t liiiJfiniiiiiiiiiftiMi :B7i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/letterswrittenby02boul LET T E R S WRITTEN BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUGH BOULTER, D.D. Lord PRIMATE of All IRELAND, &e. TO Several Minifters of State in England^ AND SOME OTHERS. CONTAINING, An Account of the moft intereftingTranfadions which paffed in Ireland from 1724 to 1738. p VOLUME THE SECOND. DUBLIN: Printed for G. Faulkner and J. Williams, Bookfellers. M;DCC,LXX„ BOSTON COLXEGE Llt;f',...< LETTERS WRITTEN BY His Excellency HUGH BOULTER. Lord Primate of All Ireland. To th€ Duke of Dorfet, My Lord, Duhlini Apr. 6, 1730. IT is with great pleafure that I hear from Mr„ • Gardiner^ that the money due to Meflrs. Lawman and Hoburg to Lady-day 1730, is actually remitted to London. I am forry that affair met with fo great de° lays, but confidering the very low eftate of our trea- fury, we have at laft made a good handfome recom- pence for its being put off fd long. I am, my Lord, Your Grace's mdfl humijle, and Mod obedient Servant, Htji Armagh. * Luke Oardiner, Efq; Deputy Vice Treafurer of Ireland, and foon after fworn a Privy Counfellor. Vol. II. B n LETTERS BY ^0 the Duke of Newcaille. My Lord, Dublin, Apr. 21, 173a. IS * Excellency the Lord Lieutenant embarked yeflerday morning for Eiigland: as the wind has not been very favourable fmce, we believe he can hardly reach Park-gate before this night. There is a mifunderftanding between his Excellency and the Eifhop of Clonfert^ whom his Majefty has been pleaf- ed to name to the bifhoprick of Fernes^ about a commendam. The Eifhop is very thankful to his Majefhy for the bifhoprick of Fernes^ and defigns to take it, but hopes nothing wall be decided againfl him about the commendam, or any ftop put to his having the bifhoprick of Femes ^ till he has an op- portunity of laying his cafe before his Majefty, to whofe pleafure about the commendam, he will moil cheat fully fubmit. I am. My Lord, &c. To Lord Carteret. My Lord, Duhlhi^ Apr. 25, 173a. •INCE your Excellency left us, I have done what I could to bring the council to declare their opinion about the reducing of gold, but though much the greater part think it is what ought to be done, yet they are fo afraid of the Houfe of Com- mons, that I have not been able to bring them to fay as much. My brother jufrices are both againfl the council giving their opinion in the matter; fo that at the * Lord Carteret, afterwards Earl of Qranmlle in Right of his Mother. . council LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. J council held to day on that fubjedl, it was to no pur- pofe to prefs it^ it was almoft with difficulty that we got the affair recommitted in order to draw up a letter to your Excellency with an hiflorical narration of what has pafTed in council relating to the coin, fmce the year 1711, with particular orders to infert the refolutions of the committee 1729, relating to gold and filver coins, that the whole. may be laid be- fore his Majefty. * Sir Ralph Gore would fain have the game of laft fummer played over again, by hearing the merchants and receiving petitions, but my f Lord Chancellor and I are refolved not to permit it. The committee are to meet on Monday y and my Lord Chancellor has promifed to have a council, and fend away thofe refolutions with a letter by Tuefday's poft. I find by Sir Ralph Gore's propofal to day^ that the merchants are now as fome of them lafl year were, for raifmg foreign filver, though nothing be done about the gold ; but as the whole view of this is to carry on their prefent gainful trade of importing gold and carrying out filver, by the help of foreign filver, now the trade begins to fail for want of Englijh filver, my Lord Chancellor and I fhall take care to prevent any fuch application from the council. I am forty I can give no better account of this af= fair, but my endeavours have not been wanting to make things go better. I am, &c, * Then one of tlie Lords Juftices, and Speaker of the Houfe of Commons of Ireland. f Thomas Lord Wjndham, who died fome Years after in Englatid, by whofe Death the Title became extin^, LETTERS B ¥ To the fame. rviy'Lord, Dublin^ Apr. 30, ly^o. Am forry to inform your Excellency that the af- fair of the coin meets with fuch difficulties in the council, that the letter we (hall, I fuppofe, agree to-- morrow to fend to your Excellency, will come to juft nothing. Thofe of the Houfe of Commons in the council feem backward to agree to any thing contra- ry to the vote of their Houfe ; but I lay the whole mifcarriage at the door of others ; * one of which is wrong in his notions about the coin, and the other^ •f I think, at leail as much afraid of the Houfe of Commons as any commoner there. Had the lad of thefe fhewn any fpirit, all would have gone right, and I believe moft of the commoners would have had courage to do what they think is right. But when they fee their governors afraid of the Houfe of Com- mons, how can we expedt courage in the members of that Houfe } The Lords in council have courage to do the right thing, but it is to no purpofe to pufh at what two of the Lords Juftices will not fign. I gave your Excellency a hint of this before you left us, and then foreboded what I now am more cer- tain of, the difficulties the government here will lye under, if any accident fhould happen that requires a little courage. I think we fhall fend your Lordfhip the refolution of the committee of the council about the alterations propofed laft fummer, without daring fo much as to defire your Excellency to lay them before hrs Ma- jelly. * Sir Ralph Gore. f Lord Chancellor Wyndham. The LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 5 The warm men of the Houfe are as noify about town againfl the redu6tion of gold, as they were in the houfe. Rut I have had feveral others of fafhion to beg it may be done to fave us ^rom ruin. All the hopes now left us are, that your Excellen- cy will from the refolutions of both Houfes, and the papers fent from the council (though without any re- folution, or fo much as dellring your Excellency to lay them before his Majefty) takeoccafion to move 'his Majefty to refer the matter to the officers o^the mint, and to order what he fhall judge proper upon their report. Your Excellency knows our diftrefs, and the ge- nuine remedy, and except yau hav€ the goodnefs to reprefent our cafe truly to his Majefly, and obtain ^relief from his goodnefs, we want either fenfe or ho neily, or courage enough fo much as to aik for a cure of our evils from hence. I am, &c. To the Duke of * Newcaftle. My Lord, Diihliny May 2^ 1730. I Have formerly troubled your Grace with fome ac- counts of the diflrefs we are in here for want of filver, and the proper remedy of this evil, by a re- dudlion of our gold to the value it obtains in England^ and Vaifmg the foreign filver to near the middle price it bears in England. The privy council here bave more than once had this affair under conlideration, and a committee of council laft fummer had fettled the value they pro- pofed gold and filver fhould pafs for here, if apprcv- * Henry Holies Pelhantf tben Secretary of State. B 3 ed 6 L E T T E R S BY * led by his Majefty : but as our bankers and other rer mitters find their advantage in the prefent difpropor- tionate vakie of our gold and filver, they raifed a great oppofition to any reduction of gold here, and fet on foot petitions againfl it. As we were at that time in a flate of fan^iine, and nobody could tell how our harvefl might prove, it was thought proper to defer proceeding in that affair, left any misfor- tune of any other kind might be imputed to fuch re- dudion. But much the greateft part of the council v/ere then of opinion, that the alterations drawn up by the committee, were the proper remedy for our evil. T'?.^ *rrrn This affair has fince been taken up by the com- inoDs, but the weight of the bankers in that houfe is fuch, that very early in the feflions they carried a vote that the * moidore Ihould not be reduced : the carrying of that vote hindered their doing any thing farther for a great while, becaufe the houfe were fenfible they had been wrong in that ftep. About a day before the parliament rofe, the Lords paiTed a refolution, that our want of filver was oc- cafioned by our gold and filver not bearing a propor- tionable value to what they bear in England; and to defire the Lord Lieutenant to get this evil cured in the proper method. What was the opinion of the Lords, v/as, that the gold was over-rated ; but they avoided faying fo much, becaufe the commons had already voted th^t a moidore fhould not be rej duced. ' • • ' /. When the commons met the lafl day of our feiliori, they fell into a great heat about the Lords refolu- tions, and talked of laying the key of tlie houfe on * At this time a moidore palTed for thirty fliUIings, Irifh w^ ncv, a guinea for one pound three fhiUings, French and Spanijh piftoles for eighteen fliiiiings and fix pence, and all other gold coins large and fmali, in the fame proportion. • the LORD PRIMATE BOULTER.. 7 the table, in order not to be interrupted by a mef- fage from my Lord Lieutenant, and paiTed a vote in that heat againft lowering the gold at all. The warmth of the houfe was fuch, that though mofl: of the members who know any thing of the fubjedt of coins, thought the houfe were votuig wrong ; yet they found it to no purpofe to make any oppofi- tion. Things being in this cafe, my Lord Lieutenant ac- quainted the council with the refolutions of the Lords and Commons, and defired their advice in the mat- ter •, which, I think, I may fay they promifed to give : I am fure it is their duty to give it : but upon our holding a council after my Lord's departure, on this fubjedt, too many of the council expreffed a fear of offending the commons, though one great bulinefs of the council is to be a check upon both Lords and Commons, and did not care to give their opinion. All they could be brought to v/as, to fend over to my Lord Lieutenant an account of what has paffed in the council fmce the year 171 1, relating to the coin, and the refolutions of the committee of council in 1729, about fettling their value. But both in that account, and in their letter to my Lord Lieu- tenant, they fhew they lean to the opinion of redu- cing the gold, though they had not courage to fpeak out. As this is our prefentcafe, through the influence of the bankers and remitters on the Houfe of Commons, and the timidity of the council, the only remedy re- maining for our evil is, if his Majefly will be pleaf- ed to refer the refolutions of the committee of council 1729, tranfmitted to my Lord Lieutenant, to his ofli- cers of the mint, and if upon their report thefe refo- lutions are thought reafonable, to fend his orders hither for a proclamation to iffue accordingly. I have had feveral worthy m.en both Lords and Commoners with me, begging that I would go on B 4 with g LETTERS BY with this affair, notwithftanding the heats about it, fmce our manufadures and retail trade are under the lad diftrefs for want of filven The lowed price of changing a moidore in moil parts being ^d. and often 15. or more. The refolutions of that committee 1729, are to be feen in a printed vindication of the alterations intend- ed to be made by the council in the value of the coins current in this kingdom, which I underftand was fent your Grace. Whether foreign filvcr be raifed or not, as in that fcheme, is not ot that great confequence, though the raifmg of it will be of fome fervice to us, but the lowering of the gold, as is there propofed, is of the lafl confequence to us. If his Majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to order fuch a proclamation, the bankers who have made all the diflurbances and oppofition to this redudlion, are the very people that would labour to keep every thing quiet, becaufe any difturbance on fuch a pro- clamation, will end in a run on themfelves. And the certainty of our having filver, and the be- nefit to our trade by it will fo foon appear, that I am fure before another feilion of parliament, the face of affairs will be fo altered, that every honefl man in or out of the Houfe of Commons, will be thankful for the change. If I did not think this an affair of the lafl impor- tance to the welfare of this kingdom, and confe- quently to his Majefly's fervice here, I fhould be for holding my peace (as is the behaviour of fome other of his Majefly's fervants here) and let the nation la- bour under its prefent diflrefs, till they come to a better mind*„ I am, Your Grace's, &c. * In this letter his Grace fhews great ability, refolution, and lioneft}% LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 9 * To the Bijhop o/' London. My Lord, Dublin^ May 5, 1730. IN purfuance of the laft letter I was favoured with by your Lordlhip, I defired my brethren on the bench not to fend over any more miflionaries for the JVeft Indies from hence, till we heard from your Lord- fhip that a fupply was wanting. Some time before the receipt of that letter, one or two had been very well recommended to me for that fervice, but I fhall not now trouble your Lordfhip about them, till far- ther advice* The great numbers of papifls in this kingdom, and the obftinacy with which they adhere to their own religion, occafions our trying what may be done with their children to bring them over to our church ; and the good fuccefs the corporation efta- blifhed in Scotland for the inftrudtion of the ignorant and barbarous part of that nation has met with, en- courages us to hope if we were incorporated for that purpofe here, that we might likewife have fome fuccefs in our attempts to teach the children of the papifls the Englijh tongue, and the principles of the Chriflian religion \ ; and feveral gentlemen here have promifed fubfcriptions for maintaining fchools for that purpofe, if we were once formed into a corporate body. This has fet the principal nobility, gentry, and clergy here on prefenting an addrefs to his Majefly to erecft • This letter was copied and fent likewife to the Archbifhop of Canterbury. f Dr. MWBifhop of C/o)>«^, afterwards Bifliop oi Meath^htmg « gentleman of good family and fortune, expended a great part of his eftate, to eftablifli this foundation, which is now lupported hj Parliament, and voluntary contributions. His Grace the Lord Primate had alfo great merit in promoting this charity, of the Pro- teftant charter fchools in Ireland, fuch JO L E T T E R S B Y fuch perfons as he pleafes into a corporation here for that purpofe, which we have fent over by the Lord Lieutenant, to be laid before his Majefty : the copy of this addrefs I have here fent your Lordfhip, in which you v/ill in fome meafure fee the melan- choly flate of religion in this kingdom. And I do in my own name and that of the reft of my brethren, beg the favour of your Lordfhip to give it your countenance. I can afTure you the papifts are here fo numerous that it highly concerns us in point of intereft, as well as out of concern for the fal vat ion of thofe poor creatures, who are our fellow fubjeds, to try all poflible means to bring them and theirs over to the knowledge of the true religion. And one of the moft likely methods we can think of is, if poflible, inftrudling and converting the young generation • for inftead of converting thofe that are adult, we are daily lofing many of our mean- er people who go off to popery. I am fure your Lordfhip will be glad of any op- portunity of advancing the glory of God, and pro- moting his fervice and worfhip among thofe who at prefent are ftrangers to it. I thank your Lordfhip for your fecond paftoral letter, I hope it will do great fervice to religion in England ^ and we hope it may be of fervice to us here, though irreligion does not fliew itfelf fo bare- faced amongft us ; I have therefore encouraged its printing here. lam, My Lord, &c. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ii 7i3 the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin, May 7, 1730. TH E number of papifts in this kingdom is fo great, that it is of the utmofl confequence to the proteftant intereft here to bring them over by all Chriflian methods to the Church of Ireland. In order to do this, we are labouring to increafe the number of Churches and of parfonage houfes, for the benefit of refident incumbents; and have pafTed fome a6ls the three lafl feflions, to come at glebes for the clergy to live on, the greateil part of the livings here having neither houfe nor land belonging to them. But the ignorance and obftinacy of the adult pa- plfts is fuch, that there is not much hope of convert- ing them. But we have hopes if we could eredl a number of fchools to teach their children the Englijlj tongue, and" the principles of the Chriflian religion, that we could do fome good among the generation that is growing up. And as we find this defign has teen carried on with good fuccefs in Scotland, under the condudl of a corporation erected in that country by his late Majefly, we hope we may have the fame fuccefs under a like corporation in this kingdom : and great numbers of nobility and gentry have ex- prefiTed a willlngnefs to come into fubfcriptions for that end, if there were a corporation eftablifhed here to take on them the management of fchools for in- truding the popifh youth. This has been the occafion that the principal nobi- lity, gentry, and clergy here have joined in an ad- idrefs to his Majefl}^, to eredt fuch a corporation here, in fuch manner as his Majefty ihall judge proper, which we defired the Lord Lieutenant to lay before his Majefly. A copy of this addrefs I have herewith fent 12 LETTERS BY fent your Grace, by which you will fee the bad ftate the proteftant religion is in here. And I make it my requeft to your Grace in my own name, and that of my brethren the Bifhops, that you would be pleafed to give your countenance to our addrefs, that we may obtain the charter * we defire. I am, my Lord, &c. 'To Lord Carteret. My Lord, Dublin^ May zOy 1736. ^ I Have received the honour of your Excellency's of the 14th inft. and thank your Excellency for your great kindnefs to this nation in obtaining of his Majefly that the papers tranfmitted by the privy council be referred to the officers of the mint, in order to lay a foundation for fuch orders as may put a Hop to the prefent calamity we lye under. And I mufl renew my requeft to your Excellency that you would complete our deliverance, which 1 find thofe here who know well enough the method of compaf- fmg it have not the courage to attempt, without fome orders from England. Upon the leaft encouragement from your Excellen- cy, I think I could bring the privy council to join in an application to his Majefly for the coining of 15,000 /. in copper at the mint, fince in private con- verfation, the moft f timorous of them own to me, that they do not think the refolution of Lords and Commons inconfiftent with one another. I moft gratefully acknowledge your kindnefs in thofe favourable reprefentations your Lordftiip has * It was granted, X He certainly means Chancellor Wyndhantf if not Sir Ralph G^re alfo. been LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 13 been pleafed to make of my condudt for th€ fervice of his Majeily, and I (hall continue to endeavour not to give any juft caufe of complaint againd me. I am. My Lord, &:c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ May zE^ ij^o, BY fome letters which have been fhewn me here, I find his Majeily and your Excellency have been very much folicited in behalf of Mr. * Daniel Kimberlyy but that your Excellency* was of the fame opinion as we were of here, that the crime was fa common in this country, as well as fo heinous in it- felf, that there was no room for mercy. We have had a great deal of trouble here in this affair, b^y giving way to Sir Ralph Gore's defire to reprieve him from JVednefday to Saturday laft week : upon which Mr. Kimberly got an opinion from an ob- fcure lawyer, that by his being reprieved, the fheriff could not lawfully execute him, till there was a new rule of court made about him, the day being lapfed on which he ought to have been executed by the firft order of court. The fheriff was at a Hand upon this, but advifed with Mr. + Juftice Bernard and fome other lawyers, who affured him the reprieve did not cancel * Daniel Kimberly was an Attorney, and fome Way aiding and affifting in the Marriage of Mr. Brad. Mead with Mifs Readingy who was an Heirefs in Right of her Mother, which Mar- riage, by A6t of Parliament, was contrary to Law, without Con- fent of Parents, or Guardians j upon which Warrants wereifTued againft Mr. MeWand Mr. Kimberly who made their Efcape ; the firft to Holland, and the other to London, where he was taken, brought to Ireland, was tried, found guilty, and executed. t A Judge of the Common Pleas, a very eminent Lawyer, and Perfon of large Fortune, having purchafed a great Part of the? Earl of Cloncartyi Eflate, 14. L E T T E R S BY the order, but only fufpended it for fo many days. On Saturday iaft we had the Judges, the Prime Ser- jeant, SoUicitor, and Mr. Serjeant Bowes * to confult with, who were all of the opinion that: the fherifF could execute him on the day to which he was re- prieved. But fome of them faying they had not thoroughly ftudied the point, we thought fit to re- prieve him till yeilerday, and fent to the Prime Ser- jeant, Attorney, SoUicitor, and Mr. Bowes^ to have their opinion in v/riting on this fubjedl, which they gave in on ^uefday^ agreeing that he might be execut- ed at the expiration of the reprieve, without any new order. Upon this, fince the prerogative was deeply concerned, that the granting of a reprieve for a few days fhould not be carried to reprieve a male- fador till next term, and fince fuch a precedent mud probably have raifed fcruples in every fheriff in Ire- land^ whether after any reprieve they could without a new order from the Judge execute a criminal, we thought fit to give no farther reprieve, and he was executed yefterday. I muft own I was very much fur prized at this dif- ficulty being raifed here, having not heard the lead hint of any fuch thing in E?igland ; but I think the affair is now fo fettled, that for fome time at leaft no attempt of this nature is likely to be made on the prerogative here. • I thought it my duty to give your Excellency this fhort account of an affair, that has given us more trouble than I think it need have done. Sir Ralph Gore went into the country lafl Monday morning. I am. My Lord, &c. * Afterwards Lord Chancellor of Irelandj and was created a Peer of that Realm. The Title is extinft, his Lordihip having no Iffiie. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. i To Sir Robert Walpole. Sir, Dubliny Jan. 4, 1730. ^T"^ H E gentleman that waits upon you with this, A is Mr. * Dobbs, one of the members of our Houfe of Commons, where he on all occafions endea- vours to promote his Majefty's fervice. He is a perfon of good fenfe, and has for fome time applied his thoughts to the improvement of the trade of Great Britain and Ireland, and to the making our colonies in America of more advantage than they have hitherto been t : and has written his thoughts on thefe fubjedts, which he is defirous to offer to your confideration. As he has not the honour to be known to you, he applied to me to open a way for his waiting on you. I need fay nothing of what his thoughts are on thofe fubjeds, fince he will be better able to explain them, and you are more capable of judging of them than I can be. I prefume no farther than to recommend him for an audience at leifure, and to do afterwards in the affair as you (hall think moft proper. I am, &:c. To Lord Carteret. My Lord, Dublin, June 6, 1730. YOUR Excellency by the laft mail will receive two applications about fome livings vacant by the death of Mr. Martin -, one from Mr. Gardiner, in * j^rthur Dohhs, Efq; Author of the North-Weft Paflage to India. t He was afterwards made Governor of l^orth Carolina. behalf i6 L E T T E R S BY behalf of his nephew -, the other from another gentle- man for the vicarages of Erk and Claragh. I have been able to meet v^ith nobody that can give a diftind account of what livings Mr. Martin had, and whether the living Mr. Gardiner applies for is either the living of Erk or Claragh ^ if it be, he ap- plies for it by fome other name. I need fay nothing in favour of Mr. Gardiner'^ peti- | tion, fince I am fure he wants no recommendation to your Lordfhip*s favour. \ I have fince received a letter from the Bifhop of OJJory^ in favour of Mr. John Read^ to whom he has lately given the Church of St. Mary in Kilkenny j which he fays is a mofl laborious cure, and not worth above 60 /. per ann. and he defires that your Excellency would be pleafed to give Mr. Read the redory of Claragh^ not worth above 30 /. per ann. which is con- tiguous to St. Mary\^ and Eas no Church, but the parifhioners conflantly refort to St. Mary's. Claragh^ his Lordfhip fays, has often been given to theMinifter of St. Mary's, to help him out ; and this he aflures me is the true cafe of thefe parifhes. I thought proper to fend your Excellency this re- prefentation of the Bifhop of OJJory, that we may know your Excellency's pleafure. I am informed the prefent Bifhop of Chnfert had the provoftfhip of Galway worth about 150 /. per ann, which I do not find is held in commendam by his Lordfhip, or difpofed of to any body elfe. I fhould be obliged to your Excellency if you would be plea- fed to beflow it on Mr. John Richard/on^ Minifter of Beltiirbet, whom I defigned to have named to the . College for the living of Derivoilan in the diocefe of Clogher, but quitted my retommendation that Dr. Delany might have it, which accordingly he had. I am, My Lord, &-c. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 17 To the fame. My Lord^ Diihlin, June 11^ fj^o. I Have had the honour of your Excellency's of the 4th inft. and am glad to hnd our condudt relating to Kimherly is approved by your Lordfhip. I hope as applications on this occafion were dif- couraged on your fide of the water, fo they will al- ways be, or there mud be a dangerous obflrudtion of juflice here. I thank your Lordfhip for putting the affair of our coin in fo hopeful a way, and fhall be very well pleafed to receive his Majefty's commands on that fubje(ft. I was ready to have granted Dr. Delany * the fa- culty your Excellency defired, but upon confulting with the learned, he thought his bufinefs might be done without one, I am, My Lord, Uc. 'fo the Duk6 of Newcafile. My Lord, Dublin, June ^^^ 1730. I Am forry I am to acquaint your Grace that my Lord Chief Baron Dalton died yeflerday, after a fhort confinement. His Majefty had not a fervant here of greater abi- lities or courage, nor that ferved him with more zeal and fidelity. He has been directly worn down in the diligent attendance on his bufinefs ; and I rather be- lieve has woriled his circumflances by coming hither, * Dr. Delany Iri the latter part of the Primate's time, made a3 much court to him as ever he had done before to Dean Sivft. Vol. II, • CI have i8 L E T T E R S BY I have this day joined with my Lord Chancellor in a letter to your Lordfhip, reprefenting who we think is the fittefl perfon to fucceed him, if his place be filled from this fide af the water. But I moft humbly reprefent, that it will, we both think, be of fervice to his Majefty here, if an able perfon be fent us from England for that employment. And I do not queflion but fome may be fo-und there of the profellion of great fkill in the law, and proper to ftand a debate in the privy council, who will not think much of coming to Ireland for 1 2 or 1 300 /. pr ann. But all this is mofl humbly fubmitted to his Ma- j^fly's pleafure. I am, My Lord, &c. To Sir Robert Walpole. Sir, DiibUn^ June 24, 1730. YESTERDAY died here, after a fhort indif- pofition. Lord Qiief Baron Dalton ; he has ra- ther been declining in his health for fome time, and has been dired\ly worn down by his great attention to bufinefs. His Majefly had not a fervant here that ferved him with greater abilities, diligence, and zeal, than he did. I believe his family has rather fuffered by his coming hither. My Lord Chancellor and myfelf have by this pofl acquainted my Lard Lieutenant and the Duke of Newcajile^ what removes we judge mofl proper for his Majeily's fervice Xdu this occafion, if the place be filled from hence. But by what has been already done for three fuc- ceflions in that poft, we think it is mofl: likely to be filled from England. And we cannot but think that It will be of great fervice to have a worthy perfon fent LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 19 fent over. The Lord Chief Baron is one of the coun- cil here, where a good man will be very ufeful. I believe there may be fome at the bar in England of great worth, that may think it worth while to come hither for 12 or 1300 /. per ann. I hope, Sir, you will excufe my giving you this trouble, fince it is a matter of great concern to his Majefty's fervice here, 1 am, &c. ^0 the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ June z'jy 1736. WE yeflerday received the agreeable news we have been long in expedation of here, that his Majefly had been pleafed to declare your Grace our Lord Lieutenant. I can aflure you, my Lord, that thofe who are bed afFedted to his Majefty, are very well pleafed with it. I fhould have taken the liberty from the little ac= quaintance I have had the honour to have v/ith your Grace, and the charader you have always borne, to write on any occafion freely to your Grace what I apprehended might be for his Majefly's fervice. But it is a great pleafure to me, that I have receiv- ed the Duke of Newcajfle^s afTurances, that I may write at all times to you without any referve, and that I may depend on having (as he is pleafed to exprefs it) your Grace's having the fame regard for me, and treating me with the fame confidence and diftindion that I have conftantly met with from the miniflry ever fince my coming hither. I mofl heartily wifh your Grace's government may prove eafy and fuccefsful, and do afliire your Lordlliip nothing (ball be wanting on ray part tp contribute to its being fo. C 2, Sh 20 LETTERSby Sir Ralph Gore is this evening returned from the north, and on Monday I fet out on the vifitation of my province, v^hich will take me up about five weeks : but any commands your Grace (hall honour me with, direded to Dubliny will be forwarded to me. I am, My Lord, &c. To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin^ June 2."^^ 1730" Have been honoured with your Grace's of the 20th inft. I am very glad to hear that the alte- ration which has been made in the government here, has been by the advice of 3^our Grace and the other minifters, and that there is fo perfedl an union be- tween the miniftry and the Duke of Dorfet and Lord * Wilmington ; and doubt not but this conjuncti- on will very much contribute to his Majelly's fervice, and defeat the efforts of the difcontented. I did indeed hope from the good character of the Duke of Dorfety that I might write to him what I thought might be for his Majefty's fervice. But it is with great pleafure that 1 receive thofe encourage- ments from your Grace to write to him with the fame freedom and opennefs, that your Lordfhip has per- mitted me to ufe to yourfelf And I dcfire to meet with no greater regard or confidence from him, than I have met with from the miniflers ever fince they were pleafed to fend me hither. And I take this op- portunity to return my moft humble thanks to your Grace and the other miniflers for all the favour and countenance I have now for fome years conHantly re- ^ * Spencer Compton^ Speaker of the Britijh Houfe of Commons, afterwards Earl of M^ilmington. ceived LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ai ceived from them : and fhall always endeavour to make that return which I am fure will be mod ac- ceptable to them, the promoting of his Majefly's fer- vice to the utmoft of my power. I thank your Grace for giving rae leave to do myfelf the honour of troubling you on -occauon with a letter, and for affiiring me of the continuance of your friendfhip and protedion. As my Lord Lieutenant is a (Iranger to the affair of our coin, I beg leave to defire that his Majefty's orders, if he fhail pleafe to fend us any, may not be tranfmitted hither till my return from my tri- ennial vifitation, on which I fet out next Monday^ and fhall not return till about the 5th of Auguji. For I believe that the Lords Juftices will not care to do any thing in the affair till we are all together : and I am fatisfied it will be of great fervice, that what- ever fhall be ordered may be immediately execut- ed, without allowing time to the bankers and re- mitters here to fow any uneafmefe in the minds of the people about that affair. I am, My Lord, &c To Lord Carteret. My Lord, Dublin^ June 28, 173a WE this day received the honour of your Lord- Ihip's of the 23d. As I am to fet out to- morrow on my vifitation, I fhall mifs of the oppor- tunity of joining with my brethren in thofe jufl ac- knowledgments they will no doubt make of the ma- ny fervices you have done this kingdom during your adminiflration ; and it is with great pleafure I find the zeal any of us have under your Lordfhip's con- dud, fhewn for his Majefty's fervice^ is approved by C 3 your 22 LETTERS BY your Lordfhip, and that we have had the happinei^ to fatisfy you that we had a fincere regard for your Lordfhip. I thank your Lordfhip for retaining fo great a con- cern for Ireland^ and am glad this kingdom has a friend, who will on all occafions be able to ferve it. I heartily wifh your Lordfhip all health and prof= perity, and if you fhould at any time honour me with any commands here, I fhall receive them with the greateft pleafure and fatisfadlion. I am, My Lord, &c. fo the Dtike of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 6, 1730. I Had the honour of yo\ix Grace's letter about Mr: Creffet when I was upon my vifitation, from which I returned laft 'Tuefday. I have enquired fmce and find Mr Creffefs inflrunients were pafTed in my ab- fence. He has been with me fince my arrival at Biiblin^ and I acquainted him with the recommen- dations your Grace had given of him, and my readir nefs to fhew him any favour on your account. The Lord Bifhop of OJJory die4 to-day, and we fhall in our letter to my Lord Lieutenant, mention fuch as may be proper to be promoted to that fee : but I mufl beg leave to inform your Grace that I think it will be very much for his Majefly's fer- vice to fill that fee with a worthy perfon from Em- land*. I am^ My Lord, bcc. * U was done accordingly, and Dr. Tenifon was appointed. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 22 ?o the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 7, 173a Had the honour of your Grace's upon my vifita- tion, which kept me from DiiMin till Tiiefday lall, I am very much obHged to your Grace for the en- couragement you give me to write to you with the utmoft freedom, and I aiTure you, my Lord, I fhall never offer you any advice but what I think v/ill be for his Majefly's fervice, and your Grace's honour. Since ray return the Bifhop of OJfory is dead, and we have this day joined in a letter to your Grace, mentioning the moil proper perfons here to be pro- inoted to that fee. But I muft beg leave to afture you Grace that I think it is of great importance to the Englijh interefl, and confequently to his Majefty's fervice here, that fome worthy perfon fhould be fent us from England to fill this vacancy. If any perfon here fhould be thought of, I take the promotion moft for the King's fervice here, will be the making Dn Baldwin Bifhop, and Dr. Gilbert * Provoft in his room, I am, &c, Tv) the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 22, 1730, I Have the honour of your Grace's on the 15th infl. I am glad to hear of the promotion of Dr. Ed- ward Temfon to the bifhoprick of Offory, and thank your Grace for the news. He is an old acquaintance * Revd. Dr. Claudius Gilbert ^ a Gentleman of great learning and abilities, who purchafed a large and fine Colle6tion of Books at different Times, which he bequeathed to the Univerfity of Dubliny of which he was one of the Fellow?. C 4 of g4 LETTERSey of mine, and I have always known him to be hearti^ ly attached to his Majefly's family: and I remember his often fpeaking of the eountenanee your Lordihip was pleafed to give him. I make no doubt but he will behave himlelf here, fo as to make himfelf agree- able to his Majefty's friends. I am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Sep. 3, 173Q. ^"^HE deanery of Duach or Kilmacduach^ I know -i^- not which they call it, is now vacant by the death of Dr. Northcote, worth about 120 or 140/, per mm. I fhould be very much obliged to your Grace if you would be pleafed to befhow it on Mr. John Richard/on^ Reclor of Beltiirbet ; he is a worthy per- fon and well affeded to his Majefty, and was many years ago concerned in a cjefign to tranflate the Bible and Common Prayer into Irijh., in order the better to bring about the converfion of the natives ^ but he met at that time with great oppofition, not to fay opprefTion here, inflead of either thanks or ailiflance ; and fuffered the lofs of feveral hundred pounds expended in printing the Common Prayer- book, and other neceflary charges he was at in that undertaking. . I fhould be very glad, I could contribute fome- what to make him a little eafy in his circumflances, and procure him by your Grace's favour, fome digr nity in the Church. I am, my Lord, &Cc f« LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 25 Tb the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ 061. 1, 1730. I Have had the honour of your Grace's of the 19th pail, and mofl humbly thank your Lordfhip for your kind intention to beflow the deanery of Duach on Mr. Richard/on^ upon your receiving the ufual no- tification of the vacancy from the Lords Juftices. Mr. Richard/on has fmce dehvered a memorial on that occafion, which we have tranfmitted to your Grace with our recommendation. I am fenfible how much I am obliged to your Grace for the readinefs you have fhewn in this affair to icomply with my requeft. I am, &c, fo the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin, 0^. 14, 1730. ON" Friday laft Lieutenant Colonel Hennecy brought me your Grace's of the 26th paft ; I told him as we were feveral mails behind-hand, by the packet-boats being all on this fide, I had not received the letter your Grace referred to, but that upon the recommendations your Lordfhip gave of him, I fhould afford him all the protedlion T could ; and I direded him to call upon me after the arrival of the next packets. As he acquainted me with the bufmefs he came about, I took occafion to found the Lords Juftices the next day on the fubjed of his errand, and found there would be a neceflity of laying before them what commands I received from your Grace, to be .able to do any thing in the affair. And 26 LETTERSby And as the mails arrived yeflerday morning, by which I received the honour of your Grace's other letter of the 26th pafl, with the other papers you was pleafed to fend me, I have fince difcourfed with the other Lords Juftices on the fubjedl, and find they apprehend there will be greater difficulties in this af- fair than at firft offered. If we encourage the French officers to fet about raifing their recruits, upon alTurances that we will take no notice of it, they will be liable to great mo- leflations, fince every Juflice can take examinations againft them and commit them, nor can we releafe them, but by due courfe of law, or by granting them a pardon. And whether they may not be the more bufy in difturbing thofe levies, if they find them rather countenanced by the government, we cannot anfwer. What has happened to fevcral of them formerly when they were raifing recruits here in a clandeftine way (though as we knew his Majefly's intentions, we flighted, and as far as we well could difcouraged complaints on that head) your Grace very well knows from the feveral applications made to your Lordfhip from the French Embaffador. And what fpirit may by artful men be raifed among his Majef- ty's fubjedts when they hear fome hundred recruits are raifing in this kingdom for France^ and how it may fet magiftrates every where on diflreffing the of- ficers employed in this fervice, no one can tell. To what exceffes of heat people are capable of running here, when they once take a thing right or wrong into their heads, the ferments raifed here about * Wood'^ half-pence is too plain -demonftra- tion. And * See the Drapier's Letters on this occafion, wrote by the Rcy. Dr. Sixjifi. BOSTON COLLEGE IfBRAI?' viHESTNUT HIU, MASS. