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OF ORMONDE.

MARQUIS derland, and Godolphin.-To the Duchess of Ormonde on the death of the Earl of Ossory.-Letter of Thomas Flatman, London, 29th May 1681, on the Earl of Ossory. -Latin poem by Dominicus Browne, on the death of Ossory.-Anagram and verses by Dudley Loftus.-Latin poem to George Lane by Thomas Coffy.-Poem upon Cromwell and "his arch-traytorous rabble of rebel"lious rascalles & Englande's Jailebirdes..... and a more ample description of Ireland's auncient, "late, more modern, & more imminent condition if "the inhabitants thereof (as beneath exhorted) doe "not unanimously address themselves to defend their "auncient religion, their King, their country, their

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pristine rights, lands, & customs of their country, "their wives, their children, & their own lands & personell estates: To his Excellencie my Lord Lieu"tenant of Ireland, etc., this poore myte of a poem be consecrated, dedicated, and presented."

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18. Account of ordnance, arms, and ammunition, &c. remaining in Ireland on 25th March 1684, and in charge of William, Lord Viscount Mountjoy, Master of the Ordnance there.

19. Rules, orders, & directions for regulating the office of the Ordnance in Ireland. Together with exact surveys of the chiefe harbours, forts, & fortifications in ye said kingdom, & estimates of ye charge of fortifying the most important places therein. By direction of His Majesty King Charles the Second unto the Right Hon. George, Lord Dartmouth, Master Generall of His Majesties Ordnance in England, & performed by Thomas Phillips, anno 1685. This large volume contains colored surveys and plans of Dublin, Duncannon, Passage, Waterford, Cork, Kinsale, Bay of Bantry, Limerick, Galway, Athlone, Sligo, Derryworagh, at the foot of the Blackwater 5 miles below Charlemont, Island Magee, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Culmore Fort, &c.

20. House of Ormonde, by W. Roberts, Ulster king

at-arms.

21. The Genealogy of the Ormonde family deduced to the year 1713.

22. Army Accounts of Ireland, from 5th June 1690 to 20th April 1700.

23. Traité de l'architecture militaire, 1701. Dedicated by Jacques de Wibault to James, Duke of Ormonde. Large folio, with coloured folding drawings and plans. 24. Collections for History of Town of Kilkenny, compiled in 18th century; with list of Mayors to 1711. 25. Journal of a residence at Jamaica, 1712, by Admiral Sir Hovenden Walker, commander-in-chief on the West India station.

26. Briefe relation of the life and memoires of John, Lord Belasyse, written and collected by his secretary, Joshua Moore.

27. Army lists, with names of officers, &c., from 1598 to 1714.

28. Volume containing about 200 proclamations, chiefly connected with Ireland, from 1673 to 1716. On the backs of some of the proclamations are manuscript entries concerning contemporary public events in Ireland, from 1679 to 5th July 1690.

There are also preserved here many household books, inventories, accounts of expenditure, and other documents of that nature, from which valuable materials may be derived for illustrating social and domestic history.

iii. State Papers, Correspondence and Miscellanea. First in this class may be noted three memorials, in which the chief persons of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford and the adjacent parts represent to Henry VIII., under their hands and seals, the advantages which they and their districts derive from the residence at home of the Earls of Ormonde, and labour to show that the absences of these noblemen in the King's service in England entail many and grievous ills on their own country and people. Written on parchments of great size, with numerous autographs and pendent seals, these memorials are rare examples of Southern Anglo-Irish composition and caligraphy in the first half of the 16th century.

Next are documents of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, and James I. Some of those of Elizabeth's time are Fitzwilliam papers, another portion of which is now in the Bodleian Library. The circumstances under which Ormonde acquired them in 1684 are detailed in letters here from Lord Fitzwilliam and Sir Robert Southwell, which I append.

The State and Government papers are connected with both the first. and second Dukes of Ormonde. By the former and his sons, the Earls of Ossory and Arran,

the government of Ireland was administered, with few interruptions, for almost the entire of the half century preceding 1688. The second Duke, Ossory's son, held the office of Viceroy of Ireland from 1703 to 1706, and from 1710 to 1713.

