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WILLIAM KING. D.D..
1650—1729.

HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, AND A
SELECTION FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITED by
SIR CHARLES SIMEON KING, Bt.
EDITOR (1892) OF HENRY'S (REV. WM., F.R.S.) ' UPPER LOUGH ERNE IN 1739.'

Religion y* leads to despise ye Word destroys
Salvation. — Archbishop King.

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QU^DAM VILE MM INSIGNIORA.
By WILLIAM KING, D.D.
Bishop of Deeky 1691-1703, and Archbishop or Dublin 1703-1729.
Translated from the Latin, with Introduction, Notes, and Miscellanea, also a
Selection from his Correspondence, and some account of his Family.
INTKODUCTION
This fragmentary portion of Dr. King's autobiography is pre
served in the Armagh Public Library, and was thus described
by that eminent archaeologist, the late Rt. Rev. Wm. Reeves,
D.D., Bishop of Down and Connor, when the librarian : ' The
volume containing it (the " Quaedam &c") is lettered on the
back The King's Royal Library of Dublin, MSS. Hibemica,
vol. I., and consists of 323 pages. It was presented to the
Armagh Library, in 1776, by the Rev. Thos. English (no
doubt the Sch., T.G.D., 1764, and B.A. 1766). Besides the
autobiography the volume contains an enlarged translation,
or paraphrase, of it, which appears to have been written by a
member of the Archbishop's family, and copies of the Arch
bishop's letters from 2 July 1715 to Oct. 1716.'
The Rev. James King (D.D., 1743), Prebendary of St.
Patrick's and Minister of St. Bride's, Dublin, in a letter,
dated 'St. Sepulchre's Library, Dublin, Aug. 6th, 1737,' and
addressed to ' Mr. Thomas Birch, in St. John's Lane, Clarken
Well, London,' enclosing a biography of Archbishop King,

vi INTRODUCTION
which he had been asked to compile for publication in the
edition, for 1738, of Bayle's General Didtionary, translated
and edited by the Rev. J. P. Bernard, Rev. Thos. Birch, and
Mr. John Lockman, adds a ' P.S. The ABp's Heirs design to
publish all his works with his life prefixed, for which we are
collecting and digesting materials.' The Archbishop's grand-
nephew, the Rev. Robert Spence, M.A., rector of Donaghmore,
was Dr. James King's colleague in this work, and to these
relations of the Archbishop, Dr. Edmund Law, subsequently
Bishop of Carlisle, in his preface to the 2nd edition of his
translation into English, with large notes, of his Grace's De
Origine Mali, published in 1732, acknowledges his own
indebtedness, as well as that of the public, for the use of ' a
large collection of his [Archbishop King's] Papers on the
same subject.' With a view to this proposed publication, no
doubt, the enlarged translation mentioned was made. Dr.
Law, in a letter to the Rev. Thos Birch, Aug. 7, 1737, alludes
to this subject, ' Archbishop King,' he writes, ' left a good
many materials for a very curious Life 'and most of 'em digested
by himself together with a large collection of Letters on
several points of Literature which were put into y5 hands of
Bp. Synge, y: younger,' i.e. Edward, Bp. of Perns and Leigh-
lin, ' who undertook to prepare them for ye press sometime
ago, but has been too busy to dispatch them.' Bishop Synge
never carried out his undertaking, and Dr. King's papers and
voluminous correspondence with some of the chief men of
his day, which came into the possession of his nephew, Arch
deacon Robert Dougatt, as the executor of his Will, passed on
the latter's death, in 1730, to the Archbishop's heirs, his
grand-nephews, the above named Rev. Robert Spence and the
Rev. Robert Bryan, rector of Desertmartin, and from their
descendants all existing collections of the Archbishop's own
papers have been acquired. Part of the Trinity College
Dublin Collection of his letters came from the Bryan family,
and the remainder, as well as the collections noticed in the

INTRODUCTION vii
Hist. MSS. Commission's first, second, and third Reports, had
belonged to the Spence family.
A biography of Archbishop King, said to have been in his
own handwriting, which had been in the possession of the
above-named Dr. James King, was lent, in 1818, by his
grandson, the Ven. Robert King, M.A., Archdeacon of
Kilmacduagh, to the Rev. John Walker, F.T.C.D., the founder
of the Walkerites, and was probably lost by him, as it was
never returned to the owner.
Walter Harris made use of the autobiography for his life
of the Archbishop, in his edition of Sir James Ware's
Whole Works concerning Ireland, 1739-1746.
Bishop Reeves made a careful transcript of the MS., the
text of which is rather mutilated in those words which end
the lines ; from a copy taken by the late Rev. Charles King
Irwin, D.D., rector of Loughgilly, co. Armagh, and precentor of
Armagh Cathedral [a descendant of Charles King of Garvary,
co. Donegal, and Dublin, a contemporary and kinsman of the
Archbishop's (mentioned hereafter)], the translation has been
made. William King has been ranked by the late Professor of
Ecclesiastical History in Dublin University, Dr. Stokes, as ' the
most famous archbishop Dublin has ever possessed,' and to
make a selection from such a man's extensive correspondence
has been a task of no small difficulty. The attempt has been
made to bring together such letters as may prove of general
interest, and may also display the writer's character, not only
as a divine, a statesman and an author, but as a relative and
friend. As most of his own letters are transcripts made by
others at the time of his writing them, or subsequently, the
Archbishop must not be held responsible for the variations in
the spelling.
Most of the materials for this work having been collected
several years ago, of those who kindly gave valuable help
many have passed away, amongst them Bishop Reeves, Sir

viii INTRODUCTION
J. Bernard Burke, Ulster ; Sir Samuel Ferguson, LL.D. ; Geo.
Burnett, Esq., Lyon ; the Rev. Geo. Salmon, D.D., Provost
of Trin. Coll. Dub. ; R. D. Lyons, Esq., M.D., of Merrion
Square, Dublin, M.P. (to whose widow, Mrs. Lyons, of Merrion
Square, I tender my grateful thanks for the privilege of making
use of my notes taken, in 1883, from the collection of more than
three thousand King and Spence MSS. now in her possession) ;
Thos. Dickson, Esq., General Register House, Edinburgh ; the
Rev. John E. A. Fenwick (son-in-law of the late Sir Thos.
Phillipps, Bt.), Thirlestane House Library, Cheltenham ; and
the Rev. Robert Belsham King, of Dublin, the eldest lineal
representative of the Rev. Dr. James King, mentioned above.
As to other friends I may hope that the perusal of the work
itself will prove to them that their assistance has been duly
appreciated.
CHARLES S. KING.
The Highlands House,
St. Leokabds-on-Sea.
July, 1906

CONTENTS

PAGE
QUiEDAM VIT.E ME.E INSIGNIOBA .1
WILL   43
SOME ACCOUNT OF ARCHBISHOP KING'S FAMILY . . 49
CORRESPONDENCE. ...  57
MISCELLANEA  268
INDEX ... . .  323

ILLUSTEATIONS

PLATES

Pobtbait op Abchbishop King . Frontispiece
From the Portrait in Trinity College, Dublin. (By permission of
the Provost.)
Abmobial Bearings and Autograph Signature
of Bishop King  to face p. 31
Armorial Bearings communicated by the late Sir J.Bernard Burke,
Ulster.
Portrait of the Rev. James King, D.D. . „ „ 48
From the Portrait at Cypress 6rove, Co. Dublin. (.By permission
of Mrs. Strong King.)
Pobtbait and Autograph Signatuee of Aech-
bishop King  „ ,,49
The former after the engraving of ihe Molyneux Portrait painted
by C. Jervas.
Abmobial Beaeings and Autogeaph Signatuee
of James King of Gola Abbey . . „ „ 52
Armorial Bearings drawn by Lady Edith Lowry-Corry. (.By per
mission, from the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.' )
Pobtbait of Abchbishop King . . . . „ „ 57
From the Portrait at Cypress Orove, Co. Dublin. (By permission
of Mrs. Strong King.)
Pobtbait of Abchbishop King ....„„ 268
A Facsimile of O'Eara's Etching.

xii ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT PAGB
Armorial Bearings of Lord Eythin  50
Autograph Signature and Seal of James King, 1st op
Coreard  52
Autograph Signature and Seal op James King, 2nd of
Coeeard ,  52
Autograph Signature of Robert King, M.P. ... 52

HORACE, BOOK IV. ODE IX.
Addressed to Archbishop King, 1718,
BY DEAN SWIFT.
' Vietue conceal'd within our breast
Is inactivity at best :
But never shall the Muse endure
To let your virtues lie obscure,
Or suffer envy to conceal
Your labours for the public weal.
Within your breast all wisdom lies,
Either to govern or advise ;
Your steady soul preserves her frame
In good and evil times the same,
Pale Avarice and lurking Fraud
Stand in your sacred presence awed ;
Your hand alone from gold abstains,
Which drags the slavish world in chains.
Him for a happy man I own
Whose fortune is not overgrown ;
And happy he who wisely knows
To use the gifts that heaven bestows ;
Or, if it please the powers divine,
Can suffer want and not repine.
The man who, infamy to shun,
Into the arms of death would run,
That man is ready to defend
With life, his country or his friend.'

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CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA
Page 4, note ' 5 ' in text, read 4.
„ 114, line 14, read [1705-6 ?] instead of ' [1706-5 ?].'
„ 157, note, substitute for parenthesis ' (since presented &c.),' — (lent to the
National Portrait Exhibition, Dublin, 1872).
„ 216, line 24, insert to before ' the Countr'y.'
,, 252, note 2, Lord Carteret's viceroyalty, — 'The progress of wit has taken
a very odd course, and is making the tour of Ireland, from whence we
have packets of ballads, songs, petitions, panegyrics &c, so powerful
is the influence of lord Carteret's wit, and my lady's beauty, the
Irish rhime that never rhimed before,' — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
to her sister, the Countess of Mar, London, 1725, Works.
„ 301, engraved portraits of Abp. King, — the mezzotint by J. Faber, engraved
in London 1729, is after Charles Jervas ; and from the same painting
there is another mezzotint by E. Pureell, Dublin, 1753, of which there
is a specimen in the National Gallery of Ireland, where also is the
very scarce mezzotint by Thomas Beard, Dublin, after M. Dahl.
„ 318, Nicolini is mentioned in Lady M. W. Montagu's Works as in England
in 1709.
„ 820, note 3, Lady M. W. Montagu's severe oriticism of Lord Orrery and
his Remarks, as well as her observations on the characters and
writings of Bp. Burnet, Swift, Pope, and Bolingbroke, are of con
siderable interest and value as those of one personally acquainted
with these authors, and one whose own literary abilities were of a high
order.

Two of this minister's father's brotners, aaam zmg-.na — — *
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ARCHBISHOP OE DUBLIN
QU^EDAM VIT.2E MEM INSIGNIORA
I was born on the first of May, 1650. My father, grandfather,
and great-grandfather bore the same name, James, and sprang
from the ancient and honourable1 family of Burras2 in
1 ' Antiqua generosa.'
2 ' Barra,' as generally written, and in old charters ' Barracht,' in the parish
of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, near Auld Meldrum in the Garioch.
William King's origin, marked by a stroDg Scottish accent, appears to have
lessened at one time his estimation at Court, and prevented his promotion to
the Archbishopric of Dublin, on the occasion of the death, in 1693, of Dr.
Francis Marsh, this the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell thus notices in his
Memoranda, 1691-3 (Egerton MSS. 1628, B. M.),—
' December 1693. As to ye clergy there (in Ireland) I find there is no
opinion here of any of them and the only man y° K. or Q. likes there is Dr.
King, Bp. of Derry. But he is at present under some cloud by y Malice of his
Enemies, being represented as a Scot, etc., and upon occasion of yc late blood
shed by distraining, so that I believe 'twill be the constant Bule to send over
from hence to fill up the ArchBp's & Primate's Sees.'
It is interesting to note that the future archbishop was not the first of his
family eminent for learning, as, in the beginning of the century, one of the same
name and family was making himself known at Edinburgh as a student ' of
distinguished abilities,' who became ' a very eloquent and able preacher.' In
his nineteenth year he took his M.A. degree, 1607, and subscribed the covenant,
and the next year became Professor of Philosophie or Eegent of the University,
which he held till 1630, when he accepted a. call to be minister at Cramond,
where he died 1632, aged 44. In 1617 James VI. visited the college, and this
' Gulielmus Begius ' took part in the discussions, when the King amused him
self by making puns on the speakers' names, ' Mr. King (said H. M.) hath
disputed very kingly, and of a kingly purpose, concerning the royal supremacy
of reason over anger and all passions.' He was author of two poems, and
theses for 1612, 1616, 1620, and 1624, still preserved in the University library.
Two of this minister's father's brothers, Adam King and Alexander King,
B

2 QUMDAM VITZE ME^l INSIGNIOBA
northern Scotland. My father, though a most rigid adherent
of the Presbyterian sect, was unwilling to join their Solemn
League, at that time imposed in the northern parts of Ireland
on all the followers of that sect, under the penalty of a kind
of excommunication ; consequently I was refused baptism for
six months, no one appearing who would administer it, at
last, friends being sponsors for me, and my father absent at
the war, I was somehow baptized.
I was so afflicted with diseases in early childhood that my
life was despaired of, and bodily debility for some time gave
little hope that I should survive.
In the year 1653, as a boy, I remember the almost total
eclipse which happened about that time, and which caused
much fear to my mother and others. I recall to mind war
and soldiers, some of whom, being still left, were disturbing
that region.
In the year 1655, having been sent to school, I utterly re
fused to learn, and obstinately resisted the schoolmistress, not
withstanding she sharply urged me to learn with whippings,
but in vain, so that through weariness she desisted.
advocates, were also distinguished for their learning, 'Adamus Begius, vulgo
Kyng, Edinburgensis, bonis artibus instructissimus, ad miraculum usque doctus,
maximo auditorum concursu philosophiam Parisiis doouit, et mathematicas, in
quibus facile eo seculo princeps habebatur. Venit in Academiam Parisiensem
anno MDLXXXV. vivit adhuc Edinburgi, et in senio erudito advocati munus
gloriose implet' [Dempster's (Thos.) Hist. Eccles. Gentis Scotorum qua viri
sanctitate, Uteris, dignitatibus toto orbe Ulustres, &o., 1627], was author of various
works, amongst them ' Ane Catheehisme or schort Instruction of Christian
Religion drawen out of the scripturs and ancient Doctours convpyled by the
Godlie and lemed: fatlier Peter Canisius, Doctour in Tlieologie. With ane
Kallendar perpetuale, &o. maid be M. Adame King, professeur of Philosophe and
Mathematixis at Paris. At Paris, Imprented be Peter Hyry, 1588 (a sm. 8° in
B. M.) ; his Latin poems are printed in Delitice Poetarum Scotorum hujus cevi
illustrium, edited by Dr. Arthur Johnstone of Aberdeen, Amsterdam, 1637 ; a
collection of which Dr. Samuel Johnson said that, although he knew it to be of
Scotland, he admitted it would be a credit to the scholarship of any country,
his brother, Alexander, was author of Oratio demonstrans Jacobum VI.
Scotorum regem totius Albionis legitimum futurum Monarchum. 'Alexander
King, Authore,' at the end of the copy of this oration in the British Museum is
the following note, in a contemporary hand : ' Alexander Kinge's Oration of y8
Succession made before ye Kynge of Scotes openlie before the Session at Edenb.
Tho. Bandolphe, then Emb. for y" Q. of England, coplayned [sic] to y K. and
caused hym to be Imprisoned, but no thynge more insuede,'

QU^IDAM VIT^E ME.E INSIGNIORA 3
In the year 1658, the county of Tyrone was beginning to
be cultivated after the war, and my father removed there,
and another school, also under a mistress, having been esta
blished I was sent to it, but with the same want of success,
driven indeed by whippings, I learnt to repeat the alphabet
by rote, but could not distinguish a letter. Often I wept in
solitude, and accounted that it was from an evil mind and
hatred towards me that my parents compelled me to learn
letters, when I found in them neither sense nor use. I was
not dull, as I could make some progress in subjects of which
I understood the reasonableness, notwithstanding their diffi
culty. After half a year, indeed, was spent in the endeavour, I
learnt the alphabet, and by enumerating the letters pro
nounced words, but when the Westminster Catechism was
put into my hands I did not understand the words, nor was I
capable of understanding what I read, and was disgusted with
books. It happened on a certain Lord's day, that I was walk
ing about with a woman in the garden, and we entered the
wood and sat down together ; she was reading the Holy Scrip
tures, and whilst reading sleep stole over her, I took the book
falling from her hands, and by enumerating the letters, ac
cording to my habit, I pronounced the words in its beginning,
and immediately perceived it to contain some sense, which I
had never before observed ; much captivated with the novelty
I earnestly aspired to read, and I ran through the first three
chapters, while she was sleeping, sticking fast in very few
places. As soon as possible, when settled at home, I procured
books, and made unexpected progress in reading, and having
passed by all my equals, I gave hope that I was capable of
learning. Through the twelve years' war * public affairs were dis
turbed, buildings destroyed by fire, and the cultivation of the
land neglected, everything was shaken with the agitation, all
learning and convenient means for teaching the young had
ceased ; therefore, when the opportunity offered, all the young
people hastened to school, seventy or eighty pupils of both
sexes congregated to the woman who was schoolmistress,
1 I. e. from 1641 to 1653. b 2

4 QUjEDAM VIT.E ME^ INSIGNIORA
and many of them adolescents even meditated love affairs,
and with youthful precipitation called themselves spouses in
sport, and entered into playful marriages. Though but a
boy, as priest,1 I united them, and I know not by what fate
they designated me as minister,2 but many of those united in
jest, after they left school, were in reality united in marriage.3
In the year 1659, that school having been dissolved, for
some time I was at leisure and forgetting what I had learnt,
until another school, under a master, was opened in the neigh
bourhood. Once more I was attending to that work, but, by
worse luck, the master did not understand how to read or
write well, and was an enthusiast in severity only. I there
fore progressed in nothing, unless that sometimes, when a
fugitive from school, I read the lives of illustrious men
written by one Clark,5 and other historical books or fables
which I found at home. Trying to write, I formed wretched
and exceedingly rude letters, and being often flogged on
account of them, I trembled at pens and ink, my ignorant
master being more apt and prompt to punish than to instruct.
In the year 1660, the royal family having been restored,
another aspect of things began ; but slowly was change intro
duced in the northern parts. The state of affairs was truly
so uncertain and fluctuating, that neither were improved
schools erected, nor did they remain settled enough in the
state in which they were ; they were now looked after, then
neglected, little progress therefore was made ; I sometimes
attended, and was sometimes absent.
In the year 1664 (?), some arithmetic began to be taught ; the
master understood nothing beyond five general rules ; these
1 ' sacerdos.' 2 ' presbyter.'
3 Very similar appears to have been the school experience of Captain John
Creichton, the old cavalier, as recorded in his Memoirs by Dean Swift, —
' I was born on the 8th of May 1648, at Castle Fin, in the Co. of Donegal.
I made some small progress in learning at the school of Dungannon ; but when
I was eighteen years old I very inconsiderately married Mrs. Elizabeth Delgarno,
my schoolmaster's daughter, by whom I had thirteen children.' This marriage
is previously described as ' most indiscreet in all worldly views, although to a
very good woman.' Creichton, being only two years King's senior, may have
been at schoo for some time with him.
4 Probably Samuel Clarke (1599-1683), the Puritan divine, who published
numerous biographies.

QUiEDAM VIT^E ME^E INSIGNIORA 5
he taught at a fixed charge, assigning quarter of a year to a
single rule. I was not admitted to the lesson in it, because I
had not learnt to write distinctly enough, nor did he allow
me to look on at those learning, for that I might have done
without cost, but he who permitted it, and he who did it
would have been flogged together ; but by what chance I
know not — from his own arithmetic book, written by one
Record,1 obtained from his wife — I learnt with the greatest
pleasure the rules of arithmetic even to the extraction of the
fourth root, nor did I dare to let any one know, lest I should
be flogged. In the year 1662, having met with a master knowing
Latin, I gave myself to him as a scholar, and began to learn
the accidence, May 18, and had learnt all the English rules
with the declensions and conjugations, before the month of
August was ended, and the master boasted, that he would
warrant I should be fit to enter the College within a year. I
took in sufficiently the reasons of the rules, and the genius of
the tongue, and was trying to join words by the rules that the
Syntax might make, when the master betook himself to
another place, and now being idle, I quickly lost time and
what I had suddenly learnt ; but about the month of November
the school was established at Dungannon ; 2 thither I betook
myself, and by ill fate the master, a Scot, and an admirer of his
own [children],3 did not let me make progress, but gave into
1 Eobert Eecorde, one of the first mathematicians in England, who adopted
the system of Copernicus, and died 1558.
3 ' The free grammar school, orBoyal College, was founded by letters patent
of Chas. I. in 1628, which gave in trust to the Primate of Armagh and his
successors six townlands in the parish of Clonoe, for the support of a school at
Mountjoy in that parish ; but this place being only a garrison, the school was
after many years removed to Dungannon, and the first account we find of it is
in 1726, nearly a century after its foundation, when it was held in a lane near
High Street, where it continued till 1786, when the present college was erected
by order of Primate Eobinson. . . . The lands with which it is endowed com
prise 3,900 acres, producing a rental of £1,430.' Lewis's Topog. Diet., Ireland,
1837, s. v. ' Dungannon.'
Mr. F. H. Eingwood, head master of the Boyal School, Dungannon, informed
the editor, in 1872, that there had been no school register kept, and there were
no traditions respecting William King's sojourn there.
a ' Suorum mirator.' The master's name was Delgarno ; there was an
old Aberdeenshire family Dalgarno of that Ilk; the name is now generaUy

6 QU^IDAM VITM M.EM INSIGNIORA
my hands Desauterius' Latin Grammar, and indeed compelled
me to repeat it by rote, while I understood nothing in it. At
this useless, and to me very laborious work, I consumed a whole
year, and I did not understand the language more perfectly
than when first I began, except that I retained some Latin
words in my memory. Afterwards I laboured with Corder,
then with the Psalms of David and the Epistles of Ovid, all
which I committed promptly enough to memory, without
understanding many words in them, and the master was not
less ignorant. At length I applied myself to the Metamor
phoses of Ovid, and to Virgil, and afterwards to Horace and
Persius ; few words in them I understood, but they were com
mitted to memory with the exception of Horace, whose Odes
I could not retain in my memory ; being offended by verses
which I disliked as harsh and not running as . . . hexameters
and pentameters are wont.
In the year 1665, 1 worked at translations, and from them
I gradually learned something of the Latin tongue ; and then,
the poets being read over again, I acquired their meaning
better, and where I was in doubt I asked those more learned
. . . and now I became a teacher to others. I read Virgil
with pleasure, at the same time also the Psalms of David
written in heroic verse, and the Sapphics, the rest being
neglected as going badly, as it seemed to me, but Horace
pleased me not yet because least understood.
corrupted into Dalgairns ; his Christian name the editor has failed to discover ;
the late Bishop Beeves informed him, there had been two clergymen of the
surname in the diocese of Armagh, Alexander and William, the former, curate
of Tynan in 1686, was not beneficed in the diocese ; he escaped from Ireland in
1688, with his wife and six children. William was collated to Ballyclog,
Co. Tyrone, 12 June 1682, and to Clonoe, 12 July, 1686, also to the treasurer-
ship of Armagh Cathedral, 24 April, 1695, with a faculty to hold that office with
his two benefices, he died in 1727, and was most probably son of the school
master; he was a friend of the Archbishop's, as there is a letter from him to
King, dated ' Ar: Ja: 29th 83,' signed ' your most affectionate friend and
servant,' relating to a projected marriage of one of King's sisters. Amongst his
schoolfellows are mentioned in his correspondence William Douglass, from whom
he purchased Terlugan, and John Hill (ancestor of the Baronets Hill of Co.
Londonderry) of Culmore, near Magherafelt, who writes, June 9, 1716, that he
was ' acquainted with y Grace in my younger years at Dungannon, Dublin, and
L: Derry,' and applies in favour of his only son Samuel, ' now in Brig. Gen1 .
Gordoun's Troope of Dragoons.' In 1713 the master was named Harvey.

QU^EDAM VITiE ME^E INSIGNIORA 7
In the year 1667, 1 entered the College of the Holy Trinity,
being admitted • on the 18th day of April, my tutor being
Charles Cormac, Senior Fellow, who, being now about to leave
college, took very little care of his pupils.
I made scarcely any progress before the following winter,
but, since no scholars had been elected the preceding year, they
were obliged to fill up the number prescribed by statute, about
twenty-six, as I remember, I, almost the junior of all, was
elected amongst the scholars,2 and the November following
amongst the natives also, which I owed to my tutor ; who,
conscious that he had neglected his duty as to instruction, in
this manner compensated for his neglect, having experienced
that I was not idle, but had outstripped by my diligence my
companions of the same form.
Meanwhile, I was contending with straitened means and
almost overwhelmed, relatives and friends neglecting me, as
they themselves were struggling with poverty s ; so that I had
1 His admission was not registered until after he had been nominated to
the archbishopric of Dublin. He is described as about eighteen years of age,
born in Antrim ; father, James King ; educated at Dungannon by Mr. Dilgurdno ;
college tutor, Mr. Christian instead of Mr. Cormack.
2 The election, having been deferred in 1666, on account of the poverty of
the College, took place at the regular time, but the scholars were not sworn
and admitted till August 20 (College Calendar). Twenty-nine scholars are
named, and six candidates obtained semi-scholarships ; ' William King ' is
twenty-fifth on the list ; ' George Browne,' subsequently the Provost, is twenty-
second ; and King's friend and correspondent, ' Henry Leslie,' D.D., 1694, after
wards Archdeacon of Down, is twenty-eighth. Dr. Leslie writes, February 14,
1710 (Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.), asking Archbishop King's ' countenance, advice
and assistance ' in getting his eldest son, ' now grown to man's estate,' and
who had studied at the Temple for the bar, married to Mistress Mary King,
Mr. Eobert King's younger daughter, ' if your Grace does think it [his proposed
settlement on his son] any way equal to what Mr. King designs for his
daughter.' In a subsequent letter of March 19, in answer to the Archbishop's
reply (not recorded) of the 15th, he expresses ' obligations to y Grace for the
trouble you have been at upon mine and my son's account,' though the proposal
was not accepted ; and, November 26, 1715, writes to thank the Archbishop
for recommending him for the vacant See of Killaloe, and Dr. King again put
Leslie's claim to promotion before Dr. Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, May 8,
1716, as ' a grave, prudent, good man, beloved and valued in his country.'
! His branch of the Barra family had fallen on evil days, so far as a lack of
worldly prosperity can bring them. His father is said by Eev. Mark Noble, in
his Continuation of Granger's Biog. Hist, of Eng., 1806, ii. 103 (on what
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scarcely twenty pounds, through the whole space of six years
in which I stayed at college, from any other source than from
the college itself ; and yet in that I recognize the providence
of God, because, through the whole of that time, I went clothed
and fed becomingly and creditably enough.
In the year 1668, for some time I listened as a pupil to
Henry Dodwell, M.A.,1 who at the request of the aforesaid
Charles Cormack, read logic to us ; I cannot affirm that I
learned logic by his assistance, but many instructions of
greater moment I received from him, and, having been made
his companion, he held me in the number of his friends rather
than of his pupils.
described as a merchant in Antrim ; his migration to Tyrone, in 1658, points to
want of success in his business, whatever it may have been. In a letter, dated
May 10, 1707, to the Et. Hon. Thomas Knox, M.P., of Dungannon (who, in
1697, resigned being a burgess in Belfast, having purchased an estate to live on
in and about Dungannon), Dr. King writes (T.C.D. Collection), — ' As to
Mr. Bryan [either his brother-in-law, or the latter's son], I do not see wherein
I can assist him at present. I must not encourage a numerous tribe of poor
relacons, near 200, to depend on me you are aware w' that wou'd turn to.'
Crawford, Johnston, McCall, Wiseheart are names of claimants to relationship
and help ; in addition to a brother, sisters, and their children.
Amongst this ' 200 ' he does not include any of his kindred of the Corrard
branch of the Barra family (who probably did not know him until he had
settled as a clergyman in Dublin), as he writes, April 13, 1697, to John Trench,
Dean of Eaphoe, to express his concern at a story brought to town, ' y* I should
tell you y' David King (8th son of James King of Corrard), Mr. (Eobert) King's
brother, had borrowed £200 from me and that you told Mr Soffierwell
[Somerville] yl I informed you so, assuredly such a thing never entered into
my thoughts .... I never lent him one farthing, nor did he ever owe me
any,' he goes on to tell Trench that David 'is lately marryed to a young
woman, one Weir,' and that her father has refused to refund to her ' sev" £100 '
which her aunt put into his hands for her use. ' I hear that you have an
influence on him and I understand you will not encourage him in this
Injustice .... you know they are reasonable people with whom he has to
deal, and every one of tliem thriving, and are both able to force those to reason
that will not hearken to it, and will not fail to do it. I think this is sufficient
on this subject.' (T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.)
1 Entered T.C.D., 1655; Fellow, 1662-66; Camden Professor of Hist.,
Oxford, 1688-91, when deprived as a non-juror; d., at Shottesbrooke, near
Maidenhead, Berks., June 7, 1711. Mentioned in the T.C.D. ' List of those who
fled from Ireland 1688,' as of Co. Boscommon, real estate £868 per annum;
attainted by the Jacobite Parliament, in his absence, as ' Henry Dodwell of
Leytrin,' Co. Boscommon. Author of several works, theological, controversial
and classical ; he m., January 22, 1698-9, at St. Paul's, Dublin, Catherine
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In the year 1669, my tutor leaving college, John Christian,1
M.A., and Fellow, adopted me as a pupil ; I cannot but re
member what benefits I owe to him, for it is the mark of a
grateful mind to recognize those through whom you have
derived profit. In the first place therefore, and because it is
the chief, he imbued me with a true sense of religion. Born
in troublous times I heard scarcely anything concerning
religion which I understood before my tenth year ; then
schools being established I made a commencement in letters,
but learned little concerning religion, neither had I known
nor heard any one praying to God in secret, nor anything
concerning the public or private worship of God, nor of the
Catechism, Sacraments, Creed, Ten Commandments, nor
of worship on the Lord's Day. I have said before, that I
entered school in 1659 with many school fellows, but there
was not one out of all, as far as I remember, who once offered
private prayer to God, nor could it well happen that they
should do so, for when all forms of prayer were abolished,
it could scarcely happen that rude and illiterate youths
should conceive prayers of their own.2 So all secret prayers
ceased, nor were the boys taught to pray, as the custom had
been, from their cradles, and to reBort to prayers, privately,
morning and evening. Thus, I confess that I heard nothing
sacred, nor knew that such a duty was incumbent on me
1 A native of the Isle of Man, Fellow, March 14, 1666-7. Evan Christian,
writing as ' your most affectionate friend,' to Archbishop King, from ' Unirigg,
nr Coekermouth, Cumberland,' February 11, 17H, may have been his son, and
John Christian of the same place his grandson ; the latter's dau., Mary, m.
April 28, 1740, Edmund Law, D.D., Bishop of Carlisle in 1768, and was mother
of the first Baron Ellenborough. Bev. Anthony Lowcay, writing to Archbishop
King, December 20, 1718, describes himself as ' nearly related to Mr John
Christian, who had the Honour of haveing your Grace his Pupill.'
2 The Bev. Eobert Craghead thus answers Bishop King, who, in his
Inventions of Men in the Worship of God, charges the Presbyterians with
neglecting the religious teaching of children and ignorant persons, by the
exclusion of forms of prayer :
' Answer. As for young and very ignorant people, we allow them the use
of forms, until God enable them more; but withal exhort them to further
progress, lest if they should still rest upon forms, they should be satisfied with
a form of Godliness only ; ' and ' I affirm upon knowledge, that commonly our
children, so soon as capable, are helped with some easie and short forms, and
that many of them daily bow their knees to their Maker, and are chastised if
it be neglected.'

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before I entered college, nor do I remember that it was done
by any one. My father was accustomed at night, before he
commenced the reading, the family being assembled, to offer
a prayer, but since his prayers were conceived in words and
phrases in a manner peculiar to those times, and to the sect,
I understood them very little, and I did not pay much atten
tion to what was done, nor could they be easily understood
without a dictionary to explain them. Any one who reads the
writings of that time, and notices the peculiar phraseology,
and dialect I had almost said, may sufficiently estimate the
truth of what I write. But now having met with a pious and
faithful tutor, he began from religion, and represented to me
how necessary it was, as well for eternal as for temporal
happiness, that I should seriously meditate on religion, that
I should continually implore Divine assistance, not only in
public, but also in private prayers ; that I should place my
trust in God only, and be firmly resolved to consider His
glory and service first before all things. As aroused from
lethargy I recalled these admonitions, and discerned clearly
enough, that I must either altogether renounce religion, or
that I must addict myself to its practice in another manner
than I had done before ; for it would be necessary that, either
I should hold the worship of God before all the delights of
the world, its commodities, and benefits, so that I might be
prepared to renounce them all when they could not consort
with the commands of God, or that I might inwardly say
farewell to religion, for I saw plainly enough, that there is no
middle course between these, as from the words of Christ as
well as from the nature of the subject itself, the choice was
whether I wished to be a servant of Christ, or of the world.
This choice was continually floating before my eyes, and the
matter was ungrateful enough to a young man, and it's
meditation aroused very grievous troubles in my spirit, and
harassed my mind, which was long vacillating and undecided.
But I was drawn to the better part by the admonitions and
exhortations of my tutor, and I trembled lest I should abjure
the hope of eternal felicity. The Divine power and the
assistance of His grace I was obtaining, and in this conflict
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without the aid of Divine grace, since not only I experienced
my powerlessness to overcome worldly temptations, but also
(learned) to mistrust the motive of contending with them.
Indeed, I saw myself placed in the position where I have
experienced that I was unequal to fulfil my duty, and unable
to persuade myself to attempt to do it. I felt wretched, and
much deplored the ill service I was compelled to perform.
While, actually stupefied with these cogitations, my spirit
was racked with continued torments, at length it happened
(God so willing) that I should more deeply consider the
subject, and I determined with myself to examine religion
from it's foundations ; for when present delights and pleasures,
with all their advantages and benefits, had been denied for
the sake of religion, I considered it just that I should inquire,
whether the hope of future happiness was built upon so firm
foundations, that it might appear consonant with reason,
that for it's sake I should be willing to renounce the present
pleasures of this life, yea life itself, if need be.
The whole subject of religion had therefore to be tho
roughly examined by me, and to be traced out again from its
first principles ; this was seen by me to be a great and ardu
ous task, and not to be attained without labour and immense
study. I meditated how difficult and laborious the investiga
tion before me would be, nor yet did that very greatly deter
me, but the momentousness of the matter itself, and the
danger of error excited in me a greater tumult. If I should
err I was convinced there remained for me not death, nor an
unhappy life, but eternal misery ; therefore I did not desist,
but where the matter treated was of the greater moment,
there decided to direct more diligent attention. To this work
I sedulously girded myself, and first proposed to myself the
method according to which so serious a business should be
proceeded with, nor was I much perplexed about this ; the
inquiry I therefore determined should be ordered thus : firstly,
that I should inquire concerning natural religion, secondly,
revealed, thirdly, the Christian, fourthly, the sects which
divide the Christian religion : firstly, concerning that which
separates Protestants from Romanists, secondly, concerning
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distinguishes the church by law established, from Presby
terians, Independents and Socinians, for under these the
other sects were sufficiently embraced.
Meanwhile I consulted grave and experienced men, I
originated conversations concerning these things where-ever
it was permitted ; if opportunity offered, I discussed them with
men who were most highly esteemed in a particular sect ; I
collected books treating on these subjects, and diligently read
them, in the procuring of which my tutor advised and
assisted me ; nor did I indicate to any one in what spirit I
was doing this, which afterwards I often grieved over, when a
faithful adviser, a confessor as it were, who might hear one
opening up without scruple all the doubts of the mind, would
have been of the greatest use in these matters.
I might fill volumes if I narrated all that I read, what I
disputed, what I meditated, and the solutions of doubts and
arguments I evolved ; the chief thing was that, by the grace
of God co-operating, I brought the subject to a happy con
clusion, and established myself in such principles, and con
firmed them by such arguments, that from that time to this
day, thanks be to God, nothing in the matter of religion have
I either changed, added to, or taken from, and I have been a
help to many in similar doubts, nor has any one by so much
as a nail's breadth disturbed me from the path which I then
took, either by writing or word.
In the year 1670, on  l day of the month February, I
took my bachelor's degree, and was immediately seized with
an intermittent fever, under which I laboured through
thirteen weeks ; I recovered indeed, but with broken health,
nor ever after regained that firmness of health and strength
which I had before experienced.
In the year 1672, four or five places being vacant amongst
the fellows, although the junior of all, I went up to be
examined as a candidate, being persuaded that others (my)
equals were (not worthy) of election, because, on account of a
certain sedition against the fellows and provost, they had
been censured ; and this was pointed out to me by the provost
himself, therefore I made the trial tho' so unprepared,
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for scarcely a week for preparation was given, nor was it
necessary. Three, as I remember, were not elected ; George
Brown, the late provost, and I myself the juniors amongst the
excluded ; but this did us no injury, when it was manifest that
we had lost nothing in the estimation of our learning.
In the year 1703 (1673), one place among the fellows be
came vacant, yet I was unwilling to commit myself again to
examination, but left it to the senior, nor wished I to compete
with my friend Brown.1 To him therefore without a rival the
election fell, but I was admitted into holy orders,2 as chaplain
to the Most Reverend John Parker, Abp. of Tuam, he gave to
me the prebend of Kilmainmore,3 with eight vicarages, which
together did not pay me £60 sterling anually, and yet ex
tended thirty miles in length, so wretchedly distracted is that
diocese of Tuam by impropriations, and other disadvantages.
On March 17, 1673, I left college, my degree of Master
having been received before at the spring commencement.
In the year 1674, April 26, in the cathedral church of
Tuam, I assumed the holy order of Presbyter,4 my patron
ordaining me ; I had been before ordained deacon by the late
Rev. Robert Mossom, S.T.D., Bishop of Derry. When I
was preparing myself to take these orders, it happened that
James, Duke of York, afterwards King of England &c,
declared himself a Roman Catholic. To almost all this was a
cause of grief, everywhere threatening dangers and disturb
ances to the Church and State, evils issuing thence I foresaw
and anticipated to the clergy specially, and I had torture before
my eyes, and meanwhile asked myself, whether I could endure
martyrdom for the sake of religion ? I trembled indeed at the
prospect, yet I hoped with God's assistance to bear whatever
He pleased for the cause of His truth, and, with that mind, I
took orders.
1 George Browne, Fell., T.C.D., 1673 ; Provost, 1695, till his death, June 4,
1699. 2 Deacon, October 25.
3 Prebendary, July 14, also Sector of Kilmainbeg, and Vicar of Cong, Boss,
Moregaga, Killmolara, and Ballincalla, all in Co. Mayo; Provost of Tuam,
October 26, 1676, also Sector of Killareran, Templeduresmore or Knockmoy,
Kilkerin, Ballymakelly, Aghiart, and Annaghdown in Co. Galway.
4 ' Sacrum Presbyteratus ordinem suscepi.'

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Now indeed, situated in the country, I entered on another
style of living, and as it were in a new sphere. Whilst a
student I had been content with the college commons ;
scarcely once a month I used either food or drink, other than
that which the statutes of the college assigned to scholars.
But now a chaplain, admitted to the archiepiscopal table,
I enjoyed a copious supply of eating and drinking, the
table being daily laden with sixteen dishes for dinner, and
twelve for supper, with a very large variety of wines, and a
profusion of other generous liquors ; although I was by nature
neither an eater nor a drinker, yet it could scarcely happen
but that I must take more than was conducive to health ; so
sudden a change was specially injurious to one who was
incautious,1 the clergy, whom I familiarly met, drinking more
than they ought, and the inclination of the whole population,
among whom I was thrown, was given to drinking parties and
feasts, all in that land abundantly ministering to luxury ;
hence the fact was that, before I dreamt anything of indis
positions, I was seized with the gout,2 which first happened to
me in the year 1675, to which also nightly studies conduced,
for scarcely could I betake myself to the study before mid
night, and there I was commonly engaged until two o'clock in
the morning, although often heavy with supper and cups after
supper, and not only was I involved in indisposition, but
also in other faults and errors which, thro' my whole life,
affected me, and still affect my soul, with sorrow and pain.
Among other things, when I had nothing before my eyes
' ' The danger I apprehend most is from the table, which is both plentiful
and elegant. But I think I shall by use not be in more peril from my Lord's
ten dishes than I was formerly from my own two, for I begin already to find
that a fine dinner every day is not such a perpetual temptation as I thought it
would be.' Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain, 1729-63. The Correspondence of
Edmund Pyle, D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to George II. Edited by Albert
Hartshorne, 1905. Pyle, who was no ornament to his profession, had been
hen appointed Chaplain to Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester (1734-61).
2 In a letter to Archbishop Wake, dated ' Dublin, March 24, 1722,' Dr. King
writes, ' I have been ill with the Gout and a terrible Cold ever since my Lord
Lieutenant left this place. Y' Grace complains of 65 years, judge how it must
be with me who reckon 72, and have been harass'd 46 years with the Gout.
But, my Lord, it is vain to complain of matters which a few years will certainly
relieve us from. I pray God prepare us for that time.' His death was caused
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except a country benefice, nor was drawn by any ambition of
further preferment ; content with the present I rejected the
trouble of much study, for the condition as well of the clergy
as of the people being considered, I saw that I was learned
enough for whatever duty was to be discharged among them,
then why should I be solicitous of much learning ? Nor did I
believe there was any reason for it, when now I knew for a
certainty that very much which I had learned would be of no
use, and it is scarcely credible how much this consideration
retarded my industry ; hence I lost much time, and hours,
which given to study and books, would have helped me to
progress not to be contemned, were lost either in trifles, or
games, or fooleries, or worse. It grieves me, as often as it
occurs to memory, how many good hours invigorating to
mind as well as body I might have so spent.
But my pious and prudent patron took more care of me
than I did of myself, and warned me about my errors, nor
suffered me to sin without reproof. If he observed anything
in my sermons incongruous, doubtful, or carelessly delivered,
that he pointed out. If either he himself noticed, or heard
from others anything unbecoming in words or deeds, that he
made known to me, and often blamed in bitter enough words ;
he was wont to say that he was now an old man, broken in
mind and body, very near death, very soon to leave behind
those living, nor be long able to watch over the Church : I
was young and, he hoped, destined for a higher station, and
now was the space of time to prepare myself suitably for it,
especially therefore while vigorous, while not yet distracted
by business, I ought to apply myself to studies, which would
form and fit me for greater things. Persuaded by these (argu
ments) I ran through many things, for the most part some
fathers, councils, canon and civil law, although neither with
that diligence or attention which was meet. He frequently con
versed with me, questioned, persuaded, corrected, and mostly
discharged the office of examiner and reader with me, especi
ally he inculcated the more diligently those subjects, which
pertained to the constitution and discipline of the Church, and
gradually he came to treat me' as a companion, and a sharer
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my imprudence and youthful impatience, yet, contenting him
self with reproofs, he always regarded me with favour.
In the year 1679, the Duke of Ormond being the Viceroy
of Ireland, it happened that a reverend man, Philip Barber,1
A.M., Chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and minister of St.
Werburgh's died. My patron, then Archbishop of Dublin, was
staying at Kilkenny for the purpose of performing his office
to the Viceroy ; early in the morning he received notice of his
(Barber's) death by a messenger, and at the same time his
dwelling was filled with applicants who, solicitous for their
friends, wished to commend them to his favour from whom the
vacant living might be obtained. Ignorant of all this, I was
tarrying at his house in the county Longford,2 but before he
admitted any one into his chamber he dispatched a messenger
to the place where I was, ordering me to proceed immediately
to Dublin, and take charge of St. Werburgh's,3 belonging to
the chancellorship of St. Patrick's, for he designed me to be
1 Barbor, or Barbour, F., T.C.D., 1672 ; Chancellor of St. Patrick's, 1677.
2 Fermoyle, near Lanesborough. Archbishop Parker was translated to
Dublin 1678 ; d. December 28, 1681 ; Mary, his eldest dau. (d. September 13,
1668), m., as his first wife, Murrough Boyle, created Viscount Blessington, and
had an only child, Mary, m., December 1684, Sir John Dillon, Knight of
Lismullen, Co. Meath. Lady Dillon wrote to Bishop King about her matrimonial
troubles, and in a letter of November, 1695, alludes to ' his great kindness to all
the poor remains of my Grandfather Parker's family.' Archbishop Parker's son
is in the T.C.D. MS. 'List of Protestants who escaped from Ireland in 1688,' —
' Parker, Sr Jo. Dub. Kt. W(ife), 3 (children), 1,009 (Income from real estate),'
Sir John's second wife was a daughter of Sir Edward Abney of Willesley,
and he died May 1696, leaving by her his eldest son, in ward to Bishop King.
In his Diary, s. v. ' Novr y 9,' Dr. King mentions, ' Sr John Parker's daughter
in want.' 3 The living of St. Werburgh's, in Archbishop Boulter's time, was worth
£250 per annum. Eev. Samuel Foley succeeded Dr. King, in 1689, as
Chancellor of St. Patrick's, and in this incumbency ; E. Foley, Archbishop
King's chaplain in 1712, was a son of his. Mr. Sam. Holt wrote to King (then
at Fermoyle), July 24, 1680, giving an account of taking out a commission of
valuation of St. Werburgh's, costing £9. 18s. 4d., and adds, ' I waited upon
Capt. (James) Cottingham, who told me he had noe moneys of yo" in his hands,
but said that within a feaw days he would procure me 10lb ; ' in the ' List of
Protestants who escaped from Ireland, 1688,' is this, ' Cottingham, Jas. Dub. gl,
w(ife), 4 e(hildren), 390 (real estate),' Sheriff of the city 1677-8, attainted 1689,
he m., January 28, 1675, Elizabeth, d. (by Elizabeth Hill, his first wife) of
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chancellor of St. Patrick's, vacant by the death of the incum
bent, then, coming out of his chamber, he announced to all,
who solicited him for the benefice, that they had applied too
late, as he had already conferred it on me, and he immediately
approached the Viceroy to point out what he had done, who,
smiling at his artifice, intimated that he understood, and
pleased enough with its disposal, having no doubt been solicited
by many, refused to interfere in the matter.
This messenger disturbed my calculations, and revealed a
new aspect to my affairs. In the year 1676, Ralph Ince, the
provost, that is the precentor of the cathedral church of St.
Mary's, Tuam, having died, I had been appointed in his place
by the patron, the Archbishop, and resigned Kilmainmore,
and, sufficiently contented with this rich benefice, I cared for
nothing beyond it, but was wholly engaged in preparing
myself a convenient residence in it, where I might pass a
country life, and I thought much how it was to be done. I
had taken a house in the town of Tuam, and furnished it with
those articles which seemed necessary for the time, but, without
a wife and without experience, I doubted, and could with diffi
culty comprehend, how food and other things requisite for
living comfortably, beds, cooking, linen, and other necessaries
of domestic life could be cared for in the country without a
woman's help ; how sad would life be without a consort, with
out friends, without a partner in the cares inseparable from
the country, how I should be taken care of when sick, how I
alone could regulate the family, I was completely ignorant,
and certainly, had I remained longer in that place, I should
have been driven to contract a marriage ; but, in Dublin I well
knew, there would be no trouble for me in these matters ;
nevertheless, an unmarried life did not please me much, nor
did I easily entirely banish all thought of matrimony.1
1 ' To enable him to execute his charitable designs, he chose a single life,
not that he believed that there was any more purity or holiness in celibacy
than in marriage, there being no ground for such an imagination in the Holy
Scriptures or primitive antiquity. ... Of all this the Most Eeverend Deceased
was well apprised, and therefore resolved on a single life for this reason only
that he might furnish the public with some common conveniences that he
found were wanting, and for the supplying of which no other fund was provided
besides that of charity, and accordingly he effectually executed his noble
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I anticipated with fear also the labour, and trembled at
the continued anxiety, which the very large parish of St.
Werburgh's would necessarily bring with it ; disturbed by
these cares, in the year 1679, on the 27th of August, I arrived
at Dublin, and gave myself up to the care of the parish, and
became noted for diligence in holding meetings (or services),
visiting the sick, catechising the ignorant, and in all other
functions of my office ; in these the day was occupied, and the
night was turned to studies and books. This manner of living
pleased me, and thanks to God who had delivered me from
following that inactive state of life I had been leading in the
country ; for now I could be useful both to myself and to
others, and, immersed in occupations, I felt myself less subject
project. First he considered that gratitude obliged him to remember the place
to which he owed his education . . . Trinity College in Dublin, and therefore
. . .he contributed about £1000 to the uses of that College. Being a bishop,
he could not but find in his visitations that churches were much wanting in
this kingdom, and that by means of impropriations and other misfortunes
attending the revenues of the Church there was not a sufficient maintenance
for ministers to serve the cures, and therefore, to supply these defects, he largely
contributed to the building of several churches, and to help the cures he
purchased several parcels of tithes, and gave them to the incumbents . . . nor
did he forget his private relations or friends, to whom he left good legacies, and
this he did in such a manner that we may reckon it a work of prudence as well
as of justice. If, then, besides all his private and occasional charities, we
compute the value of what remain and are visible, we shall find them to
amount to near £17,000.' A Funeral Sermon preached at Ardmagh on the
Most Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Archbishop of Dublin, and
Primate of Ireland. Deceas'd May tlie Vlllth 1729, aged 80 years. By J. D.,
M.A. Formerly of Trin. Col. Dub. Dublin : Eeprinted by E. Waters, on the
Blind Key, 1729. 8vo., 15 pages. Text, Psalm cxii. 6.
Archdeacon Cotton, Fasti Eccles. Hib., gives the preacher's initials
erroneously as ' E.' D. ' Watt (wrote Dr. Beeves, June 24, 1873), in his
Bibliotlieca (Britannica, 1819-24), gives the author as " E." D. and I suppose
Cotton copied from him. Now, if " J." D. be the true signature I have little
doubt that the preacher was James Dobbins, B.A., who was Prtecentor of the
Armagh Cathedral, and having resigned it in 1724, became Chancellor of the
Cathedral and so continued till 1732.' The preacher's description of himself
as ' M.A. formerly of Trin. Coll. Dub.' is against this suggestion, since Dr.
Beeves gives J. Dobbins only a B.A. degree, and he is not mentioned in Todd's
List of Graduates, 1869, in which work the only ' J. D.' fulfilling these require
ments is John Daniel, Sch. 1712, B.A. 1713, M.A. 1716, who may have been
a son of Eichard Daniel, M.A., Dean of Armagh 1722-31. Bishop Ashe, writing,
May 28, 1716, about the marriage of their friend, Molyneux, rallies the Arch
bishop on his ' stoical apathy, fit only for old philosophical bachelors like y
Grace.'

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to passions and worldly temptations ; but immediately I felt
my health was tottering ; at first I was seized with lighter
diseases, and then with epidemics, many of them deadly, soon
with fever and directly after with gout, but I took too little
care of my health, when the performance of my duty was most
pleasing. In the year 1683,1 having recovered from a bad fever, I
went to England, and by the advice of physicians used the
waters at Tunbridge.
Factions then were raging between royalists and republi
cans, and the privileges of the cities were threatened by the
revocation of their charters, whereby immunities had been
conceded to them. I observed the heads of the faction against
the king were hostile to religion and sobriety, and I numbered
beyond thirty chief men of that faction, then frequenting
those crystal waters, who were noted for impiety and vice, no
less than for faction. Of the other part which stood for the
king were sober men, imbued with a sense of religion, yet
much less popular, for the cause which they were defending
was displeasing to the whole English people, for in fact the
king was determined to endow himself with arbitrary power,
and to favour the Papists.
I therefore held serious conversations with these men on
the state of affairs, they truly pointed out to me that the
adversaries of the king did not join in the faction from love
of country, for they were prepared to betray both country and
religion, if only the king would give himself to their service,
but chose that cause to please the people, and to compel the
king to take refuge in their party, which if he did sincerely,
then those pretended patriots would freely assist him, and
were willing to overthrow both the State and religion, for, in
fact, they cared not either for religion or justice. Therefore
they devoted themselves to the party of the king, lest he
should be compelled to go over to the faction of their adver
saries, and by their assistance overthrow the laws. But that
reason pleased me least of all, for the privileges of the munici-
1 On October 20, this year, he was appointed chaplain to Eichard, Earl of
Arran, Lord Deputy to King Charles II. ; and in 1684, November 25, chaplain to
the Duke of Ormond, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland. c 2

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palities being destroyed, and the election of members of the
House of Commons being taken away, or the electors being
diminished by royal power, I did not understand in what
manner the liberty of the people could be defended ; they might
fear, therefore, lest they should cherish the royal party so
long that, its power increasing immoderately, they might find
there was nothing that could oppose it, if only the king wished
to use the evil power they were imprudently offering him.
They seemed conscious enough of the truth of what I said, but
hoped that the king would not dare anything against the laws,
for they would unanimously desert him in undertakings of
that kind, and that he would not be so clever as alone to
attempt so great a thing, nor indeed was much essayed ; his
brother, notwithstanding, when he had attained the royal
dignity, destroyed himself by a similar rash attempt.1
[Lacuna quatuor paginarum in Auctoris MS.y . . . were
1 At this period, and after the accession of James II., as Macaulay notes, the
English people were thoroughly averse to Popery, not only as a religion but as
a policy. It was felt to be contrary to the whole spirit, character, and tendency
of the nation. The bloody persecutions of the Covenanters in Scotland and the
attacks on English Puritanism were of themselves sufficient to alienate the
affections of the people from the Stuart dynasty ; and the Eevocation of the
Edict of Nantes in 1685, and the terrible cruelties perpetrated on the Hugue
nots, thrilled the nation with indignant horror, and revived the memory of the
savage treatment of their own English martyrs by the last Eoman Catholic
bigot who had sat on the throne of England.
The Church of England, also, was represented by prelates who proved their
belief in their Protestant principles by being willing to go to the Tower rather
than countenance James's Jesuitical attacks on the Scriptural faith of the nation.
One cannot imagine two primates of that period attempting to inspire the Bishop
of Eome — [and describing him whom their own Church declares (Homily
' of Obedience ') ' ought rather to be called Antichrist ' (in the language of
Drs. Temple and Maclagan) as ' their most venerable brother '] — with the idea
that the orders of the presbyters of their Church were of the same sacerdotal
character as those of his own mass-priests, who claimed a priesthood not
recognised in Holy Scripture, as appertaining to the Christain ministry, one
which had no part in that holy anointing poured on every true believer by no
mortal hand, that consecration to a royal and eternal priesthood by the Great
High Priest Himself, the Prince of the kings of the earth, and Eome's fables
could have no attraction for those who realized this.
2 In 1685 he published in Dublin A Sermon preached at Christ Church,
Dublin, on the 23rd of October, 16§S, before Michael Boyle, Lord Primate and
Lord High Chancellor, and Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard, Lords Justices,
on Isaiah, Ux. 6, 7., 4to.

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seen to be more hurtful to the besiegers. For, among other
works, I had read through books treating of the fortification
of towns, and was well enough versed in what belonged to
that subject as far as could be learned from books ; but all the
fortifications of Ireland I found through the long peace com
pletely neglected, so that through the whole way I did not
find one cannon prepared ; few [fortifications] were of the kind
for use, and most of them unsuitable, and without the needful
apparatus, with [gun ?] carriages no doubt, and some other
things, but no provision of gunpowder or explosive balls,1 nor
were there armouries, and if there were any, they were either
empty of arms, or, if any, all were unsuitable and very little
fitted for use. Nor was this state of things displeasing to me,
for men of the popish faction were armed, and all the power
of the kingdom by King James's permission being in their
hands, I saw plainly enough that they would not lay down
their arms unless compelled by war, and the more unprotected
the towns and fortresses were, the more easily, we foresaw,
they could be reduced to obedience.
About the middle of September, in the year 1688,2 I re
turned to Dublin, and at Kildare, twenty miles distant from
Dublin, I heard of the expedition of the Prince of Orange
which was meditated on England. This I long expected, and
the bishops having been committed to the Tower of London
amid the murmurs and the indignation of the whole nation,3 1
1 Bombshells.
2 In July this year, 1688, King received his B.D. and D.D. degrees. From
' A Tripos, or Speech, delivered at a Commencement in the University of Dublin
held there July 11, 1688. By Mr. John Jones,' then B.A. and afterwards D.D.
[Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., &c. By Thos. Boscoe. Lond. 1848.] King's
bad style of Latin is satirized : ' Moreover I recommend to you,' inter alia,
Priscianus vulneratus, alias Methodus Credendi Articulos, by the Eev. Dr.
King ' ; and towards the close of this, in parts sadly indecent, production, the
author indulges in the pleasantry, ' If I fly to the divines for succour, Dean
Manby and Archdeacon Baynard will pervert me ; Dr. King will break my head
because I am a Priscian ; and Dr. Foy is so full of spleen he'll worry me.' To
Swift's pen this Tripos has been attributed by Dr. Barrett.
3 The Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishops of St. Asaph's, Ely, Chichester,
Bath, Peterborough, and Bristol, petitioned the King to be excused compliance
with the royal mandate to have the ' Declaration of Liberty of Conscience ' read
in the churches, and were consequently committed, tried June 29 on the charge
of writing ' a seditious libel,' and acquitted, to the great joy of the people.

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often told my friends that I marvelled what the king wished
to gain by violent counsels and unreasonable attempts, where
by he was promoting the Popish religion and arbitrary power,
both as hateful as possible to all, and was alienating the
mind of all, forgetful that he was reigning at the pleasure of
the Prince of Orange, for if, in such a ferment of the popu
lace, that Prince, with only five thousand armed men, had
landed near London, or elsewhere, all was over for the
king. Having heard truly what he was preparing to do, I
felt persuaded that he was about to deprive himself of the
crown. There arose thence a scruple in my mind by which I was
troubled, namely, what I should do if anything of this kind
should happen. On one side stood my fealty to the king,
and the oaths which, at the command of the law, I had taken
with regard to that fealty, with the legal subscriptions and
declarations to that end ; I was sufficiently persuaded that
these were not instituted, with the object of conferring on the
king absolute power over the laws or over his subjects, or of
changing the constitution and form of the State ; still a doubt
arose whether this could be prevented otherwise than by a
war against the king, and although that war might be lawful,
I could scarcely convince myself, whether it might lawfully
proceed so far as to absolutely depose the king, which I yet
foresaw was certain, if the arms of the Prince of Orange were
successful. But these doubts occasioned very little scruple to
others, for either they believed the business would not pro
ceed so far as a deposition, or if it should reach it, that the
king deserved it, inasmuch as, by his deeds and his principles,
he had declared himself incapable of ruling the state accord
ing to the laws. What, therefore, I should do formed my
anxious meditations, and how I might keep myself quiet, and
not mix myself up in these matters ; yet I stood prepared to
commit myself to Providence, nor was I ever the counsellor
of any one to take up arms ; but when I saw the whole settled
constitution of the State overthrown ; the Acts, commonly
called of Settlement and Explanation, on which the patri
monies of the Protestants depended, repealed ; more than
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better note, proscribed by name ; ] the discipline, power, and
jurisdiction of the church suppressed, the benefices and eccle
siastical preferments restored to the Popish clergy ; and all
Protestants deprived of their property and most also of their
liberty, being by false accusations and arbitrary mandates
shut up in prison ; I doubted no longer but that it was lawful
for me and others to accept that deliverance, which Providence
brought by the Prince of Orange, now the acknowledged King
of England and Scotland, and to submit myself to him as king
and liberator, especially since neither by action, nor writing
had I contributed anything to depose King James, or to pro
mote him (P. of 0.) to the crown ; for it was lawful to submit
to him, to whom such power had been given by all orders of
the entire State, and by Divine Providence, and to become
now his subject.
Meanwhile, having been appointed by the Most Rev.
Francis Marsh, S.T.D., Archbishop of Dublin, commissary
to visit the Dublin clergy, when he fled away into Eng
land about the month of February, 1688,2 under colour of
that power I assumed to myself jurisdiction in the whole
diocese, and with the consent of the clergy ruled as if indeed
with full authority, but when I saw it was insufficient in
itself, and that I could not establish it according to law, I
procured that the Right Reverend Anthony, Bishop of Meath,3
1 The list of their names is given in his own State of the Protestants of
Ireland, London, 1691, and in subsequent editions; Bishop Mant, in History
of the Church of Ireland, 1841, i. 715, gives an analysis of the five lists of
those proscribed as containing the names of two archbishops, one duke, twenty-
four earls and countesses, thirty-five viscounts and viscountesses, seven bishops,
twenty-six barons and baronesses, thirty-four baronets, fifty-one knights, eighty-
three clergymen, 2,188 esquires, gentlemen, gentlewomen and others : making
a total of 2,445.
"- On August 8, 1689, the Archbishop of Dublin gave evidence before the
English House of Lords' Commission, on the miscarriages in Ireland. ' He
came out of Ireland on Feb. 5th, and to London at the end of March. . . .
The foresight that there would be oaths imposed on Witness and others induced
Witness to leave Dublin,' Hist. MSS. Coram., 12th Eeport, MSS. H. of Lords,
1689-1690. Appendix, pt. vi. p. 141. In the T.C.D. MS. ' List of Protestants
who fled from Ireland, 1688,' is ' Fran. L. Arch.Bp. Dublin, W(ife), 2 ch(ildren).
1800 ' (i.e. income per annum).
3 Anthony Dopping, D.D. On his death, in 1697, Bishop King described him
as ' a most useful and eminent pillar of our Church before his late impairment
by sickness, and in particular my friend and assistant.'

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be elected as guardian of the spirituality by the two chapters,
viz. of Holy Trinity and St. Patrick, the archbishop dwelling
in distant parts, and with whom we could have no communi
cation, yea, even by King James's Act of Parliament he had
been proscribed, and no less by him, and with his consent, I
regulated all things in the diocese.
Many clergymen escaping into England l left many parish
churches destitute of pastors ; all these I supplied ; for clergy
men dwelling in the remoter parts of the kingdom, having
fled from their benefices, through the violence of the Papists,
freely offered themselves to discharge the parochial duties in
parishes deserted by their own pastors ; hence not one church
in the whole diocese remained destitute of a curate through
the whole time of the oppression, and although the Papists
commonly in many places entered by force the parish
churches and retained them for themselves vet curates dis
charged the duties in private houses.2
In many cases, indeed in almost all of great moment, the
Protestants of Dublin, under the difficulties which oppressed
them, were accustomed to consult the Bishop of Meath and
myself, and acted on our counsel, taught by experience, not
without success ; hence we were almost held to be oracles, and
whatever news they either heard or learned they brought to
1 ' The Beport of a Massacre design'd to have been acted upon the ninth of
December 1688. This News astonish'd the Protestants everywhere, particu
larly in Dublin, and great Multitudes fled in confusion to the Sea-side to escape
as they best could to England. . . . The Letter threatening a Massacre of all
the English on this day (Dec. 9) came to Town ; and People not receiving such
satisfaction from the Lord Deputy as they expected began to think of England,
and Multitudes flook'd away,' Life, dc. of James Bonnell, Esq., 1707,
pp. 46, 47.
2 ' After this followed a proclamation that not above five Protestants should
meet in any place above the family on pain of death ; by which we were from
that time shut out from our Churches, which by an extraordinary Providence
we had enjoyed all these times (except Christ Church). Most of them were
frequented twice every day at prayers. The Churchmen who remained with
us, tho' they had lost all their subsistence by the Irish Parliament except what
people voluntarily contributed, acquitted themselves with a great deal of zeal
and diligence, being particularly influenced by the Bishop of Meath, and Dr.
King, Dean of St. Patrick's, who have been the bulwark of the Protestants in
these sad times.' A True and Perfect Journal of the Affairs in Ireland since
His Majesties Arrival in that Kingdom. By a Person of Quality. Dated
' Dublin, July 17, 1690 ' ; London. 1690.

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us ; whatever evil had happened to them, or was feared,
they opened to us. Hence almost all the history of things
about to be done was made known, private letters directed to
themselves or otherwise authenticated, public instruments,
proclamations, orders of council, even transcripts of those
which were being preserved in the Secretaries' chests were
communicated to me. We frequently spoke about these
things, having often a conference with friends, what things
indeed interested them . . . what we discussed was com
municated to friends in England, and the northern part of
Ireland, and through my friends imprudently enough pub
lished, which, when again carried back by those on the watch
to King James's party, I myself was held to be author of all,
and that did me the greatest injury.
On the 25th of July, 1689,1 I, with many others, having
been arrested, was committed to prison. I was detained in
Dublin Castle,2 where I composed a diary of all which I
1 In a letter to the Et. Hon. Edward Southwell, dated Dublin, July 25, 1728,
he writes : ' This day requires my remembering it, for nine and thirty years ago
I was imprisoned in the Castle by King James. I pray God make me thankfull
to Him, who preserved me then and has ever since protected and Supported me,
and has given me a long and happy life,' Southwell MSS., formerly in Sir T.
Phillipps' Library, Cheltenham.
The Eev. Dr. Lawlor points out [Introduction to Diary of Wm. King, D.D.,
Abp. of Dublin, published in Journal of R.S.A. (Ireland), 1903] that Dr. King
states in the letter, written on July 24, to the Eev. Henry Price, asking him to
act as Sub-Dean of St. Patrick's, that he was ' now under confinement,' so
that, unless he could have been mistaken in a date about which he seems so
positive, he must have been under arrest at his lodgings, or elsewhere, perhaps
in Newgate, before his committal to the Castle ; he mentions (State of the
Protestants, &o.) that 'private houses were garrisoned or disturbed by
soldiers.' 2 ' Twice confined in y Tower by y order of King James,' is Dr. James
King's description of the locality of the prison in his MS. Life of Abp. King,
1737 ; the tower may have been the present Bermingham Tower, which Dr.
Lawlor (Diary, note 187) describes as formerly called the Wardrobe Tower,
and when the public records were, early in the last century, moved to it
from the Bermingham Tower, ' apparently the name of the Tower went with
them.' Dean Swift records in The Drapier's Letters, the Fourth, October 23,
1724, ' that Mr. Addison was forced to purchase an old obscure place, called
Keeper of the Becords in Bermingham's Tower of £10 a year, and to get a
salary of £400 annexed to it, though all the records there are not worth half-a-
crown either for curiosity or use.' Dean King writes, Diary, ' Sep. ye 17.
Several pieces of ordnance were placed on Bermingham's Tower,' clearly not his
prison. Gilbert's Dublin, 1861, i. 178, mentions that a large quantity of the

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observed,1 and often was honoured with the intercourse of
Roman Catholics as well as Protestants, who frequently visited
me, and spoke with me freely about public affairs. I learned
many things which they were either doing, or devising.
Meanwhile the troops and supplies from England, under
the Duke of Schomberg, landed and advanced as far as
Dundalk and there remained. That was grave news to the
Protestants of Dublin, who were impatiently expecting from
them deliverance from evils. But, having learned how bad
things were in that Duke's camp, nearly all the soldiers being
seized with diseases, patience was needful for them, which as
public records were secreted, during 1689, at Mr. David King's (Sheriff 1716-17)
house in Skinner Eow.
Dr. Nathaniel Foy, Bishop of Waterford, writes, March 18, 1702-3, to Dr.
King : ' They who implore yr Grace's fatherly care and favour are Mrs. Warren
and the young Lady her Daughter, persons formerly not unknown to you, when
your Grace and I were neighbouring Ministers, fellow labourers, and fellow
prisoners likewise in the Castle of Dublin: at which time I remember the
former to have had a very particular concerne for your deliverance thence, and
endeavoured it with all her might, tho' her care prov'd not so successfull for
your Grace as it did for me, you having more enemies to appear against you at
that time than I had.' Bishop Foy had known Mrs. W. upwards of twenty-
three years ; she had been imprudent in the management of her affairs. In his
Diary Dr. King mentions a ' Mrs. W.' as visiting him, October 29, but she may
have been ' Mrs. Wallis,' alluded to October 19, who was probably wife of
Thomas Wallis, F.T.C.D., Dean of Derry 1690 (d. 1695), also a Colonel Warren
as a fellow-prisoner ; a Thomas Warren was a Jacobite D.L. for Co. Dublin,
and Sheriff 1687.
1 This Diary has been edited by the Eev. H. J. Lawlor, D.D., Professor of
Ecclesiastical History in the University of Dublin, as alluded to p. 25, note 1,
it, with several of Archbishop King's own papers, manuscript sermons, portrait
in oils, &c, formed part of the Spence Collection, mentioned in the introduc
tion (from which Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. were also derived), and were noticed
in the Hist. MSS. Commission's 3rd Eeport and Appendix, when in possession of
the late Lieut.-Col. Wm. Boss King, of Tertowie, Aberdeenshire, and inherited
by his only child, Jas. Alex. Gordon King, Capt., Scots Guards, who, in 1890,
succeeded to the estate purchased by his father, and passed away, May 8, 1904,
at the early age of thirty-two. Colonel W. E. King's father, the Eev. William
Hutchinson King, vicar of Nuneaton, Co. Warwick, obtained a grant of arms
and registered his pedigree in the Lyon Office, in 1845, as eldest son of
James King, merchant, in Carlisle, who was eldest son of Eobert of Wauk-
miln, Co. Ayr. Colonel W. E. King was the vicar's second son, and married,
1859, Lucan younger daughter of Colonel W. Cumming-Skene-Gordon, of
Pitlurg and Parkhill, Aberdeenshire. The correspondent referred to in the
Diary was George Toilet, with whom Dr. King succeeded in keeping up
communications.

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much as I could I advised to be inculcated. The militia
having been dissolved on both sides, and the armies in Ire
land reduced, it seemed best to King James to set free the
incarcerated Protestants on the security of bail.
There was a consultation about my release among the
others, Thomas Nugent,1 the Chief Justice of the King's Bench
in Ireland, opposing my enlargement, but there stood up for
me an old friend of mine, Sir Edward Herbert, Knight,2 then
declared by James, Lord High Chancellor of England, who
also himself constantly professed the Reformed Religion and
showed himself, as much as was in him, the author of many
benefits to all professing his religion, for, in all difficulties and
dangers, he exhibited himself to them as a patron and pro
tector. Even the Earl of Tirconnell 3 himself assented, and the
Chief Justice accusing me, that in my meetings I was accustomed
to teach treason against the King, Herbert replied that he had
himself very often heard me speaking at meetings, and that
he had never noticed anything against the King, or the
obedience due to him, but on the contrary that always when
there was opportunity I strenuously taught loyalty to the
King, and that it seemed marvellous to him that the Chief
Justice, who was never present when I was speaking at a
meeting, should assert the contrary, no witness who had heard
me being produced, by whom the charge against me might be
proved, he added, besides even if what had been objected
against me was true, no doubt I should make a bad use of
my liberty, yet still less harm to the royal cause might happen
in the present state of affairs from a wrong use of my liberty,
than would arise through odium to the King from my
detention in prison without any cause. So at length indeed,
1 For some account of Chief Justice Nugent, vide King's State of the Pro
testants of Ireland, London, 1691, p. 61.
5 Younger son of Sir Edward Herbert, the judge (and brother of the admiral,
Arthur, created Earl of Torrington) ; a barrister in the Middle Temple ; K. C,
Ireland, 1677 ; Chief Justice of Chester, 1683 ; knighted, 1684 ; Chief Justice
King's Bench, 1685 ; following King James into exile, he was made his Lord
Chancellor and Earl of Portland ; died at St. Germain's, 1698. Amongst Mrs.
Lyons' King MSS., there are two of his letters to William King ; one of them
only is of any interest, ' Correspondence,' pp. 60, 61,
3 King James's Lord-Lieutenant,

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on the fourth of December, 1689,1 after almost five months'
imprisonment, being restored to liberty I diligently applied
myself to the duties of my cure.
But, about the beginning of June 1690,2 1 was again im
prisoned with so great a flock of Protestants to at least 3000,
and there I remained, until the victory of King William at
the river Boyne overthrew all the professed champions of the
opposite party.3
But then I thought to take the greatest care, lest I should
be author, or promoter, of any inhuman counsel whatsoever
against those who favoured the Jacobite faction, it was certain
1 He had been elected by the Chapter, Dean of St. Patrick's, January 26,
1688-9, a preferment estimated to be of the value of £700 per annum.
2 ' On Tuesday the 24th [of June], Dr. King was clapt up in the Castle, and
many other of the principal Protestants in the Colledg (which was now a
garrison), and other public places ' : A True and Perfect Journal of the Affairs
in Ireland. Harris, in his life of Archbishop King, writes : ' In 1690 he was re-committed
without the least pretence for it, and thrown into the public Guardhouse to lie
with common soldiers, without bed or conveniency, for several nights.'
3 These imprisonments may have been providentially instrumental in pre
serving his life, as in the State of the Protestants, &c, 1691, p. 218, he records
that, ' Dr. King was assaulted in the Street, and a Musquet with a light Match
levelled at him ; the publick Service in his Church was disturbed several times,
particularly on one Candlemas Day, 1689, by seven Officers, who swore aloud they
would cut his Throat.' In a letter to Swift, dated November 20, 1708, he writes,
' As to my own part, I thank God I was never much frightened by any alterations :
neither King James nor the Earl of Tyrconnel shocked me : I always comforted
myself with the 112th Psalm, 7th verse.'
'By six in the morning (Thursday, July 3) the Bishop of Meath, Dr. King,
and other principal Protestants formed a committee in the Castle, and sent out
proclamations by beat of drum for regulating tbe disorders, and forming a Pro
testant Militia, and sent away an Express to the King of this Town's being at
liberty. ' Next morning being Friday, the Duke of Ormond came in with a party of
horse ; and the King, being encamped by Finglas, came on Sunday to St.
Patrick's Church, and heard a sermon preached by Dr. King, concerning the
power of God : of which that which seemed to us greatest upon earth, mighty
armies, was a faint shadow. The King went back to his camp to dinner, not
suffering any soldiers to come into this Town except a few for Guard ' : A True
and Perfect Journal of the Affairs in Ireland, &c.
He preached A Thanksgiving Sermon for the preservation of His Majesty's
person, November 16, 1690. At St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, before the Lcrrd
Justices. On Psalm cvii. 2, 3. Printed at Dublin and London, 1691. And A
Thanksgiving Sermon for King William's Success in reducing Ireland, Dublin,
1692, 4to.

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enough that no grace was to be hoped for them unless they
recognized King William, and submitted to the present
administration of affairs, the test of submission being given
by an oath. Sedulously, therefore, I addressed the Romish
priests, and earnestly admonished them, that they should not
be the authors of the greatest injury to themselves and their
friends, by dissuading them from proving their loyalty by the
oath to King William and Queen Mary, as the laws com
manded. With various arguments and examples I contended
it was lawful for them, and persuaded many of them, as they
were skilled with their own people, and accustomed to deal in
a similar manner with those perplexed by cases of conscience.
Few, therefore, refused to bind themselves by that oath to
the King and Queen, whence they immediately obtained pro
tection and safety ; and from that time I determined to act
humanely towards them,1 and not to bear in mind the injuries
I had received from them, whence some troubles arose to
me, but much rest to my soul, and no trifling impulse towards
the Reformed Religion resulted therefrom ; and I firmly believe,
if all had been treated with the same moderation, with due
care and proper means, a great part of the Roman Catholics
would have now joined the Reformed Religion.
Governors of the Kingdom of Ireland having been ap
pointed by King William, although the whole country was not
reduced to his obedience, for Limerick,2 and almost the whole
1 Mr. Eobert Longfield, a pervert, Clerk of the Quit-Bents and Absentees'
Goods, Dublin, wrote, July 8, 1690, to Dr. King, that he had protected the goods
of several Protestant citizens of Dublin, amongst others those of ' Mr. King of
Bridge St.' (Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.). This was, it is believed, James King,
merchant (eldest son of James King of Corrard), who, in 1688, fled from Dublin,
and is mentioned as at Chester, June 7, 1689, with Mr. Thomas Somerville, his
partner and brother-in-law ; he was elected Sheriff of the City of Dublin,
August 2, 1711, and was then ' of Cornemarket,' near St. Audoen's, and again
in 1713, but on each occasion the Tory Government refused to recognize the
appointment of a Whig to the office of either Lord Mayor or Sheriff, so for two
years Dublin was without municipal government. He died, s.p., March 2, 1726,
and was buried on the 4th, in St. Audoen's Church, betwixt the hours of ten
and twelve at night, in compliance with the direction in his will ; his property
in the Co. Meath he bequeathed to his nephew, James Somerville, created a
Baronet, 1748.
2 The Treaty of Limerick was not signed until October 3, 1691. Among
Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. are letters from Sir Patrick Dun, M.D., some of which

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province of Connaughtwith great part of Munster held out for
King James, the King applied himself to filling up the eccle
siastical benefices now vacant, in which were numbered four
bishoprics and one archbishopric, viz. the Archbishopric of
Cashel, the Bishoprics of Elphin, Clogher, Clonfert, and Derry.
I was nominated by the King himself to the Bishopric of Derry,1
have been printed in his Memoir by T. W. Belcher, M.D., 1866. An account
of the attack on Limerick ' Wednesday aft. the 27th ' August, was sent by Dun,
then with the army, to Dr. King, September 20, 1690, several of whose friends
were killed or wounded ; Captain Wallace of the Lisburne Eegiment, and
Andrew Monroe, among those killed ; Captain Lyndon, ' Judge Lindon's son,'
died of his wounds in twenty-four hours. ' Capt. Eobert Cabreth [Galbraith],
he maryed Mrs. Buckridge's daughter, is shot in the leg above the ankle, the
leg broke ; we have good hope of his recovery. Present my Service to Mr. Eobert
King,' Dr. King's kinsman.
1 In the late Bishop Beeves's Collection of 86 of Archbishop King's letters,
now in T.C.D. Library, which he told the editor was derived from the same
source as Mrs. Lyons', i.e. the Spence family, is one in which George Toilet
writes to Dean King from London, December 13, 1690 : ' I thank your Lordship
for remembering Dr. W. & I beseech you get your consecration over, for I am
under some impatience till I hear it is done. My most humble duty to the
Bishops of Meath & Corck. My Spouse, who claims the title of y first daughter,
is y obed' serv1 & I am, My Lord, your Ldp's most obed1 son & Servant, Geo.
Tollet.' This was the correspondent for transmission to whom, in London, portions
of his Diary were written. Charles Leslie, in his attempt at an Answer, in
1692, to King's State of the Protestants, &c, writes, ' Did he [King] not give
frequent intelligence to Schomberg by one Sherman [this King denied], & keep
constant correspondence with Mr Toilet & others in London ? ' King probably
became acquainted with Toilet through Archbishop Parker's family ; Nicholas
Dowdall (their agent apparently) writes to Geo. Toilet, at his lodgings in Castle
Street, Dublin, 12 March 1686, that Sir John Parker has desired him to send
him some parcels of goods and wants them speedily forwarded to England
' before his Lady leyes in.' In the T.C.D. ' List of Protestants who fled from
Ireland, 1688,' is ' Toilet Geo. Dub. g'., W(ife) 200 ' (a year personal property) ;
Bishop Beeves thought he held some office in the Bevenue, and mentioned,
from some of his letters he possessed, that Toilet had been in negotiation with
James Bonnell, for the reversion of his office of Accomptant General of Ireland,
a subject alluded to as occurring in 1688, p. SI, Life etc. of James Bonnell, Esq.,
1707, where it appears that ' The News of the late Eevolution chang'd that
Gentleman's Thoughts and broke Mr Bonnell's measures.' When he escaped
to London, he appears to have obtained some post (in Navy Office ?) at the
Tower ; the will of 'Geo. Tollet of the Tower of London' was proved 1722.
Marcus Toilet, Sch., T.C.D., 1692, M.A. 1695, was no doubt the nephew of that
name who wrote to Archbishop King from London (his address there is given
as ' at St. James' Chappie near Golden Square '), September 12, 1708, ' My
good uncle continues in health & sends his duty to your Grace.' Thomas

From
Grant op Arms to
1 The Right Eeveeend pfathee in Goi>
William King,
Lop Bishop of London-deey.
Januaey the 9th, 1690."

ULSTER'S OFFICE. GRANTS B.
Communicated by the late
Sir J. Brruard Burke.
Ulster.

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rich in its revenues,1 and by letters patent bearing date
January 9, 1690, and I was consecrated in the church of
the Holy Trinity 2 on the 25th of January, by Francis,
Archbishop of Dublin, and Anthony, Bishop of Meath.3
In the month of March following I went to Derry,4 and
applied myself with the greatest possible industry to regu-
Tollet, who escaped, in 1688, from Dublin with his wife, mother, sister, and
three children, and Charles Toilet with his wife and two children, may have
been George's brothers.
1 Then worth £2,000 a year; 'Londonderry, Ezek., L. Bp.,W[ife]. 3ch[ildren],
2000,' i.e. pounds per annum, (Dr. Hopkins), T.C.D. MS. * List of Protestants
who fled from Ireland, 1688.' King William had made choice of the heroic
governor of Derry, Eev. George Walker, D.D., rector of Donaghmore, Co.
Tyrone, to be the new bishop, but the brave old man, notwithstanding his age
and profession, accompanied the colonists of Ulster to animate their zeal by
exhortation and example, and was shot dead at the Boyne ; he left, by Margaret,
his wife, a son, George, of Donaghmore, who married Elizabeth Moland, and died
1699 ; a great-grandson of the governor's was on the pension list of 1781. The
sword is said to have fallen from the hand of the Walker statue in Derry on
the day that Catholic Emancipation was conceded I
' Christ Church Cathedral.
3 It is curious that he omits the names of William Moreton, Bishop of Kil-
dare, John Boan, Bishop of Killaloe, and Narcissus Marsh, Bishop of Leighlin
and Ferns, who all took part in his consecration, the last-named bishop, in his
diary, under the date, January 25, 1690-1, thus alludes to it : ' This day, Dr. King,
Dean of St. Patrick's, Bishop elect of Derry, was consecrated at Christchurch,
in Dublin. Oh do Thou enable him to promote Thy glory in tbe salvation of
souls.' Bishop King obtained from Sir Eichard Kearney, Ulster King of Arms, a
new grant of arms for the See of Derry, viz., those of the See of London with
a harp for a difference, gu., two swords in saltire, arg., pommels and hilts
downwards, or ; on a chief az., a harp of the third, stringed of the second.
The arms of the see previously were the same as those of the see of Meath. He
also obtained a grant of arms for himself, which are completely different from
those borne by the family, v. ' Miscellanea,' p. 321-2.
4 He was accompanied by Eobert King, his cousin and lawyer. Eichard
Levinge, the solicitor general, wrote to the bishop at Derry, from Dublin,
March 31, 1691, ' My service to Mr. King, & let him know all's well at home.'
' He was at considerable expense,' writes Harris, ' in improving & adorning
the episcopal palace " ; until he moved into it he lodged for two years, with
Captain Warham Jemmett, Collector of the Eevenue, who had been prominent
amongst the defenders of Derry, Derriana, &c, 1823, records him, as described
in the 'Armagh MS.,' —
' Brave Jemmett the Collector of the Town
For its defence spent great stores of his own (!).'
Jemmett was examined before the committee of the English House of Lords
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lating the see, then much disordered and neglected. I found
the land almost desolate, country houses and dwellings burnt :
on an inquiry being made I ascertained there were in the
diocese of Derry, before the troubles, about 250,000 head of
cattle, there were left, after the siege was raised, about 300 ;
out of 460,000 horses 2 horses remained, lame and wounded,
with 7 sheep, and 2 pigs, but no fowl, whence the miserable
state of that province was sufficiently manifest. Owing to
the deficiency of beasts, grass and herbage increased in a
wonderful manner, and having been set on fire,1 great tracts
of land were burnt up, so that the same fire spread 18 miles,
and ran over almost all the neighbouring regions. But it
happened that the native Irish having gone away after the
raising of the siege of Derry, the fruits of the earth abandoned
by them remained, being immature as yet and not capable of
catching fire, therefore the people that were left gathered
them when ripe, and thence escaped famine ; but those of
which there was a superfluity, and those not necessary for
food were carried to the town, and thence were brought back
cows and sheep, and other necessaries with money, also there
was imported from Scotland much cattle, many horses and
sheep as well as fowl, and the pigs most of all multiplied
almost beyond belief, so there was a sufficiency of food.
But the clergy were badly off2; little or nothing was
1 There is a break in this sentence and one or two words undeciphered ;
whether this fire occurred by accident, or is that alluded to in State of the
Protestants, &c, 1691, is not clear, the latter was an intentional act on the
part of the French Marshal de Bosen, ' who burnt the country about Derry,
when he was forced to raise the Siege & left after the French custom the
Gentlemen's Houses & Villages that lay in his way towards Dublin in ashes.'
2 In a letter to Dr. Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, dated March 29, 1716,
Dr. King writes, ' We have but about 600 beneficed clergymen in Ireland, and
perhaps of these hardly 200 have £"100 per annum.'
That shrewd observer, Dean Swift, in 1732, records his opinion that ' an
English vicar of £40, a year lives much more comfortably than one of double
the value in Ireland. His farmers, generally speaking, are able and willing to
pay him his full dues ; he has a decent church of ancient standing, filled every
Lord's day with a large congregation of plain people well clad, and behavin"
themselves as if they believed in God and Christ. He has a house and barn
in repair, a field or two to graze his cows, with a garden and orchard. No
guest expects more from him than a pot of ale ; he lives like an honest plain
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returned by benefices to their possessors ; many were non
resident, beneficed elsewhere, who served their parishes by
curates ; those warned to provide curates replied that the
incomes did not suffice to support a curate, and permitted me,
if I wished, to sequestrate their benefices for the curate's use.
I reckoned it very unjust that those who received the richest
returns from their benefices in time of peace, and assigned
a small stipend only to the curates, now the profit being
diminished, should throw the cure of souls on me, or that the
people now poor should be given to understand they were not
worth their care. Their negligence I bore with sorrow, and
taught them, that I expected either that they should resign
their benefices, or provide a curate ; if they resigned, I
engaged that I would immediately make provision for the
cure ; if they refused, I warned them that I would compel
them by ecclesiastical censures, and to that end I took pro
ceedings against them, and the cause pursuing its course to
excommunication, experts in the law having been consulted,
they submitted, and appointed curates. This business indeed
excited no little odium against me amongst the clergy.1 As to
the resident clergy, whose benefices were not sufficient to
support them, I assisted them until the improvement in their
livings brought them in an adequate maintenance.
graciously invited by the squire, where he sits at a humble distance. If he gets
the love of his people, they often make him little useful presents ; he is happy
by being born to no higher expectation, for he is usually the son of some
ordinary tradesman or middling farmer. His learning is much of a size with
his birth and education ; no more of either than what a poor hungry servitor
can be expected to bring with him from his college. It would be tedious to
show the reverse of all this in our distant poorer parishes through most parts
of Ireland, wherein every reader may make the comparison.' Swift's descrip
tion of the reverse of this in the case of the Irish parson, would have been of
special interest. ' I do confess that there was no reason to complain of the
People's backwardness to maintain the clergy ; on the contrary they con
tributed to the utmost of their power, and beyond it, and made no Distinction
of Sects ; many Dissenters of all sorts (except Quakers) contributing liberally
to this good end, which ought to be remembered to their honour,' State of the
Protestants, &c, London, 1691, p. 231.
1 He subsequently wrote of this, ' I believe no bishop was ever more railed
at for the first two years than I was at Londonderry by both clergy and laity.
But by good offices, steadiness in my duty, and just management, I got the
better of them, and they joined with me heartily in promoting those very
things for which they opposed and condemned me at first.' D

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The churches in the diocese I found much damaged by
neglect, and the fury of war, some also had been consumed
by fire ; to their repair I girded myself, and in ecclesiastical
visitations, I exhorted the parishioners not to allow those that
were falling into decay to go to utter ruin, as that would be
the cause some time of great expense to themselves, which a
small expenditure could now prevent ; and partly by per
suasions, partly by bearing some portion of the expense, I got
all the churches repaired, and seven which had been either
burnt, or had fallen down thro' length of time, or had never
been repaired from the time of the Reformation, I took care
should be rebuilt.
I restored as much as I could ecclesiastical discipline, the
parochial clergy and schoolmasters being together constituted
guardian inspectors in every parish, from whom I required an
account as well in the general visitation, as in the parochial
ones, and I took care that those cited before me, or informed
against by the guardians, should be prosecuted and I put
them to penance.1 I was commonly present, and watched
over the proceedings and suits to be heard in the consistorial
courts. All which things being new, and mostly unaccustomed
at first as much to the laity as to the clergy, moved their
anger, and, afterwards when the usefulness of the same care
was clearly evident, I gained praise from it.
1 The Eev. Dr. Hughes, in his Church of St. Werburgh, Dublin, 1889,
prints a letter from Archbishop Francis Marsh to Wm. King, then Chancellor,
and rector of St. Werburgh's, which illustrates this subject of penance. It is
dated ' St. Sepulchre's, Jan. 31, 168|,' and refers to some offence committed
by Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoy, James II.'s General (Henry's Upper
Lough Erne in 1739, edited by Sir Charles S. King, Bt., Dublin, 1892).
' Mr. King,
My Ld Gilrnoy was w'h me, and earnestly desires, as I doe, that to-morrow
being a Church day, you would be pleased to appoint a vestry in y° afternoon,
wn upon notice to me he will attend y", acknowledg his errour, and bestow his
charity upon y poore of y parish, wh I pray y" to accept. This is only upon
his own ace'. I desire y will signify to me the time. It is expedient to be
done before my Ld. Lt. arrives. I am, Sir,
Most affectionately y friend and serv',
feanc Dublin.'
Bishop King's Visitation Book, containing his remarks about the parishes
in his diocese, was some years ago, and probably still is, in the custody of the
Eegistrar of Derry.