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 27 And I muft heg hcwe to hint to your Grace that all re- emits raifed here for France or Spain, are generally con* Jidered as perfons that may fome time or other pay a vijit to this country as enemies. That all who are lifted here in thofe fervices, hope and wiih to do fo, there is no doubt. There is without controverfy a power in his Ma- jefty to grant leave to any perfons to levy men here under his fign manual^ by an adt pafTed 8". Georg, i. c. 9. and by the fame adl the governnQent here can grant fuch a licence under their hands ; but 1 find that without his Majefly's exprefs orders for it, no- body here dares venture to grant a licence to the French officers to raife the intended recruits, fmce no one can anfwer what heats that may poflibly occafion at prefent as well as at the next meeting of par- liarrient. I fhould be very glad if I knew how to manage this affair to his Majefty's fatisfadion, and am very much obliged to his Majefty for having fo good an opinion of me as your Grace is pleafed to alRire me in your letter. I am fure it will be always my greateft ambition to promote his Majefty's fervice. But I am forry I cannot give a more promifmg account of the fuccefs of this affair, fmce I perceive nothing can be done in it till his Majefty is pleafed diredly to fignify his pleafure. However effedual care ftiall be taken that none of the officers who are come hither, fuffer on this account. Lieutenant Colonel Hennecy called on me this morning, and I directed him and his officers to ap- pear as little as may be in publick, and to wait till we are further inftruded in his Majefty's pleafure, fmce at prefent there were fome difficulties in the way. I have communicated your Grace's letter to none but the Lords Juftices, to whom I found it neceiTary fo 2S LETTERSby fo to do, and fhall take all the care I can, that no other perfon knows any thing of it. But I find by fome of the prints publifhed here this day, that fbme * accounts are come from England that a num- ber of recruits for the Irijh regiments in the French fervice is to be raifed here by his Majefty's leave, and that the French officers employed in that fervice are arrived here. I am, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ OB, 15, 17 30. I Had the honour of your Grace's of the 29th paft, at the fame time that I received one from the Duke of Newcajlle ; which I have communicated to my brethren, without whom nothing could be done in that affair ; and as there appeared great difficul- ties in the management of that bufinefs, I have fent an account of them to the Duke of Newcajlle^ that we may receive his Majefly's commands. 1 am fure I fhall on this and all other occafions with the utmofl zeal and diligence, promote his Ma- jefly's fervice. I am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Nov. 17, 1730. I Did not receive the honour of your Grace's of the 20th paft, till the 8th inflant, and I deferred an- fwering it fince, in hopes I might bring things to bear to your Grace's fatisfadlion. But though 1 have * See Siuift's Works, vol. 9. taken LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 29 taken what pains I could in the matter, and have de- fired my brethren to concur with what your Lord- fhip propofes, by drawing up the diredling claufe of the warrant agreeably to what has been fettled to be the meaning of his Majefty's letters, yet I have not been able as yet to prevail with them. They feem chiefly to infill on its being wrong to fign a warrant purfuant to letters in which part is not agreeable to adt of parliament, and are appre- henfive, that as thofe letters of courfe are before the Houfe of Commons every fefllon, it may furnifh a handle for raifmg fome heats there. And on the other fide, they make a difficulty of explaining the fenfe of his Majefty's letters in the di- reding claufe of the warrant, though it is putting no other fenfe on the King's letters, than what is fettled with your Grace, as we fuppofe with the knowledge of the reft of the miniftry. I have on this occafion given them fuch hints as I thought I might, that I heard if the letters were returned, we fhould receive new ones, that would put the affair of excufing thefe penfions from the tax out of all difpute as to the whole ilims : and that I was fatisfied the penfions were in favour of fuch perfons, as that they would not be funk by their being returned to England. But I have hitherto had no fuccefs ; I fhall make another effort, and if nothing can be done, I think it will be more advifeable to have the letters called back to England^ than to lie unexecuted here. I am forry to find the affair of the IriJJ? recruits makes fuch a noife in England^ fince I hardly doubt but near the fame number, as there is a difpofition to allow of this year, have been clandeftinely raifed here annually for fome years paft. There is a great ferment here on the fame account. This kingdom is very much obliged to your Grace for your kind intentions to endeavour, on all proper occafions, 30 LETTERS by occafions, to leiTea any weight that may be laid on us. And I (haii not be wanting in acquainting the gentlemen of this nation, how much we are indebted to your Lordlhip for this your good difpofition in our favour. I am, your Grace's, &c. '^o the /dime. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 5, 1730. IYefterday received the honour of your Grace's of the 28 th pafl, and (hall do what I can to get Warrants figned upon Lawman's and i^o^wr^'s letters, that the miniftry may not have any new trouble about them. And we this day have referred the confideration of that affair to the Prime-ferjeant, Attorney and Sollicitor-general : and I likewife gave them the two draughts your Grace fent me, to fee whether they might not either follow them, or from thence take fome hint of fomewhat that they thought would do. I told them as from myfelf what your Grace fug- gelled about the adls of 1727 and 1729, and that the late acl could not refer to the firfl, but only to the laft ; fo that our lawyers have now the whole affair before them. I fhall do what I can to difpatch this affair to your Lordfhip's mind^ but find I cannot anfw^er for the event. I am. My Lord, 6z:c. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 31 Tq the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 8, 17^0. Yefterday received the honour of your Grace's of the firft infl. and it is with great pleafure I find by your Lordfliip's that the French officers will foon be recalled from hence : fince that affair of the re- cruits makes a great noife here, and as far as I under- fland, a much greater at London. They have met with no rudenefs here, and I believe will meet with none at their going off! They fhould be treated rttore civilly than they have been, if I had not found myfelf clamoured at here, and fallen upon in the papers of England^ for a civility I did not fhew them ; and if there fhould be any apprehenfions of their being infulted, we fhall take what care- we can to prevent it 1 am. My Lord, &c.. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 26, 1730. I Hope we fhall put the defired end to the affair of Mr. Lawman and Hoburg^ by figning the ufual order, upon his Majefty's letters in their favour, as foon as Sir Ralph Gore comes to town,, who is gone into the country for the holidays, the Prime-fer- jeant. Attorney and Sollici tor- general having agreed in a favourable report -, but they think the furefl way to prevent any canvalfing of that affair in parliament will be to have their agent make no difficulty of let- ting the taxes be deducted till Chrijimas 1729, fince which tinre there is no doubt but they are legally ex- cufed 32 LETTERS by cufed from the 4 j. in the pound on their * penfions. And this I think is what agrees with your Grace's fentiments in this affair. When we have figned their warrants, I fhaU make it my bufinefs to help them to fome money, as foon as our treafury can furnifh any. Colonel Hennecy called on me two or three days ago, and acquainted me that he and the officers with him had orders to leave this kingdom ^ and that as foon as two or three of them who were gone to fee their friends in the country were returned (which would be in eight or ten days) they would embark for England. I muft do the Colonel the juftice to acquaint your Grace that I have not heard any complaint of his qr the other officers behaviour whilft they have been here f- I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin, Dec. 31, 1730. LAST week Colonel Hennecy called upon me to acquaint me that he had received orders to quit this kingdom, with the other officers who followed him, and that he hoped if he flaid a few days, till he could call fome of the officers to Dublin that were then in the country vifiting their friends, to take them * This Tax dropped at the Expiration of the A<5t, but was again renewed by Parliament In 1757. See a moft excellent Pamphlet, entitled, a Lift of the Abfentees of Ireland^ and an Eftimate of the yearly value of their Eftates and Incomes, fpent abroad, two Editions of which were printed in 1767, and 1769. t Sir Robert Walpohy the moft frank and ingenuous man in the world confefTed, (which few minillers are apt to do) that he had been wrong in this meafure, and immediately advifed the recalling of the officers j convinced perhaps more by the reafons in the letter, Pag. 25, than by all the clamours of the Craftfman, &c. over LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 33 Over with him^ it would not be taken ill, whicli I told him I thought it could not. He has fmce been with me to acquai-nt me that he fhall go off with the yacht which is expected to fail every day for England. As he defires I would give your Grace an account of his behaviour here, he waits upon his Lordfhip with this letter, to inform you that he has behaved himfelf with great prudence during his ftay here, and has kept himfelf and his officers from appearing in any publick places, or giving any offence ; and has from time to time called upon me to know whether I had any orders to give him, that he might punctu- ally obferve them ; and he has readily compUed with any diredlions I thought it might be proper to give him. I ami glad this affair is at lafh happily concluded, after having been the occafion of fo great a noife here, and of a much greater in England. I am, my Lord, &Co To the Duke of Dorfet . My Lord, Dziblin, Jan. 9, 1730. S probably an affair that has lately happened here may make a greater figure in the Englijb papers than it juftly deferves, I think it my duty to give your Grace an account of it. On Tiiefday laflz jufl before midnight Sir Robert Echlin called upon fne, to tell me that there was a fellow came to the horfe guards here, giving an ac- count that a French officer had fent him over v/ith a horfe to Bidlock^ a place about five miles from hence, where he endeavoured to perfuade him to go over to France with him, offering him money, which he re- fufed, that there were four or five French officers there, and about ^o men lifted in the pretender's fer- Vol. IL D vice, ^4 L £r T E R S 3t vice, who lay there to go on board a floop for France, I was very much furprized at Sir Robert's chufing to Gome to me about fuch an affair at fuch a time of night. But as I have been but ill ufed both in tho prints here and in England about the French recruits, I thought 1 could not refufe taking notice of his infor- mation V and the rather bceaufe Colonel Hennecy had affured me that none of the officers who came with him had raifed any recruits here. Accordingly I direded Sir Robert to have the fel- low carried before the Lord Mayor to be examined upon oath, and I fent by him a letter to the Lord Mayor, acquainting him what Sir Robert had told me, and defiring him to examine the informant on oath, and according as the examinations came out, to fend to the Town Major and acquaint him with the cafe. Upon examination, the fubflance of what Sir Robert had told me came out, only that there was nothing fworn about the Pretender, and that there were but about 40 men. Upon taking thofe examinations the Lord Mayor fent them to the Town Major, who im- mediately waited upon the * General, who ordered 50 foot and four dragoons to march to Bullock, and either feize or difperfe thofe people. When they came there on Wednefday^ they found there had been about forty men lifted for abroad, and four or five French officers with them, but that they went on board a floop about eleven o'clock the night before. I am, my Lord, &c. * Thomas Pearce, General and Commander in Chief of the Forces in Inland. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ^S To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. 12, 1730. I Have juft now received the honour of your Grace's of the 7 th infl. We expedt Sir Ralph Gore in town on Saturday^ and (hall I beUeve the firft oppor- tunity afterwards, fign the warrants for Lawmaji and Hoburg^ fince as we have a favourable opinion from the lawyers, Sir Ralph cannot well make any diffi- culty about it ; and my Lord Chancellor now maizes none. I mentioned the affair of the taxes before Chrijlmas 1729, at the dcfire of others, fince I thought your Grace had fpoken very plain in that affair. As foon as the warrants are difpatched I (hall make it my bu- finefs to get them fome money as fail as our treafury can fupply it, confidently with the fer vices abfolutely neceffary. I believe Colonel Hennecy and the other officers went off in the yacht to day, fince he told me they were to go in it. ■ There is a clergyman, a man of worth, one Mr. Horner^ a native of Switzerland^ recommended hither by his Grace of Canterbury^ to whom Lord Carteret gave the redory of Clane^ in the diocefe of Kildare ; he has been very ill treated, and is made very uneafy there by a popilli gentleman, to whom the greatefl part of that pariQi belongs ; and as he is a ftranger, is but ill fupported by the neighbouring proteilants': he has had his flack of fuel fired in the night, and I think part of his houfe burnt down by it, and is daily threatened to be ferved fo again. I have now an op- portunity of removing him to a proteflant neighbour- hood in my diocefe, where I hope he will be very ufe- ful, if your Grace will be pleafed to beftow the redlo- D 2 ry 36 L E T T E R S B 1^ ry of Clane upon his refigning it, on Mr. HoJkinSy that I may be able to provide for a clergyman who Ucs on my hands, by giving him the hving that Mr. Hojkins now enjoys ^ which I jfball acknowledge a great favour. I am, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. 26, 1 730. ON the 1 2th inflant I did myfelf the honour to acquaint your Grace that I believed the firfl: opportunity after Sir Ralph Gore's arrival in town, we fhould fign the warrants for Lawman and Hoberg^ fince as we have a favourable opinion from the lawyers in that affair. Sir Ralph Gore could not well make any difficulty about it ^ and my Lord Chancellor then de- clared, he made none, as we had the opinion of the lawyers to juftify us. But fince then, my Lord Chan- cellor is pleafed to declare, he is of different fenti- ments in that affair ^ and Sir Ralph Gore joins with him. We are to have another conference on that fub- jedt ; and have as good as agreed to fend a letter to your Excellency, to let you know what canvafs that affair may poilibly go through in the Houfe of Com- mons ; but that as we have the opinion of the lawyers in the point, if your Grace after our reprefenting what may happen in the Houfe of Commons, fhall dired us to fign thofe warrants, we fhall do it. This was our fenfe, when laft together ; but after the unex- pedted turns this affair has taken, I will not anfwer what may be our fenfe to-morrow. I am, my Lord, &c. f§ LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 37 Tlo the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb. 6, 1730. Have had the honour of your Grace's of the 23d pad, and am very well pleafed with your appro- bation of my condud upon Sir Robert Echlin^ infor- mation. I am very much obliged to your Grace for coming into the fcheme about the redory of Clane^ and will take care to have the refignation ready againli you are pleafed to give orders for beftowing that redlory on Mn Hojkins^ upon Mr. Hornef% giving in his refig- nation of it. W€ have troubled you, my Lord, with a letter re- lating to MefTrs. Lawman and Hobiirg^ affair ; and I fhall, according to your Grace orders, forward that ;&ffair immediately, and get as large a payment on ,tho.fe warrants, as our treafury can admit of I am, my Lord, &c, To Mrs. Wall Madam, Feb. 13, 1730. I Have received yours of the 9th of January and the ifb inft. but the laft came not to hand tiJl Thurf day laft. 1 am very forry to hear of the death of my coufni Tomes. I have gradually broken the matter to her fon, and hope he will behave himfelf under this lofs like a good Chriftian. I am forry to find you are fo much dejected, as you appear to be by both letters ; and hope you will get over March better than you expedl. I am very glad to hear your fon goes on well with his ftudies ; and the beft thing he can do, ^s to purfue his learning at the Univerfity for three P 3 ox 38 LETTERSby or four years more, without thinking of any ramble, either here or any where elfe. My Ipoufe and ! give our fervice to you and your family. Pray my fervice to my coufin Tomes ^ and let him know 1 am very much concerned for his great lofs. I am, Madam, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin, Feb. 20, 1730. ON the 8th infl. Mr, Brandreth * brought me the honour of your Grace's of the loth pall. We have fince difpatched his inftruments agreeably to your Grace's diredions. I found he did not want a faculty to hold the two preferments, elfe I was ready to have granted one, as I ITiall be'to give him my fa- vour and protection on all occafions. He feems to be a fenfibie gentleman, and very well behaved ^ and I doubt not but he will give general fatisfadlion here. I am, my Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin, Feb. 27, 1730. IHave the honour of your Grace's of the 20th, and return my thanks for the directions you in- tend to fend about the living of Clane. We are very well pleafed with the two new let- ters of his Majefty relating to Meffrs. Lawman and Hoburg, and hope to fatisfy your Grace upon your arrival here, that it will be of fome fervice to your Grace's adminiftration here, that they did not pals in the old form. I fhall endeavoiir to get a very hand- * Mr. Brandreth had been tutor to Lord MiddkfeX) his Grace's cldeft ion. fome LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 39 fome payment upon them : but it could be larger, if your Grace thinks we may flay till after Lady-day for it, that it may not appear in the account to be laid before the Commons next feflion of parliament. I fhould be gkd to receive your Grace's diredions in this point as loon as may be. I arn. Your Grace's, &:c. Ti the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Duhlin^ Mar. i, 1730. THE affair of the French recruits is blown over without any thing farther than uncertain ru- mours here of fome letter from ibmebody to encou- jage the officers in their levjes. But as there are two or three perfons likely to be tried the approaching ailjze in the country, I thought proper to write to your Grace, to know what his Majefty will pleafe to have done, if they fhould hap= pen to be convifted. I rather fancy it will happen, as it has happened on mofl of the like occafions, that the evidence on v/hieh they have been committed will fall Oiort at the trial, fo that they may be acquitted. But for fear of the word, I fhould be glad to know what is to be done, if it iliould prove otherwife. Vox I find on account of the noife that has been made in England and here about that affair, the [.ords jLiff?ces will not interpofe without his Majefly's commands. If I am not much millaken, when Mr. * IVeft Mr. t Connolly and myfelf were in the government * Lord High Chancellor, and one of the Lords Juftlces of Ire' and. X HWiam Conolfy, another of the Lord Jufti'ces, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, and a Commiirioner of his Majeft)?'s Revenue in Ireland, D 4 in Ao L E T T E R S B Y in his late Majefty's reign, his Majeily was pleafed to order us not to permit any to be executed for lifting in foreign fervice, till we knew the King's pleafure. The officers who are fuppofed to have enlifted theni are got off. I am, My Lord, &c. ^0 the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. 23, 173Q. IHave had the honour of your Grace's of the 1 3th inftant : and I have fmce fpoke to Mr. Gardiner to provide money for a good handfome payment upon Meffrs. Lawman and Hohurg^s penfion ; and intend to- morrow to get an order to him for it as foon as may be after Lady-day, Money is very low in our treafury^, but wt will ftrain as far as ppllible. ^0 the Duke of Dorfet My Lord, Dublin, Apr. 21, 1731. HE terrible diftrefs we are under in this nation, __ upon account of the difproportionate value of our gold and filver coins, to what they bear in England, and the want of filver confequent upoi^it, is what your Grace has probably heard of, and what I fhall take the liberty to write more to your Lordfhip about, if I am encouraged by your Grace to do it. But befide the want of filver, the ordinary people here are under the lail diftrefs for want of copper money : of this I met with complaints laft year at ^very place in the vifitation of my province ; and it is what is every day complained of in this town. Tradefmen that retail, and poor people are forced to LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 4^ pay for getting their little filver changed into copper, and are forced to take raps or counterfeit half-pence, of little more than a quarter of the value of an EngliJfO half-penny, which has encouraged feverai fuch coiners, and muft end in the great iofs of the poor, whenever they pafs no longer ; and the farther that time is put off, the greater the Iofs will be. As we have long laboured under this calamity, the Houfe of Lords towards the ciofe of the lafl fellions, applied to the then Lord Lieutenant, to defire his Majefty to let us have 15,000/. coined in farthings and half-pence, of the fame finenefs as the Englijb copper m.oney, at the rate of 26 d, the pound of copper, as we then thought that 24 d. w^ere coined in England out of a pound of copper, the Engliflj had 24 d. upon the bottom of two fhillings EngUp going for 26 d. here, and that what profit arofe from this coinage might go to the ufe of the pubiick here. I was the perfon that moved for this addrefs, and added the latter part, upon an'afiurance I had from my Lord Carteret that his Majefly had promifcd to grant us as much, if we defired it„ There was likewife a refolution pafTed in the Houfe of Commons, probably on occafion of this addrefs of the Houfe of Lords, that it would be for the benefit of the nation to have a mint erected here, without any mention of any copper, filver, or gold coinage. What my Lord Carteret did at his return to England in this affair, I know not, as he never fent us any letter about it. And thus things have refhed, till fome time ago, when my Lord * Forbes made application to me, that confidering the deplorable condition the poor were in for want of copper money, it would be of the greateft fervice to get fome ; and that by fome difcourfe he had had with Mr. Conduit^ Warden of the Mint, he ^ 3on of the Earl of Granard. fancied 42 LETTERSby fancied we might buy a quantity from the mint, for this nation, and that he and many others would readily advance a fum of money, if I thought proper, and would join in it. I told him how fenfible I was of the great diftrcfs the poor were in here for want of copper, and that I would join in any fuch undertaking. He then promifed to write to Mr. Conduit on this fub- jedt, to know whether we might be private purchafers, or mufl apply to his majefty for leave to have fome copper coined, fmce we wanted copper in another proportion to the EngliJJj (billing than what it bears in England. He fometime after received an anfwer from Mr. Conduit^ that nothing could be done for us without his Majefty's leave, and fent an eilimate of the coinage as in England., and as would be proper for us, * a copy of which I have here fent your Grace, with what he apprehended would be the gain upon it. Upon Lord Forbes's communicating this to me I talked with my brethren the Lords Juftices on the fubjedt, who concurred with me in opinion, that fuch a copper coinage was both exceedingly ufeful and neceffary, and that it would be of fervice to have it as foon as pofiible, confidering our prefent diftrefs, fmce though the parliament iliould come into proper meafures about it, it could not be brought to bear in lefs than nine or twelve months, but in this way it could be brought to bear in three months. We have fmce founded fome of the council about this affair, who concur with our fentiments, and we had in part refolved upon having a council, in order to apply to your Grace about this affair, but we have fmce confidered that we would not diredlly apply to your Grace with the weight of the council, till we had previoufly acquainted your Grace with the mat- ter, and in part knew how you were difpofed ; and befides, if it v/ere once known that fuch an applica- tion was made to your Grace, it would give fome obilrudtion to the circulation of raps, which though it LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 43 it muft happen at laft, we would not have happen without a remedy of better money following as foon after as may be. In Mr. Conduit's fcheme we find that only 23^. balfp. are coined out of a pound weight of copper, fo that to keep our copper money as near in intrinfic value to the Englijh copper as may be, we propofe coining only 25^. I^alfp. out of a pound weight of copper. If your Grace gives us leave to apply, we think of applying only for 50 tuns, which will make 1 1,900/. Injb^ but we have no doubt but we fhall be preffed to apply for more foon ; nor do I think that lels than 150 or 200 tuns will anfwer the occafion • but we are willing to be petitioned for more when the goodnefs of thefe and the want of more is feen by every body. Mr. Conduit tells us about 1000/. will fet the affair a going, which we fhall raife here, without defiring any interefl or other profit by it. We propofe pay- ing the money advanced into Mr. Gardiner's hands, and to make the firft payment and let him receive the copper money as it is fent hither, and difpofe of it, and with the produce anfwer any fubfequent pay- ments, till the whole is difpofed of So your Grace or the parliament may have a Crown officer to examine about the gains, if you fhall think proper. As to the gains, Mr. Conduit does not allow for de- ductions which muft be made, which will ftrike off above half the profit he computes ^ as your Grace will fee by the fcheme t, No. 11. inclofed. Indeed, if the exchange fhould prove but \o per cent, which it poffibly may prove very foon, the profit will be on Mr. Conduit's quantity 202/. greater, and on ours 101/. The refolution of the Lords relating to a copper coinage, and that of the Commons about a mint, were twice confidered in council, whilft my Lord Carteret was Lord Lieutenant, and it was the opinion of every body that they were no ways inconfiflent, fince 44 LETTERS BY fince It might be for the good of the nation to have ^ mint, but as it would be long before that could be eflablifhed and brought to work, it might at the fame time be very proper to afford a more fpeedy remedy to our prefent fufferings, which was what the Lords propofed. I think it my duty at the fame time that I acquaint you what was and ftill is, as far as I can learn, the fenfe of the privy council, to acquaint your Grace likev/ife, that by what I have been told, the view of , fome warm men in the Houfe of Commons in moving that refolution about a mint, was, that as they are very zealous for a mjnt here, they were againli coin- ing even copper at the tower, left it fhould mark out a way for coining gold and filver for us, if there were occafion, and it fhould appear by a plain expe.- riment with how much greater expedition, eafe, and cheapnefs we might have any money coined at the Tower, than it can be coined here. I have now informed your Grace of our prefent wants of copper mone}^, and the readied remedy for this evil, and likewife what are the views of thofe •who polhbly intended to hinder the addrefs of the Houfe of Lords being coniplied with, for an imme^- diate coinage of copper : and your Grace will be the bed judge whether you ought to encourage our imme^ diate application for the coinage of 50 tuns of copper at the Tower, or will leave that affair to take what turn may happen to be given it in parliam.ent. And here I mufl inform your Grace that fome of the mod underdanding men of the Commons tell me their opinion is, that their Houfe will be able when they fit, to agree upon no prefent remedy for our evil. As your Grace defigns to honour us with your com- pany in a few months, if it be thought proper to do any thing in this affair, there is no time to be lod. And if your Grace pleafes to fend for Mr. Conduit^ he LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 45 can beft ipform you in what time a good quantity of copper money can be coined for our ufe. As your Grace will fee I have wrote with the ut- mofl confidence in your Grace, I hope my letter will be kept a fecret. I am, my Lord, &c, * Number L Mr. C o N D u I tV Scheme. Formerly the mint gave i %d. a pound for all the cop- per they coined ; but the Englijh Copper Company having contra6led to furnifh the mint with 100 tuns of copper at 1 3 | ^. a pound, they find themfelves lofers by it, and declare they will furnifh no more under 15 J. a pound. The reafon why more is given than th^ market price is, that they mufl deliver it in bars of the exadl fize of the fpecies to be coined, and take back and work over again what is amifs, which is ufualiy | of the whole. A pound avoirdupoiz of copper is coined into 23 a ^. in England, which is - - - - ---_- - - - o III! If the pound of copper coft 01 i^ And the coinage - - - o o 4! 016 Remains gain on the coinage o o 5' It is offered to coin at the mint in England, copper for Ireland^ 26 d. in the pound avoirdupoiz ^ far- things^ and i halfpence, for 5^. a pound, all charges 46 LETTERSby charges included except zos, a tun to be given to the Comptroller. Q,^d. a pound is - - • d 2 2 So that if the pound of copper comes - - - o i 3 And the coinage - - o o 5 S Remains profit on the coinage 006 Which on loo tuns comes to 5,600/. out of which dedud zos. a tun to be paid to a Comptroller, there remains ^,^qqI neat profit. -f N U M B E R II. Ohfervations on the calculation of profit to he made hy the coinage of 100 tuns of copper in Mr. Condudt'i fcheme. AS we propofe coining but 2^\d. a pound inftead of 26^. a pound of copper, there will be a profit of 5 ^ d. fo that inftead of c^6 1 profit on a tun, dedudt- ing a half-penny a pound (which comes to 4 /. 135. 4^. a tun) there will remain but 51/. 6 J. 8^. profit on a tun, out of which dedudt 20 «^. a tun to the Comptroller, the remainder is 5033/. 6 s. 8 J. Again, as there mufl zod. a pound be paid in England for copper and coinage, that will amount to 186/. 13 i. 4^. a tun to be paid in England^ this on 100 tuns will amount to 18,666/. 13 J. 4^, to which add 100/. the Comptroller's fee, the total to be paid in England will amount to 1 8,766 /. 1 3 J. 4 ^. If we fuppofe to be paid more in England for agency, calks, packing, carriage, and fhippiiig, at the rate of 3 per LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 47 per cent, on the above fum, that will amount to better than 561/. to be anfwered there, the total will be 20,254 1 i^s, j^d, to be paid there. As the middle exchange here is 1 1 per cent, the re- turn will coil better than 2123/. Suppofe then thetotal gain on lOo tuns, to be - - - - 5QSS 6 8 X)edu6l from this a- gency, &:c. - - - J6i 00 Charge of remittance 2123 2 o 2684 o o Remains flill of profit 2349 6 8 Out of which, when freight, land- ing, and other expences here are anfwered, probably the re- maining profit may be from 210®/. to - - - 2200 o o And as we propofe to begin with but ^o tuns of copper, probably the profit may be from 1050/. to 11 00 o q To the Duke of Newcaflle, My Lord, Dublin^ Apr. 24, i73i» jN Wednefday I was honoured with your Grace's of the 14th inflant. I wiHi our treafury had been in a better condition, but as it is, I have taken care to have a year's penfion paid in to Mrs. Spence's agent, which clears her to Chrijlmas lafl inclufive, and a bill is remitted accordingly to-day. It is with a great deal of pleafure that I received your Grace's commands, which have given me a fmalloppQrtunit|r pf 48 LETTERS by of (helving my readinefs on all occafions to own the many obligations you have been pleafed to lay on me, I am, &c. To the Sijhcp of London, My Lord, Bubiin^ May ii, 1731. IT has been a very great furprife to me this win- ter to hear of the attacks made on the rights of the clergy by two bills brought into the Houfe of Commons, one relating to tythes, the other to the fines for renewal of Church leafes. I find that what always ufed to be of weight in both houfes, that thefe were manifell attempts on the undoubted right and property of the clergy, was with too many of no weight at prefent I am very glad the ftorm is blown over for this feafon, and I hope the open declarations their Ma- jeflies were pleafed to make in favour of the rights of the clergy, may prevent any new attack being haflily made on them. If I am not mifinformed, your Lordfhip has been very ufefuUy employed in publilhing a fbort but full vindication of the rights of the clergy as to tythe. To which I have feen an anfwer, publiihed^ as the title fays, by a member of parliament. I think we of the clergy are very much obliged to that author, fince he (peaks pretty plain, that in his opinion the nation ought to pay nothing to the cler- gy except they pleafe, and that the fewer the clergy are reduced to, the better for the nation. The rights of a free people feem to be carried a great length by fome people in England in their writ- ings. In feveral pamphlets one of their rights has been ailerted to be, to publifh what they pleafe about religion, and another to publifh the fame about all affairs of (late ^ and this author has now flarted a third, LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 49 third, which is, to be eafed from the burthen of tythes. I wilh the landed geptlemen would refledt, whether the next privilege of a free-born Englijhman may not be to be excufed from the burthen of rents, fince the tenants of England do alraoft as much out- number the landlords, as the laiety do the clergy. I mufl own it is with great grief that I fee daily fuch things publifhed, and thofe liberties taken with per- fons in power, and fuch a difregard to all the rights and properties of the fubjedt, as I think mufl by de- grees end in fome publick diflurbance. As to the clergy in particular, I believe there ne- ver has been a time, when there has been lefs rea- fon to complain of any oppreilions from the fpi ritual courts, or difaffedlion to the conflitution than at pre- fent ; and I cannot but think by what I am inform- ed, that one caufe of thefe attacks made on them^ is from thofe who are very uneafy to fee fo great a ftrength on the bench of Bifhops fupporting his Ma^ jefty and his miniftry •, but of this your Lordfhip is e better judge. But at the fame time I cannot but believe that if there were fewer pluralities, and more of the clergy difcharged their duty on their livings, ir would take off a great deal of that envy and malice which feems to be raifed. ,., It is very happy for us of the clergy here, that our brethren in England are able to fland their ground . for if you are once borne down, all that may pafs in England againft the clergy, will feem to be ads ot calmnefs and temper, in refpedt of thofe warm at^ tacks that would foon be made on us here. I moll heartily wifh our brethren in England good fuccefs in maintaining their rights, and congratu- late their having a perfon fo knowing and pru-^ dent as your Lordiliip to aflifl and condudl them in the defence they are obliged to make of their VoL: IL E P^operty^ ^4o L E T T E R S by »j ^property, againft fo unjufl and fo ilnreafonable at-- tempts. I ain, &c. ^ ' To the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin^ May 27^ 1731. I A M very much obliged to your Grace for taking in fo good part the late fmall return made by me for the many favours received of your Grace; and fhall always fet the higheft value on the continuance of your favour and friendfhip. I mud likewife defire your Grace to acquaint the Dutchefs of Newcafile how much I am obliged to her for the honoiit of her acknowledgments of ts\j having befriended Mrs. Spence. I am glad the feflion of parliament is ended fo well in EngJandy and heartily wilh ours may fucceed as well. -^^^^-• We are very much obliged to your Grace for your zeal in the promoting of the a6t for explaining the naturalization a6t^ in which as you rightly obferve, the interefts of England and Ireland^ and the honour of his Majefly*s government are highly concerned. But we are apprehenfive here that three claufes which were added to that bill, as fent up by the Commons^ will do fome mifchief here. As to the Irijh yarn bill, which was thrown out in the Houfe of Lords, I can aflure your Grace, that I am fully fatisfied the part you adted in that affair, wa^ not out of any difregard to Ireland^ but purely that you thought the rejedting of it at prefent, was for the fervice of England*. But at the fame time . *. The Primate Teems to argue like an IriJh Patriot in this letter, hut m truth he argues like a true friend to both England 2ind Ire- landy whofe interefls, as he thought were infeparable. I muft LORD PRIMATE BOULTER, 5! I muft beg leave to inform your Grace, that it is my opinion upon converting with gentlemen of thofe parts of Ireland where mod wool is run, that the pafling of that 'bill would have more effedtually pre- vented the running of wool from herice to France^ than all