fering (which was most Christian, and magnani- 
 mous ad stitporem usque sent me to the King, 
 giving me in charge, among other particulars, to 
 
 * This letter of Primate. Usher was written in answer to one 
 from the Bishop, dated April 26, 1641. 
 
 t 11th of May, 1641. He was beheaded the day following. 
 
 X Of all persons, says Sir George Radeliffe, he was the freest 
 from fear, going to death without the least perturbation that 
 way. 
 
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 85 
 
 put him in mind of you *, and of the other two 
 Lords that are under the same pressure; who 
 thereupon declared unto me, that he had already- 
 given order, that the Parliament was not to pro- 
 ceed in their judgement, untill they could shew 
 some precedent of such legal process exercised 
 there since Poynings Act, telling them that he 
 was loath to give into new courses, and wishing 
 them to acquaint him with what they had to say 
 against you, that he might do them right therein 
 as he found cause. All attendance upon the 
 King and Council for the despatching of the same, 
 and upon the Committee of the House of Lords, 
 together with the incessant interpellation of others, 
 doth so distract me, that I do not know whether 
 to turn myself at this present, whereof your son 
 is in part a witness, who can tell you what shift I 
 make to scribble these few lines to you. And so 
 with remembrance of my hearty commendations 
 to your good wife, and my most hearty prayers 
 for a happy ending to your great trouble, I re- 
 commend you to God's blessing, and ever rest 
 your assured loving brother, 
 
 ready to do you all service, 
 
 (No date.) Ja. Armachanus. 
 
 The Petition you sent me against Episcopacy 
 will be to no purpose. If we can save it here (for 
 
 * Upon this the Bishop was restored to his liberty, without 
 any public acquittal. The charge, however, still lay dormant 
 against him, to be awakened whenever his enemies found a fit 
 opportunity. 
 
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 KAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 which I can tell you we are put to our utmost)* 
 there will be no need to fear any thing that 
 moveth from thence* 
 
 His Majesty told me he made a conscience to 
 take any part of my Lord Strafford's estate unto 
 himself, but intended to dispose it wholly to the 
 benefit of his wife and children *. 
 
 LETTER XXXV. 
 
 From Mr. Totesbury to the Honorable Captain 
 Arthur Chichester and Sir Arthur Ty- 
 ringiiam, Knight, and one of his Majesty's 
 Privy Council of Ireland, and Commissioners 
 of his Majesty's Forces for the Province of 
 Ulster. Present these. Haste. 
 
 Thus indorsed, 4 December, 1641. — Mr. Totes- 
 bury to my Lord Donegal in the wars 1(>41, 
 giving an account of his sad condition, and 
 what the Irish were doing about him. 
 
 Most Honorable, 
 
 The dangers and difficulties I am in, are so 
 many that I am so much distracted that I know 
 not well how or what to write or do. Upon 
 
 * Even a few weeks after Strafford's execution, says Hume, 
 the very Parliament that condemned him, remitted to his chil- 
 dren the more severe consequences of his sentence, as if con- 
 scious, adds he, of the violence with which the prosecution had 
 been conducted. 
 
 f He was the first Earl of Donegal, created in 1647 by Charles 
 the First) and was appointed, with Sir Arthur Tyringham, to 
 
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 87 
 
 Thursday and Friday last here came in about 100 
 men forcibly into my house, with full purpose to 
 have burnt my house, and taken our goods ; and 
 what they would have done with our persons I 
 know not. But with mighty protestations of my- 
 self and my wife (whom they somewhat respect 
 for her former charity towards some of them), 
 they have forborne it for a time, but burn it they 
 say they will; and so with some victuals, and 
 drinking out most of our beer, and some pillage 
 of cadows * and trumpery, they left us, but burnt 
 7 or 8 houses that were standing about me, that 
 before were left unburn t, where they committed 
 most lamentable and barbarous cruelties in killing 
 poor women and children. As many as I could 
 preserve in hiding in private places I did, and 
 sent away before day, which I hope are escaped 
 with some messages sent by them. Here was 
 Bryan M'Cormic, Oge O'Neal's company, and 
 Con Oge's company, in garrison within sight of 
 my house, and Hugh Mergaghy and Tool O'Neil's 
 company (as they said) was two miles off towards 
 Massareene, and scouts laid out towards Lisna- 
 garvy ; and I was using all means possibly to have 
 sent a messenger away those two days, but durst 
 not, lest we had all been cut in pieces. This 
 morning I hear some news is come to them, that 
 
 command in chief within the County of Antrim, and to order 
 and dispose of places according to their discretion. Their commis- 
 sion for this command bears date the 1st of November, 1641. 
 * Irish Mantles j a sort of Blankets, I believe. 
 
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 ftAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 aid cannot come so soon as they did expect ; o? 
 else they fear some English forces to come upon 
 them ; for they are all retired out of these place*, 
 and gone into the woods towards Magherlin, kc, 
 and left all the plains without guard, which hath 
 caused me to venture this night to send away this 
 letter. Mr. Doyne's house is burnt, and his goods 
 pillaged and taken away by the country people, 
 and them that were his neighbours ; and now thus 
 in brief standeth my case. I am remaining here 
 with a small family Left naked of aid and succour, 
 being in a manner a prisoner to the enemy, be- 
 cause they have all the places about me in their 
 possession, and I cannot, without strong assist- 
 ance, stir, or do any thing without their permis- 
 sion and sufferance, or otherwise be cut in pieces. 
 I have upon my land, and near about me, as 
 much corn in stacks as in time of peace were 
 worth about ^-^OO, as much hay in stacks as at 
 least worth ^.80, and here is housing left yet 
 (notwithstanding all their burning), that may very 
 well suffice a garrison of 400 men : my house 
 would well serve 100 mem I have three barns, 
 and killhouse, and malthouse, and other large 
 houses standing unburnt in the town, besides Mr. 
 Powel's malthouse, and kill, and barn \ 4 or 5 
 other little houses and the church, and the mill, 
 and many other houses unburnt upon my land 
 within sound of a drum, within less than a quarter 
 of a mile. If you could spare a garrison to be 
 here, it would be of no little consequence ; it is a 
 
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 holt which if it be fully burnt, cannot be recalled. 
 Now if I come to Carrickfergus, I have neither 
 penny of money, nor chamber, firing, nor bit of 
 meat to put in my mouth, and my wife and 
 daughter : only I have some =g.lO worth of plate, 
 and three trunks of cloaths, and some bedding, 
 and beef, and bread, and beer enough here (but 
 that cannot be carried). If you please to take so 
 much consideration of us to send a convoy for us 
 and some of our goods, about 8 cars load or less, 
 and to take a course that I, my wife, and daugh- 
 ter may have a chamber, a tire, and sustenance 
 to keep us alive till you can send us to Dublin, 
 or into England, I will deliver my house and 
 the rest of my goods and victuals to whom you 
 please to appoint, with corn and hay : there is 
 wheat sowed upon my land, that in time of peace 
 were worth ^.300, and I must leave abundance 
 of household stuff behind me, that I cannot take 
 with me. But unless you think good to place a 
 garrison here before my removing out of my 
 house, the house will sure be burnt the next 
 night, and all the corn and hay destroyed. If 
 you cannot spare a garrison to come hither imme- 
 diately, then if you please to send 100 men with 
 7 or 8 cars, we will, God willing, come along 
 with them, and leave all the rest to hazard. But 
 if a garrison come along to stay here, I dare ven- 
 ture to be -convoyed back to Carrickfergus with 
 20 men : if come in time, they must be here by 
 Monday night or Tuesday morning; here is corn 
 
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 enough, and a mill to grind it, to serve 3 or 400 
 men till May-day, which will all be destroyed un- 
 less it be taken in time. I only desire to preserve 
 my wife's life in some safe place, where they may 
 serve God, and gain their bread by their labour. 
 My mares are stolen, and my cows and sheep ; 
 but they left their colts behind, which are three 
 two-year old colts of my Lord Conway's Spaniard's 
 horse getting, which once I would not have parted 
 with for ^.40. If you please to send for them, 
 I will present them amongst you ; the muskets, 
 armour, and powder I have yet in safety. It may 
 be at the time the messenger returneth, the ways 
 will not be so open as they are this night. There- 
 fore, I humbly desire you not to write back again 
 with them, but only thus much that you would 
 require me to appear before you in person, and 
 then you will grant me protection to stay at home 
 according to my desire betwixt this, and such a 
 morning or day, by which I shall be made under- 
 stand that you intend to satisfy some part of my 
 desire, or by some other word you please to send 
 by the bearer to some such purpose. They say 
 an Irish company are come into the County of 
 Down, and Sir Phelymy into Tirowen, but many 
 things w r hich they speak are false. I have some 
 4 or 5 men in my family which I humbly desire 
 may be put in place of soldiers, when J shall be 
 put to my shifts for my own food ; the one is my 
 brother, another an old man my uncle. I am full 
 of trouble for the calamity we are likely to suffer 
 
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 91 
 
 for want of food. I humbly take my leave, de- 
 siring that the messenger may return with what 
 haste may be. 
 
 Your most humble servant, 
 December 4, Throgmorton Totesbury *. 
 
 1641. 
 
 I humbly desire that if you please to send sol- 
 diers hither, that you would be pleased to send 
 English officers along with them, with strict di- 
 rections that they do not do us injury, or use 
 hard measure ; and that you would be pleased to 
 direct the officers to shew me their commission 
 for so much as you shall direct them to do for 
 my own particular business; and no further I 
 desire. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 State of the County of Antrim in 1641-1642. 
 
 On the 23d of October, 1641, and within a 
 few days after, the Irish Rebels made slaughter of 
 all men, women, and children which they could 
 lay hands on, within the County of Antrim, that 
 were Protestants, burning their houses and corn : 
 and such as escaped their fury took sanctuary in 
 the towns of Carrickfergus, Belfast, Lisnegarvy, 
 
 * Totesbury is not a very uncommon name in the north of 
 Ireland. 
 
RAWDON PArKRS. 
 
 Antrim, and Lame, and the two houses of Tem- 
 ple-patrick and Edindough-carrick : all the said 
 towns and houses lying near the one to the 
 other. The rebels had the command of all the 
 rest of the Country, and within musket shot of 
 the towns, and to the very walls of the two houses, 
 until the middle of June 1642, so as, for near the 
 first 8 months of the Rebellion, no Protestant had 
 any quarter granted in that part of the County, 
 but only in those towns, and two houses ; all the 
 rest of the county being under the absolute com- 
 mand of the Rebels. About the middle of June, 
 1642, the British army marching forth, dispersed 
 the Rebels ; made several forts of earth, and left 
 men in them, which serve for great check to the 
 Rebels, formerly exercising all absoluteness of 
 dominion in that Count}", except before excepted, 
 that unless they stole over obscurely, and shel- 
 tered themselves in woods and fastnesses, that 
 County was freed in a great measure from them, 
 which is the true state of that countv. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER XXXVII. 
 
 From Sir George Radcliffe * to the Lord 
 Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 I humbly thank your Lordship for your let- 
 ter, and both your books. I presently shewed 
 the King that piece of the Scottish Liturgy 
 which concerns their ingratitude to this nation, 
 printed in the front of your Sermon J. His Ma- 
 jesty remembered it when he saw it, and indeed it 
 is a remarkable piece. In your answer to the Obser- 
 vatory there is enough said to vindicate the King's 
 right, and shew the Observator's folly ; and yet, 
 
 * In this year, 1643, Sir George was with the King at Oxford, 
 where his correspondence with the Marquis of Ormond, which 
 has been printed by Carte, proves him still to have acted as 
 Secretary for Ireland : the articles of impeachment which had 
 been exhibited against him, having tacitly been allowed to have 
 been frivolous, he was set at liberty. 
 
 f See Bramhall's Works, page 940. 
 
 % This Sermon was preached in York Minster before the Mar- 
 quis of Newcastle, being then ready to meet the Scotch army, 
 Jan. 2S, 1643. In 1648, October 1, the Marquis wrote the Bi- 
 shop the following letter : " My Lord, Your Lordship must needs 
 do me the favor as to come and dine with me to-morrow, that 
 we may discourse of a thing that concerns rne very much. There- 
 fore I beseech your Lordship not to fail me. There is little 
 hopes in the North, as Sir Thomas Glenham is newly landed 
 here with twenty more as they say. In all conditions I am and 
 will be your Lordship's most faithful servant, 
 
 Roterdam, the 1st of W. Newcastle." 
 
 October, 164S. 
 
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 UAWDON PArEUS. 
 
 with as much moderation as any that 1 have seen 
 on the argument ; for you do the Parliament all 
 the right that it can claim with any color of rea- 
 son. All the question rests in this, whether the 
 King has any personal authority or no ; or only 
 that which the Law of the land expressly gives 
 him in his politic capacity and no more. Whei eas 
 all divines maintain something to belong to Kings 
 quoad Kings, and by divine right; and that the 
 Law municipal gives no new power, but rather 
 limits the exercise of the power which they have 
 from God. So as our Kings having unlimited 
 power by the conquest, gave us the priviledges 
 and liberties which we claim by Magna C/iarta, 
 and subsequent statutes, as acts of grace and wis- 
 dom. And that our Kings have all the power 
 (politic and personal) which may stand with those 
 liberties. So as the King's power is the general 
 rule, the liberty of the subject as an exception 
 (the proof whereof lies on the subjects part); and 
 not on the contrary, the liberty of the subject, 
 and the King's power the exc eption. The differ- 
 ence of these two is more than I think is well 
 conceived, and the lull clearing thereof might 
 perhaps end the controversy, so far as words can 
 end it; which is now likely to be decided by 
 blood, if God do not stop it in his good time. I 
 am not altogether of your Lordship's mind for 
 Bishops. I believe the superintendants in Ger- 
 many have little of that order. A constant suc- 
 cession from the Apostles with sole power to give 
 
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 95 
 
 orders appropriate to them and none other (so a* 
 all other ordinations are not irregular only, but 
 void), this makes a Bishop according to the prac- 
 tise of the Catholic church, and the authority of 
 the most ancient Councils. This our Bishops 
 claim, and I believe no other church governors 
 in the reformed churches : tho' otherwise in point 
 of jurisdiction they have something like ours. 
 But if I be not much mistaken, they receive not 
 their degree by imposition of hands as ours do. 
 I think nothing can make a Priest, or a Bishop, 
 but authority from Heaven, without which all 
 succession and ordinations are not only uncanoni- 
 cal, but mere nullities. But in this and all other 
 cases Catholic custom (used, semper, ubique, ab 
 omnibus, according to Vincentius Lirinensis his 
 rules) is a sure proof of a divine law. But all 
 this I say with submission to better judgments, as 
 one who desires rather to learn than contest, and 
 therefore if I be in an error, I beseech your Lord- 
 ship instruct and inform me. Mrs. Wickham has 
 sent to her son Tobie to offer him the vicarage ; 
 she has not yet heard from him : the intercourse 
 between her and Cambridge (where Tobie is) is 
 very difficult. The Archbishop of Yorke * has pro- 
 mised her not to take advantage of the lapse. His 
 resolution is, that Mr. Pullein shall have it upon 
 Tobie's refusal, which his friends advise him to : 
 
 * John Williams, translated from Lincoln in 1641 ; he was 
 Lord Keeper. 
 
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 KAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Mr. Pullein giving bond to resign when Harry 
 Wickham is a priest and desires to accept of this 
 living, which I think is far off, for I believe 
 Harry will never desire this Benefice. We hear 
 some flying reports of good news from the North ; 
 much depends on it. God send us peace. 
 
 Your Lordship's humble servant, 
 Oxon. 20 March, 1643*. Geo. RadcliFF&< 
 
 LETTER XXXVIII. 
 
 From the Marchioness of Ormond -}~ to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Upon the receipt of a letter your Lordship 
 was pleased to send me soon after your arrival in 
 Holland, wherein you gave me some account of 
 my Lord, and that you were then upon a journey 
 into Flanders, where you hoped to advantage 
 
 * During this year the Bishop of Derry wrote a Treatise, 
 called " The Serpent Salve, or a remedy for the biting of an 
 Aspe." At this time his Lordship had come into his own Coun- 
 try, having left Ireland shortly after the breaking out of the 
 Rebellion in 1641. During his retirement he lived in Yorkshire, 
 where by his example, exhortations, and exertions in the royal 
 cause, and his prudent advice to the Marquis of Newcastle, he 
 gave new life to it. He sent the King also a considerable present 
 of Plate, and wrote many things in his favor. 
 
 f She was Elizabeth Preston, only child to Richard, the then 
 Earl of Desmond, and was married to the Earl of Ormond in 
 1629. This alliance put an end to the unhappy differences 
 which had long subsisted between the houses of Ormond and 
 Desmond, 
 
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 him ; I immediately returned an answer unto that 
 letter, and sent it unto Sir Edward Nicholas to 
 be conveyed unto you, which I fear has neither 
 as yet come to his nor your hands. And hearing 
 within these few days from Sir Richard Browne 
 that your Lordship had exprest yourself so care- 
 ful of my Lord's concernments, as you had written 
 to him, and desired that Captain Nicholas Mar- 
 tin's ship might be made stay of, and secured 
 untill he should make satisfaction of what is due 
 unto my Lord, he being now at Jersey, and de- 
 nies my Lord to have any share in that vessel, 
 alleging it belongs unto the city of Gallowaye, 
 I thought it necessary to inform your Lordship 
 thereof, and to desire that what particulars you 
 know concerning this business, and how far my 
 Lord is interested to a right sharing, that you 
 will be pleased to signify so much unto Sir George 
 Cartwright the Governor of Jersey, who has some 
 time since desired to receive some information 
 from me ; which I being not able to give him, 
 having heard nothing from my Lord concerning 
 it, gives me cause to fear that Capt ain Martin is 
 already, or will be, very suddenly dismist from 
 thence, so as the sooner your Lordship pleases to 
 send to him, and such advice to me, as you think 
 necessary, will the more advantage and oblige 
 her that is very assuredly, my Lord, your Lord- 
 ship's very assured friend and servant, 
 Caen, June 23. E. Ormonde *. 
 
 * The Earl (afterwards Duke) of Ormonde, in 1G29, re-united 
 the fortunes of the two houses Desmonde and Ormonde by mar- 
 
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 P. S. My Lord, — I shall desire the favour of 
 being informed how I may direct my letters unto 
 you, as also to know whether your Lordship hears 
 any thing of one Captain Thomas Plunket, witli 
 whom my Lord has ventured ^.900, and has 
 sent me divers letters to be conveyed unto him, 
 which are still in my hands by reason I know not 
 as yet where he is, nor how to send to him. 
 
 The Marchioness of Ormond was at Caen about 
 the year 1650. 
 
 LETTER XXXIX. 
 
 Extracts from a Letter from Sir George Rad- 
 cliffe under the Name of de Colton *, to the 
 Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's five books I got to be bound, 
 and presented them as you appointed, to the 
 Duke, the Dean, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Crowther, 
 and my own. Mr. Crowther lent his to my Lord 
 Dunkald, who bad me write to your Lordship 
 for one for him. There was a book in French, 
 printed in Holland, as is believed, entituled 
 " Apologie pour la Monarchic et L'Eglise Angli- 
 
 rying his cousin Elizabeth Preston, the only child of Richard, 
 the then Earl of Desmonde. 
 
 * The reason of his writing under the name of de Colton was, 
 perhaps, from having purchased the manors of Colton and Fair- 
 burne. 
 
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 cane : Pan 2d du Martyre de Charles Premier." 
 It is thought that the author was Mons. d'Es- 
 pagne, Ministre d'un des Eglises Francises de 
 Londres. It was commended to me by a 
 Frenchman for a very good piece, and not to be 
 met withal in this place. I pray your Lordship 
 enquire after it ; if it be to be had there, I would 
 very gladly see it. I am very weary of this place, 
 where I have acquaintances enough, but never a 
 friend with whom I may freely converse, which 
 makes me renew my thoughts of removing, either 
 near the sea-side, where I may do some business, 
 and perhaps sometimes see a friend out of Eng- 
 land, or near our English Court. But I am not 
 yet resolved whither to go. We have talked 
 much of Peace between the Protector and France, 
 and lived in expectation of the conclusion thereof 
 many weeks. The Duke of York goes not this 
 summer (as yet at least) into the field, because if 
 they agree, he must be gone out of France. Yet 
 all hangs still in suspense : and some wise men 
 think that though Cromwell would be content to 
 get the Spanish gold in America (to which pur- 
 pose his great fleet is thought to be now at Cuba), 
 yet he will protect Flanders for the Spaniard 
 against France, lest France prove too powerful a 
 neighbour both to England and Holland. ' I long 
 time since took some notes out of Spalato's 3d 
 Volume : if your Lordship have it by you, or 
 can readily come by it, I pray your Lordship look 
 it over, Lib. 7- cap. 12. Nu. 119- wherein there 
 
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 is a passage which may concern the question of 
 Schismatics, where he delivers his opinion how 
 we may communicate with Papists, and they with 
 us, in the external acts of religion without sin or 
 scandal. I should be glad to know your Lord- 
 ship's judgment of what he writes. But I fear 
 that I may trespass too much upon your Lord- 
 ship's time and better occasions and imployment; 
 therefore I beg your pardon and your prayers. 
 
 Your Lordship's most 
 humble servant, 
 
 G. DE COLTON. 
 
 Neither date nor place in this letter. There is 
 an indorsement which says Pen is. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 " For my Lord Bishop of Deny, at the Golden 
 
 Pomegranate in the High Street. — At the 
 
 Hague." 
 
 LETTER XL. 
 From the same * to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Procureur here tells me that your prin- 
 pal money is paid at Rochelle, and that the inte- 
 
 * During Sir George Radcliffe's abode at Paris, years, anxiety, 
 and want of those accommodations which his earlier habits had 
 rendered necessary, brought on a stroke of the palsy, which 
 had happily no effect on his understanding, and, as appears, very 
 little on his spirits. " With one side torpid and half dead, this 
 
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 rest and charges are also expected shortly. I 
 have spoken to Sir James Bannatine concerning 
 Dr. Boates's books ; he has been a great while in 
 Italy, and is now newly returned : he tells me 
 that he had 600 livres once offered for them \ but 
 shewing them to some there in hopes of a better 
 price, none that saw them would give more than 
 400. Whereupon his first chapman gave voucher, 
 and puts off him as unwilling to buy them at the 
 rate which he offered. Sir James, after I had first 
 spoken to him upon receipt of your letter, being 
 then but newly come home, took him to inform 
 whether he could sell them or no. And this day 
 he came to me, and sayeth that he cannot get 
 above 400 livres for them. Yet he is willing in 
 regard that he had put the child's friends in hopes 
 of 600, to abide the hazard, and to answer 600. 
 
 faithful Exile continued to the last actively employed in providing 
 for his Master's present wants, and promoting his restoration. 
 That event, the object of all his hopes, and the cause of bitter 
 disappointment to his surviving friends, he was not permitted to 
 see : the particulars of his journey from Paris, and the imme- 
 diate occasion of his death (most probably the journey itself), 
 are no where related ; but it is certain he expired at Flushing, 
 May 25, O. S. 1657, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and was 
 accompanied to his burial at that place by all the Royal party, 
 excepting the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a few others, 
 who were then at Bruges." — From Dr. Whitaker's Life of Sir G. 
 Radcliffe. If Sir G. Radcliffe lay under the corporeal and men- 
 tal sufferings mentioned by Dr. Whitaker, the above Letter, 
 which was written not many months before his death, is a proof 
 that they made little or no impression either on his understand- 
 ing or spirits. 
 
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 So as he may be abated the moneys, which he has 
 disbursed, which is above 200 livres, according 
 to an account formerly sent ; and he desires this 
 discharge (according to the draught enclosed) to 
 be sent to me ; upon receipt whereof he will pay 
 the money to whomsoever the child's friends shall 
 direct. I have not yet received the books which 
 your letter appointed the printer to give to my 
 wife for me ; she sent them with other things long 
 since to Rouen, but I can learn no news of them. 
 I long to get all I can concerning Schism, and 
 also in due time to see your Lordship's opinion of 
 the controversies between Rome and England. 
 For I meet with sundry very learned men here 
 who seem to me to agree with us in points of faith, 
 and particularly about the Pope's jurisdiction, and 
 the bread in the Sacrament ; which two points I 
 thought most irreconcileable, yet they come up 
 home to me ; only desire to use the expressions 
 of the Council of Trent interpreted so as they 
 would make them capable of a very tolerable 
 sense. I have had sundry conferences with some, 
 the particulars whereof are too long for this 
 paper. But the substance is, that either we un- 
 derstand not one another, or else we agree in all 
 points of faith. I shewed them what I had in 
 the little Catechism, Common Prayer Book, and 
 Bishops of Winchester and Norwich (Andrews 
 and Montague), to which they wholly agreed. 
 The Schism is that only which is now the block 
 between us. The great success which Don Juan 
 
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 hath had, in raising the siege at Valentien' *, may, 
 I hope, make Spain in a better condition to help 
 our King. We expect every post news that the 
 Duke of York should be sent for to Bruges, to 
 which place it is probable that I may go, except 
 the King dispose of me otherwise. Pray for 
 
 Your Lordship's 
 
 humble servant, 
 Paris, 21 Julii, 1656. De Colton. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 A Monsieur Monsieur Le Capitain Pinkney chez 
 
 Mademoiselle Dorrell au prez le Whit frau 
 
 Brigge, a Utrecht. 
 Pour fair tenir a Mons r . leveque de Dery. 
 
 LETTER XLI. 
 
 ; ' Tyl. v*fy ; ■, 
 
 From the Bishop of Derry to his Majesty 
 Charles II. taken from the Bishop's own Copy. 
 
 Sire, 
 
 I have been bred up in a school where I 
 learned to observe Majesty at a distance, and 
 never was so presumptuous to present a line to 
 my Sovereign. Much less should I have adven- 
 tured to write to you at this time in that place, 
 but that I cannot be so cruel to myself, as alto- 
 
 * July 16, 1656, the Prince of Conde and Don John of 
 Austria compelled M. De Turenne and Marshal de la Ferte* to 
 raise the siege of Valenciennes. 
 
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 gether to desert and quit a poor reputation of in- 
 tegrity, which (wit the conscience of' my loyalty) 
 is the only thing left unto me of all that I enjoyed 
 in this world. — My Lord Marquiss of Ormond did 
 commit a trust unto me for the support of his 
 noble Lady. Your Majesty was graciously pleased 
 to approve it, and to ratify that power which he 
 had given me. I have executed it honestly with 
 as much discretion as God hath lent me. Yet 
 some persons of eminent esteem with your Ma- 
 jesty, I hope deservedly, mere strangers to me, 
 as I to them (I only wish they had not been too 
 credulous to lend open ears to what Mr. Loving * 
 suggested for his own ends), have not spared to 
 blast my credit to his Royal Highness the Duke 
 of York, who was most concerned in it, as if I 
 was guilty of sinister practices and disservice to 
 your Majesty. This accusation came to me at 
 the second hand from my friends in France, Bra- 
 bant, and Flanders. Presently upon notice I 
 went to Brussells, made my address to his High- 
 ness, petitioned for an hearing, had it granted, 
 was acquitted ; mine accusers themselves confess- 
 ing mine innocence, or rather wanting all pre- 
 tence or shew of a charge. 
 
 Nevertheless, I hear the same information hath 
 come to your ears. My humble request and sup- 
 
 * There was a Mr. Richard Lovell, who was tutor to the Duke 
 of Gloucester, by whom he was well instructed, says Lord Cla- 
 rendon, in the principles of religion. Whether Lovell should be 
 read for Loving is what I do not know. 
 
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 plication is that you will continue me in your 
 good opinion, untill you afford me means to vin- 
 dicate myself by the just favor of an indifferent 
 hearing. The weight of your displeasure would 
 so crush me down, being already sunk under the 
 burthen of my other sufferings, that 1 should not 
 only quit that employment, but retire myself into 
 some desolate corner of the world there to pray 
 for your Majesty's happiness. If only to accuse, 
 were sufficient to condemn, no man shall be inno- 
 cent. In the mesnagery of a much greater trust 
 I have lived free, not only from corruption, but 
 suspicion. And having tried myself Parliament 
 proof in that, I do not doubt to justify myself 
 before equal judges in this. The God of Heaven 
 protect you from all your enemies, and prosper 
 your affairs, that you may live to equal and ex- 
 ceed the glory of your most renowned ancestors, 
 which shall be the daily praver of 
 
 Your Majesty's most loyal and 
 most dutiful subject, 
 Hague, Joh. Derensis. 
 
 Jan. if, iff-f . 
 
 LETTER XLII. 
 
 From the same to his Son, under the name of 
 Mr. John Pierson. 
 
 John, 
 
 As to the letter which you have sent me in- 
 closed in yours from your noble friend, you may 
 
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 return him this answer with the tender of my 
 hearty thanks for his favours to you and the rest 
 of mine. I remember well he had a proper ad- 
 venture, and that he received some money of Mr. 
 Wandesforde ; but how much his adventure was, 
 or how much the money was, I dare not charge my 
 memory, untill I see the old accounts, or the copy 
 of them from you. He was to have gone at first 
 a fifth part, but Sir Richard Scot dying shortly, a 
 fourth. The adventure proved extremely to loss 
 by Mr. Jackson's delays and bad returns, and by 
 the casting away a ship at Wexford loaden with 
 wools and iron, and by the most ill mesnagery of 
 those who were trusted by the other adventurers, 
 and lastly by the change of the winds. The 
 whole burden fell upon me, for when I was a pri- 
 soner in the Castle of Dublin *, before I could be 
 bailed, they caused me to take upon me the whole 
 debt, seized upon the money they found in Mr. 
 Tucker's hands, seized upon the rents of the Up- 
 per Fishing, which were behind for two years, 
 stopped all the moneys that were due to me in 
 disbursements, seized upon the produce of a 
 whole year's adventure in Mr. Jackson's hands, 
 and seized upon mine own fishings, which were 
 ^£.500 a year, which they, or I know not who, 
 
 * In the Journal of the House of Commons I find a message 
 to the Lords, that they would be pleased, in regard the Lord 
 Bishop of Den y lyeth so near the water, to appoint his Lordship 
 a more secure lodging. 20 May, 1641. This must, 1 suppose, 
 have been previous to his being lodged in the Castle. 
 
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 have held ever since : if it had been a business of 
 advantage, he should surely have heard from me 
 before this *. I made a tedious and chargeable 
 voyage into Spain -f~, where I received some mo- 
 ney from Mr. Jackson, and gave him acquittance 
 for the same ; and after a year or two my friend 
 received other moneys from him, to whom I gave 
 power to acquit him so much as he received, but 
 not otherwise. The truth is, Mr. Jackson paid 
 what he could, and when he would. But except- 
 ing a part of an account which he sent me into 
 
 * Whilst in France, an unexpected debt of e£.700 was paid 
 to him, which had been long due for Salmon, taken on his own 
 lands, as Bishop of Derry, in the river Bann. This, adds his 
 Historian, was a seasonable relief both to himself and many of 
 the sufferers for the Royal cause. 
 
 f Whilst abroad, he purposed to draw a parallel between the 
 Liturgy of the Church of England and the public forms of the 
 Protestant Churches, and for that end designed a journey into 
 Spain ; but he met with an unexpected diversion in his first day's 
 journey into that kingdom ; for at the first house he stopped to 
 refresh himself, he was known, and called by his name. Ad- 
 miring at his being discovered, his hostess revealed the secret to 
 him, and shewed him his picture, of which she assured him there 
 were several on the road, that, being known by them, he might 
 be carried to the Inquisition. The Bishop fully understood his, 
 situation, and made his retreat as fast as he could. The hint 
 was sat sapienti. Dr. Kippis, in his new edition of the Bio- 
 graphia Britannica, mentions this story as being very extraor- 
 dinary ; for, adds he, unless he had done something relative to 
 that kingdom, of which we have now no account, it seemi 
 scarcely conceivable that such measures should have been 
 adopted for apprehending him. 
 
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 Ireland, he never did give me any account, nor 
 ever would shew me an account until] tins day, 
 upon the pretence that I was but an adventurer. 
 But you will find amongst my papers all Mr. 
 Jackson's particular accounts, which I had from 
 him, and Mr. Tucker's accounts, and Mr. Wan- 
 desforde's accounts. Preserve them diligently, 
 and send me copies of them, and of mine own 
 accounts, which are about the same business ; and 
 comparing those with what I have received since, 
 or have here, I shall be able to lay the burthen 
 on the right party, for I have found some of their 
 accounts very different. Be sure you present un- 
 feigned thanks and faithful service to that noble 
 gentleman, and all his : depend upon his advice. 
 Feb. -f-i, ] j f . fc So God bless us ! 
 
 [No place mentioned.] 
 
 LETTER XLIil. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 John, 
 
 I have received yours of April 3, but long 
 after the date. Trust me it is not general peti- 
 tions, but particular applications, that must do 
 your work. I am right glad you have your uncle's 
 deeds. Peruse them better, for I do not believe 
 yet there is any covenant to release, but only a 
 declaration of trust, which did not enable the 
 nephew to sell or dispose. So as I believe all 
 
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 done in that kind to be void in law ; you that 
 have the means may satisfie yourself better upon 
 the view of the deeds. 
 
 " That lying abusive book was written by Mil- 
 ton himself, one who was sometimes Bishopp 
 Chappell's pupil in Christ Church in Cambridge, 
 but turned away * by him, as he well deserved to 
 have been both out of the University and out 
 of the society of men. If Salmasius his friends 
 knew as much of him as I, they would make him 
 go near to hang himself. But I desire not to 
 wound the nation through his sides, yet I have 
 written to him long since about it roundly. It 
 seems he desires not to touch upon that subject. 
 That silly book *\~ which he ascribed to me, was 
 written by one John Rowland, who since hath 
 replied upon him. I never read a Avord either of 
 the first book, or of the Reply, in my life." 
 
 Antwerpe, So God bless us ! 
 
 May^, 16.54. 
 
 * Milton's enemies in his own days accused him of having- 
 been " vomited, after an inordinate and riotous youth, out of the 
 University ;" and his adversaries of the present age have adopted 
 and kept up the slander which in their eyes would not have 
 been weakened by the above account of Bramhall. — See Dr. 
 Symmons's Life for a full and satisfactory justification of our 
 great Poet from all the calumnies of his enemies. 
 
 | This book, which Milton ascribed to Bishop Bramhall, had 
 the strange and barbarous title of " Apologia pro Rege etPopulo 
 Anglicano contra Johannis Polvpragmatici (alias Miltoni Angli) 
 Defensionem destructivam," &c. and appeared in 1651. From 
 the above letter we learn the real name of the writer, which has 
 been unknown to any of the biographers. 
 
no 
 
 It A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 I answered whatever touched me in that pam- 
 phlet, of which there is not a true word. 
 
 John Pierson. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 *' To my very loving sonne Mr. John Pierson, at 
 Ripon." 
 
 The following three Letters are from E. Straf- 
 ford, third Wife of Thomas Wentworth first 
 Earl of Strafford *. The first is addressed to 
 her Brother Sir Edward Rhodes, at his House 
 at Great Houghton in Yorkshire ; and the 
 other two to the Lord Bishop of Derry. Two 
 of them have neither date nor place, and the 
 third has only the month and year. 
 
 LETTER XLIV. 
 
 Good Brother, 
 
 I am sure you are not ignorant how much 
 I and my brother Godfrey w r as obliged to the 
 Bishop of Derry, therefore I make it my suit to 
 
 * Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford had three wives. 1. 
 Lady Margaret Clifford, no issue. 2. Lady Arabella, daughter of 
 John Hollis Earl of Clare : issue one son William, who succeeded 
 his father in his titles and estates, and two daughters; the one, 
 Lady Anne, married to Edward Watson second Lord Rocking- 
 ham, and the other to John Maccarty Viscount Mount-cashel in 
 Ireland. From Lady Anne the estates of the family descended 
 to the late Marquis of Rockingham, and from him to their pre- 
 sent virtuous and noble owner, Earl Fitzwilliam. 3. Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Godfrey Rhodes of Great Houghton in Yorkshire, 
 whom he married in 1632, and had by her one son Thomas, and 
 a daughter named Margaret, who -both died unmarried. 
 
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 Ill 
 
 you with all earnestness imaginable, that you will 
 shew what favour lies in your power to his daugh- . 
 ter # Mrs. Isabella Bramhall in her business that 
 she and her friend has in Scotland. It would be 
 too long for a letter to tell you what brotherly 
 care the Bishop took of my brother, both for his 
 encouragement and preferment ; therefore if we 
 could requite it to any of his, it would be a very 
 great satisfaction to me, in which I am confident 
 you will join with 
 
 Your most entirely 
 
 loving sister, 
 The 18 July. E. Strafforde. 
 
 LETTER XLV. 
 
 To the Lord Bishop of Derry. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I was very angry at myself as soon as you 
 was gone from hence that I had forgot to men- 
 tion Mrs. Tinley's condition to you, and beg some 
 advice for her. I must leave it to her to tell you 
 her own story, but truly I have had great expe- 
 rience of her piety and all other virtues suitable 
 
 * Mrs. Isabella Bramhall married Sir James Graham, youngest 
 son of William, Earl of Menteith of Scotland, whose daughter 
 Helena married Sir Arthur Ilawdon, Bart, of Moira, by which 
 alliance the entire fortune of Primate Bramhall accrued to the 
 Rawdon family. 
 
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 to her sex and sufferings. If there be any way 
 , for the relief of such as are in her case, I beseech 
 you put her into it, and you will have the prayers 
 and blessings of the widow and the fatherless, and 
 as many thanks as is possible to be rendered you 
 by, my Lord, 
 
 Your most humble servant, 
 The 20th of July. E. Straffordf. 
 
 LETTER XLVI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 The person that brings you this scrible of 
 mine is Mr. Robert Bunynd; he hath been known 
 to me this long time, having lived diverse years 
 at Woodhouse as chaplain. There to us all de- 
 meaning himself very discreetly, soberly, and 
 piously, and very conformable to the antient dis- 
 cipline and doctrine of the Church of England ; 
 and really I am particularly obliged to him for 
 the huge care and kindness he shewed to me and 
 my child. Since the family at Woodhouse was 
 dissolved, he hath lived as chaplain to my late 
 Lord of Sussex, and tutor to this Lord, where I 
 know his deportment hath been very good. Now, 
 my Lord, I hear that your commendation hath 
 great influence upon my Lord Chancelor; my 
 humble suit is, that you will speak a good word 
 in the behalf of Mr. Bunyn, who hath delivered a 
 
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 petition to him for a small living in his gift, and 
 therein you will very much add to the great obli- . 
 gation of your 
 
 most humble servant, 
 August the first, — 60. E. Strafforde, 
 
 LETTER XLVII. 
 
 From the Lord Bishop of Derry to 
 Mrs. Bramhall. 
 
 Sweet Heart, 
 
 When I came first to this city I thought I 
 should have been dismissed within a fortnight. 
 But this coming over of the Irish Commissioners, 
 and the expectation of a settlement, have detained 
 me thus long. They meet upon Wednesday next, 
 and it is believed we shall both have a chief Go- 
 vernour named, and Council, and Judges. This 
 advantage I have made of my stay to settle all 
 my temporals, and I hope John Forward's also, 
 for so they promise me. Audley Mervine * hath 
 disclaimed 14 town-lands, and writes down to the 
 present tenants to decline possession. Mr. Ro- 
 berts acknowledged that he hath no right to 
 Milough, and I am not out of hopes to get some 
 reparation for want of it so long. Upon Monday 
 
 * He was afterwards appointed Speaker in the first Parlia- 
 ment summoned after the Restoration. 
 
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 sevenight I purpose to begin my voyage, and Sir 
 James Graham # with me, with my son Thomas. 
 My Lady of Ormond is now here. Salute all my 
 friends. Tell Mr. Holmes, if he will, he shall go 
 along with me. My blessings on my daughters. 
 So God bless us all ! 
 
 Your very loving husband, 
 London, Jo. Derensis. 
 
 July 7, 1660. 
 
 Thus superscribed — 
 
 " To my dearest wyfe Mrs. Elenour Bramhall in 
 Yorkshire, at Ripon." 
 
 LETTER XLVIII. 
 
 The Petition of the Clergy of Ireland to Charles 
 II. to be presented to his Majesty by the Duke 
 of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant. 
 
 May it please your Excellency, 
 
 The Bishops here residing have thought fit 
 to present the inclosed Petition to his Majesty. 
 It was occasioned by a letter of my Lord elect 
 Bishop of Cork to me ; there is nothing in it 
 which they are not both able and ready to justify. 
 Since it was subscribed, we have received a copy 
 of his Majesty's gracious letter of November 20th, 
 touching the settling of impropriations, tithes for- 
 merly invested in the crown, or forfeited lands, 
 
 * His son-in-law. 
 
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 which were held of the Church upon the Bishops 
 or churches of which they were held. By the 
 grace of God we shall mesnage his Majesty's 
 bounty with as much prudence and advantage to 
 him and his subjects as is possible. These were 
 the main requests we had to make by our agents. 
 They will admit little debate, being of lesser mo- 
 ment, as the union of lesser benefices to make a 
 competency : some little glebes where there are 
 none, one free school to be erected in every dio- 
 cess where there is not one already ; and lastly, 
 one uniform table of tything to be established 
 throughout the kingdom. Now the main requests 
 being granted already, whether it will be needful 
 to send agents for the rest I leave to your Lord- 
 ship's prudence. One Bishop and one Clerk were 
 designed ; either my Lord elect of Down, or of 
 Cork, for the Bishops *, and either Dr. Loftus or 
 Mr. Underwood for the Clerks. They have one 
 request more, that in respect benefices are of so 
 small value for the present, and their churches and 
 houses almost all down, that as in like cases hath 
 been used, his Majesty would be graciously pleased 
 to remit the first fruits of such persons as now so 
 shall be admitted to any livings or promotions from 
 the beginning of the Rebellion until the feast of 
 
 * Bishops elect of Cork and Down, Boyle and Taylor. In all 
 the objects of this Petition the Primate was defeated— -1. The 
 tything table of Ulster to be made the rule of the whole kingdom. 
 2. The bringing the Church under a new tax. — See his Life pre- 
 fixed' to his Work*. 
 
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 the Nativity of Christ, which shall be in the year 
 of our Lord 1661, that is for one year yet to come; 
 and in lieu thereof, they do assent to settle an 
 equal and perfect tax (which hitherto hath been 
 neither equal nor perfect) of all ecclesiastical be- 
 nefices and dignities throughout the kingdom, to 
 the great increase of his Majesty's revenue, in 
 his twentieth parts, and in his first fruits. This 
 much I dare undertake, that the Crown shall be a 
 great gainer by this, I had almost said, now ne- 
 cessary favour. These things are but barely pro- 
 posed ; and if there be any of them which do not 
 relish well, upon the least intimation they shall 
 be quickly expunged. Your Excellency seeth 
 that the Clergy of Ireland know no mediator to 
 his Majesty but yourself. You will scarcely find 
 a staff so hard wherewith to drive them from you. 
 Sir James Graham lives in hopes until he receives 
 his doom. That you may live long, and give 
 much, and die holy, and inherit Heaven, is the 
 Dutch proverb, and our prayer. So God bless us ! 
 Your Excellency's most humble 
 and most faithful servant, 
 
 Jo. Derensis, 
 Elect. Armach. 
 
 May it please your Majesty — Your orthodox 
 Clergy throughout Ireland have taken the bold- 
 ness to present unto you their unanimous request 
 by the Bishops now resident in Dublin, and craved 
 your Royal licence for two agents from them to 
 come over and represent the low state of the Irish 
 
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 Church, and such means as seem to them con- 
 ducive to the happy and peaceable settlement 
 thereof. Since that petition was signed, they 
 have received a copy of your gracious letter of 
 November 20th, wherein you have both satisfied 
 their present, and prevented their further, desires; 
 for how can they fear, lest you should suffer them 
 to be stripped of their present livelihoods, who 
 have of your free bounty inlarged their means out 
 of your own just rights to enable them to serve 
 God and his Church and your Majesty with most 
 comfort. For this singular grace they have en- 
 joined me to present their most humble thanks, 
 and to acknowledge that they deserve to be 
 branded with the highest note of extreme ingrati- 
 tude, if they should cease to praise God for you, 
 and to pour out their daily prayers to the throne 
 of Grace for your long life and prosperous reign 
 over them, and to do their uttermost endeavours 
 that, under the shadow of your wings, your sub- 
 jects may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all 
 godliness and honesty. 
 
 Your Majesty's most humble 
 and faithful subject, 
 Dublin, Jo. Derensis, 
 
 December 5, 1660. Electus, Armachanus. 
 
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 LETTER XLIX. 
 
 From the Honourable Thomas Wentworth to 
 Dr. John Bramhall, late Lord Bishop of 
 Deny, now Primate of all Ireland *. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's former favours to this bearer 
 my chaplain Mr. Harwood, do encourage me to 
 give your Lordship this further trouble in his be- 
 half, to desire you will please (as any opportunity 
 shall offer itself) to give him such further encou- 
 ragement by some additional preferment in the 
 Church, as your Lordship shall think him capable 
 of, which will be a great obligation to him, and a 
 good addition to the former favours your Lord- 
 ship hath been pleased to shew to, my Lord, 
 Your Lordship's most humble and 
 most faithful servant, 
 Whitehall, Tho. Wentworth. 
 
 September 18, 1660. 
 
 * He was universally congratulated upon his promotion, which 
 was most acceptable to the kingdom, for no man was so well 
 qualified as lie, to repair the breaches in the Church. Even the 
 Queen of Bohemia, in a letter addressed to his Grace, prayed him 
 to be confident " that none of his friends could be more glad, 
 or wished him more happiness, than his ever most affectionate 
 friend — Elizabeth." The original of this letter is in the pos- 
 session of the Marquis of Hastings, great grand-son to the Pri- 
 mate's grand-daughter Helen Graham, wife to Sir Arthur Raw- 
 don, Bart. 
 
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 LETTER L. 
 
 From William second Earl of Strafford * to the 
 Lord Primate of Ireland. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Two days ago I had the honour to receive a 
 letter from your Lordship, wherein out of your 
 kindness and good wishes you are pleased to 
 desire that yourself, my Lord Archbishop of Dub- 
 lin, and my Lord Bishop of Femes -)~, may mediate 
 a reconciling of differences between my uncle 
 George and me. My Lord Bishop of Femes, I 
 think, is Dean Price, but I cannot yet learn cer- 
 tainly whether it be he; but whosoever it is that 
 your Lordship and my Lord Archbishop^; of Dub- 
 lin names, I shall not only be willing that you 
 may interpose as you please, but for my part, I 
 shall be very well content to refer myself entirely 
 
 * William Earl of Strafford, however beloved by his private 
 friends, has no other claim to the remembrance of after-ages, 
 than that he was the son of a man whose splendid talents, dan- 
 gerous activity, and signal sufferings, will make him long re- 
 membered by posterity. 
 
 f Dr. Robert Price, a native of Wales, was Doctor of Laws of 
 the University of Dublin, Dean of Connor, and Chaplain to Lord 
 Strafford. He was consecrated Bishop or Ferns, 27 January, 
 1660, and had been a great sufferer for the Royal cause. He 
 died in Dublin in 1666, and was buried in St. Patrick's Cathe- 
 dral. 
 
 X James Margetson, afterwards Primate of Ireland. 
 
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 to you. For this purpose I will, as speedily as 
 some occasions will give me leave, send your 
 Lordship a perfect account of the passages be- 
 tween my uncle * and me ; and as I thank God 
 I can truly say I have never dealt unjustly with 
 any man, so I assure your Lordship you will rind 
 it is not my fault that all these differences have 
 not been composed long since; tho' I have been 
 and am as little urged by necessity to it as I care 
 to desire, for I can right myself otherways, if I 
 please. I shall not trouble your Lordship further 
 at present ; but being very glad to hear of your 
 Lordship's well being, and that I can do you any 
 service. I shall also beg your leave to present my 
 respects and service to my Lord Archbishop of 
 Dublin, and my Lord of Femes; and so I do very 
 faithfully remain your Lordship's most humble 
 and affectionate servant, 
 London, Strafforde, 
 26 March, 1661. 
 
 LETTER LI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I had the honour to receive your letter of the 
 12 of September, about a week since, by my cou- 
 sin Wandesford, and must here desire your Lord- 
 
 * Sir George Wentworth, 
 
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 ship to accept of my humble and hearty thanks 
 for the favours you are pleased to express in your 
 letter, which out of your constant kindness to- 
 wards me you have lately been pleased to do me. 
 My Lord, for that concernment of my cousin 
 Wandesford's in the Tobaccoes, your Lordship 
 may be very sure I cannot be so much wanting in 
 my respects towards him, as not to be ready to 
 acquit myself so as in common justice, as an honest 
 man, I am bound in the case of any man ; and 
 therefore there is no doubt but I shall readily, 
 with the allowance of whatever share it shall ap- 
 pear either he or any person living has right to. 
 I shall desire the bonds may with the least loss of 
 time be looked after that can be, and then it is 
 fit that all of those who are concerned shall share, 
 according to our several rights, that justice we 
 can procure, and proportionably likewise ; we 
 must also allow for the charge, wherein I believe 
 mine has yet been much the greatest, and must 
 be as well as in point of profit expected. I have 
 been hindered so this day by company, and some 
 other occasions, that I am necessited, at my cousin 
 Wandesford's desire, to write this with very much 
 haste, and so I cannot possibly this time mention, 
 as I ought to do, that other business of my uncle 
 George's ; but as I must beg all your Lordship's 
 pardons, that I have not all this while made dis- 
 patch to you of it, so I shall desire you will be 
 pleased to be assured that it has not been that I 
 can at all doubt of your justices, or do at all 
 
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 decline you ; I do indeed humbly thank your Lord- 
 ships, and particularly your Grace, for your affec- 
 tionate and pious intentions herein, and shall very 
 shortly write again, and then give a clear account 
 of myself herein, and very freely submit it to any 
 that I can have cause to believe will determine 
 according to justice and honour ; I hope my uncle 
 will do the same, and then we are not far off a 
 good conclusion. My Lord, I beg your pardon 
 for this very hasty scribbling letter, and with my 
 humble service and respects to your Lordship, 
 and very faithful good wishes, I remain 
 
 Your Grace's most humble and 
 affectionate servant, 
 London, Strafforde. 
 1st October, l66l. 
 
 My wife has been ill this three weeks of the 
 fever that reigns this autumn, but I thank God 
 she mends very well, and the Philistians say she 
 has had it more favourably than almost any they 
 have seen, and that it will conduce to a very per- 
 fect health for a long time after it is passed. 
 
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 1*3 
 
 LETTER LIL 
 
 From Mr. Arthur Hill * to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 Yesternight I had the Justice's free leave to 
 begin my journey towards Armagh to-morrow 
 morning, but this day the packet coming in, they 
 have upon some reasons (which your Lordship 
 shall know when I have the happiness to attend 
 you) commanded my stay until Wednesday morn- 
 ing, as you will perceive by the two inclosed let- 
 ters. I confess they would have me to stay longer, 
 but nothing shall hinder me from waiting on you 
 at Hillsborough, if the Lord permits, or at Ar- 
 magh on Friday next, if your occasions stay you 
 so long at Armagh. And to the end I may have 
 the happiness to see you at Hillsborough, I have 
 sent my brother Caroll Bolton to guide you thi* 
 ther, if you remove before Saturday morning, as 
 also to send me a messenger from thence to meet 
 me at Dundalk on Thursday, that so I may know 
 how to steer my course the directest way, to at- 
 tend you. He will also send Will Hill directions 
 to attend you midway, between Armagh and 
 Hillsborough, with a party of horse, to prevent 
 
 * Arthur Hill, the writer of this letter, married Anne, eldest 
 daughter of Sir Richard Bolton, Knt. Recorder of Dublin, and 
 sister to Carol Bolton. 
 
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 the trouble of the Lord Caulfield's troops further 
 then they may be at Armagh the same day you 
 remove thence. I believe your Lordship will re- 
 ceive by my brother all your letters that came in 
 the several packets from England; and tho' it is 
 probable that they may give your Grace as much 
 and more intelligence than I can, yet, because 
 you may know all that I know, be pleased to 
 brook with the trouble that this following relation 
 will give you. In the first place his Majesty is 
 issuing of new writs to call a Parliament in Eng- 
 land on the 22d of April, and he is to be crowned 
 the 23d of the same month. 2d. Cromwell's, Ire- 
 ton's, and Bradshaw's bodies were taken up, car- 
 ried to Tyburn, and hung up, their heads set on 
 Westminster Hall, and their bodies buried under 
 the gallows. 3d. The Lord of Massareene, with 
 the rest of our friends there, are on their way 
 with the instructions upon his Majesty's Declara- 
 tion. 4th. Most or all of the bills that were 
 transmitted hence, except that for taking the oath 
 of supremacy, are, with very little or no amend- 
 ments, assented unto. 5th. The Portugal Am- 
 bassador is landed with instructions to tender a 
 match between his Majesty and that Princess. 
 6th. He offers a vast sum of money for the por- 
 tion, with a proposal that she shall go to church. 
 7th. The Spanish Ambassador seems discon- 
 tented. 8th. The preparations in Spain against 
 Portugal are strangely retarded from marching, 
 upon a dispute between Don John of Austria and 
 
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 Don Lewis De Haro for the command of that 
 army. 9th. The Earl of Bristol hath gotten leave 
 to go into Spain upon his account only. 10th. 
 Cardinal Mazarine* is certainly believed to be in 
 no condition of escaping death, because of the 
 desperate fever wherein he hath lain for some 
 time, his physicians being at last driven to this 
 only remedy of lapping him in cow-dung to cool 
 the heat of his body, renewing the same every 
 day as often as the dung begins to dry. 11th. 
 The Dutch have proceeded very far towards the 
 concluding of a strict peace with his Majesty. 
 12th. The Portugal hath liberty to raise volun- 
 teers in England by way of convenience. 13th, 
 The late Proclamation against Presbyterians, &c. 
 is exceedingly well resented by all but those of 
 their own judgment ; only your Lordship's old 
 friend at Antrim cannot yet understand it; but I 
 hope he will in a little time after he hath received 
 some information from you. And now having 
 sent you all the news that I can remember, except 
 what is contained in the news books concerning 
 the Scotts, I must in the close renew my first suit, 
 that your Lordship would be pleased to continue 
 your resolutions of visiting my Lord of Downe 
 and my poor Wlll\, who I am sure will give you 
 all the hearty welcome that that poor place can 
 afford, and where, if the Lord pleases, I will not 
 
 * His application to business, produced a disease, of which he 
 died in 1661, 59 years of age. 
 f Will Hill, I suppose. 
 
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 fail to attend you, that I may have a further op- 
 portunity to let your Grace know how much I 
 am, my Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble, faithful, 
 affectionate servant, 
 Dublin, Arthur Hill. 
 
 17 Feb. 1660. 
 
 The following Letter to Primate Bramhall is 
 written by the Lord Caulfield *, who is no- 
 ticed in the preceding one of Arthur Hill. 
 
 LETTER LID. 
 
 May it please your Lordship, 
 
 As the news of your Lordship's safe arrival 
 is most welcome to me, so it is occasion likewise 
 of great rejoicing to all those in this kingdom 
 who truly fear God and pray for the welfare of 
 his Church ; it being yet fresh in the memories 
 of us all how eminent an instrument your Lord- 
 ship hath been long since in the propagating the 
 true antient Protestant religion in this kingdom. 
 My Lord, never had the Church more need of 
 such a champion than now that the looseness of 
 the late times hath been the occasion of so many 
 
 * William, the fifth Baron, who was created a Viscount in 
 1665. He was always known by the memorable epithet of the 
 good Lord Charlemont j as his descendant James, the first Earl 
 of Charlemont, will be distinguished not only by the epithet 
 Good, but by that of Great. 
 
