WHEN the young Earl of Desmond came to Kilmallock, the people threw wheat and salt upon him, according to the ancient ceremony used in that province (Munster). This was Saturday, next day they spat upon him when he came out of the Protestant Church.-PHELAN, Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland, p. 169. INTENT of Poyning's law (Irish Parliamentary Debates, vol. 1, p. 155). "It was thought that when Lambert Simnel was crowned in Dublin, if there had been a Parliament sitting, that Parliament would have acknowledged him as rightful king." Carte's Life of Ormonde. 13. Excellent intention of James I. Evil which he abolished. 22. 14. The commission and surrender of lands was a gracious as well as politic measure. It gave estates in fee instead of life estates, which was the utmost they who held by tanistry' could pretend to before. 15. In Ulster the Irish undertenants and servants were exempted from the oath of supremacy 16. The British there forbidden to marry or foster with the Irish, and they were planted separately, the contrary system having been unhappily tried in Munster. 17. James's care of the church in Ulster. 19. Parliament of 1613, the first full, fair free parliament, and how did the Romanists abuse the King's goodness in calling it! 20. The Puritans on that occasion "censured V. TRADITION (confirmed by an act of Parlia-the government, either of weakness in not know. ment Henry VI.) that the Ormonde family were ing how to govern that unruly people; or of puheirs of Becket. sillanimity, in not daring to rule them as they ought." ix. The act says, lineally descended." xvi. Before 1641 the prisage of wine in Ireland, granted by Henry II. to Theobald Walter, the first Butler of Ireland, was leased for £2600 a year. "of whose blood they are xxix. How Kildare came improperly to have precedence of Ormonde. 20. Lord Chichester's hopes from a mild course. 26. Abuses in the plantations. 26. Defective titles; and then let loose the lawyers! 27. 27. It was an age of adventures and project. ors ; the general taste of the world ran in favour xxxiv. Richard Duke of York's good govern- of new discoveries and planting of countries; ment. xlii. Edward IV. used to say of Sir John de Ormonde, the earl who died without issue in the Holy Land, 1478, "that he was the goodliest knight he ever beheld, and the finest gentleman in Christendom, and that if good breeding, nurture and liberal qualities were lost in the world, they might all be found in him." and such as were not hardy enough to venture into the remote parts of the earth, fancied they might make a fortune nearer home by settling and planting in Ireland. 28. Sir William Parsons was a knave of the first water. 32-3. Act of uniformity, and penal laws. This is very clearly stated, 35. 34. A little more vigour in Lord Chichester's It was the custom for the younger sons of the nobility to take their fathers' titles for their sur-time would have rooted out the Romish tares. names. This continued as late as Elizabeth. xliii. Thomas Earl of Ormonde (Henry VII.) found after his brother James's death, £40,000 sterling in money, besides plate, in his house in the Black Friars, London,—all which he carried to Ireland. Becket or the Butler's-ivory horn, an heirloom. See the passage for its description, &c. xlv. A daughter of Macmorough marrying a Butler in Edward II.'s reign, she had a patent of denization, freeing and acquitting her and her issue by this marriage from all Irish servitude. 1. Piers Earl of Ormonde (died 1539) brought out of Flanders and the neighbouring provinces artificers and manufacturers, whom he employed at Kilkenny in working tapestry, drapery, Turkey carpets, cushions, &c., some of which were in Sir R. Rothe's time remaining in the Ormonde family. 5. Abbot neglected young Ormonde when placed under his care. Carte gave a just hard character of this archbishop. 12. Elizabeth cut the sinews of Tynne's strength by issuing base money in Ireland, which was worth nothing abroad, so that he could purchase no supplies from other countries. 35. Act of supremacy, universally received at first. 39. Sir J. Davies's speech, shewing the old law concerning the king's prerogative in ecclesiastical matters. 43. Lenity of the government. Education of wards in the Protestant faith neglected. 44-5. Low state to which James let the army be reduced,— ‚—a consequence of his prodigality. 46. Impolicy of encouraging them to enlist in foreign services. 53. The Recusants erected Convents, and founded an opposition University in Dublin. Prelates' oath to the Pope. 62. Taxation, how levied in both countries. 67-8. Carte supposes Bishop Atherton to have been accused unjustly, and that he was a victim to Lord Cork's resentment. 77-8. Usher's errors. Reason for not allowing the clothing trade in Ireland. 87-8. A good view of the rise of the troubles 1 On this law or custom in Ireland, see WARE's Antiquitates Hibernica, c. viii. J. W. W. GUILDFORD-DODD-BARLOTOCEI-BARROW-NALSON, ETC. 145 in Scotland, and of the part taken by France in". was first and best planted in cities. God did fomenting them. spread his net where most might be caught.”