Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690

The King enjoyed his own again, and England rejoiced exceedingly. Even Oliver's unbeaten soldiers, disgusted with his incompetent successors, were for the most part ready to ret...

In the autumn of 1660 Sir Henry Bennet, who then represented Charles at Madrid, forwarded a letter from Hugh O'Neill calling himself Earl of Tyrone. The brave defender of Clonme...

While Ormonde was on his way to Ireland the King appointed seven Commissioners for carrying out the Bill of Settlement as soon as it should become an Act. Great care was taken i...

Loyalty to the Crown of England was Ormonde's leading principle, and this is the key to his eventful life. He surrendered Dublin to the Parliament rather than to the Irish becau...

It was not surprising that there should be some difficulty about the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, since the private fortune of every member was concerned. But in other ma...

Lord Robartes was again chosen for the post which he had scorned to occupy eight years before. Perhaps the King's main object was to get rid of him, for he must have been one of...

The corrupt administration of Berkeley and Leighton could not be called a success, and much to his own surprise the Earl of Essex was named for Lord Lieutenant quite early in 16...

[116] A. Wood's _Life and Times_, ed. Clark, ii. 385. Carte's _Ormonde_, ii. 465-469. Essex to Ormonde, April 28, 1677, _Stowe MSS._, vol. ccxvii. Ormonde to Fell, June 16, and...

On his return to Ireland Ormonde was at once involved in revenue difficulties. Ranelagh was allowed to collect arrears long after his contract had expired, and the Lord Lieutena...

doubtful. Southwell to Ormonde, September 28, _ib._ p. 454. Ormonde to Lord Chancellor Boyle, October 7, _ib._ Narrative of proceedings of Lord Lieutenant from October 7, 1678,...

As soon as the bad news reached him, Ormonde called the Council together. All leave was stopped, officers were ordered to their quarters, and on the following day King James was...

James forced Sheridan upon Tyrconnel as secretary, and made him chief commissioner of revenue to make the Irish service worth his while. Clarendon thought him a 'wicked, cheatin...

At the beginning of 1686, Bonrepaus, a high official in the French marine, was sent by Louis XIV. on a special mission to England. He found the navy there in very bad order, als...

Among James's advisers during his reign in Ireland Tyrconnel was by far the most important. As a thorough French partisan Avaux supported him, and Berwick, whose sympathies were...

It was the remark of a brilliant writer that trying to describe the siege of Londonderry after Macaulay was like trying to describe the siege of Troy after Homer. No elaborate c...

Before leaving London, Schomberg had ordered Kirke to relieve Londonderry. If the town could hold out, and if his orders were obeyed, he had no doubt that it would be safe to la...

Lauzun and Dover were in Dublin together early in April, and continued to quarrel there. The Englishman made light of the French contingent, saying that Louis was plainly deceiv...

Macaulay thought that under the Protectorate Ireland was probably a more agreeable residence for the higher classes, as compared with England, than at any time before or since....

[278] Clarendon's letters to Rochester, May 4, 1686, and from September 9 to October following, and a letter to Ormonde of September 28, in _Ormonde Papers_, vol. vii. John Dunt...

In the year 1756 Archbishop Stone made a speech in the Irish House of Lords which the reporter said was much the best he had ever heard there. Stone showed that the Reformation...