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I exhorted the clergy much to frugality, sobriety and
diligence, especially that they should hold conferences with
dissenters,1 and strive to lead them to conformity with the
Church, they endeavoured to persuade me it would be in vain,
for hitherto their prejudices and dislike had been inveterate,
so that it could not be hoped that without force, or a miracle,
they could be brought over ; but I led the way in giving the
thing a trial, and in parish visitations, where very often those
frequenting them, either from curiosity or business, were
mostly dissenters, I made addresses to them which seemed
to flow from the occasion, rather than by design, in which
we argued concerning some point between them and the
Church, and not unprofitably, some being persuaded, others
driven to doubt, but all acknowledged that they had heard
for themselves some new things in favour of the Church by
law established, and stronger arguments than they thought
could be pleaded.
In the year 1692, in the summer, I went to London to
confer with the London Society, as the proprietors to whom
the county of Derry belonged. From the first founding of
that Society many lawsuits and controversies, both concerning
lands and fisheries, arose between it and the bishops my
predecessors ; my immediate predecessor, indeed, the late
Reverend Dr. Hopkins, moved to and fro with them a long
series of suits in almost all the courts, which had been
1 These dissenters were Scots Presbyterians, and their descendants, they
possessed a strong clannish affection for each other, a very deep attachment to
their own forms of worship and Church government, and a very decided
antipathy to episcopacy (fostered by the bloody and violent attacks on their
people's liberty and conscience in the endeavour to force it upon them in
Scotland), which is said by Bishop Mant to have been illustrated by no less
a personage than Alan Broderick, subsequently Speaker of the House of
Commons, who, in a session of Parliament early in Queen Anne's reign, ' had
insolently shaken one of the Irish prelates, Dr. Lindsay, at that time Bishop
of Killaloe and afterwards Lord Primate, by his lawn sleeve, and told him in
a menacing manner " that he hoped to live to see the day when there should
not be one of his order in the kingdom." ' In 1698 additional duties were
imposed, by the jealousy of England, on the exportation of Irish woollen cloths
to such an extent as to be almost tantamount to a prohibition ; this manufacture
being in the hands of English Episcopalian settlers, most of those so engaged
had to leave the country, while the encouragement given to the linen manu
facture supplied an additional inducement to Scots to come over to Ulster.
d 2

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interrupted by the war intervening ; I found the case must be
resuscitated, unless terminated by some friendly agreement,
and therefore proposed conditions that seemed to me to be
just, and was about to concede more, if reason demanded it.
But he who managed their business at Derry, seeing that he
was an inveterate dissenter, used every exertion to prevent
peace between us, and by many falsehoods and accusations
alienated from me those friends who constituted the Society,
who themselves mostly favoured the dissenters, and succeeded
in having all conditions of peace repudiated. The city, like
wise, of Londonderry had been almost totally depopulated by
the war, and deprived of citizens who were qualified to
execute the office of magistrate, four being left, and presiding
at the raising of the siege elected new citizens, aldermen
namely, and burgesses, themselves favourers of dissenters, so
almost all of that sort constituted the new citizens.1 There
fore I found the whole city under their authority and power,
and knowing me to studiously nourish the Church, and
fearing that I would [not] use moderate measures against
their faction, [but would occasion] future injuries [to their
cause], they studied by all means to impede me in doing
my business, and made many and heavy complaints against
me to the Society . . What they gained from me they per
fidiously betrayed to the agent of the affairs of the Society,
whence lawsuits, and access and refuge to the courts were
needful for me.'2
In the year 1693, while meditating in what manner I
might prove useful to the dissenters, and might render secure
members of the Church by law established, it occurred to me
that all dissenters founded themselves on the authority of
Scripture ; and held that their religion was conformable to
Scripture, and rested upon it, while ours was supported by
human precept ; nor could those things in which we differed
1 Vide Craghead's Dedication, &c, in ' Miscellanea,' p. 290.
2 For an account of these legal proceedings, vide Ordnance Survey of Co.
Londonderry, by Colonel Colby, E.E., &c, 1837, p. 47. The Bishop's suit
against the Irish Society was memorable for the formidable encroachment
made by the English Parliament on the privileges of the Irish Parliament by
annulling, in 1698, the decision of the Irish House of Lords in the Bishop's
favour.

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from dissenters be confirmed by Divine authority, or the
testimony of, or examples from, Holy Scripture. These were
thrown out with so great confidence that almost all our
people seemed to admit that, although nothing in faith or
liturgies, or in the manner of worshipping God in the Church
was contrary to Scripture, yet they were introduced by the
authority of the Church, and by the rules of human prudence
alone ; that the mode, indeed, which the dissenters used is
simpler and more agreeable to Scripture, that to me seemed
wonderful ; and so through our views, and theirs, I could
hope very little, either that I could persuade them to join
themselves to the Church, or our people to adhere more firmly
to it. In order to meet this error I wrote a book, entitled
' The Inventions of Men in the Worship of God,' l in which I
showed clearly that our mode of worshipping God was con
formable to Scripture, but theirs not only was not but was
contrary thereto. The book is written in a modest style,
without asperity or irritating words, and, what is wonderful
enough, thereby irritated them the more. Irate and excited
almost to fury, they had not anything to bring forward by
way of accusation, the more because it was seen, that the
style and method of propounding the reasons now obliged
them to prove, what before had been taken for granted, viz.,
that their manner of worshipping God was conformable to
the Scriptures, while ours was not, at all events chiefly, based
upon them. This was their principal citadel and strongest
position, in which they believed themselves safe, but the
attack being made on this, and those, in which they chiefly
trusted, being demolished by the unexpected assault, they
seemed almost overwhelmed. They were not now called
to reasonings, or long deductions of consequences, nor to
1 A Discourse concerning the Inventions, &c, Dublin, 1694 ; afterwards
often printed in London, in 1712, at Boston, New England, also in Scotland, in
1713, as Professor Lawlor mentions in Some Worthies. It was followed by
An Admonition to the Dissenting Inhabitants of the Diocese of Derry con
cerning a Book lately published by Mr. Joseph Boyse intitled Remarks, &c,
Dublin and London, 1694, and A Second Admonition, &c, Dublin, 1695.
Archbishop King was engaged on the revision of his Inventions, &c, in which
he ' had gone a good way,' when he retired to Mount Merrion in the summer
of 1714, and was disturbed by his appointm ent as a Lord Justice.

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regulations of human prudence, or Church authority, but
to the Scriptures themselves, and their plainest words, to
which, being unprepared, they could not say anything ; and
where, the more they examined into the matter, the more
difficult they found it.1
It was a surprise to me that so sudden a change followed
this book ; our people, who before almost in silence endured
the scoffings and continual disputations of the dissenters, their
ears deafened with frequent arguments, and scornful attacks ;
neither in meetings, drinking parties, nor feasts, could they
anywhere rest, but, conquered and helpless, remained silent ;
now reviving as with new spirits, and in their turn attacking
the adversaries, to the Scriptures they appealed, and with them
1 Vide ' Miscellanea,' pp. 288, 289, for some extracts from the work. In a
letter from Derry, December 15, 1696, the Bishop writes to Dr. Lloyd, Bishop of
Lichfield and Coventry, on this subject : ' I am much obliged to your Lordship
for your favourable censure of those pieces, which I ordered Mr. Toilet to present
your Lordship. My Lord, I cannot pretend to be the author of any of the argu
ments in them ; the whole was an effect of my reading. Mr. Thorndike [the
Eev. Herbert T., author Of Religious Assemblies, and the Publick Service of
God, &c, 1642, who took part in the Savoy Conference 1661, and in the
revision of the Prayer Book] gave me the notions, and all that I can pretend to
is the taking them out of his obscure style and method, and putting them into
a more modern dress.'
The late Professor Stokes, in Some Worthies, &c, p. 205, writes of this book,
' It caused for a quarter of a century, or more, a long and bitter controversy
throughout the Christian world of England, Ireland, and Scotland. ... I can
only say that a better written, or more ably argued, book could not be produced
to-day, and I think the clergy of Derry could not do better, two hundred years
after its publication, than hark back and preach a course of sermons based on
the plain Word of God, setting forth and repeating Bishop King's argument.'
On the Presbyterian side of the question, the Bev. W. T. Latimer, B.A., in
his History of the Irish Presbyterians, 1893, describes the book as ' accusing
Presbyterians of being badly instructed in Christian principles, of failing to
attend public worship with regularity, of neglecting to read the Scriptures in
their meetings, and of celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at only
very distant intervals. To this pamphlet replies were published by the Bev.
Joseph Boyse, of Dublin, and the Eev. Eobert Craghead, of Londonderry. The
style of Mr. Boyse was better than Mr. Craghead's, but both writers proved
plainly that the most important of the Bishop's charges were false. They
showed clearly that Presbyterians read the Scriptures, and were well instructed
in their principles ; and that if the Lord's Supper was celebrated but seldom, the
reason was fear of persecution from the denomination to which the Bishop
belonged. This controversy continued for several years, and called forth nine
publications.'

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happily overcame, and drove them to abandon meetings of
such a sort, yea, as conscious of our victory reported amongst
themselves, their ministers prohibited meetings about religion
between our people and theirs. After this a great hush from
religious controversies, and unwillingness to be drawn into
disputations, occasioned much quietness and joy to our people.
But the ministers having been solicited to answer the
book, Joseph Boyse,1 an old adversary of mine, was aroused,
and Robert Craighead,2 minister of Derry, himself also . . .
These published replies full of personal calumnies with false
narrations of things, almost in every case with perverted
meanings of my words, and what injured the writers more,
agreeing very little among themselves. . . .
But Boyse allowed many things which I attacked, and for
the rest, having abandoned Holy Scripture, he advocated the
rules of human prudence to vindicate their practices against
reasons drawn from the sacred books ; and where a plausible
answer failed, he studied to avoid the force of arguments
1 Had ministered at Brownist Church in Amsterdam, 1682 ; Presbyterian
minister at Wood Street, Dublin, 1683, till his death in December 1728. He
was author of Some impartial Reflections on Dr. Manby's Considerations for
embracing the Catholick Religion, & Mr. King's Answer to tlie same, In
a Letter to a Friend, Dublin, 1687, 4to. ; probably this work is referred to by
Dr. King, in his description of its author, as ' veterem mihi adversarium ' ;
Remarks on a late Discourse of William, Lord Bishop of Derry, concerning
the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God, Dublin, 1694, 4to. ; A Vindica
tion of the Remarks on the Bishop of Derry's Discourse about Hitman
Inventions from what is objected against them in the Admonition annexed to
the Second Edition of that Discourse. By the Author of the Remarks,
London and Dublin, 1695.
In a letter to Dean Swift, November 10, 1711, Archbishop King writes, ' We,'
i.e. the Irish House of Lords, ' burned Mr. Boyse's book of A Scriptural
Bishop.' This shamefully used book was The Office of a Christian Bishop
Described and Recommended from 1 Timothy, iii. 1 : An Ordination Sermon,
probably it expressed the view of the Church of Scotland that the bishop,
or overseer, in the Apostolic Church was of the same order as the presbyter, the
truth of which is now admitted by many of the most learned divines.
In 1728, an edition, 2 vols, folio, was published in London of The Works of
the Reverend and Learned Mr. Joseph Boyse of Dublin, being a complete
Collection qf all the Discourses, Sermons, and other Tracts already published,
&c. The Eevs. Eobert Campbell, of Bay, Co. Donegal, and John McBride, of
Belfast, also wrote answers to The Inventions, &o., in 1694,
2 Vide ' Miscellanea,' p. 290.

40 QUiEDAM VITjE MEiE INSIGNIORA
by scoffs and taunts, by all the artifices added to them which
the defenders of a bad cause are accustomed to use ; and
where their practices could admit of no colour, he denied
them with the greatest confidence.
Mr. Craighead J brought forward scarcely anything which
displayed sense, or reason, and thence his book exposed its
writer to the contempt of almost all. Meanwhile my oppo
nent, Mr. Boyse, . . . pressed by arguments sought from
their Directory2 and Confession of Faith, easily extricated
himself by denying that they were obligatory on them.
To these I replied in a book entitled ' An Admonition to
the Dissenters of the Diocese of Derry,' in which I proved
facts confidently denied, called attention to Mr. Boyse's con
cessions, exposed the contradictions between him and the
other advocate, and confuted his arguments where he put
forward any.
In a second Admonition I refuted his reiterated objections,
wherein I publicly demonstrated the artifices made use of,
and the facts which he had dared to deny ; nor was this a
work of much labour, for they were notorious to all. The
strictures which appeared on this book, but privately and
secretly, were not saleable, and made the authors ashamed of
them.3 In the year 1697 I produced a book entitled ' De Origine
Mali.' 4 Mr. Bayle published strictures on it before he had
1 Andrew Hamilton (Archdeacon of Eaphoe ?) wrote an Answer to Crag
head's book in 1698.
2 The Directory of the Westminster Assembly.
3 Whatever may be thought of these controversies with the adherents to
the Church of his fathers, the Bishop is entitled to credit for honesty to his
convictions, and for firmness in maintaining them, and therein his character
offers a refreshing contrast to that of many of the English episcopate of our
time, who act as though they neither knew, nor cared to know, what their own
Church teaches, nor to fulfil the duties for which a deceived nation pays them
extravagantly. Indeed Bishop King's complaint is as true of the existing
English Church as it was then of the Irish, when, in a letter to the Bishop of
Waterford, September 28, 1697, he writes, ' 0 my Lord, we have fallen in evil
times, in which it is a step to a preferment to the person that will give
assurance, that as soon as he is in it he will disgrace or betray it.'
1 Published in Latin in London and Dublin, in 1702, with a Dedication to
his friend, Sir Eobert Southwell, Knight, written in February 1700-1. M.
Bernard gave an abridgement of it in Nouvelles de la Riptiblique des Lettres

QUiEDAM VITiE ME^l INSIGNIORA 41
read it ; it will not seem wonderful that they were marked
neither by sense nor force of argument, when the book was
for May and June 1703, which fell into the hands of M. Pierre Bayle, the
French philosopher, who did not defer publishing his criticisms in his Historical
and Critical Dictionary till he had seen the book itself ; some of his remarks
were replied to by M. Bernard. M. Leibnitz criticised the work in Essais de
Thiodicie, and his Remarques sur le Livre de I'Origine du Mai was sub
sequently inserted by Des Maizeaux in Recueil des diverses Piices sur la
Philosophic par M.M. Leibnitz, Clarke, Newton, Amsterdam, 1720, vol. 3.
A part of the Bishop's treatise was translated into English by Solomon Lowe,
London, 1715. Dr. James King, in MS. Life of Archbishop King, 1737, writes,
' Mr. Bayle, Leibnitz, Wolfius and others writ some remarks of this book, &
severely criticized upon his notion of Liberty and Free Will or Election &a.,
the Archbishop has fully answered all their remarks and more clearly explained
his own meaning in a bundle of MS. which have not been regularly sorted.
Mr. Law, who translated this book, perused these MS., which he takes notice of
in his 2nd edition.' Dr. Edmund Law's (afterwards Bishop of Carlisle) transla
tion (with large notes) into English was published in London, 1731, 1732,
and a 3rd edition at Cambridge in 1739, where for some years, as at Dublin,
it was much used, a 4th in 1758, and the 5th edition in 1781, esteemed by
some the best ; he refers to Bayle, Leibnitz, and Drs. Samuel and J. Clarke ;
he also re-published with the Origin of Evil, King's two sermons, ' Divine
Predestination and Foreknowledge,' 1709 (a 7th edition in 1758), and ' A
Sermon on the Fall of Man,' (a 3rd edition in 1758), the latter was printed
in compliance with the Archbishop's wishes after his decease.
' [Dr. Law] in a preface to his late new edition (1781) of his translation of
Archbishop King's " Origin of Evil" (in opposition to Warburton, who, while
on a visit at Cambridge, was ready to quarrel on the subject), asserts that
Bolingbroke extracted the scheme of the best from the book of the Archbishop
(whose manuscript Diary of his own life is said to be extant) ; and that Lord
Bathurst told him he had seen these collected notions in the handwriting of
that Lord, lying by the side of Pope when he was writing the " Essay on Man." '
Tyers's Historical Rhapsody on Mr. Pope, 2nd edition, 1782, quoted in John
Nichols' Literary Anecdotes, 1814, vol. 8.
' This treatise has immortalized his [Dr. King's] memory. Pope has solved
the origin of evil, per saltum, by saying, " Whatever is, is right." The prelate
has done it with a pen borrowed from an angel.' — Noble's (Bev. Mark) Granger's
Biog. Hist. Eng., 1806.
The Eev. Eichard Whately, Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford (subsequently
Archbishop of Dublin), when publishing, in 1821, Archbishop King's Discourse
on Predestination, of 1709, of which he formed a high judgment, added in an
Appendix his criticism of The Origin of Evil, in which, while admitting there
is much ingenuity displayed in the conduct of that argument and also a candid
disposition, he is compelled to state his conviction that the whole argument
rests on the use made undesignedly of ambiguous words.
The Eev. Capel Berrow, M.A., published Second Thoughts on the Scripture
Doctrine of Predestination, Election, Reprobation, and future punishments
occasioned by Archbishop King's Treatise cm the Origin of Evil, London,
1782.

42 QUiEDAM VIT^E ME.-E INSIGNIORA
not otherwise known to him than from a summary, or
abridged narration of it, which Mr. Bernard, a learned man,
contributed to a certain French work named ' Ouvrage de(s)
Scavans.' Afterwards Wolff, in a book written in Latin,
attacked some things in mine. Lastly an anonymous writer
in a French book with the title ' Tentamen . . .' The first
[of these writers] attacked impudently and impiously those
points I had put forward, the second without much acumen,
but seriously, and with a certain gravity, and the third
modestly and carefully but not with force.
In the year 1689 all the revoked donations [to the Church]
of forfeited possessions in Ireland pertaining to those who
contended in arms against King William . . -1
Transcriptum per Carol. King Irwin, D.D.,
Eccles. Cathed118 Armachens. Pr^centorem,
ab exemplars per gljl. reeves, d.d.,
Eccles. ejusd. Decanum,
Ex autographo Auctoris.
Nov. 14, 1880.
1 In a letter on the subject, to Gilbert Burnet, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury,
Bishop King writes, October 5, 1696, ' Amongst many forfeited estates in the
late rebellion, several impropriate tithes came under that qualification ; and
we, immediately after the victory of the Boyne, applied to his Majesty for them
that he would be pleased to restore them to the Church. . . . We have been
promised fair all along ; but instead of giving them to the Church, there are
several parcels granted to laymen .... and all that was left of those forfeited
impropriations were not worth £200 per annum.' Begs the Bishop ' to further
our petition ' for their restoration ; which at length was granted in 1702.

WILL.
The last will and testament of Br. William King,
Lord Archbishop of Dublin.1
' In the name of God. Amen.
I, William, Archbp. of Dublin, intending soon to goe into
England for my health, which I find much Impaired by my age
and infirmitys together with decays of my body and parts, in
order to settle the worldly concerns with which it has pleased
God to bless me, make this my last will and testament, Revokeing
all former wills made by me. First, I committ my soul into
the hands of my most Gracious Redeemer, Jesus Christ, in full
assurance of an happy resurrection by his Almighty power,
and for his meritts beseeching my heavenly Father of His
infinite mercy to forgive me my sins and to accept of me as
one of his children, tho' unworthy, for his dear Son's sake
my God and Saviour. 2dly as to my funerall, I intend
hereafter, if God permitt, to give directions about it, and if
no such directions be given then my will is that it be as my
executor hereafter named shall think fitt, provided it be in
some country Church-yard, and that I be buryed in such a
place and in such depth of ground where in probability my
body will not be removed or disturbed.2 I order this in
1 Copied from original in the Principal Begistry of H.M's Court of Probate,
Ireland. 2 ' Saturday night last the remains of our Archbp. was interr'd at Done-
brooke, in a very decent tho' plain manner, being accompany'd thither by
most of our nobility and gentry, and thousands of our citizens. The corps
was put above 2 feet under water, in a grave 9 foot deep, over which we hear a
monument will be erected (Dublin Intelligence, 13th May, 1729).'— Bev. B. H.
Blacker's Brief Sketches of Booterstown and Dcnnybrook, p. 165. No monu
ment now marks the Archbishop's grave, and probably none was erected, owing
to his executor's illness, followed by his death the year after. The Eev. John

44 WILL
conformity to what I find practized by good and wise men in
the holy scriptures and Judge it agreeable to the common
sence of mankind and to the rules of decency, and religion
which teaches us to have regard to our bodys since tis an
article of our faith which I firmly believe that Tru Christians
shall at the resurrection be glorifyed in body as well as in
souls with Jesus Christ. 3dly, as to my worldly substance,
I bequeath and give to my sister, Marion Dougatt, if alive,
twenty pounds to buy her mourning, and recommend her
further maintenance To her son, Robert Dougat, wm I have
by this my will Enabled To take care of her. [Will: Dublin
2nd page.] 4tl,ly I Give and bequeath to my brother in law,
Co11 Charles Irvine, fifty pounds ster. and to my sister,
Mr3 Margarett Irvine, twenty ster. to buy her mourning.
5 I give and bequeath to my Executor hereafter named one
hundred pounds in Trust that he shall dispose of it to five
of my poorest relations not named in this my will in such
proportion as he shall think fitt. 6tWy I give and bequeath
to my faithfull servant, M1S Jane Green,1 one hundred
pounds as a Testimony of the sense I have of her care and
honesty in manageing my family so many years to my creditt
and advantage. 7thly I give and bequeath to my trusty
servant, Captain Lewis Moore,2 the sum of one hundred
pounds to help him to live more comfortable when I am dead.
8thly I give and bequeath to each of my servants that are
now in my service and shall continue in it at my death, one
full year's wages as they have been formerly paid and should
have bin if God had bin pleased to grant me longer life,
besides what shall be due in proportion to the lime they shall
have served in my lifetime together with their livery and
other cloaths which they had from me. 9tbly To my servant,
Mr. William Green, in consideration of the faithfull service his
uncle Mr. Henry Green and he have rendered me I give and
bequeath the sume of one hundred pounds and I recommend
Wynne, precentor of St. Patrick's Cathedral and keeper of Marsh's Library,
was buried, Jan. 21, 1762, according to the directions in his will, by the side of
Eev. Eobert Dougatt's and the Archbishop's grave. ' Buried Archbishop King,
May 10th, 1729,' Donnybrook Parish Register.
1 His housekeeper, the widow of Henry Greene.
2 Also a Notary Public,

WILL 45
such as now are in my service to any master that shall be willing
to entertaine them, testifying in their behalfe that to the best
of my observation they are just and honest. (Will: Dublin 3.)
10thly, I give and bequeath to the most Reverend Father,
Edward, Lfl Archbp. of Tuam,1 and to the Rt. Reverend
John, Lord Bp. of Clogher,2 twenty guineas each to buy them
mourning and desire them to accept of the same as a Testi
mony of the cordiall friendship I have for them, and I
farther bequeath and give them four hunda pounds towards
buying one or more Glebes for one or more countrey churches
in the diocess of Dublin, as shall seem to them and my
executor hereafter named most to want Glebes and main
tenance. lltbly, I give and bequeath to my nephew Robert
Dougat five hundred pounds in trust to be laid out to pur
chase a farther maintenance and endowment of the Divinity
Lecturer who is to lecture Batchelors in the Colledge of
Dublin who intend to study Divinity, to the intent to qualify
themselves for holy orders.3 12thly, I give and bequeath to
my Executor hereafter named one hundred and fifty pounds
in Trust that he shall distribute the said sume to the poor
of Dublin in the respective parishes within the bills of
mortality in such manner and proportion as he shall think
fitt. 13thly, I give and bequeath to the Bight Reverend
William, Ld Bp. of Derry,4 and to his successors for
the time being all the books I bought from the Exrs of
Dr Hopkins late Bp. of Derry, in Trust nevertheless that
he and his success" shall suffer the said books to be and
remain in the Library now prepared for them for the use of
the clergy and gentlemen of the said Diocess as a publick
Library and I will and order my executor hereafter appointed
dureing his life to make such farther conveyance of the said
bookes as councill learned in law shall advise (Will: Dublin 4)
and with the consent of the Bishop of the said diocess for the
time being to settle proper rules for the management and
preservation of the said library and books, and I doe hereby
1 Edward Synge, D.D. 2 John Stearne, D.D.
3 This lectureship had been founded, and endowed with £500, by Aroh -
bishop King in 1718.
4 William Nicholson, D.D.

46 WILL
appoint the Bp. of Derry, for the time being, to be
visitor of the same and Entreat him and his successors to
take that care on them.1 14thly, Whereas I purchased the
tyths of Kilkenny West,2 in the Diocess of Meath, for two
hundred and fifty pounds (prout per Deed), I do hereby
declare that the said purchase was in Trust for the benefitt
of the church, and that the said two hundred and fifty
pounds were put into my hands by a charitable person whom
I have not leave to name, and whom I beseech God to
Reward for his Secret Charity on this and other occasions
to which I am privy, now my will is and I order my Executor
to make such a farther deed or deeds as Councill shall advise
to settle them on such Incumbent of the said parish as shall be
resident therein and have actual cure of souls in the said
Parish reserving nevertheless a pension of £20 per ann. for
twelve years after my death to be applied as an augmentation
of the vicarage of Donard 3 to be paid to the vicar of the said
vicaridge of Donard quarterly out of the said Tythes after
which twelve years are expired tis my will that the said
pension shall cease and that then the whole tyths shoud goe
and [be] applyed to the maintenance of the Incumbent of the
said parish of Kilkenny West, whilst actually resideing in it,
for such I understood was the design of the donor, but if the
said parish shoud fall into the hands of a non-resident my
will is that the said pension of twenty pounds shoud be
applyed to maintaine a curate in the old church of St. Kevin's,
Dublin (Will: Dublin 5). I mean by residence that the
Incumbent shall not be absent above 80 days in the year
1 Archdeacon Cotton gave some description of the contents of this Library
in Fasti Eccles. Hib. 1847-60, iii. 320, 321. ' The Diocesan College, or Foyle
College, Londonderry, has attached to it an excellent library of works on
divinity collected by Bishop Hopkins, and presented to it by his successor,
Bishop King, and which has been also augmented by a donation of £100 from
James Alexander, Esq., of London ; it is open to the clergy of the diocese at all
times ' (Lewis' Topog. Diet, of Ireland, 1837). ' He built,' writes Harris in
Life, ' as I am credibly informed, a capacious house in Derry, the under rooms
to serve for a school house & conveniences for a master, & the upper rooms for
a Library.' ' Co. Westmeath ; in 1837 the living was in the patronage of the Marquess
of D rogheda and B. Butler Bryan, Esq.
3 Co. Wicklow.

WILL 47
conjunctim and divisim. And my farther will is, and
I order, that my Executor shall take care of the said pension
of twenty pounds per ann. be secured by some deed or deeds
as before is ordered in this my will, so that the person, or
persons, for whome it is designed may be enabled from time
to time to sue for and recover the same. 15thly, Whereas
I purchased the Rectorys of Crevagh and Ballintemple in the
diocess of Dublin, and the Rectory of Newcastle in the county
of Wicklo(prout per Deeds), and collated Incumbents to them
severally, by which I conceive I have divested myselfe of the
said Rectories soe collated by me, and I remain only patron,
I do by this my last will and testament give and bequeath
the patronage of the said Rectorys of Crevagh, Ballintemple,1
and Newcastle to my executor hereafter named, and his heirs
for ever, and if any other conveyance or deeds to settle the
said Rectorys on the Incumbents be judged necessary I hereby
order and empower my said Executor to Execute and perfect
the same. 16tllly, And whereas I have purchased the advow-
son of the Rectory of Donaghmore in the Diocess of Derry
(prout per Deeds) and have presented to it and my clerke is
in actuall possion of it I give and bequeath the said Advow-
son of Donaghmore to my Excr and his heires, desireing
him to nominate some trustees to present to the same from
time to time as often as it shall happen to be void after his
death (Will: Dublin 6). As to my other worldly concerns and
disposall of tyths I have already settled them by severall
deeds. Lastly I order all my just debts to be paid and con
stitute and appoint my nephew, Robert Dougatt, Chanter of
St. Patrick's, Dublin, my sole Executor of this my last will
and testament, and give and bequeath to him all my reall
and personall estate, with all my goods which I have or shall
purchase in my lifetime, and which I have not otherwise
disposed off, he paying all my just debts and legacies before
mentioned, and performing such orders and directions as are
contained in this my will, or shall be made by me in any
codicill, or by any other deed or writeing under my hand and
seale. This will, contained in six pages, each signed at the
1 William Bryan, Esq., was the patron of the living in 1827.

48 WILL
bottom — ' Will: Dublin ' — was signed, sealed and published as
my last will and testament May 6th 1726.
(Signed) Will: Dublin.
In presence of Zach. Norton,
James King,1
Jo. Sale, Noty. Pub.
Proved 23 May 1729, by the Rev. Robert Dougatt, nephew
of the deceased, and sole Executor.
1 Eldest son of the Bev. Thomas King, M.A., Prebendary of Swords (sixth
son of James King of Corrard, Esq.) and a ward of the Archbishop's ; then
curate of St. Peter's, Dublin, and prebendary of Tipper ; in 1730, Incumbent of
St. Bride's ; a friend of Dean Swift's and one of the executors of his will, and
to whom Swift bequeathed his ' large gilded medal of King Charles I., and on the
reverse a crown of martyrdom with other devices ' ; joined by the Eev. John
Grattan, Dr. King petitioned for the commission de lunatico &c. in Swift's case
in 1742, and was named in the commission, but the care of the Dean chiefly
devolved on his (King's) curate, the Eev. John Lyon ; he married, first, his
cousin, Margaret, fourth daughter of Aid. Thomas Somerville (by Katherine
King, his wife), and had by her (who died July 22, 1748), four sons ; he married
secondly, 1749 (settlement August 15), his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of
David King, of Dublin, sheriff 1716-17, she died, s. p., February 1764, and
Dr. King died February 26, 1759. The last letter the editor has seen of
Archbishop King's was one to Lord Chief Justice Eeynolds, April 28, 1729,
mentioning ' there is a suit depending in your Lordship's Court between
Mr. Wilson, p'bendary of Swords, & Mr. King, p'bendary of Tipper, both
Clergymen of the Diocess of Dublin & concerned in Cures,' and as his visita
tion is to be the same days as the tryal, and a number of the clergy are to be
witnesses, he begs the Lord Chief Justice to postpone the trial till after the
visitation. Vide Carroll's (Bev. W. G.) Succession of Clergy, St. Bride's &e.
1884, also Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage, s. v. ' King of Corrard, Bt.'

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SOME ACCOUNT OF ARCHBISHOP KING'S FAMILY
The first of the name on record in Aberdeenshire is Bobertus
dictus King, who, pro anima sua et antecessorum et succes-
sorum suorum, &c, bequeathed to the Monastery of St.
Andrew's certain land in Aberdeen, which was the subject of
a convention, A.D. 1247, between his brother's daughter,
Goda, and the Prior and Convent.1
William King, in and before 1445, held land infra bur gum
de Abirdene. James King of Barra and Bourty had a new charter, 1490,
of the half of Westerhouse (a part of Barra) to himself and
his spouse, Marjorie Berclay, daughter of the Laird of Towie.
Extant royal charters show his descendants for four genera
tions as Laird Portioners 2 of Barra and Auld Bourtie ; inter
marrying with the families of Grier, Gray of Schives, Menzies
of Pitfoddels, Pawtoun, or Panton, of Pitmedden, Innes of
Crommie, Lumsden of Clova, Blackhall, &c.
Unhappily they were continually ' at deidlie f eid ' with
1 This charter, now in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, once in the
possession of Sir James Balfour, Lord Lyon temp. Car. I., is in excellent pre
servation and a fine specimen of the beautifully distinct penmanship of the
period ; Douglas, in his Peerage of Scotland, s. v. ' King, Lord Eythin,' in
addition to other errors, quotes it incorrectly.
There is a tradition in the family that the surname was originally Mac-
Entore, and that one MacEntore, having saved his sovereign's life in battle,
assumed, in commemoration of his prowess, the surname and arms since borne
by his descendants ; the buckles in the latter, however, appear to point to a
descent from, or connection with, the Leslies, also a Garioch family. An
account of the Barra family compiled by the editor was forwarded, through a
friend, in 1881, to the Bev. John Davidson, D.D., for insertion in the ' Addenda '
to his Inverurie and the Earldom of Garioch ; though much more accurate than
the pedigree in Douglas, yet there are statements in it which further research
has shown to be incorrect, and others which need verification. Sir James
Balfour Paul, Lyon King of Arms, is compiling a new Scots Peerage, and the
editor has submitted to him his certified Swedish pedigree of Lord Eythin, and
other documents relating to the family for use therein.
- ' Domini Portionarii.' E

50

ACCOUNT OF FAMILY

neighbouring lairds, specially with Cheyne of Straloch 1 and
Seton of Meldrum (adjoining Barra) ; in 1527, John King,
the then heir apparent, took part with the Master of Forbes
and others, in slaying the Laird of Meldrum at Provost
Menzies' house in Aberdeen, and Alexander Seton, fiar of
Meldrum (grandson of the above laird), was slain August 20,
1590, ' with schottis of hagbuttis and muscattis upone the
landis of Barra, in the hie-way betuix Meldrum and the Kirk-
toun of Bourtie, by William King of Barra, James his son
and heir, and his (William's) brother, David King,2 and their
1 ' James Cheyne of Straloch & Williame King (sometime) of Barrauch ' in
the list of ' personis undir deidlie feid ' summoned to appear before the King
& Council ' at Haliruidhous,' upon March 3, 1595-6, ' to underly sic ordour as
salbe prescriuit, tuicheing the remouing of the saidis feidis ' &c. Pitcairn's
(Eobt.) Crim. Trials in Scot. 1833, i. *246.
2 He became Sheriff -Depute of Orkney and Zetland, and resided at Warbester
in Hoy, Orkney [the bell in the parish church of Hoy was sent over by Lord
Eythin from Stockholm] ; had subscribed the National Covenant in August
1587, on taking his degree at Edinburgh, but ' subsequently Apostata' ¦ joined
in the rebellion of his wife's cousin, Patrick, Earl of Orkney, 1611-14 ; married
Mary, daughter (by Janet, daughter of Patrick Euthven of Ballindean) of
Adam Stewart, Carthusian Prior of Perth, natural son (by Elizabeth, daughter
of John, third Earl of Lennox) of James V. He was (by her) father of, —
James King, of the church lands of Birness, and Dudwick in Buchan,
Aberdeenshire ; 1589 ; entered Swedish service 1609 ; rose to the rank

Kino, JP
Lord Eythin ; as registered in the Biddar-hus, Stockholm.
' No. 810.'

of Lieut.-General ; highly distinguished himself both under Gustavus Adolphus
and Banier ; was knighted 1639, and retired with a pension. He married his
first wife, Diliana van der Borchens, of Pomerania (her will was proved

ACCOUNT OF FAMILY 51
allies. The strife was prolonged and bitter ; many on both
sides were slain, and it appears from the letter of March 31,
1619, written to James VI. by the Earls of Mar and Melrose,1
' in fauouris of James King sometyme of Barrogh,2 ' that he
had been forced to sell his lands and property for far less
than half their value. Sir James Sandilands, knight, of
Slamannon, one of the gentlemen of his bedchamber, was
given by James VI. a charter of the lands, March 24, 1590-1,
and, in 1598, they passed into the possession of the Setons,
and by them were sold, in 1630, to James Beid of Aberdeen,
who was related to the King family, and his descendants
were created Baronets of Nova Scotia, in 1706 ; from them it
passed by sale to John Ramsay of Straloch, in Newmachar,
circa 1757, whose daughter and heir married Innes, a cadet
of Innermarkie, and assumed the surname of Ramsay.
After the sale of the estate the King family became
scattered. In the reign of Charles I. two of its members crossed over
into Ulster, James King,3 who acquired lands in Fermanagh,
November 10, 1634) ; by a second wife he had a daughter, born July 1, 1640,
but none of his children survived him. In January 1642, he came over from
Denmark with money and supplies for Charles I., and was made Lieut.-General,
and created Lord Eythin, in the peerage of Scotland, March 28, 1642. After
Marston Moor he returned to Sweden and was welcomed by Queen Christina,
who, for his past services, made him a peer of Sweden as Baron Sanshult, in
the parish of Doderhalts, in Calmar. He had been solemnly ' forfaulted ' by
the Scots' Parliament, July 26, 1644, and the ' armes of Eythan ' were ' riuen
by Lyone King of Armes, in face of Parliament, after ane discourse, as also at
the crosse of Edinburgh,' but, in 1647 and 1651, Acts were passed rescinding
his forfeiture. Charles II., gave him a commission as Lieut.-General under
the Marquess of Montrose, dated at Breda, March 30, 1650, but he was delayed
in collecting in time a body of horse to join the expedition, and dying at
Stockholm, June 9, 1652, was buried, on the 18th, in the Eiddarholm church
with a public funeral. His portrait, painted in 1623, preserved in the castle
of Skug Kloster, Sweden, has been copied, but not engraved.
1 Vide ' MiscellBnea,' p. 270.
2 On Barra Castle are the two dates, 1614 and 1618, doubtless those of the
completion of the south wing. The lower floor is vaulted in stone, and pierced
with loopholes, proving its much greater antiquity than the dates mentioned.
The present north wing was added by the late owner's, Major Eamsay's, great
grandfather. 3 In the ' Census of Ireland,' 1659-60, which enumerated the population
over fifteen years of age, distinguishing the gentry by name as Tituladoes, the
Spanish term for the noblesse, he is entered as one of the Tituladoes in ' Derri-
e 2

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ACCOUNT OF FAMILY

and the other, also James King, who first settled in Antrim,
where his son William, the future archbishop, was born ; he
volan Parish,' Fermanagh, ' Derrivolan [House], 14 no., James King, gent.,
2 E[nglisb or Scots], 12 I[rish].' He subsequently acquired Corrard. His seal
bears the Barra coat of arms and crest,

^(XwtfjfajT

Signatuee and Seal of ' James King of Corard, gent.'
(Copied from a Deed of Eelease and Confirmation, dated 15 August, 1674,
of lands in the barony of Magherestaphinagh, to ' Eobert King of the
City of Dublin (subsequently also of Lissenhall, M.P.), gent.,' his
' second sonne.')
and the same arms appear on his sons' seals, e.g. his eldest son's,

Signature and Seal copied from an Indentube dated 2 March, 1717.

of Lissenhall, Co. Dublin, M.P.
The grandson of the first settler at Corrard (eldest son of John King of Gola,
his third son and the eldest to leave male issue), James King of Gola Abbey,
Fermanagh, sheriff for his County 1728, when head of the family, exchanged the
crest of a demi-lion rampant, for a dexter cubit arm erect, the hand grasping a
dagger in pale, all proper, and took the motto Audaces fortuna juvat, and this
change appears on his seal and those of his successors, and is engraved on the
DerryvuUan church plate (vide engraving) ; and the same arms, crest, and motto
were registered at the Lyon Office, in the middle of the eighteenth century, by
his kinsman, William King of Newmilne, Co. Elgin, a then remaining repre
sentative of the Barra family in Scotland ; as appears from the following letter

The Armorial Bearings ok .Tajiks King, Esq., of Gola,
on the Communion Plate of the Parish Church of Deuryvullan
inscribed
"Ex Dono Jacobi King de Cola, Altai**.. Kcclesi;e de Deebivoylan, a.d. 17*27.'
Drawn by Lady Edith Lowry-Corry.
From thr " Ulster Journal of Archcsoloay " ; Extra Vol. for 1903, by the
Earl of Belmore, G.C.M.O., by whose i>ermission, and that of the Editor,
this ennrariiiff appears. The engraver of the arms on tlie church-))! ale
lias elaborated the mullet, or spur navel, more than usual.

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ACCOUNT OF FAMILY 53
lived to a good old age * ; besides William, he had, with four
daughters Marion, Elenor, Jean, and Margaret, another son
(whose name has not been ascertained), who married and left
two sons, James and William, the latter born circa 1688,
they both turned out badly, and gave their uncle no little
trouble ; James, as an incorrigible ne'er-do-weel, was shipped
off to Virginia, or one of the Western Plantations, in 1697,
and William 2 was put to sea, and became a Lieutenant, E.N.,
continually in debt, he died at Gibraltar, December 20, 1727.
The daughters' seniority is unknown ; they were, —
(1) Marion King (vivens 1730), m. John Dugatt (or
Duguid, his son's, the Archdeacon's, seal bears the
arms of Duguid of Auchinhove, Aberdeenshire) of
Killimady, in parish of Donaghmore, co. Tyrone
(his will, made September 26, 1718, was proved
May 24, 1720), and had issue,
1. Eobert Dougatt3 (Eev.), as he usually wrote his
from the late Lyon King of Arms, George Burnett,, dated December 12, 1877, to
the editor : ' The arms of the family of King of Barra, which do not appear in
our earliest authoritative register, are given in some of the MSS. of the end of
the 16th century as, Az. on a fess ar., between a lion's head erased in chief and
a mullet in base of the second, three buckles gu. The same coat is granted, or
confirmed, in the middle of the last century to Wm. King of Newmilne, with a
hand holding a dagger ppr. for crest, and the motto, ' Audaces fortuna juvat.'
It is to be presumed that William King had shewn grounds to the then
Lyon's satisfaction that he was the representative of the Kings of Barra. In
1810 Colonel Francis Stewart was authorized in virtue of his representation
maternally of William King of Newmilne to assume his name and arms : and it
seems to be understood from the terms in which this authority is given him
that he adopted the surname of King only, dropping those of Stewart.'
Becords in the Lyon Office have been twice destroyed by fire, first in 1660
and again in 1700, and the earlier wills of Aberdeenshire families have
also perished.
1 Eichard Anderson, the Bishop's steward, writes from Derry, May 14, 1699,
to Bishop King, in Dublin, ' I could not send the chaire for your Lord"''5 fiather
sooner than to-morrow morning ' ; and, July 22, 1701, Mrs. Elenor Brown, the
Bishop's sister, writing to her brother sends her love to her father, who probably
died soon after, as no later mention of him appears.
2 Vide ' Correspondence.'
3 In a letter, Deoember 1, 1719, to his frequent correspondent and, after
Mr. Eobert King's death, lawyer, Francis Annesley, M.P., Archbishop King
writes, ' I have made [Archdeacon Dougatt] Chanter & Library Keeper at St.
Sepulchre's, because he understood the Oriental languages, and besides that
was an universal Scholar, & so most fit of any I cou'd get.' ' On Tuesday last
(the 11th) died the Eev. Dr. [sic] Dougatt, nephew to the late ABp. of Dublin,

54 ACCOUNT OF FAMILY
name ; b., 1683, at Castle Caulfield, Donaghmore,
co. Tyrone ; sch., T.C.D., 1704 ; M.A. 1708 ; Pre
bendary of Swords, then ' the Golden Prebend '
(on the death of his kinsman, Eev. Thomas King),
1709-15 ; Archdeacon of Dublin, 1715-19 ;
Chanter of St. Patrick's and Keeper of Marsh's
Library at St. Sepulchre's, 1719 ; Vicar of St.
Andrew's and St. Mark's, Dublin, 1727 ; d., unm.,
of a dropsy and consumption, August 11, 1730.
1. Elizabeth Dougatt (vivens 1730), m. John Spence,
and had issue,
1. Eobert Spence (Eev.), M.A., 1730 ; b., 1704, in Co.
Tyrone ; Eector of Donaghmore,1 Castlefin, Co.
Donegal, February 23, 1730-1 ; m. Elizabeth,
dau. of Et. Hon. John Forster, Lord Chief
Justice of Common Pleas, and d., December 3,
1764, leaving issue,
1. Nicholas Spence'2 (Eev.), B.A., 1762, J.P., suc
ceeded his father as Eector of Donaghmore,
May 6, 1765 ; m., May 1765, Margaret Knox,
and d., March 26, 1814, cet. 73, leaving issue,
I. Eobert Spence (Eev.), Curate of Donagh
more 3 ; in 1828 described as an unbene
ficed clergyman for thirty-six years.
Minister of St. Andrew's Church &c, and on Thursday night last he was
interr'd at Donnebroke (in a grave nine feet deep), with [by the side of] his
uncle, where, 'tis said, a stately monument will be erected over them.' Dublin
Intelligence, August 15, 1730.
1 The Archbishop described the living to be ' worth between £300, and £400,
per annum,' and in a letter to Bishop Nicholson of Derry, March 31, 1720,
mentioned that he had purchased its title from ' one Bingley,' for £200 ; he had
purchased the advowson, December 3, 1701, from Jas. Leslie of Ballyfatten,
near Strabane.
2 Faulkner's Journal records his death, and mentions that ' he con
scientiously discharged the important duties of a most active Magistrate, an
indulgent parent, fond husband & steady friend ' ; he had been insolvent for
several years before his decease, and he and his children were engaged in a
chancery and other lawsuits, and their family papers, including those of Arch
bishop King alluded to in Hist. MSS. Commission's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Beports,
passed out of their hands into the possession of an attorney, and afterwards
became-scattered .
3 The advowson of the living was sold to the Lighton family, Baronets, on
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2. William Spence of Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim ;
m. ; d., s. p.
3. Nicholas Spence, d., at Greenhill, near
Eaphoe, January 1783.
4. John Spence, Capt. 87th, m., and left issue,
Hannah Spence, Clifton, Bristol.
5. James Spence, in the army, vivens 1790.
6. George Spence, ensign 1793, Donegal Militia.
1. Dorothea, d. unm.
2. Eliza, m. 1st  Fenton, and had a son
Geo. Spence Fenton ; 2nd Dr. Blackman,
and had issue, a dau., Margaretta, who
went to Australia.
2. William Spence (Eev.)
3. John Spence left issue, by Eose, his wife, James
and Dorothea.
1. Anne Spence.
2. Dorothea Spence, m., April 15, 1759, her kinsman,
James King (d., s.p., 1771), second son of Aid.
Eobert King, of Dublin (by Mary, sister and
heir of John Mackerrell, M.P.), and d., s.p.,
September 20, 1774.
2. Jane Dougatt (vivens 1730), m. Josias Bryan, and
had issue,
1. Eobert Bryan L (Eev.), Eector of Desertmartin
and Kilcronoghan, Co. Londonderry, 1741 ; m.
Anne Elizabeth Jeffreys (d., March 19, 1776, cet.,
68), niece of Thomas Bundle, D.C.L., Bishop of
Derry ; d., March 16, 1776, cet. 66, having had
issue,
1. Eobert Bryan, m., and had issue.
2. William Bryan (Eev.), M.A., Eector of Kilcro-
naghan, 1790; d., March 13, 1817.
1. Jane Bryan.
2. Susanna Bryan.
2. William Bryan, of Dublin, merchant, Sheriff of
that city, 1764.
1 Ancestor of Eobert Butler Bryan, Esq., who contributed a valuable collec
tion of Archbishop King's Correspondence to Trin. Coll. Dub. Library ; John
Dugatt, in his will, describes his son-in-law as ' Josias Bryens.'

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3. Martha Dougatt (vivens 1730), m. Eev. George
Strachan, Eector of Desertmartin and Kilcro-
naghan, 1729 (d., s.p., 1741).
(2) Elenor King (writes from 'Molohmor, Dungannon,'
1701), m.  Brown (vivens 1697), and had issue,
1. James Brown, of Terlugan, parish Aughaloo, Co.
Tyrone, a property purchased for him by his
uncle, Archbishop King, in 1724. He m. and
left issue.
2. William Brown, a sailor, vivens 1679.
(3) Jean King, m. twice, had a son by her first husband ;
m., secondly, circa 1703, Eev.  Lindsay of
Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, a Scottish clergyman,
schoolmaster and clerk of the parish of Aughaloo,
Co. Tyrone.
(4) Margaret King, m. (settlement March 8, 1698), Lieut.
Charles Irvine (d. a Lieut.-Colonel, s.p., 1745), 3rd
son of William Irvine of Ballindullagh, par. Derry -
vullan, Fermanagh, Esq. (one of the Enniskillen
Eegt., killed in the service of King William and
Queen Mary) and d., s. p., 1744.1
1 Part of the foregoing account of Archbishop King's family, the editor
communicated to the late Bev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A., who published it in
Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, 1874.

f £%wfi#r?ndjh->t€?ri> <?jf^4cm. CWrcwig-' C?Usyu3<)

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' An Excellent New Song upon His Grace our good
Lord Archbishop of Bwblin.
By Honest Jo, one of his Graces farmer's in Fingal.1
To the tune of 
I sing not of the drapier's praise, nor yet of William Wood,2
But I sing of a famous lord who seeks his country's good ;
Lord William's grace of Dublin town 'tis he that first appears,
Whose wisdom and whose piety do far exceed his years.
In ev'ry council and debate he stands for what is right,
And still the truth he will maintain, whate'er he loses by't,
And tho' some think him in the wrong, yet still there comes a
season
When ev'ry one turns round about, and owns his grace had reason.
1 By Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ; Fingal, not far from
Dublin. 2 A hardware man, who obtained a patent, 1722, to coin halfpence and
farthings to the value of £108,000, for circulation in Ireland ; the opposition
aroused in that country, by Swift's Drapier's Letters, 1724 &c, was so great
that he surrendered his patent in 1725. When Harding, the printer of the
Drapier's Letters, was about to be prosecuted for the fourth Letter, Swift in
his Seasonable Advice to the Grand Jury on the case, dated November 11,
1724, mentions ' it is known that his grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, so
renowned for his piety and wisdom and love of his country, absolutely refused
to condemn the book and the author ' ; the grand jury refused to find the bill,
and were illegally discharged by Chief Justice Whitshed in a rage, Swift thus
records some of their names, —
' He who 'gainst Wood would openly declare,
Of Wood's Revealers, sure, wou'd have a care.
Burrows and Hunt, as true are e'ery whit,
So's Dobson, Sommer'el, and just Nesbit.
Montgomery, King, Gerrard and loyal Hays,
Latouch and Donlap merit Patriots' Praise '
A new Poem ascribed (sic) to tlie Honble tlie Gentlemen of
the late Grand Jury.

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His firmness to the public good, as one that knows it swore,
Has lost his grace for ten years past ten thousand pounds and more.
Then come the poor and strip him so, they leave him not a cross,
For he regards ten thousand pounds no more than Wood's dross.
To beg his favour is the way new favours still to win,
He makes no more to give ten pounds than I to give a pin.
Why there's my landlord now, the squire, who all in money wallows,
He would not give a groat to save his father from the gallows.
"A bishop," says the noble squire, " I hate the very name,
To have two thousand pounds a year — 0 'tis a burning shame !
Two thousand pounds a year ! good lord ! and I to have but five ! "
And under him no tenant yet was ever known to thrive.
Now from his lordship's grace I hold a little piece of ground,
And all the rent I pay is scarce five shillings in the pound.
Then master steward takes my rent, and tells me " Honest Jo,
Come, you must take a cup of sack or two before you go."
He bids me then to hold my tongue, and up the money locks,
For fear my lord should send it all into the poor man's box.
And once I was so bold to beg that 1 might see his grace,
Good lord ! I wonder how I dared to look him in the face :
Then down I went upon my knees his blessing to obtain ;
He gave it me and ever since I find I thrive amain.
" Then," said my lord, "I'm very glad to see thee, honest friend,
I know the times are something hard, but hope they soon will mend,
Pray never press yourself for rent, but pay me when you can ;
I find you bear a good report, and are an honest man."
Then said his lordship with a smile " I must have lawful cash,
I hope you will not pay my rent in that same Wood's trash."
" God bless your grace ! " I then replied, " I'd see him hanging higher,
Before I'd touch his filthy dross, than is Clondalkin spire."
To every farmer twice a week all round about the Yoke,
Our parsons read the drapier's books, and make us honest folk.
And then I went to pay the squire, and in the way I found,
His bailie driving all my cows into the parish pound ;
" Why, sirrah," said the noble squire, "how dare you see my face ?
Your rent is due almost a week, besides the days of grace."
And yet the land I from him hold is set so on the rack,
That only for the bishop's lease 'twould quickly break my back.
Then God preserve his lordship's grace, and make him live as long
As did Methusalem of old ; and so I end my song.'

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' For the Beverend Mr. William King.1
Sr ' January the 25th 1681.
I received my papers and yor letter, the reason I
desired them out of yov hands was because I promised
Captn Bob1 King ye perusall of them wch when he hath done
they shall be at yor comands if you thinke them worthy of a
review. I am very farr from any purpose of makeing them
more publique then by communicating them to some perticular
freinds : my intentions of putting my thoughts contained in
them into writeing being only that they might lye by & if I
should dye as a testimony of my sentmts in these matters ; for
Historicall Mistakes I doe not think they are many tho' I
wrote these papers meerly out of my memory of y° first part
of the Warr of England (for I left the Army when the King
was taken by Joyce from Holmeby & never served in
England afterwards) I am more competent to know because I
was either an observant Spectator or actor in it &c.
Yor very hearty affec' freind and faithfull Servant
Char: Holcboft.'2

' To the Bev. Mr. Wm. King,' (then probably at
Fermoyle, Co. Longford).3
Dear Sir, ' July the 19th 1681.
I hope you have by this time received the Tobacco
& the looking glass which I sent you by one of my Ld's men.
As for your turn in Christ-Church the next Sunday morning
I have got the never failing Indian my Lord Longford's
ffloyd to supply that, as to the rest of your turns I shall see
them carefully supplied so that you may rest contented and
enjoy the full pleasure and satisfaction of the country in
hunting venison & then eating it.
Your parishioners God be thanked are in health & rather
multiply than decrease, but if fruit hold still so plentifuU &
so cheap I know not whether they will continue so.
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
" ' Captain Holcroft ' mentioned incidentally in Archbishop King's Diary.
3 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. Fermoyle, Archbishop Parker's place.

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I was last Tuesday at the Commencement when the
Tripos was exceeding sharp upon you, but hee had the mis
fortune in that, as hee had in many other things neither to be
believed nor laugh't at. There arose some contest in the
Eegent house about admitting Oxonians ad eundem gradum,
but it was carried in the affirmative, Mr. Fitz-gerald, Mr.
Jephson, & Mr Brenan objected briskly, but were silenced by
the vice chancellor, he promising if he knew they denyed any
of our's for the future hee never would admitt any of them ad
eundem again. Tell poor gouty and Lethargick Harry
Scardevil,1 that I wish him all the ease imaginable 
your affectionate friend & humble servant. Dan : Lloyd.'

' For the Beverend Mr King, Minister of St. War-
burgh's at his Lodging at Mrs. GroJce's at the
printing-house in Skinner's rowe Bublin.2
Sr This is to discharge you of the trouble I have so long
given you, of keeping the seales of the County Palatine of
Tiperary ; 3 I now begg the favour of you that as soon as con
veniently you can after the receit of this, you would wait
upon my Ld. Deputy,4 & restore them into his hands. I
hope the next greate seal you will have the custody of, shall
be in your own right with the Arch Bishoprick of Dublin &c.
My service to Mrs. Croke 5 ; and tell that Jilting Mrs.
Carwarthen that promised to come and live in England &
1 Scardeville, M.A. (1680), Prebendary of Swords, d. 1703; Thos. King
succeeded him in the Prebend, Feb. 16, 1703-4.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
3 Herbert may have been Attorney-General of the palatinate of the Co.
Tipperary, which office possessed some pecuniary emolument, and was at one
time held by Godwin Swift, the Dean's uncle, and so have had these seals in
his charge for their possessor, the Duke of Ormonde. He was Dean King's
friendly advocate in 1689.
1 James Butler, twelfth Earl, and first Duke of Ormonde.
5 Mary, widow of John Crooke, Printer General, with whom Wilham King
lodged, made her will, Jan. 23, 1685 ; ' William King ' and ' Ann Carwardine '
were witnesses, the latter writes from London, Feb. 3, 1693. Andrew Crooke
was the Dublin publisher of De Origins Mali in 1702.

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has now left us in the lurch, that I did not want this one
argument more to convince me there is no faith in Woman
kind 
The Doctour ' I intend to write a large Epistle to, in the
mean time my humble service to him ; & now methinkes at
this time of night I want the peremptory pipe Exceedingly,
the happiness I enjoy'd in it, & your company have for
ever obliged me to be your most affectionate Humble servant,
Edw. Herbert.
Inner Temple December 16. 1682.'
' To the reverend Mr. William King next door to
the GocJc in the Hay Market, London,' re-addressed
to ' Sr John Parker's att Tunbrig Wells.' 2
Eeverend Sr ' J"ue 2, 1683.
I received your's of the 19 & 26. I am of Sr Thomas
Millington's 3 opinion that it is proper for you to drinke
the waters, but cannot conceive why you maye not drinke
the bath also, you have both time & season for both,
when you see Sr Thomas again present my service to him,
present my humble service to Sr John & his Lady, she is
certainly very good & mercifull if she can endure to see any
of yow for your leaving her in Chester exposed to all the mis-
fortuns that maye befall a traveller, when yow see Sr Eobert
Hamiltone 4 tell him I receaved his letter, & that the Com
mittee have reported a Physitian necessary & that my Ld
Deputie told me that his Father might nominate whom he
pleased. . . . Mrs. Crofts left Dublin the 22'1 being tewsdaye,
the fridday after she was landed att Bawmorrice, they were
gone from Dublin before I received your first, Mrs. Kerney
is with her, Mr. Kerney was maide King att armes Sunday
last, and his sone herald, he purchased it from Mr. St. George.
I am your faithfull, P. Dun.' 5
1 Patrick Dun.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. and printed in Belcher's (T. W., M.D.) Memoir of
Sir P. Dun, Dublin, 1866.
3 The well-known Court physician, knighted 1680.
4 He endeavoured to obtain the primacy, in 1702, for Bishop King.
" It has been supposed that Dr. Dun signed his letters with his surname

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' To the reverend Mr. William King at Sr John
Parker's house, in Fermoyle, to be sent by the
post to Lanesburrow (Co. Boscommon).1
Eeverend Sr APril 8> 1684-
I have heard my selfe some false circumstances about
the burning of the Castle in Dublin, therefore I give you
the following accont thereof : the fire began in my Lord
Deputys dressing room, in the new buildings built by the
E. of Essex, the Crakling noise & smoake of it weakened
my Lord Deputy 2 out of his sleep, he gott up & was goeing
out his usuall waye out of his bed chamber by his dressing
room, this dressing room is in the east end of those buildings,
a back room betwixt the bed chamber & the castle wall,
upon op 'ning the dore of that dressing room, so much smoake
& heate struck my Lord in the face that it almost took his
breath from him, whereupon my Lord retreated in his shirt
toward the other door out of his bed chamber & called out
"fire, fire," sent to save his daughter & sent for powder to
blow up his closet & long gallerie, to hinder the fire from
goeing toward the northeast tower which looketh into Cork
house Exchange & is full of powder, before this was done all
those new buildings were burnt & my Ladys drawing room in
which she receaved the Ladys, was in fire, to stop the progress
of the fire towards the dining room, my Lord Deputy ordered
the presente 3 to be blown up, Mr. Eobinson was not in town,
my Lord & Mr. Cuf were the ingeniers, which was done &
stopt the fire from fireing the dining room there was burnt
& blown up, the new buildings built by the Earle of Essex,
alone, but the late Dr. Lyons, M.P., Merrion Square, Dublin, pointed out to the
editor (when, in 1883, he had the pleasure of examining and taking notes from
the valuable collection of Archbishop King's and the Spence family's letters
and papers presented to the doctor, in 1852, by a grateful patient) that the ' P.'
is included in the flourish to the ' D.' monogram fashion. In a letter to Joseph
Addison, November 2, 1714, Archbishop King mentions that Sir Patrick Dun
was his ' only Doctor above 30 years.'
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
" Eichard Butler, created, 1662, Earl of Arran, third son of James first
Duke oi Ormonde.
3 Precinct?

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my Lords closet & the long gallerie and all betwixt the new
buildings & the tower on which the Clock stood, the fire began
on Sunday betwixt on(e) & 2 in the morning its progress was
stopt about 4, but my Lord Deputy was not drest till about
six, all his cloaths were burnt, & furniture of those new
buildings, Mr. Kingdon & the Earle of Longford furnished
my Lord with linning & a suite of clothes, the City of Dublin
had a greate deliverance, by the powders being saved for
which we are all bound to bless God I present my service to
Sr John Parker & his lady, Mr. Kerney, King at Arms was
knighted Sunday last. I ame Sr your humble servant,
P. Dun.'
' For The Bevd Mr William King at Fermoyle
neare Lanesborough These.1
Deare Sr Dub : APri11 26th> 1684-
This day yrs came to my hand & I am verry sorry
that any ill accident should happen unto you to be an allaij
to yr pleasure, all things are verry well in youre Parrish,
there has beene none of any note interred since you went,
onely the Auditor Generall's wife who was buryed this week
about 2 of the clock in the morning and Eob. Ware 2 sayes
That his Sister is deade
And hir Soule away fled
And now she must lye in her earthy bed.
My Lady Bellingham's Gentlewoman was buryed in the
vault. On St. George's daij our Lord Mayor was knighted in
Christ Church, & as for youre turne there on maij daij, &
those of your Parrish I will take care that they shall all bee
supplyed till yr returne, this daij were shipt awaij five com-
panijes of my L'1 Duglasses redgment for England in order
for Flanders it is sayd they were very clever men & in a
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 The younger son of Sir James Ware, M.P., the historian, and brother of
Sir JameB, the Auditor-General, he was grandfather of Walter Harris, the
editor of an enlarged edition of Ware's Works ; his literary gifts must not be
judged of by this doggerel, as he was author of Reformation of the Church of
Ireland in the Life and Death of George Browne, sometime Archbishop of
Dublin, and of Foxes and Firebrands, &c. (Mant II.) He died 1696.

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very good condition ... if I can any way serve you here
command S1" yr affect friend and humble servant Tho : Benson.' 1

To the same at the waters of Wexford.2
' Eeverend Sr ' Dublin' June 6> 1684-
This is only to introduce the bearer hereof Mr- Sample
to your acquaintance & because he is a stranger to beg of you
the favor, to be assisting to him in providing a lodging for a
gentlewoman whom I have advised to drinke the waters,
Captaine Morrice told me this morning that he had secured a
lodging for his Lady, I suppose it may be the same house
where you are if ther can be no other lodging got, att lest
endeavor that this gentlewoman maye have Madam Morrice
lodging till she come, by his discourse with me, I suppose she
will try the new found well att Chapel Izod. I promisea to
give her a visite tomorrow I suppose then she will fixe her
resolution, this daye my man received the inclosed from
the post office, I left my patient very well yesterdaye, she had
only the measls, present my most humble service to my Lady
Cole,3 I have not forgot my promise either next week or the
week following I intend to see her Ladyshipe att the Wells.
I wish you all good success. I ame, Sr, Your most humble
servant, P. Dun.'
To the same ' Att the wells near Wexford?
Sr Dublin 3 August, 1686.
I am very glade that you gott so well to Wexford I
hope that y° cough you had after your first & second dayes
1 Sch. T.C.D. 1670 ; M.A. 1676 ; reader at St. Werburgh's 1679-1684 ; Aroh-
deacon of Kildare and Eector of Navancathsay &c, Co. Meath 1684. The
Eeverends John Twelves, T. Benson, Geo. Finglas, Adam Nixon, John Chaloner
and Daniel Neylan served successively under Dr. King at St. Werburgh's
Hughes,' (Eev. S. C.) St. Werburgh's, 1889.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
3 Either Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Cole, Bt. of Newland, Co. Dublin M.P.
for Fermanagh, or her daughter, Elizabeth, second wife of Sir Michael Cole
Knt., M.P., Enniskillen.

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drinking will be much abaited before this come to your hands,
I praye you not to be discouraged with the first rencounter,
for many have not only found themselves disordered at first
but all the time theye dranke y- waters & yet have found
greate benefite afterward.
I desired you to take halfe ane ounce or ane ounce of the
syrup of buckthorn in the first glass of your waters if they
did not pass, according as you found there was more or less
necessity of purging & to drink the waters after as if you had
taken no such thing I pray you lett me heare oftner from
you, & if your stingie scant waters cannot inspire you in a
morning, I hope after dinner when you have drunk a glass or
two of good Claret (if the toun can afford it) you maye find
some matter to write, particularly about our Bishop of
Eaphoe ' whom I have recommended to your directions as my
Deputie, as also our Lady Majoress,2 Mrs. Saffeild my patient,
Mrs. Dean, to whom with my most humble service I wish
much joy of her new sister, to the widow & her Daughter, I
charge you upon your &c. not to saye a short grace for her,
but bring her to Dublin safe & single as you found her att
Wexford so help &c. Yesterday M1' Johnston was with me,
we discoursed about the house, after he had heard all I had
to saye, that we had nothing to saye to the house on the terms
sent to us from the Naas &c. & that we had given leave to
Mr King to take it in his own name that we had sent a lease
to Mr Leigh with a letter of recommendation from Mr
Whitshed 3 &c. he told me that what he had signed in our
favors he would stand to if we required it but prayed that we
would not oblidge him to extend it to any other, & in short
gave me to understand that he had a mind for the house
himselfe, I waved giving him any answer, Mr King* is
1 William Smith, D.D., a native of Lisburn, Co. Antrim, translated to
Kilmore 1693, d. Feb. 24, 1698-9.
2 Wife of Sir John Castleton, Lord Mayor ; his death, in 1689, alluded to by
King in his Diary.
3 Subsequently Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; Archbishop King intro
duced him to Primate Wake, by letter of Oct. 19, 1717.
4 Dr. King, on his release from prison, went to lodge with this kinsman,
Eobert King (second son of James King of Corrard), an attorney in the Court
of King's Bench, in Skinner Bow (now Christ Church Place), and was much
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acquainted by this post, I present my humble deuty to my
Lord Bishop of Eaphoe, his Lady, our Lady Majoress, Mrs
Saffeild, Mrs Dean & the Widow, make ready your treate for
Dr. Willoughby & myselfe when we come. I wish you all
good success. I am, Sr, your most humble & faithfull servant,
P. Dun.'
' To the same.1
Sr Your's of the 14th . . . was welcome here if upon no
other score . . . this reason that it gives us an assurance . . .
attached to him and his wife, Marion Hamill, of the family of Eoughwood,
Ayrshire. When writing, he remembers ' Mrs. King,' ' Nanny,' their eldest child
who married, 1700, Eobert Boss, subsequently (by his father-in-law's purchase)
of Bosetrevor, Co. Down, M.P., and ' Mally,' their youngest, left in ward to him
on her father's death, and married Dec. 1713, to Wm. Smyth of Drumcree,
Westmeath, M.P. The MS. Hist, of Fermanagh, 1718, 1719, compiled for
Eev. Sam. Madden, afterwards known as ' Premium Madden,' describes Mr.
Eobert King as ' a famous fortunate man remarkable through yc Kingdome for
his great skill & prudent care in manageing all affaires belonging to his calling
prosperous in all his undertakings [who] purchased large Estates,' in Cos.
Down, Fermanagh and Donegal, ' and Dyed without heires male of his body '
in September 1711 (buried October 1, in St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin). He
visited Dr. King during his first imprisonment until he himself was put in
confinement about September 8 (Archbishop King's Diary, August 10,
September 9, and Addenda), from which he escaped, arriving at Lisburn,
Jan. 22, 1690, 'and gave the Duke of Schomberg an account how things
stood in Dublin.' He was M.P. for Lifford 1698-1703, and again on the death
of his wife's relative, Col. Hugh Hamill, 1709, till his death ; receiver to the
Wharton Irish Estates (sold, July 31, 1723, by the profligate Duke of Wharton,
for £62,000, to the Et. Hon. Wm. Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of
Commons), his brother, Charles King (mentioned in Introduction, who, during
his absence from Ireland, was attainted by the Jacobite Parliament 1689)
succeeded him in their management (letter from the Earl of Wharton to
Archbishop King, October 16, 1711, Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.) until his death
in 1714. Dr. King made Eobert his law agent, and gave him a lease of the
Derry See lands of Ballyboggan and Ballylast, in Co. Donegal, and parish of
Lifford, ' the only lease I set to a relacon,' he writes to the then Bishop of
Derry, August 10, 1714 (Trin. Coll., Transcribed King correspondence), 'in
the whole Diocess,' and subsequently gave him a lease of Lissenhall, Swords,
which was used by Eobert King as a country seat. Eobert's younger brother,
the Eev. Thomas King, born 1663, M.A., of Lusk, Co. Dublin, made Prebendary
of Swords 1704, died January 1, 1708-9, had been imprisoned by King James's
Government, in 1689, for some time in Newgate, till permitted to go out upon
bail of £5,000 (State of the Protestants, 1691, pp. 92, 218, and Diary notes
64, 261) ; he has been erroneously described as Archbishop King's ' nephew ' ; by
his will he nominated the Archbishop one of the guardians of his children.
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; William King is said to have returned home by

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You are more cheerf ull than usuall notwithstanding the fatigue
of an Eight miles travel ; yet that cheerfullnes I cannot but
impute to the sights you phansy, tho you did not see them
all I can return to the descriptions you have given is that
they do not very well agree with the great man that has
lately bin an Eye-Witness & Eecommender of them for he is
suddenly fain ill, & has sent for no less than 4 doctors, woh
surely are enow to make another man sick to purpose.
Our great lady ' is lately gone over to England & t'was ill
done that you were not here, if y" have inclination of going
still, for yu might very well have gone her Chaplain.
The Bp. of London 2 & his affair makes all the talk here
at pr'sent, tho' we shall not have his full defence till next
Sunday, for Monday last was appointed by ye Committioners
for him bringing in his Answer, & his charge this that he did
not suspend or silence Dr. Sharp according to ye Kg's com
mand, for going beyond his commission for preaching. The
Triumvirate is here, & yr very humble serv'3 so is y1' most
Affectionate, W. K.'3
Dear Sr
I am sorry to find . . . account in your's of the 14th
I will not desire yow to drink the waters longer then a
month I leave it to your own choise either to goe for England
or to come to Dublin I am sure travelling will doe you no
harme I will not advise any of your neighbours with whom
they agree to leave of — but pray say nothing to them of my
writing because I have not answered my Ld Bishop's 4 letter.
I am, Sir, your faithfull servant, P. Dun.'
Dublin 19 Aug. (1686).'
Waterford and Cloyne, in order to take counsel with Hugh Gore, Bishop of
Waterford [who died in 1690, ' in consequence of some inhuman treatment
inflicted on him by Irish ruffians " (Mant)], and Edward Jones, Bishop of
Cloyne, on the political dangers then in view.
1 The wife of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Lord Deputy, 1685-6.
2 Henry Compton, D.D., was suspended from his office by the King for
permitting Dr. John Sharp (afterwards Archbishop of York) to preach against
the King's religion.
3 The writer of this letter, on the same sheet with Dr. Dun's, has not been
identified ; he may have been William, fourth son of James King of Corrard.
4 William Smith, D.D., Eaphoe. f 2

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' Ffor my honoured friend, Mr. William King,
minister of St. Warburgh's parish, in Dublin.1
Worthy Sr,
When you sent me your observations on my book
against Grotius you were pleased to put me in hopes of the
like observations on my Diss, on St. Cyprian. I hear a
new edition of the Oxf. Cyprian is designed, & perhaps on
that occasion they may think of a new edit, of my Diss. If
so, your observations will now come seasonably to correct
what has been mistaken in them.
I got & read your answer to my old chamber-fellow Mr.
Manby.2 I am sorry he has given you the occasion, but
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Beport.
1 Peter Manby, Dean of Derry, died, 1697, in London ; in a letter dated
' Dublin Castle, March 2, 1685-6,' Lord Clarendon writes of him, ' I never
mett wth any man who has a worse character than this Deane wch I am very
sorry for because of his coate,' &c, Add. MSS. 15893, B. M. ; ' Peter Manby,'
wrote Eev. Dr. James King, in his Life of Archbishop King, 1737, ' to recom
mend himself to K. James' favour for a Bishoprick, conformed to the ch. of
Bome & published a Pamphlet under this title, The Considerations which
obliged Peter Manby, Dean of London Derry, to embrace the Catholick Religion,
humbly dedicated to his Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland, Dublin, (and
London), 1687, 4'° ; this Paper was immediately taken to Pieces & the
insufficiency of his Considerations demonstrated in y° tract, An Answer to the
Considerations which obliged Peter Manby Late Dean of London Derry in
Ireland, (as he pretends) to Embrace, what he calls, the Catholick Religion.
By William King, Chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin ; [and London] 1687 ;
Manby encouraged by the Court, & assisted by the most learned Champions of
the Ch. of Bome, published a Beply, under this Title, A Reformed Catechism
in two Dialogues concerning the English Reformation, collected for the most
part Word for Word, out of Dr. Burnet, John Fox & other Protestant Historians
for the Information of the People, in reply to Mas. William King's Answer to
D. Manby's Considerations dc. by Peter Manby, Dean of London Derry.
Dublin, 1687, 4°. Dr. King soon rejoyned & exposed the Sophistry of his
reasoning &c. in this Tract, A Vindication of tlie Answer to the Considerations
tliat obliged Peter Manby &c. to embrace as he pretended what he calls the
Catholick Religion, being an Answer to tlie first Dialogue already printed Of
his Reformed Catechism : by William King, M. A., & Chancellor of St. Patrick's,
Dublin, 1688, 4°. Manby dropt the Controversy but dispersed about a Sheet of
Paper artfully writ with this Title, A Letter to a Friend shewing tlie Vanity of
this Opinion that every Man's Sense & Reason is to guide him in Matters
of Faith, March 30th 1688, 4'°. Dr. King soon published his Answer, viz. A
Vindication of tlie Christian Religion & Reformation against the Attempts of
a late Letter wrote by P. Manby Dean of Derry pretending to shew tliat all
Religions have a like plea, & that there can be no such Sins as Heresy <&

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could wish some of the tartness of your style had been
spared. It has taken well here in England, where if you
could conveniently, perhaps it would be the best place to
print what you publish for the future. Your press there does
not afford a constant number of saleable copyes for the book
seller's trade of exchanging copyes for copyes, & the
selling them here for money hinders the vent of them. So
that they hardly come to be known here, unless they be re
printed here. This advice I offer presuming that though
this be the first, yet it will not be the last work of my good
& worthy ffriend. As I doubt not but you remember in
your prayers our dear mothers the Church and University, so
be pleased also in them to remember your aff. friend and
brother, Henry Dodwell.1
St. Asaph, ffeb. 9, 168f .
You may be pleased to return your answere by this
bearer my cozen. I think of removing towards Shrewsbury.
My service to our old ffriend Dr. Acton.' 2
To the same. ' To be left att Mr Bobert King's
house in Skinner Bow, Dublin.3
Eeverend Sir
I hope this maye find yow in good health which is
my particular prayer. I ame now at Moyra with Sr Arthur
Schism, if every Man's sense & reason are to guide him in Matters of Faith &c.
1688. 4t0.' Manby had been allowed to retain his deanery by dispensation
from K. James, after his perversion to Eome in 1686.
The Eev. Professor Lawlor, in Some Worthies of tlie Irish Church, p. 187,
notes : ' We have here a curious illustration of the controversial methods of
the time. Manby, as King remarks in the preface to his Vindication, is guilty
of a blunder " in contracting Master before William, which the Scots language
allows before John & James &c. ; but never before William, which spoils his
beloved Jest." The " jest " was apparently a silly pun on the word "Mass,"
together with an allusion to King's Scotch extraction.'
1 King had been Dodwell's pupil in logic and history at Dublin University ;
' they ever after kept up a familiar & close correspondence, & his [King's] letters
to Mr. Dodwell shew how much he differed from that learned man in many
points of divinity, & what pains he took to convince him of the evil tendency
of some of his whimsical speculations.' Harris' Life of Archbishop King in
Ware's Works.
2 Eichard Acton, D.D., F.T.C.D., 1672 ; d. 1689.
3 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.

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Eaudon.1 I came to this place yesterday, being fridday in
the afternoon, this daye being very cold & wett my Lady
would not lett me goe, I told her if she kept me this
daye I would not goe on Sunday, on Munday God willing I
leave this and know nothing to hinder me, but a passing
visite to Dr. Warren 4 miles from this and another at
Droghedah to my Lord Forbese, I hope att furthest I maye
dine with yow on Wednsdaye. I visited in my ramble Dr.
Warren, the Bishop of Drummore 2 who asked kindly for
yow and drank your health, Sr John M°Gill, Sr Wm.
Franklin, James Hamiltone of Newcastle who now liveth att
Bangor he often remembred yow, James Hamiltone of
Tulemore, Sr Arthur told me he had a letter from Mr
King since his returne from circuit.
Present my service to him & his wife & Daughter,3
to Dean Leslie, my Lord Bishop of Kilmore,4 Mr Bonell.6
I am Sir your most humble & faithfull servant
P. Dun.
Saturday 28 of April 1688.'
' To the Beverend Mr. Henry Price, these 6
Eeverend Sr
I am now under confinem* & cannot Execute the
place of Deane in person, Lett mee beseech you to take
the trouble & place of Sub Deane vppon you dureing my
confinement, & do what you canne to keep the Church in
order, if a more formall & ample Deputacon be necessary
Lett Mr. Jones draw it vp if ffree intercourse be allowed me
1 Eawdon, 2nd Baronet, m. Helena, d. and heir of Sir Jas. Graham, Kt. ;
ancestor of the Marquesses of Hastings and Earls of Loudoun.
2 Capel Wiseman i Dromore.
3 Eobert King's eldest dau. Anne, subsequently Mrs. Boss.
< Wm. Sheridan, D.D.
5 Dr. King's friend, James Bonnell, accountant general of Ireland, whose
piety, humility and sweetness of temper he enlarges on, and whose loss by
death, in 1699, he deplores in a letter to Andrew Hamilton, D.D., Archd.
of Baphoe, whose brother, Wm. Hamilton, Archd. of Armagh, compiled
Bonnell's Life, dated Sept. 2, 1702, and printed in the Life 1703 ; Dr. King
closes a letter to Bonnell, Nov. 1691, ' I am, dear freind, yr's in God, may we
love our Lord Jesus Xt.'
6 Printed in Dicui-y, by the Eev. Dr. Lawlor from the copy in the Minute
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I will signe it, if not I doe hereby appoint Mr. Eichard Jones
my attorney to putt to my name & seale as shall be
necessary I desire the assistance of yor prayers and am Yor
most hearty friend & humble serv1
Will King
July the 24th 1689.'
To Doctor William King, Dean of St. Patrick's.1
Deare Mr. Deane, ' Tunbridge Wells, July 10th, 1690.
I am greatly comforted by the Deliverance God hath
wrought for y\ I have sent Mr. Ashe 2 to see how things
are & in y* . . . wch hath lately been amongst yu to prepare
as well as he can for us & to meet us at Chester.
In the meane time I have given him Credentialls at large
to act & doe as fully as I can myself & sent my seale to
affix to any necessary instrument (loquimur per sigillum) and
my hand if need be & if before I can come to yu there be
need of any authority or iurisdiction on my part yu and Mr.
foley 3 or who else yu thinke proper may do me good offices
& act the needfull as I doubt not you will.
God direct or way to yu & give us a joyfull meeting w"
we shall have much more to say than w' I can press into a
letter. I am S1' yr affectiona* freind & Brother, fran. Dublin.' *
To the same l att his lodgings near the Dolphin in
Skinner Bow, Dublin?
Beverend Sr Carik. 26 July 1690.
I gott to the Camp on Munday night late, & could
not find Sr Eobert Suthwell. On tuesday morning early
we were commanded away with the army designed for
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 St. George Ashe, D.D., Fellow, T.C.D., 1679, Provost 1692, Bishop of Cloyne
1695; Clogher 1697; Derry 1716; an author, and one of Dr. King's corre
spondents ; d., of consumption, Feb. 26, 1717-18.
3 Sam. Foley, Fell., T.C.D., 1677 ; Bp. of Down &o. 1694 ; d. 1695 ; Bp.
King took a great interest in his surviving family, and described Dr. Foley,
Oct. 24, 1696, as one who had been ' very meritorious very useful & laborious
in the Church.'
* Francis Marsh, D.D. 5 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.

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Waterford, it was surrendred yesterday ; the King went
thither, but the Irish were not marched out, the King did not
goe into the toun, he rid about part of the walls & marched
away to Major Gen. Kirk's1 tent, dined there, returned to
Carik, whether I could not gett before this night, just as I
came Sr Eobert received ane express from England I could
not gett access to speake with him, I delivred your letter to
Mr Waller who promised to deliver it the first opportunity,
the news by the express is that the French are on their own
coasts & all agree in England to oppose the French, & all is
well there, the King sent away his baggage this morning, he
will be with you in Dublin on Munday & goeth for England
in a few dayes, Count Solms 2 is left generall, Gen. Douglas's
forces & ours meet att goldn Bridge neare Cashel, we expect
that this night or to Morrow morning Dunganon3 will be
surrendred, we march to Clonmel, we know no more.
I wrote this night to Coll. Venner since I went to the
Treasury office Mr Cunisby 4 had not sent the order for the
money therefore I did not leave the office before I saw Mr
Eobinson write a letter to Mr Fauns5 to supply the Coll.
with a hunder pound on Demand, Mr Fauns will be found
att the Custom house, Cork house.
I have told Dr Hutton 6 that you can deliver to him his
gold, the key of my Closet where it is & all my other Keys
are in the blak Cabinet in the outer room. If you cannot
easily find the box [key?] brake it open accommodat Dr.
Hutton as well as you can, we expect that Youghall &
Cork will soon surrender. They will not let me write any
more. I am Sr your most humble & faithfull servant. P. Dun.7
Dr. Hutton's cloke is hanging behind my bed.'
1 Percy Kirke, who had relieved Derry, d. 1691.
2 Distinguished himself at the Boyne, d. 1693.
3 Garrisoned by James's troops 1689.
4 Thomas Coningsby (created Earl 1719), then one of the Lords Justices
d. 1729. 5 Dr. Belcher suggests probably Wm. Fownes, in 1693, Comptroller of
Customs at Youghal.
6 John, M.D., first physician, in Ireland to King William, and to Queen
Mary, and subsequently to Queen Anne, d. 1712.
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To the same ' att his lodgings in Skinner row neare
the signe of the Dolphin in Dublin.1
Eeverend Sir,
This morning I spoke with S1' Eobert Suthwell2 he
assured me he would serve yow before any man in Ireland &
expressed himselfe with all the kindness imaginable yow may
rely on him be as kind as yow can to Dr. Hutton I must
follow the army.
I am Sir your most humble faithfull servant,
P. Dun.
Carik 27 July, (1690).'
' For The Beverend Dr Wm King, Deane of St.
Patrick's in Dublin, Ireland.3
Deare Mr Deane, Lond : August 9, 1690.
I wish I could salute yu by another title. I thank
yu for yr letrs & all y1' kindnesses. The commission yu
sent over before I left Chester was signed & sealed, & left
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 Principal Secretary of State for Ireland. In a letter of June 22, 1702,
written, shortly before his death, to Dr. King, he announces that his son,
Edward, had been appointed Secretary in his place. King visited him at King's
Weston, Gloucestershire ; and married Edward Southwell and Miss Blathwaite,
August 30, 1716. ' Edward Southwell, Esq., Secretary of State, £3,500 per
annum income from Ireland ' — Prior's (Thos.) List of Absentees of Ireland,
1745 ; in reply to a letter from E. Southwell, in 1718, complaining of gouty
ankles, Archbishop King tells him he wants money to build three or four
churches, and if he would throw away a proper sum for that purpose, it might
lighten the load of his riches, which they allege is very ill for the gout and apt
to strain his ankles ; ' I am,' he adds, ' now going into my forty third gouty
year, & if I had not taken care to keep myself light that way I had certainly
been a cripple long ago. You see then your remedy ; pray try it ; a. little
assignment of a year's salary, though it may not cure your ankles, will certainly
ease a toe,' and more seriously, in a subsequent letter, ' Consider you have
received out of Ireland at least sixty thousand pounds since the Eevolution,
which is more than the tenth part of all the current coin of Ireland ; & sure there
ought to be some footstep of charitable work done to a Kingdom, out of which
you have drained so vast sums' ; Mr. E. Southwell m., secondly, 21 Aug.
1729, Catherine Watson, sister of 2nd Earl of Eockingham and granddau.
of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet and 18th Baron de Clifford, and d.
March 16, 1755, leaving by her (who d. 1765) a son and heir, Edward, 20th
Baron de Clifford.
3 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS,

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in charge with M1" Ashe but w* became of it wn corre
spondence was interrupted I cannot tell, the changes that
may happen in my Diocess I designe for the advantage of
my owne chaplaines if there be anything worthy of them.
I have written to Mr. Ashe at . . . the state & expectacon
of affayres in Ireland & once I Eemember he was desirous
of St. Peter's. I approve of all yu have done & desire yu
to take a little care of . . . provision of y° Eespective cures
till I come & w* yu shall suggest as Seasonable I shall noe
doubt thinke fitting to be done if the Bsp. of Meath be pleased
to continue his care & consult wth yu in it yu give his Ldp
those . . . measures that may answer the present occasion
& have the liberty of doing advantage to those I willingly
would, but if his Ldp be uneasy in it Mr Ashe has power to
signe & seale any comission to yu & Mr foley now wa yu to y'
purpose. Yr country is now the scene of business from whence we
hope & pray for good success. I am El1 Sr entirely yrs &c.
fran. Dublin.'
To the same.1
Eeverend Sr ' Waterford, 16 Septr., 1690.
Before I received your letter & our Landslord's
the best of the horses were gone, theye were sold the daye
I came to Waterford, I could not trust to my own skill
I tooke Mr. Persivall & Mr Hogshaw's advice, they could
not please themselves, I gave to one coming to Dublin a
note of Direction to come to your lodging, he hath a baye
horse to sell ; I gave another letter to one Thomas Johnston
who hath a nag & a small mare, this is by Dr. Hutton's
servant who hath a horse or two of his Master's to sell, you
may give more credit to him & Mr. Johnstone than to the
first, Dr. Le Can is coming from the Hospitall neare Dublin
to relieve me I hope to be with you in a few days after his
arrival he cometh by sea to Waterford, I praye you doe me
the favor to send your servant to look out a stable for a night
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.