The papers of the era of the first Duke, closing in 1688, include the following:

Ordinances of Viceroys, Lords Justices, and Privy Councils in Ireland.

Documents connected with the army and militia of various counties.

Lists of captains, lieutenants, ensigns, and soldiers. Acts of field-marshals, comptrollers of musters, and courts-martial.

Particulars of movements and supplies of horse and foot, erection and defence of forts and castles, garrisons, ships of war, seamen, and protection of coasts.

Petitions and memorials from persons of various classes, on divers subjects, addressed to Ormonde in his many official capacities, and to his sons Ossory and Arran while they acted as his deputies for the government of Ireland.

Ecclesiastical matters; promotions to sees and livings. Returns of revenue, custom, excise, and their produce. Affairs of various corporations and towns in Ireland. Coinage and mint.

Loans to Government.

Examinations of suspected persons.

Establishment of Phoenix Park and of military hospital at Kilmainham, together with papers bearing on nearly all Irish public matters of the period.

The correspondence to the same date, 1688, includes letters from many of the chief contemporary personages in England, and from almost every individual and body of importance in those times in Ireland. The appended list of persons whose letters are here to be found may, although at present necessarily incomplete, serve to indicate generally the number and character of the correspondents.

In the class now under notice, the following are of special interest and importance :

Documents of the Royal family of England and their confidential adherents during their exile abroad, in period from the execution of Charles I. to the Restoration, when the King's affairs were almost entirely directed by Ormonde in conjunction with Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon. Among these are autograph letters of Queen Henrietta Maria, Charles II. Prince James, Lords Byron, Castelhaven, Clanricarde, Inchiquin, Taaffe, Muskerry; Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, Sir Edward Hyde, Sir George Lane, Sir Henry Coventry, Sir Richard Bellings, and Sir Edward Nicholas, some under pseudonyms and others in cypher. Correspondence of the Earl of Ossory, Deputy Governor of Ireland 1664-5, 1667-9, and of Richard, Earl of Arran, while in the same office in 1682-4.

Letters and papers connected with the affairs of the household of Charles II., and with the illness and death of Ossory in 1680.

Letters to and from Earl of Anglesey, Lord privy seal; Viscount Mountjoy, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland; Michael Boyle, Primate, Chancellor, and Lord Justice; John Keating, Chief Justice, and Sir Robert Southwell. Official and semi-official correspondence with Secretaries of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, Sir Henry Coventry, Sir Leoline Jenkins, and Sir Joseph Williamson.

Documents in connexion with Ormonde's guardianship of the Earl of Derby and of Lord Kinsale; also with his affairs as Chancellor of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin, High Steward of England, Governor of Westminster, etc.

Most of the letters and papers addressed to the first Duke bear endorsements by himself, or Sir George Lane. The value of the collection is enhanced by a number of contemporary copies which it contains of Ormonde's letters to others, chiefly in his own writing or in that of Lane.

The second Duke's Viceregal correspondence, 1703-6 and 1710-13, contains a series of letters from his deputies in the government of Ireland-Sir Richard Cox, Lord Chancellor; John, Lord Cutts; Primate Narcissus Marsh; Hugh, Earl of Mount-Alexander; Lieutenantsgeneral Thomas Earle and Richard Ingoldsby; Sir Constantine Phipps, and John Vesey, Archbishop of

Tuam.

The second Duke's papers also include a large number addressed to him as Chancellor of Oxford and Dublin; Commander-in-Chief in Great Britain and abroad, with several miscellaneous writings relative to the affairs of State in which he was engaged at home and on the Continent.

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For many years past every attention has been given to the careful preservation of the muniments at Kilkenny Castle, but the want of classification and catalogue much augmented the labour required for the examination of so extensive a collection.