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 schisms, and given opportunity to such number- 
 less number of heresies to creep in amongst us, 
 that not many days ago it was hardly possible to 
 find two of one religion. And therein are those 
 unhappy northern quarters most miserable, abound- 
 ing with all sorts of licentious persons ; but those 
 whom we esteem most dangerous are the Presby- 
 terian factions who do not like publickly to preach 
 up the authority of their Kirk to be above that 
 of the Crown and our dread Sovereign. I have 
 myself discoursed with divers of their ministers 
 both in publick and private, who have maintained 
 that the Kirk hath power to excommunicate their 
 kings ; and when the oaths of allegiance and su- 
 premacy were administered here, one of them 
 told me that we had pulled down one Pope and 
 set up another. But I made bold to inflict such 
 punishments as I thought w r ere proper for their 
 offences, and hindered their meetings, where I 
 have considered there might be any thing con- 
 sulted of, tending to the breach of the peace 
 either in church or commonwealth. But because 
 I may err, and my zeal to observe those solemn 
 oaths which I have taken, may possibly induce 
 me to act beyond what is altogether lawful, I 
 therefore beg your Lordship's instruction and 
 commands, and remain your Lordship's very 
 humble servant, 
 
 Charlemount, W. Caulfield. 
 
 m October, 1660. 
 
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 LETTER LIV. 
 
 From Mr. John Sharpe to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 I was at the Secretary's for the warrant, and 
 Mr. John Hales told me that then the great officers 
 being settled, I was to make my application to 
 them; and being informed that the Duke of Albe- 
 marle, as Master of the Horse, was to do it, I em- 
 ployed Mr. . . . , who drew the warrant as 
 your Grace might provide for the horses to be 
 transported custom free. But the Duke himself 
 fearing to interfere with the Lord Treasurer, put 
 in the word interlined ; and thereupon I sent 
 away that, and applied myself to the Lord Trea- 
 surer* to have them custom free, but in that in- 
 stant was taken off to be solicitor against the 
 King's Judges Hacker, Axtel, Peters, and Hew- 
 let, which wholly engaged me, there being great 
 necessity to return it for want of proofs. But, 
 blessed be God, that business prospered well in 
 my hands, and I have sent my Lord Treasurer's 
 warrant, whereof a copy is inclosed, to Mr. Gil- 
 bert Farmly at Liverpool. Here hath been a con- 
 ference with the Presbyterians, and, as I hear, the 
 Book of Common Prayer and surplice are to be 
 used in cathedrals, and left indifferent elsewhere. 
 
 * Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Chancellor and Earl of 
 
 Clarendon. 
 
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 His Majesty is this day gone to meet the Queen, 
 who is expected here on Tuesday. I acknow- 
 ledge your Lordship's favour in informing me of 
 the good inclination of the Lords Justices to the 
 settlement of the Church, and am very confident 
 all things will succeed well towards it. All the 
 Presbyterians in London are left out of the com- 
 mission of array ; and the sword being placed in 
 trusty hands throughout this kingdom, there will 
 be little fear but all other things will be settled 
 with security. I am very sensible of your Grace's 
 especial favor to me, and shall pray for a blessing 
 upon your Lordship's endeavours to promote the 
 good of the Church. My humble suit is that my 
 most humble acknowledgments being rendered to 
 your Grace, your Grace will be pleased to pre- 
 sent my most humble service to your Lady, Sir 
 James *, and all your Grace's family, to which I 
 am much engaged, and desire to appear your 
 Grace's most humble servant, 
 
 Oct. 27, 1660. John Sharpe. 
 
 Thus superscribed — 
 For the most reverend father in God, John, by 
 Divine Providence, Lord Archbishop and Pri- 
 mate, and Metropolitan of all Ireland, his 
 Grace, at Dublin. These present. 
 
 * Sir James Graham, his son-in-law. 
 
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 LETTER LV. 
 
 From Doctor Mossom * to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 I make the humble acknowledgment of your 
 Grace's favor in honouring me with those lines I 
 received from your hand the last week. In re- 
 turn whereof I signify to your Lordship the pre- 
 sent state of public affairs. The Court is now 
 enlarged with the Royal presence of the Queen 
 mother -f% the Princess of Orange J, the Princess 
 Henrietta Prince Rupert, and Prince Edward}!, 
 with their retinues. The Parliament returned, 
 and sat on Tuesday last week, have voted the 
 Princess Henrietta ^ 10,000, returned his Ma- 
 jesty thanks for his declaration as to ecclesiastical 
 affairs, have endeavoured to put that declaration 
 into an Act, but have not prevailed. This day 
 was the Dutch present brought into the Ban- 
 
 * Robert Mossom, Doctor of Divinity, was, during the 
 Usurpation, silenced, plundered, and persecuted. After the 
 Restoration he was made Dean of Christ Church, which deanery 
 he held with the bishopric of Derry, to which he was promoted 
 in 1666. 
 
 f Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. Queen Mother. 
 
 ♦ Mary, daughter of Charles I. and Henrietta, married to Wil- 
 liam the second Prince df Orange. 
 
 § Afterwards married to the Duke of Orleans : she was the 
 favourite sister of Charles IT. 
 
 II The Princes Rupert and Edward were the tons of tiie King 
 of Bohemia and Elizabeth daughter of James I. 
 
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 queting House, a bed most splendid, and richly 
 glorious (I was a spectator of the whole), valued 
 at ^.10,000, and many of the King's pictures, 
 with some statues, and other rarities, valued at 
 ^.30,000. The consecrations of the Bishops 
 here are hastening; the Lord of London, of Salis- 
 bury, of Lincoln, and of Worcester, being past, 
 those of Durham (Dr. Cousins), of Chester (Dr. 
 Walton's), of Norwich (Dr. Reynolds), and others, 
 are coming on. That apprehension, my Lord, of 
 Dublin's agents renewing their charter to an in- 
 vading the rights of the Church at St. Patrick's, 
 &c. is but an apparition. The charter is to be 
 the same it was, and to be renewed at Dublin. 
 However, for an abundam cautela, I spake with 
 Mr. Attorney General *, and engaged him in an 
 express memorandum taken by his clerk, that if 
 the charter of Dublin came to his hands, Mr. 
 Sharpe should be sent for, to consult the Salvos 
 interposing, as your Grace directed. My Lord 
 of London with much hearty affection presents 
 his service to your Lordship, and hath obliged 
 me in this apology for his not writing, that the 
 main thing to be answered was in the account 
 given of the City's charter. I intend, by God's 
 blessing, to be in Dublin within three weeks at 
 the farthest. I design my journey for Chester on 
 Monday or Tuesday next, and thence for Dublin, 
 as the wind shall serve. I beg your Grace's be- 
 nediction, as a good gale for my better transpor- 
 
 * Jeffrey Palmer, Esq. 
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 tation. My Lord, I am your Grace's most humbly 
 and affectionately devoted beadsman*, 
 
 Westminster, Robert Mossom. 
 
 Nov. 13, 1660. 
 
 LETTER LVI. 
 
 From Doctor Beaumont to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 My Lord, — Your Grace's of November 24, I 
 signified received, with my dutiful thanks pre- 
 sented by mine of the eleventh instant, which I 
 hope is come to your Grace's hand, wherein I 
 advised my passage promised by the Lord of 
 Kingston^ in his coach, who resolved some 
 weeks since to have been upon his way much 
 sooner than the Lord Chancellor of Ireland^: was 
 conceived could get his instructions and dis- 
 patches ; but by one occasion or another (the 
 Lord Chancellor is gone), and (to my great re- 
 tardance) we are here. I waited on his Lordship 
 on Wednesday last, and told him of my Lord of 
 Kingston's favour ; he said, I am glad of it, we 
 
 * A man employed, says Johnson, in praying, generally in 
 praying for another. In a letter from the Archbishop of Tuam 
 to the Lord Deputy, his Grace says, u Good Lord, leave not your 
 Beadsman open to wind and weather," &c. 
 
 t This Lord Kingston was Sir John King, and was the first 
 person advanced to the peerage of Ireland by Charles II. his pa- 
 tent bearing date Sept. 4, 16*60. 
 
 % Sir Maurice Eustace. 
 
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 shall go together ; go and tell my Lord of King- 
 ston, that he meet me to-morrow before White- 
 hall by seven o'clock in the morning, that we 
 may set forth together. I did so, and my place 
 where to be taken up was appointed ; but I wait- 
 ing to be called, the Lord Chancellor set forward, 
 and my Lord of Kingston did not, nor as yet is 
 ready, as not having kissed the King's hand, 
 which his Lordship only now tarrieth for. The 
 sickness of her Highness the Princess Royal 
 caused his Majesty to be private, Saturday and 
 Sunday last. On Monday, as I sat at dinner with 
 the Lord Bishop of London, a gentleman brought 
 him the heavy tidings of her Highness's * decease, 
 which was near one o'clock, of the small pox, the 
 physicians steering the same course, of Jetting Tier 
 blood twice or thrice, which they did with the 
 Duke of Gloucester -f*, insomuch that his Majesty 
 is now much more retired ; and truly, my Lord, 
 I pray God send us a merry new year, for here it 
 is at court a very sad Christmas. I am pas- 
 sionately affected at the sad face of what I see, 
 and am like to drop something that is not entire; 
 must beg pardon that I am abrupt in this report ; 
 
 * Her Highness Mary, Princess of Orange, died December 24, 
 1660, being then on a visit with her brother Charles II. " This 
 night, December 29th, the Princess of Orange is to be buried at 
 Westminster." — Letter of A. Marvell. 
 
 f The Duke of Gloucester died in September 1660. He was 
 the third son of the late King, and was deeply regretted by his 
 brother Charles, who was particularly attached to him. 
 
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 hope when, by the blessing of God, I shall see 
 your Grace, I may be able to say better, and 
 more than I can now write. For myself, my 
 Lord, I kissed his Majesty's hand, and received 
 his good wishes, ten days since, and have taken 
 leave of all my good as well as great friends. My 
 Lord's Grace of Canterbury was the last on Wed- 
 nesday last, hoping next day (as I have said) to 
 have had London on my back and Dublin on my 
 face ; but I am yet in Winchester-street, and now 
 I may easily guess those holidays will be no time 
 of travelling ; and I am bound to wait his Lord- 
 ship's time, should it yet be longer, not only in 
 point of safety, " for since the disbanding of the 
 army, the highways are exceeding unfree ; but 
 since the Houses voted Cromwell's, Ireton's, and 
 Bradshaw's, with Pride's coffins, and carcasses in 
 them, to be taken up and hanged six hours on 
 Tyburne, and then cut down, and to be burned 
 under the gallows, we have had such rainy and 
 tempestuous weather, as I fear hath almost spoiled 
 the ways for coach-travelling *." I trouble your 
 
 * Cromwell died the 3d of September, 1658, on which day 
 there was the greatest storm of wind ever known. In this letter 
 Dr. Beaumont says, that after the vote in the House of Com- 
 mons, passed for the taking up and hanging in chains the bo- 
 dies of Cromwell, Bradshaw, &c. the weather became so tem- 
 pestuous and rainy, that the roads, he feared, would be spoiled 
 for coach travelling. 
 
 1660, Dec. 6. The honourable House of Commons have or- 
 dered that the several bodies of Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw, 
 Henry Ireton, and Thomas Pride, be taken out of their graves at 
 
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 Grace with this relation, to shew you how I missed 
 coming with the Lord Chancellor, and where the 
 reason of my stay is now, professing to your Grace 
 (as a man that having done all his business, passed 
 the seals, both great and mandamus ad instal- 
 land. with the Lord Chancellor of Ireland's full 
 approbation, taken his leave of all friends, and 
 lying at an unnecessary expence, self, horse, and 
 man), that I am exceeding weary of this town, 
 and my earnest desire is toward my journey. I 
 hope at furthest, we shall with God's blessing, set 
 
 Westminster, and drawn on hurdles to Tyburn, where they are 
 to be hanged up in their coffins, and then buried under the 
 gallows. 
 
 Dec. 8. The most Honourable House of Peers concurred 
 with the Honourable House of Commons in the foregoing votes. 
 
 Jan. 30 was observed not only by a solemn fast, sermon, and 
 prayers, at the several parish churches, for the precious blood of 
 our late pious sovereign King Charles I. of ever glorious me- 
 mory ; but by public dragging the odious carcasses of Oliver 
 Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and John Bradshaw, to Tyburn, where 
 they were pulled out of their coffins and hanged at the several 
 angles of that triple tree, where they hung till the Sun was set : 
 after that they were taken down, their heads cut off, and their 
 loathsome trunks thrown into a deep hole under the gallows. 
 The heads of these three notorious regicides were set upon poles 
 on the top of Westminster Hall by the common hangman — 
 Bradshaw (that monster, whom we scorn to honour so much as 
 to rail at, if it were manners to rail at the Devil) in the middle, 
 over that part of the hall where the monstrous high court of 
 justice sat, Cromwell and his son-in-law Ireton on both sides of 
 Bradshaw — 
 
 Quis talia fando 
 
 Temperet a lachrymis ? — Vircil. 
 
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 forward after the holydays next week, and if we 
 do not overtake my Lord Chancellor, my most 
 humble petition to your Grace is, to give me 
 leave to remember your Grace of your love and 
 care for me. My Lord, my heart is with you, 
 and myself hastening the best I can to wait on 
 you, which I hope and pray may be shortly, with 
 God's blessing, to whose eternal goodness I hum- 
 bly commend your Grace, being, my Lord, as 
 most obliged in truth of thanks and duty, 
 
 Your Grace's old and faithful servant, 
 London, George Beaumont, 
 
 Christmass Eve, 1660. 
 
 LETTER LVII. 
 
 From Dr. Pett* to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 According to my duty and promise, being (I 
 thank God) well arrived at London, I have here 
 held myself obliged to present your Grace with 
 the news that is stirring. Our fleet is at length 
 got to sea for the bringing our Queen hither. 
 There have been great animosities lately, and 
 
 * Leland takes notice of a Sir Peter Pett, who presented a 
 memorial in 1667 to the Duke of Ormond for erecting a manu- 
 facture of woollen cloth, which might at least furnish a sufficient 
 quantity for home consumption. Whether the same, or how 
 connected with the writer of this letter, I don't know. He was, 
 besides, a virtuoso, a good scholar, and a fellow of the Royal 
 Society. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 137 
 
 heats in the House of Lords about the bill for the 
 confirmation of ministers that passed in the last 
 Parliament in England, save only as to those 
 livings where Lords had the jus patron at us, which 
 the Commons in this Parliament would have had, 
 the Lords have joined with them in exploding. 
 At first all the Bishops in the House of Lords 
 were against it, and most of the Protestant Lords 
 temporal. But my Lord Chancellor was resolved 
 to oblige the Presbyterians by keeping the Act 
 from being repealed, and at last got seven of the 
 Bishops to join with him, five of which I have 
 not forgot the names of, and they were the 
 Bishops of London *, Norwich^, Exeter^:, Lin- 
 coln Worcester ||. The Duke of York was 
 likewise brought over by his father-in-law ^f, and 
 the Earl of Bristol was vehement in the thing, 
 and all the Popish Lords. The Presbyterian Mi- 
 nisters sent Calamy, Baxter, and Bates, that day 
 to the Chancellor to give him thanks. Some of 
 the Commons going to the King the day before, 
 to desire him to express himself positively against 
 the confirmation of the ministers, he said he had 
 promised them at Breda the continuance in their 
 livings ; whereupon they said that the Commons 
 might possibly many of them be tempted not to 
 pass the Bill intended for the enlarging of his 
 revenue, if his Majesty would favor the confirma- 
 
 * Sheldon. f Reynolds. } Ward. § Sanderson, 
 || Morley. «[ Earl of Clarendon, Chancellor. 
 
KAVVDON PAPERS. 
 
 tion of the Presbyterian ministers ; to whom the 
 King answered " that if he had not wherewith to 
 subsist two days, he would trust God Almighty's 
 Providence rather than break his word *." His 
 Majesty exprest a great deal of his natural good 
 sense and good disposition in the case of Mr.Crei- 
 ton, who about a month since preaching before the 
 King, did use some unmannerly reflections on his 
 Majesty in these words, &c. 14 'tis below the Ma- 
 jesty of a King to appear in the common play- 
 houses," since which time the King hath forborne 
 them : some of the Bishops striking out Creiton's 
 name for preaching this Lent, the King ordered 
 it to be put in again. The House of Commons 
 here (as one of the Secretaries of State lately told 
 me) intend to petition the King that Lent may 
 not be observed as formerly. As for Irish news, 
 your bill of settlement is not like to be passed 
 here this month. The Irish agents and English 
 commissioners are to be heard at the council on 
 Friday next, what both can say for themselves on 
 the whole matter. So at present I wave your 
 Grace's benediction, and do only further use the 
 arrogance to mind your Grace of the letter you 
 were pleased to promise me to the Duke of Or- 
 mond, to represent me favourably to his Grace, 
 and that he would recommend me to his Majesty's 
 
 * Notwithstanding this solemn declaration, he gave his assent 
 to the Act of Uniformity in the .following year, which caused 
 two thousand Presbyterian Ministers to resign their livings. 
 
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 favour. I am with all possible sincerity, may it 
 please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's most faithful, most humble, 
 and most devoted servant, 
 Feb. 8, 1661. P. Pett. 
 
 Any commands your Grace shall please to have 
 for me, may be left for me at Mr. Brooks, a tay- 
 lors, at the Palm-tree in Fleet-street, against Fet- 
 ter-lane end. 
 
 LETTER LVIII. 
 
 From the Earl of Orrery to the Lord Primate. 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 Tho* our necessities are exceedingly great, 
 and no money to supply them for the present 
 but by passing a Bill transmitted hither under the 
 Great Seal of England, yet finding it might ha- 
 zard your Grace's Patent, we resolved to hazard 
 any thing rather than your health, or your Patent 
 for Speaker which you have so worthily discharged, 
 and therefore we have this night prorogued by 
 Proclamation the Parliament * till the 4th of 
 March, by which time we hope God will restore 
 
 * This Parliament, says Harris in his continuation of Ware's 
 Bishops, had so much esteem for his Grace, that they appointed 
 Committees of both Houses to examine what was upon record 
 in their Journals against him, and the Earl of Strafford j and 
 whatever was found violent and unjust against them, they or- 
 dered to be torn out of their books } and which was accordingly 
 done. 
 
140 IIAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 you to your health, and this night we have sent 
 for the King's letter to appoint a Speaker only 
 during your Grace's absence, if your disposition 
 should continue. For your patent for Speaker is 
 during the King's pleasure, and that pleasure 
 would be determined, if a new Patent was granted 
 to any other, tho' but Pro tempore : so that now 
 I hope we have secured the business well both 
 for the Parliament and your Grace to return. 
 I am unalterably your most affectionate 
 
 and most faithful humble servant, 
 
 Dublin, 19 Feb. 1661. Orrery. 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 
 For his Grace the Lord Primate, and Metropo- 
 litan of all Ireland, at Drogheda. 
 
 LETTER LIX. 
 From Dr. Pett to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 Affairs here are much about the same posture 
 as when I last wrote to your Grace. There is 
 yet no news of our Queen's arrival. The most 
 considerable modern alteration in England is, the 
 laying aside generally the design of a standing 
 army in the several Counties of England, under 
 the conduct or government of Lieutenants, and 
 Deputy Lieutenants. The King's friends begun 
 to be sensible of the several animosities and dif- 
 ferences among them that arose about the com- 
 
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 mands in that standing army, and of several other 
 inconveniences, that the House of Commons have 
 -thought it the best course for King and Kingdom 
 to have it enacted that on any exigency the King 
 may raise ^.70,000. The Chancellor * lately 
 brought a proviso into the House of Lords to be 
 put into the Bill for uniformity, viz. that it might 
 be in the King's power, if he pleased, by his par- 
 ticular order to dispense with the non-conformity 
 of any persons. The Presbyterians and other 
 non-conformists would (as I am credibly informed 
 by a knowing person) have offered to the King as 
 great a revenue for their toleration, as he will 
 have from chimneys, if the aforesaid proviso would 
 have passed among the Lords and Commons, and 
 had the Royal assent, but it was damned in the 
 House of Lords, and opposed by my Lord of 
 Bristol himself. There is nothing extraordinary 
 hath of late happened as to foreign affairs. But 
 having of late been a little curious in my enquiries 
 among some foreign agents I am acquainted with, 
 as well as those of the Council of Trade, who 
 have been employed to draw up the instructions 
 of public Ministers that went from hence, as far 
 as they concerned trade, I find that 'tis agreed 
 
 * The Earl of Clarendon was much for gaining the Dissent- 
 ers, and got the King, says Burnet, to publish a declaration 
 soon after his Restoration concerning ecclesiastical affairs, to 
 which, if he had stood, very probably the greatest part of them 
 might have been brought over to the Church ; but the Bishops 
 did not approve of this, and so they were lost. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 upon all hands, we are likely to fall out with the 
 Dutch. They have three Ambassadours here, 
 but in all their addresses the King tells them pe- 
 remptorily, he will make no peace with them till 
 they shall have sent Commissioners (as they did 
 in Cromwell's time) to joyn with Commissioners 
 chosen here to estimate the damages that the 
 English East-India Company hath sustained from 
 them, and to agree upon sudden satisfaction to 
 be made to the injured party. This the Dutch 
 will most certainly not do, for the English com- 
 puting their losses to amount to ^.600,000, the 
 Dutch will not pay it, and will, if they send any 
 Commissioners at all hither, only send them to 
 gain time thereby, to be the better provided to 
 %ht us. They are equipping many sails of men 
 of war, beyond the ordinary number of their sum- 
 mer Fleet. Nor is our King more inclined to 
 favour the Prince of Orange than the Dutch are 
 to lessen him, which they foresee may easily serve 
 us at any time as the cause of a war ; besides it is 
 now vox pcpuli every where that trade is so low 
 in England, that we shall never recover it again 
 till we have (tho' not destroyed) yet weakened 
 the Dutch by a war with them. I have been of 
 late (my Lord) instrumental in persuading a wor- 
 thy person here who is resident for the King of 
 Denmark, and Mons. Borrell, eldest son to the 
 Dutch Ambassador in Paris, to plant themselves 
 in Ireland. The first of them will procure five 
 hundred families of Norwegians to plant with him, 
 
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 and the other several hundred families of Dutch 
 and Protestant French. I shall in my next give 
 your Grace a fuller account of this negotiation. 
 On their proposal of the freedom in Religion 
 foreigners that were Protestants might have in 
 Ireland, I told them, I thought the same that 
 the Dutch and French Churches had indulged to 
 them in London, with which they seemed con- 
 tented. This, I thought, my duty to notify to 
 your Grace, whose advice or instructions I shall 
 be most punctually ready to follow about this, or 
 any other affair. God Almighty long preserve 
 your Grace's health, which shall always be the 
 hearty prayer of — May it please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's most faithful, most obedient, 
 and most devoted servant, 
 London, P. Pett. 
 
 March 21, 1661. 
 
 Before the sealing of this I happened to hear, 
 that the Chancellor when he brought in the fore- 
 mentioned proviso, said, he had instructions from 
 the King so to do, and that my Lord of Bristol 
 opposed him on the score of private piques, and 
 said it was unparliamentary for the King to anti- 
 cipate the freedom of the votes of a House of 
 Parliament by the prejudging any thing unde- 
 bated. The Duke of York was eager in the same 
 business with the Chancellor, and on all occasions 
 goes in his votes as the Chancellor doth, and so 
 ail parties that are sure of the Chancellor are sure 
 of the Duke of York. I likewise just now heard 
 
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 from a gentleman, as curious in foreign intelligence 
 as any I know, that letters are come out of Portugal 
 which say that the Queen will not take shipping, till 
 about ten days after the Easter is passed, that is, 
 Easter according to the new style. I have been 
 by accident kept from being able to send your 
 Grace the alterations in the Common Prayer book 
 till next post day. An eminent Presbyterian mi- 
 nister in Cheshire 5 week since hanged himself, 
 and that with a girdle, being troubled, as the let- 
 ter mentions that came to Berkenhead about it 
 (which I saw) at the Bill for Uniformity that was 
 passing; but tho' Mr. Birkenhead would fain, more 
 suo, have descanted upon it in his new book, he 
 had private instructions to omit it from week to 
 week any time this month, from such an autho- 
 rity as he durst not disobey. The Bishop of Win- 
 chester living many days to an end, is despaired 
 of, and Physicians speak doubtfully of the Duke 
 of Albemarle being able perfectly to recover * 
 from the weakness his last disease brought him to, 
 tho' when I last enquired, he had lost his fits, 
 which was more than a week ago. 
 
 * He did recover, and lived several years afterwards. He 
 died Jan. 3d. 1669-70. 
 
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 LETTER LX. 
 
 From Sir Edward Nicholas *, Secretary of State 
 to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 Having long known my good friend Dr. Pot- ' 
 ter, and observed in him always a constant good 
 affection to his Majesty's interests and affairs, it 
 hath prevailed with me to presume to crave your 
 Grace's favor to him, as there may be opportu- 
 nity at present ; your Lordship (I suppose) is well 
 acquainted with his great abilities, which makes 
 me say nothing of these his qualities. If your 
 Grace please to favor him, and the rather for my 
 sake, your Lordship will lay a great obligation on, 
 my Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble, and 
 
 most obedient servant, 
 Whitehall, Edw. Nicholas. 
 
 18 April, 1661. 
 
 * June ], 166*0, Sir Edward Nicholas and Sir Wm. Morrice 
 were made Secretaries of State. 
 
HAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER LXI. 
 
 From Mr. John Boys * to the same. 
 
 My truly honoured Lord, 
 
 Amongst those many servants your Lordship 
 hath in these parts, I beg I may have liberty to 
 present that duty and service I truly owe you, 
 and know it will not be unwelcome to let your 
 Lordship know of my Lord's Grace -f~ his good 
 health, and the abilities and strength he had to 
 perform that chief office at the Coronation £ 
 which hath not at all discomposed him, but con- 
 tinues lively and well. I need not trouble your 
 Lordship with other Whitehall news, well-know- 
 ing you have it frequently by a better and more 
 knowing pen. Sir John Minnes § and I often re- 
 member your Lordship ; he is now ready to go 
 to his charge in the Downs, where he rides Vice- 
 admiral, whilst our great Fleet, now sheathed 
 and ready, is going Southward. My Lord, you 
 
 * Lord Clarendon speaks of a Col. John Boys, who served the 
 King faithfully in the civil wars ; his defence of Donnington- 
 Castle is particularly noticed, of which he was Governor. Lloyd 
 speaks of him in his Martyrs, as being Steward to the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, which, if I am right, accounts for his dating his 
 Letter Lambeth. 
 
 t William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 X Charles II. crowned on St. George's day, April 23d, 1661. 
 
 § How was Sir John Minnes connected with Sir Christopher 
 so well known in Naval History by the appellation of Kit Minnes. 
 
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 must expect my attendance on you in Ireland, 
 and since we are made believe we shall have some 
 lands for our arrears in that service, I would 
 willingly remove some of my fortune here to make 
 that considerable, and therefore, if your Lordship 
 would please to advise with my worthy friend 
 Col. Gibson, where, either by lease or purchase, 
 I might conveniently dispose of ^.500, or 
 especially to be near your Lordship, I 
 should most readily do it, and acknowledge your 
 Lordship's very great favour therein shewed to, 
 my Lord, your Lordship's 
 
 very much obedient servant, 
 Lambeth, Jo. Boys. 
 
 May 3, 1661. 
 
 LETTER LXII. 
 
 From the Lord Primate to Sir Edward Nicholas, 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 Honourable Sir, 
 I am commanded * by the House of Peers to 
 make known unto your honor, that they have 
 named four of their Members to be their Agents 
 to attend his sacred Majesty in England, for the 
 
 * As Speaker of the House of Lords. 
 
 f Earls of Kildare and Mount-Alexander, John Lord Bishop 
 of Elphin, and Lord Kingston, to attend his Majesty in England 
 as Lords Commissioners, 31 July, 1661. Journals of the House 
 of Lords. 
 
 L 2 
 
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 HA WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 good of this Church and Kingdom, to continue 
 there so long as his Majesty shall license them, 
 and the House shall judge expedient, which they 
 do therefore represent, that no other person or 
 persons may pretend themselves to be qualified 
 as agent or agents to negotiate public affairs in 
 the name of this Kingdom, except such others as 
 shall be employed into England for that purpose, 
 by the Right Honorable the Lords Justices and 
 Council, the House of Convocation, and the 
 House of Commons, in their several and distinct 
 capacities ; which being all that is commanded me 
 by the House, I crave leave to subscribe, 
 Your Honor's most humble 
 
 and obedient servant, 
 Dublin, Jo. Armachanus. 
 
 July the 10th, 166L 
 
 LETTER LXIII. 
 
 From the Earl of Orrery to the Lord Primate at 
 Tredath *. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 I only send you this to acquaint you that if 
 nothing but my desires to your Grace to be here 
 to-morrow to meet my brother Cork, do draw you 
 then to Dublin, you may be pleased to suspend 
 your journey ; for he does not come hither, neither 
 
 * Drogheda. 
 
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 indeed can he be here by reason of some unfore- 
 seen affairs, till Saturday next, which he inti- 
 mated to me this day in his letter : so that if your 
 Grace can honor him with your company here on 
 Monday next, it will be time enough to answer 
 his occasions ; he goes for England, God willing, 
 about this day se'nnight. I thought fit to give 
 your Grace this advertisement, lest your noble 
 civility to my brother Cork, at my request, might 
 draw you hither from your more important affairs, 
 in which I wish you all imaginable good success, 
 and remain perfectly and unchangeably, may it 
 please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble 
 
 and most affectionate, 
 Phenix, Tuesday Orrery. 
 24 Sep. 166 J . " 
 
 LETTER LXIV, 
 
 From Mr. Daniel O'Neill to the same. 
 My Lord, 
 
 By the last I acknowledged your's by Sir 
 James Graham *, who since gave me a paper to 
 present to the King, whereof I send you herein 
 the copy. Neither the King, nor my Lord Stew- 
 ard^, found it reasonable or practicable, and 
 therefore desired we should think of something 
 
 * The Primate's son-in-law. f Duke of Ormond. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 else ; since, I have not seen him to give him that 
 answer. I hope your Grace is confident that the 
 relation he has to you, is able to oblige me to 
 serve him in all I can, and doubtless it will be 
 his own fault, if something be not done for him. 
 I hope you will follow the good example of our 
 Parliament *, who two days condemned the Co- 
 venant to be burned by the hands of the hang- 
 man *f~, a leading case to the Directory and all 
 the other Idols of the Presbyterians, who appear 
 here to be very inconsiderable % as to their num- 
 bers. The Bishops are not yet brought into the 
 Lord's House ; but every day we expect the re- 
 voking of that Act that keeps them out, with 
 most of the other Acts of that Parliament of 1641. 
 I doubt you will not be less indulgent to the Co- 
 venant there, though my countrymen of Ulster 
 will mutiny against such an injury to the Dagon. 
 The Parliament will settle the Militia upon the 
 King and his heirs, a step never yet made, towards' 
 the perpetual peace of these nations. In a word, 
 there is nothing relating to the good of the King- 
 dom and his Majesty's satisfaction, but this Par- 
 liament is prepared to do ; and if the King fail 
 after this to be at ease, it's his own fault. My 
 Lord Sandwich goes shortly to sea with a fleet of 
 
 * New Parliament, met 8th May, 1661. 
 
 t This ascertains the year in which this letter was written, 
 and the day on which the Covenant was burnt, <2lst May, 1661. 
 
 X Not more than 56 Members of the Presbyterian party had 
 obtained seats in the Lower House. 
 
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 13 ships, but it will be September before we are 
 to expect the Queen, who is a beautiful lady 
 and virtuous *, but I doubt not so advantageous 
 a match as is noised. I thought to have had the 
 honor to have waited on you there in Parliament, 
 but the King has some other employment for me, 
 and is not willing I should this summer see my 
 country. It may be, he would not have me a 
 witness of the proceedings of your Parliament to- 
 wards the destruction of the poor Irish, which is 
 in a fair way of extirpation by the declaration and 
 instructions ; that God's will be done, shall never 
 be repined at by, my Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble 
 and most affectionate servant, 
 Whitehall, 23 May, D. O'Neille. 
 
 (no y^ar.) 
 
 LETTER LXV. 
 
 from the Marquis of Ormond to the Lord 
 Primate. 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 You may remember that when the troubles 
 first began, the bearer Dr. Chrigton was one of 
 those that were expelled the kingdom of Scotland 
 
 * Catherine of Portugal was a Princess of virtue, but who 
 was never able, says Hume, either by the graces of her person 
 or humour, to make herself agreeable to the King. 
 
152 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 for his loyalty to the King, and constancy to the 
 Episcopal Government of the Church, and when 
 we of the army were to take those sufferers to be 
 Chaplains amongst us, your Grace was pleased 
 to recommend this Gentleman to me as a very 
 pious and learned person ; thereupon I received 
 him, and though our intended expedition fell to 
 the ground, I continued him in my family, his 
 deportment having made good your Grace's 
 opinion of him. Afterwards when I came to the 
 Government, I procured him some preferment, 
 whence also he was expulsed when I left the 
 sword, and has ever since in foreign parts, and 
 at home, endured much affliction, and now rea- 
 sonably expects to be with others restored to his 
 livings and dignities in Ireland, to which end I 
 recommend him to you, and myself to your pray- 
 ers and blessing, as your Grace's 
 
 most faithful humble servant, 
 Whyt-hall, Ormonde. 
 24 Sep. 1661. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 153 
 
 LETTER LXVI. 
 
 From the Earl of Southampton * to the 
 Lord Primate. 
 
 Most Reverend Father in God, and my 
 very good Lord, 
 
 His Majesty, with gratitude I may say it, 
 having of his goodness towards a sister of mine 
 (married to that unfortunate gentleman Mr. Ro- 
 bert Wallop who was, as your Grace may 
 understand, too much engaged in that unparal- 
 lelled act of sitting in a pretended court of justice 
 upon our most gracious Sovereign his late Ma- 
 jesty), and her. children by him, granted for their 
 use to myself, my Lord Ashley Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer, the Lord Chief Justice Bridgman, 
 and Sir Henry Vernor, by his letters patent of the 
 six and twentieth day of September last, the for- 
 
 * He was Lord Treasurer. 
 
 f He married Anne, daughter of Henry Wriothesly, Earl of 
 Southampton, and sister of that virtuous statesman the writer of 
 this letter ; by her he had Henry Wallop, his only child, who, 
 through the interest of his maternal uncle, was restored to all 
 his father's estates. Robert Wallop, the father, was one of the 
 Judges that sat in the High Court of Justice upon Charles I. ; 
 his estates of course became forfeited to the Crown, and he was 
 degraded from all gentility ; he was drawn to Tyburn with a 
 halter round his neck, on January 30, 1662, and sentenced to 
 differ perpetual imprisonment. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 feiture of his estate both in England and Ireland. 
 And I being now lately informed that the Bishop 
 of Ferns and Laughlin*, upon pretence of a direc- 
 tion from your Grace, hath commanded that the 
 rent of the priory of Selsker should be paid unto 
 his Lordship, it gives me occasion to give your 
 Grace this trouble, and to acquaint you with this 
 his Majesty's grant, and to beseech your Grace to 
 take off your hands from the same, and that such 
 agents as I employ therein may uninterruptedly 
 receive the profits thereof. The respects I shall 
 receive from your Grace in this particular shall 
 oblige me to^ return your Grace all services ; and 
 in particular I beg of you that this dispatch from 
 me may procure one from your Grace to disen- 
 gage the Bishop. Thus committing your Grace 
 to the protection of Almighty God, I am, my 
 Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's humble servant, 
 Southampton House, T. Southampton. 
 
 Oct. 18, 1661. 
 
 LETTER LXVII. 
 
 From Doctor Mossom to the Lord Primate. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 After a diligent search in person, and by 
 agents employed for three days together, I re- 
 
 * Robert Price, who had been Dean of Connor. 
 
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 turned home despairing of a conveniency for your 
 Grace's habitation, and therefore was preparing 
 mine own house here, having ordered a kinsman 
 and his wife to remove, my son (expected from 
 England) to be other ways provided. And all I 
 could possibly do for your Grace's accommoda- 
 tion, was a dining room and two lodging rooms 
 (the best, as is your Grace's due) in my house. 
 And this I and my spouse did design in a dutiful 
 devotion to prepare for your Grace's reception, 
 intending elsewhere to provide near at hand for 
 your followers. Now, my Lord, by good hap, I 
 became this day informed of such lodgings with 
 all conveniences as are (considering the present 
 condition of Dublin) beyond all exception. And 
 yet I mention what I and my wife had in design, 
 that if your Grace should dislike what I shall now 
 acquaint you with, purs may be ready at your 
 command, and we shall do it as heartily to your 
 Grace as to the best father on earth. The lodg- 
 ings I have been told of (and have taken an ac- 
 count particularly what they .are) are at Mr. Bal- 
 lard's the apothecary's, the same accommodations 
 which my Lord of Montrath had. I have en- 
 gaged a giving your Grace the refusal, and gained 
 time to acquaint you with the conveniences, which 
 are very good as to lodging chambers, your choice 
 of four garrets for servants three or four, a dining 
 room very noble, kitchen, celaridge, &c. all will 
 charge your Grace with about £A the week, 
 and these your Grace may have for six months, or 
 
156 
 
 KAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 what time longer you please. Yet here's no garden 
 for pleasurable retreat, and your coach and horses 
 must be still in St. George's-lane ; and indeed I yet 
 see no possibility of being in any manner accom- 
 modated so as to have with lodgings, coach house 
 and stables. There is at Drinkwater's in Skinner- 
 row, a very pleasant garden, good conveniences of 
 dining-room, and lodging; but she put me off till 
 Monday for her resolution to let them. Yet be- 
 sides she has no garret for servants, but must 
 provide for them at the next house. As for 
 dining room and three lodging rooms, better is 
 not in Dublin, and the conveniences for lower 
 rooms, as kitchen, &c. is tolerably good. I crave 
 your Grace's mind to be signified by Monday's 
 post, whether of these two places you best ap- 
 prove ; that if haply Mrs. Drinkwater give a fair 
 resolve, I may for her garden's sake especially 
 strike a bargain with her. If your Grace is 
 pleased to send over Mr. Coghill that I may know 
 the state of your intended family in Dublin, all 
 things shall be ready against your Grace's coming 
 to town. The coach is preparing and almost 
 ready for use. And tho' my spouse's weakness 
 keeps her within doors, yet her instructions will 
 direct me without, that nothing may be wanting 
 to your Grace's accommodation, if Mr. Coghill 
 come in time, — At both places your Grace must 
 provide linninge and pewter, or else allow a great 
 rate for them. My wife presents your Grace her 
 humblest duty and service 5 and being crept down 
 
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 stairs, is almost in condition to be your Grace's 
 hand-maid. She begs your benediction, and so 
 does, my Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's most humbly, 
 affectionately, and 
 
 faithfully devoted, 
 Dublin, Rob. Mossom. 
 
 Nov. 23, 1661. 
 
 My Lord, — As for an house unfurnisht, I can- 
 not hear of any fit for your Grace's reception, in 
 any proportion of conveniency. Besides I am 
 sensible how great a trouble and charge the fur- 
 nishing an empty house must needs require ; so 
 that in my weak judgment your Grace's present 
 accommodation must be resolved, as to rooms 
 ready furnisht. 
 
 LETTER LXVIII. 
 
 From the Earl of Orrery to the same *, 
 
 My dear Lord, 
 
 I have even now by my servant received the 
 honour of your Grace's letter, for which I pay 
 you my most humble acknowledgments. Last 
 
 * Lord Primate Bramhall was then Speaker of the House of 
 Lords j his appointment took place in May 1661. Whilst 
 Speaker, he proposed a resolution which passed the House, 
 " That all the Members thereof should receive the sacrament of 
 the Lord's Supper from his Grace's hands." 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 night, about eleven o'clock, God was pleased to 
 call to his mercy the Earl of Mountrath * ; his 
 loss at any time would have been a great misfor- 
 tune to this kingdom, at this time the greatest. 
 Early this morning my Lord Chancellor and the 
 Council met at my chamber to resolve what was 
 fittest to be done. Several yesterday moved that 
 as by act of Council during my Lord Mountrath's 
 sickness, my Lord Chancellor and I carried on 
 the government, so by another act of Council we 
 should continue to do so, till the King's pleasure 
 were signified ; but I was of a contrary opinion 
 myself, and gave such reasons against it, and 
 quoted the practice of the Council in the like 
 case on my Lord Wandesford's death, moving 
 that what was done then might be done now, viz. 
 that the Council only might carry on the govern- 
 ment till the King's commands were received, that 
 at last all were of that mind, and an act of Coun- 
 cil was passed accordingly, only with this addi- 
 tion, that any six of the Council might act, 
 whereof my Lord Chancellor and I to be two, 
 which was a compliment I would have declined ; 
 but the Council would have it, and so it past. — 
 We have just now dispatched Mr. Keatinge, clerk 
 of the House of Lords, with letters to my Lord 
 
 * December 18, 1661, died the Earl of Montrath of the small- 
 pox ; and the 6th of February following, was buried in the ca- 
 thedral of Christ Church, Dublin. Sir Charles Coote was ad- 
 vanced to the dignity of Earl of Montrath by patent, bearing 
 date the year before. 
 
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 159 
 
 Lieutenant, signifying the death of my Lord 
 Mountrath ; what the Council had resolved upon 
 as to the government, till the King's pleasure be 
 known ; and by him we sent a draft of a commis- 
 sion for the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy, Lord 
 Justice, Lords Justices *, or other chief governor 
 or governours for the time being, to hold the pre- 
 sent ; and to desire, with all possible expedition, 
 that his Majesty would appoint a chief Governor 
 or Governours to hold the Parliament and Go- 
 vernment till my Lord Lieutenant's arrival, and to 
 send duplicates by the way of Scotland of the 
 King's pleasure. I thought fit to give your Grace 
 this account, and to assure you I am perfectly 
 troubled at your indisposition, and to beg you not 
 to trouble or endanger your health by coming 
 hither, till conveniently you may ; for which end 
 this messenger goes all night, lest you might be 
 on your way when he comes. Whatever is done 
 here of moment, or comes out of England, you 
 shall, God willing, have a constant account of, 
 from 
 
 Your Grace's most humble and 
 
 most faithful servant, 
 Dublin, Orrery. 
 19 December. 
 
 3 in the afternoon, 1661. 
 
 * The three Lords Justices appointed at the Restoration were, 
 Lord Broghill, created Earl of Orrery, Sir Charles Coote, created 
 Earl of Montrath, and Sir Maurice Eustace, who at the same 
 time was made Lord Chancellor. 
 
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 Thus superscribed — 
 
 tc For his Grace the Lord Primate and Metro* 
 politan of all Ireland, at Droghedah. — Haste, 
 haste." 
 
 LETTER LXIX. 
 
 From Dr. Pett to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 The affairs here at home have not given me 
 since my last, any great occasion to trouble you 
 with news. The several little Presbyterian tricks 
 that were used in the House of Commons before 
 they passed the bill for uniformity, I thought to 
 have entertained you with them in this letter ; but 
 they are so commonly here known and talked of, 
 that I shall forbear the recital of them. There 
 has been one conference about the Bill, but I do 
 not hear any likelyhood of another in haste ; and 
 unless the Houses of Parliament here sit long be- 
 fore their intended prorogation, the Bill will 
 hardly pass this session. There is at the next 
 conference (if there be any) like to be great clash- 
 ing about the Bill in relation to one passage in the 
 alterations of the Liturgy I sent your Grace, and 
 that is, " Whereas 'twas before there to this effect, 
 it being undoubtedly true out of God's Word that 
 all infants baptised, and dying before they com- 
 mit actual sin, go to Heaven-;," the words are now, 
 
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 c< All persons baptised,'' &c. instead of infants. 
 The Presbyterian party, I hear, have quarrelled 
 much at that alteration, and several of the Bishops 
 that sat in the Convocation say, they knew not 
 how it came in, and it is generally made to 
 reflect ill on the Convocation here. There is 
 now no talk of our Queen coming hither ; and 
 many judicious persons do suspect that there is 
 something in the matter more than merely the 
 business of the wind that has hindered her coming. 
 — I hear this Pope *, favouring the Spanish fac- 
 tion, has not dispensed with the marriage. There 
 is no news of the Queen's being yet set out of 
 Portugal ; the King is at ^.1500 a day expense 
 about the fleet that is there. The fleet that the 
 King sent to the river Gambo in the East Indies 
 a little after his Restoration, to look for gold, is 
 returned rd infectd, no gold or silver, but what 
 was imported, having been heard of in that place, 
 as the returned mariners say. — The peace between 
 France and Holland, offensive and defensive, is 
 signed-f-; and the Dutch Ambassadors here are 
 ordered by their masters, to offer to England some 
 articles of peace to be signed (in which mean pro- 
 vision is made for the Prince of Orange, or the 
 English merchants damaged by the Dutch in the 
 East Indies in 600,000/.) or upon the King's re- 
 fusing to sign them, presently to come home ; 
 and every day 'tis reported here that they will be 
 
 * Innocent X. f April 27, 1662. 
 
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 signed. 'Tis generally believed that Don John is 
 declared legitimate in Spain, which by occasion- 
 ing wars between France and Spain may make 
 well for England and Ireland. The King of 
 France * has lately sent an envoy to the Pope, to 
 desire him to have a prayer used for him apart in 
 his chapel, and not to let him be only prayed for 
 amongst other Christian Kings ; and withal to 
 desire the Pope that the prayer for him might be 
 said before the prayer of the rest of the Christian 
 Kings and Princes. Our King lately told a story 
 of him, how he lately sent for the Prince of Cond£, 
 and having made him wait four hours, sent him 
 away without speaking with him. Nothing has 
 been done of late in any affairs that concern Ire- 
 land, because of my Lord Lieutenant's -j- conti- 
 nuing at Portsmouth in expectation of the Queen. 
 There is lately published here a Remonstrance 
 from the Irish Papists, both of the nobility and 
 gentry, to which many of their names are sub- 
 scribed, wherein they conclude with this petition, 
 " That they may be protected from persecution, 
 for the profession or exercise of their religion ; 
 and that all former laws against them on that ac- 
 count may be repealed. I most humbly crave 
 your Grace's benediction, and remain 
 
 Your Grace's most faithful, 
 most humble, 
 and most devoted servant, 
 London, May 6, 1662. P. Pett. 
 
 * Louis XIV. t Duke of Ormond. 
 
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 LETTER LXX. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 On yesterday about 8 o'clock at night, the 
 King began his journey to Portsmouth, having 
 but half an hour before prorogued the Houses 
 here till the latter end of February next. The 
 King then passed about three score bills, and par- 
 ticularly those for uniformity, the militia, chimney 
 money, printing, &c. ; to two or three private bills 
 he gave his le Roy s'avisera ; one of these was the 
 bill for the Earl of Derby's being restored to the 
 estates he had sold under the usurping govern- 
 ment to such persons as had first bought it of the 
 usurpers. The King intended last night to lie at 
 Guilford, and to be at Portsmouth to-day by 10 
 o'clock, and to be married * before noon by the 
 
 * In a letter from John Stanhope, dated Gray's Inn, May 20, 
 1662, to George Rawdon, Esq. is the following paragraph : — 
 
 " The King yesterday gave his Royal assent to many Acts of 
 Parliament, and then prorogued the Parliament till February 
 next, and is gone to Portsmouth, and will be married there to- 
 morrow, as is thought." 
 
 This letter is thus superscribed — 
 ** For George Rawdon, Esq. att the Lord Conway's howse in 
 
 Skinner Rowe in the citty of Dublin." 
 
 " In the summer of 166 L 2, May 21, the inauspicious marriage of 
 Charles II. with Catherine, Infanta of Portugal, was concluded.'' 
 
 Belsham. 
 
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 Bishop of London *, who, for that end, took his 
 journey toward Portsmouth last Sunday night. — 
 I have nothing more of importance to acquaint 
 your Grace with, but the belief and observation 
 of several knowing persons here concerning the 
 Lord Chancellor's interest being in a declining 
 condition. My Lord of Bristol ~J~ is every day 
 more and more adored by people as judging him 
 to grow dayly more the King's favorite; which 
 Lord did lately, and that not very privately, at 
 White-hall (as I have it from very good hands), 
 speak against the Chancellor before the King, 
 using these words, " When your Majesty was first 
 restored, there was an universal current of the 
 affections of the people that ran strongly toward 
 you; your Majesty was then in a condition to have 
 been an arbitrator of all the public controversies 
 in Christendom, and you were in a capacity of 
 having with ease greater revenues and a fuller 
 exchequer than ever any King of England had ; 
 but the variety of discontents among the people 
 is now too notorious, and we are not formidable 
 to other parts of the world, and the dearth of 
 money requisite for your Majesty's affairs is but 
 too apparent ; and these mischiefs we must and 
 will charge upon your Minister of State, the Chan- 
 
 * Dr. Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London. Some say the King 
 was married by a Popish priest. 
 
 t Burnet says, " He was set at the head of the Popish party, 
 and was a violent enemy of the Earl of Clarendon." 
 
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 cellor." Whereupon the King was not observed 
 to check the Earl of Bristol for that liberty of 
 speech, or to vindicate the Chancellor. Sir Harry 
 Bennet, who is lookt on as no good friend of the 
 Chancellor, is likewise lookt on to be grown of 
 late as great a favorite as any is. He is reported 
 to be shortly made Earl of Monmouth # . The 
 Presbyterians generally are angry with the Chan- 
 cellor for not having done no more for them, and 
 others are for having done so much. As I take 
 no delight in mentioning things of this nature to 
 others, so I would not but communicate them to 
 your Grace. I most humbly entreat your bene* 
 diction, and am, may it please your Grace, 
 Your Grace's most humble, 
 most faithful, 
 
 and most devoted servant, 
 London, P. Pett. 
 
 May SO, 1662. 
 
 - LETTER LXXL 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 The news at present here is, that we have 
 lost four hundred foot, and threescore horse, at 
 Tangiers, by the Moors. They were all English 
 that were slain, and a great many of our Irish 
 
 * He was made Earl of Arlington. 
 
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 forces there saw them perish, and would not ven- 
 ture to aid them. My Lord of Peterburgh *, I 
 hear, is returned hither ; Major General Morgan 
 is likewise privately arrived here from Scotland, 
 who brings news of the great discontents in that 
 country among the fanatics there. — This day I 
 saw Sir Harry Vane dief, who shewed very great 
 boldness, and indeed seditious impudence on the 
 scaffold, insomuch that, to silence him, the noise 
 of drums J and trumpets was five or six times 
 used by the command of the Captain of the Guard 
 at his execution, as he was making his harangue. 
 One of the three Dutch Ambassadors that was 
 here, is gone. My Lord Lieutenant will, I be- 
 lieve, not set out for Ireland these five weeks. 
 I humbly crave your Grace's benediction, and re- 
 main, may it please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble, 
 most faithful, 
 
 most devoted servant, 
 London, P. Pett. 
 
 June 14, 1662. 
 
 * I suppose he means my Lord of Peterborough, who was 
 made Governor of Tangier. 
 
 f Sir Harry Vane, brought to trial June 6, sentenced to be 
 hanged and quartered the 11th, and beheaded on the 14th. 
 
 + Lest pity for a courageous sufferer should make impression 
 on the populace, drummers were placed under the scaffold, 
 whose noise, as he began to launch out in reflections on the 
 Government, drowned his voice, and admonished him to tem- 
 per the ardour of his zeal. — Hume. 
 
KAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 167 
 
 LETTER LXXII. 
 
 From George Beaumont and George Holland 
 to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 I have received summons from the prolo- 
 cutor, by order of the House, to attend the lower 
 House of Convocation, July 22 instant. I have 
 returned your Grace's dispensation for myself 
 and Mr. Archdeacon, upon our remonstrance and 
 petition, because of the cathedral, not otherwise 
 in this scarcity of ministers likely, if possibly, to 
 be cathedrally supplied, and for the herding of 
 schismatics who run about predicants in this dio- 
 cess. Some 14 days since, in this city, I seized 
 upon a squinted fellow, one Smith, who had 
 played his conventicling freaks in the street the 
 week before. Examined him before the Mayor, 
 but such a piece of ignorance and impudence 
 (tho* I have met with many thick-skinned fore- 
 heads in my time) I never grappled with before. 
 He slipt our hands, and ran the diocess ; where- 
 ever he comes I fear he is of pernicious aspect. 
 I have heard since, that he was Corbet's * chap- 
 
 * Miles Corbet sat at King Charles's trial, and signed the 
 warrant for his death, for which he was executed this year at 
 Tyburn, being drawn thither upon a sledge from the Tower ; 
 his quarters were placed over the city gates, and his head upon 
 London Bridge. 
 
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 lain, who was lately hanged, drawn, and quar- 
 tered. The truth is, he should be kept from the 
 mischief he would do where he skulks. May it 
 please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's dutiful 
 
 and humble servants, 
 London Deny, Geo. Beaumont, 
 
 July 15, 1662. Geo. Holland. 
 
 Mr. Blackmail is our proxy. 
 
 LETTER LXXIII. 
 From Dr. Marsh to the same. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 I lately attended my Lord of Down*, and de- 
 sired him to intercede with your Grace for what 
 I am myself an humble petitioner, that in regard 
 this place must otherwise be wholly left destitute 
 and unprovided, your Grace would be pleased to 
 excuse me from coming to the Convocation ; and 
 upon presumption of your Grace's concession, I 
 entrusted with my Lord of Down a blank to con- 
 stitute a proxy on my behalf, which I hope your 
 Grace will be pleased to allow of, especially, my 
 Lord, considering (and which I humbly recom- 
 mend to your Grace's notice and care,) that the 
 Romish faction here, and I believe elsewhere, 
 grows very bold, and have their frequent masses 
 in this town, and near it, which I assure your 
 
 * Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, January 1660. 
 
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 Grace is grievous to those that are otherwise 
 minded, and I believe unsafe as any other fanatic 
 conventicles ; and tho' my continuance here will 
 be no remedy to that, yet 1 think it will look the 
 worse by my absence, for reasons which I will not 
 produce, because I would not be tedious, and I 
 think needless (it may be unmannerly) to suggest 
 to your Grace, and therefore rest, my ever ho- 
 noured Lord, 
 
 Your Grace's most obedient 
 Armagh, and dutiful servant, 
 
 July 22, 1662. Franc Marsh *. 
 
 The following Letter of Primate Bramhall to 
 Charles II, is transcribed from a true Copy 
 taken by John Coghil]. 
 
 LETTER LXXIV. 
 
 May it please your Majesty, 
 
 The Church of Ireland, now humble suitors 
 unto you for the remission of their 20th parts and 
 first fruits for the time past, which request your 
 Majesty, by the mediation of my Lord Steward, 
 was graciously pleased to grant. And truly it was 
 absolutely necessary that it should be so ; first in 
 justice, for they have received nothing out of 
 those dignities and benefices which they hold in 
 title only, for these twenty years past, and if they 
 
 * Francis Marsh was at this time Dean of Armagh. He died 
 Archbishop of Dublin in 1693, and was father of Narcissus 
 Marsh, who died Primate of Ireland in 1713. 
 
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 had received any thing, yet few or none of them 
 are able to pay any thing at this time without 
 their utter ruin ; w and where nothing is to be 
 had, even kings lose their rights." 
 