the laws befides, which you in England or we in Ireland can devife, to prevent that clandefline trade ; fmce it would have made it the general in- tereft of the landed gentlemen, and of the poor peo- ple, every where to have endeavoured to hinder any wool being carried off from hence to France ; and I believe the gentry in thofe parts would have done their utmofl to prevent it. But at prefent, as you have done nothing in Eng^ land to fet us an example of what you would ex- pedt from us, unlefs my Lord Lieutenant comes over with inftrudtions what it is that is defired of us, I believe we {hall be put to it, to find out what method to take to hinder the running of wool. And after we have taken in the former feillons, one ftep to encou- rage carrying our yarn to England by taking off a duty amounting to 1 2,000/. per ami. which muil be made good by fome new duties, and after nothing has been done on the other fide agreeable to our hopes, not to iay to the promifes made us, i wiHi the fellions may prove as eafy as all his Majeftfs fervants here wijb, and will ufe their utmoft endeavours to make it. I am^ &c. . To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ May ^p, 1731* SINCE your Grace was fo good as to fend order? to have Mr. Ho/kins prefented to the redory of Qane^ upon Mr. Horner's refigning it, Mr. Hormr has refigned that living, and I have collated him to E z a \\\^iu£( 52 LETTERS by a living in my diocefe. But before any thing far- ther is done about Clane^ I would beg the favour of your Grace to let Mr. Daniel of Killyhegs be prefented to the redtory of Clane^ upon Mr. Hojkins being pre- fented to Killyhegs^ which I doubt not obtaining from the Bifhop o{ Rapho^ who is patron oi Killyhegs, It will be for the conveniency of thofe two cler- gymen to make that exchange ^ and I hope your Grace will be fa good as to permit it. I am, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan, Z2^ 175I' THE lady that waits upon your Grace with thefe ' is relidl of Lord Roche^ as he was commonly called, whofe anceftor was attainted and loft his title and a large eftate about the rebellion of 1641. His late Majefty was pleafed to give him a penfion here during his life : I think it was 200/. per ann. which I believe was the only fupport of him and his fa- mily. Since his death, his widow being deftitute of fupport, made application to his prefent Majefty for a penfion for the maintenance of herfelf ; and as I tinderftood by her, my Lord Carteret gave her hopes that his Majefty would grant her requeft ; but as no- thing is yet done in it, fhe thought proper to go over to England to foliciHn perlon. I believe ftie has forae friends there who will afllft her with their intereft, but as your Grace's good will muft be of the greateft fervice to her, I humbly recommend her to your Grace to help her to fomewhat that may be a fubfiftance for her, fmce I am fully perfuaded fhe is at prefent without one. As for the particu- lars of her cafe, I refer your Grace to her own rela- tion. I am, . My Lord, &c. < - T$ LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. sS To Lord Carteret. My Lord, Dublin, June 24, 1731, MR. Ransfield has lately brought me the honour of your Lordfhip's of the 26th of April, re- commending him to my protection here. If your Lordlliip is lb good as to fpeak for him to my *Lord Lieutenant, I fhall be very ready to do him what good offices I can with his Grace, as occafions of- fer I am, My Lord, &a To the Duke of Dorfet My Lord, Dublin, June 26, 1731, I Have the honour of your Grace's of the lyth inft. and I fhall be obliged to your Grace if you pleafe by the firft opportunity to fend an order for prefenting Mr. Daniel to the reclory of Clane^ that there may be no fquabble about tythes, as harveft is juft coming on now. I had to-day fome talk with my Lord Chancellor about the copper coinage, and we are both of opi- nion that it is now too late to do any thing in that affair till we have the opportunity of difcourfing with your Grace in perfon on that fubjedt. As to purchafmg in the rapst, we are both of opinion that it will be very wrong to do it ; nor have either of us heard any body heie fuggeft that* fuch a thing would be proper : and we would both beg that there never may be the leaft hint dropt of any fuch intention, fince it may occafion the coining of fome thoufands of pounds more of raps, the lofs * Uitiely Duke of DotfeL f Abafefortof half-pence- E 3 of 54 LETTERSbv of which will be heavy enough on the poor, as things ftand already. Sir Ralph Gore is in the country at prefent, fo th^t ; J could not have his fentiments on this fubjedt. I an), &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 3, 1731. I Had defigned not to have troubled your Grace about an affair of no greater importance than is the fubje(fl of this letter, till I had the honour of feeing your Grace at Dublin ^ but as your Grace may then be in a great hurry, and I am informed you have already fixed feveral of your chaplains, I take the liberty to recommend to your Grace's fa- vour, to be put in that lift. Dr. Effe:^ Edgwortky Chancellor of the diocefe of Ardagh^ a bifhoprick held by the Bilhop of Kilmore. I fhould not recom- rnend him on this occafion, if did not know him tq be every way a rnoft worthy clergyman. I am, &c. fo the Bijhop of London, jMy Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 12, 1731. THE perfbn who waits upon you with this, is Dr. Delany., minifter of one of the principal ** Churches in this city, and one of our moll celebra- ted preachers. He has of late employed his thoughts and pen in the vindication of our moll holy Religion, and has fome thoughts of printing what he has writ- ♦ St. WerhurgFi Parilli. ' ■ ten^ LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. S5 ten t, if it fhall be thought to be of fervice, 1 knew of no perfon to whofe judgment it was more proper to dibmit his performances than your LordChip, who have fo happily engaged yourfelf in the controverfy, and feem to have the condu6t of the defence of our mod holy caufe againft the prefent moft auda.eioiLis in- fults of unbeHevers. He comes over with a difpofiti- on to fubmit his writings, and the printing of them^ to your Lordfhip's opinion, I am, &e, To tbe Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Duhlm^ Dec. 4, 17 31. IHope your Grace will have the goodnefs to excufe my giving you this trouble on account of one of the bills now fent over to be laid before the privy council in England^ for rendering more efFedlual an ad; for the better fecuring of the governm.ent by difarm- ing papills ; fince the papifts here declare publickly, that they have employed agents on the otlier fide of the water to have the bill funk there. That your Grace may the better underfland the cafe, 1 muft beg leave to acquaint you that in the yth of King IVilliajn an ad was pafled here, entitled, an a6t for the better fecuring the government by di farm- ing papifts. The intent of which was not only to take away the arms then in the hands of papifts, but conftantiy to keep them and their fuccefibrs difarmed; and it has been the opinion of the Judges from time to time, that the law had forbid all papifts at any time to keep or carry arms. But upon a papift being indidted laft fummer allizes in the county of Galway upon that a6t, for carrying arms, though it was not \ Revelation examined ixjith Candour ; the Life of King David, and many other Pieces, with a Volume of Sermons. E 4 difputed 56 LETTERSby difputed either that he was a papift, or carried arms, yet the jury were pleafed to acquit him. Upon this it has been underflood by the papifts every where, that the faid adt only concerned the papifls then Hv- ing, and the arms they had in their poflefllon at the time that adl was pafTed ; and upon tallying with the Judges, we find that adt was drawn up fo ill, that there is too much room for fuch an opmion. This occafioned the Houfe of Lords to bring in heads of a bill to render that act more efFedtual, and this new aC\ is very little more than the old one correded to v/hat it was originally defigned for ; only this being thought more prudent than to bring in a bill, which by its very title fhould have owned the firft ad to be grofsly defedive. The power given in the old ad to the government to licenfe fuch papifts to bear arms as they thought proper, is here continued, with a power of revoking fuch licenfes, when they fhall think fit, which was forgQt in the former ad. The chief additions to this new bill are, that no proteftant fervant to a papifl fhall have any arms whilfl he is in that fervice ; for this was one way of eluding the ad, whilfl it was thought to be in force, to keep a proteftant fervant, who pretended to be the proprietor of all arms found in the houfe of his popifh mafter. That the proof of a perfon being commonly reputed a papift, fhall be fufficient to convid fuch perfon offending againft this ad, except he prove himfelf a proteftant, for on fome trials it was found very difficult to prove a man to be a papift, though the whole country knew him to be fo. , And another is, that no papift ftiall be on the jury in any trial upon this ad. My LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 57 My Lord, As what has happened has in a manner repealed the adl of the 7th of King fVilliam^ fo far as relates to the difarming of papifts ; and as the papifls in Dublin have upon it put on fwords, and thofe in the country in Conaugbt at leaft travel pubHckly with fwords and fire-arms, we cannot think ourfelves nor the government here fafe, unlefs the adl we now fend over be paffed. The papiils by the mofl modefl com- putation, are about five to one proteftant, but others think they cannot be lefs than feven to one. And what ufe they have formerly made of their arms in this kingdom, our hiflories give too melancholy an account of. And I can alTure your Grace, that the papifts in the country, before the defedls of this a6t were difcovered, were fo formidable, that fcarce any magiftrate durft put any of the laws againft regulars, &c. in executi- on, for fear of being murthered, or having his houfes fired in the night. And if our prefent bill mifcarries, they will grow much more formidable and infolent ; nor have the papifts fcrupled often giving threats againft every magiftrate that was more adtive on any occafion than his neighbours. They had found out feveral evafions of the a6l of the feventh of King W^illiam^ which we would wil- lingly have prevented, but as fome difficulties arofe in drawing up proper claufes for that purpofe, and too many in the Houfe of Commons fhew a difpofiti- on to favour the papifts more than is confiftent with the proteftant intcreft here ; we have omitted all fuch claufes, and confined ourfelves to what was the un- doubted intention of that adt, and to fome new claufes which nobody can well objedt to, to make it in fome meafure efFedtual. And 58 LETTERSby And I mud beg of your Grace to ufe your interefl: with the council, to return us this bill without any ways weakening it ; fince without this bill his Ma- jefly's government will be in great danger here if any unhappy occafion abroad fhould give the papifts a lit- tle more boldnefs than they have at prefent, and the proteflants will not be fafe in their perfons. 1 am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. 20, 1731. I Have had the honour of your Grace's of the i ith inftant, and am very much obhged to your Grace for your anfwer to mine of the 21ft pafl. What my Lord Carteret had done with the refolu- tions of the Houfe of Lords and Commons, which he took over with him, we had no account of before. But judging it probable they were referred to the CommifTioners of the Treafury, we were for ferving the nation in their prefent extreme want of copper money, by a method that might avoid any enquiry into fo complicated an affair, as the fetting the value of the gold and filver coins current here, and the confidering whether it were more proper to have a mint eredted here, or to have leave given us to have copper money to fuch a quantity, coined at the tower ; which method was, by an addrefs from the Lords Juflices and Privy-council for leave to have fifty tuns of copper coined at the tower, without any relation to any thing done either by the Lords or Commons here. Whereby all that would have been brought before the Treafury had been, whether his Majefty would pleafe to let us have fifty tuns of copper coined at the tower, at fuch a rate as anfwers to the Englijh copper coinage, and to permit the gain made by it to come to the ufe of the publick. And LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ^g And I can afTure your Excellency that I have never heard of any application made by any but the privy- council here to the King on any occafions relating to the qoin, till laft feilion. And fo far were the Houfe of Commons from thinking it a point belonging to them, that Mr. Conolly acquainted my Lord Chancellor and me that a few years before I came hither there had been a committee appointed by the Houfe of Commons, to confider at what value gold and filver coins ought to pafs here ; but after fome time fpent in it, they dropped making any report to the Houfe of what refolutions they had come to in the commit- tee, as thinking that an affair wholly belonging to his Majefly*s prerogative. Nor had they meddled with it lafl feflions but that the remitters and merchants of Cork thought it more to their advantage to have things continue in their prefcnt bad ftate, than have them reformed according to the rational fcheme de- figned by the privy council : and they were the per- fons who engaged fome members in that houfe to drive them to the refolutions they came to : and the refolutions of the Houfe of Lords * were defigned only as a ballance againfl the hafty refolutions of the pther houfe. After thefe hints, J Ihall reft the affair with your .Grace. I am^ My Lord, &c. fo the Jamt. My Lord, Dublin^ May 4, 1732. AFTER the difficulties and dangers your Grace met with in your firfl attempt for England^ it was a great pleafure to hear to-day, that your fecond voyage proved fo favourable. * Thofe refolutions were framed hy his Grace, and fupported by him in the Houfe of Lords. By 6o LETTERSby By the accounts we have from England there \i no doubt of your Grace's having time to lay before his Majefty what you (hall judge proper for the fervice of this country before he fets out for Hanover ; and we are all fatisfied we cannot defire a better folHcitor. I take this opportunity to make my acknowledg- ments to your Grace for all the favours I received from you here, and defire I may be honoured with the continuance of them. I am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ May ii, 173^. WE have wrote to your Grace by this mail, re- commending Mr. Meredith for the deanery of Ardfert. The deanery is of little value, and is rather defired for the dignity than the profit of it. Mr. Agmondejhara Vefey is father-in-law to Mr. Meredithy and he came to me with him, and took occafion to affure me of his readinefs to concur in all meafures the government could defire next feflion, which a man of honour could pofllbly join in. I told him I was very fure the government would never de- fire any thing a man of honour could not comply with, and affured him I would write to your Grace in behalf of his fon. As your Grace had been mentioning Mr. Vefeyy as one proper to be gained, I was glad of his applying on this occafion : fmce the boon he aiks is not great, if he fhould fly off! But I hope this may open a way to fix him againft another feflion. He has given the fame aflurances to other friends, whom he employed to (peak to Sir Ralph Gore and me. As this is the (late of this affair, I mufl defire your LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 6i your Grace to be fo good as lo recommend Mr. Mere^ dith to his Majefty for the faid deanery. I am. My Lord, &c. 7i the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ May 27, 1732. IT was with very great pleafure I received the ac- count from your Grace, of your family being all arrived at London in good health. I am fenfible the lofs of time your Grace fuffered by your troublefome paflage, mufl have hindered your knowing his Majefly's pleafure about fome of our Irijb affairs ; but the diftrefs we are in for want of copper money, and the ready concurrence that af- fair was likely to meet with from the miniftry, make me hope your Grace has found an opportufiity of con- fulting his Majefty about the copper coinage. I am. Your Grace's, &c. MEMORIAL T O His Grace the DUKE of DORSET. May it pleafe your Grac^j TH E want of copper money is fb great in this kingdom, as to put the more ordinary fort of people, particularly the foldiers, under the greateft difficulties in all thei' little tranfadlions : obliging them to pay for the exchange of filver, and to take raps 62 LETTERSby raps that are not of a fourth part of the value of an Englijb half-penny. And their necefllties have encou- raged feveral wicked people to make counterfeit copper money at this time, which muft end in the great lofs of this nation. We therefore think it w^ould be of great fervice to his Majefly, and of great advantage to his good fub- jeds here ; if a quantity of good copper money were, as foon as conveniently may be, cotned for the ufe of this kingdom. And we defire your Grace will be pleafed to obtain his Majefly's permifllon, that we may have fifty tuns of copper coined at the mint, of the fame finenefs as the Englijh half-pence are coined of, part in half-pence, and part in farthings; and that as the Englijh (hilling pafles with us for 13^. and out of a pound of copper is coined at the mint z^^d. Englijh^ we may be permitted to coin out of a pound of copper z^^d. that our copper money may be as near as may be of the fame proportionable value as the copper money of England: and that no private perfon may make any advantage of this coinage, we defire that his Majefly may be pleafed to order that after the expence of the copper, coinage, exchange for remittance, carriage, and other neceffary ex- pences, the remaining profit may go to the ufe of the publick here. It is propofed that this copper money fhould have his Majefty's head on one fide, and the Irijh harp and crown on the other. The fum of copper money that will arife out of 50 tuns coined after this propofal, will amount to 11,900/. IriJJ: The money that may be neceOfary to fet this coinage a going, will be little more than 1000/. which is propofed to be advanced here without any profit to thofe who advance it. As our prefent calamity for want of good copper money is very great, and grows every day greater, and as the defign will take up forae time in executing, after his Majefty has graciouily given us the permifllon we LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 6^ we defire, we humbly beg your Grace will take the iirfl opportunity to obtain his Majefly's leave, that we may immediately fet about an affair that will be of fo great fervice to the ordinary people of this kingdom. The H 9 u s E of L o R D s, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin, July 22, 1732. I Was in hopes to have given your Grace the trou- ble of a letter relating to the copper coinage fooner, but it was not before Tburfday lafl that we could finifh the affair, and fign a letter. 1 am forry it is in fo per- plexed a manner, with fo much regard to what pafTed in the two houfes two feflions ago : but your Grace will fee that in the opinion of the council, our necef- fities require fuch a coinage, and that fpeedily. I firfl opened the affair upon receipt of Mr. Cary's * letter, in council, on TVednefday the 12th inflant, when we appointed a committee to confider the matter and make a report. My Lord Chancellor feemed to have a little courage then, Sir Ralph Gore was not then re- turned out of the country, laft Saturday we received the report from the committee, when my Lord Chan- cellor exprefled great fears of offending the Houfe of Commons, and the affair was re-committed. Sir Ralph Gore fpoke very plainly that he had iaff fefiions talked with feveral members about what was defigned, that except Mr. Stephenfony who wanted to have the coinage himfelf, every one approved the defign ; and thought it befl to be done by the council, for fear of any unreafonable addition, if the affair was moved in the Houfe of Commons. I likewife afTured theiii • Srcretarj to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant 9{ Ireuind. I had 64 LETTERSby I had promifed fome members to get the thing done, if they would keep it out of the houfe, which was accordingly done. However, my Lord Chancellor in- fifted on not concluding till the Lord Chief Juftice and Lord Chief Baron returned from the country ; and that notice lliould be taken of the refolutions of the Houfe of Lords and Commons two felTions ago^ Againft IVednefday the 19th the committee had the report ready agreeably to my Lord Chancellor's defire. In the debates we had, every body allowed it was the ' mod reafonable fcheme as to the goodnefs of the half- pence, and mofl advantageous, as the publick was to have the profit : that the neceflities of the nation re- quired a fpeedy remedy, and this was the only one j but as fome few were afraid of offending the Com- mons, I put them in mind that we were to adt for the King's intereft, without regard to the fenfe of either houfe ; and that though the Commons, in a fudden heat had come to a refolation, yet as they - had fate fmce for four or five months, and never meddled with that affair, it was a tacit retractation. Several of the members in town, that ufually are in the oppofition, have been fpoke to, and highly ap- prove of the affair, I muft beg that we may be favoured with leave to have 50 tuns coined at the mint, of the fame finenefs as the Englijh copper coin, at 254^. per pound avoirdupoiz, and that the profit may go to the pub- lick here. We are not fure whether we fhould in our letter defire your Grace to apply to his or her Majefty, but we mean to have it obtained as foon as may be. The want of good change is fo great, that the fooner we may fet about it the better. As 1000 or 1500/, may be wanted to fet the affair a-going, care will be taken to provide it : there is no doubt but we ihall want about 100 tuns more. About LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 65 About letting the old half-pence circulate, I be^ lieve there wants no order from England^ but if your Grace approves it, as it is neceflary, and is a fort of condition of the new coinage, we can do it by proper orders to the Vice-Treafuren I am^ My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 15, 1732. I Had fome time ago a memorial tranfmitted me by Mr. Cary^ that had been laid before your Grace by the Bifhop of Meath, relating to the archdeaconry o^ Kelts granted to him in commendam, in order to have part of the endowment of it annexed to the bifhoprick in lieu of feveral impropriations he is wil- ling to give up, to the feveral parifhes they are in^ defiring to know my fentiments of the matter. As I know how poorly thofe parifhes are provided for at prefent, I cannot but approve the defign, as do my brethren the Lords Juftices. But to prevent any mifunderftandings or excep- tions, I defired the Bifhop of Meath to deliver in a memorial to the Lords Juftices, that we might in common confider the matter, and recommend it jointly to your Grace; but as my brethren have been lately out of town at Sir Ralph Qore'Sy and I am going this week on my vifitation, where I fhall be abfent for a fortnight, nothing can well be done in it till ray return. However I promifed the Bifhop of ili^^ri?, (that I would in the mean time acquaint your Grace with my approbation of it, and would give it all poflible difpatch at my return ^ with which he was well fatisfied. And I hope at ray return to Dublin, we fhall jointly recommend it to your Grace. He Vol. II, F propofes 66 L E T T E R S B Y prdpofes by your Grace's afliflance to have the affair fettled by an Englijh adt of parliament next feflion ; but it is neceifary he (hould have the archdeaconry in commendan in the mean time, that it may not lapfe. When the affair is fettled in better form, I (hail trouble your Grace with a more particular ac- count of it. 1 am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord^ Dublin^ Sept. 27, 1732. TH E bearer, Mr. Horan^ is a gentleman whom I prefented to your Grace in this kingdom, when he gave you a memorial of his cafe. He is the perfon who ha,d a trial here with a de- fcendant of one of thofe who went to France upon the furrender of Limerkk, and afterwards followed the caufe to the Houfe of Lords in Ef^Iand-, and was encouraged by thofe in pov/er here to folicit an ap- plication of the 7^ and 10 of Queen ^nne, by a new ad in England, fo as to fecure proteflant purchafers againft the defcendants of thofe who chofe to go and ferve France, rather tbam flay in their own country. On this occafion he has taken feveral journies to England, and been at very great expences, and has certainly been a confiderabie lofer, the eftate of which he had been a purchafer, not making him amends for his expences. He therefore hopes that as he has flood the expence of a law-fuit here, and an appeal in England^ and been at great trouble and expence in foiicitmg an affair, the well fettling of which is of confequerxe to the proteflant interefl of this king- dom, your Grac3 would be fo kind as to recommend him LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 67 him to his Majefty's favour for forne place in this kingdom. Moll of the fads he mentions fince 1724, I know to be true, and I am thoroughly fenfible he mufl have been a fufFerer in this affair, which I think it is a pity he ihould be, and therefore I recommend him to your Grace's favour. I am, my Lord, &c. To the fam^, My Lord, Dublin^ OSI. i^^ 1732. I Had owned the honour of your Grace's fooner but that I found by it there were very little hopes of any thing being done in the affair of our copper coinage, till his Majefty's arrival brought the feve- veral great officers to town. As that is now done, and the hurry of compliments on that occafion is now over, I mufl beg of your Grace to forward that affair as much as you can. I hope what is fo reafon- able in itlelf, fo neceflary for us, and of no damage to England, will meet with no difficulty on your fide of the water. Your Grace moft juftly thought it could have met with no objedlions here, efpecially after what you had heard on that fubjedt from fo many of the principal perfons here. Nor had there been any obftacle here, but for the timoroufnefs of one per-- fon*. But as the thing is fo much wanted, and the me-» thod propofed for doing it, in itfelf fo reafonable and juft, I make no doubt but when it is once well exe-* cutcd every body will applaud it. 1 am, my Lord, &c. * Lord Chancellor Wyndbam. V Z f9 68 L E T T E R S B Y To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Od, 28, 1732. SINCE I came to town to fettle, there have been with me my Lord Mount Alexander and Lord Strangford^ to defire J would put your Grace in mind of them, now upon his Majefly's return. The cafe of the firft your Grace knows is that he has nothing at all to fubfifl upon, and is ready on all occafions to attend his Majefty's fervice at the Houfe of Lords. The cafe of the latter is, that there is a penfion granted for the maintenance of my Lord and his mother ■ but as he is now of age and learning fit for the Univerfity, be would willingly profecute his fludies at the college here, but without an additi- onal penfion from his Majefty's bounty, he is unable to be at the expence. I am told he is a good fcholar, and foberly difpofed ; and I fhould think it is a pity be fhould not be encouraged to go on and improve bimfelf. As this is their cafe, I take the liberty to recom- mend them to your Grace for your interceilion with his Majefty, that he may be pleafed to grant to each of them fome mark of favour out of his royal bounty *. I am. My Lord, &c 7o the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Nov, 2, 1732. SINCE we wrote yefterday to acquaint your Grace with the death of General + Stern^ my Lord Cavan is come to town, and has delivered in his * The Primate's requeft was granted. •f Governor of the Royal Hofpital, or invah'd Soldiers at Kil- mainham near Duhliriy and much on the fame Foundation as that of Chelfea near London, memorial LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 69 memorial relating to the mallerfhip of the hofpital. I beheve there is no one applies on this occafion, that has been longer in the fervice than his Lordfhip, and that nnore conftantl}^ attended his duty whilft he was in the army. Your Grace very well knows he is the only Lay-Lord that is a man of bufinefs in the Houfe of Lords, where he is never wanting to ferve the government : and I fhould hope it will rot be thought amifs to confider one of that houfe, for a pofb now^ vacant. And if he has this preferment, he will al- ways be at hand to alTift in the Privy-council He is very willing, if this provifion be made for him, to drop the penfion he at prefent enjoys of 400 /. per ann. which will be an eafe to our eftablifhment, and that your Grace knows is of fome confequence here. On thefe confiderations I cannot but heartily recom- mend him to your Grace, for his Majefty's favour on this vacancy. I am, my Lord, &c. Tx) the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ D^c. 7, 1730. S we have not yet had any intimations of his Majefty's pleafure about the mafterfhip of the hofpital here, Ijufl take the liberty to put your Grace again in mind of my Lord Cavan^ as I cannot but think, if the place is difpofed of to any perfon here, it would be of fervice to his Majefty in the Houfe of Lords, to beftow it on his Lordfhip. I am. My Lord, &a F 3 To ^@ LETTERSbv To the fame. My Lofdj Dublin^ Jan. 1 1, 173a. Had the honour of your Grace's of Dec. 28, laft Sunday. I do not queftion but there were good reafons why my Lord Cavan could not be provided for at prefeat j but I hope fome care will be taken of him on another opportunity. We fhall to morrow have a meeting of the governors of the hofpital, when we fhall take care to appoint Colonel * B^^gg mailer of the hofpital, whom I heartily wifh joy of this promotion. My Lord f Ahham has within this poft or two written to your Grace to have fomewhat farther done for him by his Majelly, and I promifed him to write to your Grace on his behalf His prefent penfion is 200 /. per ami. which I fear is pretty much antici- pated by debts he had contracfted for his fubfiftance, before his Majefly was pleafed to grant it him. But if it be not anticipated, as he has a lady and three children alive, and one coming every year, it will be very hard for him to carry the year about with his prefent penfion. If your Grace could prevail on his Majefly to make fome addition to what he has at pre- fent, it would be a very feafonable relief to one who I am certain is at prefent reduced to fuch necefllties, as it is a pity a peer of this kingdom, and who may polllbly be a peer of Great Britain^ (hould be re- duced to= I am, &c. * Suppofecl to be the natural Son to the late E. of D. and Bro* ther to his G. theD. of D. then L. L. of /•— d. f Nephew to Arthur Earl of Anglefea^ and prefumptive Heir to that Title and Eftate, who died before his Uncle. He was fuc^ eeeded m both Titles and Eftate by his Brother James, to LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 71 To the fame. My Lord^ Dublin^ Jan. 25, 1732. I Am very forry I am obliged to trouble your Grace on an occafion fo melancholy to myfelf. My wife's bread has been very bad for fome time, but of late is grown much worfe, which makes me very de- firous to carry her over to England^ to fee whether 1 can meet with better advice there than here. But I jam fenfible, as I am in the government here, J cannot ftir without his Majeily's leave, whether by his letter, or by fignifying his pleafure to the government here by your Grace, I cannot tell I mufl therefore beg of your Grace to obtain his Majesty's leave for my coming to England^ as foon as may be^ for I am under apprehenfions, that if my wife is not removed foon, her breaft may be fo bad, that it may be dangerous for her to travel, I think there will be no difficulty in letting the go- vernment ftand as it does, or that an order from his Majefty may be lodged here to grant a commiffion to my Lord Chancellor and Sir Ralph Gore to a6t jointly or feparately, in cafe either of them fhould be taken ill. I do not fpeak this upon my own account, fmce I (hall not reckon myfelf entitled to any falary from the day I leave Ireland. I have communicated this affair to my Lord Chancellor, but no farther • and I can aiTure your Grace I fball not flay needlefsly in England., if his Majefty pleafes to give me his graci- ous leave to take this journey. And it may happen, that after leave obtained, I may find it imipracticable to ftir. Your kind and fpeedy interpofition with his Ma- jefty on this occafion, will be a very great obiiga= tion tQ, My Lord, &c, F 4 fo 7^ ' t E T T E R S By To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb, 12, 1732. I Humbly thank your Grace for procuring me his Majefly's leave to come to England. I hope by the next mail to receive his Majefty's letter in due form. If I had been apprehenfive of their wanting a form at the fecretary's office, which I fear has pccafioned fome delay in my affair, I fhould at firft have fent them tiie King's letter, granted to his late Grace of Dublin^ on a like occafion, but it was not fuggefted to me till late, and I fent it to Mr. Dehfaye *, this day fe'nnight. But 1 hope they will have found a form before that comes to hand. r- As foon as his Majefly's letter comes, I fhall make what hafte I can to London., if my fpoufe is able to undertake the journey ; when I hope to have the honour to wait on your Grace. I am, your Grace's, &c. To the fatne. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb. 24, 173a YOUR Grace fo well knew Sir Ralph Gore., and the deferved efteem he had, that I need fay nc^ thing of his charader, or the lofs the publick will have by his death. For my own particular, it has put me in my prefent circumflances, under the greateft diflrefs. I thank your Lordfhip for obtaining for me his r^.