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or 2 for 5 horses till I gett time to send them to grass.
We are dayly expecting to heare of Ld. Malburgh landing
somewhere in Munster greate guns and ammunition, pik-
axes, spads, shovels, granadoes are loaded ready to saile by
his order, as it is supposed the design is against Cork &
Kinsale the army is neare golden bridge but many are
gone into Winter quarters, we have a garrison still at Castle
Connell within four miles of Lymrick, att Carik in Lish
within 5 miles & att all the places our army was possest
of neare Lymrick, I give my humble service to Mr. & Mrs.
King & theire Daughter. I am Sr your most humble
servant
P. Dun.'
' The reverend Will King D.D. & dean of St.
Patrick's Dublin These 1
My Lord, Tower of London : Deo : 6th 1690.
For so I 'm obliged to call you, having some
days ago seen the King's letter recommending you to the
Bpprick of Derry & had acquainted you sooner of it but y*
Mr Toilet 2 told me he had done, I wish you much Joy of
ye preferment, & conclude the whole church of Ireland will
have reson to joyn with me, & as a good omen I can assure
yow none of the late promotions has given such general satis
faction to all persons here so y* even those whose interest
led them to oppose yow, to make way for thr relations yet
readily acknowledge yr meritt. Tis certain Mr Toilet has
managed ye business with great prudence as wel as diligence
otherwise the Bp. of Killala 3 had carried Derry.
M1' Toilet sent to me this day 7 night to apply again to
the Bp. of Sarum 4 in it, & I had writ it y* night by Post
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. 2 Mr. George Toilet.
3 Bichard Tennison, D.D., driven from his see, had been given a parochial
cure in London, and was translated, 1691, to Clogher, and from thence, in
1697, to Meath ; d. 1705.
4 Gilbert Burnet, D.D., like King and Dun, sprung from an Aberdeenshire
family. This eminent prelate is celebrated as a divine, a statesman, and a
writer ; his History of the Reformation in England 1679-1714, and History of
His Own Times 1723-34, are probably the best known of his published works ;
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but y' he was to be in Town on Monday or Tuesday . . .
written to him the Thursday before. ... yet the generality
are [not ?] . . . preferment, y11 they murmure at Dr. Foy's l
being wholly laid aside [wch ?] . . . they are y* come in and
the chiefest of the comrs are not well pleased . . . for yow
cant Imagine how much the Bp's. of London - and Sarum are
concerned, the latter told me this afternoon y' he went to
Kensington on purpose this morning to Discourse the King in
it whose answer was y* he had given some engagement to
promote Dean Fizgerald 3 wn he was in Ireland, but was sorry
so deserving a man as Dr ffoy was not preferr'd, but pro-
mis'd him the next that falls.
The thing fell out unhappily that the Bp. of Salisbury,
who was Dr. ffoy's chief freind was out of town (but con
cluded he had secured both yow & him before he went) &
the Comrs receiving the K's letter in favr of Dean Fitzgerald
out of mere complement to this letter joyn'd him in competi
tion with Dr ffoy (between ym they thought there was the
greatest inequality) rather yn with any of the rest, &
declar'd at the same time it was thr opinion that Dr ffoy
was much the more deserving person, however this slight
recommendaion seconded by my Ld Burlington's4 & some
other courtiers's interest carried it for him at Court where
Dr ffoy had had not so much as appeared nor used any
interest. Yow may Judge how this disappointment reaches me who
[tho' ?] (God be thanked) neither of us are troubled much at
1 Nathaniel, D.D., a fellow-prisoner with King ; Sch., T.C.D. 1663 ; Fell.,
1671 ; Incumbent of St. Bride's, Dublin, 1678. Dr. King writes of him, in
1697 : ' It is a good testimony of the Bishop's prudence that he governed a
parish in Dublin for fourteen years in very difficult times with the greatest
love and highest approbation of his parishioners.' Promoted to the See
of Waterford, Aug. 1691 ; d. 1707. For some account of him and his
successor at St. Bride's, the writer of the letter, who had his wish thus grati
fied, vide Carroll's (Bev. W. G.) Succession of Clergy in St. Bride's &c, 1884.
2 Henry Compton, D.D., d. 1713.
3 William, Dean of Cloyne, made Bishop of Clonfert &c, d. 1722.
4 Eichard Boyle, second Earl of Cork, created Earl of Burlington, 1663,
promoted the cause of William and Mary ; Dean Fitzgerald, whose interest he
supported, was a native of Cork, Archbishop N. Marsh, then of Cashel, records,
in his Diary, concerning his consecration, ' In which I had no hand, the Lord's
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it for I never moved for any thing but to succeed him &
had not done so much but on the considerations I told you.
It was proposed to-day y4 I sho'1 have the Bp of Sarum's
letter to my La Sidney (who is his great friend) by way of a
general recommendabn for I cou'd not fix on any thing wch I
shou'd say was not disposed of, and then it was answer enuff
to tell me so yet the Bp was of opinion y' general recom
mendations are so much matter of form & complement y4
they signify little with courtiers . . . particular recommenda
tions, besides y4 they always include a generall . . .
Judgment & discretion. In this I told his Lo8p I cou'd do
nothing 'til I had consulted yow or some of my friends in
Ireland. If I may advise yow I think it were not amiss for yow to
write to the Bp. of Sarum & acknowledge his kindness in
appearing so zealously for yow, as I can assure you he has
done, & nothing make[s] reparation for Dr. ffoys & the
Bishop of Glasgow's x being laid aside, but the carrying of Derry
at wob he's mightily pleas'd.
Torrington's 2 gone out this afternoon to be try'd on Monday
or Tuesday on board the Kent [?] in the river Medway near
Chatham some are of opinion they will hardly proceed to a
tryall but question the validity of the Commission tho' authorizd
by an Act of Parliment for they find the house of Lds & all
the Benches have shift'd his tryall & they are loath to take
the Odium of the People upon themselves, as whoever his
Judges are must do, since there is hardly any law by woh they
can reach his life, & yet no less will satisfye the people of
Ingland and Hollind.
The King has sent over money to pay of[f] the Danes &
will transport them to Flanders where the French are like to
give us work enuf this winter.
The Spaniard offers three considerable Garrisons viz.
Brudges, Newport & another to be put into our Possession,
1 Alexander Cairncross, Archbishop of Glasgow, appointed Bishop of Eaphoe
1693, d. May 14, 1701. Bishop King preached his funeral sermon.
2 Arthur Herbert, Earl of T., Admiral of the fleet, with an insufficient
squadron, by the Queen's order, engaged the whole French fleet off Beachy
Head, when Tourville forced him back ; he was acquitted of the charge of
hanging back, but never again held command ; d. 1716.

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for it were better we had them then the French who seem to
have designs that way.
There was a talk a while ago of breaking all our Eniskillen
regiments ' but 'tis thought this business will prevent it, &
oblidge the K. to leave them & the rest of our Countrymen
to defend that Kingdom, for the confederates expect he will
act with a considerable army in Flanders next campaign . . .
I am yr Lords"'3 most faithfull humble and devoted serv4.
J. Duncan.' 2
To the same 3
Mv Lord 'London 8 Septemb' 1691.
I doubt not but Mr. Tolet4 did lett yr lord'pp know
when it was he put the manuscript5 into my hands. I
1 Brigadier Wolseley's Horse, Brigadier Tiffin's and Colonel Creighton's
regiments of foot were not broke until 1698, Henry's Upper Lough Erne in
1739, 1892, Appendix II.
2 James Duncan, curate of Enniskillen, 1675-1683, of St. Audoen's, Dublin,
1685 ; and incumbent of St. Bride's, Oct. 1692-1711 ; m., 1709, Mary, daughter
of Sir Henry Echlin, Bt., a Baron of the Exchequer ; he held at the time of
his death the living of Kilmore, Co. Meath ; d., June 27, 1717.
3 Mrs, Lyons' King MSS., printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Eeport.
4 George Toilet.
5 The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's
Government, first published anonymously in London 1691 ; a third edition
appeared in 1692 ; and the book has often been reprinted with the author's
name. ' The Bp. had by him at the time of his death attested vouchers of
every particular fact alledged in that History which are now in his Eelations'
Custody,' Dr. James King's MS. Life of Archbishop King, 1737. ' Bishop
Burnet gives it this character in a letter to Sir Eobert Southwell, " that it is
not only the best Book that hath been written for the service of the Govern
ment ; but without any figure it is worth all the rest put together & will do
more than all our Scribblings for settling the minds of the Nation," ' Harris'
Life of Archbislwp King. ' For my own part,' wrote Archbishop King to Arch
bishop Wake from Bath, July 6, 1717, 'I never printed any thing without
having the censure of two or three or more friends ; & I never failed to alter
what they excepted against, til I gave them satisfaction, & if I could not I laid
the Peice aside & let it go no farther.' In this book of Bishop King's are some
interesting facts as to the material condition of the country, e.g., p. 126 (Lond.
edit. 1691), ' Ireland has always been famous for its Pastures & the Eiches of it
has always consisted in Cattle, of which many Gentlemen had vast Stocks ;
for a Man to have Six, Eight, or Ten Thousand Sheep was very common ;
some had more even to Twenty Thousand ' ; ' Some Proprietors have but small
Estates, 20, 40, or 100 acres on which Sumptuous Houses & large Gardens &
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lost noe time to attend my Lord Nottingham for his promise
of licence. But because he could not possibly examine the
work he wish't I could prevaile on the Bishop of Worcester '
to doe it. I went to him & there found the Bishop of
Salisbury. I discoursed to their lo'pps the value I had
thereof by reading only the extract. My Lord of Worcester
was involv'd in other things, but the Bishop of Sarum 2 sayd
that if I would lett him carry it next morning to his house
at Windsor, he would goe through it & give his opinion.
Yesterday I had a letter from him whereof the enclosed is
copy, I showed it at night to my Lord Nottingham who bid
me send for the writings as I did this mornmg ; but by noon
I found them sent to my house, & have since been with my
Lord Nottingham,3 who having look'd over the extract &
read the preamble, tells me his licence shall be ready when
call'd for. And of this I now give Mr. Toilet notice & send
the manuscript back unto him. . . . Eobert Southwell.'
To the same 4
My Lord ' L°n<i°n Septr 26, 1691.
I called last night upon Mr. Toilet to know how the
Press or rather the 4 Presses now employed went forward 6
& I perceive the book will be out before the sitting of the
Parliament wch. is now put off to the 22nd of next month.
My Lord ArchBpp and my Lord of Worcester are very
desirous to be entertained with the reading thereof. . . .
the Glass Windows or defray the Wages of the Gardiner,' p. 395 ; ' 1,200,000
souls in Ireland in 1671,' p. 299. ' There are in Dublin about Seven Thousand
Houses,' p. 124. ' Tis not thought prudent in Ireland where money is at
10 per cent., for any one to keep much cash by him, & perhaps he that hath
£1000. per annum clear hath often not £100. in cash,' p. 233.
' Edward Stillingfleet, D.D., d. 1699.
2 Gilbert Burnet, D.D. The copy of this letter is missing, but most probably
it is that quoted from p. 78, note 5.
3 Daniel Finch, second Earl ; his license in the first edition is : ' Let this
be printed — Nottingham, White-Hall, Octob. 15, 1691.'
4 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
3 The publisher was ' Bobert Clavell at the Peacock at the west end of
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I shall only add for y1' Lordpp's information that you have
here already an entire Eeputation among the best of men and
are likely to be relyed upon as a fundamental Pillar in y- con
cerns of that Church [of Ireland]. And so wishing yr Lordpp
Prosperity in all your great & good undertakings, &c.
Eobert Southwell.'
To the same 1
My Lord, ' London 6th Feb' 169J.
I did already acknowledge your lord'pp's of the
13th Novembr, & I was in hopes to have had opportunity
of writing to your lord'pp at large upon what I have so long
since lodged in my Lord of Canterbury's hands ; but winter
& Parliament, & my constant attendance at the Custom
House, makes it hard to gett anything to say, & when I
was once at Lambeth, it was early days with his Grace, who
was but newly setled in that place,2 so that now my cheif
occasion of writing to your lord'pp is at Mr. Clavell's request
who is re-printing your lord'pp's book in a lesser volume.
He shewed mee a preface that a friend of his had prepared
for it, but I advised him to send it your lord'pp, as the only
hand that could turn those materialls to best advantage, the
design of them being to shew that whatever was fulfilled in
Ireland was intended also for this side. He would have had
mee putt my Lord Salisbury 3 on this work, but hee is so filled
with his own concerns and the long session of Parliament,
that 'tis easy to foresee his lord'pp would have ex[c]used it
tho' he may be glad to read whatever shall have past your
lordship's hand. There is one point in your lord'pp's book
and but one that I ever heard off wjli is cavilled at, & that
is the ill condition of the English fleet under K. James, so
that perhaps if it be re-printed as it was, it may deserve a large
marginall note signifying that altho' in fact this of ye fleet
were otherwise, yett was it so discours't by K. James, and
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. Printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Eeport.
2 Dr. John Tillotson was made Archbishop in 1691 ; he recommended this
book to the King ; d. 1694.
3 I.e. Bishop Burnet ; the then Earl of Salisbury was a popish recusant
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perhaps to animate his friends on that side to the easier
regaining of England. It is certain that the fleet of England
was for a long time in a ruinous condition, but in the 2 last
years of K. James's reign, there was very great care and
expense to restore them. I know not how to entertain your
lord'pp with publick affairs or with those in particular y4 refer
to Ireland. It is generally beleived my Ld. Sidney will
forthwith go over to Ireland Lord L* & there is a bill now
preparing by the Commons to vest ye forfeitures there for the
payment of debts. There is a clause in it to save all Pro
testants, but such as continued in arms soon after Duke
Schomberg's landing, and altho' no man was opposite to this,
yett was there very much opposition as to the other part by
some who would have garbled the Protestants. I am sorry to
observe that some of us in this place have held a conduct so
contrary to the sense of the Court, as I can hardly think when
the resentment of it will be wiped off. Our good friend Mr.
Trench may tell you part hereof but it is much worse than
when he went hence. Your lord'pp was long since pleased to
recommend unto mee Coll. Fletcher for the government of
Kinsale. 1 had from my friends in that place who had tasted
of him, such farther accounts of his vertue, as I never more
earnestly sollicited anything then this concern, & it had
been a blessing able to repair the calamitys past, & what at
this very day, we still there undergo. But as to him, the
effect is much better for his virtues being published, he is
appointed to go Governor to New York which may be very
honestly worth him a 1000Z. p. ann.
I wish your lordship all sort of prosperity, & shall ever
be, My Lord, your Lrdpp's most faithfull & most obedyent
servant Eobert Southwell.'
To the same.1
My Lord, ' Dub- Mar- 18th' 1691-2.
Mr. Bonell2 tells me your Lordship desires an ac4
of my triall & to know whether I was not condemned for
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Eeport.
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articleing w4h King James. In order to your Lorsp's satis
faction, I under wright a copie of ye articles wob Sr Henry
Linch, my judg, caled for and declared thear was noe need
of any farther evidence, for articling wth ye King ' was high
treason ; besides this 'twas proved I bilt a stone wall and
made spike holds in it, & y4 some of my men threw stones
at ye King's souldiers, & y4 I kept men wth in my house,
and exsersized daily, all woh he declared was high treason.
To all wch when I offerd to speake for myselfe he fell in
passion & railing bitterly at me would not heer me but
wthout more ceremony, after y9 pick4 jury had deliver"1 thear
vardict, sentenced me & two more to be hangd, drawne, and
quarter'1. This & many other sircumstances too long to
trouble your Lordship wth, I am able and redy to Justine
when ever I shall be thearto required. For ye saving my life
I procured five severall repreeves, wch I have by me. I was
in close prison from ye date of these articles till y5 route at ye
Boine. I am, My Lord, Your Lordship's faithfull, hum. ser4.
Law. Parsons.2
I intend for England soone, whearr I shall be glad to
receive y1' Lorsp'a recomenditory letters woU I humbly begg y1'
Lorsp will be pleas'1 to send me hither.
My Lord. Coll. Oxburgh was my father's serv4, & my
ten4 & ser4 this 30 yrs, & had ye manag4 of my estate at
this time, who owed 4,000L in my debt, & would have
hangd me. He had 1001 per ann. for receiving my rents, &
was to allow me 5001 yearly, & pay my debts wth ye rest,
but pd nothing, and w411 my mony raised a regmt for King
James ; this acct. in breef I presume to give yr Lordship,
heering yr Lordship is wrighting the late transactions, in wch
I pray yr Lordship will be pleased to particularise my great
sufferings.' 3
1 ' Articles of agreement made &o. between Coll. Howard Oxburgh &
Lifnt Coll. Eobert Grace for & on his Majesties behalfe on y° one part & Sir
Lawrence Parsons Bar"' ' touching the surrender of Birr Castle to H. M.'s
use ' this 20th day of Feb. 1688,' second Eeport Hist. MSS. Comm". (' Earl of
Eosse's MSS. at Birr Castle, Parsonstown').
2 First Baronet, ancestor of the Earls of Bosse.
3 Sir J. T. Gilbert notes, ' The case of Sir L. Parsons is referred to by
King in the State of the Protestants of Ireland, London, 1692, p. 104.'

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To the same.

My Lord, ' London 29th March 1692.
I have the honour of your lo'pp's of the 2d. The
first part whereof referrs to the amending that passage in
the State of Ireland which concerns the navy. Mr. Toilet
& I had long since agreed upon a marginall note, which
was soone printed off, & I hope it will be to your liking, for
wee thought best to leave the original as it was. My Lord
Cheif Justice Eeynell had given Mr. Clavell two long letters
writ by Sr Theob. Buttler to be added to the Appendix, which
he desireing me to reade, I thought they would confirme the
former vouchers, as falling much into the measures of Bishop
Mullony, & I offer'd him another letter of the same hand
& to the like intents ; but I was soon inform'd by one at
Court that Buttler had notice of these intended additions, &
that he had made loud complaints against a new paper war,
when it was promis'd them at signing the Articles that all
should be forgott ; but in case he were provok't he will alsoe
write, & would make appeare that your lo'pp was never in
prison but at yr owne request, & that you had your liberty to
goe forth when ever you desir'd it. The party who told me
these things believed that what he said was calumny ; how
ever, thought it best that the book come out as it was before,
& upon discourse hereof, & of another preface which Mr.
Clavell showd me wee thought it best to leave all new things
alone till they give provocation, as they menace by answering
the book. I guess this preface was writt by the Archbishop
of Tuam,2 because a great part of it, though very long, was
of his Grace's owne case as a thing omitted in the book. But
having seene what your lo'pp wrote to Mr. Toilet concerning
a preface, I may long wish before I see one that is fitt, for
I never read anything with more delight then the modell
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm". 2nd Eeport.
2 John Vesey, D.D., had been forced to flee from Ireland during Tyrconnel'a
government, and had been attainted by the Jacobite Parliament ; he secured
a scanty subsistence from a lectureship of £40 a year, in London, until able to
return to his diocese ; he was three times a Lord Justice, and compiled Life of
Primate Bramhall ; d. 1716. o 2

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you prescribe, which ought in every tit[t]le to be fulfilled to
make a preface as it ought to be, superiour to the book. And
if ever any provocation be given by the adverse party, it may
then be fitt to write & to pursue those instructions if wee
can find the man. ..... Eobert Southwell.'

' These ffor the Bight Beverend ffather in God
Wm Lord Bp of Derry at Londonderry.1
My deare Lord, [Dublin] June 14, 1692.
Tho a fit of ye Gowte, & a little feaver accompanying
it were frequent visitants of your Lop here ; & I hope your
present indisposition is noe more yet your friends cannot
but be allarmed to heare you aile anything at soe great a
distance. I do in vaine wish myselfe neerer y4 I might pay you y3
utmost of my service & since my distance disables me
from giving you any but generall directions I thinke it
necessary to warne yo1' Lop of y" greatest & most prejudiciall
intemperance I know you guilty of, such is yr of[t] over
exercising your braine, beleeve it my Lrl tis as unlawfull an
intemperance as y4 of eating & drinking & rather more
dangerous because its injuries are seldome discovered till
they are [irremediajble.
I was in good hopes of your [promotion?] would have
kept you much in company .... y4 it would not have
permitted you to make any longer a drudge of y4 head you
have so much harassed, but I wish a crooked irregular clergy
may not have to[o] great a share in your present disorder if
soe it will be yor Lops remedy as 'tis your duty when you
have done your owne part to be unconcerned for ye issue.
A packet come in this morning brings word y4 Namur is
gone as Mons went, ye confederate army looking on ; we have
many irons in y" fire. We expect suddenly to hear of a fight
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; the Bishop spent some time during the autumn
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in fflanders & a descent into ffrance, y° action of ye ffleet was
really great.1 My Ld I am yor Lops most obliged serv4.
C. Willoughby.' i

To the same.3 ' 19 May 1693.
.... Some little scholastick news I have to acquaint
your lordship with, all of which perhaps you have receiv'd a
more particular acct. already, but for this time I shall run
the hazzard of it.
The book against your lord'p was in the MSS. copy, found
in Charles Lesley's 4 study, who upon the discovery fled &
now absconds.
Mr. Dodwell is rummaging the MSS. of the Bl. Library,5
& sifting the most usefull of them for the press, & he with
Mr. Kettlewell,6 has wrote two books to prove us all schis-
maticks ; the B. of Cloyne 7 has begun his prelections which
he designs for the press, De ratione Studii Theologici ; the
Eoyall Society are upon a design of sending two of their
members, Mr. Middleton & Mr. Halley8 to saile round the
world in order to make correct observations of the longitudes
& latitudes of all places, Dr. Allex's 9 great work of the
counts goes on apace, Mr. Harmor an English clergieman
has publisht shrewd remarques upon the Bp. of S.'s Hist, of
the Beformation, which give him much trouble, & the Abp.
1 Defeat of the French fleet at La Hogue, May 23.
2 Charles Willoughby (son of Sir Francis, Knt., of Dublin), a distinguished
Dublin physioian, and learned naturalist, who d. 1694.
3 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm"., 2nd Eeport.
4 His answer to State of the Protestants of Ireland &o. 1692.
5 The Bodleian, Oxford.
6 Bev. John, M.A., Vicar of Coleshill (deprived 1690) ; author of devotional
works, D.N.B.
* Wm. Palliser, D.D. ; Archbishop of Cashel 1694 ; bequeathed ' Bibliotheca
Palliseriana ' to Trin. Coll. Dub., 1726.
9 Edmund H., the astronomer, assistant-secretary to the Eoyal Society, and
editor of its Transactions, 1683-93, d. 1742.
" Peter Allix, D.D., a Huguenot in London, wrote on the ecclesiastical
history of the ancient churches of Piedmont (in 1690), and of the Albigenses,
works reprinted at Oxford, in 1821, possibly ' coun" ' in the text should j:ead
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of Cant.1 Sermons of the Divinity d Incarnation of our Lord
are come out very seasonably, & are much applauded &c.
N. Waterford.' 2

T o the same.2
My Lord, ' Dublin, July y" g.
Though I am in. great hurry being just going away,
I will not omitt giving you thanks for your Hawkes which
are very acceptable to me I can make you no other returne
but my good wishes with the assurance of my being your
most humble and faithful servant. Sydney.' 4
To the Lord Bishop of Waterford, London.5
My very good Lord, ' Oot- 5> 1697-
I am more sensible of the ill aspect that the
generality of men cast upon the Church and churchmen ;
the faith of religion is very weak amongst all, & the sense
of it almost lost ; & the matter is laid deeper than most
men are aware of. 'Tis come to a formed conspiracy, &
agents & emissaries are employed to cry down the credit
of religion in general, & instil profane maxims & principles
into youth. My Lord it is not credible what pains are taken
this way, & how diligent some persons of great quality are to
propagate irreligion. 'Tis hard for us to know what we are
to do in these circumstances, if we appear openly & resolutely
for our faith, we are twitted with the story of the Ephesian
craftsmen, if we are silent and retire, then good men, if they
get their bishopricks & benefices, and their ease, they are as
indifferent as to religion as their neighbours ; if we vote with
1 John Tillotson, D.D. ; he is said to have left nothing to his family but
the copyright of his Sermons afterwards sold for £2,625.
¦ Nathaniel Foy, D.D.
3 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
4 Henry, Viscount S., Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1692-5 ; created, 1694, Earl
of Romney ; said to have been the handsomest man of his time ; brother of the
republican Algernon Sidney, D.N.B. ; supported James the Second's tottering
crown at his coronation ; a great friend of Bishop Burnet's.
5 T.C.D. Transcribed King MSS. ; Nathaniel Foy, D.D.

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the court in parliament, we are flatterers, if against it un
grateful ; in short we are used as our Master was, & I can
find no other comfort besides that consideration.1 I thank
God I am willing to be at any pains, & to venture anything
for Christ's sake, & do find a comfort & satisfaction in doing
so ; but I profess to your Lordship, that I am often at a loss
to determine what is so, & having naturally a diffidence in
myself, I need the encouragement & assistance of others to
give me assurance ; & I speak it with sorrow, I have not one
friend near me that I can with reliance & necessary freedom
consult in these matters. I discourse severally but 'tis with
reserve, & without going to the bottom, you have given a
good reason for it.
I own every one of those things you mention, they are in
my thoughts, & I believe the laity might be brought to
comply with us in most of them, but the clergy are resolute
against them, & to struggle about them is to make that
averseness publick.
I own a Convocation necessary, & I had hot disputes about
it in England ; but all assemblies that have been long chained
up, proved unruly when first let loose, & I am afraid this
would prove in our present juncture a reason of abrogating
them altogether, which I am afraid will happen however, & if
you have seen Dr. Wake's book againBt them, for so I reckon
it that 'tis intended, you will be of the opinion that little less
is designed. ... As to my brethren, your Lordship knows
they are jealous of me, & by no means approve my maxims.
They have generally other thoughts & views than I have.
This is a thing I cannot help & dare not blame ; not that
I fear to offend them, but because I shall lose the little
interest I have amongst them by unseasonably pressing them.
If I be mistaken in this method 'tis my weakness ; for I do
not decline any opportunity, where I do not apprehend more
ill consequence than the good designed, if obtained, would
amount to.
I had particular cautions given me in England, as I told
1 Our Divine Master, as the elect Servant of Jehovah, was ever in His
proper place ; can the same be said of a Christian minister in parliament aking
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your Lordship formerly, not to innovate in anything ; &, if
possible, to prevent anything of religion to come on the
carpet, for, said they, there are evil designs on foot against
you, & if you give them opportunity by moving anything,
whatever shape you intend for it, they will finish it into a
monster ; and I am well assured that nothing really for our
good will at present pass the two councils & two houses, for
our enemies have interest enough to obstruct or distort it in
one or other of these places, as experience shews us. But
though I think we are not to expect any good to the cause
of religion in our present circumstances, yet I believe it is
possible to prevent some evils, & I cannot be reconciled to
your absence in such a difficult time ; pray therefore think
on it, & do as God shall direct you.
One would think that the world were somewhat concerned
about religion, for of three bills that past last, one was to
prohibit marrying with Papists, and another to banish
regulars, and the third for damning the Articles of Lymerick
was on pretence of weakening the Popish interest, but after
all there is not the least consideration of religion at the
bottom, and we must learn from this not to judge according
to appearance. My Lord I have wearied myself sufficiently by this long
letter, & can hardly excuse the ill jointing of it altogether.
Your Lordship will believe that my heart is very full & my
mind little at ease while the Ark of God is in so hazardous a
condition. I can only add to my best endeavour my prayers
& tears to support ; I promise myself the concurrence of
your's, and in particular for, my Lord, your most affectionate
humble servant & brother,
Will : Derry.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.1
May it please your Grace, 'Dublin, 30th Oct. 1697.
It was our misfortune to have a bill brought before
us in the House of Lords, for the better securing the King
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King correspondence; Thomas Tenison, Primate
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& government, to which several bishops could not assent ;
& there is reason to believe that several will endeavour
to misrepresent them ; upon account of the title & some
other good things that were in it, they think themselves
obliged to give your Grace an account of what they have
done, being very desirous to stand right in your Grace's
opinion, especially in a matter that concerns his Majesty, to
whom they have the greatest obligations. I have therefore
sent your Grace inclosed some of the reasons at their desire,
& humbly entreat your Grace's favourable construction of
them. The greater part of the temporal Lords, reckoning
their proxies, were against the bill & eight bishops.1 But if
there had been no bishops at all in the house it would have
miscarried. I intimate this to your Grace, that the odium, if
there should be any on men for voting according to their
conscience, may not be laid on our bench by such as may
not wish well to our order.
My Lord, we have hardly any Jacobites among the
Protestants in Ireland ; & yet I can assure your Grace, that
this bill as it was drawn, did disgust most of them : & even
those that were for the bill confessed that it was hard to
subject about 800,000 persons, without distinction of age, sex,
or quality, to the discretionary power of two justices of the
peace in a matter that reached not only to their liberty &
property, but to their very lives.
But it did concern the bishops more particularly to be
tender in the case ; all severe laws in matters of conscience
1 King, Derry ; Vigors, Ferns ; Fitzgerald, Clonfert ; Lloyd, Killala ;
Hartstong, Ossory ; Ashe, Clogher ; Smyth, Limerick ; Lindsay, Killaloe.
Lord Galway, one of the Lords Justices, reported, Aug. 31, 1697, to Secy
Vernon, that ' the Bishops of Killaloe, Killala & Derry are the leading men
that govern the rest.' The course of passing laws in the Irish Parliament is
thus described by Archbishop King, in a letter, Jan. 7, 1720, to Dr. Charlett :
' Our bills, that are proposed by either house of parliament, are brought to the
privy council, & are there further formed & corrected, if there be occasion,
& so transmitted to the council in England, to be approved there & remitted,
& then presented, to be passed in parliament, who cannot alter anything in
them, but must either entirely reject them, or pass them. This is the course
of passing our laws here.' The Irish parliament was only summoned together
every second year. The session usually began in October, and ended in the
following March or April, during which short period there were always one or
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and arbitrary proceedings being laid at their door, though
they have had the least hand in them. Besides we understand
that his Majesty was both by nature, principles & education
against persecuting any upon mere conscience : & I assure
your Grace, that those considerations did weigh very much
with such bishops as voted against the bill ; & we promise
ourselves that if his Majesty be fully apprised of the matter,
he will approve of our proceedings ; & humbly beg your
Grace, if there be occasion to do us justice.1
I will not trouble your Grace with any apology for this,
which your Grace's station & concern for this Church in
particular draws upon you : I shall only add my most earnest
1 In a letter to Bishop Burnet, on the same subject, he writes, ' had the bill
answered the title (for the better security of the King's person), I dare answer
for all my brethren, as well as for myself, that not one of us but would have
been zealous for it. But, my Lord, in our apprehension, it was against the
honour, as well as the life, of his Majesty ; & we take it ill that such a bill
should be offered to us, & worse that we should be censured for rejecting it.
We have no other liberty left us in our parliaments as to bills, & therefore
must be cautious how we suffer ill things to pass us for the sake of what is
good in any bill. If we could mend a bill, we had been to blame for rejecting
this ; but since we cannot, we must let them know that would ensnare us that
the best title will not pass ill things. I profess I never heard one argument
for the bill but the title ; & all the excuse that was made for the abominable
things in it was, that it was never designed to be executed. But we have too
many such laws already ; &, with God's help, shall never have any more, as
long as I, or my friends, can help it. If one should measure our temper by
our laws, I think we are little short of the Inquisition ; but if by the execution
of them I doubt we shall seem as indifferent in matters of religion as our
neighbours in Holland ; whereas soft laws & strict execution are what wisdom
& interest would recommend to us.' Writing to Sir Eobert Southwell he
mentions, ' I never expected to live to see the sitting of a parliament, & it was
the peculiar & extraordinary goodness of God, that did not only preserve me
till the last sate, but enabled me to assist at it, beyond my expectation. I sate
every day with the prospect of death before my eyes, & I neither said nor did
anything, that I know, in it, but I was ready to answer at the tribunal of God
. . . my principles for government are no other than Magna Charta, nor for
religion other than the Bible, as interpreted by the Catholick consent of
Christians.' The bill, though amended, was rejected the next year by the
House of Commons also.
The Eev. Dr. Lawlor notes this serious illness, Some Worthies, p. 290 ; the
bishop had left his diocese on account of ill health, and went to Dublin, most
probably to consult his doctor, Dun, in March, and complains, ' I could not
endure the air & bustle of Dublin,' and so went to Eathfarnham, and returned
to Derry, April 29, as ' it pleased God to continue his hand on me ' ; he had not
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prayers for your Grace, that God would long preserve you for
the good of these Churches and Kingdoms ; & that I am in
all humility, your Grace's &c.
Will : Derry.'
To the Lord Bishop of Derry.1
• London : 26 Aprill, 1699.
... I see y1' Lrdsp will be compell'd to the Bath this
summer as for the 2 years past, and I heartily wish that
before we meet at Kingsweston many subjects of melan
choly may be remov'd and that his Ma4y & all good Subjects
may be in that state of happinesse & harmony that we both
soe ardently desire.
My health is exceeding broken, but the rest of my family
are as your Lrdsp left them &c.
Eobert Southwell.'
To the Very Bev. John Trench, Dean of Baphoe.2
' 23 Feb. 1699 (1700).
. . . ' Mr. Lesly 3 would charge me with a great many
insinuations, for he could find nothing direct, but they are the
figments of his own brains, as is the rest of his booke,4 soe
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 Printed from the original MS. in Mason's (W. Monck) Hist, of St.
Patrick's near Dublin, 1820. The Dean, a great friend of King's, was lineal
ancestor of the Barons Ashtown, and d. 1725. He may have been the
' Mr. T  h ' mentioned in Diary as visiting King, Aug. 26 ; if these letters
should read ' F  h ' (for Mr. French, the lawyer) the Dean may have been
the person mentioned in the following extract from Story's (G.) True and
Impartial Hist. &c, 1691, p. 64, ' About the middle of May (1689) came one
Capt. [Charles] King, Mr. Wingfield a lawyer, & Mr. Trench, a clergyman, with
five or six more from Dublin in an open boat & gave the Duke [Schomberg,
then at Lisburn] a more exact account than any he had formerly, how all
things went with the Irish.'
3 Bev. Charles Leslie, M.A., Chancellor of Connor, deprived as a Nonjuror,
d., at his place, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, April 13, 1722.
4 An Answer to a Book intituled The State of the Protestants of Ireland
under the late King James's Government. 1692 and 1694. The Eev. E. J.
Leslie, in Life and Writings of Charles Leslie, M.A., 1885, makes charges
against Dr. King, that he ' in concert with Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury,
first endeavoured to effect his [C. Leslie's] ruin & continued his lifelong enemy,'
that his ' pamphlet (The State of the Protestants, &c.) consisted of violent
invectives against James II., & serious mis-statements of fact ' ; that ' he never
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far as it concerns me ; being nothing else but the chatt of the
Jacobites' coffee houses, without truth or vouchers, as you
very well know. Such another is ye second objection of being
taken into King James's favour and intrusted by him as one
particularly confided in ; which is soe ridiculous a falshood,
that it must stare in the face of any one that ever was in
Dublin ; the case was soe far otherwise, that I never spoke
one word to his Majesty in my life, never received any
message from him, nor had any item from anybody about him
that he had any confidence in me ; 1 on the contrary I was
often cautioned to take care of myself, for if any advantage
could be gotten against me 'twou'd certainly be made use of,
& accordingly I was one of the first was imprisoned, and
when I pressed for a tryall, the Lord Chiefe Justice Nugent
told me that truly they could prove nothing against me, but
he believed in his conscience I was guilty, for the King look'd
on me as a dangerous man ; 2 to which I only replyed, that
Leslie was ordered at his instigation aided by Burnet & Lloyd.' Dr. King, like
other opponents of the Jacobite cause, doubtlessly regarded Leslie as a person
more or less dangerous to the State, but there is no proof that this involved
feelings of life-long enmity ; Mr. Leslie's analysis of the contents of Dr. King's
' pamphlet ' is concise though not accurate, and his statement as to his never
admitting, but disclaiming, the authorship, is simply absurd, Charles Leslie
knew the author, as did King William, Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop Burnet,
the Southwells, and a host of others, and if no edition of the book, with his
name, as author, was printed before 1708, in that year, Dean Swift published
the authorship to the English-speaking world (v. ' Miscellanea ' p. 277). In
Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Beport, is printed a valuable paper from the
Lyons' King MSS., ' Bishop King's Memoranda on Leslie's Answer to State of
the Protestants, &c.,' giving the numbers of the pages in Leslie's book, where
he points out errors and falsehoods. In a third edition of The State of the
Protestants, King replied to some of Leslie's attacks.
1 ' How James,' writes Mr. Mason, in a note to this letter, ' after his abdica
tion could have trusted King in his affairs, is a matter difficult to comprehend,
when Herbert himself although high in office had little of his Master's con
fidence.' The Eev. Professor Lawlor, in an ' Additional Note,' to Dr. Stokes'
Some Worthies of the Irish Church, 1900, pp. 163-177, weighs Leslie'sproofs of
King's inconsistency, and decides they ' will not stand the test of a rigid
scrutiny, while King's own account of the matter is clear & simple.'
2 King's controversy with Peter Manby, Dean of Derry, in 1687 and 1688,
may have influenced the King against him, he records in his Diary ' Sept. 2.'
' There came likewise Mrs. D  r [possibly intended for " Desmynieres," Mr.
Jas. Somerville's mother-in-law, p. 97.] to se me & told me y« she had bin at
a place where I was spoken of, & a E. C. said y' y" reason of my confinement
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it was very hard I shou'd lose my liberty for his Lordship's
belief : & when they endeavoured all they could, on examina
tions notoriously false, to find a bill against me and others,
the Grand Jury could not find ground for it, & soe brought
it in Ignoramus.
As for their finding any of my letters it's most horribly
false, they never had nor cou'd have any such nor did my
Lord Chiefe Justice Herbert ever tax me with any such thing ;
I was much obliged to him to the last, & he offered to be
baile for me, but was rejected by my Lord Chiefe Justice
Nugent, because he was a Protestant, which heartily vexed
him ; at last in December, after I had lyen near half a year,
he procured my liberty from King James ; which, when it was
debated in Council, Chiefe Justice Nugent objected that I
preached sedition (that is, against popery) my Lord Chiefe
Justice Herbert answered, that the objector had never heard
me preach, but he himself had, and assured his Majesty that
I meddled with nothing of State matters ; but added, that it
were better to let me out & preach treason as much as I
cou'd, than to keep me in prison, my confinement doing his
Majesty more hurt in the opinion of his Protestant subjects,
than my preaching wou'd; on which the Lord Tirconnell
took the matter to himselfe, & assured the King I was a
very honest fellow, & thereon I was released for that time.
This I had from my Lord Chiefe Justice Herbert, & put it
amongst my memorandums &c.
Will: Derry.'
' The Bt. Bev. the Bishop of Derry in Londonderry
these 1
My dear Lord Dublin feb- 24th tH*
I received yr Lordsp's of the 18th for which I returne
you, my dearest [friend], a thousand thanks for your heartty
whether this was y8 liberty of conscience meant by y" K. ' ; and 'Nov. 13,' 'I
heard of a letter written by Mr. M. from Limerick to Mr. Bead in which he
threatened me with an information against me ' ; as Derry was then not a
congenial abode for its E. C. Dean, the latter may have betaken himself to
Limerick. Dean King was attacked, in 1689, in a weekly paper, called The
Abhorrence, with the intent to render him more obnoxious (Chalmers* Biog.
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expressions of kindness for my son T , nothing in this world
can be more obleedging to me & him who will own himself
yr Lordsps most obeydient Son, sence you are pleased to adopt
him, I freely give him to yr Lordship & after the next
Commencement he shall waite upon you, & if noe tell, [y]ou
will beleve it his greatest happynes & advantage to stay with
your Lordship, & I shall rest satisfi'd that he is safe under
your wing in the meine time he is your Lordship's Humble
sarvent, I am glad to hear yr Ldsp is rid of any of yr trouble
some busnesis I hope in time you will overcome them all.
Dr. Boulton 2 I hear is y1 Deane I hope you will be happy
w*'J him if he be as good as he seems in the pulpit he cannot
but be a good man my pegey 3 has mis-caried this Last week is
still weake but pretty heartty we have sum thoughts as soune
as she is able to trauill to goe to Limerick, the Bp and his
wife are very earnest with us to spend sum time with them.
I love trauiling best in Spring will be better than Phisick to
mee when the country is most pleasant.
I am forced to writ shorter then I did intend company be
ing in the hous.
I wish your Ldsp all happynes & beg your prayers for
mee & mine & am my Dearest most sincerely yours,
Anna Parnell.'4
1 Thomas, her eldest son, born in Dublin 1679; M.A., T.C.D., 1700;
ordained, 1700, by Dr. King, with dispensation from the primate as only
21 years of age ; D.D. 1712 ; Archdeacon of Clogher 1706-1716 ; his change of
political opinions in joining the Tories must have been a disappointment to the
Archbishop ; d., s.p., July 1717. His collected poetical works were pubhshed
in 1722 ; he also contributed to the Spectator and Guardian. ' A prayer made
by Mr William King, Minister of St. Warbourgh Dublin,' bound up with some
metrical psalms by Thomas Parnell, belonging to the late Dr. Bliss's Collection
of MSS., was sold (in 1858 ?) ' Lot 182,' and purchased for 5'/6d by the late
Mr. Boone, the bookseller, but there is no record of the name of the purchaser
from him (information from Messrs. Ellis & White, successors to the firm of
Boone & Son) ; Dr. Samuel Johnson writes concerning him, in his Lives of
the Poets, ' Such notice from such a man [King] inclines me to believe that
the vice [intemperance] of which he has been accused was not gross, or not
notorious.' 2 John Bolton, D.D.
3 Margaret (the eldest dau.) wife of Captain William Burgh, of Dublin,
accountant general of Ireland (a correspondent of Dr. King's), had issue,
Thomas (King's godson), and Dorothea.
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To the same, in Dublin.1
My Lord, ' Dublin Castle, July 16, 1700.
I was several times to wait on your Lordship at your
lodgings ; but you were either abroad, or so engaged that I
could not be permitted the honour to attend you. I have an
humble request to your Lordship, that you will please to
excuse me if I cannot be at the triennial visitation,2 for my
Lord and Lady [Berkeley] 3 continually residing at the Lodge,
I am obliged to a constant attendance there. I am with
all respect my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient & most
humble servant. Jonathan Swift.'
To the same, in Derry. A
My Lord, ' Tr- Co11- Dub> Jan- 28' 1700-1.
I am much obliged to yr lordship for putting me in
mind of an oversight to which I am very subject, yr letter
comes very seasonably, it will make me more cautious
hereafter, & I will never send away letters again wtbout
reading them over after they are written, wch I often do
tho' I always write them in haste. To put one in mind of
(d. June 25, 1685), and d. 1709, leaving issue, 1 Thomas ; 2 John, barrister-at-
law, Judge of Ct. of K. B., ancestor of the Barons Congleton ; 1 Margaret ;
2 Mary; 'Parnell, An. Dub. wid. 4 chpldren]. 297 [income from real estate],
250 [from personal estate] ' (T.C.D. ' List of Protestants who escaped from
Ireland in 1688 ').
1 Swift's Works by Thos. Eoscoe, 1848.
2 When ordained he was appointed to the prebend of Kilroot, in the diocese
of Connor, which he resigned 1696, and was collated, Sept. 28, 1700, prebendary
of Dunlavin, in that of Dublin, and given, 1699, the livings of Agher, Laracor
and Eathbeggan in the diocese of Meath. Bp. King may have been under
taking the visitation for one of Swift's diocesans, as in August, the next year,
he visited Armagh diocese for the Primate.
3 Swift was chaplain to Charles, Earl of Berkeley, then one of the Lords
Justices (d. 1710) ; Dr. John Bolton was also one of the chaplains, and was
given the Deanery of Derry, on Swift's declining, with the utmost scorn and
contempt, to give the large bribe, said to have been £1,000, demanded by Bushe,
Lord Berkeley's secretary ; Lord Orrery attributes Swift's failure to secure the
deanery to Bp. King's intervention, vide ' Misoellanea,' p. 320.
4 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm"., 2nd Eeport.

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any imperfection he can't help is to upbraid him, but to tell
him of w4 is easily mended is ye greatest act of kindness in
this world & nothing leaves so lasting a sence of gratitude
in my mind as a kindness of this nature. I am heartily
sorry y1' lordship dos not see all ye imperfections of my soul
as easily as my slips in y4 letter, since I now find I shou'd
not fail to hear of ym all ; if y1' lordship could perform this as
well, I would call you my gardian angel, & bless you for
being severe.
But y4 it may be some excuse for me to yr lordship for my
inadvertencies I beg leave to take notice of something of ys
like nature in yr lordship's last letter to me, such as humor
for humour, woh signify 2 very different things ; afraid for
afraid, transgrest y* participle for transgres'd, j" verb in yr
lordship's remarks on mine ; farre iovfar, inadvertency s for
inadvertencies, ye singular for ye plurall, busyness for
business, ee'n for even, a contraction in no use. Severall
words in ye letter with capitalls in ye middle of sentences
where there is no stress, such as If &c ; such forms of speak
ing as these, "Good example will goe a good way, do not take it
ill y4 I put you upon taking " which are carefully avoided in all
languages. If such mistakes as these could slip yr lordship's
pen at a time when it was in your thoughts to be exact you
will be ye easier inclined to pardon those permitted by me
when I was off my gard.
One design of yr lordship's criticisms I believe was to pre
pare me for a review of the discourse De Malo x and therefore
I begg y1' lordship not to take it ill, if I begin with it, now I
fear it is too long for ye subject, especially with those great
additions you mention in yr former letter, if ye whole strength
& substance of it could be contracted into a narrower com
pass it were ye better, for few men care for going along w4h
ye thred of a metaphisicall discours if it be anything tedious.
I am mistaken if ye origin of morall evill be not to be
accounted for by a shorter & easier method, & is at last
to be resolv'd into ye free will of intelligent creatures ;
whereas on ye contrary yr lordship goes about to establish
liberty from ye origin of evill ; I can't speak w4h any assurance
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of this matter till I consider y4 discours again & read it
easily in a fayr hand, but I have some apprehensions y4 yr
arguments on y4 subject do all run in this circle. I speak
this as my first thought of ye matter without any consider
ation, & do hope to recant it upon ye reading yr discours
more attentively, & then I will give yr lordship my thoughts
of this matter more fully. I am your Lordship's obliged &
faithfull ser4, pBT- Browne.1
I am not yet sending anything to yB press, before I do yr
lordship shall have notice of it, & I shall be happy in so
impartiall a judge.' To the same.2
My Lord, ' Dublin 29th March 1701.
The enclosed from Dr. Mitchell will informe yor Ldpp
of Mr King's 3 pr'sent state of health so that I shall say
nothing farther on that Subject, poor Alderman Watts 4 is
in the same condicon & if it please God to remove him
leaves a wife & nine Children. Pray God fitt us all for our
Change. This moment I have an acct that my mother
Desmynieres 5 at her Daughter Doelittle's in the country is
fallen dangerously ill. The Subjects are so melancholly I
can only begg yor Ldpp's Prayers & conclude my selfe my
Lord yor Ldpp's most faithfull humble sert. Ja. Somervill.' 6
1 F.T.C.D. ; succeeded as Provost on death of Bishop King's College
friend, George Browne, in 1699 ; described as ' austere, retired and mortified ' ;
eminent for his learning, just discernment, correct style of composition and
earnest piety ; his remarkable gifts as a preaoher won the admiration of Queen
Anne, who made him Bishop of Cork, 1710 ; he wrote in refutation of John
Toland's Christianity not Mysterious, 1697 ; author of a disoourse against
Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead 1713, London 1715 : died 1735.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. 3 Eobert King, mentioned previously.
4 William Watts d. in April ; he had m., Sept. 24, 1667, Susan Desmynieres,
half-sister of the writer's (1" ?) wife.
5 Mother-in-law, Jane, dau. of John Knox, of Co. Donegal, m., Sept. 29,
1650, as his second wife, Alderman John Desmynieres (Dr. King, in Diary,
mentions ' Nov y° 7,' ' Alderman Desminiers was brought into y" Castle
with a guard '), who d., Sept. 22, 1695, and their daughter, Jane, married, May 8,
1687, the writer, James Somerville.
• Nephew of Alderman Thomas Somerville (ancestor of the Barons
Athlumney and Meredyth) ; an attorney at law, the ' Mr. S.' mentioned in
H

98 COEEESPONDENCE To the same.1 ' Dublin 1 May 1701.
... I thank God Mr. King is so well recovered that he
goes abroad every day to take the aire by wch he receives
greate benefitt & will in a little tyme be able to go to the
Bath.2 My spouse gives yor Ldpp her humble duty & beggs
yor Ldpp's blessing &c. Ja. Somervill.'
To the same.1
My lord, ' London w M»y 1701.
I have been persecuted by the long sharp winds ;
& am farr from well as yett, but I take shame sufficient
that my Daughters should be ev'n wearing the fine Token you
sent us, & I still in arrear of acknowledgement, but 'tis
worse than this when I have been soe long in possession of
your Lordsp's most Excellent Letter of the 28th of March ; &
when in one clause I have soe much reason to take part. I
rejoice first that yr Lrdsp has finisht the work 3 you had in
hand & now in concern to have it well printed as It most
highly deserves  Eobert Southwell.'
To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin?
My it please your Grace, ' Londonderry, July 20, 1701.
I came home Friday last from a parochial visitation
through part of this diocese. I visited twenty-one churches,
and confirmed in nine; it held me employed twenty -three
days. I carried the consistory B with me, and prescribed
Diary [after Mr. E. King's ' being made a prisoner (in Sept. 1689) at y°
Wheat Sheaf '] ' Nov. 6 I wrote in the morning to Mr. S. to take care of my
business & Mr. F[rench, another lawyer] if there was any occasion in the
Courts. Y° grand jury was sworn but no charge given. We had some intima
tion y1 no proceedings against us was intended.'
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 ' Sr. Patrick Dun & his Lady, Mr. King & his spouBe have gott safe to
Chester ' on their way to Bath (letter of June 17.)
3 De Origine Mali.
4 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Narcissus Marsh, D.D.
5 These Bishops' courts for the trial of ecclesiastical offences, usually
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penance to near an hundred people, for one thing and another,
& ended several causes, I have yet another circuit containing
about thirteen churches, & had one before. I find this way
of great use, & would recommend it to all my brethren. I
had great crowds of dissenters everywhere, & entertained
them with a discourse, generally shewing the no-necessity of
a separation on their own principles.
I presume to give your Grace this account to excuse my
not answering your Grace's of the 28th of June last. It not
being possible for me to get time to write ; & truly since the
1st of June I have been every day more or less on horseback,
excepting two or three days' &c.
Will : Derry.'
To the Lord Bishop of Clogher.1
' July 25, 1701, Londonderry.
... I have had a most fatiguing summer of it, having
gone a parochial visitation through two-thirds of my churches
& shall begin the last third next week. I intend, God
willing, to be at Omagh August the 5th, & from thence I go
to Ardmagh, to visit for my Lord Primate ... I have taken
more than ordinary pains this circuit ; made all my own
tenants attend me, & many came with them, so that the
churches were generally full. I made some very long
discourses to them, insomuch that I had better have preached
every day. The subject was the sin of making sects, and the
no-necessity of it. I examined all their pretences, &
showed them, if all true, they would not, according to
Scripture, justify a separation. They heard with great
attention. I find what I said had a very good effect on many.
Some time or other, God willing, I will put my thoughts into
writing, & take your opinion. I found they were new to
most that heard me. I confirmed in nine places, & found
the churches in good order. I carried the consistory with
me, & assigned penance to near an hundred criminals, &
times as well as subsequently, instruments of great oppression ; disestablishment
has ended them in Ireland, and various acts of legislation have shorn them of
power and dignity in England.
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ended several causes. You know my gout seized me this time
last year, & I was very apprehensive of it, but I thank God
I am yet well &c.'
Will : Derry.'
To the Lord Bishop of Derry 2
My Lord ' Kingsweston, 29"' Sept. 1701.
As soone as I had the honour of yr Lrdpps of the 6th
past from Omagh I could not but send it to Long Leate 3
for there everything is justly valued, & in particular y1'
Lrdpps great Toyles in going about to doe good.
I am glad to heare afresh de origine mali & that it
hath received a finishing stroake. I believe (from the Index)
that corner was never soe searcht & expos'd. I hope y1'
Lr''pp will alsoe be able to gett through your new Enterprise
In the manner of the Scriptures representing Divine Things
. . . My son is much obliged to y1' Lrdpp3 good wishes &
my Daughters are impatient till the Sherry be at Derry. It
goes (6 Dozen 5 bottles in a dry Caske) as by the Bill of Lading
Inclos'd. 'Tis the best of Bristoll, tho' not what other yeares
have afforded. The Ship is reddy to sayle &c.
Eobert Southwell.'
To the Lord Bishop of Derry?
My Lord, ' Spring Garden, 14th March 170J.
I have been for this weeke confin'd & ill at ease yet on
receipt of yr lrdpp's of the 28th past I wrote to Mr. Clavell
of what concern'd him. And doubtlesse he wrote to yr lordpp,
1 He appears to have wintered in Dublin, at Mr. Eobert King's, as he
wrote to Bishop Ashe from thence, Dec. 24, ' I must not omitt my Bespects to
Mrs. Ashe ; I am sure I am her servant as are all in this house. She has put
some charme on Mrs. King, who says that if she had been her Surgeon the
swelling she had in her face had bin soon well, it only wanted breaking &c. ' ;
Dean Bolton wrote to him from Londonderry, Dec. 2, ' All yr Lordship's family
are in good health & pray God continue yr Lordship in the same.'
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
3 Longleat, Warminster, Wiltshire, the seat of Sir Thos. Thynne, Bt.
created, 1682, Viscount Weymouth, a correspondent of Dr. King's, d. 1714 •
from his nephew descend the Marquesses of Bath, of Longleat.

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since I had then from him what is here inclos'd. Wee
are now in a new world, and after soe greate a thunder
clap surely never was there soe quick a calme, for within 8
houres after the King's death, Queen Ann was fixed in the
throne. This blessing was due to a sitting Parliament which
had power of continuance, for had there been a dissolution by
the King's death, things had been at large & perhapps
uncertain. Her Ma4y charm'd both Houses on Wednesday
last, for never any woman spoke more audibly or with better
grace. And her pressing to support our allyances abroad
will commute for what the Dutch may take amiss in that
emphasis which her Maty layd on her English heart. But it
did very well at home & rais'd a hum from all that heard
her. Lrd Marlborough is gone this morning for Holland to
confirm our steddiness to the allyance, & to establish
their's, that soe the enemy may not sow tares. There will
doubtless be a great casme abroad for want of that center
of power & trust which his late Maty so gloriously fill'd.
And we must attend to heare how it will be solv'd.
In the mean time 'tis already visible that wee shall have
more union at home, more councill, more despatch, & there
will noe doubts remayne but that the true interest of England
will have preference to any other.
I have great wishes that good may come by attempting
an union with Scotland, & the more in hopes it will
necessarily draw in a consideration of Ireland, since soe great
a share of that kingdome is in the hands of those that will
not forgett mother countrey, if it should ever come to blows.
There could noe progress be made in this work by King
James ys 1st, for that he disgusted the nation by giving all
to his Scotch followers. And in the time of Charles ye 2d.
we thought we had them fast enough by expectation of issue ;
but since we are now only ty'd together by a single thread,
the case is much altered on either part.
We see not here as yett where the ministry will be settl'd.
Most men think of the Lrd Eochester, Lrl Marlborough and
Lnl Godolphin. Doubtlesse the first will retaine his
lieutenancy of Ireland, for as no seale past to vacate his, so
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new commission for that time, he may depute as he pleases ;
& soe the Queene for soe long at least, have the benefit of
his service here, without obligation to step over for satisfying
the formalityes of that side. But this is only my conjecture.
I am very glad y' lr,,pp can weather your distempers without
the vexation of physick. For my owne part, whether I take
it or lett it alone, I am extreamely disorder'd by a weak
stomach, & the vapours which fly from it to my head.
But these or worse being the common perquisitts of 67, I
must not complaine especially being assur'd that there is not
one of this family that will not inheritt, when I am gone,
that true veneration which I will ever pay yr lrdpp, who am,
my lord, your ldpp's most faithfull & most humble servant,
Eobert Southwell.'
To the Lord Bishop of Clogher, London.1
My very good Lord ' Dublin,2 March 24, 1702.
I return you my hearty thanks for your's of the 12th
& 17th instant. I received them regularly, which is not
common of late, the winds having been contrary. I was
not willing to be sudden in my answer on so great an
occasion, & can hardly yet think what to say of it. My
great benefactor that took me out of prison & set me on
the episcopal chair is dead. And yet my loss is nothing
to what all Europe feels in it. And God only knows what
the consequences will be ; yet I hope the best, & am well
assured, if the queen will but keep to the laws, make the
parliament her favourite, & sacrifice everybody to her peace
when they mislead her in her councils, that she will reign
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 Then at Mr. Eobert King's in Skinner Eow ; on the 14th of April he writes
to the same correspondent, ' Mrs. King is not very well but your most humble
servant and Mrs. Ashe's. Mr. King is in the country, & I hear in good health.
I understand Mr. Pockeridge is dead, so the diocese is eased of that load' ;
July 21, he wrote to Mr. Annesley from the same place ' Mr. King & his wife left
this to-day towards the North, so I am all alone ' ; Dean Bolton, Londonderry,
wrote to him, ' att Mr. King's ' Dec. 18, ' I have little news to write y Lordship,
yesterday we observed the thanksgiving day with due solemnity, and in the
evening waited upon y Sister (Mrs. Irvine), & wth due Respects drank the
Queen's health & the Prince George's & failed not to remember y Lordship.'

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as happy as any of her predecessors. As to us here, you
know we universally loved King William, as our deliverer,
& have a sense of it. But the dissenters are most cast
down, and seem divided, in their measures ; some endeavour
to ingratiate themselves by obsequiousness, & in order to it,
have already sent an address in behalf of their ministers in
the south. Others endeavour to sow fears and jealousies, &
to intimate suspicions of her ministers. None suffered more
than our Lord Lieutenant, & you know what a party was
against him ; but his being anew declared has a little stopped
their mouths  We sent last packet an address from
the bishops in Dublin ; it went to the Bishop of Killaloe : ;
we hope all there will present it. We put it only in the
name of the archbishops and bishops in Dublin, for we durst
not venture to put other hands to it, nor thought it fit to
stay for them ' &c.
Will : Derry.'

To the Lord Bishop of Derry.2
My Lord, ' London 8a April 1702.
On receipt by the last post of yr lrdpp's letters of
the 28th past, & of your book,3 I presently wrote to Mr
Clavell to call on me, for I have been of a long time confined
home. He came this morning, & upon view of the book,
& much discourse on the subject, he would not otherwise
undertake the matter than upon the terms below. Hereupon
I sent for my bookseller young Mr Tooke, who begins to
thrive in the world, & would be content to gett nothing by
this undertaking, soe that he might be but intitl'd to yr
lrdpp's favour hereafter. And what he alsoe finally says yr
lrdpp will find below. I may probably in lesse than 15 days
receive y1' lr,pp's opinion in this matter, & doe therefore
stopp any proceeding, & till then retayn the book in my
hands. I doubt not, by the glances I have hitherto taken,
but it will prove a very acceptable present to those yr lrdpp
1 Thos. Lindsay, D.D.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Eeport.
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intends it for, & for the honour therein done to my selfe,1
I must evermore remaine my lord, your Lr,1pp's most obedyent
serv4, Eobert Southwell.
Mr Clavell apprehends that lett my lrd's care be never
soe strict, yett the printers there will strike off & send over,
whether correct or incorrect, such number of copys as may
spoile his markett here. That he can only venture to print
500 copys till he see how the work may take. That this
should certainly be done on good paper & correctly within
six weekes. That he can only afford 50 copys, whereof 25 to
be bound & the rest sowed in marble. But that if he should
be encourag'd to a 2'1 impression, then would he allow 100
copyg more.
M1' Tooke offers to print 750 copys & to be certainly
well done in a month or 5 weekes He only apprehends that
if it be already printed there, this would hinder him the send
ing over 100 copys which Ireland might take off. And his
next feare is that should it be here translated (which noe man
can hinder) the English one would stopp the sale of one halfe
of the Latin. He doth at last consent to give your lrdpp 150
copys, whereof 50 to be bound and the rest sow'd in marble.'
The Bt. Bev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich.2
. . . ' It is above a year since I was translated to this See.3
I was desirous to decline, if the commands of my superiors
1 Its dedication to him.
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; John Moore, D.D.
3 In a letter, of March 6, 1703, to the D. of Ormonde, Bp. King compli
ments his Grace on his appointment to the lord lieutenancy, and informs
him of her Majesty's pleasure to appoint him to the arohbishopric of Dublin,
which he begged to lay before his Grace, ' which appointment though not so
much to his advantage in some respects, yet it will enable him to attend his
Grace in the government.' The letters-patent were dated March 11, 1703.
In T.C.D. there is a long letter from Bp. King to Bobert King, from London
derry, Ap. 16, 1703, about passing his patent as Archbishop of Dublin. He
had been unanimously elected administrator of the spiritualities of the See of
Dublin, during its vacancy. ' After he was translated he repaired & adorned
the episcopal palace of St. Sepulcher's, which was in a ruinous condition, by
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& importunity of my friends had not prevailed with me
against my own opinion, to sacrifice both my ease and profit
to their sentiments.
My Lord it was not without reason I was unwilling to re
move to this station, for I had known the diocese thirty years,
had governed it for some time & knew that it was in worse
circumstances (both in respect to discipline & attendance of
the cures) than most others in the kingdom ; the numerous
appropriations & impropriations in it making the due
service of cures & right order almost impracticable : how
ever, I hoped that by the assistance of those whose interest
& duty it was to help me, I should be able to do something
towards a reformation, though I could not expect all that was
to be desired.
And I am heartily sorry to tell your Lordship that I find
the greatest opposition from those that should in reason be
most forward to promote my intentions.1 
W. Dublin.
Aug. 15, 1704.2 '
The Bt. Bev. the Lord Bishop of Clogher3
My Lord ' Dublin. August 17. 1704.
Dr. Ashe 4 was with me yesterday, & showed me the
letter you sent to my Lord Primate, & delivered your's
of the 11th to me : by them I perceive that you design
three parishes for him in your diocese, & those to be served
house for the Archi-episcopal Manor of St. Sepulcher's at his own charge,
to which he joined a prison for the confinement of debtors within the said
Manor.' Harris' Life. A memorial in favour of his Grace's scheme for
bringing water by pipes into his Grace's Liberty of St. Sepulchre's was pre
sented by the Grand Jury of the Liberty, April 21, 1724.
1 Probably the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church are specially referred to.
2 This year he published A Thanksgiving Sermon for the victory of
Hochstet, preached at Christ Church before the Lords Justices, on Psa. 126.3.
Dublin, 4to.
3 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; St. George Ashe, D.D.
4 Dillon Ashe, M.A. Oxford and Dublin 1690 ; D.D. 1703 ; the ' Dilly ' of
Swift's letters, a wit like his brother, ' Tom,' the two with the bishop made up
' the three Ashes,' Swift's intimate friends ; ' Is Dilly gone to the Bath ? his
face will whiz in the water ; I suppose he will write to us from thence, <fc will
take London in his way back.' Journal to Stella, April 10, 1711.

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by three curates ; he to be non-resident, & to hold Fin-
glass, in Dublin. I beseech you to consider this scheme well.
I confess I did not understand it before & now I do I must
own to you I do not like it.
My objections are, 1st that it is a breach of my own
method, which is to put a good man in every parish that falls,
& let him wait 'till a better falls, & then remove him.
2dly. Where a dignitary has several cures, he ought to
reside on one of them, & have an eye and regard to the
other : in which way a due difference of degrees is kept up
amongst the clergy, & the people are as well, if not better
served, than if each had an independent minister.
3dly. The people of the North have a peculiar aversion to
curates, & call them hirelings ; and the difference in point
of success amongst them is visible, between a grave resident
minister that lives amongst his people, & spends part of
what he receives from them in the place, & a poor curate
that is not able to keep himself from contempt.
4thly. If your three parishes in the country can maintain
three fit clergymen to serve them, & afford the better part
to be carried to Dublin, what reason is there that the rest
should not be spared to the publick ? Your Lordship has heard
this objection before.
5thly. The people of the North do not grudge their tithes
to the clergy, though they pay more than all the other
provinces, because their landlords or the clergy must have
them ; the first must spend them in London or Dublin,
whereas the clergy spend them on the place. And this very
argument saved our 9d., per cow, in our former parliament.
But if the clergy live in Dublin, 'tis as good for the people
landlords had the tithes.
6thly. Though your brother be a very deserving man, yet
if every such be indulged in four livings, there will be nothing
but curates in the North, which will have fatal effects, as is too
visible by former management.
7thly. That humour of clergymen living near Dublin,
& declining remote & barbarous countries, as they call
them, is by no means to be indulged ; for 'tis plain, that this
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people ; * & 'tis just as if one should refuse to send a
good physician into a city, because there were many sick
in it. In short, the world begins to look on us as a parcel of
men that have invented a trade for our easy and convenient
living ; & till we show the world that we seek their good
more than our own advantage, we are not like to wipe off the
aspersion. And whether indulging your brother to live at
his ease in Dublin, & keep three, curates under him at
Clogher, be the way to blot out that prejudice out of men's
minds, I leave you to judge. My hearty respects to my
friend &c. Will : Dublin.'

' To Bobert King, Esq", Skinner Bow, Dublin.2
Dear Sir Pal1 Mall> London. Jan. 23. 1704-5.
I thought it my duty to give you the trouble of
this because I believe his Grace will not be able to write
by this post, he has had a severe fitt of the gout since he
wrote to you, but I thank God I hope it is already past the
worst, he having this day eaten a bit of veale 
I bless God his Grace has Abundance of friends here y4
come daily to see him some of which are of the first magni
tude &c, & I hope he will be so throughly known before he
goes hence that no such Snarling creature as Mr. Clayton 3 &c.
will be able to blemish his character, tho' I don't find that
all his malice has bin able to make any impression here.
1 This just censure of the Archbishop's is applicable to some English
bishops in recent years, who have plainly proved by their conduct that they
either did not believe what is taught in The Book of Common Prayer and
Homilies, or, if they did, ' preferred the clergyman's ease to the salvation of
the people.' School children have been compelled to attend services where
' idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians ' has been practised and
taught, and adults have forsaken their parish churches rather than be present
at such profane rites, but these nominal overseers did nothing to save the
people. 2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
' Was this the subsequent Dean of Kildare, a relative of Mrs. Clayton,
afterwards Lady Sundon, bed-chamber woman and friend of Queen Caroline's,
or a writer in the Observator published by John Tutchin ?

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I have no more to add but my great respects to Mrs.
King, Mr. Boss & his Lady. I am &c. Henry Greene.1
Mr. Finlay 2 and Mr. Johnston 3 are very obliging to his
Grace in everything & so is Eobin Hamilton.'
To the same i London. Feb. 3, 1704-5.
. . . ' Ja. Johnston came last night to Towne with y'J
Com" &c.6 my Ld is in good health I have complained to
him of your abuses.
I borrowed a Gentleman's Coach & was with his grace
in it 2 houres yesterday in Hyde Parque we were very merry
tho' I was troubled that you have lear'd & freeted as you
have done &c. Thomas Johnston.'
To the same 4
' London. March 15. 1704-5.
. . . The Queen prorogued the parliament yesterday my
Lord was in the house just by Her Majesty. . . . We have
1 Amongst ' Inscriptions collected by Sir Wm. Betham,' Ulster, Add. MSS.
23685, B.M., from monuments in St. Kevin's churchyard, is the following, —
'The Bight Bevd Father in God, Wilham King, Archbishop of Dublin
caused this Monument to be erected as a testimony of the respect he had for
Henry Greene, who was born 1" of March 1668, & died the 16 day of June 1715,
& who acted upwards of 20 years as receiver of his Grace's rents. Here also
lies Wilham Greene (nephew of the above Henry) & Catherine his wife.'
Dr. King's Eeceiver up to 1696 had been Wm. Knox of Aughmoyan, Co.
Donegal, and, after H. Greene's death, Capt. Lewis Moore.
2 Eobert Finlay, a partner in Mitchel & Finlay, Bankers, London ; his
address, in 1709, was Sherborne Lane, nr ye Post Office, London; vivens 1719
(in London).
3 Thomas Johnston, the Archbishop's lawyer in London.
4 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
" The Brief for the Archbishop, re Bp. (Wm. Moreton) of Kildare (Dean of
Christ Church and his Chapter), v. the Abp. of Dublin ; in a letter of March 24,
he (Johnston) writes to Eobert King, ' Your's of the 15th I have, & do assure
you I will rather want any bussiness then be tho't negligent in it, Mr. Sexton
is not yet come to me to see y" opinions, I bid him ask y> Attorney & Mr.
Brodrick why they were so long in delivering their opinions I was advised that
5 guineas was a sufficient ffee for so few queries ' &c.

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not as yet bought either coach or horses but have a Chair
hyred by the weeke, but his Grace thinks of buying a Chariot
& a pair, which he thinks will not be much dearer but more
honourable than a Chair. In short we live as frugally as we
can, & get books &c. His Grace carrys off many, tho' I
endeavour to hinder that expence as much as I can with good
manners  Henry Greene.'

To the same

' pall mall London March 17, 1704-5.
. . . Sr Patrick Dun tells me my Ldy 2 is coming over if
she do come pray let Billy Cane make me such a whig 3 as I
used to have & send it by her for whigs are very dear here.
I think to go to the Bath towards the latter end of
Apl  Will. Dublin.'
To the same.1
dear frend r Pal1 mal1 March 24. 1704-5.
I have yor's of ye 10 & 14 by last packets I am
very well pleased y4 you sold my Mare & hope you will
dispose likewise of the rest. I have bought a pair of young
stone horses woh cost me 60lb & a chariot 4 I reckon these
will cost me wth my coachman near 30s per week whereas a
chair cost me a guinney & was not creditable, the paying
for these put me out of mony but yor bill came seasonably. . .
Yor cozen Finlay 5 has been extraordinarily serviceable to
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 Mary, d. of Col. John Jephson, m. (Bp. King & Mr. Eobert King being
parties to the marriage articles), Dec. 11, 1694, Dr. Patrick Dun, and had an
only child, Boyle, who died young.
3 The.Archbisb.op writes from Pall Mall, May 1, ' I reca y wigge, 'Tis not
so good as my last I believe such an one would cost 41b. here.'
4 ' I want ye colours of y° arms on my Coach pray let them be blazoned &
sent to me I mean both y" See's & my own ' (Letter to the same June 26.)
3 Eobert F. ; as the Abp. styles his own nephews, cousins, and his cousin,
Eobert King, friend (a word, however, which in the north signifies a kinsman)
the relationship is not clear ; Thos. Johnston, writing from London, to Eobert
King, the same day, mentions that ' Bob. ffinlay is plagu'd with Love I don't
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me for wob pray thank him in my name, he advanced me 50lb
till ye bill be payable.
I intend to buy 4 or 5 stone horses more but not till I be
about leaving this because of the charge, I hope I have got a
good coachman, wch is a material point 
W. D.'
To the same.1
dear frend ' Pal mal1 July 30. 1705.
I reced your's of ye 19 inst. to-day, I have bin at
Tunbridge about 10 days & returned thursday last to
dispatch my business & hope to go back on Saturday next.
I have not received any letter from you for severall weeks.
I writ to you about Sir Arthur Cole's farm to give me an ace4
of the value of it, but had no return, I allege y4 land w4hin
three miles of Dublin fit for plough or syth as it is cant be
worth less y" 103 per acre, he says not worth five, pray go on
the land & see how such lands are set in the neighbourhood
& let me have an acct. y4 1 may stand by. I wrote to this
purpose before, but suspect it might miscarry because I had
no answer 
 I reckon I shall not be w4h you before janry or febry
provide me likewise some Alicant & white port & if any
new fashionable wine be passing let me have share of it. As
to hay I shall have no horses in before janry y4 is half yG season
& believe y4 an 100 loads may be sufficient additions to w4 1
have. I recommend you & yo1' family to God's care I wish Nany "
an happy hour & a boy. Eemember me to M1S King & Mr
Eoss. I am yor3
W. D.'
Katherine, eldest dau. of Alderman Thos. Somerville, of Dublin (by Katherine
King, his wife) to whom he was m., July 29, 1707, at St. Audoen's, Dublin, and
had issue, James, Katherine, &c.
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 Anne, wife of Eobert Eoss, d., v.p., and was buried at St. Paul's, Eosetrevor,
Co. Down, leaving issue, 1, Eobert, 2nd of Eosetrevor, M.P., Lord Mayor of
Dublin 1748-9, d. Feb. 5, 1769, leaving issue ; 2, Hamill ; 1, Mary, m. 1st,
May 17, 1752 (his 2nd wife), Aid. John Mackerell, M.P., 2ndly, Sept. 22, 1758,
Charles Gordon of Killester, Co. Dublin, Esq., and d., s.p., Dec. 4, 1763 ; 2
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' To Sr Michael Cole, Egham near Stains,
Middlesex.1
gr Pall Mall Aug* 3d 1705.
I recd a letter from you when I was at Tunbridge
about Iniskillin,2 as soon as I came to Town I waited on
his Grace the Duke of Ormond,3 he told me he had spoke to
the Queen about the affair, & was in hopes to p'cure a brief in
England. He said if I remember right that Corry the Knight for
the Shire 4 had press'd him much in it & he had engaged to
him to do his best, & Mr Portlock his Secretary told me the
same again, I left a memoriall with Mr Portlock for his
Grace & [he] seems zealous in it, my Ld. ordered me to
do so. I am of opinion that you shou'd if possible wait on his
Grace & make him sensible of the case of that poor town, for
none can do it more feelingly nor has a better title to do it.
I have heard there was some contest amongst the people
whom they shou'd imploy about this matter. Tis necessary
to pitch on p'sons that will be gratefull 5 to the Duke his
Grace, for if anything be obtained it must be by him. I give
you this hint because a little mistake may spoil all, my
respects to my Ldy. I recommend you to God & am &c.
Will : Dublin.'

and d. Dec. 1750, leaving, by his 2nd wife, a dau., Jane, m. Capt. John Doyne.
A dau. of Eobert Boss was this year (1705) buried in St. Werburgh's Church
from Skinner Bow.
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. ' Cole, Sir Mich., Inniskilling,
w[ife]. 5 children]. 1070' (income from real estate), T.C.D. 'List of
Protestants who fled from Ireland in 1688 ' ; ancestor of the Earls of
Enniskillen. 2 The town was almost destroyed by fire, June 2, 1705, most of the houses
being thatched. To relieve the consequent great distress public collections
were made from house to house, and in all the churches throughout Ireland ;
and the Archbishop was applied to, in order to obtain a brief from the Crown
for collections in England.
3 Then Lord Lieutenant.
4 Col. James Corry of Castlecoole, ancestor of the Earls of Belmore.
5 I.e. ' acceptable.'

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' To his Grace the Duke of Ormond.1
May it please youre Grace, Tunbridge Wells. Aug' 12. 1705.
I mentioned to your Grace the affair of Iniskillin &
found your Grace well appris'd of it, the bearer, Sr Gustavus
Hume,2 is employed by the miserable Inhabitants to repr'sent
their condition to your Grace & solicite your Grace's favour in
their behalf. He is a Gentleman that has an estate in the
neighbourhood of the town, & has bin an eye witness of the
miserable condition of it. The sight of which, together, with
their importunity, has pr'vailed on him to undertake this
Journey. They entirely depend on your Grace's mediation to
procure a Brief for them here in England, or such other
assistance, as her Majesty shall think fitt.
I find he is Sensible how forward your Grace was to
favour them, & I told him that I hoped there wou'd be
nothing else for him to do, but to acknowledge in the name
of those that sent him your Grace's goodness in so readily
espousing their interest.
He believes my letter may help to Introduce him to your
Grace, which occasions the trouble of this to your Grace,
which I hope your Grace will pardon. All the return your
Grace must expect for this & the many good offices you
have done for Ireland are the prayrs & acknowledgements of
all concerned for its welfare & more particularly of My Lord
your Grace's &c.
W : Dublin.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 Third Baronet, who d. 1731 ; the family estates passed thro' the marriage
of his eldest dau., Mary, in 1736, to the Loftus family, Earls of Ely, and from
them to the Tottenhams, Marquesses of Ely. The Bev. Geo. Hume, uncle of
Sir Gustavus, wrote from Enniskillen, Sept. 14, 1691, to Bp. King for a, letter
of recommendation to the Bp. of Salisbury, praying the Bishop to excuse his
not waiting on him in person, and adding, ' Mr. King [Eobert, or one of his
brothers], who has promised me to wait upon yor Ldship in this business,
I suppose, would be verry loath to desire this favour from yo' Ldshipp did he
not know me verry well.' A Geo. Hume, or Home, was admr and heir to Alex.
Cairncross, Bp. of Eaphoe, who d. 1701, he wrote from Eaphoe and afterwards
from his place ' Whytfield ' in Scotland, and Jan. 23, 1716, from the Marshallsea
Prison as one of those taken at Prestoun, and under sentence of death, had
been a member of the Scottish Parliament, and disgusted with the Union he
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' For Bobert King, Esq™ in Skinner Bow, Dublin.1
dear frend Pal1 mall Sept. [4 or 7]. 1705.
I reced yors of yu 14 of August at Tunbridge, w'nce I
came about a week ago but w41]out any great advantage by the
waters, & yrfore intend this week for ye Bath God willing.
I thank you for the full & particular acct. you gave me of
all my business. I cou'd not writ whilst I drank the waters,
& did not find any pressing necessity to do it, your Method.
being as I think best.
As to my cozen 2 Wi" King I have spoken for the Queen's
letter to place him in a man of warre & am promised it, it
secures him his diet & other advantages, & if he do well,
wch I can't but suspect, he shall not want incouragement.
I shall hardly be in Ireland before Jan next year pray
order the purchas of my wine & hay accordingly 
My hearty respect to Mrs. King, Mr. Eosse, Nany &
Mally &c.3
W. D.'
To the same 1
' London Jan* 10, 1705-6.
. . . We are all most heartily tired of this very Expensive
place, I wish we were ready to go out of it, & I am of opinion
if I get my foot on Irish ground once more, I shall never long
to see old England again.
All my comfort here is, y4 I thank God my Lord has lost
no friends since he came over, but I hope has got a great
many, his preaching is so well liked that he has customers
enuff from all parts to beg Sermons &c. & next Sunday he is
to preach at St. Margaret's, Westminster, before a great
auditory.4 I have hitherto staved off the buying of a full Sett of
Coach horses, & prevailed with his Grace to be satisfied with
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. 2 Nephew.
3 The ' etcetera ' appears elsewhere, as ' Eobin my Godson,' i.e., Eobert Eoss,
Mrs. Boss's eldest boy.
' On The Advantages of Education Religious & Political, a Charity
Sermon for the Grey Coat Hospital in Tothill Fields. Prov. 22. 6. (printed)
London, 1706, 4to. I

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four only, which I did purely to avoyd the Charge of keeping
which is very great here, but now I must compleat the sett
which I think can be no less than seven at least. His Grace
will want a Padd 1 for himselfe but there is none fitt for him
here, under 50 or 60 guineas price, & great danger of being
Jocky'ed to the bargain. I believe therefore you will think
proper to desire Mr. Eoss 2 to looke out for one there, which I
hope will be had at a much easyer rate, & avyd both the
Exchange of mony & the Dangers of the seas &c 
 I give my most humble service to all your good
family & pray you will be pleased to accept the same from &c.
Henry Greene.'
To the same3
gr ' pall mall Feb : [1706-5?]
Mr. parnell4 carrys this, & has desired me to
recommend him to your assistance, he has study'd here 7
years, I think to good purpose, & he believes y4 you being
an experienced practitioner may be very helpfull to him, &
put him in a way of getting into business, I have promised
him on ynr behalfe y4 you will give him ye best advice &
assistance you can & doubt not but you will answer y-
desires of S'' yo1' affect old frend & sert.
Will: Dublin.'
To the same 3 from Henry Greene,
London, March 28, 1705-6.
P.S. 'His Grace is to preach before her Majesty on
Sunday next in her chappel 6 & I hope it is a good omen.'
1 In Dec. 1712, the Archbishop had a fall from his horse, and Dean Swift
rallied him on the accident, Jan. 3, 1713, as 'to whether it was suitable to the
dignity of an archbishop. It is one of the chief advantages of a great station
that one is exempt from common aocidents of that kind 1 The late King
indeed got a fall, but his Majesty was u, fox hunter ! I question whether you
can plead any precedent to excuse you ; and therefore I hope you will commit
no more such errors ; & in the mean time I heartily congratulate with your
Grace that I can rally you upon this accident.'
2 Mr. Eobert King's son-in-law. * Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
4 John P. ; he acted as lawyer to the Archbishop in 1719.
s *A Sermon before the Queen in St. James's Chapel. On Christian
Humility (Palm Sunday), (printed) London 1705, 4°.

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To the same 1
dear frend ' P°s' Paid 6d. St. Albans, Maroh [1705-6].
I am w4h the greatest difficulty in the world got this
farre on my way to Ireland.
I hope to be at Holyhead on the 3d of Ap1 and have
writ for a convoy to Mr Dawson,2 I have 8 coach horses 3
& therefore shall need the largest packet boat for I doubt
y4 they can't go in a man of warre.
I never was so wearyed of any place as of London nor
desired anything much more eagerly yn to be at home. I
hope all things will be ready for me at St. Sepulchres, and y4
you will speak to Mr. Dawson to send the conveniencys of
transporting me. I durst not write to you before I was on
the road lest some unlucky accident should stop me.
My hearty respects to all with you yor'3
W. D.'
To the same 1
Dear frend, ' Holyhead Ap 13, 1706.
I have bin here since Munday last waiting for a wind.4
I went aboard ye man of warre on Sunday night last as soon
as I lighted out of my chariot, but it proved so stormy &
the wind so cross, y4 on munday at 12 of ye clock we all wth
common consent landed again ; but my portmantles &
1 Mrs. LyonB' King MSS.
2 Joshua Dawson, of Castle Dawson, Co. Londonderry, M.P., a deputy
Secretary to the Lord Lieut. ; Addison appointed, in 1714, his kinsman, Capt.
Addison, to act as his deputy in room of Mr. Dawson ; the latter died 1727.
3 Greene describes them as ' all blacks except only a star each.'
4 ' O Neptune 1 Neptune 1 Must I still
Be here detain'd against my will ?
Is this your justice, when I'm come
Above two hundred miles from home ;
O'er mountains steep, o'er dusty plains,
Half choked with dust, half drown'd with rains,
Only your godship to implore
To let me kiss your other shore ?
A boon so small 1 But I may weep,
While you're, like Baal, fast asleep.'
Epigram on a window at an Inn at Holyhead, signed J  K(S. ?)  ¦
but written, as it is presumed, adds Eoscoe, in Dr. Swift's hand.

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ser45, viz. Lewis Moore & Will Mulhallon, cou'd not get
room in the boat, & so they stay'd in ye man of warre, who '
went to sea, and w4 is come of ym God knows, but I believe
they are got to Ireland.
There are here my L'1 Blessington's son,2 Mr Coot, My Ld
Mountrath's 2nd son,3 M1' Barry," Mr Topham,5 & severall
others ; but my L'' Grandeson & Ld Bellew went off wth the
pacquet 2 days ago.
I dare not venture my horses to sea, till it please God to
send a fair wind, they are as well as I cou'd expect young
cattle to be after so long a journey thro' so bad ways. I left
my own coach at Chester, & came in my Ld Bellew's
chariot ; I was over-turned in a very good way beyond
Conway, & broke one of the glasses wch was all ye mis
fortune, I thank God, befell me.
I expect the man of warre here again for I do not think it
proper to go to France or venture the rifling of rogues, pray
speak to M1' Dawson to get ye Government to send him ' here
again, I have an order from Mr Southwell to y4 purpose but
can't expect to make it effectuall here.
My hearty respects to all yor family. I writ to Mr
Dawson wth my Ld Grandeson to this purpose, but can't tell
w4LLtr they have bin able to make their passage. I am year's &c.
W. D.
Only Harry Green is my coachman & postillions are
with me, perhaps it were not amiss to send Wm. Mulhallon
back to me.'

1 The man-of-war.
2 Charles Boyle, who succeeded as 2nd Viscount, and dying, s.p., 1732, the
peerage became extinct.
3 Henry succeeded, 1715, his brother, as 5th Earl, and d. unm. 1720.
4 Probably James of Newtown Barry, Co. Wexford, whose dau. and heir,
Judith, m., 1719, John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham.
5 Probably James, M.P., 1703, Strabane, d. 1724, son (by his 1st wife) of
Sir John Topham, Kt., LL.D. (Sir John's 2nd wife was Elizabeth Jephson,
Mrs. Becket, sister of Sir Patrick Dun's wife).