In 1732 a large mass of papers mainly of the 17th century was lent from the Ormonde archives to Thomas Carte, who removed them to London, used them for his biography of the first Duke, and published several in full. They subsequently passed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the loss to Ireland of the unpublished portion has been to some extent diminished by the transcripts made of many of them at the instance of Lord Romilly, and deposited by Government in the Public Record Office, Dublin.*

The collection at Kilkenny Castle is unusually rich in unpublished documents, requisite for the completion of the history of the times to which they refer. Those antecedent to the 17th century would supply chasms in early records of the realm; while from the more modern portion may be derived materials to fill in part many historic blanks, including the long regretted one caused by the extensive destruction of Governmental papers in the fire at the Council Chamber in Dublin in 1711.

Under these circumstances it may be superfluous for me here to add that a proper calendar of the Ormonde collection would be a truly national work of rare interest and value in connexion with the history of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin.

J. T. GILBERT.

APPENDIX I.

THE FITZWILLIAM PAPERS.†

1. Lord Fitzwilliams to the Duke of Ormonde. My Lord,

Milton, Aug. 18th 1684. The hon' of y' letter of the 8th instant I rec'd by the hands of Sr Robt. Southwell & in obedience to yr Graces comands wee have sorted what papers I could at p'sent find (and wch I beleive are all I have) since I found them in one trunck by themselves. These seem to be the whole transactions of the kingdome of Ireland dureing my predecessor's Gouvermt there and wch I have transmitted to Mr Heriott the goldsmith, to be sent to yo' Grace when S Robt. Southwell shall direct him. There are still in my hands some bookes of the state of the army & payments of it in the time he was Treasurer at Warrs, and likewise some bookes shewing how the lands were distributed in the barronies of the severall counties of the kingdome dureing his Gouvernment as La Deputy, together with the method that he used, which because I p'sume they are under a much better way now, by y Graces wise conduct, & the Gouvernment of yt kingdome, quite a new thing. I did not think fitt to send them, they being counterparts of those bookes my ancestors delivered up to the Gouvernment here when he passed his accounts. The originalls of wch yr Grace possibly has already, or may have when you please to comand them. I shall be proud of serving y Grace in any thing that lies in my power, being with all the respect becoming me. My Lord y Graces most faithfull, obedient, & most humble servant, My Lord,

W. FITZWILLIAMS.

The papers being many & S Robt. Southwell in some hast that we had not time to peruse them any further then to know from whome they came so as to sort them under the severall heads as you will find them; I hope y' Grace will favour mee so farr as if you find any, that relate to the private concerns of my family, they may be return'd to mee againe and likewise such as are of no service to you.

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Endorsement.

Lord Ffitzwilliams. 18 Aug.}[16]84.

Rec. 3 Sep."

"For his Grace

Addressed.

The Duke of Ormonde

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin."

See Report on Carte and Carew Papers by T. D. Hardy and J. S. Brewer, London, 1864, and "Final Report of the Commissioners for "selecting official papers for transcription from the Carte Papers in the "Bodleian Library," forming Appendix 1 to the Thirty-second_Report "of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (England)." London, Spottiswoode, 1871.

† See also Report on Carte Papers in Appendix to Thirty-second Report of Deputy Keeper of Public Records (England) 1871, pp. 22, 43, 68, 69.

Sir William Fitzwilliams, Treasurer at War, was Deputy Governor of Ireland in 1559, 1560, 1561, 1567, 1571, and from 1587 to 1594.

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2. Sir Robert Southwell to the Duke of Ormond.

May it please your Grace, London, 23 Augst 1684. The next day after your Grace departed from Warwick I found the Lrd Fitzwilliams at Milton, neere Peterbrough. Uppon reading yr Graces letter his Lordship spoke to me of the papers, but seemed very [un]knowing in what he had, and almost hopelesse of finding any thing; but I told his Lrdpp I would [re]turne in a day or two, and undertake any searches yt were necessary. When I came back to his Lrdpp things were changed much for the better, and a great old trunck found out, and brought in play, where, with all freedome, I was allowed to search, soe yt from Monday morning till Tuesday at 5 in the evening I and my two compagnions (and his Lrdpp alsoe) found worke suffitient to unravell what there appeared in dust & wonderfull disorder. The inclosed list gives your Grace a gen account of all, & under what heads I did reduce them.