^/T.,.»g \^.2iyQ to come over to England^ and his * One of the Under Secretaries of State. Majefty's LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. Majefty's letter to alter the quorum here to make n_ abfence the lefs inconvenient. When the letter came. Sir Ralph was in a very bad way, fo that if the new commilfion had paffed, there was I believe a neceflity of paiTmg it before his death, v/hich would have made it the more pradlicable for me to go to England though he died ; not that I would have done it, without firft knowing his Majeily's pleafure. But as the govern- ment was in danger of being in a cafe unforefeen when that letcer was granted, and your Grace enjoining me not to produce that 'etter except my journey was cer- tain, I did not think myfelf fufficiently authorized to have a new commiffion palTed, and accordingly no- thing was done it, and i believe now nothing can be done in virtue of that letter. As Sir Raioh Gore is dead^ there feems to he an opportunity^ without any offence^ of putting the General^ in as the third per/on in the cofnmi//io7ifj who I remember your Grace thought was the proper per/on^ and that it was inconvenient and even dangerous to let the government keep on too long with the office of thefpeaker. My Lord Chancellor and I fhall very foon trouble your grace with our opinion, whom we think it will ht mod for his Majefty's fervice to recommend for fpeaker. As I cannot but wifh that I may be at liberty, if her health will permit it, to carry my wife over to England^ for advice, / would humbly offer, that if my Lord , Shannon be added to the commijfion of Lords Juf- tices, and the claufe for enabling one Lord Juflice to ad in the abfence or ficknefs of the others, though my Lord Shannon could not be here fo foon, yet, as one of this country would adlually be in the commif- * Of the Army. -J- Of Lords Juftlces. § — — — Boyley Lord Vifcount Shannon^ general and com- mander in chief of the forces \n Ireland, whofe daughter married the Eail oiMiddlefeXy eldeft ion to Lionel th^ firft Duke of Dorfer, fion, 74 LETTERSby 'fion, and might be expe6led here in a little time, I might be able to go to England in lefs than three weeks, if my wife fhould not by that time be too ill to travel. But if my journey at this time be thought prejudicial to his Majefty's fervice here, I entirely fubmit. The point is a matter of great moment to the peace of this kingdom^ not only during your Grace's admini/iration, hut probably under fever al fucceffors to your Grace-, and I hope will not therefore he too hafiily determined. I am, my Lord, &c. To tht fame. My L ord, Dublin^ March 6, 1732. N the letter from the council to your Grace, no- tice is taken that no anfvver is come to their for- mer application for the currency of the old copper money for fome time : and it is apprehended that without fome order on that head there may, upon ifluing out the new fpecies, be fuch a flagnation of the old copper, as may occafion great diflrefs, if not fome diilurbance among th'e meaner people. It was therefore the opinio*.: of the council that his Majefty {hould be defired to give fuch orders as he fhall in his v/ifHom judge proper in that affair, to prevent a fudden ftop to the currency of the old fpecies. The raps were by all thought to be out of the queftion. And this was fo much the fenfe of the council, that till fome what of this nature be done, I am fatisfied my Lord Chancellor will not advance one flep in this affair. I have fmce talked with the commilTloners on that fubjedt, whofe opinion is, that as in England the col- ledtors are not obliged to receive more than ^%d. ill any one payment in copper, as 6^. is there the leaft LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 75 teaft piece of common filver money ; Co here, where 6 Id. is our lead piece of filver coin, they fhould not be obliged to receive more than 6d. in copper in any one payment ; though they may be left at liber- ty to receive more, if they pleafe. But I cannot but think it will be necelfary to put fome reftraint upon that liberty, fo that they may not €.g. at the moft take more than one (hilling in the pound in copper in one payment, to prevent as much as may be, the fraud of coUedors. There is another trouble I mufl give your Grace in this affair : I think the diredions your Grace fent us in your letter, to give what orders were proper in this affair, were fufficient to authorize us to appoint an agent, or take any other necelfary flep ; but my Lord Chancellor is grown fo much more fcrupulous fince the death of Sir Ralpb Gore, that at firfl he talked of appointing no agent, except fuch agent would be fecurity to indemnify him in cafe of any accident or mifmanagement : but I have fince brought him, upon the advice of my Lord Chief Juftice Ro^ gerjon, io confent to appoint an agent, and fet the work a-^going, if your Grace will fignify to us that it is his Majefly's pleafure that we fhould appoint an agent in this affair : I think it would not be amifs if it were expreffed ftich an agent or agents as we Jhall judge proper either here or in England. Mr. Gardiner is willing to undertake the agency of this affair, and will anfwer the calls for money out of his own caih \ and as the bankers here fland ob- liged to him for his favour on many occafions, he hopes to engage fome of them to get a correfpondent of theirs in London, to negociate the contract, and do what elfe is necelfary there, without being paid for agency. He was even willing to have indem^ nified my Lord Chancelor, but that I thought was too mucho I fhould 76 L E T T E R S BY I fhould be glad if we had his Majefty*s pleafure fignified to us to thofe two points, as foon as may be conveniently, becaufe I fear no material ftep will be taken here till that is done. Mr. Gardiner will in the mean time write to a pro- per perfon in London to enquire about the price of copper, and prepare matters there, but till his Ma- jefly's pleafure be fignified, we fhall not be able to advance farther here. I am very forry your Grace fhould have fo much trouble in an affair that every body allows to be even neceflary for carrying on all fmaller tranfadtions here. And if it were in my power, I would fave your Grace this trouble. I am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. . My Lord, Duhlij^ March i^^ I'j^z, WE received the honour of your Grace's letter of the loth inftant, and write again in the fam.e manner, that what pafled on this occafion, may as far as in us lie, be a fecret to all perfons here. In our laft we reprefented to your Grace our thoughts concerning the feveral candidates, and that Mr. Boyk appeared to us to have by much the befl perfonal interefl, and fuch as could not without diffi- culty be oppofed, if he perfifted in his pretenfions. If this was not the cafe of one of the candidates, it might be advifeable to wait for fuch accidents as time may throw in the way, before his Majefly fa- voured either of them with his recommendation •, but as it is a thing hardly to be expedled that any num- ber of perfons fhould keep themfelves difengaged for fo long a time as fix months, and as there may not be wanting thofe who may endeavour to perfuade Mr. Boyle LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 77 Boyle that he has not been kindly ufed by the govern- ment's taking no favourable notice of his applications, we are very apprehenfive that fuch delay may give room to the forming fome party, which m.ay raife a dangerous oppofition to fo late a recommendation as your Grace propofes. We fhould be very unwilling to difoblige either of the candidates, as being perfons for whom we have a great regard, but we beg leave to obferve, that fmce fuch declaration mud be made be- fore the cledion, the efFeds of any refentment on that account may be worn out the fooner it is made, ef- pecially if it be in favour of one, who it is generally thought cannot fail of fuccefs. It may be proper to take notice that it is almofl a general notion, that if Mr. Boyle was once recommended by the govern- ment, all other oppofition would be at an end. People have not been wanting to furmife here that Mr. Boyle's (landing was only in order to transfer his intereft at a proper time to fome other. The efFedt of this has been, that Mr. Boyle has by his friends, difcountenanced any fuch fuggeflion, and many of his friends have declared againfl any fuch transfer. We aflure your Grace we continue in the fame opinion we were of when your Grace was here as to the fiUing up the third place in the government, and this feems a favourable opportunity for putting that fcheme in execution. Your Grace mufl be fenfible that 500/. a fefiion cannot be a fufficient provifion for the expence of a fpeaker, and therefore he will be apt to exped fome other fupport from the government. Whether the chancellorfhip of the Exchequer be a pofl proper for a fpeaker not otherwife provided for, is a matter we fhall not prefume to meddle with; but we cannot help taking notice, that from the nature and duties of that office, it may be for his Majefly's fervice that it fhould be given to fome peribn cf weight, who ufuallv refides here. We 78 LETTERS BY We (hall ufe our befl intereft and endeavours to keep the friends of the government difengaged till his Majefty's further pleafiare is known. Your Grace will excufe us for being fo particular in an affair wherein hirs Majefly's fervice, the eafe tind honour of your Grace's adminiflration, and the quiet of this kingdom, are highly concerned*. We are, my Lord, &c. fo Mr. Walter Gary, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant. Sir, Dublin, Apr. 7, 1730. I Have received yours of the 24th pafl, and hoped to have anfwered it fooner, but that we are flill flarting difficulty after difficulty in the matter of the copper coinage, which made me willing to fee them all through if I could, before I give you any farther trouble : and 1 hope we fhall upon the return of the Judges from the circuit, be able to fettle them alL As for money, I had taken care about that, but I find now it is doubted whether any private perfon may advance it with fafety, though he defires to get nothing by doing fo. However in whatever way the money is advanced, there can never be more than about 2000 /. paid before hand, I thought all was over when my Lord Lieutenant was pleafed to fignify to us that it was his Majefly's plcafure we fhould * The two principal candidates were Mr. Prime-ferjeant Sin- gleton, (afterwards Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, which he refigned ; and was in a (hort Time after appointed Mailer of the Rolls in the Room of Mr. Carter who was deprived of that office) and Mr. BoyUy who was created Earl of Shannon ; and it was ge- nerally thought that the Primate turned the fcale in favour of Mr. Boyle^ who was chofen fpeaker. Mr. Boyle was a ftanch whig, and a (leady friend to the Houfe of Hano'very and ever a£ted in perfect harmony with the Primate. name LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 79 name an agent, but I find myfelf miflaken. I havis begged hard that all may be thought of at once, and as there will be a neceflity of a King's letter for keep- ing on the circulation of the old half-pence, and cir- culating the new, and as the Commiflioners anfwer to what was referred to them is now come to our hands, I flatter myfelf we fhall draw up the form of a King*s letter, that will contain all the powers we fancy we want, and fet this affair a going at lafl. I mufl beg the favour of your ailiflance to expedite the pafling of the King's letter, when wc fend it over, I fhall then trouble you again on this fubje6t. In the mean time I thank you for putting my Lord Lieutenant in mind of Mr. iVarren's affair ; and I fhall by this pofl thank his Grace for his favour on that occafion. I am. Sir, your humble fervant,^ To the Duke of Dorlet My Lord, Dublin^ ^P^- "Ji^ ^733- I Humbly thank your Grace for your favour in giv- ing leave to Mr. Digby to refign his place of Por- ter to the Caflle in favour of Mr, JVarren. But though I was defirous to ferve Mr. lVarre% yet had I known what Mr. Cary has informed me of, viz. the follicitations Mr. Dighy had ufed not long ago to get into that place, I fhould have ftaid for fome other op- portunity to have ferved Mr. Warren. 1 am, Your Grace's, &:c, Ji the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, DtMm^ M^jy 3, 1733. I Hope your Grace will have the goodnefs to excufe my giving you this trouble. One Mr. Godly is chaplain to Brigadier General Dormer's regiment on ' our 8o LETTERSby our eflablitlitnen.t, and I am difpofed to beftow on him a parfoiiage in ray gift, but as I have feveral of the clergy here on my hands, I muft at the fame time make feme provifion for one to whom I ly€ under a promife of preferment, his name is John Richard/an^ Dean of Kilmacdiiagh ; fo that the removal of Mr. Godly depends upon the Brigadier General being fo good as to permit Mr. Godly to refign his chaplainfhip in favour of Mr. Eachardfon. I am fenfible there is ufually upon thefe occafions a prefent to the Colonel for his confent, but as the chaplain who quits cannot well make any fuch prefent, and the perfon I propofe to fucceed him, is too poor to make it, I mufl beg the favour of Mr. Dormer to permit the refignation without any prefent. He will have one advantage by the change, that Mr. Richard/on is at leafl 25 years older than Mr. Godly. As I have not the happinefs to be acquainted v/ith the General, I cannot apply to him myfelf for this favour, but I am affured your Grace's kind follicitation in this affair will obtain what I defire. I therefore make it my requeft to your Grace, that you would intereft yourfelf for me in this exchange, and add this to the many obligations I al- ready lye under. As the living I defign for Mr. Godly is already vacant, I fhould be glad the fooner the re^ fignation were agreed to. 1 am, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ May 25, 1733. AS the fummer is advancing apace, I cannot but beg leave to renew my application to your Grace for obtaining the King's letter relating to our copper coinage ^ though it will be impoflible to finifh it before the parliament meets, yet as we may eafily have 2 or 3000/. worth of copper coin over before that LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 8i i:hat time, I think the fureft way to prevent any wrong votes about that affair, is to let the nation fee what igood copper they are to have, and to let it appear by the King's letter^ that the pubHck and not any private perfbn is to have the benefit of the coinage. And f am fully perfuaded that the determining this affair by the King's letterj and putting it in part in execution, is the rnoft likely way to prevent what probably may otherwife be voted, an addrefs to his Majefly for erect- ing a mint here ; and I can alTure your Grace feverai members of parliament with whorn I have difcourfed, .think with me in thi^ affair, I have by this poft wrote to Sir Kohert Walpole^ to defire his ailiflance in difpatching the King's letter. I have lately received the honour of your Grace's letter recommending Sir Daniel McDonald, to whorn I fhall be ready to fnew all proper favour. I fhali be obliged to your Grace, if you will pleafe -when you fee a proper occafion, to remember Mr. Moland^^ one of my family, for a pair of colours. Lam, my Lordj &c. fo Sir Robert Walpoie. Sir, Diihliny May 2^^ i733- FT ER his Majefty had been gracioully pleafed to give us leave to coin what copper we wanted at the Tower^ and to ifTue his warrant to the mailer of the mint to coin for us, I vyas in hopes we iliouid immediately liave fet about a copper coinage, but 1 find that it is ftill apprehended here, that his Majefiy's letter to the government is wanting to authorize us to name an agent for carrying on that coinage, and for circulating it here, and providing for a proper * Mr. Molatid v/a.s his Grace's gentleman, but a man of good family, who had an Eftate left to him fome Time after. Vol. IL G circulation 82 LETTERSby circulation of the copper now current here, that has been coined under former patents. I have fent my Lord Lieutenant, who I hope will apply to you on this occafion, a draught of fuch a letter as we want, as well drawn up as we could get it done here, though I do not quftion but in point of form it is very deficient, but by it will hov/ever ap- pear, what are the things we apprehend we want to receive his Majefty's commands for, and in the Trea- fury it may eafiiy be put into a right form, and any thing elfe added, that fhall be thought necefTary there. As the fummer is now advancing, I think it would be of fervice to have fuch a letter difpatched foon, that we may have a quantity of the new copper coin over here, before the meeting of parhament, that it may be feen how much better it is than any that has yet been coined, and that by fuch letter it may appear no private perfon is to have any benefit by this coin- age. And I am the more defirous to have the matter fettled and in part executed before the parliament "meets, becaufe it v/ill be the mofl efFedual way to prevent an^^ votes about a coinage in the Houfe of Commons, where I think, and I find others that know the Houfe very well, are of the fame opinion, they are very likely, if this affair be not firfl fixed by fuch a letter, and in part put in execution, to vote an addrefs to his Majefly for eredling a mint here, which though it may appear a very idle project in itfelf, yet is a very popular thing here. I muil own it would have been better if the whole copper coinage could have been over by this time ; but it is fo much wanted and fo much enquired af- ter by all people in bufmefs here, that it is to be wifhed it may nov/ be difpatched as foon as may be. . / I fhouM have troubled you fooner on this account, but the hurry of .affairs in England^ made me un- " ' ' ' ■ ' ■ ' willing LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. Sj willing to interrupt any thing of greater confe- quence. But I hope you will be able in a little time to find leifure to caft a thought on the wants of this king- dom, and I am fure the diflrefs the trading people here are under for want of copper money is fo great, that we fhall be very inuch obliged to you if you will be fo kind as to give fome difpatch to the King's let- ter, without which we can make no farther advance in the affair of our copper coinage. I am, Sir, &c. 7b the Duk€ of Newcaflle, My Lord, Buhlin^ June ']^ ^733- I Thank your Grace for the honour of» your's of the 19th pad. I am forry I fhould have occafion to apply to your Grace for your kind afTiftance, at a time when your Lordfhip cannot well aik Major Ge- neral Dormer for the leave I defired, fmce I make no doubt of your readineis to comply widi any requefl of mine, that m.ay not happen to be improper. i ^m, my Lord, &c. To the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dublin^ June 21, 1733. 'T^HE bearer is Mr. Lafont^ who was educated in A this College, where he took his mafler's degree five years ago, and was two years ago admitted ad eundem in Oxford. I am alTured from very good hands, that he is a good fcholar, and one of a lober life and converfation. As he has fome relations at London from whom he has fome expedations, he is going to fettle there, and defigns for orders. On G z this 84 LETTERSby this occafion he defired me to recommend him to your Lordlhip for your countenance ; which from the good character I have of him, I believe he will very well deferve. I am, my Lord, &z;c. I'd Sir Robert Walpole, Sir, Dublin, Aug. 25, 1733. I Make bold to trouble you in behalf of Mr. Amhrofe Philip, a gentleman who came over to this king- dom v/ith me, and for whom T have not been able hitherto to make any provifion. He is member of parliament for Armagh, and very zealouily afFeded to his Majefty. As there is now a Coliedor's place vacant 2X Maryburrow, in the Queen's county, by the death of the late Cohedtor, I would beg the favour of you to name him for the faid coUedorfhip * to his Ma-= jefly's Commillioner's here, which will be a great ad- dition to the many favours I have already receive4 from you. I am. Sir, your humble fervant, &c. T^o the Bijljo^ of London. My Lord, Dublin, Nov. i, 1733. 1 Heartily thank your Lordfhip for the efFedual care you have taken of Mr. Stephens +, upon the death of br: Burton. He has in his letters to me exprelTed * Mr. Philips was not provided for on this occafion, but his Grace made him ample amends afterwards, by giving him a con- fiderable place in his own gift, which was that of Judge of the Prerogative Court. . ' t He was made a Prebendary of Winchejler. his LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 85 his grateful fenfe of the obligations he lies under to your Lordfhip on this occafion. I am obliged to your Lordfhip for fending me an account of the amendments defigned in the bill about ecclefiaftical jurifdi^lion, and I think you was putting things upon a right foot-, but I do not wonder that the officers of the fpiritual courts were againft it. Since the opening of our parliament feveral diifent- ing minifters are come from the north to folicit the repeal of the teft ; they are rather fanguine in their hopes of fuccefs, if the government here lay its whole weight to it. But by the befl information I can get, the fuccefs in the Houfe of Commons will be very doubtful with all the help that can be- given them : and if it be brought in, whatever be the event of the bill, it will throw the whole country into very great heats. Our feffions, as far as it has gone, has been pretty tineafy, though I hope all will end well I have no doubt but yours will be very warm ; nor will the people be fufFered to cool till the new eledtion is oven I hear the fuccefs the applications from without doors had laft feflions will bring on petitions to the Com- mons about reducing the army, &c. except the pre- fent ftate of Europe prevents it. We here look upon a war as unavoidable, which may pofilbly make things snore quiet at home. I am, 6^c. To the Duke of Newcaftle, IViy Lord, Diihim, Dec. 18, 173^. AS an affair of great confequence is juft over with us, I mean the pulb for repealing the teft in favour of the DifTenters, I thought it my duty to ac- quaint your Grace how that affair ftands. G q When S6 LETTERSby' XVhen my Lord Lieutenant firfl came hither thii* time, he let the DiiTenters and others know, that he had inftrudtions, if it could be done, to get the tefl repealed ; and he has fince fpoke to all any ways de- pendant on the government, as well as to others, whom he could hope to influence, to difpofe them to concur with the defign, and fo have others done that have the honour to be in his Majefly^s fervice. But it was unanimoufly agreed, that it was not proper to bring that affair into either houfe of parlia- ment till the fupply was fecured. However as the defign could not be kept fecret, and as the Diifenters fent up agents from the north to folicit the affair among the members of parliament, it foon occafioned a great ferment both in the two houfes and out of them, and brought a greater number of members to town than is ufual. There came likewife many of the clergy from the feveral parts of the kingdom to oppofe the defign ; and a pamphlet war was carried on for and againft repealing the teft, in which thofe who wrote for it fhewed the greateft temper. And thus the perfons who came to town to oppofe it, by degrees heated one another, and vifibly gained ground, and the members of the Houfe of Commons were, by adjourned calls of the Houfe, kept in town. There were daily reports fpread, that the bill would be brought in fuch or fuch a day ; and fome in the oppofition gave out, they would move for it, that the point might be decided one way or another : till at length, after much impatience ihewn on the occafion, on this day fe'nnight, a very unufual, and I think unparliamentary motion v/as made, that after the next Friday the Houfe would neither receive bills nor heads of bills, for repealing any part of the ads to prevent the growth of popery, in one of which the facramental tefl is enadted. There was fome op~ pofition made to the fhortnefs of the time, and the next Monday moved for, but the warmth of the Houfe LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 87 Houfe, which was a very full one, againfl any far- ther delay, and indeed againfl any repeal of the tefl, appeared fo great and fo general, that it was thought mofl prudent not to divide about that refolution. ^ And upon confidering what then appeared to be the fenfe of much' the greater part of the Houfe, and what was found to be the difpofition of the naenibers by talking with theni, it was concluded at a meeting ait the Caftle on Wednefdaj morning, and another on Thiirfday morning, where fome of the agents for the DilTenters were prefent, to be Qioft for the credit of the government and the peace of the kingdom, not to pulh for a thing which plainly appeared impradi^ cable: and it Was thought a very dangerous ftep to unite a majority of the Houfe in an oppofition to the intentions of the government, fince it v/as not fo cer- tain when fuch an union might be diflblved. And at a meeting of feveral members of the Houfe of Commons, who were difpofed to repeal the tefb, it was agreed that in the prefent flate of affairs, it would be wrong to pufh for a thing that would cer- tainly mifcarry. Whilft this affair has been depending, there have been great heats in the Houfe of Commons, and a more than ufual obflrudion of publick bufinefs ; and the Houfe of Lords has had their fhare in their com- ing to fome refolutions, though not on this fubjed, which would fcarce have been carried or moved at another time. And I am fully of opinion that though the repeal had paiTed in the Commons, it would have mifcarried among the Lords. But I hope now this uneaiinefs and handle of difcontent is over, thing-s will gradually cool, and return to their former courfe, I hnd fome of the DifTenters now fay, the thino- ought to have been tried fopner in the feilion. Bat, as Lmentioned before, it was the opinion of his Ma- jefty's fervants that the fupplies ought to be fecured before any danger was run of raifing heats in the G 4 Houfe : 88 LETTERS by Houfe : and befides, in the method of our parliament,, no bill can be carried by furprize, becaufe though the heads of a bill may be carried on a fudden, yet there is a time for a party to be gathered againft it by that time a bill can pafs the council here, and be returned from England^ v/hen it is again to pafs through both Houfes for their approbation before it can pafs into a law. What has happened here will probably the lefs furprize your Grace, becaufe the Archbifhop of Dub- lin in London acquainted the miniflry that he thought fuch a repeal could not pafs here : which has been my opinion from the beginning of the feffion. What reprefentation the DilTenters here may make of this affair I cannot tell : but I believe their agents from the north had at firfl met with either fuch en- couragement or fuch general civil anfwers, that they had given greater hopes of fuccefs to their friends in The country than there was juft reafon for. And fome of them at the meeting at the Caflle * lafl Thurf- day-^ were for pufhing the affair at all adventures, urging that they thought they fhould not lofe the caufe very dillionourably, though upon what paffed there they feemed to have little hopes of its fueceed- ing, in which I think they looked more at their own honour than his Majefly's fervice. But this I am fure of, that all prefent in the fervice of the crown, were of opinion, that the pufh ought to be made, where there was no probability of fuccefs. t am, &c. * The Caftle meant here is the King's pa^ace in Dublin^ where fn the abfence of the Lord Lieutenants the Lords Juftices meet^ Bav€ their levies, and do the publick bufinefs. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 8^ 7o the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 20^ 1733. THE affair of repealing the teft is now over with list whilft it was carrying on it occafioned very great heats in the Commons : and your Lordfhip will eafily guefs that many of the * Clergy were not want- ing in their zeal to raife what oppofition they could againft it. I am apt to think that there were near three to two againft it among the Commons ; and the majority was fo clear, that I queflion whether many who were for it would not have abfented themfelves or have voted againft it, if it had come to a divifion,. to avoid marking themfelves to no purpofe. And I am fully fatisfied that in the Houfe of Lords, there would have been at leaft two to one againft it. My Lord Lieutenant was not wanting in his endea- vours to difpofe thofe in the fervice of the govern- ment,, or whom he could any ways influence, to pro- mote the repeal. But for two days before the day fixed in the Houfe of Commons for bringing it in, if at all, there was a meeting at the Caftle of thofe of diflindtion in his Majefty's fervice, and at the fecond meeting the principal agents for the DilTenters fron^ the north were prefent, when it was the unanimous opinion of thofe in his Majefty's fervice, that the re- peal could not be carried in the Houfe of ^Commons,, and that therefore no fuch bill ought to be brought in, fince a fruitlefe attempt would be to the difhonour of the government, and would probably bring about fuch an union among oppofite parties as might not foon *Br. Sjnge Archblfliop of Tuam, Dr. StvifiyDr. Tif^e//, and many other Gentlemen of great Abilities wrote feveral excellent Pamphlets on this occafion. Befides, the Miniftry and Ciergv of England were violently againft it. 96 L E T T E R S B Y fbon be dlilblved. Some of the agents of the Diflen-'" ters there prefent, feemed fatisfied, but one or two*' of them werr? for having the thing hazarded, infilling it would not be loft by a difhonourable majority, f hear fome among the DilTenters, efpecially among their minifters, are very angry on this occafion. I am apt to think one reafon of it may be, that when they firft canvaiTed among the members, they miftook civil anfwers for promifes, and wrote to their friends in the north with greater hopes of fuccefs than' they had reafon for - and now do not care to own that they were miftaken in their calculations. Though befides I am fatisfied they were miftaken in their numbers, becaufe feveral who had promifed them at firft, upon feeing fuch a heat raifed by it, fell off Another reafon given by them to feveral for pufh- ing it, when it feemed defperate, was that their friends in England inftrudted them to pufh it at all adventures. The heat am.ong the churchmen here will, I think be foon over ; but I do not hear of much difpofition to temper among the DifTenters. It is certain their preachers are drawing up a memorial to fend over ta their friends in England to throw the blame of the mifcarriage on my Lord Lieutenant, though unjuftly, fince he was not wanting in his endeavours to ferve the Difienters, but really it was not at all pradicable, at leaft at this time. But fome of their laity, thofe efpecially of more temper and prudence, are endea- vouring to hinder it, but with what fuccefs is not yet known. As this is an affair of fome confequence, I thought proper to give your Lordfhip a fhort account of it, I am, My Lord, &c. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. pt To the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. 6, 1733. ON New-year's day died Dr. * Ellis., Bifhop of Meath. As that Bifhop by his ftation, is the firft Bifhop in Ireland., and ufually a privy counfelior, the perfon thought mofl proper to fill that fee by my Lord Lieutenant, my Lord Chancellor, the Arch- bifhop of Dublin and me, is Dr. \ Price., the prefent Bifhop of Femes ; and the perfon mofl proper to fuc- ceed him is thought to be Dr. Synge., the prefent Bifhop of Cloyne ; they are both firmly attached to his Majefty, and of great fervice to the Houfe of Lords, and I think they are both in the Englijb interefl : I would therefore mofh humbly recommend them to his Majefty's favour for the faid tranflations. As to a fucceffor to the bifhoprick of Cloyne., my Lord Lieutenant looks upon it as fettled in England that Dean § Bekerley is to be made Bifhop here the firfl occafion. I have therefore nothing to fay on that head, but that I wifh the Dean's promotion may anfwer the expedtation of his friends in England. 1 am, My Lord, &c. * Dr. tVelhore Ellis, who had been chaplain to James Butler the laft Duke of Ormond. f Dr Price had been chaplain to Mr. Conolly, and Dr. Sjngt, was a Ton of the Archbifiiop of Tuam. § Dr. George Berkeley, Dean of Derry, author of the Minute Philofopher, and many other learned Works, among which were Queries relative to Ireland, and other ufeful Papers on that Occa- fion, pubiifhed by George Faulkner. To §i- L E T T E R S B If To the fame. My Lord, Dublin, Feb.'z^, 1733. AMONG other bills fent over for paffing the. privy council in England, is one for the relief of the creditors of Ben, Burton and Francis Harrifon, SfC which I muft beg leave to recommend particularly to* your Grace's care, that it may return to us; The feveral bankers mentioned fn the title of the bill, con- tinued the fame bank without interruption with great credit ; but as appears at lad, had drawn, off. unrea- fonable dividends, and Ben. Burton and Fr. Harrifon had bought great eflates, fo that the bank was worth nothing at the time of Hdrrifon's death, but the fuc- ceeding banks paid off the former bank with the money of the new creditors, till at laft payment wa^ flopped. The equity of the bill is founded on the firll bankers having had their debts of the bank paid with the later creditors monies ; and an adt 8 Georg, t. by which the unfettled eflate of any banker is liable at the time of his death to all the bank debts ; fo that when Harrifon died his efiate was liable to pay all the debts of the bank as well as Burton'^, fmce they were anfwerablc jointly and feve= rally. His eflate is fince got into the hands of flrangers, from whence it could by long and expen- five fuits be fetched out by the 8 Georg. i. but as this would be very tedious and expenfive, and no little creditor could have any benefit that way, this a6l vefls the eflates of the feveral bankers in truflees, who are to determine all claims in a fummary way, and to fell as much as will pay the debts of the feveral banks ;' but as to Harrifon they are not to fell more than will anfwer the debts of the bank at the time of his death ; and if by fuch fale he has paid more than his (bare of thofe LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 95 .tbofe debts, it is to be made good out of the unfold edates of the other bankers, or the remaining debts and fecurities belonging to the bank ; fmce that is not an affair between the creditors and the bankers, but between the bankers themfelves to adjuft their fe- yeral proportions. ' When this bank flopped payment laft June, it had very nigh overturned all our paper credit here, and if this bill mifcarries, it is not doubted but our tankers will all be blown up. And at the fame time, we have fo little fpecie here, probably at the moft not above 500,000 /. that v/ithout paper credit, our trade cannot be carried on, nor our rents paid. ' Your Grace may have feen my name in the votes, as a petitioner for this bill, but there is little more than 200 /. owing to me on my ov/n account, and I can affure your Grace that it is not any regard to my own concern in the bank, which is a mere trifle, but a regard to the publick credit of this kingdom, which is in danger of being funk if this bill ihould mif- tarry, that occafions my preiling your Grace to get lis this bill returned. ' ^ I am, &c. ^0 the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. z, 1733. T"^ H E traders in filks and fluffs here; have been _l with rne to defire I would write in behalf of a bill gone from hence to prohibit the wear of Eaji India goods in this kingdom. They affure me the filk v/eavers and others at London will folicit for the bill before the privy council, as what will be of advan- tage both to the Englijh and Irijh manufadturers. I do not pretend to be a very good judge in the matter, but mufl refer your Grace to what the manu- |adurer-s in England have undertaken to make out ; and S4r LETTERS BY and if it is probable the bill may be of fervicc tft both nations, I heartily recommend it to your Grace's countenance. I arn. My Lord, &c: To Sir Robert Walpoie. Sir, Dublin^ Mar. 28, 1734. Y the lafl two mails are come feveral private let- ters that talk doubtfully of the fuccefs of Bur- ton's * bill, and infinuate that there have been letters from great perfons in Ireland reprefenting that the paf- fing it would be of great detriment to this kingdom. That the Lord Chief Juftice Roger/on fhould have written againlt that bill is not ilrange, fmce whatever is taken from Harrifon's eftate towards paying the debts of the bank is taken from Mr. Cr eight on who married the Lord Chief Juflice's daughter ^ fo that the Chief Juftice's letter is not from an indifferent hand. But the truth of our cafe, and what every man of fenfe here knows, is, that if this bill mifcarries, it mull put an end to our paper credit here, by an im- mediate run upon the bankers or gradual forbearing to lodge money there : and it is certain we have not cafh enough in the nation to carry on our common trade or pay our rent or taxes : and I very much queflion whether if our paper credit fails, it would not be with the utmofl difficulty that our army could be fubfifted. And as this is the opinion of every body here, the mifcarriage of this bill cannot but make a great diflurbance in both Houfes of Parliament. It is likewiie reported that the bankers bill is like- ly to be loft. If there is any hardfhip in it, it was * For the Relief of the Creditors of Benjamin Burton^ Francis Harrifon^ Charles Burton^ and Daniel Falkiner^ Efqrs, Bankers in DMn, which Bill was palTed into a Law. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 95 •by the confent of the bankers here ; and all new in it is, that they cannot fettle any part of their eflate .upon a marriage, &c. There was a claufe offered in the council, that their eflates fhouid be difcharged fronn the debts of the bank within a term of years after the death of a banker, or his giving notice that he was quitting the bufinefs : but it was thought, confidering that if this had been a law at the time of Mr. Harrijon'^ death, the creditors of the bank would have loft about 40 pr cent, it was there apprehended that if fuch a claufe pafled, the firfl banker that died or gave no- tice of his defigning to quit the bufinefs, v/ould oc- cafion all the notes of that bank being called for, and that might bring a run on the others, fo it was not thought fafe to venture fuch a claufe. The banker's bill will pleafe, and yet gives no fuch great fecurity to the creditors more than before ; but if it is loit it may do miifchief I am, my Lord, &c. ^o the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ June t^^ i734- %Y\. DQ^n Marjhy Dean of Kilmore, died yefter- . day morning : his deanery is reckoned worth goo/, per ann. As I have not had an opportunity of talking v/ith the other Lords Juftices about a proper perfon to recommend to your Grace for this deanery, I fhall not mention any till we meet at the caflle next Friday^ but only defire the favour of your Grace not to engage for any body till we can write about it. I take this occafion to put your Gi-ace in mind of the kind promife you was pleafed to make me of providing for Mr Robert Moland in the army. I am, my Lord, &c. S€ LETTERS by f^ the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ J«« he entertained the higheft efteein for him, and the good BiOiop was by no means behind his Grace in his afFeftion towards him * Dr. 1C55 L E T T E R S ftv but be fenfible it will give a handle to fomt claiihour here. But to be fure our affairs muft give way to the more weighty concerns in England. I hope however the new Bifhop will foon come, and fettle amongft us. There is a favour I have to afk of your Grace, which is that if, by procuring a refignation, 1 can make a vacancy in the entire rectories of Killorghn^ Knockaney KilkaUogh^ Killgarrinlander, and the redory of Currens, worth about 200 /. per ann. in the prefent pofTeiTion of Mr. Elias Debuts., in the diocefe of Ard- fert and Aghede^ in the county of Ktrry^ all in the gift of the Crown, your Grace would be pleafed to order Mr. George Palmer to be prefented to the faid redlories. Mr. Palmer is a clergyman of a very fair charadler in my diocefe, and was born in that neigh- bourhood, or he would hardly have the courage to think of removing into Kerry. The granting this re- queft will be efteemed an obligation by him, who is, My Lord, &c. iDr. RundUy as Mr. Pope fays, had a heart ; and he fhewed it much to one of my Lord Primate's relations, when his Grace was de- ceafed, and incapable of making him any return : this good man had been moft abominably abufed, and my Lord of Londony the Primate's old friend, had given too much ear to that abufe, fo that it may eafily be imagined, that his Grace was prejudiced againft the Biftiop of Derry at the firft ; but my Lord Chancellor Talhot^ 'tv'ho was perhaps not only the beft, but alfo the moft able and dif- cerning perfon of his time, could never have recommended an im- proper perfon ; and it was a pity that my Lord of Londotty who certainly meant well, had not taken the Chancellor's recommen- dation in that light. Dr. Rundle v/ould undoubtedly have made is good a Bilhop of Gloucejier as he afterwards did a Biihop of Derry, where to his own honour, and to that of thofe who pro- moted him, he obtained the well merited applaufe of all good uiefl. re LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ib? ^0 the fatne. My Lord, Buhlin, Mar, lo^, 1734. I Should have been glad if it had been thought nnofl confident with his Majefty's fervice to have be- ftovi^ed the government of Deny on my Lord Cavan^ becaufe I fear vi^e may have fome occafion for his help in the Houfe of Lords, except he is made fome way eafy, which I hope from what your Grace is pleafed to fay, will not be forgot, if an opportunity offers, I .have had the honour of your Grace's letter of the 20th pail, and had anfwered it fooner but that I was willing to make the bed enquiries I could relat- ing to Dr. Whitcomh's affair, before I wrote to your Lordfhip, And I mud beg leave to acquaint your Grace, that as far as I can learn, the apprehenfion of his holding the living of Louth creates much uneafi- nefs, as it at prefent will dop a fuccellion in the Col- lege, and may probably be ufed as a precedent for holding any the greated preferment with a fellowlliip for the future -, and if the difpenfation be granted, is likely to raife fo much clamour, that 1 cannot but think it mod advifeable not to interpofe his Majedy's authority in his favour at prefent : and I hope your Grace will have it in your power on fome other occa- fion, to make him amends for this difappointment. On Tuefday the Vifitors cited the Pravod, Fel- lows, &c. to a vifitation of the College, to be held on the 20th indant There have been fuch difficul- ties darted from the College, and fo much lidened to by their Vice-Chancellor, the * Bidiop of Clogher^ that I fear the vifitation will not prove fuch as will anfwer expedation. I have taken all opportunities of defir- ^ng the fellows and their friends to avoid all needlefs * Vt. Siern. difputes io8 L E T T E R S BY difputes and oppofitions for fear of their falling into the hands of worfe Vifitors next felllon of parliament. I hope and wifh the beft, but things do not promife very well. I am, Your Grace's, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. 14, 1734. SINCE i wrote to your Grace yeflerday, I have received a letter from Mr. Cary^ exprefiing your Lord(hip's readinefs to prefent Mr. George Palmer to the entire redtories of Kilhrglin^ Knockane, Killtallogh^ KiUgarrmlander^ and the redory of Currejis^ now poffeffed by Mr. Elias Debuts^ and in the gift of the Crown, upon Mr. Debuts refigning them. I mod humbly thank your Grace for this favour ; and I (hall by to-morrow's poll write to Mr. Debuts to refign them immediately : and if your Lordfhip pleafe to fignify your pleafure to the Lords Juftices to prefent Mr. George Palmer to the faid redories, upon fuch refjgna- tion, I believe your Grace's order and the refignation will arrive at Dublin near the fame time. I am. My Lord, &c. ^ To the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. 