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' To his Grace ye Lord Archbishop of Dublin
in Ireland.1
1706.2
... I have yL hon1' of yr grace's of yc 17th ultimo. As to
yc intended union it is most certain that Scotland is to have,
according to ye present terms agreed on,3 45 com'oners & 16
lt1s, wch as so many dead votes one way will be a great stroke
in ye legislature. It is much to me that no one step is taken
by the people of Ireland, to be admitted into ye union, where
are all yr mighty patriots ? Sleeping, when they should do,
or at least offer at doing good for y1' poor nation ; those who
would have served ym must not stir, they are so much under
their displeasure, & those who ought to be active, only are
so for their private interest, not for any good to yr kingdom.
Yr thoughts ab4 y° linnen of Scotland interfering with y4
of Ireland are very truly grounded, & as certain it is ye 45 &
ye 16 will endeavour to curb yr trade therein, wn y5 union
takes place, whereas now, England looks upon Ireland to be
neerer & dearer to ym, yn Scotland ; but I take it y4 all ye
produce of Scotland, when part of Great Britain, will
infallibly have a preference to anything y4 relates to Ireland.
Can it be doubted y4 those of the established religion of Scotland
will not have all imaginable countenance in Ireland, as well
as in England, after yc union, have they not now ; & will
they not y" have at least as much? The articles of the
treaty is yet kept a secret ; but now soon we will have ym, &
as soon as I have ym, yr grace may expect a copy. Our
victorys at home make some men presume on anything. Ye
Court is gone to Newmarkett ; & University of C. is to be
visited, & then lett my kinsman look to it. There are
some remarkable things w4'1 respect to one Mr. Tudway of C,
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. : printed in Hist. MSS. Commission, 2nd Eeport.
2 This year he preached, The Mischief of Delaying Sentence against an
Evil Work; a Sermon preached at St. Michael's Church, Dublin, before
the Lord Mayor, &c. December the 24th 1706, on Eccles. 8, 11, (printed) Dublin,,
1707, 4to.
3 The Commissioners appointed to settle the terms of the Union met in
London, in April, Daniel Defoe acting as their secretary, and the articles were
finally determined upon July 23 ; the last Scottish parliament began its session,
Oct. 3 ; and the Union was completed the next year.

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& one Mr. Hart, of Oxford, woh in time yr grace shall see. I
am yr grace's most obed4 & most humble serv4 Fra. Annesley.' '
' To Mr. Thomas France, Waterford.2
gir ' April 20th 1708.
I have before me your's of the 17th instant. I can
in answer to it, only tell you that I have had several
discourses with my good friend, the late Lord Bishop of
Waterford, about his papers, & he seemed very zealous to
have them all burnt, & obliged me to look out for all his
letters written to me & destroy them ; in which I intend to
obey him. None can have a more hearty & kind regard
for his memory than I have, & if the case were my own, I
should certainly think it a justice to him to dispose of his
papers as he has ordered, & should be very uneasy if I
thought the person on whom I laid such an injunction would
make any scruple of performing it. I doubt not but he has
left many useful discourses behind him, which deserve very
well to be preserved ; but whosoever has printed anything
knows how necessary it is that what is offered to the publick
should have the author's last hand. The want of which,
which cannot be had to posthumous works generally speaking
makes them very injurious to him to whom they are ascribed.
I am therefore in my own judgement positively against
printing any of my dear friend's ; but preserving them for
your own use, or others who value his memory is another
matter, though I cannot encourage even this disobedience to
1 Grandson of the 1st Viscount Valentia ; one of the Trustees for the sale
of forfeited estates in Ireland, a barrister, and distinguished member of both
Irish and English Parliaments ; acted as the Archbishop's lawyer after
Mr. Eobert King's death ; ' Francis Annesley of Lincoln's Inn Fields,' appears
in Prior's 'List of Absentees,' as drawing £1,000 a year from Ireland; d.
Aug. 7, 1750.
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence; Bishop Foy's kinsman and
executor, and to whom he bequeathed £5, ' for preaching his funeral sermon, on
condition he spoke nothing of his person good or ill, only, signifying to the
auditory it was his express will it should be so ; <fe he ordered that the charge
of his funeral should no way exceed thirty pounds.' The Archbishop addressed
the letter as given above, according to his usual practice, without designating
Mr. France's profession as a clergyman.

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his dying mandate. You may be able to judge from several
circumstances that happened to your knowledge in his life
time, what his settled opinion was in this case ; & I doubt
not but you will have regard to it, & act accordingly. I pray
God direct & guide you in all things, which is the prayer of
Yours &c.
Will : Dublin.
' For the Most Beverend Father in God, William
Lord Archbishop of Dublin, his grace at Bath.1
May it please yv Grace, London, March the 18th 1709.
I am still confined to my chamber, & the doctor tels
me ther little or noe hopes of my recovery, for my weakness
daily encreases, & the more because I am fallen into a
loosness ; give me, therefore leav (since this is the last I
shall ever write to yr grace) to give you my hearty thanks
for the many instances you have given me of y1' great charity,
for wo1' I beseech God to reward you both in this & a better
life. My lord, I find by this my approach to death that it is
dreadful to be taken unprepared, but hope y4 God wil
accept of my repentance, & wil for the merits of Christ have
mercy uppon me, & will not repay my former neglect of his
many calls to amendment by refusing to hear me in this time
of my greatest need, or suffer my sun to goe down upon his
wrath ; but grant my pardon before I go hence, & further
beg the assistance of your praiers & of the b'p of Kilmore's.2
My lord, my poore neece,3 w4h her concern for me &
toiling about me is fallen very ill, & tied to her bed, & if the
bishop would be soe charitable as to send me in this my
extreme want a little releiffe, it is the last I shall euer desire
or trouble him for ; what his lordship does must be out of
hand, if at all ; I owe w4 I have had from him to yr grace,
therefore shall add noe more, but leave it to you to do for me &
wth me what he pleases ; my lord, I have tired my selfe, & am
afraid yr grace will be soe too, before you have read this, &
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm", 2nd Beport.
* Edward Wetenhall, D.D. 1 Mistress Sheridan.

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therefore will add noe more than that I am sincerely, may it
please yr grace, yr grace's most faithfull, most obliged, & most
humble serv4 & unworthy brother,
Wm. Kilmore.' 1
To ' the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell EsqT Her Majty's
Principall Sec" of State for Ireland, in Spring =
Garden, London.2
Dublin. Mar: 13. 1710.
... I have a brother in law one Major Irvine of Coll
hill's regiment, he has served 22 years in Ireland, Spain,
portugall, low countreys and England, he is forced to sell
because a young officer was made Liev4 Coll over his head, if
he could be provided in the new levys I am sure both for'
sense skill & courage he is fit for it.
I write to my Ld Duke 3 in his behalf, if you can help him
you'll oblige Sr yor'3
W. D.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.11
April 4. 1710
. . . ' Y4 wctl obliged me to trouble yr grace by this
request y" ye opposition woh was publickly given to ye con
secration of ye B'p of Cork.5 The B'p of Eaphoe 6 appeared
in his lawns, & desired ye b'ps not to be hasty in laying on
theyr hands upon him, he thought him unworthy to be
admitted into y4 order, he objected agst him y4 he had
1 Wm. Sheridan, D.D., deprived as a non-juror in 1691 ; described by Abp.
King, in 1704, as ' exceeding poor & crazy,' i.e. infirm in body ; he survived
till 1716 ; Henry's Upper Lough Erne in 1739, 1892, pp. 14, 15, describes him
as youngest son of the Eev. Dennis Sheridan, of Drumcorr, Co. Cavan, who
had been ordained by Wm. Bedell, Bp. of Kilmore, and given the vicarage of
Killesher, Co. Cavan, in 1634.
2 Southwell MSS. (formerly in) Thirlestane House Library.
3 Duke of Ormonde, then Ld. Lieutenant. 'By what I gather from Mr.
Southwell, I believe y Grace stands very well with the D. of Ormond ; & it is
one great addition to my esteem for Mr. Southwell, that he is entirely y Grace's
friend & humble servant, delighting to do you justice upon all occasions ' —
Swift, Jan. 8, 1712.
4 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm", 2nd Eeport.
s Peter Browne, D.D. " John Pooley, D.D.

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calumniated him & made him no reparation (in w"b he was
thought impolitick, because y4 might give ye world reason to
believe y4 his other objections were y' effects of his ressentm4
of private injuries), y4 he had bin unfaithfull in yB govern4
of the college, y4 he had misbehaved himself in ye convocation,
y4 he had bin unjust to Mr. Forbes & Mr. Whiteway, & y4 he
was agst ye hereditary right of yG Queen, he excused himself
for turning his back upon ya sacram4, & desired ye people to
believe y4 it was not for want of charity, for he had a great &
some even for Dr. Br. ; but y4 he cou'd not joyn in ye
consecration of one he thought unworthy of ye office, nor
communicate w4h persons whom ye apostle commands him
not to eat w4h &c John Stearne.' 1

To the same ' att his lodgings in the Mall near
St. James's London.
May it please yr Grace, Trin- Coil. April is. 1710.
It was with great concern & surprise that I under
stood my being fallen so far into the displeasure of yr grace,
as that you shou'd order me to be prosecuted in your grace's
court, especially without any fault of mine that I know of.
For I do assure your grace, that if the manner of my ordina
tion was in me a fault, it was a fault of ignorance, as will
appear from the following account which I humbly submit to
yr grace's consideration. The time drawing nigh at which I
was oblig'd by the Statutes of the College to take on priest's
orders, I resolved to make use of the first opportunity that
shou'd offer, & being informed that a gentleman of my
1 Then Dean of St. Patrick's. Stearne had written to King, Jan. 12 (same
year), then in London, ' Sr Patrick Dun, Dean Jephson & Mr. B. King w"' their
Ladyes & some other well wishers to y Grace dined w'h me yesterday accord
ing to yr Grace's invitation & I hope they will dine at y Grace's palace y next
11th Janry upon mine [account] both because I know you had rather loos[e]
than win, & because I am sure y Grace will give them a better entertain"1'
than they found with me & believe they will be much more chearfuU than
they can be w!,,out y Grace's company, we often remembered yr Grace &, in
order to the dinner I invited them to, wished heartily an honourable & speedy
peace.'

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acquaintance had apply'd to the Bishop of Clogher1 to be
ordain'd by him, I thought it proper for me likewise to
address his lordship in my own behalf, & the rather for
that his relation (as vice-chancellor) to our society entitled
me in a particular manner to expect that favour from him.
But my lord, as I was a stranger to the nature & intent of yr
grace's jurisdiction, I did not apprehend it was my business
to examine how far your grace's licence may be necessary to
his lordship's holding an ordination. Whether the B'p of
Clogher wou'd ordain me or no, or what licence he had to do
it, I left entirely to his lordship's ... to determine not
thinking it became me to intermeddle in [a matter ?] of that
nature, since I was [ignorant?] & his lordship might be
presum'd best to know on [what ?] grounds he proceeded.
But least of all did it enter into my thoughts that in case
there had been any irregular act of hi[s], it wou'd bring me
under the resentment of your grace, or be interpreted in me
an encroaching on yr grace's authority, which I never meant
to lessen or dispute. This, my lord, is the true state of the
matter, which I presume to lay before your grace, in hopes
it may (if not justifie me altogether) at least make my error
appear the more pardonable. I have already engaged to the
Dean of St. Patrick's (who has been pleas'd to suspend the
prosecution), as I do now to yr grace, that I shall not exercise
any ecclesiastical function in yr diocese untill I have first
obtain'd licence from y1' grace. I am, my Lord, y1' grace's
most dutifull & most obedient servant, Geo. Berkeley.' 2
1 St. George Ashe.
2 F.T.C.D. 1707 ; Dean of Derry 1724 ; Bishop of Cloyne 1733 ; in 1728 h
sailed for Ehode Island in order to found St. Paul's College, Bermuda, for
converting the native races of America by educating their youth, the Govern
ment, not finding it convenient to supply the £20,000 voted for the purpose by
the H. of Commons, the scheme was abandoned, and he returned home ; his col
lected works were published in 1784 ; he d., at Oxford, in 1753 ; Pope's eulogy
; is well known, ' To Berkeley every virtue under heaven ' ! In a similar case
j to Berkeley's, Abp. King remonstrated strongly with the offending Bishop
(Hutchinson of Down), ' I never did such a thing for any of my brethren, but
i on letters-testimonial from them, & at their request. I wish I might have the
\ same deference paid to the canons & to me as a brother ' (Letter of Oct. 22,
'¦, 1726.)

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To the same

May it please yov Grace, ' 1 710'2 Jun- 3»-
You cannot but be sensible of ye great danger we are
brought into by yB turbulent preaching & practises of an
impudent man, one Dr. Sacheverell3 y4 having been judged
guilty of high crimes & misdemeano1'8 by ye Pari4 of this
kingdome is now riding in triumph over ye middle of England
& every where stirring up ys people to address to Her Maty
for a new ParP. The danger is so great y4 I cannot but
tremble to think of it, if Her Ma4y should dissolv yE present
Pari4 & change her ministry, wcl1 is y" thing driven at by ye
addressers. But with all it is so visible y4 I hope Her Ma4y
cannot but see it through all ye fals colors they put on it. I
need not tell yo1' grace who they are by whom this work is
caried on. The heads of them are such as have been formerly
in ye ministery, & if they were so again, I should not be
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm", 2nd Eeport.
2 This year (1710) he re-published in London, — Divine Predestination &
Foreknowledge consistent with the Freedom of Man's Will. A Sermon at
Christ Church, May 15th 1709, preached before the Earl of Wharton, Lord
Lieutenant, & the House of Lords, on Rom. 8, 29, 30, printed at Dublin 1709 ;
a 3rd edition appeared, London 1727, and another 1728 ; Dr. Whately re
published this sermon with notes &a., in 1821, as being ' a work of such high
value, which once enjoyed such well-merited celebrity, but which has for many
years been undeservedly forgotten. Considering indeed not only that the
author was a person of no mean repute in his day, but that this very discourse
attracted so much attention as to pass through at least six editions ; and con
sidering also that its subject is by no means one of temporary interest, and that
it possesses the rare merit of being calculated for almost all descriptions of
readers ; one is disposed to wonder at its having so far sunk into oblivion that
a large majority probably of theological students have never even heard of it.'
The Eev. Professor Stokes wrote of this sermon, in Some Worthies &o., p. 302,
as ' a remarkable sermon. It was first of all remarkable for its length. It
shows how we have degenerated from the ideas of our ancestors, when we take
up this sermon, and compare it with the longest sermon which the most sermon-
loving of Welsh or Scotch congregations would now stand. . . . But the Irish
House of Lords were no such feeble folk. Archbishop King was summoned to
preaoh before them, and discoursed on such a high topic as predestination, as
being a subject fitted for intellects like theirs ; and he produced and submitted to
them a sermon, which occupies over fifty closely printed octavo pages, and must
have taken more than two hours to deliver.'
3 Henry S., D.D., of Magdalene Coll., Oxford, the Jacobite political preacher,
d. 1724.

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much concern'd if they had taken a fitter time to try for it.
But this is like to be y" overturning of all, in or present
circumstances. And it is surely so understood by all ye Papists
and Nonjurors of this kingdome. They push for it with all
their might. I could name sundry instances of this but at
present I have not time. And yet I cannot forbear acquainting
yor grace w41' one instance of this woh I guess will not seem
very strange to you. It is of Mr. Lessley : y4 came hither out
of Ireland & has been writing here these many years. I
think ubi bene, nemo melius, ubi male, nemo pejus. At
present he is writing amain ag5t Dr. Sach's fals brethren,
against us, y* are not stark mad for ye doctrines of non-
resistance & passive obedience. One would think he were
surely so now by his writing. And yet yor grace remembers
when he was otherwise, & gave I think over-great instances
of it. Especially in his declaring against K. James in ye first
begininge of ye revolution in Ireland. I beg of yor grace y4
you would get somebody to write me an account of y4 matter,
such as may be publisht without saying from whence I had ye
information. I heartily pray for yor grace's good health &
prosperity in all things, yor grace's most faithfull servant,
W. Worcester.' 2
To the Bev. Dr. Swift, London.
gir ' Dublin, Dec. 16, 1710
This is to acknowledge the receipt of your's of the 28th
ult.3 which came not to my hands till Thursday last, by reason
of winds that kept the packets on the other side.
1 Charles Leslie's change of political views, alluded to here, is mentioned
by T. Birch, in his Life of Archbishop Tillotson, 1752, referring to Burnet's
Hist, of His Own Times, (he) relates that ' though a declared enemy to the
revolution afterwards, he is said to have been the first who began the war
against James II., affirming, in a speech solemnly made, that he, by declaring
himself a Papist, could no longer be king ; since he could not be the defender
of our faith, nor the head of our church ; dignities so inherent in the crown
that he who was incapable of these could not hold it.'
2 Wm. Lloyd, when Bp. of St. Asaph's, was imprisoned with the six other
bishops by James II., in 1688, tried and acquitted ; d. 1717.
3 This letter was on the subject of the first-fruits payable out of ecclesias
tical benefices, which, through the judicious solicitation by Swift of Mr. Harley,
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I find the matter of our first fruits &c. is talked of now.
I reckon on nothing certain till her Majesty's letter comes
in form ; & qusere why should you not come & bring it
with you ? It would make you a very welcome clergyman to
Ireland, and be the best means to satisfy mankind how it was
obtained, although I think it will be out of dispute, I am very
well apprised of the despatch you gave to this affair, & well
pleased that I judged better of the person fit to be employed
than some of my brethren. But now it is done, as I hope it
is effectually, they will assume as much as their neighbours ;
which I shall never contradict.
ThingB are taking a new turn here as well as with you ;
& I am of opinion by the time you come here few will profess
themselves Whigs.1 The greatest danger I apprehend, &
which terrifies me more than you will be able to imagine is
the fury & indiscretion of some of our own people ; who
never had any merit but by embroiling things, they did
& I am afraid will yet do mischief — you will soon hear
of a great conspiracy discovered in the county of West-
meath. I was used to so many discoveries of plots in the latter
end of King Charles's time & the beginning of King James's
that I am not surprised at this discovery. I must not say
anything of it till all the witnesses be examined ; so many as
have deposed are not decisive. The design of it is to show all
the gentlemen of Ireland to be a pack of desperate Whigs
ready to rise up in arms against her Majesty for the old
ministry, associating to that purpose. Whether it be for
the interest of Ireland to have this believed, you may judge ;
& sure there must be good evidence to make any reasonable
man believe it. Mr. Higgins 2 has drawn up the narrative &
Anne's gift of them, Feb. 7, 1711, to be appropriated to purchasing glebes,
building houses, and buying impropriations for the Irish clergy ; in the close of
the letter Swift writes, ' if you please, I will write to you with that freedom
I formerly did ; & I beg your Grace to employ me in any commands you may
have here, which I shall be prouder to obey than to have ever so much merit
with some others.'
1 The Whig Ministry had been dissolved in Sept., and Harley and other
Tories installed in office.
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sent it to England, & will pawn all he is worth to make it
good. I heartily recommend you to God's favour & am &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.
Beverend Sir, ' Dublin- Jan- 9> 171L
I received your's of Dec. 30th by the last packets ; it
found me in the extremity of the gout, which is the more cruel
because I have not had a fit of it for two years & a half. I
strain myself to give you an answer to-night, apprehending
that, as both my feet & knees are already affected, my hands
may perhaps be so by the next post ; & then, perhaps, I may
not be able to answer you in a month, which might lose me
some part of the praise you give me as a good correspondent.
As to my Lord Primate, he is much better since he was
put into the Government, & I reckon his life may be longer
than mine ; but, with God's help, hereafter I will say more
on this subject.
As to what is reported of Mr. Stanhope's obstinacy, I
demur, till satisfied how far the kindness to him as a manager,
influences the report.
We have received an answer from his Grace the Duke of
Ormond to our letter. It is in a very authentic & solemn
form, ' that his Grace will take a proper time to lay our
request before her Majesty, & know her pleasure on it.' By
which I conclude two things ; first, that his Grace is not
informed of any grant her Majesty has made ; for if he had
he would have applied immediately & sent it ; & then it would
have passed for his, & he would have had the merit of it.
Secondly that his Grace is in no haste about it. And there
fore let me beseech you to solicit & press it, & get the letter
dated, as when first it was promised ; but I confess I have
still some scruple in my mind about it.
I acknowledge you have not been treated with due regard
in Ireland, for which there is a plain reason prcegravat artes
infra se positas &c. I am glad you meet with more due
returns where you are ; & as this is the time to make
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We have published here a character of the Earl of
Wharton,1 late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. I have so much
charity & justice as to condemn all such proceedings. If a
governor behave himself ill, let him be complained of &
punished ; but to wound any man thus in the dark . . .2
When this is over they may do what they please ; & sure it
will please them to see the crow stripped of her rappareed
feathers.3 We begin to be in pain for the Duke of Marl
borough. I hear an answer is printing to the Earl of Wharton's
character. Pray was there ever such licentiousness of the press
as at this time ? Will the parliament not think of curbing it ?
I heartily recommend you &c.
Will : Dublin.' 4
To the same.
'Jan. 13,1711.
. . . My gout gives me leave yet to answer your's of the
4th instant, which was very acceptable to me ; because I find
by it some further steps are made in our business. I
believe it will take up some time & thoughts to frame a
warrant, & much more a patent for such ah affair.5 Except
your lawyers there be of another humour than our's here
they will not write a line without their fees ; & therefore I
should think it necessary some fund should be thought of to
fee them. If you think this motion pertinent, I can think of
no other way at present to answer it than, if you think it
necessary to allow you to draw upon me, & a bill to this
purpose, less than £100., shall be punctually answered. I
write thus because I have no notion how such a thing
should pass the offices without some money ; & I have an
1 Swift's own composition ! 2 So in the printed letter.
3 The threatened revocation of the grants of forfeited lands made by
King William to Lady Orkney.
4 The Archbishop with Robert, Earl of Kildare, and Thos. Keightley, Esq.,
had jointly held the office of Lord Keeper and had the custody of the Great Seal,
Nov. 22, 1710, on the death of Eichard Freeman, Lord Chancellor, who had
died on the 20th, until the appointment of Sir Constantino Phipps, Jan. 22
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entire confidence in you, that you will lay out no more than
what is necessary.
I think your ministers perfectly right to avoid all
inquiry & everything that would embroil them. To appeal to
the mob, that can neither inquire nor judge, is a proceeding
that I think the common sense of mankind should condemn.
Perhaps he may desire this usage ; but a good man may fall
under the same.
We expect a new parliament, & many changes but I believe
some we hear of will not be.
Your observation of the two sentences is just.1 You will
pardon this disjointed letter. I believe my respects are better
than the expressions here. I am &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord, ' London, March 8, 1711.
I write to your Grace under the greatest disturbance
of mind for the publick & myself. A gentleman came in
where I dined this afternoon & told us Mr. Harley 2 was
stabbed, & some confused particulars. I immediately ran to
Secretary St. John's 3 hard by, but nobody was at home ; I
met Mrs. St. John in her chair, who could not satisfy me, but
was in pain about the secretary, who, as she had heard,
had killed the murderer. I went straight to Mr. Harley's
where abundance of people were to inquire. I got young Mr.
Harley to me ; he said his father was asleep, & they hoped
in no danger, & then told me the fact, as I shall relate it to
your Grace.
This day the Marquis de Guiscard was taken up for high
1 Upon the defacers of King William's statue, in College Green, Dublin, and a
clergyman who had spoken against the Queen.
2 Eobert Harley, the prime minister, created, 1711, Earl of Oxford ; Lord
Treasurer, till dismissed 1714 ; committed to the Tower 1715 acquitted'l717 ¦
d. 1724. 3 Henry St. John, created, 1712, Viscount Bolingbroke; with Harley he
left the Whigs, and joined the Tory ministry, but unlike him was extremely
dissipated; entered Pretender's service 1715; was attainted, but ultimately
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treason by a warrant of Mr. St. John, & examined before a
committee of Council in Mr. St. John's office ; where were
present the Dukes of Ormond, Buckingham, Shrewsbury,
Earl Powlett, Mr. Harley, Mr. St. John & others. During
examination Mr. Harley observed Guiscard, who stood behind
him, but on one side, swearing & looking disrespectfully.
He told him he ought to behave himself better while he was
examined for such a crime. Guiscard immediately drew a
penknife out of his pocket, which he had picked out of some of
the offices, & reaching round stabbed him just under the
breast, a little to the right side ; but it pleased God that the
point stopped at one of the ribs & broke short half an inch.
Immediately Mr. St. John rose, drew his sword, & ran it
into Guiscard's breast. Five or six more of the Council drew
& stabbed Guiscard ' in several places ; but the Earl Powlett
called out, for God's sake, to spare Guiscard's life that he
might be made an example ; & Mr. St. John's sword was
taken from him and broke ; & the footmen without ran in
& bound Guiscard, who begged he might be killed immediately ;
& they say called out three or four times ' My Lord Ormond ! '
' My Lord Ormond ! ' They say Guiscard resisted them a
while, until the footmen came in. Immediately Bucier, the
surgeon, was sent for, who dressed Mr. Harley, & he was
sent home. The wound bled fresh, & they do not apprehend
him in danger ; he said when he came home, he thought
himself in none ; & when I was there he was asleep, & they
did not find him at all feverish. He has been ill this week,
& told me last Saturday he found himself much out of order,
and has been abroad but twice since ; so that the only danger
is, lest his being out of order should with the wound put him
in a fever ; & I shall be in a mighty pain till to-morrow
morning. I went back to poor Mrs. St. John, who told me her
husband was with my Lord Keeper (Sir Simon Harcourt) at
Mr. Attorney's (Sir John Trevor), & she said something to me
very remarkable, ' That going to-day to pay her duty to the
Queen, when all the men & ladies were dressed to make
their appearance, this being the day of the Queen's accession,
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the lady of the bedchamber in waiting told her the Queen
had not been at church, & saw no company, yet, when she
inquired her health, they said she was very well only had a
little cold.' We conceive the Queen's reasons for not going
out might be something about this seizing of Guiscard for
high treason, & that perhaps there was some plot, or some
thing extraordinary. Your Grace must have heard of this
Guiscard ; he fled from France for villanies there, & was
thought on to head an invasion of that kingdom, but was not
liked. I know him well, & think him a fellow of little
consequence, although of some cunning & much villany.
We passed by one another this day in the Mall, at two
o'clock, an hour before he was taken up ; & I wondered he
did not speak to me.
I write all this to your Grace, because I believe you
would desire to know a true account of so important an
accident ; & besides I know you will have a thousand false
ones ; & I believe every material circumstance here is true,
having it from young Mr. Harley. I met Sir Thomas Mansel
(it was then after six this evening) & he & Mr. Prior told me
they had just seen Guiscard carried by in a chair, with a
strong guard to Newgate or the Press-yard. Time perhaps
will shew who was at the bottom of all this ; but nothing
could happen more unluckily to England, at this juncture, as
Mr. Harley's death ; when he has all the schemes for the
greatest part of the supplies in his head, & the parliament
cannot stir a step without him. Neither can I altogether
forget myself, who, in him, should lose a person I have
more obligations to than any other in this kingdom ; who
has always treated me with the tenderness of a parent, &
never refused me any favour I asked for a friend ; therefore
I hope your Grace will excuse the disorder of this letter.
I was intending this night, to write one of another sort. I
must needs say, one great reason for writing these particulars
to your Grace was, that you might be able to give a true
account of the fact, which will be of some sort of service to
Mr, Harley. I am with the greatest respect, my Lord, your
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I have read over what I writ, & find it confused & in
correct, which your Grace must impute to the violent pain of
mind I am in, greater than ever I felt in my life. It must
have been the utmost height of desperate guilt which could
have spirited that wretch to such an action. I have not
heard whether his wounds are dangerous; but I pray God
he may recover to receive his reward, & that we may learn
the bottom of his villany. It is not above ten days ago that
I was interceding with the secretary in his behalf, because I
just heard he was starving ; but the secretary assured me he
had £400. a year pension.'
To the Bev. Dr. Swift.
Beverend Sir, ' Dublin, March 17, 1711.
I return you my thanks for your's of the 8th instant.
I do not wonder you were in some confusion when you wrote
it ; for I assure you I read it with great horror, which such a
fact is apt to create in everybody that is not hardened in
wickedness. I received several other letters with narratives
of the same, & saw some that came to other hands, but none
so particular, or that could be so well depended upon. I
observe that among them all, there is no account of the
matters laid to Guiscard's charge, of his design, or how he
came to be discovered. I suppose those are yet secrets, as it
is fit they should be. I do remember something of this
Guiscard ; & that he was to head an invasion, & that he
published a very foolish narrative l ; but neither remember
exactly the time, nor under what ministry it was, nor who
were his patrons. It seems convenient that these should be
known, because it is reported that Mr. Harley & Mr. St. John
were those who chiefly countenanced him, & he their peculiar
favourite. One would think that this should convince the
world that Mr. Harley is not in the French interest, but
it has not yet had that effect with all ; nay, some whisper
the case of Fenius Bufus & Scevinus, in the 15th book of
Tacitus, accensis indicibus ad prodendum Fenium Bufum
quem eundem conscium et inquisitorem non tolerabant.
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Mr. St. John is condemned for wounding Guiscard ; & had
he killed him, there would not have wanted some to suggest
that it was done on purpose, lest he should tell tales.
We had a strange piece of news by last packet, that the
address to her Majesty met with but a cold reception from
one party in the house of Commons; & that all the lords,
spiritual and temporal, of that party, went out when it passed
in the lords' house. But I make it a rule never to believe
party news, except I have it immediately from a sure hand.
I was in hopes to have heard something of our first-fruits
& twentieth parts ; but I doubt that matter sleeps, & that it
will be hard to waken it.
You will expect no news from home. We eat & drink as
we used to do. The parties are tolerably silent, but those for
the late ministry seem to be united, keep much together, & are
so wise as not to make much noise ; nor have I heard any
thing of their sentiments of late, only what has happened on
this accident.
I heartily recommend you to God's care. I am &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord, ' London, April 10, 1711.
I had lately the honour of a letter from your Grace, &
waited to acknowledge it until something material should
happen that might recompense the trouble. My occasion of
writing to you at present is purely personal to your Grace.
A report was beginning to run here by some letters from
Ireland that your Grace had applied the passage you mention
of Eufus, in a speech you made to your clergy, which I
ventured to contradict, as an impossibility, & inconsistent
with your general opinion & what was in your letter. Mr.
Southwell & Mr. Dopping were of the same mind; & the
former says he has writ to your Grace about it. I should
have thought no more of the matter, but let it speed like an
idle story below notice ; only dining last Sunday with one of
the principal secretaries of state x he gave me a letter to read,
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which he had just received from the printer of the newspaper
called ' The Postboy,' in which was a transcript of a letter from
Dublin ; & the secretary being mentioned in that transcript, the
man would not publish it without his advice. It contained
an account how the news of Mr. Harley's being stabbed had
been received by the Whigs in Dublin, of which he produced
some instances. Then he mentions the passage out of Tacitus
& concludes thus : ' The first that mentioned it was the Arch
bishop of Dublin, who took notice of it first at a meeting of
his clergy ; & afterwards in the hearing of several persons,
was reprimanded for it, in a civil though sharp manner, by
one of the chief ministers there, well known for his steady
loyalty to her Majesty, & his zealous service to the Church of
England under her late perilous trial.' I immediately told the
secretary that I knew this must be false & misrepresented, &
that he must give me leave to scratch out that passage, which
I accordingly did ; & for fear of any mistake, I made him
give me afterwards the whole letter that I might have it in
my power. The next day I sent for the printer, & told him
what I had done ; & upon further thoughts I stifled the whole
letter, & the secretary approved of it. I likewise told the
printer that when he had anything relating to Ireland, I
had the secretary's order (which was true) to send it me, that
he might not do injury to men's reputations by what was
represented to him from ignorant or malicious hands in that
kingdom. The letter was to have been printed this day in
' The Postboy,' with that conclusion reflecting on your Grace,
which is happily prevented ; for although your character &
station place you above the malice of little people, yet your
friends would be extremly concerned to see your name made
so bold with in a common newspaper.
I humbly hope your Grace will not disapprove of what
I have done ; at least I have gratified my own inclination in
the desire of serving you ; & besides had the opportunity of
giving Mr. Secretary some part of your character.
I dare lay a wager that all this happened by the gross
understandings of some people who misunderstood & mis
applied something very innocent that came from your Grace.
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ill understand raillery, I can rally much safer here with a
great minister of state or a duchess than 1 durst do there with
an attorney or his wife. And I can venture to rally with
your Grace, although I could not do it with many of your
clergy. I myself have been a witness when want of common
sense has made people offended with your Grace where they
ought to have been the most pleased. I say things every day
at the best tables which I should be turned out of company
for, if I were in Ireland &c. Jonathan Swift.'

To Dr. Swift.
Beverend Sir, ' D«blin APril 19- ""•
I had the favour of your's of the 10th instant, by
which I understand how much I am obliged to you for the
justice you did me as to the report you let me know was about
to be printed in ' the Postboy ' relating to Mr. Harley.
I think there is no man in this kingdom on which such a
report could be fixed with less colour of truth, having been
noted for the particular regard I have always had for him.1
I have suffered in some cases too for my zeal to defend him
in the worst of times ; for I confess I never could with
patience bear the treatment he met with in Gregg's affair.2
1 In a letter to Swift, July 25, the Archbishop desires, ' If it may be proper,
I would have my most humble respects to be laid before my Lord Treasurer.
You may be sure I am his most humble servant, & shall never forget the
advantages he has been the author of to the Church & State ; & yet I believe,
if it pleased God to prolong his life, greater things may be expected from him ;
my prayers shall not be wanting.' Swift replies, Aug. 15, ' I read to him [the
Lord Treasurer] that part of your Grace's letter which expresses your Grace's
respects to him, it he received them perfectly well.' Swift's character of
Harley in a letter to King, Aug. 26, is as follows, ' The treasurer is much the
greatest minister I ever knew ; regular in life, with a true sense of religion, an
excellent scholar, & a good divine, of a very mild & affable disposition, intrepid
in his notions & indefatigable in business, an utter despiser of money for
himself, yet frugal (perhaps to an extremity) for the public. In private com
pany he is wholly disengaged & very facetious, like one who has no business
at all. He never wants a reserve upon any emergency which would appear
desperate to others.'
2 William Gregg, under clerk in the office of Eobert Harley, Secretary of
State, 1706, was hanged at Tyburn, 1708, for sending to the French minister,
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The truth is, when I received the news of this last barbarous
attempt made on him, I with indignation insulted some with
whom I used to dispute about the former case, & asked them
whether they would now suspect that he was in the con
spiracy to stab himself ? The turn they gave it was what I
wrote to you, that they imagined he might be in it notwith
standing that ; & that his discovering Guiscard, & pressing
so hard on the examination was the thing that provoked the
man to such a degree of rage as appeared in that villanous
act. And they instanced the story of Piso in Tacitus, & the
passage of Eufus. I know very well that they did not
believe themselves, & among other things I applied that
passage of Hudibras, he that beats out his brains &c.
' But he that bangs or beats out's brains,
' The devil's in him if he feigns.
I believe I have told this passage to several as an example to
show into what absurdities the power of prejudice, malice &
factions will lead some men, I hope with good effect ; &
added, as several gentlemen that heard me can witness, that
it was a strange thing that Mr. Harley should discover
Gregg, & have him hanged, & yet be suspected to be partaker
of his crime ; but altogether unaccountable that hi a cause
wherein his life was so barbarously struck at it was a
thousand to one if he escaped he should still be under the
suspicion of being a party with his murderer ! so that I could
never imagine that any one should report that I spake my
own sense in a matter wherein I expressed so great an
abhorrence both of the fact & the vile comment made upon it.
As to any speech at the meeting of the clergy, or any
reprimand given me by any person on this account, it is all,
assure yourself, pure invention.
I am sensible of the favour you did me in preventing the
publishing of such a false report, & am most thankful to
Mr. Secretary St. John for stopping it. I have not the
honour to be known to him, otherwise I would give him the
trouble of a particular acknowledgement. As to Mr. Harley
I have had the happiness to have some knowledge of him, &
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account of my Act of Parliament1 that I obtained for the
restoration of Seatown to the see of Dublin. I always had a
great honour for him, & expected great good from his known
abilities & zeal for the common interest ; & as I believe
he was the principal instrument of settling things on the
present foot, so I believe every one that wishes well to these
kingdoms is satisfied that there is not any man whose death
would be a greater loss to the public than his. The manage
ment of this parliament has, if not reconciled his worst
enemies to him, at least silenced them ; & it is generally
believed that his misfortune has much retarded public
affairs. I partly can guess who writ the letter you mention : it
must be one of two or three whose business it is to invent a
lie & throw dirt ever since I was obliged by my duty to call
them to account for their negligence & ill practices ; they
have published & dispersed several libellous prints against
me, in one of which I marked forty-three downright false
hoods in matters of fact. In another, it is true, there was
only one such, the whole & every part of it, from beginning
to end, being pure invention & falsehood. But to my
comfort, they are despised by all good men ; & I like myself
nothing less for being the object of their hate.
You will excuse this long letter, & I hope I may, by next,
apprise you with something of consequence. In the mean
time, I heartily recommend you &c. Will : Dublin.
I held my visitation on the 9th instant where you were
excused as absent on the public business of the church.' 2
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord, ' Chelsea, May 10, 1711.
I have had your Grace's letter of April 19, some
time by me, but deferred my answer until I could give some
1 ' An Act for makeing Effectuall a Grant of King W"' & Queen Mary of
the towne & Lands of Seatowne to the ArehBoprick of Dublin & for restoreing
the same to the said See. Dated Anno Quinto Annas Begina?.'
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account of what use I had made of it. I went immediately
to Mr. Secretary St. John, & read most of it to him ; he was
extremely satisfied & very glad that scandalous account,
designed to be printed in ' The Postboy ' was suppressed.
Mr. Harley was then not quite well enough ; so I ventured
(and I hope your Grace will not disapprove it) to show your
letter to a gentleman who has a great respect for your Grace,
& who told me several others of Ireland were possessed of
that report. I trusted the letter with him, & gave him
leave to read it to them, which he told me he did, & ' that
they were all entirely convinced ' ; & indeed as far as I can
find, the report is quite blown over, & has left no impression.
While your Grace's letter was out of my hands, dining with
Mr. Harley, he said to me almost as soon as he saw me,
' How came the Archbishop of Dublin & I to fall out ? ' I
told him ' I knew what he meant, but your Grace was alto
gether misrepresented ; & it must come from some infamous
rascals, of which there never wants a set in that kingdom,
who make it their business to send wrong characters here '
&c. He answered that he ' believed & knew it was as I said,'
I added that ' I had the honour to be long known to your
Grace, & that you were the last man in the kingdom upon
whom such a report could be fixed with any probability ; &
that since he was pleased to mention this matter first, he
must give me leave the next time I saw him, to read a letter
I had from your Grace in answer to one of mine, wherein I
told you of such a report.' He said ' there was no need, for
he firmly believed me.' I answered smiling, 'that should
not do, for I would never suffer a person for whom I had sc
great an esteem to lie under the least suspicion of anything
wrong.' Last Saturday after dinner, I was again to wait on him.
On that day of the week, my Lord Keeper, my Lord Eivers &
Mr. Secretary St. John always used to dine with him before his
accident ; & sometimes they used to let me be of the company.
This was the first Saturday they had met since his recovery ;
& I was in such joy to see the old club met again that it
affects me still, as your grace sees by my impertinence in
mixing it with an account that only relates to yourself. I
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& both he & the company did very frankly acquit your Grace ;
& Mr. Harley, in particular, spoke a good deal of his respect
& esteem for you ; & then he repeated that ' it was no new
thing to receive lies from Ireland ' ; which I doubt is so true,
that no man of distinction in that kingdom is safe ; & I wish
it were possible to take some course to prevent the evil.1
As for libels upon your Grace, bating my concern for the
souls of the writers, I should give you joy of them. You
would less deserve your station if knaves & fools did not hate
you ; & while these sects continue, may your Grace & all
good men be the object of their aversion !
My Lord Keeper, Mr. Harley, & one or two more are
immediately to be made peers, the town has been expecting it
for some time, although the Court make it yet a secret, but I
can assure your Grace of the truth, for the preambles to their
patents are now drawing, & I saw a very handsome one for
Mr. Harley You'll please not to mention this particular,
although it will be soon publick, but it is yet kept mighty
private. Mr. Harley is to be Lord Treasurer. Perhaps
before the post leaves this town all this will be openly told, &
then I may be laughed at for being so mysterious, but so
capricious are great men in their secrets. The first authentic
assurances I had of these promotions was last Sunday ;
though the expectation has been strong for above a month.
We suppose likewise that many changes will be made in the
employments as soon as the session ends, which will be I
believe in less than a fortnight.
Poor Sir Cholmondeley Dering, of Kent, was yesterday in a
duel shot through the body by one Mr. Thornhill, in Tothil-
fields, & died in some hours.
I never mention anything of the first-fruits either to Mr.
Harley or the Duke of Ormond. If it be done before his
1 In answering this letter, May 15, the Archbishop writes, ' (I) cannot return
you sufficient acknowledgment for your kind & prudent management of that
affair so much to my advantage. I oonfess that I did not much fear that such
a vile report would do me any great injury with M' Harley ; for I was per
suaded he is too wise to believe such an incredible story. But the publishing
it to the world might have influenced some to my disadvantage ; & no man
can be well pleased to be the subject of a libel, though it often happens to be
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Grace goes over, it is well, & there's an end ; if not, I shall
have the best opportunity of doing it in his absence. If I
should speak of it now, perhaps it would be so contrived as to
hinder me from soliciting it afterward ; but as soon as the
Duke is gone I shall learn at the Treasury what he has done
in it. I have been at this Town this fortnight for my health,
& to be under a necessity of walking to & from London every
day. But your Grace will please still to direct your letters
under cover to Mr. Lewis. I am with great respect, my Lord,
your Grace's most dutiful & obliged humble servant,
Jonathan Swift.'

To the Bev*. Dr. Swift.
Beverend Sir, ' Lissenhall, July 28, 1711.
Since my Lord Duke of Ormond's arrival I have been
so continually hurried with company, that I retired here for
two or three days.
The preliminaries of our Parliament are now over, that is
to say addresses &c, & I find the usual funds will be granted,
I think unanimously, for two years from Christmas next,
which is all the Duke of Ormond desires. I do not see much
more will be done. You will observe several reflections are in
the addresses on the late management here, in which the
Earl of Anglesey & I differed. If we could impeach, as you
can in Great Britain, & bring the malefactors to account, I
should be for it with all my endeavour ; but to show our ill-
will when we can do no more seems to be no good policy in a
dependent people, & that can have no other effect than to
provoke revenge without the prospect of redress ; of which
we have too fatal instances. I reckon that every chief
governor who is sent here comes with a design to serve first
those who sent him ; & that our good only must be so far
considered as it is subservient to the main design. The only
difference between governors as to us, is to have a good-
natured man, that has some interest in our prosperity & will
not oppress us unnecessarily ; & such is his Grace. But I
doubt whether even that will not be an objection against him on
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that gained most on the liberties of the Kingdom are reckoned
the best ; & therefore it concerns us to be on our guard against
all governors, & to provoke as little as we can. For he that
cannot revenge himself acts the wise part when he dissembles
& passes over injuries.
In my opinion, the best that has happened to us is that
the parliament grants the funds for two years ; for by these
means we shall have one summer to ourselves to do our
church & country business. I have not been able to visit my
diocese ecclesiastim, as I used to do, the last three years, for
want of such a recess. I hope the parliament of Gt. Britain
will not resume the yarn bill while they continue the same.
The lords have not sat above four or five days, & are ad
journed till Monday next ; so we have no heads of bills
brought into our house as yet ; but if any be relating to the
Church, I will do my endeavour to give you satisfaction.
Our letter is come over for the remittal of the twentieth
parts & granting the first fruits for buying impropriations &
purchasing glebes, which will be a great ease to the clergy &
a benefit to the Church. We want glebes more than the im
propriations ; & I am for buying them first, where wanting ;
for without them residence is impossible ; & besides, I look
upon it as a security to tithes that the laity have a share in
them ; & therefore I am not for purchasing them but where
they are absolutely necessary, &c &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.
Beverend Sir, ' Swords, September 1, 1711.
I got a little retirement here, & made use of it to
write you by the present packet. I promised to say something
as to your own affairs, & the first thing is not to neglect
yourself on this occasion ; but to make use of the favour &
interest you have at present to procure you some preferment
that may be called a settlement.1 Years come on & after a
1 The object of Swift's ambition appears to have been an English bishopric,
but this Queen Anne would not confer on him, acting on the good advice of
Dr. John Sharp, Abp. of York, whose caution to the Queen was ' that H.M.
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certain age, if a man be not in a station that may be a step
to a better, he seldom goes higher. It is with men as with
beauties, if they pass the flower, they grow stale & lie for
ever neglected. I know you are not ambitious ; but it is
prudence, not ambition, to get into a station that may make
a man easy, & prevent contempt when he grows in years.
You certainly may now have an opportunity to provide for
yourself, & I entreat you not to neglect it.
The second thing I would have you to consider is, that
God has given you parts & learning & a happy turn of mind,
& that you are answerable for those talents to God ; & there
fore I advise you, & believe it to be your duty, to set yourself
to some serious & useful subject in your profession & to
manage it so that it may be of use to the world. I am per
suaded that, if you will apply yourself this way, you are well
able to do it ; & that your knowledge of the world & reading
will enable you to furnish such a piece, with such uncommon
remarks, as will render it both profitable & agreeable above
most things that pass the press. Say not that most subjects
in divinity are exhausted ; for if you look into Dr. Wilkins '
' Heads of Matters,' which you will find in his ' Gift of
Preaching,' you will be surprised to find so many necessary &
useful heads that no authors have meddled with. There are
some common themes that have employed multitudes of
authors, but the most curious & difficult are in a manner un-
touched, & a good genius will not fail to produce something
new & surprising on the most trite, much more on those that
others have avoided, merely because they were above their
parts. Assure yourself that your interest as well as duty
requires this from you ; & you will find that it will answer
some objections against you, if you thus show the world that
you have patience & comprehension of thought to go
through with such a subject of weight and learning.1
a bishop ' ; the special ground of objection against him was the Tale of a Tub,
which was represented as ridiculing religion, and as exhibiting its author as an
infidel whose profligate levity was unbecoming a clergyman (Mant.)
1 'Did I tell you ,of the Archbishop of Dublin's last letter? He has been
saying in several of his former thai he would shortly write to me something
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You will pardon me this freedom, which I assure you pro
ceeds from a sincere kindness & true value that I have for
you. I will add no more but my hearty prayers for you. I
am, Dr. Swift, your's Will : Dublin.'
For the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq™, Dublin.1
gr ' Dublin Sepf 29. 1711.
The loss of my dear & old frend, Mr. King,2 has
put me much out of sorts, I have bin all this morning doing
good but melancholy offices in his family woh has further
discomposed me so that I can't pr'vail w4h myself to go any
where in publick.
I am glad you dine at the Ld. Mayor's & hope from
thence that the turn the City business 3 has taken is to the
satisfaction of my Lord Duke & will be to the general quiet &c
W. D.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
' Windsor Castle, Oct. 1, 1711.
... 1 humbly thank your Grace for the good opinion
you are pleased to have of me ; & for your advice, which
out it comes, & consists of two parts. First, he advises me to strike in for
some preferment now I have friends ; & secondly he advises me, since I have
parts & learning, & a happy pen, to think of some new subject in divinity not
handled by others, which I should manage better than anybody. A rare spark
this with a . . . ! but I shall answer him as rarely. Methinks he should have
invited me over & given me some hopes or promises. But hang him 1 & so
good night.' Journal to Stella, Sept. 12.
1 Southwell MSS.
2 Eobert King; the letters to Swift, of July 28 and Sept. 1, written from
' Lissenhall ' and ' Swords,' show that the Archbishop had been with Mr. King
and his family there, shortly before ; Mr. Smyth and his wife, Mary King,
afterwards resided frequently at Lissenhall, where the Archbishop used to visit
them ; his last letter dated from thence which the editor has seen is one to
Wm. Howard, Esq., June 6, 1723.
3 The election to city offices alluded to before. In a letter to Swift in Sept.,
the Archbishop writes, — ' We have at the [Tory] Council rejected four Mayors
and eight Sheriffs, all regularly elected by the City, some of them the best
Citizens in the Town, & much in the interest of the Government. ... I am
afraid it may beget ill blood,' &e. Swift, in reply, wrote, Sept. 20, 'The D. of
Ormond is censured here [in London] by those in power for very wrong
management in the affair. He is governed by fools, & has usually muoh more
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seems to be wholly grounded on it. As to the first which
relates to my fortune, I shall never be able to make myself
believed how indifferent I am about it. I sometimes have the
pleasure of making that of others ; & I fear it is too great a
pleasure to be a virtue, at least in me. Perhaps in Ireland I
may not be able to prevent contempt any other way than by
making my fortune ; but then it is my comfort that contempt
in Ireland will be no sort of mortification to me. When I
was last in Ireland, I was above half the time retired to one
scurvy acre of ground, & I always left it with regret. I am
as well received & known at Court as perhaps any man ever
was of my level. I have formerly been the like. I left it
then, & will perhaps leave it now (when they please to let
me), without any concern but what a few months will remove.
It is my maxim to leave great ministers to do as they please ;
& if I cannot distinguish myself enough by being useful in
such a way as becomes a man of conscience & honour, I
can do no more ; for I never will solicit for myself, although
I often do for others.
The other part of your Grace's advice, to be some way
useful to the Church & the public by any talent you are
pleased to think I possess, is the only thing for which I
should desire some settlement that would make me full
master of my time. I have often thought of some subjects,
wherein I believe I might succeed ; but, my Lord, to ask a
man floating at sea what he designed to do when he goes on
shore is too hasty a question ; let him get there first, & rest
& dry himself, & then look about him. I have been pretty
well known to several great men in my life ; & it was their
duty, if they thought I might have been of use, to put me
into a capacity for it ; but I never yet knew one great man in
my life, who was not every day swayed by other motives in
distributing his favours, whatever resolutions he had pre
tended to make to the contrary. I was saying a thing the
other day to my Lord Keeper, which he approved of, &
which I believe may be the reason of this ; it was ' that
persons of transcendent merit forced their way in spite of all
obstacles ; but those whose merit was of a second, third, or
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knaves & dunces of the world had all the impudence, assi
duity, flattery & servile compliance divided among them,
which kept them perpetually in the way & engaged every
body to be their solicitors.'
I was asking a great minister a month ago, ' how he
could possibly happen to pick out a certain person to employ
in a commission of discovering abuses, who was the most
notorious for the constant practice of the greatest abuses in
that very kind, & was well known not to be at all reformed ? '
He said ' he knew all this ; but what would I have him to
do ? ' I answered ' Send any one of your footmen, & com
mand him to choose out the first likely genteel fellow he sees
in the streets ; for such a one might possibly be honest, but
he was sure the other was not, & yet they have employed
him.' I promise your Grace that this shall be the last sally I
shall ever make to a Court, & that I will return as soon as
I can have leave. I have no great pleasure in my present
manner of living, often involved in things that perplex me very
much & which try my patience to the utmost ; teazed every
day by solicitors, who have so little sense as to think I have
either credit or inclination to be theirs, although they see I
am able to get nothing for myself &c. Jonathan Swift.'
To Dr. Swift.
Beverend Sir, ' Dublin, Oct. 27, 1711.
I have before me your's of the 1st instant, but have
been so employed with attending parliaments, convocation, &
privy-council, that I could neither compose my thoughts to
write nor find time. Besides our business is all in a hurry ;
& I may say, in fine, that things admit of no perfect account.
On Wednesday the corn bill, which the commons seemed to
value most, was thrown out, because it reserved a power to
the lord lieutenant & council here to prohibit or permit the
transportation of grain at any time. There was a design to
fall on the privy-council upon this occasion ; but gentlemen
would not come into it ; which showed they had some wit in
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management, this would have been as quiet a session as has
been in Ireland ; but the Dublin business, the address of the
lords, Langton's ' affair, and now Higgins's have exasperated
the commons to such a height, that will, as you observe,
make this parliament to be impracticable any longer. It is
true the lords' address might have been interpreted to aim
at Lord Wharton 2 & was partly so intended ; but it was ill
expressed to bear that sense ; & besides what did it signify
for us to show our resentment, when it could only provoke a
great man to revenge, & could not reach him ?
As to the first-fruits & twentieth parts nobody here dare
say that anybody beside the Duke of Ormond procured them,
but his Grace himself ; who for aught I can learn, never
assumed, either publicly or privately, any such merit to him
self ; & yet I confess it is not amiss that it should be thought
he did those things, for he could not think of governing the
kingdom if it be not believed that he has great interest at
court ; & if that did not appear by some favours of moment
obtained for the kingdom, none would suppose it. He is
truly a modest, generous, & honest man ; & assure yourself,
that whatever disturbance he has met with proceeds from
his sticking too close to his friends. It is a pity such a fault
should hurt a man.
I send you enclosed the papers that relate to Mr. Higgins.
Lord Santry was heard against him before the Lord
Lieutenant & Council, Oct. 27 ; he was allowed only to prove
the articles in his petition that are marked with P. & he
seemed to prove them pretty fully; but Mr. Higgins not
1 Dominick Langton, a clergyman, and ex-friar, had accused Lewis Meares,
Esq., and other gentlemen of Westmeath, of entering into an association
against the Queen and her ministry, whereupon the H. of Commons, Aug. 6,
1711, declared the charge false, and resolved on an address to the D. of Ormond
to desire that the Queen would order the said Langton to be struck off the
establishment in Ireland.
2 The Et. Hon. Wm. Conolly was so very successful in accumulating
property, that he was reported to have ' left behind him [d. Oct. 30, 1729] a very
great fortune, some talk of ^17,000 per ann.' (Boulter's Letters), but Swift
(Journal to Stella, Sept. 28, 1710), records 'Conolly is out, & Mr. Eoberts in
his place, who loses a better here [London], but was formerly a Commissioner
in Ireland. That employment cost Conolly ^3000, to Lord Wharton, so he has
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having yet made his defence I can give no judgment. By the
testimony of the lower house of convocation in his favour you
will see how heartily they espouse him And surely both
pains & art have been used to screen him ; with what effect
you shall hear when the matter is concluded. I wish every
good man may meet with as good & as fast friends as he
has done. I send you likewise the votes that kept the
commons in debate from eleven in the morning till seven at
night. The question was carried in the negative by two
accidents ; the going out of one member by chance to speak
to somebody at the putting the question, & the coming in of
another in his boots x at the very minute. If either had not
happened, it had gone the other way. The personal affection
to the Duke of Ormond divided the house. If they could
have separated him from some others, the majority had been
great. You may easily from this see what way the bent of
this kingdom goes, & that garbling corporations no-ways
pleases them, &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.
Eeverend Sir, ' Dublin Nov. 1, 1711.
I have considered that part of your letter that relates
to your own concerns. I find you, in earnest, very indifferent
as to making your fortune ; but you ought not to be so, for a
weighty reason you insinuate yourself, that you cannot,
without a settlement, be master of your time in such a
manner as to apply yourself to do something that may be
useful to the Church. I know it is not in your power to do it
when you please, but something may be done toward it.
Get but a letter to the Government from my Lord Treasurer
for the first good preferment, & you will at the same time
fill it with a good man, & perhaps prevent a bad one from
getting into it. Sure there is no immodesty in getting such
a recommendation. Consider that years grow upon you ; &
after fifty both body & mind decay.
I have several things on the anvil, & near finished, that
perhaps might be useful if published, but the continual
1 Charles Tottenham, of Tottenham Green, Co. Wexford (ancestor of the
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avocation by business, the impositions on me by impertinent
visits, & the uneasiness of writing, which grows more in
tolerable to me every day, I doubt will prevent my going any
further. Therefore lose no time, qui non est hodie, eras
minus aptus erit. I am sure you are able to do good service ;
& give me leave to be importunate with you to go about
it. Caesar wrote his ' Commentaries ' under the hurry and
fatigues of a general ; & perhaps a man's spirit is never
more awakened, nor his thoughts better, than in the intervals
of a hurry of business. Eead 'Erasmus's Life,' & you'll
find it was almost a continual journey. You see how malicious
some are towards you, in printing a parcel of trifles, falsely,
as your works.1 This makes it necessary that you should
shame those varlets by something that may enlighten the
world, which I am sure your genius will reach if you set
yourself to it. If I had the honour to have any correspond
ence with my Lord Treasurer, I would certainly complain
of you to him, & get his Lordship to join in the request,
which I persuade myself he would readily do if put in
mind. I do not in the least fear that you will be angry with me
for this, since you cannot suspect my sincerity & kindness in
it ; & though I shall be angry with you if you neglect your
self & interest, yet it shall go no further than to be a
trouble to myself, but no abatement of the real friendship of
your's &c.
Will : Dublin.'
' To Bobert Boss, Esq., Bosetrevor?
Sr ' Dublin May 16. 1712.
I am necessitated to be out of town for some time on
my Trienn1 Visitation, lest therefore I should not be here,
when you next come to Dublin, I have desired Mr. Green 3 to
write out a list of such mistakes & deficiencys as we have
1 Some of these 'trifles' were really Swift's, but of this fact he had not
informed the Archbishop, as he seldom cared to own any piece of writing as
his own.
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
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hitherto discovered in the accts. & Eent Eolls, & they are as
you may observe on the other side. 'Tis very inconvenient
for me to have my [accounts ?] open, & I cant possibly close
them without your concurrence & . . . particularly your part
& therefore I desire you to consider ... if you have any
objection against them to allow them in your acct. & farther
state the whole so that the balance may be settled [& a
discharge ?] given to you & the Ex1'3. Your care & compliance
in this "... Y1' assured friend & . . .
w. d:
To Francis Annesley Esqr.2 ' Gory June 7. 1712.
... I have finished my triennial visitation, & intended
to visit the parts of my own diocese that lie between this &
Dublin & shall confirm, God willing, in ten or eleven places
before I go home, & consecrate a new church on Monday.
I can't forbear, though perhaps you may not think it per
tinent, to represent to you the miserable state of this diocese
of Ferns. There are in it one hundred & thirty one parishes ;
of these seventy one are impropriate in lay hands, twenty-
eight are appropriated to the bishop, dignitaries, & pre
bendaries of the cathedral, & thirty two in the hands of the
clergy that serve the cures, & generally these are the worst,
for the monks seldom troubled themselves but with the best.
There is neither bishop, dean, nor archdeacon residing in it.
There are only thirteen beneficed clergymen in it, & nine
curates & these very poorly provided, about £30. per annum
to a curate, & very few of the beneficed clergymen have £100.
per annum, I cannot reckon five.
1 Mr. Eobert Eoss, son-in-law of Eobert King, Esq., whose will, dated
Aug. 27, 1711, was proved by Archbishop King, Mr. James King (the deceased's
eldest brother), and Mrs. Marion King, the deceased's widow, the executors
Oct. 18, 1711. Mr. Eoss appears to have acted as receiver of the deceased's
rents, and of his dilatoriness in winding up the business the Archbishop com
plains to Mr. John Parnell, June 14, 1712, ' As to Mr. Eosse's business I have
received no letter from him, and am not well satisfied with his p'ceedings ' and
adds philosophically ' but must make the best of it I can.'
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The bishop has the bishoprick of Leighlin united to this.
He resides on the latter ; & considering the impropriations
& appropriations with the crown & lay patronages, I do not
see how he could order the cures better than he has done &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland}
My dear Lord ' Dunkerke July 10'" 1712.
I had the hon1' of y1' Grace's letter of y° 24th ultimo,
at the same time y4 I was imbarqueing our Eegimt. at
Tilbury Fort being ye 3d Instant. Wee disembarqued here
on tuesday last, and the whole place w4h all its Magazines
was quietly put into our possession. This suddain change
occasions various conjectures amongst the Inhabitants of
Dunkerke & France, I humbly presume it will be alsoe a
subject for the politicians of other Nations ; its a well forti
fied & valuable port, Gen1'" Hill is Governour & Commander
in. Chiefe of all the troopes, the last of the french Garrison
marched out the morning that wee landed, they have now
noe more than a guard upon their Gallions & the slaves wch
were lye in the harbour.
I begg yr Grace's pardon for mentioning Will: King 2 in
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; letter endorsed by the Archbishop ' Brother
Irvine.' 2 This nephew had behaved so badly, Dr. King refused to do anything more
for him ; however his kind friend, Capt. Geo. Saunders E.N. wrote to Dr. King,
Nov. 18, 1714, ' I have this week after a great deal of solicitation & promise of
future amendment (which I believe to be sincere) received aboard his Majtu"
Ship, Anthelope, Mr. William King, your Grace's Kinsman, now I must assure
your Grace the pains I have taken in it, is out of the regard I have for you,
believing that you will be glad to heare that he is like to do well & retrieve his
mismanaged time ' ; wants £20 to fit him out with clothes & bedding & that
his allowance from his uncle might be continued ; in reply, Dec. 28, the Abp.
acknowledges his letters ' relating to that wicked youth, William King, I con
fess it is very uneasy to me to hear anything of him. There is nothing to be
expected from him. I have put him 3 or 4 times in a way of living, & he has
cost me between 3 & 400 £., & yet he never thinks of mending, nor or any of
his promises to be trusted. As to my own part, what God has bless'd me with
is from the Churoh, & God forgive me for squandering away so much of it's
revenue on so incorrigible a varlet. However I can't but be thankfull to you
for your concern in this matter, looking on it as a charity in you & an instance
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my last letter, pure compassion moved me to use the freedome
to writ in his favor, for ye future I shall take great care to
avoid giving yr Grace any tro'ble of y4 nature, I am very
sensible of all yor Grace's generouse favo" & the honr wch yow
have done me upon all occasions, & will remember them w4b
the greatest observance & gratitude whilst I live, this Expe
dition was soe secret y4 Mr. Hill knew nothing of it untill
3 days after the marching order was sent down to the Eegim4,
nor was this order entred in the books at the Warr Office, as
the Custome is, soe instead of goeing to Chester where I had
sent some of my things before, I was commanded to goe post
to Lincoln in 2 hours warning & have not had leave to stir
from my post since, but I hope I shall not be longe confined
thus. They say here y; ye D. of Ormd is marched to Ghent w4L
y- Engh troopes & y4 P. Eugene has invested Valencienne,
woh is newes wee take upon tick. When anything offers, I'll
make bold to give yr Grace an acct. thereof, & am with all
profound respect, my Lord yr Grace's most obedient &
humble servt. Chas. Irvine.'
To the same ' at St. Pulchers.1
Maye it please your Grace Tewsday 30 Septr. 1712.
I am sorry to heare that your Grace hath brought yB
Gout to toun with you, I praye God that it maye be ane easy
& short fitt, I humbly thank your Grace for your paper which
is here inclosed. I got M1' Cook to draw a Coppy in wide
lines I delivred it to Sr. Eichard Levinge. Yesterday he sent
me notis by a messager, that he would send me my papers
in a day or two. My wife & others wer with me at the
time, therefore I have writ to Lady Leving, if any papers be
sent from Sr. Eichard to me that theye maye not be sent to
my house but that all & every paper maye be sent to your
Grace. I praye your Grace to open & read Sr. Eichard's
I allow you to draw a bill on me for twenty guineys. ... As you value my
friendship let me hear no more of him ' ; however his conduct was such, that
he was again restored to his uncle's favour.
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letter to me & to peruse the draught of the settlement & to
keep them by you, till it please God that we maye meet con
veniently about them. Company is coming, I must conclude
that I am your Grace's most devoted & faithful servant
Pa. Dun.1
If the Messager that came from the countrey come with the
papers, the inclosed piece of money is for ane acknowledge
ment of his trouble, but if they be sent by any other they
will need no gratuity but as your Grace pleaseth.'
To the same.
My Lord, ' London, April 30, 1713.
I had the honour of your Grace's letter of the 14th,
which at present I cannot answer particularly ; I send this
to welcome your Grace to the Bath, where we conclude you
are now arrived ; & I hope the design of your journey is more
for prevention than cure. I suppose your Grace has heard
that the Queen has made Dr. Sterne 2 Bishop of Dromore, &
that I am to succeed him in his Deanery.
Dr. Parnell, who is now in town, writ last post to your
Grace, to desire the favour of you that he may have my small
prebend ; he thinks it will be some advantage to come into the
chapter, where it may possibly be in my power to serve him
in a way agreeable to him, although in no degree equal to his
merits ; by which he has distinguished himself so much, that
he is in great esteem with the ministry & others of the most
valuable persons in this town.3 He has been many years
under your Grace's direction, & has a very good title to your
favour, & so that I believe it will be unnecessary to add
1 The Doctor died May 24, 1713 ; in letters after his death to the Arch
bishop Lady Dun complains that her husband had been found by her ' very
often in unusuall heats & doubts of mee,' and this she attributes to his nephew,
Dr. Patrick Mitchell and his wife. ' Sir Patrick Dun left about £300 per annum
to endow a proffessor of physick,' Abp. King to Arthur Charlett, D.D., Master
of University College, Oxford, April 19, 1714 ; he had been dubbed a knight,-
Jan. 29, 1696.
2 John Stearne, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's.
3 ' Lord Bolingbroke likes Parnell mightily ; & it is pleasant to see that
one who hardly passed for anything in Ireland makes his way here with a
little friendly forwarding.' Journal to Stella, Jan. 6, 1712-13. Dunlavin is
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how much I should be obliged to your Grace's compliance in
this matter, & I flatter myself that his being agreeable to
me will be no disadvantage to him in your Grace's opinion.
I am, with the greatest respect, my Lord, your Grace's most
dutiful & most humble servant, Jonathan Swift.'
To the Earl of Wharton.1
My LcL 'Chester May 15. 1713.
I recd your Ldsps about Mrs. King's affair 2 & had
answered immediatly, but then ready to take ship for great
Brittain, which I had certainly done, if the wind wou'd have
p'mitted me, & accordingly as soon as it served which was
not till yesterday, I came over with the Yatch,3 Mrs King &
her daughter came with me, & go immediatly to London to
wait on your Lordship, it was a great omission in them not
to send an ace4 of the bills, but they have the copys of them
now attested.
Mr. Dawson told me that your Ldp wanted your Patent
for being Ld. Lt. of Ireland & that he had delivered it to
Mrs. King, I inquired for it, & Mrs King brings it along with
her  W. D.'
To the Bev. Dr. Swift, London.
Beverend Sir, ' Chester, May 16. 1713.
This is to welcome you to my neighbourhood at
St. Sepulchre's. I have a very great loss in the removal of
the Bishop of Dromore, who was not only a neighbour, but
a bosom friend. I understand that was not much to his
advantage, but I am sure it was to mine & the Church's. I
hope that will not discourage you from reckoning yourself
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 Business in connection with her late husband's receivership of the
Wharton estates ; her daughter (then the only surviving one, as Mrs. Eoss
appears to have been dead in 1709), Mary, was the Archbishop's ward; in
a letter from Bath, May 29, same year, the Archbishop writes to Mr. Eobert
Finlay, banker, London, ' I suppose Mrs. King & her daughter are with you,
p'sent my hearty respects to them & let me know how their business succeeds,
& when I may expect them here.'
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among my friends, which I earnestly desire. I had wrote
sooner to you, but expected every day a wind to bring me
here ; it continued cross for many days, & gave me oppor
tunity to consecrate your predecessor before I came away. I
go directly from hence to the Bath, my health requiring it,
where I shall be glad to hear from you. I know not whether
I shall be obliged to go to London before I return. I will
not if I can avoid it, for considering the great number of Irish
bishops & clergy that are there, I am ashamed to add to
them. I should be very much pleased to have an hour or
two of your conversation before I returned, or you went to
Ireland ; but I am afraid I cannot expect it, though, perhaps,
it might be of use to us both 
Your predecessor in St. Patrick's did a great deal to his
church & house, but there is still work for you. He designed
a spire for the steeple, which kind of ornament is much
wanting in Dublin. He has left your oeconomy clear, and
200Ub. in bank for this purpose. The steeple is one hundred
& twenty feet high ; twenty one feet in the clear wide where
the spire is to stand ; the design was to build it of brick
120 ft. high ; the scaffolding we reckoned to be the principal
cost, which yet is pretty cheap in Dublin. The brick & lime
are good & cheap. But we have no workmen that understand
anything of the matter. I believe that you may be acquainted
with several that are conversant with such kind of work, &,
if you would discourse some of them, & push on the work as
soon as settled, it might be of use to you, & give the people
there an advantageous notion of you, Dimidium facti qui
bene ccepit habet.
I add no more but my hearty prayers for you, & that you
may enjoy with comfort & reputation the provision her
Majesty has made for you, which shall be the study &
endeavour of &c. WlLL . Dublin.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord ' London, May 23. 1713.
I had the honour of a letter from your Grace, the 18th
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weeks ago, that your Grace was expected every day at the
Bath ; & you will find a letter there, as old as that, with a
requisition in favour of Dr. Parnell, who, by his own merit,
is in the esteem of the chief ministers here.
I am very sensible that the loss your Grace has suffered
in the removal of Dr. Sterne will never be made up by me,
upon a great many accounts ; however I shall not yield to
him in respect & veneration for your Grace's character &
person ; & I return you my most grateful acknowledgements
for the offer you make me of your favour & protection.
I think to set out for Ireland on Monday sevennight, to
be there before the term ends ; for so they advise me,
because the long vacation follows, in which I cannot take the
oaths, unless at a quarter-sessions ; & I had better have two
chances than one. This will hinder me from paying my
respects to your Grace at the Bath ; & indeed my own health
would be better, I believe, if I could pass a few weeks there ;
but my remedy shall be riding, & a sea-voyage.
I have been enquiring & am told your Grace's cause will
hardly come on this session ; but indeed I have been so much
out of order for these ten days past that I have been able to
do nothing. As to the spire to be erected on St. Patrick's steeple, I am
apt to think it will cost more than is imagined ; & I am con
fident that no bricks made in that part of Ireland will bear
being exposed so much to the air ; however I shall inquire
among some architects here.
I hope your Grace will find a return of your health in the
place where you are.
I humbly beg your blessing ; & remain with great respect,
my Lord, your Grace's most dutiful & most humble servant,
Jonathan Swift.'
'For Mrs. Mary King.1
Dear Mally, Dublin, Octc 31. 1713.2
I was mightily pleased with your's of the 1st inst. &
had given you an answer long ago if I could have got the
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 In Nov. this year the Archbishop preached Primate N. Marsh's Funeral
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Deeds to Send, I was in hope every day to procure them, but
the business of the Elections has so employed everybody that
I could get neither Lawier, Attorney, or friend to attend, of
which I have wrote at large to your mother.1 I assure you
in the mean time great industry has been used to do ill
offices both to M1' Smith & you, & to disparage you both as
much as possible, but I take your letter to be the Sense of y1'
mind & whilst it is so, I promise my Self you'l be happy.
God forbid I should advise you to marry one you cou'd
not love. You have had a great deal of experience of Mr.
Smith's humour & Sense & can better judge than anybody
else whether you are like to live happily w'h him. I find you
think you can, & truly if I cou'd have compass'd it yu had
bin his wife before now, I hope you will in time, & I will do
what lys in my power to hasten the writings to you, yet if
you make any reall & Justifyable objections notwithstanding
all that is past, I shou'd not constrain yu to marry him, but
I assure you I have heard nothing yet but what is either
manifestly false or frivolous.
I give you my most hearty prayers & shall not cease to
study with the utmost application what I think for your
advantage & am &c.
W. D.'
1 In his letter to Mrs. Eobert King of the same date he expresses himself
as ' much concerned that Mally's affair is so delayed it has fretted me heartily ' :
and, as to the marriage settlement, ' I can make no progress I can neither get
Counsell, Attorney, or friend to apply to it, they are all mad on Elections,
hurrying from place to place, so that I can hardly get one to speak to, & when
I begin to talk to any of business, their answer is, "How go's such an Election ?
I must be to-morrow at the Naas, next day at Wicklow, next, God knows where,
do you think I may depend on such an one's vote ? " Then he hears Some
body is come to Town, & away he flys to Secure him, this I assure you & worse
is litterally the case, so that you must not wonder if the Deeds are not ready.'
He tried, but failed, to secure Mr. Smith of Kenedys Lane, Mr. Parnell,
Mr. Whitshead, Mr. Brotherick, the Eecorder (Forster), or Sir Eichard Levinge,
Bar1., so beseeches her to ' have a little patience & I doubt not all will be well.
I wrote to Mr Smith & Mally, & hope this delay will not give them so much
disturbance as it has me.'

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' Mrs. Marion King.1
Dear Madam Dublin Decem- 5- 1713-
I recd your's of the 26, & am very much concerned
that the affair of Mally' s marriage hangs so long which I
thought might have bin finished long ago, I see nothing to
hinder it, nor was there any objection with me, but my not
being so thr'oly acquainted w4h Mr Smith as to be sure of his
good humour, I see nothing to the contrary but that he is as
he shou'd be in that point, & Mally has had experience enuff
of him to be fully Satisfyed in it, & by her letter I find she is.
I confess the Settlement would have bin better drawn if all
partys had been here, but I hope 'tis well enuff as it is, I
only desire that a clause might be in it obliging him to give
her such farther Securitys & Deeds for her jointure as Lawiers
shall advise, this I believe is not necessary but it is better in,
& likewise let there be an £100 : for pin money, which I do not
mean she shou'd take, but to convince her frds, of Mr Smith's
good humour & love to her.
Mally is a good girl & will never abuse her husband's
kindness, I have no other directions to give, & I have given
the same advice sev" times to you, Mr Smith & Mally.
I do not much mind tittle tattles, tho' they seem to me
pretty well hushed, & I never saw any ground for them.
The Bp. of Dromore 2 came but lately to Town & was in his
Bprick in July last. I have had no opportunity to ask him,
& believed he never used such an expression in his life, I
have heard him talk otherwise, & believe he will give them
little thanks that report such a story of him. I add no more
but &c. W. D.'
'¦ To William Smyth, Esqre at Drumcree,
near Mollingar.1
gr Dublin January 5th 1713-14.
I received yours of the 27th of December last,3 & wish
you all possible happiness in your Lady, I know her to be a
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. 2 John Stearne, D.D.
3 The marriage settlement is dated Dec. 11, 1713, and the wedding took place
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Sweet tempered girl & of very good Sense ; & am p'suaded
you will be happy in her.
You'l consider what rubs & objections were laid in your
way, & doubt not but you will convince all those that mis
represented you how much they were mistaken in their
sentiments concerning you, by your kindness & indulgence
towards her which I p'swade myself she will never abuse.
I wou'd entreat you to consider that a great part of the
happiness of a marryed life depends on setting out well at
first, & a marryed state is quite different from that of court
ship, & that the passion yu had then must be by mutuall con-
descention & confidence in one another transformed into a
sincere fr'dship, you must mutually consider what is most
likely to please & disgust one another, & study to practise the
one & avoid the other. Your pleasures & sufferings both which
yu will meet with must be mutuall, you must appear as much
rejoiced when anything happens to your wife's satisfaction as
if it had happened to yourself, & be as much interested in
what grieves her ; this will oblige her to a return of like kind
nesses, & make her fearfull to do the least thing that she
finds will disoblige yu.
I have observed that the things which cause coldness be
tween marryed people are commonly trifles, for in greater
matters their interest joins them, & therefore I would intreat
yu to consider of what value the matter is that disgusts you, &
lay it in the scale with the pleasure & satisfaction of your life
which depends on your being well with your wife, & be sure
not to lose that for a humour or fancy, or a trifle. Advise &
be advised by her, & tell her in kindness if yu observe any
thing that is uneasy to yu in her conduct, but not at the time
yu are disgusted, but rather wait the softest & most pleasant
intervall.
lineal descendant of Mary King's, informed the editor that there are preserved
at Drumcree an epithalamium written on the occasion, a portrait of the bride,
and one of Archbishop King (since presented to the National Gallery, Dublin).
She d. 30 Jan. 1733, leaving issue by her husband (who d. 30 March 1742),
with daus. Marion, Alice-Maria, and Elizabeth, 4 sons, 1 Thomas Smyth,
born 1 Oct. 1714, who succeeded to Drumcree ; 2 Eobert Smyth, who succeeded
to his mother's manor of Monea, co. Fermanagh ; 3 Ealph Smyth of Glananea;
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Study to delight in her company, & make the hours you
spend with her the most pleasant in your life. Endeavour to
instruct & inform her in matters of business & knowledge, &
never slight her Judgment tho' it differ from your's, nor be
angry at her ignorance, but kindly endeavour to inform her,
by this means you will make her a meet help & companion
for yu, & by becoming her teacher yu will beget in her a
reverence for your judgment & a readiness of obedience, it will
likewise be your part to treat her with tenderness & regard
especially in time of Sickness or trouble, for kind offices at
those times endear much more than any others. If any cold
ness shou'd happen, which I hope will not, pray let it not last
till the next day.
Eemember the eyes of many are upon yu, & if any mis
understanding shou'd happen, assure yourself it will be im
puted to yu not her.
I am glad to find that yu please yourself in that sense of
piety you find in her, & resolve to cherish & imitate it.
I am satisfyed no marriage can be unhappy where ye fear
of God is, & [this] makes me confident your's will be prosperous,
my earnest endeavours & hearty prayrs to God to make it so
shall not be wanting, & I beseech our Father in heaven to
bless yu &c.
W. D.'
' Mrs. Marion King at Drumcree near Mullingar.1
Dear Mrs. King Mountmerion z Aug. 10lh 1714.
I intended to have spent this week with you at
Drumcree, but the surprising turn of affairs has made my
intended journey impossible.
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 A seat belonging to Eichard, 5th Visct. Fitzwilliam, now that of his de
scendant, the Earl of Pembroke. In a letter, of Aug. 14, to Dr. Timothy
Godwin, chaplain to the Duke of Shrewsbury, Ld. High Treasurer of England
and Ld. Lieut, of Ireland, the Archbishop writes ' You'll hear from all hands
that we are in perfect tranquility here, God be thanked, & his Majesty, King
George, proclaimed with all solemnity everywhere. I confess I retired here for
shelter, being unmercifully bated at the Council, and some were angry with me
that I would not attend there to be abused. But that, I hope, is over for the
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I recd your's of the 4th instant and have wrote to the Bp.
of Derry & intreated him to suspend his giving you any
disturbance till I discourse him here. By his answer I Bhall
be able to give you proper advice. At present I can't well
think of the matter, & hope this is the best method. In the
mean time perhaps it may not be amiss to write to the Bp., &
tell him what I have wiote to you, & that you are willing to
submitt to such terms as I shall advise you may, defer this
for a week or fortnight, in which time I may have an
answer, if not you may send your letter.
I am glad things answer so well at Drumcree. Bemember
me heartily to all there.
I recommend you all to God's good protection & am &c.
W. D.'
To the Lord Bishop of Derry.1
' Mountmerion near Dublin
My Ld August 10. 1714.
I understand your Ldp is treating with your tenants
about their leases.
I have a frd. Mrs King, the widow of Mr King of Skinners
Bow, that holds the lease of Ballyboggan under your Ldp.2
It was the only lease I set to a relacon in the whole diocess.
On that acct. the late Bip., your predecessor, was very kind to
her. I entreat the like favour from your Ldp. & entreat that
you would not give her any disturbance till I have the
happiness to see you in Dublin. I can't enlarge to your Ldp
the great loss of our late gracious Queen, and the accession
of his present Majesty to the throne being matter of such
moment that they employ not only my thought but also
time. I beseech God to give us such a solid settlement of our
constitution in Church & State that we may no more be
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; John Hartstong, D.D., Bishop
1714-1717. 2 Mr. Eobert King bequeathed to his wife all his title and interest in the
lands of Ballyboggan and Ballylast, co. Donegal, held by him by lease under
the See of Derry; part of which interest his widow left to her grandson,
' Eobert Eoss, junr, Esq",' by her will, proved in 1731.