 And yet, because they are not willing to receive 
 this great benefit to themselves with any prejudice 
 to your Majesty, or the least diminution of your 
 revenue, they offered by me to settle an equal and 
 universal tax of all ecclesiastical preferments 
 throughout Ireland, whereas now some few of 
 them are overtaxed, a great many of them are 
 altogether untaxed, and the most of them are 
 ludicrously taxed, so as to make them liable to 
 the name of twentieth parts, but rarely to first 
 fruits. I am very confident that such an equal 
 and universal tax as is offered by them, will double ^ 
 or treble your Majesty's ecclesiastical revenue 
 every way, in twentieth parts, in first fruits, in 
 subsidies. If your Majesty be pleased to impose 
 the care of this great work upon me in a regal 
 visitation, I will charge or burthen no man but 
 myself in the execution thereof. I hope to make 
 you such a tax by consent, without any noise or 
 opposition, and to settle an exact list of all pa- 
 tronages of the Crown, which are now smothered, 
 and in a great part usurped, than which nothing 
 concerns your Majesty more, to maintain and 
 preserve the dependance of your subjects upon 
 yourself ; the Clergy depending much upon their 
 patron, and the people upon the clergy. And 
 lastly, I doubt not but to make a perfect rentall of 
 
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 all such impropriations as have either in former 
 times by your Royal father been bestowed upon 
 the Church, or by your Majesty's own grace and 
 bounty are now to be restored to the Church, so 
 as the ancient revenues of your Crown shall be 
 upheld, and your Exchequer sustain no prejudice. 
 But if your Majesty in your high prudence shall 
 think any other course fitter for effecting this de- 
 sign, I do humbly submit, and shall most readily 
 be subservient in any way which your Majesty 
 shall approve. 
 
 Now I beseech your Majesty to give me leave 
 to add a word or two in the behalf of Sir James 
 Graham, whose near relation to me will excuse 
 what I say, whilst I contain myself (which I hope 
 both he and I shall always do) within the bounds 
 of modesty. 
 
 He seeth your Majesty's bounties thrown 
 abroad, like medals at a coronation, for those that 
 can catch them, and whilst you are doing good to 
 your persecutors, he takes the boldness (with the 
 good thief upon the cross) to step in for himself, 
 " Lord remember me." If his suffering hath 
 been more than his acting, it was for want of 
 power, not of loyal duty, wherein he hopeth ever- 
 more to approve himself an equal to the best of 
 your subjects. The Lords Justices here do ap- 
 prove him, and have twice recommended him into 
 England for some preferment. And it is, if not 
 a blemish, yet some little shame unto him to see 
 others of his countrymen daily receive marks of 
 
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 your Royal favour, and himself to miss them, 
 either by his misfortune, or, if he should still be 
 silent untill the whole act be concluded, by his 
 supine negligence. I am confident he will offer 
 nothing to your Majesty which may in the least 
 degree intrench either upon your honor or your 
 interest, or your engagements. So I submit him 
 and his request to your Majesty's grace, and my- 
 self to your pardon for this presumption ; and for 
 conclusion, beg this further favour for him, that 
 your Majesty will grant him a speedy dispatch, 
 that he may haste back hither to serve you in this 
 approaching Parliament *. 
 
 God preserve your Majesty long in health and 
 happiness, for the welfare of your kingdom and 
 the good of this Church, which is the incessant 
 prayer of your Majesty's 
 
 Most loyal and obedient 
 
 subject and servant, 
 [No date.] Jo. Armachanus. 
 
 Vera copia, per me, John Coghill. 
 
 * Sir James Graham sat .for the borough of Armagh in the 
 Parliament which met in Dublin in May 1661 ; at which time the 
 Commons sat in Chichester House. Parliaments used in general 
 to meet in the Castle of Dublin till the year 1641 ; after this they 
 met at Chichester House, which the family of Chichester had 
 bought from Sir George Carey, Treasurer. There Parliament sat 
 till the year 1729,, when it removed to the Blue-Coat- Hospital, 
 where it remained till a new house was erected on the site of 
 Chichester House. This house was built at the expence of 
 ^.40,000, in which they met to do business October 5, 1731. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 173 
 
 The two following Letters are addressed to Sir 
 Thomas Clarges from a Writer who gives only 
 the initial Letters of his Name. They have 
 neither Place nor Date. 
 
 LETTER LXXV. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Sir John Lawson doth not set out with his 
 fleet these ten days, but two frigates are appointed 
 to transport the Earl of Tiviot *. The Lord 
 Hollis is suddenly to go Ambassador for France, 
 'tis now said that he is preparing for it. Yester- 
 day a complaint was made to the House of Com- 
 mons that Sir John Winter had cut very many, 
 and was still cutting down more timber trees in 
 the forest of Dean, whereupon they ordered a 
 day after their adjournment for Sir John to ap- 
 pear before them. Upon a motion being made in 
 the House that several offices were sold, which 
 was the cause that so much corruption was used 
 by the officers to reimburse themselves such great 
 
 * Lord Rutherford, afterwards Earl of Tiviot, or Tiveot 5 he 
 was appointed Governor of Dunkirk in the place of Sir Edward 
 Harley, when it was sold to the French King. He was then 
 Lord Retorfort. — Collins's Peerage, vol. IV. p. 249. 
 
 1663, Feb. 2, the Lord Rutherford, late Governor of Dun- 
 kirk, was created Earl of Tiviot in Scotland. In 1664, the Earl 
 of Tiviot, having been some time in England, arrived again at 
 Tangier, Feb. 22. 
 
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 sums of money as they had given for purchases, 
 the House ordered a committee to consider of all 
 such offices as have been bought, and to examine 
 what money was paid for them, and to whom ; 
 and to make report thereof to the House. — The 
 House of Lords, after a full hearing of all parties 
 concerning the patent for glass bottles, threw out 
 the bill. The letters from Poland say that the 
 King's army there doth daily increase by the 
 numbers that desert the Confederates since the 
 proclamation, which makes the Confederates draw 
 their forces together, and send to the Confe- 
 derates of the Lithuanian army to join with them. 
 This day both Houses of Parliament adjourned 
 till to-morrow fortnight. The House of Lords 
 have got little of public business before them ; 
 they have appointed a Committee to consider 
 what Acts of the Long Parliament are fit to be 
 repealed, among which 'tis thought they will va- 
 cate the Acts for taking away the High Commis- 
 sion Court and Star Chamber. The House of 
 Commons made an order that all persons con- 
 cerned in the Excise should make their due pay- 
 ments, notwithstanding the debates of the House 
 concerning the regulation of it, or otherwise all 
 justices of the peace and other officers, to give 
 them their assistance according to law. On Mon- 
 day fortnight the House of Commons is to be 
 called over, and every one that makes not appear- 
 ance is to pay 5l. The letters from Madrid, 
 March L >8, assure that the day before there was 
 
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 publication made of a match between the Em- 
 peror of Germany and the Infanta of Spain. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 April 14. U. M. 
 
 LETTER LXXVI. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 On Tuesday last the Committee for the truly 
 loyal and indigent officers ordered that all persons 
 who will put in any exceptions against such as 
 were entered into the list to have their share of 
 ^.60,000, should offer them to the Committee 
 before the 20th of June next, after which time all 
 persons against whom no informations are given 
 in, shall be adjudged to have a right therein, and 
 a dividend be accordingly made. Preparations 
 are making at court for the solemnity of the Order 
 of the Garter, to be performed at Windsor on 
 Thursday next. The Earl of Tiviot is gone to 
 Kent to see that the ships and all other things be 
 in readiness for his transportation. That which 
 detained him till this time was, that some of his 
 men, whom he had kept a long time at board per 
 diem, were not in readiness to go so soon along 
 with them. On Thursday * last his Majesty 
 
 * 1809. Yesterday, being Maundy Thursday, his Majesty 
 George III.'s annual bounty of woollen cloth, linen cloth, shoes, 
 
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 washt several poor men's feet in the Banqueting- 
 House, an act of humility used by his predeces- 
 sors on Maundy Thursday, to as many poor 
 men as they had lived years. To each poor man 
 he gave 2 yards of cloth for a coat, 3 ells of linen 
 for a shirt, shoes, stockings, 2 purses, the one 
 with 33 pence, the other with 20, 1 pole of ling, 
 1 jole of salmon, a quantity of red and white her- 
 rings, 1 bad with beer, and another with wine, 
 with which they drank his Majesty's health. The 
 Queen did pay the same observance to several , 
 women about one of the clock at St. James's. — 
 Monday next is appointed for the celebration of 
 the marriage betwixt the Duke of Monmouth * 
 and the Countess of Buccleugh, the great heiress 
 in Scotland. The religious part, it is confidently 
 affirmed, will be performed by the Lord Bishop of 
 
 stockings, five loaves of bread, beef, salt, salmon, cod, herrings, 
 wooden cups full of ale and wine, and 71 silver penny-piece: 
 was distributed to 71 poor men, and 71 poor women, being as 
 many as his Majesty is years old, in a large room adjoining 
 Whitehall Chapel, without the usual forms and ceremonies, on 
 account of the Chapel being under repair and fitting up for a mi- 
 litary chapel. Dr. Carey, the sub-almoner, attended and said 
 grace, and returned thanks. 
 
 * Anderson says he was born in 1649, created Duke of Mon- 
 mouth Feb. 14, 1663, Knight of the Garter the 2<2d of April 
 following, Master of Horse to the King in 1665, and married in 
 a few days after the date of this letter. The Duchess, who was 
 Lady Anne Scot, Countess of Buccleugh, was created Duchess 
 of Buccleugh on her marriage, and was then only fourteen, and 
 the Duke but sixteen years of age. They were seven years mar- 
 ried before their fiiat child was born. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 London in his Majesty's bedchamber. — If I take 
 the liberty of the holydays next post, I beg your 
 pardon. 
 
 Your servant, 
 April 18. V. M. 
 
 [Year must be 1665.] 
 
 LETTER LXXVIL 
 
 From Colonel George Monck to Major George 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I cannot understand that there is an urgent 
 necessity for Colonel Conway to go for England, 
 since I am confident it will not be so well con- 
 strued, and I doubt your quitting will not be so 
 favourably taken as if you had continued your 
 command and kept all right. I have written to 
 Colonel Hill to take ^.100 for his own use out of 
 your latter payment for your contract for invalids. 
 I am so engaged to him, that I will not be un- 
 mindful of his favor to me. What else I thought 
 not fit to commit to paper, I have acquainted Mr. 
 Norris with it. Assuring you that I shall un- 
 feignedly approve myself to be 
 
 Your affectionate friend and servant, 
 Dundalk, this 6 George Monck. 
 
 of July, 1649. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 " To his much esteemed good friend Major 
 George Rawdon, these at Lisnagarvy." 
 
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 LETTER LXXVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Friend, 
 
 I return you many thanks for your direction 
 to my brother Doctor Clarge3 *, and for the 
 horse you were pleased to send me. I am now 
 setting up a brood, and at my departure for Ire- 
 land, when I get a good horse that is worth the 
 bestowing upon you, I shall give you one of my 
 brood. I am sorry to hear that the Scots con- 
 tinue in the same temper they were when I was 
 there. I am very glad to hear my Colonel Hill's 
 Lady and Family are well ; and if I may do you 
 any service here or any where else, there is no 
 friend you have in any of the three nations shall 
 be more willing to do it than myself. My wife 
 presents her best respects to you, which is all at 
 present from Your very affectionate 
 
 friend and servant, 
 
 Dalkeith -}~, George Monck. 
 
 16 March, 1657-8. 
 
 * General Monk married the daughter of Thomas Clarges, 
 who is said to have been originally a Blacksmith ; the Doctor 
 was his wife's brother. 
 
 t Monk, during his command in Scotland, always affected the 
 privacy and retirement of the Country. He was so pleased with 
 the situation of Dalkeith-House, which was within five miles of 
 Edinburgh, that he became its tenant, and made it his head- 
 quarters. 
 
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 I desire you to present my service to Col. Hi}ls 
 Ladv * 
 
 LETTER LXXIX. 
 
 From Doctor Thomas Clarges to Major 
 George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I received the favor of your's of the 22d in- 
 stant from Dalkeith, with the inclosed to my 
 Lord Conway and Mr. Lock, which I have deli- 
 vered to them. I have been twice since I had 
 your letter at Mr. Burgh's house for the 49 
 papers, but had not the happiness to find him at 
 home, but I doubt not to have them in a day or 
 two in my hands. I have already prepared some 
 of the Members in the business, and find them 
 kind to it, but they seem to discourage my hopes 
 in getting a particular Act passed by this Parlia- 
 ment, because they resolve to stick to their time 
 of rising the 7 of May next (if not before), and 
 the many great affairs before them, will engage 
 their whole time ; but nevertheless, I intend to 
 take advice of Lawyers to try if I can get a few 
 lines drawn up to be added to the present Bill of 
 Settlement, that may do your work as well as the 
 
 * This Lady was Col. Arthur Hill's second wife, and was 
 daughter of Sir William Parsons, one of the Lord Justices of 
 Ireland. Front her is descended the present Marquis of Down- 
 shire. 
 
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 Act, or at least make your lands somewhat surer 
 than they are, and by the next post I will write 
 to you more particularly of it. The Act of In- 
 demnity is so spurred up by the army, that I be- 
 lieve it will pass very suddenly. Tithes of late 
 have been invaded by many petitions, but yester- 
 day the House put a stop to the career by a vote, 
 which was as follows : (viz.) — Resolved — " That 
 this Parliament doth declare, that for the encou- 
 ragement of a godly, preaching, learned Ministry 
 throughout the nation, the payment of tithes 
 shall be continued as now they are, unless this 
 Parliament shall find out some other more equal 
 and comfortable maintenance, both for the Mi- 
 nistry and satisfaction of the people." * It is said 
 our forces in Jamaica have had so good success 
 over the Spaniards, that they have taken some 
 Carvels f with or 300,000 in bullion, which 
 is wellcome news at this time. I shall be glad to 
 hear that you are safe at Lisnagarvy, and am, 
 
 Sir, your affectionate humble servant, 
 London, this 28th Thomas Clarges. 
 
 of June, 1659. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 cc For my worthy friend Major Royden, 
 Lisnegarvy/' 
 
 * " That more equal and comfortable maintenance both for 
 the Ministry and satisfaction of the people," though so much de- 
 sired, has not yet been discovered. 
 
 f Carvel, a small ship. — Johnson, from the Spanish word 
 
 Caravela, a kind of ship. 
 
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 LETTER LXXX. 
 
 From Lord Viscount Conway * to his son Ed- 
 ward, afterwards Earl of Conway. On the back 
 of this letter his Son thus writes : To inform 
 me of the Reports that are of me, and the 
 Officers of the Regiment at London." 
 
 I did once think not to have written, for he 
 that brings this to you knows most perfectly all 
 that concerns this place and these times, but I 
 have heard something which makes me think it 
 most necessary for me to write to you. Sir Pa^ 
 trick Weames is come to London from Dublin, 
 and sayeth that Lieutenant Colonel Jones is in 
 Dublin, and that you have received a commission 
 for the Regiment from my Lord of Ormond, and 
 the result of this is, that you and the officers of 
 the regiment are not to be trusted ; if the Parlia- 
 ment believe this, they will have cause to dispose 
 of the regiment, so as they may be assured of it. 
 The Commissioners that do now go into Ireland 
 are very honest gentlemen. Mr. Onslowe and Sir 
 Robert King I know very well ; and you shall 
 
 * Sir Edward Conway was created Lord Conway of Ragley in 
 1625, Viscount Conway in 1627; and died in 1630. His son 
 the second Viscount Conway, the writer of this letter, died in 
 1655 j and his son Edward was created Earl of Conway in 1679 ; 
 he died in 1683, without any issue, by whose death his titles be- 
 came extinct. 
 
RAW DON PAPERS. 
 
 do well to address yourself to them, give assur- 
 ance to them that they may make good report of 
 you hither. I have spoken with Ned Burgh at 
 large when he was here, you shall do well to 
 speak with him : take heed to yourself and keep 
 the good opinion of this place. There was one 
 that answered to that, that you had a Commission 
 for the Regiment sent from the Marquiss of Or- 
 mond, that you were not to be blamed, because 
 that he might do it without your seeking ; but it 
 w r as certain that the Parliament was sent to, and 
 desired to give you a Commission. I have an- 
 swered for Lieutenant Colonel Jones all that I 
 could, you shall do well to speak with him, and 
 I hope that lie will satisfy the Commissioners. If 
 there be any officer whom you know to be dis- 
 affected to the Parliament, so that the putting of 
 him out may be a good service, you shall do well 
 to put him out, having told the Commissioners of 
 him. The affairs of the King are in a very ill 
 condition, his joy for the prosperity of Montrose* 
 hath been of short continuance ; in one day he 
 hath lost all that he had gotten, and the Scotch 
 army which was marching with all speed for Scot- 
 land hath received orders to return, and they are 
 appointed to go to Newark f, which place, if the 
 King lose, he will not have any thing Northward j 
 
 * Sept. 13, 1645, Montrose was beaten by David Lesly, and 
 obliged to fly into Uie Mountains. 
 
 f In the May following, 1640, the King surrendered to the 
 Scotch Army before Newark. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 in the West he hath only Exeter and Pendennis 
 which are of any consideration. Goring is in the 
 West, and the forces with him are certainly in a 
 very ill condition, for he hath not stirred once, 
 while Sir Thomas Fairfax hath taken Bristol, the 
 Devizes, Berkley Castle ; now if Sir Thomas Fair- 
 fax go Westward, he will in all likelihood have 
 Exeter; but if he come this way, as peradventure 
 there may be reasons why he should, the King's 
 quarters will be extremely distressed, he having 
 nothing but Hereford, Oxford, Wallingford, and 
 Banbury (the two last being small places), and 
 Worcester ; and the Parliament forces have taken 
 the outworks and suburbs of Chester *, and will 
 leave the town as it is believed. There will the 
 King receive a great blow, for that town will 
 carry all that part of Wales with it, so that I can- 
 not see how it will be possible for the King to 
 raise any forces, and those that he hath are not 
 at all considerable ; and to this condition have 
 \ those Counsellors brought him that would not 
 suffer him to incline to peace when he might have 
 itf ; and now it is likely enough that he must 
 shortly either offer a Peace, or go out of the 
 Kingdom. 
 
 Sept. 24, 1645. 
 
 * Chester surrendered the beginning of the following year, 
 f This was by the treaty of Uxbridge in the beginning of the 
 present year. 
 
184. 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER LXXXI. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 I need not say any thing of the affairs of this 
 place; you will have information from Major Raw- 
 don and Ned Burgh. How matters will be ended 
 is not yet so sure as that one may build upon a 
 conclusion ; but whatsoever the event be, it will 
 be most inconvenient for you to leave Ireland : 
 for if it be peace here, and that men be sent over 
 from hence, if you are absent, you will be utterly 
 lost in the remembrance of all men ; every one 
 will seek to get what he can, and where he 
 finds a door open, he will go in. If there should 
 be a. war here, but I do not at all believe 
 that it will be so, it would be worse for you ; 
 your neighbours would be as ill to you as stran- 
 gers. This you shall certainly find that there 
 is no friendship where a man may get any thing 
 to himself, and therefore Christ said, " Behold I 
 send you out as sheep among wolves because 
 an honest man, a good man, a Christian that is 
 so truly, and not in' profession only, is bound to 
 do all the parts of honesty and honor to those 
 that will not do so to him. The Prince of Orange 
 (Maurice) was wont to ask, when he had heard 
 of great friendship between two, " Whether they 
 
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 had ever any dealings for money I would to 
 God I could give you my experience, as well as 
 the precept. I send you a book, but I advise 
 you to keep it to yourself only, and let not any 
 body read it. I shall by the next write again to 
 you. I pray God to bless you with the belief 
 and love and fear of him, and that you may know 
 that in him you live and move, and have your 
 being. 
 
 London, Conway and Kilulta. 
 
 July 9, 1647. 
 
 LETTER LXXXII. 
 
 From Edward, afterwards Earl of Conway, to 
 Major George Rawdon^. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I believe it will be sad news to you, as it was 
 full of sorrow and affliction to me, to understand 
 by letters out of France that my father died there 
 the 26th of the last month |. I was advertised 
 
 * " Money," says honest John Dunton, " is the touchstone 
 of friendship." 
 
 f Major George Rawdon was married in 1654 to Dorothy, 
 the eldest daughter of Edward Viscount Conway, and was sister 
 to the writer of this letter. 
 
 % Edward Lord Viscount Conway died at Paris the 26th of 
 June, 1655. He was the son of Sir Edward Conway, who was 
 knighted by the Earl of Essex at Cadiz in 1596, and then com- 
 manded a regiment of Infantry. He was made Governor of 
 Brill, and in 1624 was appointed by James I. one of the prin- 
 
186 
 
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 of this on Wednesday was se'nnight by letters from 
 his servant and merchants, and by other letters 
 on Wednesday last. He had had a Jong distem- 
 per upon him of cold and rheum which was much 
 amended by his being at Paris, and he writ to me 
 that he did believe the heat of the climate in Lan- 
 guedocke w T ould perfectly recover his flesh. The 
 12th of June he had been as well as at any time 
 of his coming there; the same day he swooned, and 
 was struck with a palsy in his tongue. He recover- 
 ed of that, and was well almost a week, but after- 
 wards the palsy changed its course, and fell upon 
 his lungs the 22d day, that all the skill the phy- 
 sicians had could not make him spit so much as 
 once. The 26th he died with that calmness and 
 
 cipal Secretaries of State, and created a Baron by the title of 
 Baron Conway of Ragley in Warwickshire. In the first year of 
 Charles I. he was again appointed a Secretary of State, and 
 created Baron and Viscount Kijlultagh in Ireland, and Viscount 
 Conway of Conway Castle in Wales ; he was also Lord President 
 of the Council, and died at his house in St. Martin s Lane, West- 
 minster, Jan. 3, 1G30. He married Dorothy, daughter of Sir 
 John Tracy, by whom he had Edward, the second Viscount Con- 
 way, whose death is the subject of this letter. It was of the first 
 Lord Conway, who was Secretary of State to both James and 
 Charles I. that Lord Clarendon thus writes : " Sir Dudley Carlton 
 was put in the place of the Lord Conway, who fur age and inca- 
 pacity was at last removed from the Secretary's office, which he 
 had exercised many years with very notable insufficiency. " — He 
 was the Secretary of whom James I. used to say, " that he could 
 neither write nor read." For a more particular account of the 
 Conway family and its connexion with the Rawdons, see the 
 Appendix. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 187 
 
 quietness as one would fall asleep, having his me- 
 mory and senses perfect to the last. This is the 
 account given to me, and a great grief it is to me ; 
 for I do not love my friends with an ordinary af- 
 fection, and his kindness to me was extraordinary 
 great. — I daily pray for your health and happi- 
 ness, and ever remain, 
 
 Your truly affectionate brother, 
 Kensington, E. Conway. 
 
 24 July, 1655. 
 
 If it be no inconvenience to you, I pray lay out 
 to provide me a good footman. 
 
 LETTER LXXXIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 That which you writ to me in your letter of 
 the 2d of this month concerning Dr. Taylor * was 
 
 * Dr. Jeremy Taylor, afterwards Bishop of Down. He was 
 first Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, and afterwards to Charles I. ; 
 upon the declining of whose cause, he retired into Wales, where 
 he kept a school for the maintenance of himself and children. 
 During his retirement there, he lost three sons of great hopes 
 within the space of two or three months. This calamity afflicted 
 him so sensibly, that he came up to London, where he officiated 
 in a private congregation of Loyalists, to his great hazard. — At 
 length, meeting with my Lord Conway, the writer of this letter, 
 he was taken by him to Ireland, and settled at Portmore in the 
 county of Antrim, where he wrote his Ductor Dubitantium. The 
 
188 
 
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 sufficient to have discouraged him and all his 
 friends from any farther thoughts of that country; 
 but I thank God, I went upon a principle not to 
 be repented of, for I had no interest or passion in 
 what I did for him, but rather some reluctancy. 
 What I pursued was to do an act of piety towards 
 him, and an act of piety towards all such as are 
 truly disposed to virtue in those parts, for I am 
 certain he is the choicest person in England ap- 
 pertaining to the conscience, and let others ble- 
 mish him how they please, yet all I have w T ritten 
 of him is true. He is a man of excellent parts 
 and an excellent life, but in regard that this is 
 not powerful to purchase his quiet, I shall tell you 
 what is done in relation to that. Dr. Petty 
 hath written by him to Dr. Harrison and several 
 others, and promist to provide him a purchase of 
 land at great advantage, and many other intimate 
 kindnesses, wherein your advice will be askt. Dr. 
 
 account given in this letter of Dr. Taylor corresponds exactly 
 with what is said of him by Mr. Granger and every one who 
 has written concerning him. The preface to his Ductor Dubi- 
 tantium is dated " From my study in Portmore in Kilultagh, 
 October 5, 1659," — the year after the writing of this letter. He 
 died at Lisburn on the 13th of August, 1667, and was buried in 
 the choir of the church of Dromore, which he had rebuilt at his 
 own expence. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Rust, his 
 successor in the see of Dromore, which he concludes in a strain 
 of panegyric much more complimentary to the Bishop than to 
 the Clergy of his diocese ; " for," says the Preacher, " had his 
 parts and endowments been parcelled out among his Clergy, it 
 w ould perhaps have made one of the best dioceses in the world." 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 189 
 
 Cox, a physician, and a very ingenious man, who 
 hath married the Chancellor's sister, hath written 
 in his behalf very passionately, and some of as 
 near relation to my Lord Peepes hath recom- 
 mended him to him. Sergeant Twisden, one of 
 the eminentest lawyers in England, who married 
 Sir Mathew Tomlinson's sister, hath written to 
 him very earnestly, and so hath his wife also. 
 Mr. Hall, an understanding man, and always one 
 of the Knights for Lincolnshire, hath recom- 
 mended him to his friend Mr. Bury, and so hath 
 Mr. Bacon, one of the Masters of Request, done 
 for him to my Lord Chief Baron ; but, besides all 
 this, my Lord Protector hath given him a pass 
 and a protection for himself and his family, under 
 his sign manual and privy signet. So that I hope 
 it will not be treason to look upon him and to 
 own him. Dr. Loftus is his friend. — Those far- 
 mers of the Custom whom you mention, do pay 
 my Lord Protector ^.60,000 a year for the Ex- 
 cise and Custom of Ireland ; if they are so severe, 
 it were a good thing to consider how one might 
 buy it out of their hands for the ease of the people, 
 if any were so public spirited. 
 
 The news of the prosperity and good success in 
 Flanders is very great ; the defeat given the Spa- 
 niards before Dunkirk * very considerable, not 
 only to the reducing of that town, but to the 
 
 * Dunkirk surrendered soon after, and was by agreement de- 
 livered to Cromwell, He committed the government of it to 
 Lockhart, who was his Ambassador at the Court of France. 
 
190 
 
 RAW DON PAPERS. 
 
 change of all affairs throughout Christendom, as 
 hindering the choice of an Emperor, and endan- 
 gering the loss of all Flanders ; for that town be- 
 ing taken, my Lord Protector will certainly main- 
 tain a considerable army in those parts, where he 
 wants nothing but a body of horse, having at least 
 ten thousand foot there already. I have sent you 
 here enclosed Dr. Hewet's* speech, which is not 
 commonly to be had, nor would I wish you to 
 shew it commonly, but this is a true copy. I 
 have sent you and my sister a box of pills by Dr. 
 Taylor, of the same proportion as that I sent last 
 summer. My mother writes to me that John 
 Mace's son intends to carry over all the rest of 
 the children, and expects 8/. of me to bear their 
 charges, which I shall not do untill I have your 
 directions. I am very glad to hear of my sister's 
 health, and the children's, and ever remain 
 
 Your entirely affectionate brother, 
 
 E. Conway. 
 
 My man Hales is now returned, and brings me 
 word that he spake with Mr. Jessop and Mr. 
 Hartlib ; and they both assured him that the bu- 
 siness was done, but referred back to the Com- 
 mittee to consider whether it should be passed in 
 
 * Dr. John He wit was beheaded on the 8th of June, 165S, and 
 not on the 8th of July, as Granger puts in a parenthesis. This 
 letter, I think, confirms the first date; for it is most likely the 
 speech was not made public till after his death, and this letter 
 was written the 15th of June. He was beheaded at the same 
 time with Sir Henry Slingsby. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS, 
 
 191 
 
 England or Ireland. He also brings word that a 
 messenger came to the Council from Dunkirk, 
 bringing word that Dunkirk had articled to sur- 
 render, and that the articles were signed yester- 
 day. It will be put into my Lord Protector's 
 hands. 
 
 Kensington, 15 June, 1658. 
 
 LETTER LXXXIV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 When 1 wrote you last what the sad condi- 
 tion my wife was in, I held it impossible the next 
 letter would not impart the worst news ; she was 
 also resigned. It is no wonder I should be mis- 
 taken in Providence, who am so perfectly ignorant 
 of the truth of that which I am about to write, 
 tho' it appears evident to sense. However, I hold 
 myself to thank God that we have yet ground to 
 hope she may do well, and that the violent ex- 
 tremity she was then in, tended not to the con- 
 cluding of her own life, but to the giving life to 
 another. We have had thoughts oftentimes in 
 my wife's sickness, perhaps she may be breeding ; 
 but the excessive increase of her distemper, with 
 many other reasons, so interrupted it, that they 
 served only to torment. At last seeking but sin- 
 cerely her satisfaction, we had recourse to the 
 
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 best doctors and midwives to be resolved, but 
 they have plunged us into the greatest uncer- 
 tainty; for they assured us with much confidence 
 that, according to their art, she is not so. On 
 the other side my wife finding herself quick, and 
 with such a motion as they say is not compatible 
 with any disease, for I myself and others have felt 
 it just like a fitt of the ague, and besides many 
 other outward signs. They have directed reme- 
 dies which could nothing prove, no not so much 
 as against melancholy thoughts. But it is con- 
 cluded on all hands, that if she be with child, she 
 must expect as hard labour as any woman in the 
 world ever had ; the shape of her body, as well as 
 the incidents of this sickness, necessitate caution. 
 She hears that my Lord Chichester's former Lady 
 had got an eagle's stone esteemed of great virtue 
 in hard labour, and it's her wish few people be 
 aware I write to you for it : therefore possibly 
 without telling the person, they shall not chuse 
 but to trust you with it, if they are not induced 
 to part with it. Mr. Hill saw the stone, and hath 
 another; but she prefers it, if it may be had. I 
 will willingly be at the charge of an express mes- 
 senger rather than not get it with care and speed. 
 We keep this as private as it is possible, till we 
 have more assurance, that we may not be made a 
 town-talk, and I hope you will do so too. My 
 thoughts were long since sealed against any im- 
 petuous desires after children, and my mind dis- 
 posed to that which was more diffusive than ga- 
 
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 thering together an estate for an heir, and this 
 will not alter me. I hope you will acquaint none 
 but my sister with my wife's concernment, to 
 whom I present my kind love and regards. 
 
 Your entirely affectionate brother, 
 
 E Conway. 
 
 Kensington, 
 12 October, 1658. 
 
 My Lord Deputy is made Lord Lieutenant, and 
 I am told we shall have a Parliament called before 
 the funeral of my Lord Protector *. 
 
 My wife reckons from the 12th of May. 
 
 LETTER LXXXV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 It is now three weeks since I had the happi- 
 ness of hearing from you ; I pray God no distem- 
 per among any of your family could alone be the 
 cause of it. Last Wensday Mrs. Hill came and 
 brought me a letter from Dr. Taylor, and she 
 took back again the stone. I shewed them to Dr. 
 Pruican, and he much questions whether that 
 from my Lord Chichester be a stone, or counter- 
 feit ; and Frederick saith it is not the same that 
 my Lady Mary once shewed him, and told him 
 
 * Who died the 3d of September, 165S. 
 o 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 she had it from her sister; that was white, about 
 the bigness of an egg, and had little black streaks 
 in it, as he says. I pray let me know also what 
 my Lord Chichester says for the credit of his 
 stone, and whether I may have it, and what pre- 
 sent his Lordship will expect from me, if it be a 
 true one. I was able to decypher Mrs. Hill's as 
 soon as ever I saw it, but I shewed it to the Doc- 
 tor likewise ; it is a German stone, such as are 
 commonly sold in London for 5 shillings a piece. 
 My wife had one lent unto her that is much 
 bigger, for she thinks the biggest is accounted 
 best, and in pain wore it upon her arm a good 
 while. When I writ to you this day se'nnight, I 
 thought she would now escape of her violent 
 head achs, till she was brought to bed, but the 
 very next day she had as great a fit as ever, and 
 she complains every day very much ; tho' thank 
 God, she comes abroad, and walks an hour for 
 exercise daily. She hath got the prettiest nurse 
 and the ugliest midwife that ever I saw. 
 
 Your entirely 
 
 affectionate brother, 
 E. Conway. 
 
 Kensington, 
 21 December, 1658. 
 
RAW DO NT PAPERS. 
 
 195 
 
 LETTER LXXXVI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I have newly received yours from Rawdon *, 
 and as I am very glad to hear of your safe arrival 
 thither, so is nothing more passionately desired by 
 me than to hear of your safety through those 
 long dark passages you are now going over. 
 I pray present my service to General Monck, as 
 one that bears a high respect and honor to him. 
 The Commissioners that came from Ireland are 
 returning back re infectd. The Parliament would 
 not look upon any proposals of theirs, but voted 
 that my Lord Harry, by the name of Col. Henry 
 Cromwell should come over, and give them an 
 
 * Rawdon Hall, in the neighbourhood of Leeds in Yorkshire, 
 the family seat of the Rawdons from the time of the Conquest, 
 and which is still in the possession of the present Marquis of 
 Hastings, the illustrious representative of that ancient and noble 
 family. 
 
 f This letter was written near a year after Cromwell's death. 
 Major George Rawdon was then on his way to Dalkeith, the 
 head-quarters of General Monk, where we find him on the 22d 
 of June. The long dark passages which Lord Conway mentions, 
 must allude to the difficulties, dangers, and secrecy, necessary to 
 be observed in the plan of the Restoration, then, I suppose, con- 
 ceived and digested by General Monk, and which no doubt was 
 all communicated to Major Rawdon. 
 
 X He was Lord Deputy of Ireland ; which situation he quietly 
 resigned, and retired to England. 
 
 o c 2 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 account of affairs there, which he submits to ; and 
 five Commissioners are appointed for the govern- 
 ment of that kingdom, Col. John Jones, the Lord 
 Chancellor Steele, Mr. Robert Goodwin, Sir Ma- 
 thew Tomlinson, and Mr. Corbett, who hath this 
 clog that after three months he is to come into 
 England, to give the Parliament an account of the 
 affairs of Ireland. It is conceived' the Parliament 
 hath clearly outwitted the army, and put in all 
 the officers of their own election and nomination, 
 and that they have utterly broken all designs that 
 ever could be attempted against them ; 150 re- 
 ceived Commissioners last week, but Desbrough* 
 holds out in discontent. I received a letter yes- 
 terday from Dr. Taylor; it hath almost broke my 
 heart. Mr. Tandy hath exhibited articles against 
 him to the Lord Deputy and Council, so simple, 
 as Col. Hill writes, that it is impossible it should 
 come to any thing; the greatest scandal being 
 that he christened Mr. Bryer's child with the sign 
 of the Cross. I have written to Hyrne to supply 
 him with money for his vindication, as if it were 
 my own business. I hope, therefore, when you 
 come over, you will take him off from persecuting 
 me, since none knows better than yourself, whe- 
 ther I deserve the same at his hands. I would 
 have sent you the Doctor's letter to me, but that 
 I know not whether this will ever come to you. 
 
 * He was the Protector's uncle, and was, according to Hume, 
 a man of a clownish and brutal nature. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 197 
 
 The quarrel is, it seems, because he thinks Dr. 
 Taylor more welcome to Hillsborough than him- 
 self. My wife is now in a fit of her head-ach ; so 
 she was this day fortnight. The child, I thank 
 God, is very well, and hath passed over the same 
 danger which the nurse had before without any 
 disturbance ; but, however, my wife is informed 
 that to suck of such a woman is dangerous, and 
 brings with it many diseases, and therefore I be- 
 lieve she will wean the child much sooner than 
 she intended, I pray heartily for your good jour- 
 ney, and remain your entirely 
 
 affectionate brother, 
 Kensington, E. Conway. 
 
 14 June, 1659. 
 
 LETTER LXXXVII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 It is to my exceeding great satisfaction that 
 I received yours from Lisnegarvy of your arrival 
 there, and my sister's safe delivery of her third 
 son. I pray God make them all as happy as I wish 
 them. I have sent you here inclosed the news 
 book, because it relates many occurents in Parlia- 
 ment very particularly. Col. Cooper told me the 
 other day that they are in hopes to get the Cus- 
 toms upon cattle, and upon all goods between 
 
198 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 England and Ireland, taken off. I sent a compli- 
 ment yesterday to my Lord Harry, which he re- 
 ceived very kindly, and I intend to wait upon 
 him after he hath had his audience of the Coun- 
 cil, to whom by the vote that passed yesterday, he 
 is to give an account of the affairs of Ireland, and 
 then to retire into the country ; I think he will not 
 be permitted to return into Ireland. Lieutenant 
 General Ludlow is appointed Commander in 
 Chief of the forces in Ireland. Dr. Jones told me 
 that Col. Barrow and Axtell had regiments, but 
 I did not hear from any one else of more than are 
 in the news book yet determined of. Col. Jones 
 begins his journey about a fortnight hence. The 
 Act of Indemnity hath taken up as much time as 
 if it were in relation to enemies of the greatest 
 enormity. Whereas they are only pardoning 
 themselves, and among them I hear of divers to 
 be excepted, as Secretary Thurloe, Lord Com- 
 missioner Fines, and Lisle, Glyn, Philips, Jones, 
 and Major General Butler. And that all grants 
 passed under the great seal, in either of the three 
 nations, since the Protector's government, shall be 
 void. I fear much the inundation of Anabaptists 
 again amongst us. The unsettlement and divisions 
 here increase daily, and the whole game is like to 
 be played between the 5th Monarchy men, whereof 
 Sir Harry Vane and Salway* are the chief, and 
 
 * Humphrey Salway, Esq. sat in the Long Parliament, and 
 was named one of the Commissioners to try Charles Stuart, but 
 declined acting; he survived the Restoration. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 1991 
 
 between Commonwealth men. I hope the pro- 
 prietors in your country will find better tenants 
 than Anabaptists and Quakers, whose design is 
 only to turn out the landlords ; and I pray God 
 you may have no cause to discourage us from 
 coming over at the time we have determined next 
 year. Mr. Tandy may have enough of these to 
 set himself against, without troubling his peace- 
 able and best neighbours. We have sent dow r n 
 all our carriages to Ragley, and are staying here 
 ourselves somewhat longer than we thought of, 
 to provide another nurse. This having injured 
 the child three times, we cannot think it possible 
 to be borne any longer, and so all my wife's friends 
 advise her. My Lady Finch divided some table 
 linen between my wife and my sister Clifton * ; 
 and she hath also given my wife a very fine car- 
 pet, which cost her first husband 60/. and some 
 plate worth 20 or 30/. My cousin Henry Con- 
 way of Bodrythan came up to see me out of Wales, 
 his business is that I would help him to get a wife ; 
 he is a proper handsome gentleman, and doth 
 assure me his estate is ^.1600 a year, and im- 
 proveable ; he hath been here about 3 weeks, and 
 intends to go down with me to Ragley. I have 
 made some overtures for him, which may pro- 
 bably prove not ineffectual ; but if Col. Hill will 
 give his daughter ^.3000, I will bring him over 
 with me next summer. My wife presents her 
 
 * Lady Clifton was Frances Finch, half sister to Lady Conway. 
 She was wife of Sir Clifford Clifton, Bai t. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 humble service to you and my sister ; I wish her 
 much joy, and advise her to believe that the hav- 
 ing many children will make every one be the 
 better provided for. If you please likewise to 
 present my humble service to Mrs. Hill, you will 
 lay a great obligation upon your entirely 
 
 affectionate brother, 
 Kensington, E. Conway. 
 
 3 July, 1659. 
 
 LETTER LXXXVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I was not surprised with your letter of the 
 12th instant, for that morning before it was deli- 
 vered to me, my Lord of Anglesey gave me a 
 visit, and told me all the particulars at your elec- 
 tion, and how that Sir John Skeffington, and Mr. 
 Davis, were knights of the Shire, and Mr. Davies 
 his son, and Colonel Knight, burgesses of Belfast. 
 Upon the whole matter I think either you ordered 
 your business very carelessly, or very different to 
 the course men take in England ; for if you and 
 Sir John Skeffington had joined together from the 
 first, he had been engaged in honor to have made 
 all his party for you*. We have now passed over 
 
 * Major George Rawdon was returned for the borough of 
 Carlingford in the Parliament of 16*61. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 201 
 
 the great ceremony of the coronation, much ad- 
 mired for the sumptuousness of it, as exceeding 
 the glory of what hath passed of the like kind in 
 France. I had provided me a very fine horse, but 
 the music and the arches made him very unruly, 
 so that he fell with me three times, and the Duke 
 of York's horse threw him twice. The King was 
 in great danger, till he commanded the music to 
 cease. Many others were thrown, but none re- 
 ceived any hurt except Sergeant Glyn. For my 
 own part nothing detains me now in town, but 
 want of money ; we are resolved to come by Dub- 
 lin, and therefore must depend upon you to get 
 us a man of war, when we begin to set out, the 
 rather because this day there is an embargo upon 
 all the Dutch goods, and all the Dutch ships in 
 our ports. So longing to see you speedily, 
 I remain your entirely . 
 
 affectionate brother, 
 
 London, E. Conway. 
 
 57 April, 1661. 
 
 I pray let me hear from you concerning the 
 pot-ashes which are so spoiled that they offer but 
 8/. a ton for them. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 For my dear Brother Major George Rawdon, at 
 
 Dublin. 
 
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 LETTER LXXXIX. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 This last post I received a letter from my 
 Lord Lieutenant * concerning Lackey, and be- 
 cause I have nothing fit to trouble his Grace with, 
 I desire you to give him this account of his com- 
 mands. It was late on Monday before the post 
 came in ; the ill weather which, I fear, accompa- 
 nied you in your journey, kept him back till 4 in 
 the afternoon. I set out guards immediately 
 upon all the avenues near this place into the coun- 
 ties of Down and Antrim, where they have since 
 continued night and day, and because the next 
 was our market-day, which gave Blood-}- the op- 
 portunity of passing by us. I sent the same in- 
 stant to Col. Hill to keep a good guard at Hills- 
 borough, and I raised the country that night to 
 keep watch upon all the ways through Kilulta 
 into the county of Antrim. Next morning I sent 
 
 * Duke of Ormond. 
 
 + The most desperate of the disbanded soldiers, who projected 
 the surprisal of the Castle of Dublin, escaped into England. 
 " There has been lately discovered a plot of the old English 
 army in Ireland," says Andrew Marvel], " to seize upon Dublin 
 and the Lord Lieutenant, June 6, 1G63." The plot of Jephson, 
 Thompson, Blood, &c. to seize the Castle of Dublin was disco- 
 vered June 1 . Blood, the most desperate of them, escaped to 
 England. Some of the others were condemned and executed 
 the rest received the King's pardon. 
 
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 to have spoke with Leviston the Minister, who 
 is Lackey's acquaintance, and whom I thought 
 the favor he hath had would have engaged to be 
 serviceable herein, but he was gone into Scotland 
 a week before, not to return till Christmass. Then 
 I sent to our intelligencer, and desired him to 
 make it his work to learn out where he hid him- 
 self, and as much else as he could concerning his 
 escape, which I hope he may do, though Lackey 
 should be concealed in Dublin. And this is all I 
 could do touching this affair, and I have no more 
 to say in it, but that the duty we are upon is too 
 much for one troop, and I desire to know of you, 
 when we may lessen it. I spake to Moses Hill, 
 and desired him to help us, because part of the 
 ways lie very conveniently to his troop ; he said he 
 would if I would command it. I told him I would 
 not take upon me to do that which I thought did 
 not belong to me ; but I shewed him my Lord 
 Lieutenant's letter, and told him I thought it 
 would be very fit for him, but he doth not do it. 
 This post brought me a letter from my brother 
 Heneage Finch, giving me an account of his sick- 
 ness and recovery ; and as to matter of business, 
 tells me that he had w T rit several things of import- 
 ance to Sir Edward Dering, to be imparted to me, 
 but I have heard nothing from him about them, 
 so I would entreat you to speak to Sir Edward 
 Dering, that if there be any thing he is loath to 
 write, he may be pleased to acquaint you with it, 
 and so send it to me. I pray remember to be ad- 
 
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 vised how my business with Langford may be put 
 into order. My wife is very impatient to hear of 
 the arrival of Captain Glover ; I suppose he hath 
 a wife or other relations in Dublin that can give 
 an account of him. I pray direct Mr. Tandy to 
 enquire after him. 
 
 Your entirely 
 
 affectionate brother, 
 Lisburne, Conway. 
 18 Nov. 1663. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 For my dear Brother Major George Rawdon, at 
 his Lodging in Mr. Jervoy's house, on the 
 Blind-key, at Dublin. 
 
 LETTER XC. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I think I was not ill advised to remove my 
 goods out of Queen-street house; for within a 
 week after, one of the maid servants died of 
 the sickness *, and my house there is shut up, 
 where I have two servants more, that I cannot tell 
 whether they be dead or alive ; and yet I could 
 not rid my goods so clear, but that I reckon I 
 
 * This year the plague broke out in London with the most 
 dreadful fury. In one year upwards of 90,000 inhabitants died 
 of it. 
 
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 shall be a loser c 2 or 300/. by this misfortune ; be- 
 sides the uncertainty and danger of clearing my 
 house, when it shall please God to deliver us from 
 this great judgment that hangs over us. I hope 
 the 300/. for Mr. Currance is not sent, for I know- 
 not either how to receive it or pay it, there not 
 being one of my acquaintance remaining in Lon- 
 don, nor will I venture to send one thither where 
 they died almost 1100 last week, and probably 
 will be double this next ; it is also extremely spread 
 in the country, but our county is yet very free, 
 thanks be to God. The chief business, however, 
 of my letter at present, is to send you this in- 
 closed transcript of a printed paper containing 
 this and many other particulars of one Mr. Valen- 
 tine Gertrux* of Youghall, in Munster, that is 
 said to cure all diseases by the touch, or stroking 
 of his hand; and not only this paper, but our 
 news book, and common report makes it so great 
 that I wonder you make no mention thereof. I 
 writ last week to Mr. Tandy and the Archbishop 
 of Dublin -J- about it, and am very desirous if his 
 actions do answer the fame, to use all means pos- 
 sible to get over to my wife ^, and I would en- 
 
 * See " A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and 
 divers of the strange Cures, by him lately performed, in a Let- 
 ter addressed to the Honble Boyle." London, printed in 1666. 
 
 f Michael Boyle, afterwards Primate of Ireland, and Chan- 
 cellor. 
 
 X Lady Conway, who for many years laboured under most 
 violent head-achs, and which were not removed by Greatraks, 
 
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 treat you to enquire into it, and endeavour to get 
 him prevailed with to come over to Bristol, where 
 my horses shall meet him, and bring him hither ; 
 this is not only my opinion, but Dr. More's and 
 Dean Rust's, who are both here, and judge her 
 very unlikely to receive help any other way. This 
 gentleman was formerly a Lieutenant in Col. 
 Phayres' regiment, and possibly may be known to 
 Major Stroud ; if it be so, I should be glad you 
 would speak to him from me to go to him, and 
 come over with him. I have received yours of 
 the 11th instant with my sister's receipt, for which 
 I give her many thanks. I have advised with 
 Garret about the hemp-seed, and he thinks, con- 
 sidering he cannot go into Flanders because of 
 the sickness, it may be provided in England, if 
 you desire it; and that, for the future, 2 or 5 
 acres of that land in the Tunny Park, which is 
 newly stubbed up, would furnish you plentifully. 
 If the cranes which you mention do live and will 
 thrive, I intend, God willing, to have them brought 
 over, tho' it be by an express messenger ; and in 
 the mean time, it would be convenient to employ 
 some such person about them as would be fit to 
 bring them over. I pray acquaint John Totnal 
 that I desire him to get some bee hives at the 
 Tunny Park ; for if ever I live to come into that 
 country, I believe I shall use a great deal of honey, 
 
 though he remained at Ragley with her for a month ; he him- 
 self confesses he was unable to do her any good. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 as I do at this present, and have, I thank God, 
 kept myself a great while thereby free from any 
 fits of the stone, and do daily void so much gravel 
 by the use thereof, as is hardly to be believed. 
 My wife doth not approve of employing Major 
 Stroud to the said Mr. Gertrux, but desires that 
 Mr. Tandy may transact the whole business, and 
 also come over with him, if it be requisite, to- 
 wards which I pray let him be supplied with 
 money or any thing he may want. I have not 
 heard from my Lord of Orrery since his removal 
 from London, and therefore I intend to send an 
 express messenger to him next week, and not for- 
 get my cousin Robert Conway's affair. So I rest 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 Ragley, Conway. 
 26 July, 1665. 
 
 LETTER XCI. 
 
 From Mr. Valentine Greatraks to 
 Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I was at your lodgings before I left Dublin, 
 but missed the happiness of meeting you there, 
 and my occasions not giving me leave to stay 
 longer, made me depart so abruptly. I went home 
 by the way of the Queen's County, which caused 
 me to stay so long that your letter was at my 
 
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 house before me, so that I could not answer it 
 last post. Sir, I thought fitting to send Dean 
 Rusts letter unto you, which when you have pe«* 
 rused, I shall desire you to return by the post to 
 your servant, who resolves, by the first vessel, to 
 set sail for England ; and therefore I shall desire 
 you'll take some speedy course for the payment of 
 the ^=.155 which I desire may be paid to Sir 
 Thomas Stanley, a Parliament man, now in Dub- 
 lin, to my use (which I design for the purchasing 
 of the thirds which by the bill I am to lose), and 
 that on receipt he would signify so much to me by 
 a line or two ; but you need not let him know to 
 what end you pay it, for it's my desire, according 
 to Dean Rust's * advice, that nothing in your 
 affair might be made known. I know it will seem 
 strange to ail that know me, that I who never 
 received pension or gratuity from any man hitherto, 
 should propose any thing of a reward to myself 
 now ; but I hope when it's rightly considered, how 
 that I run the hazards of the enraged seas, the 
 winter, leave all my concerns in this time of set- 
 tlement, at so great uncertainty, and forego the 
 comfort of my family, it will not seem strange : 
 for no one can be just to his family that runs such 
 
 * George Rust came to Ireland at the solicitation of Jeremy 
 Taylor, Bishop of Down, and by his interest was made Dean of 
 Connor ; he was afterwards Bishop of Dromore, to which see 
 he was promoted in 1667. He died in 1670, and was buried in 
 the choir of the cathedral of Dromore, in the same vault with 
 his dear friend Jeremy Taylor. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 dangers without consideration, which barely could 
 not move me to run such a course, but that I 
 hope in God I may be an instrument in his hands 
 to free the lady from those distempers which she 
 labors under. Several and most that ever came 
 affected with those dolors her Ladyship is tor- 
 mented with, all having been cured. Here is a 
 lady (by name Mrs. Mackworth) in the house with 
 me, that came out of Shropshire (that fruitlessly 
 had made use of the best physicians in England), 
 that would at first word have given me gg.£00 if 
 I would have gone to her, who was, through the 
 cancer in her breast, and the stitches, and aches 
 in her body and bones, reduced to such extremity, 
 that hardly did ever any creature endure greater ; 
 nor was there ever a more perfect skeleton, and 
 now praised be God, the cancer is nigh quite 
 gone, and she is freed from all her aches and 
 stitches, and grows fat, and is as merry as ever 
 she was. I must desire you to let me know the 
 name of my Lord Conway's house, and nigh what 
 market town it lie, and what course I must take 
 from Bristol thither. I must beg your pardon for 
 my prolixity, subscribing myself (Sir) 
 
 Your humble servant, 
 AfFane •*, Va. Greatracks. 
 
 9 December, 166,5. 
 
 * Affane, in the county of Waterford, was formerly called 
 Arthmean, or Aghmean, from Agh, a Ford ; for here the Black- 
 water, on which it is situate, is fordable. 
 
 P 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Dublin, 14 December, 1665. 
 Received by me, Sir Thomas Stanley, Knight *, 
 of Sir George Rawdon the sum of one hundred 
 and fifty-rive pounds sterling; which said sum is 
 paid, and deposited in my hands for the use of 
 Valentine Greatracks, Esq. for the considerations 
 expressed in this his Letter, bearing date 9th De- 
 cember, 1665. Witness my hand and seal the day 
 and year first written, 
 
 Thomas Stanley. 
 In the presence of Richard Clifton. 
 
 LETTER XCII. 
 
 From Mr. Valentine Greatracks 
 to Lord Conway. 
 
 My- Lord, 
 
 The f irtuosi have been daily with me since 
 I writ to your honor last, and have given me large 
 and full testimonials, and God has been pleased 
 to do wonderful things in their sight, so that they 
 are my hearty and good friends, and have stopt 
 the mouths of the Court, where the sober party 
 are now most of them believers and my cham- 
 pions. The King's -J- doctors this day (for the 
 
 * He was member of Parliament for the county of Lowth. 
 
 f Charles II. when informed of his coming to London, and of 
 his wonderful cures, commanded Lord Arlington to order him 
 to repair to Whitehall, from whence he withdrew to Lincoln's- 
 
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 confirmation of their Majesties belief; sent three 
 out of the hospital to me, who came on crutches, 
 and blessed be God, they all went home well, to 
 the admiration of all people, as well as the doc- 
 tors. I shall not need any testimonials more than 
 what I shall have here. I shall speedily commit 
 them to the' press, and then farewell to Court and 
 City. Sir Heneage Finch says that I have made 
 the greatest faction and distraction between clergy 
 and laymen that any one has these 1000 years. I 
 have hardly a testimonial but there is the hands 
 of 2 or 3 doctors of physic to it. For news it's 
 thus — Sir Jeremy Smyth with his squadron is re- 
 turned into Plymouth (but without the Smyrna 
 fleet *). My Lord General f and Prince Rupert 
 went yesterday for Whitehall to the fleetward. 
 The plague is decreased 16 this week. The city 
 is very still, and the court in close mourning. I 
 have sent your Lordship a basket of lemons and 
 oranges, and wish your honor and my lady all the 
 
 inn-fields, whither incredible numbers of all ranks and sexes 
 came, expecting the restoration of their health. 
 
 His reputation arose to a prodigious height for some time, says 
 Granger ; but it declined almost as fast, when the expectations 
 of the multitudes that resorted to him were not answered. — 
 See a curious and circumstantial account of him in Smith's His- 
 tory of Waterford. 
 
 * " We are most solicitous," says A. Marvell, " for the Smyrna 
 fleet , which is upon return." — Dec. 1, 1666. 
 
 f In a letter written in the following year by A. Marvell, he 
 says, " The next week we shall have Prince Rupert's and the 
 Duke of Albemarle's account of the miscarriages of the war in 
 writing." 
 
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 happiness of this world (and all that belongs 
 thereto), and I shall ever remain your most ob- 
 liged and grateful friend and servant, 
 
 in great haste Va. Greatracks. 
 
 Indorsed : — Received 3 May, 1666. 
 