There are about 92 originall letters from the Queene. About 84 from the Councill.

About 206 from the Great men in England, and of these many in the Lrd Burlyes owne hand.

About 259 letters and applications to the Deputy from those in Ireland. And among these some letters signed Thomas Ormonde.

Copyes of letters, &c. from the Deputy, 407.
Promiscuous papers, 285.

64 papers about ye Earle of Kildare.

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papers & parcells about ye E. of Clanricard.

Copy of some Instructions to ye Lrd Deputy Sidney. When I had seperated & bundelled not onely these 9 parcells, but all the others in the inc[losed] list, in order to be sent unto y Grace wch his Lrdpp franckly offered, there entred a certaine man of the law (sent for, I suppose, to be consulted withall), and from thenceforth his Ldpp seemed willing to part with papers onely. But as to the bookes of accts, he knew not if future [oblit] not fall out and make them needfull to his family. To this I told his Lapp yt an hundred yeares past was a faire quietus from all Exchequers, and his Lapp did at last agree yt if y' Grace should desire these alsoe, he knew not why, he might not alsoe part with them, but I suppose his Lropp has in the inclosed to your Grace sayd somewhat as to this point himselfe. The 9 bundles weh I sett apart are now come to towne, & in ye hands of Mr. Herriott, the gouldsmith, tobe sent your Grace with the first convenyency. I send with them a letter from his Lrdpp, wisshing I would here more strickly peruse all the papers, and returne him back such of them as appeared to be onely of private concerne. To this I answered yt my stay here was but for a few dayes. Whereas it would require a month to read all, and extract what even in private letters might appeare to be of publick concerne. But I promissed to write to y' Grace yt all papers meerely private should be layd by, and returned back; and then such papers as were cheifely private, after publick passages were transferred, should alsoe be returned. Thus this. matter stands, and I presume your Grace will find somebody y' is at leisure to fulfill what I have promised, wch will be a good expedient to gett the remayning bookes, if any of them (as the world is now altered) should turn to be of any use. As for Councill bookes, there was nothing at all of ye nature appeared, nor doe I believe his Lrdpp has other then what I here give acct of, for he lett me enter at last among all the evidences of his estate, but nothing appeared save in this old rotten trunck, which had never beene opened, and hardly ever seene by his Lrdpp before. I must add yt in these 2 dayes his Lapp entertayned me & my company very kindly. He shewed us the antiquityes of his family, among whom the last 12 have beene called Williams. They have affected this name from William Fitzwilliams, who entred with the Conquerour, and being marshall of a camp in ye famous fight of BattleAbby, the Conquerour gave him his owne scarfe in reward of his prowess that day. This scarfe they preserve, and by custome lay it over the face of all the male children when christened. But his Lrdpp shewed us a booke in 4o, where there is entred uppon velome, and curiously adorned (as the church-writings of former times), an exact deduction of his family, and their cheife exploites from the time of the Conquest downe to the Deputy of Ireland, & all attested by the cheife heraulds of ye time. I presume to mention this to your Grace, wisshing you had the like, or y' even what you know your self (wch is very much) were but noted downe, for posterity runns more & more into the darke. I begg your Grace to pardon this pre

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"A list of letters and papers set apart by Sr Robert Southwell, at Milton, on the 11th and 12 of August 1684, he being then, by direction of the Duke of Ormonde, with the Rt Honoble the Lord Fitzwilliams, who, at his Grace's request, intends to send the said letters & papers to his Grace, as relating to the Government of Ireland in the time when his Lops ancestor St William Fitzwilliams, Kn', served Queen Elizabeth, either as Treasurer at War, or as one of the Lords Justices, or as Lord Deputy of the said kingdome.

1. Lres from the Queen, 92.

One bundle of letters from the Queen to Sr William Fitzwilliams, from the yeare 1561 to 1576, they are in number 92, but some few of them are onely copies. 2. Letters from the Councell of England, 84.One bundle of letters from the Lords of the Councill of England, wch bear date from 1561 to 1575. They are in number 84, all directed to the said S William, and there are two letters to him from the Council of Ireland of 1562.