20, 1734. I Thank your Lordfhip for your kind and patient attendance on my Lord Doneraile's caufe, I aui glad things went fo un^nimoully in the Houfe. Mr. Horner^ whom your Lordfhip mentions, is fince dead at London. I efteemed him a very good man, and had removed him from another diocefe into mine. If he bad lived, your Lordfhip's good opinion of him would have LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. lOg have been an addition to what I had before conceived of him. Though the prints tell us that France feems to come into our plan of pacification, I can hardly believe a peace fo near at hand. I am glad to hear things go fo well in parliament in the main. There is no doubt but the committee of eledlions will increafe the majority : I hope as your Lordfhip does, that the ftrong oppofition which has been made, will keep people in fome reafonable bounds. It is to us here a melancholy confideration, that there feems to be fo great a difpofition to attack the moft eminent perfons in the Church, and to flrip them all of their juft rights. But I think the fame fpirit prevails againft all governors alike^ and indeed againji every thing that is ferious and orderly. I am glad the DiiTenters are difpofed to be quiet this feflion ; what may be the ilate of affairs another year, God only knows. I find your Houfe has pretty well got through the affair of the petition of the Scotch Lords, only we have not yet heard what is done upon the proteft made in Scotland. If your Lordfhip can find leifure, it will be very obliging if you would now and then fend an account of what pafTes, I am, &c, ^0 the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Apr. 8, 1735- I Thank your Grace for your orders to prefent Mr. Palmer to Mr. Debuts'^ livings, upon his refignation, which I expedl: every day from Limerick. Your Lord- fhip will be fo good as to excufe my putting you in mind again of Dillon PTye's affair. Mrs., no L E T T E R S BY Mrs. Humphreys the houfekeeper of the Caftle and Chappel-Izzod lias forne time ago delivered in a memo- rial about rebuilding the gardener's houfe at ChappeU Izzod^ which is fo ruinous that Sir Edward Pearce (in whofe time Carier the gardener applied either to have it repaired or rebuilt) and Mr. * Dobbs have both re- ported that they thought it not worth while to repair it, becaufe there were thofe cracks in it, that they could not anfwer for its (landing when repaired. It is propofed making it a little better than it need have been, if the houfekeeper did not defign to live in it : but as by her patent ("he is to have lodgings there as well as in the Caflle, it may not be thought amifs to be at a Imall expence more for her conveni- ence than a meer gardener would have required. There has been a fcheme drawn of the intended building, and a calculation of the expence, which Mr. Dobbs's clerk aiTures us will not exceed the com- putation, which we (hall fpeedily tranfmit to your Grace : for as the expence will amount to 280/. we are unwilling to do any thing in it without diredions from your Grace. I (hould not have given you the trouble of this, but that Mrs. Humphreys is now in London, as well as Mr. Dobbs^ who has feen the houfe, and knows the affair, fo as to be able to inform your Grace fully of the matter; and Mr. Humphreys is afraid Mr. Dobbs may leave London before our letter can wait upon your Grace, as we (hall not meet this week : I fubmit the whole affair to your Grace's plea- fure, and am, My Lord, &c, * Arthur Dobbs, Efq. who fucceeded Sir Edward Lo^et Pearce^ Mafter of the King's Works, who was the Defigner and Ar- chitea of that fuppib StruQure the Parliament-Houfe in Dublin, 7» LORD PRIiMATE BOULTER. m To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin, Apr. i8, 1735^ TH E occafion of my troubling your Grace at prefent is, that we have this week learned that there is a bill brought into the Houfe of Commons with a fpecious title, that it is apprehended here may be of great prejudice. The tide of the bill is, A bill for fecuring the title of Proteftants, &c. On this occafion I muft beg leave to obferve to your Grace, that it muft be dangerous to give way to paflmg bills originally in' England relating to pri- vate property in Ireland^ where the interell of England and his Majefly's fervice no ways calls for it, where the legiflature are wholly unacquainted with the laws, and the reafon of enadting them. And it can hardly be fuppofed, that fuch bills are not moved for with fome private views, which the perfons concerned in promoting fuch bills know would be immediately dif- covered here, but cannot eafily be guefTed at there. And the time of bringing in this bill is the more fufpicious, as it muft needs be hurried through now towards the latter end of a feiiion, before there is fuf- ficient time, for thofe who are likely to fuiTer by it here to know^that any thing is going on in parliament, that may attedl their propert}^, or having time to make a proper oppofition to it If this be often pradtifed it muft needs create great uncertainty in our property here, and give great and juft caufe of uneafinefs without the leaft fervice to the Crown, or benefit to England *. I have fent your Grace inclofed a copy of fome par- ticular remarks, by fome of our ableft lawyers here, * The Primate fhews himfelf in this letter to be a true friend to Ireland, and to the proper dillribution of juftice to alj parties, of 112 L E T T E R S BY of the particular inconveniencies that will follow from it; bat they are what only offer themfelves at firft view to them, having but juil received a copy of the bill this week. I mail beg of your Grace that if this bill be not dropped in the Houfe of Commons, it may be effec- tually oppofed m the Houfe of Lords, as it will over- turn the property of many proteftants here. I have heard of one this very afternoon that will be ftripped of an eflate of 2000 /. per ann. if this bill palTes into a lavr. I am, &c. To the Bijhop of London My Lord, DiMin, May 20^ ^135- I Am obliged to your Lordfhip for your late letter, and am glad that the bed pieces againft popery, written in King James's time, are defigned to be re- printed. I think it is much better than what was intended here fome years ago, to reprint all that was then publifhed. I fhall very cheerfully promote fubfcriptions here, into which I think the Bifhops will generally come, and feveral of the clergy, and fome few of the College. I think I cannot fail of getting forty or fifty fubfcrip- tions, but little can be done in it till the parliament brings people to town in the winter. We are very much troubled with popery here, and the book can- not but be very ufeful, but v/e are not over-much given to buy or to read books. 1 thank your Lordfhip for the afliftance and encou- ragement you are pleafed to give Mr. Hanfard^ in get- ting fubfcriptions for carrying on proteftant working fchools here : I am fure we can hardly hope to get any ground of the papifls without them. I am LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. itj I am glad to hear from your Lordfhip that thofe attackers of all Church eftablifhmcnts, are iefs re- garded than formerly. I am very fure if the notions every day printed about liberty, can get much ground arnong the people of England^ things will not continue quiet many years. The Perjian Traveller is reprinted here, but I do not hear any great charadter of the performance, but fcandal fells the bell of any thing with us, as well as in England. We think that if the quarrel between Spain and Portugal goes on, England muft be drawn in, I find by yefterday's mail that your fefTion is over : I heartily wi(h you may have the next felfion as eafy. 1 am, my Lord, &c, ^0 the Duke of Newcaftle, My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 2, 1735. I Humbly thank your Grace for the kind compli-^ ments you were pleafed to make me by my Lord Lieutenant : I am truly fenfible of your favourable regard at all times to any requefts or reprefen tat ions I have had occafion to make from hence, and promife myfelf the continuance of your protedtion and coun- tenance. It was with a great deal of pleafure that I heard from his Grace your good difpofitions, in favour of Mr EJie *, my chaplain : as the poor Bifhop of "f OJfory died here laft Saturday., there is now an opening for him on the bench of Bifhops, and my Lord Lieutenant is fo kind to him as to recommend hirp for fucceffor * Mr. EJ}e had been a Student of Chrijl Church in Oxford, and fucceeded to the biftioprick as then recommended. '[ Dr. Edward Tenni/bn^ who died in Dahlin ^91;. 29, 1735- VOL. II. I XQ 114 L E T T E R S BY to the late Bifhop. I moft heartily concur with the recommendation, and do aflure your Grace that Mr. Efte is one heartily well afFeded to his Majefty and his family, and who has by his behaviour here gained a general love and efteem. I mufl beg your Lord- fhip's kind concurrence and alMance in this recom- mendation, which will be owned as a new obligation laid on,. My Lord, &c, "To the fame. My Lord, Dublin, Dec. 27, 1735. IN the laft tranfmits of bills we have fent over one entitled, " An adt for rendering more effedtual an aCi to aniend and explain an adt to encourage the building of houfes, and making other improvements on Qiurch lands, and to prevent dilapidations." As what is enabled in this a6V, and thofe referred to in it, is wholly different from any law in England, I mufl recommend it to your Grace^s protedion, that it may not be thrown out by the gentlemen of the law on your fide, by reafon of their not knowing the neceflity and ufe of it here. By the wars in this country in 1641 and 16S8, mod of the Bifhops palaces and the parfonage-houfes were dertroyed ; and as it was found that people were unable or unwilling to rebuild them, where the whole expence was to light on the builder, there was an adt palTed in the lOth of King William^ to encourage the rebuilding of houfes, and making other improvements o \ Church land^, in which the encouragement was to divide the expence or lofs equally among three fuc- celiive incumbents, fo that the builder or his executors fhould recover two thirds of his expences of his next and immediate fuccelTor, and that fucceflbr one third of LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 115 of the original expence of his immediate fucceflbr, and fo the affair flopped. As this encouragement had not much of the defired effedl, and few parfonage-houfes had been then built, farther encouragement was given by a new a6l palled the 1 2th of George i. by which the lofs was divided among four fucceflive incumbents, and the builder or his executors, &c. were to receive three- fourths of the original expence of his immediate fuccellbr ; and fuch fucceflbr two-fourths of his fucceffor ; and fuch fuccefTor one-fourth from his fuccellbr •, and there the affair flopped; In thus diflributing the expence this bill makes no change, but endeavours the better to fecure to the builder or his fucceflbrs, fuch money as they were by that adl defigned to be reimburfed. Now by the former a6t, the builder or other perfon entitled to a payment from the fuccelTor, had no remedy but againfl his immediate fuccellbr, nor could that next fuccellbr fue his fucceflbr, except he had entirely paid his pre- deceflbr ; fo that whenever the fuccellbr proved infol- vent, the builder, &c. loft all the money he or his executors were not paid. By this adl the builder, &c. may come upon the fecond fuccellbr for what was un= paid by the firll, fo that it do not exceed what the firfl fucceflbr could have demanded of him, if he had made his entire payment to the builder, &c. and if the fucceflbr to the builder had paid more than he was to lofe, he is allowed likewife to fue the fecond fuc- ceflbr for what he had paid more than he was to lofe^ And becaufe it fometimes happens that an incumbent dies before he has received fo much of the profits of his living as may at all aflift him to pay his predecef- for, this ad enads, That no incumbent fhall be deem^ ed a next fucceflbr for the purpofe of paying to his predeceflbrs, for any buildings or improvements made in virtue of thofe a<5ts, who was not before his death or removal, entitled to a year's profits of the benefice, I 2 but ii6 L E T T E R S BY but that the firll perfon fo entitled, fhall for this pur- pofe only, be reckoned the next fuccelTor. There is then a claufe to make tbe a6t of a piece^ that as it cannot be feen till the end of a year, who is the next fucceflbr as to payments, it allows even in cafe of the death of the builder, &c. whieh was not allowed before, a year for the payment of half what was due, and the reft to be paid the year following in two half yearly payments. The next claufe relates to an omiflion that may have been made in the Bifhop's certificate fettling what was bona fide laid out, of an account of the clear yearly value of the benefice on which the building or improvement was made, and allows the lime of two years to rectify fuch omiflions by an additional certi^ ficate, containing an account of the clear yearly value of the benefice. There is another claufe that ena<5ts, that though an account of the intended building had not been given in to the Bifhop three months before it was actually begun, yet this omillion fhall not invalidate any certificate ; and for the future ena6ls only a fortnight as neceflary to deliver in an account of the intended building. There is another claufe for fecurity's fake, and to cut off fubterfuges for not building ; which en3(5ls^ that bifhopricks that have ufually gone together, fha!! be reckoned but as one preferment for the purpofe of fettling the two years income, beyond which no per- fon hy the 12th of George 1. can certify for any build- ing or improvement on Church-lands. As thefe feveral things were fettled by the unani- mous confent of the Bifhops in town before the bill was brought into the Houfe of Lords, as neceflary to encourage the building on Church-lands, I mufl beg of your Grace that the bill may be returned without any alteration that may defeat the intention of any of the claufes. I am. My Lord, &:c. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER, 117 To the jame. My Lord, Dublin, Jun. eo, 1735. IN feveral parts of this kingdom our parifhes are very large, and run to a great length, with no pro- portionable breadth, fo that we find it would be very convenient to divide many parifhes, and to ercSt new parifhes out of parts it may be of two or three pa- rifhes ; and to this purpofe we have an ad for the real union and divifion of parifhes. But upon confi- dering that bill it is found, that where a new parifh is formed out of the parts of tv/o or three old parifhes^ there can be no prefentation to fuch new parifh, till all thofe old pariilies become void, which may polli- bly be a courfe of many years. As this is a great difcouragement to erecting new parifhes, how much foever they may be wanted, we have fent over a bili^ entitled, An a6l for- explaining an ad for the real union and divifion of parifhes : which is wholly de- figned to enable patrons upon ereding new parifhes of pieces of old pariilies, to prefent upon any one piece being vacant, and to dired how fuch incum- bent is to be induded, Stc. flill favlng to the furvi- ving incumbents all the rights they had during their refpedive incumbencies. And as no union nor divi- fion can be made without the confent of the patrons, and it has been found that the confent of his Majefty, either under his fign manual or great feal, where he is patron, is both troublefome and chargeable to get, and till a new parifh can be prefented to, which can- not be till after an union already made takes place, there is no perfon to be at that trouble and expence .; by this ad the chief governor or governors for the time being are impowered to confent for his Majeflyj y/ho can be no lofer by any fuch union or divifion^ I 2 becaufe Mg L E T T E R S BY becaufe the patronage continues where it was before^ after every union or divifion. As this will be of great fervice in this country, I beg of your Grace that you would get it returned to us. I am^ My jLord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb, 9, 1735. TH E bearer is the Rev. Mr. Cox *, one of a very good family here, and of a good character. The occafion of his going to England now is, the apr prehenfion he is under of the attainder of the late Lord Clancarty being reverfed. He is in pofTefTion of about 400 /. per ann. bought by his father from the Hollow -Sword -Blade Company, who had bought great eflates here of the Irijb truflees, which they afterwards fold, and obtained a particular adt in England to fecure the titles of thofe who purchafed under them •, fo that his title is under the faith of two EngUJh a6ls of parliament, the Irijh truflee ad:, and the ad obtained by the Hollow-Sword-Blade Company. But the purchafers under either or both a6ts are very much alarmed here at the talk of the Lord Clan-: carifs attainder being reverfed ^ fince they do not know how far it may afFe6t their titles, who are thought to poflefs amongft them tq the value of 60,00®/. per ann. as they have improved their eflates. Nor are they the only people alarm.ed here, but all that are the purchafers of forfeited eflates^ apprehen4 that if one attainder is reverfed, other forfeiting fa- inilies may from time to time, obtain the like favour, The prefent Archbifhop of CajheU formerly of Chrifi Churchy which LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 119 which may affed above half the eftates now enjoyed by proteftants. The Houfe of Conimons have made an addrefs on this occafion to hi^ Majefty, and the like about two feOions ago was made by the Houfe of Lords, which they did not repeat now, becaufe his Majefty then gave them a very gracious anfwer, and nothing has been fince done of that nature. I can afTure your Lordfnip any thing of this nature will be a great blow to the proteflant intereft here, and will very m.uch fliake the fecurity proteftants -think they now have of the enjoyment of their ^e{lates under his Majefty and his Royal family. As for either the general cafe, or his cafe in particular^ Mr. Cox will be able fully to inform your Lordftiip ; and I think the affair of the laft importance to the proteftant intereft here, which makes me take the li- berty to lay the cafe before you. Lam^ &;c. To the Bijljop of London, My Lord, Dublin, Feb. 9, i735» ^ I '^HE bearer is the Rev. Mr. Cox, one of a very X good family here, and of a fair charadter. He goes over to England to oppofe the reverfmg of the Lord Qancarty's attainder, if any fuch thing fhould be attempted this feflion : he is in pofTellion of 400/. per ann. part of the Ckncarty eftate, which his father bought under the faith of two Englifb ads of parlia- ment, the Irijh truftee adt, and a particular ad ob- tained by the Hollow-Sword-Biade Company, who had bought great eftates here of the truftees, to make good the titles of thofe who purchafed under them. He will be beft able to give your Lordfhip an account of thefe feveral ads. But as not only he, but great numbers of proteftant purchafers, who have improved the Clancarty eftate to near 60.000 /, per ann. tliink I 4 they U® L E T T E R S ^Y they, may be af!e6ted by fuch a reverfal, I need not tell your Lordfhip what a ferment the difcourfe of it has Occafioned in thofe parts where the eftate lies. But I mufl farther add, that as probably two-thirds of the eftates of proteftants here were popifh forfei- tures originally, the uneafinefs is univerfal -, fince they think if the attainder of any family be reverfed now, another family may at another time obtain the fame favour, and another at another feafon, fo that no pof- feilbr of fuch forfeited eftate can tell ho\y long he Or his may continue in the quiet enjoyment of what they have bought under the faith of Englijh a6ts of parliament, and on the improvement of which they have laid out their fubftance. The Houfe of Com- mons here have reprefented their fenfe of this matter to his Majefty, as the Houfe of Lords did two or three feffions ago, to which they then received a moft: gracious anfwer, which was the reafon they did not addrefs now. As a ftep of this nature would give great uneafi- nefs to his Majefty 's proteftant fubjeds here, I defire your Lordfhip would, where you ftiall judge it pro- per, reprefent the importance of the cafe. I have wrote a letter on this fubjedl to his Grace the Duke of Newcajik^ and fent it by the fame hand. I am, my Lord, &c. % the feme. My Lord, Dublin^ May i8, 1736. TH E clergy here have been attacked in a vio- lent manner, in relation to tythe of agiftment, and aftbciations over a great part oi Ireland have been entered into againft paying it. We intended to have applied to your Lordftiip and our other friends in England LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 121 England for proper help on this occafion ; but to our great fur p rife, we find the clergy of England^ and the Bi (hops in particular, in a worfe ftate than we are yet come to. 1 am forry they have been fo ill fupported by thofe from whom they might fo juftly exped help, and whofe intereft it was to have given it them. But I cannot help thinking that one great occafion of this rancour againfl the clergy, is the growth of atheifm, profanencfs, and immorality. God in his good time put a flop to it. I fee very little more to be done by us, than en- deavouring to difcharge our feveral duties confidently, and recommending ourfelvesand the caufe of religion, to the divine protection. I am forry to hear your Lordfhip has had fo great a fhare in what abuies have paffed on the Bifhops. } have, I think, difpofed of moft of the receipts your Lordfhip fent me for the fubfcriptions, and received moft of the money: as fopn as 1 can fettle thofe ac-. pounts with one or two that have undertaken to dif- pofe of fome of the receipts, I will fend your Lord- fhip an account of it, with the perlons who are to be called on for the fecond payment, and fhall be ready to pay the money received. 1 am, my Lord, &c. P. S. My Lord Lieutenant embarked yefterday for Enghnd. fo Sir Robert Walpole. Si r, Dublin^ May 25, 1736. MY Lord Lieutenant takes over with him an ap- plication from the government and council here for lowering the gold made current here, by proclamation, and raifing the foreign filver. My IZ2, LET T E R S BY My Lord Carteret has formerly talked with you about the diflrefs we were then under for want of filver, and fome fteps were then taken to lay that evil and the remedy before his Majefty ; but the op- pofition then made by the bankers, and the change of the Lord Lieutenant, was the occafion of the defign dropping at that time. Bat as the evil has fince in- creafed, and has been by fome of the befl underftand- ing and mod difinterefled perfons fully laid before my Lord Duke of Dorfet^ he has been fo kind as to join with the privy council here, in a reprefentation of our deplorable cafe for want of filver, and what we apprehend to be the proper remedies for our pre- fent calamity. ♦ It is certain that filver is fo fcarce with us, that the loweft price ufually paid for 20 J. in filver, is 4d. premium ; but it is more commonly in the north (which is the feat of our linen manufadture) 6 d. and 7 d. in the pound. And the occafion of this want of filver is, that our feveral fpecies of gold made cur- rent here by proclamation, pafs for more filver here than they do in England^ e. g. a guinea pafles here where an Englijb {billing goes for 13 d. at 23 J. Irijh^ or 21 s. Englijh and 3^. A moidore, which is worth about 27 i. in Englandy paffes here for 305. Irijb^ or 27^. Englijb^ and gd. and the refl of our gold is in the main in proportion to the value of the moidore. And whilft this is our cafe, no man in trade will carry a moidore from hence, to inftance in one piece of gold, if he can get filver, when he lofes 9 d. by the moidore as foon as he lands at Chejier -, nor will he bring from Chejier z'j s. Englijh^ v/hen he can gain gd. by bringing a moidore. And to exprefs this in greater numbers ; if a mer- chant brings with him 100/. from London-, if he brings it over in Englijh (\\vtr , that will be loB/. 6 s. 8 d, here> which arifes from the fhilling pacing here for LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 123 for 13^. but flill that is the fame money under ano- ther name : if he brings it in guineas, he will put them off* at 109/. 10 s. 4^. Injb, if in moidores or other Portugal gold, he will put it offat 1 1 1 /. zs. 2 d. •So that by bringing over what is only jco/. in Eng- land^ in guineas he will gain 1 /. 3 j. g d. and by bringing it over in moidores, &c. he will gain 2 1. 1 5 J. 6d. and on the contrary by taking over guineas to pay 100/. EngliJJj on the other fide of the water, he will lofe i /. 3 j. 8 ^. and by taking over moidores, &c. to pay 100/. there, he will lofe ^ /. 15/. 6d. And as the merchant in all his impor- tations and exportations will mind his gain, the effed: of this is, that no trader will take gold out of his country ifhe can help it, but filver ; nor moidores, &c. if he can get guineas. So that in our prefent flate our filver daily de- creafes, and the gold grows upon us. And the dif- trefs the want of filver m.ufl occafion to our manu- fadlurers, labourers, fmall retailers, and all the lefTer tranfadlions of trade and bufinefs, I need not expati- ate upon. But this is not our only calamity, but unfortu- nately the value of the new fpecies of Portugal gold has been fo fettled here, that there is 2 ^ profit in bringing over a 4/. piece, as we call the larger pieces o^ Portugal go\d^ rather than two 40 j. pieces; and zd. profit in bringing our a 40 j. piece, rather than two 20s. pieces- and fo on with refpedb of the filver pieces of that fpecies ; befides which, as the leaft want of weight in the foreign pieces of gold, or even their not turning the fcale, carries an abatement of 2^. a piece, there may be a lofs of 2 d. on every lefler piece on that account, and confe- quently fo much greater as the number of fmaller pieces is to make up a greater of the fame value, e.g^ upon eight, 10 J.^ pieces, there may be a lofs of eight zd. if the 4/. pieces do not turn the fcale : fo that it I'Z^ ■ LETTERS BY it is to the profit of the merchant to import the larger pieces of gold rather than the frnaller -, and they have gone on in ufing this advantage, till half the money we have at leail is in 4 /. pieces, which are of no fervice at the market, and in all leiTer tranfadions of trade •, and the next fpecies with us is the 40 J. piece; and to be fure above three quarters of our money is in thofe two fpecies, and without fome remedy we fhall in two or three years have fcarce any money but 4/. pieces. And there is another inconvenience that follows from our fcarcity of filver, that we fufFer from 2 to zi per cent, in the exchange, and are really paid fo much lefs in the price of what we fell to foreign mer- chants, and lofe fo much in paying for what goods we buy from abroad. And it is certain that all the noblemen and gentle- men of this country, who live in England, lofe from 2 to 2 4 per cent, in the remittances of their money to England^ which is ufed as a popular argument againfl the propofed redudlion, that the abfentees will get fo much per cent, by it ; whilft they will not confider that the nation at prefent lofes five times as much in the export and import of goods, and the abfentees will gain by this redu<5lion of the ex- change. Now the remedy we propofe in our reprefentation to his Majefty, is a very eafy and obvious one, that we may have leave to reduce our gold, to go for as much Englijh filver as it is worth, in proportion to the guinea going for 21^^. Englijb -^ and accordingly we have calculated what we reckon the feveral fpecies of gold ought to go for, according to their weight and finenefs, in Irijh money valuing an Eng- UJId lliilling at i^d. Irijh ; and to get rid as much as we can of the larger pieces of foreign gold, we have fet the lefTer pieces about a penny a piece above their value in refpect of the larger piece above them. And this LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 125 this redudtion of the gold is the more reafonable, be- caufe gold has in efFedt reduced itfelf the 6 d. in the pound we propofe in our fcheme, fince 6d. is about the middle price that is paid to get 20 s. in filver. There is no doubt but it would be abfolutely right when we are reducing, to reduce the Englifo fhilling to 12 d. which it went for here before the recoining of the filver in King j^illiam's time ; but as the (hilling is in effedt the meafure of all payments, and as the Englijb fhilling has gone fo long for i^d. we think that cannot be done without an ad of parliament to fettle an anfwerable reduction in the rents and debts. Our bankers and remitters here continue to make great oppofition to this redudlion, fmce our prefent inequality of gold and filver is an article of great pro- fit to thofe through whofe hands all the money of this nation paiTes ; and we make no doubt but they will, by their partners and correfpondents in Englandy make what oppofition they can to the fcheme pro- pofed by the council, and we apprehend they may think it worth their while to advance money, if they can find perfons to take it among the number thro' whofe hands this affair mull pafs, to obftrudt it; and that many merchants who deal in Ireland will join with them, to keep up the advantage they have by the ex- change being always from 2 to 2 i per cent, againfl us. But as we are almofl on the brink of ruin, by the prefent unhappy flate of our money, and as by the farther want of filver, and the increafe of our larger pieces of gold, our linen manufadture raufl foon decay, and our inland trade be at a ftand ; I mod earneit- ly beg of you to give us your utmoft alliflance on this occafion to have our gold reduced, and put us in a poflibility of carrying on our trade and manufac- tures, by having a tolerable proportion of filver, without which we mufl foon be a ruined nation. I have 126 L E T T E R S BY I have now explained our reafons and views in the fcheme we propofed for reducing gold, but if we have been any ways miftaken in our calculations, thofe errors will be eafily corrected by the abler handti this affair mud pafs through in England. In relation to the other branch of our fcheme, about raifing the price of foreign filver, I believe there will be great room for amendment. It was a fcheme more come into to gratify the bankers and merchant re- mitters, v/ho clamoured for it, and by what I can learn, they have mifin formed us about the price of foreign bullion,which they affirmed to be 55. 4^^. Englijlj per ounce; whereas I have been fince told it has not been above 55. ^d. per ounce for two years palt ; but this will be before thofe who know how the fad is. The great thing we want is, the redudion of our gold, which I beg we may obtain leave to do by your powerful intervention. The importance of the affair to this nation, and your goodncfs, will I hope, excufe the length of this letter *. I am, My Lord, &c. To Lord Anglefea. My Lord, Dublin^ May z^j^ 1736. ^ H E knowledge your Lordfhip has of the want of filver in this country for fome years, the caufes of it, and the attempts made to remedy the evil ♦ This letter in fome time produced the defired efFedt, which was looked upon by the Lord Primate and his friends, as the moft ufeful, and therefore the moft important tranfadion of his h"fe. It is fcarce conceiveable, confidering the clearnefs of the cafe, what a bitter oppofition was made by Dean Sivift and others ; and how poorly r LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 127 evil in my Lord Carteret's time, your Lordfhip is fo well acquainted with, that I need not repeat them ; all that I need inform your Lordfhip of is, that the evil has gone increafing as it could not but do, but with one unhappy circumftance that was not appre- hended when I talked with your Lordfhip on that fub- jedt, which is, that one half of our money here at lead, is in 4 /. pieces, fome think three quarters ; but by the bed accounts I think there can be little lefs than three quarters in them and 40 j.. pieces, fo that the bulk of our money is ufelefs at markets, and for pay- ing all the manufacturers ; 4 ^. is the loweft price that is paid for 20 s. filver, and very often 2 s. Sd. and 2s. 10 d. is given for changing a 4/. ptece into all filver. The occafion of our money running into the larger pieces is, that as the not turning the fcale lofes 2 d. in the piece, that lofs is but fmgle upon a larger, but is repeated in the number of leffer pieces that make up the fame value, e.g. it can be but 2d. on 4/. but it may be 8^. on four 20^. and i6d. on eight 10 s. pieces. We have leffened this lofs in our fcheme by propofing to make ufe of the half quarter, and allowing i d. for that, fo that where the lofs ufed to be 2 d. for not turning the fcale, it will be but i d, for tke future. And befides, our new fpecies of Portugal gold has been fo unhappily fettled, that there is 2 d. profit by bringing over a 4/. piece, rather than two 40 j. pieces, and fo on in that line ; fo that if fome reme- dy be not applied, in two or three years more we Ihall fcarce have any fpecies but 40^. pieces. poorly the Primate was affifted, nay he was even oppofed by fome who ought to have been his fupporters from reafon. from interell, and from the duty they owed to their country, and to governmeat. LorJon edition. This izS L E T T E R S BY This has been fo effedually reprefented to my Lord Lieutenant, that he has joined with the council in a reprefentation to his Majefly of our calamity, and the remedy we defire to be applied to it : which is fet- ting the foreign gold at the proportional value that the guinea has to the (hilling in England^ agreeably to the fcheme formerly intended in the council, only that to obviate an inconvenience not obferved before^ we propofe giving about a penny advantage to every lower piece of gold, in refpedt to the piece immedit: ately above it. The bankers and remitters have raifed the fame clamour as formerly againft it, and the mod popular plea againfl it is, that this redudlion of the gold will fall the exchange at leaft z per cent, which will turn to the advantage of the abfentees. I have endeavour- ed to fatisfy them that if the abfentees get 2 per cent. by this redudion, the nation will get z per cent, in all their exports and imports, which will be four or five times as much as the abfentees will gain by this re- dudtion : but all arguments are nothing againfl: the prepofleflions of the bankers. As I know your Lorddiip's concern for the good of this kingdom, and your fenfe of our diflrefs and the proper remedy, I thought proper to acquaint your Lordfhip in what poflure this affair {lands, that as we have got the matter on the other fide of the water, whither I could never get it before, your Lord- fhip may be pleafed to folicit our having orders for lifuing a proclamation to reduce gold, Sec. I am but little folicitous about the raifing of foreign filver, and am rather apprehenfive of the bankers having mifreprefented things to us, in affirming filvcr bul- lion fells ufually at ^s. ^^d. Englijb -^ whereas fe- veral tell me it has not for two years paft fold for 55, 3^. And if filver bullion is over-rated here, the bankers will in time carry our gold out, and we fhall be over-run with foreign filver ^ but that will be LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 129 be a much lefs evil than what we labour under at prefent ; but what has been the price of filver bul- lion in England for fbme time can eafily be known there. I take the liberty to recommend this affair of our coin to your Lordfhip, as of the utmoft confe- quence to this kingdom. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin, May 31, 1735, HI S Grace the Lord Lieutenant has taken over with him a reprefentation to his Majefty from the government and privy council here, giving an ac- count of the deplorable condition we of this kingdom are in through the want of filver, and the method we apprehend will relieve us ; which is, the lowering of gold to pafs here for what it is worth in England, at the rate of 21 i. Englijh, or i /. %s. gd. Irijb, whtre a fhilling pafles for 13k for as gold is over-rated with us at prefent, whoever brings over foreign gold hither, gets 2i per cent, and whoever carries out gold from hence, lofes 2 f per cent, and whilfl this is our cafe, we muft every day grow worfe : and in- deed by fome particular advantages attending the 4 /. pieces of Portugal gold, above half our money is run into thofe pieces, and in a little time we fhall hardly have any other money. If we continue in this cafe, our linen manufadture mufl decline, and our in- land trade every day fink. It already cods from 4 J. to 8 d. or 9 d, in the pound to get filver, fo that what we defire to re- duce gold to by proclamation, is in reality already done. I fhall not Tun, through the particulars, becaufe they are fufficiently explained in our memorial, and Vol. II. K the 13a L E T T E R S BY the remedies. But I muft beg your Grace to help ITS to have orders for the proclamation, or we muft be a ruined people foon. I am, My Lord, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Diihlitij June i, 1736. I Thought it my duty to acquaint your Lordfhip that it is fuppoled Mr. Harrifon the commiliioner is pail recovery : how far it may be proper, if he dies, to fend over fome E7iglijhman that underftands bufniefs, and hag fpirit enough not to be too much over-awed here, I leave to your Grace's confidera- tion. I am, my Lord, &c. "To Sir Robert Walpole, I Sir, Dublin, June j\., 1736. Take the liberty on occafion of the death of Mr. Harrifon, to reprefent to you the abfolute necef- fity there is, if a fucceffor to him be fent from Eng- land, to fend one that has a good fkill in the affairs of the revenue, and that is a man of application and courage ; the more weight he is of in himfelf the better. If one be appointed to fucceed him that fails either in fkill or diligence, the revenue, which is at prefent rather in a declining condition, will mofl: cer- tainly fall ftill more, and this will draw on a defici- ency in the provifion made for the eftablifhment here : and increafe our debts, which cannot but make every following fcflion of parliament more uneafy. You LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 131 You will be fo good as to forgive the freedom I take. I am, Sir, yOur humble fervant, &g. I0 the Diih of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Jtme ^^ I'j^S. I Am very glad to hear of your Grace's fafe arrival at Lofidon, but could have wilbed his Majefty had ftaid a little longer, that the affair of our coin might have been put in fome method before his departure ; but I hope the fame thing may be done under her Majefty. My Lord Granard gives me great hopes from the difcourfe he had with fome of the great men, that if the affair be pufhed it will certainly be granted. I am afraid the bankers have over-reached us in the value of foreign filver : I (hall trouble your Grace with a particular letter on that fubjed before I go on my vifitation, which will be in about ten days. Mr. Harrifon died yefterday, and the only perfon that has applied to us to iucceed him is Dr. * Trotter^ whom I think the fittefl man in this kingdom for that pod ; but as I take it for granted fome perfon will be fent from England for that employment, I beg your Grace would be pleafed to reprefent the neceffi- ty that the perfon they fend be one well verfed in the bufmefs, and a man of probity, courage, and appli- cation : if they fend us a weak or indolent man, the revenue here will certainly fall, and your Lordlhip knows better than any body the trouble a Lord Lieu- tenant has with a parliament upon the increafe of our debts. I am, my Lord, &:c„ * Thomas Trotter^ £fq ; a Civilian, Vicar-General of the Dloeefe of Dublin^ and a Member of Parliament. K 2 fo 122 L E T T E R S BY ^0 the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. lo, 1736. EFORE your Grace left this kingdom, I ac- qudinted your Lordlhip that I feared the bankers had mifinformed the council about what was the mid- dle price of bullion in England^ which they affirmed was 5 J. 4 f d, Englijh per ounce ^ but I am fince af- fured that for two or three years pail, it has hardly reached ^s. 2\d. per ounce ^ and if this be the cafe, I muft beg leave to defire that the redudion of the gold may go on without any alteration of the prefent proclamation price of foreign filver, or that at the highell it may not be fet higher than at 5 j. z t i/. per ounce, or 5 s. 3 d. EngUJb at mofl. To (late this matter in a tolerable light,. I mufl ob- ferve, that the reafon of thinking at all of raiCng the price of foreign filver v/as, that by fetting it at a price that might make it worth while to utter it as money here, we m^ight have Ibme of it as it was brought in, circulate here as money ; whereas whilfl the procla- mation price is lefs than the bullion price, it will flill be carried into England or Holland as a com.modity : and if 5 i. 4^ d. were that price, though it was fome- times as low as 55. o^d. yet if at other times it fold for 55. 