 LETTER XCIII. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I have received yours of the 29th January, 
 but the former letter therein mentioned to have 
 been written to me at your coming to Dublin, is 
 not yet come to my hands. Mr. Greatrax hath 
 been here a fortnight to-morrow, and my wife is 
 not the better for him ; very few others have failed 
 under his hands, of many hundreds that he hath 
 touched in these parts. I must confess that be- 
 fore his arrival, I did not believe the tenth part of 
 those things which I have been an eye-witness of, 
 and several others of as accurate judgment as any 
 in this kingdom, who are come hither out of cu- 
 riosity, do acknowledge the truth of his opera- 
 tions. This morning the Bishop of Gloucester* 
 recommended to me a prebend's son in his dio- 
 
 * Seth Ward was Bishop of Gloucester, and was the first that 
 brought Mathematical Learning into vogue in the University of 
 Cambridge. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 cese, to be brought to him for a leprosy from head 
 to foot, which hath been judged incurable above 
 ten years, and in my chamber he cured him per- 
 fectly; that is, from a moist humor, 'twas imme- 
 diately dried up, and began to fall of; the itching 
 was quite gone, and the heat of it taken away. The 
 youth was transported to admiration. The Dean 
 saw this as well as myself, but it is not the hun- 
 dredth part, and I am confident the least of forty 
 that we have seen, among which are many plea- 
 sant passages done purposely to satisfy our cu- 
 riosity and experience. So that I wonder he had 
 not a greater esteem in Ireland ; but after all this 
 I am far from thinking them miracles, or that his 
 cures are at all miraculous # : but I believe it is 
 by a sanative virtue and a natural efficiency, which 
 extends not to all diseases, but is much more 
 proper and effectual to some than to others, as he 
 doth also dispatch some with a great deal of ease, 
 and others not without a great deal of paines. 
 This inclosed is a letter of his to his wife, which 
 I desire may be sent carefully to her ; and as to 
 his concernments in Ireland, I fear he doth not 
 mind them so well as he ought to do ; probably 
 Sir Thomas Stanley may inform you how they 
 stand, and if you 'can do him any service, I shall 
 
 * This letter was written previous to Greatrakes' going to 
 London ; he was now on his way thither. His performances in 
 Warwickshire were so extraordinary, that a Mr. Stubbe thought 
 fit to write a treatise on the subject, to which Mr. Boyle conde- 
 scended to return an answer. 
 
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 take it extreme kindly, for he takes a great deal 
 of paines about my wife, and is very affectionate 
 to do all that lies in his power. The King is now 
 at London, and the sickness abated to 30 this 
 week. I have got two couple of right decoy 
 ducks and a drake, such as will rly abroad every 
 night and return in the morning; these I will send 
 over within a fortnight, and I will send to all the 
 decoys in England till I have brought mine into 
 such a condition as it ought to be. I am very 
 glad to hear from my sister that Ned is out of the 
 danger of the small pox. I had a letter also from 
 my brother Francis. I am confident Mr. Greatrix 
 would recover him, or the Bishop of Down *, for 
 I do pretty well know what distempers he can 
 cure, and what he cannot cure. 
 
 So I rest your's, &c. 
 Ragiey, Conway. 
 9 February, 1665. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 For my dear Brother Sir George Rawdon, Ba- 
 ronet, at Dublin. — Leave this with Mr. Neile 
 at the Post Office in Dublin. — Post paid, 8d. 
 
 * Dr. Jeremy Taylor. 
 
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 LETTER XCIV. 
 
 From Sir Heneage Finch* to Lord Conway. 
 
 I am now newly returned from Kent, and 
 have brought home all my children, but am much 
 troubled to find the sickness increases again at 
 this time of the year, and if there be not a more 
 hopeful prospect before the end of the term 
 (which is to be kept at Windsor), I purpose to 
 carry them back again. This . removal of the 
 term to Windsor \ will give me no opportunity of 
 seeing my Lord Bridgman till we come to meet 
 there, and so Mr. Cratford need make no haste to 
 come to me, and I shall execute my commission 
 well enough without his farther instructions. P 
 obey the advice of the college, and therefore have 
 denied myself the satisfaction of waiting upon the 
 Duke of Albemarle since my return ; but by this 
 means I find myself in a perfect ignorance of af- 
 fairs, and not able to write your Lordship any 
 kind of advertisement. Just now Sir Hugh 
 
 * Heneage Finch, first Earl of Nottingham, was born in 1621 ; 
 he was made Solicitor General in 1660, and next day had the 
 honour of Knighthood ; his sister Anne was married to Edward, 
 Earl of Conway 5 and after her death in 1678, was preserved by 
 the famous Van Helmont in spirits of wine, with a glass over 
 her face in her coffin above ground, that her Lord, who was in 
 Ireland when she died, might see her before her interment. 
 
 f On account of the plague in London. 
 
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 R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 Cholmley came hither from Oxford ; his marriage 
 is perfectly agreed on with the Lady Anne * 
 Compton, my Lord Northampton's sister, and will 
 be shortly kept at his brother Sir Francis Comp- 
 ton's house. My Lord makes her a noble present 
 of ^.1000 over and above her fortune, which is 
 better of itself than ^.5000. He tells me the 
 Court at Oxford ^ is growing chearful, and that 
 our affairs in foreign parts go very well ; that my 
 LordHollis J hath taken his leave in very big words, 
 and the King told him he did believe he had ex- 
 ceeded his instructions in the manner of his dis- 
 course, whatsoever he might pretend for the mat- 
 ter. Mr. Henry Howard of Norfolk has put a 
 great compliment on me, and left order that I 
 should have notice when any living of value in his 
 gift falls. Accordingly his agent in Suffolk sent 
 me word of a very good living fallen at Starson 
 near Halston-market, worth near ^.120 yearly, 
 with an excellent new-built house upon it. But 
 my chaplain being already preferred both to a be- 
 nefice and a wife, I know not how to make use of 
 such a kindness, nor where to dispose it, nor whe- 
 ther I should reserve myself for a better living, 
 for he is patron of many. — If your Lordship can 
 give me any advice, I shall be sure to follow it, 
 
 * Anne, daughter of Spencer Compton, second Earl of 
 Northampon, married to Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby, in the 
 county of York, Bart. — Collins's Peerage. 
 
 f To which they removed on account of the plague. 
 
 % He was Ambassador in France. 
 
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 or else 'tis like I shall take no further notice of it. 
 At present I do not so much want a living to be- 
 stow, as a chaplain that can stay without a living 
 for some time. I am ashamed of tiring your 
 Lordship with so much letter ; I will put you to 
 no further trouble than the tender of my most 
 humble services to your noble Lady mother, my 
 best affection to my dearest sister, and my very 
 faithful service to all the beaux esprits at Ragley. 
 
 My Lord, your Lordship's 
 most affectionate 
 
 brother and servant, 
 Heneage Finch. 
 
 Kensington, Jan. 20, 166^. 
 Saturday. 
 
 LETTER XCV. 
 
 From Lord Viscount Dungannon * to 
 Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I hope that at your meeting with the Militia 
 officers of each county, the posture of the country 
 will be securely settled, and in the county of 
 Down, that some way will be agreed upon for the 
 
 * Sir Marcus Trevor was the first Viscount Dungannon, and 
 was so created in 1662 on account of his signal gallantry in 
 wounding Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. Lord 
 Clarendon says, that both Cromwell and Fairfax were hurt in 
 that fight, and both above the shoulder. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 hunting of those Tories out of the country, or the 
 taking of them in it. I have got Sir Dan. Bel- 
 lingham, by this post, to write to the several col- 
 lectors to allow the 50/. for arming of each Militia 
 troop according to the Proclamation ; which in 
 my mind is much better than to take those pis- 
 toles in the store, and so to want the 50/. ; but in 
 this let me know your election, and accordingly 
 the order shall come to you. By next post you 
 shall have a return concerning the Kilwarlin 
 troop, and that to be raised in Belfast, I presume 
 my Lord Donegal is to be consulted therein. 
 What I writ to you formerly concerning putting 
 meal into several stores will be prosecuted, and 
 8/. per ton will be allowed for it. I have writ 
 fully to Col. Cromwell this post about those Tories, 
 which I believe he will acquaint you withall. I 
 pray you endeavour accordingly. As soon as I see 
 it possible to get your leave to come up, I will do 
 it ; but at this instant I find his Grace in a shag- 
 greene* humor as to that matter, not enduring to 
 see any of the army in town. 
 
 Dublin, 
 15 Jan. 1666. 
 
 I am, Sir, your very 
 
 faithful servant, 
 
 DUNGANNON. 
 
 * Thus in the original. 
 
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 LETTER XCVI. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I have received yours of the 13th instant, and 
 no other as yet. This is the first I have written 
 to you since my arrival in England, for at Ragley 
 I met nothing but the sad condition of my wife, 
 whom I could not see all the while I was there, 
 tho' I stayed a fortnight. I came hither last 
 Wensday, and have been so taken up ever since, 
 that I could not write to you last post, but I did 
 write a long letter to my Lord Lieutenant in 
 answer to a most obliging Letter which I received 
 from his Grace, dated at Kilkenny the 12th in- 
 stant. The Bill * against our cattle is carried on 
 with that violence as if all the liberties and char- 
 
 * The Bill passed the two Houses, and the King was obliged 
 to give it his Royal assent, notwithstanding its preamble, which 
 went so far as to declare the importation of Irish cattle to be a 
 nuisance Such was the spirit of senseless tyranny which then 
 animated an English House of Commons against a dependent 
 state. Through the whole proceedings on this Bill, says Leland, 
 the Lords carried on their debates with all the violence of men 
 contending for iheir lives, with a shameful contempt of the 
 order and dignity of their House. 
 
 " 1666, October 4, the people of Dublin consider about sending 
 105,000 bullocks to London for the relief of that city lately 
 burnt."— Irish Remembrancer. 
 
 * The Lord Chancellor (Clarendon) suggested an amendment equally 
 reasonable, and observed t hat it might as properly be declared adultery. 
 
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 ters of England were concerned in it, as if there 
 were no other grievance, no other inconvenience 
 by the wars, by the plague, or other destruction 
 upon this kingdom, but only from Irish cattle ; 
 and yet I hope we shall procure some qualifica- 
 tions in the Bill. They were at drawing their 
 swords about it in the House of Commons, and 
 the day before I came to town there was a quarrel 
 and a challenge given to the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham * by my Lord of Ossory, the Duke being so 
 violent as to give injurious national reproaches ; 
 and when my Lord of Ossory was at the appointed 
 place three hours, the Duke did not come, but 
 discovered it, and so the King sent and secured 
 them ; and next day the Duke complained to the 
 House of Lords against my Lord of Ossory for 
 breach of priviledge of Parliament in the debate, 
 whereof another quarrel sprung up between him 
 and my Lord Arlington, more desperate than the 
 former, if the House had not peremptorily inter- 
 posed ; so you see what work the beginnings of it 
 do make. I pray God the conclusions prove bet- 
 ter. The temper of the House of Commons is 
 strangely altered, and grown like to that in 41 -j*. 
 
 * The Duke of Buckingham exclaimed in the House of Lords 
 that " none could oppose the Bill but such as had Irish estates 
 or Irish understandings/' which Lord Ossory justly resented j 
 and the Duke, with his usual meanness, shrunk from him. — See 
 a particular account of this challenge in the continuation of 
 Lord Clarendon's History. 
 
 t 1641. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Nothing but discontents in Parliament, court, and 
 kingdom. And now we are proceeding with as 
 great seventy against the Papists* upon such like 
 jealousies and apprehensions as in the beginning 
 of the Long Parliament. Yesterday my Lord of 
 Ossory was sent to the Tower, and the Duke of 
 Buckingham to the black rod during the pleasure 
 of the House, according to a former precedent 
 between my Lord Bridgwater and the Earl of 
 Middlesex, where the challenger was sent to the 
 Tower, and he that accepted the challenge to the 
 black rod. The House of Commons are now 
 upon debate of the monopoly of the Canary Com- 
 pany, and have voted it down ; so that I hope we 
 shall be at liberty in Ireland as to that. I humbly 
 thank you for the care of my house in Dublin. I 
 am not yet inclined to sell it; but when I come 
 over, I shall be inclinable to whatsoever you 
 think fit to advise me. I have not yet seen your 
 coach, nor the coach maker, or done any thing 
 about that affair, I have been so busy about other 
 affairs ; and now I shall go every day to visit my 
 Lord* of Ossory , whom I have assisted to the ut- 
 most of my power, as it may be you will hear 
 from others. The King is very kind to me, and 
 my Lady Castelmaine also, and I have oppor- 
 
 * Lord Conway condemned all illiberal severity against Ro- 
 man Catholics ; and his brother-in-law Sir Heneage Finch op- 
 posed the Bill of the non-importation of Irish cattle with great 
 temper, reason, and argument. 
 
 f She was afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, and for a long 
 time preserved a dangerous influence over the King. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 tunities of conversing with them daily. I re- 
 ceived yesterday a very obliging letter from my 
 Lord of Orrery ; and so I desire you to pardon 
 my haste at this time, which shall not be so here- 
 after, but I shall take more deliberation to ac- 
 quaint you with the condition of affairs here, and 
 to assure you of my being 
 
 Your entirely affectionate brother, 
 London, Conway. 
 30 October, 1666. 
 
 LETTER XCVII. 
 
 From Lord Viscount Dungannon 
 to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 By the last post I sent orders to your Lieu- 
 tenant for the securing and sending up hither of 
 Major Montgomery, the horse breeder in the 
 county of Deny. He is one that is very trouble- 
 some, and keeps a nonconformist minister at his 
 house, having made a convenient place for 500 
 auditors to meet in. This day my Lord Lieute- 
 nant wisht me to write to you, that if your officer 
 had not taken him already, that he should endea- 
 vour to do it just at their preaching time, and so 
 to take him and his preacher together, and as 
 many priests more as should be there. Let his 
 chaplain be sent to the county-jail, and himself 
 sent hither, as the first order directed. In this I 
 
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 beseech your immediate care, and that you hasten 
 those directions to your officer. Likewise I am 
 informed that the Tories which were in the 
 county of Tyrone, are fled to join with another 
 crew of that tribe in the county of Donegal. I 
 could wish that a party of your troop did look out 
 a little into that county to encourage the Militia, 
 and countenance the inhabitants, who by several 
 letters hither are said to be in a very desperate 
 condition, and ready to quit their habitations, 
 which I cannot but admire, having their Militia 
 armed and provided with ammunition. Likewise 
 Major Windsor lies at the Omagh with 30 horse, 
 and 24 dragoons, and so is ordered to continue 
 for some time for the quieting of that county, be- 
 ing ordered this post to pursue those rogues into 
 Donegal, if he have any certain intelligence where 
 they haunt there. I am certain that Art-Oge- 
 Maguire hath writ to Costello *, and others of 
 that gang, that he is ready to rise in the county 
 of Down with a considerable party, when they 
 please to direct him ; but I am in hopes that the 
 20th instant being past, some endeavours will be 
 used either to suppress or banish him that country. 
 I suppose I shall have him set, if he stays there, 
 these holy days. I am persuaded Col. Cromwell 
 will send a party one side to search for him, and 
 if you send another at the same time to the other 
 
 * In 1666, the great Tory Colonel Costello was killed. — Re- 
 markable Occurrences. 
 
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 side of the county, he may be had. When you 
 correspond herein with Col. Cromwell, he will be 
 able to be more particular in the business than I 
 can at this distance. These holy days will be a 
 fit time to watch him, and as I am informed his 
 crew increaseth, and so they will be the easier 
 found out. I had the honor of a letter of the 8th 
 instant from my Lord Conway, wherein he writes 
 that the Bill concerning Cowes* was then on 
 passing ; but by a letter which I saw this day to 
 his Grace from my Lord Anglesey of the 11th 
 instant, he writes hopefully that the Bill is not 
 like to pass suddenly, if at all ; for the Lords put 
 it back to the Commons with some amendments, 
 which the Commons will not allow of, but adhere 
 to their first draught of it ; and he writes that if 
 it be so sent back to the Lords, it will be cer- 
 tainly rejected, the Commons being not so fond 
 of passing it as at first, and the Lords very equal as 
 to their vote for it. My Lord Lieutenant hath this 
 day sent over his own proxy to be ready for that 
 vote ; not any other considerable news stirring. 
 I pray you let me know what Will. Hill and you 
 intend concerning the Militia troop which Con- 
 way Hill is no\y Captain to, when he enters into 
 the army : for if you think it may satisfie the men, 
 I should desire that troop for my son rather than 
 
 * The Bill mentioned in last Letter concerning Irish cattle 
 (i. e. cows) must be the one alluded to by Lord Conway. The 
 Lords inserted the words detriment and mischief in the place of 
 nuisance, but they were thrown out in the Commons. 
 
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 any other, but that shaft not be but by all your 
 consents. I had like to have forgot informing 
 you that my Lord Lieutenant and Council are 
 determined now to put in practise the ancient 
 custom of Rincogish* against these Tories, which 
 will certainly reduce them, or root out their whole 
 generation. Pardon this long trouble to you, 
 from, Sir, 
 
 Your most humble and very 
 
 affectionate servant, 
 Dublin , Dung annon. 
 
 18 December, 1666. 
 
 Thus superscribed — 
 For my honor'd friend Sir George Rawden, Barr u 
 att Lisburne. 
 
 LETTER XCVIII. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I have at last agreed with my farrier, whom 
 I first treated with at Oxford ; he hath got a dis- 
 charge from the Kings work, and I lend him 
 
 * That every head of every sept, and every chief of every 
 kindred or family, should be answerable, and bound to bring 
 forth every one of that sept, and kindred under it, at all times, to 
 be justified, when he should be required or charged with any 
 treason, felony, or other heinous crime. — Spencer's State of 
 Ireland. 
 
 Q 
 
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 money to provide a chest of all sort of drugs to 
 last three years. He shall come over with John 
 Totnal, or sooner if you please, for he is out of 
 employment, depending upon this, and hath lately 
 married a wife, so that he is very impatient to be 
 going; and you must provide him a house and a 
 shop upon my account, upon which I doubt not 
 but he will thrive very well, for' I hear a good 
 character both of him and his wife, and I am con- 
 fident there is not a better farrier in England. 
 As to affairs here, we are much rejoiced with the 
 news of the arrival of the Gottenburgh fleet, in 
 which is no less than 50 sail of ships with naval 
 provisions; and tho' we have little hopes of peace, 
 yet we hope to buy in the Swedes to take our 
 part. The Duke of Buckingham and the Mar- 
 quis of Dorchester were sent to the Tower on 
 Wednesday last for quarrelling and striking one 
 another when both Houses were in conference *• 
 This day they are released. The Parliament is 
 not yet adjourned, but on Monday I hear they 
 
 * To-day the Duke of Buckingham and Marquis of Dorches- 
 ter were, upon their petitions, freed from the Tower, having 
 been committed for quarreling and scuffling when we were the 
 other day at the Canary conference. — Andrew Marvell's Letters, 
 Dec. 22. See also the Continuation of Lord Clarendon's History, 
 and his Life, where this quarrel is particularly mentioned. The 
 Marquis of Dorchester (Henry Pierpont), a nobleman of uncom- 
 mon learning, talents, and unsullied probity, was brother to 
 William Pierpont, ancestor of the Dukes of Kingston. He was 
 generally called " Wise William," being remarkable for strength 
 of understanding. 
 
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 will adjourn for the holydays only, and about the 
 15th of the next month 'tis thought this sessions 
 will be ended. I pray present my service to my 
 sister. I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy 
 new year, and am 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 London, Conway. 
 22 December, 1666. 
 
 LETTER XCIX. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 Yours of the 19th past brought me the ill 
 news of your being troubled with the stone, which 
 I am very sorry for, and impatient to hear you 
 may be delivered from it, and the time approaching 
 for drinking of Birch water ; I cannot chuse but 
 put you in mind of it, I for my part will forsake 
 all the business and concernments in the world at 
 that time of the year to attend it. Upon Sunday 
 morning my Lady Denham * died poisoned, as 
 she said herself, in a cup of chocolate. The 
 Duke of York was very sad, and kept his cham- 
 ber, where I went to visit him. — Affairs here go 
 
 * This account confirms what is said of Lady Denham's death 
 in Grammonfs Memoirs, p. 175, 4to edition, by Edwards, Pall 
 Mall. Sir John Denham died the year following, March 19, 
 1668.— See what is said of him in Temple's Works, vol. II. p. 135. 
 
 Q 2 
 
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 very ill ; the two Houses of Parliament are at 
 great difference, and the King's affairs, and the 
 concernments of the kingdom, are neglected. The 
 Queen is very ill of a fever. I supt with the 
 King last night at Lady Castelmaine's *, and was 
 with them till two o'clock this morning (as I have 
 often both dined and supt with the King and the 
 Duke of York since I come last to London): they 
 were very merry, and not sensible of the troubles 
 and dangers which I fear are drawing on fast upon 
 us. We had such a strong alarm last week that 
 the French were shipping at Brest to invade us 
 in Ireland, that I thought my Lord Ossory would 
 have gone post before this time, and that I should 
 have waited upon him, but it hath cooled ever 
 since. I can give you but a very bad account of 
 your friends at Ragley, where my wife continues 
 in great misery, extremely ill, and I believe very 
 near her last. I trouble you no farther, but 
 remain 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 London, Conway. 
 8 January, 1666-7. 
 
 * Afterwards Duchess of Cleveland, one of the most beautiful 
 of Charles's mistresses ; she was an inveterate enemy of the Earl 
 of Clarendon. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 229 
 
 LETTER C. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I came to London the 12th of this month, as 
 I acquainted you with my intentions in my last 
 from Ragley of the 8th. Since my coming hither, 
 I have writ twice to my Lord Lieutenant, and 
 once to my Lord of Orrery : these have hindered 
 me from writing to you as often as I designed, 
 but I believe you are not ignorant from all hands 
 how affairs go here. The King has cast himself 
 wholly upon the Parliament, who fly at all things, 
 and all men, but are now chiefly employed against 
 the late Lord Chancellor* in an impeachment 
 brought into the House of Commons upon Satur- 
 day last ; upon which they appointed Committees 
 to consult and order the manner and method of 
 their proceedings in the management of it. How 
 nearly this touches the Duke of York you are bet- 
 ter able to judge of than I, and what effect it may 
 probably produce. In all that is doing I can see 
 no good designed for Ireland ; Scotland is under 
 considerations of great favor, both as to trade, 
 and other advantages recommended by the King 
 in his Speech to the Parliament, carried on and 
 
 * The Earl of Clarendon. 
 
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 pursued by many potent persons of interest and 
 faction; but Ireland, which is ten times of greater 
 value in point of trade, is laid by, neglected, and 
 considered no farther but only how to damnify 
 it. Under what sad fate we lie, or what evil stars 
 are over us, I know not ; but I being one of this 
 committee for the Scotch trade, was very desirous 
 to understand the bottom of it ; and attended it 
 on Saturday from S in the afternoon till 9 at 
 night, so that I lost the benefit of that post, and 
 could write to no body. My Lord Lauderdale, in 
 behalf of Scotland, proposed the taking off half 
 the imposition upon salt, freedom of importation 
 of corn and cattle, without any restraint, and to 
 be admitted into the benefit of the act of naviga- 
 tion, as freely as any Englishman, from which 
 they are by that act wholly debarred. The in- 
 ducing argument for all this to be done, which 
 must repeal and alter three Acts of Parliament, is, 
 that the Dutch do offer to furnish them all com- 
 modities which they had from England at cheaper 
 rates, that their consumption out of England was 
 ^.318,600, and the commodities imported by 
 them were ^.200,000, so that we were gainers 
 by ^.118,600. This is the state of the case, upon 
 which you may make judgment useful to Ireland 
 better than I can. Since I began this letter, I 
 have seen the articles against the Earl of Claren- 
 don, which are eight : — 1st. That he took ^.4000 
 for the Canary patent. 2dly. That he had 
 ,±£.10,000 a year from the farmers of the Cus- 
 
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 toms. Sdly. That he had ^.50,000 for the set- 
 tlement of Ireland. 4thly. That he advised the 
 King to govern by a standing army. Stilly. That 
 he vilified the Parliament to the King, and ad- 
 vised him to dissolve them. 6thly. That he spoke 
 contemptibly of the King's person, and endea- 
 voured to diffuse it into others that he was 
 popishly affected. 7thly and 8thly. That he 
 abused the King with confidence of peace, and 
 kept him from defending himself. I have again 
 writ this post to my Lord of Orrery. Father 
 Patrick came to me the other day, and told me 
 that, seeing things likely to run in confusion here, 
 he was desirous to place a thousand or in 
 Ireland, if he could do it securely. I advised 
 him to put it into my Lord of Donegal's hands ; 
 he will desire but 8 per cent, if you can procure 
 him a good mortgage, of which I promised him to 
 write to you. We had yesterday an unfortunate 
 passage: Addy Loftus brought an Irish dog to 
 fight with a mastiff before the King ; the Irish 
 dog had all the advantage immaginable, and 
 dragged him 5 or 6 times about the ring, so that 
 every body gave the mastiff for dead ; all men 
 were concerned as if it had been their General, 
 and yet at last the Irish dog run away ; I lost my 
 money; and afterwards the King called me to 
 him, and said he would lay ^£.500 that neither I 
 nor all the men in Ireland could bring an Irish 
 wolf dog that would not run away. I pray speak 
 with my Lord Dungannon about it, for tho' I 
 
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 will not upon any man's confidence venture so 
 much money, yet I will be willing to go my 
 share, and I am sure the King will lay it. I pray 
 speak with my Lord Lieutenant, and know what 
 dogs he hath, and enquire amongst all your 
 friends, for I would fain recover the credit of our 
 country. I hope I shall hear from you how all 
 affairs go at Dublin, and from hence I shall neg- 
 lect no opportunity to inform you of all matters, 
 and to assure you of my being 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 London, Conway. 
 29 October, 1667. 
 
 I have sent a hamper with 3 boxes in it, and 2 
 cases with trees; the boxes have in them flowers, 
 roots, and seeds, such as my gardener writ for 
 from Lisburn. They cost me 14/. as you shall 
 see by the particulars - y they are very choice things, 
 and very good. 
 
 LETTER CI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I should be very glad to hear of your safe 
 arrival in Ireland, tho' I cannot doubt of it, con- 
 sidering the fairness of the season, and upon that 
 account I make all the haste I can to acquaint 
 you with those affairs which have past since my 
 return to London. I found my Lord of Orrery 
 
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 233 
 
 in a fit of the gout, of which he doth yet keep his 
 chamber, and foreseeing that business would be 
 delayed, and that he should be necessitated to 
 stay here all this winter, he hath sent for my Lady 
 Orrery, and expects her this next month. Upon 
 Sunday after I came hither, Mr. Gorge * spoke 
 to me in White-Hall, and told me things were 
 grown to that height, that he could not esteem 
 any man to be his friend that held either friend- 
 ship or correspondence with Mr. Rogers f, but that 
 he took me to be so much a person of honor, and 
 knew so well the long friendship that had been 
 between us, that he did assure me it should not 
 create the least jealousy in him towards me. You 
 may easily immagine he had given the same ani- 
 madversions to others, so that it come to Mr. 
 Steward's;}: ears, who spake of it to Mr. GifFard^ 
 as one of the insolentest things that ever he had 
 heard in his life. You may then conclude how it 
 was taken, that upon Sunday last the King ad- 
 journed the Privy Council to meet here in my 
 Lord Orrery's chamber, where the report from the 
 Commissioners of the accounts was read, and my 
 Lord Anglesey || so shuffled in his answers, that 
 the King concluded him guilty of all the miscar- 
 riages charged upon him. The Council sat about 
 three hours, and the King staid an hour and a 
 
 * Duke of Ormond. f Probably the Duke of Buckingham. 
 J King. § Duke of York. 
 
 || He was Treasurer of the Navy, and in the interest of the 
 Duke of Ormond. 
 
234 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 half after that in chearful discourse and kind en- 
 tertainment of my Lord Orrery, all which time I 
 was in the room with them, and had my share 
 both of the King's good countenance and good 
 words. — Mr. GifFard was here again yesterday, 
 and assured us that the King would speedily de- 
 clare and settle the government of Ireland. The 
 King goes to-morrow to New-Market, and from 
 thence comes to Audley-End, and doth not re- 
 turn to London these six weeks. My Lord of 
 Orrery meets him at Audley End, but I intend to 
 return into Warwickshire, and not to be here 
 again till the middle or end of November, by 
 w T hich time I must desire a supply of money, or 
 else I shall be forced to neglect both your affairs 
 and my own. The Parliament is put off till the 
 1st of March, and if Mr. Garrett* can prevail, it 
 will be put off long enough, for he dreads it of all 
 things in the world ; but Mr. Giffard-}- and Mr. 
 Bolton X are firmly united upon other principles. 
 I shall not need to trouble you with more at this 
 present, but desirous to hear from you of all 
 things, remain 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 London, Conway. 
 29 September, 1668. 
 
 * Lord Arlington. f The Duke of York. 
 
 X Lord Keeper, Sir Orlando Bridgman. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 235 
 
 LETTER CIL 
 
 To whom the following Letter was addressed, or 
 by whom written, I know not ; it has the day 
 of the month, and the year, and contains some 
 news which entitle it to a place in this Collec- 
 tion, as being one of the Rawdon Papers. 
 
 The French are sending out 5 men of war 
 from Rochel under the Count D'Estrades for the 
 West Indies, tho* some give out they are for Por- 
 tugal. The report of the squabble between the 
 French and Dutch is not confirmed by any of our 
 letters. The troops arrived from Portugal are 
 not come so high as Portsmouth, but this day it 
 was agreed at the Board that his Majesty should 
 be attended to know how they should be disposed 
 of, they being all sensible of the great honor they 
 have done the nation by their great valour while 
 in Portugal. — Major Needham is this day ordered 
 to continue a prisoner, unless he can give suffi- 
 cient security for his appearance ; but the poor 
 soldiers and seamen are ordered to be discharged, 
 and the Dutch Ambassador to be made acquainted 
 with it. Great abuses being discovered of the 
 transporting English wool beyond sea, contrary to 
 the laws, whereby our whole trade of manufac- 
 ture may in time be lost, 'tis ordered to be taken 
 into consideration on Friday next. It's feared 
 
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 they of Tripoli may take advantage by the not 
 returning of the English Consul at the time 
 limited by their Bassa * to break the spear, or at 
 least to do some violence at sea ; and letters from 
 Legorne say they have taken an English vessel 
 laden with corn from that coast. — Some consi- 
 derations are held about the trade to the planta- 
 tions, whether and how far they may be allowed 
 a trade between the plantations and Tangier ; the 
 matter is referred to a committee to consider of. 
 10 October, 1668. 
 
 LETTER CIII. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdok. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I received yours of the 10th instant yester- 
 day, but the former mentioned of the 7th I have 
 not. I am now going upon Tuesday next to Rag- 
 ley; I had gone this week but that I was desirous, 
 before I went, to speak with Mr. Giffard -f-, who 
 came hither yesterday morning. Mr. Rogers J and 
 he and I discoursed of many things, and particu- 
 larly of those that were to go into Ireland since 
 Mr. Gorge § had notice given him that he was to 
 go no more, and had also refused the employment 
 
 * Bashaw. f Duke of York. 
 
 X Duke of Buckingham, I believe. 
 § Duke of Ormond. 
 
RAW DON PAPERS. 
 
 237 
 
 offered to Mr. Archer. I find they are desirous 
 to put it upon Mr. Miller and Sir Thomas Os- 
 burne, and I know not how to relate to you what 
 Mr. Miller said upon that subject, but he desires 
 your advice, tho' probably the thing will fall of 
 itself. We made a progress yesterday about the 
 revenue of Ireland beyond what I could expect ; 
 there is 9£5 thousand pounds a year offered for it, 
 with unquestionable security, and ^.60,000 ad- 
 vance upon interest. Mr. Fisher works hard 
 against Mr. Aires*; Dr. Gorge goes away this day, 
 I think, for Ireland, to bring over the vouchers, 
 and the remainder of Sir George Cartwright's ac- 
 counts, and Mr. Aires will suddenly receive a 
 public disgrace. The encouragement for the 
 French and other strangers to be brought into 
 Ireland is still in agitation ; my Lord Keeper and 
 the Duke of Buckingham are firm to it, but the 
 separation that hath been among these great 
 Lords, some by their sports, others by their dis- 
 tempers of the gout, hath hitherto delayed it; on 
 Monday, my Lord Orrery and they meet, to bring 
 it to a conclusion. I cannot chuse but give you 
 account of one passage which hath occasioned 
 much talk about the town. The Duke of York 
 brought a recommendation from the King to the 
 Council of Trade upon Thursday last, that they 
 would chuse Sir Phill. Frowd their secretary ; 
 my Lord Arlington at the same time recom- 
 
 * Lord Orrery. 
 
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 mended one Mr. du Moulin for the same employ- 
 ment ; the debate and the heat lasted all the af- 
 ternoon, and when it came to a question, my Lord 
 Arlington carried it by 20 voices, and more. It 
 is not to be imagined how high this business was 
 carried on both sides (both of them being present). 
 I am informed that the King hath appointed you 
 his sole trustee for the management of Alderman 
 Barker's estate by the contrivance of Father Pa- 
 trick and my Lord Arlington, against the pretences 
 of Vernon and my Lord of Ormonde. You will 
 hear more of it from them ; and therefore I only 
 thought fit but to mention it. I write nothing 
 about Will. Temple's coming over with the 3 pads 
 you mention, not knowing but that I may possibly 
 see you sooner than you expect, but whereever I 
 am, I shall always be 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 London, Conway. 
 October 24, 1668. 
 
 Since I writ this, I have heard many particulars 
 of information come in against Mr. Aires, con- 
 cerning compositions. 
 
RAW DON PAPERS, 
 
 239 
 
 LETTER CIV. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I received a letter lately from Mr. Ay res *, 
 in which he writes that his affairs are in a better 
 posture than ever; Mr. Tomson -f hath deserted 
 Mr. Clifton J and Mr. Bence§, and hath made a 
 strict friendship with Mr. St. George ||. The oc- 
 casion was this ; Mr. Clifton, Mr. Bence, and Mr, 
 Frowd ^f, finding the great influence which Mr, 
 Tomson had upon Mr. Church **, resolved by 
 open attacks, as well as by mines, to lessen and 
 destroy his credit with Mr. Church, and pursued 
 it so far that at a meeting at Mr. Smith's ■f"}-, they 
 fell on him so abruptly and warmly, that Mr. 
 Tompson put back his seat, and went away. The 
 next day Mr. Sheldon J J and Mr. Johnson 
 came severally to Mr. Ay res (for by the way 'twas 
 Mr. Tompson that helped Mr. Johnson to his late 
 employment), and told him that to their know- 
 ledge 'twas necessary Mr. Tompson and Mr. St. 
 
 * Lord Orrery. t Lord Lauderdale. 
 
 + Duke of Ormond. § Lord Arlington. 
 || Duke of Buckingham. Sir Thomas Clifford. 
 
 ** The King. ft Lord Kingston. 
 XX Lord Ashley. Lord Berkeley. 
 
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 RA WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 George should instantly close, and offered to tie 
 that knot. Much ceremony there was in this so- 
 lemnity which I omit : but at last Mr. Church 
 was the instrument of this reconciliation, and 
 was brought to make it wholly his own concern. 
 So that now Lord Kingston, the Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Ashley, Lord 
 Berkely, Secretary Trevor, Lord Ossory, and 
 Sir Thomas Osborne, are as one man, and are 
 nothing but by common consent*. The King and 
 the Duke of York f have had some dispute about 
 Lord Roos's divorce J, which is to be done, and is 
 now doing by Act of Parliament. The King is 
 for it to the heigth, the Duke as warm against it ; 
 you may easily guess why. I pray speak nothing 
 of these things, for I have writ them to none but 
 yourself. Mr. Blewet is such an enemy to Lord 
 Lauderdale and Lord Ashley, that he would swear 
 he had been trepanned by his friends, if he should 
 
 * Mr. Smith, Mr. St. George, Mr. Tomson, Mr. Sheldon, Mr. 
 Johnson, Mr. Welsh, Mr. Ayres, and Mr. Thomas ; feigned 
 names for those I have inserted in the text. 
 
 f Duke of York called Mr. Dean. 
 
 + "The great Bill begun in the Lords, and which makes more 
 ado than ever any act in this Parliament did, is for enabling Lord 
 Roos, long since divorced in the spiritual court, and his children 
 declared illegitimate, &c. to marry again." — A. Marvell's Letters. 
 See Lord Clarendon's Life, &c. Lord Dorchester, mentioned 
 p. 226, whose daughter Lady Roos was, acted incomparably in 
 this business. Indeed his behaviour as a father and a nobleman 
 of the highest honour cannot be sufficiently applauded. — See 
 also Burnet's History of his Own Times, vol. I. p. 262. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 241 
 
 know it. The Duke of Ormond and Lord Arling- 
 ton endeavoured to supplant Lord Berkely, and 
 to bring in Mr. Buller, which hath made him im- 
 placable to them, as I am informed. My Lord 
 Berkely says, he will be going for Ireland the be- 
 ginning of April, as I hear; the resolves of such 
 motions are very uncertain I believe. I left order 
 with Mr. Jervis before I left Dublin, to send my 
 sister's Usquebagh to Chester to Mr. Richardson, 
 and I took care there to have it sent to Coventree, 
 for I intend not to go to London, it is so charge- 
 able. The plate at Belfast, I suppose, will be run 
 for, and you may be sure I shall be willing my 
 gelding run for it. I have had birch-water since 
 the 2d of this month, and I am very constant to 
 it while it lasts. My wife is ill at present, no 
 body hath seen her these ten days, but I suppose 
 it is much after the usual manner. My brother 
 Francis tells me your son Ned # cannot stretch out 
 his arm by a great deal; I pray let me know how 
 it is, and whether it be his right or his left arm. 
 I think I have little more to add, but my service 
 to my sister, and the assurance of my being 
 ♦ Yours, &c. 
 
 Ragley, Conway. 
 15 March, 1669-70. 
 
 * Edward Rawdon, eldest son of Sir George, was nephew to 
 the writer ; he was killed in France on service in the year 1676. 
 
 ft 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER CV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I am just now come home from the wedding, 
 and have left all the company at the Castle to 
 write these few lines to you. My Lord Chan- 
 cellor* married my Lord Lieutenant' s-f* daughter 
 and my Lord Drogheda's son, to which my Lord 
 Lieutenant invited me last night ; I shewed him 
 your letter, and left it with him. I spake to him 
 also concerning the Sheriffs, and he desired my 
 assistance, and told me he would have no Scotch- 
 men prickt down. My answer was, that I did 
 fear there were no Englishmen returned for the 
 counties of Down and Antrim ; so he called for 
 the list, which I had seen, and knew before, and 
 when I had read it I told him I was mistaken, for 
 there was an Englishman in each return; Sir Her- 
 cules Longsford for the county of Antrim, and 
 Mr. Hawkins in Down; but, said I, Sir Hercules 
 Longsford hath already been Sherif since the King 
 came in : that's nothing, saith my Lord Lieute- 
 nant, and so I left him fully resolved to pitch 
 
 * Michael Boyle ; he was both Lord Chancellor and Arch- 
 bishop of Dublin. 
 
 t Lord Robarts j his daughter Letitia Isabella was married to 
 Charles the second Earl of Drogheda in 1669. — Archdale's 
 
 Peerage. 
 
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 upon those two, unless he advise with some body 
 else that may alter him. Yesterday was a full 
 hearing in Chancery between Sir Tristram Beres- 
 ford and his son ; but my Lord Chancellor com- 
 manded both to agree by arbitration before he 
 delivered judgment. My Lord Lieutenant is 
 horribly troubled with the Mayor * and Alder- 
 men of this city, who first addrest themselves to 
 him, and afterwards petitioned him to grant his 
 order for fire and candle to the Guards. He hath 
 sent the petition over to the King, being unwill- 
 ing to do any thing in it of himself, without the 
 King's express command ; and yesterday the 
 Common Council have voted that they will give 
 no more fire and candle to the Guards without 
 my Lord Lieutenant's express order, which he 
 takes very unkindly. My Lord Lieutenant is in- 
 formed that my Lord Lauderdale hath committed 
 the Archbishop of Glasgow and wonders it was 
 not in your news, if it be true. I pray enquire 
 and learn what you can of their proceedings 
 there. I hope I shall get out Moses Hill's com- 
 mission shortly ; Mr. Roberts tells me it is writ- 
 ten, and doth believe that upon my appearing for 
 him, it will be done. Sir Hercules Longsford is 
 in town ; I met him at the Castle last Friday. I 
 
 * Lewis Desmencer, Lord Mayor in 1669. — See Carte's Or- 
 monde, vol. II. p. 411. 
 
 f Alexander Burnet, Archbishop of Glasgow, forced to re- 
 sign by Lord Lauderdale in 1669. — Beatson's Pol. Index j see 
 Burnet's Hist, of his Own Times, vol. I. p. 2S6, fol. 
 
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 pray present my humble service to my sister, 
 with my thanks for her Usquebagh ; and so I rest 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 
 Dublin, 9 November, 1669. Conway. 
 
 LETTER CVI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Bear Brother, 
 
 I have been all this day with my Lord Lieu- 
 tenant, or employed about his commands, and I 
 am but newly come from him, tho' it be very 
 late ; yet I am to give you notice by his com- 
 mand that the King hath privately informed him 
 of two persons sent from Rome that lie lurking in 
 this country to do mischief. One is Signor Ag- 
 netti, an Italian, employed by the College de Pro- 
 paganda Fide ; the other is Plunket*, a Member 
 of the same College, and designed titular Arch- 
 bishop of Armagh. If you can dexterously find 
 them out, and apprehend them, 'twill be an ac- 
 ceptable service. But I told him I did not think 
 they kept their residence in our parts ; however 
 he thinks it his duty to search every where. The 
 last post brought us no ill news, the two Houses 
 are like to agree well ; for tho' the Lords have re- 
 
 * He was afterwards titular Primate of Ireland, and hanged 
 at Tyburn, July 1, 1681. His name was Oliver Plunket, and he 
 died denying every thing that had been sworn against him. — See 
 Bin net, vol. I. p. 502. 
 
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 jected the Bill which the Commons sent up about 
 their judicature, yet they are preparing one them- 
 selves, which is thought will give satisfaction. 
 Sir George Cartwright # is impeached for a vast 
 sum of money, and in a great deal of danger, as 
 all letters affirm. My Lord of Orrery is upon the 
 mending hand, but is not yet able to write. I 
 have had letters from my Lady Orrery, in which 
 she tells me that all things will go suddenly to my 
 Lord Lieutenant's satisfaction, and that my Lord 
 of Orrery and the Duke of Buckingham do not 
 lose ground as was supposed. She also assures 
 me I shall obtain liberty to go for England very 
 suddenly, but how I shall prevail with my Lord 
 Lieutenant, I know not, because he is very kind 
 to me. Yesterday we had an inundation of letters 
 from the King for giving away of his revenue 
 which my Lord Lieutenant will never consent to 
 without representing the true state of all the in- 
 conveniences that will follow upon it ; but the 
 Council is so torne into faction about it, many of 
 them I believe expecting letters for themselves, 
 that my Lord Lieutenant is horribly troubled to 
 bring them to reason in this particular. I shall 
 say no more, but I am your's, Conway. 
 Dublin, 20 November, 1669. 
 
 * Sir George Carteret. See a particular account of the de- 
 bates in the House of Commons relative to him in Andrew Mar^ 
 veil's Letters to his Constituents at Hull for the year 1669. 
 
 f The King's warrants were what chiefly contributed to the 
 large debt due at this time to the establishment — Lord Robarts 
 Lord Lieutenant. 
 
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 R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER CVII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 On Tuesday last* a strange accident befell 
 my Lord of Ormonde : as he was going home to his 
 lodging at Clarendon-house f , about 6 o'clock at 
 night, 8 men set upon him, and threatned to pistol 
 him if lie did not come out of his coach ; when 
 they had him out, he began to argue the case, and 
 to ask them what they would have ? if they came 
 for money, he offered them 40 guineas, and to 
 send them more, besides his jewels which were 
 about him, worth ^.1000. They said they did 
 not come for money, nor had time to dispute with 
 him, but mounted him behind one of their com- 
 pany, and told him then that they would make 
 him pay his old debts, and it is said that they in- 
 tended to have hanged him at Tyburne. But my 
 Lord of Ormonde, with much presence of mind 
 and resolution, by such time as they were gone 
 20 yards from his own house, that is, about my 
 Lord Berkley's new house, began to struggle with 
 
 * Dec. 6, 1670. 
 
 f Clarendon House stood on the site of the present Grafton 
 Street, and faced the upper end of St. James's Street. — Pennant's 
 London, p. 133. — Blood, who planned and who was so near exe- 
 cuting his infernal purpose, was pardoned by the King ; and 
 what is stranger still, his pardon was accompanied with the 
 grant of an estate of ^.500 per annum, 
 
 A." 
 
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 the man that rid before him., and tumbled him off' 
 his horse, and fell down with him. Then they 
 endeavoured to kill him, one shot a pistol at him, 
 another fired at him, but the pistol went not off, 
 another gave him a blow with a sword, and rid 
 over him, another gave him a blow with a pistol 
 on his left eye-brow, which is the greatest wound 
 that remains upon him, and in this scuffle his ser- 
 vants came out and relieved him ; but the men 
 got all away, leaving some of their horses, and 
 other things. I have been with my Lord of Or- 
 monde almost every day since this accident, and, 
 as he told me, yesterday within 3 or 4 days he will 
 be abroad again ; but notwithstanding the King's 
 proclamation, and a reward of ^.1000 to him that 
 shall discover the bottom of the business, nothing 
 of that is yet discovered. The King is very suc- 
 cessful in the proceedings of Parliament, they 
 have given an excise to pay his debts, and a tax 
 by way of subsidy, but not the old w ay, to raise 
 ^.800,000 for the setting out of a fleet. 
 
 Just now I have received your letters of the 26 
 past, and 6th instant, with the unspeakable sad 
 news to me of my Lord of Dromore's * death. My 
 letter to my Lord of Dromore was inclosed in a let- 
 ter to you, and the directions were within his let- 
 ter wrapt about Van Helmont's medicine, which 
 would certainly have recovered him ; and in that 
 
 * George Rust was appointed to the see of Dromore in 1667 ; 
 he is noticed in a former letter of Lord Conway's, as being down 
 with him at Ragley ; he was then Dean Rust. 
 
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 letter I told you that Arthur* had but two fits of 
 an ague, and was very well, as I suppose he is at 
 this present. But Dr. Ridgeley was very sorry he 
 went not into France this winter, apprehending 
 his cough, and danger of a consumption, as things 
 not to be dallied with, but of highest concern- 
 ment to him to be prevented in time. Van Hel- 
 mont and he are preparing things for him, and 
 will give directions how he shall be ordered in 
 France, which his Governour, who studies phy- 
 sick, will be very capable to understand and pur- 
 sue. All that I can say of Van Helmont's suc- 
 cess with my wife is, that she hath gained upon 
 him so far, as that he will do for her all that is in 
 his power ; he hath sent into Germany for medi- 
 cines for her, and will return to her as soon as his 
 business will permit, and my stay here is only for 
 him, and to carry him down with me. I am un- 
 feignedly Your's, &c. 
 
 London, Conway. 
 12 December, I67O. 
 
 I do not doubt but we shall prevent the imposi- 
 tion that is laid upon your salt. I had almost 
 forgot to tell you that I am very willing to lay out 
 ^.100, or what else you think fit, to set up the 
 glass work you mention. I pray let me know 
 whether it be for green or white glass ; both will 
 be useful, nor is there danger if the man be ho- 
 
 * Arthur Rawdon, his nephew j he was educated by his uncle 
 as his son, and on account of his delicate health sent abroad. 
 He was afterwards Sir Arthur Rawdon of Moira, Bart. 
 
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 nest ; if he be a cheat, I shall be left in the lurch. 
 I pray present my service to my sister, and tell 
 her my stock of Usquebagh is all gone to one 
 bottle ; also I heard she hath some scollops to 
 send over to me, which may be sent easily to Mr. 
 Richardson at Chester. I entreat you also to 
 write to Philomy 6 Neile to send me over two 
 pieces more of the best frise that can be had, one 
 piece of black frise, the other of grey, either dark 
 or light coloured ; the 3 pieces I had from hi n 
 did not accommodate all my friends. 
 
 LETTER CVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 On Friday last I finished the troublesome 
 ceremony of my mother's funeral with less dis- 
 order than was expected in so great a crowd, and 
 with the applause of all that saw it. It was the 
 Herald's office to make an entry thereof upon 
 record, with such circumstances therewith as you 
 will find in the copy thereof, which I send you 
 here inclosed. Yesterday I received your letters 
 of the 3d and 10th instant, but so wetted in the 
 carriage as I could hardly read them. Yet I per- 
 ceive you think the decoy and the park in very 
 good order, and I am very glad of it, but I hope 
 to see them in> better order some time or other. 
 
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 HAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 I am very glad you have pieced up with Francis ; 
 my Lord Chesterfield gives ^£.100 a year standing 
 wages, and IQd. a week board wages, and many 
 other profits of his garden, to a worse gardener 
 than Francis. I received this inclosed yesterday 
 from Mr. Dethick and Arthur ; they are all well at 
 Orleans. I never omitted to send you their let- 
 ters as soon as they came to my hands. He hath 
 laid out a matter of 8/. or 10/. for me in French 
 books, which I intend to return to him very sud- 
 denly, and whensoever you please to write to 
 them, I will convey your letters. I intend to 
 give Arthur a ruby ring for my mother's legacy, 
 and that's the reason you find mention of such 
 things in the letter. I perceive you take notice 
 that Mr. Dethick is a punctual and frugal steward; 
 I assure you he is as ingenious and discreet a 
 person, and as genteel a humoured man, as any I 
 know. I cannot conclude without telling you the 
 entertainment my Lord Berkeley received at Kid- 
 derminster ; my Lord Winsor sent Sir William 
 Knight to him to put him in mind of his promise 
 to fight with him when he came out of Ireland; 
 my Lord Berkeley answered him that he never 
 challenged my Lord Winsor ; the other affirmed 
 that he did, and told him that he was farther 
 commanded to bring him a challenge, if he had 
 forgot the former, to which my Lord Berkeley 
 replied, that he was still the King's Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, and would not fight with my Lord Win- 
 sor. Sir William Knight answered him that my 
 
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 Lord Winsor was the King's Lord Lieutenant 
 of Wostershire, and as good a man as himself, and 
 that if he refused to fight with him, he was com- 
 manded to tell him that my Lord Winsor would 
 post him up for a coward, and cudgel him where- 
 soever he met him. So they parted, and my Lord 
 Berkeley told him he was going to Windsor, and 
 would complain of him to the King. This rela- 
 tion I had from my Lord Winsor on Friday last 
 at the funeral, where my Lord Brook was also, 
 and many others, nor is he sparing to publish it 
 in all places, and I hear his reception at Winsor is 
 not like to be much better, unless my Lady Clan- 
 bra. * alter the case, for she thinks to trip up Nell 
 Guin's heels, and you cannot immagine how 
 highly my Lord Arran and many others do value 
 themselves upon the account of managing Lady 
 Clanbra. in this affair. Every body was so impor- 
 tunate for my mother's scutchions in this country, 
 that I thought it would not be unwelcome to send 
 over a dozen scutchions into Ireland by my cousin 
 Huncks ; and the Majesty seutchion which stood 
 at her head, I have sent to my sister Rawdon. 
 
 So I rest your's, &c. 
 
 Ragley, Conway. 
 20 June, 1671. 
 
 Indorsed by Lord Conway : — For yourself. 
 
 * If the name is Clanbrassil, I never heard of her as one of 
 Charles's mistresses, but who she was I don't know. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 The writer of the following Letter, and the per- 
 son to whom it is written, are now unknown ; 
 it was written two days after the attack made 
 by the Dutch on the English fleet in Solebay. 
 
 LETTER CIX. 
 
 Since my last (Dear Friend) we have been 
 entertained with matters worthy your knowledge, 
 for on Tuesday morning *, about 6 of the clock, 
 both the fleets engaged, and before 10 of the 
 clock, the Duke's ship the Prince, had received 
 60 broadsides, and then being disabled, he went 
 aboard the St. Michael ; there he staid till 4 in 
 the afternoon, and then went aboard the London, 
 and there staid that night. The fight continued 
 till 11 next day, being Wednesday, he went 
 aboard the Prince again, which was then mended 
 in all she was disabled ; that morning proved very 
 foggy, and the Duke cruising about with 30 sail 
 of ships to meet the Dutch, found them drawn up 
 together in very good order ; but then tacking 
 about, ran to the rest of our fleet, and having 
 gotten 60 of our ships together, in as good a con- 
 dition as when they came, with them he bore up 
 towards the Dutch, but it proving misty, the 
 Dutch made for the coast of Flanders, and late 
 
 * May 29, 1672. 
 
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 that night got to the Weeser, which are shallows, 
 that our ships durst not venture on for fear of 
 being stranded, being that they draw more water 
 than the Dutch. We set out our flag of defiance 
 to them, but they would not come out, and then 
 our fleet returned to Solebay, where they now 
 ride. We lost but one ship, the James, which 
 was burnt, after having endured the brunt of all 
 the fight ; in her was lost the Earl of Sandwich *. 
 The Catherine was taken by the Dutch, and in 
 her Sir John Chichelyf- and Col. Richard Tal- 
 bot % 9 with several others, who were carried pri- 
 soners into other ships ; and then the Dutch go- 
 ing to fire her, the rest of the souldiers that were 
 in her saved her, and brought her off ; we have 
 some 7 ships disabled. — We brought in of the 
 Dutch 3 ships, sunk some 12, and destroyed most 
 of their fire-ships. We have killed on our side, 
 Captain Digby, Captain Cox, Captain Pearce, Sir 
 Fretcheville Hollis §, Mad. Buckly, the Lord 
 Maidston, and several other captains, noblemen, 
 and others || . 
 
 * Lord Sandwich was blown up in his ship the Royal James, 
 after behaving with the greatest intrepidity and gallantry. 
 
 t He was a Commissioner for the office of Master of the Ord- 
 nance. 
 
 X Richard Talbot, one of the Duke of York's bed chamber 
 men, afterwards raised by him to be Earl and Duke of Tirconnel. 
 
 § Sir Fretcheville Hollis, knt. Rear-admiral, was killed on 
 board the Cambridge. 
 
 || De Ruyter, the Dutch Admiral, said in his Letter, "it was 
 the hardest fought battle he ever saw." 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 In one of the Dutch ships is taken one of seem- 
 ing quality, his leg shot off; he will not confess 
 himself, but is thought to be one of the State de- 
 puties. 
 
 London, June 1, I672. 
 
 LETTER CX. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 You find fault with me for not writing to you 
 in the multitude of your troubles, whereas I am 
 most certain 1 neither omitted, nor delayed to 
 answer all your letters in what was material for 
 me to answer. In your last you signify your in- 
 tentions of sending your daughter into England, 
 to which I should willingly agree, if I knew where 
 she could be conveniently placed. In my family 
 all the women about my wife, and most of the 
 rest, are Quakers, and Mons. Van Helmont is go- 
 vernour of that flock, an unpleasing sort of people, 
 silent, sullen, and of a reserved conversation, 
 which can be no ways agreeable to your daughter, 
 nor for her advantage. These and all of that so- 
 ciety have free access to my wife, but I believe 
 Dr. More, though he was in the house all the last 
 summer, did not see her above twice or thrice. 
 Now when I am absent at London or in Ireland, 
 
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 as I hope to be next summer, what can my niece 
 do amongst them ? I have considered amongst 
 all my acquaintance, and I can find none to my 
 mind. Mr. Speaker's * Lady is a most virtuous 
 discreet person, but her husband is worse for 
 women than my Lord Ranelagh-j~. If she were 
 in either of these families, the world would judge 
 I might better have ventured her in a bawdy- 
 house. My Lord Chancellor's % family is a very 
 good family, but 'tis so numerous, and his Lady 
 being dead, I do not think they would admit of 
 it. My sister Clifton lives so sluttishly and 
 foolishly, that it would not be of any advantage 
 to my niece. So that I protest I cannot think of 
 any place convenient ; I wish you would defer it 
 
 * Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker, was born in 1633, and died 
 in 1707. On the resignation of Sir Job Charlton in 1673, he 
 was appointed Speaker, in which station he continued till the 
 year 1678, when being re-chosen by the House, the King re- 
 fused his consent, on which Serjeant William Gregory was chosen 
 in his room. Sir Edward Seymour's first wife was Margaret, 
 daughter of Sir William Wale of the city of London ; and his 
 second, who is mentioned in this letter, was Letitia, the daugh- 
 ter of Francis Popham, esq. by whom he had six sons and one 
 daughter; his second son by this marriage was Francis, who 
 was ancestor to the present Marquis of Hertford, and became 
 heir to the fortune of the writer of this letter. 
 
 f This Lord Ranelagh, according to Burnet, wa9 a young 
 man of great parts, and as great vices. He had a pleasantness 
 in his conversation that took much with the King, and had a 
 great dexterity in business. 
 