— NALSON, vol. 2, p. 298. 89. When the Roman Catholics raised contributions for Charles, 1639, the Pope sent express orders to his Nuncio to enjoin them to desist. 97. Burnet accused of cooking up a fine speech for Bedel, no such speech having been spoken. 101. Some ecclesiastical customs, "such as Saint Patrick's ridges, soul money, anointing muttons, holy water, clerk, and Mary gallons, had been in many places introduced in the times of Popery, and were by custom raised into a constant revenue." 115. The first application ever made from Ireland to an English House of Commons, was the infamous remonstrance against Strafford. 134. Parliament would not allow the disbanded troops in 1641 to enter into foreign service; consequently these troops became the strength of the rebellion. 140. The practice of finding verdicts contrary to the evidence began when the penal laws against Recusants (Papist) were put in execution. From that cause it soon extended to others. 155. Among the old Irish no one could lay claim to any particular lands as their inheritance, by their own laws, but all of a sept thought they had a general right to the whole. 221. What Ireland suffered by being governed by strangers. "COKE's comment upon Littleton ought not to be read by students, to whom it is, at least, unprofitable; for it is but a common-place, and much more obscure than the bare text without it. And to say truth, that text needs it not; for it is so plain of itself, that a comment, properly so called, doth but obscure it."-ROGER NORTH, Life of Lord Keeper Guildford, vol. 1, p. 21. This no doubt was the Lord Keeper Guildford's opinion. DR. BRADY's history is "compiled so religious 146 WHITTAKER-JEREMY TAYLOR-KEITH-BARROW. ly upon the very text, letters, and syllables of the authorities, especially those upon record, that the work may justly pass for an antiquarian lawbook."-Ibid., vol. 1, p. 25. according to their own maxims."—Clarendon Papers, vol. 1, p. 101. Mistified, a word lately brought into use, in the French sense, is used by Roger North.-— Life of Lord Keeper G., vol. 1, p. 149. Orage.-Ibid., vol. 1, p. 170. Oragon, hur ricane. "In her family his lordship was next to a domestic."—Ibid., p. 292. i. e. he was like one of "THE last of the Tempests, an ancient family in Craven, devised by his will, ten days only before he died, the manor of Bracewell and stock to John Rushworth his cousin, 'in requital of all the love he hath showed in all my extremities in England, and in redeeming me out of a sad condition in France, when all other friends failed.' Rushworth, the author of the Historical Collections, was a Puritan, but much in the confidence of several Catholic families whose estates he the family. saved from confiscation by his interest with the governing powers. He had, however, the address to save Bracewell for himself. But it did not prosper in his hand; for (mark the end of such men) the Puritan Rushworth died of dramdrinking in a gaol. By this iniquitous will, the sum of £2500 was bequeathed to Mrs. South, the daughter and heiress of the testator, and with that exception, an estate then estimated at £700 a-year passed to a stranger."-WHITAKER'S History of Craven, p. 81. STONYHURST Was Usher's uncle, and took no small pains after he became a Catholic to bring over his nephew. After his wife's death he went to Flanders and took orders. The Archduke Albert made him his chaplain and procured him an honourable subsistence till his death, which happened at Brussels, 1618. DODD describes his translation of Virgil as in English blank verse!-vol. 2, p. 385. THE Norwegians complained that they could very seldom get any wine into their country, and when it did come, it was almost vinegar or vappe. -JEREMY TAYLOR, vol. 13, p. 54. "We need not walk along the banks and intrigues of Volga if we can at first point to the fountain."-Ibid., vol. 13, p. 131. HERE again thou hypocrizest.-G. KEITH'S Rector Corrected, p. 227. To redargue and coargue common in J. Taylor's age, though I do not remember that he uses the latter word: it signifies to imply logically. "WAS'T not rare sport at the sea-battle, whilst rounce robble hobble roared from the ship sides." FULLER was able to make use of any man's-MARSTON'S Antonio and Mellida, p. 129. sermon that he had but once read or heard.MUS. THORESBY, Appendix, p. 148. WHEN James thought of making Coke Chancellor, Bacon wrote to him, "If your Majesty take the Lord Coke, you will put an over-ruling nature into an over-ruling place."—Cabala, fol. 29. WHAT MONTAIGNE says of the French writers in his age, is applicable to some of our own. Ils sont assez hardis et desdaigneux pour ne suyvre la route commune; mais faute d'invention et de discretion les perd. Il ne s'y voit qu'une miserable affectation d'estrangeté; des desguisements froids et absurdes, qui au lieu d'eslever, abbatent la matiére. Pourveu qu'ils se gorgiasent en la nouvelleté, il ne leur chant de l'efficace."-Tom. 7, p. 349, lib. 3, c. 5. OLIVAREZ once said to Hopton, "No ay gratitud en reyes," ""which doubtless," says H., "He would thwart and violence his own conscience."-BARROW, vol. 3, p. 162. Phantastry.-Ibid., p. 341. Abitrariously.