3. Letters from the great men at Court to Sir W. Fitzwilliams, 206.

One large bundle of letters from the ministers and great men in the Court of England, as the E. of Leicester, Sir William Cecill, & L Burleigh, from the 2 Secretaries, Walsingham & Smith, from Mr Windebank, from the Earls of Essex, Sussex, and Bedford, from Sir Henry Sidney, Sr John Perrot, Sr Tho. Knolles, Sr Walter Mildmay, Mr. Heneage, & others. They are in number 206, and bear date from 1561 to 1577.

4. Letters from severall in ye kingdom of Ireland, 259.

A large bundle of letters and various addresses to the said S William from all sorts and conditions of people in Ireland during his Governm' there, being in number 259.

5. Copies of St W tres & orders, 407.

One large bundle of copies of letters from the said Sr William to the Ministers in England, with various copies of letters, orders, & directions to those who were under his Government in Ireland, wch make 407 papers. 6. Promiscuous papers, 285.—

One large parcell of promiscuous papers during the times afore-mentioned; there is among them papers touching O'Neil, and other the great families of the North. They are in all 285.

7. About the Earl of Kildare, 64.

One bundle, with two parcells, being orders from the Queen and Council to inquire into the miscarriages of the Earle of Kildare, and the other the representations of the Lord Deputy thereupon. In all 64 papers. 8. About the Earle of Clanricard.-

Complaints of the President of Conought against the Earl of Clanricard, with the said Earl's defence, being one long bundle, but consisting only of 5 severall papers and parcells.

9. La Deputy Sidney.

A copy of some instrucons given by the Queen to the Lord Deputy Sidney, together with twelve warrants and letters signed by the said Lord Deputy during his government.

Memorandum-That besides the letters and papers above-mentioned (wch are intended for his Grace the Duke of Ormonde), my Lord Fitz Williams has in his custody the books and papers following:

Folio 1. The state of the Treasury of Ireland, from 1560 to 157 [oblit].

Fol. 2. An accompt of all receipts and payments wch passed [oblit] William as Trear at Warr, from 1559 to 1568.

Fol. 3. Receipts of the said Treasurer, from 1569 to 1571.

Fol. 4. A survey of the Queen's lands, in the county of Monaghan, on the attainder of Hugh Rhoe MacMahon, in the 18th of the Queene.

Fol. 5. The said Treasury accompts stated & passed

from 1558 to 1568. A large parchmt book of the sd Trears accompts, from 1569 to 1573.

6. The state of the army and charges thereof, 1573. 7. Assesmt for soldiers in the Barony of Farbell, from 1569 to 1572. Receipts and rents of the Baron of Slan's lands, 1562.

8. The said Treasurers accompts from 1562 to 1563. 9. A list of some in Munster who were to pay severall fines to her Majte for their respective pardons.

10. The state of the army and garrisons and of the pay in November 1572.

11. Severall broken accompts for victualling and furnishing the army in their marches.

12. A perfect state made up of the Vice Trears accompts in the 13th of the Queen, with about 35 thin bookes, some stitched and some bound, weh seeme to be vouchers of the said accompts.

13. There are also severall books, papers, & parchment rolls conteining large & distinct accompts of the state of the army and charges therof, and altogether with them severall muster rolls, the listing of men in many of the counties, assignm' of quarters, and other matters relating to warre.

14. There are also severall short accompts and stats of the revenue of the kingdom as it then stood.

15. One large bundle of papers shewing great paines taken about the year 1588 for the making a map of Ireland, wherein the Lord Deputy imployed one John Brown a mathematician who had drawn forth with his pen severall of the counties."

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Ailesbury, Lord.
Airlie, Lord.
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Allen, John,
Allen, Joshua.
Amory, Thomas.
Anglesey, Earl of.
Antrim, Lord.

Archer, James, Captain.
Archer, Lucas.
Archer, Patrick.
Archer, Walter.
Ardglass, Lord.
Argyll, Lord.

Arlington, Lord.