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distracted with fears x & jealousys. I recommend your Ldp to
God's protection & desire your prayers for me.
W. D.'
To his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.2
May it please your Grace, ' DuMin Aug- 19- 1714.
I could not prevail with myself to omit congratulating
your Grace on the happy turn it has pleased God to give
publick affairs at this time of the demise of our late gracious
Queen : & it was a particular satisfaction to me to find that
God had enabled your Grace to bear your part in it. I hope
he will farther preserve & strengthen you to set the crown
on his Majesty's head, which I believe would be a sensible
accession of happiness to your Grace, & matter of joy to all
your friends.
1 The fear of an overthrow of the Protestant constitution and religion of
the nation, through a restoration of the Stuarts, was a very real one, as the
following anecdote preserved by the Eev. A.M. Toplady, the author of ' Eock of
Ages, cleft for me,' &c, shows : — A few weeks before Queen Anne's demise, Bp.
Burnet was riding slowly in his coach round that part of Smithfield, whence
so many martyrs have ascended to heaven, when he observed a gentleman
standing on the spot absorbed in thought ; on sending a servant to request
him to come to him, the bishop ascertained it was the eminent Westminster
dissenting divine, Dr. John Evans, of whom he had some knowledge. ' Brother
Evans,' said the prelate, ' give me your hand and come up hither, I want to
ask you a question.' When seated the bishop asked him, ' what it was that
directed his steps to Smithfield, and what he was thinking of while standing
there ? ' 'I was thinking,' answered the other, ' of the many servants of
Christ, who sealed the truth of their lives in this place. I came purposely to
feast my eyes once more with a view of that precious spot of ground. And as
public matters have, at present, a very threatening aspect, I was examining
myself, whether I had grace and strength enough, to suffer for the gospel, if
I should be called to it, and was praying to God, that he would make me
faithful even to death, if it should be his pleasure to let the old times come
over again.' ' I myself came hither,' replied the prelate, ' on the same business ;
I am persuaded, that if God's providence do not interpose very speedily and
almost miraculously, these times will and must shortly return. In which case
you and I shall probably be two of the first victims that are to suffer death at
that place,' pointing to the paved centre.
Now that, by the patronage of successive prime ministers, the Oxford
Movement Apostasy has been enthroned in the English Establishment, should
' the old times come over again,' in this 20th century, to bow down to Eome's
idols will be no burning question with many dignitaries and lesser clerics.
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Thos. Tenison, D.D., Primate
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My Lord, I am persuaded that much of the management
of Church affairs, as is meet & proper, will be in your Grace's
hands ; & let me take the liberty to beseech your care of this
Church. We have at present four bishopricks void, namely
Eaphoe, Killaloe, Kilmore & Ardagh, the two latter used to be
united, though each singly is good value.
We have many candidates for these ; & 'tis become a
custom with us, that whoever pretends to any preferment, he
immediately posts away to London. We have crowds there,
& I find more are going, & some have waited two years
hunting for a promotion. The vacancies have been continued
longer than usual, & I hope that may be looked on as a work
of Providence, & may turn to the good of the Church.
Your Grace is well apprized what a discouragement it is
to men that reside & attend their cures, & by that support
religion, to see others preferred before them, merely for
attending at Court & neglecting their churches : the mischiefs
that attend this practice are so many & great, that I will not
pretend to enumerate them in a letter.
I laid some of them before his Grace, the Duke of Shrews
bury, when here, & he seemed thoroughly sensible of them.
So if you discourse his Grace upon it, I am confident he
will heartily join your Grace to disappoint these ambitious
pretenders ; &, in truth, they injure the chief governour as
well as the Church. For by their assiduity in soliciting, by
flatteries, calumnies, & other unlawful means, they prove very
often too hard for his interest, & lessen by that means both
his authority & credit. I therefore intreat your Grace to lay
this matter to heart ; for by disappointing the present crowd
of suitors (let them be of what party they will, since they are
of both sorts) your Grace will put a stop to that mischievous
practice, & do a signal service to the Church of God.
I believe nothing will be done before his Majesty come,
which I pray may be soon & in safety ; & before then, if I see
occasion, I will take the liberty your Grace has always allowed
me, to give you my farther thoughts on this subject.
I recommend your Grace's health & happiness to God's
care, &c.
Will : Dublin.' M

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To the Lord Bishop of Dromore 1
My Lord, ' Dublin Aug. 26. 1714.
I wish the turn affairs have taken may put an end to
our parties ; but I see plainly, if some men can prevent it,
we shall have no peace: industry will be used to that
purpose. I called the clergy together, & gave them my advice in as
mild & friendly a way as I could, & particularly took notice
of a sermon preached by Mr. Kearns,'2 in which there was a
paragraph, one would think, contrived to provoke his people,
& to intimate jealousies of the King's Government. I did
what I could to convince him of his having done ill ; but it
grieved me to perceive what a strange spirit there appeared
in him & his brethren. The effect was that some preached
against Lutheranism next Sunday, & endeavoured to make it
as bad, if not worse, than Popery ; your Lordship sees where-
unto this tends. The clergy seem to think that their joining
in proclaiming the King will justify themselves & all their
party for all that is past, & prove all suspicions of them were
false calumnies ; but I am afraid they will be mistaken in
their account. I pray God turn all to the best. There are,
on the other hand, those that villainously reflect on her
Majesty's memory, which no good man can hear with
patience. Sure there never sate on the throne a prince that
designed more heartily the good of her people ; if there were
mistakes under the late ministry, 'twas their fault, not her
Majesty's ; & it is visible that she intended to change them.
As to preferments, I know not on what foot I stand, nor
what credit I may have ; but I shall not be backward to use
it, though I can't make such attempts as some would have
me. I have, at least, solicitations from ten to intercede for
them. If I should comply with them, I am satisfied I should
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; John Stearne, D.D.
2 ' There was an odd sermon preached by Mr. Kearns after the Queen's
death, which gave>great offence. I called the clergy together & gave the best
advice I could, but I am concerned to remember what a spirit appeared in
some of them, & I understand several preached last Sunday against consub-
stantiation : this was construed to have no good aspect toward the King, whom
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have no credit at all ; he has good interest with a govern
ment, that succeeds with one good man.1 I hope I may have
that &c.
Will : Dublin.'
' To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin in
Ireland 2
My Lord, London, Sept. 2d, 1714.
Being resolved to communicate my joy for the trans
action of this day to some honourable friend who woud have
as true a tast of it as I have, I presently pitch'd upon yr
Grace for my man. This day our countrey is deliver'd from
y~ domination of 2 tyrants,3 & in their stead we have 2 worthy
honourable patriots set over us.
The poor citty of Dublin has bin long denyed ye justice
of a fair hearing, but at length is vindicated by a board of 22
of ye honestest noblemen his Majesty coud pick out to make
regents in his absence. The villany & obstinacy of our
adversarys was so insufferable that we cou'd not have wish'd
a greater tryumph.
And now, my lord, give me leave to congratulate yr Grace
upon that particular share woh you have in it, as you have in
a great measure born ye brunt, so it was but just you should
receive ye honour & recompence of y1' courage, patience &
perseverance. Yr Grace & my Ld Kildare had ye unanimous
voice of all the gentlemen of Ireland. I must tell yr Grace
we here have had our shares of labour & toil too, & are proud
to see the good effects of it, but we have not yet done with
Sr. Con. Phipps & his governor who persisted to yc last in
justification of those poor fooles & knaves he has deluded &
made a harangue of half-an-hour long & to my great wonder
1 In a letter of Aug. 14 to Dr. Timothy Godwin, chaplain to the Duke
of Shrewsbury, he had written, 'If any removes be thought on, I think the Bp. of
Dromore, who was made a bishop for no merit of his own, but to make room
for Dr. Swift, might yet deserve for his merit a removal.'
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.
3 Thos. Lindsay, Primate, and Sir Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor,
the two late acting Lords Justices, as John Vesey, Abp. of Tuam, their
colleague, had not been able to act, owing to the state of his health, and
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told one great truth in it w=h was that he verily beleived had
he bin at ye council board in Dublin he should have done
just as his freinds y" justices had done.
His Majesty is not master of ye English tongue & there
for my Ld Ang — x is 3 houres every morning learning
French to teaze him with, but he is much mistaken in his
Majesty's temper, & I hope will be disappointed in all his
designs as much as he is in this of ye citty.
I much suspect ye Privy Council will be as troublesome to
yr Grace & my Ld Kildare as they can be, & endeavour to
dye hard like their masters, but they will find that euch
vigorous measures will be taken as shall break those who
will not bow to truth and justice. I cannot forbear pleasing
myself with ye fancy how Sr Con. will digest carrying ye
purse before y1' Excellencys, a man of his rude obstinacy &
surlyness, but I will delay sending you any more of my
reflexions till I have a better opportunity, or perhaps till I
have ye honour of kissing y1' hands in person, for I am with
a great deal of truth (& that makes me take an unkindness
so ill from you), my lord, y1 grace's most affect humble serv4
E. Molesworth'2
To the Bt. Bev. the Lord Bishop of Dromore3
My Lord ' Mountmerion Sept. 10. 1714.
The publick news will give you an account of the
alterations here : they are somewhat surprising, but to none
more than to me. I dreamed, I assure your Lordship, of no
such matter, when an express & packet came to me on
Wednesday afternoon with a patent & directions.4 The
1 Earl of Anglesey.
2 Created, 1716, Baron Philipstown, and Viscount Molesworth of Swords ;
author of Account of Denmark, 1692, where he had been ambassador. The
' unkindness ' alluded to was the wish expressed by the Archbishop, that John
Parnell should be returned as Member for Swords Borough, instead of Moles
worth, in the election of 1713 ; however the matter was arranged by Parnell
getting in for Granard Borough, thus leaving Swords to its former member.
3 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
4 He described himself as ' strangely surprised with an express & packet '
from the Duke of Shrewsbury on Sept. 8, acquainting him with his appoint
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reason of the change is nothing but the obstinacy of the late
Justices in not complying with the regency's orders relating
to the city of Dublin, which was highly resented ; & I am
afraid the privy council is so deeply engaged with them, that
if they continue as hitherto, it may have ill effects.
I am now in a better capacity to write to the Duke
of Shrewsbury about church preferments, & reckon it a
providence that I did not teaze his Grace about them before.
I have now a call, & will beg God's assistance to enable me
to use it to the best advantage, & hope for the concurrence
of your Lordship's prayers. I do not despair of having you
nearer us, & in truth I need your help. I have none of my
clergy that I can depend on but Dr. Synge, & believe I shall
not have him long. You know I am pretty resolute, when I
have the approbations of my friends, but never love to stand
alone, or depend altogether on my own judgment.
As to what you ask concerning the Lutheran religion, you
have their doctrine in the Augustan Confession, & they
adhere close to it. The dispute between them & the
Calvinists is chiefly about free will & predestination. The
ubiquitary opinion l is held amongst them, but is no settled
or general doctrine. They have a liturgy, & a very good
one : the Te Deum, Psalms &c. are much as with us, but a
little nearer the form of the mass, & in many places they call
it so. I reckon that they will make no scruple of conforming to
our church. As to their consubstantiation, 'tis hard to
Sept. 4, as Lords Justices of Ireland, Wm., Archbishop of Dublin, John, Arch
bishop of Tuam, and Eobert, Earl of Kildare, who were sworn on the 9th, and
again Oct. 9 ; ' I received your's of the 4th instant [he writes on the 10th to
Sir John Stanley] with the commission &c, on' the 8th, & a great surprise it
was to me, & I think to everybody else, I immediately went to my neighbour,
the Earl of Kildare, at Stillorgan, and we had no long deliberation on the
matter but so ordered it, that we were sworn yesterday about six of the clock,
& since it has been very uneasy to me with the ceremonies, I think as much
as a marriage.' To Abp. King's firm and just government, aided by his
colleague, the Earl of Kildare, was attributed that Ireland remained perfectly
free from disturbance, or attempted Jacobite risings, at that critical period
when the army had been transported to Gt. Britain to suppress the rebellion.
1 That the body of Christ is present in the Lord's Supper in virtue of His
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understand what they mean by it. They seem not to mean
a local presence but only a spiritual, by the virtue of the
reunion of the human with the divine person ; for, say they,
the divine person our Saviour is everywhere, & he is nowhere
without his humanity ; which is true : but then, 'tis to be
considered that the divine nature has no relation to place,
not being an extended substance. But as thought is every
where, & whatever I think of is really in my mind, without
any local motion either of the mind or the object, so by
analogies I reckon the humanity of our Saviour is every
where with his divinity without relation to place. The
Lutherans seem to be a little weary of this doctrine them
selves, & speak sparing of it.
But the chief thing that I apprehend is the matter of
ordination which is very loose among them, & their notions of
it accordingly. I am satisfied their clergy in then- hearts
believe our doctrine about it better than their own, & would
be glad to come into it, if the laity would permit them.
I add no more than my prayers for you & that I
am &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.1
I have your's of the 11th [Sept.] & give your Lordship
most hearty thanks for your good advice, & shall always
reckon it a piece of friendship indispensably necessary &
which I particularly expect from your Lordship.
I must own I am not fond of my new employment, & that
for many reasons : 1st I am afraid it may obstruct my proper
business as a bishop, which I could never answer. 2ndly It
puts more on me than, I am afraid, my age & infirmities
will admit me to dispatch with that care that I think
necessary. 3r"y I dread anything being put on me, that my
judgment will not allow me to do ; which if it should happen,
I should be dismissed, perhaps with more indignity than
ever I came in with applause. You know that I never would
go into the violent measures of parties, & by God's help never
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will ; & yet who knows but that may be expected ? 44hly
Considering how our commission is limited,' we can't do the
good that we would, or prevent the evil, yet must bear the
blame if anything be amiss : the only thing that gives
me comfort is, that this matter is not likely to continue
long 
As to the church preferments, I will do my endeavour to
have men in them that will answer the ends & duties of their
offices. How I shall succeed God knows. I pray to God
more particularly in this affair, on which so much depends,
to direct & assist me, & I earnestly desire the assistance of
your's & all good men's prayers. 'Tis a thing has often
grieved me to find, on reviewing the list of the deans,
that we had not one that we could set up for a pro
locutor 
I think myself very happy in my colleague the Earl of
Kildare,2 who has good sense & great honesty : he doth not
scruple to speak his mind, & is immoveable in what he judges
to be right.
I long to have you nearer us ; in the meantime I re
commend you to God's care, & entreat the continuation of
your prayers for &c. WlLL . duelin.'
To the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq.3
' Mount Merion near Dublin
Sept. 18. 1714.
... I was surprised into this post wthout my being
consulted or the least intimation given me that such a thing
was designed, 'till y2 commission under the seal of Great
Brittain was put into my hands, so y4 there was no room left
for deliberation  ^ Dublin.'
1 This limitation of the Lords Justices' commission extended so far that,
in the Archbishop's own words, he ' could not give any place civil or ecclesias
tical, no, not a vicarage, all such being excepted out of their commission.'
2 Eobert FitzGerald, 19th Earl, father of James, 1st Duke of Leinster, and
son of Captain the Hon. Eobert FitzGerald, King's fellow-prisoner in Dublin
Castle, 1689, mentioned in his Diary. Swift states, that ' the usual salary of a
Lord Justice in the Lord Lieutenant's absence is £100, a month.'
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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.1
Mv Lord ' London, Sept. 28th, 1714.
I shoud sooner have acknowledg'd ye favour of your
Grace's letter had I not waited to give you some certain
account of those alterations wcli we were in hourly expectation
of for Ireland. The hurry of affaires has bin so great that
till my Ld Sunderland was confirmed in the Government
little besides good promises coud be given to us. But now
'tis resolved we shall have a thorough reformation, & 'twill be
our own faults if we make not a right use of it, for certainly
no Lord Lieut4 ever went over with a better disposition to do
essentiall good to that poor country woh has been so long &
so villainously tyranniz'd over. Mr. Brodrick will be our Ld
chancellor & we shall have such a set of Privy Councillors &
Judges (these last almost entirely new) as yr Grace & all good
people cou'd wish for ; there will be a great change in all
subordinate civil employm43 and bpricks fill'd with such
worthy men as ye Archbp of Canterbury's recommendation &
yr grace's approbation shall determine upon. In short there
seems to be a disposition to do everything that can conduce
to ye future happiness of these realms, & I most heartily con
gratulate yv Grace upon this miraculous lucky turn of ye
publick affaires, methinks I can scarce persuade myself I am
yet awake, when I consider our late condition, & I look back
with dread upon ye precipice we have escaped. I know you
will receive by this post from some of my friends a list of
persons names designed for severall places & therefore I do
not trouble yr Grace with it. As to foreign affaires, all ye
Princes of Europe (nay even the Fr. King himself) show a
great regard for ye friendship of our king, who is indeed upon
all accounts a more potent prince than ever ascended the
throne of Great Britain. I shou'd not commend his power
were it not at ye same time tempered by all y8 justice, mild
ness & experience of ye world that can be desired in a ruler
of so great a people, so that such as think to cope with him
by y° old artifices of managing a party will fall short of their
computations. His thoughts of yG late peace & treatys of
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commerce are directly opposite to those of yL' late ministry &
with reason, for every hour opens a new scene to us of villany
& ignorance in the contrivers of it, so that there are hopes
we shall see some of yL" grossest offenders brought to due
punishm4, for we are likely to have a good House of Commons
next Pari4, since y° publick mony will not as formerly be
employed in bribing electors.
As to Ireland I find by my L ' Lieu4 that we are not likely
to have a new Pari4 till Feb. or March, in all probability Mr.
Dean 1 will long ere that time be one of our Cheif Judges, in
woh case I design to stand (as I formerly did) for y° County of
Dublin, & with yr grace's leave bring in my eldest son at
Swords in conjunction with y3 man you shall appoint ; for
both these I desire y1' Grace's interest, that ye Hoath family
may not prevent me ; but that my Ld Brabazon may rather
chuse to joyn with me (who have already serv'd for ye
county) than try a new man who may chance not to do so
well. I think to recommend Mr. Forth & Sr Harry Tichborne
(who is likely to miss his election in ye county of Louth) for
Philipston. All our difficulty in Ireland will be to have a
good House of Lords. You know what an odd set of men
commonly attends there, & I can think of no speedy way of
mending it.
Yr Grace's letter to me did us good service, for that woh
was sent by you to our late Ld Lieu4 was not so soon
delivered over to our present one as one woud have wished
for ye importance of ye affair, & I venturd to communicate
early what you wrote to me, wch put our frends into a method
& prevented any surprize. We are much beholding to yB
gent of ye Privy Council ; they have justifyed us beyond
whatever we could have said or done ourselves, & have
effectually done their own business for ever. I am, my Lord,
yr Grace's most obedient & faithfull humble serv4.
E. Molesworth.'
1 Made Chief Baron ; Lord Brabazon and Joseph Deane, Esq., had been
members for Co. Dublin, in the Parliament that met, Nov. 20, 1713, and
Et. Hon. Eobert Molesworth, Esq., one of the members for Swords ; in the next
year's Parliament, Hon. Edward Brabazon and Bt. Hon. John Allen were
members for Co. Dublin, and Eichard Molesworth, Esq., one of those for
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To his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.1
May it please your Grace, ' Dublin- SePt- 30- 1714-
I wrote lately to your Grace something relating to the
vacant bishopricks in Ireland. I believe they will soon be
actually disposed, & therefore I beg leave to give your
Grace my thoughts concerning them.
The vacant bishopricks are four, Eaphoe, Killaloe, Kil
more & Ardagh.
As to Eaphoe,2 it is the best in value, being about £1,200
per annum. It lies next Derry, near Scotland, & is full of
dissenters & papists ; however, it is in a tolerable condition.
Before the troubles, one Dr. Wm. Smith was bishop ; he put
one Mr. Span in as his chancellor, a worthy good clergyman,
well skilled in all parts of learning, particularly in the canon
law, & by the bishop's authority, and the diligence of this
clergyman, he got the churches generally repaired, & the
cures settled & attended. And though the late bishop
did several things that encouraged non-residence for ten or
eleven years, that he hardly resided himself eighteen months,
yet the diocese, I understand, is still in tolerable condition as
to the cures, though discipline has been much neglected. I
mean this of Bishop Pooley ; for the present primate (Thos.
Lindsay) was so little a while in it, that much could not be
expected from him. A watchful bishop will be necessary in
this by reason of the dissenters ; & a man of temper & pru
dence that will know how to deal with & calm the spirit of
the people, especially of the gentlemen, who have been very
much ruffled by some treatment they have met with from
some former bishops.
As to Killaloe, 'tis in Munster, & I cannot pretend to be
much acquainted with it. But, for all I can learn, 'tis in a
miserable condition both as to the churches, the cures &
discipline. It abounds with papists. An active, prudent &
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 ' Dr. Huntington,' wrote Archbishop King, Aug. 21, 1701, ' will have as
easy a bishoprick (Eaphoe), & as good a seat as any bishop in the north, if he
can endure hearing Scotch & apply to business,' but twelve days completed
Bp. Huntington's episcopal career, and John Pooley succeeded him, and d. 1712.

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experienced man ought to be placed here, that may be able
to go through with his business & that may have skill &
courage to reform what is amiss. The value of this is about
£800 per annum.
Kilmore & Ardagh have gone together. The value of
Kilmore is about £1000 per annum, and Ardagh about £600.
The question is, whether they ought still to be united as they
have been in the three last bishops. The reason given why
they ought to be separated is, because they are of a large
extent, & in the utmost disorder, so that no one man can be
able to bring them to any tolerable regularity. The reason for
keeping them united is, because the laity complain that the
bishops are already too numerous in parliament for the lay
lords, there being twenty-two bishops that generally attend
the session, & seldom so many temporal lords. We have
more, but most of them have no estates in Ireland, or live in
England, & do not attend.1
Dr. Wm. Smith, I mentioned before, was removed from
Eaphoe to these bishopricks. He brought Mr. Span along
with him, & placed him at Longford, a country town, on
a good benefice, & put the jurisdiction of Ardagh in his hands.
He began, as he had done at Eaphoe, to build the churches, &
Bettle the cures. Three churches, I think, were finished
& five more begun, then the bishop died (1699), & Bishop
Whitenal (Wetenhall) succeeded. He had not the same
regard for Mr. Span that his predecessor had. He was
absent six years towards the latter end of his life, & sickly for
the most part ; so that sixteen or seventeen years these
dioceses have been in effect without a bishop, the bishop
living either in England or Dublin. Nor was this all the
mischief. He had those about him that prevailed with him
to stop the hands of his chancellor in his proceedings about
discipline ; that stopped the building of churches, so that the
five begun by his predecessor were never finished, but lie as
left by him. And whereas there were woods in the diocese,
1 In 1728 Primate Boulter writes, ' The Bishops here who are the persons
on whom the Government must depend for doing the publick business.'
A similar complaint was made as to the magistracy : ' in many places one
fourth or one-fifth of he resident justices are clergymen for want of resident
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worth, as I have been informed, ten thousand pounds, he sold
& destroyed them all.
The diocese of Kilmore, as I hear from everybody, is more
especially in a lamentable condition as to the cures and
clergy. Ardagh is a little better ; Mr. Span, the chancellor,
notwithstanding all discouragements, having prevented many
inconveniences, for which, & his pious prudent life, he is
much valued by the whole country, both clergy and laity.
Your Grace may easily see what men are fit for such
dioceses. The persons candidate for those under the Duke of
Shrewsbury's government were : —
1st- Dr. Goodwyn,1 his Grace's chaplain, &, as I remember,
Archdeacon of Burford, a grave, sober, good man, & well
affected to his Majesty's government.
2ndly. Dr. Edward Synge,2 chancellor of St. Patrick's,
Dublin, a learned, prudent, pious & active man : the only
objection against him was that he was a Whig ; otherwise it
was owned that none was fitter for a bishop.
3rdly. Mr. Benjamin Span,3 above mentioned, who has
given so many testimonies of his being fit for a bishop. And it
was further said, that it would be of good example to take a
man from a constant cure, after thirty years' labour in the
Church, & of no ambition, & make him a bishop without his
asking. 4thly. Dr. Jeremiah Marsh, son to my predecessor,
Dr. Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin, who has a
good temporal estate, & is Dean of Kilmore, & treasurer
of St. Patrick's, in value about £500 ; he is a grave, sober,
discreet man, & would make a very honest bishop.
5thly. Dr. Forster,4 brother to the Becorder of Dublin.
He is only senior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, at present,
but a very deserving, learned & pious man ; but not having
any preferment in the Church, or served a cure, one cannot
say what bishop he would make.
1 Timothy Godwin, or Goodwin, D.D., Archd. of Oxford, was given Kilmore
and Ardagh.
2 Promoted to Eaphoe.
3 Spanne, Sch., T.C.D. 1675 ; M.A. 1681 ; T.C.D. received, in 1717, a bequest
left by him, of a rent of £12., per annum, for exhibitions to two poor scholars.
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6thly. Dr. Story, Dean of Limerick ; 1 he is in London, &
well known to your Grace.
7thly. Dr. Andrew Hamilton, Archdeacon of Eaphoe.2
He has a good temporal estate, & benefices to the value of
£600. per annum. He is a pious, diligent & learned man.
I was witness of his pains & application, when Bishop of
Derry, for he lived within five miles of me. I confirmed two
hundred in his church, most reduced by his labour to
conformity, being originally dissenters ; which I take to be a
good specimen of a man.
8thly. Dr. John Bolton, Dean of Derry. He has a good
temporal estate, & benefices to about the value of £900. per
annum. He is a grave, prudent, learned man, & would make
a good bishop.
I might name others, & there may be others that I am
not acquainted with, & more deserving ; but those I know, &
believe preferment would be well placed on them : & I
conceive it is not necessary to acquaint your Grace with any
more at present.
I believe I should hardly have ventured to name some of
these, if they had not applied to me, & desired my testimony.
I know not how my Lord Sunderland,3 our Lord Lieu
tenant, may be inclined in this affair, nor is this to interfere
with his Excellency. But I believe he has a high value for
your Grace, & will consult your Grace in a matter of this
nature ; & I believe, if there be occasion, I cannot convey my
sentiments by a better hand, who will communicate only so
much as is proper, & may be of use : in which, not having
the happiness of being acquainted with my Lord, I may
easily mistake.
I humbly entreat your Grace's pardon for this long letter,
& your prayers for &c. Will : Dublin.'
' George Walter Story, D.D., author of Impartial Hist, of the War in
Ireland, 1688-1691.
2 Brother of Wm. Hamilton, Archdeacon of Armagh.
3 The D. of Shrewsbury had not taken possession of the chief government
of Ireland, and on his resignation, Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, was
appointed, Sept. 24, 1714, but ill health preventing him from taking charge of
the government, he resigned the office Aug. 23, 1715, and the Duke of Grafton
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To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin 4
My Lord ' London, Oct. 1", 1714.
Tho' I have by a letter in form acquainted yr Grace &
the other Lords Justices with his Maj"63 having appointed
me Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, & that the Patent is passing ;
yett I could not satisfye myself without taking this first
opportunity of assuring you of my sincere respect, & that as I
shall never have anything in view butt the serving the
King & kingdome to the best of my power, so I shall allways
think myself happy in having & following yr Grace's advice
who have shown y'self so eminently zealous for the service of
his Maj4y & the Protestant interest.
His Maj4)' has been pleas'd to constitute Mr. Broderick, Ld
Chancellour, Mr. Whitshed, Chief Justice of the King's Bench,
Mr. Forster, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, & Mr. Dean,
Chief Baron, all which warrants Mr. Broderick, & the other
gentlemen that are here, will carry when they go over which
they intend to do with all expedition,
His Majty has been further pleas'd to dissolve the old
Privy Councill & to constitute a new one, in which all the
persons that have acted irregularly in the great affair of the
city of Dublin are left out & several! others of the greatest
note & fortune in the kingdome putt in. The letter for
constituting the new Councill goes to yr grace & the other
Justices by this express. I hope this step will go a great way
towards putting the kingdome at ease, & that it will now be
in yr Grace's & my Lord Kildare's power to settle the city of
Dublin. I beg yr Grace to believe that nobody is with greater truth
& respect, my Lord, yr Grace's most obedient humble servant
Sunderland
I must not forgett acquainting yr Grace that Mr. Macartney
is also restor'd in the room of Mr. Nuttley, Judge in the King's
Bench.' 1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Coinm" 2nd Report.

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To the same 1
My Lord 'London Ooto. 12th 1714.
I have before me the honour of two of yr Grace's
letters, one of which brought me inclos'd yr Grace's letters of
recommendation to the Duke & Dutchess of Shrewsbury, both
which I have deliver'd & am infinitely oblidgd to yr Grace for
yr favour & protection therein ; yr Grace was much in the
right when you said in one of those letters that you looked on
me no otherwise than as a son. My lord, I have always had
great reason from yr tender concern of me to be convinc'd of
this, & I shall allways make it my best ambition to endeavour
to deserve to esteem yr Grace my father ; I am satisfy'd
whatever good fortune attends me in this world I shall owe it
in a great measure to yr Grace, & if I could be capable of
becoming it, I am sure it will be due to yr Grace's good
instruction. In this view I shall think myself infinitely
happy in receiving from your Grace from time to time such
instructions as you shall be pleased to give me.
I have not yet the honour of being actually in office,
because the Prince's family is not yet declard ; but I have no
doubt of that employment under his highness which I
mentioned in my last to yr Grace. Her E. Highness is
hourly expected in town, the prince went this morning at 5
o'clock to Margate to meet her. I am much press'd in time
this day, & must beg y1" Grace to excuse my being oblidg'd to
conclude so soon. I am, with great respect, yr Grace's most
dutifull & most oblidg'd humble servant. S. Molyneux.' 2
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.
2 Samuel M., M.A., T.C.D., 1710; F.E.S. ; an astronomer; the 'office'
alluded to was Secretary to George, P. of Wales ; P.C. ; Lord of the Admiralty
1727, d., s.p., 1728 ; his portrait in oils of Abp. King (when in the possession
of his cousin and heir, the Et. Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt. of Castle
Dillon) made by Jarvis, was engraved ; he was son of Wm. Molyneux, author
of The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England
Stated. Dublin. Printed by Joseph Bay, Skinner-Eow, Dublin, 1698, 8°,
Ellis & Elvey, New Bond St., London, sold for £ 3. 3., in 1905, the ' presenta
tion copy from the author with autograph inscription & signature, " To the Et.
Eevrd. the Ld. Bp. of Derry " (Dr. King) ; it had come into the hands of W.
Shaw Mason, the Irish statist, who presented it to the Earl of Charlemont, in

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Mv Lord ' London, Oct. 16th, 1714.
I have the honour of y1' Grace's letter of ye 9th inst., &
am very glad the great affair of the City of Dublin is at last
ended to the satisfaction of all who wish well to the quiett of
the kingdome.
The part yl Grace has had in this whole affair, as it has
his Majtics entire approbation, so ought to be acknowledg'd
by all those that wish well to his & the kingdome's service.2
As to what yr Grace mentions in yr letter in relation to the
Church, I can assure you there is no part of the administra
tion of the Kingdome which his Majty has been pleas'd to
entrust me with, which I shall have so great & constant a
regard to, as what may tend to the honour & service of the
Church, & in order to that I shall allways have the greatest
deference to y opinion & advice, & in particular I must now
beg yr Grace to lett me know yr thoughts in relation to what
benefices are now vacant by the promotion of the new bishops,
some of which I am inform'd are in y1' diocese, which I shall
dispose of as you direct. I have had Dr. Lloyd 3 recommended
to me for St. Warburgh's, which is one of them ; I know him
to be an honest man, butt whither proper for that I submitt
to yr Grace. I onely mention it to have y1 opinion, for if you
think any other properer I will dispose of it to that person ; it
is severall of yr Grace's friends here that have mentioned Dr.
Lloyd to me ; but this is submitted to you. I should take it
for a particular favour if y1' Grace would transmitt to me an
account of the benefices during the vacancys that have been
1818, first edition, large paper, dark green leather with an elaborate panelled
design & border on the sides, gilt edges ' ; described as ' very rare.'
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Coinm" 2nd Eeport.
2 The Corporation of the City of Dublin expressed its approbation, as
follows : ' Ordered on petition of certain of the Commons that his Grace the
Lord Archbishop of Dublin, one of the Lords Justices of this Kingdom, be
presented with his Freedom in a gold box not exceeding £30.' A Dubhn rector
had previously paid the Archbishop the compliment of giving his surname in
baptism to the parish (St. Paul's) foundlings !
3 The Archbishop procured the appointment for Theophilus Bolton, D.D.,
who became Vicar General of the diocese and d., 1744, Abp. of Cashel, ' And
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dispos'd of in prejudice to his Majties title, with yv thoughts
upon it.
The king has been pleas'd to appoint my Lord Tyrawley
generall & commander-in-chief of the troops in Ireland, in
the room of Lieutenant Generall Stewart, & I carried him
this day to kiss his Maj4ies hand. I hope this nomination
will meet with y1' grace's approbation. I am ever, with great
truth & respect, my Lord, y Grace's most obedient humble
servant, Sunderland.'
To the same 1
My dr. Lord, 'London Feb" 8'" 1714-15.
Some time agoe our Eogimt. & 6 more received
instructions from yB King to hold ourselves ready to march &
imbarque for Ireland, wch was most agreeable newes to me
in particular, but on Saturday last was sennit the Ld.
President moved in Council y4 he always thought y4 act severe
whereby ye nation was limited to soe smal a number of troopes
& that he cou'd not believe his Majesties person, his privy
council or his Parlim4 to be safe, if those Begimts be sent
away, upon this application wee are countermanded till
farther orders, the Elections here wcb make most noise & upon
wch rests y3 chiefe safety of all, goe for ye Court as 40 to 23,
& this proportion in y" opinion of ye best judges in those
matters will continue to ye end, the people, especially ye
vulgar, are utterly distracted, a crowd of ye populace 2 nights
agoe cryed out after the Prince's Coach for another General
for an Ormond &c. His Majesty made a merry reply to a
grandee who said he exposed his royal person to[o] much, y4
the King killers, according to y'J English phrase, were all on
his Side. A Gentleman very lately railing against K. William
for ye Legacy he left us, meaning ye Acte of Succession, said
he was in hell selling geneva, one of his friends made answer
y4 one of the best customers y4 ever went to y4 place sett out
from hence y" first of August last.
I take leave to writ this much purely for your Grace's
diversion, they say when the Parlim4 sitts ye substance of
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Mr. Stanhope's negotiation at Vienna will be known & not
before, I spoke this day to my Ld. Lieut. & gave him a third
memorial desireing in case Mr Hill is ordered to receive a
sume of money for his Eegiment, y4 I may have leave to buy
it. My pretensions being just, noe reduced colonel careing to
quitt his half pay for nothing and give a sume besides, & y4
therefore noebody cane be injured except the present Liev4
Col°, who came over my head into ye Eegim4, soe if I rise over
his, it will only bring me to the station I ought to be in, his
Excellcy told me my Col° was restablished & y4 he had some
reasons to believe that there would not be any sudden changes,
but y4 when any such thing did happen he wou'd speak to my
Ld. Marlb. in my favor, this is all I have had ye honor to
receive from y* noble Ld., he has advised several to get them
selves elected members for the next parlmt & promised to doe
for them, Capt. Chichester the late Ld. Dunigal's brother is
one of y4 number, & I wou'd be at some expence to be another
if it cou'd be made practicable. Humbly asking pardon for
this freedome I conclude with all profound respect, my Ld.
Your Grace's most obedient and humble servant. Cha : Irvine.'
To the same l
Mr. Nicholas King,2 as desired by the Archbishop, has
been appointed to succeed Mr. Thornton as Stationer General
of Ireland 
. . . . ' This post will, I fear, bring your Grace the melan
choly news of my Lord Wharton's death.3 He has said
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.
2 ' Nicholas King, esq., of Whitehall, Middlesex, bachelor 26, m., Aug. 19,
1696, at St. Mary's, Whitechapel, Mary, d. of Mr. Euclid Speidell ' ; her brother,
also Euclid Speidell, had an employment in the London Custom-House, and
wrote to Abp. King, when in London, Jan. 11. 1709, sending him a present of
wine ; the Archbishop had applied to the Earl of Sunderland, on behalf of Mr.
Nicholas King (who was not a relative of his), for this office of King's Stationer
in Ireland, held by patent from the Crown for supplying with stationery the
government departments and officials in Ireland ; Mr. B. Thornton, appointed
1692, first held it ; it was abolished in 1830, and its duties transferred to H.M.'s
Stationery Office, London.
3 Thomas, Lord Wharton, created Earl, 1706, and Marquess 1715 ; Lord
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more than once that the affair of his son 1 would break his
heart. . . Joseph Addison.2
April 12. 1715.' To the Bev. Dr. Charlett.3 ' April 20. 1715.
. . . The bulk of the common people in Ireland are either
Papists or Dissenters, equally enemies to the Established
Church: but the gentry are generally conformable, & the
Church interest apparently lies in them. But most of the
clergy under the late management set themselves against the
gentlemen, traversed them in their elections, endeavoured to
turn them out of their boroughs, & in their convocation
opposed the votes of the H. of Commons by contrary votes :
& after the parliament was prorogued, endeavoured at assizes
& quarter-sessions to get addresses condemning the parlia
ment's proceedings ; in many of which, by the assistance of
the judges & sheriffs in the interest of the then government,
they succeeded. This, to be sure, has much irritated &
soured the gentry, & has lost them much to the clergy ; who
yet, as I observed before, are the persons on whom the interest
of the Established Church most depends. But I have reason
to hope, that they are so much in earnest in their religion,
that they will be firm to it, notwithstanding the imprudent
Nov. 23, 1708, ' I congratulate yu on ye accession of yr friend, my Lord Wharton,
to ye Government of Ireland.'
1 Philip, created, 1718, Duke of Wharton ; sold his family estates, 1723 ;
adopted the cause of the Pretender, became a Eoman Catholic ; was outlawed
1729, and d. abroad 1731.
2 Lord Wharton had taken Addison over as his secretary when Ld.
Lieutenant, and Swift wrote to announce this to Abp. King, from London,
Jan. 6, 1708-9, describing him as ' a most excellent person . . . my most
intimate friend ... & as a person you will think worth your acquaintance '
to which the Arohbishop replied, Feb. 10, ' I am wonderfully pleased at the
good character you give Mr Addison. If he be the man that you represent
him to be (& I have confidence in your judgment), he will be able to serve his
lord effectually, & procure himself love & respect here.' Lord Wharton is said
to have refused Swift as his chaplain, which may account for the latter's
venomous attack on that statesman's character. Lord Sunderland appointed
Addison, his secretary, when Lord Lieutenant, 1714-15.
3 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Arthur Charlett, ex Fellow &
Master of University Coll., Oxfd. ; chaplain to the King. n 2

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management of the clergy ; & tho' many be angry, yet I have
not met with one, that seems in the least shocked in his
resolution to stand by the Established Church. I pray God
keep them in this temper ; it shall be my business to
encourage it, & to vail, as much as I can, the weakness of my
brethren, &c.
Will : Dublin.'

To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.1
My Lord, ' Bath> May 25- 1715-
I received yesterday a letter from Mr. Manley giving
an account of the seizing of a parcel of treasonable papers
with one Jeffereys directed to Dr. Swift.2 I acquainted my
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commn 2nd Eeport.
2 Swift writes to Knightley Chetwode, from Dublin, June 21, 1715, ' I have
been much entertained with news of myself since I came here, 'tis said there
was another Packet directed to me seised by the Government ; but after
opening several Seals it proved onely plum-cake. I was this morning with the
A. Bp: [King], who told me how kind he had been in preventing me being sent
to &c. ; I sa I had been a firm friend of the last Ministry, but thought it
brought me to trouble myself in little Partyes without doing good, that I there
fore expected the Protection of the Government & that if I had been called
before them I would not have answered one Syllable or named one Person.
He sd that would have reflected on me. I answered I did not value that, that
I would sooner suffer more than let any body else suffer by me as some people
did. The letter which was sent was one from the great Ldy [Duchess of
Ormonde] you know, & inclosed in one from her Chaplin, my Friends got it
& very wisely burned it after great Deliberation, for fear of being called to
swear ; for wob I wish them half hanged ; I have been named in many Papers
as a proclaim'd for 500lb. I want to be with you for a little good meat & cold
Drink ; I find nothing cold here but the Eeception of my Friends. I sd a good
deal to the A. Bp: not worth telling at this distance, I told him I had several
Papers but was so wise to hide them some months ago,' Hill's (Dr. G. B.)
Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift, 1899. Smollett, in his History, states
erroneously that when Jefferies was seized ' Swift thought proper to abscond.'
Erasmus Lewis, his friend, wrote to him, Nov. 4, 1714, ' I send this to acquaint
you that, if you have not already hid your papers in some private place in the
hands of a trusty friend, I fear they will fall into the hands of our enemies.
Sure you have already taken care in this matter ' ; again, June 28, Swift writes
to Chetwode, ' I went yesterday to the Courts on purpose to show I was not
run away. I had warning given me to beware of a fellow that stood by while
some of us were talking, it seems there is a Trade going on of carrying stories
to the Govrt ' (Hill). The Archbishop's hint to Swift, Nov. 22, 1716, ' I hope
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Lord Lieutenant with it, who was very well pleased with this
fresh instance of your Grace's zeal & diligence in the King's
service, which cannot fail of being highly acceptable to his
Majesty. His Exoy commanded me to give you his thanks for
it; & he hopes that if there appears enough against the
Doctor to justify it he is kept in confinement, & Mr. Houghton
also, but how far that may be justifyable your Grace is best
able to judge ; I presume they are at least held to very good
& sufficient bail. If anything can add to your Grace's ca
racter, this application to the publick service will undoubtedly
heighten it in the esteem of all good men, which, like all
other things that may happen to your advantage, will give a
particular satisfaction to, my Lord, your Grace's most dutifull
& most obed4 humble servant, Ch. Delafaye.1
My Lord Lieutenant's health is improving.'
To the same.2
My Lord, ' Bath> June 15th 1715-
I received on Sunday the honour of your Grace's letter
of the 2d, & last night of the 4th instant. Your opinion, my
lord is certainly right, that making use of the Duke of
Ormond's birthday as a pretext for treasonable meetings &
setting up his name for a watch-word to traiterous riots is the
greatest disservice that can be done him at this time, & may
make it necessary to act with greater severity towards him
than was perhaps at first intended ; but I am afraid his
vanity & affectation of popularity have so blinded him that
he is pleased with these extraordinary marks of respect from
that of his biographer, Eoscoe, who cites it as an illustration that King was
Swift's ' professed friend but secret maligner,' the foregoing extracts, however,
clearly prove, that there may have been occasion for such a fear amongst
Swift's true friends, and to express it to Swift himself was certainly not the
part of ' a secret maligner.' Swift's friend, Peter Ludlow (grandson of Edmund
the regicide), complains to him, Sept. 10, 1718, of the Irish Postmaster General,
Isaac Manley's ' opening letters that were not directed to him,' styling him
' your friend,' as the Dean had been of use to him in Queen Anne's time.
1 Assistant-secretary (with Addison) to the E. of Sunderland when Ld.
Lieutenant. 2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commn 2nd Eeport.

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people by whom one would be ashamed to be owned, & who
are sacrificing him without the least prospect of advantage
to themselves. I have already told your Grace my lord
lieutenant's sentiments of what has been done by the lords
justices for the suppressing of libels, riots, & other dis
affected practices, & how well he is pleased with their diligence
in it, & particularly with your Grace's care. His Excy hopes
the same spirit & vigour will be shown in punishmg as has
been in detecting, else the work is imperfect & there can be
no error in punishing misdemeanours, especially against the
government, as severely as the law will allow.
It is true, my lord, that where a single piece of wit or
satyre comes abroad, it is better policy to overlook & neglect
it than by shewing too quick a sense of such injurys to
encourage those to repeat them who would take a pleasure in
galling & vexing you, when they can do you no other hurt.
But where the endeavours to corrupt a nation are so general
& have succeeded with so many, that the enemy begin to put a
confidence in their numbers & to appear barefaced & brave the
Government, there the same end of shewing how despicable
they appear is to be attained by a contrary method, of punish
ing with severity ; for if once, by a faint-hearted proceeding,
they were led to think you afraid of them, the flame would
burn more fierce & spread wider by the coming into them of
weak people that would joyn with that side that appeared the
stronger. This I can assure your Grace, that your proceeding briskly
& with vigour in these matters is what my Lord lieutenant
approves, & recommends to you in the most earnest manner, as
the most acceptable & effectual service that can be done to
his Ma4y. And I hope his Excys opinion & what his secretarys
write by his command, besides there being a justification for
what you shall do, will weigh more with your Grace than any
conjectures that can be made from the silence of a person who,
perhaps out of mere caution, is unwilling to concern himself
in matters that are not in his province. Your Grace will be
pleased to observe my lord lieutenant gives this caution as
far as the law will warrant ; but his meaning is not that
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it will reach particular persons in the colledge ' ; but ye purging
of that foundation & putting it upon a better foot must pro
bably be the care of the Parliament. I am sure it very well
deserves the consideration of every gentleman who has the
least regard to posterity.
Your Grace has before this time received the King's letter
about the forms of prayer. I do not find his Maty is very
fond of having an anniversary kept for him looking upon this
honour paid to a prince as a kind of prophanation of God's
worship. My lord lieutenant intends to get those pensions continued
which your Grace mentions, & desires your advice about Lord
Bellew's, how that should be settled. He is under age, & his
mother, tho' a good woman, is, I fear, so ill a manager that it
should not be left entirely at her disposal. I believe that your
Grace may expect the establishment soon after my lord
lieutenant's return to town, which is so near that it is not
worth troubling the King for particular orders about those
who want the payment of their salarys & pensions.
I have made your Grace's compliments to my Lady
Sunderland, who is no stranger to your caracter, & bid me to
assure you of her esteem & respect. I am with the greatest
deference, my Lord, your Grace's most dutiful, & most
obedient humble servant. Ch. Delafaye.
I forgot to mention to your Grace that the delay we have
met w4h in relation to our examinations proceeds merely from
multiplicity of business, not from want of inclination to the
measures I have been mentioning. My lord continues to im
prove in health.' To the same.2
My Lord 'July 2.1715.
The letter which I had lately the honour to receive
from your Grace gave me a fresh opportunity of making my
1 Elections of Fellows and Scholars were deferred till the next year, by
order of the Lords Justices, under a King's letter, in consequence of a student
having been punished for defending the murder of King Charles I., which the
Government conceived to be a proof of the Jacobitism of the authorities of
Trin. Coll. Dub.
Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.

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court to my L'1 Lieut"4, who is always very much pleased to
read your Grace's opinion of things, especially since they
so exactly concurre with his own. Our establishment is now
finisht & agreed to by His Majestie, & will be signed as soon
as it can be transcribed in a fair copy. My Lord is so kind
as not to let me know the names of the persons added or left
out, that I may not be worried to death by solicitations & im
portunities, before it is actually signed. He has, I believe,
made augmentations to the prime Serjeant's salary, & to
that of the masters in chancery. He has likewise struck off
about a dozen pensions, & made a separate list of some to be
continued till further order, by which means it is hoped they
will deserve them by their future behaviour. Mr. Keightly's
400 li. p. an. is taken off, but the 1000 li. continued. There
are, I think, five brigadiers, & very near the same number of
major-generals. Col. Creighton x is among the former, &
Major-General Wynne2 among the latter. I hope to send
over the military commissions some time next week. They
have bin signed by the King above a fortnight ago, but y ¦
secretary is so full of businesse that it is very difficult at
present to get anything dispatch'd in his office. I do not
remember the name of any one superceded but that of major
Champaigne 3 in Clayton, who has bin represented by very
many as a person unworthy of such a trust. As soon as
the report on the affaire of Warburgh comes to my hands,
I will for certain reasons endeavour to give it the utmost
dispatch, since I know your Grace has it so much at
heart. My Lord Sunderld, tho' perfectly cured of his cholick pains,
has frequent returns of his palpitations, which last a day or
two together, & are very uneasy to him.
I must beg leave to acquaint your Grace that my secret
1 David Crichton, the gallant defender of Crom Castle against the Irish, in
1689, father of Abraham, 1st Baron Erne, whose son was raised to the Earldom
of Erne. 2 James Wynne raised the 5th Dragoons.
3 Swift writes, Aug. 2, ' I hear Major Champigny (Josias Champigne) was
left half pay ; & consequently he will now have whole ; so that he may yet eat
bread ' ; as son-in-law of the Jacobite 2°d Earl of Granard, he was probably
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service money l is all expended, & must therefore beg your
Grace to move for a new supply if you Bhall think it proper.
I am with the greatest respect, my Lord, your Grace's most
obedient & most humble servant. J. Addison.'
To the same.2
My Ld ' Lifford ye 9th August 1715.
I should sooner have given your Grace ye trouble of
this letter to have acquainted you as well as I am able with ye
present state of y" county, but y4 I was kept a considerable
time on y road by y indisposition of one of my children
I have since my comeing here seen & conversed with
severall of y- gentlemen of ye county & find they are all
zealously well affected to his Majesty, I must except some of
thos of ye barony of Enishowen who by what I can find
give but too much reason to suspect their affection to his
Majesty. I therefore hope y4 none of y4 Barony except Mr. Charles
Norman & George Hart may be commissioners of array, & I
have substantiall reasons for desireing this, too long at ys time
to trouble you with. The great scarcity of armes in ys
county is beyond anything I could have imagin'd till about
three days ago y4 I had occasion to send some men after
seven tory's y4 were hunted out of Fermanagh, & in y" barony
of Kilmakrenan, I could not get thirty men tolerably armed
tho' I believe ye county will be able to array seven thousand
men.
1 ' I shall leave Mr. Budgell to lay before y Grace what has bin usual as to
the secret service money, & shall take care to put it to the proper use. I am
forced often to advance money here to take out warrants for gentlemen in
Ireland, to pay messengers, & sometimes to relieve such indigent petitioners as
are not able to carry on a just pretension, not to mention the article of
stationary ware &c. and as I do not follow my predecessors in taking fees for
recommendatory letters or any businesse done in England the usual allowance
on this head will be an ease to me. But this I submit entirely to your Grace,'
letter from same Mar. 12 ; ' I have found the advantage of your Grace's putting
Mr. Budgell in mind of the secret service money, for I have received by this
post a bill for 200lib which I shall take care to lay out for the proper uses,'
letter of Aug. 4.
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I aske y1' Grace's pardon for y- trouble of ys, I am with
great respect, yr Grace's most obedit & most faith11 humble
serv4, Fred. Hamilton.' 1
To the same 2
My Lord ' Aug. 25. 1715.
This evening my Lord Lieutenant tells me that His
Majesty was pleased in the morning before he went to the
review to declare the Duke of Grafton & Ld Gall way lords
justices of Ireland, & I find Colonel Bladen is to be their
secretary. I was with his Excy (for so I must yet call him)
at eight a'clock, when he had heard nothing of this matter,
but the Duke of Marlborough 3 making him a visite whilst I
was there informed him of what had passed. As I have
heard nothing of it yet in town, I do not know whether the
news will spread enough to be sent to Ireland by this night's
post. I have every day hastened the warrant about St. War-
burgh's, & found so many difficulties in it that I was forced
to mention it in yc letter to ye Secretary of State as what was
earnestly recommended by your Grace. I was obliged to go
into the country upon an indisposition, when the warrant
was drawn up & shown to my Ld L4, but I hope it will answer
yr Grace's intention. It comes to the Lords Justices by this
post. Your lordships will likewise receive a warrant for
making all the payments due upon the last establishm4
from the Queen's demise to the commencement of the new
establishment, which my lord hopes will turn to my advan
tage, having worded the letter to your Excellcy in that view.
As the Secretaries of State here have drawn from me about a
thousand pounds by the commissions which they have given
out, so if I lose the benefit of the two quarters succeeding the
Queen's death my place will be quite starved by my Ld L4's
absence from the Government. I most humbly recommend
myself to your Grace's protection in particulars of this nature,
1 General, M.P. for Coleraine, P.C, Col., Boy. Eegt. of Foot.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm'1 2nd Eeport.
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& shall ever remain, with the greatest gratitude & respect,
my lord, your Grace's most obedient & most humble servant,
J. Addison.
My Ld L4 will, I believe, be declared Privy Seal to
morrow.'
To the same 1
My Lord -Oct. 4.1715.
Tho I have nothing to trouble your Grace with at
present, all matters relating to Ireland being now entirely
passed into other hands, I cannot dispense with myself from
repeating my humble thanks to your Grace for the many
favours you have bin pleased to shew me during the short
continuance of my secretaryship. I am not without hopes of
paying my duty to your Grace in person very suddenly, & in
the mean time cannot forbear taking all opportunities of
expressing my sentiments here of the obligations His Majesty
has to your Grace for the services you have rendered him,
before & since his accession to the throne. I do not know,
but the vanity I have of being thought to have a share in
your Grace's good opinion may frequently put me upon this
subject, but at the same time I am sure nothing can be more
for his Majesty's as well as our country's interest, than that
such persons shou'd on all occasions have justice done them
who are best able to promote it.
My Lord Gallway set out for Ireland yesterday, & as his
lordship's marches are but slow, it is probable the Duke of
Grafton 2 may overtake him before his arrival in that king-
dome. Your Grace has doubtlesse heard before this that
Col. Bladen & Mr. Delafay are to be joint secretarys, & that
the two secretarys places are to be thrown together. Mr.
Walpole is the patron of the first of these two gentlemen, who
might have bin envoy to Switzerland if he had pleased : & I
cannot see how he can propose greater advantages to himself
from halving the secretary's post in Ireland. The Duke of
Grafton is a perfectly good-humoured man, & wou'd have bin
too happy might he have learn't the arts of government under
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.
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such an associate as I cou'd have wish't him. I was informed
yesterday that overtures had bin made for the surrendry of
Sr W. Windham,1 who has this morning given up himself, &
has bin under examination before the Cabinet. He has a
good counsellor in his father-in-law, the Duke of Somerset.
An express arrived yesterday from the Earle of Barclay 2
desiring a reinforcement at Bristol, for that he expected every
moment a rising in that place. A colonel was sent into those
parts to apprehend Mr. Colson, but miss'd him. Several
others as Kynaston & Forster, can not be met with. It seems
very odde that none are yet diseoverd to have embarqued in
this hellish conspiracy but the inconsiderate, hot-headed men
of the party. It is to be suspected that the ringleaders are
more obliged to their caution than their innocence that they
are not yet detected, since it is observed that none of 'em
have taken this opportunity to wait on his Majty, & express
their abhorrence of such proceedings.
The conduct of the University of Oxford is very unaccount
able. They have not yet addressed H. M. nor intend to do it.
One of the heads of colleges, who is a moderate Tory, told me
they durst not propose an addresse in Convocation, where
there are so many violent young fellows as wou'd certainly
reject it.
We expect every day to hear of Mr. Walpole's being at the
head of the Treasury & a member of the Cabinet. His
brother, is said, will be secretary to that board, who is now
gone to hasten over the Dutch troupes. Sr E. Onslow will be
a peer & a teller & the rest of the board either continued or
provided for to their satisfaction.
Our principal businesse in Parliament on Thursday next
will I believe be to move for writts for new elections with
respect to those who get places.
Our ministers have letters from France that the Duke of
Ormond was going towards Brest, but that upon the road he
1 Or Wyndham, 3rd Bt. ; a strong Jacobite ; successively Secretary at war
and Chancellor of the Exchequer, but on Queen Anne's death joined the
opposition ; arrested for complicity in the Scots' rebellion, 1715, but liberated
on bail and never brought to trial ; his son, Sir Charles, succeeded to his
uncle's, the 7th D. of Somerset's, peerage the Earldom of Egremont.
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met with a message from his friends in England, upon which
he returned to Paris. The good disposition of the Duke of
Orleans, & the vigilance of our ministers who are busy'd day
& night in the discovery of these dark designs, give us
reason to hope that they will end in the perfect settlement of
his Ma4ies throne & the crushing of that sett of men who
woud make him uneasy in it.
I beg your Grace's pardon for such a confused news-letter,
& am ever, with the utmost respect & gratitude, my lord,
your Grace's most obedient & most obliged humble servant,
J. Addison.
There is a talk of a battle in Scotland, but I believe it is
Exchange news.'
To the same.1
My Lord, ' Oct. 6. 1715.
When I had the honour to write to your Grace on
Tuesday I did not think I shoud have had occasion to have
troubled you so soon with another letter. But his Maty
having bin pleased to bestow a marke of his royal favour upon
me in augmenting the salary of my place in Ireland,2 &
granting it me for life, in consideration of my services when
I was secretary to the Lords of the Begency, & that affairs hav
ing bin dispatched through the Treasury much sooner than
I expected, I make bold to apply to your Grace for the
continuance of your favour in this particular. My Lord
Godolphin promised me in a letter under his own hand to
move the late Queen for the same grant I have now obtained,
the next time he should wait upon her Majesty, but he was
immediately after displaced, before he met with an opportunity
of doing me this kind office. During the late ministry I was
under apprehensions every day of being removed, not having
deserved the indulgence at their hands which they were
pleased to shew me. This hinderd me from settling the
office I have so long enjoy'd in the method prescribed me by
the grant. This with the obligation I am under to take tbe
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Report.
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oaths, will, I hope, give me the honour of waiting on your
Grace in Ireland. In the meantime, by my Lord Sunderld's
advice, I presume to send your grace & the present Lords
Justices my warrant from the Treasury, which I have also
communicated to the Duke of Grafton by his secretary.
I should be glad to own my obligations to none but your
Grace for the giving this warrant its proper effect in Ireland,
since I believe it will reach your Grace's hands a few days
before the arrival of the Duke of Grafton & the Lord Gallway.
I am sorry that ev'ry letter I write to your Grace shou'd be
either to acknowledge or aske your favour, but if it lay in my
power to make any return of gratitude I should think it one
of the happiest incidents in my life, being ever, with the
most unfeigned respect, my lord, your Grace's most obedient
& most obliged humble servant, J. Addison.
The H. of Commons 1 met this morning, but promotions
not being yet ripe we only ordered the Speaker's last speech
to H. M. to be enter'd in ye journals & adjourn'd to this day
fortnight. Letters are just come in from ye D. of Argyle
who says he has nothing to fear. The Ld Mar is but 3000
strong.' To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.2
May it please your Grace ' Dublin Feb'* 16. 1715-16.
... I should have congratulated the Church & yr
Grace on your Translation to the See of Canterbury (to which
the wishes of all good men designed you long agoe, when it
1 He had also been a member of the Irish Parliament, being elected M.P.
for the borough of Cavan in 1703.
2 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M., lettered on back, ' Bp. Nicholson's Letters, vol. ii. ' ;
77 letters copied with Index of ' Principal Contents of Abp. King's Letters,' by
Wm. Nicholson, Bp. of Carlisle, the author and antiquary, whose translation
to Derry, in 1718, was very distasteful to Dr. King, and a letter from him to
Abp. Wake on the subject, dated ' Dublin, March 25, 1718,' is thus indexed :
'Much grumbling in very Strong terms & a very resentful manner on Bp.
Nicholson's being made Bishop of Derry ' 1 Wm. Wake, D.D., translated from
Lincoln, on the death of Primate Thos. Tenison, was Archbishop till his death
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should please God to remove yr most excellent Predecessor)
but a severe fit of the Gout, rheumatism & Cholick has
disabled me near four months from writing. . . . This is only
to acquaint y1' Grace that the University here are come to a
very good temper & as an instance of it, they have this day
unanimously elected His Highness the Prince x for their
Chancellor, which is not a matter of mere form, but of great
Influence, & gives him a very great power over them &c.
Will: Dublin.'
To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin.2
My most Hon1' Lord, 'London March 17 [1715-16].
Since my last I have delivered the letters your Grace
was pleased to give us to the Archbishop of Canterbury &
Mr. Stanhope, & have very full promises of all countenance
& favour; the Prince has been pleased to use very kind
expressions towards our University, & the Princess3 was
pleased to tell my Lord Archbishop, that she must see the
gentlemen that brought the compliment to his Highness ; I
find my Ld Archbishop is very often with her, & they have
frequent correspondence by letters, and I find she takes all
occasions to shew favour and confidence to men of his
character. I have had of late the honour of being for some
time alone with his Grace, & as he was pleased to talk of
matters relating to Ireland, so I think myself particularly
obliged to mention what he spoke relating to the Test, your
Grace being the best able & most willing to do service to the
Church in that matter.1
I find great care has been taken to give him wrong
impressions of that affair, namely that it was forced on the
1 George, Prince of Wales ; the University Calendar for 1861 dates his
election Feb. 27th ; the office being vacant, in consequence of the attainder, in
1715, of James, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, who had been elected, in 1688, chancellor
both of Dublin and Oxford, in the room of his grandfather.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.
3 Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline, consort of the Prince of Wales.
4 Edward Synge, Abp. of Tuam, wrote, Oct. 9, 1716, to Abp. Wake,— 'My
Ld. Abp. of Dublin will be with yr Grace, I believe before this Letter. No
man that I know can give a better account than his Grace of our Clergy,
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nation, & imposed but lately, that they have ever since been
uneasy under it, that all methods must be taken to encrease
the force of Protestants & make the King's freinds easy, but
above all that the House of Commons must not be disobliged,
who have unanimously desired it ; this last I find cheifly
insisted on, tho' your Grace knows but for a sudden terrour
artfully raised, it was not their desire ; to all these I
mentioned what I thought proper to urge, but lay it before
your Grace who are perfectly master of this important
question ; I find there are thoughts here of qualifying the bill
by making it for three years only & some such like softnings,
but I must own I should answer like King Charles the first,
no, not for an hour, for if ever it goes it is gone for ever.
Your Grace will excuse this freedome in a matter that so
nearly concernes our happy establishment, for now our suc
cession is secured, nothing can so nearly import the peace &
happiness of our kingdome in the humble opinion of my
most Hon'1 yr Grace's most obedient son & obliged humble
servant Bob. Howard.1
The Bishop of Norwich presents his humble service to your
Grace.'
To the same 2
My most Hond Lord, 'London, Apr. 10. 1716
In my last I acquainted your Grace how our cere
monial 3 was setled, I beg leave now to give you an account
how well it was executed to our honour and satisfaction.
Wee gave notice to the Irish gentlemen, who appeared at
Court in great numbers : his Grace of Canterbury introduced
us to the Prince with a short but very kind speech, & then
the Provost 4 spoke very well, & fully : it went of (f) extreamly
1 Robert H., D.D., F..T.C.D. (1703-1722) ; Bp. of Killala, 1726, Elphin,
1729 ; d., 1740 ; father of Ealph, created Viscount Wieklow ; Dr. Howard was
Abp. King's 1st Lecturer in Divinity under his endowment of 1718.
2 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Eeport.
3 Inauguration of George, Prince of Wales, as Chancellor of the University
of Dublin. 4 Benjamin Pratt, D.D., 1710 to 1717, when made Dean of Down, d., 1721 ;
Addison wrote a paper on thesubjectof the Prince's inauguration in The Free
holder, No. 13, and a parody of the Provost's speech on this occasion by Dean
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well, & he has been much complimented upon it ; the Prince
looked very much pleased, & accepted our offer in a very
gracious manner, the wordes I shan't mention, because Mr.
Molyneux tells me he has sent them to your Grace ; Mr.
Molyneux read the diploma, the lord chancellour gave the
oath, he was then admitted & wee kissed his hand. Wee
were afterwards introduced to the Princess, who received us
in the most gracious manner ; she said she thought herself
very happy in the University's of Dublin having done the
Prince the honour to choose him their chancellour, & she
was persuaded he would always have a very great regard
for every member of that body who had expressed their duty
in so loyal & acceptable a manner.
Wee afterwards went to Somerset House, where wee were
very nobly entertained, the Speaker of the Commons, who is
the Prince's treasurer, doing the honours of the table,
& afterwards inviting us to dinner at his own house. Your
Grace will excuse my being so particular ; but wee are to be
introduced to-morrow to the King, his grace of Canterbury
still doing us that honour, & then Mr. Molyneux will carry
us to returne our compliment of thanks to all the great men
whom wee have troubled on this occasion. Every thing has
gone on extreamly well, & as I hope wee have obeyed your
Grace's directions, so I must still give you the first honour
of having sett this whole machine in motion.
The order for taking of[f] the inhibition goes over this
night, & the vice-chancellor's • commission by next post.
My Lord of Canterbury presents his humble service to
your Grace ; all parties here think very well of him for I can
assure you he has lost no ground of late with the Tories.
The repealing the Triennial Bill was brought in this day
by the Duke of Devonshire, read a first time, ordered a second
on Saturday next, when that very important point is to be
fully debated ; but it will certainly pass. Lord Nottingham
violent against it. Your Grace's goodness will excuse all this,
and Beleive me to be, yr most obedient son, & obliged humble
servant,
E. Howard.'
1 Thos. Smyth, Bp. of Limerick.

194 COEEESPONDENCE To the same.1
My most Hond Lord ' Londo11' APr- 12- 1716-
Since my last to your Grace, wee have had the honour
to be introduced to the King, & kiss his hand ; the arch
bishop took this trouble on him, & we are highly indebted to
your Grace's goodness for recommending us to so high &
acceptable a patron ; he has spoken very favourably of us
both to the King & Prince. He was very well received &
heard by both, spoke French very readily to the King, to the
Prince in English, who answers fluently enough.
We afterwards waited on the Princesses who are very
pretty & extremely well behaved, especially the Lady Ann,2
who has an understanding much above her years. Every
body about court appeared very well pleased with our message,
& wee had compliments from the German courtiers. Wee
were at the Prince's levee ; he bowes very graciously, & desires
the speeches & whole should be made publick. When we
waited at the King's levee his Grace of Canterbury spoke
again about the Test, promised to do his utmost in it ; but
said the gentlemen of Ireland did not express any dislike of
their bill ; this, my lord, is the main point, & would weigh
more than all the rest to have men of weight & known
affection to the King's service discourage it. Whereas he said
hitherto none had advised against it but the bishops. I hope
I don't mistake if I apprehended he meant that other people
would be better heard by those in power. I find they don't
think of sending us another bishop ; from your side they
expect recommendations, & 'tis with pleasure wee hear that
your Grace has taken care of restoring the quarter parts to
the clergy, who have been much burthened by that payment. I
think that income, tho' lessened, will be much more comfort
able to the next archbishop. The provost & my brother present
their duty to your Grace. I am, with all duty, your obedient
son & humble servant,
Eob. Howard.'
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm", 2nd Report.
2 Subsequently Princess Eoyal, m., 1734, William, P. of Orange, and d.,
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To the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.1 May 8. 1716.
. . . 'The Deanry of Down is worth 700 or 800'b per
annum. It is now possessed by Dr Lambert, who in my
opinion would make a very good Bishop. The Deanry of
Derry is about the same value; & Dr. Bolton the present
Dean is a grave, sober, learned man & fit for a Bishop. . . .
Dr. Stearne the Bishop of Dromore . . . was remov'd from
the Deanry of St. Patrick's (where he had laid out 1800lb in
building the Deanry) & from my Vicar Generalship to
Dromore in the late Time, but was told this was not for any
Merit in him, but to make room for Dr. Swift.2 He demurr'd
upon it, but his friends & I thought a Dean could do less
Mischief than a Bishop. . . . There is likewise one Mr
Theophilus Bolton,3 chancellor of St. Patrick's, a man in all
respects qualified for a Bishop, if his age, wcb is about 36 or
37 years, be not an Exception. He is now my Vicar General
& truly of his age I know not his fellow . . .
Will : Dublin.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord ' Gaulstown, June 17. 1716.
I have an account by this post that your Grace intends
in two or three days to go for England. I heartily wish you
a good voyage & a speedy return, with a perfect recovery of
your health, & success in all your undertakings for the
service of the Church.
I lately applied myself to some persons who I thought had
credit with your Grace, that they would prevail on you to
consent that Mr. Dopping should have St. Nicholas, & that
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B. M.
2 ' This affair [of getting the Deanery] was carried with great difficulty,
which vexes me.' Journal to Stella April 23, 1713. ' The Duke of Ormond
has told the Queen he is satisfied that Sterne should be bishop, & she consents
I shall be dean.' Same, April 22.
3 Sch., T.C.D., 1695 ; D.D., 1716 ; this recommendation was ineffectual, as
was another in 1721, but, in 1722, he was made Bp. of Clonfert, and d., Abp.
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Mr. Chamberlain, upon surrendering a sinecure (fallen by the
late promotion) to Mr. Wall, might succeed to St. Luke's ; &
having heard your Grace was not disinclined to this scheme,
I thought you had authority enough to make it go down with
Mr. Chamberlain, who would be a gainer by the exchange, &
having already a plentiful fortune, would have as good an
opportunity of showing his abilities in one parish as in the
other. I should add my humble entreaties to your Grace to
consent to this proposal, if I had not so many reasons to
apprehend that it would succeed just so much the worse for
my solicitation. I confess [to?] every friend I have dis
covered long before myself that I had wholly lost your
Grace's favour, & this to a degree that all whom I was
disposed to serve were sure to thrive the worse for my friend
ship to them : particularly I have been assured that Mr.
Wall would not have failed of the prebend of Malahiddart if
he had not been thought too much attached to me ; for it is
alleged that according to your Grace's own scheme of uniting
the prebends to the vicarages it would almost have fallen to
him of course ; & I remember the poor gentleman had always
a remote hope of that prebend when Dr. Moor should quit it.
Mr. Wall came lately down to me to Trim upon that dis
appointment, & I was so free as to ask him whether he
thought my friendship had done him hurt ; but he was either
so meek or so fearful of offending that he would by no means
impute his misfortune to anything beside his want of merit
& some misrepresentations ; which latter I must confess to
have found with grief to have more than once influenced you
against some who, by their conduct to your Grace, have
deserved a quite different treatment.
With respect to myself I can assure your Grace that those
who are most in your confidence make it no manner of secret
that several clergymen have lost your Grace's favour by their
civilities to me. I do not say anything of this by way of
complaint, which I look upon to be an office too mean for any
man of spirit and integrity, but merely to know whether it be
possible for me to be upon any better terms with your Grace,
without which I shall be able to do very little good in the
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late ministry, & the trust they were pleased to repose in me,
were chiefly applied to do all the service to the church that I
was able. I had no ill designs, nor ever knew any in them.
I was the continual advocate for all men of merit without
regard of party; for which it is known enough that I was
sufficiently censured by some warm men, & in a more
particular manner for vindicating your Grace in an affair
where I thought you were misrepresented, & you seemed
desirous to wish to be set right. And upon the whole, this I
can faithfully assure your Grace that I was looked upon as a
trimmer & one that was providing against a change, for no
other reason but defending your Grace's principles in church
& state ; which I think might pass for some kind of merit in
one who never either had or expected any mark of your
favour. And I cannot but think it hard that I must upon
all occasions be made uneasy in my station, have dormant
prebends revived on purpose to oppose me, & this openly
acknowledged by those who say they act under your Grace's
direction. That instead of being able to do a good office to a
deserving friend, as all my predecessors have been, it is
thought a matter of accusation for any one to cultivate my
acquaintance. This I must think to be hard treatment &
though I regard not the consequences as far as they are
intended to affect myself, yet your Grace may live to lament
those which from thence may happen to the church.
When I was first made dean your Grace was pleased in a
very condescending manner, to write to me that you desired
my frendship : I was then in the service of the ministry, &
the peace was made : & if I had any share in their ill designs
I was then guilty, but I do not know that I have ever done
anything since to forfeit your good opinion : I confess I lost
many friends by the Queen's death, but I will never imagine
your Grace to be of the number.
I have given your Grace too long a trouble. I humbly
beg your blessing, & I shall remain ever, with the greatest
truth & respect, my Lord, your Grace's most dutiful, & most
humble servant, Jonathan Swift.' x
1 The friendly correspondence between Swift and King had been suspended
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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.1
May it please your Grace, ' Bath July 16- ^in^
I had the honour of your Grace's of the 30th of June
this day. It was returned to me from Ireland.
On the illness of Primate Marsh, Swift had expressed himself, in Dec. 1710,
thus to King, ' I hope for the Church's good that your Grace's friends will do
their duty in representing you as the person the Kingdom wishes to succeed
him ' ; but after the primate's death, in Nov. 1713, he found it would be
useless to advocate the Archbishop's claims to the promotion, for the reasons
given in a letter, from London, of Dec. 19, 1713, to King's great friend, Bishop,
Stearne, ' I know not who are named among you for the preferments ; &, my
Lord, this is a very nice point to talk of at the distance I am. I know a person
there better qualified, perhaps, tlian any tliat will succeed. But, my Lord, our
thoughts here are that your kingdom leans too much one way ; &, believe me, it
cannot do so long while the Queen & administration here act upon so very
different a foot. This is more than I care to say. I should be thought a very
vile man if I presumed to recommend to  my own brother, if he were the
least disinclined to the present measures of her Majesty & ministry here.
Whoever is thought to do so must shake off that character, or wait for other
junctures. This, my Lord, I beheve you will find to be true ; & I will for once
venture a step further than perhaps discretion should let me ; that I never
saw so great a firmness in the Court as there now is to pursue those measures
upon which this ministry began, whatever some people may pretend to think
to the contrary : & were certain objections made against some persons we both
know, I believe I might have been instrumental to the service of some whom
I much esteem. Pick what you can out of all this ; ' and to King himself he
plainly writes, Dec. 31, 1713, from London, ' My Lord, we can judge no other
wise here than by the representations made to us. I sincerely look upon your
Grace to be master of as much wisdom & sagacity as any person I have
known ; & from my particular respect to you & your abilities, shall never
presume to censure your proceedings until I am fully apprised of the matter.
Your Grace is looked upon here as altogether in the other party ; which I do
not allow when it is said to me, I conceive you to follow the dictates of your
reason & conscience : & whoever does that will, in public management, often
differ as well from one side as another.' The Archbishop gave Swift (according
to Ld. Chancellor Phipps) some cause for dissatisfaction on a point where Swift
was specially sensitive, viz. his Hberty of absence from his deanery ; perhaps
this induced him to take a more active part in obtaining the primacy for Dr.
Lindsay, the Tory Bishop of Eaphoe, who wrote to Swift, Jan. 5, 1714, ' Accept
my thanks for the great services you have done me : <£ as you have contri
buted much to my advancement,' &o. Phipps' hint to Swift alluded to previously,
was (Oct. 24, 1713), ' I cannot discharge the part of a friend if I omit to let you
know that your great neighbour at St. Pulcher's is very angry with you. He
accuses you for going away without taking your leave of him, & intends in a
httle time to compel you to reside at your deanery. He lays some other things
to your charge which you shall know in a little time.'
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I intended strait for London, in order to pay my Duty to
His Majesty, but our Parliament in Ireland sat so long that it
was impossible for me to overtake him before he went.
I landed the 1st instant at Chester & understanding that
His Majestie's journey was fix'd & that I could not wait on
him I came strait here, where, God willing, I intend to stay till
the middle of September, & I hope His Majestie may return
some Time in October, & then I may have the happiness to
kiss his hands. In the mean Time I may see His
Highness The Prince, & have some conversation with my
Friends. I confess I am much in the dark as to many Things,
& more particularly need y1' Grace's assistance to clear them.
As to the affairs of our Church I adjusted some things
with the Arch-Bishop of Tuam, before I came away in order
to represent them to your Grace. I need not tell yr Grace
that there are some that act as if they were much afraid of
his Majestie's doing anything that might be grateful to the
clergy, & had rather want the greatest advantages to the
Church than receive them from hands they do not like.
I am sorry to find an intimation in yr Grace's as if the
King's absence were a case that was like frequently to happen.
We are, I confess, very weak Politicians in Ireland, & there
fore can by no means well digest His Majesties absence from
his Kingdoms. To be sure this proceeds from no ill disposi
tion towards his Person. We can now only pray for his
happy voyage & quick Eeturn. I wish y1' Grace all ye benefit
of ye Country Air & all possible Comfort in your family, & am
with ye greatest respect, My Lord, y1' Grace's most humble
servant,
Will : Dublin.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin,
London
My Lord, ' Dublin Nov. 13. 1716.
The reason I never gave your Grace the trouble of a
letter was because it could only be a trouble without either
entertainment or use ; for I am so much out even of this little
world that I know not the commonest occurrences in it;
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business, for I have nothing to ask but your blessing &
favourable thoughts ; only I conceived it ought not to be said
that your Grace was several months absent in England with
out one letter from the dean to pay his respects 
The Tory clergy here seem ready for conversion [to the
Whig party], provoked by a parcel of obscure zealots in
London, who, as we hear, are setting up a new Church of
England by themselves. By our intelligence it seems to be
a complication of as much folly, madness, hypocrisy & mis
take as ever was offered to the world. If it be understood so
on your side I cannot but think there would be a great
opportunity of regaining the body of the clergy to the
interest of the Court ; who if they were persuaded by a few
good words to throw off their fears, could never think of the
pretender without horror ; under whom it is obvious that
those refiners would have the greatest credit, & consequently
everything be null since the time of the revolution, & more
havock made in a few months than the most desponding
amongst the Tories can justly apprehend from the present
management in as many years. These at least are, as I am
told, the thoughts & reasonings of the high-church people
among us ; but whether a Court in the midst of strength &
security will conceive it worth their while to cultivate the
dispositions of people in the dust is out of my reach 
Jonathan Swift.'
To Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's.
gir, ' Suffolk St., London, Nov. 22. 1716.
I read your's of the 13th instant with great satisfaction.
It is not only an advantage to you & me that there should be
a good correspondence between us, but also to the publick ; &
I assure you I had much ado to persuade people here that we
kept any tolerable measures with one another : much less that
there was anything of a good intelligence ; & therefore you
judged right that it ought not to be said, that in so many
months I had not received any letter from you.
I do a little admire that those that should be your fastest
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did in procuring the twentieth parts & first fruits ; I know no
reason for it except the zeal I shewed to do you justice in that
particular from the beginning. But since I only did it, as
obliged to bear testimony to the truth in a matter which I
certainly knew, & would have done the same for the worst
enemy I had in the world, I see no reason why you should
suffer because I among others was your witness. But be not
concerned, ingratitude is warranted by modern & ancient
custom, & it is more honour for a man to have it asked why
he had not a suitable return to his merits than why he was
overpaid? Bene facere et male audire is the lot of the best
men. If calumny or ingratitude could have put me out of
my way, God knows where I should have wandered by this
time. I am glad the business of St. Nicholas 1 is over any way ;
my inclination was Mr. Wall ; that I might have joined the
vicarage of Castleknock to the prebend of Malahidart, which
would have made a good provision for one man, served the
cures better, & yielded more then to the incumbent than it
can do now when in different hands. But I could not com
pass it without using more power over my clergy than I am
willing to exert. But as I am thankful to you for your
condescension in that affair, so I will expect that those with
whom you have complied should shew their sense of it by a
mutual return of the like compliance when there shall be
occasion. Such reciprocal kind offices are the ground of
mutual confidence & friendship, & the fuel that keeps them
alive ; & I think nothing can contribute more to our common
ease & the public good than maintaining these between you &
me, & with the clergy.
We have a strong report that my Lord Bolingbroke will
return here & be pardoned ; certainly it must not be for
nothing. I hope he can tell no ill story of you.2 I add only
my prayers for you, & am, Sir, your most humble servant &
brother,
Will : Dublin.'
1 The living was in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick's.
2 The possibility here alluded to was warmly resented by Swift, but vide
Delafaye's letter of May 25, 1715, and note.

202 COEEESPONDENCE To Mrs. Irvine x
Dear Sister, ' London Dec 1* 1716.
I had yr letter of the 22d of Novr last, & was very glad
to find you & my Br. well, I am sorry that I cannot be in
Dublin to entertain him, I writ lately to him, & hope he has
Becd. it, I should be glad to do him any service, & certainly
have endeavoured to do the utmost of my power, but there is
something that has more force towards promoting men than
all that I can do or say.
I can't positively say when I shall leave this place, but if
my Brother have any eomands for me whilst I stay here, I
shall diligently execute them.
I do not remember that I was ever so heartily wearied of
any place as of this, I pray God restore me to my frends at
Dublin & St. Sepulchre's, for however God disposes of my
Days, I find both my heart & business is there, present my
best respects to my Brother, I recommend you & him to God's
good protection & am, Dear Sister, your's &c.
W. D.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.2
' Suffolk St., London, Jan. 18. 1716-17.
. . . His Majesty has dispos'd of six Bishopricks in Ireland
since his accession to the throne, & only two of them have
been given to persons educated in Ireland. The same method
was taken in her late Majestie's time especially towards the
latter part of her Eeign, when ye Primacy, Kildare, Ossory,
Derry, & Waterford were given to persons educated in
Oxford 
I have a particular regard for the Diocese of Derry
having resided in it 12 years, & I left it thirteen years agoe
in very good order. No Bishop has stay'd in it two years of
those 13 & I am inform'd that it is degenerated greatly from
what it was. It needs therefore an experienced Bishop that
knows the discipline of the Church, the country, the people &
their Humour to reform it.
Wll: Dublin.'
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To the same.1 ' Bath, May 8. 1717.
... It has been my fortune to have had many struggles in
ye Worlds & an 0f them in the way of my Duty, & on that acct.
I have been oppos'd, abus'd, expos'd, & reproach'd by all
methods that malice or wit could invent, calumniated, nick-
nam'd & misrepresented. I have had the Government of
Ireland, the House of Lords, the Courts of Justice & my own
clergy opposing me & studying to mischeif me, & have been
told by my friends that I ought to be quiet for I eld never
expect to do any good. But I thank God this never gave me
any trouble, nor discourag'd me, but I went on in my Duty
without fainting or so much as uneasiness & after all I found
I did a great deal of good & at last commonly gain'd my
point & think this was St. Paul's case in all his Perills 
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.1 ' Bath, June 15. 1717.
... I am very glad yr Grace has fix'd Mr. Synge 2 in My
Lord Lieutenant's 3 Family. To be sure he shall have all the
assistance I can give him, 'tho I very much doubt what
interest I shall have in his Grace's Family considering how
his Dutchess is inclin'd towards me.
... I am sorry that my letter which yr Grace ventured to
shew Her Highness the Princess i was not of moment & better
fitted to appear before a person of so exquisite judgement, but
I find Her Highnesses goodness of which I had so great
experience when in London supplied the defect of it. I pray
most heartily & verily hope that matters will succeed to her
Highnesses Honour & Satisfaction beyond anything that I can
foresee.5 'Twere too much Presumption to desire y4 my most
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Edward (eldest son of Edward, Abp. of Tuam), F.T.C.D., 1710-19 ; Bp. of
Clonfert, 1730; Ferns, 1733; Elphin, 1740; d., Jan. 1762; mentioned in
Introduction, as preparing for the press Archbishop King's life, works, and
correspondence. 3 Sir Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, in succession to Ld. Townshend.
4 The consort of George, Prince of Wales.
5 The unhappy quarrels between the King and the Prince of Wales were
then in progress.

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humble Duty & deep sense of Her Highnesses goodness &
favour should be represented to her. But assure yourself the
Prince & Her Highness have not a more faithful subject or
truer admirer of their personal perfections than I, & I have
had, & believe I shall have, daily opportunities to express my
sense of them & to good purpose.
I am heartily tir'd & indeed asham'd of my long confine
ment here beyond my intention but I dare not venture on a
journey and a voyage till I get a little strength in my feet
after so tedious a fit of the Gout, &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same x
' Bath, June 26. 1717.
... I hope by the methods taken with the College of
Dublin that Society is entirely gain'd to his Majesty. I wish
to God that we could say ye same for the Universities here.
For my own part I do not think that impossible if it should
please God to settle so good an understanding in the Eoyal
Family that His Boy1 Highness might by His Majestie's
approbation make a Progress to them, shew them some
favour & countenance & settle Prince Frederick 2 for some
time as a Student in one of them. I persuade myself it
wou'd be a good step towards altering their present Temper
& if His Majesty eld be prevailed on to imitate His Boyal
Predecessors Queen Elizabeth & his Great Grandfather King
James 3 & visit them in person, I doubt not but it wd have
the same effect now that it had then.
I understand His Maj. speaks Latin very well, & answering
the Harangues in that language I imagine wou'd do very well,
if to this were added an hearty Espousal of the Church, a
Discountenancing Atheists & Theists & an Indifferency to
Dissenters, I am much mistaken if it did not bring more
security to the Eoyal Family than Twenty Eegiments of
Dragoons. It ought further to be remembered y4 in the Beginning of
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Eldest son of the Prince of Wales, then in his eleventh year ; was father
of George III.
3 One of whose visits to Edinburgh University is alluded to p. 1, note 2.

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Q. Elizabeth's Eeign the Universities were much more dis
affected than they are supposed to be now, & yet we see how
soon they were gained. If we would consider & apply y-
methods then us'd to bring them into good temper the same
causes will have the same effects.
If yl Grace thinks these impracticable Speculations I hope
y1' Grace will remember that they proceed from a man y4 is
not quite recovered from the Gout & has some time found
that his Notions which Politicians call whims when put in
practice have prov'd more effectual than their wise projects.
In short till it please God to enable me to undertake my
journey which I hope may be in some time within 10 or 12
days I have little else to do but write & therefore I hope your
Grace will indulge, My Lord, Y1' Grace's most faithful &
obedient Servant Will : Dublin.' 1
To the same.2
May it please yr Grace 'Dublin Jan. n. 1717-is.
I have been studying yl melancholy Letter of the 31st
of December last, & it seems to me that yr Grace has lost this
Christmas as well as I, but from somewhat different causes.
I conclude that yr Grace could not keep a merry Christmas
under so many disgusting Views & Befleetions as appear in
your Letter. But as to me, tho' I had my share of them yet
I should have made a much more agreeable Feast of it, if I
could have been at Liberty to spend it with my Friends as I
us'd to do ; but my Lord Lieutenant's going away, & the
Uncertainty of the Time of his Departure, kept me & every
Body in a continual Hurry ; & I could neither eat my meat
in Quiet, nor invite my Friends.
I must own to yr Grace that I can by no means under
stand the present conduct of affairs. They have made me
one of the Chief Governours3 here, without giving me the
1 After his return home, Friday, July 16, he was sworn one of the Lords
Justices, on the 20th, having been nominated March 20, 1716.
2 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
3 Jan. 9, Wm., Abp. of Dublin, and Wm. Conolly, Esq, Speaker of the H. of
Commons, sworn as Lords Justices; and again, May 22, 1718, with Alan
Broderick, Viscount Midleton, the Ld. Chancellor, and held office 'till the Duke
of Bolton, the Lord Lieutenant's return, Mar. 31, 1719.

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least intimation that such a thing was designed me, till the
Letter came over, nor did I see that or the Comission, or
Instructions by which I was to act, til the night before my
Lord Lieutenant went away ; nor should I then, if I had not
been somewhat obstreperous, & made such Declarations as
did not please. When I saw the Instructions I remonstrated
against them, & obliged his Grace to relax something in them,
& if I could have brought my Fellow Justice to act as I did,
we should have had as few Eestrictions as we pleas'd.
I can't for my Life see, why we that know the Interest &
State of the Kingdome & are as heartily attach'd to his
Majestie's Service as any Nobleman in England can be,
should not be trusted with the Government as much as he ;
at least when there is no other Eeason for the Difference but
to get his Secretary a few more Fees ; & that is at the
Bottom the true Eeason of all our Eestrictions.
Governours that have neither the Power nor the Profit
necessary for their Station, must make the Government con
temptible, & so it has appear'd in many Instances since these
new Limitations came in Fashion.
Looking over the List of Officers in the army I find
almost [all] the old changed, especially amongst the Superior
Officers, I find People at a Loss for the meaning of it. Some
think it bodes no good.
I am perfectly at a Loss as to any Knowledge of what
passes at Court, & am heartily sorry to find yr Grace seems
so much a stranger there. I am afraid yr Grace is only Bp.
of Canterbury. If the whole world had consulted together to
find an effectual way to make a Faction irreconcileable I can't
imagine they could have invented a more infallible, than to
hinder all conversation or common civilities amongst Par
tisans ; and whoever invented or advis'd that Prohibition was
surely his Crafts-master. How can it be expected that ever
Persons should come to a good Understanding between them
selves, when common Friends are not allowed to be common
Friends, but all oblig'd to declare themselves mutual enemies ? 1
1 The Prince of Wales, having been excluded from St. James's, removed to
Leicester House, which became a centre of opposition to the King's Government
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I pity y1' Grace & others that are sincere to His Majesty
who, I fear, are neither at liberty to speak your minds, nor
do your Duties. For ought I find we generally are of one
mind here as to that affair, & speak the same way, bemoaning
the fatal circumstances, & pleasing ourselves only in this,
that we are at a Distance from it.
But as y1" Grace observes, the Mischief will certainly in
the event reach us if it continue, & I doubt it will all Europe.
Pray God prevent the effects of it. But is there nobody that
dares deal with the Parties, as Joab did with David, when he
found him engag'd in a practice that disgusted & shamed
all his Friends. I pray God that there be not the same
necessity for such a Freedom of Advice in this Exigent, as
there was in that affair ; & that there may not want those
that will give it with the same Boldness &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same 1
' Dublin Feb. 6. 1717-18.
... I do not know any Body that has a more difficult
Game to play than yr Grace in the present circumstances & I
think 'tis rather more difficult by reason the liberty is allow'd
you to visit the Princess. More may be expected, from yr
Grace by both Parties, than is in yr Power ; & every thing
you do or say will be enquired into, & ten to one be mis
represented. I often think of this ; & since I can no other
wise assist yr Grace, I make it part of my own constant
Prayers to God to assist & direct you.
I am of opinion that this Breach will be made up ; 2 but I
doubt 'twil be with great Slaughter of Favourites on both Sides.
We are poor to the utmost Degree in Ireland.3 Our Lord
Lieutenant the night before he went issued Orders for the
Payment of near J50,000, & did not leave £15 in the
Treasury to pay it ; & we have every day new additions to
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
* Between the King and the P. of Wales, as it partially was, in 1720,
through the influence of Walpole.
3 He had written to Dr. Wake, Aug. 10, 1717, his ' apprehension of a Land
Tax which the Kingdom could not bear ; their Quit-Bents, Crown-Bents, &
Hearth-Money (the same with your Chimney Money in England) being so heavy
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our Establishment, Three Thousand pounds per annum to
one for 32 years, which in all makes Ninety Six Thousand
Pounds, the fifth part of all the current coin of Ireland.
Add to this the half pay Officers returned upon us for which no
Provision was made by the last Parliament, we being told that
England would pay them, since we took off from England 13
standing Eegiments instead of our 13 that were broke, & we
quarter & pay them.
I find likewise that your Parliament is destroying the
little Trade that is left us. These & other Discouragements
are driving away the few Protestants that are amongst us ;
insomuch that last year some Thousands of Families are
gone to the West Indies. No Papists stir except young men
that go abroad to be trained to arms, with Intention to
return with the Pretender. The Papists being already five
or six to one, & a breeding People, you may imagine in what
conditions we are like to be. I may further observe that the
Papists being made incapable to purchase Lands, have turn'd
themselves to Trade, & already engrossed almost all the Trade
of the Kingdom.
I am wearied with this melancholy Subject & can add no
more but that I am, may it please yr Grace, yr most obedient
serv4 & Brother,
Will : Dublin.'
' These for his Grace My Lord Archbp. of Dublin.1
May it please yr Grace, March 1717-18, Dublin.
I presume to give yr grace the trouble of receiveing my
gratefull acknowledgm43 for y1' grace's tendernesse to my
friend, Deane Francis 2 : there is not any one thing in yB world
wcb y1' grace cou'd do for mee wch cou'd affect my mind more
deeply with a sence of y1' goodness or oblige mee more to
devote myself to yr service dureing the rest of my life.
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Commn 2nd Beport.
2 Grandfather of Sir Philip Francis, one of the reputed authors of Letters
of Junius. He was turned out of the benefice to make room for the Ld.
Lieutenant's protege; Dec. 12, 1724, Abp. King mentions of Lord Carteret, then
Lord Lieutenant, ' I believe all that Dean Francis had is little enough, in his
opinion, for his first chaplain, Dr. Burscough,' appointed the next year Bp. of
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I came first acquainted with him about 30 yrs. ago in
Lancashire, where he was tutor to ye present Sr Eoger
Bradshaig, & in aug4 88, when the mayor of Chester, myself,
the record1", all the aldermen & com'on councell, being 64
persons, were in one day remov'd from our sev'all stations,
expressely for refuseing to take up the test & penal laws, &
agreed to dine together on y4 occasion. This gent was by
com'on consent pitch't upon to be our chaplayne, as one
known to us all to be well affected to the Protestant intrest
ag4 the then attempts of popery & arbitrary power, & after
the Prince of Orange landed, haveing some scruples in my
mind ariseing from some prejudices of my educacon, I con
sulted with him concerning my going to Nottingham to the
then Earle of Devonshire, my Lord Cholmely & others then
in armes, & when I had receaved satisfac'on in my doubts I
went over to them.
Afterwards in the year '90, I was made solicit1' here & in
'91 I went for Mr Francis, & hee liv'd 3 yrs. in my house
before hee got any p'ferm4. The opinion wch I have of his
integrity is well grounded & the effect of long experience, &
his learning & abilities in his profession are known to all, & I
do not believe y4 such a man cou'd at any other time have
been sacrific'd & his wife & seven children left to starve in
his old age. I have done all y4 1 can on y" other side of ye
water to prevent his ruine, & those y4 I have writ to have
credit enough with ye Duke & Dutchesse both to lay aside the
present orders & to get for the deane the title of the crown.
I have no need to importune yr grace ; no one knows better
the means of his preservac'on than yr grace, & I'm told yr
grace has expresst yr self with compassion & with a disposic'on
to protect him as far as you can fittly do it, & I am sure you
will make it good. I am extreamly oblig'd to yr grace for yr
many fav'rs, & wou'd have waited on you to expresse myself
more fully if I was not just goeing out of town, I am, with all
sincerity, May it please yr grace, yr grace's most dutiful &
most obliged serv4, B. Levinge ' '
1 Sir Eichard, created, 1704, Baronet of Parwick Hall, Co. Derby ; Speaker
of Irish H. of Commons ; in 1720 Ld. Ch. Justice of Common Pleas ; d. 1724.