-Ibid., p. 344. "Mating and quelling the enemies of man's salvation."-Ibid., vol 3, p. 395: "We have some letters of Popes (though not many), for Popes were not then very scribations, or not so pragmatical."-Ibid., vol. 6, p. 188. "By how many tricks did he proll money from all parts of Christendom ?"-Ibid., vol. 6, p. 309. "THESE things are only passed over as BRIAN WALTON-HACKET-BURLEIGH-STANHOPE. 147 precedaneous to the constitution, or ordination." I says, "if she shall intend any evil to the Queen's -Ibid., vol. 6, p. 376. Majesty, my sovereign, for her sake I must and will mean to impeach her: and therein I may be her Unfriend, or worse. A PLAY upon words is called an Oxford clink by Leicester.-STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 224. Ir he were ungone, for not gone.-SIR ED. SPEAKING of Mary Queen of Scots, BURLEIGH | STANHOPE. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 239. Note referred to at p. 104. Clarendon's words should by all means be attended to, Book xi. "This unparalleled murder and parricide was committed upon the thirtieth of January, in the year, according to the account used in England, 1684, in the forty and ninth year of his age, and when he had such excellent health, and so great vigour of body, that, when his murderers caused him to be opened (which they did, and were some of them present at it with great curiosity), they confessed and declared that no man had ever all his vital parts so perfect and unhurt; and that he seemed to be of so admirable a composition and constitution, that he would probably have lived as long as nature could subsist."—History of the Rebellion, vol. 6, p. 241. J. W. W. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE. Gongora. Brusselas, 1659. LATINISMS,-yard-and-half-long words. The pedantry of Pagan mythology-violent metaphors, and more violent hyperboles. Sonnets, ix., p. 47; xiv., p. 52; lxv., p. 179. "CLORIS was combing her hair in the sun with an ivory comb and with a fair hand. The comb was not seen in her hand, as the sun was obscured in her hair. She gathered together her tresses of gold, and they sent forth a second greater light, before which the sun is a star, and Spain is the sphere of its radiance."-Son. iii., p. 41. "My nymph gathered flowers from the green plain, as many as her beautiful hand pluckt, so many her white foot made grow."- -Son. xviii., p. 56. DESCRIPTION of a lady. pound words being like the Greek, self-explained. GONGORA is the frog of the fable, his limbs are large, but it is a dropsy that has swollen them. You read him, and after you have unravelled the maze of his meaning, feel like one who has tired his jaws in cracking an empty nut. The spider oars himself along the river, but woe to him if he be entangled in its froth. Jorge de Monte Mayor. "I was lately," says DON FRANCISCO MANOEL, "in one of the principal places of the realm, and one of its most respectable inhabitants came to visit me. After the usual compliments, he shewed me a decree of his majesty, in which three persons, my visitor being one, were ordered to give their opinion of a book, which had been written in imitation of George of M. Mayor's Sacred temple of Diana, and if they thought it superior, they were pure modesty, whose fair cement and elegant to give an affidavit to the Corregidor da Comarwall of white pearl-shell and hard alabaster was ca, who should immediately put the author in built by the divine hand. The little gate is of possession of a Quinta worth two thousand cruprecious coral, and ye bright windows have force-zados, which some persons had publicly proposed fully usurped the pure green from the emerald. as a reward to whoever should write a better The golden covering of thy superb roof adorn book than the Diana." the sun with light, and crown him with beauty." -Son. xxii., p. 59. THE tomb of Queen Margarita he calls "the dark shell of a pearl."-Son. ii., p. 92. Spain was to her a little footstool, and the heaven a scanty canopy.-Son. iii., p. 93. "YOUR Gongora," says D. FR. MANOEL, "foy tentado de se metter com Estacio Papinio, seu Matalote, que ganhon mais nome pelas sombras, que pelas luzes." THE prose of Sir T. Browne and sometimes of Johnson bears an affinity to Gongora's language. Ronsard had something of it: the French folly is ridiculed in Rabelais. A romance (Eliana, I think,) carried it to its utmost length. I found several words there utterly unknown to me. There is a great mistake in this affectation of naturalizing Latin words, more particularly in poetry, which is designed to be popular; but the more intelligible the more popular. This is Burger's merit-he uses the very phrases of the people. The excellence of the German language is its independence; its com 1561. He perished in Piedmont by a violent death, which is not mentioned by Barbose. There is a most miserable sonnet of puns upon his mountain connection and death, by M. Faney Sonsa. In a MS. Dithyrambic, where the cup is filled to the literary heroes of Portugal, the renegado Monte-Mor is thus alluded to: "Outro va igual Que ao Monte Maior Mes deichar o doce e puro E brilliante E porquem? pelo Hispano. |