Armstrong, Thomas, Sir.
Arran, Lady.
Arran, Lord.
Arundel, Lord.
Assheton, William.
Athenry, Lord.
Athol, Lord.
Aubigny, Lord.
Aungier, Francis, Sir.
Aungier, Lord.
Aylmer, G.

Bagot, J.
Baltinglass, Lord.
Baron, William.
Barter, John.
Barton, Richard, Provin-
cial of English Jesuits.
Barrymore, Lord.

Bath and Wells, Bishops of.
Beauford, Lord.
Belfast, Provosts of.
Bellingham, Daniel, Sir.
Bellings, Richard.
Bennett, Henry.
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Carteret, G., Sir.
Cary, George.

Cashel, Archbishops of.
Castleconnel, Lord.
Castlehaven, Lord.
Castleton, John.
Catherine, Queen.
Cavendish, Lady.
Charles I.
Charles II.

Chesterfield, Lady.
Chesterfield, Lord.
Chicheley, Thomas, Sir.

Chichester, Bishop of.
Clancarty, Lady.
Clanricarde, Lord.
Clare, Lord.
Clarendon, Lord.
Clarges, Thomas, Sir.
Clarke, Thomas.
Clifton, Richard, Sir.
Clogher, Bishops of.
Clonmel, Mayors of.
Cloyne, Bishops of.
Colclough, Adam, Sir.
Comerford, Edward.
Comerford, George.
Congreve, Christopher,

Sir.

Conway, Lord.
Cork, Bishops of.
Corker, Edward.
Costilogh, Dillon, Lord.
Courcey, Lord.
Coventry, Henry, Sir.
Cowley, James.

Crofton, Edward, Sir.
Cromwell, Henry.
Culpepper, Thomas, Lord.

Danby, Lord.

Dancer, John.

Darcy, Christopher.

Darcy, Nicholas.
Darcy, Patrick.

Dartmouth, Lord.

Davis, John.

Davis, Paul.
Davis, W., Sir.
Deane, Maurice.
Delahoyd, Peter.
Denbigh, Lord.
Denison, Richard.

Derby, Lord.
Derry, Bishops of.
Desmond, Countess of.
Desmond, Elizabeth,
Lady.

Desmynieres, Lewis.
Devonshire, Lord.

Digby, Lord.

Dillon, C. A.

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Eustace, Maurice, Sir.
Eustace, Oliver.
Evants, Thomas, Captain.
Evelyn, John.
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Fairfax, Thomas.
Fanshawe, Lady.

Fanshawe, Richard, Sir.
Fennell, Gerrald.
Fenton, William, Sir.
Feversham, Lord.
Fielding, Charles, Sir.
Fingal, Lady.
Fitzgerald, James.
Fitzgerald, John, Sir.
Fitzgerald, Robert.
Fitzharding, Lord.
Fitzwilliams, Lord.
Flatman, Thomas.
Flower, William, Col.
Forbes, Arthur, Sir.
Forth, Robert, Sir.
Fox, Stephen, Sir.
Foxon, Samuel, Sir.
French, Nicholas, Bishop
of Ferns.

Galmoy, Lord.
Galway, Commissioners
of.

Galway, Mayors of.
Gascoigne, Henry.
Gilbert, George, Sir.
Gilbert, William, Sir.
Glencairn, Earl of.
Godolphin, Lord.
Goeghe, Thomas, Sir.
Goodwin, Peter.
Gookin, Samuel.
Gore, Arthur, Sir.
Gorges, John.
Gorges, Robert.
Gorges, Samuel.
Grace, Colonel.
Grace, Edmund.
Grace, John.

Grace, Robert.

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Grammont, Countess.

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King, William, Sir.
Kingston, Lord.
Kinsale, Sovereigns of.
Kirke, R.

Ladyman, Samuel.
Lane, George, Sir.
Lanesborough, Lord.
Lauderdale, Duke of.
Laurence, Richard.
Lawles, Richard.
Leinster, Commissioners
of.