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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.1
' Dublin March 11. 1717-18.
. . . My affair in Parliament 2 went very well I find that I was
much obliged to my Lords Bishops of Lincoln & Gloucester,
& to my Lord Cheif Justice Parker & Lord Coningsby, who all
spoke in the cause and in Truth it was the cause of Episcopacy
against obstinate Usurpers &c  The Incumbent of St.
Mary's (Dublin) is one Dr. Francis, a Person very agreeable
to his parish, a constant Eesident & one that is much follow'd
for his Preaching especially by the fair Sex .... old & crasy 3
& has a wife & 6 or 7 children' .... complains that though he
has served the Parish 13 years, the Lord Lieutenant threatens
to turn him out, as there is a flaw in his title, & goes on,
' Yr Grace knows very well that I was unwilling to be in the
Government, & it was the Foresight of such usuage that
principally made me averse to it. I am thought to have
some Interest in his Majesties Favour & the Government's, &
that has been one Mean & indeed the cheif that has given me
an Influence both on the clergy and layety for his Majesties
service ; & I thank God I have not been altogether unsuccess
ful in it, but this usuage which is observ'd by everybody will
make me look very little, & I apprehend make me have little
Weight, & if the course be prosecuted that hitherto has been
taken I am afraid I shall be obliged to apply to His Majestie
to be eas'd of it. When I am in the Government & Arch-
Bishop of Dublin & must not be appriz'd of the Disposal of a
Benefice in my own Diocese, especially such a one as this,
so circumstanc'd I am Rpt to think every body will think my
Interest very little and neglect it.
I do not fear any Disturbance in Ireland if you be quiet
in great Britain. Will : Dublin.
(P.S.) Yr Grace will pardon my using another hand con
sidering that I am now in a Fit of the Gout.'
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 The prolonged litigation as to jurisdiction between the Archbishop and
the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, commencing 1703, terminated in the
former's favour 1724.
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His Grace the Arch-Bp. of Dublin.1
My Lord, March 22*, 1711.
The affaires of Ireland being now entirely passed from
my hands into those of others I can only thank your grace
for the honour of your last letter, & wish the scheme con
tained in it may take place, which our great men here being
acquainted with, I question not but they will give that
attention to it which everything deserves that comes from
your grace.
My Lord Lieutenant will, I believe, this evening, trans-
mitt to your grace a warrant that regards myself which never
proceeded from any request or intimation of my own ; but as
I cannot but value such a mark of His M4ie3 acceptance of my
poor services I must entreat your grace's favour in giving the
proper orders for its taking the designed effect. I should not
presume to trouble your grace on this occasion had I not
already received great instances of your favour, & were not
I, with the most inviolable sincerity and respect, my lord,
your grace's most obedient & most humble servant, J. Addison.' 2
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.3
' Dublin April 12th. 1718.
. . . ' I own to your Grace that I am one of those Whimsical
men that will not always do, or say, or think what I am bid.
I never was so complaisant to my Governours, and I hope my
Friends will not expect it from me. And if it has pleas'd
God to make me an Instrument to do any Good in my Station
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Beport.
' He had been a commissioner of excise ; an under sec7 of state in 1706 ;
sec, 1710, to Ld. Wharton when Ld. Lieutenant of Ireland ; and again to Ld.
Sunderland ; after serving as secretary to the lords of the regency he had been
made one of the lords of trade, and, in 1717, a principal secy of state, and
colleague with Lord Sunderland, he resigned on account of his health, in
April 1718, and was granted by the King a pension of £1500 a year, which
from this letter appears to have been placed partly, or in whole, on the Irish
pension list; he m., 1716, the Countess Dowager of Warwick, and d., at
Holland Ho., Kensington, June 17, 1719.
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in the World, tis cheifly due to this Obstinacy and the Neglect
of my private Interest, which yet after all by God's good
Providence has not much suffer'd by it . . .
Will : Dublin.'
To ' John Spranger, Esq", at Henry Hoar's, Esq.,
in Fleet St. London1
gjr March 18. 1719.
I received your's of the 19th of Febry yesterday, &
two before ; but have had a long fit of the gout in my right
hand, which has disabled me to write, & it is with pain I
handle my pen. I thank you for the account you gave me :
as to what concerns my Lord Primate, I have nothing to say ;
but as to my being a positive opiniative man, & wedded to
my own way, it is no news to me.
'Twas the constant clamour of Sir Constantine Phipps &
all that party, & no wonder, when I was almost single in
opposition to their designs. And I believe I shall take the
same way, if I should perceive anything carrying on to the
prejudice of his Majesty's prerogative, of the interest of religion
or the publick. But I have had the fortune in everything,
where I was reckoned to be positive, to be justified by the
event : and when the mischiefs of the contrary management
have appeared, then I have universally been acknowledged to
have been in the right : & I am sorry that I am able to
give so many instances where it so happened. I never yet that
I remember stood out against the current of common opinion,
bat I have at long running either gained my point or seen the
repentance of those that blamed me.
I hope the Diocese of Derry, whilst I was in it, & the
Diocese of Dublin, since I came to it, have not been the worse
for my steadiness ; for so I call that virtue which others call
positiveness, opiniatreU, & being wedded to my own way.
The truth is my ways are the ways prescribed by the common
& by ecclesiastical laws, & so ought not to be called my ways ;
but generally the ways of those that censure me are truly
their own ways, being contrary to laws, canons, & justice. It
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; a ' Mr. Spranger ' is mentioned
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is easy for a few whisperers in London, whose designs &
practises I have opposed, to tell ill stories, & prejudice
people against any one : but I believe if it were put to the
vote of the people of Ireland to judge of my conduct, I should
have as many of all sorts approving it, Protestants, Dissenters
& Papists, as any of my easy complying neighbours would
have for justifying theirs. Though I am little concerned
about that, my business not being to please men but God : &
he is so good, that when a man's ways please him, he often
makes his enemies at peace with him, & beyond all expecta
tion, his reputation is cleared. You say, the person who dis
coursed you acknowledged that I had been & was useful &
serviceable to the Church : assure yourself that if ever I was
so in anything, it was by doing those very things that got me
the censure of being opiniative & singular.
I remember an understanding & sincere friend once in
genuously told me, that I was too rough & positive in my
treating my clergy, & proposed to me the example of the late
Bishop of Meath, Dr. Dopping, a person who was, in truth,
much better skilled in the laws & constitutions of the Church
than I was, had the good thereof as much at heart as any
man could have, was of a meek & gentle spirit, & managed all
things with mildness & gentle persuasion. I asked my friend
whether he was well acquainted with the dioceses of Meath &
Derry, & desired him to tell me whether of them he thought
in best condition, as to the churches built & repaired, as to
the progress of Conformity, service of the cures, & flourishing of
the clergy as to their temporals. He freely owned that Derry
was in a much better condition as to all these, & that it was
due to the care I had taken. To which I replied, that he
knew that the churches had been more destroyed in Derry, &
the state of the clergy & conformity more disturbed & wasted
than in any place of Ireland ; & yet in five or six years that
I had been there bishop it was put in a better posture by
the methods I took than Meath was in fifteen by the bishop's ;
& he might judge by that which of the two were best. I asked
also, if he had lately discoursed any of the Derry clergy : he
said he had, & said he found them much altered as to their
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began that it was impossible to bring the discipline of the
Church & conformity to the pass in which they were then ;
that they found themselves agreeably deceived both as to their
spiritual & temporal advantages : & thus ended all the loud
clamours raised at first against my positiveness, singularity
& tyranny : & I believe you may remember something of this.
As to the other part that concerns charity, I have been
sixteen yeares Archbishop of Dublin, & can show visibly,
besides what is private, that above £70,000 has been laid
out & given to works of charity, such as building churches,
poor-houses, schools & hospitals, & other pious uses in the
diocese, which I think a great deal in so poor a country, I
hope neither my example nor persuasions have given any
discouragement to the good disposition of the donors.
As to charity-schools, I have perhaps more in this city
than are in most of the kingdom besides. What my opinion
was of them seven years ago, you will see by the inclosed, which
is a copy of a letter I wrote to Mr. Nicholson at that time.
I have only now to add to it, that I observed with great
grief that the management of many of these schools was got
into the hands of persons disaffected to the Eevolution & Govern
ment : & what the effect of that may be in time it is easy to
judge. I am sure I shall never encourage them, & will take
the best care I can to put them into right hands in my own
diocese. Another thing I apprehended, that the clergy, on account
of these schools, may think themselves freed from the moBt
excellent method proposed for teaching the principles of
Christianity in the rubricks annexed to the Catechism & office
of confirmation in our Common Prayer Book, which, if
enforced & duly executed, would effectually propagate all the
necessary knowledge for Christians to all manner of persons ;
whereas the teaching six or seven hundred poor children,
the number of those settled in Dublin, no ways answers the
end of our rubricks which reaches all.
I therefore endeavour to put the clergy on doing their
duty, & this is one of my particular ways to which I am
wedded, & which doth not please at all. I have good hope of
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hands, and whilst they depend on the yearly voluntary con
tributions of well-disposed Christians ; for those will, I suppose,
take care that their money be not misapplied ; & school
masters & mistresses will take care to give a good account
for fear they should get no more. But if once they come
to have legal & settled endowments, I doubt they will be
managed as other charities that are on that foot.
Of what moment I reckon the training up of youth in a
right way ' you may see from my printed Charity Sermon
preached (in 1706) at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Pro
verbs XXII. 6.2
I shall add no more but my most hearty prayers for you ;
& that I am, Sir, your's &c. Will : Dublin.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.3
' Dublin, June 20 [1719]
... I found Exceptions were taken at the Forms for
Consecration & Bestauration of Churches, & therefore I with
the advice of my clergy, compos'd one for the Diocese of
Dublin,4 with a Discourse on the Subject which I venture to
send yr Grace tho' not yet quite finish'd.5 
Will : Dublin.'
1 There appears in Mr. Francis Annesley's Acct. of May 30, 1721, with
Abp. King, the item, —
' 1712 To pd. Sr Geo : Mertyns Trear of Xt's Hospitall y last payment for
Gov" of y" schools of Erasmus Smith, 1000.'" 0. 0.' In 1712, he gave £500 to
the Blue Coat Hospital, Oxmanton, Dublin.
2 Bp. Mant thus judiciously refers to the subject of this letter, — ' It ought
not however to excite astonishment, if, in a country under such political or
religious circumstances as Ireland, a person in the elevated station, of the
decided sentiments, & of the corresponding vigour and firmness of action, of
Archbishop King, should have encountered those, by whom his good was evil
spoken of; nor need we be astonished, if, when unjustly, as he thought,
assailed, he should have stood forward in his justification.'
3 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
4 Offices to be used for the Consecration of a Church new built and
Restauration of a Church rebuilt in tlie Diocess of Dublin : agreed to at a
Synod & Visitation of tlie said Diocess held in the Cathedral Church of
St. Patrick's, Dublin, April the 5th, 6th, & 1th, 1719. Dublin, 1719. Vide
Professor Lawlor's Notes, pp. 300, 301, Stokes' Worthies.
5 A Discourse concerning the Consecration of Churches ; Shewing what is
meant by Dedicating them, with the Grounds of that Office. Dublin and
London, 1719. 4to.

216 COEEESPONDENCE To ' Coll: Irvine.1
J)r J$r Dublin. July 16"> 1719.
I thank you heartily for your's of the 29th of June
last which came to my hands by last Pacq44. I rec'd likewise
your's of the 11 of the same, which was very gratefull, I
thank God for your good Success against the rebels, & pray
God his Majestie's arms may always be so prosperous,
pticularly for your Escaping Safe in the engagement2 in
which your forces had so great disadvantages both in number
& situation. We are now in the hight of our business in Parlement &
have pretty hot work both in the house of Lords & Commons,
the Test in the house of Commons & the jurisdiction of the
Lords in their house. You may easily imagine on such a
Juncture I can neither be Idle or unconcerned.
I can't foresee what will be the issue, I have no more to
do but act as my conscience directs me.
Your Spouse3 is gone to the Countrey to her Nephew
Spence's, the truth is She fell into very ill hands here, who
under the notion of Charity imposed on her & made her be
bound for several Summs of mon'y, I believe to the value in
all of an £140, or an £150, I hope She is sensible of her
Weakness, & will avoid the like for the future, I prevailed on
her to go the Countr'y & leave those She was bound for to
pay their own Debts.
I enclose this to Gen" Carpenter, & desire his Lordship
to forward it, & hope it will come safe to your hands, I re
commend you to God's good care & am Sr your &c. W. D.
(P.S.) The matter of the Test i is over in the house of
Commons they having rejected all offers that seemed to
encroach on it.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. Inclosed in a letter addressed
to the ' Eight Honourable Lord Carpenter, Commander in Chief of his Majestie's
forces in North Britain at Edinburgh.'
2 The battle of Glenshiel, June 10, where the Spanish Jacobite Highland
expedition under the Earl Marischal, Marquess of Tullibardine, and Earl of
Seaforth was defeated.
3 The Arohbishop's sister, Margaret.
4 The Archbishop, in a letter of Aug. 1, to Abp. Wake, thus explains why

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To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin 1
' My Lord [July m«]
This Morning I recd the Honr of your Grace's letter of
the 16 with one enclos'd for Coll : Irwyn, which I will send
to him under my Cover as soon as I know how to direct it.
He writ to me very lately from Inverness for leave to go
to Pitcately to drink the waters of that place, which I con
sented to.
I was very glad to receive any commands from your Grace
having always had the highest esteem for you. I begg your
Grace's blessing & Prayers, which must be heard from one of
your great Piety & Virtue. All seems to be very quiet in this
country. I am, My Lord, Yr Grace's most dutifull and
obedient servant, „
Carpenter
Coll : ffoley 2 is well at his Quarters, Haddington, 12 miles
hence.' To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury 3
May it please your Grace ' Dublin Nov. 10. 1719.
I have not troubled yr Grace this long while, under
standing that you was at the Waters, where I conceive
Business is very improper. We have now finish'd our
Session of Parliament, by which I have been extremely
harass'd what with Business at the House in Committees, &
Council Board, with which my imperfect state of Health very
ill suited : But it pleas'd God to enable me to go thro' it,
the parliament refused to repeal ii : ' The true point between them [the dis
senters] and the gentlemen [i.e. H. of Commons] is, whether the Presbyterians
[i.e. Ministers] and lay elders in every parish shall have the greatest influence
over the people to lead them as they please, or the landlords over their
tenants.' 1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 A son of the late Bp. of Down ; in a letter to Col. Foley, at Woodware,
near Doncaster, Yorkshire, Dec. 24, 1726, the Abp. writes : ' As to your frend
Dougatt, he is well enuff in health, but is taken up with his Library & parish,
that he mindeth little else but is your humble serv1, your mother's and
Lady's.' 3 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.

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except two days absence, tho' I had the Gout on me actually a
whole month.
Our Toleration [Bill] passed after long & warm debates . .
His Majesty in answer to our Address was pleased to press
with extraordinary Warmness our Gratifying the Dissenters :
and in truth we have granted them such a wide Toleration as
I think is not precedented in the whole Earth. The Bill
could not have pass'd if our Brethren y4 came to us from yr
side of ys water had not deserted us & gone over to the
adverse Party. I fear we shall all feel the effects of it, & in
truth I can't see how our Church can stand here, if God do
not by a peculiar & unforeseen Providence support it. We
had several other pernicious Bills brought to the Council . . .
By my opposition to these Bills I have quite lost the
favour of the Government here, & interest in it.1 But that
doth very little concern me. I lost the Favour of the former
Government by Struggling for the Succession ; & I think the
cause of the Church is of no less moment.
I shall, with God's help, always use my best Endeavours
to discharge a good conscience. I thank God I did it when a
young man to the best of my Power, & it were a great Folly &
Wickedness in me at this time of the day for Favour or
Interest to Decline my Duty &c. _ ,
1 The Archbishop's name was consequently omitted from the list of lords
justices when the Ld. Lieut., the D. of Bolton, left for England this month, an
omission thus noticed by Downes, Bp. of Killala, in a letter of Nov. 24, to his
intimate, Bp. Nicholson of Derry : ' Last Thursday, about noon, the lord
lieutenant left us & the next day in the evening the lords justices (viz. the
speakers of both houses) were sworn into their office. ... I believe it was a
great mortification to the zealots that a certain third man was left out because
it looked as if he had far less credit & power on the other side of the water
than he has on this. However he was so wise as to dissemble his dislike of
that step <fe came to the castle as usual to take his leave of the lord lieutenant
& to attend him out of town ; & seemed as pleased with his release from
trouble, as others can possibly be with the addition to theirs ; but his heart
you can guess at as well ' — Mant's Hist. Ch. of Ireland, 1840. At this period
a curious feud was carried on between persons of English and those of Irish
I birth, of which Bp. Nicholson's Letters, quoted by Mant, afford illustrations,
i Bp. Downes mentions ' how we foreigners & our foreign friends are railed at
1 by the natives of one, two, or more descents,' and this antagonism no doubt
lay at the root of the spiteful and disrespectful allusions to Abp. King in his
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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Tuam1
My Lord, ' St. Sepulchre's, April 24. 1720.
Since it has pleased God to disable me from performing
my own duty in attending the visitation of my clergy, I must
acknowledge his goodness in procuring me so good an assist
ant to supply my place, who is so well acquainted with the
state of the diocese, & the persons & qualifications of the
clergy ; & I must acknowledge your Grace's goodness & kind
ness in so cheerfully undertaking this trouble, which I have
been obliged so oft to put on you. I hope God will reward
you, tho' I can't ; & so enable you to do your duty, that you
may never need such an assistant, or, if you should, that he
will furnish you with as good an one.
I conceive your Grace needs no directions how to execute
the affairs of this diocese : but because some things may not
be so grateful to all persons I am willing that what may not
be so relishing to some may rather be imputed to me than to
your Grace ; since there is no reason that for your charity &
kindness you should be exposed to the resentment of any. I
therefore entreat your Grace, that, if you think it proper, you
would, as from me, put the clergy in mind, first, of the late
act of parliament, by which a full liberty is given to all sects
to set up their meetings & propagate what doctrines they
please.2 By this neither the civil nor ecclesiastical courts
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Edward Synge, d. 1742.
2 This Toleration Act Archbishops King and Synge had both opposed.
Bp. Mant fairly observes, ' In that course, however, they appear to have been
actuated by a sincere and disinterested sense of their own duty & therefore
shrank not from persisting in it, although doubtless aware of the invidious
character of their proceedings.' In the January of this year, the Primate had
an attack of paralysis, which led to speculations as to his successor, ' as
matters stand,' wrote Bp. Downes to his brother of Derry, Jan. 15, ' I am
persuaded your predecessor (King) will not be his successor ; & I could not
but agree with a great layman, who told me this day, that he had certainly
put a caveat against himself ; & perhaps you will agree with me that my
metropolitan (Tuam) has done the like.'
The persistent and prolonged opposition, unhappily supported by pious
men like Abp. King, to the emancipation from political disabilities of their
Protestant nonconforming brethren, whose religious belief like their own was
founded on the infallible Word of God, and who had fought, side by side with
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have any power over them ; so that we can neither help our
selves nor call for any assistance or encouragement from the
civil magistrate, & are entirely to depend on God's care &
providence over his Church, & on the means & methods Christ
has left us to support religion ; which if we use, as we ought
to do with faith & diligence, we are not to doubt but they will
go further to support religion & holiness than all temporal
motives & assistance could do without them.
And if one would observe the state of religion in these
kingdoms in our own time ; that is, since the restoration of
the Eoyal Family ; perhaps it will appear that the Church
never gained more true friends than when the civil power
gave her doctrine & worship least encouragement, nor lost
more the hearts & affections of her people than when seeming
most encouraged.1
What, therefore, will be wanting in temporal interest may
be supplied by a double diligence of the clergy in their office
Popish government, is a melancholy instance of prejudice, and blindness to the
real interests of the country, and of true religion. The concession of political
privileges, in constitutionally-governed countries, to the servants of a powerful
foreign political organization, such as the Church of Eome (the avowed aim
and ceaseless ambition of which is supremacy in Church and State), proves, on
the other hand, a serious menace to civil and religious liberty. The British
Isles were once the boasted homes of freedom, but now Rome's dungeons are
everywhere established, where she is permitted to enforce her sentences of life
long imprisonment, where hearts are breaking to gain their natural liberty,
and where hellish horrors may be perpetrated on the helpless, as, on the
testimony of bishops of that Church, has been the case in French convents, —
' Grant them the rights of men, & while they cease
' To vex the peace of others, grant them peace ;
' But trusting bigots, whose false zeal has made
' Treachery their duty — thou art self-betrayed.' — Cowpee.
1 ' I never observed (writes Abp. King to Dr. Charlett, University Coll.,
Oxford, Ap. 15. 1715) the countenance of a government to add much to y°
security of the Church. I will maintain that under King Wilham, when we
did not reckon ourselves great favourites, we had advanced our congregations
more every four years than we did under the four years of the late manage
ment here, in which I fear we lost ground : the diligence, piety, humility, &
prudent management of the clergy, when they had nothing else to trust to,
proving much stronger motives to gain the people than the favour of the
government, which put the clergy on other methods & made them odious to
their people.' During the last four years of Queen Anne's reign the Abp.'s
view was ' that the Church has lost more hearts & ground in Ireland than she
did since King James came to the throne.'

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& duty ; by their prudence, diligence, & application to their
people ; by their watching over them for good ; & foreseeing
& applying themselves to prevent every approach of their
enemies. And I think it will not be amiss to exhort the clergy to
lay this matter to heart, & to consider with one another of
the most effectual means to put in practice proper methods of
application, & to assist one another in the execution of them,
& stir up, & admonish one another, & take notice of such of
their brethren as they find negligent or backward in the per
formance of their duty. This will raise a spirit of activity in
them, & create a holy emulation amongst them, the effect of
which will, with God's blessing, soon appear in the success of
their ministry. Beseech them, therefore, that they -would go
about & visit their parishioners ; nor be represt by any cold
reception, or ill treatment, but persevere ; & I dare promise
them, in the name of God, that they will find a good effect of
their labours.
I would further intreat your Grace to put them in mind of
preaching against Popery, & that they would take all oppor
tunities, & when any occasion offers, of confuting any point of
false doctrine advanced by the Church of Eome : that they
would lay hold on it, and, without bitterness, from the Holy
Scriptures & other proper arguments, show, as briefly as they
can, the falsehood thereof. This I take to be extremely
necessary in the present circumstances, both because the
people expect it, & to my knowledge are concerned that it is
not done ; & likewise because I apprehend the late act of
toleration, or indemnity for all sects, may furnish the Eoman
missionaries & priests with some arguments which they had
not before, which may work with some weak & well-meaning
people. As to the Government, I think it advisable that the
clergy in their sermons should avoid meddling with matters
of State, & keep themselves to the articles of our holy
religion & the duties of Christianity : for the clergy, by mixing
in the matters of politicks, have more than once, in my time,
brought themselves into many inconveniences, without any
advantage to the Church.
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principles, both in relation to fundamentals of our holy
religion & to the government & discipline of the Church,
have been vented & propagated with great boldness of late, &
that some of the clergy have joined with the common enemies
of our faith & Church. I hope none of my clergy are thus
tainted ; yet, when our neighbour's house is on fire, 'tis time
to look to our own ; & therefore I think it proper to warn
them of the danger, & that if they observe any of their brethren
or people to have a penchant this way, that they would take
notice of them, & use their best endeavours to prevent them
being corrupted by the insinuations of wicked men, the modish
conversation of the world, & cunning of Satan.
Your Grace will be pleased to represent these things to the
clergy, if you think fit so to do, & in the best manner : which
I am sure your Grace is able to do much better than I can
pretend to direct or advise you in my present circumstances . .
Will: Dublin.'

To the Lord Bishop of Clogher1 ' Dublin May 12. 1720.
. . . The Archbishop of Tuam held my visitation for me ;
I writ him a letter, intimating what I would have him say to
the clergy, which his Grace did with great approbation.
Amongst other things I desired them to use double diligence
in their cures, on account that they could not expect the same
assistance from the civil or ecclesiastical powers that they
might have done before the late act. This was represented
to the Government as a stirring up of disaffection, & his
Grace was called before them, & a mighty business was
made of it, but he acquit himself so well that it dropped
of itself. 'Tis very hard that a bishop must not advise his clergy
to double diligence, but it must be counted disaffection &c.
Will: Dublin.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; John Stearne, D.D., Bp., 1717
till his death 1745.

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To the Bight Hon. the Earl of Kildare.1
My Lord, ' Dublin, May 26. 1720.
I am honoured with your Lordship's of this day, in
favour of the sufferers of Castle-dermot. I assure your Lord
ship I am very desirous to assist all people in distress, more
particularly your Lordship's tenants, & those of my own
diocese. But the case is this ; they have got a brief 2 in
which archbishops, bishops &c. are required, within ten days,
to send copies of the letters patent to their chancellors &c,
& to cause them to be delivered by their apparitors, at the
rate of four pence a brief, to their deans, parsons &c. The
deans, parsons &c. are to exhort & stir up, & earnestly
persuade their people to contribute to the poor sufferers, not
allowing them to judge whether they are objects of charity or
no. And then they & the churchwardens are required to go
from house to house immediately, & receive from masters,
mistresses, & others of their families, their contributions, &,
in the presence of the givers, to set down, next Lord's-day,
on the briefs, the names & sums given ; & the minister is
obliged to receive the money, & send it with the briefs, to the
chancellor &c. ; & the bishops are commanded to send them
to the archbishops.
Now, these are things in many cases impracticable ; &
neither the clergy nor churchwardens are obliged to any of
them. We have had three or four briefs of this nature, & I
have withstood them all, & must still continue to do so. We
are slaves enough already ; but to subject ourselves to such
commands, which we conceive we are no ways obliged to
obey, would make us more so ; & we know not where it may
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 Issued by Visct. Midleton and Wm. Conolly, Lords Justices, on behalf
of persons who had their houses burnt in Castle-dermot, Co. Kildare. To
Nicholson, Bp. of Derry, the Abp. complains ' we have had three or four such
(worded briefs) before, & I would not suffer my clergy to obey them. . . . Your
Lordship may compare the brief with the Act that passed about briefs in
England 4 Anne c. 14 ; & you will see how far they have gone beyond that.'
These briefs became such a hardship, owing to the increasing poverty of the
country, that on Primate Boulter issuing one for the relief of the Protestants of
Lithuania, Abp. King forbade all collections for foreigners in his diocese.

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end. They might as well, in my opinion, command us to
collect the hearth-money.
I had a great dispute with my Lord Wharton in the case
of the Palatines ; & on another occasion with Sir Constantine
Phipps & the then Government ; & to stop the matter I
issued the inclosed order to the clergy, which had the desired
effect. I hope therefore your Lordship will excuse me, in
that I act uniformly to myself.
If the brief had desired anything of me & the clergy, &
only " recommended " the matter, as the style was for forty
years to my knowledge, charity would have gone a good way
to procure my compliance, at least in part ; but " command "
& " require " is a style I do not understand, & it might
be an ill example if I submitted to it.1
I am hurried in writing this, & therefore you'll pardon
the imperfections of it ; & I assure your Lordship that there
is no man in the kingdom who should be more readily
gratified than your Lordship, by, My Lord, your Lordship's
most &c. Will : Dublin.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.2
' Dublin Feb. 9. 1720-1.
... As to your South Sea Affair 3 I told the Fate of it
last April when it was at 300 for One Hundred, & the event
1 Bp. Mant observes : ' I have not met with any account of the issue of this
business. But whatever influence from any of the foregoing causes the Arch
bishop may have appeared to have lost, he recovered it so far at least as to be
again included in the commission of the Lords Justices, in 1721 & 1722, on the
temporary withdrawal of the Duke of Grafton from the Viceroyalty.'
2 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
3 This was a scheme for paying the National Debt, incurred before the year
1716, amounting to £31,661,551 ; its promoters obtained an Act of Parliament
for enlarging the capital to that extent in April 1720 ; it was first approved of
and then opposed by Walpole. The first subscription stock was sold at £300
p. c, the 2nd at £400 p. c, and a 3rd at £1000 p. c. Such was the popular
infatuation that these stocks were bought and sold at exorbitant premiums, so
that £100 stock, subscribed for at £1000, was sold for £1200 in Exchange
Alley 1 The P. of Wales was said to have made £40,000, by selling out in
time for fear of a prosecution, and the scheme exploded Sept. 29. The estates
of the directors to the value of two millions were confiscated for the benefit of
the sufferers, and their owners were declared incapable of holding office under
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has in every particular answered my Prediction, which I set
down in a few queries wch I shewed to my Friends but would
not suffer them to be prmted, because I understood that who
ever said anything against the South Sea was looked on as
disaffected to the Government and Ministry, which is an
accusation I would by no means lie under. I find both
Houses are pretty smart on the Directors ; but I hear nothing
said concerning those whose office it was to prevent the ruin
of the Nation &c.
Will : Dublin.'

To ' Lord Gowran.1
My Lord Dublin. Feb'* 14th 1720-21.
I hope this will find you Safe & happy in London &
none can take more Satisfaction in such hopes. I have
ordered my cosen King 2 to deliver this to your Lordship, you
were so kind as to own him formerly & did him a good office,
& he had the good fortune to be made a L4 in the Eippon by
the recommendation of Sr George Saunders & the favour of
Admiral Bing,3 the Ship is now laid up & he out of Business,
he is at an age & in circumstances that if ever must qualify
him for Service & I shou'd be sorry he shou'd lose his time
in Idleness, I have writ to the Duke of Grafton & to Admiral
Bing in his favour.
If your Lordship wou'd condescend to take him into your
protection & introduce him to these great men, it wou'd be
an addition to the obligation du to you from My Lord, your
Lordship's, &c.
W: D:'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Eiohard Fitzpatrick, a naval
commander, distinguished himself against the French, 1687-1702 ; created,
1715, Baron Gowran of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, & d. 1727.
2 Nephew William ; in a letter to Edward Southwell of Feb. 23, the Abp.
alludes to him thus : ' I had a nephew much wilder than he (Eobin, Lady
Southwell's son) & who did much madder Pranks, but I understand he is now
come to himself & makes a good Seaman.'
1 Sir George Byng, created a Baronet, 1715, and Viscount Torrington, 1721 ;
eminent for his great services at sea ; d. 1733. The unfortunate Admiral Byng,
executed in 1757, was John, his 4th surviving son. Q

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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.1
'Dublin. March 23. 1720-21.
... I will say no more to yr South Sea. But it has
surely made us miserable to the highest degree, if starving be
a misery. I lately had a Petition from 300 Families con-
cern'd in the Linnen, Silk & Woollen Trade. I laid it before
the Government with another to the Justices & Council, upon
which I was ordered to enquire into the Truth of the matter
& hereupon I procur'd the several Ministers, Church Wardens
& other substantial citizens to go thro' the Parishes & to
enquire & see the Circumstances of the Petitioners. They
have done so in most Parishes & return'd the names of above
Thirteen Hundred, beside Wives & Children, who are all out
of employment & starving, having sold everything to get them
bread. I was of opinion before that one Third of this City needed
Charity ; but this & other enquiries have assur'd me y4 at
least one Half are in this lamentable state.
I have ordered a collection in every Church for them, &
engag'd the Clergy to represent their case in y° most effectual
manner to their People but alas ! this, & all the Subscriptions
I can get for them, is Nothing in respect of their wants.
Most of our Gentry, & Officers Civil & Military, are in
England. Those that are here cannot get their Bents from
their Tenants. The Merchants have no Trade, Shop Keepers
need Charity ; & the cry of the whole People is loud for
Bread. God knows what will be the consequence, many are
starved, & I am afraid many more will.2
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Swift, in a letter to the Earl of Peterborough, April 28, 1726, writes ' that
the whole oountry, except the Scottish plantation in the north, is a scene of
misery & desolation hardly to be matched on this side Lapland ' ; he also
wrote, in 1727, A Short View of the State of Ireland, of which Lord Orrery
writes, in 1752, ' Of this I need take little notice, since the present state of
Ireland is, in general, as flourishing as possible. Agriculture is cultivated:
arts and sciences are encouraged : and in the space of eighteen years which is
almost the full time that I have known it, no kingdom can be more improved.
Ireland, in relation of England, may be compared to a younger sister lately
come of age, after having suffered all the miseries of an injured minor ; such
as law suits, encroachments upon her property, violation of her rights, destruc-

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This is an Effect in a great measure of the Publick Manage
ment, & all the satisfaction I yet see the Nation are to expect,
are some hard votes on some few Directors, & not one word
against those that stood by, & saw them do the Mischief,
when they might & ought to have prevented it. And if the
Account we have here be true, no Industry is wanting to
screen the Criminals, & the Enquirers are discouraged.
Whether there be truth in this yr Grace knows. I am sure
however it is no service to the Government to have it reported.
We were in a miserable condition in K. James's time ; but
we generally had meat & drink, tho' with insufferable slavery
& oppression. But now we have nothing of those but what
we bring on ourselves ; yet the Poor are in danger of starving
& many have Perish'd. The Jayles are full, not of State
Prisoners as then, but of DebtorB.
Yr Grace will pardon my giving you this trouble. The
Truth is, It is so great a Grief to me to see so many miserable
& not to be able to releive them, that I can hardly think,
speak, or write of anything &c. -^yILL . dublin_'
' To the Bev. Dr. Charlett.1
Dublin June 17. 1721.
. . . You see by the fate of Dr. Aungier's Manuscript 2
in how hard circumstances scholars are here. Let them
tion of her tenants, and every evil that can be named. At length, Time and her
own noble spirit of industry have entirely relieved her, and some little heart
burnings excepted, she enjoys the quiet possession of a very ample fortune,
subject by way of acknowledgement to certain quit rents payable to the elder
branch of her house : and let me add by experience, that take her all in all, she
cannot have a greater fortune than she deserves.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 A Concordance for the Septuagint, in possession of Trin. Coll. Dub., which
had been composed by Dr. A. [Thomas, B.A., T.C.D., 1620 ; M.A. 1623], which
the Abp. had been disappointed in getting printed. ' It is [he writes in a former
letter] impossible for us to print it here, having neither money, characters],
nor hope of vent for it, if it were printed ' ; in 1713, Sept. 12, he had written
to the same effect to Dr. Woodward, ' We live here in an unfortunate country
as to learning, & seem to have little else to do, but to eat, drink, & sleep. If
a man's thoughts should put him on anything that might deserve the press, he
must pay for the printing, & distribute it gratis, there not being scholars
enough to take off an impression.' In 1735, Primate Boulter wrote, ' We" are
not over-much given to buy or to read books.' « 2

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write never so valuable pieces there is no way to get them
printed ; if any impression could be got there is no way to
vent it. The gentlemen of Ireland live mostly in England,
& seem not yet to have come to relish books. Those who
live here, being of the middle sort, are but few, & little
inclined that way ; and as to the clergy, there may be about
six hundred, & one-half of these curates, at about £30. per
annum. We have, by great application, augmented our bishopricks ;
& now they are become valuable, we are told we must not
expect any of them. We have likewise, by several contrivances,
made some benefices valuable ; & these being mostly either
in the lord lieutenant or bishops, or in patrons who live
in England, we are like to have the least share in them :
& as to those clergymen who are sent us from England, I
believe it will not be pleaded that they are the brightest,
generally speaking ; though I confess, to my observation they
seem notably dexterous & industrious to make money for
their wives & children. Thus the see of Derry was served by
Dr. Hickman, my successor, who entirely rooted up & destroyed
a large flourishing wood, which I, with care & cost, had
planted whilst at Londonderry. Thus the see of Kilmore
was served by Dr. Whitnall,' who sold a wood belonging to his
see, which, if standing now, would, as I am informed, sell for
twenty thousand pounds. But instances of such sort are
too many to be mentioned.
By these you will understand what encouragement learn
ing is like to meet with in this Kingdom. I have some
pieces by me, but know not what to do with them. I lately
printed a form for consecration of churches, & a discourse on
that subject ; but was obliged to pay for the whole impression.
If you will accept one or more of them I will send them
to you &c.
Will : Dublin.'
1 Edward Wetenhall.

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To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord ' Gaulstown,' near Kinnegad, Sept. 28. 1721.
I had the honour of your Grace's letter of the 1st
instant ; & although I thought it my duty to be the last
writer in corresponding with your Grace, yet I know you are
so punctual that if I should write sooner, it would only be the
occasion of giving you a new trouble before it ought in con
science to be put upon you. Besides I was in some pain that
your letter of Sept. 1st was not the first you had writ, because
about ten days after a friend sent me word that your Grace
said you had writ to me six weeks before, & had no answer,
whereas I can assure your Grace that I received but one from
you ; nor had I reason to expect it, having not done myself
the honour to write to you before. I will tell you the secret
of dating my letter ; I was in fear lest the post should be
gone, & so left a blank, & wisely huddled it up without
thinking of the date ; but we country gentlemen are frequently
guilty of greater blunders ; & in that article I grow more
perfect every day.
I believe you seriously that you will take care of your
health to prevent a successor ; that is to say, I believe you
tell truth in jest ; for I know it is not the value of life that
makes you desire to live, & am afraid the world is much of
your mind ; for it is out of regard to the public, or some of
themselves, more than upon your own account that they
wish your continuance among us.
It seems you are a greater favourite of the Lieutenant's 2
than you care to own ; for we hear that he killed but two
bucks, & sent you a present of one.
I hear you are likely to be the sole opposer of the bank ; 3
& you will certainly miscarry, because it would prove a most
perfidious thing. Bankrupts are always for setting up banks:
how then can you think a bank will fail of a majority in both
houses ?
1 The Et. Hon. Geo. Eochfort's place ; ' Lady Betty,' his wife, dau. of the
3rd Earl of Drogheda ; Swift's Country Life depicts the family oircle.
2 Charles, Duke of Grafton.
3 Proposal for a national bank in Ireland, ' kicked out [of parliament] with
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You are very perverse in misinterpreting the ladies' favour
as if you must die to obtain it ; I assure you it is directly
contrary, & if you die, you will lose their favour for ever ; I am
commanded to tell you so ; & therefore at the peril of your
life, & of their good graces, look to your health.
I hear the Bishop of Bangor1 despairing of doing any
good with you, has taken up with Hereford. I am a plain
man, & would be glad at any time to see fifty such bishops
hanged, if I could thereby have saved the life of his pre
decessor, for whom I had a great esteem & friendship. I do
not much approve the compliments made you by comparisons
drawn from good & bad emperors, because the inference falls
short on both sides. If Julian had immediately succeeded
Constantine it would have been more to the purpose. Sir
James of the Peak said to Bouchier the gamester, " Sirrah, I
shall look better than you when I have been a month in my
grave." A great man in England was blaming me for despising
somebody or other ; I assured him I did not at all despise
the man he mentioned ; that I was not so liberal of my con
tempt ; nor would bestow it where there was not some degree
of merit. Upon this principle I can see no proper ground of
opposition between your Grace & that wretch of Bangor. I
have read indeed that a dog was once made king of Norway,
but I forget who was his predecessor ; & therefore am at a
loss for the other part of the Comparison.
I am afraid the clatter of ladies' tongues is no very good
cure for a giddiness in the head. When your Grace (as you
say) was young, as I am not, the ladies were better company or
you more easily pleased. I am perpetually reproaching them
for their ignorance, affectation, impertinence (but my paper
will not hold all) except Lady Betty Eochfort, your old
acquaintance. I own my head & your Grace's feet would be ill joined ;
but give me your head & take my feet, & match us in the
kingdom if you can.
My Lord, I row after health like a waterman, & ride after
it like a post-boy, & find some little success ; but subeunt
morbi tristisque senectus. I have a receipt to which you
1 Benjamin Hoadly, D.D.

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are a stranger ; my Lord Oxford & Mr. Prior used to join
with me in taking it ; to whom I often said, when we were
two hours diverting ourselves with trifles, vive la bagatelle.
I am so deep among the workmen at Eochfort's canals & lakes
so dexterous at the oar, such an alderman after the hare — ¦•
I am just now told, from some newspapers, that one of the
King's enemies, & my excellent friend, Mr. Prior,1 is dead ; I
pray God deliver me from many such trials. I am neither
old nor philosopher enough to be indifferent at so great a loss ;
& therefore I abruptly conclude, but with the greatest respect,
my Lord, your Grace's most dutiful & obedient servant,
Jonathan Swift.'

' His Grace the Duke of Grafton.2
May it please your Grace, St. Sepulchre's, Feb. ie. 1722.
I have perused Dean Hort's patent for consecration. I
am by it commanded to consecrate Josias Hort, Sacra
TheologisB Doctorem, Decanum Ardaghensem : on inquiry, I
find that he is so far from being a doctor of divinity, that he
never took any degree in any university. So I conceive there
is a misnomer here. I can find no such man as Josias Hort,
doctor of divinity, dean of Ardagh. To consecrate any one
bishop of any diocese in his Majesty's dominions, without
sufficient warrant, is very penal. I therefore pray that I may
have the attorney & solicitor's opinion in the case, whether
such a misnomer be of consequence, & whether such a patent
be a sufficient warrant in law to me to proceed to consecration.3
I am not in a capacity to perform it in person ; & therefore
must grant a commission to some others, & must recite the
words of the patent in it. I am very unwilling to put a falsity
1 Matthew, the poet and diplomatist.
2 T.C,D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
3 The Archbishop had the opinions of Mr. Eogerson and Mr. Marlay, two
eminent common lawyers, and of Dr. Trotter, the civilian, who all agreed that
Dean Hort was sufficiently described by the name Josias Hort, Dean of Ardagh,
and that the additional title of D.D. could be no good reason for refusing to
consecrate him, whereupon the Archbishop issued a commission to seven
bishops, empowering them, or any three of them, to consecrate him, in any
church of the diocese, which was done Feb. 25, 1721-2,

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under my seal ; & therefore I intreat that the attorney &
solicitor would let me know, whether I may safely alter the
words of the patent in my commission.
I thought to have inquired the opinion of lawyers myself ;
but on second thoughts think better, that he should do it for
my satisfaction, & the dispatch of his own business.
About the year 1692 I was in England, & a certain dean
was named by Queen Mary for a Bishop in Ireland. His
letter was ordered to be drawn, but the officer was at a loss
for his style, & the clerk came to me to learn his degree. I
told him the dean was doctor of laws ; but further on his
inquiry, that he was not graduated in divinity ; when her
Majesty was informed thereof, she stopped his letter, & could
not be prevailed on to make him a bishop.
Give me leave to acquaint your Grace, that this gentleman
is the first I ever heard of that pretended to a bishoprick
without any degree at all. I am sorry the precedent begins
in your Grace's government, for whom I have all possible
respect, & shall, whilst I am, My Lord, Your Grace's most
obedient servant,
Will : Dublin.'
To '¦Coll. Irvine}
Dr Brother Dublin March y" 1" 1721-22.
I Bee" yrs of the 21s4 of Feby. I am in an ill State of
health, & yet have been forced into the Government against
my Inclinations & Eesolution.2
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 Feb. 24, Wm., Abp. of Dublin, Eichard, Visct. Shannon, Wm. Conolly,
Esq., were sworn Lords Justices ; he continued to hold office till the return
of the D. of Grafton, in Sept. 1723 ; to his friend, Annesley, he wrote, Mar. 10,
1721, ' I write this in pain. The force used on me to put me in the government
here, in which I can neither hope to do good nor prevent evil, & yet must bear
a share of blame of what is done wrong, has put me into a violent fit of the
gout, & God only knows when I shall get out of it.' Bp. Downes writes
sneeringly as usual to Bp. Nicholson, Mar. 1, 1721, 'His Grace seems not
pleased with the trust reposed in him, & told me, that he was sure it would
kill him. But I do not believe him : perhaps he would have been as uneasy
if he had been left out of the government ' ; and previously, Feb. 17, 1722
' What you told me is beyond my expectation come to pass. The Archbishop
of Dublin, after mature deliberation, has accepted of the government. . . . But
my opinion is that they who long hesitate about preferment should go without

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I intended you for my Aid de Champ, but my Ld Lev4 1
forced on me a little Frenchman, whom I never saw or knew
nor shall have any other Concern with but to permitt him to
take the Sallery, which I can't help. The notion we have
here about taking the accts of the Armie is very odde ;
people imagine y4 it is not to Do the Armie any Service but
to entitle the Commissioners to Salleries.
I am perfectly ignorant of the Circumstances ; I hope you
have avoided two things, 1st Selling out of the Armie, & 2ndly
going into the South Sea. As to ye Courtier & dependence on
him, you are to consider y4 no Courtier will do any kindness to
any one without an equivalent in money or some other way, &
too often when they get the money, they forget conferring the
favour, & pretend they did their Endeavour, but it was not in
their power, & that they were at the same pains & charges as
if it had succeeded, & thus you may be often disapointed.
As to my Cousen, Will: King, I could get nothing for him
but good words from my Ld. Lt., I am afraid you & he are
upon a very bad bottom, I mean that of Merrit, which is the
last thing any one ought to pretend to in order to p'ferment.
I am much obliged to my La Cadogan 2 for the kind expres
sions you tell me he has used of me, & pray make most hearty
respects acceptable to his Lordship, if I could find any pre
tence or occasion I would signifie as much to himself & wish
I could be any way serviceable to him, for I assure you I do
not forget, nor any here, the Glorious part he bore in the
Warre of Flanders, but now the Warre is over & the turn
served, any one may be a Generall or other officer in time of
peace, which I am inclined to believe is the Sence of those in
power, when I consider how the Troops here are lately
supplied with Officers.
it, especially such who think their acceptance matter of obligation, & con
sequently not worth thanks. Whether our friends on the other side wanted
power, or wanted courage, I cannot tell ; I may say that they wanted regard to
us foreigners, who are put entirely into the hands of the natives.'
1 Charles Fitzroy, 2nd D. of Grafton.
2 Wm. Cadogan, the general who took part in Marlborough's campaigns,
and succeeded on his chief's death to the command of the Army, created Earl
Cadogan, in 1718, and d. 1726 ; his brother Charles succeeded to his Barony,
and m. the dau. of King's friend, Sir Hans Sloane, Bt., of Chelsea, M.D.

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I am afraid it will not be convenient for you to come here
for some time, there being several small Debts which your
Wife was cheated under the Notion of Charity to be bound
for, which are not yet paid. I adde no more but my most
hearty prayers for you & that I am Sr yours &c.
W. D.'

To The Lord Bishop of Derry}
' Dublin March 31. 1722.
.... My Lord I am informed that Mr Chaloner who held
Errigall & Derestoghill is dead, those are in your Lordship's
gift, I have a frend,2 one Mr George Straghan, who has served
as a cm-ate in the Diocess of Ardmagh & now in Eapho above
30 years, & has always as I understand behaved himself very
well, for a Testimony whereof he will appeal to his Bishop, he
is able also to read & officiate in Irish, if there be occasion.
If I may use the freedom with your Lordship to recommend
him to your favour for one of these benefices it wou'd be a
great encouragement to an old Labourer in the Church &
shall be owned as a signal favour by, My Lord, your
Lordship's &c.
W. D.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. The Bishop was Wm. Nichol
son ; the appeal was fruitless ; in a letter to Abp. Wake, May 22, Abp. King
complains of Nicholson's nepotism in giving his best preferments to his son
and other relations ; Nicholson's correspondent, Bp. Downes, had thus written
to him, March 24, ' Last Thursday I preferred my petition to the board of
Justices for leave to cross the water, & for the convenience of the yatch, to do
it in some state, & both were readily granted without opposition, nor did the
Archbishop of Dublin open or make a wide mouth upon the occasion. I wish
you joy on this account, for I will warrant you will come off as well, whether
you write to the Lords Justices, or write to the secretary to speak for you ' ; in
a former letter he had written, ' I fancy you & I shall not, without somebody's
grumbling, get leave to go & see our friends in England this summer. If we
cannot, I think we may justly complain of false imprisonment & apply for
rehef ' ; Bishop Downes incurred Abp. King's just displeasm-e for absenting
himself from his diocese, Hving in Dublin, and making an excursion once a year
to visit his charge.
2 Brother-in-law ; the Abp. wrote also, June 16, in his favour, to Nicholas
Forster, Bp. of Eaphoe.

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To his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury x
' Dublin May 15. 1722.
. . . His Majesty has had a great loss of useful Instru
ments for his Government since his accession to the Throne.
The Earls of Halifax & Wharton, the Bishop of Sarum, Lord
Stanhope,2 Mr. Craggs,3 Eobinet4 & now my Lord Sunder
land,5 & all these snatched away by unexpected Deaths.
I reckon he has likewise lost the Duke of Marlborough
the greatest of them all, tho' yet alive,6 & to these I may add
yv Grace's Predecessor. I wish to God all the other Places
could be as well supplied as his Grace's is 
We are sending off six Eegiments to assist you, one would
think considering the number of Papists we have here, that
our Gentry are for the most part in England & all our Money
goes there, that we should rather expect help from you in
any Distress than send you Forces to protect you. Yet this
is the third time we have done so since His Majesties
Accession to the Throne, & withal preserv'd the Kingdom
from any Insurrection or Bebellion which is more than can
be said for England or Scotland 
I am still haunted with the Gout in my left hand & arm,
& harassed with very troublesome & ungrateful business &
tis the harder on me because one of my Fellow Justices has
been in the Country above a month.
Tis well that God has provided a Eest for us in the other
World, none is to [be] expected here. I pray God so to
prepare us that when we leave this (which must as yr Grace
observes be soon), we may be received into the Eest & Joy of
our Master &c.
Will : Dublin.'
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Jas. Stanhope, created Earl Stanhope, 1718 ; the statesman who d. Feb. 5.
1721, after a vehement speech on the South Sea Scheme.
3 James Craggs, Secy of State, and a friend of the King's, d. 1721.
4 So in the MS., but an error in the transcript for (John) Bobethon,
a Huguenot refugee, Secretary to the King, d. 1722 ; described by Swift as ' a
very inconsiderable French vagrant.'
s Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl, d. 1722.
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To Sr George Saunders, at the Victualing Office.1
gr Dublin May 17th 1722.
I Eec'1 your's of the 12th Inst, which was acceptable to
me & I most heartily thank you, for the Kindness & pains you
have taken for my Cosen, & I conclude it is chiefly du to your
interest that he is posted.
I am very sensible, that if we look into the Army, into the
Eevenue, into the Offices, or into the Church, it will appear
there is more regard had in promotions to the p'rsons than to
the Service. I know not what the merits of my Cosen may
be, but I may tell you that his posting doth not come for
nothing, I had but one place in my disposal as Justice, which
was my Aid de Camp, the pay 90lb per annum, this my Ld.
Lt. wrested from me & only promised me in lieu of it to get
my Cosen posted, whereas I told my Grace that I intended it
for him.
I doubt the pr'ferments at Sea may be managed as they
are at Land, but since my Cosen is ingaged in the way of the
Sea, I designe he shou'd continue in it tho' his profit be less.
I send you inclosed a bill of £40. for his use, I sent him
ten pounds for a New Years Gift & a Dozen of Holland Shirts,
he had best learn frugality for he will not always have such
Supplys.2 Give me leave to conclude with my sincere acknowledge
ments for all the good offices I have Eecd from you, & my
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. Sir George Saunders, Bt., was
then Commissioner of the Victualling Office, Tower Hill ; M.P. for Queen-
borough, 1728 ; a Bear Admiral, d. 1732. He had been a true friend tp
William King, who served under him from 1709, helping him out of the
scrapes he got into, and interceding on his behalf with his uncle. He had
written on March the 8th to the Archbishop, ' I am very sorry the Duke of
Grafton has not more earnestly recommended Mr King to the Lord Berkeley
(first Lord commissioner of the Admiralty), was in hopes when your Grace
accepted of being in the Government, that the Duke might be more zealous to
serve him, & therefore have caused a fresh memorial to be drawn & given
to him ; such an one as is fit to be put in my Lord Berkeley's hands,
accordingly M* King has been with my Lord Gowran, who has undertaken to
deliver it to the Duke, so in a little time shall see y" reception it meets with.'
2 In reply to the letter announcing his nephew's death, the Archbishop,
Feb. 15, 1727, mentioned, ' my Cosen has not had less for some years y° an
150"> a year.'

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hearty prayers for your health & happyness & an assurance
that I am with all respect Sr your most Humble Serv4,
Will : Dublin.'

To the Bight Honourable the Lord Kingston.1
• Dublin June 9. 1722.
.... I ought not to conceal from your Lordship, that it is
much observed that your family is altogether Papists & that
you live as much after the old Irish manner, as the meerest
Irishman in the Kingdom, which brings you into many
inconveniencys &c.2
Will : Dublin.'

To his Grace the Duke of Grafton.1
' Dublin June 9. 1722.
I am to thank your Grace for the assistance you gave my
Cosen, Lt. King, in procuring him a post in the fleet &c.
Will : Dublin.'
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 James King, 4th Baron Kingston, in 1708, during his father's lifetime,
allowed by the Government £200 a year for support and education ; on his
death, in 1761, this barony became extinct ; his father John, the 3rd Baron,
had openly renounced the Protestant faith, and, joining James IL, was for
some time outlawed ; a rare book published in 1699, entitled, A Vindication of
Sir Robert King's Designs & Actions in Relation to tlie late S present Lord
Kingston &c, mentions that ' the Protestants of Quality, even in Ireland, have
had so due a Begard to the English Extraction & so warm a zeal for the
Protestant Eeligion, that few can be found that have contracted Marriages
with any Irish Papists, tho' of the greatest Families, & Estates ; but no single
instance, I believe, can be given of any Protestant Gentleman of Noble Blood,
& of English Descent, except the present [John, 3rd] Lord Kingston, who, with
great Deliberation, & against the repeated Advices & earnest Endeavours of all
his Friends & Eelations, for several years together, Married an ordinary
Servant Maid and an Irish Papist,' Margaret Cahan, his brother's (Eobert,
2nd Baron) poultry- woman's servant, and afterwards dairy-maid; in con
sequence the 2nd Baron left away from his brother to Sir Eobert King, Bt., his
uncle, ancestor of the Earls of Kingston, all that he could so dispose of. The
family is of Yorkshire origin. The Oxford Movement has been successful, even
in Ireland, in destroying this hereditary zeal for the Protestant rehgion, in the
case of some families of British extraction, and their representatives are
consequently now Boman Catholics.

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To ' Coll1 Irvine.1
gr Dublin July 3d 1722.
I Eecd your's of the 19th of June last, & tho' the Death
of that great man the Duke of Marleboro' gave me a shock &
put me in mind of my own Mortality, he & I being born in
the same month & year,2 yet I cou'd not but be pleased with
the disposition of his employments, nor can I think that his
Maj4ie cou'd have preferred two men more agreeable to his
Subjects than the Earl of Cadogan & Lord Scarborough, or
who will fill their places better.
What you write about my Lord Cadogan's designe of
uniting the Eoyal family is most wise in his Lordship, intirely
for the Interest of his Majestie & a thing earnestly desired by
all who are cordially affected to him, for myself I declare that
I daily made it a part of my prayers & shall continue to do so
whilst God shall give me life, & if it can be effected, it will
make the instruments of so great a Blessing valued &
beloved. It was proper for her late Majestie being a Woman to have
a Captain General, but I see no necessity for it, whilst we
have a King who can execute it in person.
My Lord Cadogan being now Master of the Ordinance, I
believe I shall give him the Trouble of a Letter about our
powder, we have had several Supplys from the Tower, & are
now to have a considerable Quantity from thence, but they
have generally sent us the refuse of what was there, & such
as was not fit for use, I intend to intreat his care in that
particular. I am in a very indifferent State of health, & intend if I
can get leave to go next month to the Bath.
I recommend you to God's good protection, & am Sr
your's &c. W : D.'
1 The writer's brother-in-law.
2 The Peerages do not give May, the Archbishop's natal month, as that of
the Duke's birth, but June, or July ; he d. June 16.

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To his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.1 'Dublin July 31. 1722.
... I am preparing for my journey to the Bath 2 ; which
I hope to begin with the next week. Your News Papers, I
find, have placed me there already : But they seem to me
resolv'd never to vent one Syllable of truth concerning me,
and I find I am to expect as little Dispatch in yr Courts as
Truth from the Newsmongers.
If anything would tempt me to come to London 'twould
be to see if I c'd push my Causes to a hearing. But it is very
hard, that I should be oblig'd to neglect my business here to
venture my Health by a winter Journey, & spend 3 or 4
hundred Pounds which going to London will certainly cost to
sollicit a Cause by which I am not to gain a Farthing but only
to do justice to my jurisdiction ; & perhaps when all is done
shall not be able to obtain a hearing ; for so it was with me
the last time I was there.
Besides I can't imagine what sort of a figure an old crazy
Fellow (for so I am) can make at Court. Perhaps I may be
induced to ask myself with the Poet Quid Bomce faciam &c.
I hope to be at the Bath by the middle of August &, God
Willing, will give yr Grace an account from thence &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.1
' Bath Aug. 27. 1722.
... I am honoured with yr Grace's of the 21st inst4 I am
glad on many accounts that my Ld. Lieutenant has procured
the Bishoprick of Clonfert for Dr Bolton 3. . . .
This Town is in a great Ferment about sending the Bp.
of Eochester 4 to the Tower ; and observe hardly any measures
1 Add. MSS. 6117. B.M.
2 In a letter to Dean Maule from Bath, Aug. 24, he mentions having left
Ireland on the 6th and arrived at Bath on the 14th : ' there are with me
here my Cosen [nephew] Dougat & Mr Hoy, he & one Mr. Carre design for
London.' 3 Theophilus Bolton, D.D.
1 Francis Atterbury, D.D., a friend of Swift's, committed for his share in
what was oalled Layer's plot in favour of the Stuarts, deprived of his offices

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in their discourses about it. Except there be next to the
Demonstration of his Guilt, perhaps it had been better to
have let him alone. I wish I knew what the matter is that
I might have something to say to those who pretend that his
Confinement will do the Government more Disservice than
his Plotting could have done if at liberty.
I suppose yr Grace has a full account of the Imprison
ment of the Bp. of Man which makes a filthy noise &C.1
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.2 • Bath Oct. 6. 1722.
... I was honoured with yr Grace's of Sepr the first &
had answered it long agoe, if anything had occurred worth the
Troubling of y1' Grace. But beside false news & Scandal,
nothing was observable here worth y1' Grace's notice ; & I am
persuaded yr Grace would not be pleas'd with either of these ;
nor could I think it my part to communicate them.
I hear the Bp. of Man has paid his Fine & has got no
Bedress. He has the reputation of a very good man. . . .
I intend, God willing, to leave this place on Tuesday
Morning, & make the best of my way to Ireland. I thought
myself oblig'd to apprize yr Grace of my going, that if you
and banished ; entered the service of the Old Pretender and died in exile, 1732.
To both the events alluded to in above letter, Swift refers in a letter to Eobert
Cope, Oct. 9, ' Strange revolutions since I left you, a bishop of my old acquaint
ance in the Tower for treason, & a doctor of my new acquaintance made
Bishop ; . . . your new Bishop was born to be my tormentor he ever opposed
me as my subject, & now has left me embroiled for want of him.'
1 Thos. Wilson, educated at Trin. Coll. Dub., Sch., 1683 ; B.A. 1686, when
ordained by Bp. of Kildare ; M.A. 1696 ; Bp of Sodor and Man, 1697-1755 ;
Lord Chancellor, Sir Peter King, declared that, under Wilson's episcopate, the
true form of the primitive Church in all its purity was to be found ; he
admitted dissenters to the Lord's Supper, administering to them either standing
or sitting as they thought right ; his zeal for eoclesiastical discipline led him
into conflict with the Earl of Derby's governor, Alexander Home, who fined
him (June 25, 1722) £50, and in default imprisoned him (June 29) in Castle
Eushen, but on appeal to the Crown he was released July 19. He declined a
bishopric with a seat in the House of Lords, as he believed the Church should
not be connected with the State. There is a letter of his to Abp. King,
amongst Mrs. Lyons' King MSS., dated Sept. 30. 1723.
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have any Commands for me there they may meet me at
Chester where I hope to be on Saturday.
I take one thing a little unkind of yr Grace. I under
stand yr Grace had a Daughter here, of which you gave me
no Intimation that I might have paid my Eespects to her.
I was told of her being here the day she went away, which
was too late to pay the Civility to her, which I surely would
have done had I known it sooner &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the same.1
' Dublin Nov. 10. 1722.
... I had the honour of yr Grace's of the eighth of Oct.
last at Chester ; & made the best of my way to this place
where I arrived the 218>.
I found myself in such an arrear of Business, & have been
so ply'd with visits, publick solemnities &c. that I have not
had a Moment to myself since I landed. It was both my
Inclination & Interest to have taken London in my way ;
especially on account of the satisfaction I promised to myself
in seeing yr Grace, & taking some Informations & Directions
from you, which are neither proper for me to write, nor yr
Grace to answer by Letter. I intended to have been at the
Bath by the middle of July ; which wou'd have allowed me
to have seen London & get here by the time I came now ;
But by My Lord Shannon's 2 being absent on a Beview of the
Army, I could not leave this till the sixth of August, I could
not spend less time at the Bath than I did ; & if I had gone
to London it would either have cost me a Winter's Journey
(which my crazy Body could ill endure) or I must have stay'd
till Spring which, considering the Charge I am engag'd in,
would ill have suited with my Mind ; & besides I have com
monly the Gout at that time ; & if a fit had seized me, I must
have stay'd, I do not know how long &c.3
Will : Dublin.'
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Eichard Boyle, 2nd Viscount, the Archbishop's fellow Justice.
3 Bp. Downes writes with his usual lack of justice and kindly feeling
towards Abp. King, Oct. 31, 1722, to Bp. Nicholson, 'All our talk is about the
Archbishop of DubUn's return from the Bath without showing himself at
R

242 COEEESPONDENCE To the same -1
' Dublin Jan. 18. 1722-23.
. . . This goes with Dr. Trotter my Vicar General &c.
. . . He is a member of the Parliament. . . .
I can demonstrate that England gains by Ireland, com-
munibus annis, above a million, I may say, a million & half.
The only manufacture we have left us is that of the Linnen ;
& I understand efforts will be made this Session to cramp us
in that, & in effect to take it away & transfer it to Foreigners.'2
The taking away our Woolen Trade has been & will prove a
fatal blow to Great Britain, & has dispers'd it over all the
world. I am well assured that cramping our Linnen will not only
destroy this Kingdom (which I find is a consideration of no
great weight with many) but be most mischievous to England
&c. Will : Dublin.'
' To Liev' William King at M'r Bichd Hart's at the
Victualing Office on Little Tower Hill}
Cousen, Dublin Jan. 22. 1722-23.
I recd your's of the 8 Inst, yesterday, it gave me a
great deal of pleasure, for it is a great misfortune for a man
of yr age to be idle.
I have writ my sence of Sr George Saunderses kindness
to you, with my hearty Acknowledgements. I do the same to
court. He appears very gay & in good humour ; but I fancy he is inwardly
very chagrined that his presence should not be thought necessary at this
important conjuncture ' ; and again, Dec. 8, ' I believe the Archbishop of
Dublin has made his colleagues sick of him, for he leaves the invidious work
to them, as the signing the patents for the pensions &c. ; & serves himself
at the expense of their and some other greater person's honour. He spent
some time last week at Lord Molesworth 's, where, I dare say, there was not a
word spoken in favour of the King's ministry. He is much out of humour, but
why I know not.' Mant.
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B.M.
2 Mr. Wm. Hawkins' (Ulster) certificate as to Irish crape not being used at
funerals, but Italian only, in 1725 (Mrs. Lyons' King MSS.), is illustrative of
this miserable system.
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Mr Fisher but not knowing his name or Title I send it to you
to superscribe. I will send you by next a bill for £20. & have ordered 2
dozen Shirts for you, which I hope will be in Chester next
Week, if they should get to London before you go off take
some care that they be not lost.
You are now going into a new World,1 where I understand
most people are lost by mismanaging themselves, pray take
good advice how you are to order yourself so as to preserve
yr health, most people live there as they live in England,
& do not consider the Difference of ye Climates, and not
observing the Difference costs them frequently their Lives,
the dry Gripes, as they call it, takes them off, or violent
fevours, as to the first I have heard that it was so with those
that went to the East Indies, till they learned from the
natives never to sleep without a pillow on their Stomach, tho'
the heat wou'd not let them endure anything on the rest of
their Bodies but a Shirt. As to the last, intemperance in hot
Liquors is the common cause, as I have been told men get
on shore drunk & fall asleep & seldom any who do so
escape ; such as sleep overy night in their Ship are much
more safe.
If it shou'd please God you return safe, yet it is much to
one if I be so long alive, but if it be God's will to take me to
him, I intend not to forgett you in my Will.
I only intreat you as you value your own Happiness & as
you wou'd preserve my kindness towards you have God in all
your thoughts, repent you of your Sins & live a regular life,
preserving Honesty, Sobriety & a good Conscience in every
thing. I recommend you to God's good protection, & you
shall always have the most hearty & constant prayers to go
along with you of your loving Uncle & true friend,
W: D.'
' In his letters of thanks to Sir Geo. Saunders and Mr. Fisher of the same
date the Archbishop mentions Jamaica and the West Indies as his nephew's
ship, ' The Deptford's,' destination.

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To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury}
' Dublin June 8. 1723.
I take this opportunity to congratulate yr Grace's Eestitu-
tion to the Ministry, from which I understood by yr Grace's
Letter of Ap1 16 last, you reckon'd yourself discarded. I hope
now you are at the head of the Commission for governing the
Kingdoms during His Majesties absence, that you will be
able to do some service to the Church.
Had not a severe Fit of the Gout, which for near Two
Months last past has severely affected my right hand, I had
long agoe acknowledged the Honour of yr Grace's said Letter
& given you my Thoughts on it. I am sorry to find some
expressions in it that seem to me to sound like despondency
&c  I remember a Time in Her late Majesties Eeign, when I
had the Government here against me, the Parliament & the
greatest Part of the Clergy, back'd by the Ministry ; 2 and yet
by the help of a few friends we stood our Ground, — gave them
such trouble & opposition that they were often at a Stand, &
at last we gained our point by God's good Providence &
assistance on our honest endeavours ; And I heartily wish
every honest man would take for his Motto — Tu ne cede
malis, sed contra audentior ite. By this method tho' we
could not do all the good we could desire, yet we might
prevent many evils. . .
Tho' the Church of Ireland is in a very bad condition, both
as to the maintenance of a sufficient number of Clergymen
& Discipline, yet I think it in a better way than it was
when I was made a Bishop ; & I flatter myself that I have
somewhat contributed to it. I have now the Archbishop
of Tuam 3 & several other Bishops that join heartily with
me ; whereas at first I had hardly any who durst own my
1 Add. MSS. 6117, B. M.
2 Though meeting with so much opposition he was not embittered, or
rendered uncharitable to opponents ; Swift, in 1709, writes to him, ' The world
is divided into two sects, those that hope the best, & those that fear the
worst; your Grace is of the former, which is the wiser, the nobler, & most
pious principle.'
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schemes ; & several who not only opposed them violently but
made it their business to expose & ridicule them &c. &c.
Will: Dublin.'
To the same.1
r May it please your Grace, * Dublin- May the 23"d 1724-
I was honoured with your Grace's of the 23rd of April,
which to be sure gave me great satisfaction, & obliges me to
have a great sense of gratitude to your Grace, & to the whole
House of Lords,2 who as I understand, treated me with some
distinction, which I gratefully acknowledge. I received your
Grace's letter in the beginning of a fit of the gout, which
seized me in my hand, & I was unwilling to make use of
another's to your Grace. But finding it continue, I thought
it more respectful to make my acknowledgements any way
than delay them too long.
I hope this will put an end to the long & expensive con
tention in which I have been engaged for which there was not
the least ground. I have had three judgments in the
Common Pleas here, some of them in the Queen's time, when
the judges were no ways favourable to me ; four in the King's
Bench here, four in the King's Bench in Gt. Britain, & four
in the House of Lords there ; in all which, by what I under
stand, the judges were unanimous. Besides these I have had
the better in two appeals ; and surely this may satisfy any
reasonable men.
I am not yet sure whether my adversaries acquiesce, but
I hope they will. It will be my part not to treat them with
resentment ; & I am resolved to act that part, though the
provocations have been very great on their part. The
clamour of both clergy & laity against them is so loud, that I
do not see how they will be able to stand it ; for whomsoever
they meet, they find themselves condemned. They have
suffered extremely both in their interest & other advantages
which were allowed them ; the clergy having withdrawn
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 The House put themselves to more than ordinary trouble in order to give
judgment in the two causes, and in both gave it with costs in the Archbishop's
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themselves from preaching in their church, which they
formerly did by turns both on Sundays & holidays ; & the
nobility & gentry absenting themselves, because they did not
see that decency in the service of God & edification in the
preaching which they used to have.
The truth is, the members of it are generally treated with
contempt, & looked on as persons of no conscience or
prudence, as negligent of the orders of the Church & all true
piety, notwithstanding their pretensions to be mighty high
churchmen.1 I never did, nor intend to, invade any of their rights &
privileges, but think myself obliged to take care that they
should do their duty. They have appropriated to their
church about twenty-seven parishes, many of which are not
supplied at all, and most of them very indifferently. They
will not concur to re-build churches where they are necessary,
for fear they should be obliged to supply them with curates.
These & several other irregularities I take to be the reasons
they have been so unwilling to submit to their bishop ; & this
' In a letter to F. Annesley, of Feb. 4, the Abp. wrote ' I must crave your
pardon when I tell you that you are much mistaken to imagine that the dean
& chapter of Christ Church are ashamed of anything. They live in opposition
to all mankind except their two lawyers, Mr. Nutley and Mr. Burk, squander
away their oeconomy, have turned their chapter-house into a toy-shop, their
vaults into wine-cellars, & allowed a room in the body of their church, formerly
for a grand-jury-room, & now for a robe-room for the judges ; & are greatly
chagrined at my getting two or three churches built & consecrated in the
parishes belonging to their body, which were formerly neglected as several
others still are ; their cathedral is in a pitiful condition, & though St. Patrick's
has not half the oeconomy that Christ Church has, yet it is much better
beautified, & great sums of money laid out on it. In short the dean & chapter
& all their members seem to have little regard to the good of the Church, or to
the service of God. This consideration has made me zealous to settle my
jurisdiction over them, & the same makes them unwilling to come under it.
One of them told me, when I objected these things to him, that he looked on
these things as a sure sign that they were not subject to the Archbishop, for if
he had had power he would not have suffered them.' Nov. 2, he again writes
to Annesley, ' I visited Christ Church, the 27th of last month, & was received
there with submission, on which the contempt was purged. I proceeded
without any harshness or reflection, but told them what I expected at the
next visitation ' ; and to Lord Palmerston, Oct. 5. 1725, the Abp. writes, that
he ' had settled his jurisdiction, & the dean and chapter had become amenable
to him so far as not only to yield him reasonable submission, but to join with
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management had, before I came, very bad influence on the
whole diocese ; for though my predecessors all visited them,
yet these visitations signified very little, because the arch
bishops did not know the extent of their own power, & were
unwilling to exert themselves, for fear of being involved in an
expensive contention.
I thought myself obliged to give your Grace this account
for my own justification &c. Will : Dublin.'
To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord ' Dublin July *4- 1724.
Your Grace will have received before this comes to
your hands an account of the Primate's l death, who died
yesterday at twelve o'clock at noon. He had left off spitting
for about ten days before ; and the want of that is thought to
have been the immediate cause of his death, although he eat
heartily until the two last days. He has left the Bishop of
Kildare & his steward, Mr. Morgan, his executors who were
both out of town, but I suppose are sent for. Some who
formerly belonged to him think he has left £40,000 ; others
report he died poor.
The vogue is that your Grace will succeed him if you
please : but I am too great a stranger to your present
situation at Court to know what to judge.2 But if there were
virtue enough I could wish your Grace would accept the offer,
if it should be made to you ; because I would have your name
left to posterity among the primates ; & because entering into
a new station is entering, after a sort, on a new lease of life ;
& because it might be hoped that your Grace would be advised
1 Thos. Lindsay, D.D., had been Primate from 1714. He was the son of
a Scottish minister, and a native of Blandford, Dorsetshire, and had been a
school-fellow of Dr. Wake's the Primate of England ; he was politically ' an old
& high Tory,' and his promotion had been forwarded by the influence of Swift.
His name was omitted from the list of Lords Justices by the British Eegency,
and had the change of sovereigns occurred but a few months earlier, it is pro
bable that King, and not Lindsay, would have been the Primate ; indeed Dr.
Stokes, in Some Worthies, p. 275, describes Lindsay as ' the last hope of the
Stuart party in Ireland.'
2 The Archbishop's name had been omitted in the list of Lords Justices
sworn May 9, 1724, and Hugh Boulter, D.D., the new Primate, took his place in
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with about a successor, & because that Diocese would require
your Grace's ability & spirit to reform it, & because— but I
should never be at an end if I were to number up the reasons
why I would have your Grace in the highest stations the
Crown can give you.
I found all the papers in the cabinet relating to Dr
Stephen's Hospital ' & therefore I brought them home to the
Deanery. I opened the cabinet in the presence of Mr
Bouhereau,2 & saw one paper which proved a bank note for
£500. The greatness of the sum startled me but I found it
belonged to the same hospital ; I was in pain because work
men were in the room & about the house. I therefore went
this morning to St. Sepulchre's, & in the presence of M1S Green,3
I took away the note & have it secured in my cabinet, leaving
her my receipt for it, & am very proud to find that a scrip
under my hand will pass for £500.
I wish your Grace a good journey to the establishment of
your health ; & am with the greatest respect, My Lord, your
Grace's most dutiful & most humble servant Jonathan Swift.'
To the Bt. Hon. Marmaduke Coghill, LL.D}
g}r Kildare, July 15. 1724.
I was favoured with your very kind letter of the 13th
instant. I am at a loss to acknowledge your extraordinary
1 ' A Physician, one Dr. Stephens, died here lately, & left about £500., per
annum, to endow an Hospital,' Abp. King to Dr. Charlett, Oxford, Ap. 19, 1714.
Dr. Stevens' Hospital was established in 1730.
2 A Huguenot refugee physician, appointed, by Abp. Narcissus Marsh, Keeper
of his Library, at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin. The Bev. Professor Stokes, in Some
Worthies &c, p. 119, records, — ' The great work which Bouhereau did for his
library was the compilation of the catalogue, which seems to have taken a
period of close on ten years before it's completion ; but I must say, after the
use of it for more than ten years, that I have always found it admirably com
piled, fulfilling in itself the double purpose of a dictionary of subjects and a
dictionary of authors.' The letter, Dec, 9, 1727, from Abp. King to Edward
Southwell, describing the catalogue which the succeeding librarian, Archdeacon
Dougatt, had compiled, indicates that to him, and not to Bouhereau, is this
admirably executed work to be ascribed.
3r,His Grace's housekeeper.
* T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. In a later letter (on the 21st)
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concern for my interest expressed in it, nor can I make any
other return, but to assure you, that I look on it as such an
instance of friendship that shall never be forgotten while I live.
I have struggled with myself what to do in so critical an
affair. I never asked any preferment for myself, & always
thought I had as much as I deserved. I am now almost
superannuated, & at present very lame. I have now brought
my diocese to a pretty good regularity & am settled, to my
heart's content at St. Sepulchre's. To remove at this time of
day, & begin the world anew with the prospect of a disorderly
diocese, where you would have me go, & the retrospect on that
in which I have taken so great pains, & which I may perhaps
see turned topsy-turvey, as it has happened to Derry,1 are
things so mortifying they grate my very heart.
However I have not been obstinate to the advice of my
friends, who I am persuaded mean well to the publick & to me,
I have therefore writ all the letters you required me to write,2
but could not prevail with my own mind to ask anything for
myself. If Providence should throw this upon me I submit : but I
am persuaded if it should, I should never make that figure in
the primacy that I have done in the archbishoprick of
Dublin. . . . Will: Dublin.'
ceeding the late primate were of as much moment to the Church & Kingdom
as you seem to think it, I would immediately, lame as I am, pass into England,
and solicit it. But I can by no means be of that opinion, nor imagine how
a crazy, lame & superannuated primate can be of any service to either. We
have already suffered sufficiently under such. If twelve or twenty years ago
I had been put into that post, I believe I might have done something. Tunc
ego debueram capienda ad Pergama mitti. But now I can neither expect
continuance of life, nor have I vigour of body to do any great matter.'
1 Dr. Ashe was translated to Derry from Clogher, and King had re
monstrated with him, in 1714, on his long absence from his then diocese
(Clogher), and wrote that he ' justified Mr Boyse's (the Presbyterian minister's)
reproach by making his bishoprick only a pompous sinecure, as he seemed to
do, by so many years' absence from it.' He d., 1718, when Wm. Nicholson,
Bishop of Carlisle, was translated to Derry, and was the then occupant of the
see. 2 To Lord Carteret the Lord Lieutenant, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Duke of Grafton, Bishop Gibson of London, Lord Harcourt and Sir Peter King,
Ch. Justice Common Pleas, beseeching their interest with His Majesty and his
Ministers ' for securing to Ireland such a Primate, as might answer the expecta
tion of the publick & serve his Majesty & the Kingdom & the Chureh effectually.'

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To the Dean of St. Patrick's.1
Dear Dean, ' Catherlow, July 20th 1724.
I had the satisfaction of your's of the 14th instant, & it
gave me great pleasure to find you remembered me so kindly
in my absence. I had a return of my Gout three days after
I left Dublin, & I have gone thro' the offices of Confirmation
& Visitation in a very lame manner. I am still in pain, but
must go on if possible.2
How the Primacy will be disposed of I can't guess, but
considering how many years the late Primate was dying, I am
apt to think it was long ago determined who should be his
successor ; for I understand that it is the method taken by this
Ministry to determine on supposition, that should such or such
die, who shall succeed.
I have been importuned by my friends,3 to apply for my-
1 T.C.D Transcribed King Correspondence.
" Then at Carlow on the triennial visitation of his province ; was ill all the
following winter with gout.
3 These included Chief Justice Whitshed, and the Et. Hon. Wm. Conolly,
one of the Lords Justices. In a letter, July 19, to Ch. Justice Whitshed, Abp.
King expressed his opinion, 'that none of this Kingdom must pretend to it.
Whether I be right in this time will show,' and the appointment of Dr. Hugh
Boulter, Bp. of Bristol, proved its correctness. In a letter to Dr. Coghill,
Aug. 1, he writes ' I suppose you are now convinced that I judged better of
matters than my kind friends did, to whom, nevertheless, I reckon myself as
much obliged as if their endeavours had met with all the success they desired.
There has nothing happened contrary to my wishes ; & as I have a signal
instance in this of their sincere affection towards me, which I greatly value, so
I hope it will show them how much I am under their power, & how ready
I am to sacrifice my own inclinations to their judgment. I am of opinion that
if things had succeeded as they proposed, it would have shortened my life : for
I should have looked on myself as obliged to answer their expectations, which
would have obliged me likewise to such efforts of doing my duty, as in my
crazy circumstances must have every day endangered my life. I know nothing
of Dr. Boulter's character. If he be not tainted with Hoadly's [Benjamin, a
voluminous writer, then Bp. of Salisbury, brother of King's successor] principles,
I hope we may preserve our Church & religion : but our trust must be on God,
& he will not fail us if we be not wanting to ourselves.' Bp. Mant comments
thus on the appointment : ' Without disparagement of Abp. Boulter's other
qualifications, the chief motive to his elevation was of a political tendency, the
object of the English ministry being to place in that situation a confidential
adviser who might support what was called the English interest in Ireland.
And this will suffice to account for the non-appointment of Abp. King, who
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self ; but having never asked anything, I cannot now begin
to do so when I have so near a prospect of leaving the station
in which I am another way. . . .
Will : Dublin.'

' To Mr-. James Brown.1
Cosen, Dublin, Feb" 13'" 1724-25.
I have purchased Mr. Dowglass' interest in Terluggan
&c, & have made him a lease dureing his life of 43 acres, I
design that this purchase shou'd be for the benefit of my
relations, &, God willing, intend very soon to settle it, as may
be most proper.
In the mean time I desire you to go & take possession in
my name of the land. If Mr. Dowglass shou'd scruple to give
you possession without a Letter of Atturney, I will send you
one in form. He is bound to preserve & keep up all the im
provements on the 43 acres dureing life, & a liberty for me
to employ one from time to time to see & examine if any wast
has been committed, or if there has been any want of repairs.
I intend to employ you to this purpose. Perhaps you may
have a mind to remove there yourselfe & if there be any con
venience for you I think it wou'd not be amiss.
But that these things may be better concerted, I believe
it will be necessary for you to come up this summer, & then
I shall, if it please God I live so long, settle those matters in
a reasonable way, & I hope to your satisfaction.
I have writ to Mr. Douglass, which I send enclosed to you
& desire you wou'd deliver it & let me hear in what state
things are there, that I may know what directions to give you,
& send you a letter of Atturney to execute them.
I have been very ill with the gout all this winter, & recover
very slowly. I desire to be remembered to ail trends, & with
my prayers for you all, am your loving uncle,
W. D.'
constituted Abp. King, Administrator of the Diocese during the vacancy, an
honour which he gratefully accepted as an act of kindness & an instance of
their good affection to him, which, said he, " I greatly value." '
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.

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To Lieut. Wm. King, B.N.1
Q08en ' Dublin, Novem' 16"1 1725.
I have Eecd. your's of Septr from the Bath, I am sorry
to hear you have so ill health & that the Bath had no better
effect on you, I hope this will find you in a better condition,
I am sure I heartily pray for it. I send you enclosed a Bill
for 25 pounds, & intend another such for you at Christmass.
I expect you'l use these with frugality, for I can't promise
you any more till Midsummer, I am very low of cash & have
many demands on me. I am sorry you are not like to get
into any employment, but tis the case of many hundreds who
have as good if not better pretentions yn you. I am in no
good state of health, nor can I expect much better at this
time of day. I have my thoughts on a better state, from
which I hope I am not farre distant, & your frequent infirmities,
I hope, will induce you to lay that matter to heart. I re
commend you most earnestly to God's good protection & am,
Your most loving Uncle,
W. D.'
The Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq".1
' Dec. 29. 1725
.... I told you in my last letter that since my Lord
Lieutenant 2 was nominated to the government about £18000
annual rent have been given in benefices, employments, &
places to strangers, & not £500 to any in Ireland ; but I find
I was mistaken ; for I find there have been above £20,000.
disposed that way, & I understand several have not yet come
to my knowledge. There are several vacancies now in pro
spect to the value of some thousands, & I hear strangers are
already named for them.
The bishops sent us from England follow the same track
in many instances. The Bishop of Derry 3 since his trans
lation to that see, has given about £2000. in benefices to his
English friends & relations. Lord Primate 4 hath had two
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 John, Lord Carteret, sworn Ld. Lieut. Oct. 22, 1724.
3 Wm. Nicholson, D.D. 4 Hugh Boulter, D.D.