 X Sir Heneage Finch, Lord Chancellor, created Earl of Not- 
 tingham in 1675. 
 
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 till I speak with you. The best I can think of is 
 my Lady Puckering at Warwick ; she is a discreet 
 lady, and they live hansomly, and sometimes she 
 goes to London with her husband in a session of 
 Parliament. If you continue in your resolution 
 of sending over your daughter before I come into 
 Ireland, I will speak with my Lady Puckering 
 unless you can think of some better place amongst 
 your own acquaintance. This is the reason that 
 I wrote to you long since it was convenient for 
 you to marry your daughter, because, as things 
 stood with me, I knew not how to provide for her 
 in the mean time so as I would do, and as might 
 be proper for her. — When I received my Lord 
 Coloony's letter, I gave you an account of the 
 answer I made him, and of my readiness to serve 
 him for the getting of his son's pardon, only I de- 
 sired him to provide a solicitor, for I could not 
 undertake that part. I hope that he and you 
 have received my letters, tho' I hear nothing of 
 it, they were both inclosed in a cover to Philomy 
 6 Neile. But I perceive your daughter* will not 
 have Mr. Coote, and my Lord Granard is angry 
 with me that I do not appear or concern myself 
 for his son so much as he would have me. Where- 
 as I shall never do more for any one in the world, 
 than only to agree to whatsoever you do. This is 
 
 * Mary, eldest daughter of Sir George Rawdon, was married 
 in October of the following year, 1678, to Arthur, the second 
 Earl of Granard, and son of the first Earl, who is noticed in this 
 
 letter j she died 1st April, 17 c 24. 
 
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 my resolution to him and all mankind in this mat- 
 ter. I believe you will have no occasion of re- 
 moving to Portmore, from those apprehensions 
 you mention of my Lord of Ormondes coming 
 into the North. My Lord Treasurer * writes to 
 me that my Lord Lauderdale's letters say, there 
 is no fear of any insurrection in Scotland. But I 
 wish you had gone there when my Lord Granard's 
 party came down, then you had avoided all these 
 troubles and perplexities which now pursue you, 
 and out of which there is no way to get out, but 
 to let them pass over as clouds do, of themselves. 
 Do nothing that is unhamsome for you to do, but 
 be quiet, and let them pass over of themselves. 
 This is the best advice I can give you, who shall 
 ever be, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 Ragley, 28 December, I677. Conway. 
 
 LETTER CXL 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 Last night late I received yours of the second 
 instant together with my Lord Granard's and the 
 examinations inclosed, which I delivered this 
 morning to my Lord Treasurer, and I saw him 
 read your letter to the King. The examinations 
 
 * Lord Danby. 
 S 
 
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 were sent over last post by my Lord Lieutenant, 
 and immediately sent away by the King's order 
 to my Lord Lauderdale. My Lord Treasurer 
 commanded me to write to my Lord Granard, 
 and to you to give you thanks, and to let you 
 both know that he would speak to the King to be 
 fully empowered to gratify the informer either 
 with money or otherwise, as my Lord Granard 
 shall think fit, that he may be largely provided 
 for, so as to attain a perfect discovery. And in 
 the mean time he desires you to proceed upon 
 this account which you have from me, as I told 
 him I was sure you would, and by the next post 
 he says he will give me a letter to my Lord Gra- 
 nard to this effect which I have mentioned. This 
 morning the two Houses of Parliament met, and 
 upon a message from the King, adjourned till 
 Monday the 28th instant. The ground of which 
 is this : the King expected, before the Parliament 
 met, to have sent over 10 or 12,000 men into Ostend 
 and Nuport, but the Spanish proceedings are so 
 formal and dilatory, that after it was concluded 
 upon with the Spanish agents here, he pretends 
 he can give no orders for the execution, but they 
 must come from Villa Hermosa; so Mr. Godol- 
 phin is sent over to him, and expected back again 
 before that time. In the mean time we are beat- 
 ing up drums every day for new levies ; and sol- 
 diers come in plentifully and chearfully, and in 
 all probability we shall be suddenly engaged in a 
 sharp war both by sea and land : the influence of 
 
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 which must certainly be great upon Ireland, and 
 occasion the calling of a Parliament there for our 
 preservation, and I believe, for the doubling of 
 our forces. As to my particular, I am sorry to 
 find that the very rumour of war makes exchange 
 of money to rise between England and Ireland, 
 but I have not yet drawn upon Mr. Mildmay, and 
 whether I shall get any upon reasonable terms I 
 know it. I hope this letter will be sufficient to 
 make my excuse to my Lord Granard, to whom 
 I must write when I convey to him my Lord 
 Treasurer's Letter. So I shall add no more but 
 that I am yours, &c. 
 
 London, Conway. 
 15 January, 167-L. 
 
 LETTER CXIL 
 
 The following Letter, written by Sir William 
 Petty *, though the person to whom it is ad- 
 dressed is now not known, and the subject not 
 interesting, demands a place in this Collection 
 on account of the Character of the Writer. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have many troubles, and which is worse, 
 have been absolutely lame these 3 weeks, so as 
 
 * Sir William Petty, the writer of this letter, was born in 
 16*23 at Rumsey, in Hampshire ; was appointed Physician Gene- 
 ral to the army in Ireland in 1652, and in 1654 contracted with 
 the Parliament to take a survey of the Kingdom, of which His 
 
260 
 
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 you may well think that letters calling for money, 
 are not very comfortable. Nevertheless Il'e as- 
 sure you, I was very glad to see any thing from 
 you, tho' Mrs. Astons name puts me into a fever. 
 But to be short, I have given order to stop her 
 mouth for the time past, and do authorise you 
 for the time to come to pay her all my rent, but 
 «s£.40 a year, during her ungodly pretence, tak- 
 ing the most legal acquittances for every penny 
 so paid, and let those acquittances be sent me 
 with the rest of my rent. Pray favor me with a 
 word, how you pay our quit-rent, and what ac- 
 quittances you have for the same. I have been 
 so plagued with multiplied demands of this kind, 
 that I'm afraid of every shadow. As for public 
 matters, I know only the street news, which is 
 unsafe ground to give conjecture upon. I would 
 gladly give the remaining ^gAO per annum to be 
 rid of the fears I am in, altho' I see no impossi- 
 bility of putting a hook into the great Leviathan. 
 Tell me your opinion, whether you do not believe 
 he doth animate both parties in Scotland, or that 
 he cannot (if need be) make the Scots of Ireland, 
 
 maps are still esteemed most accurate. In 1660 he was made 
 one of the Commissioners of the Court of Claims, and in the fol- 
 lowing year received the honour of Knighthood from Charles II. 
 In 1667 he married the daughter of Sir Hardress Waller, of 
 Castletown, in the County of Limerick, by whom he had three 
 sons and one daughter. From this marriage is descended the 
 present Marquis of Lansdown, who now possesses the great 
 Estate in Ireland, acquired by this his ancestor. Sir William 
 sat in the Irish Parliament for the Borough of Enniscorthy. 
 
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 and the unrestored Irish, to frighten the rest. We 
 must leave all to God. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 Your most humble servant, 
 Dublin, Wm. Petty. 
 
 February 5, 167-J-. 
 
 LETTER CXIII. 
 
 From Sir John Davys to Sir George Rawdon. 
 Sir, 
 
 I am commanded by my Lord Lieutenant and 
 Council to send you the inclosed examination * 
 of John Fitzgerald, and to desire you as speedily 
 and secretly as may be, to have Bodkin's house 
 at Belfast, mentioned therein, searched, and such 
 papers of Fitzgerald's as you shall find, and to 
 be of any consideration, seized and secured ; and 
 if the contents of those papers, or any other thing 
 you find, shall happen to lead you to any suspicion 
 of Bodkin, that in that case you cause him also 
 to be seized and secured ; and however things 
 appear, that you do interrogate him to such parti- 
 culars in reference to Fitzgerald, as upon reading 
 his examination you shall think proper to ask of 
 him, and of your proceeding herein, that you will 
 
 * Upon the first news of Tongue and Oates's plot, measures 
 were taken in Ireland by the Duke of Onnond to defeat it. 
 
262 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 be pleased, with all convenient speed, to return 
 
 me upon account to be presented to the Board. 
 
 I am, Sir, your humble servant, 
 Council Chamber, John Davys. , 
 
 19th of November, I67S. 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 
 These — c< To the Right Hon. Sir George Raw- 
 don, one of his Majestie's most Hon. Privie 
 Councel of Ireland, at Lisburne." 
 
 John Davys. 
 
 LETTER CXIV. 
 
 From the Duke of Ormond to Sir George 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have just now received yours of the 26, 
 with the inclosed intelligence from Mr. Dobbs ; 
 the report of the defeat * of the Rebels is the 
 more probable, for the suspicions coming over of 
 these men mentioned by him, of which Kelso is 
 one that (if he will) can give as good an account 
 of affairs in Scotland as any man, as also of any 
 correspondence betwixt those rebels, and their 
 brethren here ; and I take him to be the man sent 
 you by Mr. Dobbs to examine, but whoever he 
 is, I do not doubt, but you will examine him 
 
 * Insurrection of the Scots Covenanters in the West, sup- 
 pressed by Monmouth at Bothwell-bridge, June 1C7D. 
 
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 with dexterity, and keep him safe and close. I 
 fear the companies I ordered to march to Carick- 
 fergus, tho' they had their Lieutenants, are not 
 yet got thither, and I do not think Congreve* 
 should spare any men out of his company. I have 
 therefore ordered my Lord Mount- Alexander to 
 send a part of his troop to the Larne and Creeks 
 next him, and the like orders I send to my Lord 
 Conway and your troop, who will be best dis- 
 posed of by your direction, to which I leave them. 
 I find two of the persons have made their escape, 
 wherein I think they were befriended by some of 
 the inhabitants of the places they were staid at : 
 those persons that contributed to their escape 
 were well worth the finding out, and I desire you 
 would take pains in it. Upon the first notice I 
 had of the rebellion in Scotland, I ordered the 
 Frigate at Kinsale to sail to this port, in order to 
 the sending her to lie in those seas, but she is not 
 yet arrived ; as soon as she comes, she shall be sent 
 thither. He that past for Kelso's servant, and 
 got away with the best horse, may be a better 
 man than the master, and therefore all possible 
 enquiry should be made after him. It will be- 
 hove Campbell at Donoghadee to be vigilant and 
 active in this common chase, to wipe off some 
 suspicions that are insinuated of his indulgence to 
 some of that party. It is likely he is able to do as 
 much as any man, and if he do not, it will not be 
 
 * Probably the father of Congreve the poet. 
 
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 imputed to want of skill : if you think fit you may 
 let him know as much. 
 
 Your very affectionate servant, 
 Dublin, 26 June, 1679. Ormonde. 
 
 LETTER CXV. 
 
 From the Lord Lieutenant to the Chief Magis- 
 trate of the town of Lisburne. — Official. 
 
 After our hearty commendations, it being 
 necessary that the private soldiers of the army 
 should have credit in their quarters in the inter- 
 vals of receiving their pay, we hereby recommend 
 it unto you to take order, that the soldiers quar- 
 tered there be trusted by the inhabitants so far as 
 their chief officers shall allow, and give their own 
 tickets for; beyond which, if they give credit, 
 they are not to expect to be relieved, and in case 
 of non-payment as assignments shall issue. You 
 may return duplicates attested of such tickets to 
 our Secretary for affairs relating to the army, and 
 care shall be taken to discharge them, we having 
 directed the several officers of the army to give 
 public notice in their quarters of the allowance 
 their men are to have, and they will be duly paid 
 as many as shall come in ; beyond which allow- 
 ance the soldiers are not to have credit. And 
 so we bid you farewell. From his Majesty's 
 Castle of Dublin, the 25th day of October, 1671). 
 Your loving friend, Ormonde. 
 
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 LETTER CXVI. 
 
 From Lord Conway to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Brother, 
 
 I am now seated at Windsor for this season 
 in very good lodgings, sufficient to have accom- 
 modated my wife if she were here, but she in- 
 tends to lie in at Ragley*. I was the longer in writ- 
 ing to you since the dissolution of the Parliament 
 at Oxford, because I know on such occasions you 
 are apt to judge our affairs very desperate, and I 
 did desire you might look, see, and hear the con- 
 trary from others. I think the King's affairs w T ere 
 not in a better posture these many years, the vio- 
 lent prosecution of ill men having generally 
 opened the eyes of people to see that their designs 
 were wicked, and that they endeavoured without 
 cause to make the King and his Government odious; 
 but I am confident in our next Parliament you 
 will see men of those principles laid aside. Your 
 last to me of the 20th past, mentions your ex- 
 pecting my Lord Digby in Ireland. I assure you 
 
 * Edward, Earl of Conway, had two wives ; the first was Anne 
 Finch, daughter of Sir Henenge Finch, and sister of the first 
 Earl of Nottingham ; by her he had one son, Heneage Conway, 
 who died an infant. The second was Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Henry Booth, Earl of Warrington, who died in the lying-in al- 
 luded to in this Letter. Her Lord followed her in 1683. 
 
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 he is gone to France. I hope your daughter Brill* 
 will be very safe, and I am sure she will be in 
 good hands, when she is with my wife, though 
 she will have frequent occasion to appear in court. 
 I do intend to write to my Lord Lieutenant about 
 the condition of Charlemount, and about Captain 
 Wilkinson. I doubt not but his Grace will take 
 care of both. If you please to send me over such 
 a letter as you desire for Moyra, I will get it past 
 and return it to you. I wonder my Lady Done- 
 gal would complain of my unneighborly neglect 
 to wait upon her, since that my wife was in Lon- 
 don half a year, and lodged not far from her, and 
 she never made her one visit. I assure you I spake 
 to my wife of it, and there was nothing she more 
 desired than to wait upon my Lady Donegal with 
 decency ; but till that be, if she were here seaven 
 years, I shall not trouble her. If there be a coal- 
 mine, it may be of great consequence to us, and 
 you'll do well to secure an entire interest in it 
 before you proceed any farther ; if any thing be 
 to be done here, you need not doubt a speedy 
 dispatch. Pray let me know when you go to 
 Dublin, for I shall write to you of many things 
 then, which I do not mention now. This is the 
 reason I do not write to my Lord Granard, for 
 how can a man that lives in the County of Long- 
 ford do any other business but his own private 
 
 * Brilliana Rawdon, second daughter of Sir George, called 
 after her aunt Brilliana Conway, who married a Mr. Harlcy, and 
 defended the Castle of Brampton. 
 
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 affairs. I wish you could persuade him to make a 
 journey hither this Summer; I believe his Lord- 
 ship would not think it lost labor. My Lord 
 Chancellor of England was yesterday made Earl 
 of Nottingham *. I send you here inclosed a let- 
 ter from my wife, and another from Mr. Wilson, 
 which I received last post. Let your letters be 
 directed to me at my office in Whitehall, and they 
 will find a speedy conveyance unto 
 
 Your entirely affectionate brother, 
 Windsor, Conway. 
 7 May, 1681. 
 
 LETTER CXVII. 
 
 From Lord Viscount Massareene to Sir George 
 Rawdon. 
 
 For yourself. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 This morning I received your's by Connely, 
 who swore the examination before me also, and I 
 sign it, and send you it back. It is great con- 
 tempt, but I fear we shall meet with much greater 
 by Lord Antrim, and others that go his way ; and 
 the King's service will certainly be neglected in 
 this county by those proprietors in the Lower Ba- 
 ronies, and others as well as Mr. O'Hara ; and it 
 was well I writ that letter in which you joined re- 
 
 * His brother-in-law, Sir Heneage Finch. 
 
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 lating to my Lord Antrim, because I heard lately 
 my Lord had complained to Dublin, and gives 
 out that the commissioners of array here do not 
 execute the commission aright, and some brag 
 that there will be a new commission, and a new 
 model of a Militia in this County. So that it 
 proved well that I drew that letter which let my 
 Lord Lieutenant and the Council see, how that 
 we did literally pursue their own orders, and 
 issued ours by the copy the Board sent us. I 
 really think this is the most dangerous County in 
 Ireland for opposing the King's Commission ; and 
 we have been too long silent, whilst those (who 
 conclude they can command this County) do daily 
 confront the King's Commission. I pray make 
 another draught of a letter, taking notice of our 
 last, and what else has occurred since. Do it short 
 and close as the last was, else it will be neither 
 read nor minded. 
 
 I am, 
 
 your affectionate servant, 
 Antrim, Massareene. 
 June 1, 1681. 
 
 I dispatcht last night one Brian O'Neil and 
 Rowland M'Donnel to go to you this morning, 
 and writ by them. They said little or nothing to 
 me, but came without a warrant at Mr. Bleek's 
 desire. I signed no warrant, nor put your hand 
 to any; so that if any come to you it is without 
 my sending. I desired that Neal O'Quin, the 
 old Friar, might come, because Mr. Bleeks as- 
 
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 sured me he knows all the whole plot and design, 
 and was an opposite to Plunket, and of the same 
 faction with Weyer, and so far as J see, Rowland 
 M'Donnel, Brian O'Neil, and others, have had 
 differences with Florence Weyer, who has them 
 and others (they say) at malice, who he accuses, 
 and these two are well known to Sir Hanse Ha- 
 milton, or Sir George Atcheson, to whom you 
 may please to mention them. My opinion is, that 
 if Neal O'Quin cannot come to us for his age, that 
 Sir Hans Hamilton should examine him, for he 
 certainly knows a great deal, and you see none of 
 the other Friars that we have sent to take can be 
 gotten, and those that come at us either cannot, 
 or will not confess the least ; and for my part I 
 really believe the popish plot goes still on with the 
 Romish Clergy, who, you see, are still amongst 
 us, yet will neither be taken nor appear. 
 
 Your servant, 
 
 M. 
 
 The above letter bears only the signature of my 
 Lord Massareene ; the following Postscript is all 
 in his Lordship's own hand : 
 
 " You will see strange opposition all along to 
 us in this, and every thing else, that w r e promote. 
 And I am for seeing who will, and who will not 
 join with my Lord Antrim ; this is plain English, 
 and after our civil letters to them, there is no 
 trifling." 
 
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 LETTER CXVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same, and others, &c. 
 
 My much honoured Friends, 
 
 This morning before I am drest there came 
 hither Mr. Brice Dunlop and others, very under- 
 derstanding and able gentlemen of the Barony of 
 Cary, who tell me that they have done all, and so 
 has the High Constable of that Barony, that men 
 could do, to give obedience to our warrants, con- 
 sidering how the warrants were kept up, and how 
 the rents of that Barony are sequestred by my 
 Lord Chancellor, as they inform me ; so that the 
 moiety of the charge upon landlords' rents cannot 
 be charged at present to assist in the distribution 
 of the fourty-eight horsemen, to be mounted and 
 armed as our order directs, which is a very con- 
 siderable present answer. Nevertheless they have 
 their whole number, or near it, of such men 
 named in a list as are Protestants, and will take 
 the oath according to the qualifications prescribed, 
 and they have for the present (considering how 
 the warrants were kept up, and how the rents are 
 sequestred, and how remote they live), given, the 
 best obedience of any that I yet see in the five 
 lower Baronies. I therefore, for the encourage- 
 ment of others, and for divers reasons as the mat- 
 ter now stands before my Lord Lieutenant and 
 Council, and before us the Commissioners of Ar- 
 
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 ray r do desire and advise that all manner of civil 
 treatment be given to Mr. Delop, Mr. Brian (who 
 is brother to Mr. Osburn), as also to the High 
 Constable, and all others that shall wait upon you 
 at Lisburn, and come along with the horsemen 
 to manifest their obedience. And I would by no 
 means have any man in any of the Baronies at 
 the first time of their appearance either to be 
 threatned to be sent to the goal, or to be fined ; 
 but by all manner most civilly entertained, be- 
 cause by my discourse with the High Constable, 
 and Mr. Delop and others, by us named in our 
 warrant for this service, they have not seemed in 
 that Barony to be guilty of the least contempt, 
 considering the reasons aforesaid, and the other 
 circumstances they are under, which are too nu- 
 merous for a letter. I find also that the Sheriffs' 
 Bailiffs have of late attacked the High Constables 
 both of Kilconway and Cary, whilst they were 
 warning men, and subdividing the Baronies, and 
 doing all they could in this service, which was not 
 well done, so that upon their engagements to ap- 
 pear before you at Lisburn this day, and give 
 obedience, I have told the Sub-sheriff that it's fit 
 to release them, and desire that these High Con- 
 stables, and such others as are no way in fault, be 
 carefully distinguished from those that are, which 
 in a little time we shall discover. In the Barony 
 of Kilconway and Dunluce, where my estate is, 
 and men were named by me, the High Constable 
 tells me those men I named met, and will give 
 
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 obedience ; but others named, absented them- 
 selves from the meeting, and either were not or 
 would not be at home, and if you will please to 
 discourse witli Mr. Dunlop, he will inform you 
 what is like to be done in the Barony of Dunluce 
 also ; and I make no doubt but we shall find more 
 respect and obedience from the inhabitants in the 
 country than some desired and endeavoured. 
 These and others would fain have been by me 
 prevented from travelling so far as from the Ba- 
 rony of Carey to Lisburne. I told them the Cap- 
 tain would, I am confident, have commanded 
 them hither, having known in due time, but now 
 I was strict in having present obedience given, 
 which was the best w T ay to take of any seeming 
 and past neglect. I have to the utmost set my- 
 self to advance his Majesty's service in raising of 
 militia in this county, where I am every day now 
 sensible it is as requisite as in any county, and 
 with your assistance and advice I hope we shall 
 remove the delays and obstructions w e have met 
 with, of which I make the less doubt, since my 
 Lord Lieutenant and Council have by their letter 
 the last post, assured us when the whole matter is 
 before them they will please to take care to re- 
 move obstructions, and there is a great deal now 
 depends as well upon that we shall do, as that we 
 shall represent to his Grace. I am your affec- 
 tionate and very humble servant, 
 
 Antrim, MassaPvEENe. 
 June 9, 1681, 8 o'clock. 
 
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 Thus superscribed : — 
 For my much honored friends Sir George Raw- 
 don, Bart, of his Majesty's most Honorable 
 Privy Council, and the other Commissioners of 
 Array that meet at Carrickfergus, Belfast, and 
 Lisburne. 
 
 The signature only of the above Letter is in 
 Lord Massareene's hand-writing. 
 
 LETTER CXIX. 
 
 From the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of 
 Ireland, to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I received yours of the 14 instant when I 
 was in Ormond a good way hence, and could not 
 sooner make any return to it, being got hither 
 but late last night. The informations you give 
 of the state of the Militia in the two counties of 
 Antrim and Down are very material ; your obser- 
 vations pertinent, and your propositions very con- 
 siderable ; but having hitherto done nothing as to 
 the regulation of the Militia, but by the advice of 
 his Majesty's Privy Council, and in conjunction 
 with them, I shall stay till I may have sufficient 
 number of them together, and then full directions 
 shall be sent in order to the having the Militia 
 brought to what it should be in all respects. In 
 the mean time I desire you to continue your care 
 
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 and watchfulness for the quiet of your part of the 
 kingdom, and what further information you shall 
 think proper for 
 
 Your most affectionate 
 
 and very humble servant, 
 Kilkenny, Ormonde. 
 Q<2 September, 1681. 
 
 LETTER CXX. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 Official, and only signed by the Duke of Ormond. 
 Sir, 
 
 The inclosed is extracted out of a Letter 
 from Mr. Magennis, who was accused about the 
 plot, and I think is either acquitted, or under 
 bonds for appearance. I thought it appeared he 
 was maliciously accused by one, whose son he had 
 been a meanes to get convicted and executed for 
 robbery; but I do not perfectly remember the 
 case, or know how it stands with him ; however, I 
 shall desire you to take upon oath the informa- 
 tions that shall be brought you, and send them to 
 my Lord Primate, which I chuse rather than have 
 them sent to myself, because I find I am con- 
 cerned in the discovery. I know not the name 
 or quality of any of those that are said to be in- 
 formers ; but I desire you to make enquiries after 
 
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 their qualities, way of living, and reputation in 
 their neighbourhood. 
 
 I remain, your's, &c. 
 Kilkenny, Ormonde. 
 October 1, 1681. 
 
 LETTER CXXI. 
 
 From Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, 
 Primate, and Lord High Chancellor, probably 
 to Sir George Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 I have received the favor of yours of the 
 19th instant, with some examinations inclosed 
 therein, which I have delivered into the Clerk of 
 the Council (Mr. Barry), to be further considered 
 at my Lord Lieutenant's return hither, which we 
 expect this next week. I doubt there hath always 
 been wicked men in the world, but I thank God 
 that I never knew a time of such professed open- 
 faced roguery as this present age. I pray God 
 deliver these kingdoms from those judgments 
 which they justly deserve. 
 
 I am, Sir, your very affectionate 
 
 and very humble servant, 
 
 Mich. Armach, C. 
 
 October 22, 1681. 
 
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 LETTER CXXII. 
 
 From Mr. Francis Gwyn * to my Lord Conway. 
 
 My most honored Lord, 
 
 I writ to your Lordship by the post on 
 Thursday last, and gave your Lordship an ac- 
 count of some discourse the Duke was pleased to 
 have with me, and after with the common news 
 of the town, that the Duke of Monmouth was 
 making some new overtures to come into the 
 Court, which I perceive hath a better ground 
 than I believed at that time ; for there is cer- 
 tainly something in agitation about that matter, 
 and my Lord Marquis of Hallyfax is concerned in 
 it. The Dutchess of Portsmouth disclaims it, 
 and it is pretended that my Lord Marquis will 
 solely and singly of himself bring it about. The 
 Duke doth not appear so much concerned for it, 
 as it was thought he would be, though I am told 
 he is more concerned than he appears to be ; in 
 the mean time the whole party of the whigs that 
 have relation to the court are here, and Mrs. 
 Crofts at the head of them. It is said by some, 
 the Duke of Monmouth will be at Winchester, 
 but I hardly believe it. His Majesty goes thither 
 on Thursday morning next, being the last of this 
 month, and returns on Saturday, after having 
 
 * He was appointed in 1679 one of the Clerks of the Council, 
 in the room of Sir R, Southwel resigned. 
 
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 dined with the Bishop of Winchester * at Farn- 
 ham. The news came last night from Tunbridge 
 that my Lord Lauderdale was at the last gasp -f-, 
 and it was thought he would not live till morning; 
 if his Grace dies, a blue garter will fall very op- 
 portunely for my Lord Marquis. The news out 
 of Scotland brings a very ill account of the pos- 
 ture of the affairs of the Lord Hatton, brother to 
 the Duke of Lauderdale ; for he being Treasurer 
 Deputy (as they call it there), and being ques- 
 tioned for some misdemeanors in the execution of 
 his trust, doth appear criminal in a very great de- 
 gree. One part proved against him is, that having 
 orders to coin to the value of ^.6,000 sterling, he 
 coined above ^.^6,000, and that less than the 
 standard ^, and ruined several officers of the Mint 
 that opposed it, which is treason by their law. 
 He is, besides that, brought 50,000 thousand § 
 pounds in debt to the King, so that his country- 
 men here give him over for a lost man to all in- 
 tents and purposes. The King, Duke, and 
 Dutchess of Portsmouth, supped on Thursday 
 
 * George Morley. * 
 
 f Granger says he died August 24, 1682 and this letter is 
 dated Aug. 26, on which day it was not known at Windsor that 
 he was dead, if he did die on the 24th. 
 
 % The currency of foreign money was fixed beneath its in- 
 trinsic value, that it might be brought to the Mint, where Lord 
 Hatton presided. The silver coinage, issued in return, was adul- 
 terated, and reduced in weight, and the country was filled with a 
 species of light and spurious money. — Laing's History of Scotland, 
 
 § Sic Orig. 
 
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 night at Mr. Savill's, but they parted at eleven 
 o'clock, there being no drinking at all. The 
 Queen goes to London the same day the King 
 begins his journey to Winchester, and it is said 
 the King upon his return will leave this place. 
 My Lord Hyde, Lord Hallyfax, and Mr. Secre- 
 tary, will be here this night. The Duke of York 
 is gone a hunting this day. Mr. Bancks came to 
 me yesterday to tell me that he doubted your 
 Lordship's bay horse will not be fit for the Duke, 
 he doubts the blemish upon his eye, and sayth 
 his limbs are battred. I told him it was impos- 
 sible, being a young unfailed horse, but he per- 
 sists that he finds him go stiff after a very little 
 riding. George Legg will be here either to-night, 
 or to-morrow, I will then talk with him about it, 
 and give your Lordship a further account. I re- 
 ceived these inclosed letters by the post this 
 morning, and am, with the greatest respect and 
 duty, my most honored Lord, 
 
 Your Lordship's most obedient 
 
 and most entirely devoted servant, 
 
 Windsor, Francis Gwyn. 
 
 August 26, 1682. 
 
 Pray make my most humble service acceptable 
 to my Lady and Mr. Basset. 
 
 I hear your Lordship is like to have Sir James 
 Shane * at Ragley before you leave Warwickshire. 
 
 * Sir James Shaen was one of the farmers of revenue of Ire- 
 land in the year 1676, and afterwards sat in the Irish Parliament 
 for the borough of Baltinglass. 
 
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 My Lord Lauderdale is dead, and my Lord Mid- 
 dleton came to me this day for a warrant to suc- 
 ceed in extraordinary to the Bed-chamber. He 
 hath left Ham, and ^.600 per annum about it, and 
 ^.3000 per an. in Scotland, with all his personal 
 estate, to the Dutchess, and ^.2000 per an. 
 charged with ^.17,000 debt to my Lord Hatton. 
 
 LETTER CXXIII. 
 
 From the Earl of Breadalbane to the Duke of 
 Albemarle. 
 
 May it please your Grace, 
 
 It rejoiceth my heart that England is so 
 quiet, although we are in this kingdom drawn to 
 the fields. The Marquis of Athol and I having 
 been commanded to those parts, where Argyle's * 
 interest was entirely at his devotion. He at his 
 landing persuaded some of the gentlemen, and 
 about 2000 of the Commons, to follow his fortune, 
 who shelter themselves from us by the situation of 
 this country, having lakes that run 20, some 40 
 
 * The Earl of Argyle was taken prisoner fourteen days after 
 the date of this letter, and on the 20th of June was led in 
 triumph into Edinburgh, and on the 30th executed. — See a most 
 interesting account of his last moments in the History of 
 James II. by the late Mr. Fox, whose candid simplicity, good 
 sense, and integrity, are conspicuous in the small portion of 
 history he has left us. 
 
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 miles within lands, where with his ships and boats 
 he lands his men, while he is master of the sea. 
 We admire of the tediousness of the King's men 
 of war, that as yet they are not come into these 
 seas, which would beat Argyle, or chase him out 
 of these parts, for we trust he will not be able to 
 make head against the forces we have with us. I 
 ran to the fields so soon as I came from England, 
 and will continue untill this Rebellion be sup- 
 prest, therefore I shall lose some time from wait- 
 ing on your Grace, whom I shall soon see. I am 
 to beg your Grace's instructions for the House of 
 Peers to Sir Arthur Rawdon * on his plea with 
 
 * Sir George Rawdon, the father of Sir Arthur, married Do- 
 rothy, eldest daughter of Edward Viscount Conway, to whom 
 she brought a considerable fortune, which was paid him by her 
 brother Edward, Earl of Conway. This Lady Rawdon was a 
 person of great modesty, prudence, and piety j highly esteemed 
 of all that knew her, very charitable to the poor, and a tender 
 mother of her children, whose education she took great care of. 
 Her brother dying without issue, by his last will adopted Popham 
 Seymour, to whom he bequeathed all his estates in England and 
 Ireland, and to his heirs male for ever. Sir Arthur Rawdon, 
 her son, being the nearest of kin, as Lord Breadalbane says, 
 his plea had so much favour and justice in it, that it required a 
 Bill in Chancery to establish the Earl's will, which was filed 
 shortly after the date of this Letter. However, Sir Arthur, in 
 right of his mother, had a claim to the English Barony of Con- 
 way, to which her father was advanced in 1628 (4 Car. I.) by 
 writ of summons of Parliament, and directed hceredibus sais. 
 Lord Conway's will is dated August 9, 1683, and his death fol- 
 lowed in four days after, August 13. By which will, made under 
 the most suspicious circumstances, was Sir Arthur Rawdon de- 
 prived of the Conway estate, to which he had almost an here- 
 
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 Mr. Seymour ; it's thought his case pleads much 
 favor and justice, being the nearest of kin, where- 
 on your Grace will very much oblige, may it 
 please your Grace, 
 
 Your Grace's most faithful 
 
 and most obedient servant, 
 
 Bread alb ane. 
 Camp near Kin tyre, June 4, 1685. 
 
 LETTER CXXIV. 
 
 To Sir Arthur Rawdon, Treasury Office, 
 Dublin. Writer unknown. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 We hear from Holland that the Directors of 
 the several Admiralties are daily in conference 
 with the States about the setting out of a potent 
 fleet. They writ from Basil in Switzerland that 
 their Militia is kept in a continual exercise of 
 their arms, and that their general officers go from 
 quarter to quarter to see that all be in a readiness. 
 The rumour spread that the grand Signor was 
 sending . a blanck paper to the Emperor to con- 
 
 ditary right, and to the expectation of which he had been (from 
 all accounts derived from the family) educated. In a letter of 
 Sir Thomas Newcomen's, in this collection, he says, Sir Arthur 
 was notoriously wronged out of it. — The ancient arms of Conway, 
 namely, those of Crevecoeur, Camville, and Burdet, were never 
 granted to the Seymours, and are now borne solely by the pre- 
 sent Earl of Moira (now Marquis of Hastings), as representative 
 of the family of the ancient line of Conway. 
 
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 elude a peace upon any terms he should offer, is 
 not confirmed ; on the contrary, they writ from 
 Venice that by some ships come from Constan- 
 tinople, they hear that the Sultan has sent order 
 into all the provinces of his empire to assemble as 
 many forces and ammunitions of all sorts, as pos- 
 sibly they can, that he might march at the head 
 of a potent army against the Christians, not 
 doubting but to recover what his brother has lost. 
 The French and Italians are yet but in a paper 
 war, not sparing one another in their writings ; 
 but they stand stiff on both sides : and if that con- 
 tinues, we may expect great matters in France, 
 where all seems inclining to the throwing off of 
 the Pope's authority, and new modelling that 
 religion. The Lord Lovelace being, as said, 
 charged here, that on a certain day walking in 
 the fields in his county, he met a constable that 
 was going to serve a warrant thereabout, he bid 
 him take care what he did, for the Justices that 
 had granted it, were Roman Catholics, and hav- 
 ing not taken the oaths and the test, as he sup- 
 posed, they could not act as such, and he might 
 come into trouble by it, or words to the like pur- 
 pose. His Lordship was sent for, I hear, and ap- 
 peared yesterday before his Majesty in Council, 
 where excusing the owning the words, he was dis- 
 missed, but some say he'll be prosecuted at law 
 for it*. Information being come here that the 
 
 * The Lord Lovelace was afterwards taken as he was going 
 to join the Prince of Orange. 
 
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 Lord .... and the other gentlemen that 
 were lately before his Majesty in Council for 
 affronting Mr. Strode their High Sheriff returning 
 into Somersetshire, were met by a great number 
 of people applauding of them, especially at Wells, 
 where after ringing of bells, they made a bonfire 
 at night, drunk and dansed about it, abusing the 
 Sheriff strangely. Mr, Atterbury I hear is sent 
 thither to bring as many of the ringleaders as he 
 can in safe custody. Mr. Sheridan, I am told, is 
 ordered to go back into Ireland, and his business 
 is to be examined by the Commissioners there, 
 and their report to be sent hither, and then he 
 may expect to know his fortune. The Mayor and 
 two Aldermen of Newcastle are ordered to go 
 back thither, and bring up their Charter that the 
 things in it deficient for his Majesty's service, 
 may be amended in that which shall, I hear, be 
 given to them. The Sheriff has served the Dean 
 and Chapter of Westminster, I am told, with a 
 writ to shew by what authority they appoint the 
 Steward and Bailiff of Westminster, which is con- 
 ceived to belong to the King. There are several 
 changes made, and a making again in London 
 among the livery men, and some of those that 
 were put out at Michaelmas last, are put in again ; 
 the same is done in many corporations in this 
 kingdom, as I am told. 
 
 Saturday, February 2.5, 168-^. 
 
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 LETTER CXXV. 
 
 From Mr. John Savile to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 We waited a week at Graves-End for a wind, 
 but had a very good voyage, being but 3 days at 
 sea. We landed at Rotterdam on the Monday 
 morning ; every street' has a large canal, and trees 
 on each side, which, together with the draw r - 
 bridges, their fine buildings, clean streets, and 
 then being high tide, was a most pleasing sight, 
 far exceeding my expectation. From thence we 
 went to Delph, thence to the Hague, and on 
 Sunday saw the Princess * at dinner at Honslier 
 Dyke. She dines alone, is served upon the knee, 
 has her hand kissed, and the rest of the formali- 
 ties used in England. After she has dined, the 
 Prince goes to dinner with the great officers of 
 his army, and such others as he will admit. Af- 
 terwards we saw them at prayers according to the 
 English mode, and I must needs say they acted 
 their devotions extraordinary well. From thence 
 we went back to the Hague, thence to Ley den, 
 w here we saw the anatomy school, and had books 
 of all the rarities there. We went from thence 
 through Harlem-Mere to Amsterdam, where we 
 staid some time. We were at the Jews Syna- 
 gogues on their Saboath. There are two of them 
 near together; the better is a stately large build- 
 
 * Mary Princess of Orange, afterwards Queen of England. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 ing, very well adorned, and fully inhabited. By 
 the crowds that came thither you would think 
 there were more Jews than bore the name Chris- 
 tians. Many other persons and things we saw, 
 which for brevity cannot be here inserted. From 
 hence we went to Marden, accounted one of the 
 most regular fortifications ; it is not yet finished, 
 but very near it. The town is not worth viewing; 
 from hence to Utrecht, a town worth seeing. We 
 vcame to Arnhem in Guelderland, where I saw the 
 first bridge of boats, made for the passage of the 
 soldiers, but they get more than it's A cost by the 
 toll that all others pay for going over, a thing 
 very frequent in this country. Next day, which 
 was the 13th of August, the Duke of Branden- 
 burgh and the Prince of Orange, came to the 
 camp and took a view of it, and in the afternoon 
 dined together in a bower made of boughs, where 
 they had 16 pieces of ordinance, 3 of them very 
 large, the rest but small, drawn by 2 or 3 horses. 
 That night the Duke of Brandenburgh returned 
 to Cleves and came no more. The next morning 
 the whole army, which consisted of 2200 men, 
 exercised as in a battle, for 3 or 4 hours together ; 
 we were in the midst of them all the while. Then 
 after a small cessation, there was a volley quite 
 through the army. At that time we were with 
 Sir Harry Bellasis *, at the head of his regiment, 
 who entertained us very handsomely afterwards 
 
 * He came over with King William at the Revolution, and 
 was present at the battle of Aughrim. 
 
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 at his tent. The foot were drawn out in two 
 parallel lines of a large extent, and the horse ex- 
 ercised squadrons. The next morning we went 
 for Cleves. We saw the Duke of Brandenburgh 
 at dinner. The Dutchess sat alone at the upper 
 end of the table, the Duke first on the right side, 
 next to him the Duke of Holstein Gottorp, then 
 Prince Philip Brandenburgh's 3d son; but first 
 by this lady, and the person they endeavour to 
 succeed the Stadtholdership *. The names of the 
 rest on that side I could not learn. On the other 
 side sat the Duke's 2 younger daughters, the Ger- 
 man Embassador Van Trump, &c. They had 3 
 courses, 14 dishes at each course, very well or- 
 dered. The Duke of Brandenburgh is something 
 taller than I am, and fatter, has a good fellow's 
 countenance, wears a middling light wig, several 
 of his fingers may be discerned to have been 
 broken in the wars. The Dutchess is pretty tall, 
 looks old, and has a majestic gait. We saw also 
 a convent of Franciscans, but because we had not 
 the manners to salute the Virgin, and pulling an 
 apple off a tree in their garden, a thing looked 
 upon by them as sacrilege, they would not shew 
 us many of their fopperies, but fairly led us out 
 again from hence. We then went to Nimeguen. 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 20 August, 1686. J. Savile. 
 
 * Sic Orig. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 mi 
 
 The following Declaration, found among the 
 Rawdon Papers, is given to the Public as a mat- 
 ter of some present curiosity, and as a proof that 
 a serious discriminating consideration of religious 
 concerns was then, I think, held of greater mo- 
 ment to the salvation of souls than it is at this 
 enlightened period of modern philosophy and 
 fashionable principles. 
 
 CXXVI. 
 
 Mr. Francis Briver's Declaration, which he pub- 
 lished in the Cathedral Church of Waterford, 
 January 17? 1688, when and why he renounced 
 Popery, and embraced the Protestant religion. 
 
 Right Reverend Father in God, 
 
 As there ought to be nothing dearer to any 
 man than his own soul, nor any thing more heeded 
 by him on this side the grave, than its eternal sal- 
 vation ; so I bless God that he has for several 
 years past touched my heart with a sense of this, 
 as well as of the sins of my life, which put me 
 upon diligent and frequent inspecting the Articles 
 of the Christian Religion. 
 
 But the more I looked into the doctrine of tran- 
 substantiation, purgatory, invocation of saints, 
 indulgences, and worshipping of images, the more 
 scruples arose in my mind, and the rather because 
 
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 I could find no solid foundation for them in the 
 Scriptures, which I thought could best inform me 
 what I ought to believe for my salvation, tho' 
 those of my sect in that communion are not al- 
 lowed the use of them, nor yet in the three creeds 
 in which I found that all the confessed doctrines 
 of salvation were summed up. 
 
 I took several opportunities to discourse of 
 these points as well with those of the Clergy of 
 the Church of Rome, as with others, who I 
 thought knowing in the principles of that Church, 
 sincerely desiring to learn the truth for the salva- 
 tion of rny soul. But I found their defences of 
 these doctrines unsatisfactory, and my scruples 
 against them to gather strength upon me. I then 
 applied myself to discourse of them with some of 
 the Clergy of the Protestant Church, and to look 
 into some books of their writings, and thereupon 
 became confirmed in the disbelief of their doc- 
 trines. 
 
 These and such like thoughts and convictions 
 begat in me a sense of duty that I ought to join 
 myself with the Church of Christ, holding only 
 the true, antient, catholic faith, which I am now 
 convinced the Church of God, whereof your 
 Lordship is one of the spiritual fathers, does. But 
 then the censures and inconveniences as to worldly 
 respects, which I foresaw I should expose myself 
 to, retarded me ; and when I discoursed at any 
 time of any such the least inclinations, I met with 
 the fears and intreaties of many of. my relations 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 to stop, and the flouts and menaces of others to 
 deter me. 
 
 But I bless God who has borne me above all 
 these discouragements, and made the salvation of 
 my soul, the love of truth as it is in Jesus, and 
 the inward peace of my conscience (convincing 
 me of my errors and sins), dearer to me than all 
 other secular respects. 
 
 Wherefore I Francis Briver do in the presence 
 of God, and before men and angels, renounce 
 any further communion with the Churdi of Rome 
 in her erroneous doctrines and worship ; and do 
 pray to be received by your Lordship into the 
 communion of the Church of God in this king- 
 dom established by law ; and that I may receive 
 the present benediction and future prayers for my 
 further illumination for divine sanctiflcation, and 
 hereby assistance in my Christian course, and for 
 my future salvation, by affixing hereunto my hand 
 and seal the 17th of June, 1688. 
 
 Fran. Briver. 
 
 Then the Lord Bishop of Waterford, Dr. Gore, 
 spake as follows : — 
 
 Brethren, 
 
 You have this day a signal instance of the 
 force of heavenly truth, and of the power of con- 
 science illuminated by the Spirit of God, in this 
 voluntary, chearful, and pious access of this gen- 
 
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 R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 tleman to seek admission into our communion, 
 when no secular inducements can be thought to 
 have led him to it. 
 
 Let us welcome him, therefore, as the compas- 
 sionate father did the returning prodigal ; let us 
 embrace him with the arms of Christian affection, 
 give him the right hand of fellowship, and be 
 daily suitors at the throne of Grace for his further 
 illumination and confirmation in this faith. 
 
 And be you careful, Sir, as you have this day 
 made a good confession, so to stand in the faith, 
 and to adorn this holy profession with a holy con- 
 versation ; for God is not to be mocked, nor the 
 communion once thus solemnly entered into, to 
 be rejected and contemned. 
 
 And that you may do so, God the Father, Son, 
 and Holy Ghost, three Persons and one God, re- 
 ceive you into his favor, sanctify you with his 
 Spirit, strengthen you with his Grace, and at 
 length receive you into his Glory. — Amen. 
 
 LETTER CXXVII. 
 
 From Mr. Peter Smith to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 This day the packets have brought us in an 
 account of the Bishops, which the whole kingdom 
 have for this week past been so impatiently ex- 
 pecting ; for their trial was on the 29th of June, 
 and of 12 Protestants empanneled : the trial lasted 
 
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 from 9 in the morning till 6 at night, in which time 
 very brisk repartees passed between the counsel 
 on both sides ; and the dispensing power was very 
 boldly handled. At last the whole business turned 
 upon these two points, whether the things set 
 forth in the information was written by the 
 Bishops, and delivered by them to the King. 
 2dly. Whether they were scandalous and sedi- 
 tious. The Lord Chief Justice Wright and Mr. 
 Justice Allybone were of opinion that they were ; 
 but Justice Powel and Justice Holloway's * 
 thoughts were contrary. The Court being di- 
 vided, it was wholly left to the Jury, who from 
 7 at night till 8 the next morning, had neither 
 fire nor candle allowed them. This tediousness 
 of bringing in their verdict was occasioned by the 
 obstinacy of twof , who at last were wrought upon, 
 and about 10 of the clock on the 30th of June the 
 Jury brought them in not guilty, upon which 
 there was a shout set up for a quarter of an hour, 
 and the Jurors' names often repeated ; there was 
 strict order taken that no public joy should be 
 shewn for their deliverance. My Lord Sunder- 
 land has declared himself a Roman Catholic. My 
 Lord Deputy % goes on Monday, 'tis said, to the 
 
 * The Judges Powell and Hollo way opposed the dispensing 
 power with a spirit worthy of the cause in which they were con- 
 cerned. " They had the honour/' says Granger, " of being dis- 
 missed from their employments, the next day after those ve- 
 nerable confessors were acquitted." 
 
 f Macpherson says only one, Arnold, a brewer. 
 
 + Lord Tyrconnd. 
 
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HAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 camp. For foreign news your own letter will 
 sufficiently inform you, but I thought myself ob- 
 liged to give you an account of these important 
 affairs, because this letter may reach your hands 
 some time before that which goes by post. I am, 
 honored Sir, 
 
 Your most humble and obedient servant, 
 
 Dublin, Peter Smith. 
 
 July . . . 1688. 
 
 Be pleased to give my humble duty to my Lady 
 Rawdon and Madam Brilliana. 
 
 LETTER CXXVIII. 
 
 To Sir Arthur Rawdon. Writer unknown. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 As I was going on the road to Dublin I met 
 some of Sir Robert Colvil's attendants and others, 
 who informed me that 4 packets were now come, 
 which bring us the great news of the King's being 
 taken, and of his being now T at Whitehall. Ac- 
 counts are different about the manner of his being 
 taken, but 'tis certain that he was rifled of all he 
 had about him, but when they knew who he was, 
 they fell upon their knees and begged his pardon, 
 and returned him all back ; but he would not take 
 any of his money again, but scattered it away, 
 about nearly 80 broad pieces of gold. The Prince 
 sent 5 regiments of horse to attend his Majesty, 
 and his Majesty invited the Prince to St. James's, 
 
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 so that all things are in a fair way of being peace- 
 ably accommodated to our desires. The Bishop 
 of London # rid at a head of a troop into London 
 with this motto on their banner " Nolumus leges 
 Anglice mutari" The Lord Chancellor \ was N 
 taken in a seaman's habit, and upon his being 
 taken, immediately fell into a swoon, but was re- 
 covered again in order to be referred, as the 
 public news says, to a worse end. He is now in 
 the Tower ; and Father Peters, with several other 
 considerable Roman Catholics, were taken at 
 Hounslow Heath, and he is now, I suppose, in 
 Newgate. 'Tis also said that the Queen and 
 Prince of Wales are taken, but this wants con- 
 firmation J. The Papists, by the King's com- 
 mand, are disarmed, and they are banished 10 
 miles off London. The Spanish Embassador's 
 
 house was pulled down and riffled §, and P 
 
 was clapped up till he gave ^.6000 security. 
 Dear Sir, the reason of my sending you this by 
 express is, that you may know how the world 
 goes now, and perhaps alter some measures you 
 
 * Henry Compton, Bishop of London. 
 
 f Jefferies, who had disguised himself in order to fly the 
 kingdom, was discovered, and so abused, that he died in a little 
 time after. — Hume. 
 
 % They were not taken ; James sent them off before-hand, 
 under the conduct of Count Lauzun, an old favourite of the 
 French Monarch. — Hume. 
 
 § They even attacked and rifled the houses of the Florentine 
 Envoy and Spanish Ambassador, where many of the Catholics 
 had lodged their most valuable effects. — Hume. 
 
294 
 
 R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 are about to take ; however, I thought myself 
 obliged to give you the speediest account possible 
 of those great occurrences. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours. 
 December — 1688, at 2 in the afternoon. 
 
 Superscribed : — 
 These — To Sir Arthur Rawdon at Moira.— 3d. 
 
 LETTER CXXIX. 
 
 From an unknown Writer to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 The soldiers marched from Colerane on Sa- 
 turday morning, and went to Derry, but were not 
 admitted into the town. My Lord of Antrim * 
 with his Lady and children went the same day, 
 and came to the water side at Derry on Sunday, 
 and was not suffered to approach the town, but 
 came back the same night to Newtown Limna- 
 vady, and this day to Colerane, as also three com- 
 panies of foot, which were not suffered to stay in 
 the town. Multitudes of men both horse and foot 
 resort to Derry. The countries are all in a good 
 posture of defence. Sentinels were set over the 
 
 * Tyrconnel, sensible of his mistake in withdrawing his gar- 
 rison from Deny, and leaving it to the government of the towns- 
 men, detached the Earl of Antrim's regiment, consisting en- 
 tirely of Papists, &c. to take their quarters in it — but they were 
 not admitted. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 295 
 
 magazines in Deny, who were forced by a party 
 of the town, and he that commanded it was shot 
 in the shoulder. The town's people fired some 
 guns for good news on Sunday, and also fired 
 some pieces on the river, which made a great 
 many of the soldiers to run away, and some of the 
 officers that had pulled off their boots to mount 
 without them ; and one officer, being Ensign O.N. 
 as other officers say, having his landlord's shoes 
 on, the owner seized them, and the spark was 
 forced to run away in his hose feet, and left his 
 horses behind. The Lord Enniskillin is not heard 
 of, and, as the officers say, is kidnapt. Doctor 
 Shiel * is imprisoned (as Mr. Callaghan, Adjutant, 
 told this night) cum multis aliis, &c. By the 
 fright the chief commanders have lost some of their 
 boys, others their baggage. Mr. Philips was Em- 
 bassador for Lord Antrim, but returned not, him- 
 self being seized, December 14. The above ac- 
 count I had from Colerane last night by an ex- 
 press : I thought to have waited on you yesterday. 
 Colerane hath likewise refused to quarter them ; 
 there is 40 every night on the guard. It was told 
 that there is informations sent to the Government 
 against some in this country, but what they are, 
 or what they will inform, I know not. I will wait 
 on you as soon as I can ride ; if you have any 
 
 * There were now, says Story, great complaints against Mr. 
 Shales, and those flew so high that he was secured by an order 
 from England, and was sent with a guard to Belfast, and to 
 designed for London. — See Story, p. 50. 
 
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 thing of news, pray oblige your most faithful 
 humble servant with it. 
 
 Monday night, No Signature, 
 
 December 10, 1688. 
 
 LETTER CXXX. 
 
 From Sir Thomas Newcomen * to Lady Rawdon ~{~, 
 Wife to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 Since my last to you, Madam, I am glad to 
 know that tho' 'twas debated whether the gentle- 
 men I talked of should be proclaimed traytors or 
 no, 'tis resolved to defer any thing of that nature 
 till further provocation is given, therefore my 
 serious advice to Sir Arthur and the rest men- 
 tioned in my last, is that they do no act that may 
 rise up in judgment against them ; for I assure you 
 that the King is expected here in person. I have 
 inclosed you the King's declaration he left at his 
 going away, which I hope will open the eyes of 
 many in his kingdom. I dare pawn my life that 
 
 * Sir Thomas Newcomen, was the son of Sir Robert New- 
 comen of Moss Town in the county of Longford, whose sister 
 Catherine was married first to Sir William Stewart, and secondly, 
 to the first Earl of Granard, from which marriage was Arthur 
 the second Earl of Granard, who married Mary, the eldest 
 daughter of Sir George Rawdon of Moira. 
 
 t Helen, heiress of Sir James Graham, son of the Earl of 
 Menteith. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 297 
 
 no act of hostility shall be publickly or privately 
 committed by any of the Irish, and do advise all 
 Protestants (whose religion is dear to me) to be- 
 have themselves so as to give no offence to the 
 Government, till the King's pleasure is known ; 
 but if the Protestants in that country go about to 
 disarm Catholics, as Mr. Hawkins threatens, or 
 hinder the new levies, 'twill be the means to draw 
 down forces thither, foot, horse, and dragoons, 
 that may bring the rabble and their .... to an 
 account. Madam, I write this out of my well 
 wishes to your Ladyship, and your husband's 
 family, but I neither must, nor will own it, tho* 
 I mean not by it. There is a Scottish blab of a 
 fellow in your neighbourhood, one Holdman, who 
 gave out in his ale, that Sir Arthur gave commis- 
 sions, which is in effect accusing him of high trea- 
 son. I think Sir Arthur ought to have a care of 
 keeping company w T ith such foolish fellows. If 
 your husband was advised by me, he would do 
 as he did in Monmouth's rebellion, offer to raise 
 men to serve the King, and by that means entitle 
 himself to Mulgrave* and Seymour's estate in 
 Ireland, out of which he was so notoriously wrong- 
 ed. I pray God direct him for the best. I am 
 your Ladyship's unknown but most faithful 
 
 humble servant. 
 
 Dublin, January 17, 1688-9- 
 
 * See Appendix for an account of the connection of the Con- 
 ways with the Mulgraves and Seymours. 
 
298 
 
 RAW DON PAPERS. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 For my Lady Rawdon, at her house at Myragh, 
 near Lisburne. 
 
 The above Letter, tho' not written in Sir Tho- 
 mas Newcomen's hand, was dictated by him. 
 