Leslie, James, Sir.
L'Estrange, Roger.
Limerick, Bishops of.
Limerick, Governor of.
Limerick, Sheriff of.
Loftus, Adam, Sir.
Loftus, Dudley.

Loftus, Edward.
Loftus, Henry.
London, Bishops of.
Longford, Lord.
Louvois, M. de.
Lowther, John, Sir.
Lundie, Robert.
Ludlow, Edmund.
Lynch, Dominick.

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Mac Mahon,
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Mahony, Teige.
Man, Governor of.
Marsh, Francis.
Martin, Robert.
Massereene, Lord.
Massie, Edward.
Mathews, George.
Mathews, Theobald.
Maynard, John.
Meade, John, Sir.
Meara, Edmund.
Meath, Bishops of.
Meath, Lord.
Middlesex, Lord.
Milward, Thomas, Sir.
Monmouth, Duke of.
Moreton, William, Dean.
Morice, William, Sir.
Mount Alexander, Lord.
Mount Cashel, Lord.
Mount Garrett, Lord.
Mountjoy, Lord.
Mountmorres, Lord.
Mountrath, Lord.
Muledy, Patricio, Don.
Muley, Richard.
Mulgrave, Lord.
Muskerry, Lord.

Nagle, Richard, Sir.
Nalson, John, Dr.
Netterville, Robert.
Newburgh, Lord.

Newcomen, Thomas, Sir.
Nicholas, Edward.

Northumberland, Lord.
Nugent, James.

O'Neill, Daniell.
O'Neill, Owen Roe.
Orange, Prince of.
Orrery, Lord.
Osborne, John.
Ossory, Lord.
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Ottway, John.
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EARL OF GRANARD.

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THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF GRANARD, K.P., CASTLE FORBES, CO. LONGFORD. The Huntingdon, Rawdon and Moira documents, referred to in last Report,* include letters of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, her son Francis, tenth Earl of Huntingdon, her daughter Elizabeth, Countess of Moira, and of the latter's son, Francis, successively Lord Rawdon, Earl of Moira (1793), and Marquis of Hastings (1816).

The houses of Huntingdon, Rawdon and Moira, and Granard became allied through the marriage in 1779 of George, grandfather of the present Earl of Granard, to Selina, daughter of John Rawdon, first Earl of Moira, by Elizabeth Hastings, daughter and eventual heiress of Theophilus Hastings, ninth Earl of Huntingdon, and previously by the marriage of Arthur, second Earl of Granard, to Mary, daughter of Sir John Rawdon, Bishop of Moira, by Dorothy, daugher of Edward, Viscount Conway, in 1678.

Francis Hastings, tenth Earl of Huntingdon, whose correspondence forms part of the present collection, was born in 1728. Through his ancestors, Dukes of Clarence, he was of royal descent, and in addition to the Huntingdon title he inherited on his father's death in 1746 the baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, Botreaux, Moels, Newark, and Molins. Akenside's best ode was that addressed by him to this nobleman in 1747. Lord Huntingdon was a member of the Privy Council of England, and, as premier Earl, bore the sword of state at the coronation of George III., to whom he was for a time Master of the Horse and Groom of the Stole. Last direct male representative of his house, he died unmarried in 1789, and his baronies devolved upon his sister Lady Moira; but the title of Huntingdon lay in abeyance till the father of the present Earl was enabled in 1819 to prove his right to it, mainly through the exertions of an Irish gentleman, Edward Nugent Bell, under the legal guidance of Sir Samuel Romilly.

The letters of the tenth Earl of Huntingdon now under notice, extend from 1750 to 1785, and are addressed to his sister Lady Moira, and her husband. Among the topics of interest in the correspondence are the following:-Appointment of Lord Huntingdon to Mastership of the Horse by George III. (1760). Arrangements for royal marriage and coronation. Earldom of Moira granted to Lord Rawdon, instead of that of Monteith desired by him, but which was claimed by a Scotch trader (1761). Buildings, life and society at Donington. Number and magnificence of entertainments in London. Embassy to Spain offered by Lord Shelburne to Lord Huntingdon in 1766, and declined. Letter of Lord Huntingdon to Lady Moira, 20th April 1767: "Upon the "creation of the three last Dukes, I applied for the title "of Clarence. Mr. Horace Walpole drew up my descent "from the four sons of Edward the Third, and my claim "by George Duke of Clarence as well as Lionel, and I "laid it before the King; but with an absolute refusal "of a dukedom, but by that title, as declaratory of my birth, not as giving me a lift in the peerage. The King kept it, and referred me to Lord Chatham. His lordship's invalid state has prevented him as yet being "at court." State of political parties. Lord Townshend, Viceroy of Ireland (1767), King of Denmark and companions in London (1768). Letter of Lord Huntingdon to