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livings void since his translation ; one he has given of about
£200. per annum to one of his Walton blacks ' whom he
since ordained priest, & the other to one Mr. Blennerhassett,2
whom they commonly call an Hottentot ; I know not for what
reason. I tell you what is generally said & believed. Whether in
all circumstances true or not, it showeth the sense of the
kingdom as to the treatment they meet with from the govern
ment. The Bishop of Waterford 3 has not only given all
livings of value in his gift to his brothers & relations, but
likewise his vicar-generalship & registry, though none of them
reside in the kingdom &c. Will : Dublin.'
To the Lord High Chancellor of Gt. Britain}
' Dublin, Jan. 22. 1725-26.
.... I must beg leave of your Lordship to trouble you
once more in behalf of the bearer, Lieut. King, my nephew,
he has been bred altogether at sea, has been with the fleets
in the Baltick, the Mediterranean & in the West Indies, but
has been of late out of employment & on half pay, I hear
1 Bp. Mant writes, ' I propose to substitute " Waltham " blacks, a well-known
herd of deer-Btealers in Hampshire, whose enormities about this time had been
such as to give occasion for the statute of 9 Geo. I. u. 22, commonly called " the
Black Act." ' In a letter to the Eev. Dr. Stopford, Nov. 26, 1725, Swift alludes
to the subject : ' The primate & the Earl of Cavan govern the House of Lords.
The Archbishop of Dublin attacked the same in the Castle for giving a good
living to a certain animal called a Welsh black, which the other excused,
alleging he was preferred to it by Lord Townshend. It is a cant word for a
deer-stealer. This fellow was leader of a gang, & had the honour of hanging
half a dozen of his fellows in quality of informer, which was his merit. If
you cannot match me that in Italy, step to Muscovy & from thence to the
Hottentots.' 2 Primate Boulter wrote, Nov. 28, 1724, to recommend Mr. B. to the Abp. of
Canterbury, ' for his Doctor's degree. I have known him for many years to be
well affected to his Majesty's family, & he was my chaplain all the time I was
Bp. of Bristol, ... a good hving here will make him easier than anything
he has hopes of in England .... he thinks he shall command the more
respect if he comes over a Doctor.'
3 Thos. Milles, a native of Hertfordshire.
4 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence ; Sir Peter King, of an Exeter
family, created, 1725, Baron King of Ockham, ancestor of the Earls of Love
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there is a probability of a Fleet being employed, & if your
Lordship would condescend to speak a word in his favour, it
might procure him an imployment &c. Will : Dublin.'
' To his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin.1
May it please your Grace, Dubiin. Maroh 25th 1725-26.
The Author of the book which you will receive along
with this letter, thought it proper not to be known as the
author till he found how it would be received. His diffidence
of its success hindered him from presenting a coppy of it to
your Grace sooner, but since he has found that it has pleased
some persons of distinction, he begins to presume that it will
not be disagreeable to your Grace, & would willingly hope that
he shall make some small return in kind for the great
pleasure he has very lately received, upon a subject that had
long employed his thoughts, from the author De Origine Mali.
I am, may it please your Grace, your Grace's most obedient
humble servant, Francis Hutchbson.' 2
To ' Lord Chancellor Wyndham.3
My Lord, ' st- Sepulcher's Decern-- 28"1 1726.
I am seised with a very severe fit of the Gout,4 which
has hind'r'd me from waiting on your Lordship since you
1 Mrs. Lyons' King MSS. ; printed in Hist. MSS. Comm" 2nd Beport.
2 Born in 1694, and educated in Ireland ; ' while keeping a private school
became acquainted with Lord Carteret, Archbishop King, and Edward S,ynge '
D.N.B. ; obtained the chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow 1729 ; during his
lifetime he published Inquiry into Origin of our Ideas cf Beauty and Virtue
and On Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections ; but his chief work,
System of Moral Philosophy, was published, after his death, by his son in 1755 ;
d. 1747. 3 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence. Thos. Wyndham succeeded
Ld. Chancellor West, who had d., in the Government, Dec. 3, 1726 ; created
Baron Wyndham of Finglas, 1731.
4 He had a severe attack of the same complaint at Bath, May-July, but
derived benefit from the waters before leaving. His nephew, Dougatt, was
with him, and he wrote to Dr. Thomas Trotter, Vicar General, June 18, ' yr
frend, Dougat, is very well neither needs nor drinks any waters but has turned
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were in the Government, which I hope your Lordship will
excuse. I take the Liberty to intercede with your Lordship in
favour of a frend, William Smyth, Esq, of Drumcree, in the
County of West Meath, he is appointed high Sheriff for the
County of Wicklow, where he has a very small Estate, he has
served lately for two countys & thinks it very hard that he
shou'd serve again whilst other Gentt that live in the County
& have Estates are excused.
He is at the Barre and of the Parlem4 & alleges that he
was not one of the three pricked for the County,1 1 conceive
it will not be necessary to put so great an inconveniency on
him as this will prove to my certain Knowledge. There are
three Gentt. that live in the County & never served, one is
Mr Archer of Couloge, a very active Gent, fit for the place in
my opinion, & who I believe wou'd not refuse the office if
named to it, another is Mr Moore of Glnely,2 & I have for
gotten the third.
I am no otherwise concerned in thia, yn on acco4 of my
affection to the man, & that I conceive it may create some
trouble to the Government.
I hope your Lordship will excuse my importunity in this
very thin of company, he gives his service to you & all frends,' and again
June 29, ' I am glad that my Cosen Dougat's business doth not suffer by his
absence, I confess, considering my Circumstanoes of health, I did not think it
proper to be without a frend here.' Dr. Trotter wrote to the Archbishop,
June 30, offering a suggestion in the event of a vacancy occurring in the
Chantership of Christ Church, Dublin, ' that yr Grace's interest may not be
weaken'd there, & I think no pr'ferm' yl can happen by the Bishop of Cloyn's
death may be unreasonable for y* Grace to ask for, as no one has made a better
figure than Mr Dugat, & being bred at the feet of Gamaliel I am sure would fill
ya highest of them.' Swift mentions, Feb. 14, 1726-7, ' The ArchD' of Dublin
is just recovered after having been despaired of, & by that means hath disap
pointed some hopers.'
1 In a letter of Deo. 13th, the Archbishop informed Mr. Smyth that Ch.
Justice 'V^itshed had told him that he (Smyth) was not one of the three
pricked, and therefore advises, ' If I were in your circumstances I wou'd insist on
it that I was not obliged to serve & am much mistaken if that plea will not
puzle the Lawiers to get over.' The Archbishop wrote, Nov. 14, 1727, to the
Ld. Chancellor to grant a commission of Justice of the Peace for Co. Dublin
to the same gentleman, then ' of Lissen-Hall,' in that Co., and he was Sheriff
forthe same Co., in 1728, and for Fermanagh, 1734, as, ' of Monea,' in that Co.
jure uxoris.
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case & believe that I have the Honr to be with respect, My
Lord, your Lordship's most obedient Serv*, Will : Dublin.'
His Excellency Lord Carteret.1
' March 18. 1727
. . . Your Excellency's disposal of the late preferments
has, as there is reason, been very acceptable ; & it is hoped
that your Excellency, having gained this step, will be able to
proceed in the same track, especially since the person you
recommended to the archbishoprick of Cashel never was
installed, or had any emolument from it ; & consequently,
your Excellency had not the benefit of his Majesty's favourable
condescension to your recommendation.
I doubt not but there are many in England desirous of
our preferments, which, by our zeal for the Church & our
good laws, are become considerable ; whereas I do not find
that the bishopricks in England, by the indolence, & covetous
ness of the possessors, are much better, if anything at all,
than they were at the Beformation. Methinks, therefore, it
seems a little hard, that because we have been honest &
industrious for the common good, we should be excluded from
the improvements we have made, & those given to such as
have made none. Sic vos non vobis &c.
It is confidently reported here, that ten English bishops
were striving for this void archbishoprick (Cashel) ; if this be
so, I conclude, when it pleaseth God to remove me, twenty
will contend for mine ; but I am no ways inclined to throw a
bone of contention amongst my brethren, & therefore am
resolved to take all possible care of my health, & do all that
I can to prolong my life, so long as God & nature will allow
me &c. Will : Dublin.'
To the Lord Archbishop of Dublin.
My Lord, ' May 18. 1727, London.
I understand by some letters just come to my hands,
that at your Grace's visitation of the Dean & Chapter of
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St. Patrick's, a proxy was insisted on from the Dean, the
visitation adjourned, & a rule entered that a proxy be
exhibited within a month. If your Grace can find in any of
your old records, or of our's that a proxy was ever demanded
for a Dean of St. Patrick's, you will have some reason to
insist upon it ; but as it is a thing wholly new & unheard of,
let the consequences be what they will I shall never comply
with it. I take my chapter to be my proxy, if I want any ; it
is only through them that you visit me, & my sub-dean is to
answer for me. I am neither civilian nor canonist ; your
Grace may probably be both with the addition of a dexterous
deputy. My proceeding shall be only upon one maxim ; never
to yield to an oppression, to justify which no precedent can
be produced. I see very well how personal all this proceeding is, & how
from the very moment of the Queen's death your Grace has
thought fit to take every opportunity of giving me all sorts of
uneasiness, without ever giving me, in my whole life one
single mark of your favour beyond common civilities. And
if it were not below a man of spirit to make complaints, I
could date them from six & twenty years past.
This has something in it the more extraordinary because
during some years when I was thought to have credit with
those in power I employed it to the utmost of your service
with great success where it could be most useful against many
violent enemies you then had however unjustly, by which I
got more ill will, than by any action of my life, I mean from
friends. My Lord I have lived, & by the grace of God will die an
enemy to servitude & slavery of all kinds ; & I believe at the
same time that persons of such a disposition will be the
most ready to pay obedience wherever it is due. Your Grace
has often said ' you would never infringe any of our liberties.'
I will call back nothing of what is past ; I will forget if I can,
that you mentioned to me a licence to be absent. Neither
my age, health, humour or fortune qualify me for little
brangles, but I will hold to the practice delivered down by my
predecessors. I thought & have been told, that I deserved
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from your Grace. And I believe people on this side will
assert that all my merits are not very old. It is a little hard
that the occasion of my journey hither, being partly for the
advantage of that kingdom, partly on account of my health,
partly on business of importance to me, & partly to see my
friends, I cannot enjoy the quiet of a few months, without
your Grace interposing to disturb it. But I thank God the
civilities of those in power here, who allow themselves to be
my professed adversaries make some atonement for the unkind
ness of others, who have so many reasons to be my friends.
I have not long to live, & therefore if conscience were quite
out of the case for me to do a base thing, I will set no un
worthy examples for my successors to follow ; & therefore
repeating it again, that I shall not concern myself upon the
proceedings of your Lordship, I am &c. Jonathan Swift.' '
To ' Coll1 Charles Irvine at Leister Coffee-house in
Leister Square, London.2
Dr Brother, ' Dublin June 3a 1727.3
I had the favour of your's of the 27th of May, for
which I heartily thank you, I hope you are in good health,
1 The same cause of dispute had previously arisen between Swift and his
diocesan, the Bp. of Meath, and his excessive irritability on this occasion cannot
be excused, as, in the preceding year, he had mentioned both to Mr. Worrall
and Dr. Stopford that his licence of absence for half a year would expire in
August (1726), and therefore his absence for nine or ten months longer, he must
have known, could not be passed over ; beyond taking this notice of it the Abp.
does not seem to have gone ; in a letter to Dr. Sheridan, June 24, Swift writes
' But if the Archbishop goes on to proceed to sub pcena contemptus &c, I would
have an appeal at proper time which I suppose must be to delegates, or the
Crown, I know not which. However I will spend a hundred or two pounds
rather than be enslaved, or betray a right which I do not value three pence, but
my successors may ' ; again to the same, July 1, ' Worrall writ to me lately, in
answer I desire that when the Archbishop comes to a determination, that an
appeal be properly lodged, by which I will elude him till my return which will
be at Michaelmas.'
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
¦ On the 20th of this month Abp. King writes to Edward Southwell about
the proclamation in Dublin of the accession of George II.,—' The ceremony
was performed with great solemnity, mighty crowds of people & all signs
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I have had a severe Winter, by a Succession of Distempers,
first a long & oppressive Cough, then a severe fit of the Gout
in my feet, knees & hands, then a great feavour & at last a
pleurisy, I am still very Weak.
Your Spouse is still in the North at her Nephew Brown's,1
I understand that she has very ill health. I furnish her duly
with the Interest of her money, tho' there is above two years
due from the Gent, that has it.
We are very low in cash here, & are so farre from any
prospect of being better, that we fear being worse & worse
every day.
I should be glad to know your Circumstances, & whether
I could be anyway helpfull to you, writing is not easy to me,
I am with all love & hearty prayers for you, Sr, your most
Affect, frend & Bro.,
W: D.'
To the same2
Dear Brother, Dublin Aug' 10'» 1727.
I had the favour of your's of the first instant which as
to the Account it gives me of the Publick affairs was very
acceptable, so [tho' ?] as to the Consideration of your own Cir
cumstances it gave me a very uneasy concern, you desire me
to write in your favour to several great men, you know that
I have writ severall times to them in your behalf, but without
zealous for his interest, than the Protestants of Ireland, though they
do not think that they had a proportional share in his late Majesty's
favours; & to deal ingenuously with jou, they hope better from the present.
The taste they had from his government when intrusted by his father left a
mighty impression on their minds ; & if he proceed in the methods he then
took, he will be the most admired & loved prince that sat on the throne since
Queen Elizabeth ' ; and in a letter to Lady Carteret, of Sept. 5, on the same
subject, ' His late Majesty's death [in Hanover June 11] was a surprise to
everybody. But we are over-comforted by his Majesty's accession to the
throne of his father. I remember the coronation of five kings & two queens,
none of which came to the royal seat with that universal satisfaction, tran
quillity & pleasure, that has acoompanied his Majesty's accession. I pray God
he may continue long, & long in his kingdom, & reign in the hearts of his
people, as I am sure he doth at present.' (Mant.)
1 James Brown's place, Terlugan, Co. Tyrone ; the Archbishop had bidden
this nephew to take care of Mrs. Irvine ' and leave her not to herself for if
you do, she will be imposed on & cheated.'
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any effect, on the contrary I have understood that they took
it ill, & instead of doing you a Kindness I did myself a dis
service by it.
I writ very earnestly in favour of my Nephew Wm. King,
only to get him posted as a Lieut, in a Ship, but without
Success, but at last with much ado a frend prevailed to get
him to be a Second Lieut.
Notwithstanding this if you pitch on any particular place
& think my Letters may do you any Service I shall not
decline writing in your behalf, to write in general Signifyeth
nothing. You seem to purpose one of three things, 1st half pay 2"y
a pension SilJ a Government. As to half pay there is a rule
that none that have Sold out shou'd be intitled to it, I know
some notwithstanding have obtained a new Establishment,
but it caused a general Complaint & a great ferment, if you
had kept your half pay it had been a good plea for your being
posted, because it would have eased the establishment of so
much & there are votes of Parliament & rules for advancing
hafe pay officers, tho' little regarded, but I cou'd have urged
these with confidence in your behalf, but know not now what
to say. As to pensions the Kingdoms are overloaded with
them & they are a great grievance, I have Set myself against
them with all my might, & hindered Severall & can't now
plead for any without making myself ridiculous.
As to Governments, I have been told their Case is
generally thus, There is a Salary allowed commonly for them
to be paid out of the Treasury, & when any one aimeth at one
of them, he applieth to some Courtier, covenants to let him
have the Salary & he is to live on what he can exact & rapery
from the people, if you take this way you must apply to some
Courtier & make your Bargain with him, but I cannot think
that any honest man will think it proper to take this method.
If merit had any weight I might hope you would not be
neglected, but that I fear is like dust in the Ballance.
Writing is very uneasy to me, I have the comfort that I
do not expect to trouble the world long, I pray God prepare
me for my change. I shou'd pass hence with greater Satis
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stances before I go hence, & assure you I will not omitt any
thing in my power to procure it, that can reasonably be
expected from Dr. Br. your &c.
W. D.'
To the Bt. Hon. Samuel Molyneux, Esq".1
'Dec. 9. 1727
.... I have a difficulty upon me about a Benefice that is
become void by the Death of Dr. Travers,2 you will be
apprised of the matter by the enclosed case, Mr. Dougatt 3 is
concerned & I do suppose that your knowledge of him & your
frendship to him will engage you to exert yourself in his
favour, I declare that if I knew a fitter man or any that
wou'd answer the necessity of the Parishes I wou'd be for him
 Mr. Eobert Dougatt & I referre to you & Mr. South
well for his character &c.
W. D.'
To the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq".1
' Dec. 9. 1727
 You see the p'son I design is Mr Eobert
Dougatt & I referre to you & M1' Molyneux for his Character,
he has been in several Stations, in every one of which he has
gained the love & good will of his people, & has had the good
fortune to prevaile with them to build & repair the Churches
whereever he has been, he has now the Parish of St. Peter's,
which is worth about an 100Ib a year, & the Library which is
worth about 200'b, he found Both in a miserable condition.
The repairing of the Church has cost about 800lb, & the
Library has cost him out of his own pockett, between 3 & 4
hundred pounds, & he has contrived & made a catalogue, the
most usefull in my opinion of any extant, in it may be found
every Author & every Tretise contain'd in book[s] in the
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
2 John T., Vicar of St. Andrew's, or ' The Bound Church,' Dublin.
3 ' Mr. Dougat, the Archbishop's nephew, likewise appears [as a candidate],
and it is supposed the Archbishop will exert his negative & agree to no other
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Library on any Subject,1 this was an immense labour & cost
him years to bring it to perfection. If these things be
considered, I hope none will consider it reasonable that he
shou'd be defeated in his Expectation.
Let me add that I have 40 curates in my Diocess, many
of them deserving men who have served years in the Church
& if Mr. Dougatt be preferred I shall be able to provide for
one of them by putting him in St. Peter's where he is now
Incumbent &c.2 Will : Dublin.'
To Francis Annesley, Esq''6}
' St. Sepulchre's Feb' 16(h 1727-28.
.... I have for the present adjusted the affair of St.
Andrew's pretty well to my mind, & to the contentment of all
concerned except Mr. Manley, who is left out of the Scheme.
I shall provide for three of my curates, very good men,
with tolerable benefices, & have got as I designed St. Andrew's
& St. Mark's for my Cosen Dougatt, this I owe much to my
Ld. Lt.4 who espoused my interest & promised if the lapse
were to the Crown I shou'd dispose of it &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell, Esq.3
' Dublin, April 27, 1728.
.... There was a strong party made in the House of-
Lords against the privilege bill,6 at the hearing whereof was
1 The B.M. Catalogue is compiled on a similar plan ; Mr. Dougatt's work
has been attributed to the first librarian of Marsh's Library, Dr. Elias Bou
hereau, vide p. 248, note 2.
2 In 1725 the Abp. mentions that the curates in his diocese receive £30 or
£40 per annum, that the good benefices are generally in the gift of the Crown,
or other patrons, and that he had not seven at his disposal worth £100 a year.
3 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
4 John, 2nd Baron Carteret of Hawnes, Lord Lieutenant 1724-30 ; succeeded,
on his mother's death, 1744, to Earldom of Granville, d. 1763.
5 Act for preventing inconveniences that may happen by privilege of parlia
ment ; members of either house may be sued after fourteen days following the
dissolution or prorogation till fourteen days before the meeting of parliament.
' Several of our Lords, who are very much in debt and value themselves upon
paying nobody, were from the first very much against the bill,' Primate
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my Lord Midleton, & Dr. Bolton, the Bishop of Elphin, This
obliged me to go to the house, though I had not been out of
my house for near six months, & in a very bad state of health.
But I looked on the bill to be of so great moment, that
I thought worth my venturing to assist in the passing of it.
The young indebted lords were generally against it ; & had
not my Lord Lieutenant espoused it, & joined his influence, I
doubt whether it would have passed. I believe there will be no
difficulty about any of the rest ; four already have passed the
Commons, & all the rest will this day either be before the
Lords or Commons. This passing of all the bills will be
much to the honour of my Lord Carteret's government, the
like as you have observed, not having happened to any Lord
Lieutenant before &c.
Will : Dublin.'
To the Lady Carteret.1
May it please your Ladyship, ' Dublin. June 10. 1728.
I have always found more zeal & piety in devout ladies
than in the other sex, & I know none have given better
instances of it than your Ladyship. I am sensible of the
great influence your Ladyship must have at court, & that
gives me some confidence to apply to you for your assistance.
It is in a matter of piety, to which I am sure your Ladyship
cannot be indifferent.
We want churches extremely in this city ; & I have put
in a memorial to His Majesty for the forfeiture of John
Audovin,2 condemned for a most barbarous murder, of which
your Ladyship was well apprised before you left Dublin.
The success of this petition will depend much on my Lord
Lieutenant's favourable representation of it to His Majesty ;
& I beseech your Ladyship to put to your helping hand, &
stir up his Excellency's zeal & diligence in the affair.
If I durst ask your Ladyship's good word to Her Majesty,
the assurance I have of her readiness to further all good
works, would give me certain hopes of success. I dare not
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence.
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presume to desire you to say anything of the great veneration
I have for Her Majesty, because I cannot say enough ; but
your Ladyship's happiness in expressions may go a great way
to supply that defect.
I have under consideration the adding four new churches
to those in this city, besides two in the country ; all absolutely
necessary. I have no hopes of living to compass this design ;
but if I could put things in a way towards it, 'twill be a
great comfort to me, & I shall die with more satisfaction.
What success this may have I can't tell ; but it is a great
pleasure to me that it has given me an opportunity to ac
knowledge your Ladyship's civilities to me ; and that I am,
with the greatest respect, Madam, your Ladyship's &c.
Will : Dublin.'

To the Bt. Hon. Edward Southwell Esq".1
' July 25. 1728
... I was honoured with yours of the 8th of May, & did
not answer it sooner, because I was in hopes to have made
use of my own hand ; but I have been visited with a severe
fit of the gout in my right hand, left foot, & knee ; which
obliges me after all my waiting, to make use of an amanu
ensis. You observed right, that old age will bring infirmities ; &
being now in the seventy -ninth year of my age, I cannot think
it strange that I have lost many friends. I don't know that
I have any left in England of my old acquaintance, to whom
I can write with any freedom except you & Mr. Annesley.2
I was greatly inclined this summer to pay my duty to his
Majesty & the Queen, but found it impossible, for I cannot
bear travelling, it immediately throwing me into great dis
orders ; & I conceive it had been no prudence in me to kill
myself, when I found no possibility of doing any service to
their Majesties or the countrey by it &c.
Will. Dublin.'
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To the Lord Bishop of Cloyne 1
' Aug. 6. 1728
... I heartily thank your Lordship for the honour of
your's of the 19th of July last.
I can by no means be of opinion that I have done my work,
or that I should sit down & rest from my labours. St. Paul
has set me a better example, who, when he had laboured
a thousand times more than I, & to much better purpose, yet
did not reckon upon what was past, but prest forward to the
obtaining of the prize for which he laboured. There is no
stopping in this course, till God calls us from it by death.
I would have you propose no other example but St. Paul
himself, & compare the progress you make to his. I am
ashamed every time when I think of the course he ran, when
I compare it with my own.
I was consecrated on the day we celebrate for his con
version, & proposed him to myself for a pattern. But God
knows how short the copy comes of the original &c.
Will : Dublin.'
' To the Lord Bishop of Killala.2 Dublin. Aug. 6. 1728.
... I am honoured with your's of the 27th of July last.
I am still very weak in my limbs by the gout, but begin to
creep abroad ... I don't complain of the approach of the
night of death ; for that, I thank God, I am not solicitous
about ; but it is uneasy to me to observe, that though the
duties of a bishop are incumbent upon me, yet I am not able
to discharge them in person ; & though my brethren have
been so kind as to assist me, yet that does not yield me the
satisfaction that I used to have when I executed them
1 T.C.D. Transcribed King Corrrespondence ; Henry Maule, D.D., had been
Dean of Cloyne, and recommended for promotion by King to Primate Wake,
Aug. 28, 1722, and, on the death of Charles Crow, Bp. of Cloyne in 1726, to the
Ld. Lieut., when he was appointed bishop ; he was one of the first promoters
of the Protestant Chartered schools of Ireland.
2 T.C.D. Transcribed King Correspondence; Eobert Howard, D.D., the
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myself. Nor do I find that the people are so ready to comply
with others, as they used to be with me.
I have done what I could to put my diocese in some order,
but it is very far from the state in which it ought to be.
I have a very good notion of the state of religion in
Connaught, when I was there. I hope it is much mended,
for then it was most wretched ; but I am pretty well satisfied,
that, though you enjoy a longer life than I have done, you
will not be able to order your diocese as it should be : but
that must not discourage you. Est aliquid prodire tenus, si
non datur ultra. You have one encouragement & comfort,
that your brethren, the Archbishop of Tuam & the Bishop of
Clonfert, I believe, will heartily concur with you, & assist
you ; & I hope that you, by their application & diligence, will
provoke one another, & your neighbouring bishops, to proceed
vigorously in the reformation of your dioceses.
I am glad that you have so increased your clergy, & don't
doubt but you will add daily to them, & procure churches for
them. I can give you no assistance except that of my
prayers, which I shall not fail to do, if you can think of any
other way that I may be serviceable to you here, let me have
your commands, & assure yourself of my best endeavours.
Bemember me most kindly to Mrs. Howard, & believe that
I am, with all affection & respect, my Lord, your Lordship's
&c.
Will : Dublin.'

To the Lady Carteret.1
May it please your Excellency 'Dublin, Sept. 26. 1728.
I had sooner acknowledged the great honour you did
me in your's of the 30th of August last, but my hand was so
weak with the reliques of the Gout, that I could not handle a
pen, & was not willing to use an amanuensis to your Ladyship :
not that I had any intrigue or secret, which I was unwilling
anybody should know ; but because I thought it a respect, &
a mark of particular esteem to your Ladyship, to have the
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last letter I writ with my own hand directed to your Lady
ship. Besides I find they give me for dead in London ; I
hope you will believe me alive, when I give it under my own
hand : though how long it will be, only God knows. So I
could be sure of a good man coming in my place, I thank
God I care not how soon it be l &c. Will : Dublin.'
1 His successor was John Hoadly, D.D. A stained glass window, designed
by Mr. C. E. Kempe, is to be shortly placed in St. Peter's Chapel, St. Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin, with the inscription, —
'Ad gloria Xti etimemoria Gulielmi King, S.T.D., Arehiep. Dublin., olim
cancellarii et postea decani huius eccl. cath., Dfis Carolus Simeon King, eiusdem
stirpis, baronettus de Corrard, et DSa Sophia Louisa King, uxor sua, decani et
capituli inuitatione, hanc uitrea dedicauerunt. A.S. MCMVL'

MISCELLANEA
To his Grace the Arch-Bishop of Dublin,
A POEM .'
Serus in ccelum redeas diuq;
Lcetus intersis Populo — Hoe.
GREAT, GOOD, and JUST was once apply'd
To One who for his Country died :
To One who lives in its Defence,
We speak it in a Happier Sense.
0 may the Fates thy Life prolong !
Our Country then can dread no Wrong :
In thy great Care we place our Trust,
Because thour't GREAT, and GOOD, and JUST.
Thy Breast unshaken can oppose
Our Private and our Publick Foes,
The Latent Wiles, and Tricks of State,
Your Wisdom can with Ease Defeat
When Pow'r in all its Pomp appears,
It falls before thy Rev'rend Years,
And willingly resigns its Place
To Something Nobler in thy Face.
When once the fierce pursuing Gaul
Had drawn his Sword for Marius' Fall,
The Godlike Hero with one frown
Struck all his Rage and Malice down ;
Then how can we dread William Wood,2
If by thy Presence he's withstood ?
1 By Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's.
2 Archbishop King agreed with Swift in opposing the introduction of Wood's
halfpence, and also in the encouragement of home manufactures, on the
latter subject the Dean writes, in 1720, ' I have indeed seen the present Arch
bishop of Dublin clad from head to foot in our own manufacture ; and yet, under
the rose be it spoken, His Grace deserves as good a gown as if he had not been
born among us.'

WILLIAM KING, D.D.
A Facsimile of O'Hara's Etching,

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Where Wisdom stands to keep the Field,
In Vain he brings his Brazen Shield.
Tho' like the Cybel's Priest he comes,
With furious Din of Brazen Drums,
The force of thy superior Voice
Shall strike him dumb, and quell their Noise.
Dublin : Printed by John Harding in Molesworth's-Court in Fishamble-Street.

The Barra Witchcraft Trial, 1590.
This constitutes such a curious illustration of superstitions
formerly prevalent as to be worth quotation, —
Aug. 18, 1590. ' Bessie Eoy nurreych [nurse] to the Laird
of Boquhane ' (John Leslie) was ' indytit and accusit, that
quhair, ye, beand duelland with Williame King in Barra be
the space of tuel yeiris syne or thairby, and haifing past to the
feild to pluk lint with vthir wemen, in presens of thame maid
ane compas in the eird, and ane hoill in the middis thairof :
And thaireftir, be thy conjouratiounes, thow causit ane grit
worme cum fyrst out of the said hoill, and creip owre the
compase ; and nixt ane lytill worme, quhilk crap owre also ; and
last, causit ane grit worme cum furth, quhilk could nocht pas
owre the compas, nor cum out of the hoill, bot fell doune and
deit : Quhilk inchantment and Wichcraft thow interpreit in
this forme : — That the first grit worme that crap owre the
compas, was the Guid-man, Williame King, quha sould leve ;
and the lytill worme was ane barne in the Guid-wyffes wamb,
quhilk wes vnknawin to ony manne that sche was with barne ;
and that the barne sould leve ; and thrydlie, the last grit worme
thow interpreit to be the Guid-wyffe, quha sould die : Quhilk
com to pas eftir thy speiking, quhow sone sche wes delyuerit
of the said barne. And this is manifest to the haill countrey :
quhilk thow can nocht deny.
Item. Yow ar indytit and accusit for away taking, be
Wichcraft, of ane puir womanis milk, callit Bessie Steill,
quha cam to Williame Kingis hous in Bairoch, seking almes ;
and haifing sittin doune besyd the fyre, to gif hir barne souk,
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persawing the puir woman to haif mair abundance of milk
nor thow had ; and seing that the Guid-wyffe thy hussie
(mistress) sould haif detenit the puir woman, and gewin her
the barne to foster ; thow be thy devilisch incantatiounes and
Wichcraft, abstrakit and tuik away hir milk. . .
Item, thow art indytit for ane commoune away-takir of
wemennis milk in the haill countrey, and detening the samin
att thy pleasour ; as the haill countrey will testifie. The
quhilk thow can nocht deny.
Item, thow art indytit and accusit for the bevisching of
Williame Kingis wyfe of Barraucht, tuelf yeiris sensyne or
thairby, for your diuilische devyse, eftir thow haid left hir
service ; thow causit propyne [present] hir with ane plaid of
thine, quhilk beand full of inchantmentis and sorcerie, being
laid one hir bed caussit hir suddentlie thereftir depairt [this
life] ' &c. She was ' ffand & pronunceit ' Innocent. Pit-
cairn's (Eobert) Grim. Trials Scot. 1829. 207. William
King's second wife, Isabel Pawtoune (or Panton) died
Feb. 1581.
Letter from the Earls of Mar cf Melrose to
K. James VI. 1
' Most sacred souerane,
We ressaued youre maiesteis lie in fauouris of James
king sometyme of barrogh by the quhilk it wes youre
maiesteis pleasour That the Laird of meldrum sould be caleit
befoir youre ma*'3 counsaill and that he sould be delt with to
gif a lfe of slanes 2 to the said James and his compliceis for
the slawghter of umquhile alexander seatoun then appeirand
of meldrum. Becaus as youre maiestie wes informed diuers
of the said James his kinred and freindis hes bene killed for
that slaughter, his haill goodis Intromettit with and himselff
compellit at last to sell his landis and Leving far shorte of the
halfe value and to renunce all actionis of eiectioun and
spuilyee competent to him be the law. Upoun the ressett of
1 From the original in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.
2 A Letter of Slayanes, or Slains, acknowledges that satisfaction has been
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this Ire, we had conference with some speciall freindis of the
house of meldrum and with some otheris quho ar best
acquentit with the estate of this bussynes, and after con-
sideratioun of all the particularis concerning the same we find
that it wilbe more aggreable to the contentment of the
pairtye, and will procure more assured peace to the said
James and his freindis, that youre maiestie sail grant ane
pardoun for the said slaughter, nor that the mater salbe broght
to publict contestatioun and audience at the counsaill table.
And thairfoir yt yor maiestie wilbe gratiouslie pleased to grant
the said pardoun and to signne the signatour heirwith send
vp to youre maiestie, suche ordour salbe tane for the satling
of this bussynes, as youre maiestie salbe no forder troublit
thairwith. And so with oure humble and earnist prayeris
unto God for youre ma4'3 Lang and happie reignne we rest,
Youre ma*'3 most humble and obedyent subiectis and
servitouris (Signed) MabMelbos
Edinburgh penult of
Marche 1619.'
King Charles I. to ' Generall King.' 1
' 24 Jan : 1639 Whitehall
Trusty & well beloued &c : we haue recaued diuers testi
monies of yor good affections both to or service & to that of
the Prince Elector or nephew, & withall we understand that
some have attempted tho' in vaine to seduce you to seditious
courses in Scotland of which we have thought fitt by these
or speciall Ires to take notice, & to assure you that we doe &
will retaine a Princely memory of them for yo1 good as
occasion salbe presented And to giue you yet a further demon
stration heerof, we are pleased hereby to make knowne to
you or desire to repose a speciall trust & confidence in you, &
that if you will retourne hither we will ins[t)ently conferre
such a charge upon you in the army wch we intende to sett
out this yeere for our service in the North, as shall both in
1 Draft in Secy Windebank's hand, Pub. Becord Office, London.

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honor & benefit equall if not exceede any other w0'1 you haue
in foraine partes.
This we leave to yor consideration & expect yor answer w*
as much speede as conveniently you may '

Letter from Gen. James King, subsequently
Lord Eythin.1
' To the rig* honobil & his much respectit patron Sr heary
veane cheif secrittary of steat and on of his matis priuuie
counsell these
Yor Honour
Yu will be pleasit heirw* to be saleuttit from yo1' reall
freind and searuand and I creaue yor honor pardone that in the
multiteud of yor wychtier Imployments I should Importeune
yow bot preseumming upon yor honors wontit fauor I heaue
mead bould to show you, that upon yor honour's letter sent
to me and recalling me for Ingland to his matis searueice I usit
all possibill deligence qr I was at that tym in swedden for
obteaning my dispeach outt of that kingdeume woh I obteanit
bot being arestit by a long winter ther, am now for 4 dayis
first arryuit heir at hamburrie, woh I thot fitt to giff yor honor
notice of, and to be informit of yor honour giff his mat1 hes any
Imployment for me that will tend to his mat'8 searueice, & to
my owein creddit and honour or giff I be left my libertie ageane
as of befor, his mat18 commands hes deuertit me dywers tyms
from wther Imployments wch I might heaue had giff I wold
heaue Imbreacit them bot now I am affreayit they will not be
putt in my offer ageane, therefor I expect that his mat1 w* and
by the ead of my patrons & freinds by his may41 will prouyd
sum honorabill and seatlit condition for me, as ye wrytt to
me, utherwayis I meay weill be putt to ane nonplus, morouer
yor honour knawes how constantlie ye assurit me that my
pentione 2 sould be dewlie peayit & now there is thrie tearms
1 Autograph letter in Pub. Becord Office, London.
2 General King had been twice sent for by the King from abroad ; the first
time he was granted a pension of £1000 a year, and, on the second occasion,
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past & my atturneay can heaue nothing, as I heaue great
confidence in yor honors affection to me I preseum ye will
pardon this my pleannes and help toredresse the last in caussing
peay me my pention, and I intreat w* yo1' honors speidiest
conueniencie let me heir from yow for I houp his ma11 shall
not neid to seak great deliberatione or meak any deficultie to
heaue me in his ma"' searueice, for I know non in his ma"1
thrie kingdumes spreituall or temporall that I heaue giffin
any occation of offence eather generallie or in particuleir and
for my integretie to his matis searueice I am confident his ma*1
will not dout of me so that the greatest defect I feir will be
fund in my incapabilitie, bot that shall be suportit w* deligence
and ane sensear desyr to do his ma*1 accepteabel searueice, and
in particuler yor honour shall feynd no man willinger then I
to remeane yo1' honors feathfull freind and searuand
Hamburrie yc 18 of Ja : KING '
May 1641.
My deutifull resepects rememberit to yor leadie and
childrean ' Archbishop King's Character.
'He was by his late Majesty (George I.) four times
deservedly constituted and sworn one of the Lords Justices.
His zealous attachment to the interest of the illustrious
House of Hanover, and to the succession in that Protestant
family is well known to many now living. That settlement,
special service to Hamburgh in July 1640, to collect horse and foot for the
Eoyal Service. John Durye writes, July 3, 1640, from Hamburgh to Sir Thos.
Eoe, K.G., London, ' Lieut. G" King's Ladye was brought to bedde two dayes
ago and is deliuered of a daughter : they saye hir trauel was very safe.' The
General was said to have lent large sums of money to the King which were never
repaid. 1 In addition to his signature he appended his initials ' J. K.' His seal, a
small signet with his arms, ' a bend with three square buckles between a
lion's head erased in chief and another in base ; and crest, a demi-lion rampant
between the letters J & K ' v. pp. 50, 322.
Gen. King was in London the previous year, and on leaving, July 3, for
Gluckstadt, Denmark (whence he wrote on the 19th to ' his speciall friend,'
Chief See* Windebank), writes to Sir H. Vane, ' I heave left ordour to delyuer
you yor horse so sun y8 heave meade yor choyce if any of those seruin y did
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on which he knew, under God, depended the welfare & security
of our happy constitution in Church and State, was a principle
to which he was invariably stedfast to the day of his death,
and which is a truth too much to his honour to be passed over
in silence, I am bold to say, that it was in a great measure
owing to his seasonable counsel and weighty authority which
his known wisdom, long experience, and confessed probity had
procured him that the City of Dublin was preserved steady and
united in an unshaken affection to the succession of the
present Eoyal Family. King George was early informed of
the Archbishop's untainted loyalty, and extraordinary merit,
which induced his Majesty to repose an unreserved confidence
in his eminent abilities, and therefore immediately upon his
first accession to the Throne called upon him to execute the
highest station of trust in the kingdom, and appointed him one
of the Lord Justices. This great trust his Grace discharged
with singular capacity and the reputation of unspotted in
tegrity. He knew the temper, disposition, and genius of the
nation most exactly ; and as he was remarkably happy in a
quick and clear conception of things, a piercing judgement into
the consequences of political affairs, and a marvellous sagacity
and readiness in properly executing business of the greatest
importance, so he exerted all these excellent qualities with con
tinued vigour and resolution, to their utmost stretch, to promote
the public good and his Majesty's interest in this Kingdom.
When his Majesty came to the Crown many changes were
made in Civil and Military employments, and more designed,
several Gentlemen were removed on suspicion of their dis
loyalty. His Grace knew that some of these were well affected
to the Government, and their characters misrepresented to
make room for the promotion of others, and therefore he writ to
the Secretaries of State in their favour, asserting their fidelity
to the King and capacity to serve him in their offices. His kind
interposition had that happy effect as to have some restored to,
and others continued in, their employments. This is attested
by many now living, who gratefully own the truth of this fact.
And it is notorious that by his, and the other Lord Justices',
prudent directions and steady conduct during their presiding
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even and calm temper, not tho least tending to riots or insur
rections, and at a season when our standing army was trans
ported to suppress the Eebellion in Great Britain 
He appears in the tendency of his actions and endeavours
to have had the advancement of Eeligion, virtue and learning
entirely at heart ; and may be deservedly enrolled amongst the
greatest, the most universally accomplished, and learned pre
lates of the age. His capacity and spirit to govern the Church
was visible in his avowed enmity to pluralities and non-resi
dence, in his strict and regular Visitations, both annual, tri
ennial and parochial, in his constant duty of Confirmation, and
preaching ; and in the many excellent admonitions and charges
he gave his clergy upon these occasions ; in his pastoral care
and diligence in admitting none into the Sacred Ministry but
persons well qualified for their learning and good morals, who
were graduates regularly educated in the Universities of
England or Dublin, and who were before their Ordinations
publicly examined in the necessary points of Divinity by him,
his Archdeacon, and some of his Chapter.
He may be counted worthy of double honour who thus
not only ruled well but laboured in the Word and doctrine.
His hospitality was suitable to the dignity of his station and
character ; and the whole course of his conversation innocent,
cheerful, and improving ; for he lived in the constant practise
of every Christian virtue and grace that could adorn a publick
or private life,' — Harris' (Walter) Whole Works of Sir James
Ware concerning Ireland, 1739.
' His general character was this, — a State Whig, a Church
Tory, a good Bishop ; a man from whose conversation you
would sooner receive Instruction than Entertainment,' —
Letter, announcing his death, written May 1729, Add. MSS.
4815, B.M.
The Duke of Grafton, when Lord Lieutenant, wrote, Dec.
19, 1723, to Sir Eobert Walpole, of the Archbishop, ' He is of
as uncommon a mixture as most people I know. He is very
indiscreet in his actions & expressions, pretty ungovernable,
and has some wild notions which sometimes make him im
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Upon some points [of which the jurisdiction of the House of
Lords is one] he loses both his temper & his reason ... He
is very well affected to the King and an utter enemy to the
Pretender and his cause. He is charitable, hospitable, a
despiser of riches and an excellent bishop, for which reasons he
has generally the love of the country, & a great influence and
sway over the clergy & bishops who are natives.' The Duke
also alludes to the Archbishop's objection to the words, 'a
happy people,' introduced by him into his speech as Lord
Lieutenant at the opening of the Irish Parliament, as, com
mented the Archbishop, ' they were in some respects put
under slavery.' The Archbishop's strong expression of his
sentiments of hostility to what he regarded as the unconstitu
tional usurpation by the English House of Lords of jurisdiction
over that of Ireland, and from which he was the first to suffer,
by having the decision of the Irish House of Lords in his
favour, in his protracted law-suit with the London Irish So
ciety, annulled, in 1698, by the English House, was, from the
Duke's English point of view, loss of temper and even reason !
' Last year a paper was brought here from England, called
A Dialogue between the Archbishop of Canterbury <& Mr.
Higgins,1 which we ordered to be burnt by the common
hangman as it well deserved, though we have no more to
do with his Grace of Canterbury 2 than you have with the
Archbishop of Dublin ; nor can you love and reverence your
prelate more than we do our's, whom you tamely suffer to be
abused openly and by name by that paltry rascal of an
Observator 3 ; and lately upon an affair wherein he had no
concern, I mean the business of the missionary of Drogheda,
wherein our excellent primate * was engaged, and did nothing
but according to law & discretion.
But because the Lord Archbishop of Dublin has been
1 Eev. Francis, M.A., Prebendary, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin ; prose
cuted for seditious preaching 1707, 1712 ; Archdeacon of Cashel 1725-8 ; ' the
Irish Sacheverell.'
7 Thos. Tenison, D.D.
3 A Whig organ, conducted, 1702-1707, by John Tutchin, subsequently
edited by George Bedpath.
4 Narcissus Marsh, D.D.

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upon several occasions of late years misrepresented in
England, I would willingly set you right in his character.
For his great sufferings and eminent services he was, by the
late king, promoted to the See of Derry. About the same time
he wrote a book ' to justify the Bevolution, wherein was an
account of King James's proceedings in Ireland ; and the late
Archbishop Tillotson recommended it to the King as the
most serviceable treatise that could have been published at
such a juncture. And as his Grace set out upon those
principles, he has proceeded so ever since, as a loyal subject
to the Queen, entirely for the succession in the Protestant
line, and for ever excluding the Pretender ; and though a firm
friend to the Church yet with indulgence towards Dissenters, as
appears from his conduct at Derry, where he was settled for
many years among the most virulent of the sect, yet upon
his removal to Dublin, they parted from him with tears in
their eyes, and universal acknowledgments of his wisdom and
goodness. For the rest it must be owned, he does not busy
himself by entering deeply into any party, but rather spends
his time in acts of hospitality and charity, in building of
churches, repairing his palace, in introducing and preferring
the worthiest persons he can find without other regards ; in
short in the practise of all virtues that can become a public
or private life.
This and more, if possible, is due to so excellent a person,
who may be justly reckoned among the greatest and most
learned prelates of this age however his character may
be defiled by such mean and dirty hands as those of the
Observator or such as employ him,' " — from a 'Letter from
a Member of the H. of Gommons in Ireland to a Member of
the H. of C. in England, concerning the Sacramental Test.'
Written and published by Dean Swift, Dec. 4. 1708,
1 The State of the Protestants in Ireland &c, vide p. 91, note 4.
2 This tribute to the Archbishop's character is retained in The Miscellany
edited by Pope, but is omitted in the Irish edition of 1735, said to have been
strictly revised by the Dean. It no doubt expressed Swift's sentiments at the
time he wrote it. Mr. Nichols, the editor of Swift's Works, well observes, that
' with no other correspondent are the extravagance of Swift's humour, the
virulence of his prejudices half so much restrained as in his letters to Arch
bishop King. He certainly feared or respected this prelate more than any
other person with whom he corresponded.'

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Three Distinguished Contemporaries of the same name,
but not of the same family.
Wm. King, D.D., 1650—1729, the Archbishop of Dublin :
Wm. King, LL.D., 1663-1712, the Christ-Church wit, an
author, judge of the Admiralty Court, Ireland, 1701-7, Keeper
of the Eecords in Bermingham's Tower, Dublin, and Vicar
General to Primate Marsh, but resigned, and returned to
London ; Jan. 8 1712, Dean Swift announced to Abp. King,
' I have got (Dec. 1711) poor Dr. King, who was sometime
in Ireland, to be gazeteer, which will be worth £250, per annum
to him, if he be diligent and sober, for which I am engaged, I
mention this because I think he was under your Grace's pro
tection when he was in Ireland ' ; unfortunately he proved
neither diligent nor sober, his life and works were published
in 1776 :
Wm. King, LL.D., 1685-1763, Principal of St. Mary's
Hall, Oxford, a Jacobite, author of Anecdotes of his own
Times &c. ; his writings were collected and published in
1760.

Notices of Dr. King in Diaries.
' Tuesday 15 July 1701. Dr. King, Bishop of Londonderry,
being dead, 'tis said his bishoprick will be given to Dr.
Hickman, who goes with the Earl of Eochester for Ireland.
Tuesday 22 July. The bp. of L. Derry is not dead as was
reported. Saturday 6 Feb. (1702-3), The Archbp. of Dublin
is made primate of Ireland ; and 'tis said Dr. King, bishop
of Londonderry, will be translated to Dublin,' — Luttrell's
(Narcissus) Brief Hist. Relation of State Affairs from
Sept 1678 to April 1714. 1857.
' 1704-5, 4th January. I dined at Lambeth with the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. King, a sharp ready man in
politicks, as well as very learned,' — Diary of John Evelyn,
F.B.S., Edited by Wm. Bray, F.A.S., London. 1850.

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Irish Priests of 1688.
Archbishop King was severely criticized, in a letter to
' The Standard,' Dec. 30, 1870, by J. Roderick O'Flanagan,
M.E.I. A., author of Lives of the Lord Chancellors of Ireland,
for the description of the priests of the period in State of the
Protestants dc, — ¦' Priests and fryers are no less oppressive
than the soldiers. There were not more lusty fellows in
the town than they. They were such experienced beggars
that none escaped them. If any did they must expect to be
the next who were robbed.' A contemporary writer, Eachard
(Laurence), F.S.A., Archdeacon of Stowe, in Exact Description
of Ireland, London, 1691, gives them however a still worse
character, — ' The priests themselves are very poor, and mind
nothing but gathering of goods, and getting of children. They
make a great show of the Canon-law but have never a jot of
learning. They commonly have their children succeed them
in their churches for whose illegitimation they are dispensed
withal.'

Boyal Commission, Dec. 19, 1693.
Addressed to the Bishops of Meath, Dromore, and Derry
to inquire into the alleged neglect &c. of Thomas Hacket,
Bishop of Down and Connor, and others, in the same diocese,
and the Commissioners, or any two of them (the Bp. of
Dromore being prevented acting by ill health), were empowered
by the King and Queen to exercise all manner of jurisdiction &c,
and to visit and reform all errors, abuses, offences &c, com
mitted or permitted by the said Bp. Hacket, or any of the
clergy, in said diocese.
Drs. Dopping and King suspended Hacket from his office,
March 13, 1694, who, having been appointed bishop in 1672,
had been notoriously negligent of his duty and for the most
part absent, and resident in England ; and on March 21 deprived
him for simony in conferring ecclesiastical benefices, and for
other grievous enormities committed in the exercise of his
jurisdiction.

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They also deprived Lemuel Matthews, Archdeacon of
Down, of five out of nine of the parishes he held, and suspended
him from his function and benefices during their Majesties'
pleasure. They also deprived Thos. Ward, Dean of Connor, of his
benefice for incontinence, and censured and suspended other
clergymen for misdemeanours &c.
Archdeacon Matthews appealed against the sentence, which
however, after thirteen or fourteen different hearings before as
many courts and judicatures, was confirmed.

The Fallacy of the Theory of Passive Obedience and
Non-Besistance, as maintained by Charles Leslie
and others, exposed by Dean Swift.
' Yet this is laid as a heavy charge upon the clergy of the
two reigns before the Bevolution, who, under the terms of pas
sive obedience and non-resistance, are said to have preached
up the unlimited power of the prince, because they found it a
doctrine that pleased the court and made way for their prefer
ment  However it may be offered in excuse for the
clergy, that, in the best societies, there are some ill members,
which a corrupted court and ministry will industriously find out
and introduce. Besides it is manifest that the greater number
of those who held and preached this doctrine were misguided
by equivocal terms, and by perfect ignorance in the principles
of government, which they had not made any part of their
study. The question originally put, and, as I remember to
have heard it disputed in public schools, was this, " Whether
under any pretence whatsoever, it may be lawful to resist the
supreme magistrate ? " which was held in the negative ; and this
is certainly the right opinion. But many of the clergy, and
other learned men, deceived by dubious expression, mistook
the object to which passive obedience was due. By the
supreme magistrate is properly understood the legislative power,
which in all governments must be absolute and unlimited.
But the word magistrate seeming to denote a single person,
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obedience due to the legislature was, for want of knowing or
considering this easy distinction, misapplied to the adminis
tration. Neither is it any wonder that the clergy or other
well-meaning people should fall into this error, which
deceived Hobbes [Thomas, 1588-1679, author of various
philosophical works] himself, so far as to be the foundation of
all the political mistakes in his books ; where he perpetually
confounds the executive with the legislative power, though all
well instituted states have ever placed them in different hands,
as may be obvious to those who know anything of Athens,
Sparta, Thebes and other republics of Greece, as well as the
greater ones of Carthage and Eome,' — Sentiments of a Church
of England Man, 1708.

On Examination of Candidates for Ordination.
' The method I take when I am to ordain any, is this, —
First he applies himself to me in private, & I examine him.
I never ordain any that I have not known personally for some
time. If he give me satisfaction as to his life, title and learn
ing, then I summon four or five of the clergy, according to
the canons, to assist me in the examination, which lasts
publickly four days. Each takes such part as is agreed.
The candidates exhibit all their testimonials, titles &c, and the
registrar enters a brief of it. If any come from another
diocese, or be to be preferred in it, I do not admit him but at
the request of the bishop, for I think it reasonable that every
bishop should have the examination of those that are to
serve in his diocese. By this method, I have had some
trouble, but have avoided all importunity & surprise about
conferring orders, though I have been a bishop eighteen
years.' '
He objected to ordain a divorced candidate, and therefore
refused his old friend, Francis Annesley's request, in 1725, to
ordain his eldest son, ' lately freed from an unhappy marriage
by Act of Parliament.'
1 Prom letter to Dr. Hartstong, Bishop of Ossory, Aug. 4, 1708.

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On Filling vacant Benefices.
' The method I have taken ever since it pleased God to
advance me to the office of a bishop, in filling vacant livings
in my gift, & which I still observe is this : (1st) never to give
a benefice to anyone of whom I have not had some experience,
either in his serving a cure, or his assisting some grave man
in the service of his ; for I could not think it reasonable to
trust the government of a parish with a person that had no
trial of himself, or knowledge of the matter with which he is
intrusted ; nor could I conceive how any man, just come out
of a college, & unacquainted both with mankind and himself,
should be able to conduct a parish with that prudence and
application that is necessary to do good in it.
2n<% When any good benefice becomes void, I consider
what clergyman in a lesser has behaved himself well, gained
on his people, & promoted conformity, unity and piety amongst
his people ; inform myself the best I can about it, and then,
without any application, I remove him to the better benefice.
And if I find another that has a less benefice than his I take
the same course with him ; & have several times made three,
sometimes four, removes on a vacancy.
I find great advantage from this practice. 1st. It eases
me of many solicitations : for deserving men know that they
will be taken notice of in their turns,. & if not deserving, they
know it is in vain to make application.
2ndly. I find it a great motive to stir up clergymen to be
diligent in their duty, & approve their conduct to their bishop
and their people. And besides, removals are a great ease to
them in the performance of the great office of preaching : for
having made several sermons on the great mysteries of our
religion, on which they are obliged to preach, they must either
preach them over again, or make new ones, which is not so
easy for a man after he has exhausted his subject ; whereas,
when he is removed, all his discourses are new to his
parishioners, & he has time to apply himself to other studies
& for laying in a fresh stock of knowledge. In short, I found
great advantage in a removal when a private clergyman, and
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I have practised hitherto, yet I am far from prescribing it to
my brethren.' 1
' There is one thing of ill consequence to the Church here
and that is the want of knowing the true state of it in those on
whom the management of most of our affairs depends. You
make nothing of recommending a cast clergyman, whom you
are not willing to prefer in England, to £200., per annum, in
Ireland, & do not consider that, in many dioceses, £200., per
annum, is near a fifth part of the maintenance of the clergy of
the whole diocese : that to make up £50., per annum, very
often ten parishes must be united, &, after all, an ill, an in
sufficient clergyman does ten times more mischief in Ireland
than in England. You likewise bespeak sinecures for
particular friends : but I can make it appear that there are
not above a score in the whole kingdom that are perfectly so,
and where they are they starve the cure . . . there are not in
the whole diocese of Dublin, besides the city cures, above six
or seven clergymen that have an £100., per annum, and some
of them have nine, some ten, & one eleven parishes to raise it.' 2
' Our chief governors are changed commonly, once in three
years, & they commonly bring chaplains 3 with them, who
succeed to bishopricks if they fall, or to the best preferments,
these being generally in the crown : & hence your Lordship
may guess what encouragement there is for the clergy
educated here. ... In all Ireland there are not 600 beneficed
clergymen.' Dean Swift fully agreed with his archbishop in opposition
to this system of clerical appointments from England ; in a
letter to the Earl of Peterborough April 28, 1726, he writes
complaining, ' that all persons born in Ireland are called and
treated as Irishmen, although their fathers & grandfathers
were born in England, and their predecessors having been
1 From letter to Dr. Nicholson, Bishop of Derry, Ap. 23, 1720.
2 From letter to Dr. Joseph Gibson, Dec. 1, 1714.
s ' The bishoprick of Down would please your Dean (Clogher) very well, &
I wish heartily he had it. But I doubt it will fall to the share of some chaplain
that never served a cure, & will think it ungenteel to trouble his head with the
spirituals of his office, such generally is their great modesty ; contenting them
selves with the mean, sordid part the temporalities.' Letter to Bp. Stearne,
Nov. 12, 1720.

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conquerors of Ireland, it is humbly conceived that they ought
to be on as good a foot as any subjects of Britain . . . they
are denied the natural liberty of exporting their manufactures
to any country which is not engaged in a war with England
. . . there is a University in Ireland, founded by Queen
Elizabeth, where youth are instructed with a much stricter
discipline than either in Oxford or Cambridge ; it lies under
the greatest discouragements, by filling all the principal
employments, civil & ecclesiastical, with persons from
England, who have neither interest, property, acquaintance,
nor alliance in that kingdom. . . That several of the bishops
sent over to Ireland, having been clergymen of obscure con
dition, & without other distinction than that of chaplains to
the governors, do frequently invite over their old acquaint
ance or kindred, to whom they bestow the best preferments
in their gift. The same practice is followed by all others, in
civil employments, if they have a cousin, a valet, or footman
in their family born in England.'

Scottish Episcopal Church.
Mr. Millar, one of the nonconforming clergy of the
established Church of Scotland (after the abolition of
episcopacy in 1689), went over to Ireland to make collections
for the ejected ministers, and obtained the sympathy and
support of Dr. King, which resulted in his procuring, in 1703,
a brief from the Lord Lieutenant for collections in the
churches, and with this sanction and Archbishop King's
assistance he obtained above £900 for this object. — Skinner's
Ecclesiast. Hist. Scot. 1788.

Irish House of Lords

v.

Bishops of Derry and Waterford.
' It appears from Archbishop Marsh's Diary, that on the
16th of Sept. (1695), whilst parliament was sitting, " Heads
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by the Earl of Drogheda ; but by the bishops voting that
they should not be read until three days after, who had a
majority of votes, they were quite laid by." It is added,
" The Bishops of Derry (King) and Waterford (Nat. Foy),
protested against throwing out of the house a bill for union
and division of parishes ; and in their protestations having
reflected something on the house (as was apprehended), they
were both ordered to withdraw. And after some time the
Bishop of Derry was brought in and asked pardon of the house,
and was ordered to take his place. But the Bishop of Water
ford standing out, was brought to the bar and there received
sentence to be sent prisoner to the castle, until he should
submit to beg pardon of the house, and desire his enlargement
by petition, which accordingly he did on Tuesday morning,
and was ordered to his place, his confinement having been on
Saturday.' (Mant n.).
The same v. The Archbishop of Dublin.
John D'Alton, M.E.I.A., publishes in his Memoirs of the
Archbishops of Dublin, 1838, the following account of an
extraordinary outrage of which Archbishop King is related by
him to have been the victim ; — ' About the commencement of
the year 1717, the celebrated Lord Wharton, having come
into this country, and been honoured with a seat in the house
of Lords by the general consent of the peers, although he
was then only eighteen years of age, one of his earliest
political displays was leveled against this prelate for some
advice which it was alleged he had given to the late King ; and
such was the address of the young orator on this occasion,
that he persuaded the house to commit the Archbishop to
prison in the Castle of Dublin, where he remained until the
same eccentric nobleman moved that his Grace might be
brought to the bar of the house, acknowledge his presumption,
and ask pardon upon his knees ; terms with which the Arch
bishop was actually forced to comply. In the same year he
was again, however, one of the Lords Justices.'
This story, so discreditable, if true, to the Irish H. of Lords
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Archbishop, ' about the commencement of the year 1717 '
[the year, Philip, Earl (subsequently Duke) of Wharton, was
admitted to a seat in the house], to have attended the house,
nor until after he had been sworn, July 20, one of the Lords
Justices, and such an outrage could not have been attempted
on one holding that office ; his correspondence shows that he
passed the winter, 1716-17, in London, and went from thence
the following spring to Bath, with a severe attack of gout,
where he remained till his return to Dublin, arriving there on
Friday, July 16, having been nominated a Lord Justice,
March 20, 1716-17, he had only to be sworn July 20. It
would be incredible, that a man of his well-tested indepen
dence of character and firm determination to do what he
considered right at any cost to himself, could have ever
consented to make an abject apology for giving, as his duty
demanded, advice to his sovereign ; and most improbable
that a lad of eighteen, on admission by special favour to the
house, could have so deeply excited its resentment against an
old member, of the highest rank and a leader in its delibera
tions, and this not merely a passing ebullition of anger, but
one lasting long enough to await for a time the exaction of
its penalties ; and finally should such an affair have occurred,
the Archbishop's numerous detractors and opponents in
Ireland and England would scarcely have let it pass without
comment of some sort.
Dr. King's part in some important
Political Questions.
In the Irish House of Lords, 1703, when the question was
put to take into consideration the heads of a bill, sent up by
the commons, making it high treason, by word or writing, to
impeach the succession of the crown as then limited, and when
said question was negatived, Archbishop King was one of the
three peers who protested against that negative. He was also
one of the three who protested against deferring the considera
tion of the Earl of Meath's memorable petition, complaining
of the appellate jurisdiction affected to be exercised by the
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it redounds (writes D'Alton) to the high-minded and indepen
dent spirit of this prelate, that when at the same time the
British senate had enacted that the kingdom of Ireland was
subordinate to that of Great Britain, and might be bound by
laws made in England without its concurrence, this prelate was
one of those who supported the spirited assertion of Irish
independence that appears on the Lords' Journals of that
period.' In 1708, he was of the privy council that issued a pro
clamation to prohibit the exportation of corn, grain and meal
from Ireland, on account of the high prices at which they
were sold, occasioned partly by the badness of the previous
harvest, but yet more by several merchants exporting such
quantities abroad, ' that the poorer sort of inhabitants of this
kingdom would be in danger of perishing, unless some speedy
stop be put to the exportation thereof.'
Archbishop King, with seven other bishops, protested, in
1709, against the bill to prevent the further growth of Popery,
and its tyrannous enactments (8th Anne).
In May 1714, he was of the privy council who issued a
proclamation, for preventing the enlistment of recruits in aid
of the Pretender, and for the discovery of such persons as had
hitherto promoted such enlisting.
The proclamation of Aug. 7, 1714, announcing the
accession of Geo. I., signed by William, Archbishop of Dublin,
Welbore Ellis, Bishop of Kildare &c. required, ' for preventing
dangers that might arise at this juncture from Papists, or
other persons disaffected to his Majesty's government, and for
preserving the public peace of this kingdom,' that all Papists,
theretofore licensed to keep and wear arms, should deliver same
and all ammunition to the next justice of the peace, and all
justices were commanded to seize and take all serviceable
horses found in the possession of any Papist, or suspected
person. In 1721, on occasion of the lords voting an address to the
King 'begging leave to return unfeigned thanks for his
gracious acceptance of their expressions of duty and loyalty
in former sessions of Parliament,' Archbishop King formally
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against addresses of mere compliments between the crown and
the parliament, believing they may be of ill consequence.'
In 1724, he opposed the introduction of Wood's coinage of
half-pence, and'wrote a spirited rebuke to the Et. Hon. Edward
Southwell for not doing so, ' The people here are of opinion
that you owed so much to your country, as to have ventured
a little of your interest to have put this matter in a fair light,
i but they are persuaded that the design was all by artifice &
cunning to pass these halfpence upon us, and they take it very
i ill that you have made yourself a tool in it.'
Extracts from Bishop King's 'Discourse concerning
the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God.'
1694.
s.v. 'Of Praises.' The Bishop writes, ' Our Church
permits the use of some grave Musical Instruments to
regulate the voices of those that sing, and to stir up their
affections, which are the natural effects of Music, and seem
more requisite in Northern Countries, where generally peoples'
voices are more harsh and un tuneable than in other places '
&c. In condemnation of the Presbyterian use of a Metrical
version of the Psalms he writes, ' Tis certain the Word of
God recommends to us Psalms and Hymns in prose for our
praising God ... if the Holy Ghost had thought verse
necessary for Divine Psalms we may presume He would have
inspired some of the Holy Men in Scripture, when extra
ordinary gifts were so common, either to translate the Psalms
of the Old Testament into verse, or else to compose some of
the other hymns that are recorded in the New after that way.
But neither of these having been done, 'tis at least a pre
sumption, we may praise God as acceptably in prose as in
verse . . . Primitive Christians did praise God in prose, and
that metre and rhimeare, for ought appears, purely of human
invention.' s.v. ' Of Hearing.' The Bishop complains of their neglect
of public reading of the Scriptures : ' You thus jostle the
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England and Wales,1 where publick reading was practis'd the
people generally embrac'd the Beformation, but in Ireland,
where the same care was not taken, they rejected it. Had
God's way been taken, and the Scriptures as constantly read to
the native Irish, in a language they understood, as it was in
England and Wales, there is little doubt but the Beformation
had succeeded as universally here, as it did there.'
s.v. ' Of bodily Worship.' ' Our custom is (when we come
into the public assemblies) to lift up our hearts to Him
(Christ) in prayer, and bow our bodies before Him . . . some
indeed are so weak as to term our thus worshipping God, a
bowing to the altar, whereas our Church expressly declaring
against any adoration to be paid to the consecrated bread and
wine, does much more declare against doing it to the altar.2
. . . Uncovering the head is a mark of respect among us and
therefore we continue uncovered while the assembly lasts
. . . 'Tis therefore a peculiar privilege and favour to be allowed
to appear before God uncovered, and 'tis reckoned as such
2 Cor. in. 18 . . . Man being the image and glory of God is
allowed to take this confidence before God, which is deny'd
to woman : for since God was pleased to make man his image
and glory, 'tis not fit that this his glory should be covered before
Him, but on the other hand 'tis fit that man's glory, which is
woman, should be covered before God ' (1 Cor xi. 3 &c.).3
1 The Bishop omits Bible-reading and Presbyterian Scotland.
2 Bp. King's belief that the teaching of his Church was to be obeyed is not
shared by some English bishops of the 20th century, consequently sacramental
bread and wine, tables, and graven images are all bowed down to in churches
belonging to the establishment ; a difficulty arose over the images, as our pious
ancestors had banished the unclean thing out of the land, and in the face of
the 2nd commandment, and the declarations in the Homilies that such articles
are 'lies,' and 'idols,' and should not be suffered in churches, they could
scaroely be smuggled in, but it has been overcome by the discovery that idols
ceased to be idols when multiplied, so that Isaiah's lament that ' the land was
full of idols ' should have been a thanksgiving for such a hopeful sign that
idolatry was well-nigh extinct. Their object attained, this safeguard against
idolatry is ignored, and single specimens are now introduced, even that painfully
blasphemous caricature of our Divine Eedeemer, the crucifix, which the S.P.C.K.,
under the patronage of bishops, stocks, and exhibits for sale at its depfits.
3 The biretta-decorated ' priest ' and mitre-wearing bishop plainly disobey
these instructions given to the Christian Church through St. Paul ; woman's
position of being covered before God is thus adopted as most suitable by men
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Extract from
Dedication in Craghead's Answer to Bishop King.
An Answer to a late Booh, Intituled, A Discourse con
cerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God. By
William, Lord Bishop of Derry. By Bobert Craghead,
Minister of the Gospel. Dedicated (April 18) To the Bight
Worshipful the Mayor, the Aldermen, and Burgesses, of the
City of Londonderry, and of the Presbyterian Perswasion.
Edinburgh, 1694. 4to. This dedication is of general interest
from its allusions to the Siege, — ' God hath much to require
of Derry more than other places in point of Gratitude . . .
there being no people in these kingdoms, who ever had more
special and immediat appearing of Soveraign Dominion,
Wisdom, and Mercy, than this City, if it be considered That
after vast numbers of people were frighted into it. . . not
knowing of one another, nor what they should do when within
these Walls, having no Buler but God alone, as of different
perswasions, so of different sentiments, many consulting a
Surrender on Terms as most rational, some few resolved
against it (of which I was an Eye Witness), many secret
enemies within, corresponding with those without, a potent
Army under good Conduct, closs about the City ; Streets,
Lanes and Walls, often as in Fire, with Multitude of Bombs,
and many killed in Houses, provisions failing, and Soldiers
almost starved, yet sallying out, waxing valiant in Fight ;
when their Enemies strong and full, found not their hands,
but fainted in the day of Battel ; when not only men's bodies
were faint and sick with Famine, but hope of relief being
deferred, made their hearts sick also ; yet when weakest, were
animated to that heroick resolve, to put a period to their own
miseries, and perpetuat their loyalty by fighting to death, when
they could stay no longer within these Walls, rather than
yield : I know of one fainting man who said " within these
who make ' outward adorning and putting on of apparel ' a necessary part of
public worship. Sacerdotalism, with its pagan trappings, idolatries and super
stitions, was unknown to the Apostolic Church, ' the pillar and ground of the
truth,' and was the outgrowth of the puffed-up fleshly mind of the Gentile
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three days we must either surrender or be dead men by
famine " ; but was smartly taken up by others replying " he
was not worthy to live who spoke it, and while there was Dog
or Cat in Derry, yet remaining, there should be no surrender,"
and further told him "you shall eat that Hat on your Head
ere we yield." At this time the City was all over Deaths and
Corps, and rare to see a Mourner for the nearest Eolation, when
buried, many fainting on the Streets for want of the Fruits
of the Earth ; the City then appearing for no other use but
to be a common Sepulchre to them all : nothing remain'd, but
hope against hope, only by the good Providence of God, there
were many Godly praying persons in the place. . . long before
they came into this distress, they prayed without ceasing. . . .
some of them being Ministers, of what perswasion I shall not
so much as name, that all may joyn together in due praises,
" Not unto us 0 Lord, but unto Thy name give Glory "...
the besiegers being surprised that the gates were not opened
unto them, and afterward finding that the flower of their Army
fell before these Walls, said, " God doth fight for Derry,"
but blasphemously added, "God was not just in so doing,"
this I can instruct by some of deserved reputation, to whom
it was spoken, & yet alive.'
The Eev. George Walker (True Account of Siege of
Londonderry. London, 1689) was able to record the names,
&c. of eighteen conforming clergymen, but failed to discover
those of the nonconforming ministers present during the
Siege ; he writes, " As also Nonconforming Ministers, to the
Number of Seven, whose Names I cannot learn, Four of
which dyed in the Siege."
' A Project of Converting ye Papists.'
To the Bt. Bev. the Lord Bishop of Limerick.1
' My Lord (? Mar°h mi-12.)
Upon Friday the 24th of Feb. 1 received a letter from
Mr Moland, the Primate's Secretary, desiring me to read over
1 Thos. Smyth, D.D. formerly Eector of Enniskillen, and Dean of Emly ;
Bp. Tenison of Clogher recommended him for promotion to Bp. King, Oct. 12,
1694, as ' Inniskilling does not agree with his wife & children being a cold
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the inclosed Memoriall & return it, & to consider of the
contents, for that he should in due time call the Bishops in
Dublin together to return an answer to the Lords Justices'
order of Beference directed to him upon a letter they received
from the D. of Ormond.
I the next day wrote to his Grace that I was to leave
Dublin upon Monday, so should not be at the Meeting, but
desired his Lordship to think well of the Matter, for
that the Memoriall contained things of the last consequence
to the Church.
Upon Monday the Primate summoned the Bishops in
Town to meet at his house upon Tuesday ; but no summons
came to me, for I was supposed to have left Dublin. But it
hap'ning that some affairs would not permit me to take my
journey till Wednesday, & the Bishop of Kildare callmg at
my lodgings, I went to the Congress, where I found myself
soon ingaged with the Archbishop of Dublin, who seemed to
have principally at his heart the printing of Bibles, Testa
ments, Common Prayer-Books &c. in Irish, which part the
rest of the Bishops present thought the least of all usefull or
convenient, besides that it was against the intention of the
Law of the 28th H. 8th, which was to promote the English
language & habit.1
Upon this some of us immediately concluded that the
Irish types & characters which were said to be purchased
were bought at his Grace's expense, though one Mr Eichard
son,2 a clergyman of the North, was the person that promoted
moyst place.' This letter from Bp. Lindsay appeared in Notes and Queries,
4th S. I. 310, 311, s.v. ' The Irish Church in 1704,' which date is evidently
incorrect. 1 ' Act (1537) for wearing the English habit, and the usage of the English
tongue in all places and by all men that profess their due obedience.' It required
that clergy be appointed who can speak English, and none other, unless there
be no person to accept the cure who can speak English, in which case a native,
who could not speak English, might be appointed, but he must take an oath to
endeavour to learn the English language.
- Eev. John Eichardson, B.A., T.C.D., 1688, Eector (1693) of Annagh, or
Belturbet, Co. Cavan ; Dean of Kilmacduagh, which dignity Abp. Boulter
procured for him from the Duke of Dorset, Feb. 20, 1730-1 ; in his letter
(Sept. 3, 1730) of recommendation, the Primate mentions that ' many years ago
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this project in England, & laid the Memoriall before the D. of
Ormond &c. The Bishops who met upon this occasion were
Irish, in order the better to bring about the conversion of the natives ; but he
met at that time with great opposition, not to say oppression here, instead of
either thanks or assistance ; & suffered the loss of several hundred pounds in
printing the Common Prayer-book, & other necessary charges he was at in that
undertaking.' ' 15 March 1711, John Eichardson, clerk, a reward for converting
papists £200 ' ; Queen's letter ; Lasoelles' Lib. Mun. Pub. Hib. He published
' Hist, of the Attempts to Convert the Popish natives of Ireland to tlie
Established Church, 1712, and The Great Folly, Superstition & Idolatry of
Pilgrimages in Ireland ; especially that to St. Patrick's Purgatory. Dublin,
1727. ' I presented a parson of the Bishop of Clogher's [Kilmore's ?], one
Eichardson, to the D. of Ormond to-day, he is translating prayers & sermons
into Irish, & has a project about instructing the Irish in the Protestant
religion,' Swift's Journal to Stella, London, Mar. 6, 1710-11 ; ' I this day
appointed the D. of Ormond to meet him at Ned Southwell's about an affair
of printing Irish prayer books &a. but the Duke never came,' Poid. Maroh 23.
' I am plagued with one Eichardson, an Irish parson, & his project of printing
Irish Bibles &o. to make you Christians in that country, I befriend him what
I can on account of the Archbishop, & Bishop of Clogher. But what business
have I to meddle &c.' lb. April 2. ' I dined in the oity & coming back, one
parson Eichardson of Ireland overtook me. He was here last summer upon
a project of converting the Irish & printing Bibles &o., in that language, & is
now returned to pursue it on,' Ibid. London Mar. 14, 1711-12.
' Here is one Mr. Eichardson, a clergyman, who is soliciting an affair that
I find your Grace approves, & therefore I do him all the service I can in it.'
Swift, London, Ap. 10, 1711, to Abp. King.
In a letter to Francis Annesley, Nov. 13, 1712, Archbishop King thus
expresses his thoughts, — 'As to that part of your letter, which relates to my
opinion concerning Mr. Eichardson's project about the Irish tongue for con
verting the natives of Ireland, I confess to you, if I could have helped it, it
should not have been Mr. Eichardson's or any private man's. But I desire
you to distinguish between the matter itself, & as it is undertaken by him.
As to the matter itself, I have had many thoughts about it, which in my own
justification I communicated at large to his Grace the Archbishop of York ;
I suppose you are well acquainted with his Grace ; & if you will give yourself
the trouble to discourse him on this subject, I persuade myself his Grace will
give you full satisfaction. As to Mr. Eichardson's undertaking it, I may put
you in mind, that when a thing is proper & fit to be done, & they whose duty
it is to do it, negleot or refuse to concern themselves, others that are zealous
& not so wary will generally intermeddle with it. The case was so in the
Beformation: & God sometimes blesses such endeavours. But there are
always when the case is thus, great irregularities & imperfections in the
performance, & the work often miscarries ; & the evils become worse than they
were & more desperate. If the Bishops of Ireland had heartily & unanimously
come into this work, & the government had given it countenance, certain
methods might in my opinion have been taken, that, with due encouragement
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the Archbishops of Armagh, Dublin & Cashell, the Bishops of
Meath, Clonfert, Kildare & myself.
We all of us (the Archbishop of Dublin only excepted),
upon a view of the matter contained in the Memoriall, soon
came to a resolution that the Primate should return an
answer to the following effect, —
(re) ' The Memorial of several persons to ye D. of Ormond
in relation to a project of converting y° Papists.
May it please your Excellencies,
In pursuance of your Excellencies' order of the 14th
Instant, to me directed, I have called to my assistance such
of the Archbishops & Bishops as are in town, who have
considered of the letter & Memoriall, & though they very well
approve of the subject matter laid before them, & have
entirely at their hearts, & shall have, the conversion of the
Irish Papists, yet they are of opinion that there are some
things contained in yr Memoriall that necessarily require the
help & assistance of Parliament to inable them to proceed
thereupon. And that there are other weighty matters contained in
your said Memoriall,1 which they are humbly of opinion will
the natives, & making them good Protestants, & sincere in the English interest.
But what success it may have in the hands of a private man, without such
evident encouragement, nay under the manifest disapprobation of most of
those who are able to give it life, I believe it not difficult to guess.'
' On 7th Instant [Sept. 1747] died the Bev: John Eichardson, Dean of
Kilmacduagh, and Eector of Belturbet [a living then worth £400 a year], in the
78th year of his age, and fifty-fourth of his Eectorship, a Gentleman of exceeding
good character, who published an Irish Grammar and Common Prayer-Book for
the Use of the poor Native Irish, in order to convert them to the Protestant
Eeligion.' Faulkner's Journal.
' Presented by Eichardson probably when introduced to the Duke by Swift,
was approved by him and by Mr. Secretary Southwell, and referred to the
Lords Justices (Sir Constantine Phipps and John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam),
by whom it was sent on to the Primate and Bishops ; whose lukewarmness on
a question of such importance excited Abp. King's righteous indignation. The
Archbishop, July 28, 1711, had thus expressed his views on the subject to
Swift, — ' We shall, I believe, have some considerations of methods to convert
the natives ; but I do not find that it is desired by all that they should be
converted. There is a party among us that have little sense of religion &
heartily hate the church : these would have the natives made Protestants but
such as themselves [and] are deadly afraid they should come into the church
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be better & more effectually transacted when the Bishops &
body of the clergy meet next in Convocation. All which is
humbly submitted &c.
have them come in, but can't approve of the methods proposed, which are to
preach to them in their own language, & have the service in Irish, as our own
canons require. So that between them I am afraid that little will be done ' ;
and after the question had been under the consideration of the Irish Convoca
tion, he observes to Swift, Nov. 10, 1711, ' I did not perceive any zeal that way.'
Queen Anne was entirely disposed to countenance and encourage the whole
design, but the prejudices then existing could not be overcome, the proposals
contained in the memorial were considered ' destructive of the English interest,
contrary to law, and inconsistent with the authority of Synods and Convoca
tions.' After the Eevolution many families of Highland Scots had come over
and settled in Ulster ; some, in the barony of Inishowen, Co. Donegal, petitioned
Dr. King, then Bishop of Derry, for ministers who could teach them in their
own language, and he gladly supplied them with two, one supported by himself
and the other with a benefice, and consequently not only were the Highlanders
preserved from lapsing to Eome, but many of the native Irish attended the
services in their own tongue, and together formed » congregation of four or
five hundred persons ; one Patrick M'Lachlin, of Moville, wrote to Bishop King
Jan. 22, 1694-5, that ' the Highlanders use the Irish Prayer Book, & answer
the Litany extreem weel.' Mr. Eichardson mentioned in his book on the
subject, in 1712, that ' the present Archbishop of Dublin did & doth still
encourage Mr. Lyniger to teach it [the Gaelic] publicly [in Dublin] ' ; of Mr.
Linegar's work in Trin. Coll. Dublin, the Archbishop wrote, Feb. 16, 1715, to
the Bt. Hon. Wm. Conolly, ' I send you inclosed a list of scholars taught to
read Irish by Mr. Linegar in the College. All these are designed for the clergy,
being in number forty-five. It is not intended that they should have any
salary or establishment from the publick ; but when they come to be settled in
cures, they are enabled by this to discourse all the parishioners, & perform
offices to them in a language that they understand ; which I take to be the
dootrine of our Church.
' You know how much more easily & effectually an Irishman is prevailed
on, when addressed to in his own language that is native to him, than that to
which he is a stranger. And, if all the clergy discourse their people on
occasion, I believe it would be the most effectual way to make them Protestants,
& reconcile them to the English language & government, of which I could give
many instances.
' I had a prospect of enabling at least one-third of the clergy in Ireland, in
a few years, thus to apply to their people without any new change or burthen
to the publick : & the pains Linegar took in the college, you see very much
has contributed to it, & if encouraged I believe would have effected it. He is
very poor ; & I hope the committee, before which his petition lies, will have
some compassion on him. I have not been wanting to give him what
assistance I oould out of my own pocket. Pray be at the committee, &
represent this matter in his favour, & you'll oblige, &c, W.D.' If this was
Charles Linegar, he had petitioned Abp. King's assistance, in 1706, when
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Whilst this answer was drawing up, his Grace the Arch
bishop of Dublin left us in anger, saying that what was pro
posed should be done whether we would or no.
I shall talk to you farther about these matters when I see
you in Limerick, which I design to do the latter end of next
week when I return from confirming out of the County of
Tipperary ; in the mean time think upon this subject, & if you
can influence that Projector Hamilton, stop him in the Mad
ness of his career.
I am at present very low in my stock of wine, & therefore
desire you to get me four dozen of the wine you mention
lately bought from Cork, of Mr. Macliwarring, which I shall
take as a great favour of him to spare me. Get it to your
house, & I will send a car for it on Saturday. Since the wine
is so good, I desire I may have 4 hogsheads marked for me.
I know your palate & taste is good. I am your humble
Servant Tho. Killaloe.1
To his Grace James, Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant
Generall & Generall Governour of Ireland.
The humble Memoriall (aforesaid) of several of the Nobility 2
of Ireland, of the Ld. Bishop of Kilmore 3 & of several of
the Gentlemen & Clergymen of that kingdom.
Whereas nothing tends more effectually to promote the
common wellfare of Ireland then the conversion of the Popish
natives to the Protestant Eeligion, whereby the English
Interest would be the better secured, trade & industry
increased, & both the spiritual & temporal good of the Irish
themselves advanced in that Kingdom. And whereas, in
1 Thos. Lindsay, D.D., translated to Eaphoe 1713, and to Armagh 1714,
d. July 13, 1724.
2 The Earl of Anglesey inter alios.
3 Edward Wetenhall, D.D. He had come over to Dublin from Exeter, in
1672 ; and became master of the Bluecoat School, Dublin, author of Greek and
Latin Grammars and other works ; Bishop of Cork &c. 1679 ; suffered muoh
persecution during 1688-9 ; translated to Kilmore 1699 ; directed in his will
that, if he died at Kilmore, 'his body should be interred near good Bishop
Bedell's ' ; but d., in London, Nov. 12, 1713, and was buried in Westminster
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order to obtain those happy ends, several laws have been
made lately in Ireland to discourage & weaken Popery in that
Kingdom, & one statute particularly hath been enacted to pre
vent the succession of Popish clergy by virtue whereof the
number of Popish Priests is already sensibly diminished in
the Kingdom, & it is probable that in some counties the whole
succession may be extinct in some few years. And whereas
the natives, where tryall hath been made, have expressed
great satisfaction upon hearing divine service performed in
their own tongue. And lastly, whereas there are no printed
books of sound religion (except a very few Bibles & Common-
prayer books) now extant in Irish. Therefore that our pure &
holy religion may be propagated amongst them by Evan-
gelicall & Beligious means, & that so many souls may not be
abandoned to utter ignorance, infidelity & barbarity on the
one side, or left to be a prey to schismaticks, or Dissenters, on
the other, it is humbly proposed as followeth :
1. That some numbers of New Testaments & Common-
Prayer books, Catechisms & expositions thereon, Whole Duty
of Man, & select sermons upon the principal points of Eeligion
be translated & printed in the Irish Character & Tongue (in
order to which the only set of Irish Characters now in
Britain ' is already bought), & that those books be distributed
in any Irish family that can read, but especially be given to
such Ministers as shall endeavour to convert them, & to give
them a true & practicall sense of Eeligion.
2. That the whole nation may in time be made both
Protestant & English : that Charity Schools be erected in
1 These were from the fount cut, at the expense of the Hon. Eobert Boyle,
by Mr. Moxon, a type-founder in London, from 1659-83, and were subsequently
disposed of at the sale of the last old-English-letter founder's stock, Mr. John
James's, who d. 1772; Mr. Edward Eowe Mores, the learned typographer
(1731-78), wrote of it, ' This was cut in England for Bedell's translation &
is the only type of that language we ever saw.' The types sent over by
Q. Elizabeth, from which the Irish N. Testament had been printed, had been
secured by the Jesuits, and carried over to Douay. The S.P.C.K., of which
Abp. King was a member, printed 3,000 copies of Eichardson's Short Hist, of
Attempts to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland, 6,000 copies of Book of
Common Prayer, in Irish and English, 6,000 of the Church Catechism in the
same, and 6,000 of Lewis's Exposition of the Church Catechism, for distribution
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every Parish in Ireland for the instruction of the Irish
Children gratis in the English Tongue, & the Catechism &
Eeligion of the Church of Ireland.
3. That in order to the carrying on the foregoing designs
in the preceding or any other methods that shall be thought
requisite to promote the same, a Charter be sent out from her
Majesty constituting a Corporation of the well-disposed to so
good a work, consisting of the Lord Primate of all Ireland as
President, the Lords Archbishops & Bishops, some of the
nobility, gentry, & clergy of Ireland, empowering them to
take subscriptions, receive Benefactions, make Purchases, &
hold Courts & Consultations for the most effectuall promoting
of the same.
4. That such of the Lords Archbishops & Bishops of
Ireland as your Grace thinks fit be consulted about this
proposall, & if they approve of the same, that with their
advice & concurrence, a petition be presented to her Majesty
constituting such an Incorporated Society for converting the
Irish Papists.
May it therefore please your Grace to Countenance &
encourage this proposall in such manner as in your great
wisdom your Grace may think fit.' 1
1 In his Discourse before Parliament, Feb. 28, 1650, Dr. John Owen, the
great Puritan Divine, chaplain to the Protector Cromwell, on his return from
a visit to Ireland, pleaded for the preaching of the Gospel to the native Irish, —
' They want it ! No want like their's who want the Gospel ! The land
mourneth, & the people perish for want of knowledge. They are sensible of
their wants & cry out for supply. The cries & tears of the inhabitants
of Dublin after the manifestations of Christ are ever in my view. If they
were in the dark and loved to have it so, it might somewhat close a door on
the bowels of compassion ; but they cry out of their darkness, & are ready to
follow every one to have a candle. If their being without the Gospel move not
our hearts, it is hoped their importunate cries will disquiet our rest and wrest
help as a beggar does an alms.' Alas 1 as a nation Protestant England di
very little to help the native Irish to recover the precious Gospel light, which
pre-reformation England had helped to quench in their land. In 1707, Abp. King
wrote to Mr. Southwell, ' We have abundance of converts every day from
Popery; there is one hardship happeneth from that, I mean necessity of
maintaining them ; for their friends are so malicious, that they put them out
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' His Grace, William, Lord Arch-bp. of Dublin's
Accots for the Month of [October] 1722 at Bath,
dt on the Boad, with the Expence of the Tatch dc.
Included 4 weeks Tots., £137. 19. 9.'
Some Items from the Accounts, to show prices then
current &c. :
Mutton 3<3. per lb. Fowl Is. 4d. each. Beef 2\d. per lb.
Butter 6d. & Id. per lb. Lemons 2d. each. 'An 100
Oysters Is. &d.'
' A Larded Hare 4s.' A Babbit Id. A Duck Is. Sd.
A Neck of Veal 4s. 4d. ' 12 Dozen of Hott Well Water &
Bottles, p. rec* £2. 0. 0.'
' To Coach here inviting Ladys to the Play 3s. 0d.'
' A pr of Boots for Will Green p. order £1. 1. 0.'
' To yr Grace at Church 2s. Qd.' Half a lb. of Tea 6s.
' To the Beggars when yr Grace took Coach Is.'
' Mrs. Green Ten Days Board Wages 15s. 0d.'
1 Bottle of Wine 2s. U.
'A Gen1 Acco* of His Grace William Lord Archbp of
Dublin's Disbursements in England &c. from the 8th of
August 1722 to the 29th of October 1722 Inclusive.
Tot: paid £410 : 16 : 4^.'
In 1695, W. Leslie, Prospect, recommended Bp. King a
housekeeper, her wages to be £15 a year.

Archbishop King's Portrait.
In March 1729, the Archbishop wrote to his friend and
lawyer, Mr. Francis Annesley, London :
' I have not much to say to you at present, only to beg
your favour in a matter of very small moment, & with which
I am almost ashamed to trouble you. There is one Wilkin
son pretends to print mezzotinto pictures : he came to me, &
desired that I would admit him to make one for me. I
desired to see some of his work : he told me he had only done
two ; one of Macheath, the varlet in the Beggars' Opera ; &

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the other for Polly Peachum. He showed me both of them,
& I neither liked the pictures nor the originals, &• conceived,
that if he had my picture he would shew it with these : I did
not think it convenient that my picture should appear in such
company, & therefore positively forbade him to attempt any
such thing ; notwithstanding which he has stolen a copy, &
made a picture which he says is for me, & shows it about.
It is more like an ill-shaped lion's face than mine & is a
most frightful figure. I know no way to remedy this insult,
but to get my picture done, in taille douce or mezzotinto in
England : if this could be done from the picture that you
have, or my lord lieutenant's [Lord Carteret], or Sir Hans
Sloane's,1 it would do me a pleasure. H the plate were
graved, & two or three hundred struck off, & sent with the
dates to me, it would counter-plot the ill man. Perhaps you
have a friend that would do this for me, & I will pay bim
what you will think reasonable, & reckon it amongst the many
favours I have received at your hands. I would have it done
upon half a sheet of strong paper '
On the 3rd of April the subject of the portrait was thus
resumed :
' I received your's of the 27th of March, & am really
ashamed to put you to so much trouble ; but I hope the same
friendship that engaged you to take so much pains about my
picture will incline you to continue it so far as to excuse
me. I have sent you a bill for £20. to pay for the plate
& for four hundred prints : you will get them made up in
a box, & directed for me to the care of Mr. Murray of
Chester. The inscription I would have upon it is Gulielmus King,
S.T.D., consecratus episcopus Derensis 25!> Jan., 1690,
translatus ad Archiepiscopatum Dubliniensem per literas
patcntes Annne Begince undecimo, Mar. 1702. If you think
fit you may put in my age, Xatus prima Maij, 1650.
1 In a letter to the same correspondent, of Nov. -6, 172-5, the Archbishop
wrote that he sends over two portraits of himself, one for Sir Hans Slovne and
the other for Mr. Annesley himself. Elizabeth, d. and co-heir of Sir Hans
Sloane Bt., m. July 25, 1717. Charles, 2nd Baron Cadogan, ancestor of the
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A Postscript notices that the painter's name is Ealph
Holland.' '
Besides the painted portraits of Abp. King mentioned
before, and subsequently, there was one by Bindon in 1698,
an oval half-length, and another was sold by auction in London,
Feb. 15th, 1800, for £3. 6. 0.
A mezzotint was executed by Andrew Miller, of Dublin,
from the portrait, painted by Charles Jervas or Jarvis,
originally belonging to the Molyneux family (when in the
possession of Sir Capel Molyneux, Bt.) and sold by J. Orpin and
P. Smith, in Crane Lane, Dublin, price 2s. Id., which has been
reproduced in a smaller size for the edition of Archdall's
Monasticon Hib., by Abp. P. Moran, 1873. Facing p. 49 is a
reduced sized copy of this portrait. Another mezzotinto
portrait, 'Faber engraver' (no artist's name), is catalogued in
Bromley's (H.) Engraved British Portraits, 1793, this
can scarcely be the one referred to in above letters (as Bp.
Mant supposed) since the inscription is not what the Arch
bishop desired, but ' William King, Bishop of Derry 1690 ;
Archbishop of Dublin 1702. Ob. 1729, cet. 79—83.'
There is also a small curious profile portrait of Abp. King,
in old age, engraved by Kane O'Hara (d. 1782), and published
Sept. 20, 1803, by Wm. Eichardson, York House, 31 Strand,
a facsimile of which is given at p. 268.
Emigration of Protestants from Ireland in
1717 and 1718.2
' Some would insinuate that this is in some measure due
to the uneasiness dissenters have in the matter of religion,
1 Mant's (Eichard, D.D., Bp. of Down &e.) Hist. Ch. Ireland, 1840.
2 From a letter of the Archbishop, June 2, 1719, to Dr. Wake, Archbishop
of Canterbury. This emigration of Protestants, from Ulster chiefly, to the West Indies,
Cape Breton, and various parts of N. America was greatly encouraged by
London and Bristol merchants, who sent ships for transporting them, and
tempted them by invitations in the newspapers. Besides the reasons for it
here given, there was the great depression in trade and manufactures caused
by the impediments and restrictions of English Acts of Parliament, the fashion
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but this is plainly a mistake ; for dissenters were never more
easy as to that matter, than they have been since the Eevolu-
tion, & are at present : & yet they never thought of leaving the
kingdom, till oppressed by excessive [rents ?] & other temporal
hardships ; nor do only dissenters leave us, but proportionably
of all sorts, except Papists. The truth of the case is this ;
after the Bevolution, most of the kingdom was waste, &
abundance of people destroyed by the war ; the landlords
therefore were glad to get tenants at any rate, &• set their
lands at very easy rents ; this invited abundance of people to
come over here, especially from Scotland, & they have lived
here very happily ever since ; but now their leases are expired,
& they obliged not only to give what was paid before the
Bevolution, but in most places double & in many places treble,
so that it is impossible for people to live or subsist on their
farms. The landlords set up their farms to be disposed by cant, &
the Papists, who live in a miserable it sordid manner, will
always outbid a Protestant ; nor are they much solicitous
whether they pay the rents covenanted or no ; their business
is to out the Protestants, & when that is done, they get into
arrears with the landlords a year or two, & then run away ;
many have been thus served, & yet it will not teach others
wisdom. By these means most of the farms of Ireland are
got into their hands, & as leases expire, it is probable the rest
will go the same way.
This is that which forces Protestants of all sorts out of
this kingdom, not only farmers but artificers ; since they can
have no prospect of living with any comfort in it. I have
inquired, & am assured that the peasants in France & Turkey
live much better than tenants in Ireland.
By the act against Popery ' that hinders Papists to purchase
stoppage of the circulation of money, and want of a resident gentry in the
country. These Protestant immigrants and their descendants constituted the
backbone of the opposition to the British Government, which only ended with
the American Bevolution. The dread in Ireland of English taxation was illus
trated not very reverently by Swift, on Lady Carteret's remarking ' The air of
Ireland is so good ' ! the Dean fell on his knees exclaiming, ' For God's sake
Madam, don't say so in England, they will certainly tax it ! '
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lands, they have turned themselves entirely to trade ; & most
of the trade of the kingdom is engrossed by them ; & by this
covetousness of the landlords they will get possession of the
lands ; & how the Protestants will secure themselves, or
England secure Ireland, when all the commonalty are all
Papists, is surely worth consideration.

