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STRAFFORD - LORD NORTH · PHELAN

one of these is as much worth as a good wether, yet neither eats so much, or costs so much attendance: but then the pheasants must look well to themselves; for they tell me these vermin will hunt and kill them notably."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 249.

A SILVER Seal of one of the kings of Connaught found, and one of their bits of gold weighing ten ounces.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 267.

1678. "THE affairs of this kingdom go on very prosperously, God be praised: and having honourably and justly bettered the revenue here since my coming to the government £50,000 a year, we are now able to bear our own charge with advantage, which this crown never did before. The trade increaseth daily, and the land improves mightily. I dare say all men's rents a third part better than when I set first footing on Irish ground, and very clearly will still grow, if peace continue."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 270.

No rebellion if Strafford had lived.LAUD'S Troubles.

THE Papists in Ireland generally estimated at twenty to one, in many places more.-Clarendon Papers, vol. 2, p. 66.

1627. SCHEMES for reducing Ireland under the Spanish dominion. The Spanish embassy required of the Pope that the Irish bishoprics should be provided only in persons well affected and able to serve the Spanish service; and consequently such as were found affected to the King and state of England should be excluded from all preferments. Ibid. vol. 2, p. 67.

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Carte's Life of Ormonde.

V. TRADITION (confirmed by an act of Parliament Henry VI.) that the Ormonde family were heirs of Becket.

ix. The act says, " of whose blood they are 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.

xxix. How Kildare came improperly to have precedence of Ormonde.

xxxiv. Richard Duke of York's good government.

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 qualiJESUITS' negociations with Cromwell. ties were lost in the world, they might all Ibid. vol. 2, p. 509.

be found in him."

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It was the custom for the younger sons of the nobility to take their fathers' titles for their surnames. 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.

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26. Abuses in the plantations.

26. Defective titles; and then let loose the lawyers! 27.

27. It was an age of adventures and projectors; the general taste of the world ran in favour of new discoveries and planting of countries; 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 time would have rooted out the Romish tares.

35. Act of supremacy, universally received at first.

39. Sir J. Davies's speech, shewing the

13. Excellent intention of James I. Evil old law concerning the king's prerogative 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 tanistry1 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.

1 On this law or custom in Ireland, see WARE'S Antiquitates Hibernica, c. viii. J. W. W.

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

GUILDFORD - DODD ·

BARLOTOCEI-NALSON-BARROW.

to have been accused unjustly, and that he was a victim to Lord Cork's resentment. 77-8. Usher's errors.

85. Introduction of flax.

Reason for not allowing the clothing trade in Ireland.

87-8. A good view of the rise of the troubles in Scotland, and of the part taken by France in fomenting them.

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.

LORD KEEPER GUILDFORD used to say, (Life, vol. 2, p. 54) speaking professionally, that "passion had a credit with him; for wherever it appeared, he commonly found honesty lay."

Knavery is generally cool.

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"SCANDERBACH, bon Juge et tres expert, avoit accoustumé de dire, que dix ou douze mille combattants fideles, devoyent baster à un suffisant chef de guerre, pour garantir sa reputation en toute sorte de besoing militaire."-MONTAIGNE, tom. 6, p. 345.

LORD CONWAY says to Strafford, "You were so often with Sir Anthony Vandyke, that you could not but know his gallantry for the love of Lady Stanhope, but he is come off with a coglioneria, for he disputed with her about the price of her picture, and sent her word that if she would not give the price he demanded, he would sell

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"A HARD task it is," says STrafford,

to do good for them that are obstinately set to do ill for themselves."— Ibid. vol. 2, p. 257.

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"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.

BRADY - WHITAKER.

syllables of the authorities, especially those upon record, that the work may justly pass for an antiquarian law-book."-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 25.

"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 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 dram-drinking 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.

FULLER was able to make use of any man's sermon that he had but once read or

DR. BRADY's history is "compiled so religiously upon the very text, letters and heard.-MUS. THORESBY, Appendix, p. 148.

MONTAIGNE-JEREMY TAYLOR - KEITH-BARROW.

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.

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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. "is according to their own maxims."Clarendon Papers, vol. 1, p. 101.

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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, hurricane.

"In her family his lordship was next to a domestic."—Ibid. p. 292. i. e. he was like one of the family.

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.

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