 LETTER CXXXI. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 I am bound, Madam, to give your Ladyship 
 my hearty thanks for your last message received 
 by an express at the head of my men near Dro- 
 more ; and as for the 7000 rabble, they did not 
 come at me, and if they had, I would give them 
 as hearty a reception as I could : and in acquittal 
 of your Ladyship's kindness, I thought it my duty 
 to let you know how matters go here and in other 
 countries in relation to our King's affairs, tho' I 
 do not think it fit to write to you by my own 
 hand, nor own what I now write, lest I might 
 draw an old house upon my own head*. All the 
 
 * Henry Lord Clarendon says, " he never knew a man more 
 hated than this Sir Thomas Newcomen j and though reputed," 
 adds he, " a brave man in his person, he is false and treacherous 
 to the highest degree." As to his being a, zealous and firm Pro- 
 testant, I am inclined to think, from the tenor of these Letters, 
 he would have been a zealous and firm Papist, had James suc- 
 ceeded, and established his Religion. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 299 
 
 world know me to be a very zealous and firm Pro- 
 testant, which puts me upon giving you and your 
 husband a caveat of what imminent danger threa- 
 tens our religion at home and abroad. The States 
 of Holland have not only writ pressingly, but sent 
 two deputies into England to call home their fleet 
 and forces ; and in case of his non-compliance, 
 threaten to accept of the French King as their 
 protector to prevent the ruin that they may ex- 
 pect from that King being at the head of one 
 hundred thousand men in the bowels of their 
 country by the 20th of this month : and which 
 adds to our misfortunes. The Commons and 
 Peers of England are like to fall to pieces, of 
 which you will hear further at the intended con- 
 vention ; and tho' Sir William Temple and seve- 
 ral others of his country contribute as much as 
 any to the bringing in of the Prince of Orange, 
 his Highness thinks more of bending all the forces 
 of England and Holland by sea and land, against 
 the King of France, who, I am afraid, will prove 
 too cunning and powerful for us all ; for he has 
 already clapt up a peace with the Emperor, to 
 whose son his niece the Duke of Orleans's daugh- 
 ter is to be married. So that there are fifty thou- 
 sand French a shipping at Brest in France, and 
 the French King's fleet a making ready to trans- 
 port them either hither or into England ; and if it 
 be true that my Lord Dartmouth is gone to the 
 King with twenty-five men of war, to avoid being 
 insulted over by his irreconcileable competitor 
 
300 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 and enemy Admiral Herbert *, we are undone ; 
 and I must tell you further that it is agreed on 
 here in the Cabinet Council that your husband-}-, 
 Mr. Hawkins, Mr. M c Gill, my Lord Blany, and 
 others, be proclaimed traytors for having ga- 
 thered men, enlisted, officered, and exercised 
 them without the King's authority ; and let me 
 observe it to you that my Lord Deputy's not 
 sending forces to quiet the rabble there, is occa- 
 sioned by some designing head-pieces of the North 
 that are for giving the British there time to rebel, 
 that they might have the fairer hit at their estates, 
 and the Duke of Ormond that has offered to re- 
 duce this nation with five thousand men, has been 
 refused even that small number, and the Catholic 
 potentates in Europe have joined unanimously to 
 vindicate our King's quarrel, and countermine the 
 Protestant league. So that I am afraid we will 
 meet our overthrow where we thought to find our 
 safety, and therefore my serious advdce is that 
 your husband (for the memory of whose parents I 
 
 * Admiral Herbert's private quarrel with the Lord Dart- 
 mouth, who he thought had more of the King's confidence than 
 he himself had, was believed the root of all the sullenness he fell 
 under towards the King, and of all the firmness that grew out 
 of that. — Burnet, vol. I. p. 762. 
 
 f Sir Arthur Rawdon became so obnoxious to King James's 
 Government, that he was exempted from Royal mercy by Tyr- 
 connel's proclamation, dated March 7, 16S8-9 ; " in regard he 
 had been one of the principal actors of the rebellion (as it is 
 therein expressed), and one of those who advised and fomented 
 the same, and inveigled others to be involved therein." 
 
ItAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 801 
 
 retain all the respect imaginable) forbear rendez- 
 vouzing hereafter in imitation of his cunning 
 neighbour Sir Robert Colvil # , who obeyed my 
 Lord TyrconnePs summons in coming up to 
 town ; and let me tell you there are false brethren 
 in that country ; for instance, Mr. Waring of Clan- 
 connel, who writ up lately that he was afraid some 
 hot-headed young men of his religion and neigh- 
 bourhood, would ruin themselves and others. So 
 for God sake, look to it, and believe that what I 
 now write is meant for the good of Protestants, 
 and that religion in which I have lived, and mean 
 by God's grace to die. As you are a gentle- 
 woman, tho' you may guess at the author of this 
 Letter, keep it to yourself, but let Sir Arthur and 
 his friends make their own use of it. Pray God 
 direct them for the best^ which is heartily wished 
 for by, Madam, 
 
 Your Ladyship's most humble servant, &c. 
 Dublin, Jan. 1688-9. 
 
 * See Henry Lord Clarendon's Letters for some account of 
 this Sir Robert Colvil, vol. I. p. 71. 
 
302 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER CXXXII. 
 
 From Mr. Hugh M'Gill to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Honored Dear Sir, 
 
 I delivered yours to Mr. James Johnston, 
 who is this day gone down the river, and that to 
 the Marquis of Halifax, who promises much kind- 
 ness, and that he would press the matter hard to 
 my Lord Sidney, to whom I also gave your letter. 
 He has been in an ague, but hopes to be abroad 
 to morrow ; Mr. Johnston last night pressed him 
 hard ; he at last told him that both he and my 
 Lord Shrewsbury had spoken several times to the 
 King, who said little, but he believes it will do, 
 and that he will make it his first business when he 
 goes abroad, and says he will put it to an issue. 
 I delivered yours to my Lord Kingston, he has 
 spoke twice to his father-in-law, but there is yet 
 no money. I brought Woman's gun to Dolep, 
 and delivered yours to him ; he has writ to you 
 his account, when you send to him, I will see the 
 arms put up, but I think they are very dear. Cap- 
 tain Smith is not come to town ; I writ to him 
 last post ; I cannot find out Bedford. Besides 
 what you have in the Gazette, we have little 
 news ; Scravenmore is come to town ; he says 
 Schomberg is returned to Lisburn, and most of 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 303 
 
 the army to their former quarters. The Duke of 
 Berwick is gone to Dublin, and the army about 
 Cavan retired, except a good garrison left in the 
 town, which Wolseley designs shortly to attack ; 
 most of the Danes are now in Ireland, so our 
 country is safe. The Queen of Spain is now ('tis 
 supposed) in her own country. The French fleet 
 is not yet out, and now it will be dangerous for 
 them, for our fleet had orders to leave the Queen 
 in the Bay of Biscay, and to return to watch the 
 motions of the French ; and the Dutch have sent 
 out 30 men of war to join our fleet ; so 'tis hoped 
 the Irish will be disappointed of their supplies. 
 The Swallow frigate (not now under her old cap- 
 tain Cornwall) cruising towards Guernsey was at- 
 tacked by 2 French men of war, one of 60 and 
 the other of 36 guns, and defended herself bravely 
 for 12 hours. Two Dutch men of war hearing their 
 shot, made up to them with French colors. The 
 Captain of the Swallow resolved to blow himself 
 and the ship up, rather than be taken, and the 
 trains for that purpose were actually laid, and 
 ready to be put in execution, when of a sudden 
 the 2 Dutch ships pulled down the French, and 
 put up their own colours, and fired their broad- 
 sides at the French ships, upon which the Swallow 
 immediately boarded the French ship of 36 guns, 
 and took her, and brought her into port, the 
 Dutch lending them some men, and the c 2 Dutch 
 ships were in pursuit of the other French ship, 
 and 'tis hoped, have taken her. The city have 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 promised to advance the King three or ^.400,000 
 on the last act. My Lord Portland is expected 
 over next week with ^.800,000, four of which is 
 borrowed from the States. Four English and one 
 Scotch regiment (Sir David Collier's) are sent for 
 from Flanders, who are to stay here during the 
 King's absence. 'Tis believed the first thing the 
 Parliament will do, will be to give the King a mil- 
 lion, to be immediately raised (by credit) for his 
 journey. I long to hear of your safe arrival; pray 
 write soon, for I am impatient. Adieu ! 
 London, 13 March, 1689. 
 
 Direct to Mr. Lyons, next door to the Peacock, 
 King Street, St. James's. 
 
 Superscribed : — 
 To Sir Arthur Rawdon at Congerton in Cheshire, 
 
 by Stone-Bagg. — These. 
 
 LETTER CXXXIII. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I this day received from Mr. Harbord* 
 fourty-two pounds fourteen shillings for your half 
 
 * I found the Irish gentlemen had great jealousy of Sir John 
 Temple, and were very angry to find William Harboard was to 
 be vice-treasurer of Ireland, which he had the vanity to own to 
 some of them, and as a confirmation (in these gentlemen's opi- 
 nions), the Prince had committed all the affairs of Ireland to 
 his care. — Lord Clarendon's Diary, Jan. 2, 1689. 
 
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 pay, for the months of September, October, No- 
 vember, and December, to be disposed of as you 
 please ; but Captain Dunbar cannot get his till 
 the latter end of next week, for Mr. Harbord is 
 gone to the country about the elections. The 
 news I writ you last is confirmed, the Irish have 
 deserted Cavan ; Scravenmore * says he was in 
 the town. There went an order last Thursday to 
 Scotland to adjourn the Parliament there for some 
 short time. Sir James Caldwell's lady is dead for 
 certain, that family's ruined. 'Tis expected that 
 the first thing the Parliament will do, will be to 
 give the King credit for one million, to be imme- 
 diately raised for his expedition. My Lord Sidney 
 is now recovered, and promises fair. My Lord 
 Hallyfax is out of town, but will be here again on 
 Monday. I delivered yours to John Johnston. 
 I will send you some new papers by the first op- 
 portunity, which I believe will be Captain Dun- 
 bar. I never desired any thing with more im- 
 patience than to hear the joyful news of my lady's 
 safe arrival at Congerton, to whom pray present 
 my most faithful service, and you may assure 
 yourself that as none can lie under greater obliga- 
 tions, so none can be more faithfully and more 
 passionately yours, than 
 
 London, Your servant, 
 
 March 15, 1689. Hugh M'Gill. 
 
 Superscription as the former. 
 
 * One of King William's Major Generals. 
 
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 LETTER CXXXIV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 Some of the Deny and Enniskillen men have 
 got their money this day. 
 
 I received yours of the 19th, and am mightily 
 pleased with the news you give, that my Lady got 
 safe to her journey's end ; God preserve her in 
 what she has got yet to undertake ! I delivered 
 yours to Mr. Sloane, and have gotten the copy of 
 the Deed, and will send it to you by Captain 
 Obery, who says he will leave this town upon 
 Monday next, and I will also send you some to- 
 bacco by him. George Dunbar has not yet got 
 his pay, the great men are now so employed that 
 few small things are minded. My Lord Rane- 
 lagh's and Mr. Harbord's employments are both 
 to be managed by commissioners, and they them- 
 selves are joined with others in the commission. 
 The Parliament have been hitherto employed in 
 swearing the members, and settling committees. 
 The French fleet, with 8 (some say but 4) thou- 
 sand men, great store of arms, ammunition, &c. 
 sailed from Brest for Ireland the 1 1th (some say 
 the 9th) instant. Sir Cloudsley Shovell, with 7 
 men of war have been cruising on the N. E. coast of 
 Ireland. The Dover frigate (one of the squadron) 
 
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 out-sailing the rest in hazy weather, with the 
 French colours, and coming near the Bay of Dub- 
 lin, my Lord Glencarty's yaght* and one of the 
 Irish privateers (the first about 30, the other about 
 50 tons) espying her, and believing her to be of 
 France, made up to her as a friend, when of a 
 sudden (they being within shot) she set up the 
 English colors and took them both, and brought 
 them into Milford-haven, where now the rest of 
 the squadron are. Another Irish ship of force 
 hath been sounding all along the coast of Wales, 
 landed about 50 men in Anglesey, and carried 
 away 7 of Sir William Williams's tenants prisoners. 
 The inhabitants of the island have sent Sir Wil- 
 liam Williams a petition to the King, desiring that 
 some men may be sent to defend the country, or 
 at least that the country may be armed, they fear- 
 ing an invasion ; but the petition is not yet deli- 
 vered. I had a letter from White-haven last post, 
 intimating that orders are sent thither to prepare 
 ships there immediately for the transportation of 
 950 horse and 700 foot from thence to Ireland ; 
 'tis said that 8000 horse and foot (besides the 
 Danes) are to be shipt off before the 1st of April. 
 The Scotch paper having some material things in 
 it, I have sent it to you, and the King's speech to 
 the Parliament here. My Lord Hallifax spoke 
 yesterday in the House of Lords to my Lord Sid- 
 ney concerning you ; my Lord Sidney is now sick 
 
 * Thus the original, 
 x 2 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 in bed (but 'tis only of a cold), I will stay till he 
 has an opportunity of once more speaking to the 
 King, and if there be not better hopes, I will 
 hasten from hence, for my Lord Hallifax gives 
 but little encouragement of any thing to be done 
 on this side the water, and if matters go not bet- 
 ter, I will only urge that you may not be for- 
 gotten. I hope to hear next post from Captain 
 Smith ; it will be convenient to send up your 
 directions about your arms both at Dolep's, and 
 the Minories, as soon as you can, that I may see 
 them put up before I leave this. All your friends 
 remember you most kindly. My wife gives her 
 most humble service to my Lady. Adieu ! 
 London, 22 March, 1689. 
 
 Sloane expects to hear from you of the other 
 business you writ off about his advice. 
 
 [The superscription as the former Letter.] 
 
 LETTER CXXXV. 
 
 From Mr. Henry Smith to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 « 
 
 Since the dispersion of Lord Dundee's army, 
 one Inerea, who for more than 20 years hath lived 
 an outlaw, had a commission from King James to 
 be a Colonel, whereupon he got together about 
 600 men ; our regiment was commanded to join 
 with the country Militia to march against them. 
 We found them in a wood, and inarched as near 
 
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 to them as a bog would suffer us ; they drew 
 somewhat nearer us and fired, but at such a dis- 
 tance that we received no damage ; neither do 1 
 think we did them any. But our Scotch Militia 
 thought them near enough, for they all run away 
 as soon as the enemy began to fire. We staid 
 there till it was dark ; the next morning we re- 
 ceived intelligence that the enemy were all dis- 
 persed, and some of them gone to the Lord 
 Dundee, who again had got together a consider- 
 able number of High-Landers with 400 Irish who 
 lately landed in the West of Scotland, commanded 
 by Colonel Cannon, Colonel of Dragoons, last 
 Hounslow Camp. Whereupon we were com- 
 manded Southward to join with General Mackay, 
 who, before we could march up to him, had en- 
 gaged the Lord Dundee * ; Mackay's army were 
 about 3000 men, Dundee's were more. Some of 
 the regiments commanded by Major General 
 Mackay have got but very little honor in this 
 action ; Colonel Hastings' regiment of English 
 behaved themselves very bravely ; so did my Lord 
 Levon's regiment of foot; we had not many horse; 
 what we had new raised ran away at the first. We 
 lost about 1000 men-}-, most of them of Hastings' 
 regiment. Several officers were killed, among 
 
 * At Killikranky ; for a particular and interesting account of 
 this battle, see Dalrymple's Memoirs. 
 
 f Laing, in his History of Scotland, says, Lord Dundee's loss 
 amounted to 900 men, and that of Mackay, to ^000 killed and 
 wounded. 
 
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 which two honest gentlemen, Colonel Belford and 
 Captain Stanley. It is uncertain how many of 
 the enemy were killed, but it is said cannot be 
 less than ours. They have lost several gentle- 
 men, and their General the Lord Dundee, who 
 was shot under his armour into the belly, and be- 
 twixt the eye brows *. The next day a party of 
 our horse chanced to light on some of the enemy, 
 and killed about forty. Colonel Cannon now 
 commands the Rebels ; he designed to have pos- 
 sessed himself of this town, which Colonel Haw- 
 ley being advised of by the magistrates, prevented 
 by marching in before him. Cannon encamped 
 about 10 miles off, but upon advice that Major 
 General Mackay was marching out against them 
 with a considerable body of horse and foot, he is 
 fled back to the mountains. 
 
 Honored Sir, — We have just now received an 
 information that our loss is much less than I have 
 told you, and the enemy's more. When the cold 
 weather comes, which we expect here very soon, 
 we shall have nothing to do, and then I hope to 
 have leave to wait on you, a pleasure that I impa- 
 tiently long for. Dear Sir, I beg of you to think 
 
 * He was shot, says Dalrymple, in an opening of his armour 
 beneath his arm-pit, which was occasioned by the elevation of 
 his arm.— Laing, in his History of Scotland, says, he received a 
 shot in his side through an opening in his armour, and dropt 
 from horseback as he rode off the field. This battle was fought 
 the 17th of June, 1689.— The Monthly Mercury says he was 
 slain with a shot in his left eye. 
 
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 that I will always value your service more than 
 my life. We are now come into a tolerable sort 
 of country, but we have been in the worst part of 
 the world. Tom Stanley, a brother of Stephens, 
 was Captain in Hastings' regiment ; he was in 
 the last engagement and died bravely, so did Be- 
 verly Newcomen, son of Sir Thomas Newcomen. 
 Pray give my humble duty to my Lady Rawdon, 
 my service to Rancour, and dear Sir, believe me 
 to be 
 
 Your most faithful servant, 
 Dundee, Henry Smith. 
 
 August 7, 1689. 
 
 LETTER CXXXVI. 
 
 From David Campbell to Sir Arthur Rawdon, 
 at his Lodgings in the upper end of Suffolk- 
 street, London. — These. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 When I landed I sent for William Faires, 
 Philip Robinson, and ordered William Faires to 
 have a care to see what corn was at Ballyna- 
 hinch to be cut down *, thrashed out, and put up 
 in the kill for your use ; and withal got him an 
 order if he would hear of any of your tenants 
 goods to seize of them for rent due to you. There 
 
 * From this circumstance of cutting down the corn, the date 
 of this letter must have been in September, or perhaps October. 
 
312 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 is nothing left but White Stockings, and the black 
 mare you had from George Maxwell. Mr. Crooks 
 is at Moira, and is taking what care he can there. 
 We are here encamped and strongly intrenched ; 
 and the enemy is encamped betwixt this and Ar- 
 dee, within three miles of us. They seemed to 
 be fully resolved to fight ; they are accounted to 
 be 50 thousand strong, whereof 7000 and upwards 
 are horse. On Saturday last they came within 
 less than a mile, and we lookt at them all the 
 whole day almost, but no engagement, and so 
 they retired in the afternoon without any damage 
 more than 3 or more killed by some random shot. 
 Our men are very sickly * and die apace, we hav- 
 ing had very bad weather. We have hardly any 
 drink but water. I have paid 6d. a quart for ill 
 ale, and 5 shillings a quart for ill brandy. We 
 have no forage -}~, but what we have from Carling- 
 ford, and that is most done ; it is barley and 
 wheat ; and no lodging, but in the field both for 
 men and horse. We have had 2 hanged yester- 
 day out of Colonel Beaumonts regiment for de- 
 serting, and they say some of the French catched 
 up a 160 of them sent to England, being sus- 
 
 * " I see by your Majesty's Letter, you are informed we have a 
 greater number of sick in this army than we have," &c— Duke of 
 Schomberg, October 12, 16S9. 
 
 f r * As far as one can judge, the enemy endeavour to consume 
 and burn all the forage around them, and will continue to do the 
 same as far as Drogheda."-<-Duke of Schomberg to King William, 
 Oct. 12, 1689. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 pected. We daily expect an engagement, and if 
 we live after it, I may chance to hear of some of 
 your horses and mares which they say are at Mel- 
 lifont*. Pray give my most humble service to 
 your Lady, and Mr. Smith and Mrs. Ferguson, 
 and believe me that I am and will be for ever 
 Your most faithful and obedient servant, 
 
 D. Campbell. 
 Dundalke, the 24th, 1689, no month. 
 
 LETTER CXXXVII. 
 
 From Mr. Hugh M'Gill to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I received yours of the 22d. I sent the 
 copy of the Deed of Congleton this morning with 
 Captain Oberry, which cost (as you will see in- 
 dorsed) 1/. 2s. Sd. I sent you also by him 2 
 pound of tobacco, which was all he could carry. 
 I will send you some more by Captain Dunbar, to 
 whom I have given a large snap-knife for you. 
 The French fleet sailed from Brest the 7th in- 
 stant ; 'tis said they have on board 7300 private 
 soldiers, 90 colonels, 130 lieutenant colonels, 80 
 majors, l6o captains, 300 lieutenants and ensigns, 
 
 * Mellifont Abbey, in the county of Louth, about five miles 
 from Drogheda, the old residence of the Earls of Drogheda. 
 
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 near 500 French volunteers, and 700 English, 
 Scotch, and Irish, and 100 great and small guns, 
 with great stores of arms and ammunition ; they 
 have 36 men of war, and 14 fire-ships. — The 5 
 ships (mentioned in this print) taken from the 
 French by the Dutch, is certainly true ; Count 
 Solmes brought over an account of their loading, 
 which agrees to a tittle with this printed account; 
 but the other part about the magazine at Dunkirk 
 is not certain : it was reported in Holland, and 
 in the Harlem Gazette, but wants confirmation. 
 Count Solmes, young Count Schomberg, and my 
 Lord Portland, landed on Saturday. There is a 
 fine train of artillery and other munitions of war 
 come with them from Holland. My Lady 
 Mount-joy died here on Friday last. The letters 
 from Edinburgh of the 13th say (the wind being 
 contrary for England) an express is come from 
 Ireland to the Council there, giving account of 
 the Enniskillin-men had taken the Fort of Cavan 
 by storm, and put all therein to the sword, ex- 
 cept some few that escaped by throwing them- 
 selves over the walls ; and that one of the frigates 
 cruizing near Dublin, took a Scotch boat going 
 into the Bay, wherein were 35 passengers with 
 several letters of intelligence, &c. and ^.8000 in 
 silver, sent to King James by the episcopal Clergy 
 of Scotland. One of the passengers therein is 
 the Lord Ballantine (who married the Lady Dal- 
 housie) who you have heard shot a man last sum- 
 mer, giving him (as he said) King James's pass. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 315 
 
 This boat, &c. was carried into Belfast ; the Lord 
 Oliphant and some other of the associates of Scot- 
 land are taken. The Parliament there (Melvil*, 
 Commissioner) sits down on Thursday next. Our 
 Parliament hitherto have done nothing but thank- 
 ed the King for his speech, and settled their 
 committees ; to morrow they take the matter of 
 the King's speech concerning the settlement of 
 the revenue into consideration. When the votes 
 are printed, I will send them to you while I stay 
 in town, which will not, I believe, be long, for 
 my Lord Sidney keeps his bed, and I will only 
 stay till he again discourses the King, unless I 
 find by that discourse my stay can do you service, 
 which I extremely despair of, but no stone shall 
 be left unturned. I was introduced yesterday by 
 my Lord Lucas to my Lord Devonshire, and dis- 
 coursed at large concerning you ; and I will be 
 this week with my Lord President and my Lord 
 Shrewsbury, and then with them jointly will en- 
 deavour to give one. push for all. 
 
 Your most obliged servant, 
 London, Hugh M'Gill. 
 
 25 March, 1690. 
 
 * Lord Melville was appointed Commissioner to Parliament. 
 — Laing's Scotland. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 LETTER CXXXV1II. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I am going this day with my wife to Hendon, 
 to take leave of Sir Tristram Berisford and his 
 Lady, and because I know not if I can come to 
 town to-morrow night in time to write to you, 
 have chosen now to send you the following ac- 
 count. One Mr. Payne (a Protestant merchant 
 of Dublin) made his escape from Dublin (in a 
 wherry) upon Thursday last was se'nnight, and 
 came to Duke Schomberg, who sent him hither 
 to the King; he came here yesterday morning, 
 and I have heard him give the following account 
 of affairs, viz. : that 5500 men landed at Cork 
 from France about the 14th March, about the 
 half whereof are French, and the remainder 
 Germans, Swedes, Danes, English, Scotch, and 
 Irish ; they brought with them 2000 barrils of 
 powder, 8000 arms, about 20 field pieces, a mil- 
 lion and a half of crowns in copper money (coined 
 at Brest of King James's stamp), and Mons. Lau- 
 zun is their commander. He says the Irish are 
 mightily concerned at the smallness and nature of 
 the supply * : 1st. they were promised 10,000 
 
 * The usual complaint on the part of the discontented and 
 rebels in this kingdom. May such ever exist, if France is again 
 looked to as an ally by any Irishman ! 
 
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 French, and these other foreigners they say will 
 do them no service, believing most of them were 
 taken prisoners by the French army last summer, 
 and consequently not to be trusted by them. 
 2dly. They were promised 20,000 arms. 3dly. 
 They expected some cannon to defend their forti- 
 fied towns ; and 4thly, (and which troubles them 
 most) they were promised 2,000,000 pounds in 
 gold and silver coin; and they freely say that 
 they find the French King is pressed so hard by 
 the Confederates, that he is not in a condition to 
 supply their necessities. He says that King James 
 has but 8 regiments of horse and 9 of dragoons, 
 and that they are very pitiful troops ; that they 
 want forage, all their horse being now at grass, 
 except 3 regiments ; that they have many foot in- 
 listed, but want arms ; that the Lord Mount- 
 cashel, Colonel Fielding (the Boe*), and another 
 Colonel were near Cork with 5 or 6000 foot, in 
 order to be sent from thence (in the ships that 
 brought the supplies) for France -f-; but that the 
 Irish were very unwilling to leave their own 
 country, and deserted daily ; insomuch that when 
 
 * The spelling in the original for Beau. Charles II. was so 
 struck with his figure, that he called him handsome Fielding, and 
 from that time, it is said, he never did any good. He married 
 for a third wife the Duchess of Cleveland, and was prosecuted 
 for bigamy. 
 
 f Regiments sent to France by James II. : Colonels, Lord 
 Mountcashel, Daniel O'Bryen, Richard Butler, and Robert 
 Fielding, called the Beau. — King's State of the Protestants. 
 
318 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 the certainty of their transportation was noised, 
 M'Carty's own regiment of 1000 men dwindled in 
 two nights to 100 ; so that all hands were em- 
 ployed to press the neighbouring inhabitants pro- 
 miscuously, and forced them on board. He fur- 
 ther says, that the Monday before he left Dublin, 
 the Duke of Berwick went towards Dundalk with 
 10,000 men to endeavour to surprize Newry, but 
 heard from Duke Schomberg that he had notice 
 of their design, and that Stewart being reinforced, 
 Berwick had retired to Drogheda. The Irish 
 have fortified Limerick, Gallaway, Athlone, Cork 
 and Kinsale. The Irish have seized all the Pro- 
 testants' effects of wool, tallow, hides, leather, &c. 
 to send to France for King James's use ; and for 
 satisfaction they give them Exchequer assign- 
 ments on the Crown rents, and the rents of for- 
 feited (Protestants') estates. It was strongly de- 
 bated at the Council in Dublin, whether they 
 should seize a considerable number of the most 
 considerable Protestants that are in their hands, 
 and send them prisoners to France ; but this mat- 
 ter was not determined when he left Dublin. The 
 Irish declare that if they be pressed too hard in 
 the field, they will burn Dublin and the country, 
 and retire to their strengths. Thus far the public. 
 The private (which keep a while to yourself and 
 friends) is, that it was generally reported that 
 ten men of war, 6 fire-ships, and some others with 
 men, were to come down the channel to burn our 
 fleets on the shore of England and Ireland, and - 
 
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 to go northward for Scotland. Upon this informa- 
 tion an express is sent to Sir Cloudsley Shovell. 
 A Turkey ship of war, worth ^.30,000, was taken 
 by 2 French privateers (out-sailing the fleet) in 
 the Bay of Biscay. — I have been this morning 
 with the Marquis of Hallifax and Lord Sidney, 
 and after full discourses, find there is not any 
 thing to be done for you on this side ; they say 
 the business shall be pressed again on Wednesday, 
 and if no further can be done, you shall be so 
 recommended that you shall be undoubtedly taken 
 care of, when the King goes to Ireland. Thus 
 you see how matters go. I now wait only for your 
 commands here, and because I hope your last 
 directions will come by this day's, or Wednesday's 
 post, and because my wife grows big, we have a 
 long and tedious as well as a very expensive jour- 
 ney to take, and into a country where we can 
 have no credit, and a family to remove, that will 
 cost more money than I know how to procure. I 
 am not able to stay long, and because I hope to 
 hear from you at my coming again to town, I 
 have ordered places to be taken for my wife and 
 myself in the York coach that goes from this on 
 Monday or Wednesday in next week; they have 
 agreed to give me my choice ; so that if I stay till 
 Wednesday, I must be at the inn on Tuesday 
 night, for we go the 150 miles to York in 4 days *. 
 My duty to my Lady, &c. 
 
 Hugh M'Gill. 
 Just as I was closing this, the Gazette came in, 
 * Travelling is wonderfully expedited since that day. 
 
320 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 which I send you ; the proceedings of the Parlia- 
 ment you shall have per next. 
 London, 7 Aprilis, 1690. 
 
 CXXXIX. 
 Proceedings of Parliament. 
 
 8th April, 1690. 
 
 Hallifax, North, and Gray, protested against 
 the recognising Bill without giving reason. 
 
 Before the question was put, several Lords de- 
 sired to enter their protest, if the question was 
 carried in the affirmative, for these reasons, viz. : 
 1st. Because we conceive to say that it is enacted 
 by the authority of this present Parliament, that 
 all and singular the acts made in the late Parlia- 
 ment were laws, is neither good English, nor good 
 sense. Sdly. If it were good sense to enact for 
 the time past, it must be understood on this sub- 
 ject, to be the declaring of laws to be good, which 
 were past by a Parliament not called by writ nor 
 due form of law, which is destructive of the regal 
 constitution of this monarchy, and which may be 
 of evil and pernicious consequence to our present 
 government under this King and Queen. 
 
 Somerset, Scarsdale, Rochester, Hunting- 
 don, Westmoreland, Abingdon, Fevers- 
 ham, Weymouth, Nottingham, Germin, 
 Dartmouth. — Spiritual Lords, London,' 
 Winchester, St. David's, Worcester, St. 
 Asaph, and LandafF. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 10th April, 1690. 
 
 This day the House of Lords upon great de- 
 bates, ordered the reasons of the Protestation to 
 be expunged out of the Journals; the Earl of 
 Kingston first moving the same. 
 
 11th and 12th April, 1690. 
 The protesting Lords have very earnestly in- 
 sisted upon their Protestation, which hath occa- 
 sioned very long debates. 
 
 LETTER CXL. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I will wait a week longer here in hopes of 
 getting your last instructions, but must of neces- 
 sity march off on Monday next ; what letters you 
 write after that, direct them to my brother Shaw, 
 to be left at the Venetian Coffee-house in the Pall 
 Mali I read a letter from Wolsely dated at 
 Turbett* the ninth instant, directed to Duke 
 Schomberg, giving account that on the Sunday 
 before he marched out with 700 men, one half 
 whereof he sent out with Lieutenant Colonel 
 Creichton to secure the country towards Finagh, 
 
 . * Belturbet. — See Story's Wars of Ireland, p. 57. 
 
 Y 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 and bring in what prey he met with, which he did 
 effectually ; with the other half he marched that 
 night to Killyshandra *, and that night under the 
 ditches and hedges approached within half musket 
 shot of the castle, and his miners made their ap- 
 proaches and finished their mine under the court 
 wall of the castle by 10 o'clock next day. The 
 enemy knowing this, about two o'clock capitu- 
 lated, and he sent them under a guard to the fort 
 of Cavan (yet in the Irish hands) with their arms 
 and baggage; he lost S men, and 5 were wounded; 
 the reason that he gave these favorable conditions 
 were, that he was unwilling to lose men, which he 
 must have done if he had stormed it, and that he 
 had but one barril of bullets. The Irish in gar- 
 rison were 160, under the command of Captain 
 Darcy ; he hath left 100 men in garrison there. 
 Duke Schomberg, &c. keep yet in their quarters. 
 There are 1000 or 1200 men going from Scotland 
 by sea to the Isle of Mull, and are designed from 
 thence to Loughaber under the command of our 
 Captain Hill. The Parliament there sat the 15th, 
 and were adjourned to this day. There are like 
 to be great changes here among the courtiers be- 
 fore the King goes. Nottingham goes off. Toring- 
 ton (with the gift of ^.3000 per annum of the 
 forfeited estates, for which he is now passing pa- 
 tent) is laid aside from being admiral ; and we are 
 to have 4 admirals at sea this summer by joint com- 
 
 * About seven miles from Belturbet. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 323 
 
 mission, viz. the Duke of Grafton, Earls of Pem- 
 broke and Monmouth, and one Sir some- 
 thing, whose name I have forgot. On Saturday 
 a powder-mill and its storehouses (in Hackney 
 March), value -g.3000, was blown up by acci- 
 dent ; it shaked the houses of that end of the 
 town; 5 or 6 men and women were killed. Our 
 troops designed for Ireland, have all their orders 
 to march towards the sea ports. The Confe- 
 derates will have 190,000 men in the field this 
 campaign against France, and the Dutch are 
 sending out the greatest fleet that ever they had 
 at sea. Yours, 
 
 London, Hugh M'Gill. 
 
 22 April, 1690. 
 
 LETTER CXLI. 
 
 From Mr. Daniel Golborne to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Understanding that Captain Richard Johnson 
 sent you the news duly, since Mr. Shaw went 
 hence, I desisted to pursue my resolution of send- 
 ing your honor what I can pick up ; but now 
 having your commands, I am the better encou- 
 raged, during my stay here, to send you the news, 
 and at this time be pleased to accept this follow- 
 ing account of affairs. On Thursday last it was 
 
 y 2 
 
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 buzzed about court, as tho' there were officers of 
 note that have deserted King James, and are 
 come over to Duke Schomberg, that Sligoe is de- 
 serted, and that Galloway is solicitous for terms 
 
 • from the Duke, and yesterday it was also freshly 
 reported that Dundalk is retaken by us ; the man- 
 ner thus, — Colonel Steward with a party appear- 
 ing near it, that garrison sent out a party to fight 
 us, who upon a short engagement retreated into 
 the town, and our men pursued them close, and 
 got in with them, that above 100 of ours were 
 killed in the streets out of the windows, yet we 
 became masters of it, killing a number of them, 
 and taking many prisoners. All this is mostly 
 believed, but it wants confirmation. It's also re- 
 ported King James has drawn down all his forces 
 towards the Boyne, upon which he makes his en- 
 canipments and fortifies all passes, and on that 
 
 « river purposes to make his defence. As for fo- 
 reign news there is a certain account come that 
 S expresses were sent after the Dauphin, who was 
 on his journey toward Stratsburgh, with design 
 to open this year's campaign with some notable 
 action against the Germans, which have recalled 
 him. The reason for those expresses are sup- 
 posed the great indisposition or death of his fa- 
 ther : this news I fancy made our court yesterday 
 look more brisk than usual. The King * leaves 
 London for certain on Wednesday next ; he lies 
 
 * He left Kensington the 4th of June, 1690, and landed the 
 14th at Carrickfergus. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 325 
 
 at Northampton at night, the next day at White- 
 church, the next at Colonel Whitley's, near Ches- 
 ter, where it's supposed he'll stay some time be- 
 fore he embarks for Ireland. It's said the city 
 have raised him another fund of ^.150,000 to 
 send him forwards. The Privy Council are very 
 busy about drawing a declaration to be sent along 
 with the King, and I doubt not but the Irish will 
 come in upon terms. I pray God we are not so 
 kind to them, as to let the rogues go off clear 
 with the spoil of the poor Protestants, which, if 
 they do, it only resembles the evil treatment we 
 have hitherto met with for our early appearing in 
 justification of the late revolution, happy to some, 
 but most unlucky to the poor Irish Protestants, 
 whose blood and estates, so freely spilt and spent 
 in defence of their laws and religion, is too much 
 undervalued and slighted. The doctrine of pas- 
 sive obedience is most necessary for our imitation, 
 and we, like good Lads, kiss the rod, and say 
 nothing ; yet surely our reward is hereafter ; but 
 when it will come I cannot tell, nor by what hand, 
 yet without doubt the singular and signal merits 
 of some, and in particular those of your's, are not 
 always to be overlookt without regard, but must 
 be taken notice of to your honor's advantage, 
 which that they may be to your own heart's de- 
 sire, and true worth, is affectionately wished for 
 by, Sir, your Honor's most faithful and humble 
 servant, Dan. Golborne. 
 
 Pall Mall, 31 May, 1690. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Superscribed : — 
 For Sir Arthur Rawdon, Barronett, att Conger- 
 ton, neere Manchester. 
 
 To be putt into Stone bagg. 
 
 LETTER CXLII. 
 
 From Mr. D. Campbell to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 As for news here, the account you have had 
 of the Boyne action already from Mr. Shaw and 
 others, will excuse me, since we have had nothing 
 offered upon the road, but hanging of some peo- 
 ple (souldiers I mean) for robbing, and every day 
 some one or other are so used ; the King is very 
 strict, and will suffer none to plunder, so that 
 this part of the army will be very poor, because 
 we are forced to be very honest. Yesterday my 
 Lord Granard came here, and was introduced by 
 my Lord of Ormond after an hour's attendance ; 
 he is very weak in his limbs ; I don't hear the 
 reception was extraordinary*. Jackman, Dick 
 Eustace, and young Keating, surrendered them- 
 selves, and have got a protection; and every one 
 that asks (as I think) have the same, which the 
 Kings declaration does the same for all (some few 
 
 * However that may be, he was sworn of the Privy Council 
 to King William in the December following. 
 
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 excepted) till the first of August. It is believed 
 it is well done, because it may be a means to take 
 off a great many hands from the enemy, and 
 shorten the work, which I believe we would be 
 glad were made an end of. — From Athlone came 
 in an express from Lieutenant General Douglas, 
 which gives this following account: That the 
 Lieutenant General having sent a trumpeter to 
 summon the castle and town, they fired at the 
 trumpeter * ; they have burnt the part of the 
 town that lies of our side of the river, and broken 
 down the bridge; they have turned out all the 
 Protestants stark naked, men and women too; 
 they have raised some works about the town, and 
 have lined the castle- wall within, 18 feet thick 
 of earth, so that our guns will be rendered inef- 
 fectual, only our bombs must do the work ; and 
 that my Lord Granard says we can do no good of 
 this side the water ; the Lieutenant General has 
 sent 3000 horse, foot, and dragoons to get over the 
 water to secure some pass, for fear of some relief 
 from Limbrick or Galloway; the garrison are but 
 800 men. The Lieutenant General broke ground, 
 and lost but about 14 men ; the enemy raised a 
 battery, and poor unfortunate Hugh M'Gill -f~ 
 
 * To the summons sent by Douglas, the Governor Grace, a 
 brave old officer, returned a passionate defiance — " These are 
 my terms," said he, firing a pistol at the messenger. 
 
 f "That day (Sunday the 20th July) one Captain Mack-Gill, 
 a volunteer, was killed at our battery with a cannon-shot from 
 
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 would needs go to see it, tho' dissuaded from 
 it by every one ; his arm and shoulder were 
 shot from him by a cannon shot, of which he im- 
 mediately fell dead, and not so much lamented, 
 because every one condemned his going thither. 
 We yesterday summoned Waterford*; the answer 
 sent the King was, that allowing them to march 
 out with all their baggage, 3 cannons, colours 
 flying, safely to Mallow, securing them in their 
 lives and properties, exercise of their religion, 15 
 days time for absentees to claim the like benefit, 
 and the Mayor and Sheriff of their own chusing, 
 they upon these terms will surrender, and be good 
 boys. The King laughed at it, saying, he be- 
 lieved they were drawn by some furious lawyer, 
 and has sent his artillery away, and 5 regiments 
 of foot, and 300 horse and dragoons, and we have 
 orders to march immediately. What the issue 
 will be, you shall have an account f, because since 
 you have given me leave to write to you, and laid 
 your commands on me to let you know what 
 passes, I shall never neglect, but upon all occa- 
 
 the Castle." — Story. I believe this is the Hugh M'Gill, with 
 whose correspondence we have been so much edified of late. 
 
 * " Waterford was summoned j the garrison, after some hesi- 
 tation, demanded the enjoyment of their estates, the freedom 
 of their religion, and liberty to march out with arms and 
 baggage. This last article was admitted only ; they accepted it, 
 and surrendered." — Leland. 
 
 f " The issue was," says Story, " that they marched out with 
 their arms and baggage, and were safely conducted to Mallow." 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 sions (let every one say what they please) shew 
 how much I am 
 
 Your most faithful servant, 
 
 D. Campbell. 
 From the King's Camp at Carricknosure *, 
 near Waterford, July 24, 1690. 
 
 I have some design whenever the campaign is 
 over, to part with my employment, for I confess 
 it is a life (as Prince Rupert said of it) of honor, 
 but a dog would not lead it ; but that is not all ; 
 for since you were so pleased to put that trust 
 in me, I was resolved to wave every thing that 
 should have hindered me of serving you. 
 
 Thus superscribed : — 
 For Sir Arthur Rawdon, Barronett, at his house 
 
 at Moyra. — To be sent by the post, Mr 
 
 of Lisnegarvy. — 8d. 
 
 LETTER CXLIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I have on all occasions, according to your 
 commands, given you an account of what has oc- 
 curred, but am afraid they have miscarried, since 
 
 * Carrick on Suir, situated on the boundaries of the county 
 of Tipperary, being joined to the county of Waterford by a 
 bridge over the Suir. 
 
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 I have not had the favour of a letter from you 
 since the last happy one that gave me an account 
 of your kindness to me. We marched on Satur- 
 day from a place 6 miles from this place, and that 
 very afternoon beat them out of the hedges they 
 had lined about this place, and got a fort that 
 they call Ireton's Fort *, and have raised a battery 
 on it, as also one more to the seaward ; and on 
 Saturday morning we went over the Shannon at 
 a pass that was very foul with big stones, and they 
 had raised a battery, so that every one believed 
 that 500 men would have made a stop to our 
 army ; but they quitted it in the middle of the 
 night without so much as any one appearing 
 against them, and where they are now, is very 
 uncertain. The King sent in a summons to the 
 town to surrender, but Boileau f that commands 
 the town, made a return, as is said, that he would 
 keep the town out for the King of Great Britain, 
 and would not deliver it to the Prince of Orange, 
 but let him take it if he would. They are all 
 these days shooting their cannon very hard, but, 
 I believe, as I am informed, it is within the num- 
 ber of 40 that are as yet killed. We have not as 
 yet our great guns nor mortars, nor bread, come 
 
 * Which was built by Ireton on his first coming before Lime- 
 rick. " It stands on a rising ground," says Story, " and over- 
 looks the pass on one side, and the town on the other." 
 
 f " Boileau addressed his answer, not to the King, to whom^he 
 would not give his regal titles, but to Sir Robert Southwell his 
 Secretary." — Leland. 
 
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 up, so that we do nothing but lie and receive their 
 shot. And just now I am informed * that Sars- 
 field and his horse is come of our side of the wa- 
 ter, and believes is intended to make an infall 
 upon our guns and bread. This is all that at 
 present offers, but that I am with my humble 
 duty to my Lady, Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient humble servant, 
 
 D. Campbell. 
 Camp before Limbrickf, 11 August, 1690. 
 
 LETTER CXLIV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 In my last I gave you an account of our pro- 
 ceedings against Limbrick; and last night about 
 12 o'clock, Captain Poultney, one of Villerss 
 captains, commanded a party of about a 100 
 horse, as guard to our great battering guns ; they 
 were surprised by about 600 of the enemy, who 
 killed as many as they could find for darkness. 
 The reports are various, but take the following 
 one for the truth : We had 8 guns, whereof two 
 of them are bursted, about 100 barrils of powder 
 
 * This information was true ; for Sarsfield passed the river, 
 and attacked the Convoy with success, and returned trium- 
 phantly to Limerick. 
 
 f Limerick. 
 
 V 
 
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 blown up, our carriages spoiled, and most of the 
 troopers and horses, and carriage horses, killed. 
 There was no money, but a tumbrel of brass 
 money *, which they left; and there was no bread 
 (nor with us neither). Sir John Lanier went 
 out with a strong party (tho* it is said he should 
 have been sooner out) after them. The greatest 
 loss is the loss of time, for without fresh guns, we 
 can do no good against Limbrick, as also the dis- 
 credit we receive by the enemy taking our guns 
 within ten miles of the rear of our camp. But we 
 have other news : there was a castle within 4 miles 
 of this place, called Castle-connell J, held out, 
 which was very strong, in which was 200 men ; 
 this morning we took it, and they are now going 
 to hang several of the enemies for example ; the 
 number I know not. Limbrick holds out very 
 resolutely, and hourly kills with their random 
 shot several of our men and horses ; many are of 
 opinion it will be both a bloody and tedious task 
 the taking it. Excuse me for writing ill, for I 
 have no table to write on, and truly I have little 
 occasion ; I have not had for myself and servant 
 a bit of bread these 3 days, but 2 little barly 
 cakes j for we are not supplied out of the stores, 
 
 * Brass money made current in Ireland, June 18, 1689. — 
 Memorable Occurrences. 
 
 f " Lanier executed his orders, but not with due alacrity." — 
 Leland, vol. III. p. 580. 
 
 X A strong place upon the river Shannon, four miles above 
 Limerick. 
 
RAWDON -PAPERS. 
 
 333 
 
 tho' they have no reason to brag*. I offered half 
 a crown for a sixpenny loaf, and could not pre- 
 vail ; abominable ill drink, and that at Sd. a 
 quart, brandy 4s. 6d. claret Qs. 6d. a quart. I 
 have got 2 guineas worth of that which shall 
 serve for meat and drink, and bread and all. I 
 pray God things may not prove scarcer. 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 From the Camp before Limbrick, 
 12 August, 1690. 
 
 LETTER CXLV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 In my last I gave you an account of the sur- 
 prisal of our great guns, and the damage we sus- 
 tained ; as also the account of the breaking of 
 ground. On Wednesday last, at three o'clock 
 in the afternoon, the King ordered the attempt- 
 ing of a fort that the enemy was possessed of 
 within 200 yards of the town. We had been a 
 
 * Orders issued about ascertaining the rates of provision ; 
 white bread to be sold at 3d. a pound j all ale from Dublin or 
 Wicklow at 6d. a quart ; brandy at 12s. a gallon, and claret at 
 2s. 6d. a quart. 
 
 t " Wednesday the 20th/' says Story, 99 we attacked a fort of 
 the enemy nigh the south-east corner of the wall," &c.— Story, 
 p. 38. 
 
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 little baffled the night before at ; it so that made 
 the King resolve upon the attack in the day time. 
 The service was very desperate, the enemy hav- 
 ing the opportunity of galling us from their walls, 
 and we lay open to their cannon ; but, however, 
 we took the fort in half an hour, and have in- 
 trenched ourselves from their shells. We lost in 
 the foot, Captain Needham* of my Lord Meath's 
 grenadiers, and his Lieutenant Charles Brabazon ; 
 several of our men are killed, to the number (that 
 is estimated) of 200 ; and many wounded, most 
 of them in the head and shoulders. The enemy 
 made a feint sally, commanded by lame Lutterel, 
 which drew our horse under the shot of their wall. 
 They wounded several, and killed to the number 
 of horse and footmen a hundred. None of our 
 acquaintance were hurt, only Anthony Lock was 
 ill frighted, having been shot through the hat and 
 slieve of his coat, and his horse shot in the belly, 
 but no more hurt. None of any note killed, but 
 Captain Lacy-f- of my Lord of Oxford's regiment; 
 most of Colonel Byerly's regiment of horse, I 
 mean the officers, are most wounded. This day 
 we raised a strong battery at our new fort, and 
 have beaten down one of their towers from which 
 they galled our men yesterday, and is said was 
 
 * " Capt. Needham/' says Story, " after all was over, and he 
 leading his men off, was shot by a chance bullet, and died im- 
 mediately." 
 
 f " A gentleman," says Story, " much lamented by all that 
 knew him." 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 mann'd by fryars who shot out of screwed guns; 
 I am sure most of their bullets were chewed. We 
 have an account that my Lord Tyrconnel has 
 sweetened the French, so that three of their regi- 
 ments are returned for the defence of Limbrick. 
 It is said we shall shoot this night hot bullets in 
 order to fire the town ; but the post will not stay 
 to let me write the truth of it, but the next you 
 may expect it. Major Morgison was killed lying 
 in bed by a cannon shot. It is said that Harry 
 Hamilton will be Major, and Tubman get his 
 company of grenadiers, and M'Cartney has already 
 got an ensign's place. This is all that now occurs 
 here, and every post you shall have the same. 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 
 Camp before Limbrick, D. Campbell. 
 
 22d August, 1690. 
 
 We killed in the fort about fourscore and one. 
 Captain Barret being thrust at with a sword, it 
 did not enter, so he was taken ; what will be done 
 with him I know not. 
 
 LETTER CXLVI. 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 This morning I received your Letter by Ed- 
 ward Reynolds, and I can assure you on my ere- 
 
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 dit that I can hear no account whatever of your 
 mares. I believe they are further on in the county 
 of Kerry, where no one as yet can venture ; be- 
 sides that country, after a little rain (which we 
 are already beginning to have), there is no getting 
 into it for this year, and I am confident that all 
 the horses and cattle (unless a few in these moun- 
 tains) are all on the other side of the Shannon ; 
 and when we shall take Limbrick (to let us have 
 a free passage), is beyond my apprehension, tho' 
 we are hourly battering at their walls, but no 
 breach as yet made ; nor no news since the last I 
 wrote to you, only one Captain Bourne in my 
 Lord Lisburne's regiment, he and 4 grenadiers 
 killed with one cannon shot, and hourly they do 
 us some of the like diskindness. It is said in their 
 last sally Colonel Dorrington was killed, and Sir 
 Maurice Eustace of Castle-Martin. I am sorry 
 you have so much waste ground, but how to fur- 
 nish you with stock from hence, I protest I can- 
 not advise you ; for the truth lies here, the King 
 and the Court has got such a notion of all the 
 cattle being got into the North, that upon no con- 
 sideration whatever will they allow a pass for any 
 to go thither, and none are suffered to pass be- 
 yond Dublin northwards without the King's Li- 
 cense. When Limbrick is taken, it is supposed 
 there will be a great number of cattle to be had, 
 and that there may be liberty had to carry them 
 into the North. As soon as we are masters of 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. SS? 
 
 Limbrick, the King intends to go for Dublin, and 
 so to England. 
 
 I am, Sir, your s, 
 
 D. Campbell. 
 Camp Royal, before Limbrick, 1690. 
 My most humble service to my Lady and Ma- 
 dame Brill *. 
 
 j 1 
 LETTER CXLVII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Since my last by Ned Reynolds, we made an 
 attack on the town ; it was very hot service j the 
 Brandenburgh regiment lost 400, the Dutch a 
 great many. There were 5 English regiments, 
 viz. Colonel Cutt's, Lord Lisburne's, Lieutenant 
 General Douglass, Lord Meath's, and Brigadier 
 General Stewart's, out of which was lost above a 
 thousand officers and souldiers, of which 100 offi- 
 cers wounded and killed ; the list I cannot get ; 
 only those I remember are killed, Harry Hamil- 
 ton, late made Major in Margisons place, Cap- 
 tain West, Captain Wallace, and several others, 
 not known to you. Poor Monroe and Clotworthy 
 Uptonf killed; poor Charles Hubblethorn wounded 
 
 * Mrs. Brilliana Rawdon. 
 
 t " One Mr. Upton," says Story, " getting in amongst the 
 Irish in the town, and seeing no way of escape, surrendered to 
 the Governor. He is not put down in the list of killed." 
 
 Z 
 
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 in the throat through the tongue, but I hope 
 will recover. We never have received such a 
 foil ; I believe it has put an end to campaigning 
 this summer *, for I am just now informed by 
 one, that we decamp on Monday next at furthest. 
 This is a secret, which is all from 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 
 Camp, before Limbrick, D. C. 
 
 August 29, 1690. 
 
 We got their countersign — got into the breach, 
 but were beaten back. 
 
 LETTER CXLVIII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 In my last I gave you an account what the 
 town afforded ; since that we are informed that 
 an express going northwards, was taken by the 
 Raparees -f~, and upwards of 40 cars taken about 
 Cavan, going with provision to the garrison of Bel- 
 turbet. Several merchants were sending down 
 
 * The day on which this Letter was written King William 
 called a Council of War, the result of which was the raising of 
 the siege for the present, and the departure of the King for 
 England. 
 
 f Irish, not of the army, but the country people armed in a 
 kind of hostile manner with half pikes and skeins, and some 
 with scythes and muskets. " The word rapparee, in Irish, signi- 
 fies," says Story, " an half stick, or broken beam." 
 
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 wine and other things, who were robbed; they 
 intend and have petitioned the Council for re- 
 prisals on the Papists in the county, according to 
 the late proclamation. The fellow * that came 
 over to us from the enemy, and pretended to be a 
 Cornet, giving us an account that Sarsfield was 
 come over the Shannon, proves a cheat, and is 
 discovered, whose intention was to burn Mullingar 
 himself. The Papists that were put up by my 
 last, are designed to-morrow to be sent away 
 over the Shannon, unless they take the oath of 
 allegiance, and give in good bail of their good 
 behaviour. Mr. Clark, Secretary of War, is to be 
 one of the Privy Council. I have no more to 
 add, but that I am 
 
 Your's, &c. 
 Dublin, D. Campbell. 
 
 6th of December, 1690. 
 
 LETTER CXLIX. 
 
 From James Hamilton -j-, Esq. of Tullamore, to 
 Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 Yours of the 26th I received, and think 
 myself obliged to return you my very particular 
 
 * His name was Kirowen, an Irish officer. — See Story, p. 153. 
 f He was father of the first Earl of Clanbrassil. 
 
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 thanks therefore, there being therein so extraor- 
 dinary a freedom that can proceed from no other 
 motive than kindness, which, while it continues, 
 I shall always value. I do in every part of your 
 Letter approve of your judgment, and that you 
 may know it, I did in several things order matters 
 as you therein direct, for when I left an imperfect 
 draught of this writing with Mr. Sloan *, being 
 done in haste and hurry while at London last 
 spring, and ordered it to be printed. I also left 
 with him a narrative -f- of our affairs, and draughts 
 of our Address, Letter to Lord Clarendon, &c. to 
 
 * Probably Sir Hans Sloane, who was a native of the county 
 of Down, born at Killileagh in 16'6'0. 
 
 f Mr. Hamilton, the writer of this letter, was a steady assertor 
 of the liberty of Ireland in 16S9, and was a principal promoter 
 of the stand made by the Protestants of Ulster to oppose the 
 tyranny of King James's government. He was attainted by 
 King James along with Sir Arthur Rawdon, to whom he writes. 
 After the Revolution he was returned for the borough of Ban- 
 gor, and in 1693 was sent to England with the Earl of Bella- 
 mont to prosecute Thomas Lord Conningsby and Sir Charles 
 Porter (who were the Lord Justices the year in which this Let- 
 ter was written) ; and it is likely the narrative he was preparing, 
 and alluded to herein, might have been for the purpose of the 
 prosecution. — Lord Bellamont exhibited regular articles of im- 
 peachment, accusing the Lord Justices Coningsby and Porter of 
 traitorously abusing the power and authority with which they 
 had been invested, &c. Nevertheless a resolution ultimately 
 passed the House, that considering the state of Ireland at the 
 time, it was not thought fit to ground an impeachment upon 
 them. A pardon, which had been ordered to pass the seals in 
 their favour, was arrested in its progress by the representations 
 of Lord Bellamont and the writer of this Letter. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 be printed as an appendix ; all which I had shew- 
 ed you, and had, as in this matter, your judgment 
 therein ; but that you were not in London, and 
 that I was in haste to have them printed, which I 
 desired Mr. Sloan might be immediately done ; 
 but I do not hear he thought fit to answer my ex- 
 pectations. I was then and am still so much of 
 your opinion, that nothing can be a better answer 
 to that scandalous book, or any other false writing, 
 than publishing the truth, and therefore my re- 
 quest to Mr. Sloan was, that the narrative might 
 be first published, and truly that had been alone a 
 sufficient answer, but that the generality of readers, 
 either for want of concern in the matter, or an 
 inadvertent way of reading, do not much com- 
 pare things with an exactness needful for disco- 
 vering truth, and therefore that work, as it can 
 be best and most easily performed by those con- 
 cerned in the matter of fact, so it is fit for them 
 to perform it. But when I came to consider after 
 what manner that was to be done, I was appre- 
 hensive that the readers about London had nei- 
 ther that concern for us of Ulster, or the parti- 
 cular persons reflected on in the pamphlet, as to 
 endure any thing of length, whereof I take some 
 sort of notice in that intended for a preface, and 
 in the letter and other parts of the book. I like- 
 wise affirm that there are many other as gross 
 mistakes and falsehoods as those observed. As to 
 the language, I must confess that I never took 
 much pains in the art of writing or speaking, tl\o' 
 
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 I know it is a thing of vast advantage to those 
 who are masters thereof ; but when that is used 
 either to wrest or disguise the truth, I do much 
 despise those who prostitute it to such ends. Be- 
 fore I publish this I hope again to have an oppor- 
 tunity of seeing and discoursing you therein, and 
 I shall desire you will use the same freedom you 
 ever did. I approve of your judgment about that 
 of the family reflections, and will alter it as you 
 shall think most fit. I had by Monday's post a 
 Letter from the Lords Justices on the same sub- 
 ject about horses, and what I did therein was to 
 send to the constables of this and adjacent Ba- 
 ronies to acquaint the inhabitants therewith, and 
 require them to bring their garrans to Down on 
 the 3d of next month, or to Hillsborough on the 
 8th, and that they should have ready money for 
 them, and be valued at a reasonable rate. I have 
 also told several my opinion, that they ought to 
 comply herewith, both as it is what the Govern- 
 ment requires, and that I think most of their 
 labor being over, they may spare them, and make 
 their own benefit of the money; and for that, if 
 they do not comply, the Government will be 
 forced to press horses, and no man in reason will 
 think that unjust which is made necessary by the 
 people, and for our common safety. I cannot 
 omit taking notice, that amidst the marks of your 
 favor, you are pleased to use expressions that as 
 I am sensible I do not deserve, so it may be in- 
 terpreted to proceed from some other less kind 
 
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 cause. Be pleased to present my wishes and my 
 service to my Lady Rawdon and Mrs. Rawdon. 
 I am your most humble servant, 
 Erynah *, James Hamilton. 
 