Emigrant Ministers.
Some clergymen and ministers also emigrated ; Capt.
Harrison gave Archbishop King a receipt, Dec. 13, 1722, for
£33., the cost of transporting to Virginia the Bev. Michael
Jones, his wife, and five children. The Bev. Gideon Johnston
wrote to Abp. King, from 'Castlebarr, March 4, 1706-7,' that
he was going out to Charlestoun as commissary to the Bishop
of London.

' A Friendly Letter ' dx.
'¦ Just published [in May 1790]. A Friendly Letter to all
young men who are desirous to live godly lives, and are true
members of the Church of England. To which are added
Eules & Orders observed by the Eeligious Society of St.
Catharine's founded by his Grace, William King, Lord Arch
bishop of Dublin, with the approved consent of Mr. Henry
Echlin, Vicar; Mr. Balph Darling and Mr. Henry
Desminiere[s], Curates.
Printed by J. Jackson, 1746, & now reprinted by J. Char-
rurier, No. 128 Capel Street, price 4 pence or 3/3 per dozen.
The Original Copy may be seen at the Printers.'
This was an effort to arrest the attention of the young
men of Dublin, who, Bp. King laments in a letter to Jas.
Bonnell, in 1696, attended more to the playhouse than to
their studies, and, in 1714, to Bp. Stearne, ' It is a mortifying
reflection how few young men are growing up, that either by
application to their studies, their parts, or prudence, give us
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8 1

Belfast People in 1698.
' I understand that the people of Belfast are very refrac
tory, it do many irregular things ; that they will not consent
to enlarge their church, lest there should be room for all their
people ; that they bury in spite of the [law] in the church
without prayers, it come in with their hats on ; that they
break the seats, it refuse to deliver their collections for briefs,
according to the order of council, to the churchwardens. I
think it is advisable to observe as many of these insolent
passages as you can ; put them into affidavits duly sworn, &
send them up here to me, or Sir John Coghill, A- we will see
what may be done for you. Tu ne cede malis &c. is a good
rule. Dublin Diocese.2
' As to Grange Gorman, it is reckoned extra -parochial.
On that account no care has been taken of it ; insomuch that
it is one of the most lewd it irregular places about Dublin.
I have got a clergyman to attend the sick &c . . . but . . .
the people have no place to attend divine service nor to bury
their dead ... it should rather have a new church than be
united to St. Paul's the next church . . . Bingsend was one
of the lewdest irreligious places near Dublin. Since I have
got a church there, a good clergyman, & constant service, 'tis
a pleasure to see the alteration. No church is better fre
quented ; no congregation appears with more decency or
devotion ; & they will not suffer a lewd person to harbour
amongst them. The same must be said of Glassnevin. It
was the receptacle of thieves it rogues : the first search when
1 From a letter by the Archbishop, May 31, 1698, to Bp. Walkington of
Down and Connor.
2 From Archbishop King's letters to the proprietors of Grange-Gorman,
Lord Palmerston and Sir John Stanley, Oct. 8. 1725. The cost of the pro
posed church was reckoned by the Archbishop at eight hundred pounds.
' I am altogether of your Lordship's opinion [he writes to Lord Palmerston
subsequently] that we ought rather to multiply the number of churches than
make them magnificent' ' I have got Tie writes] 28 churches built, or rebuilt,
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anything was stolen was there : & when any couple had a
mind to retire to be wicked there was their harbour. But,
since the church was built & service regularly settled, all
these evils are vanished. Good houses are built in it, & the
place civilized . . . The county of Wicklow was full of
Quakers & dissenters ; but having got seven new churches in
it, & filled them with good men, there is hardly a meeting
left in that part that is in the diocese of Dublin.
As to the city, the parish of St. Nicholas Without is in my
neighbourhood & there was but one church in it, & that a very
small one, & seldom filled. On a good minister being there
placed, instead of one who was not agreeable, the church
immediately filled ; & though enlarged with galleries, so as to
receive double the number there wanted room. To help them
service was opened in the cathedral of St. Patrick's, which
was not officiated before regularly ; that was likewise filled.
And though it has usually a thousand people every Lord's-
day, yet there was not reception enough for the auditors ; on
which we got a new parish erected out of the former, & a new
church, St. Luke's, built, of an hundred feet long & forty
feet wide, with spacious galleries ; which church is frequented
every Lords-day with about a thousand hearers, & yet there
wants room ; so that we are about enlarging the old
church. . . .
These are the reasons that move me to be zealous in that
affair [of Grange Gorman]. But there is one that concerns you
as landlord, I mean the improving of your estate. I will only
give you two or three precedents to convince you of the
advantages you may expect by countenancing this project. Mr.
Joseph Dawson purchased a piece of ground, which cost but
a small sum of money, by St. Stephen's Green ; began with
laying the foundation of a church, & erecting by act of parlia
ment the parish of St. Anne's. The consequence was, that
he set his ground for above five hundred pounds per annum,
& has now Dawson-street, one of the best in Dublin,
built upon it. Sir Humphrey Jervice gave ground for a
church over the water now St. Mary's, which has thriven so
prodigiously that we are now about dividing it [the parish].
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contributed effectually to it, t it has doubled or trebled his
rent.' The Archbishop's energy in providing churches for his
diocese is exemplified in a letter to Edwd. Southwell, Sept. 2,
1707 ; ' I have been very busy since I came to Ireland.
I have got Arklow finished, Stillorgan, Kilgobban, Eings-
end it Glassnevin. Another is going on in the country, ,t I
have got a fund for it. St. Nicholas within the walls is
pulled down, & in a pretty forward way of reparation. We
have a bill gone over to finish it.'
Provision for Glebes.1
' When a lease had run out seven years or more, he [Arch
bishop King] stipulated with the tenant to resign up twenty
or thirty acres to the minister of the parish where it lay
convenient without lessening his former rent, & with no great
abatement of the fine : and this he did in the parts near
Dublin, where land is at the highest rates, leaving a small
chiefry for the minister to pay, hardly a sixth part of the
value. I doubt not that almost every bishop in the kingdom
may do the same generous act with less damage to their sees
than his late Grace of Dublin, much of whose lands were out
in fee-farms or leases for hves ; and I am sorry that the good
example of such a prelate has not been followed.'

On the History of Ireland.2
' As to the history of Ireland, I am very sensible there is
one wanting, but doubt whether it be possible to supply it.
It is observable that the beginning of all societies is generally
obscure, insomuch that little account can be given of them ;
the reason is because people are so busy in procuring a settle
ment for themselves, t providing necessaries, that they have
1 Dean Swift, Feb. 24. 1732.
2 Observations by Archbishop King, in a letter, dated May 8. 1722, to
Dr. Henry Maule, Dean of Cloyne, and subsequently Bishop of the same
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not time to tell the world what they have been doing ; & this
is so true, that it holds even in the settlement of the Church ;
for though the faith of Christ was preached through a great
part of the world by the apostles, yet we have hardly any
account of any other apostle's labours but St. Paul's, & even
that is imperfect, & doth not go through a great part of his
latter time ; in short, we find Christianity everywhere, but
when, or how, or by whom planted, is in the dark.
Now this I take to be the state of Ireland. It has been in
a continued state of unsettlement ; & the few clergy, who are
in it, are put to such shifts to live, so employed in the com
mon offices of their duties, that they have not time to apply
themselves to anything else : besides our benefices, which are
few, very few indeed, which would afford subsistence & leisure
to look into the history & antiquities of the kingdom are
generally given to persons altogether unqualified & incapable
of performing such a task. Our gentlemen do not apply
themselves to learning ; & those who are able to employ hands
to collect & procure the sight of records, generally live out of
the kingdom : & the offices where our records lie, are kept or
held by persons that neither live in the kingdom, nor if they
did, were capable of looking into the records. The poor
harpy deputy has no view but to get money ; never minds
anything but what gets him the penny ; hardly knows what
records he has in his custody ; & can neither find them if
you inquire for them, nor let you peruse them without con
siderable sums & great costs : the case then is this, that those
who have money & leisure have neither capacity nor will to
apply themselves to such a work, & those who are capable &
willing have neither leisure nor opportunity.
When I first came to this diocese, I had it in my mind to
look into the antiquities, the civil, ecclesiastical & natural
history of the kingdom ; l but found everything in such
1 ' The Library of Dr. William King, late Archbishop of Dublin, afforded
me much useful matter through the whole work : some collections of that
learned prelate out of the public Becords the Beader will find frequently
mentioned in the following sheets under the title of King's Collections,' Walter
Harris, Preface to The whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland.
King's Collection of MSS. is now preserved in the National Library, Dublin.
William King, M.A., is on the list of members of the Dublin Philosophical x 2

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disorder, the discipline so sunk, the cures so ill provided, so
many churches wanting, & those in being so ruinous, that I
looked on it as my immediate duty to take care of these,
which I have done with all the diligence I could, & it has
taken up most of my time & what money I could spare. I want
yet twelve churches to accommodate the diocese with tolerable
conveniency to the people; it which is worst want, a
maintenance for the ministers to serve them, if they were
built. Of the churches which are in repair, & continually
officiated in, I reckon twenty-three have no sufficient main
tenance ; the allowance to the curates who serve them being
from £20, to *40, per annum; & about fifty-six have no
glebe, which makes residence very difficult it in some of them
impossible. You may see from this that I have work enough,
& that it is not possible for me to find either means or leisure
to take care of an history, either civil, ecclesiastical, or
natural. I may farther observe, that the council chamber being
burnt about eleven years ago,1 we have lost the repositories
of most of our Church affairs, t with it the surveyor's office
was burnt, where many inquisitions & maps relating to our
endowments were destroyed.
And farther our chief governors & their secretaries, who
are so often changed, commonly took with them all the
records which came to their hands, insomuch that I believe
there are more MSS. & papers relating to Ireland in the

Society founded in 1683, enrolled up to Dec. 23, 1684, Sir Wm. Petty being
President. Some of bis Observations are recorded in the Transactions of that
Society, 1683-1686. ' Mr. King, on the difference in Size between the hori
zontal & meridional Sun. On the Acceleration of descending Weights and the
Force of Percussion. On Hydraulics. On the Trisection of the Angle. On
the Bogs and Loughs of Ireland. On the Mineral Waters of Clontari and
Edenderry.' Of the above are included in the Transactions of the Boyal
Society, of which he was a Fellow from 1707, ' A Discourse concerning the
Bogs and Loughs of Ireland ; as it was presented to the Dublin Society by
Mr. Wilham King, Fellow of that Society,' April 20, 1685, No. 170, vol. 15,
p. 947. In addition to the above ' An Account of the Manuring of Lands in
the North of Ireland by Sea Shells,' No. 314 ; ' Of the Salmon Fishing of
Ireland ' ; the last two of these treatises were also prmted in Boate's (Gerrard)
Xat. Hist. Ireland, 1755.
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Lambeth Library, Bennett College, & my Lord Clarendon's,
than in all this kingdom.
A copy of my Lord Clarendon's is printed, but I do not
remember any printed of the other two : we have several
Irish MSS. in the library here, but I know nobody that can,
or cares to, peruse them.
Mr. Dodwell has often told me that we might have the
ecclesiastical history of the Church of Ireland more entire, &
from authors freer from fable than the English ; particularly
he mentioned the Ulster Annals & Tigernacus.' x
Popery in Ireland in 1728.
' I remember something of Ireland for sixty years . . . but
cannot call to mind that the Papists seemed to be so much
indulged & favoured as at present, excepting in K. James's
time. They insult the king's officers everywhere that are
concerned in the revenue. Nobody dare accuse their priests,
or hinder their insults ; for amongst their mobs they either
maim them or knock them in the head. They take away by
force women of fortune, & they depend on Popish ambassa
dors' interest for a pardon. They have proposed to them
selves, as I understand, two maxims ; the first is to underlive
the Protestants as to expenses ; & the second is to outbid
them for all farms that are to be new set. By this means
they worm out Protestant farmers, & yet run no hazard ; for
they bid much more than the farm will yield : when they have
made the best of it the last year or two, & find they can't pay
the rent, they run away & leave it. Several landlords have
been thus used, & yet they will not learn wisdom.
As to the trade of the kingdom, they have got the best
of it into their hands, & have several advantages of the
1 • Annals of Ulster,' compiled on an island in Upper L. Erne, Fermanagh,
anciently Bally MacManus, the modern Belleisle (vide King's [Sir C] Henry's
Upper L. Erne in 1739, 1892) published with Translation and Notes by W. M.
Hennessy and B. Mac Carthy, D.D., 1888-1901. Tigernaoh (or Tighearnaoh)
wrote ' Annales Hibernici,' printed in Dr. Charles O'Connor's Berum Hiberni-
carum Scriptores Veteres, 1814-26, described in D.N.B., as 'an inaccurate
work ' ; the MS. appears to have been then in the library at Stowe ; there is a
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Protestants. A Popish merchant is better received in Popish
countries with which we trade than Protestants ; & the
generality of farmers & graziers in Ireland being Papists,
they choose to put their goods into the hands of those of their
own religion ; & lastly the country assists them in running
their goods both out & inward.' '
' I never remember Popery so much encouraged as at present
... I see that it is not only here but through all Europe.
The suitableness of the principles of that religion to the corrup
tion of men's hearts, recommends them to all loose & vicious
persons, that is to the generality of the world ; & inclines
most men to embrace them, for by them they are able to
reconcile their lusts with the hope of heaven : whereas the
principles of the Protestant religion are such, that men of
wicked lives can have no hope by them, & therefore turn
obstinate infidels ; & it is observable, that in Popish
countries the most vicious persons turn bigots, thinking that
their zeal for Popery will atone for their wickedness, whereas
our debauchees often turn atheists.
I am sensible that the gentlemen much mismanage them
selves, their estates, & their children ; we can only tell them
of it, & persuade them against it, & if we could prevail with
a few of the principals to change their measures, their
examples might be a means to reform the rest.' -

Dean Sivift's Marriage with ' Stella,' Miss Esther
Johnson ; and ' Vanessa's ' bequest.
This marriage is said to have taken place, in 1716, in the
garden of the Deanery, St. Patrick's, Dublin, Dr. Ashe, Bishop
of Clogher, Swift's tutor in Trin. Coll., Dub., performing the
ceremony. Sir Walter Scott, in his Swift, published the
following curious incident : ' Immediately subsequent to the
ceremony, Swift's state of mind appears to have been dreadful.
Delany (as I have learned from a friend of his relict), being
pressed to give his opinion on this strange union, said that
1 From Abp. King's letter to Edward Southwell, April 27, 1728.
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about the time it took place he observed Swift to be extremely
gloomy and agitated, so much so that he went to Archbishop
King to mention his apprehensions. On entering the library,
Swift rushed out with a countenance of distraction, and passed
him without speaking. He found the Archbishop in tears, and
upon asking the reason he said : " You have just met the most
unhappy man on earth, but on the subject of his wretchedness
you must never ask a question." ' Dr. Patrick Delany was a
friend of the Archbishop's (through whose recommendation
to Lord Carteret, when Ld. Lieutenant, he obtained a prebend
in St. Patrick's), so it is possible this story as to the interview
may have been correctly handed down, though his recorded
extraordinary inference from it, that Stella and Swift were the
illegitimate children of Sir Wm. Temple, seems based on no
reasonable grounds.
The late Sir Wm. Wilde, M.E.I.A., in his Closing years
of Dean Swift's Life, 1849, thus refers to the question : ' That
Stella was the daughter of Sir Wm. Temple appears more
than probable, but that Swift was his son, and consequently her
half-brother, remains to be proved. It has, it is true, been
often surmised . . . but we cannot discover in the supposition
anything but vague conjecture.' As Swift was born in Dublin,
Nov. 30, 1667, and Sir Wm. Temple, as proved by hiB corre
spondence, was abroad from 1665 to 1670, and Swift's mother
never crossed the sea except from England to Ireland, Lord
Orrery (Bemarks on Life and Writings of Dean Swift, 1752)
decides that such a relationship was impossible.
Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, Swift's ' Vanessa,' by her will,
made and proved in 1723, left the following bequest, ' Item I
give unto the Eight Beverend Father in God, William King,
Lord Archbishop of Dublin, twenty-five pounds sterling to buy
a ring.' Badges for Beggars.
Archbishop King's experiment of directing the clergy and
churchwardens of Dublin to appoint badges of brass, copper;
or pewter to be worn by the beggars of the several parishes,
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of each parish church, numbered 1, 2, 3, itc, and well sewn
on the right or left shoulder of the outward garment of each
of the poor, and that none should go out of their own parish to
beg, of which the beadles were to take care, proved ineffectual
by the fraud, perverseness, or pride of its subjects, who
refused to receive the badges, openly protesting they would
never submit to wear them, or, if they took them, almost
every one kept them in their pockets, or hung them on a
string around their necks, or fastened them under their coats
where they could not be seen, so that Dean Swift, in 1726,
declared 'a man may walk from one end of the town to
another without seeing one beggar regularly badged, and in
such great numbers that they are a mighty nuisance to the
publick, most of them being foreigners,' and recommended
that no alms be given, except to those badged and in their
own parishes, and that the unbadged should be treated as
vagabonds and sturdy beggars.
Notices of Archbishop King's Illness and Death.
' To the Duke of Newcastle}
My Lord, Dublin May 8. 1729.
As the Archbishop of Dublin has been out of order for
four or five days, & is now apprehended to be in very great
danger, I think it proper to acquaint your Grace with it, that
there may be no surprise in disposing of a place of so great
consequence, upon any report of his death from other hands.
By the next post I shall inform your Grace what is the event
of his sickness. I am &c. jjp Armach.'
' To Lord Townshend.1
My Lord Dublin, May 9. 1729.
Yesterday in the evening died his Grace the Arch
bishop of Dublin.2 As in January last I troubled your Lord
ship with a letter about rilling this archbishoprick, whenever
1 Primate Boulter's Letters, 1769.
' The same intelligence was communicated to Lord Carteret and the D. of
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it should happen to be vacant, & declared my opinion that for
the support of the English interest here, it was absolutely
necessary that it should be bestowed on a native of England,
I shall not now repeat what I then wrote : but shall just
renew my recommendations at that time, that if his Majesty
is pleased to send one from the bench of England, the Bishop
of St. David's is my oldest friend there : if he is pleased to
fill it from hence, the Bishop of Femes is the most proper
person. The filling this place with an able man is of great con
sequence to his Majesty's service here, & I therefore hope
nobody will be thought of in England to be sent hither,
because he is troublesome or good for nothing there &C.1
Hu. Armach.'
Archbishop King ' yesterday began to hold his annual
Visitation for his diocese.' — Dublin Gazette May 6, 1729.
' The town is almost as if a general calamity had happen'd,
so deeply is the loss taken by our citizens of the Most
Beverend Father in God, Wm. King, Lord Archbishop of
Dublin, Primate & Metropolitan of all [sic] Ireland, who died
at 4 o'clock this afternoon [the 8th], at his Palace of St.
Sepulcher's,2 in a very advanced age, truly lamented by those
who were so happy as to be of his Lordship's acquaintance,
or came to the knowledge of his many virtues, having all the
good qualities necessary for making the greatest figure in life,
the best patriot, truest friend to his country, of the most
extensive charity, great piety & profound learning. He died
as he lived, as a saint, leaving his possessions mostly to be
distributed for charitable uses, & but little more than his
coach & cattle to defray the expenses of his funeral solemnity.'
' This evening [the 10th] at 4 o'clock the corps of his
Grace the Archbishop of Dublin is to be interr'd, according
to his desire, at Donnebrooke, a little pleasant village, about
1 This amusingly candid admission from such a staunch supporter of the
' English Interest,' that appointments for such reasons were possible, amply
justifies Abp. King's and Dean Swift's strictures on their too frequent occur
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a mile from this city, in a tomb prepar'd for that purpose
under the direction it management of Will. Hawkins, Esq.,
our King-at-Arms. Nothing has been heard hardly for these
two days past but laments for his loss, he being in the pubhck
opinion the best friend to this nation, that ever enjoyed such
a dignity in it. 'Tis talked that he will be succeeded ' by the
Bishop of Kill more, or Derry, gentlemen of excellent characters
both for piety & learning' (Dublin Intelligence), Blaeker's
(Eev. B. H.) Brief Sketches of Booterstoicn and Donnybrook.
Primate Boulter's Grievance against Abp. King,
about Marriage Licenses.
Primate Boulter wrote to the Abp. of Canterbury,
May 21, 1726, and Bp. of London, for advice as to a grievance
against Archbishop King, ' a troublesome & perverse opponent
to deal with,' for infringing what he claimed as his (the
primate's) exclusive privilege of issuing licenses for marriages
at uncanonical hours and places. ' His Grace of Dublin is
pleased to set up his licenses as of equal force . . . and has
been pleased to encourage his clergy to marry at any hour, &
in private houses, purely in virtue of one of his licenses ;
assuring them they need not be afraid of the Canon (no. 52),
since he is the only person who can call them to account for
it's breach. He goes on to complain that the grievance ' is
the greater here because the people are more vain than in
England, & those of moderate fortunes in this country think
it beneath them to be married at the regular time & place.'
This charge against Dr. King was most probably exaggerated,
as he was not a man to countenance, still less to encourage,
breaches of his Church's canons ; Abp. Wake advised Boulter
not to be too hasty in taking proceedings, and Bp. Gibson
recommended him not to begin till he had thoroughly mooted
the point in Dublin, so he seems wisely to have dropped the
1 He was succeeded by Dr. John Hoadly, who had been chaplain to his
(King's) friend Bishop Burnet, and was appointed Bp. of Ferns and Leighlin
in 1727, Abp. King taking part in his consecration ; he assisted Dr. King ' in
the performance of that necessary office of confirmaticn, which it has pleased
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subject. Boulter was the leader of ' the English interest,'
which claimed that government posts of any emolument or
position should be conferred on men of English birth or
education, while King, as the leader of ' the Irish interest,'
sought to have them filled by men of Irish birth or education ;
Boulter's epistolary references to King's age and declining
health exhibit more of the spirit of the political partisan than
of the Christian minister.1 Anecdotes.
Archbishop King was distinguished for wit as well as
learning, and many of his witty sayings were atone time current,
but unfortunately few have been preserved.
The Bev. James King, D.D. (portrait facing p. 48),
mentioned previously, left in his own handwriting, ' Some
Anecdotes relating to A-B. King,' now in the possession of
his lineal descendant, Mrs. Strong King, of Cypress Grove,
Templeogue, near Dublin [who also possesses the Archbishop's
portrait in oils (vide photogravure facing p. 57) and his Bible] ;
of these are the four following, copied verbatim,—
(1) ' Collonel Southwell 2 dined one day at the Arch Bps
they conversed very familiarly upon various Subjects, at last
his Grace smiling remarked, That when Gentlemen cou'd not
prevail upon their Sons to study either Divinity, Law, or
Physick, they generally purchased for them a commission in
the Army, as the last refuge they cou'd have recourse for their
maintenance. The Officer who was a ready man, of a great flow of humour
1 Boulter to D. of Newcastle, Jan. 19, 1724-5, ' The Archbishop of Dublin
has of late been very ill, so that his life was almost despaired of : But his
illness has since ended in a regular & painful fit of the gout, so that I do not
apprehend he is in any present danger. Your Grace had heard from me
sooner on this subject, if I had known his condition before the worst was over ;
all that I shall say now is, that I think his Majesty's service absolutely requires
that, whenever he drops, the place be filled with an Englishman ' &c. ; to the
same Feb. 2, 1726, ' he has been for some days thought past recovery, but is
now looked upon by all as out of danger for the present ' ; to Lord Carteret,
Feb. 9, 'His Grace is rather better than he has been, but it is very uncertain
whether he may ever come abroad again.'
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& quick Bepai'tee, told his Lordship, if He wou'd be so good as
to indulge him a few minutes, He wou'd relate to him a true
Story, — 'When I was,' saves he, ' a Military Commander in
the Wars in Flanders ; a Spye was brought before me, upon
Examination he averred, he was a poor Irish Priest, that
charitably travelled about to visit & comfort the sick Eoman
Catholick Soldiers. "0 Friend! " says I, "I shall soon try
your Abilities.'' I brought him down a Missal, a Breviary &c.
it desired him to read, & construe the Prayers. I protest I found
him so ignorant & illiterate that he cou'd not even read Latin,
upon which I commanded the Guards on Duty to hang up the
impudent, vile Impostor on the next Tree. " 0 please your
honour," sayes the condemned Criminal, ' if you were to hang
up all the Clergymen who do not understand Latin you
wou'd leave all the Diocesses in Ireland very destitute of
Pastors." I avow, may it please your Grace, I pardoned the
villain because he spoke a bold truth.'
(2) ' This venerable Prelate, who never relished a punning
Conversation, invited some Company to dine with him. One
of the Guests gave them a detail of Puns that greatly diverted
the Lord Lieutenant the day before at the Castle Levee. An
Eminent Physician was learnedly haranguing his Excellency
upon the Nature, Qualities & Usefulness of Bees, of [and ?]
calling them a Nation, a Comonwealth, the wonderful Tribe
of Amazons tc. "Yes, my Lord," sayes the famous Punster
Ashe,' who was present, " They are a Nation it of great
1 Thos. Ashe, brother of the Bp. of Clogher, M.P. for Clogher Boro' 1713-14
and 1715 till his death ; he is described by Boscoe, in Swiff s Works, 1848, as
' a facetious pleasant companion, but the most eternal unwearied punster that
ever hved. He was thick and short in his person, being not above five feet
high at the most, and had something very droll in his appearance. He d., about
the year 1719, and left his whole estate of about ±'1,000 a year to his intimate
friend and kinsman, Eichard Ashe, of Ashfield, Esq. There is a whimsical
story, and a very true one, of Tom Ashe, which is well remembered to this day.
It happened that, while he was travelling on horseback, and at a considerable
distance from any town, there burst from the clouds such a torrent of rain as
wetted him through. He galloped forward ; and as soon as he came to an inn,
he was met instantly by a drawer ; " Here," said he to the fellow, stretching
out one of his arms, " take off my coat immediately." " No, Sir, I won't," said
the drawer. " P. . confound you," said Ashe, " take off my coat this instant ! "
" No, Sir," replied the drawer, " I dare not take off your coat, for it is felony to
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Antiquity. Your Excellency remembers Moses numbers
the Hivites among the devoted Nations whom Joshua was
commanded to conquer." The Doctor seemed a little out of
humour at hearing his serious description turned into a Jest
by a Quibble.
Mr. Ashe, looking him full in the face, remarks, "I
perceive, Sir, you wax warm." " Indeed Doctor," added
his Excellency, " I am afraid Mr. Ashe's pun has stung
you." His Grace told the Company he recollected a punning
Motto over a Church Porch in Wiltshire, which very much
pleased him, & conveyed with it a meaning most edifying &
instructive to a Serious Eeader. " The Church Yard," sayes
he, " was planted around with a square of Mulberry trees,
which grew to an overshadowing vast size, & darken'd the
Walks. The Parishioners at a vestry made an Act that they
shou'd be cut down, the Timber sold, & y produce of the
Sale applyed towards repairing of the Church, which was
unanimously agreed upon, & an Inscription was engraved on
a Table [tablet] & gilded with this expressive motto hung
over the ch. door Lucrum Mori which signifies To dye is
Gain, or the Profit of y" Mulberry Tree}
(3) ' A worthy Archdeacon's Lady, on a wet day, came to
visit ABp. King, as she alighted out of the coach she drew up
her Hoop-Petty-Coat ; & scampered as fast as she cou'd
into the Palace to avoid the influence of the rain. The
Prelate received her with some surprize & declared he was
startled at an uncommon sort of Animal that just now was
hurrying towards his Doors. He said at first he took it for
a large Turkey-Cock by its long red legs, then he thought it
was a Porcupine by the swelling furlings about it. She
briskly replyed " I protest that was your Humble Servant wtb
her hoop veering about her." His Grace asked her why she
wore such a cold inconvenient Piece of Dress ; Mrs. Wall
and said he would have given fifty guineas to have been the author of that pun.'
Dr. Swift, who was much attached to ' the three Ashes,' wrote, as a Letter to the
Earl of Pembroke, the dying speech of Tom Ashe, several years before his
demise, to exhibit the manner in which such a punster might have expressed
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answered, " it was as good to be dead as out of the Fashion."
The Arch Bp. warmly rejoyned, " Does your Husband
approve of that Garb ? " She said, Not at all, & exclaimed
as much against the use of it, as his Lordship, but she wou'd
not mind what he recommended ; She was resolved to dress
like her Neighbours. " Madam," sayes the venerable old
man, " I will tell you a story, when I was a School-Boy at
Dungannon, I lodged in a Cooper's family, whose Wife was
an angry positive sort of a Woman ; She wou'd pursue her
Husband to the Work Boom to argue cases. He entreated
her to mind her domestick business, & permit bim to attend
his Shop with quietness for their mutual advantage. She
was deaf to his entreaties, which at last so much provoked
him, that he took up a Hoop & gave her a smart thrashing ;
from that day to the day of her death, She cou'd not bear the
sight of an Hoop & became very amenable to the cooper's
advice. Probatum est.'' ' '
(4) ' Dr. Berkley (late Bishop of Cloyne) after his Travels,
waited upon ABp. King & told him this memorable Story.
When the famous Italian Singer, Seignior Nicolini was in this
City [Dublin], he dined at a Gentleman's House, who had an
ordinary walking Thorn Stick in a Corner of the Parlour, w*11
1 Mention is made in Mrs. Lyons' King MSS., of a new fashion in London,
in 1719, of ' flying up hoops, and straw and other flapping hats worn by women.'
A writer of the time of Q. Anne advises the clergy to ' persuade their wives,
for their sake and the Gospel's, to cut off all superfluity in dress and outward
appearance, and be the first examples in reforming the corrupt and vain f ormalities
and customs of the present age,' and for themselves to lay ' aside airiness of
dress and profuseness in snuff, and be liberal out of their Httle fortunes in
promoting and encouraging acts of piety,' abstaining specially from 'gay company
and frothy entertainments of the world, which they now so generally run into
for the sake (as is pretended) of improvement and diversion.'
' Though she could run into your sleeve,
' Her hoop was (this you may beUeve)
' As big as any brewer's keeve, And round it
' Was fenced with cane, a mortal sin
' For Parson's wife, and had therein
' A lump of lead, that broke his shin, Confound it !
The Parson's Revels, 1769, by Wm. DunMn, D.D., ' the best EngHsh as well as
Latin poet in this kingdom ' (Dean Swift).

MISCELLANEA 319
a carved Head. Nicolini viewed it very attentively. The
Gentleman, observing his Notice, told him that Stick had
been many Years, nay he believed, centuries, in the family.
That it was accounted a great Curiosity, & some affirmed that
it was Joseph of Arithmathea's Staff, who was commissioned
to preach the Gospel to the Infidel Britains, & was a branch
of Glassenbury miraculous Hawthorn y* buddeth every Xmas
Day. The Italian earnestly requested that he wd make him
a Pres* of that Stick, for which the family recd several musical
Consorts [sic].
When the Singer returned to Bome, he humbly offered
this sacred Belick to the Vatican, where it was gratefully
received as a venerable piece of antiquity rescued from the
hands of some Irish Hereticks. The Doctor said it was
exhibited to him as an inestimable Treasure.
His Grace smiled at this narrative, & told the Dean, It
was astonishing to think how much Popery had abused the
Faith & Understanding even of Learned Men with evident
absurdities & falsehoods. " I remember," sayes he, "to have
read either in Bollandus, Surius, Colganus, or some other
author of Saints' Lives this remarkable Passage : " A certain
Saint called at a poor Widow's Cottage, & beg'd for some bread
& milk. The Woman answered that ever since the death of
the Calf, her only Cow was grown dry, & wd not give on[e]
drop of milk. He bid her have Faith, bring out the Pail &
fall a milking. In the meantime he fell praying to the
Virgin Mary, prostrate before the Cow's Head, who taking
him for the Calf or Puckane,1 fell a licking of him, & in an
instant miraculously shed her milk in plenty for the Eefresh-
ment of the holy man." '
Archbishop King and Primate Boulter.
John, Earl of Orrery, in Remarks on the Life and Writings
of Dean Swift, 1752, has the following (quoted probably by
every succeeding writer on Swift) : ' A strict residence at
1 ' An Irish word signifying the skin of a dead Calf, stuff'd with Hay or
Straw, which the Dairy Maid layes before the Cow bereaved of her young one,
that she may by that deceit give her milk freely.' (Note by Dr. James King.)

320 MISCELLANEA
Laracor was not in the least suitable to his [Swift's] disposi
tion. He was perpetually making excursions not only to
Dublin and other parts of Ireland, but into England, especially
to London. So rambling a disposition, occasioned to him a
considerable loss. The rich deanery of Derry became vacant
at this time (1700) and was intended for him by Lord Berkeley,
if Dr. King, then Bishop of Derry, and afterwards Archbishop
of Dublin, had not interposed : 1 entreating with great earnest
ness that the deanery might be given to some grave and
elderly Divine rather than to so young a man ; 2 " because
(added the Bishop) the situation of Derry is in the midst of
presbyterians, and I should be glad of a clergyman, who could
be of assistance to me. I have no objection to Mr. Swift. I
know him to be a sprightly ingenious young man ; but instead
of residing, I dare say, he will be eternally flying backwards
and forwards to London, and therefore, I entreat, that he may
be provided for in some other place." Swift was accordingly
set aside on account of youth, but as if his stars had destined
to him a parallel revenge, he lived to see the Bishop of Derry
afterwards set aside on account of age. That Prelate had
been Archbishop of Dublin many years, and had been long
celebrated for his wit and learning, when Dr. Lmdsey, the
Primate of Ireland, died. Upon his death, Archbishop King
immediately made claim to the Primacy,3 as a preferment to
which he had a right from his station in the see of Dublin, and
from his acknowledged character in the Church. Neither of
these pretensions were prevalent. He was looked upon as
1 Vide p. 95, note 3, for another reason for Swift's failure to obtain the
deanery. 2 Then in his 33rd year.
* Proved untrue by the Archbishop's letters, pp. 248-251 ; he never ' made
claim to the Primacy,' as he neither wished for, nor expected it knowing the
government was determined to apppoint a man of EngHsh birth ; Lord Orrery
only quotes the current gossip he subsequently heard, as at the time he was only
seventeen, and being educated in England ; it is doubtful if any part of the story
is true, as the Eev. Professor Lawlor points out (Stokes' Worthies of the Irish
Church, 1900, p. 277) that a similar tale is told of Stillingfleet in the D.X.B.
More than one writer on Swift seems to have considered that admiration for the
dean must be shown by disparaging the archbishop, the last thing, one can
imagine, that would have been gratifying to the warm-hearted and generous
Swift, when unswayed by constitutional irritability and morbid sensitiveness,
sad presages of his terrible affliction.

MISCELLANEA 321
too far advanced in years to be removed. The reason
alledged was as mortifying as the refusal itself : but the Arch
bishop had no opportunity of showing his resentment, except
to the new Primate, Dr. Boulter, whom he received at his own
house, and in his dining parlour, without rising from his chair,
and to whom he made an apology, by saying in his usual
strain of wit, and with his usual sneering countenance, ' My
Lord, I am certain your Grace will forgive me, because,
You knoio I am too old to rise.'
'¦Abstraction of Authors.
The celebrated Dr. King, Archbishop of Dublin, passing
through an obscure street of the Irish metropolis stopped at a
bookseller's stall, and among other books purchased a political
pamphlet, which wanted the title-page. On returning home
he sat down and deliberately read it more than half over,
when he discovered it was his own composition ! ' Dublin
Evening Packet and Correspondent, Jan. 15, 1828.
Abp. King on Primate Marsh's Library, 1705.
' I understand with great satisfaction that your Grace has
concluded with Mr. Stillingfleet for his father's library. 'Tis
a noble gift to the Church ; and as it will perpetuate your
Grace's memory here, so it will, I hope, be plentifully
rewarded by our common Master. I could not on this
occasion forbear expressing the sense I have of it, and render
ing my thanks to God on the behalf of your Grace, as well as
my acknowledgements to your Grace. I am further to assure
your Grace, that I am ready to join in an Act of Parliament
to settle the library and gallery as we agreed, and I hope it
will be ready to pass next sessions.' The act passed in 1707.
Abp. King's Armorial Bearings, facing p. 31.
It is most probable that Sir E. Kearney's heraldic collec
tions of MSS. did not include the Barra coat of arms (pp. 52,
Y

322 MISCELLANEA
53) so he provided the Archbishop with one containing the
chevron charged with the three escallops of an English family
of the same name. A similar mistake appears in an Enghsh
MS. ' Liste of the Nobilitye of Scotland,' temp. K. Charles I.
(Lansdowne MSS. 865, B.M.), containing the names and titles
of sixty-two peers ; Lord Eythin is the fifty-ninth in the list,
and is entered as, ' Kinge, Lord Eythine, beares, Sable, on a
chevron argent three escallops of the first.' Had Kearney seen
this MS., it would account for his assignmg the somewhat
similar bearings to the Archbishop. Vide pp. 50, 273, for
Lord Eythin's true arms.

Abp. King's Comfort in troublous times.
' He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : his heart is
fixed, trusting in the Lord.' Psa. 112, 7. Vide p. 28,
note 3.

INDEX

Absentees, 226, 228, 301 ; Prior's List
of, 73, 118
' Abstraction of Authors', 321
Accidents to Abp. King, 114, 116
Accounts in England 1722, 299
Act, for Promoting use of English &c,
292 ; of Settlement repealed, 22
Acts affecting Irish trade alluded to,
35, 208, 242, 284, 301
Addison, Joseph, 25, 115, 179, 181, 192 ;
letters from, 178, 183, 185-7, 189,
211
Admonitions, 37, 40
Advice to a newly married man (Wm.
Smyth, Esq.), 156-8
Aide-de-camp, A French, 233, 236
Allix, Peter, D.D., 85
Anderson, Eichard, letter from, 53
Anecdotes, 315-321
Anglesey, Earl of, 139, 164, 296
Anne, Princess Eoyal, 194
Anne, Queen, 97, 101-2, 104, 108, 121,
123, 125, 129, 140, 159, 160, 162, 177,
189, 220, 295
Annesley, Francis (Viscounts Valentia),
215, 264, 281 ; letter from, 117
Antrim, 7, 52
Argyle, Duke of, 190
Armagh Diocese, 250-1
Army subjects, 2, 21, 26, 29, 59, 63,
71-2, 77-8, 84, 149, 165, 177, 206,
208, 210, 216, 233, 235-6, 238, 260,
275, 315-16
Ashe, Bp. St. George, 71, 74, 89, 122,
249, 310; letter from, 18; family,
105, 316-17
Assaults on Dr. King, 28
Attainder of Protestants, 22, 23, 66, 83
Atterbury, Bp. Francis, 239
Audoen's, St., Parish, 29, 110
Aungier (Thomas), 227

Badges for Beggars, 311
Barbour, or Barbor, Eev. Philip, 16

Barclay of Towie, 49
Barra, 1, 49, 50, 51 ; castle, 51 ; witch
craft trial, 269
Barrett, Dr., 21
Barry Family, 116
Bath, 91, 98, 105, 113, 151-4, 199, 239,
240, 252, 254-5, 286 ; Marquesses of,
100
Bathurst, Lord, 41
Bayle's, P., General Diet., vi., 40-2
Bedell, Bp. Wm., 120, 296-7
R?es, 316
Belfast, People of, in 1698, 304
Bellew, Lord, 116, 183
Benefices, 23, 33, 86, 252-3, 262; on
filling vacant, 30, 282-4
Benson, Bev. Thos., letter from, 63
Berkeley, Earls of, 95, 188, 236, 320 ;
Bp. Geo., Anecdote, 318 ; letter from,
121
Bernard, M., 40, 42
Berrow's,Eev. C, Second Thoughts fyc,
41
Betham's, Sir Wm., MS. Collections,
108
Bindon, Francis, Portrait Painter, 301
Biography, Diet., National, 86, 309,
320
Birch's, Eev. T., v, vi, 124
Birth and Baptism, 1, 2
Bishops, 86-7, 89, 153, 171, 194, 231-2,
293; English, 40, 107, 256, 289;
Irish, of English birth, 202, 228,
250, 252, 283-4: the seven, 20-1,
124
Blacker's, Eev. B. H., Booterstown &c,
43, 56, 314
Bladen, Col., 186-7
Boate's, G., Nat. Hist. Ireland, 308
Bogs and Loughs of Ireland, 308
Bolton, Abp. T., 176, 195, 239, 263 ;
Dean John, 94-5, 173, 195; letters
from, 100, 102 ; Duke of, 203, 205,
218
Bonnell, Jas., 81 ; Life, 24, 30, 70, 81
y 2

324

INDEX

Bouhereau, Dr. Elia5, 243, 262
Boulter, Abp. Hugh, 16, 223, 247, 250,
252-3, 292; grievance, 314; letters
from, 145, 171, 227, 261-2, 312, 315 ;
reception by Abp. King, 321
Boyle, Abp. Michael, 20; Blessington
(Viscounts), 16, 116 ; Cork and Bur
lington (Earl of), 76 ; Hon. Eobert,
297 ; Shannon (Viscount), 232, 241
Boyne, Victory of the, 28, 31, 42, 82
Boyse, Eev. Joseph, 37-40, 249
Brabazon Family (Earls of Meath), 169,
286
Briefs, 111-12, 304; objections to,
223-4
Broderick, Alan (Viscount Midleton),
35, 103, 155, 168, 174, 205, 223, 263
Bromley's, H., Engraved Brit. Por
traits, 301
Brown Family, 53, 56, 259
Browne, Eev. George, 7, 13, 97 ; Bev.
Peter, Consecration, 120 ; letter from,
95
Bryan Family, vi, 8, 46-7, 55
Burgh, Capt. Wm., 94
Burke, Sir J. B., Ulster, viii, 31
Burnet, Bp. Gilbert, 75-80, 85-6, 91-2,
112, 124, 235, 314 ; anecdote of, 160 ;
recommends Dean King to K. Wil
ham, 76, 77
Burnett, Geo., Lyon, viii ; letter from,
53
Burscough, Bp. W., 208
Butler, Arran (Earls of) 19, 62 ; Ormonde
(Dukes of), 16, 19, 28, 60, 103, 111,
120, 126, 129, 138, 142, 145-6, 150,
177, 180, 188, 191, 195, 292-4; Sir
Theobald, 83
Byng, Sir George (Viscount Torrington),
225

Cadogan, Wm. (Earl), 233, 238, 300
Cairncross, Bp. Alex., 77, 112
Cambridge University, 41, 117, 204-5,
284
Campbell, Eev. Eobert, 39
Caroline, Princess of Wales, 175, 191,
193, 203 ; Queen, 107, 263-4
Carpenter, Lord, 216; letter from, 217
Carroll's, Eev. W. G., St. Bride's, 48,
76
Carteret, Lord, 208, 249, 252, 254,
261-3, 300, 311-12, 315 ; Lady, 302
Catholics, Eoman, or Papists, 13, 19,
24, 26, 29, 124, 170, 179, 208, 213,
237, 287, 302, 309; marriage with,
unusual, 237 ; prohibited, 88 ; pro
ject of converting, 291-8

Cavan, Earl of, 253
Census of Ireland, 1659-1660, 51-2
Chalmers', A-, Biog. Diet., 93
Chaplains, 13, 14, 19, 74, 95, 179, 180,
283-4
Character, 80, 92-3, 187, 244, 273-7,
313-14
Charities, 17, 18
Charlemont, Earl of, 175
Charles I., 5, 51, 59, 183, 192, 272-3 ;
letter from, 271 ; H., 19, 51, 101, 125
Chetwode, Knightley, 180
Cheyne of Straloch, 50
Chichester, Earl of Donegal, 178
Christ Church, 24, 31, 59, 246 ; Dean
and Chapter, v. Abp. King, 105, 108,
154, 210, 239, 245-7
Christian, Family, 9 ; Evan, letter
from, 9 ; Eev. John, 7, 9
Christina, Q., 51
Church Building and Eestoring, 18, 34,
213-14, 246, 261, 263-4, 277, 304-6,
308
Church of.Eng., 13, 20 ; Ireland, 13, 23,
35-6, 80, 88, 161, 179, 180, 218, 220,
244, 277, 292, 297-3; Scotland, 39,
117, 284 ; Scottish Episcopal, 284
Clavell, Eobert, on publishing De
Origine Mali, 100, 103, 104 ; State of
tlie Protestants £c. 79, 80, 83
Clayton, Mr., 107
Clergy, 13, 24, 32-3, 35, 38, 86-7, 148,
162, 200-1, 203, 214, 244-5, 280,
307-8, 314, 318 ; advice to, 219-22,
318 ; English, sent to Ireland, 228,
283 ; English, Swift on, 32
Clontarf and Edenderry, Mineral
Waters of, 308
Coghill, Sir John, 304
Cole Family (Earls of Enniskillen), 64,
110-11
Collections, King's MS., 307
College, Trinity, and Dublin University,
28, 41, 69, 183, 191, 193, 204, 284,
295 ; degrees, 12, 13, 21 ; entrance to,
7 ; experiences at, 7-13 ; straitened
means at, 7, 8 ; Transcribed King
Correspondence, vide ' Correspon
dence ' ; Tripos, 21, 60
Comfort in troublous times, 28, 87, 322
Commission, Eoyal, in 1693, 279-80
Commons, H. of, Enghsh, 20, 122, 169,
190; Irish, 145, 179, 190, 192, 194,
216-17
Compton, Bp. Henry, 67, 76
Coningsby, Thos. (Earl), 72, 210
Conolly, Wm., 66, 145, 205, 223, 232,
250
Consecration of Churches, 215, 228

INDEX

325

Consistorial Courts, 34, 98-9
Contemporaries, Three, of same names,
278
Controversy with Manby, 39, 68-9,
92-3
Convocation, 87, 146, 188, 295
Coote Family (Earls of Mountrath),
116
Cormack, Eev. Charles, 7, 8
Corry Family (Earls of Belmore), 111
Cottingham, Capt. Jas., 16
Cotton's, Archd. H., Fasti Eccles. Hib.,
18,46
Covenant, Solemn League and, 1, 2, 20,
50
Cowper's, Wm., Poems, 220
Craghead's, Bev. B., Answer, 9, 38-40;
Dedication, 36, 290-1
Creichton, Capt. John, Memoirs, 4
Creighton, or Crichton, Family (Earls
of Erne), 78, 184
Crooke Family, printers, 60
Crow, Bp. Chas., 265

D'Alton's, John, Archbishops of Dub
lin, 285
Daniel, Dean Eichard, 18 ; John, 18
Dawson, Joshua, 115-16, 152 ; Joseph,
305
Deane, Joseph, 169, 174
Death of Abp. King, 14, 312-13
Defoe, Daniel, 117
De Guiscard's attack on Harley, 128-
132
Delafaye, Charles, 187 ; letters from,
180, 181
Delany, Patrick, D.D., 310
Delgarno Family, 4-7 ; William, letter
from, 6
Dempster's, T., Hist. Eccles. Qentis
Scot/, 2
De Origine Mali, 40-2, 60, 96-8, 100,
103, 254 ; translated partly into
Eng. by S. Lowe, 41
Dering, Baronet, Duel, 138
De Eosen, Marshal, 32
Derriana, 31
Derry, 31, 46; Deanery, 95, 320;
Diocese, 31-35, 202, 212-13, 249, 277 ;
See, 30-32, 75, 228 ; arms, 31 ; siege
of, 31-2, 36, 290-1; state in 1691,
31-32, 36
DerryvuUan, church plate, 52; House,
52
Desmynieres Family, 16, 92, 97, 303
Devonshire, Duke of, 193 ; Earl of,
209
Diaries, Notices of Dr. King in, 278

Diary, Abp. King's, edited by H. J.
Lawlor, D.D., 16, 25-6, 30, 59, 65-6,
70, 91, 92, 98, 167, 212; Abp. N.
Marsh's, 31, 76, 284-5
Dickson, Thos., viii
Discourse concerning Inventions of Men
&c, 36-40 ; Extracts from, 288-9
Dissenters, 12, 33, 35-6, 99, 103, 170,
179, 213, 218-9, 277, 291, 297, 302,
305
Divinity Lectureship, 18, 45, 192
Dodwell, Eev. Henry, 8, 85, 309 ; letter
from, 68
Donnybrook, 43, 313
Dopping, Bp. Anthony, 23-4, 28, 31,
74, 213, 279
Dorset, Duke of, 292
Dougatt (Duguid) Family, 44, 53-56 ;
Archd. Eobert, vi, 44, 47, 53-4, 217,
239, 248, 254-5, 261-2
Douglas's, Sir E., Peerage of Scotland,
49
Douglass, Wm., 6, 251
Dowdall, Nicholas, letter from, 30
Downes, Bp. Henry, letters from, 218-
19, 232, 234, 241-2
Drogheda, Earl of, 229, 285 ; Marquess
of, 46
Dublin, Castle, 25, 26; burning of, 62-3 ;
City, 17, 18, 21, 274; election to
offices in, 29, 142, 163, 165, 174, 176 ;
freedom to Abp. King, 176 ; no. of
Houses, 79 ; poverty of, 226 ; Privy
Council Chamber burnt, 308
Dublin Diocese, 45, 105, 212, 214, 247,
249, 266, 283, 304-6, 307-8
Dublin, Evening Packet, 321 ; Dublin
Gazette, 14, 313 ; Dublin Intelligence,
43, 54, 314 ; Faulkner's Journal, 54,
294
Dun, Sir Patrick, 29, 30, 61-2, 75, 90,
98, 109, 116, 121, 151 ; letters from,
61-2, 64-7, 69, 71, 73-4, 150 ; Memoir
by Eev. T. W. Belcher, M.D., 30 ;
Lady, 109, 116; letters from, 151
Duncan, Bev. James, letter from, 75
Dungannon, 8, 72 ; Eoyal School, 4-7,
318
Dunkin's, Wm., D.D., Parson's Bevels,
318
Durye, John, letter from, 273

Eachabd's, Archd.L., Exact Description,
Ireland, 279
Ease, Clergyman's, 107
Echlin, Baronet, 78 ; Bev. Henry, 303
Eclipse of 1653, 2
Edict of Nantes, Eevocation of, 20

326

INDEX

Edinburgh University, 1, 204
Elector, Prince, 271
Elizabeth. Q.. 204-5, 259. 284, 297
Ellis, Bp. Welbore, 247, 287
Emigration, of Protestants, 208, 301;
ministers, 303
English, Bev. Thos., v.
EnniskiUen, 291 ; burning of, 111, 112
Eugene, Prince, 150
Evans, John, DJD., 160
EvU Designs against Abp. King, 88
Eythin, Lord (Sir James King), 49, 50-1,
271, 322; letters from, 272, 273;
portrait, 51

Fail of Man, A Sermon on, 41
Farnham, Baron, 116
Fenwiek, Eev. J. E. A., viii.
Ferguson, Sir Samuel, viii.
Fermoyle, 16, 59, 62, 63
Ferns Diocese, 148
Finlay Family, 108, 109. 152
First Fruits, 124, 126-7, 138, 140, 145,
201
FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, 127, 163-5,
167, 174, 223; Bp. Wm., 76, 89;
Hon. Eobert, 167
Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 158
Fleet, The, 77 ; condition, temp. Jas. H.,
80-1, 83
Fletcher, Col., Governor of New York,
81
Foley, Bp. Samuel, 16, 71, 74 ; fanuly
16, 217
Forbes, Earls of Granard, 20, 184 ; Lord,
70 ; Master of, 50
Forster, Bp. Nicholas, 172, 234; Ch.
Justice John, 54, 155, 174
Fortifications, Irish, in 1688, 21
Foy, Bp. Nat., 21, 76, 86, 118, 285;
letter from, 26
Francis, Dean, and famUy, 208-10
Franklin, Sir Wm., 70
Frederick, Prince, 204
Freeman, Bichard, 127
Fieneh, Mr., 91, 98
Fugitives from Ireland, 1688, 6, 8, 16,
23-4, 29, 30-1, S3, 95, 111
Funeral of Abp. King, 43, 313
Funeral Sermon, 17

Galbraith, Capt. Eobert, 30
Galmoy, Viscount, 34
Galway, Earl of, 89, 173, 186-7, 190
George, I., 158, 160-1, 164, 168, 174,
177, 183, 187, 189, 194, 199, 204, 207,
235, 259, 273-4; Prince of Wales,

175, 194. 199,203-4, 206, 224; Chanc.
Dub. Univ., 191-3 ; IL. 258-9, 264 ;
Consort of Q. Anne, Prince of Den
mark, 102
Gibson, Bp. Edmund, 314
GUbert's, Sir J. T., Dublin, 25 ; Hist.
MSS. Com., 82
Glebes, 45, 140 ; Abp. King's provision
for, 306
Glenshiel Battle, 216
Godolphin, Earl of, 101, 1S9
Godwin, or Goodwin, Bp. Timothy, 172
Gore, Bp. Hugh, 67
Governors of Ireland, On, 139, 203, 205-6.
283, 308
Gowran, Lord, 236
Grafton, Duke of, 173, 186-7, 224-5,
229, 232-3. 236, 249, 275
Grandison, Viscount, 116
Grattan, Eev. John, 48
Gray of Schives, 49
Great, Good, and Just, a poem by Dean
Swift, 26S
Gregg, Wm., 134-5
Greene, FamUy, 44, 116, 248, 299;
monument, 108 ; Henry, 44, 147 ;
letters from, 107-8, 113
Gripes, Dry, 243
Gustavus Adolphus, 50

Hacket, Bp. Thos., 279
Halifax, Earl of, 235
HaUey, Edmund, 8-5
Hamill of Eoughwood, 66
HamUton, Archd. Andrew, 40, 70, 173 ;
Archd. Wm., 70, 173 ; Baronet, 61 ;
Gen. Fred., letter from, 185 ; of New
castle, 70
Harcourt, Sir Simon (Viscount), 129,
249
Harlev, Sir Eobert (Earl of Oxford),
124^5, 128, 134, 137-8, 147, 231
Harris', Walter, Ware's Wlwle Works,
vii, 28, 31, 46, 63, 69, 78, 104-5,
275, 307
Hartshorne's, A., Correspondence of E.
Pyle, D.D., 14
Hartstong, Bp. John, 89, 159
Hawkins, Wm., Ulster, 242. 314
Hawks, 86
Henry's, Eev. Wm., F.B.S., Upper L.
Erne in 1739, 34, 78, 120, 309
Herbert, Sir Edward, 27, 92-3 ; letters
from, 27, 60 ; Earl of Torrington, 27 ;
trial, 77
Hickman, Bp. Chas., 228, 278
Higgins, Bev. Francis, 125, 145, 276
Highlanders, 216, 295

INDEX

327

Hill, Baronets, 6 ; Elizabeth, 16 ; Dr.
G. B., Swift's Unpublished Letters,
180 ; General, 149, 178
Hist. MSS. Com. Beports, 4~c, vii,
23, 26, 54, 68, 78, 80-3, 85, 92, 95,
103, 117, 119, 120, 123, 163, 168,
174-6, 180-1, 183, 185-7, 189, 191-2,
194, 208, 211, 254
Hoadly, Abp. John, 267, 314 ; Bp. Ben
jamin, 14, 230, 250
Hobbes, Thos., 281
Holcroft, Capt. Charles, letter from, 59
Holland, Ealph, portrait painter, 301
Holt, Samuel, letter from, 16
Holyhead Epigram, attributed to Swift,
115
Homilies, The, 20, 107, 289
Hoops anecdote, 317
Hopkins, Bp. Ezekiel, 31, 35, 45-6
Horace, B. IV., Ode IX., by Dean Swift,
xiii.
Hort, Bp. Josias, consecration, 231
Howard, Bev. Eobert (Bp.), 192 ; letters
from, 191-2, 194 ; family, 192 ; Wm.,
142
Hoy Chureh Bell, 50
Hughes', S. O, D.D., St. Werburgh's, 34,
64
Huguenots, 20, 85, 248
Hume, Baronets, 112 ; Eev. Geo.,
letter from, 112
Huntington, Bp. Eobert, 170
Hutcheson, Francis, letter from, 254
Hutton, John, M.D., 72-4
Hyde, Henry, Earl of Clarendon, 67-8 ;
Countess of, 67

Idolatry in Ch. of Eng., 107, 289
Illnesses, of Abp. King, 2, 12, 14, 19, 84,
90, 107, 126-7, 191, 204, 210, 217,
232, 238, 244, 250-2, 254-5, 259,
263-4, 266-7, 312, 315
Imprisonment of, Protestants, 1689, 26,
28, 167 ; Dr. King, 25-28, 66, 70 ;
Eobert King, 66, 98; Eev. Thos.
King, 66
Impropriate Tithes, 18, 42, 105, 140
Ince, Eev. Ealph, 17
Innes of Crommie, 49
Interests, English and Irish, 202, 218,
250, 252, 283-4, 295-6, 313, 315
Inventions of Men, &c, 9, 37-40, 288-9
Ireland, England's gain from, 242 ;
hist, of, 306-9 ; interest of money in,
79 ; pastures of, 78 ; population of,
79 ; poverty in, 207, 226, 259, 302 ;
prosperity in, 1752, 226 ; taxes, 207,
302

Irish Bibles &c, printing of, Abp.
King's interest in, 289, 292-8
Irish Society, London, 35-6, 276
Irish -speaking Ministers, 234, 295
Irvine, Family, 44, 56, 102, 216, 259 ;
Colonel Chas., 56, 120, 202, 217;
letters from, 149, 177
Irwin, Charles King, D.D., vii, 42

Jacobites, 89, 92, 123, 165, 188, 216,
278 ; Dr. King and the, 26, 28, 29
James, V., 50 ; VI, and I., 1, 51, 101, 204,
270; IL, 13, 20,22-3, 27-8, 30, 68,
81, 91-3, 124, 220, 227, 237
Jeffereys, or Jefferies, 180
Jemmett, Capt. Warham, 31
Jephson, Family, 60, 109, 1 16, 121
Jervas, or Jarvis, Charles, portrait
painter, 175, 301
Jervice, Sir H., 305
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 2, 94; Miss
Esther, ' Stella,' 310
Johnston, Thos., letters from, 108-9
Johnstone's, Dr. A., Delitice &c, 2
Jones, Bp. Edward, 67 ; John, 21
Joseph's, St., walking-staff, 318
Journal, True and Perfect, 24, 28
Jury, Dublin Grand, 1724, poem by
Swift, 57
Justice, Lord, Dr. King's appointment
as a, 37, 163-5, 167, 205, 224, 232,
273-4, 286; reasons for dislike of
office, 166-7, 205-6, 210, 232

Kearney, Sir Eichard, Ulster, 31, 61,
63, 321
Keeper, Office of Lord, joint appoint
ment to, 127
Keightley, Thomas, 127, 184
Kempe, C. E., 267
Kettlewell, Eev. John, 85
Kevin's, St., 108, 313 ; pension to
curate of, 46
Killaloe Diocese, 170
Kilmainmore Prebend, 13, 17
Kilmore and Ardagh Diocese, 171-2,
228
King, Adam, 1, 2 ; Alexander, 1, 2 ;
Charles, vii, 66; David, 8, 26, 48;
James, 29, 52, 57, 148 ; James, D.D., v,
vi, vii, 48, 315 ; Mrs. Marion, 148, 152,
159 ; Mistress Mary, 7, 152, 156-7 ;
Nicholas, 178 ; Sir Peter, 240, 249 ;
Eobert, 7, 8, 30-1, 52, 65, 70, 75,
97-8, 100, 102, 104, 107-9, 112, 121,
142, 148, 159, 178; Archd. Eobert,
vii ; Eev. Eobert B., viii ; Mrs.

328

INDEX

Strong, 315; Bev. Thos., 43. 54.60,
66 ; William, D.D., passim. MS.
Life, by Jas. King. D.D., 25. 41, 68,
78'; Wm., 67 ; Wm.. B.N., 53, il3, 149,
225, 233. 236, 253. 260 ; Eev. Wm. of
Cramond, 1 ; famUy of Barra, 1. 7. S.
49-51, 269-71 ; of Corrard 3, 29, 48,
51-2. 65, 67 ; of Newmilne, 52-3 ; of
Tertowie, 26
Kingston, Barons, 237 ; Earls of, 237
Kirke, Percy, 72
Knox, Thos., 3 ; Wm., 108
K., W., letter from, 67

Langton, Eev. Dominick, 14-5
LasceUes', E, Lib. Mun. Pub. Hib .
293
Latimer's, Bev. W. T , Irish Presby
terians. 38
Law, Bp. Edmund, 9 ; King's Origin of
Evil, vi, 41 ; Baron EUenborough,
9
Lawlor's. H. J., D.D., Stokes' Some
Worthies, vii, 37-8. 69, 90, 92, 123.
215. 247-8, 320; vide Diary (Abp.
King's)
Learning not encouraged in Ireland,
227. 307
Legislation, On harsh, 90
Leibnitz, M., 41
Lennox, Earl of, 50
Leslie, 49, 54, 299 ; of Balquhain, 269 ;
Bev. Chas., 85. 124, 280 ; Answer to
King's State etc., 30, 35. 91 ; Archd.
Henry, letters from, 7; Bev. E. J.,
Life S-c. of C. Leslie. 91
' Letter, A Friendly,' 303
Letters from Wm. King to Addison, J.,
62 : Annesley, F.. 53. 102, 148, 232,
246, 262, 293. 299, 300 ; Ashe, Bp.,
99. 100, 102, 105, 162, 249 ; BonneU,
J., 70. 303 ; Brown, J., 251 ; Burnet,
Bp., 42, 90; Byng, Admiral, 225;
Carpenter, Lord, 216 ; Carteret, Lady,
259, 263, 266, Lord, 249, 256;
Charlett. Dr.. 89. 151, 179. 220. 227.
248; Coghill, Dr., 248, 250; Cole,
Sir M., Ill ; ConoUv, W., 295 : Fin
lay, E.. 152: Fisher," Mr., 243; Folev,
Col., 217 ; Forster, Bp., 234 ; Foy, Bp.,
40. 86 ; France, T., 118 ; Gibson, Bp.,
249 ; Gibson, Dr., 283 ; Godwin, Dr.,
158, 163 ; Gowran, Lord, 225 ; Graf
ton, Duke of, 225, 231, 237, 249;
Hamilton. Archd. A., 70 ; Harcourt,
Lord, 249 ; Hartstong, Bp., 159, 231;
Howard, Bp., 265, 310; Hutchinson,
Bp., 122 ; Irvine, C, 216, 232. 238,

253-9 ; Mrs.. 202 ; Kildare, Earl of,
223 ; King, Mrs. M.. 156, 158; Mis
tress M., 154; King, Sir P., 249,
253 ; King, E., 104, 109. 110. 113-16 ;
King, W., B.N., 242. 252 ; Kingston,
Lord, 237 ; Knox, T., 3 : Leslie,
Archd. H, 7 : Lloyd, Bp.. 38 ; Marsh,
Abp. X., 98, 321 ; Maule, Bp., 239, 265.
306 : Molyneux, S., 261 ; Moore, Bp..
104 : Nicholson, Bp., 54, 223, 234,
283; Ormonde, Duke of, 104, 112;
Palmerston, Viscount. 246. 304 : Par
nell, J., 143 : Price, Eev. H., 25, 70 ;
Eeynolds, Ch. Just., 48; Boss, B.,
147; Saunders, Sir G.. 149, 236,
242-3; Sharp. Abp.. 293; Shrews
bury, Duke and Duchess of, 175 ;
Smvth, W., 156, 255; SonthweU, E..
25,73, 120, 142, 167,225,243. 252.
258, 261-2, 264, 288, 29S, 310; Sir
E., 90; Spranger, J., 212; Stanley,
Sir J., 165, 304; Stearne, Bp., 162,
164, 166, 222. 283, 303 ; Swift, Dean,
2S. 39, 124, 126-7, 131, 134, 138-9,
140, 142, 144, 146, 152, 179. 200, 250,
294; Synge, Abp., 219; Tenison,
Abp. T., 88, 160. 170 ; Trench, Dean,
8. 91 ; Trotter, Dr., 254 ; Wake, Abp..
7, 14, 32, 65, 73, 190, 195, 198, 202-7,
210-11, 215-17, 224, 226, 234-5,
239, 240-2, 244-5, 249, 301; Walk-
ington, Bp.. 304 ; Wharton, Earl of,
152 : Whitshed, Ch. J., 250 ; Wood
ward, Dr., 227 ; Wyndham, Ld. Chanc,
254-5
Levinge, Baronet. 150, 155 ; letters from.
31, 208
Lewis, Erasmus, 139, 180
Lewis's. S.. Topog. Diet. Ireland, 5, 46
Library, Advocates', Edin., 49, 270 ;
Armagh Pubhc, v ; Bennet CoU.. 309 ;
Bodleian, So, 309 ; Brit. Mus.. 1. 2,
190, 262, 275, 322 ; Clarendon's, Lord,
309 ; Abp. King's. 45-6 : Lambeth,
309 ; Abp. N. Marsh's, 44. 217. 248.
261-2, 321 ; National, Dublin, 307 ;
Stowe, 309 ; Thirlestane House, viii,
25 ; Trin. CoU., Dub., 30 ; vide ' Corre
spondence.'
Limerick, Siege of, 29, 30 ; Treaty of,
29. 83
Lindsay, Abp. Thos., 35, 89, 103, 163,
170, 198, 212, 219, 247, 250, 320 ;
letters from, 198, 291
Linegar, C, a Gaelic scholar, 295
Linen manufacture and trade, 35. 117,
226, 242
Lissen-haU, Swords, 52, 66. 139, 140,
142

INDEX

329

Lloyd, Bp. (Eng.) Wm., 92; letter
from, 123 ; Bp. (Irish) Wm., 89 ;
Bev. Daniel, letter from, 59
Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage, 48
Londonderry, Ordnance Survey of, 36
Longfield, Eichard, letter from, 29
Longford, Earl of, 59, 63
Longleat, 100
Lords, House of, English, 23, 31, 77,
245, 276 ; Irish, 39, 88, 123, 140, 145,
169, 171, 203, 216, 253, 276, 284-6
Lowcay, Eev. Anthony, letter from, 9
Loyalty due to the State, 22, 23, 280-1
Lucrum Mori, 317
Ludlow, Edmund, 181 ; Peter, 181
Lumsden of Clova, 49
Lutheranism, 162, 165-6
Lyndon, Judge, 30
Lyon Office, 26, 52 ; reoords destroyed
by fire, 53
Lyon, John, D.D., 48
Lyons, E. D., M.D., viii, 62; Mrs.
Lyons' collection of King MSS., viii,
7, 26, 29, 62, 318 ; vide ' Correspon
dence.'

Macaulay's, Lord, Hist, of Eng., 20
Macartney, Judge, 174
M'Bride, Bev. John, 39
Mac Entore Tradition, 49
M'Gill, Sir John, 70
Madden, Sam., D.D., Fermanagh MS.
Hist., 66
Magistrates, Clerical, 171
Manby, Dean Peter, 21, 39, 68, 93
Manley, Isaac, 180, 181
Mansel, Sir Thos., 130
Mant's, Bp. E., Hist. Ch. Ireland, 23,
35, 67, 215, 218, 219, 224, 242, 250,
253, 259, 285, 301
Manufactures and Trade, Home, 268,
309-10
Manuring of Lands by Sea Shells,
308
Mar, Earl of, 190
Mar and Melrose, Earls of, letter from,
51, 270
Marlborough, Duke of, 75, 101, 127,
178, 186, 233, 235, 238
Marriage, Wm. King's thoughts on,
17
Marriage Licenses, Boulter's grievance
relating to, 314
Marsh, Abp. Francis and famUy, 1, 23,
31, 172; letters from, 34, 71, 73;
Abp. Narcissus, 31, 76, 99, 105, 126,
154, 198, 276, 278, 292; prayer for
Bp. King, 31

Martyrdom, Fears of torture and, 13
Martyrs, English, 20
Mary I., 20 ; II., 1, 29, 72, 77, 232,
279
Mason's, W. M., St. Patrick's, Dublin,
91 ; Wm. Shaw, 175
Massacre of Protestants threatened in
1688, 24
Matthews, Archd. Lemuel, 280
Meares, Lewis, 145
Meath Diocese, 213
Menzies of Pitfoddels, 49
Miller, Andrew, 301
Milles, Bp. Thos., 253
Millington, Sir Thos., 61
Molesworth, Eobert (Viscount), 164,
242 ; letters from, 163, 168 ; Eichard,
169
Molyneux, Baronets, 175, 301 ; Samuel,
18; letters from, 175, 193; Wm.,
Case of Ireland, Abp. King's copy,
175
Monasticon Hib. (Archdall's), by Abp.
P. Moran, 301
Montrose, Marquess of, 51
Moore, Capt. Lewis, 44, 108, 116
Mores, Edward E., 297
Moreton, Bp. Wm., 31, 108
Mossom, Bp. Eobert, 13
MuUony, (E.C.) Bp., 83

Nantes, Eevooation of Edict of, 20
Newcastle, Duke of, 312, 315
Newspapers, reports in English, 93,
107, 133-4, 239, 267, 276, 278
Nichols', J., Literary Anecdotes \8th
cent., 41 ; Swift's Works, 277
Nicholson, Bp. Wm., 45, 214, 218-19.
234, 249, 252; collection of Abp.
King's letters to Abp. Wake, 190
Nicolini, Signor, 318
Nixon, Bev. Adam, 64
Noble's, Bev. M., Granger's Biog. Hist.,
7,41
Non-Jurors, 91, 124, 200
Notes and Queries, 292
Nottingham, Earl of, 79, 193
Nugent, Ch. Just. T., 27, 92-3

Obedience, Passive, 124 ; Fallacy of,
shown by Swift, 280
Observations in Dublin Philosoph., and
Boy., Societies' Transactions, 307-8
Observator, The, by J. Tutchin, 107,
276
O'Connor's, Dr. C, Rerum Hibemi-
carum S;c., 309

330

INDEX

O'Flanagan's. B., Ld. Chancellors of
Ireland, 279
O'Hara, Kane, 301
Ordination, Candidates' examination
for, 275, 281
Orkney, Countess of. 127 ; Earl of, 50
Orrery's, Earl of, Remarks on Swift's
Life j-c, 95. 226, 311, 319-20
Osven, John, D.D.. on preaching to the
native Irish, 298
Oxford, Movement's Fruits, 20, 40, 107.
160, 237, 289; University, 60, 113.
188, 204-5, 234

Paixisee, Bp. Wm., So
Panton of Pitmedden, 49, 270
Parker, Abp. John, 13, 15, 16 ; family,
16, 30, 61-3 ; Ch. Justice, 210
Parliament, English, 101-2, 108, 123,
298 ; Irish, 24, 87, 139-40, 145. 244,
262-3. 236-8 ; encroachment on its
privileges. 36, 276, 237 : procedure
in, 39. 90. 139 ; Scottish, 51, 112, 117
ParneU, farrnlv iBarons Congleton),
94-5, 114, 155, 164; Mrs. Anna.
letter from, 93 ; Thomas, D.D., 94,
151, 154 : Poems, Abp. King's copy, 94
Parsons, Baronet (Earls of Bosse).
letter from, 81
Patrick's, St.. Cathedral, Dublin, 24,
201, 246, 305 ; Deanery, 28, 151-2.
195, 310 ; memorial window to Abp.
King, 267
Paul's, St., parish foundlings. 176
Paul's, Sir J. B., Lyon, Scots Peerage. 49
Pembroke, Earl of, 158
Penances and Church discipline, 15.
34, 99. 244
Pensions, 134; a great grievance, 260
Peterborough, Earl of, 226, 283
Peuy. Sir Wm., 308
Phipps. Sir Constantine, 127, 163-4.
198, 212, 224, 294
Pitcaim's. B., Crim. Trials Scot., 50,
270
PluraUties, On, 105-7, 275
Pohtical Questions, On, 22-3. 83-93,
139, 14-46, 218-20. 262-3, 276, 286-8.
302
Pooley, Bp. John, 120, 170
Pope, Alex., 41, 122, 277
Popery in Ireland in 1723. 309-10
Portraits of Abp. King, 157. 175. 299-
301
Postboy, T>ie, 133, 137
Pratt, Benjamin, DJ5., 192, 194
Prayer, Book of Common, 33, 107, 214,
292, 294, 297

Prayer, Private, 9
Preaching, Abp. King's. 113
Predestination, Discourse on, 41, 123
Preferments, Wm. King's, 13, 16, 17,
19, 23, 23. 30. 75, 102, 104; on
disposal of, 161-2, 167, 170-3, 195,
202, 233, 249. 250, 252, 256. 260
Presbyterians, 2. 9, 3-5-40, 38. 217, 277,
290, 320
Pretender, The, 179, 240. 276, 277. 287
Priests, Irish, 20, 23, 29, 83, 221, 279,
297, 309, 316
Principles for government and re
hgion, Abp. King's, 90
Prior, Matthew, 130, 231
Protestants, 24. 26. 81. 93, 192, 213,
219, 259, 294, 301-2, 309; law
against meetings of, 24
Publishing, Abp. King on, 73 ; in
England recommended, 69
Puritanism, 20

Quakers, 33, 305

Eamsay of Srraloch and Barra, 51
Bandolph, Thos.. 2
Biphoe Diocese, 170
Bawdon. Baronet, 70
BebeUion in Gt. Britain, 16-5, 138, 275
Becorde's Arithmetic, -5
Beeords, Public, in Ireland, 25, 139.
307-3 ; secrete! 1659, 26
Beeves, Bp. Wm., v, vii. 6, 18, 42 ;
coUection of Abp. Kings Letters, 30
Beid, Baronets, -51
Eeligion, Beformed. or Protestant, 27, 29,
237, 289, 310; Soman Cathohc, or
Popery, 20, 22, 162, 221, 298 : Act
against, 237. 302 ; inimical to liberty,
220 ; suits human corruption, 310
Beligious experiences and reflections,
9-12. 13, 18, 43-4. 70. 153. 167. 203,
207. 213, 221-2, 235, 243, 252. 260,
265, 267, 307
Bestoration of Boyal FamUy, 4, 220
Bevolution, 124. 2*14, 295, 302 ; Ameri
can, 302
Beynell, Ch. Justice, 83
Eichardson, (Dean) John, 292—5
Eiddarhus, Eiddarhoim Church, Stock
holm, 50, 51
Eingwood, F. H., 5
Boan, Bp. John, 31
Bobinson, Abp. Eichard, 5
Eochester, Earl of, 101, 278
BocMDrt Family, 229
Eoe, Sir Thos., 273

INDEX

331

Eogerson, Sir John, 305
Bome, Bp. of, 20 ; Church of, 68, 220-21,
295 ; dungeons of, 220
Eoscoe's, T., Works of Dean Swift, 21,
95, 115, 181, 316 ; letters to and
from Swift, vide ' Correspondence '
Eoss of Eosetrevor, 66, 70, 75, 108, 110,
111, 113-14, 148, 152, 159
Eoyalist and Eepublican Factions 1683,
19
Bundle, Bp. Thos., 55
Euthven of Ballindean, 50

Sacheverell, Henry, D.D., 123, 124
Saint, The, and the Cow, 319
St. John, H., Viscount Bolingbroke, 41,
128, 131, 135, 137, 151, 180, 201
Salmon Fishing of Ireland, 308
Salmon, Geo., D.D., viii
Sandilands, Sir James, 51
Santry, Lord, 145
Saunders, Baronet, 225, 236, 242 ; letters
from, 149, 236
Scardeville, Bev. Harry, 60
Schomberg, Duke of, 26, 30, 66, 81,
91
School experiences, 2-6, 318
Schools, Blue Coat, 215, 296 ; Charity,
214, 297-8 ; Chartered, 265
Scotland, 35, 38, 170, 297, 302 ; Union
with, 101, 117
Scottish origin hindered promotion, 1 ;
Manby's ' Jest,' 68, 69
Scott's, Sir Walter, Swift, 310
Seatown Act of Parliament, 136
Secret service money, 185
Sepulchre's, St., Marsh's Library at, v,
53; Palace, 34, 104, 115, 152, 198,
202, 248, 249, 277, 313
Sermons, Dr. King's, 20, 26, 28, 41, 105,
113-14, 117, 154, 215
Seton of Meldrum, 50, 51, 270-1
Sharp, Abp. John, 67, 140
Sheridan, FamUy, 119, 120 ; Bp. Wm.,
70; letter from, 119; Thos., D.D.,
258
Shrewsbury, Duke of, 129, 158, 161,
163-5, 173, 175
Silk Trade, 226
Skinner's, Eev. J., Eccles. Hist. Scot.,
284
Sloane, Baronet, 233, 300
Smith, Bp. Wm., 65, 67, 170-1
Smithfield, 160
Smollett's, T., Hist, of Eng., 180
Smyth, Bp. Thos., 89, 291; of Drumcree,
66, 142, 155-6, 157, 255

Sooiety, Dublin Philosophical, 307-8 ;
Promoting Christian Knowledge, 289,
297 ; Eoyal, 85, 308 ; E.S.A., Ireland,
25 ; St. Catherine's, 303
Somerset, Duke of, 188
Somerville, Family (Barons Athlumney
and Meredyth), 8, 29, 48, 57, 92, 97,
110 ; James, letters from, 97-8
Song, An Excellent, by Dean Swift,
57-8
South Sea Scheme, 224, 226-7, 233, 235
Southwell, Family (Barons de Clifford),
73, 92, 98, 100, 225 ; Edward, 73, 116,
132, 261, 293, 294 ; letters from, 73 :
memoranda, 1; Sir Eobert, 40, 71,73,
78; letters from, 78-80, 83, 91, 98,
100, 103 ; MSS., formerly at Thirle-
stane Ho., Cheltenham, 25, 120, 167 ;
Col. Wm., anecdote, 315
Spanne, Eev. Ben., 170-2
Speidell Family, 178
Spence Family, vi, 26, 30, 54, 55, 62,
216
Stanhope, James (Earl), 126, 178, 191,
235
State of the Protestants in Ireland, 23,
25, 27, 28, 32, 33, 66, 78, 82-3, 91-2,
277, 279 ; Abp. Tillotson recommended
it to K. Wm., 80, 277
Stationer, King's, in Ireland, Office of,
178
Stearne, John (Dean and Bp.), 45, 122,
151-2, 154, 156, 163, 195, 198 ; letters
from, 120, 121
Stevens' Hospital, Dublin, 248
Stewart, Adam, 50 ; Francis, 53 ; Major-
Gen., 177
Stillingfleet, Bp. Edward, 79, 320-1
Stokes, G. T., D.D., vii, 38, v. Lawlor,
H. J., D.D.
Stopford, Bev. Dr., 253, 258
Story's, Dean G. W., True and Im
partial Hist., 91, 173
Strachan Family, 56, 234
Stuart Dynasty, 20, 239 ; return of the,
dreaded, 160
Sunderland, Earl of, 168, 173, 178-9,
181, 184, 186, 190, 211, 235 ; letters
from, 174, 176 ; Lady, 183
Swift, Family, 60 ; Dean Jonathan, 48,
95, 114, 124, 140, 147, 154, 163, 167,
176, 179, 195, 197-8, 244, 253, 256,
276-8, 302, 306, 320; advice to,
140-2, 146-7 ; Drapier's Letters, 25,
57 ; Journal to Stella, 105, 132, 142,
145, 151, 195, 293 ; letters from, vide
' Correspondence ' ; marriage, 310-11 ;
Tale of a Tub, 141; treasonable
papers, 180, 181

332

INDEX

Swords, 66 ; Borough, 164
Sydney, Viscount, 77, 81; letter from,
83
Synge, Abp. Edward, 45, 191, 199, 222,
244, 266; Bp. Edward, vi, 165, 172,
203, 254
Table, Danger from the, 14
Temple and Maelagan, Abps., 20
Temple, Sir Wm., 311
Tenison, Abp. Thos., 168, 276
Tennison, Bp. Eichard, 75 ; letter from,
291
Test Act, Eepeal of, proposed, 191, 194,
216
Thorndike's, Eev. H., Of Religious
Assemblies &c. 38
Thornton, E., 178
Thynne, Viscount Weymouth, 100
Tichbome, Baronet, 169
Tiffin, Brigadier, 78
TUlotson, Abp. John, 79, 80, 86, 92,
277
Tituladoes, 51, 52
Todd's, J. H, D.D., Graduates, Dublin
University, 18
Toland, John, 97
ToUet, FamUy, 30, 31 ; George, 26, 30,
38, 75, 78-9, 83 ; letter from, 30 ;
Marcus, letter from, 30
Tooke, Benjamin, on printing De
Origine Mali, 103-4
Topham FamUy, 116
Toplady's, Eev. A. M., Works, 160
Tories, 29, 94, 125, 128, 185, 188, 193,
198, 200, 247, 275
Tottenham, Chas., 146 ; Marquesses of
Ely, 112, 146
Townshend, Viscount, 203, 253, 312
Travers, John, D.D., 261
Trench, Dean John (Barons Ashtown),
8, 81, 91 ; Wm., letter from, 178-9
Trevor, Sir John, 129
Trotter, Thos., LL.D., 231 ; letter
from, 255
Tuam, Diocese, 13 ; Town of, 17
Tunbridge Wells, 19, 71, 111, 113
Tyrawley, Baron, 177
Tyrconnel, Earl of, 24; 27-8, 83, 93
Tyrone Co., 3, 8
Ulster, or North of Ireland, 2, 4, 25, 31,
35, 51, 106, 226, 295, 301 ; Annals
of, 309 ; Journal of Archaeology, 52
Union with Scotland, 101, 112, 117;
with Ireland hoped for, 101, 117

Vane, Sir Henry, 272-3
Vanhomrigh, Miss Esther, 'Vanessa,'
311
Vernon, James, 89
Vesey, Abp. John, 83, 163, 165, 294
Vigors, Bp. Bartholomew, 89
Visitation Book, Bp. King's, 34
Visitations, 18, 34-5, 90, 95, 98, 147,
219, 222, 247, 250, 275, 313

Wake, Abp, Wm., 7, 87, 190, 191-4.
247, 249, 314
Walker, FamUy, vii, 31 ; George, D.D.,
31 ; True Account Siege Derry, 291
WaU, Archd. and Mrs., anecdote, 317-
18
Wallis, Dean and Mrs., 26
Walpole, Baron, 187-8; Sir Eobert,
Earl of Orford, 188, 207, 275
War, Twelve Years', 3
Ware Family, 63
Warren Families, 26, 70
Watt's, E., Bibliotheca Brit, 18
Werburgh's, St., Parish and Chureh, 16,
18, 34, 64, 66, 68, 111, 176, 184, 186
West, Ld. ChanceUor, 254
WetenhaU, Bp. Edward, 119, 171, 22S,
293, 296
Wexford Waters, 64, 67
Wharton, Duke of, 66, 179, 285 ; Earl
of, 66, 123, 127, 145, 178-9, 211, 224,
235 ; letter from, 66
Whately, Abp. Eichard, 41, 123
Whigs, 125, 128, 133, 200, 275
Whitshed, Ch. Justice, 57, 65, 155, 174,
250, 255
WUde's, Sir W. B., Closing Tears of
Swift's Life, 192, 311
WiUiam, P. of Orange, 21-23, and IH.,
1, 23, 28-31, 42, 72, 76, 92, 101-3,
114, 177, 220, 277, 279
WUloughby, Dr. Chas., 66 ; letter from,
84
Wilson, Bp. Thos., 240
Windebank, Sir Francis, 271, 273
Wiseman, Bp. Capel, 70
Wolseley, Brigadier, 78
Wood's coinage, 57-8, 268, 288
WooUen manufacture and trade, 35, 226,
242
Writing, On slips in letter-, 95, 96
Wyndham, Baronets (Earls of Egre
mont), 188
Wynne, Major-Gen. Jas., 184; Eev.
John, 43-4

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