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* See Second Report of the Royal Commission on Historical MSS. (1871), p. 210, for notice of documents connected with the house of Forbes in the collection of the Earl of Granard.

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his sister, 23rd January 1770, on his dismissal from office of groom of the stole :-I have disliked the measures of GRANAED. government for some time past, and have been jealous "of the imputation (that might have been thrown upon me) of being an accommodating man, that voted like a Swiss with every administration. The election of "Mr. Lutterel by the House of Commons, and not by "the Freeholders of Middlesex, displeased me, and I "did not conceal my sentiments upon it. These and some such little matters formed the articles of impeachment against me, tho' it was put upon me not attending the first day of Parliament. The manner "of my dismission was a good deal in the style of the "late Duke of Devonshire's, and is universally disapproved of. When Lord Weymouth's letter was dispatched by a messenger to let me know the King "had no further occasion for my service, they did not "know whether I might not have been ill in bed, or "overturned or drowned. I was ordered to deliver "my gold key to Lord Weymouth, which I did, the morning after I arrived in town, and went to the King's levee and the Queen's drawing room the same day, it being the birthday; they both spoke to me very civilly... I do not want a place, and shall "not feel the want of half-a-crown by losing three "thousand a year."

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Decision of Lord Huntingdon that his nephew, Francis Rawdon, shall take the name of Hastings, and inherit his title and estates. Plans for his education, travels, and entrance into army. Estimate of his " good sense, " right head and heart, and excessive sensibility."

Letters from Turin, Bologna, Florence, Naples. Notices of foreign courts and nobles. Progress of Francis Rawdon and his brother John. Military services of Francis in America. He is placed in command in Carolina. Return to England. Lords Huntingdon and Rawdon in House of Lords. Success of Lord Rawdon as a speaker there and in Leicestershire.

The letters of Francis Rawdon abound with matter of interest in connexion with the early stages of his career; his student life at Oxford; continental tours with his uncle Lord Huntingdon; entrance into the army in 1771; residence at Ischia with Sir William and Lady Hamil. ton; details connected with civil and military affairs in America during the war, 1776-81, for services in which George III. created him, in his 28th year, peer of England, by the title of Baron Rawdon. The character of these letters may be illustrated by the following extract from one of them, addressed by Lord Rawdon to the Countess of Moira from the "Camp, near Twelve"Mile Creek, on the frontier of North Carolina, Sept. "19, 1780," with reference to the important battle of Camden, in the preceding month :-" As I find that the

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communication by pacquett between this province " & England is now to be regular, I take advantage of an halt to write to my dearest mother, and shall "forward my letter to Charlestown, that it may go by "the first opportunity. I hope that a letter which "I wrote to my father by the Providence Frigate, "immediately after the battle near Camden, may have "reached you; as it would make you easy both with regard to my safety and my health. It would likewise inform you that I had some share to sustain in "the dangers and difficulties which so seriously as"sailed us: Tho' it would scarcely appear so from the public account, a copy of which Ld Cornwallis] has "shown to me. This I am convinced proceeded en

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attempt, for the failure of which the disparity of force "would have been a sufficient apology: But I felt that "the step would be false; for by maintaining the conduct "which I pursued, I was certain of forcing the enemy "either to retire across the Pedee, to attack me upon terms almost hopeless for them, or to take the ruinous part which they actually did embrace. De Kalb, "who was a good officer, saw so clearly the conse quences of reducing their attacks to one point, and

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