 March 28, 1691. 
 
 LETTER CL. 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Mr. Humpheries to the 
 Honourable Sir Arthur Rawdon, Barronet, 
 att Moyragh. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 General Douglas passed by this day, and said 
 he would only stay to dine at Lisnegarvy. Young 
 Mr. Hall brought us to an old woman, which did 
 promise to set some of the Raparees in a few 
 days y she expects a reward of twenty shillings 
 for each man that is taken, which we promised. 
 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 Newry, June 17, 1691. E. Humpheries. 
 
 Ensign Mussendine -f-, who came from Down, 
 tells me that Captain Maxwell only stays for his 
 patent to relieve us. 
 
 * Erynagh, ffom whence this Letter bears date, is in the 
 Barony of Lecale, about a mile and a half from Downpatrick. 
 
 f Probably the ancestor of the present Daniel Mussenden, Esq. 
 of Larchfield, county of Down. 
 
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 LETTER CLI. 
 
 From Mr. Daniel M'Neal to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Dear and Honored Sir, 
 
 Since my last, wherein I gave you a full ac- 
 count of the particulars that happened in the 
 taking of that part of Athlone that lies on this 
 side of the Shannon river, I have nothing mate- 
 rial, but that I will not neglect giving you the ac- 
 count of what passes once a week. Yesterday in 
 the afternoon, the enemy decamped from the 3 
 encampments, and marched and encamped in a 
 camp very near the town. We have battered the 
 Castle all down in this side, and have so can- 
 nonaded the enemy's part of Athlone, as I believe 
 never town was. All day yesterday, and this day, 
 we have played from five batteries, one of 8, one 
 of 6, one of 5, one of 4, and one of 3, besides the 
 mortar batteries. We have laid very level a great 
 part of the works to the water side, where they 
 design to attack in going over, and its generally 
 thought that in 3 days time at furthest, we shall 
 launch our boats and floats. I have this reason 
 to believe we shall, for the pioneers have been 
 these two days at work levelling the ways from 
 the camp to the water side, and the floats are 
 joined six and six together ; 24 men carry six of 
 
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 the floats, and eight men carry each his boat. 
 We had last night 2 captains, 2 ensigns, 3 lieute- 
 nants, killed in the skirmish ; the enemy have 
 plenty of cattle in our van. This day poor Lieu- 
 tenant Colonil Kirk's* body was buried. The 
 army have plenty of bread, but volunteers find it 
 dear. A fourpenny loaf in Dublin is here at a 
 shilling, beef at per pound, mutton at 4s. 6d. 
 per quarter. Our carcasses have burnt all the 
 thatched houses in the enemy's quarters ; we dis- 
 mounted all the enemy's cannon, so that we can 
 now stand almost at the water side to look over. We 
 lost 2 bombardiers, one killed by the enemy, and 
 another by the bursting of the bomb. The enemy 
 work like horses in carrying fascines to fill up the 
 breaches, and pass to and fro with more courage 
 than expected. It's generally believed poor Bob 
 is killed, by reason of late he has not answered 
 several letters writ to him, which he did fre- 
 quently before. Thirteen squadron of waggon 
 horses are set out for Dublin for more ammuni- 
 tion ; you may judge how fast we play them with 
 cannon, when our whole artillery is employed. 
 We have last night several officers and souldiers 
 lost in gaining the bridge, which we have now all 
 to 2 arches ; it's certain we will be masters of Ath- 
 lone, but I fear with a great loss of men. This 
 is the second ; so pray let me hear from you. 
 
 * " Lieutenant Colonel Kirk, of Brigadier Viller's regiment, 
 was unfortunately killed by a great shot from the town, as he 
 lay viewing the action upon the side of a hill." — Story. 
 
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346 RAWD0N PAPERS. 
 
 Once a week you shall hear from, Sir, yours, 
 wfyile there's life. 
 
 Camp, Dan. M'Neal. 
 
 Athlone, June 28, 1691. 
 
 LETTER CLII. 
 
 From Felix O'Neil* to Helena, Countess of 
 Antrim -f-. 
 
 Madam, 
 
 Since I hear that some of our field officers 
 have, upon the taking of Athlone, writ very de- 
 sponding letters to some ladies in that town, as if 
 our all were lost with Athlone; I think it my duty 
 to write my thoughts to your Ladyship on that 
 subject, not that I in the least doubt of your ap- 
 proved valour, but that I may furnish you with 
 some arguments that may inspire courage into the 
 
 * This Letter was taken out of the pocket of Col. O'Neil after 
 he was killed at the battle of Aughrim. , 
 
 f The Countess of Antrim, to whom this Letter is addressed, 
 was Helena, daughter of Sir John Burke, of the county of 
 Galway, and second wife of Alexander, third Earl of Antrim, 
 who was sworn of the Privy Council to James II. and made 
 Lord Lieutenant of the county 5 added to which, James gave 
 him the command of a regiment, for which he was attainted for 
 high treason, but was afterwards adjudged to be comprised with- 
 in the articles of Limerick, in consequence of which he was re- 
 stored to his titles and estates. 
 
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 rest of the heroines of that town. Every body 
 knows that Athlone* could not be thought tenable 
 neither from its situation, nor work ; and that this 
 considered, and the strength of their artillery, no 
 place was ever better defended than it was till the 
 very day that it was lost by as perfect a surprise 
 as ever was. Whose fault that was I will not take 
 upon me to decide, but certain it is that our men 
 sent thrice for ammunition, and could not have 
 it - y and when powder was had, ball was wanting, 
 and that when Major General Maxwell, who was 
 for that day called to by Cormack O Neil's men 
 for ammunition, he asked them often whether 
 they designed to kill larks (lavracks he called 
 them), to which I will add that the place was so 
 ruined, and the passages so filled up with lumber 
 and stones, that there was not room for 2 men in 
 a breast to march any way. Besides they raised 
 their batteries and trenches so very high, that a 
 cat could scarce appear without being knocked in 
 the head by great or small shot, and all these disad- 
 vantages ; and notwithstanding the French Generals 
 acknowledged they never saw more resolution and 
 firmness in any men of any nation ; nay, blamed 
 the men for their forwardness, and cried them 
 up for brave fellows as intrepid as lions. In short 
 the French engineers were more in fault than 
 any, for they were ordered by the General to rase 
 the works on our side the town, except the trench 
 
 * See Story's account of the taking of Athlone, p. lofl, &c. 
 
348 
 
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 next the river, that whensoever we were attacked 
 our whole battalion might march with sword in 
 hand to cut off the enemy as fast as they could 
 pass the river. This not being done, was an un- 
 excusable false step, and yet I hear that a French 
 engineer that went in haste to Gallway, railed at 
 the cowardice of our nation to excuse his own 
 obstinacy, for which he ought to be hanged. 
 Now as to the consequence of this place : Every 
 well-meaning man of sense must acknowledge the 
 disreputation is all ; for if we had kept it longer, 
 'tis certain we had lost the flower of our army in 
 it, and as it is, the loss of it really strengthens us; 
 for if we kept it, we must have left 3 or 4 battalions 
 in it, and 1°2 or 13 more upon the passes betwixt 
 Jamestown and Limerick, whereas we shall now 
 be stronger in the field ; and whoever has that, 
 has Athlone and the nation ; and I hope God, 
 who has scourged the nation round, will throw 
 the rod into the fire. But let me say what I will, 
 I know there is a sept of people that have declared 
 the loss of Athlone to be fully as fatal as that of 
 the Boyne. These are men that would have 
 French Generals cried out upon, and that would 
 willingly discourage all mankind, nay, accept of 
 conditions, if they knew how. I point at no- 
 body, nor will I hinder any that is guilty to 
 make what application he pleases. I am, with 
 my humble service to my Lady Mary*, Lord 
 
 * Lady Mary, his daughter, married Henry Wells, of Bam- 
 bridge, in the county of Southampton, Esq. 
 
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 Dunluce*, my Lady Dillon, &c. with all ima- 
 ginable respect, Madam, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 Agherim, Felix Neal. 
 
 10th of July, 1691. 
 
 LETTER CLIII. 
 
 From Captain Dunbar to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I know you are angry that I have not given 
 you an account of our proceedings. Yesterday we 
 marched from Ballanasloe to this place, where the 
 enemy defended a considerable pass of half a 
 quarter of a mile over ; in some places much more. 
 We came in view about two of the clock in the 
 afternoon, when we cannonaded one another till 
 about six at night, and then our foreigners, who 
 were on our left, were commanded to give the 
 onset, which was performed with a great deal of 
 bravery, but were beaten back by their horse, 
 till 'ours came up, and then they beat back the 
 enemy out of their trenches which they had made 
 along the bog. We did the same on the right ; 
 the dispute lasted very sharply about two hours or 
 more, and then we had the slaughtering of them 
 
 * Lord Dunluce succeeded him in both titles and estates \ 
 he was Randal, fourth Earl of Antrim. 
 
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 for four miles, and if we had had two hours or 
 more of day, we had utterly ruinated them. The 
 most modest account that 's given, says that there 
 is between six or seven thousand killed on the 
 place. Our men were this day viewed, and the 
 account that was given to Government of the loss 
 was — 1 brigadier; i colonel; 4 majors; 12 cap- 
 tains ; 9 lieutenants ; 12 ensigns ; 337 soldiers, 
 killed. 
 
 List of Wounded. — 5 colonels ; 3 lieutenant- 
 colonels ; 3 majors; 23 captains ; 33 lieutenants; 
 24? ensigns ; 781 soldiers. 
 
 All that I know, their names are Colt, Corn- 
 wal, and Fox, majors killed ; Edgworth, Temple, 
 Newton, wounded. Captain Upton is killed. We 
 had very good fortune ; we had only Ensign Jel- 
 let killed, and Ensign Tirrell wounded, with some 
 20 men killed and wounded. 
 
 Of the Enemy were taken, 
 
 Lord Bophin *. 
 Lord Bellew. 
 Lord Galmoy. 
 
 Lieutenant General Dorington. 
 Major General J. Hamilton. 
 Brigadier Gordon O'Neil. 
 
 * Story calls him Lord Buffin j he was brother to Richard the 
 eighth Earl of Clanricarde, and was created by King James 
 (after his abdication) Baron de Burgh of Bophin or Boffin.— See 
 Archdale's Irish Peerage. 
 
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 351 
 
 Lord Killmare *. 
 Lord Slane. 
 
 Colonel Neal Bourke, his Lieutenant colonel, 
 and Major. 
 Lieutenant Colonel Murtagh M'Gennis. 
 Brigadier Tuite. 
 Colonel Butler of Kilcash. 
 Colonel Matthews. — Colonel Carrol. 
 A French Lieutenant General. 
 
 And by the account that the prisoners gave 
 us, there are killed, and whose corpses were 
 found, — 
 
 Lord Gallawayf*. 
 Lord Kilmallock. 
 Baron Purcel, and his son. 
 Colonel Butler. 
 
 Colonel Moore, his Lieutenant Colonel. 
 De la Hay and his Major. 
 Colonel Felix O'Neal. 
 Colonel Barker. 
 
 Major General St. Ruth, a Frenchman 
 Brigadier Marks Talbot. 
 Colonel M'Carty. 
 Colonel Cormack O'Neil. 
 
 * Sir Nicholas Brown, alias Lord Killmare. — Story. 
 
 f " Some say Lord Galway had hard measure from some of our 
 foreign troopers, who killed him after he had surrendered pri- 
 soner." — Story. 
 
 t General of the Irish army. 
 
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 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Forty-one colours and 13 standards were 
 taken. 
 
 Aucrim near Ballanasloe, 
 13 July, 1691* 
 
 LETTER CLIV. 
 
 From Major Robert Tempest to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon at Moyrah, County of Down, North 
 of Ireland. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I hope you have received my former from 
 Athlone, wherein I gave you an account of the 
 little loss we had at Athlone and Ballymore 
 with the manner of the taking of the former. I 
 send you the manner of the attack with this unex- 
 pected successful action at Agherim in the county 
 of Galway. The enemy were very advantageously 
 posted, with a large bog and entrenchments made 
 before them, we having but two passages, one on 
 the right, the other on the left. That of our 
 right had the Castle of Agherim well manned by 
 the enemy with two pieces of cannon, trenches 
 lined behind and before it with foot, and several 
 squadrons of horse and dragoons. The main body 
 
 * This letter was written the day after the battle of Aughrim, 
 which was fought on the 12th of July. 
 
 f " The campaign opened auspiciously by the reduction of the 
 fort of Ballymore, in the county of Westmeath." — Leland. 
 
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 of horse in a hollow behind it, they had with a 
 design to break over the plains to force upon our 
 cannon, not doubting their success ; they had 
 taken all imaginable care to level the ditches from 
 before their camp, to march with full battalions 
 of foot and squadrons of horse through any defiles 
 to us and their trenches. Our General perceiv- 
 ing the enemy so well posted, drew out the lines 
 for encamping our army, not thinking it proper to 
 give them battle that night ; our guns not being 
 come up, and we strangers to the ground. The 
 General advancing forward upon a hill to take a 
 view of the enemy, an outguard of theirs ap- 
 peared, upon which he ordered some dragoons to 
 march towards them, and horse to follow ; but 
 not to engage the enemy. Yet, however, the 
 dragoons (being too forward) advanced up, and 
 fired upon them ; they returned the like, upon 
 which the dragoons pursued a little further upon 
 an ambush of theirs lying in a bog, who fired 
 upon our dragoons. By this time several of our 
 dragoons got together under a hedge, dismount, 
 and advance towards the ambush, and killed most 
 of them. Then their horse marched down in 
 very considerable bodies, on which the General 
 ordered the horse on the left wing to march down ; 
 after them the Danish foot, and upon the right 
 wing the horse and foot, and 12 pieces of cannon, 
 which were come up by this time, and played 
 upon the enemy. At six in the evening begun 
 the fight. Kirk's and Gustavus Hamilton's regi- 
 
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 ments then marching out on the right to a ditch 
 before the Castle. Sir Harry Bellasys and my 
 Lord George Hamilton's against all the lined 
 hedges and ditches, who making first to one 
 hedge, perceiving the broad way where their 
 horse should come down, as is said before, upon 
 our cannon, we crossed, and barricaded it with 
 turnpikes; and both regiments joining to one 
 another close without interval, unanimously went 
 together over a plain field, and received the ene- 
 my's fire, likewise theirs from the Castle, and 
 took possession of their works, which the enemy 
 perceiving, would not stay to charge, but imme- 
 diately retreated; here poor Jellet was killed. 
 By this time Colonels Erie and Brewer on our 
 left advanced through the bog, upon which the 
 enemy fell down again upon them and us with 
 bodies of foot and squadrons of horse, which 
 caused both Erie and Brewer to retreat, they 
 being not able to stand their force. Here Colonel 
 Erie, with Captains Bingham and Gooking of his 
 regiment, were taken prisoners, but rescued after- 
 wards by our horse, who passed a defile one by 
 one through a boggy trench. If the way had 
 been broader for the horse, it might have proved 
 unsuccessful, for the enemy would then have 
 come down from behind the Castle upon our 
 cannon, where our horse were posted, from 
 whence they would have gone up the hill towards 
 the left wing, but that ditch hindered them ; and 
 the enemy perceiving our horse standing still at 
 
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 the cannon, took their way towards their right 
 wing to come down the plains. By this time our 
 horse were ready, and having passed the defile, 
 fell in among them ; and the battalions of foot 
 that retreated advanced up with them, and put 
 the enemy to the rout. We lost one Colonel, 
 which was Herbert, and cut to pieces after quar- 
 ter. Major Colt, and Devenish and Fox were all 
 killed. 'Tis thought we shall invest Gallway on 
 Sunday next ; what happens there you shall have 
 an account of. 
 
 I am, honored Sir, yours, &c. 
 Agherim, Robert Tempest. 
 
 July 15th, 1691 *. 
 
 My service to the ladies and Mr. Sherwood. — 
 Captain Piers gives his also, and to Mr. Annesly. 
 
 One thing in the above f is observable, which is, 
 that if the dragoons had obeyed their orders, and 
 not have fired and fallen upon the enemy, which 
 was positively against the General's orders, the 
 battle had not been. Such small accidents some- 
 times hazard great bodies. 
 
 * This Letter was written the third day after the battle, 
 f See the account of the battle in Story's Wars of Ireland 
 p. 1*26, &c. 
 
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 LINE OF BATTLE AT AUGHRIM, SUNDAY, 
 JULY 12, 1691. 
 
 Right Wing of the 1st Line, interlined with Foot. 
 
 Col. Levison's Dragoons, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Col. Cuningham's * Ditto, 2 ditto. 
 
 Lord Oxford's Horse, 2 ditto. 
 
 Col. Gustavus Hamilton's Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Col. Langston's Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Lord Meath's Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Major Gen. Ruvigny Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Col. Herbert's Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Brigadier Villiers' Horse, 3 squadrons. 
 
 Right Wing of the 2d Line, interlined with Foot. 
 
 Col. Wynne's Dragoons, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Lanier Horse, 3 squadrons. 
 
 Oweslyf- Horse, 1st, 6 troops, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Brewer Foot, I battalion. 
 
 Foulk's Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Creighton Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Byerley's Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Owesly's Horse, 2d, 6 troops, 2 squadrons. 
 
 * Sir Albert Cimingham. — Story, 
 f Woolsey. — Story. 
 
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 Main Body, 1st Line. 
 
 Kirk * ; Lord Hamilton t , Bellasys X ; Erie ; 
 Gribong ; Belcastle ; Cambon -> La Melloniere. — 
 8 battalions. 
 
 Main Body, 2d Line. 
 
 Stewart ; Lord Lisburn ; Tiffin ; St. John's ; 
 Prince of Hesse ; Lord Cuts ; Count Nassau. — 7 
 battalions. 
 
 Left Wing of the 1st Line. 
 
 La Forest Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 La Prince Chrietian, Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Donapp. Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 La Prince Frederic, Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Lerlad Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Danish Guards, Foot, 1 battalion. 
 
 Boncour Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 
 Lord Portland, 3 squadrons. 
 
 Eppinger Dragoons, 3 squadrons. 
 
 Left Wing of the 2d Line. 
 
 GinkelPs Horse, 2 squadrons. 
 Scack's Horse, 2 ditto. 
 
 * Major General. 
 X Sir Henry Bellasis. 
 
 f Lord George Hamilton. 
 
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 Fuon ; Juitland ; Lecland. — 3 squadrons. 
 Nienhewse ; Rheiteren. — 2 squadrons. 
 Rheidfell ; Montpelian. — 2 ditto. 
 
 A List of the killed and wounded of the English 
 side at Aughrim, July 12, 1691. 
 
 2 colonels; 4 majors; 12 captains; 9 lieute- 
 nants ; 12 Ensigns ; 337 soldiers. — Killed. 
 
 5 colonels ; 3 lieutenant colonels ; 3 majors ; 
 23 captains; 33 lieutenants; 14 ensigns; 781 
 soldiers. — Wounded. 
 
 Of the enemy computed to be killed, 8 thousand 
 — 25 general officers and colonels killed, taken, 
 and wounded. As for captains and subalterns, 
 the number not yet known. Mons. St. Ruth *, the 
 French General, had his head shot off with a can- 
 non ball ; 9 pieces of cannon, 40 colours, and 
 standards ; all their tents, train horses, and am- 
 munition, taken. 
 
 * As the order of battle had not been communicated to Sars- 
 field, who had not lived on friendly terms with the deceased, 
 this commander was unable to form the proper dispositions, till 
 the business was decided. 
 
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 359 
 
 A List of the Irish Army as they were the day 
 before the Battle. 
 
 O'Bryan. 
 Merryon. 
 Dulany. 
 
 Mind — 8 Regiments mentioned in this list 
 were not in the Fight, 5 were in Limeric, 3 in 
 Galway. 
 
 This account given by Col. Burke, prisoner 
 with us. 
 
 July 15, Portumna, Loughreagh, Banagher, 
 and Killaloo in our possession. 
 
 Regiments of Horse. 
 
 Horse Guards. 
 Tyrconnel, Capt. Gen. 
 Galmoy, Butler Vise. 
 k. Lord Kilmallock. 
 Col. Luttrel. 
 Purcel. 
 Sunderland. 
 Abercorn, Lord. 
 Westmeath, Earl of. 
 
 p. Maxwell, Thomas. 
 Rety. 
 
 Dragoons. 
 Nugent. 
 Reily. 
 O'Neal. 
 Carrol. 
 Clifford. 
 Luttrel, Simon. 
 
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 List of the Irish Army continued. 
 Regiments of Foot. 
 
 King's Guards, Dor- 
 rington. 
 p. Maj.-gen. Hamilton, 
 p. Marcus Talbot. 
 
 Clanrickard, Earl of. 
 
 Antrim, Earl of. 
 
 Power. 
 
 Prince of Wales. 
 Saxby. 
 
 Gormanstown, Vise. 
 
 Nugent, 
 p. Bellew. 
 
 Dillon. 
 
 Louth, Lord, 
 p. Gordon O'Neal, Bri- 
 gadier. 
 k. Felix O'Neal. 
 
 Cormack O'Neal. 
 
 Hugh M'Mahon. 
 
 Art M'Mahon. 
 
 O'Cahon. 
 
 Iveagh, Lord. 
 
 Enniskillen, Lord. 
 k. Rety. 
 
 p. Slane, Lord, 
 p. Gallway, Lord, 
 p. Boffin, Lord. 
 
 O'Connor, 
 p. Burk. 
 k. Grace. 
 
 Brown. 
 
 O'Gara. 
 p. Tuite, Brigadier. 
 
 Tool. 
 
 Oxbrugh. 
 
 Kingsland. 
 , k. Moore. 
 
 Fitzgerald. 
 
 Butler. 
 k. M'Gillacuddy. 
 p. M'Carty. 
 
 O'Donnel. 
 
 O'Rorke. 
 
 O'Dogherty. 
 
 Creagh. 
 
 Scot. 
 
 Geoghegan. 
 
 Initial Letters, 
 p — Prisoner. 
 k — Killed. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 36l 
 
 LETTER CLV. 
 
 From Mr. Robert Douglas to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 On Wednesday last we had a smart party of 
 horse, foot, and dragoons marched over the river, 
 who was a little opposed by five Regiments of the 
 Irish foot, who was posted in a fort, and some 
 trenches and ditches, and in the highways near 
 the town, who were all killed and taken prisoners, 
 except about 150 who got into town. Our men 
 pursued them so closely that they shut the gates 
 on their own men, when there was about 200 of 
 them killed on the bridge. We lost but very few 
 men in the action. We did not at all fear a sally 
 that night ; for the bridge was so heaped with 
 corpses # , that if they had a mind they could not. 
 Our men brought off 6 pair of Irish colours. There 
 was about 100 of them pressed, and leaped over 
 the bridge, of which there was but one or two got 
 into town. On Wednesday about S o'clock in 
 the afternoon they beat a parley -f- which holds 
 yet. On Thursday, about 10 o'clock in the fore- 
 noon, Sarsfield and Wahab % came over the river 
 
 * Leland says, before the carnage could be stopped, 600 men 
 filled the bridge even to the battlements with their carcasses. 
 
 t The 23d of September a parley was beaten, and on the 3d 
 of October the capitulation was finally adjusted and signed. 
 
 J Story writes the name Waughup, others Wahop. 
 
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 to us in a boat, and brought some bottles of good 
 claret with them, where Lieutenant General Mac- 
 kay, Major General Rabener, and old Scraven- 
 more, met them at the river side, where they had 
 some discourse; and Sarsfield writ for Sheldon, 
 Galmoy the Primate *, and other of the chief 
 officers, who were at their horse camp, who lay 
 about nine miles from town, who came on Friday f 
 in the forenoon to our General's quarters, and 
 dined, and in the afternoon went into town. On 
 Saturday in the forenoon the foresaids came all 
 out, and dined with our General, and after din- 
 ner my Lord Cutts, Sir David Collier, Col. Tiffin, 
 and Col. Piper went into town, as hostages, and 
 four of their Lords % stayed with us. On Sunday 
 the Irish gave in their proposals, and concluded 
 this day. To-morrow our men march into 
 town, that is, into Irish town ; they have leave 
 to stay in English town for some time : they are 
 to send 900 horse to France, and as many foot as 
 will go with them. As to other particulars I can 
 give no certain account ; this day I saw Captain 
 Art O'Lavery, who gives you his humble service, 
 
 * His name was Mack-Guire. 
 
 t 25th September. This day the Earl of Westmeath, Col. 
 Sheldon, the Lord Galway, Lord Dillon, Nicholas Purcel, Esq. 
 commonly called Baron of Loughmore, the titular Primate, the 
 titular Archbishop of Cashel, Sir Theobold Butler, Major Cor- 
 don, &c. came to the camp, and dined with the General. — Diary 
 of the Siege, &c. of Limerick. 
 
 X Lords Westmeath, Iveagh, Trimblestone, and Louth. 
 
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 363 
 
 and says, he is troubled for nothing in the world 
 so much, as that he hears he has been ill repre- 
 sented to you. They talk of hanging Brigadier 
 Clifford * for letting us over the water at first. 
 Pardon this trouble from, Sir, 
 
 Your most obliged humble servant, 
 From the Camp Robert Douglass. 
 
 near Limerick, Sept. 28, 1691. 
 
 Pointon Charlton was wounded in town by one 
 of our bombs, and is since dead. I enquired for 
 Mr. Carton; he is in the County of Kerry, and 
 has most of your mares got : he is not in the army. 
 
 LETTER CLVI. 
 
 From Francis Annesly, Esq. ^ to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Portsmouth 21st May, 1692, 
 9 o'clock, Wind SW. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 This morning the Montague came to St. 
 Hellen's from the fleet, being very much shattered 
 in his mast, and rigging, and hull, by which 
 
 * " Clifford was of the number of those who contended for a 
 timely submission, and was not displeased at its taking place." — 
 Leland, vol. III. 4to, p. 613. 
 
 f Francis Annesley was born in 1663. He was son of Francis 
 Annesley, of Castle- Wellan in the county of Down, and was edu- 
 cated at the Inner Temple, from which several of his Lcttert are 
 
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 means he was disabled from keeping with the 
 fleet, and sent in hither by his flag to recruit, to 
 whom all imaginable dispatch shall be given. He 
 acquaints me that Rear-admiral Carter is killed, 
 and that yesterday the fleet was in pursuit of the 
 French. 
 
 Same date. 
 
 Captain Killingworth burnt his fire-ship on 
 board a Rear-admiral, but was put off with a great 
 deal of difficulty. He informs me that he saw a 
 French man of war of about 70 guns blow up, 
 and another 3 deck ship on fire. 
 
 22d May, 4 in the afternoon, 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 I can advise of no more than what was in my 
 last, only of the death of Rear-admiral Carter and 
 Col. Hastings ; the corpse of the latter is just now 
 come on shore. This morning came in here a 
 Dutch man of war 76 guns, who left them yester- 
 day morning about 3 o'clock, 3 miles off Cape la 
 Hogue : the French fleet distant from them two 
 
 dated. By an Act passed in the 11th and 12th of King William 
 he was appointed one of the Trustees for the sale of the for- 
 feited estates j and in the reign of Queen Anne, constituted one 
 of the Commissioners for stating the public accounts of Ireland. 
 He served in several Parliaments both in England and Ireland, 
 and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Joseph Martin. The 
 late Lord Annesley was their descendant. 
 
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 365 
 
 guns-shot, and our fleet plying to the windward 
 after them, who ply for their harbour. There is 
 no more by their report of their French fleet than 
 48 sail left, and hope by my next to give them a 
 better account of our success. 
 
 The above 3 written by Captain Wiltshire, 
 Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth to the 
 Secretary of the Admiralty. 
 
 23d May. 
 
 Lord Cornwallis * had an express from the 
 fleet, giving an account that they had reduced the 
 French fleet to 58 ; but Duke Bolton's letter to 
 the Marquis of Winchester was, that there were 
 not more left than 48. 
 
 Same day. 
 
 That we only had the Mountague, Windsor 
 Castle, and Hampton Court disabled and sent in- 
 to port ; and a Dutch man of war, called the Seven 
 Provinces : that within two days they would be 
 put in such repair as to be ready to sail to the 
 fleet again. 
 
 24th. 
 
 We have this following account that Admiral 
 
 Russel has taken - - - - 13 
 Burnt an Admiral and his two seconds, \ ^ 
 Vice Admiral and two more, in all J 
 
 19 
 
 * He was first Lord of the Admiralty. 
 
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 Brought over 19 
 
 Taken by Sir John Ashby, and Allemonde * 14 
 
 Run ashore 6 
 
 Hulks floating off the Isle of Wight, brought 1 
 in by the Mountague, fitted again for sea i 
 
 Sunk 5 
 
 48 
 
 Our men are all hearty and eager in their 
 pursuit. 
 
 That the rest of the French fleet are dispersed 
 over the face of the Sea, some to the East, some 
 to the West, some run into creeks, and on shore ; 
 never was so absolute a defeat of such a fleet, 
 which all conclude consisted of 72> the Toulon 
 fleet not being joined, but now are in Brest. 
 They must have lost a vast number of men, and I 
 believe our loss is considerable, for besides what 
 are named in the above letters, Sir Francis 
 Wheeler is killed -f-, Captain Gray don desperately 
 wounded ; but an exact account we cannot expect 
 of them for some time yet, our fleet still pursuing 
 their victory. Some are of opinion that Admiral 
 Carter had some of Monsieur's gold %, but boldly 
 
 * Admiral Allemond was the Dutch Commander. 
 
 f This, I believe, was a mistake} for Beatson says he was 
 drowned in 1694, in going to the Mediterranean. 
 
 X There is great reason to believe, says Dalrymple, that Rear 
 Admiral Carter received at this time orders from the Queen to 
 cultivate his connections with James in order to discover the de- 
 signs of that Prince, &c. But this and other calumnies were 
 
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 367 
 
 sailing up to them, was killed before he could 
 make a return. This is all that offers of this 
 mighty victory at this time, which so entirely 
 possesses our minds, that we cannot give ourselves 
 time to think of any other news of less moment. 
 
 Eight men said to be of Catinat's army were 
 taken, who intended to kill King William *. 
 
 Namur is invested by the French with 40,000, 
 the siege covered by Luxemburgh with 60,000 
 more. King William is marching with 70,000 to 
 relieve it, and to be followed with 20,000 more, 
 so that we may very soon expect to hear of action 
 from thence. We are now in great hopes of a 
 peace being concluded between the Emperor and 
 the Turk. 
 
 The names of the prisoners in the Tower. 
 The Earls of Middleton, Marlborough, Salis- 
 bury, Huntingdon, and Yarmouth ; Barnard, 
 Howard, Sir Robert Thorold, Sir Andrew Fores- 
 ter, and Colonel Langston. 
 
 In Newgate. 
 
 Col. James Hales, Col. Thomas Powel, Col. 
 John Williams, Major John Langston, Major Ne- 
 vet Hastings, Captain Thomas Brereton, Dr. Ro- 
 
 completely done away, when finding himself mortally wounded, 
 he recommended to Captain Wright, who commanded his ship, 
 to fight her as long as she could swim. 
 
 * This was Grandval's plot. — See Belsham's History of Eng- 
 land, vol. I. wherein you will see the steps taken by the Queen 
 to counteract the schemes of the Jacobite Emissaries at this time. 
 
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 bert Ingram, Mr. Giles Wilcox, and Mr. Daniel 
 Brett; Mr. Collier, Mr. Newton, and widow 
 Powel. 
 
 In the Gate House. 
 
 Robert Paston, Sir Richard White, and Cap- 
 tain Reding; besides several other Lords, and 
 Gentlemen daily bringing up to town. Colonel 
 Slingsby is also taken. 
 
 Our victory at Sea gives us fresh hopes of a de- 
 scent upon France, all things being fitted for the 
 purpose ; and never was the Jacobite party so de- 
 jected as at this time. I hope you will pardon 
 the indigested method I send you this in, not 
 having time, being very late to transcribe it. 
 
 I am your most humble servant, 
 May 24, 1692. Francis Annesley. 
 
 LETTER CLVII. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 Since my last we have been so happy as to 
 receive some account from Admiral Russel of our 
 victory at Sea, as that he had sent in Admiral 
 Rooke with a squadron of ships and fire-ships, 
 and all the boats in the fleet to Cape la Hogue 
 Bay, where they burnt on the 23d instant 6 great 
 ships, and the next morning 6 more of them, the 
 least of 60 guns, and several of them of 90, and 
 
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 one of 56 guns was wreckt upon the coast ; be- 
 sides these, there were 3 blown up in the first en- 
 gagement of first and second rates. Delavalle * 
 burnt Tourville's ship of 104 guns, with his two 
 seconds of 90 guns each, a Vice-admiral, and the 
 ship the Fort, in all 21 ; their fleet when they first 
 engaged consisting but of 49. It is agreed on all 
 hands that we have destroyed the above number, 
 but the particulars of the whole cannot as yet be 
 certain. We have not lost one ship, but four that 
 were disabled, of which I formerly made mention : 
 our loss of men is very inconsiderable, considering 
 the execution done. The day after the engage- 
 ment Admiral Tourville received orders from his 
 Master to return with his fleet to Brest to join 
 Admiral D'Estree, for that our whole fleet were 
 together in readiness to receive them. So that it 
 is concluded their design was to have taken the 
 advantage of Admirals Carter and Delavalle's 
 squadron, which consisted but of 36, and to have 
 managed them, so as to have made way for the 
 safe conduct of their Transport ships, with their 
 army, to have poured in upon us here, and we 
 may thank our Protestant winds for the escape. 
 Admiral Russel with his squadron is come to Spit- 
 head : ^.100,000 is lent by the City, ^.30,000 
 of which is to be distributed among the seamen 
 
 * The Soleil Royal, having lost her masts, ran ashore, toge- 
 ther with the Admirable, another first-rate, and the Conquerant 
 of 80 guns, near Cherbourg, where they were followed and 
 burnt by Sir Ralph Delaval. 
 
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 for their service*. Medals are also preparing to 
 be given the officers. Colonel Hastings, who was 
 killed in the engagement, was with great pomp 
 carried from the City to St. Anne's Church to be 
 buried, the solemnity of a Nobleman's funeral not 
 being greater. The Prince and Princess of Den- 
 mark are returned to the Cock Pitt, the difference 
 between the Queen and her being composed. It 
 is thought this day our armies in Flanders fought. 
 King William has 90,000 men w r ith him to raise 
 the siege -f*. I saw a Merchant's letter in the 
 City this night, that gave an account of the sur- 
 render of Great- Warradln ^, and of a defeat the 
 Turks have had, but how to credit it I know not : 
 the reports of our success being oftner the effects 
 of our inclinations than of any good ground for 
 them. I shall not add further, but with my hum- 
 ble service to my Lady Rawdon, Mrs. Dorothy, 
 and Mrs. Brilliana, do give them the repeated 
 assurance of my being, honored Sir, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 Inner Temple, Francis Annesley. 
 
 May 29, 1692. 
 
 * In England a present of ^.30,000 was given by the Qupen 
 to the seamen, and public funerals were bestowed upon those 
 officers whose bodies were brought on shore. 
 
 f On his way he heard that Namur had capitulated to the 
 French King, 5th of June, 1G92. 
 
 + This town did not surrender to the Imperialists till the 
 June following, and after a blockade of six months. 
 
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 Eleven of the 21 ships the French lost were 3 
 deck-ships ; the loss of their men is very great, 
 which will not easily be made up. All our fleets 
 (except Sir John Ashby's squadron, which is still 
 on the French coast) are now at St. Hellen's, 
 whither Lord Rochester, Sidney, Portland, and 
 Lord Gallway are gone to consult with Ad. Rus- 
 sel to reward the seamen, some say about the 
 descent * we are to make. We have burnt 60 
 transport ships of the French in the Bay of Caen, 
 the value of which is not very great. 
 
 Superscribed : — 
 For Sir Arthur Rawdon, Baronett, in the North 
 
 of Ireland. 
 
 LETTER CLVHI. 
 
 From the same to the same, preceded by a Peti- 
 tion from certain loyal Protestant Subjects to 
 the English Parliament. 
 
 The Humble Petition of several Subscribers 
 in behalf of themselves, and the British Protes- 
 tants of Ireland : 
 
 Sheweth — 
 
 That in the reigns of the several Kings of 
 England since the first conquest of Ireland, many 
 of the Irish for their Rebellions have been out- 
 
 * Which, to the disappointment of the publick, never took 
 place. 
 
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 lawed for high treason, and their estates and 
 honors forfeited to, and vested in the Crown: 
 that most of the English who planted themselves 
 there, purchased the said estates from the Crown 
 for valuable considerations, that notwithstanding 
 the long continuance of their possession to this 
 time, many of the Heirs of the said forfeiting 
 persons, some of whom have been in parts beyond 
 the seas, ever since the attainder of their ances- 
 tors ; and do now intend to bring Writs of Error 
 to reverse them, all such Writs being grantable 
 as they alledge Ex Debito Justiticv to the subjects. 
 
 By which means the Irish will be restored to 
 their blood estates, honors, and all other privi- 
 ledges and liberties, which they lost by such at- 
 tainders : and the English who purchased such 
 estates with the price of their blood and treasure, 
 be deprived thereof, which will tend greatly to 
 the weakening of the English interest and sup- 
 port, and encourage the Irish, and may prove of 
 dangerous consequence to the Crown of England, 
 unless timely prevented. 
 
 Fran. Brewster*, 
 
 Fran. Annesley -f~, 
 
 Ed. Dean %, 
 
 Ja. Hamilton §, 
 
 * Francis Brewster represented the borough of Middleton. 
 f Francis Annesley represented the borough of Bangor. 
 X Edward Dean represented the county of Dublin. 
 § James Hamilton of Tullamore represented the borough of 
 Downpatrick. 
 
JIAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 373 
 
 Tho. Brodrick *, 
 
 Ja. Hamilton -}■*, 
 
 Ja. Sloane J, 
 
 Hans Hamilton §. 
 May it therefore please your Honors for obviat- 
 ing any doubts that may arise hereon to take the 
 same into consideration, and that such methods 
 may be taken for the security of the Protestant 
 interest of that kingdom, as in your wisdom shall 
 be thought fit, and your Petitioners will ever 
 pray. 
 
 The occasion of the Petition here sent was from 
 a question proposed to the Judges, whether Writs 
 of Error grantable to the subject ex Debito Jus- 
 titiae, or ex gratia of the King. In consequence 
 thereof, the Petition will show that it was pre- 
 sented by Mr. Wharton, and received kindly by 
 the House, who referred it to the Committee of 
 the whole House, who is to consider of the Bill 
 of Forfeitures ; Tuesday next being appointed for 
 the purpose : you will find by the Subscribers how 
 few there are who care for concerning themselves 
 for the public, tho' the town is full of the Gentry 
 of Ireland. It is resolved that they shall have a 
 Parliament about the end of April in Ireland, in 
 order to which some Bills are already transmitted 
 
 * Thomas Brodrick represented the county of Cork. 
 
 f James Hamilton of Bangor represented the county of Down. 
 
 I James Sloane represented the borough of Killileagh. 
 
 § Hans Hamilton also represented the borough of Killileagh. 
 
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 hither— 4 4 A Poll Bill, a Bill for 2s. in the pound 
 upon Land," " A Bill to disable all Papists to dis- 
 inherit Protestant heirs," and <c also Papist Heirs 
 to inherit." By that you see we must be treated 
 as formerly, and this is occasioned by some offi- 
 cious persons, who have assured the Court that 
 most of the Members of the last Parliament were 
 sensible of their mistake in the late Vote of the 
 sole Right *, and if they might have an opportu- 
 nity to meet again together, they would act other- 
 wise : it nearly concerning the Gentlemen to be 
 careful in the choice of their Members for the 
 ensuing Parliament. I hope they will use their 
 interest at Hillsborough, and in other places to 
 get such made choice of, as will stand up for the 
 interest of the Kingdom, never more occasion 
 than now. I fear your Parliament will not be 
 long-lived ; what you intend to have done therein 
 ought to be ready the first day of the Session to 
 bring into the House, so that it may get the 
 assent before differences arise to send them home 
 again. A great change will be made at Court, as 
 is said ; Seymour and Hampden is to be laid aside, 
 and Secretary Trenchard to be made Commis- 
 sioner of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Ex- 
 chequer ; and it's said Lord Carmarthen will be 
 out, and Lord Shrewsbury succeed him ; that 
 Lord Hallifax will come again into play, but all 
 this is uncertain , the Lieutenancy thro' England 
 
 * Of originating money Bills in the House of Common*. 
 
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 is to be changed. The Commissions are not all 
 given out as yet for the new levies ; you are not 
 to be employed because you did not behave your- 
 self so well as was expected last Parliament * : 
 so of Nick Price, who had a promise of being 
 Lieutenant Colonel to Courthrop. At the end of 
 the Land-tax for Ireland there is a clause, that if 
 it shall not amount to ^.100,000 sterling, it shall 
 be made good so much. As soon as the money is 
 given here, which will be about the latter end of 
 next month, the Parliament will be sent home. 
 I do not find that either our fleet or army are in 
 any great forwardness. My health is much im- 
 paired of late, and therefore know not whether I 
 shall be able to see Ireland, so soon as expected, 
 but will if possible. Pray give my most humble 
 service to my Lady and your sisters. 
 
 I am, honored Sir, 
 
 Your most humble servant, 
 
 Fran. Annesley. 
 
 Inner Temple, 
 February 24, 1693. 
 
 * Sir Arthur Rawdon, with five other members of Parliament, 
 had from civility asked the Lord Lieutenant's permission (Lord 
 Sidney) to do what they could have done without it j that is, 
 " to send agents to wait on the King* on the affairs of the Pro- 
 testants in Ireland." They were refused with much intemper- 
 ance, and Sir Arthur Rawdon was immediately after dismissed 
 from the government of his county. The answer given to them 
 was, " that they might go to England to beg their Majesties' 
 pardon, for their seditious and riotous assemblies." 
 
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 LETTER CLIX. 
 
 Of the following Letter neither the Writer, nor 
 the Person to whom it is addressed, are now 
 known. It gives an account of the Battle of 
 Landen, or Neer-wender, which was fought the 
 29th of July, 1693. 
 
 I suppose before this you have had a dismal 
 account of our battle, and to speak the truth, 
 there was some reason for it ; but now we begin 
 to get our troops together, we dont find ourselves 
 half so much beaten as at first we thought we 
 were. I will not pretend to give you the particu- 
 lars of the battle, but in general it was well 
 fought for five hours, and while the stress of the 
 business lay on the foot, and the Spanish horse, 
 we lost not one foot of ground; but as soon as 
 the Dutch horse came to be pushed, they gave 
 way in less than 2 minutes, and put all in confu- 
 sion, and in 5 minutes the battle was lost, and 
 every body began to run. I am sorry to tell you 
 some of the English horse made as much haste to 
 preserve their dear persons, as any body there. 
 Untill the damned misfortune of those devils giv- 
 ing way, we had much the better of the day, and 
 would they but have stood the shock, we had cer- 
 tainly carried it. Their loss of men, I believe, is 
 much greater than our's, only they got the honor 
 
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 of the day *, and most of our great guns. We 
 have not one general officer killed but Count 
 Solmes*j~; the Duke of Ormond prisoner, and 
 wounded. The French have lost 4 Lieutenant- 
 generals, 7 Brigadier-generals, and many other 
 field officers, and many wounded. I believe some 
 have been foolish enough to give an account of 
 our loss, but they, I am sure, must be mistaken : 
 for we shall not be able these 8 or ten days to do 
 it, many of our men being gone to Holland, which 
 are sent for back. I am very well satisfied we lost 
 very near as many of our English the last year, 
 as we have done now. We have all now had our 
 bellies full of fighting, and yet there is not an 
 English Colonel killed, and but few wounded. 
 The French had 96 battalions, and 240 squadrons, 
 and we but 5% battalions and 120 squadrons, 
 so that, I hope, the inequality of our numbers 
 may plead our excuse. 
 
 Further particulars of the Battle of Landen, with 
 some account of the killed and wounded on 
 the part of the allies, dated August 6, 1693, at 
 Eppegem. 
 
 W r e can't yet make any exact computation of 
 our loss in the late battle, many straglers coming 
 
 * The King of France, Louis 14th, when he read the account 
 of this Battle, declared " that Luxemburgh had attacked like 
 Conde, and that the Prince of Orange (William III.) had re- 
 treated like Turenne." 
 
 f Count de Solmes, says Burnet, had his leg shot off by a 
 cannon-ball, of which he died in a few hours. 
 
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 in daily ; but 'tis certain 'tis not so great as that 
 of Steinkirk, and yet the French, according to 
 their own account, have lost more than double the 
 number. 
 
 The French Surgeons, under whose care the 
 Duke of Ormond is at Namur, have assured his 
 Grace that he is not in any danger from his wounds. 
 
 The French army continues between Hannuye 
 and Borchloen, not being able to undertake any 
 thing, through the great loss they have sustained. 
 
 The Duke of Berwick is sent to Antwerp. We 
 have not lost one Colonel of the English army, 
 and not more than one or two field officers, be- 
 sides the Count de Solmes, who is dead of his 
 wounds. 
 
 The Spanisli troops are encamped near Brux- 
 elles, and the detachment under the Duke of 
 Wirtemberg near Alost, but all the parts of the 
 army will join in a very few days. 
 
 Killed. 
 
 Lieutenant Col. Whaley, ^ 
 
 Major Wilson, /Fusiliers. 
 
 Captain Ruthuen, ^ 
 
 Lieutenant Col. Wingfield— Guards. 
 
 Major Peyton, ^ 
 
 Captain Norwood, \ '• . .... 
 n r r . ^Churchill's. 
 Captain (Salisbury, 
 
 Captain Barry, J 
 
 Captain Crofts, -j 
 
 Captain Carol, / Trelawny. 
 
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 Captain Barrington — Erie's. 
 Captain Huicosa — Tidcomb's. 
 Lieutenant CoL Douglas — Mackay. 
 Mons. Gransar, one of the King's Aids-du- 
 Camp. 
 
 Wounded. 
 
 Count de Solms, since dead. 
 Lieutenant Col. William Seymour. 
 Sir Charles Hara. 
 Col. Fitzpatrick. 
 Brigadier Erie. 
 
 Lieutenant Col. John Seymour. 
 Lieut. Col. Clud. 
 
 Prisoners. 
 
 Duke of Ormond. 
 
 Lieut. General Scravenmore. 
 
 Major General Zuleysten. 
 
 Col. Lawder. 
 
 Col. Mackay. 
 
 Major Moreton. 
 
 Captain Lord, of the Horse. 
 
 The nearest computation we can make is, that 
 there are not above 4 or 5000 men killed and 
 wounded ; and the French, by their own relation, 
 have lost 15,000. 
 
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 LETTER CLX. 
 
 From Mr. J. Reading * to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 Sir, 
 
 Your most obliging letter and present I re- 
 ceived, and return you my hearty thanks, and 
 would be sincerely glad if I could sufficiently ac- 
 knowledge them. I will take as much care as 
 possible of the myrtles, and will presume in the 
 season to trouble you, if these fail. Last Tuesday 
 night my Lord Mount Alexander, Mr. Thomas 
 Broderick, Col. Allen, Major Deane, and I were 
 together, consulting whether it would be more 
 for our advantage to wave our sole right -f- at this 
 juncture, or have no Parliament. This seems to 
 be positively the question, for the King is by 
 those about him so fully possest that it is a 
 branch of his prerogative, and is so very jealous 
 of losing the least flower thereof (having declared 
 the Crown shall be no worse for his wearing), that 
 all our friends in England agree he will never call 
 a Parliament in this Kingdom, until he has a fair 
 prospect that they will receive a Money Bill. I 
 must confess, I am almost at a stand, but rather 
 
 * Swift incloses letters to Stella, under cover, to a Mr. Read- 
 ing, 1711. John Reading represented the Borough of Swords. 
 
 t " That it was, and is, the sole and undoubted right of the 
 Commons to prepare heads of Bills for raising money." After 
 the prorogation of the Irish Parliament on 6th April, 1692, no 
 Parliament was suffered to meet till the 27th August, 1695. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
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 incline (as all the above-named did) to receiving 
 a Bill. Their reasons were the great necessity of 
 a Parliament upon so great many reasons, which 
 I need not mention to you, who know them so 
 well. The many grievances we may reasonably 
 expect to have redrest there : the assurance we 
 have that many good Bills are prepared ready to 
 be sent us, and time given us to form such others 
 as we ourselves think necessary. The fair hopes 
 we have that the King upon the request of his 
 people (which they can never have opportunity to 
 make out of Parliament), will by Act of Parlia- 
 ment, confirm that priviledge *, which will be 
 most easily demonstrated to be altogether useless, 
 or rather prejudicial to him, and so absolutely 
 necessary to us. Besides another reason which 
 sways particularly with me. That I find all the 
 Courtiers, Lord Sidney's, -f- Lord Coningsby's, and 
 Lord Chancellor's J party, earnestly bent for stick- 
 ing to the vote of the Sole Right, and I always 
 suspect any thing that comes from my enemy. 
 It is not desired that we should pass the Bill sent 
 into the house, but only to receive and reject it, 
 if we please, for any other reason than that given 
 in last Parliament. I do not question but this 
 point has been debated § with you in the North, 
 
 * Claimed by the Commons, of originating all Money Bills, 
 f Lord Sidney, Lord Deputy ; LordConingsby, Lord Treasurer. 
 X Sir Charles Porter. — 
 
 Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. — Virgil. 
 
 § In consequence of the Debates which this subject gave rise 
 to, Mr. Molyneux, a Member of the Irish House of Commons, 
 
38* 
 
 RAWDON PATERS. 
 
 and I should be very glad of your opinion therein, 
 for nothing was resolved on, but that every one 
 should consult his friends. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours, &c. 
 Dublin, J. Reading. 
 
 October the 13th, 1694. 
 
 LETTER CLX1. 
 
 From the Earl of Breadalbane to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon. 
 
 Honored Cusine *, 
 
 I received your's the 31st of July, two days 
 ago, very acceptably and kindly -f-. My impri- 
 sonment, and the pretended cause thereof, has 
 
 and Representative of the University of Dublin, four years after 
 (1698), published his book called " The Case of Ireland being 
 bound by Acts of the English Parliament," &c. a book too well 
 known to require any further notice in this place. 
 * Thus the original. 
 
 f The following extract from Burnet's History of his Own 
 Times will tend to Jhrow some light on this Letter : tt A Parlia- 
 ment," says he, " was held in Scotland in 1695, and an enquiry 
 was instituted on the subject of the massacre of Glenco, in the 
 progress of which a new practice of the Earl of Breadalbane was 
 discovered. The Highlanders deposed, that, while his Lordship 
 was treating with them about submitting to the King, he at the 
 same time assured them that he still adhered to King James's in- 
 terest, and that he only wished to secure their pacification, till 
 a more favourable opportunity offered. This, with some other 
 treasonable discourses of his, being reported to the Parliament, 
 
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 383 
 
 made great noise in these parts of the world, 
 which has obliged my relations to make the nar- 
 rower enquiries into it, for which I am obliged to 
 my unfriends, being, that upon the scrutiny it is 
 found, that my actings have been honorable, and 
 such as did become a good country-man, in en- 
 deavouring and procuring the peace and quiet of 
 this nation, which, I bless God for, we have fully 
 enjoyed ever since that Treaty was concluded 
 with the Highlanders ; for the management where- 
 of, altho* by the King's and Queen's express in- 
 structions, am I brought into this place, notwith- 
 standing of his Majesty's approbation under his 
 
 he covered himself with his pardon. But, as it happened that 
 these discourses were subsequent to the pardon, he was sent a 
 prisoner to the Castle of Edinburgh. He, however, still pre- 
 tended he had secret orders from the King to say any thing that 
 would give him credit 5 which the King owned so far, that he 
 ordered a new pardon to be past for him." Macky, in speaking 
 of the nobility of Scotland, says, of this Lord Breadalbane, " that 
 he was always on the side he could get most by, and that he 
 would get all he could of both and Swift in a manuscript on 
 the same Lord observes, <e that he was a blundering, rattle-pated, 
 drunken sot." 
 
 Laing, in his History of Scotland, is of opinion, that the plan 
 of the massacre of Glenco was suggested by Breadalbane's re- 
 venge, and was adopted by the cruel policy of Dairy mple, the 
 master of Stair, the- Secretary ; and it plainly appeared after 
 diligent investigation, that the guilt which attached to the mas- 
 sacre, was transferred to Dairy mple, and that the instructions 
 given by the King contained no warrant to justify such a 
 slaughter. King William was a soldier in the true sense of the 
 word ; and no soldier could conceive, or sanction, such a dark 
 and cruel transaction. 
 
884 
 
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 own hand, after perfecting and giving him an ac- 
 count thereof. This misfortune is the effect of 
 having Parliaments when the King is absent and 
 at a great distance ; and the management of his 
 affairs, entrusted in few hands, who have not been 
 long statesmen. I cannot blame the King for my 
 usage, for he exprest his dissatisfaction when he 
 heard of it, and I expect by the first post his 
 order for my being set at liberty. Nor can I 
 blame the Nobility, all of them voting against it, 
 except 5 or 6 who were tied by their pensions, or 
 by their expectations to follow the King's mana- 
 gers. The principal Gentry who were present, 
 were also against it ; but our Parliament being 
 made up by it's constitution of Peers and Bur- 
 gesses, the last outvoted the rest by 10 or 12, by 
 great chance ; these being the very tradesmen of 
 these towns, who generally are brought over with 
 very small promises, from what they judge for the 
 time to be the rising side, but in superior votes 
 at my trial. My friends carried the Plurality, 
 and if our Parliament had sat out the forms of the 
 trial, I doubt not but to have been absolved by 
 the vote. The Impeachment itself having but an 
 ill aspect, nor was there any evidence to be found, 
 but one Highland M'Donald to prove it : the rest 
 of the chieftains denied their knowledge to any 
 such expression, altho' they were committed to 
 close prison many days, and until the Parliament 
 was up, but still adhered to their honesty ; so that 
 in law the Impeachment falls, and I am at the 
 
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 King's disposal, as to my liberation, for we have 
 not the Law of " Habeas Corpus." I doubt not 
 but there be various representations made in your 
 Kingdom, therefore I have sent you a brief ac- 
 count of the matter of fact * for your own satisfac- 
 tion, and such as are my friends, but not to give 
 copies of it. I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most affectionate Cusine, 
 
 and very humble servant, 
 Edinburgh Castle, Breadaxbane. 
 August 19, 1695. 
 