6d. there was no fear of our being over-run by it, for though it might be imported here at 55. 41- ^, Engiijb as long as it bore a lefs price at other markets^ yet when the price came to 5 j. 5 d. or more, our bankers v/ould pick it up, and fend it where it bore a better price than that given by proclamation. But if things are fo altered that in England it fel- dom is above 55. z^ d. and or at mod 55. 3^. EngliJJ? per ounce, there will always be a gain of three half= pence for carrying it to England^ and often 2 d. per ounce : the effect of which will be that the bankers will LORD PRIMATE BOULTER, 13^ will change all our gold when reduced into foreign filver ; for in that cafe by buying up foreign filver at 5 s. 3 d. with gold from hence they will gain 2 L 'j s. and near 2 d. per cent. If they can buy it at 5 j. 21 d. they will make 3 /. 45. per cenL profit, .and this is gain enough to carry out all our gold, and furnifh us with only foreign filver. This evil indeed will not be fo detrimental to our trade and all the leffer tranfadti- -ons of life, as our prefent cafe is, but is an inconve- nience worth our guarding againfl. Your Grace knows the original intention here was only lowering the gold, but that as fome of their pe- titions againfl that prefTed for raifing foreign filver, it was thought it could do no hurt to gratify them in that point, if it w^as fet at the middle market price in England', but in that the merchants here have de- ceived us, reprefenting it at 5 J. ^\ d. EngUjh^ when it is really, but 5/. o^d. at higheft. I have with this fent your Grace two calculations of the feveral pieces of filver mentioned in the memorial fent by the council ; one upon the bottom of an ounce of filver pafllng for 5 j. z^ d. Englijh^ or 5 s. 7 d. 708. h'ljh ^ the other at 5 s. 3 J. EngUfb^ or 5 s. 8 -^d. Irijh. In the memorial the Aiaximilian^ Leopold^ Holland^ Bear^ Crofs^ Danijh and Lion dollar, are left at the old proclamation price, bfcaufe as they are below ftand- ard, they are more liable to be counterfeited, and therefore the council did not like to give any encou- ragement to their importation. if any thing is done about raifmg the price of foreign filver. I would hope it may not be itl above 55. 3 J Englijh^ at the highefi ; but 1 think it would be better if it were left at the prefent proclamation price : but if we are not permiited to reduce our gold, we lliall foon have none but great pieces of gold, which are entirely ufelefs in all leiler commerce. i am, your Grace's, &c. K q ^ t V t34 LETTERS by To the fame. My Lord, Dublin, July 31, 1736. I Have been often thinking that Mr. Gardiner would be a very ufeful perfon in the privy council here, but I queflioned whether any in his (lation had ever been of that body ; but as I now underftand that Sir * pFilliam Robin/on, who was in the fame ftation, was at the fame time a privy counceljor, th3,t difficul- ty is removed; and as we now hardly know when the government is fecure of a queflion, I apprehend it would be for his Majefly's fervice, if he were made a .privy councellor. AsJVlr, Tighe is dead, this would not increafe the number of the council, and I think he ilands upon a bottom that few others could plead for being admitted to the council. But I fubmit all to your Grace's better confideration, and am, My Lord, &c. To the fame. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 3, 1736. I Am very glad to hear from your Grace that our affair of reducing the gold is likely to go on, which I hope will be done very fpeedily, fince Sir Robert Walpole, according to the prints, is returned to London, and that the affair of the rate foreign fiiver ought to be fet at, will at the fame time be taken in- to confideration. I underftand by my wife's f brother, who has been here to fee me, that for fix or feven ♦ Deputy Vice-Treafurer. I Mr. Savage f an eminent Merchant in London. year 5 LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 135 years foreign filver has feldom rifen to 5 j. 3 d, per ounce in London. I mufl beg of your Lordfhip to prefs this affair to the utmoft : at the fame time I mull: likewife beg of your Grace to give Mr. Gardiner leave to go on with the copper coinage, which wants no reference, and only a compliment to be made to her * Majefty for leave to go on with what has been already granted. I can afTure your Lordlliip the diftrefs in the north for want of filver and copper, is inconceivable, people for want of better fmall money, taking pieces of copper not worth a half-penny, and promilfory notes on cards for Q^ d. or 4<^. that are illued to the value of fome hundred pounds, by perfons worth nothing, and that will certainly run away when they are called upon to change them. Sir Marmadiike Wyvil\ brought me a recommen- dation from your Grace, on which account I will lliew him all the refpedt I can. Since we wrote to your Lordfhip about the death of Mr. Vefey^ my Lord Cavan has wrote to the Lords Juftices fingly about fucceeding to the Hofpital, and is willing to quit his penfion of 400/. per ann. for it, which will be a faving to the nation. I have nothing new to add to what I formerly wrote to your Grace on the like occafion. Colonel Ticbhourn has likewife defired the fame pofl, by which the government of Cbarlemont fort would be vacant. I am, My Lord, &c. * Queen Cnroline, Qon(oxt of George II. t Deputy Poll- Mailer General in h eland. K 4 To J36 LETTERS by To the fame. My Lord, Dublm, Jug.zS, i^^e. I Have had the honour of your Grace's of the 15th inflant, and am glad to hear our reprefentation is gone to the Trealury, though at prefent it cannot be hoped it can be very much expedited ; but I would beg of your Grace to diredt Mr. * Gary to forward it as much as may be. As Mr. Gardiner has your Grace's leave to proceed in the affair of the copper, I believe he v/ill make what difpatch he can, for our wai;t of it is very great. As to his being admitted of the privy council, I am glad your Grace thinks the fame .of his ufefulnefs there as I do, and 1 hope your Lordfhip will find a way to let him in, and yet keep the door fhut againfl the numbers that have afked for that favour ; and in that view I muft acquaint your Grace, that by the deaths of Mr. t Parry, Mr, ■; Tigbe and Sir [] T. Taylour^ who were always at hand to make a number at the council, we are now hardly able to get a council, efpecially when the Chief Judges are on their cir- cuits, fo that there will be a necelTity of making two or three privy councellors that always live at Dublin. I am fenfible of your Grace's conftant regard to the low circumflances of this kingdom, and do not doubt but what additions are ordered to the powder maga- zine, were thought neceffary upon advifing wjth the * Secretary to the Duke of Dorfety then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. f Publick Regifter of deeds and wills. He was a Weljhman, § Right Honourable Richard Tighe, II Sir Thomas Tajlour, Bart. prope? LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 137 proper officers. And as for any thoughts of a cita- del, the barrack with the regiments quartered there, without any offence or grumbling, is another fort of ^ citadel than this can ever be reprefented to be. I hope I lliall manage it fo, as that your Grace may |iear no more of that affair. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin^ Sep. 28, 1736. MR. Dillon has brought me the favour of your Grace's. I am glad to hear he has behaved himfelf fo much to the fatisfa6lion of all who knew him in England ; and doubt not but his behaviour here will be anfwerable : and as your Lorddiip is pleafed to recommend him, I fhall mofl: readily fa- vour him with my good offices on all proper occa- fions, I am with the greatefl truth and refped, My Lord, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Nov. 11, 1736. INCE I had the honour of your Grace's laft commands, the building of the magazine has not been flopped for want of money. But of late one of the arches has fallen in, which they are endeavouring, as I hear, to repair, fo that what was intended to be finifhed againft the winter, will yet take up fome time. I mufl again renew my requeil that the affair of our coin may be forwarded as much as poffible, that it piay be over before his Majefly's return, when greater affairs 138 L E T T E R S BY affairs will call for the attendance of the miniftry and council, I underfland our reprefentation is referred to the officers of the mint, and that they have a co- py of the letter I troubled your Lordfhip with on that fubjed, but that Mr. Conduit is doubtful whether they can take any notice of it, becaufe it is not re- ferred to them. I rather think that in their report no particular notice need be taken of it •, but if they will have fuch regard as they fhall think proper to what is there fuggefled, it is all that can be defired, fince it may be taken very ill here, if the report of the officers of the mint, which has ufually been fent hither with his Majefty's commands on fuch occa- fions, it fhall appear that a particular member of the council made a different reprefentation from that of the board, though, it fhould be founded on our hav- ing been deceived in our former accounts of the va- lue of filver bullion. Every thing here is very quiet, but the Lords Juf- tices have a troublefome bufinefs to come on, that of appointing fheriffs. I am, My Lord, &c. To Mr. Walter Gary. Sir, Dublin^ Nov. ii, 17-36. I AM very glad to hear our copper coin is at lafb fet a going, but at the fame time I find it is likely to proceed fo flowly, that it will drive us to great extremities in the mean time, as the currency of all raps, if not of other true half-pence will be (topped by it. To prevent the latter, we have i.n- deed orders to order the taking the old patent half- pence in the revenue • which I think will keep them current, and accordingly as foon as the new half- pence are upon arriving, we fhall give orders accord- ingly. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 139 iflgly. But flill, if the copper company could fupply a greater quantity than one tun per week, and the mint could coin them, it would be better for us. I fhall write to Mr. Bcwes about the former, and if the company can perform their part, I mud defire you to prevail on the mint to do theirs. I could heartily wifh that ^o tuns at kafl were coined fome time be- fore the parliament met, if a fecond fifty were not then going on, though I fhould be more glad of the latter: and indeed I am fully fatisfied, that lefs than I ^o or 200 tuns will not make things eafy here, and that it is of great eonfequence to have them with all pollible dlfpatch. The Sollicitor-general gave me- a copy of a letter from Mr. Conduit^ relating to our gold and filver coins ; on v/hich 1 would beg leave to make the fol- lowing remarks. 1. If there be no objedlion to that part which rcr lates to the reduction of gold, I wifh they would re- port that clearly. 2. As to my letter, I do not apprehend there is any occafjon to take notice of it in their report, and it is only to put them in mind that we in our repre- fentation went upon a fuppofition that filver bore fuch a price, which afterwards I learned was greater than it really bore ; and indeed in our reprefentation, we mention that we fuppofe filver to bear (uch a rate, but at the mint they could not but know it was the true middle price of it. 3. That though 55. /\.\d. may be the middle price of filver in bars, yet if foreign filver coin has for fome years fold but for 55. 2d. to ^s. 3 * d. per ounce, that ought to regulate the price intended to be given to the value of foreign coins here, becaufe it is their value, and not that of filver in bars which is to be fettled. 4. That thejettling fuch a price on old pieces of eight, and another on new^ will produce confufion here. I40 LETTERSby here, where the ordinary people will not foon learn the difference betwixt the one and the other. 5. That I am fenfible the value of the Mexico piece and i\\t French crown in the old proclamations, is lefs than they will fell for as a commodity, that value having been fixed by the advice, as I have reafon to believe, of the bankers, on the bottom of the Englijh filver coin, at the rate of 55. zd. Englijh per ounce, the efFedl of which has been, that by getting the gold raifed, they are all carried out of the kingdom. 6. As to the weight of the Mexico^ Seville, and Pillar pieces of eight, and of the Portugal gold, we have fet them at the weight the generality of thofe bad that came amongfl us ; and as the weight of thofe pieces both of filver and gold is reckoned higher in Englaiid than we have fixed them at in our proclamations, it is plain we have fet each piece at a higher value than it bears in Englajid. 7. In diftinguifhing the Pillar and Peru pieces of eight, we follow the former proclamations. 8. As to the Maximilian^ Leopold^ &c. dollars, -or ducatoons of Spain^ they may well enough be omit- ted, if they are fcarce in England^ for they are all vanifhed from hence. 9. I am fenfible it is a difad vantage to have foreign coins current as money by weight, but abfolute ruin to have them current by tale ; and therefore could widi we had as little of them as may be. In our cafe, foreign gold is necefTary, but I would gladly prevent foreign filver from being fet at fuch a price as to make it worth our bankers while to exchange our gold for foreign filver, by raifmg it, as they have already changed all our filver for gold, by raifing that. As for the affair of a coinage of filver at the tower, for the ufe of this country, it is what will require mature LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 141 mature confideration, and is more than I fhall pre- tend to fpeak to on fo fhort a warning. As you know our prefent diftrels for want of change, I muft beg of you to prefs the reduction of our gold, if poiiible, before his Majefty's return, after which it will not be eafy to get the council to attend to Irijh affairs : and if our filver is raifed, I beg it may not exceed the middle value of foreiorn filver com ; but I could heartily wifh the foreign filver were left as it is, and then a fmall pittance of EngUjh filver money with the copper would anfv/er our purpofe. I am, Sir, &c, "To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Nov. 25, 1736. WHEN your Grace was in Ireland^ I delivered your IjDrdfhip a petition, including her cafe, from the Widow Feil ding rel dt of * Co]. Feilding^ and fifter to the late Lord Santry. 1 have been fmce very much importuned by her and feveral of her friends to remind your Grace of her application. I am fatisfied fhe is in a very poor and miferable condition, and in danger of being arrefted by fome of her creditors, I fhall fay nothing farther on this occafion, but fubrait the whole to your confideration. I am, My Lord, &c. * Governor of the Royal Hofpital near Duhlin for invalid Soldiers. r« i^z LETTERSst f To the Earl of Granard. My Lord, Dublin^ Nov. 29, 1736- AS your Lordfhip thoroughly knows the diftrefs we are in for want of filver, ^nd the advantage the bankers make of the inequahty of our gold and filver ; and as the reprefentation of the council here is now before the officers of the mint, I muft beg of your Lordfnip to follow this affair clofe with Mn Conduit^ and get a report from the mint, and after- wards to forward that bafmefs before the committee of council, that if pollible, we may receive thenecef- fary orders before his Majefly's return ; after which, 1 fear we mufl expedt but little difpatch in any Irijb affair from the miniflry, till the fellion of parliament is over in England. By what I can learn, they have no difficulty at all at the mint about the reduction of go d, but about the filver they feem at a lofs how to take any notice of a letter I fent to my Lord Lieutenant on that fub- jedt, to fhew that we had over-rated foreign fiiver in our reprefentation, and rather to wifh nothing was done about the filver coins ; which letter my Lord Lieutenant has communicated to them, but it was not referred to them by the council As to that, I would obferve, that I do not apprehend there is any occafion of any notice being taken of that letter in their report from the mint ; but if that fuggefts any hints to them that may be of ufe, they may make ufe of them as of any other knowledge they have in that affair : and there is the more room for it, becaufe in our repre- fentation we obferve, that in our calculations we reckoned 5 i. 4 f d. EngJiJb as the middle price of foreign filver, but refer ourfelves to the mint as know- ing that better than we do. I find LORD PRIMATE BOULTER, 143 I find likewife that it is fuggefted on the other fide that 5 5. 4 i J. is the middle price of fiiver in barSj but that of late, becaufe of their being fomewhat baTer than formerly, the price of pieces of eight has been from 55. 2d. to 5 j. 3 i ^. per ounce, and that therefore there ought to be a diftindion between old and new pieces of eight, and that the old at leaft may be fet at 5 ^. 41 d. per ounce. To this I obferve, that we fhall not eafily bring the people here to know the old from the new pieces of eight, and that we are not fixing the price of filver in bars, but of foreign filver coin. They fay they do not find any calculation of the * Leopold, Maximilian, &c. dollars, among any of Sir Jfaac Newton's calculations, and therefore think they are not to be met with in England. On this I obferve, that we have none of them now in Ireland, and if they have none of them in Efigland, they may very fafely be omitted, for we only put them in becaufe they were in former proclamations here, when they were more common. What 3'our Lordfhip and I both think is, that it were to be wifhed that by degrees the gold and filver current here, was chiefly gold and filver Englijh coin : that if our gold was reduced we might hope to get rid of our prefent inundation of foreign gold ; and that there is a neceiTity of not over-valuing foreign fil- ver coins, which will make it worth the bankers while to carry out our gold and over-run us with filver coins from abroad. And the furefl way of preventing that would be by leaving the foreign filver coins at their prefent value here ; but if fomewhat muft be done a- bout them, I hope they will not be fet higher than at the rate of 5 5. 2 i ^. 01 ^s. z i d. Englifh per ounce, which I hope would not hurt us. * GVr/nrtn Silver Coins, I fnonld 144 LETTERSby I fhould not have troubled your Lordfhip with fo long a letter, but that I know your heart is thoroughly fet on redreiling our prefent deplorable eflate -, and if by your Lordfhip's diligent follicitation of this affair, it can be brought to bear whilft the miniftry is at leifure before his Majefty's return, your Lordfhip will do one of the greateil pieces of fervice to this nation. Our copper coinage is I believe before this, a<5tual- ly bugun at the mint ; all I could wifh about it is, that it could receive greater diipatch than 1 fear it is likely to meet with. I am, My Lord, &c. Article relative to the gold, delivered to Lord Granard. E defired it might be reduced according to the value of the Engliflj guinea. We defired that the leiTer fpecies of each fort of gold might have about half a grain advantage allow- ed to make it worth while rather to import the leffer pieces than the greater pieces. But if it be confidered that the leaft want of full weight caufes a dediidion of a grain according to the prefent way of allowing for a grain, and half a grain according to what we propofed in our application to his Majefly, it is poffible a little more fliould be al- lowed ; fmce to exemplify in the 4 /. piece, though the 40 s. piece be fet half a grain lower than half the weight of the 4 1. piece, yet this does Httle more than anfwer the allowance of half a grain for any want of weight in a 4 /. piece, and of two half grains for the leafl want of weight in two 4 s. pieces ; and fo of the other leffer pieces in that and other fpecies. But at the fame time, if too much be allowed for the fmall pieces, they will be imported inftead of fjlver. Article LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 145 Article relative to the filver fpecies, delivered to the fame. WE have from the reprefentation of the rner-= chants and bankers, and from what was the middle price of foreign filver or bulHon at Londouy when we were endeavouring to make appHcation be- fore, defired to fet foreign filver at 5 i. 4 d. per ounce Englijh ', but I have fince learned that foreign filver in England fince the year 1728, has feldom been higher than 5 J. 2^d. Englijh per ounce, and never higher than 55. 3 ^. Englijh per ounce.. But if foreign filver be worth at the higheft but 5 i. 3 ^. Englijh per ounce, and we have made our calculations upon 55. 4 J. there will be a profit of I /. 5 J. 4^. &c. decimals in importing 100/. Englijh in foreign filver. If foreign filver be worth but ^s. 2^d. Englijh per ounce, there will be a profit of 2 /. 2 decimals per cent, by importing it. And in either cafe it will be worth the bankers while to change our reduced foreign gold into foreign filver fo advanced. We have indeed referred this matter to the confix deration of the mint, who can bed tell what is the middle price of foreign filver at London. I have fince our reprefentation fent to my Lord Lieutenant a full ftate of this matter, defiring that if there are difficulties in this matter of fettling the price of foreign filver, they would drop this part of our application relating to foreign filver, and only order the redudion of foreign gold as defired. Vol, IL L To 146 L E T T E R S B Y To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 13, 1736. WE this day troubled your Grace about a living in the diocefe of OJfory, vacant by the promo- tion of Mr. Tifdall : it confifts of three denominations, the rectory of Gaul/kill^ and vicarages of Dunkit and Kilcollum, worth about 1 00 /. per anji. Of the three perfons we recommended, I cannot but wifh your Grace would beftow it on Mr. Samuel Henry^ who was recommended to your Grace by the Bifhop of Kihnore and myfelf, when your Grace was iafl in Ireland ; he came over from the DiiTcnters to the Church fome years ago, and has hitherto got no- thing but a curacy of 40 /. per ann. and that rather precarious. He is one of a good life and converfati- pn, and a moft diligent curate : he is about 60 years old, and has a fon and two daughters on his hands to maintain, and has been obliged to fell a fmall paternal eftate he had for their fupport, fo that his neceflities are very preiTing : but I fubmit the whole to your Grace's judgment. I am, My Lord, 6e:c. To the Duke of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin^ Dec. 23, 1736. IHave had the honour of your Grace's of the 2 2d pafl, but it did not come to hand till laft week ; and we had long before appointed one Mr. Herbert Sheriff for Kerry ; and as this gentleman was former- ly in a prefTing manner recommended by Mr. Herbert of England for that office, but was then put by for rea- fons that have now ceafed, I doubt not but Mr Herbert will LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 147 will be as well fatisfied with his name-fake being made Sheriff, as if Mr. Markham had been (o. Had there been room I fhould have been on this, as I fhall, on all other occafions be, very forward to acknowledge the obligations I lye under to your Lordfhip. I cannot conclude without prefling your Grace to get the affair of lov/ering the gold here expedited, for want of which we are in the laft diftrefs in this country. I am with the greateft truth and refpe6t, My Lord, &rc. 21? the Duke of Dorset, My Lord, Dublin, Dec. 29, 1736* TH E bearer is Mr. fFye, who has had an affair long depending in the army about removing one Mr. Pepper out of the army into the room of one upon half-pay, and putting him into cbmmiHion in Mn Pepper's place, in Col. Hamilton's regiment : the par- ticulars of the cafe he will inform your Grace of. The bufinefs had probably been done two years ago, but for the ill ftate of health Sir JVilliam Strickland^ then Secretary of War was in. As the perfon in half- pay may chance to die, if the affair is ftill depending, which will raife new difficulties, and as Mr. PFye h2iS long ago done all on his part, I muil intreat your Grace to bring the affair about as foon as it can con- veniently be done, or Mr. PFye .mW ht m danger of being ruined. Lara very forry Lhave been obliged -tp give your grace fo much trouble in this matter bptla here and in England. I am, ' My Lord, &a L 2 Tq 148 LETTERSby To the * Earl of Granard. My Lord, Duhlm^ Jan. z, 1736. I Learn from London that the reprefentation of the council has been fome tin:ie before the officers of the mint, and that as to the redu6tion of the gold, they feem to make no difficulty, and I believe they are not againft reporting as to the filver, agreeably to the reprefentation ^ but as in a letter I wrote to the Lord Lieutenant on that fubjed, which they have be- fore them, they are at fome lofs what notice they can take of it, as it has not been referred to them by the council, I think they need not in their report take any notice of it, but only attend to what it fuggefls. They fay filver bullion is about the price of 55. 4 i ^. but pieces of eight about three half-pence lower. I have wrote to Mr. Cary that it would be a difficulty here to difhinguifh between the old and new pieces of eight ; that we are fettling the price of foreign money not bullion ; that if we over-rate it, the bankers will change away our gold for foreign filven My Lord, I muft beg of your Lordfhip, as you know the cafe, and have the interefl of this nation at heart, which is in the laft diftrefs for want of filver, that you would follov/ this affair clofe with Mr. Conduit^, that if pofii- ble,- it may be done before his f Majefty's return, * This Nobleman was an Admiral in the Englijh Fleet, of great Experience and Bravery j a Privy Counfellor in Ireland^ a Rrittjb Member of Parliament ; an Embaffador to the Court of Rujjia 5 and Governor of the Counties of JVeJimeath and Lon^fgrJ. I King George II. virho frequently made Journies to Hanover, his native Country, as did alfo his Father George I. when LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 149 when there will be fiich a hurry of Englijh bufinefs, that it will be in vain to hope for any thing till the fellion of parliament is over. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan, 8, 1736, AS Major Don in Sir James IVood's regiment is lately dead, and there may probably be feveral removes in the regiment on this occafion, I (hall be much obliged to your Grace if you would pleafe to beflow a firfl: lieutenancy on Robert MoJand^ at pre- fent a fecond Lieutenant in the faid regiment by your Grace's favour, I am, My Lord, &c. To the Earl of Anglefea. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. 8, 1736. IAm very much obliged to your Lordfhip for your kind letter, and the concern you exprefs both for this kingdom in relation to our coin, and for the rights of the clergy, I am forry my letter did not come to your hands till you was in the country, fnice I make no doubt but your Lordlhip's reprefentations would have a good effed both with my Lord Lieutenant and the miniilry. I have not been wanting in my endeavours to get our evil remedied, and the memorial of the council is referred to the officers of the mint : and I hear thofe in power feem all convinced that we are in a very bad way, and that our gold ought to be lowered ; but no- thing is yet done, and I hear my Lord Lieutenant is too much difpofed to make the redudion at twice, which will defeat the cure ; for there will be above I per cent, to be got by importing gold upon a half L 3 redudion, I50 L E T T E R S B Y reduction, fo that it will help us to no filver, and the bankers are fo much maders of the Houfe of Com- mons, that I apprehend if the affair be not quite over firft, they will get fome idle votes to prevent any far- ther redudion. I fhall reprefent this to my Lord Lieutenant as foon .as 1 have an anfv^er to my lafl letter to him on that fubjed. I have fent your Lordlbip the refolutions of the Houfe of Commons, in relation to agiflment, but there were fome other votes ready to have been paffed, one particularly to fall on the Barons of the Exchequer on that fubjecS, which though they were flopped by fome of the Houfe that were wifer, yet feem to have inti- midated that court almofl as much as if they had paffed. After thefe votes were over, alfociations were entered into by moil of the Lay-lords and Common- ers, to join againfl agiflment ; and the like affociati- ons were fent down to mofl counties againfl the affizes, and figned in mofc counties, though refufed in fome. In fome places they went fo far as to talk of chufmg a country treafurer, and fupporting any law-fuit on that fubjecl againfl the clergy by a common purfe. I was told by fome of fenfe that went the circuits, that there was a rage flirred up againfl the clergy, that they thought equalled any thing they had feen againfl the popifh priefls, in the mofl dangerous times they remembered. I could not forbear telling my Lord Lieutenant on occafion of thefe affociations, that though the rights of the clergy were in particular attacked at pre^nt, yet this method was of mofl dangerous confequence to the government, fmce by the fame method that was now taken to diflrefs the clergy, the execution of any law or adl of parliament mip;ht be efFedually ob- ftruded. As fome that were more prudent than others amongfl them, faid they would endeavour to fettle things LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 151 things another feflion in Tome reafonable way, and hoped the clergy would let things reft in the mean time, and as the latter part of the laft refolution feems to promife fomev/hat of that nature, the Bifliops thought it moft advifeable to perfuade the clergy to be quiet till next feliions,® that it might not be faid things would have been amicably fettlecl if it had not been for the heat of the clergy. I exped nothing from them, but the clergy have behaved themfelves .v/ith a temper that has furprized their enemies. I 'believe they will bring in a bill next feilions, that will half ruin the clergy here, which there will be no pof • fibility of ftopping here, but I hope the friends to the conftitution in Church and State, will fink fuch bills in the council in England, We generally fuppofe this ferment is encouraged from England, as are our great out-cries for a com- mon-wealth. What things will end in God only knows, but I am very m.uch furprized to hear from England, that the young noblemen that travel abroad, come back zealous for a common-wealth, as fbme of our young noblemen here fnew themfelves to be. I cannot but think by the experiment that has been made formerl}', the nobility have very little reafon to hope they (hall keep their ground, if monarchy be once ruined. I have likewife fent your Lordfhip the covenants Lord * Pisjly has mferted in the pieces lately made on his father's eilate, which if followed, muft difable the clergy from gathering their dues, or having more, for them than the tenant is pleafed to pay. There was likev/ife a paper delivered by Lord Piejly among his tenants, v/hich though ftridly legal, will^ confidering the number of tenants concerned, in fmali pieces of ground, very much diftrefs the clergy. * Eldeft: fon to the Earl 0^ Ahercorn I'li Scotland^ and Lord Vlfc. Strabane in Ireland. L 4 I ihal! .i5a LETTERS BY I fhall not be wanting to write to our other friends in England to fupport us there, for here no fland can be made. What has been already done, is but the beginning of what is intended, for feveral of them fpeak out, that the prefent claims of the clergy, even thofe about the legality of which there is no difpute, are matter of frequent controverfy, and breed quarrels between the clergy and laity, and which ought to be taken away, and they mention in particular fmall dues, tythe of flax, and potatoes, the lad at leail to be reduced. All we defire is, that we may be upon the bottom of other fubjeds as to our dues, and enjoy the like benefit of the courts of juflice as others do, for the recovery of our juft rights. I mull beg of your Lordfhip to forgive the length of this letter, and to continue the fame good friend to the clergy both of England and Ireland that you have hitherto been, I am, my Lord, &:c. fo Mr. Walter Gary. Si:r, Dublin, Jan. 13, 1736, YEflerday I received yours of the 4th inflant, and the intended report, together with nine mails more. I am forry to hear you have been fo much out of order, and are not yet quite well, but I hope as the fpring advances, your health will improve. I am glad the affair of our coin is in fo good a way, and that no time may be lofl, have returned my ob- fervations on the report and memorandums of Mr. Cmdiiit, by which you will fee I am very well fatisfi- ed with this report, and defire little or no change to be made, and what I do I fubmit to him. I have likewife LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 153 likewife returned the report and paper annexed, as his Grace intimated. I (hall communicate the affair to none but fuch as I can abfolutely trufl, and hardly to them. 1 hope it may be pufhed on as fall as may be, on the return of the report, that the good efFeds of the reduction may be fenfibly felt before the end of the fummer. I am forry any accident has happened about the copper coinage ; I fhould be glad if the mint and the company could furnifh us with a greater quantity per week than has been hitherto talked of. M3^ * Lord Chancellor is not yet come, but expect- ed from Chejier the firfh fair wind. I heartily return your good wiilies, and many hap- py new years, and am. Sir, your humble fervant, To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Duhlin^ June 10^^ i73^- I Had not the honour of your grace's of the ifl in- ftant till yellerday, when we received the mails together. I am glad to find the affair of our coin is in fo good a w^ay, and think Mr. Conduit has dropt the bu- finefs of foreign filver in a very decent manner. And I cannot defire he fhould fpeak more fully of the ne- ceflity of reducing our gold than he has. As to any difference in their valuation of the gold coin and ours, I am very eafy about it fince though I had ours from the befl hands here, I make no doubt but they of the mint are better fl\illed in that matter, and have more frequent opportunities of examining the weight and intrinfic worth of foreign gold coins fhan any here can have. * Lord Wyndham' I have 154 LETTERSby I have drawn fome few remarks on the memoran- dums, at the bottom of the valuation paper, which I have Tent to Mr. Cary^ to be communicated to Mr. Conduit, which will make no difficulty in the affair, let him judge as he thinks proper. My Lord Chancellor is not yet arrived and the wind at prefent is againft him. I fhall endeavour to have the magazine finifned as your Grace defires, and hope it may be done with- out giving your Grace any farther trouble. I thank your Grace for your kind intentions to Mr. Henry. I thank your Lordfhip for your kind wifhes, and am fure nobody can with greater fincerity and hear- tinefs, wifh your Grace many happy new years than, My Lord, &c. * To the BiJJjop of Down. My Lord, Dublin^ Jan. 15, 1736. T% /TR. Oneal has called upon me with your Lord" i-VA fhip's letter and the certificate of feveral cler- gymen. I know not what to fay to what they have teftified, but I mufl acquaint your Lordfhip that for feveral reafons your brethren on the bench here think, if you have any regard to your character and the notions every body has of the occafions of your original defign, you will certainly drop it. And I mufl allure your Lordfhip, that I fo far concur with them, that I declare to your Lordfhip, if you go on with if, no part of the blame or clamour fhall di- redlly or indiredly lye on me. I am, my Lord, &c. * Dr. Hutchinforii author of a book on witches, and an alma- nack, fo LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 155 * To the BiJJjop of Rochefter. My Lord, Duhlin^ Jan. 25, 1736. I Have had application made to me in behalf of James ShieJly at M^ejiminjier fchool, lately removed with great credit as I am informed into the fifth form. I am afTured he is a very good lad and a good fcholar ; he wants to get upon the foundation t the approach- ing election, but fears without fome friend appearing for him he may be poflponed. His father is proc- tor of the prerogative court here, of a very fair cha- radler, and very dehrous his fon may have the advan- tage of being educated under his good difcipline. If the lad anfv/ers the character I have of him, 1 heartily defire your favour in his behalf, that he may be brought into the college next election. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Bijhop of El phi n. My Lord, " Buhlin^ Jan. 27, 1736. WE had this day a navigation board, v/here we were informed your Lordiliip muit by this time be at Bath. As we have difmiiTed % Mr. Caffsl from that work, and are making enquiries about a proper perfon from * Dr. Wilcocks. -j- He did get on the foundation, and was afterwards Student of Chriji Church, and now is an eminent Lawyer, a King's Council, and one of the Commiffionei s of appeal in Ireland. (February 1770) X One of the greateft Archite6ts in Europe^ who defigned that noble Edifice of Leinfter Houfe, in Dublin ; the Lying-in- Hofpital ; the Mufick-Hali, and many other fuperb Strudures in Ireland. He was born in Germany^ and made the grand Tour, which gave him the moll elegant tade. England 156 LETTERSby England that has been concerned in works of the like nature, and is able and wilHng to undertake the con- duct of that affair, I was defired by the board to prevail with your LordHhip to difcourfe with Mr. Allen +, who made the Bath river navigable, whe- ther he can recommend a proper perfon for that undertaking, and on what terms fuch perfon or perfons would be willing to come. Mr. Lucas's brother has had fome difcourfe on that fubjedt with Mr. Allen^ but as your Lordfhip has ufually been prefent at thofe boards, you will be better able to talk with Mr. Allen ; and the account you fend us will be more fatisfadory. And as Mr. Allen is very "underfbanding in thofe matters, whatever hghts you can get from him, which 1 find he is not backward to communicate, may be of fervice to us. Your Lordfhip can conclude nothing with Mr. Allen^ but only get the beft lights you can : for we are at the fame time making two other enquiries of the fame nature, and intend to employ him whom we apprehend to be moil capable of executing the work, and who will come on the moll reafonable terms. As 1 know how much your Lordfhip has the in- tereft of this kingdom, and in particular the fuccefs of the work at heart, I need not prefs you to under- take the trouble we defire you to be at. It will be of fervice to us to have an anfwer with all convenient fpeed, that we may be able to deter- mine on fomewhat before the feafon advances too far. I am, My Lord, &c. t This is the celebrated Ralph Alien, Efq; of Pryor-Park, near Bath. ftJ LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 157 * To Sir William Chapman. Sir, Dub I'm, Feb. 19. 1736. I Am almofl afhamed to write to you fo long after the receipt of the letter you favoured me with, together with the refolutions of our correfponding fociety, in favour of Mr. f Hanfard. But I vt as then in the country, and unfortunately miflaid your letter, and have but lately found it : the refolutions I im- mediately communicated to the fociety, where, though they were of weight, yet they had not ail the fuccefs I heartily wifhed they might have had in his favour. For my part I did him all the fervice I could. We are very much obliged to you and the other gentlemen of the fociety for fo heartily efpoufing our intereft ; I am fure what our charter fociety are la- bouring after, is the moft rational pufh that has been made for eflablifhing the proteflant religion more univerfally in this kingdom, than it has hitherto been. And I hope that through the bleiTmg of God, and the afiiflance of charitable perfons in England^ joined with our endeavours here, there will be a fenfible change made here in a courfe of fome years. I am very glad of this opportunity of renev/ing a correfpondence with fo worthy a gentleman, whom I had the happinefs to know in England. I mufb beg of you and the other gentlemen v/ho are fo kind as to correfpond with us in our defign, to promote as much as in you lies, the contributions of well difpofed perfons in Englmid^ xh^it we may * Merchant in London. •j- Was Agent for the Proteflant Charter Schools in Ireland^ fent to England to follicle Subfcriptlons for this mofl: religious and iifeful Undertaking, and was very fuccefs fui therein. ' •: make 158 L E T T E R S BY make our views the more extenfive. And I have no doubt but if we are once able to fet on foot about 20 working fchools, in the feveral diflant parts of the kingdom, and put them into a right method, wc ihall meet with fupport and encouragement here from the legiflature, I am, &c. * To the Bijhop of Derry. ' My Lord, Dublin, Feb. 19, 1736. AT our lafl meeting of the charter fociety we had before us the minutes of the lafl meeting of our correfponding members in London, with an account of their having appointed t Mr. Cole a falary of 80/. per ann. for officiating as fecretary, and folli- citing for us. There is no doubt that what they did was purfuant to a defire we formerly made to them to chufe fuch a fecretary as they thought proper, and to appoint him what falary they judged reafon- able, to be paid out of the monies colledled in England. However as we had given our fecretary here but 50/. per ann. it occafioned fome heat amongft us. I faid what I could to pacify them, that we were very much obliged to the gentlemen there for their kind alliitance ; that if we had any mifunderftanding with them it would very much obftrud our fubfcrip- tions there, and that what they had done would oblige them in honour to be the more diligent in raifing contributions for our aid, fince 80/. would make a very large dedudtion out of 220/. annual fubfcriptions that Mr. Hanfard had obtained in Eng- land before his return, and which we did not find, * Dr. Rundle. f Another Agent, for the Proteftant Charter Schools, who refided in London had * LORD PRIMATE BOULTEPv. 159 had been yet enlarged : fo that upon the whole I prevented their coming to anv ra(h refolution, and efpecially upon my promifing to write to your Lord- fhip upon the fubjedt. I could heartily wifh they had made the fecretary a lefs appointment, but I much fear ii would be a dangerous flep to defire our correfpondents to make an alteration in what they have done. And though fome here were of opinion that one commiffioned by us to make colledtions at London would want no other help to obtain large contribu- tions, yet I am fully perfuaded, that without being recommended or introduced by fome gentlemen of Weight, and having the way firft prepared for him, fuch a perfon would not fo eafily obtain admiflion, nor meet with the fame encourascement. And be- fides, gentlemen among their acquaintance have thofe frequent opportunities of opening the nature and probable good effects of our defign, that a m.eer fe- cretary at a fmgle audience could not poiTibly pro- mi fe himfelf As this is the cafe, I think it abfo- lutely neceffary to court the alliflance of thofe gen- tlemen, and to get as many more a^ are willing to join with them, and think we muft avoid whatever may offend thofe who have already engaged to ailid us. I have told youj- Lordfhip what others have faid, and what are my fentiments in this affair : your Lordfhip who is on the fpot will beft judge what is mofl proper to be done, and will accordingly either wholly conceal what has happened here, or commu- nicate fo much as you think may be without damage to our defign communicated. And you will be fo kind as afterwards to write me fuch a letter on the occafion, as I may fey before the fociety here. Your i6o LETTERSby Your Lordfhip knows how ignorant we are here of what paiTes in London, that I fhould be thankful for a Httle intelligence from thence. I am, my Lord, &c. To the London Society. Gentlemen, Dublin^ Mar. 8, 1736. Have been favoured with your letter relating to the difputed * eledlion at Londonderry^ and think you are adling very honourably in endeavouring to fupport your rights and privileges there, and was in hopes that I might have had interefl enough in the council to have both elections declared void, that the citizens and Freeholders of Derry might have pro- ceeded to another eledion, when they fully under- (lood what was your fenfe about that affair ; but I found there was fuch a number of privy councellors come prepoiTeiTed about that eledtion, that there was no room for oppofing fo great a torrent. And 1 ra- ther think your furefl way of fupporting your privi- leges, will be by due courfe of law, if things lliould take a wrong turn at another eledion. I can affure you I have always had a difpofition to ferve you, and maintain your privileges to the utmofl of my power ^ and fhall on all proper occafions fhew that I am fo difpofed. I am, &:c. X To the Archhijbop of Canterbury. My Lord, Dublin^ Mar. 8, 1736. ^Hough I am late in my congratulations on your Grace's promotion to the fee of Canterbury^ yet I am behind none in my heartinefs and fincerity. I * Of Magiftrates for that City. X Dr. Poiter. am LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. i6i am glad to hear from England that your characler, learning, and prudence has made all parties well pleafed with your advancement And I queflion not but your caution and temper will be of great fervice to the Church, at a time when fhe feems to be fa violently attacked on all fides. I pray God to diredt you in that high flation, and grant that you may long enjoy it to the benefit both of Church and State. I am, my Lord, &c, to the Duke of Dorfet My Lord, Dtiblin^ Mar. i*/, 1796. I Have lately received a letter from Lord Cavan^ renewing his application for the government of Derry Upon the prefent vacancy, with the condition of giving up 400/. per ann. of his prefent penfion. Your Grace remembers what then pail, and knows hovv ferviceable he is in the Houfe of Lords, How the affair of the Hofpit^il flands I do not 14now, but if Colonel Tichbourn be thought of for if, I believe the feveral candidates on the late vacancies might all be made eafy ; and I cannot but wifh my Lord Cavan were confidered, or we may find the want of him in the feffion of parliament. I am. My Lord, &c„ To Mr. Walter Gary. Sir, Dublin^ Mar. 26, 1737. I Received 'yours of the 8th, and am glad to hear Mr. Conduit has delivered in to the Lords of the Treafury his report. Your poftfcript about his relapfe, has fcmewhat alarmed me, but I hope the Vol, II. M account i6z L E T T E R S BY account we have fince had in the prints, that he is recovered, will hold true. Two tuns of our copper half-pence are arrived here, and four tun more has been Iliipped fome time, which we hope fpeedily to receive ; and fince that a tun and half more. As foon as we have received about 2000 pounds worth, which we compute will anfwer the wants of Dtiblin, we lliall iffue a procla- mation about their circulating. Dean Swift has raifed fome ferment about them here, but people of fenfe are very well fatisfied of the v/ant and goodnefs of them. I mufl beg the continuance of your good offices both as to the filver and gold, and to pufh on coining the copper as faft as may be. We all talk of an exchange of places between the Dukes of Dorfet and Devonjhire. 1 hope it is to the fatisfadtion of our prefent Lord Lieutenant ; but I fear I (hall be a lofer in my interefi: at the Caftle by the exchange. I thank you for your kind compliments, and in return wifh you all health and happinefs, and fhall, as you give me leave, trouble you on occafion, for what may be of fervice to this country. lam, Sir, your humble fervant, tzc. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Apr. 9, 1737. Have the honour of your Grace's of the 2d in- _ flant ; and as his Majefhy has thought fit to eafe you of the fatigue of our government, I am glad he has been pleafed to reflore you to your former llation. I have heard from others a very good charader of the Duke o^ Devonjhire ^ but it is a great' fatis- fadlion LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 163 fa6lion to me to hear it fo fully confirmed by your Grace. I have not the honour to be perfonally known to our new Lord Lieutenant, and fhall therefore be obliged to your Lordfhip, if you will pleafe to fpeak to him about me as you fhall think proper ^ and his Grace may depend on my poor aiTiftance in whatever may promote his Majefty's fervice here, and the true intereft of this kingdom. We are very much obliged to yoitr Grace that you quit us with an intention ftill to promote our good by your interelt on the other fide of the water: and I am fur e we want from time to time fuch powerful patrons to help and protect us. I return your Grace my mod hearty thanks for the many civilities and favours I have met with from you, in the courfe of your government ; and fhall always own it as a great addition to them, that you are pleafed to give me leave to continue a cor-^ refpondence v/ith your Grace, and to apply to you for your alTiilance on proper occafions, I am, your Grace's, &c, P. S. I find Mr. Dillon fFye's affair is not yet completed. If, as I fear, it cannot be done before your Grace entirely quits the management of Irijh affairs, I fhould be glad your Grace would recom.- mend it to our new Lord Lieutenant, and, if you fhall think proper, recommend him at the fame time to be a gentleman at large to' his Grace the Duke of Devon/hire, that he may have the better chance t@ be remembered. M z Te i64 L E T T E R S BY To the Lords Juftices of Ireland. My Lords, Piccadilly, Apr. i8, 1737, IS Majefly having been gracioufly pleafed by A A letters patent under the great feal of Great Biitain, dated the 9th inftant, to appoint me Lord Lieutenant of his kingdom of Ireland, I take this opportunity to acquaint your Excellencies therewith, and that there is inferted in the faid letters patent^, a claufe continuing your Excellencies to be Lords Juflices of that kingdom,, during my abfence, with the fame powers and privileges, as were granted by letters patent under the great feal of Ireland, appoint- ing you to be Lords juflices m the abfence of the iate Lord Lieutenant. It is a fenfible pleafure to me that your Excel- lencies are continued in the government of Irelandy as during your former adminiftration, your Excel- lencies conduded the affairs of that kingdom with ability and integrity, and with zeal and affedion to his N&jefty's perfon and government : I affure my- felf that the honour and interefl of his Majeft}^, and the welfare and profperity of his fuhjedts, will be the . conftant care and concern of your Excellencies, and I fhall on all occafions make a faithful repre- fentation to Iris Majefly of your zeal and regard for his fervice. I defire to hear frequently from your Excellencies concerning all matters relating to his Majefly's fer- vrce, and that you will order the proper officers to lay before you, as foon as may be, the following particulars, vix. I. An account of the prefent flate of the revenue, and of the expence of the management thereof, each diftinguifhed under its proper head. II. The LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 165 II. The efbablifliment both civil and military of the expence of his Majeft^^'s government, as it now lland^, with the particular date-^, as far as the fame can be colied^ed, of ,the time when every particular charge v/as brought upon the eflabliiliment. in. A lift of the officers both civil and militar}^ in his Majefty's fervice, with the dates of their refpedive patents, (diftinguifhlng thofe that are for life or lives, during good behaviour, and during pleafure) Warrants and Commillions. IV. A lift of .all the officers upon the eftablilhment of half-pay, v/ith the dates of their commillions, -and an account alfo, ;as far as the fame can be collected, of their ages and places of refidence. Y. A ftate of his Majefty's regiments of foot/ horfe, and dragoons in Ireland^ \N\xh their com- plements ; a ftate of the cloa thing, off'-reckon,- ings, effedives, &c. together with a lift of the prefent quarters of the army. VI. A hft or lifts of the governors and cuftodes rotulorum of the feveral counties of Ireland^ of the jufticesof the peace, deputy lieutenants, and officers of the militia, together v/ith a lift of the independent companies and troops of inilitia. All which feveral accounts and lifts I defire your Excellencies will be pleafed to tranfmit to me as foon as conveniently you can. Haying appointed Mr. * Edward Walpole to be my chief fecretary, I defire your Excellencies will favour * Second Son of Sir Robert Walpole Knight of the Garter, who was many Years firll Minifter of State in England. Mr. Edijuard Walpole was afterwards made a Knight of the Bath. M 3 him i66 LETTERSby him with your correfpondence on all proper ocr cafions. I am, my Lords, Wiih great truth. Your Excellencies, Mofl faithful humble fervant, Devonshire. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Lublin^ Apr. 28, 1737. Have the honour of your Grace's of the 25th pad, by Mr. De loncoiirt ; and fince his arrival we have had a linnen board, and have furniihed him and his brother with money to go with their work- men to Dundalk^ where we have fixed this new manufacture *, which I hope will turn to good account to this nation, and deferve our further en^ Gouragement. I fhall flill be ready to give them what further fupport may be neceffary upon your Grace's recommendation, and fhail always be proud to receive your Grace's commands. I am^ my Lord, &c. To Horace Walpole, Efq-, Sir, Duhlinj Apr. 28. 1737. R. De loncourt has lately brought me the favour of yours of the 4th inftant. On ac- count of your former recommendation, 1 did him what fervice I could at the linnen board, where we * This manufa6tory was eftablifhed by a voluntary fubfcription of 3o,cool. at Dundalk, .on the eftate of lord vifcount Limericky afterwards earl oi Clanbrajfilley and is now a thriving manufac- ttire. February 1770. agreed LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 167 agreed with him and his brother on the terms for which they are to carry on the cambrick manufac- ture ; and gave one of the brothers miOney to go to France and bring over ilcilful workm.en. Before his return we had fixed upon Dtindalk for the place to fettle that manufacl:ure in, - with the approbation of his brother, and fince his return we have ad- vanced money to fend the workmen thither to begin their bufmefs. And whatever fupport I can give thera at the board Jhall not be wanting. And I have great hopes this raanufadure will turn out well to the great ad- van tasie of this kins;dom, which muft in the end be to the advantage of England. I am, My Lord, &c, Tt) the Duke of Devonlhiire. My Lord, Dublin, Apr. 28, 1737. IT was with great pleafure that 'I faw your Grace's letter to the Lords Juflices, notifying his Majefly's having appointed you Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The great clmracler your Grace has from, every body, fatisfies m,e v/e fhall be happy under your adminiflration, if it be not our own fault. I have made it my endeavour to ferve his Majefly faithfully here, and fhall always labour to promote his intereil and honour, and the profperity of his fubje(5ts J and am glad that I and the other Lords Juflices have been rightly reprefented to your Grace on that head : and I dare anfvver for them as well as myfelf, that we fnall do our utmofl to make your adminiflration hereeafy. Befide thofe publick letters you are pleafed to en- courage us to write, there will be occafions when it may be for the ferviceof his Majefly and the good of M 4 this i68 L E T T E R S BY this kingdom, that I fliould give your Grace an ac- count of my particular fenfe of affairs, which I hope you will allow nae the liberty to v/rite to your Grace. I can promife that I will never knowingly miflead you, and your Grace will always be judge of what I propofe *. 1 am glad your Grace has appointed Mr. Edward WdlpoU your fecretary, whom, befide the univerfal good character he fupports, I have had the pleafure of knowing here +. I fhall always be very proud of receiving your Grace's command s^ and beg leave tc^ fubfcribe myfelf. My Lord J &c. ?o the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ May y, 1737. I Heartily thank your Grace for your favourable re- commendation of me to the Duke of Devonjhire. 1 think I may venture to fay he will never find me * His Grace's adininiftration was the happlefi-, the longed:, and perhaps the moft ufeful that was ever known in Ireland^ fince the Houfe of Hano/ifi, of «7S L E T T E R S B V of fervlce if any difpute lliould arife about a procla- mation for lowering our gold. On which fubjecl I have likewife written to his Grace, teUing him how forward that affair is on the other fide of the water, and defiring it ma}^ be dif- patched as foon as he pleafes, that the ruffle which fuch a reduction inuft caufe, whenever it is done, rnay be quite over before the feilion of our parha- ment drawls near, I have hkewdfe defired his Grace that his Majefty's orders on that head may be very clear and exprefs, that we may not be troubled with any delays or difficulties here. 1 have no doubt but your Grace is fenfible why 1 defire this, from many things that have happened under your Grace's ad- miniflration. I have referred the Duke of Devonjhire to your Grace to be fully informed how this affair of the coin ftands, and what has been done in England ^bout it, and where it nov/ refls. If your Grace would be fo good as to order Mr. Cary to give his Lordlliip a copy of the memorial to his Majeily on that head, I think his Grace would fufficiendy underftand the merits of the caufe. I -am very much obliged to your Grac€, and molf heartily thank you for beginning a correfponderxe between my Lord Lieutenant and me, and your kind intentions to cultivate it : and I hope my behaviour to my Lord Lieutenant will be fuch as to anfwer what you are pleafed to reprint to him he may exped from me. I cannot conclude without acquainting your Grace, that notwithflanding all the oppofition and clamour of Dean Swifi^ the papifls, and other difcontented or whimfical perfons, our new copper half- pence circu- late, and indeed are moft greedily received. I am, my Lord, &;c. To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 173 To the Duke of Devonfhire. My Lord, Dublin^ May i6y 1737. OUR Grace will be fo good as to excufe my putting you in mind of an affair now de- pending in the Treafary, relating to the reducflion of our gold. We are in the lafl dillrefs for want of filver in all the lower parts of bufmefs, there being a profit of 2 7 per cent, by bringing Portugal gold here rather than filver,. and the fame lofs by carrying gold from hence rather than filver, fo that what filver we had has been flill exporting, and the return of our exports have been ftill made in gold : this our condi^ tion we reprefented to his Majefty from the govern- ment and council, when his Grace the Duke of Dorfet was here lafl:, and our reprefentation was re- ferred to the couacil, and from thence to^'the Treafury,. and fo to the officers of the mint, where it has refled by the ficknefs of Mr. Conduit ; but as he is now well^ as I am told, and has a report ready when called for, I muil defire of your Grace to fet that affair on foot again, and to get the Treafury to call for that report, and make the report to the council, that we may receive his Majefty's orders for a proclamation for fuch redudl:ion as he fhall pleafe to fix upon. This is an affair of great confequence to this na- tion, and the fooner it is done before the feffion of our parliament, that the little ferment fuch a redudtton mufl; caufe whenever it is made, may be quite over, I think the better. If your Grace will be fo good as to enquire of the Duke of Dor/et^ he v/ill acquaint you how this affair flands, and of what importance . It is to this nation to have it foon fettled. I mud beg that his Majefly's commands on this occafion, be very exprefs and pofitive, that there m.ay be no dif- ficulty or delay here when they are fent us*. * His Grace of Devonjhhe had the hsr.our of c.irrysng this mod defirabie fcheme into execution. There 174 L S T T E R S B Y There is another affair which i formerly troubled the Duke of Dorfet about, and which I beg leave to lay before your Grace, which is the making Mr, Gardiner a privy counfellor. He is deputy to the Vice-Treafurers of this kingdom, and one of the moft ufeful of his Majefly's fervants here ; as your Grace will be fully fatisfied, when you do us the honour to be v/ith us. There is nobody here m.ore againfi: increafing the number of privy-counfellors than I. am, who think they are by much too numerous ; but it is becaufe many have been brought in there without any know- ledge of bufinefs, or particular attachment to his Ma- jefty's fervice, merely for being members of either Houfe of Parliament ; but we want fuch an one as Mr. Gardiner there, to help to keep others in order, as he is mofi zealoufly attached to his Majefty by af- fection as well as by intereft, and is a thorough man of bufmefs, and of great weight in this country ; and I find he will not be the firil in his poll of deputy that has been a member of the privy council. And if your Grace pleafes, I fhould be glad the King's letter were fent as foon as you think proper, for his admif- fion, that he may be of the council when the reduc- tion of the gold comes on ; though I think, if his Majefly's commands are very exprefs on that occafion, none will prefume to make the lead oppofition. I have formerly troubled the Duke of Dorfet about Mr. Gardiner's affair, and to his Grace I refer your Lordfhip to be more fully informed of Mr. Gardiner's character, and of what fervice he may be to his Ma- jefty in the council. I beg pardon for having trefpaffed fo long on your Grace's patiece, but I hope from your own gcodnefs and from my fmcere intention to ferve his Majefty in what I have v/ritten, I may obtain your Grace's ex- cufe. I am, My Lord, &:c. .To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 175 To Mrs. Wall. Madam, Duhlinj May tj, i']Q,j. Have received yours of the loth, and have by J^ this pofl written to the Bifhop o^ PeierborGugb^\ 10 fccure his favour for your font. There has for fome tinn^ been very httle correfpondence between the Duke of Newcaftk and me, fo that I did not think it proper to write to Him on this cccafion. 1 heartily wifb your fon good fuccefs. I am glad to hear your daugh- ter is better than fhe'has been. My fpoufe and I are well, God be thanked, and give our fervice to you and your family. I am, Madam. &c. To the Duke of Dorfet.. My Lord, Dtihlin^ May 24, 1737. S your Grace was pleafed to honour us v/ith your prefence at the firft opening of our char- ter fociety, and accept of being our prefident, and encourage us by your generous benefadion, you will pardon my defiring one favour more of your Grace, which is to recommend us to the favour and protec- tion of our new Lord Lieutenant, and to join with his Grace in recommending us to his Majefty's bounty. His Lordfbip has already been fpoke to on that fubject, and is well difpofed to aflifl: us, but your Grace's interpofition with him will have a weight much fupe- rior to any application that has already been made to * Dr. Cla'vering, at the fame time Canon o^ Chrijl Church. f This was for a Lav/ Faculty Place in Cbri/i Church, Oxford, This Gentleman is fuppofed to have been a Mader in Chancery in Ireland fome time after this date, which employment he fold, and returned to England. him. 176 L E T T E R S BY him. And your joint recommendations to his Ma- jefly cannot fail of procuring us his bounty. His Majefly has been formerly acquainted with our intentions, and exprefled his approbation of our defign. Her Majefly has likewife been applied to, and is difpofed to allift us with her bounty, but as I am informed, is willing rather to follow his Majefty's example than to be before hand with him. And there are feveral perfons of quality and worth about the court, who have expreffed their readinefs to fol- low the royal example. Your Grace moft thoroughly knows the unhappy ignorance and bigotry to popery under which the greatefl part of this nation labours -, and the excef- five idlenefs they are addided to. And I am fure the pufh now made by this fociety in ereding work- ing fchools for the education of the children of poor papifls, as well as of the meaneft of the proteflants, both in chriftian knowledge and fome ufeful bufmefs, is the moil rational method that has yet been at- tempted to bring about any reformation in this na- tion. And we find that as our defign is more knov/n here and our fund increafes, gentlemen from the feveral parts of the kingdom are daily making propofals of giving us land and other afliflance to fettle fuch work- ing fchools on their eflates. And I make no doubt but when we are once fallen into a well fettled method of managing thefe fchools, and have fo far multiplied them that the good effects of them are vifible in the feveral parts of the kingdom, the Com.mons here will very readily afllfl the good defign with an annual fund. But this mufl be a work of time, and will require the afliflance of voluntary contributions to bring about, which cannot be better promoted than by his Majefly's gracious example; which I hope will not be LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 177 be wanting upon your Grace's and our new Lord Lieutenant's interceflion. We are printing an account of our proceedings from our firll eftablifhment, which as foon as finilhed (hall wait on your Grace. I am, My Lord, &c. To the Duke of Devonfhire. My Lord, Dublin^ Jun. 7, 1737. I Have had the honour of your Grace's of the 14th pad, encouraging me to give your Lordfhip my particular fenfe of any affair that may occur here. I am very much obliged to your Grace for this liberty, which I aflure your Grace I Ihall not make ufe of but in what ! apprehend may be for his Majef- ty's fervice, and for your Grace's eafe and honour. Upon" the affarances his Grace the Duke of Dorfet gave me, that your Lordfhip would not be offended, if I offered my beft advice on occafion, I made bold to trouble your Grace about Mr. Gardiner'^ being made privy counfellor here, and about obtaining his Ma- jefty's commands relating to the lov/ering the value of the gold coins here current, which I hope your Grace will think of when you find a proper feafbn. I have been applied to by Dr. St. George who was chaplain to the Duke of Dorfet^ to ferve in the fame capacity to your Grace. He has always been well affedled to his Majefly and his family. And I hope your Grace will not fill up the lift of chaplains be- fore your arrival here, that there may be room for him and feveral other worthy clergymen who have not yet applied, but I am confident will, when we have the pleafure to fee your Grace here. Vol. if. N Wq 178 L E T T E R S B Y We have in a publick letter given your Grace an account how the affair of * Mr. Nugent and Capt. Macgiiire flands. As for the latter, I believe things may be fo managed as to prevent any farther pro- ceedings againft him, but the papifts here have for fome time been fo infolent, and there is fo general a difpofition among proteftants and papifls to infult magiftrates for doing their duty, that we think it proper for preferving the peace of the country, to profecute any perfons indifferently that demand fa- tisfadion of any magiftrate for putting the laws in execution. ^ I am. My Lord, &c. 70 the Duke of Devonfhire. My Lord, Dublin^ Jun. 18, 1737. I Have had the honour of your Grace's of the 7 th pafl, and thank 3^our Lordfhip for your enquiry about our coin, and recommending it to Sir Robert Walpole. As the fpeaker is now in the country, and I find my Lord Chancellor is unwilling to do any thing in that affair without Mr. Boyle'^ name being to it as v/ell as ours, if his Majefty's com- mands on that fubjedt come to us a little after the middle of next month, it will be time enough ; for it will be of fervice to have a proclamation ilfued here at once, without giving the difaffected any pre- vious time for clamour. I thank your Grace like wife for your kindnefs to Mr. Gardiner. I am. My Lord, &c. * Thefe Gentlemen being Roman Cathollcks, were indlded at the afllzes for wearing fwords contrary to law. "To LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 179 To the Duke of Newcaille, My Lord, Dublin^ Jim, iS, 1737. IT Is always with great pleafure that I have the honour of your Grace's commands. We here were very well pleafed with the Duke of Dorfet for our governor, upon repeated experience of his be- haviour amongft us : but we receive from all hands fo good a charader of the Duke of Devonjhire^ whom his Majefly has pleafed to appoint to fucceed him, that we have no doubt of our being equally happy under his adminiftration : and I am the more con- firmed in it by your Grace's authority from your perfonal knowledge of his Lordfhip. 1 am very much obliged to your Lordiliip for the .good impreilions you and other my friends in Eiig- land have been pleafed to make on his Grace in my favour. And I can undertake to affure your Grace, that whatever affurances you may have given his Lordfhip of my hearty zeal for his Majefly 's fervice, and readinefs to make his adminiflration here eafy, by the befl advice and afliilance I can give him, fhall be fully anfvvered to the utmoft of my power. And it is a great pleafure to me to knov/ on v/hat footing I ftand with our new governor. I lye under thofe repeated obligations to your Grace, that it is the utmoft fatisfadtion to me that you are pleafed to think that I have conftantly adted here for his Majefty's fervice and the publick good, fince I am fare it would give your Grace a great deal of, uneafmefs if I failed of m.y duty in thofe points 5 and there is no perfon by whom I more defire my condud here fhould be approved than by your Grace, 1 am, My Lord, &c. N z To i8o L E T T E R S BY To the Duke of Devonfhire. My Lord, Dublin, July 22, 1737. WHEN DimJeer, &:c. was laft vacant, I took the liberty to recommend for it, Dr. St. Paul^ a very worthy man of learning, and well afFedled to his Majefty, and of fome Handing in the Church. It was then beflowed on * Mr. Molloy^ who is fince dead. I beg leave to renew my recommendations in favour of Dr. St. Paul., whom if your Excellency fhall prefer, it will make a vacancy in the vicarage of Carlingfordy which is in my gift, and which I am ready to beftow as your Grace pleafes to command. But if it be not taking too much upon me, I would in that cafe recommend for the vicarage of Carling- ford Mr. Hanover Sterling., who is tutor to the f Mafler of Rolls children, and one whom he would gladly provide for, and who is a young man of worth and good principles. Your Grace*s favour on this occafion, will be efleemed a great obligation on, My Lord, &c. P. S. I think it proper to acquaint your Grace that Mr. Molloy was poiTeffed of the treafurerfhip of Chriji Church as well as Dunleer., yet they have no relation to one another, and probably never were poffelTed by the fame perfon before. * Mr. Edivard Molloy^ a gentleman of exceeding good charac- ter and great learning, was a Fellow of the Uiiiverfity of Dublin^ and preceptor to Lord George Sackville, third fon of the Duke of Dorfet. t The Rt. Hon. Thomas Carter ^ difplaced m the Year 1754. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. i8i To the Reverend Mr. Bowes. Sir, Dublin^ July 23, 1737. T X 7Hereas * Mr. /^/^'oo^j^ informs me his perfoii V V i^ ^^ danger in the neighbourhood of Diindalk^ where he is obliged to go to let his tythes, I defire you would to the utmofl of your power protedl his perfon, whilft he behaves himfelf harrplefsly and prudently. I am, Sir, &c, To Sir Robert Walpole, Sir, Dublin^ Aug. g^ '^IZl' I Am very forry for the occafion I have to trouble you. But as it is what the King's interefl and the peace of the pubUck here are very much con- cerned in, I doubt not of your excufe for my fo doing. You have heard from others of the warmth of the Houfe of Commons laft feffion againft the de- mands made by the clergy of agiflment, and pro- bably may have read the votes palTed there on that occafion. Several of the clergy had fued for agiflment, and the courts of jufbice here had determined in their favour, and the claim in general was fo eflablifhed, that the only controverfy in the feveral fuits for fome time, had been about the number of cattle, and the quota to be paid for them : it has been decided to be due by common law ; it has indeed been faid on the other fide, that the claim is new, and fo it is in * This gentleman was thought to be a little crazy at (bme certain periods. N 3 fome i82 LETTERSby fome parts of the kingdom, but has been regularly paid in the north, where things have been befl and fooneft: fettied. But the cafe of the clergy here is very different from that in England^ which has been the very antient ufage is hard to fay ; but fince the reformation, whilft the lands were moftly in popifh hands, the clergy took what they could get thank- fully, and very few ever went near their livings to do duty. That 1 do not look upon law to have had a free courfe here till ilnce the reformation, and from thence to have gradually come to the knov/ledge of people. Without this tythe there are whole parilhes where there is no provifion for the minifler : but we do not defire to be judges, but that our rights may Hand on the fame bottom as thofe of other fubjedts, and the judges not be intimiidated by votes of either Houfe of Parliament from doing us juftice, if we feek for it. As a great part of the gentry entered into aflbcia-- tions not to pay for agiftment to the clergy, and to make a common purfe in each county to fupport any one there that fhould be fued for agiftment, and were underftood by the common people every where to be ready to diflrefs the clergy all manner of ways, in their other rights, if they offered to fue for agiftment, it was thought advifeable to hinder as much as we Bifhops could, any of the clergy from carrying on or commencing any fuits on that head for a time ; and the more fo, as feveral perfons among the Commons of more wifdom and temper, promifed to think of fome reafonable accommodation in this affair againft another feffion. But though the clergy have been quiet, and behav- ed themfelves during this interval with a temper that has furprifed their adverfaries, yet I cannot find any of the laity have thought of any the leaft reafonable method of compounding matters, but the bulk of them reckon they have by the votes made laft feffion carried LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 183 carried this point, and are thereby animated to make new attacks on other rights of the clergy. I have in vain reprefented to feveral of them that in the fouth and weft of Ireland by deftroying the tithe of agift- ment, they naturally difcourage tillage, and thereby lefTen the number of people, and raife the price of provifions, and render thofe provinces incapable of carrying on the linnen manufacture, for which they fo much envy the north of this kingdom. It is. certain that by running into cattle the num- bers of people are decreafing in thofe parts, and mofl of their youth out of bufinels, and difpofed to lift in foreign fervice for bread, as there is no employment for them at home, where two or three hands can look after fome hundreds of acres ftocked with cattle, and by this means a great part of our churches are ne- glected, in many places five, fix, or feven parifhes (denominations we commonly call them) beftowed on one incumbent, who perhaps with all his tithes fcarce gets an hundred a year. i muft on this occafion not only obferve the iliega- iity of thefe afTociations, but the danger of them to the government, and efpecially to any acts of parlia- ment paffed in England relating to this country, which may be efteemed hardibips here, fmce I do not well fee, if this humour goes on, hov/ fuch ads can be put in execution here. And how far and to v/hat other purpofes fuch affociations may in time extend, i do not pretend to judge, but I find in* fome counties they already begin to form afTociations againft what they own due to the clergy, but they are encouraged by the fuccefs of this firft attempt to go on to further fteps. The humour of clans and confederacies is neither fo well underftood nor felt in England as it is here. But by difcourfes dropt among people and by fome papers handed about, there are other undoubted rights of the clergy, that are defigned to be voted away one N 4 after \' 184 LETTERSiiY after another, or taken away by new laws, if they are permitted to go on, and I find we Bifhops are threatened to have our fines if not part cf our eftates taken from us. I need not on this occafion obferve what a fupport the Bifnops with the weight of their eftates and power are to the crown, both here and in Engla7id ; but I rauft obferve that they are of more immediate confequencc here, to keep up the juft de- pendence of this nation on the crown and kingdom of Englandy which too many here are difpofed, if poflible, to throw off, daily complaining of it as an almoft in- fupportable burthen. I cannot accufe the bulk of the proteftants except the Scots in the north here, of being enemies to epif^ copacy and the eftablifhed clergy as fuch, but fomc gentlemen have let their lands fo high, that without robbing the clergy of their juft dues, they are fatisfi- ed their rents can hardly be paid •, and others fall in with them, that they may be able to raife their lands as high •, and the controverfy here is, not whether the farmer Iball be eafed of an unreafonable burthen, but whether the parfon fhall have his due, or the landlord a greater rent. Some hope they might come in for plunder, if the Bilhops were ftripped, and moft of the needy gentry here envy to fee the Bifhops by a proper frugality, though not without a decent hofpitality eafy in their circumftances. Againft any attacks of this nature we (hall prepare to make as good a provifion for defence as we can ; we Ihali not be wanting in our endeavours with thofe of weight in the Houfe, and that are capable of any moderation, to prevent any new attempts on the rights of the clergy, without bringing on an attack by haftily raifmg a clamour that we are going to be at- tacked. But our great and only powerful defence under the divine providence, is from the protedlion of his Majefty, from whofe goodnefs we would hope to LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 185 to be defended in our jufl rights in common with our fellow fubje6\s. And I would hope that if fome difcouragement from the crown were given to what is fo unreafonable and unjufl itfelf, and mud raife the greatefl heats and animofities amongfl us, and give the utmoft encour- agement to the papifls to fee proteftants fo violently attacking their own clergy -, and that palling the next feilions quietly would with fuch difcountenances very much cool and balk the defignsof the ill intentioned, I cannot but make it my requeft, that you would be fo kind as to recommend us to his Majefty's protedli- on, which he hasgracioufly declared in his fpeechesto parliament he would afford our brethren of England, and that when my Lord Lieutenant comes to receive his inftruciions from his Majefty before his fetting out for his government here, he may be diredled by his Majefty to fignify in what way (hall be thought mod proper, that the clergy may enjoy their legal rights, and that his Majefty will be gracioufly difpofed to pro ted them therein from all unjuft attacks. By a paper of queries handed about it looks as if fome gentlemen defigned to have a committee ap- pointed to examine into the behaviour of the Biftiops and clergy in their paftoral cures : I muft own we are not faints, nor are we the greateft of finners ; but what a committee fet on foot by fuch as have the views there is reafon to fear too many have, may vote concerning our conduct, is eafily gueffed in general ; and I hope will make no bad impreflion againft us with the unprejudiced. But at the fame time I can- not but heartily willi that thefe meafures may be pre- -vented, v/hich I have great reafon to believe are fet on foot from England, and defigned to be followed there, if they meet with fuccefs and encouragement bere. I am, Sir, your humble fervant, ^c. i86 L E T T E R S BY To the Archijhop of Canterbury. My Lord, Diihlin^ Aug. 9, 1737. Am fatisfied there is no occafion of fuggeliing to . your Grace, that the Church of England and Ireland are fo interwoven in point of interefl, that one cannot fufFer, but the other will foon fall into the fame dif- trefs. Your own goodnefs and concern for a fifter church, would fufficiently engage you to help us in our diil:rers, though we were fure the example would not be followed on your fide of the water. This makes me apply to your Lordfhip in our pre- fent and our apprehended diftrefs. The Houfe of Commons here attacked the tithe of agiftment lafl felTion, and by their votes have fo far intimidated the Judges and the Clergy, that they have carried on no fuits fmce, and efpecially to prevent any further ill confequences ; as the gentry here have almoft univer- fally entered into an aflbciation to fupport any perfon fued on that account by a common purfe in every county ; and as they threatened to diftrefs the clergy in all their other rights, if they offered to fue for agiftment. But though fome were for venturing all this, and fuing for what in the courts here has been declared to be their right, yet as fome grave men in that Houfe promifed to think of fome temper to re- concile the laity and clergy on that point by fome reafonable compofition to be enadted this feilion, we prevailed on all the clergy to fit quiet. But inftead of any fuch propofal, the generality of the laity are encouraged to make farther attempts on the rights of the clergy ; and feveral in their difcourfes and fome queries that are handed about in writing feem to de- fign taking away fome undoubted rights of the clergy, fuppofing the tithe of agiftment not due in fome parts of the kingdom where it h^s not been demanded till lately, LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 187 lately, and among other things they feem to defign taking away from Bifhops, if not part of their lands, yet at leafl all fines. How much the crov/n would fufFer, if fuch things go on, by lofing the weight the Biiliops mufl have, by their eftates and authority at prefent, I need only fugged ; what I have to defjre in behalf of myfelf and brethren, both on the bench and off of it, is that you would reprefent our prefent flate to his Majefly and the miniftry, that my Lord Lieu- tenant when he comes foon to receive his inllrudions from his Majefly before his coming hither, may be directed to let it be known here to his Majefty's fer- vants and others, that it is his Majefly's intention to fupport the clergy in their jufl rights, as he has been gracioufly pleafed to intimate in fome of his fpeeches in England^ and that he will take it ill of thofe who fhall attempt to raife heats and animofities here be- tween the laity and the clergy. I have wrote to the fame purpofe to Sir Robert Walple^ but I make no doubt but your Grace's reprefentations on our behalf will have a m.uch greater weight than any fuggeflions of mine. My Lord Lieutenant will come to London foon after the 20th inflant, to receive his Majefly's in- ftrudions, I am, My Lord, &c. ^0 the Dtike of Newcaflle. My Lord, Dublin^ Aug. 16, 1737. TH E countenance and friendlbip I have met with from your Grace ever fmce I came hither, makes me give you this new trouble. The clergy here were lafl fefTion of parliament at- tacked in their rights by the Houfe of Commons, who pafTed feveral votes againfl them and their right to tithe of agiftment. At the fame time feveral ferious men rS8 L E T T E R S BY men of that Houfe gave us hopes that againft the next feilion fome temper might be found out to make that affair eafy between the clergy and laity ; but in- ftead of any hopes of doing fo, evil intentioned per- fbns have raifed a vvorfe fpirit againfl the clergy than had been raifed then ; and if one may guefs by fome words dropt by fome perfons, and by a paper private- ly handed about, fome of them are difpofed to ftrip the Bilhops of fome of their lands, and the refl if not all the clergy, of feveral of their uncontroverted rights. And till this fpirit is laid, it is impolTible to hope for any compromife about the affair of agifl- ment. I am fure the opprefllng the Bifhops and Clergy here, will be very much to the damage of the Crown, and we hope it is his Majefly's intention to defend us and our rights as well as our brethren in England. And though I hope it will not be found fo eafy a work here to run down the Clergy, as fome imagine, yet I muft own their great fecurity, next under the Divine Providence, to be in his Majefly's protedtion ; but it would be much better to prevent any fuch attempts and the heats they muft occafion, than finally to defeat them. I wrote to Sir Robert Walph on this fubjedl, and defired that our Lord Lieutenant might be inftruded to let it be known here that it was his Majefcy's full intention to protedt the Clergy here in their prefent juft rights, and that he fhould be offended with fuch as attem^pted to invade them. My requefl: to your Grace is that you would join with Sir Robert Walpole in reprefenting thefe matters to his Majefly, and ob- taining fuch inilruclions to my Lord Lieutenant; and that you v/ould in virtue of your particular friendihip with niy Lord Lieutenant, difpofe him to be the pa- tron of the Clergy here in their prefent unhappy fitu- ation, and engage him to let me from time to time apply to him in their behalf, as things fhall occur. 1 can LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 189 can afiTure your Grace I fhall make no other ufe of fuch liberty and encouragement, than to promote peace and quiet, and his Majefty's fervice in this kingdom, I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Newcaftle. My Lord, Dublin^ Sept. 29, 1737. I Have had the honour of your Grace's letter relat- ing to the addrefs to his Majefty delivered by the Lord Mayor and city of Dublin. I communicated the matter to my Lord Chancellor and Mr. Speaker, who agreed that it was moft proper for my Lord Lieute- nant to acquaint them that you had been fo kind as immediately to deliver their addrefs to the King, and that his Majefty received it very gracioufly, fince we had fent it as the government, and that we could not now return the anfwer in that capacity. I therefore delivered your Lorddiip's letter to my Lord Lieute- nant, who fent for the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and acquainted them with the contents of your Grace's letter, of which probably he may have fent your Grace advice. The affair of reducing the gold has by the manage- ment of the bankers and remitters, and the whole popifh party here, occafioned a great deal of heat. The former are very unwilling to part with fo confi- derable a part of their profit, though it vifibly tended to the ruin of the country, by running all our money into * 4/. pieces. I have in a particular manner been ill ufed on this occafion, and monflrous flories have been fpread about to enrage the people. * Which then pafTed m England as they do now for 3 /. \2 s, and the other Portu^uefe Gold coins in the fame Proportion, to which Standard the Currency was reduced in Irelandy which is now 3 /. 1 7 J. ^d. It igo LETTERS BY It is polTible ibme difcon tented people may endea- vour to bring the affair into parliament, and make Ibme refleding votes on the council here, which by our constitution has a power to check the proceedings of both Lords and Commons. I think they will not be able to carry any vote on that point ; but if they do, I am fure the only check here on their heat at any time will be taken away, except his Majefty is pleafed to fupport the council. In the whole affair I am fa- tisfied, the aim of feveral is to deprefs the Englijh intereft here, which the more fome labour to deprefs, the more neceffary will it be to fupport it here by his Majefly's authority. As for myfelf, I make no diffjculty of retiring if it may be of any ufe, and indeed have of late been fo ill ufed in this affair, that nothing but his Majefty's fervice fhould hinder me from retiring. The heats in this town begin to cool, and would have been over by this time, if they had not been artfully kept up for a handle in another place *. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb, lo, 1737. I Heartily beg your Lordfhip's pardon for not hav- ing anfwered your Lordfhip's lad favour fooner, but I have for fome weeks been fo conflantly em- * Such a fplrit of oppofition had been raifed on this occafion by Dean Sivift and the bankers, that it was thought proper to lodge at the Primate's houfe an extraordinary guard of foldiers ; but truth foon got the better of this delufion, and the people returned again to their fenfes. Dean Sivift not long after this feeble effort, this telum imbelle fine idu^ became one of his own meer doting Struldbrugs ', an event which he was always apprehenfive of, in his more melancholy moments ; and this way of thinking was the prin- cipal motive to that noble charity, which to his great honour he founded in Dublin for lunatics and idiots. London Edition. ployed LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. igi ployed about our bills here, to prepare them for the council in England^ or rejed them in our council, that it has put all other bufinefs out of my head. I am very glad the popery tradts are at lail finifhed, and as I had 50 receipts for the firfl payment of the fabfcriptions, I thought it mofl proper to return the money to your Lordihip to pay the bookfellers, and accordingly I have here fent you a bill on my brother Mr. Savage for 52/. lOi. I believe there are about 1 5 /. of the mioney I have not received, though I have given out the receipts, but that is an affair I am to look after. It is expeded here that the books fhould be fent to fome correfpondent of the bookfellers in Dublin^ where they may be had by the fubfcribers, on delivering in their receipts and the other guinea ; and I guefs no, fubfcriber will fail taking out his book, as many of them have been very earneftly en- quiring after the books. I took care to have Dr. Jenney made one of the Lord Lieutenant's chaplains, and fhall ferve him ac- cording to your Lordfhip's defire as occafion offers. We have got pretty well through the attacks on the Church here in bills ; but I cannot anfwer but the Commons may make fome angry votes before their rifing, particularly about agiflment, on occafion of a clergyman having imprudently given notice to his parifhioners to pay it on pain of being profecuted. He is fenfible of his error in not flaying till the feili- on was over, before giving notice; but the affair having made a noife, may probably produce fome votes. I am fatisfied our people are fet on here by fome correfpondents in England-, we fhall defend ourfelves here as well as we can, but our lall dependance is on the King and council in England. We entertain great hopes here of an accommoda- tion being concluded with you. I heartily 1^2 L E T T E R S B Y I heartily wifh the Church may efcape all attacks this feQlon- for I think every day it muft be feen, that the Church is not attacked purely on its own account. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Dorfet. My Lord, Dublin^ Feb. ii, 1737. I Have very lately received your Grace's commands in favour of Mr. Darcey^ to whom I fhall very rea- dily do all good offices in my power. I take this occafion to thank your Lordfhip in my own name, and that of every honed and underft^nd- ing perfon in this nation, for having at lafl brought about the lowering our gold here. Your Grace has no doubt been fully informed of the clamours raifed againft it, and the infult on the government by * Dean Swift on that occafion ; together with the peti- tions of the Houfe of Commons, and the warm de- bates there on that fubjed. I have had a great fhare of fufFering on this ac- count, as far as the mofl virulent papers, and the curfers of a deluded and enraged multitude could go : but God be thanked, I am got fafe through all. There had been no fuch ufage of me, or oppofition to fo necelTary a ftep, or infult of the populace, if thofe joined in power had adted with that courage that became governors. Though I muft do them juftice, that v/hen it came to be debated in the Houfe of Commons, they were not wanting in engaging their friends to ftand by what the government had done. The * On this occafion a black flag was difplayed on tbe top of St. Patrick's, and a dumb peal as they call It, was rung, witk the clappers of the bells muffled. LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. ig^ The efFedt of this alteration is already felt in hav- ing guineas, half-guineas, and pifloles very common^ inllead of 4I. pieces: and filver is in much greater plenty than it was ; and the clamour that had been raifed is very near over. I cannot conclude without thanking your Lordfhip for all the favours received during your government, and of ftill recommending myfelf to your protedion, I am, my Lord, &c. To the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dublin^ Apr. 12, 1738. TH E bearer is Mr. Strain^ who has ferved two cures in my diocefe ; in the firil 1 found him placed by my predeceffor, the fecond I removed him to. He behaved himfelf very w^ell in both cures, without any reproach either as to his morals or pru- dence i but as there were reports fpread about the country that he was not in priefl's orders, and as when called upon he was not able to give a fatisfac- tory proof of his having been ordained by a depriv- ed Bifhop in Scotland^ as he alTerted he was, and that the inflrument he produced of his being fo ordained was not fufficiently fupported, there was a necelTity of difmiiling him from his cure. But he fays, one Mr. Cockboiirn, who was a non- juror, but fince has taken the oaths, was prefent at his ordination, and can prove it, if at Londo?i-^ or if not, yet he thinks he can find thofe at London^ that by their correfpondence at Edinburgh^ v/ill be able to attefl thofe proofs he can have from Edinburgh. As he has thoughts of feeking his fortune in the IVeft Indies., and is pofitive he can clear the imputati- on he lies under here, he begged me to write to your Lordfhip to give him an opportunity of vindicating his innocency before vour Lordfliip ; i^ind if he does Vol. IL ' O ' io. 194 LETTERSby fo, to recommend him to your Lordfhip to put him in a way of getting bread in fome of our plantations. And as he has no crime laid to his charge, but pre- tending falfely to be in orders, if he is able to prove he is unjuftly accufed on that head, I cannot but in compaflion defire your Lordfhip to be afliftant to him. I am very tender of giving your Lordfhip any trouble of this nature, but as the cafe is uncommon, I hope you will have the goodnefs to excufe my writing to your Lordfhip in his behalf, if he appears innocent. I am, my Lord, &c. To the Duke of Devon fh ire. My Lord, Dublin^ Apr. i8, 1738. ^~|^H E bearer is Mr. Norris^ who married a * fifter -1 of my wife's ; he is agent to Sir James Wood^ and comes over to wait upon your Grace to folicit about a vacancy in Sir James Wood!^ regiment. I do not take upon me to meddle in that affair, but defire your Grace will be pleafed to give him a favourable reception, and to do what you fhall think moft proper. I am, my Lord, &c. To Dr. Butler f. SiR^ Duhlifi^ Apr. 29, 1738. OUR old friend Mr. Morgan was taken ill with a dozing this day fe'nuight, and continued pretty much fo till he died on Wednejday night. Lafl night he was buried. He left a fcrap of a will writ- ten in his own hand, by which he leaves to his fifter Catharine Wynn^ alias Gunn^ living near Henley in Ox- * MiTs Sa^age^ a Lady of Fortune. I Prefident of Magdalen college, Oxford^ and Member of Par- liament for that Univerfity, fordjhire., LORD PRIMATE BOULTER. 155 fordjhire^ 100 guineas, to her heirs 100 guineas ; for new cafting two bells at Chrift Church 100/. to the new buildings at Magdalen college 100/. As I know nothing where his filler lives, I defire you would be fo kind as to learn where fhe lives, and acquaint her with it. But befides what he has left her in this will, as I never heard him talk of any other relation he had, fhe will be entitled, 1 fuppofe, to the reft of his eflat^-, which in the whole may amount to 1 200 /. or better. His papers have not yet been fearched, when they have I fhall acquaint you whether any other will is found: and fend you a more exad account of his effeds. I fhall take care to difpofe of what few effeds in goods he has left. What cloaths he has I believe may be given to the fervants that attended him, if his fifler thinks proper. His funeral expences, dodor, furgeon, apothecarj^, &c. I (hall difcharge out of his efFeds, and any thing that appears due from him, which can be very little. I believe it will not be worth v/hile to come over hi- ther about his effeds, fince I fhall take care to have his affairs as well looked after as any one from Eng- land can do-, and the ballance fhall be faithfully re- turned. Any thing his fifter thinks proper to order on this occafion, had better be fen t to * Mn Philips under cover to me, - I am, Sir, &c, To the Bijhop of London. My Lord, Dtihlin, Apr. 28, 1738. THE trouble I give your Lordlli:p is in favour of the bearer, Mr. Norn's, a Batchelor of Arts, of this college. It feems he v/ent over to England in ex- * Amhrofe PhilipSy Efq. Secretary to his Grace, O 2 pedation 196 LETTERS^Y pedlation of fome preferment, but has met with a dis- appointment ; but could, if he was ordained, be pro- .vided with a chaplainfhip in one of the men of war defigned for the ^ejl Indies^ which he is willing to accept of. But as he is wholly a ftranger to any of the Bifhops of England^ and to any one there to re- commend him for orders, he has wrote to his friends here to obtain a letter, (etting forth his charadter, that he may have the favour of being ordained. His tutor, Mr. * Cartwright^ who is a perfon of worth and honour, gives the following account of him un- der his hand : Mr. Norn's was my pupil, he has taken the degree of Bachelor, and has a teflimonium to certify it : he behaved himfelf with diligence and virtue, during his refidence in the college -, and fince he left it, I am well affured his life has been innocent and indus- trious. I find it is not many months fince he left the col- lege, and as his charadter is fo well Supported, and if he mifles this opportunity, it may pollibly be a long time before he finds any employment, I take the li- berty to recommend him to your Lordfhip for orders, if you think it proper, and find him as well qualified as I believe you wilL I am, my Lord, &c. fo the Dtike of Devonfhire. My Lord, Dublin^ May i, 1738. AS it is taken for granted here that Col. Pyot is dying or dead, Capt. Vernon is very defirous that if the Major of the regiment is made Lieutenant Colonel, and the elded Captain is made Major, he may Succeed to the troop that will become vacant. * A Senior Fellow of the Univerfity of Dublin. Jam LORD PRIMATE BOULTER, 197 I am very tender in meddling with affairs fo much out of my province, but I beg leave juft to hint to your Grace how hearty he has fhewn himfelf on ail oecafions for his Majefty's family, and how much he is attached to your Grace: and fuch a pofl I beheve would fix him amongft us to fpend his pay and his own eflate in this country. But I fubmit the whole to your Lordfhip's pleafure. I am. My Lord, &c. To the Earl of Granard. My Lord, Duhl'm, May a^^ i738^r IMofl heartily congratulate your Lordfhip on your new * government, and make ix) doubt but it is on thofe honourable terms as make it agreeable to your Lordfhip. I thought I could hardly have had oecafion to trouble your Lordfhip about any thing \n fo remote a part of the world- but it haf)pens that my Chaplain Mr. Congreve^ who is of a good family in Staffordjhire^ has an uncle in New Tof% in the fer^ vice -of the government, whofe circumflanves are fomewhat particular. The peribn is Capt, Charles Congreve^ who about thirty years ago was going for New Tork^ Lieutenant and Adjutant, with bis wife, family, and all his effedts, and a number of recruits, and a brevet for a Captain's commiHion in one of the independent companies. In their paffage they met a privateer, whem they engaged, and hoped to have got df in the night, but were betrayexi fey the maf- ter of the fhip, v/ho had infured the vefTel. In the engagement the Captain lofl his arm, and was oblig- ed at his return to New Tork^ by the expences of fupporting himfelf, his family, and recruits, and other misfortunes to fell his commiilions of Lieutenant and Adjutant, by which he lofl the benefit of his * Governor of the Counties of IVeJlmefith and Longford. O 3 ' brevet, ig% LETTERS, &c. brevet, and remained there without any commifliorl till eight or nine years ago, when he was made Lieu- tenant by the recommendation of the Earl of EJfepc, and is now upon duty in a very remote part of that province. The favour I have to beg of your Lordfhip is that 3^ou would fliev/ him your countenance, and as your Lordfliip fnall find it confiftent with the fervice, to remove him to a more comfortable fituation. I am, My Lord, &c. fo Mrs. Wall. Madam, Dublin^ Dec. ig, 1738. I Am glad to hear your fon has behaved himfelf fb v/eii at the college as to have fo many votes for a faculty place. I am pretty well fatisfied I am not fo much behind hand in anfwering your letters as you feem to think in your laft ; and I believe few or none of your let- ters have mifcarried. I laft week fent a bill to Mr. Gell for your ufe. I am forry to hear you are. in fo indifferent a ftate of health, and that your hufband is as unkind as ever. It is with great pleafure that I hear your fon minds his ftudies. I underftand by you and others, that. Mrs. Sparks is returned fafe to London^ but neither I nor any of my family have heard from her fince (he left this place. My fervice with my fpoufe's to you and your famir ly, wiibing you all a happy Chrifimas. I am, Madam, &c. FINIS, I N D E i^ Where the firfl Volume is referred to, the number of the Vokime is not mentioned. AEbadiii\ Mr, requell to the Priaiate, 73, 81. AhercQrn\^QX^^ repot t i^T^iWtod'z patent was reiigned to him, ^z. Acceflion of George \\. 1 39 ; the Primate's advice thereupon,//'. Accounts public, regularly au- dited, 167. Addrefs from the Mayor and City of Dublin delivered to his Majefty, Vol. II. 189. Agiltment, the Clergy attacked in their right to the tythe of -^ it, Vol. II. 1 20 J alTociations : .entered into by the nobility and gentry againfi: paying it, 150 ; prudent behaviour of the Clergy, 151 ; further ac- count of it, 171 ; whole ftate of it laid before Sir Robert Walpale^ and his protedion of the Clergy requeited by the Primate, 181. Altham Lord, recommended to the Lord Lieutenant, Vol. II. 7o> 97 i goes to England, 98. Amy Mr. recoirimended to the Bifhop o'i London, 136. Andreiv^ St. Parilh, to be di- vided into two parifties, i6oi applications to be preferred to that living, ibid. Apparitor General's patent, 72. Archbiihop, fee Arf?ingh^ Dub- lin, &c. Armagh, Boulter Archbiihop of, his propofal to his iuftragans for the relief of the inferior Clergy, 4; accepted the Pri- macy purely in obedience to his Majefty's commands, 12 j his remonftrance to Lord Totunjhend on the neceffiiy of keeping up ihQ EngUJh inte- reft in Ireland, ij ; to the D\ikc o^ Neivcajlley 19^ re- commends to the government to purchafe the I^e of Man^ 20 ; confults the Archbiihop of Canterbury on the fubje(St of a prefbyter holding two or three livings in commendam, 23 'f writes very warmly to the Bifhop of Erijlol in favour of his friend Mr. Stephens, zj; O 4 recom- I N D E X. recommends that the Irijlj be eafed of their fears with re- gard to ^FooJ's half-pence, $9; advifes the Englifh miniilry rot to buy off any difcon- tented perfons in either houfe of parliament, 44; but to re- fent their proceedings, 55 ; congratulated by the Duke of Neivcajile on being made one of the Lords Jullices, 54 ; his power of granting licences tor marriages at uncanpnical hours and places dated, 61, 74 ; defires that the Englijh intereft may be kept up on the bench of Judges, 92 j recommends feveral removes in confequence ot the Arch- bifhop of Cajhel'^ death, 95 | his advice relative to the fill- ing up of the Archbiihoprick ofZ)«i^//«incafeof a vacancy, 106, 219 ; recommends fe- veral removes on Archbifliop Nichol/Gnz death, 112 ; de- fires that care rnay be taken for the defence of Ireland^ 126 i returns to Dublin on hearing the news of his Majef- ty's death, 138; the meaiures he propofes in confequence of it, 141 ; requefts that the vacancy in the Common Pleas be filled from England^ 157 ; defires the Bifliop of London'^ afliftance in favour of fome Church bills, 165 ; fends a memorial to Sir Ro~ hert Walpole relating to the want of filver, 197 ; his en- deavours to redrefs that grievance by altering the price of coin, 200 ; congra- tulates Fi'ince Frederick on his arrival at London, 217; fets about a fubfcription to ralfe jnoney and buy corn for the relief of the north of Ireland^ 224 ; his account of the Dif- fenters' memorial, 232 ; of the proceedings in the Coun- cil with regard to the coin, 243 ; his propofal to lelfen the influence of the bankers, 248 ; to fill up the vacant fee of Dublin fpeedily, 250 ; his reafons for recommend- ing two perfons for that fee, 252 ; a fpirited refolution of the Primate, 270 ; his recommendations on the va- cancy of the Archbiflioprick of Cafbeh 271 ; — ftrenuoufly oppofes Sir Ralph Gsre's pror pofal in relation to the coin, Vol II, 3 ; blames the be- haviour of fome members of the Council about it, 4; de- fires that the tranfadions a- bout, and ftate of the coin may be laid before the offi- cers of the mint, 6, 7 ; his propofai for eftablifhing Pro- teftant working fchools in Jreland, 9 j congratulates the Duke of Dorfet on being appointed Lord Lieutenant, 22; compliments Lord Car- teret on his refignation, 19; his condufl in the affair of raifing recruits for the French fervice, 25 ; acquaints the Duke of Dorfet of the nation*^ diftrefs for the want of filver, 40 i advifes againfl purcha(^ ing in the raps, 53 ; begs leave to come to England, 71 ^ obtains it, 72 ; applies for a King's letter to autho- rize the naming of an agent for carrying on the cop- per INDEX. |>er coinage, 8i ; advifes not to folicit his Majefty for his bounty to the Charter Pro- teftant fchools, 104 J refumes the affair of lowering the gold, 121 i his remarks on Mr. Conduit's fcheme about the gold and filver coin, 139 ; writes to Lord Granard on the fubjed of the coin, 142 ; his advice to the Bifliop of Doivn, 154; congratulates Dr. Potter on his being pro- moted to the Archbifhoprick of Canterbury y 160 j com- pliments the Duke of Dorfet on refigning the Lord Lieu- tenancy, 162 ; congratulates the Duke of Dez/^/z«, 242, 255. Holt Mr. applies for the living of St. Jndreiv'Sy 161. Horans Mr. caufe, 251. Horner Mr. recommended by the Primate to the Lord Lieu- tenant for preferment 81 ; for the vicarage pf Dunboyne, 130 i uneafily fituated, 186; — Redor of Clane, Vol. II. 35; ill treated by thePapifts, propofal to remove him, ibid. granted, 37 ; dies, 108. HofkinsM.x. recommended to fuc- ceed Mr. Horner in the recto- ry of Clane, Vol. II, 36 ; to Killybegs, 5 1. Hoiuard Dr. recommended to the biftioprick of Cloyney 70, 80. I. Jenney Dr. charaiSler of, 280 j appointed Chaplain to the Duke of Devonjljire^ Lord Lieutenant, Vol. II. 191. Intereft, Englijh, neglefted, ne- ceflity of fupporting it, 17. Joncourt Mr. De, ellablifties a cambric manufactory at Dun- dalk. Vol. II. 166. Ireland^ people of, in great fer- ment about IVood's halfpence, 3 ; enlift in great numbers for foreign fervice, 58 ; go in great numbers to the Weji-In- dies, 208 ; their reafons for fo doing, 209; endeavoured to be remedied, 216 i falfe reafons given for it, 231 ; averfe to be ferved by Eng- li/hmen, 248 ; ferment occa- fioned among them on ac- count of the redudion of the gold, .Vol. II. 189. IJIe of Man, the Primate recom- mends it to the government to purchafe it, 20. Judges, importance of keeping up the Engiifh intereft among them, 158; intimidated by the votes of the Commons about agiftment, Vol. II. 1 50. K. /Tffl/m^'s Mr. requeft, i6r. Kildare, Bilhop of, takes the place in council, Vol. II. 97. Killalla, Bifhnp of, propofed to be removed to Elphin, 272 ; Dr. Clayton, Bifhop of, recom- mended IN D E XT mended for the Bifhoprick of Kilmore^ Vol. II. loo, 102. Kilmore, Dr. God'win Bifhop of, recommended with the Bifhop of Kildare to the archbilhop- rick of Cajhel, 111,121, 1 26 ; appointed, 127 -, Dr. Hort Bifhcp of, recommended to the bifhoprick of Deny, Vol, II. 102 ; MarJJj, Mr. Dean of, dies, Vol. II. 95. Kimherly Daniel, reprieved, Vol. II. 13 ; executed, 14, 17. Knipe Dr. appointed Canon of Chriji Churchy Oxford, 260. Lafont Mr. recommended to the Bifhop of Lendon, Vol. II. 83. Land-tax, report of, 162. Lanvman and Hohiirg, money due to them paid, Vol. II. 30, 3'' 35' 36, 37. 3S, 40. Leger, ^ir John St. 67. Levies nev/, to be raifed on the Irijh eftablilhment, 97, 98 ; the Primate's advice there- upon, 118, 119, Livings, feveral held in com- mendam, 23. London, Bilhop of, offended with the Primate, 261 ; encou- rages fubfcriptions for carry- ing on the Proteftant working fchools in Ireland, Vol. II, 112. Longnxiorth Dr. (for which read Dongivortb) recommended for ijie bifhoprickofC/ow/fr/,275. Lords, proceedings in the Houle of, 34, &c. Privilege bill car- ried there, 190, 192 ; againft the repeal of the teft, VoJ. il. 87, 89, M Macartney General, 61, 96, Macdonald, Sir Daniel, recom- mended to the Primate by the Duke of Dorfet, Vol. IL 81. Manley Mr. folicits the continu- ance of his penllon, 195. Majey Mr. 137. Maule Dr. Dean of Cloyne, re- commended for the bifiiop- rick of Cloyne, 69, &c. fuc- ceeds, 77; millake in the King's letter concernino; him, 81 ; his cafe, 154, 166. Meathy NicJjolfon Bilhop of, re- commended tor the bifliop- rick of Derry, 94 ; to be madeaPrivy-counlellor, i r8; — deilres to hold the archdea- conry of Kells in commea- dam, Vol. II. 6$ ; dies, 91. Medlicot Mr. 152, 196. Memorial, account of one fent to the Duke of Ne^vjcajile on the fcarcity of filver, 200 ; of one from the DilTenters, 229 ; — to the Duke 01 Dorfet, Vol, II. 61. Meredith Mr. recommended for the deanery of Ardfert, Vol. II. 60. MiddJetonh Lord, oppofition \n the Houfe of Lords, 35 ; 10 the Privilege bill, 190. Mint, propolal to have a quan- tity of copper money coined at the mint in London. Vol. II. 58 ; addrefs intended to his Majeily for ereding one in Irela-nd, 81. Molard Mr, recommended for a pair of colours, Vol, II. 81, 95' I N D 95 ; receives them, 96 ; recommended to a firft lieute- nancy, 149. Money bill, account of it, 274. Morgan Mr. recommended fpr the place of Solicitor to the Commiffioners of the revenue, 214. Mount Alexander Lord, recom- mended to the Lord Lieute- nant, Vol. II. 68. Moynet, patronage of, claimed by Mr. Carter, "jz. X. P. N. Norris Mr. recommended to the Duke of De'vonjhire for pro- motion in the army, Vol. II. 149. Nutley Mr. report that he is to be made a Judge, 58,67. Nuttal Mr. difmiffed from his place, 214. O. Occafional offices, alterations propofed to be made in them, 221, Offory, Bifliop of, dies. Vol. H. 22 ; Dr. Tenifon appointed Bifliop of, 23 i dies, 113; Mr. EJie recommended to fuc- ceed him, ibid. Overdrawings of the military contingencies and concorda- tum, how received by the Commons, 267. Outlawries, the Primate's advice againfi: reverting them, 122; Vol. II, 118, 119. PalmerMr. George recommended to a living in the county of Kerry, Vol.U. 106, 108, 112. Papifts, apprehenfions concern- ing them, 57 i bill to prevent their praiStifing the law till fome years converfion, 282 ; — their infolence. Vol. II. Parliamentary affairs, 167, 192, 263 ; lee Lords and Commons. Parnei, Mr, Juftice, dies, 135. Paul, Dr. St. applies for the li- ving of St. Andrew's, 160; —recommended for the living of Dunleer, Vol. II. 1 80. Pepper Mrs. folicits for a pen- fion, 77 ; Enfign Pepper, Vol. II. 99. Percinjal Dtzn, preferred to the redoryof St. Michan\, 40. Petitions againft reducing the gold, 240, 244. Philips Mr. 67 ; recommended to be made Secretary to Lord Chancellor Windham, 88 ; for a ColleiSlor's place at Mary- burrotM, Vol. II. 84. Piejly Lord, endeavours to dif- trefs the Clergy, Vol. II. 1 5 1 . Poor, their diftrefs, 193. Pope Mr. 83. Popery bill, brought into the Houfe of Lords, 276. Portugal go\dy regulation of, 39; fee coin. Poiver Mr. provided for at Lord Toivnjhend's recommendation, 32 } letter to, 53. Pratt's Mr. accounts examined, 29 ; preparing to be audited, 123 J his eftate fold, 137. Priefis, I N D Priefts, Roman Catholic, gene- rally very ignorant, 144. Primate, fee Armagh. Privilege bill carried intheHoufe of Lords, 190. Privy-council, Lords Anglefeyy Shannon^ and Forbes^ fworn into, 197. Prohyy Rev. Mr. dies, 97. Proclamation to ftop the expor- tation of Corn, 214; much wilhed for, 216. Profeflbrfhips, the fettling of new ones, 225. Provoft of the College at Duh- iin, Dr. Baldwin, infulted, 135 goes to London with an ad- drefs, 145 ; threatened to have his power reduced, ibid; pro- mifed the fupport of the ArchbifliopofGz«/fr^ar>',i 53; — recommended to the bi- Ihoprick of O/Tory, Vol. II. 23. Ptiltney Mr. Daniel^ admitted Clerk of the Council, 72. Q. Quakers, prefer a petition a- gainft the tythe bill, i88. R. RatcUffMT, applies for the pro- fefforfliip in the oriental tongues, 223, Richard/any Rev. John, recom- mended for the living of Burn-church, &c. 219 ; fuc- ceeds 222 j — recommended for the orovoftfhip oi Galtvayy Vol. II. 16; to the deanery oi Duach, 24 J fucceeds, 25 ; for Chaplain to Brigadier General Dormer'^ regiment, E X. 80 ; to the deanery of KH- morcy 96. Riots, account of one in the city of Dublin J 65 ; bill to prevent them thrown out, 287. Ripperduy Duke de, 207. Roche Lady, recommended for a penfion, Vol. II, 52. Roger/on, Lord Chief Juftice, ap- plies to be removed to the Common Pleas, 158 j reafons againft it, ibid. Rolls, Mafterlhip of, fold, 17. Ro [common Lord, 67, 73. RoiAjan's, Mr, petition to be ap- pointed ProfefTor of Law, 72. Rundle Dr. made Bifliop of- Derry, 107. s. Sanirfz Lord requeil to the Pri- mate, 161 ;— dies, Vol. II. 103. SaulM.v. propofed for the bi- fhoprick of Clonfert Or Kil- darCy 115. Saurin Mr. 103, 108 ; inftalled in the chantorOiip of Chriji Churchy 124, 125. Schools, the Primate's propofal for erecting them for the edu- cation of children in the Pro- teftant religion, Vol. II. 9 ; fubfcriptionsfoUicited in Lo;:- dony 103 ; further account of the undertaking, 157, 158 ; encreafe of it, 176. Shannon Lord, talked of, for Lord Juftice, Vol. II. 73. Sheill James, Vol. IL 155. Silver, great fcarcity of it, 91, 1 94 i — . remedies propoled. Vol. II, 1 24 J oppofition to it, 125 ; fee coin. Singleton Mr. John, recommend-- P ed I N D E X. ed for the living of Dunleery &c. II 6. Skirret Dr. the Primate's CI;iap- lain, recommended for the fee of C/qyne, 68 ; offended at not being nominated fingly, 79 ; recommended for Kill- ala, 95 ; offered the deanery of Ardagh^ I GO 3 difcarded by the Piimate, i2o. Sloan Sir Hiins, 75. Smallbroke, Bifhop of St. Da- 147- Wyndham, Lord Chief Juftice, recommended for the Lord chancellorfhip, 85, 86 ; ap- pointed 88 i timorous in the affair of the coin, Vol. II. 4» 12, 178. Wy^il, Sir Marmaduke, recom- mended to the Primate, Vol II. 135. m'^'Himm ■m^m^m DATE DUE ^ i 1 y^/a^Z'^ 6^; j^i^^-^f / / i .>;hU-66 ' P lilKi 1 1 wUlN •t ti 2007 ! 1 GAYLORD PRINTED !N U- 5. ft. 3 mr-oreSsill « BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CHESTNUT HILL, MASS. Books may be kept for two weeks and may be renewed for the same period, unless re- served. Two cents a day is charged for each book kept overtime. 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