 LETTER CLXII. 
 
 The following Letter is addressed to Captain 
 Samuel Warren, near Loughbrickland. 
 
 Writer unknown. 
 
 Whitehall, 23d June, 1698. 
 
 Plymouth 19. 
 
 Yesterday came in his Majesty's ship the Fe- 
 ver sham, from Rouen, where she landed 160 Po- 
 pish Priests from Ireland. The following 9 per- 
 sons are constituted under the Seal of the Royal 
 Fishery Company of England, to take subscrip- 
 tions in Ireland, in order to carry on that advan- 
 tageous trade, viz. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, 
 Mr. Rochfort, Speaker of the House of Commons, 
 the Solicitour General, Sir Arthur Shaw, Sir Ri- 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
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 chard Cox, Col. Hamilton, Col. Lovet, Mr. Ro> 
 binson Vice Treasurer, Mr. May, Mr. Meddlicot, 
 Mr. Worth, Mr. Smith, Mr. Ludlow, &c. The 
 said Company intend to settle the said Royal 
 Fishery at Aberysthwith, and other places in 
 Wales : their undertaking being highly approved 
 by most people. 
 
 Paris, 25 May. 
 
 The French are in motion on their frontiers to- 
 wards their intended encampment at Compiegne ; 
 and the Duke of Savoy is gone to visit Nice ; and 
 his forces being in perpetual motion, seems that 
 they have some design on foot. The declaration 
 of the French Protestants at Cologne, and other 
 provinces is, that they resolve to die in the Com- 
 munion of the Reformed Church, which much 
 puzzles the Intendants, who expect orders from 
 Court in what relates to them. 
 
 This day Sir Robert Clayton reported the ad- 
 dress touching Londonderry, which was agreed 
 to, and ordered to be presented to his Majesty by 
 the Members of the Privy Council. The East 
 India Bill is ordered to be engrossed. The Lords 
 have passed the Poll Bill without amendment. 
 The report of Goodman's return * , and the burn- 
 ing of Bath, is false. 
 
 Whitehall, 25 June, 1698. 
 
 * Goodman absconded on the trial of Sir John Fen wick. 
 
R A WD ON PAPERS. 
 
 387 
 
 Vienna, 18 May. 
 We all talk now of a peace with more assurance 
 than ever, and that in all probability it may be 
 concluded this campaign, unless some consider- 
 able enterprise hinder it ; the Turks having de- 
 clared that the Muscovites shall be included in 
 the year. The dispatches from Poland and Ve- 
 nice, without which the Lord Paget's secretary 
 cannot return to Adrianople, are not yet arrived ; 
 in the mean time 'tis thought that if the Musco- 
 vite Ambassadors come time enough, we shall 
 endeavour to get some dispatches from them, and 
 so finish the war with the Port. Great prepara- 
 tions are making for their reception. 
 
 Paris, 29 May. 
 We hear that at the Earl of Portland's request, 
 all those whose names he gave in that were sent 
 and to be sent to the galleys, or imprisoned on 
 the account of religion, are to be set at liberty. 
 
 Hague, 29 May. 
 
 The Sieur Jourdan, Lieutenant General to the 
 King of Poland, is arrived here, and is going to 
 France with character of Envoy. 
 
 The French merchants will be tried next 
 Thursday in the Court of Requests in Westmin- 
 ster, and it is said the King will go the day after 
 to the House of Peers, and put an end to the ses- 
 sion of Parliament, and his Majesty's servants are 
 ordered to be ready to attend him to Holland. 
 
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 Sir Thomas Littleton reported the resolution 
 for taking off the duty on tobacco, paper, glass, 
 other wares, &c. and for raising a duty on wheat, 
 beer, and Scotch linen, to which the House 
 agreed, and a Bill to be brought in. 
 
 LETTER CLXIII. 
 
 From Sir Hans Sloane to Sir Arthur Rawdon. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I hope by this you are very much advanced 
 in ) our garden ; yesterday I was at Chelsey, where 
 all things look very well ; he has just now received 
 a third or fourth parcel from his man James, most 
 of all which are either trees or arborescent plants, 
 or bulbs, those being the most obvious. I do not 
 believe he has got above one hundred in all. Some 
 few days ago there came in a ship from Jamaica. 
 She brought from the Bahama Islands some part 
 of a great wreck, which was made of a Spanish 
 galleon in^that place about the year 1643. It had 
 lain there, being forced in on rocks by bad wea- 
 ther, till the whole wood of the ship was con- 
 sumed by worms or otherwise. There have been 
 ever since that several attempts made by several 
 persons to find out that treasure which was rec- 
 koned to be many millions, but all in vain, till in 
 August last one Captain Phipps *, a new England 
 
 * Afterwards Sir William Phipps, whose scheme of fishing on 
 a Spanish wreck off Hispaniola was very much promoted by the 
 
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 S89 
 
 man, applied in such a manner to the Duke of 
 Albemarle* that he went and got some partners 
 who got a patent of the King to take up wrecks 
 for three years successively, and having put in 
 every one his share of 2400 pounds, the ship set 
 sail with their cargo for Jamaica, designing that 
 if they succeeded not in their attempts this way, 
 they would make a trading voyage thither. But 
 after having been a long time on the rocks with- 
 out finding any remainder of the ship, or signs of 
 the money, at length one of their divers in a 
 canoa found out by a piece of a stick that stood 
 over the place that there was there treasure, they 
 being East Indians, and used to fish for pearls in 
 their native country. One of them immediately 
 dived, and found under a rock on which grew 
 vast quantity of coral, first an enamelled pair of 
 silver stirrups with coral growing on them to a 
 pretty length, and coming up told his fellows the 
 good news, and desired they would give him an 
 iron crow to break the coral, which having done 
 he fourld vast numbers of pieces of eights, which 
 they brought up by thousands, sticking together, 
 the sea water having dissolved some of the allay 
 or copper mixt with the silver, and made it into 
 verdigrease, which has fastned them together. 
 
 Duke of Albemarle. By Phipps's exertions s£.300,000 in silver 
 were recovered from the bottom of the sea, where it had lain 44 
 years, of which a£.90,000 fell to the Duke's share, and ^.20,000 
 to Captain Phipps. 
 
 * Christopher, second Duke of Albemarle j ht was Governor 
 of Jamaica. 
 
390 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 There has likewise been a petrifaction on the top 
 of them all, to about the thickness of half an inch ; 
 besides 15 tuns of these pieces of eight, they have 
 a great many ingots of Mexicon silver in bars, 
 and some quantity of gold, although but little, for 
 the divers could not come up with it, it was so 
 weighty ; they used bells or that way of diving 
 very little, because their steams which came from 
 their bodies infected them so much that they 
 could not breathe easily. The Duke of Albe- 
 marle has for his share about 50,000 or 60,000 
 pounds worth of cobs, bars, gold, plate, and pre- 
 tious stones ; he has got some saphirs, emeralds, 
 and rubies, being the only stones these countries 
 afford. They intend to melt down their silver, 
 and to try whether there may not be gold mixt 
 with it, they alledging that the former proprietors 
 might mix their gold and silver to defraud the 
 King of Spain of his Customs. At its first coming 
 in, the ship was seized on by the Judge of the 
 Admiralty, but on my Lord Duke's application it 
 was immediately taken off by the King. The 
 Spanish Ambassador put in a memorial about it 
 to shew that he could prove by the stamps or 
 marks that it was once his master's ; and further 
 that his master might let his money lie as long at 
 the bottom of the sea as he pleased, to which I 
 know not what was replied, but now the money 
 is divided, I believe 'twill be hard for him to get 
 it. The ship being forced of the place with bad 
 weather, came away without bringing all ; I be- 
 
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 391 
 
 lieve she'll set sail with us * for the same place, 
 from whence you shall hear from me, but I intend 
 to give you another letter before I go. I hope 
 you are all well. I am concerned about your late 
 loss. I am sure there is no body in the world has 
 a truer esteem and respect for you than myself, 
 and you will oblige me in letting me hear from 
 you when I am so remote. I believe we shall not 
 stay long ; but, however, if long or short, every 
 opportunity you shall hear from me. I do not 
 forget birds, &c. for you. You may direct your 
 Letter as formerly, and venture it to Mr. Wilkin- 
 son, and if gone, I will order it to be sent with 
 any other letters. 
 
 London, I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. 
 
 May 21, I687. Hans Sloane. 
 
 My humble service to your family. 
 
 LETTER CLXIV. 
 From the same to the same. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I received yours, and some days ago gave a 
 packet of seeds to be sent or carried you by Mr. 
 
 * J)r. Sloane embarked for Jamaica, as Physician to the Duke 
 of Albemarle, on the 12th of September following, in the 2Sth 
 year of his age, he being bom at Kiltileaghin the County of Down 
 in Ireland, April 16*, 1660. Dr. Sloane returned from his voyage 
 on the 29th of May, 16S9, after a stay in Jamaica of 15 months. 
 Dr. Sloane was recommended to the Duke by Dr. Barwick, who 
 had been Physician to Charles the Second. He was a man of un- 
 common skill and diligence in his profession ; and died in 1705. 
 
392 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 Dunbar, in which are at least 40 several seeds, 
 and if you please to sow the dust as well as the 
 larger seeds, there will certainly rise a great many 
 of them ; and if you please to bestow large water- 
 ing, I believe it will be so much the better, for 
 that in the countries where they grow, a fortnight's 
 rain together, so that the whole face of the earth 
 is covered (and consequently the seeds) with wa- 
 ter, never misses to bring a very plentiful spring. 
 When you are settled any where about gardening, 
 you shall not want all the seeds I can scrape to- 
 gether for you, and then I design you some more 
 I reserve for you till that time. I am very glad 
 to hear the good news of your Lady's being 
 brought to bed of a boy ; I wish you would con- 
 firm it me by a line from yourself, and how she 
 does, and whether her tetters be not quite va- 
 nished, she used so much to complain of here in 
 town, and for which no physic could be given 
 during her Ladyship's being with child. You'll 
 please to give my humble service to all the Ladies 
 with you, and command me freely if I may serve 
 you, who am 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 London, Hans Sloane. 
 
 April 29, 1690. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 393 
 
 LETTER CLXV. 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 On Tuesday last the carrier came to town 
 with your Letter, and Mr. Sherard * having been 
 forced to go to Oxford, I went with his brother -f- 
 to Chelsey, and saw all the plants in Mr. Sherard's 
 list in the pots and box, from whence they were 
 brought yesterday morning, put on the waggon 
 very carefully in order to come to you, which I 
 hope and do not question but they may. The 
 carrier was at first afraid he could not, and after- 
 wards unwilling to carry them for fear they should 
 come to damage, but we on consideration of the 
 hands your money was in, and of the hazard the 
 plants would be in any place about town, per- 
 suaded him to take as many as he could on any 
 other goods, which he did, and give one or two 
 to another carrier at about Id. per pound. The 
 carrier shewed, I must say, at last when he under- 
 stood it, good will enough to the matter, and I 
 do not question but you will have them safe. The 
 cedrus libani and cyclamen you desired, could 
 
 * Dr. William Sherard, the particular friend of Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon, with whom he spent some time at Moira. 
 
 f Dr. James Sherard j for an account of both, and a copious 
 selection of these Letters, see the first volume of Nichols's " Il- 
 lustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century." 
 
394 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 not be sent ; the one was too big, and the other 
 could not be found, but that may come after with 
 Mr. Sherard. We have no news now here, but 
 what must come from your parts ; the King is 
 yesterday morning gone for Chester, and all 
 things are here quiet and easy. Chelsey garden, 
 nor none here improves, and philosophy seems to 
 be asleep. The news from Yorkshire bring the 
 figure of the great church seen in the clouds at 
 sun rising. Mr. Ray * has published his " Sy- 
 nopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum" and 
 Dr. Plukenet is hard at work on his book of 
 plants. I spoke to my brother about your busi- 
 ness, who complains of my Lord Macclesfield's 
 being hard to have to do withall, and difficulties 
 in it ; but I suppose he has ere this done it, and 
 sent it you. I hope your Lady and the rest with 
 you are well, of which I shall be extremely glad 
 to hear. I wish you all health and prosperity, 
 and remain, dear Sir, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 London, Hans Sloane. 
 
 June .5, 1690. 
 
 * See Pulteney's Biographical Sketches for an account of Ray 
 and Plukenet. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 395 
 
 LETTER CLXVL 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I received yours, and thank you very much 
 for it, being extremely glad to hear of your's and 
 your family's welfare. Mr. Charlton was a sub- 
 scriber, and had a right to what the Quaker 
 brought from Barbadoes, and so consequently has 
 his seeds, and has put by for you some of each 
 sort which shall be sent you by the first oppor- 
 tunity, and I question not but that you may raise 
 very many of them, they seeming to be very fresh. 
 I met Dr. Moulins's brother last night, he being 
 newly come to town ; he says, he paid James the 
 two bills for 60/. and that he had gathered toge- 
 ther near 500 plants, designing over by the next 
 fleet, which I believe will not sail from thence 
 till this gone now from hence shall arrive there, 
 so that 'tis not likely he will be here this 8 months, 
 when I believe you may expect him *. We have 
 
 * The voyage of Dr. SJoane to Jamaica was productive of 
 much subsequent benefit to Science, by exciting an emulation 
 both in Britain and on the Continent. Sir Arthur Rawdon, to 
 whom these letters are addressed, upon viewing Dr. Sloane's 
 splendid Collection, sent James Harlow, a skilful gardener, to 
 Jamaica, who returned with a ship almost laden with plants in 
 a vegetating state j and with a great number of dried specimens. 
 
396 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 no news here as to philosophic matters. Dr. Her- 
 man's Catalogue is now printed, methodically di- 
 gested, and people begin to find fault with all 
 methods hitherto, and to range them only by the 
 flower, but how long this may last I cannot tell. 
 I have nothing more to say, but to beg the favour 
 of you to give my most humble service to your 
 Lady, Mr. Sherard, &c. and to command me in 
 any thing I may serve you in here, being 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 London, Haxs Sloane. 
 
 December 27, 1690. 
 
 Many of the living plants succeeded in the garden of Sir Arthur 
 at Moira, of which, I believe, some remain to this day. 
 
 Mr. Sloane studied Physic in London for four years, and Che- 
 mistry under a pupil of the great Stahl, and Botany at Chelsea 
 garden ; and at this time he became acquainted with Boyle and 
 Ray: after this he visited France, where he cultivated the ac- 
 quaintance of Tournefort and Du Verney. On his return from 
 the Continent he became a favorite of Dr. Sydenham j in No- 
 vember 1684 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 
 in 1687 entered into the College of Physicians. He was not 
 made a Baronet till George the First's reign, April 3, 1716. He 
 died in 1751, at the age of 90, full of years, but infinitely more 
 of great and good actions. — Several of Sir Hans Sloane's Letters 
 are printed in the Illustrations referred to in p. 393. 
 
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 ■ 
 
 397 
 
 LETTER CLXVIL 
 
 From Dr. Christopher Jenney * to Sir Arthur 
 Rawdon, Knt. and Bart, att Moyrah, near Lis- 
 burne. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I am just now come from my Lord Capell, 
 who sent for me to discourse me what follows, the 
 short of which I shall only give you in this. That 
 the King is positively determined to call a Parlia- 
 ment here, and that soon ; that your present go- 
 vernment will be changed ; that the Lords Jus- 
 tices Wich and Duncomb are to be removed, 
 and that my Lord is to be Lord Lieutenant, This 
 I myself suppose, tho' he did not positively tell 
 me so himself ; but told me this, that when 'twas 
 found your other two Justices must out, and 'twas 
 resolved to continue him in your government, 
 then was his Lordship represented as so very 
 sickly and infirm, that he was not capable of trans- 
 acting singly the government of this nation, upon 
 which very great endeavours have been made to 
 continue him only as Lord Justice, and to send a 
 colleague or assistant out of England to be joined 
 in commission with him, which as yet has not 
 proved successful. And after having given me 
 this account, his Lordship told me that if he did 
 
 * He was probably the father of Dr. Henry Jenney, who is 
 mentioned by Swift in his Hamilton's Bawn. 
 
398 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 believe that the wiser and better part of your na- 
 tion did not believe him capable of doing their Ma- 
 jesties and them too better service, when there was 
 no clog upon him than hitherto he has been, or can 
 be, yet should there be a check upon his measures 
 again*, he cannot think his stay here of any service 
 at all ; and after having asked what my sentiments 
 were as to your nobility and gentry of the North, 
 whether the government of this nation in his 
 hands singly, or in conjunction with another, 
 would be more acceptable, and make matters pass 
 smoothliest on all sides in a Parliament? and after 
 I had told his Lordship, I was very confident in 
 the North, both their hopes and a mutual confi- 
 dence betwixt his Majesty and Protestant sub- 
 jects in this whole nation, would be more unsus- 
 pectedlie be begott, by placing the government in 
 his person singly than any other, or in any con- 
 junction with him ; and yet I did believe all diffi- 
 culties that formerly have or otherwise might 
 occur upon your calling a Parliament here, would 
 much more easily be obviated or adjusted than by 
 any conjunction of a second person with him. 
 Upon which he directed me to write by this very 
 post to you, and commissioned me to impart all 
 this to you, and to request your opinion herein 
 as to your North, how they stand affected as to 
 
 * As the conduct of Lord Henry Capel was adapted to the re- 
 moval of his two colleagues, Wich and Duncome, the prejudices 
 of the powerful, his interest prevailed, and the appointment of 
 himself as sole governor, under the title of Lord-deputy. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 399 
 
 this matter. For as himself was pleased to word 
 it, he has always hitherto found you to speak 
 above-board and as a gentleman, and therefore 
 dares unsuspectingly rely upon your truth of what 
 you say. Sir, I hope you'll vouchsafe me an an- 
 swer to this the very first post, and communicate 
 the contents hereof to none except your excellent 
 Bishop of Dromore*, till you hear further from 
 my Lord or me. I must entreat you to write to 
 me so as I may shew it to his Lordship, and if 
 you please, you may take also notice of this in a 
 letter to my Lord Capel himself. Let me once 
 more beseech you not to slip the first post in an- 
 swer to this of 
 
 Your most faithful and 
 
 affectionate servant, 
 
 Christopher Jenny. 
 
 December 22, 1694. 
 
 LETTER CLXVIII. 
 
 From Captain Moore to Sir John Rawdon, Barrt. 
 att his Lodgings in Dublin. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 I forgot last post to tell you the agreeable 
 news of the death of Lord Conway's son, who died 
 last week. I should have writt before this to know 
 how you got over ; the weather was favorable, so 
 
 * Capel Wiseman, Bishop of Dromore, was Chaplain to Ar- 
 thur Lord Capell, Earl of Essex, who was his godfather. He 
 died in 1695. 
 
400 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 I hope you mett with no accident. Your Provost 
 was entertained at Somerset House by your new 
 Chancellor, and he in return to his civility, enter- 
 tained him with a most eloquent piece of nonsense, 
 which has made his understanding much reflected 
 on, having so copious a subject. Our senators 
 are made such for seven years *, which is another 
 blessing to this nation, now we begin to feel the 
 blessings of our happy revolution. Pretty Lady 
 Sunderland -J- is dead, and her father's concern, it's 
 feared, will kill him, which will be an irreparable 
 loss to this nation. Honest Mr. Walpole was liked 
 to have bid adieu to the grandeur of this world ; 
 but fate would not have it so, to the unspeakable 
 grief of the Tories, who continue still very inso- 
 lent, notwithstanding the great mercy and lenity 
 of the King and ministry. I had almost forgot 
 to tell you Mr. Forster is gone from Newgate % to 
 command at Avignon by the cunning of his ser- 
 vant. I beg pardon for all this. My service to 
 Mr. Rawdon and all friends. Lord and Lady 
 Forbes are landed at the Downes, and master is 
 come to town a perfect Frenchman. 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Your most humble servant, 
 London, G. Moore. 
 
 April 17, 1716. 
 
 * Parliaments made Septennial in 1716. 
 
 f April 15, died Lady Sunderland ; she was called the Little 
 Whig, 1715, and was second daughter of the Duke of Marlborough. 
 
 + An indictment of high treason was preferred against Mr. 
 Pitt, the keeper of Newgate, for suffering Mr. Forster to escape ; 
 on which he was tried and acquitted. 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 401 
 
 LETTER CLXIX. 
 
 To Sir Arthur Rawdon, Kn*. and Bar 1 , att 
 Moyrah, near Lisburne. 
 
 Honored Sir, 
 
 I am just now come from my Lord Capel, 
 who sent for me to discourse me, which follows, 
 the short of which I shall only give you in this : 
 That the King is positively determined to call a 
 Parliament here, and that soon ; that the present 
 government will be changed, that the Lord's 
 Justices, Wick and Duncomb, are to be removed, 
 that my Lord is to be Lord Lieutenant. I myself 
 suppose, tho' he did not positively tell me so him- 
 self, but told me this, that when 'twas found your 
 other two Justices must out, and 'twas resolved 
 to continue him in your government ; then was 
 his Lordship represented as so very sicklie and 
 infirm, that he was not capable of transacting 
 singly the government of this Nation, upon which 
 very great endeavours have been made to con- 
 tinue him only as Lord Justice, and to find a col- 
 league, or assistant out of England, to be joined 
 in commission with him, which has as yet not 
 proved successful ; and after having given me this 
 account, his Lordship told me that if he did believe 
 
 D D 
 
402 
 
 RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 that the wiser and better part of the nation did 
 not believe him capable of doing their Majesties, 
 and them too, better service when there was no 
 clog upon him, than hitherto he has been, or can 
 be yet ; should there be a check upon his mea- 
 sures againe, he cannot think his stay here of any 
 use at all. And after having asked what my sen- 
 timents were as to your Nobility and Gentry of 
 the North, whether the Government of this Na- 
 tion in his hands singly, or in conjunction with 
 another, would be most acceptable, and make 
 matters pass smoothliest on all sides in Parliament ; 
 and after I had told his Lordship I was very con- 
 fident in the North both their hopes and a mu- 
 tual confidence betwixt his Majesty and Protes- 
 tant subjects in this whole Nation, would be more 
 unsuspectedly begot, by placing the Govern- 
 ment in his person singly than any other, or in 
 any conjunction with him, and that I did believe 
 all difficulties that formerly have, or otherwise 
 might occur, upon the calling of a Parliament 
 here, would much more easily be obviated or ad- 
 justed, than by any conjunction of a second per- 
 son with him. Upon which he desired me to 
 write by this very post to you, and to request 
 your opinion herein as to the North, how they 
 stand affected as to this matter. For as himself 
 was pleased to word it, he has alway hitherto found 
 you to speak above board, and as a gentleman, 
 and therefore dares unsuspectingly rely upon the 
 truth of what you say. Sir, I hope you'll vouch- 
 
RAWDON PAPERS. 
 
 403 
 
 safe me an answer to this your very first post, and 
 communicate the contents hereof to none, ex- 
 cept the excellent Bishop of Dromore # , till you 
 hear further from my Lord or me. I must in- 
 treat you to write to me, so as I may shew it to 
 his Lordship, and if you please you may also take 
 notice of this in a letter to Lord Capel himself -f*. 
 Let me once more beseech you not to slip the 
 first post, an answer to this of your most faithful 
 and affectionate servant, 
 
 Dec. 22, 1694. Christoph. J Jenney. 
 
 * Capel Wiseman, from being Dean of Raphoe, was made 
 Bishop of Dromore in 1683. 
 
 f In consequence of Lord Capel's conduct being more adapted 
 to the predominant prejudices of the prevailing party on the 
 subject of the Limeric articles, his interest succeeded in re- 
 moving his two colleagues, and in the appointment of himself 
 as sole Governor, under the title of Lord Deputy. 
 
 % He was probably father to Dr. Henry Jenney, who is noticed 
 by Swift. 
 
 D D £ 
 
( 405 ) 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 i. 
 
 The following Extract is taken from a Letter 
 written by Mic* Skynner to one of the Donegal 
 Family; dated London, the 20th of January, 
 1633. 
 
 Noble Sir, 
 
 For these 3 or 4 weeks past I have not known 
 a more dead low water for forreine news. We 
 have heard that the French have possessed them- 
 selves of some towns of the Palsegraves in the 
 Palatinate, and refused to deliver them till our 
 King have paid what he is in arrear for driving 
 the Emperor out, which I am sure is a greater 
 sume than we have to spare ; and yet it must be 
 had, or else all the world will blame us. The 
 last summer the Queen of Bohemia's # Agents 
 were very instant with the King for money. The 
 King answers that he had none, neither knew he 
 where to borrow. They desire to know when 
 they should expect it ; my Lord Treasurer -J- as- 
 sures them it should be ready at Christmas. They 
 desire to have my Lord Treasurer bound for it. 
 
 * Sister of Charles I. 
 
 f Lord Cotington. 
 
406 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 The King makes him do it. The time is past, no 
 money is to be had : the King is angry. But the 
 King's anger will pay no debts, nor redeem no towns. 
 The King's coffers were never so empty : few of 
 his servants have their wages paid them, and the 
 Brewer and Baker are at their last gasp ; and 
 yet never more violent courses taken to get money 
 into the King's purse ; and we hear you begin to 
 use the rake too much in Ireland. I know you 
 have heard long since how my Lord of Kilmal- 
 locke * hath been crucified in the Star Chamber, 
 who very justly did deserve that and worse; for 
 upon the opening of the cause, it did appear to 
 be a damnable conspiracie to put an innocent man 
 to death. If you marke it, there was not a man 
 that had his hand in the blood of Bushon, but 
 have dyed a violent and untimely death, save 
 only this Judge and Sir Hen. Bofing, who live to 
 see their own shame, and would be glad to be out 
 of the world for shame of the world. Nay, even 
 my Lord of Falkeland's base daughter, to whom 
 this man's goods were given for her portion, did 
 not live to see them come home either to her own 
 nands or her husband's. The blood-thirsty man 
 shall not live out half his days. He lyes close in 
 the Fleet, and drinks aqua-vitae to purge melan- 
 colique. All church affairs goe through the hands 
 of my Lord Archbishop -f. There hath been a 
 
 * I dont know who Lord Kilmallock was, nor the conspiracy 
 alluded to. 
 
 f Archbishop Laud. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 407 
 
 booke * lately printed, called the King's Declara- 
 tion, which hath caused a general discontent. 
 Some call it the Dancing Book ; others a book 
 for the profanation of the Sabbath. All Ministers 
 were commanded to read it in their churches ; 
 some do read it, and some refused. But I like a 
 gentleman's course in this town very well, for he 
 read the book in his church, and when he had 
 done, he told them that it was but the word of 
 man : then he opens the Bible, and read a chosen 
 chapter directly against the book, and tells them 
 that was the word of the ever-living God, and 
 then bids them obey which they thought good. 
 The plantation in Connaught is likely to goe on ; 
 if so, then my Lord Wilmot will assuredly come 
 for Ireland this next summer. We hear that your 
 little sister Wilmot is to marry my Lord Chiches- 
 ter's second son. God send her much joy, Sir. 
 The times are so perilous that I dare not write 
 what I otherwise would do. But if I were sure 
 of a safe conveyance, I would send you many a 
 sheet of paper ; but I hope this will come safe to 
 you. Your faithful friend and servant 
 
 to command, 
 Mic. Skynner. 
 
 * In 1633 Charles renewed his father's edict for allowing 
 sports and' recreations on Sunday to such as attended public 
 worship, and he ordered his proclamation for that purpose to 
 be publicly read by the Clergy after Divine Service. 
 
408 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 II. 
 
 Memorial addressed to the Colonels of the English 
 Regiments in Ulster, for the purpose of Clothing 
 the Troops under their Commands. 
 
 To the Right Hono'ble the Lord Viscount Conwey 
 and Kilultagh ; and to our very loving friend 
 Sir John Clotworthy, Knt. Colonells of the 
 English Regiments in Ulster. At Carrickfergus. 
 
 AFTER our very hartie commendac'ons wee 
 haue taken into considerac'on the providing of ne- 
 cessary clothing for the souldiers under your Lop 8 
 and Sir John Clotworthies command ; and for 
 that purpose hauv bought already and shipped in 
 a ship that went hence with ordnance and other 
 prouision for Londonderry, which was to touch 
 at Carrickfergus, six thousand ells of lockram for 
 making of two thousand two hundred and fiftie 
 shirts, which cloth is consigned unto William 
 Rolerte, or in his absence, to one Thomas Clayton, 
 who is to succeed him in the office of Comissary 
 of the musters, and to take charge of the clothes 
 that are to be sent into those parts ; That by your 
 directions he may cause the same to be cutt out 
 after it is measured, and the measures certified 
 hither, and made into shirtes by the poorer sort of 
 women thereabouts, after the proproc'on of two 
 ells and three quarters to euery shirt, which at 
 the rate of eleuen pence the ell, commeth in cloth 
 to two shillings six pence farthing a peece, where- 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 409 
 
 unto being added the price of making and other 
 charges there after landing, which cannot rayse 
 the price to three shillinge a-peece, the whole 
 'some is to be defalked upon the pay of euery soul- 
 dier that shall need, and will receive those shirts 
 according to such rule as you and the Tre'r at 
 Warres shall think fltt to appoint. Wee hauv also 
 resolued forthwith to send unto you two thousand 
 capps, two thousand cassocks, two thousand doub- 
 letts and hose, foure thousand payre of stockings, 
 
 thousand payre of shoes, and seuenteene 
 
 hundred and fiftie shirts more for to furnish .... 
 for those souldiers of your regimente, which wee 
 desire may be reserued and kept by the said 
 Thomas Clayton, and deliuered out to the soul- 
 diers at the prices and rates which shal be sent 
 unto you, and the payment defalked for them, 
 and all other prouisions of clothes and victualls as 
 is most just and reasonable, so as the value of 
 them may be accounted for as so much received 
 by him in money. 
 
 And so wee bid you hartely farewell. 
 
 Starre-chamber, the eighth day of July, 16*42. 
 
 Your very louing friends, 
 T. Northumberland, Pembroke, 
 Denzell Holles, J. Mandeville, 
 
 Jo. Meyrick, Robt. Reynolds, 
 
 Robt. Parkhurst, Robt. Wallop, 
 
 Henry Marten, Oliver Cromwell. * 
 
 Jo. PyxM, 
 
 * See the Plate of Facsimiles. 
 
410 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 nr. 
 
 An Inventory of the Goods in Lisburne House, 
 the 2d of October, 1682. 
 
 In the Lady Conwayes Roome. 
 
 A downe bedd and boulster, a mattress, 
 a linnen quilt, three blanketts, two pil- 
 lowes, a blew silk quilt, cloth curtaines 
 and vallence linned with blew silk, one 
 suitt of tapestry hangings, 3 fFoot clothes, 
 farmed chaires, 2 cushions, 6 other chaires, 
 a table and 2 stands, a looking glass, ffire- 
 shovell, tongs, grate, and 2 andirons, a 
 ffoot-stoole - - - 55 
 
 In the Lord Conwaye's Roome. 
 
 One ffeather bedd, boulster, 3 blanketts, 
 2 pillowes, a fTustian quilt, a yellow silk 
 quilt, worsted chamlett, curtaines lined 
 with yellow silk, vallence head piece and 
 tester lined with yellow silk, an old armed 
 chaire, 3 peices of fforest hangings, 6 
 chaires, a table and Turkey worke car- 
 pett, 1 small dressing-glass, 1 stand, ffire- 
 shovell, tongs, and hand-irons - 40 O 
 
 95 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 411 
 
 In Sir George's Chamber. gg. s. 
 
 95 
 
 A ffeather bedd and boulster, a linnen 
 quilt, 2 blanketts, an Indian quilt, cloth 
 curtaines and vallence, a bedstead, an 
 armed chair and seaven other chaires, 1 
 tent bed, bedstead, and boulster, 2 tables, 
 4 peices of fforest worke hangings, a stand, 
 2 hangingshelves, acabinett, in the closett 
 a table and chaire - - - - 16 
 
 In the Gentlewomen's Chamber. 
 
 One ffeather bed, boulster, 2 blanketts, 
 2 pillows, 1 counterpaine of painted calli- 
 coe, 1 old silk quilt, browne cloth cur- 
 taines and vallence, lined with painted cal- 
 licoe, bedstead and 1 small table, 1 armed 
 chaire, 4 other chaires, 3 peices of fforest 
 hangings, ffire-shovell and tongs, 1 green 
 printed stuffe window curtaine 22 
 
 In Mrs. Steele's Roome. 
 
 One ffeather bed, bolster, 2 blanketts, 
 an Indian quilt, green sarge curtaines and 
 vallence, hangings of green Kitermister 
 stuffe, 7 green sarge chaires, a table and 
 green carpett, bedstead matt and cord, 
 ffire-shovell and tongs - --.60 
 
 139 
 
412 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 139 
 
 In the Nursery. 
 
 A ffeather bed, boulster, a white rugg, 
 2 blanketts, a redd counterpaine lined 
 with blew, curtaines and hangings of 
 housewife's cloth, 2 grey cloth chaires, a 
 wooden chaire, one cubbord and a table, 
 one standing still - - -50 
 
 Old Dressing Roome. 
 
 One chest of linnen drawers, 1 sett of 
 old hangings of Kiddermister stuffe, 3 
 stooles covered with browne cloth, 2 
 wooden chaires - .--30 
 
 In the Captaine's Chamber. 
 
 One ffeather bed, boulster, 3 blanketts, 
 2 pillowes, a lemon-colour silk quilt, wor- 
 sted curtaines and double vallence, head- 
 peice and tester linned with the same, 
 bedstead with clawes and topps, one little 
 table, two cushions, old cloth hangings, 6 
 chaires, 1 armed chaire, 2 callicoe win- 
 dow curtaines 38 
 
 A ffeather bed, 2 blanketts, blew coun- 
 terpaine, and a table in the clossett - 2 
 
 187 O 
 
.APPENDIX. 
 
 413 
 
 187 
 
 Mr. Ainsworth's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster and pillow, 1 
 blankett and blew rugg, green sarge cur- 
 taines and vallence, half-headed bedstead, 
 matt and cord, a table, a green carpett, old 
 flock hangings, ffire-shovell and tongs, 
 and small andirons, 4 chaires - -50 
 
 In the Dineing Roome. 
 
 18 Turky worke chaires, 6 wooden 
 chaires, 6 cushions, 5 Spanish tables, 1 
 large table carpett and 2 sidebord carpetts, 
 3 leathern carpetts, 1 ovall table, 5 win- 
 dow curtaines of white sarge, 4 paire of 
 andirons, viz. 3 paire of large ones and 1 
 paire of small ones, 2 sconses, 2 skreenes, 
 ffire-shovell and tongs - - - 20 
 
 Drawing Roome. 
 
 Two armed chaires of damask, 2 other 
 chaires, and 4 stooles of 'damask, a small 
 table, a large looking-glasse, 2 stands, 
 gilted hangings, 1 litle carpett of the same, 
 2 sarge window curtaines - - - 24 
 
 288 
 
414 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 288 
 
 The Litle Supping Roome. 
 
 One ovall table, 2 small tables, 3 le- 
 therne carpetts, 12 chaires and 12 cush- 
 ions, a white chamlett curtaine, asch-co- 
 lour druged hangings, 1 doz. of old cush- 
 ions, ffire-shovell and tongs - - 8 
 
 In the Old Parlour. 
 Twelve chaires, 5 tables, 1 old Turkey 
 worke carpett, a leather carpett, 1 old 
 skreene, 1 large still and sconce, 1 Kiter- 
 mister curtaine, 2 brass clocks - - 14 
 
 In the Midle Garrett over the Dinning Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, and 2 Indian 
 quilts, an Irish brakan, stuff curtaines, 
 lined with painted callicoe, a bedstead, 
 matt and cord - - - 6 
 
 In the Outer Garrett. 
 A bedstead, mate and cord, 2 ffeather 
 beds and bolster, 1 pillow, 1 blankett and 
 green rugg, 1 paire of old red sarge cur- 
 taines and vallence, 1 grey cloth chaire, 
 4 tent stooles, 2 tent tables, 1 press cub- 
 berd, 1 other table - - -70 
 
 323 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 415 
 
 & s. 
 
 323 
 
 In the Passage Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, blankett, a white 
 rugg, old grey sarge curtaines, bedstead, 
 matt and cord - - - 2 
 
 In John Bonner's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, pillow, 1 blank- 
 ett, 1 grey rugg, halfe-headed bedstead, 
 matt and cord, 1 chaire - - 1 10 
 
 In William Birkbye's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, and 2 caddowes, 
 2 chaires, old drugged curtaines, bed- 
 stead, matt and cord - - 1 10 
 
 In the Boye's Garrett. 
 
 A fflock bed and bolster, an old caddow 
 and rugg, halfe-headed bedstead, matt and 
 cord - - - --10 
 
 In the Maide's Inner Garrett. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, 2 blanketts, 1 
 blew counterpaine, a halfe-headed bed- 
 stead, matt and cord - - - 1 10 
 
 330 10 
 
416 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 330 10 
 
 In the Outer Garrett. 
 
 One fether bed and bolster, 1 blankett, 
 and old yellow rugg, halfe-headed bed- 
 stead, matt and cord, 1 litle fflock bed, 
 and an old caddow - - 1 5 
 
 Porter's Roome. 
 
 A fflock bed and bolster, a blankett and 
 caddow, a halfe-headed bedstead and cord, 
 a green chaire, and a wooden one - 18 
 
 In the Com'on Hall. 
 
 One table, 2 fformes, 1 bread chest, 1 
 candle chest - - l 7 
 
 Brick Hall. 
 
 Two tables, 2 fformes, and a bench - 1 
 
 In Mr. Tandye's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed and bolster, and 2 pil- 
 lowes, an Irish brakan, a blankett and cad- 
 dow, curtaines about the bed, bedstead, 
 matt and cord, 4 old chaires, 1 stoole and 
 table, a blew window curtaine and carpett, 
 ffire-shovell, tongs, candlestick, and snuf- 
 fers - - . - 3 l 
 
 338 1 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 417 
 
 338 1 
 
 „ In the Ffalkner's Roome. 
 
 A fflock bed and bolster, 2 caddowes, 1 
 blankett, bedstead, matt and cord - 10 
 
 Mr. Ffisher's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, blankett, and 
 caddow - - - 1 10 
 
 In the Darimaid's Roome. 
 
 A ffeather bed, bolster, 2 blanketts, and 
 a caddow, matt and cord - -20 
 
 In the Brewer's Roome. 
 
 A fflock bed and bolster, 1 blankett, 3 
 caddows, l old white rugg, 2 halfe-headed 
 bedsteads, mates and cord, 1 old ticking 1 5 
 
 In John Jobson's Roome in the Stable. 
 
 A fflock bed, bolster, blankett, and 
 rugg, a fflock bed, bolster, and rugg, a 
 halfe-headed bedstead and cord - ill 
 
 In John Rickabye's Roome. 
 
 A fflock bed, bolster, blankett, and rugg, 
 and halfe-headed bedstead - 18 
 
 345 15 
 
418 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A Note of Sadies, &c. bellonging to the Right 
 Honorable Sir George Rawdon, Barronett, as 
 the vallues of them were estimated by John 
 Rickaby and John Jobson, the 26th of No- 
 vember, 1683. 
 
 A morrocko sadle covered with redd 
 velvett and silver lace, with holsters suit- 
 table, and a leatherne cover - 7 
 
 A halfe morroccow sadle covered with 
 redd velvett, with holsters suittable, and a 
 leatherne cover - - - 3 10 
 
 A morrocco sadle covered with russet 
 leather, which is used when the colts are 
 backed, and a leatherne cover - % 15 
 
 A morrocco sadle covered with blew 
 velvett on the seat - - - 1 15 
 
 An old morroco sadle, the seat covered 
 with white velvett, with a cover to it 1 
 
 An old morrocko sadle covered with 
 redd plush, formerly Mr. Edwards's. — An 
 old morrocco sadle covered with blew vel- 
 vett, formerly Mr. John's - - 10 
 
 A padd sadle covered in the seat with 
 wheat colloured cloth, with redd velvett 
 holsters - - - - 1 10 
 
 A sumpter sadle, a large leather sump- 
 ter and water deck - - 2 10 
 
 19 10 
 
APPENDIX. 419 
 
 A s. 
 19 10 
 
 Foure curbe bitts, with reins and head 
 stalls - - - «-io 
 
 A side-sadle and bridle, formerly Lady 
 Rawdon's - - - -10 
 
 Two leatherne pillions, and 2 pillion 
 cloths - - - 12 
 
 Two portmantue sadles - 5 
 
 7 
 
 Two grey clothes, laced with livery lace, 
 for leadd horses. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The following Letter was addressed to Narcissus 
 Luttrel, Esq. but by whom is unknown. The 
 Battle of Aughrim was fought July 12, l69l. 
 
 Dublin, the 15 July, 1691. 
 On this moment we have, by an express from 
 the General % the happy and blessed news, that 
 on Sunday night the 12th instant, our army en- 
 gaged the Irish, being about 28 -f* thousand strong, 
 among them 7 thousand horse and dragoons, at 
 Agram> where they were very advantageously 
 
 * General Ginkle. 
 
 f The army of the Irish consisted of 25,000 men. 
 
 E E 2 
 
420 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 posted. The combat lasted with great bravery 
 near 3 hours ; our men being obliged to attack 
 them from trench to trench which they had 
 thrown up for their advantage, having a bog on 
 both sides to cover them. Never was an attack 
 made with more bravery and courage, and never 
 was it known that the Irish fought with more re- 
 solution. But God Almighty (to whom we must 
 give the honor of the day) blessed their Majesties 
 with an entire victory, with the loss only of about 
 5 or 6 hundred men on our side, of which number 
 are Major-general commanding the Kings 
 
 regiment of Blue Guards ; Col. Charles Herbert 
 and a Danish Colonel killed ; the Prince of 
 Hesse, my Lord Cuts, Col. Oldcastle, and others 
 being wounded. Of the enemy there were at 
 least 6 thousand killed upon the place, of which 
 number is the French General St. Ruth, Thomas 
 Lord Galway, Col. Moore, and many others. 
 We have taken Major-general Hambleton, Dor- 
 rington, Lord Slane, Lord Bellew, Col. Butler, 
 Col. Bourke, Col. Gordon O'Neil, and other offi- 
 cers and persons of note, prisoners ; and are still 
 pursuing the victory when this Express came 
 away, the General having also sent to seize on 
 the Provisions at Portumny, where are great 
 quantitys, which I hope will succeed. We have 
 taken all their artillery, with their tents and bag- 
 gage, &c. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 421 
 
 V. 
 
 Case of the Earl of Breadalbane, sent by himself, 
 
 1695. 
 
 Information anent the Earle of Breadalbane. 
 
 The Earle of Breadalbane being at London 
 in the year 1691, and resolving to reside there 
 for some time, he had no design of coming to 
 Scotland, much less to continue himself in the 
 Highland Clans, who were then in arms against 
 the Government. But their sacred Majesties and 
 their Ministers, considering what vast expence 
 the Government had been already put to by these 
 Highlanders, and the great prejudice they had 
 done to the country, and what further trouble 
 and expence they might occasion for the future, 
 unless they were reduced ; and that the suppres- 
 sing of them by force of arms, might occasion 
 great bloodshed, and render a considerable part 
 of the kingdom absolutely desolate. As also con- 
 sidering that the standing out of a party in open 
 defiance of the Government, was a constant invi- 
 tation to a foreign invasion, and that it was of 
 great importance to the Government that there 
 should not remain the least spark of a fire, to 
 kindle new flames during the King's absence 
 abroad. Their Majesties upon these considera- 
 tions, and out of their innate clemency and ten- 
 
422 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 derness to all their subjects, thought it more pro- 
 per to have these Highlanders reduced, and 
 brought both to their duty and allegiance by fair 
 means, than to have them utterly destroyed, and 
 cut off by force of arms. And so earnest was his 
 Majesty to have that resolution made effectual, 
 that he freely condescended not only to give these 
 Highlanders a general pardon, but also out of his 
 royal bounty, was willing to distribute ^.12,000 
 sterling amongst the chiefs of the Clans, for the 
 better inducing them to lay down arms, and for 
 the composing and taking away all private debate 
 and animosities that was amongst them. And the 
 Earl of Breddalbaine being considered by their 
 Majesties as a person who best understood the 
 humors of the Highlanders, and the way to ma- 
 nage them : he was not only intrusted but expressly 
 commanded to repair to Scotland with all expedi- 
 tion, in order to treat and commune with these 
 Highlanders, and others then in arms in the 
 Highlands, for reducing them to their Majesties 
 obedience, and to prevail with them to lay down 
 arms. Upon which the Earl having immediately 
 come to Scotland, and having met and communed 
 with these Highlanders and their officers, by his 
 means and endeavours there was a cessation of 
 arms obtained. The Highlanders were dissipate, 
 laid down their arms, and were deserted by their 
 commanding officers, who went abroad : and 
 thereby the peace and quiet of the Kingdom was 
 effectually established and secured. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 423 
 
 The Earl having thus effected the King's de- 
 sign, he immediately went to Flanders, and made 
 report of his negotiation to his Majesty : and the 
 King was so well pleased with what the Earl had 
 done, that his Majesty did not only, under his 
 Royal hand, approve the Earl's procedure, con- 
 duct, and management in that affair, and accepted 
 the same as good and faithful service, but also 
 granted a full and ample indemnity to all those 
 Highlanders and others concerned in the Rebel- 
 lion, and ordered ^.12,000 sterling to be distri- 
 buted amongst the chiefs of the same. 
 
 Thereafter the Earl having returned to Scot- 
 land, and rinding, that during his absence many 
 of the chiefs of Clans had been influenced and se- 
 duced by some persons, who were pleased not to 
 favour this negotiation, and that they demurred 
 to accept of his Majesty's clemency and gracious 
 offer — the money was thereupon returned to 
 England ; albeit thereafter those chieftans being 
 fully convinced how much they were imposed 
 upon by their pretended friends, the most part of 
 them submitted, and took the oath of allegiance ; 
 so that the peace of the kingdom was never there- 
 after disquieted : and which was effectual merely 
 by the Earl's negotiation, first in obtaining a ces- 
 sation, and then prevailing with the Highlanders 
 to lay down arms, and dissipate, and the chief- 
 tans to grant bonds for the peace. 
 
 Notwithstanding that this was all that truly 
 past between the Earl and the Highlanders, yet 
 
434 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 some persons who envied the Earl's success, and 
 were enemies to him in the prosecution, having 
 about that time (to disparage his negotiation, and 
 for their own other ends) given out that there 
 were some other private articles which the Earl 
 had agreed to with the Highlanders, tending to 
 the prejudice and dishonor of the Government : 
 and to make this the more to be believed, there 
 were copies of those pretended private articles 
 made up, and dextrously dispersed through the 
 northern places of the kingdom, which by the 
 means of some malevolent persons, came at last 
 to be offered to the Privy Council about four years 
 ago, and the Council having transmitted them to 
 the King, who was then in Flanders, his Majesty 
 was so far from taking notice of them, that there- 
 after he ordered the ^g. 12,000 sterling above- 
 mentioned, to be advanced out of the Treasury of 
 England to further the negotiation, and intro- 
 duced the Earl to officers of great trust in this 
 kingdom, which cannot be supposed his Majesty 
 would have done, if he had thought the Earl was 
 capable of being guilty of what was represented 
 against him. In the exercise of the which offices 
 the Earl hath continued ever since, serving the 
 King and his country faithfully and diligently, 
 without being any further questioned upon these 
 pretended articles, untill the sitting of the last 
 Session of Parliament. 
 
 That one day in Parliament, when they were to 
 proceed to the consideration of a complaint offered 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 4&5 
 
 by a private person against the Lord Viscount 
 Stair, President of the Session, for some alledged 
 injustice done him by the said Viscount, the 
 Earl of Annondale, President of the Parliament, 
 represented, that there was a public matter which 
 behoved to be first considered; and that was, 
 that the Earl of Bread albane was to be attacqued 
 for life and fortune upon high treason. 
 
 This was a mighty surprise to the Earl, who 
 was sitting in his place in Parliament, and to all 
 the House, except a few single persons, who were 
 privy to it. But upon the President's insisting, 
 it came to be understood by the Earl's friends, 
 that the business was about his negotiation with 
 the Highlanders ; tho' some of the less consider- 
 ing Members of Parliament apprehended that 
 the Earl was guilty of some late atrocious crime, 
 when such an attacque was made upon him, and 
 in such manner. Thereafter a copy of the above- 
 mentioned verbal articles was publickly read, to- 
 gether with the deposition of an Highlander, a 
 Mac Donald, relating to a pretended verbal com- 
 muning between the Earl and the Highlanders, 
 which was urged to be matter of indictment 
 against the Earl for life and fortune ; and that the 
 Earl should be thereupon immediately secured 
 and disabled to serve the King in Parliament, or 
 his other stations. 
 
 This surprise being great, many things might 
 have been said that did not occur ; but that ne- 
 gotiation of the Earl, and particularly those pre- 
 
426 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 tended private articles, or verbal communing, 
 having been a great subject of public discourse 
 four years ago, it was presently remembered that 
 a copy of those articles was then transmitted to 
 the King : and the Lord Privy Seal and other 
 honorable Members did attest, that the articles 
 were laid before the King and Queen, and under 
 their Majesties' consideration. And it was suffi- 
 ciently cleared, that those articles formerly trans- 
 mitted were materially the same with those now 
 offered to the Parliament. And that seeing the 
 King had not thought fit to enquire into the matter, 
 but since had introduced the Earl to offices of 
 great trust in the Government : and that the Earl 
 had a posterior approbation, under the King's 
 Royal hand, of all his procedure in that matter, 
 which was accepted as good and faithful service, 
 tho' it was not in his pocket to be presently pro- 
 duced. It was therefore urged for the Earl, that 
 before any procedure, that the King might be 
 acquainted, and the whole matter laid before his 
 Majesty. It was also urged that the deposition 
 of one witness could afford not matter of indict- 
 ment for life and fortune specially strong ; that 
 the obliging the evidence to depone upon things 
 against delinquents, otherways than when they 
 are adduced in special processes as witnesses, is a 
 great grievance ; and inquisition upon oath against 
 parties not called, are now at in this case. But 
 all could not prevail to obtain one day's delay ; a 
 vote was passed and carried by a narrow plurality 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 427 
 
 of the Barrons and Burrows against the Earl, 
 (tho' the whole nobility, except four or five, and 
 the most considerable of the Barrons, voted for 
 him); and so he was carried immediately from the 
 Earl's bench, and made prisoner in the Castle of 
 Edinburgh : and a lybel of High Treason ordered 
 to be raised against him by war, and of Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 Within a few days after the Earl's commit- 
 ment he received his indictment, founded only 
 upon those pretended private articles, summoning 
 him to appear before the Parliament, within the 
 space of forty-eight hours, to answer to the in- 
 dictment, and being accordingly carried down 
 from the Castle under a guard to the Parliament- 
 house, he was put into the pannal, as if he had 
 been the greatest malefactour ; and the President 
 of the Parliament having desired him to answer 
 to his indictment, there was a petition offered 
 for the Earl, founded upon several unanswerable 
 grounds in law, why he could not be obliged to 
 answer upon so short a time. And it being urged 
 by some members that he ought to have 15 days 
 to answer, as being the ordinary practise in such 
 cases, yet others were but for 8 days ; the ques- 
 tion was put to the vote whether 15 or 8 days. 
 It carried 1.5 days, at which some members were 
 highly displeased, and then the Earl was sent back 
 prisoner to the Castle, where he remained untill 
 the 15 days were expired : and thereafter made 
 his second appearance before the Parliament, at 
 
428 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 which time it was expected the process would sist, 
 because it was believed by some that the King 
 had discharged any further procedure. Notwith- 
 standing whereof they did insist, whereupon it 
 was represented for the Earl that the indictment 
 was not execute according to law, whereby in all 
 criminal processes the party indicted ought to 
 have a list of the witnesses' names, who are to be 
 made use of against him, delivered to him when 
 he receives his indictment, to the effect he may 
 prepare his objections against them, which was not 
 done in this case ; and that, therefore, the indict- 
 ment, as being unduly execute, ought to be re- 
 jected. Whereupon there arose some debate, which 
 terminated in giving the Earl a new delay only 
 for two days longer to give in his defence. But 
 the Parliament being the next adjourned till No- 
 vember, the Earl had not an opportunity here- 
 after to offer his particular legal defence, which, 
 according to the opinion of the greatest lawyers, 
 would have certainly eluded this malicious and ill- 
 grounded indictment ; tho' the Earl doth yet 
 continue prisoner in the Castle, upon the King's 
 Advocate declaring, that day on which the Parlia- 
 ment did rise, that he continued the process 
 against the Earl of Breadalbane till the next Ses- 
 sion of Parliament. But the indictment being 
 laid in the name of the King's Advocate, it's not 
 doubted but the King, according to our Constitu- 
 tion, may give order to set the Earl at liberty 
 when his Majesty pleases. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 429 
 
 It is to be noticed, that the person who was 
 made use of as a witness, and whose deposition 
 above-mentioned was read in Parliament, was a 
 Highland, Mac Donald, who is known to have 
 malice and prejudice against the Earl of Breadal- 
 bane, upon the account of family feud ; and who, 
 at the best, as is informed, was but an ultroneous 
 witness ; and against whom the Earl had great 
 many other legal objections which would have in- 
 validated his testimony, if the Earl had been 
 allowed either by himself or prolocutors to be 
 present when he was examined, which is the or- 
 dinary custom by our law. 
 
 This was the only person in all the Highlands 
 that could be got to say any thing against the 
 Earl concerning the grounds of the indictment ; 
 albeit there were several other chieftans of the 
 Highland Clans, far more considerable and of 
 greater consideration than he, who were present 
 at all that past, and who were called, compared, 
 and examined by the persons who were commis- 
 sionat by the King to make enquiry, anent the 
 slaughter of the Glenco-men ; but they neither 
 could, nor did say any thing to the Earl's preju- 
 dice, albeit some of them were imprisoned in the 
 Tolbooth of Edinburgh, where they lay several 
 weeks, untill the Parliament was adjourned. And 
 besides the foresaid Commission, which was granted 
 to enquire anent the affair of Glenco, did not 
 authorise at all any inquisition to be made in the 
 Earl of Breadalbane's negotiation with the High- 
 
430 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 landers, which was finished many months before 
 the slaughter committed upon the men of Glenco, 
 albeit the persons named in that Commission did 
 take upon them to enquire in the first negotiation 
 of the Earl's; and it's to be observed, that not- 
 withstanding of all the enquiry and narrow scru- 
 tiny made by them into that matter of Glenco, 
 and of the flying reports that were maliciously 
 spread abroad of the Earl of Breadalbane's having 
 accession thereto, yet it is evident that the Earl 
 is absolutely free and innocent of having the least 
 accession to that business of Glenco, nor does his 
 greatest enemys charge him now therewith, nor 
 yet is the same any part of his indictment. And 
 it's against all sense and reason to think that the 
 Earl of Breadalbane, who took so much pains to 
 settle the peace and quiet of the Highlands, and 
 prevent further bloodshed, would have had a hand 
 in any thing that might tend to the contrary in 
 any part of the Highlands; far less in Glenco, the 
 inhabitants whereof having for the most part their 
 dependence upon himself. 
 
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